At exactly 12.55am this morning, a pair of cats were having a fight over a garbage pile just in front of Hotel Dian, jalan Parangtritis. It was not exactly then, but a few minutes later or perhaps earlier, that I passed by them with my bike. I looked at them but they ignored me. Jogja […]
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The bus was actually a truck with a wooden housing attached to its cargo area at the back. Its seatings were actually wooden benches, all different shapes and colours of them put together in rows. That’s how it got its name, I imagined, “Bis Kayu” – the Wooden Bus. I had to climb up the […]
… Driving in the dark. Little lights protrude, their gensets vibrate thru air and earth. They catch fish, eat them, sell them for petrol. Their satellite phones, available for a few hours a day, run on small car batteries collecting currents from the brightest sun on their solar panel. Ten years ago researchers from a […]