#indonesian millionaire

[indonesianbillionaire]

indonesian billionaire, indonesian millionaire, millionaireceoclub.com, https://www.MillionaireCEOclub.com

[wilsweb-asientour]

Tag 9. 12.08.2023

Reisetag der Millionäre. Wir flogen heute von Singapur nach Bali. Vor der Abreise war Webster kurz beim Friseur und wechselte danach Singapur Dollar in Indonesische Rupiah um (er bekam für 200.00€ satte 3,3 Mil. $IND). Wir aßen dann zum Mittag Brötchen, denn wir vermissten beide nach knapp 1,5 Wochen Reise einfaches Brot. Der Flug lief reibungslos, bloß die Einreise nach Bali dauerte lange. Wir brauchten nach der Landung 2h bis zum Taxi (Kauf des Visums, Passkontrolle, Formulare ausfüllen und eine erneute Kofferkontrolle). Nach den 2h holten wir uns eine Fanta und fuhren ins Ferienhaus. Es gab Nudeln und Reis zum Abendessen und balianisches Bier. Morgen sehen wir dann Bali am helligen Tage. Gute Nacht!

Day 9. 12.08.2023

Travel day of the millionaires. We flew from Singapore to Bali today. Before departure, Webster quickly went to the barber and exchanged Singapore Dollars for Indonesian Rupiah (he got a whopping 3.3 million IDR for €200). We had sandwiches for lunch because after almost 1.5 weeks of traveling, we both missed simple bread. The flight went smoothly, but the entry into Bali took a long time. It took us 2 hours after landing to reach the taxi (visa purchase, passport control, filling out forms, and another luggage check). After those 2 hours, we grabbed a Fanta and drove to the vacation house. We had noodles and rice for dinner and Balinese beer. Tomorrow, we'll see Bali during the daytime. Good night!

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 5.20

Holidays

Be A Millionaire Day

Beating of the Bounds (Old England)

Behcet’s Disease Awareness Day

Blue Jeans Day

Botev Day (Bulgaria)

Clinical Trials Day

Day of Remembrance (Cambodia)

Discovery Day (Cayman Islands)

Doctor Day (Indonesia)

Eliza Doolittle Day

Emancipation Day (Florida)

Empire Day

European Maritime Day (EU)

Everybody Draw Mohammed Day

Fire Festival (Elder Scrolls)

501 Day

520 Day (Valentine’s Day; China)

Flower Day

Flying Solo Day

Frigga Blot (Slavic Pagan/Asatru)

Go Fly A Kite With the Kids Day

Hari Kebangkitan (Indonesian Awakening Day)

Hats for Headway Day

Indonesian Doctor Day (Indonesia)

International Clinical Trials Day

International Gator Day

International Heritage Breeds Day

International Human Resources Day

International Red Sneakers Day

Josephine Baker Day (NAACP)

Lafayette Day (Massachusetts)

Love Feast Under the Gospel Elm (Wicken, UK)

Mecklenburg Day (NC)

National Anger Day (Cambodia)

National Awakening Day (Indonesia)

National Band Director’s Day

National Day (Cameroon)

National Day of Hatred (Cambodia)

National Eli Day

National High Heels Day

National Jase Day

National Orderly Day

National Rescue Dog Day

National Rio Day

National River Cleanup Day

National Seal Product Day (Canada)

National Streaming Day

National SugarBee Apple Day

National Women in Aerospace Day

Norman Rockwell Day

Paw Day

Pick Strawberries Day

SI Redefinition Day

Stop the Bleed Day

T’veer Chong Kamhaeng (Day of Remembrance; Cambodia)

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [26 of 57]

Weights and Measures Day

World Autoimmune Arthritis Day

World Bee Day

World Meteorology Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Alfalfa Day (French Republic)

Dark Lord Day (Three Floyds)

Food Revolution Day

International Sweet Tooth Day

Morel Mushroom Day

National Cold Pizza Day

National Quiche Lorraine Day

Pick Strawberries Day

Tap Water Day (California)

3rd Saturday in May

Armed Forces Day (US) [3rd Saturday]

Barricade Go Topless Day [3rd Saturday]

Culture Freedom Day [3rd Saturday]

Do Dah Day (Alabama) [3rd Saturday]

Europe Day (Ukraine) [3rd Saturday]

International Restaurant Day [3rd Saturday] (also Feb, Aug & Nov)

La Corsa del Ceri (Race of the Saints; Gubbio, Italy) [3rd Saturday]

National Drawing Day (Ireland) [3rd Saturday]

National Heritage Breeds Day [Saturday of 3rd Full Week]

National Italian Beef Day [3rd Saturday]

National Kids to Parks Day [3rd Saturday]

National Learn to Swim Day [3rd Saturday]

National River Cleanup Day [3rd Saturday]

Orval Day [3rd Saturday]

Plant a Lemon Tree Day [3rd Saturday]

Preakness Stakes [3rd Saturday]

Stationary Shop Saturday [3rd Saturday]

World Fiddle Day [Saturday closet to 19th]

World Whisky Day [3rd Saturday]

Independence Days

Cuba (from US, 1902)

East Timor; (from Indonesia, 2002)

Lopezia (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Samizdat (a.k.a. State of Samizdat; Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Abercius and Helena (Christian; Saint)

Alcuin of York (Christian; Saint)

Aurea of Ostia (Christian; Saint)

Austregisilus (Christian; Saint)

Baudilus (Christian; Saint)

Bernardino of Siena (a.k.a. Bernadine; Christian; Saint)

Edward II Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Ethelbert, King of the East Angles (Christian; Saint)

Fats Waller Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Feast of Mjollnir (Feast of Thor’s Hammer; Ancient Norse)

Find a New Fetish Day (a.k.a. Fetish Day; Pastafarian)

Firefighter Jackson (Muppetism)

Francis Cotes (Artology)

Frigga Blot (Pagan)

Grudie Rosnoe begins (Lavic Pagan/Asatru sacrifices to Rod for good harvests)

Henri-Edmond Cross (Artology)

Ives, An Honest Lawyer (Christian; Saint)

Ivo of Chartres (a.k.a. Yvo of Chartres; Christian; Saint)

Lucifer of Cagliari (Christian; Saint)

Media Ver II (Pagan)

Mjölnir (Old Germany; Celebration of Thor’s Hammer)

