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jerryvandenbrink/colson: @ Utomo: Your posts, your grandchildren, were my inspiration :) .

Utomo: Wow...I am glad to see you together again with your beloved grandson Kris !

Colson: @ Utomo: Thanks :) . Hope your 2013 may be healthy, happy and prosperous too.

Utomo: Wish you Great Holidays & Happy New Year 2013

jerry van den brink/colson: @ Luke: It would be worth the money, it would redeem Jakarta's historical cultural debt and it would be great to all inhabitants. So [...]

Luke: Hi Colson, Kota Tua has so much to offer once you are there and any improvement and change to the area to make tourist [...]

jerry van den brink/colson: I'll check my email :) .

Uti: Hi, Colson! I sent you an email. Just so you know, in case my email went to spam. :D

jerry van den brink/colson: @ Harry Nizam: Hope to keep it that way :) .

Harry Nizam: Hi Colson, your blog is okay now.

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Kishore Mahbubani at the Presidential Palace, Jakarta.

On Thursday, the 31st of July 2008, Kishore Mahbubani – see the previous post- held a lecture at the presidential palace. His audience was the national ruling elite of Indonesia, the President himself, government members etc.  And, as a courteous guest, he said some flattering things about ( and to) his host. But he [...]

“Asia is overcome by a tidal wave of common sense”

The quote is from Kishore Mahbubani, a learned and eminent Singapore citizen of Indian descent. He himself is making tidal waves in the media and universities by his books in which he castigates the West for arrogance, geo political incompetence and complacency, while at the same time he proclaims the ascent of Asian progress.  [...]

Newsflash: Asians live longer.

In case you don’t expect to get fed up with it all and kill yourself when you are forty, fifty or sixty, but would love to grow really, really old, you better be Asian.

At least this is what I read in The Guardian today:

“The average Asian woman, for example, lives for almost [...]

I love mankind, but we are heading for trouble. Big time.

Though I’m in a gloomy mood, I hereby declare I love mankind. But, lets be honest about it, the world would probably have been a better place without the human species.

I love believers. They are my fellow men and women after all. But don’t you think the lot of them wouldn’t be so [...]

Indonesian Woman Artists

The Book

It’s size is 30 x 25 cm, 280 pages and it was published by ISRY, Galeri Nasional, August last year. It’s content is strikingly apt and beautiful: short biographies on 34 female artists, a general but quite complete review of the artists’ track records and a lot of well chosen photo’s by [...]