Fred went a wandering.
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|The lady in the hat is selling veggie and bits to earn a little money. These tiny businesses are very common here.
Another is bread delivery. These guys buy bread from a baker, selling it by wandering round the villages and estates.
These girls are a few of the senior year at a Muslim girls' school just outside BSD, Tangerang.
|This guy must come from Yorkshire.
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|I did buy a very nice little Fujifilm waterproof camera, but the new Samsung S5 is better, so I hardly use it now.
Time to sell.
The big Fujifilm HS50 is a really sexy toy, and does a fantastic job, but I can't always carry it because of the size.
In fact, I've been having a lot of problems finding an alternative, until now.
I came across a little Olympus SZ31MR, with 16megapixals to play with, and a 24 times optical zoom.
It won't do what the big one will do, but it's a nice bridge between the two, and it's small enough to carry most of the time.
Hopefully, I can get the shots I've been missing of late.
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Selling
I just like the shot - so did the dude.
r|If/when he gets squashed by a truck, the parents will say it was all the driver's fault.
|This pump has the more expensive fuel, and a queue.
This pump has the cheap stuff....
....and an attendant sitting down with nothing to do.
I have to admit, I haven't kept up with the news on this one, but I do know some people are being given money t compensate for the increase.
I'm wondering if that might be in the form of vouchers, redeemable for the more expensive fuel.
One other note.
Last time fuel went up, there were signs everywhere, all explaining how the price of whatever was going up because of the fuel price rise - not a one so far this time.
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Eating properly is very important, and meals should not be missed, regardless of what you're doing.
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|Nice ride it makes me miss homeÂ
|Because the norm is to buy your driving licence from a corrupt cop, no one knows how to drive properly, or what is reasonable.
These posts are there to stop motorcycles using the pavement in an attempt to
get past the jam.
|Bidara sary wrote:The video has no voice mas Fred?
Nice ride it makes me miss homeÂ
It's time lapse, one photo every 0.5 seconds.
I could add music if you like.
|I fixed the gopro on top of my motorbike helmet, but set it on time lapse, taking a snap ever 0.5 of a second.
Most are not a lot worth bothering about, but I'm getting shots I normally miss as I can't get a camera out in time.
Here's one of two guys on bike with guns, one talking on his mobile phone.
And this is a moron in a microbus, pulling though a red light, almost hitting me and a bunch of other people.
|I was wrong.
A man taking his shot on a driving range,
A man collecting rubbish on a driving range.
|||||||The floods generally destroy a lot of personal property, disrupt a lot of lives, and there are usually a few deaths as people get trapped.
This year, there is an attempt to stop, or at least reduce, the problems.
Rubbish in rivers blocks them, so someone has set a rubbish trap in order to make it easier to clean up. They'll very probably sell the plastic as well.
Clearing rubbish from the drains, all by hand
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|They're dredging the rivers, in the hope of getting water away as quickly as possible.
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|He'll walk for miles until he sells them, or it gets dark.
That guy walks because he can't carry his stuff on a motorbike, if he can afford one.
These guys walk because they reject pretty much everything in modern society, including money, the internal combustion engine and shoes.
They wander around, without women because females aren't allowed to leave the village, bartering honey and semi precious stones for food.
|mas fred wrote:This guy walks around all day, trying to sell his aluminium clothes hangers,
He'll walk for miles until he sells them, or it gets dark.
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7479/160 … c594e6.jpg
That guy walks because he can't carry his stuff on a motorbike, if he can afford one.
These guys walk because they reject pretty much everything in modern society, including money, the internal combustion engine and shoes.
They wander around, without women because females aren't allowed to leave the village, bartering honey and semi precious stones for food.
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7526/160 … fe10f1.jpg
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8614/160 … af7181.jpg
I never realize those peoples are still around 
|Bidara sary wrote:mas fred wrote:This guy walks around all day, trying to sell his aluminium clothes hangers,
He'll walk for miles until he sells them, or it gets dark.
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7479/160 … c594e6.jpg
That guy walks because he can't carry his stuff on a motorbike, if he can afford one.
These guys walk because they reject pretty much everything in modern society, including money, the internal combustion engine and shoes.
They wander around, without women because females aren't allowed to leave the village, bartering honey and semi precious stones for food.
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7526/160 … fe10f1.jpg
https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8614/160 … af7181.jpg
I never realize those peoples are still aroundÂ
I see them from time to time, but I knew almost nothing about them.
I've been researching a little, and it's really interesting.
|||A friend just sent me this picture of Wonosobo market.
It'll be an electrical fault, it always is,
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[/url]|Easy, people see a river; I see a photo shoot.
When I see something, I look closely, just to see what else is there.
In small villages, washing clothes in the river is normal.
Of course, the terrific optical zoom helps a lot.
|In many towns, the drains have been covered over with heavy concrete, providing pedestrians with a fairly safe place to walk.
Sadly, truck drivers don't always realise these slabs have a limited load bearing capacity, especially when their truck is overloaded with concrete blocks.
The less than slim bloke in blue is the boss, a man who I have to take my hat off to as he remained calm and even managed a happy smile for me.
In that situation, I'd be really grumpy, and would probably have hacked the driver to death.
|Lots of villagers and migrant workers live in places like this.
From the outside.
The living room.
At the front of he house, and where guests usual sit when they visit you.
The bedroom.
Small, just enough for a bed and bits and bobs.
It's commonly divided from the living room by a curtain.
The kitchen.
No gas, and the electricity supply is commonly limited to 400 watts, so you use bottle available from the local shop.
That's about enough to run a fridge and a small TV.
After all that food, you'll need to know about the toilet.
Most village houses (Not the posh ones) have squat toilets.
The whole room is a wet room, so no need for a shower cubicle. Washing is commonly done by scooping water from a bucket, and pouring it over you as required.
r|||Most small villages don't have anyone to collect their waste, so they dump it at the edge of he village and, every so often, the local authority send a truck to remove it.
A lot of people burn it, so terrible smells of burning plastics are often in the air.
|This house is run on the profits from a pedicab service.
The guy will probably work all day, every day, and still never have enough to feed his family properly.
Fishing can either feed your family, or produce cash by selling the fish.
He'll never be able to buy a boat, so this has to do.
Be a little careful when buying fish from village people, you don't always know where they got it from.
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