Sanctan (Christian; Saint)

Trajan (Positivist; Saint)

Visakh Bochwa Day (Buddha Day; Cambodia)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Lucky Day (Philippines) [31 of 71]

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [28 of 60]

Premieres

The Abominable Snow Rabbit (WB LT Cartoon; 1961)

Balls, by Greg Nettles and Peter Golenbock (Sports Memoir; 1984)

Beatlemania (Musical Play; 1977)

Becoming Bond (Documentary Film; 2017)

Beverly Hills Cop II (Film; 1987)

The Color and the Shape, by the Foo Fighters (Album; 1997)

Day of the Dead, by Various Artists (Grateful Dead Anthology Album; 2016)

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Film; 1994)

Every Breath You Take, by the Police (Song; 1983)

Fourteen Hours (Film; 1951)

Godzilla (Film; 1998)

Harry’s House, by Harry Styles (Album; 2022)

His Bitter Half (WB MM Cartoon; 1950)

Lady Dynamite (TV Series; 2016)

Midnight in Paris (Film; 2011)

The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz (TV Movie; 2005)

Naughty But Mice (WB MM Cartoon; 1939)

The Nice Guys (Film; 2016)

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Film; 2011)

Poodle Hat, by Weird Al Yankovic (Album; 2003)

The Quarto, Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Book of Poems; 1609)

Rock Around the Clock, by Bill Haley & His Comets (Song; 1954)

Russian Rhapsody (WB MM Cartoon; 1944)

The Scapegoat, by Daphne du Maurier (Novel; 1957)

The Scotswoman, by Inglis Clark Fletcher (Novel; 1955)

Unplugged (The Official Bootleg), by Paul McCartney (Album; 1991)

A Very English Scandal (Film; 2018)

Viva Las Vegas (Film; 1964) [Elvis Presley #15]

Willow (Film; 1988)

You Made Me Love You, recorded by Harry James (Song; 1941)

Today’s Name Days

Bernhardin, Elfriede, Mira (Austria)

Bernardin, Lidija, Zlata (Croatia)

Zbyšek (Czech Republic)

Angelica (Denmark)

Liili, Liilia, Lilian, Lilja, Lille, Lilli (Estonia)

Karoliina, Lila, Lilja, Lilli (Finland)

Bernardin (France)

Bernardino, Elfriede, Mira (Germany)

Lead, Lidia, Lydia (Greece)

Bernát, Felícia (Hungary)

Anastasio, Bernardino (Italy)

Prieca, Salvis, Sibilla, Venta (Latvia)

Akvilas, Alfreda, Eidvilas, Vygintė (Lithuania)

Bjørnar, Bjørnhild (Norway)

Anastazy, Asteriusz, Bazyli, Bazylid, Bazylis, Bernardyn, Bernardyna, Bronimir, Iwo, Sawa, Teodor, Wiktoria (Poland)

Lidia, Talaleu (România)

Varvara (Russia)

Bernard (Slovakia)

Baudilio, Bernardo, Orlando (Spain)

Carola, Karolina (Sweden)

Bernadette, Bernardina, Bernardine, Bernetta, Bernita (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 140 of 2024; 225 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 20 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Huath (Hawthorn) [Day 7 of 28]

Chinese: Month 4 (Ding-Si), Day 2 (Wu-Yin)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 29 Iyar 5783

Islamic: 29 Shawwal 1444

J Cal: 19 Bīja; Fiveday [19 of 30]

Julian: 7 May 2023

Moon: 1%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 28 Caesar (5th Month) [Trajan]

Runic Half Month: Ing (Expansive Energy) [Day 11 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 62 of 90)

Zodiac: Gemini (Day 31 of 31)

[brookston]

Holidays 5.20

Holidays

Be A Millionaire Day

Beating of the Bounds (Old England)

Behcet’s Disease Awareness Day

Blue Jeans Day

Botev Day (Bulgaria)

Clinical Trials Day

Day of Remembrance (Cambodia)

Discovery Day (Cayman Islands)

Doctor Day (Indonesia)

Eliza Doolittle Day

Emancipation Day (Florida)

Empire Day

European Maritime Day (EU)

Everybody Draw Mohammed Day

Fire Festival (Elder Scrolls)

501 Day

520 Day (Valentine’s Day; China)

Flower Day

Flying Solo Day

Frigga Blot (Slavic Pagan/Asatru)

Go Fly A Kite With the Kids Day

Hari Kebangkitan (Indonesian Awakening Day)

Hats for Headway Day

Indonesian Doctor Day (Indonesia)

International Clinical Trials Day

International Gator Day

International Heritage Breeds Day

International Human Resources Day

International Red Sneakers Day

Josephine Baker Day (NAACP)

Lafayette Day (Massachusetts)

Love Feast Under the Gospel Elm (Wicken, UK)

Mecklenburg Day (NC)

National Anger Day (Cambodia)

National Awakening Day (Indonesia)

National Band Director’s Day

National Day (Cameroon)

National Day of Hatred (Cambodia)

National Eli Day

National High Heels Day

National Jase Day

National Orderly Day

National Rescue Dog Day

National Rio Day

National River Cleanup Day

National Seal Product Day (Canada)

National Streaming Day

National SugarBee Apple Day

National Women in Aerospace Day

Norman Rockwell Day

Paw Day

Pick Strawberries Day

SI Redefinition Day

Stop the Bleed Day

T’veer Chong Kamhaeng (Day of Remembrance; Cambodia)

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [26 of 57]

Weights and Measures Day

World Autoimmune Arthritis Day

World Bee Day

World Meteorology Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Alfalfa Day (French Republic)

Dark Lord Day (Three Floyds)

Food Revolution Day

International Sweet Tooth Day

Morel Mushroom Day

National Cold Pizza Day

National Quiche Lorraine Day

Pick Strawberries Day

Tap Water Day (California)

3rd Saturday in May

Armed Forces Day (US) [3rd Saturday]

Barricade Go Topless Day [3rd Saturday]

Culture Freedom Day [3rd Saturday]

Do Dah Day (Alabama) [3rd Saturday]

Europe Day (Ukraine) [3rd Saturday]

International Restaurant Day [3rd Saturday] (also Feb, Aug & Nov)

La Corsa del Ceri (Race of the Saints; Gubbio, Italy) [3rd Saturday]

