Fred went a wandering.
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|From time to time they've been known to wander around local villages with special offers.
|Whilst waiting for my delicious curry, I took a look at a couple of other stalls.
Here's one
This place can't be described as I did the curry place, and there's little chance of me ever trying the food.
The filth was bad, and I'm sure ITC operate a no smoking policy.
Still, I could be wrong.
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|The drains are covered, but they aren't even close to strong enough to hold a fully laden truck, so sights like this are common.
In fairness, the hole is always clearly marked with reflective signs and all normal safety measures so no one else falls victim to it.
|Around Ubud we seem to be somewhat prone to sinkholes, apparently the result of vacant underground streams. When they happen they generally are only a meter or two in diameter, or in their longest dimension. But one day…while driving in Sukawati we were following a large truck, much like the one you illustrate. It was about three cars ahead of us when suddenly it literally vanished.
A substantial sinkhole had opened up, and entirely swallowed that truck so deeply that the top of it was at least a meter deeper than the road surface.
The driver was fine…shaken up, but the look on his face was, as you can imagine, utterly priceless.
Never failing to want to learn more about Balinese customs from my wife, I couldn’t resist asking her, “so, what sort of ceremony covers this sort of thing?”
Cheers!
|Ubudian wrote:The driver was fine…shaken up, but the look on his face was, as you can imagine, utterly priceless.
How about the smell of his underwear? 
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|A truck with a crane smashed into a footbridge, causing to to collapse in a spectacular fashion, blocking both lanes of a busy toll road.
The driver needs a very good lawyer and a change of underwear.
I'm taking a guess the crane was partially raised as it should have easily passed under the bridge.
However, that's only a guess.
The press were out in force, probably more of them than there were coppers, and there were a lot of plod.
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|I have to wonder if anyone realised ....
|||And I agree...great coverage of the accident!
||Sadly, cash and lazy often make for a crap or half finished job, as we see in this case where the contractors haven't bothered filling in the drop between the rebuilt road and the side road.
The driver found some bricks to stuff under his tyre, and off he went.
|I thought it would be a worker or few get crushed or fall in a spectacular way, but a bigger bang was to be had.
It was started in 1995, but finally abandoned in 1998, partially due to the financial crisis, and partially because of crap building techniques that made it unsafe - more than anyone thought.
This was the building in October 2015.
and in January 2016.
As you can see, they've removed a few floors, and it was all by hand.
Workers in November
Here they are in January dropping a concrete beam by hand.
You can see by the lack of safety gear and the reckless work techniques why I thought there was going to be a problem ........
|http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2016 … apses.html
Some parts of an old skyscraper in Bintaro, South Tangerang, Banten, collapsed on Thursday afternoon causing clouds of dust in the surrounding area.
(Note - I like the Jakarta post)
OOPS!
I wandered over the following day
The road was closed
and this is what the building looked like
|I noticed a crew looking for a good place to film, so I gave them a shout to suggest my position would work well - It did, and I got to watch the live broadcast. Their equipment was interesting, especially the live streaming box.
Looks good, but zooming out shows how they got the camera angle
I had a little chat with a dude I met on the top floor of Bintaro trade centre, him telling me how all the workers were on their lunch break at the bottom of the building, but one guy was still up top.
Seems he was on the part that remained up, so he had a very lucky escape. I wonder if he was wearing brown trousers.
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I probably see one a week, so we have to ask why it happens.
Here's another one.
I'll make it easy to see
and the hole it left.
The drivers either don't see the drains, or just don't realise the covers can't take the weight of their lorries.
|This is a very common sight in Indonesia as they desperately try to keep these nasty little insects away, but you'll notice he has almost no protection from the poison he's spraying around.
This is also a common sight.
The girl leaves the young child alone at the side of the road
then wanders into traffic busking for money
||It isn't really anyone's fault, more a combination of factors, but the upshot remains the same; a lot of people have no clue how much damage they're doing to their country when they throw rubbish away.
A few weeks ago I accepted an invitation to Trisakti university, an excellent establishment on Jakarta's inner ring road. As I was a little early, I took the opportunity for a mini wander with the smaller of my cameras, a lovely Olympus compact with 24X optical zoom.
i·ro·ny1
ˈīrənē/
noun
the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.
"“Don't go overboard with the gratitude,” he rejoined with heavy irony"
synonyms: sarcasm, causticity, cynicism, mockery, satire, sardonicism
"that note of irony in her voice"
a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result.
plural noun: ironies
"the irony is that I thought he could help me"
synonyms: paradox, incongruity, incongruousness
"the irony of the situation"
I could also be defined as a pile of anti flood sandbags piled up against a save the planet sign.
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Oh, food and motorcycles
The UK health and hygiene people would go crackers at this, but it's nothing odd here.
As a note - the food is pretty good there.
|Note the clever patented rain protection - I've heard a whisper Honda have eyes on buying that in a bid to knock Yamaha out of the market.
|Bamboo is cheap or free here, so it's very common to see the stuff being used for building work.
This tree has more hanging around in its branches.
Flying chickens aren't the norm here, but they're not that unusual either.
They can fly up to the branches, probably about 3 meters, and can manage short flights of 10 or 20 meters.
and they're pretty big.
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|In turn that means misery, overheating cars, overheating people and business opportunities.
|An early morning jaunt allows you to see things most people never do.
|The candid honesty to be found here is as refreshing as it is informative and important for anyone wishing to understand the way of life and culture of Indonesians in and around Jakarta.
While an amateur, Fred has the instincts of a professional photo journalist, and his camera’s lens endlessly captures the abject reality of his, and his fellow Indonesian’s daily life, whilst the camera is in his skilful hands. Fred is unquestionably aware of the idiom, “a picture is worth a thousand words.”
I only say all of this to encourage Fred to keep up the excellent work he has done here for the past five years.
In a word, Selamat, Fred. And please, keep it going!
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|Fred wrote:This is a tree, a basic, common and ordinary tree, but with bamboo learning against it.
Bamboo is cheap or free here, so it's very common to see the stuff being used for building work.
https://c8.staticflickr.com/8/7581/2750 … e55c_z.jpg
This tree has more hanging around in its branches.
https://c6.staticflickr.com/8/7390/2804 … 0432_z.jpg
https://c3.staticflickr.com/8/7525/2809 … 80ce_z.jpg
https://c7.staticflickr.com/8/7334/2750 … 1c3c_z.jpg
Flying chickens aren't the norm here, but they're not that unusual either.
They can fly up to the branches, probably about 3 meters, and can manage short flights of 10 or 20 meters.
and they're pretty big.
I bet they are tasty as well.
Good going Fred 
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|It's cheap at Rp14,000 (Less than a quid), and it's fast, but, and there's always a big but, it was really bumpy to the point where even I felt travel sick
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|Here's a guy trying to earn an honest buck by making brooms to sell at the side of the road.
The owner of this old car probably doesn't make brooms for a living.
|I'm guessing the free bus service is an attempt to get people out of their cars, but I'm open to correction.
The buses are 'functional' but clean and tidy ... and free
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