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Having some beers with Michael Lim and Mark Chavez after the presentation.

Ever since I saw Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations” episode on Singapore I’ve been wanting to try tulang. It’s sort of a local halal version of osso bucco featuring delicious marrow sucked out of stewed bones with a straw.

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My friend Stephen sent me an interesting article about the meaning of Democracy in Thailand and opinions on the current civil unrest. It’s a good read and puts things in a certain perspective. Westerners should stop expecting Asian democracies to function the same as Western democracies, though from looking at what’s going on in the U.S.A these days I’m not so sure that deomcracy is really functioning in the West either… but hey, it’s the best we’ve got and in Asia they are also working with the best they’ve got.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/topstories/topstories.php?id=130820

Last night YT picked me up in his cool Citroen. YT, Michael Lim and myself headed over to the Little India part of Singapore to dine at the Apolo Banana Leaf Curry restaurant. It was delicious, especially the big bowl of fish head curry! Yum. Afterwards we walked through Little India was was lit up beautifully for the Festival of Lights, Deepavali. (more…)

Some more intereting flavors from Indonesia:

Dunkin’ Donuts Durian filled donut

Dunkin’ Donuts Melon filled donut

Dunkin’ Donuts Taro donut

Durian Ice Cream

Corn Ice Cream (this, by the way, is excellent!)

Left Jakarta this morning and bid fairwell to Andi and Denny. Flew Singapore Airlines on a 777. Great airline and great airplane. Michael Lim picked me up and we took a quick tour through a shopping area and saw a couple of porche race queens exhibiting a car.

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The Indonesian word for “white guy” is “bule” pronounced “boo-leh”. Similar to the Japanese “gaijin” or Thai “farang”.

After my Natto breakfast I met up with Denny and headed over to the MediaBlitz building. I met Andez, an animator who owns his own studio and teaches at Digital Studios. I also met Udo who stage managed the event and Indah who MC’d. I interviewed for a podcast and went to lunch with Andi, the owner of Digital Studios as well as Paula and Mita from Koelnmesse, the producers for SIGGRAPH Asia.

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This morning I went down for breakfast at the Sari Pan Pacific Hotel,
where I’m staying in Jakarta. Of my own free will I chose to eat a bowl
of soba noodles with natto from the Japanese portion of the buffet. I
liked it. Rie must really be rubbing off on me.