National Drawing Day (Ireland) [3rd Saturday]

National Heritage Breeds Day [Saturday of 3rd Full Week]

National Italian Beef Day [3rd Saturday]

National Kids to Parks Day [3rd Saturday]

National Learn to Swim Day [3rd Saturday]

National River Cleanup Day [3rd Saturday]

Orval Day [3rd Saturday]

Plant a Lemon Tree Day [3rd Saturday]

Preakness Stakes [3rd Saturday]

Stationary Shop Saturday [3rd Saturday]

World Fiddle Day [Saturday closet to 19th]

World Whisky Day [3rd Saturday]

Independence Days

Cuba (from US, 1902)

East Timor; (from Indonesia, 2002)

Lopezia (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Samizdat (a.k.a. State of Samizdat; Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Abercius and Helena (Christian; Saint)

Alcuin of York (Christian; Saint)

Aurea of Ostia (Christian; Saint)

Austregisilus (Christian; Saint)

Baudilus (Christian; Saint)

Bernardino of Siena (a.k.a. Bernadine; Christian; Saint)

Edward II Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Ethelbert, King of the East Angles (Christian; Saint)

Fats Waller Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Feast of Mjollnir (Feast of Thor’s Hammer; Ancient Norse)

Find a New Fetish Day (a.k.a. Fetish Day; Pastafarian)

Firefighter Jackson (Muppetism)

Francis Cotes (Artology)

Frigga Blot (Pagan)

Grudie Rosnoe begins (Lavic Pagan/Asatru sacrifices to Rod for good harvests)

Henri-Edmond Cross (Artology)

Ives, An Honest Lawyer (Christian; Saint)

Ivo of Chartres (a.k.a. Yvo of Chartres; Christian; Saint)

Lucifer of Cagliari (Christian; Saint)

Media Ver II (Pagan)

Mjölnir (Old Germany; Celebration of Thor’s Hammer)

Sanctan (Christian; Saint)

Trajan (Positivist; Saint)

Visakh Bochwa Day (Buddha Day; Cambodia)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Lucky Day (Philippines) [31 of 71]

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [28 of 60]

Premieres

The Abominable Snow Rabbit (WB LT Cartoon; 1961)

Balls, by Greg Nettles and Peter Golenbock (Sports Memoir; 1984)

Beatlemania (Musical Play; 1977)

Becoming Bond (Documentary Film; 2017)

Beverly Hills Cop II (Film; 1987)

The Color and the Shape, by the Foo Fighters (Album; 1997)

Day of the Dead, by Various Artists (Grateful Dead Anthology Album; 2016)

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Film; 1994)

Every Breath You Take, by the Police (Song; 1983)

Fourteen Hours (Film; 1951)

Godzilla (Film; 1998)

Harry’s House, by Harry Styles (Album; 2022)

His Bitter Half (WB MM Cartoon; 1950)

Lady Dynamite (TV Series; 2016)

Midnight in Paris (Film; 2011)

The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz (TV Movie; 2005)

Naughty But Mice (WB MM Cartoon; 1939)

The Nice Guys (Film; 2016)

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Film; 2011)

Poodle Hat, by Weird Al Yankovic (Album; 2003)

The Quarto, Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Book of Poems; 1609)

Rock Around the Clock, by Bill Haley & His Comets (Song; 1954)

Russian Rhapsody (WB MM Cartoon; 1944)

The Scapegoat, by Daphne du Maurier (Novel; 1957)

The Scotswoman, by Inglis Clark Fletcher (Novel; 1955)

Unplugged (The Official Bootleg), by Paul McCartney (Album; 1991)

A Very English Scandal (Film; 2018)

Viva Las Vegas (Film; 1964) [Elvis Presley #15]

Willow (Film; 1988)

You Made Me Love You, recorded by Harry James (Song; 1941)

Today’s Name Days

Bernhardin, Elfriede, Mira (Austria)

Bernardin, Lidija, Zlata (Croatia)

Zbyšek (Czech Republic)

Angelica (Denmark)

Liili, Liilia, Lilian, Lilja, Lille, Lilli (Estonia)

Karoliina, Lila, Lilja, Lilli (Finland)

Bernardin (France)

Bernardino, Elfriede, Mira (Germany)

Lead, Lidia, Lydia (Greece)

Bernát, Felícia (Hungary)

Anastasio, Bernardino (Italy)

Prieca, Salvis, Sibilla, Venta (Latvia)

Akvilas, Alfreda, Eidvilas, Vygintė (Lithuania)

Bjørnar, Bjørnhild (Norway)

Anastazy, Asteriusz, Bazyli, Bazylid, Bazylis, Bernardyn, Bernardyna, Bronimir, Iwo, Sawa, Teodor, Wiktoria (Poland)

Lidia, Talaleu (România)

Varvara (Russia)

Bernard (Slovakia)

Baudilio, Bernardo, Orlando (Spain)

Carola, Karolina (Sweden)

Bernadette, Bernardina, Bernardine, Bernetta, Bernita (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 140 of 2024; 225 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of week 20 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Huath (Hawthorn) [Day 7 of 28]

Chinese: Month 4 (Ding-Si), Day 2 (Wu-Yin)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 29 Iyar 5783

Islamic: 29 Shawwal 1444

J Cal: 19 Bīja; Fiveday [19 of 30]

Julian: 7 May 2023

Moon: 1%: Waxing Crescent

Positivist: 28 Caesar (5th Month) [Trajan]

Runic Half Month: Ing (Expansive Energy) [Day 11 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 62 of 90)

Zodiac: Gemini (Day 31 of 31)

[cybertitojj]

What I did in Jakarta: Watch my first trip to Indonesia. From KLIA (Kuala Lumpur Internation Airport) T2, I flew to Soekarno–Hatta International Airport (CGK) via AirAsia for a short vacation in Jakarta, Indonesia. Upon landing, I went to another terminal via the Skytrain for free. After dropping my bags at The Packer Lodge Jakarta in Chinatown area, I went to Kota Tua. I used Gojek, a local motorcycle e-hailing service. It is similar to the Angkas of the Philippines and the Bolt in Thailand. Kota Tua Jakarta or Old Batavia is the original down town area of Jakarta. You can rent a bike, rent some accessories and even a dress that resembles the fashion back then, take a photo with the street artists, enjoy watching street performers, visit museums, be stunned by the architectures, and of course eat. Then I saw elevated platform with lots of people on it. It made me think what is that for until a bus came. It's a station for bus which seems to be similar to EDSA carousel in the Philippines. I also went to Jakarta Cathedral or The Church of Our Lady of the Assumption. It has a resemblance of Manila Cathedral. It is a walking distance from the Monas (National Monument), and situated right across the Istiqlal Mosque. At night I hunt for local foods then found this vendor on cart right infront of Wisma Bulan Indah. The chicken barbeque (BBQ) or locally known as ayam satay costed 25,000 Indonesian Rupiah for 10pcs. I was looking for satay paniki but wasn't lucky to find one. I also tried their public transport that looks like a jeepney in the Philippines. All I can say is "matagtag". Apostolic Journey to Indonesia by Pope Francis made me flew to Jakarta. He dropped by GBK Madya Stadium before heading to the main stadium where the holy mass was held. My verdict, you ask. When I was in Jakarta, it felt like I am in Manila but everything were in Google translate mode into Javanese or Bahasa. The climate was almost similar too. Cold in morning then gets hotter as the sun rises. One thing I enjoyed was how I become a one day millionaire. It took 3800 Philippine Pesos for me to have 1,000,000 IDR. Most of the foods are spicy. So if you are not a fan of chili, better let the seller know. How about you? What's your experience in Jakarta? Are you planning to visit it soon? Comment it below. #indonesia #jakarta #gojek #ayamsatay #kotatua #oldtown #oldbatavia #bahasa #Javanese #SoekarnoHattaInternationalAirport #Soekarno #klia #kualalumpur #cathedral #popefrancis #catholic travel and wander foods and drinks computers and internet experience adobo explorer Like CYBERTITO on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cybertitojj Follow CYBERTITO on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cybertitojj Follow CYBERTITO on Twitter: https://twitter.com/intent/follow?screen_name=cybertitojj Follow CYBERTITO on Pinterest: pinterest.ph/cybertitojj Follow CYBERTITO on Tumblr: https://cybertitojj.tumblr.com/ Follow CYBERTITO on Blogger: https://cybertitojj.blogspot.com/ Contact CYBERTITO via WhatsApp: https://wa.me/639393033030/?text=Help%20me%20CYBERTITO%20 Add CYBERTITO on SnapChat: https://www.snapchat.com/add/cybertitojj Follow CYBERTITO on TikTok: tiktok.com/@cybertitojj Subscribe to CYBERTITO Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4wVf-ZjeCTigYmgqjSNQhA?sub_confirmation=1 Visit CYBERTITO official website! https://cybertito.com/ Copyright (C) CYBERTITO – All Rights Reserved. #CYBERTITO #cybertitojj #experience #adobo #explorer #YoutubeVideos #Videos

[travelingjoe]

Kuta Bali, Indonesia — May 2024. Had a brief one night stop in Bali on our way to Flores for our scuba diving trip. The Amnaya Resort was a delightful oasis in the Kuta chaos. Had a final soak for a while I’m sure. One unexpected snafu we’ve run into is the limitation they have on ATM cash withdrawals here in Indonesia. The cap is $150 US a day. That means having to make lots of withdrawals and lots of fees for each withdrawal. The only good part is that you’re easily a millionaire since that’s the equivalent of 2,404,140 Indonesian Rupiah!

[lindsaywesker]

Good morning! I hope you slept well and feel rested? Currently sitting at my desk, in my study, attired only in my blue towelling robe, enjoying my first cuppa of the day. Welcome to Throwback Thursday and welcome to June! Yep, five months gone!

Many thanks to everyone that contributed to WEDNESDAY WORDS yesterday. There were some very cool submissions. Really beautiful words. And we managed to inspire a few old faces to come out of the woodwork to contribute!

On this page, ‘Throwback Thursday’ is about memories. So, what do you remember? If I was to say the word FIGHT, what immediately comes to mind?

This wasn’t so much a fight, just a single punch, but it’s the closest I’ve ever come to a fight. I’m non-confrontational. I avoid fights! The Trouble said something very interesting the other day. She said, (and I’m paraphrasing) “Isn’t it amazing that you can just be living your life, minding your own business, not saying or doing anything to anyone but, despite that, someone (somewhere) is affected by something or nothing and, suddenly, they feel a way about you.” It’s true. As we speak – trust me - someone is reading this and seething! Seething about what I do not know! Some kid punched me in my eye once. My dad went round to his family house and confronted the boy. “Why did you punch my son?” he asked. The boy replied, “He’s always so happy!” So, there was I, minding my own business, and somebody over there was getting riled-up just because I was happy. Amazing, innit?

So, on this Throwback Thursday, what kind of memories does the word FIGHT conjure up for you?

Al Pacino having a child at 83? He will struggle to keep up with that little one! Lucky for him, he has the money to hire a nanny!

I had two young guys knock on my door yesterday, looking for me to give money to a charity. I said to them, “I give enough money to charity already.” I didn’t feel guilty. Look how much I give every year to the tax man, my local council, the oil companies and the privatised utility companies! I am helping to feed poor, deprived millionaires. I keep thinking of their sad, little faces. They need my money!

On Wednesday night, we had dinner with The Trouble’s best male friend from her secondary school. Known him more than 40 years! He lives local, with his wife, so the four of us ate local and bloody delicious it was too; an award-winning Indonesian/Thai/Malaysian restaurant called Jakarta in Colindale, of all places. We ordered too much, so we brought it home in a doggie bag and I’ll be eating it tonight! These friendships of 40+ years are priceless, aren’t they? The Trouble and I are both blessed to have some reliable, rock-solid friends that love us when they see us and love us when they don’t.

Is it nearly my favourite day? I think it is. I am quivering in anticipation. We have another fun-packed weekend ahead of us. The days are so stuffed with events and parties, I haven’t even got space for a Hove weekend in June! Might have to visit Lady Wesker mid-week?

Have a throbbing and thrusting Thursday (with hopefully a few thrills through your thoroughfare?) I love you all.

[yabangeekizim]

An Indonesian coffin maker became an instant millionaire when a meteorite worth £1.4 million crashed through the roof of his house. Josua Hutagalung, 33, was working on a coffin next to his house when the space rock smashed through the veranda at the edge of his living room in Kolang, North Sumatra.  #indonesian #indonesia #sumatra #meteorite #millionaire (at Indonesia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHw12VqH4jm/?igshid=112orkodmmlaw

[dailytechnologynews]

Indonesian college student becomes millionaire after putting his selfies up for sale as NFTs as a joke https://ift.tt/3nDAz9c

[southeastasianists]

She was an Indonesian domestic helper who earned S$600 (£345) a month working for an extremely wealthy Singaporean family.

He was her employer, a titan of Singapore's business establishment and the chairman of some of the country's biggest companies.

One day, his family accused her of stealing from them. They reported her to the police - triggering what would become a high-profile court case that would grip the country with its accusations of pilfered luxury handbags, a DVD player, and even claims of cross-dressing.

Earlier this month, Parti Liyani was finally acquitted.

"I'm so glad I'm finally free," she told reporters through an interpreter. "I've been fighting for four years."

But her case has prompted questions about inequality and access to justice in Singapore, with many asking how she could have been found guilty in the first place.

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 5.20

Holidays

Alfalfa Day (French Republic)

Be A Millionaire Day

Beating of the Bounds (Old England)

Behcet’s Disease Awareness Day

Blue Jeans Day

Botev Day (Bulgaria)

Clinical Trials Day

Day of Bank Employees (Ukraine)

Day of Remembrance (Cambodia)

Days of the Castle (Netherlands)

Discovery Day (Cayman Islands)

Doctor Day (Indonesia)

Eliza Doolittle Day (My Fair Lady)

Emancipation Day (Florida)

Empire Day

EMS Education Day

European Maritime Day (EU)

Everybody Draw Mohammed Day

Fire Festival (Elder Scrolls)

501 Day

520 Day (Valentine’s Day; China)

520 Day (Tucson, Arizona)

Flower Day

Flying Solo Day

Go Fly A Kite With the Kids Day

Hari Kebangkitan (Indonesian Awakening Day)

Hats for Headway Day

Indonesian Doctor Day (Indonesia)

International Clinical Trials Day

International Gator Day

International Heritage Breeds Day

International Human Resources Day

International Red Sneakers Day

International Williams Syndrome Day

Josephine Baker Day (NAACP)

Lafayette Day (Massachusetts)

Love Feast Under the Gospel Elm (Wicken, UK)

M.P.R. Day (Zaire)

National Anger Day (Cambodia)

National Awakening Day (Indonesia)

National Band Director’s Day

National Day (Cameroon)

National Day of First Nations Fishing Right (Canada)

National Day of Hatred (Cambodia)

National Day of Remembrance (Cambodia)

National Eli Day

National High Heels Day

National Jase Day

National Orderly Day

National Rescue Dog Day

National Rio Day

National River Cleanup Day

National Rooster Day

National Seal Product Day (Canada)

National Streaming Day

National SugarBee Apple Day

National Women in Aerospace Day

Navy Day (Philippines)

Norman Rockwell Day

Paw Day

Residential Infrastructure Day

Shackleton Day (South Georgia; South Sandwich Islands)

Sign Language Interpreter Day (Ukraine)

SI Redefinition Day

Stop the Bleed Day

T’veer Chong Kamhaeng (Day of Remembrance; Cambodia)

Volga Day (Russia)

Weights and Measures Day

World Autoimmune Arthritis Day

World Bee Day

World Meteorology Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Food Revolution Day

International Sweet Tooth Day

National Quiche Lorraine Day

Pick Strawberries Day

Tap Water Day (California)

Independence & Related Days

Cuba (from US, 1902)

East Timor; (from Indonesia, 2002)

Lopezia (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Mecklenburg Independence Day (North Carolina)

North Carolina (Secedes from U.S.; 1861)

Referendum Day (Cameroon; 1972)

Roman Republic (Established; 1347)

Samizdat (a.k.a. State of Samizdat; Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

3rd Monday in May

Accounting Day [Monday of 3rd Full Week; also 5.13]

Battle of Las Piedras Day (Uruguay) [3rd Monday]

Coming of Age Day (Korea) [3rd Monday]

Make a Note Monday [3rd Monday]

Motivation Monday [Every Monday]

National Patriots’ Day (Quebec, Canada) [Monday before 5.25]

Supply Chain Professional Day [3rd Monday]

Victoria Day (Canada) [Monday before 5.25]

Weekly Holidays beginning May 20 (3rd Full Week)

Click It or Ticket Mobilization (thru 6.2)

Healthy and Safe Swimming Week (thru 5.26) [Week before Memorial Day]

National Emsculpt Week (thru 5.26)

Road Safety Week (Canada) [thru 5.26]

Festivals Beginning May 20, 2024

Burning Nest (Exeter, UK) [thru 5.27]

Feast Days

Abercius and Helena (Christian; Saint)

Alcuin of York (Christian; Saint)

Aleksandr Deyneka (Artology)

Aurea of Ostia (Christian; Saint)

Austregisilus (Christian; Saint)

Basilla (Christian; Martyr & Virgin)

Baudilus (Christian; Saint)

Bernardino of Siena (a.k.a. Bernadine; Christian; Saint)

The Dainty-Four Remembrance Day (Shamanism)

Eduard Ole (Artology)

Edward II Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Ethelbert, King of the East Angles (Christian; Martyr)

Feast of Mary, Mother of the Church (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Mjollnir (Feast of Thor’s Hammer; Ancient Norse)

Find a New Fetish Day (a.k.a. Fetish Day; Pastafarian)

Firefighter Jackson (Muppetism)

Francis Cotes (Artology)

Frigga Blot (Slavic Pagan/Asatru)

Grudie Rosnoe begins (Lavic Pagan/Asatru sacrifices to Rod for good harvests)

Henri-Edmond Cross (Artology)

Honoré de Balzac (Writerism)

Ives, An Honest Lawyer (Christian; Saint)

Ivo of Chartres (a.k.a. Yvo of Chartres; Christian; Saint)

Lucifer of Cagliari (Christian; Saint)

Margery Allingham (Writerism)

Media Ver II (Pagan)

Mjölnir (Old Germany; Celebration of Thor’s Hammer)

Padstow May Day (Celtic Book of Days)

Plynteria (Ancient Greece Festival to Athena)

Sanctan (Christian; Saint)

Sigrid Undset (Writerism)

Thalelaeus (Christian; Martyr)

Trajan (Positivist; Saint)

Visakh Bochwa Day (Buddha Day; Cambodia)

Christian Liturgical Holidays

Monday after 7th Sunday after Easter (a.k.a. …

Dicing For Bibles (St. Ives, UK)

Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Monday of the Holy Spirit

Pentecost Monday

Pfingsten (Germany)

Whit Monday

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Lucky Day (Philippines) [31 of 71]

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [26 of 57]

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [28 of 60]

Premieres

The Abominable Snow Rabbit (WB LT Cartoon; 1961)

Apple Andy (Andy Panda Cartoon; 1946)

Balls, by Greg Nettles and Peter Golenbock (Sports Memoir; 1984)

Beatlemania (Musical Play; 1977)

Beaus Will Be Beaus (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1955)

Becoming Bond (Documentary Film; 2017)

Beverly Hills Cop II (Film; 1987)

Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers (Animated Film; 2022)

The Color and the Shape, by the Foo Fighters (Album; 1997)

Day of the Dead, by Various Artists (Grateful Dead Anthology Album; 2016)

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Film; 1994)

Every Breath You Take, by the Police (Song; 1983)

Fat in the Saddle (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1968)

Fourteen Hours (Film; 1951)

Godzilla (Film; 1998)

The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat (DePatie-Freleng Animated TV Special; 1982)

Harry’s House, by Harry Styles (Album; 2022)

His Bitter Half (WB MM Cartoon; 1950)

Hot Diggity Dog (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1967)

Hot Time on Ice (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1967)

The Killing (Film; 1956)

Lady Dynamite (TV Series; 2016)

Let Me Call You Sweetheart (Betty Boop Cartoon; 1932)

Midnight in Paris (Film; 2011)

The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz (TV Movie; 2005)

Naughty But Mice (WB MM Cartoon; 1939)

The Nice Guys (Film; 2016)

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Film; 2011)

Poodle Hat, by Weird Al Yankovic (Album; 2003)

The Quarto, Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Book of Poems; 1609)

Rock Around the Clock, by Bill Haley & His Comets (Song; 1954)

Russian Rhapsody (WB MM Cartoon; 1944)

The Saint on Guard (a.k.a. The Saint and the Sizzling Saboteur), by Leslie Charteris (Short Stories; 1944) [Saint #26]

The Scapegoat, by Daphne du Maurier (Novel; 1957)

The Scotswoman, by Inglis Clark Fletcher (Novel; 1955)

The Smurfic Games (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Special; 1984)

Unplugged (The Official Bootleg), by Paul McCartney (Album; 1991)

A Very English Scandal (Film; 2018)

Viva Las Vegas (Film; 1964) [Elvis Presley #15]

Willow (Film; 1988)

You Made Me Love You, recorded by Harry James (Song; 1941)

Today’s Name Days

Bernhardin, Elfriede, Mira (Austria)

Bernardin, Lidija, Zlata (Croatia)

Zbyšek (Czech Republic)

Angelica (Denmark)

Liili, Liilia, Lilian, Lilja, Lille, Lilli (Estonia)

Karoliina, Lila, Lilja, Lilli (Finland)

Bernardin (France)

Bernardino, Elfriede, Mira (Germany)

Lead, Lidia, Lydia (Greece)

Bernát, Felícia (Hungary)

Anastasio, Bernardino (Italy)

Prieca, Salvis, Sibilla, Venta (Latvia)

Akvilas, Alfreda, Eidvilas, Vygintė (Lithuania)

Bjørnar, Bjørnhild (Norway)

Anastazy, Asteriusz, Bazyli, Bazylid, Bazylis, Bernardyn, Bernardyna, Bronimir, Iwo, Sawa, Teodor, Wiktoria (Poland)

Lidia, Talaleu (România)

Varvara (Russia)

Bernard (Slovakia)

Baudilio, Bernardo, Orlando (Spain)

Carola, Karolina (Sweden)

Bernadette, Bernardina, Bernardine, Bernetta, Bernita (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 141 of 2024; 225 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of week 21 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Huath (Hawthorn) [Day 9 of 28]

Chinese: Month 4 (Ji-Si), Day 13 (Jia-Shen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 12 Iyar 5784

Islamic: 12 Dhu al-Qada 1445

J Cal: 21 Magenta; Sevenday [21 of 30]

Julian: 7 May 2024

Moon: 92%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 28 Caesar (5th Month) [Trajan]

Runic Half Month: Ing (Expansive Energy) [Day 11 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 63 of 92)

Week: 3rd Full Week of May

Zodiac: Taurus (Day 31 of 31)

[brookston]

Holidays 5.20

Holidays

Alfalfa Day (French Republic)

Be A Millionaire Day

Beating of the Bounds (Old England)

Behcet’s Disease Awareness Day

Blue Jeans Day

Botev Day (Bulgaria)

Clinical Trials Day

Day of Bank Employees (Ukraine)

Day of Remembrance (Cambodia)

Days of the Castle (Netherlands)

Discovery Day (Cayman Islands)

Doctor Day (Indonesia)

Eliza Doolittle Day (My Fair Lady)

Emancipation Day (Florida)

Empire Day

EMS Education Day

European Maritime Day (EU)

Everybody Draw Mohammed Day

Fire Festival (Elder Scrolls)

501 Day

520 Day (Valentine’s Day; China)

520 Day (Tucson, Arizona)

Flower Day

Flying Solo Day

Go Fly A Kite With the Kids Day

Hari Kebangkitan (Indonesian Awakening Day)

Hats for Headway Day

Indonesian Doctor Day (Indonesia)

International Clinical Trials Day

International Gator Day

International Heritage Breeds Day

International Human Resources Day

International Red Sneakers Day

International Williams Syndrome Day

Josephine Baker Day (NAACP)

Lafayette Day (Massachusetts)

Love Feast Under the Gospel Elm (Wicken, UK)

M.P.R. Day (Zaire)

National Anger Day (Cambodia)

National Awakening Day (Indonesia)

National Band Director’s Day

National Day (Cameroon)

National Day of First Nations Fishing Right (Canada)

National Day of Hatred (Cambodia)

National Day of Remembrance (Cambodia)

National Eli Day

National High Heels Day

National Jase Day

National Orderly Day

National Rescue Dog Day

National Rio Day

National River Cleanup Day

National Rooster Day

National Seal Product Day (Canada)

National Streaming Day

National SugarBee Apple Day

National Women in Aerospace Day

Navy Day (Philippines)

Norman Rockwell Day

Paw Day

Residential Infrastructure Day

Shackleton Day (South Georgia; South Sandwich Islands)

Sign Language Interpreter Day (Ukraine)

SI Redefinition Day

Stop the Bleed Day

T’veer Chong Kamhaeng (Day of Remembrance; Cambodia)

Volga Day (Russia)

Weights and Measures Day

World Autoimmune Arthritis Day

World Bee Day

World Meteorology Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Food Revolution Day

International Sweet Tooth Day

National Quiche Lorraine Day

Pick Strawberries Day

Tap Water Day (California)

Independence & Related Days

Cuba (from US, 1902)

East Timor; (from Indonesia, 2002)

Lopezia (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Mecklenburg Independence Day (North Carolina)

North Carolina (Secedes from U.S.; 1861)

Referendum Day (Cameroon; 1972)

Roman Republic (Established; 1347)

Samizdat (a.k.a. State of Samizdat; Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]

3rd Monday in May

Accounting Day [Monday of 3rd Full Week; also 5.13]

Battle of Las Piedras Day (Uruguay) [3rd Monday]

Coming of Age Day (Korea) [3rd Monday]

Make a Note Monday [3rd Monday]

Motivation Monday [Every Monday]

National Patriots’ Day (Quebec, Canada) [Monday before 5.25]

Supply Chain Professional Day [3rd Monday]

Victoria Day (Canada) [Monday before 5.25]

Weekly Holidays beginning May 20 (3rd Full Week)

Click It or Ticket Mobilization (thru 6.2)

Healthy and Safe Swimming Week (thru 5.26) [Week before Memorial Day]

National Emsculpt Week (thru 5.26)

Road Safety Week (Canada) [thru 5.26]

Festivals Beginning May 20, 2024

Burning Nest (Exeter, UK) [thru 5.27]

Feast Days

Abercius and Helena (Christian; Saint)

Alcuin of York (Christian; Saint)

Aleksandr Deyneka (Artology)

Aurea of Ostia (Christian; Saint)

Austregisilus (Christian; Saint)

Basilla (Christian; Martyr & Virgin)

Baudilus (Christian; Saint)

Bernardino of Siena (a.k.a. Bernadine; Christian; Saint)

The Dainty-Four Remembrance Day (Shamanism)

Eduard Ole (Artology)

Edward II Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Ethelbert, King of the East Angles (Christian; Martyr)

Feast of Mary, Mother of the Church (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Mjollnir (Feast of Thor’s Hammer; Ancient Norse)

Find a New Fetish Day (a.k.a. Fetish Day; Pastafarian)

Firefighter Jackson (Muppetism)

Francis Cotes (Artology)

Frigga Blot (Slavic Pagan/Asatru)

Grudie Rosnoe begins (Lavic Pagan/Asatru sacrifices to Rod for good harvests)

Henri-Edmond Cross (Artology)

Honoré de Balzac (Writerism)

Ives, An Honest Lawyer (Christian; Saint)

Ivo of Chartres (a.k.a. Yvo of Chartres; Christian; Saint)

Lucifer of Cagliari (Christian; Saint)

Margery Allingham (Writerism)

Media Ver II (Pagan)

Mjölnir (Old Germany; Celebration of Thor’s Hammer)

Padstow May Day (Celtic Book of Days)

Plynteria (Ancient Greece Festival to Athena)

Sanctan (Christian; Saint)

Sigrid Undset (Writerism)

Thalelaeus (Christian; Martyr)

Trajan (Positivist; Saint)

Visakh Bochwa Day (Buddha Day; Cambodia)

Christian Liturgical Holidays

Monday after 7th Sunday after Easter (a.k.a. …

Dicing For Bibles (St. Ives, UK)

Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Monday of the Holy Spirit

Pentecost Monday

Pfingsten (Germany)

Whit Monday

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Lucky Day (Philippines) [31 of 71]

Unfortunate Day (Pagan) [26 of 57]

Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [28 of 60]

Premieres

The Abominable Snow Rabbit (WB LT Cartoon; 1961)

Apple Andy (Andy Panda Cartoon; 1946)

Balls, by Greg Nettles and Peter Golenbock (Sports Memoir; 1984)

Beatlemania (Musical Play; 1977)

Beaus Will Be Beaus (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1955)

Becoming Bond (Documentary Film; 2017)

Beverly Hills Cop II (Film; 1987)

Chip ’n Dale: Rescue Rangers (Animated Film; 2022)

The Color and the Shape, by the Foo Fighters (Album; 1997)

Day of the Dead, by Various Artists (Grateful Dead Anthology Album; 2016)

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (Film; 1994)

Every Breath You Take, by the Police (Song; 1983)

Fat in the Saddle (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1968)

Fourteen Hours (Film; 1951)

Godzilla (Film; 1998)

The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat (DePatie-Freleng Animated TV Special; 1982)

Harry’s House, by Harry Styles (Album; 2022)

His Bitter Half (WB MM Cartoon; 1950)

Hot Diggity Dog (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1967)

Hot Time on Ice (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1967)

The Killing (Film; 1956)

Lady Dynamite (TV Series; 2016)

Let Me Call You Sweetheart (Betty Boop Cartoon; 1932)

Midnight in Paris (Film; 2011)

The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz (TV Movie; 2005)

Naughty But Mice (WB MM Cartoon; 1939)

The Nice Guys (Film; 2016)

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (Film; 2011)

Poodle Hat, by Weird Al Yankovic (Album; 2003)

The Quarto, Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Book of Poems; 1609)

Rock Around the Clock, by Bill Haley & His Comets (Song; 1954)

Russian Rhapsody (WB MM Cartoon; 1944)

The Saint on Guard (a.k.a. The Saint and the Sizzling Saboteur), by Leslie Charteris (Short Stories; 1944) [Saint #26]

The Scapegoat, by Daphne du Maurier (Novel; 1957)

The Scotswoman, by Inglis Clark Fletcher (Novel; 1955)

The Smurfic Games (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Special; 1984)

Unplugged (The Official Bootleg), by Paul McCartney (Album; 1991)

A Very English Scandal (Film; 2018)

Viva Las Vegas (Film; 1964) [Elvis Presley #15]

Willow (Film; 1988)

You Made Me Love You, recorded by Harry James (Song; 1941)

Today’s Name Days

Bernhardin, Elfriede, Mira (Austria)

Bernardin, Lidija, Zlata (Croatia)

Zbyšek (Czech Republic)

Angelica (Denmark)

Liili, Liilia, Lilian, Lilja, Lille, Lilli (Estonia)

Karoliina, Lila, Lilja, Lilli (Finland)

Bernardin (France)

Bernardino, Elfriede, Mira (Germany)

Lead, Lidia, Lydia (Greece)

Bernát, Felícia (Hungary)

Anastasio, Bernardino (Italy)

Prieca, Salvis, Sibilla, Venta (Latvia)

Akvilas, Alfreda, Eidvilas, Vygintė (Lithuania)

Bjørnar, Bjørnhild (Norway)

Anastazy, Asteriusz, Bazyli, Bazylid, Bazylis, Bernardyn, Bernardyna, Bronimir, Iwo, Sawa, Teodor, Wiktoria (Poland)

Lidia, Talaleu (România)

Varvara (Russia)

Bernard (Slovakia)

Baudilio, Bernardo, Orlando (Spain)

Carola, Karolina (Sweden)

Bernadette, Bernardina, Bernardine, Bernetta, Bernita (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 141 of 2024; 225 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 1 of week 21 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Huath (Hawthorn) [Day 9 of 28]

Chinese: Month 4 (Ji-Si), Day 13 (Jia-Shen)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 12 Iyar 5784

Islamic: 12 Dhu al-Qada 1445

J Cal: 21 Magenta; Sevenday [21 of 30]

Julian: 7 May 2024

Moon: 92%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 28 Caesar (5th Month) [Trajan]

Runic Half Month: Ing (Expansive Energy) [Day 11 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 63 of 92)

Week: 3rd Full Week of May

Zodiac: Taurus (Day 31 of 31)

[esotericworld]

Indonesian man becomes instant millionaire after $1.8million SPACE ROCK crashes through his roof https://www.the-sun.com/news/1812079/indonesia-meteorite-space-rock-roof-millionaire/

[wexlerkimberly]

oh god, yearly round-up.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

side note: this is my TENTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! year of doing this!!!!!!!!!!!!! i have been on this website for OVER 10 years!!!!!!!!!!!!!! jesus christ.

ok. on a completely personal level, last year was so fucking dreadful that i remember falling asleep at my friends house on new years eve and thinking: “well, at least this year can’t be any worse”. HMMMM. in all seriousness though, despite everything, i have had a mostly decent year. i’m very lucky in lots and lots of ways. i’m lucky none of my closest family or loved ones have been effected too deeply by covid. just mild inconvenience, at most. i am lucky that i live in a house with such a large garden, so i could enjoy fresh air and family-free time if i needed to. i am lucky the weather has been mostly nice this year so i could go for plenty of walks. i’m lucky that i’m naturally a very quiet, anti-social person anyway so i haven’t felt the strain of isolation as severely as others. 

most of all, this year has been boring, if anything. but there’s still been things that have made it nice. january - birthday!!! i don’t usually go hard or anything for my birthday but it stands out to me as a really lovely day. i went for a walk to one of my favourite hills with my dad & dogs during the day. in the evening, i had badminton with my friends as i used to most thursdays (INDOOR SPORTS?!?!?!!? REMEMBER INDOORS SPORTS?!?!!?!?!) and then, as per our tradition, i went back to their flat for take-away chips and halloumi burgers. because they are so unbelievably generous and lovely, my friends bought me a new badminton racket for my birthday. i feel like i’ve barely got a chance to use this year, for obvious reasons, but i can’t wait to use it so much more as soon as possible. the following day, i went to work as normal but then went out to a really nice italian place with my family for a meal and we did birthday cake & candles when we got home. feeling stupidly grateful for so many thoughtful people in my life. february - again, this year has been so dry that a trip to the cinema could be considered a high point. but it was my only cinema trip of the year and just a really nice day. me & my friend saw jojo rabbit (which was great, if you haven’t seen it already) and afterwards we ambled around town looking at things in shops. it sounds so simple but i haven’t done any of that stuff since really, so it feels so exciting and exotic when i think back on it. 

february - stayed at my grandma’s house for the weekend. we do that as often as we can, usually, and it’s always nice. but - obviously - we haven’t been able to see my grandma much at all this year. it was nice to sit in front of the fire with her and watch tv and be given access to all sorts of baked goods and walk up the hills around by her. on the sunday, we managed to pop-in on my nana & grandad too and eat many baked goods there too.

march - meal out for my brother’s birthday. i feel like a lot of my “special days” this year revolved around someone’s birthday this year. but i think this was our last day of ‘normalcy’ before things went a bit crazy here. my family went to a caribbean pub with my brother and his gf and we had lovely tasty food and a nice night out. i think that was the last day i wore anything other than pyjamas or leggings for a long time.

april - no joke, i remember going to the vets during the peak of lockdown when the whole country was essentially shut down and it felt like THE most exciting day of my life. my cat was fine (she’d been bitten and needed painkillers for an infection but she was absolutely fine!) but i remember being near giddy in the car. my sister came with us too even though she didn’t need to because of how exciting it felt. 

may - my brother’s birthday. the other one. the first of our lockdown birthdays. we popped in to drop a card off at a friend’s who shares the same birthday as him. then we drove (DROVE! IN A CAR!) to a stretch of really lovely canal that my brother likes to walk on and had a great walk. in the evening, we ordered in an indian take-away and my sister had made a FAT four-tiered chocolate cake to celebrate.

may - ok this is very dumb but i finished breaking bad this year and i set aside a special date to watch el camino. i made a very sickly millionaire’s cheesecake and my whole family gathered round the tv to eat and re/watch el camino. it’s so dumb and silly but i was so excited, it felt like a special cinematic event. i cried. 

june - my dad’s birthday. my dad, my brother & me (plus dogs) drove out of the county (rogue fugitives!!!!!!) to meet my grandad for a socially distanced chat and picnic. it was a bit weird not being able to hug him and sitting on separate benches but it was still great to see him. we had a takeaway chinese for dinner and a chocolate cake for dessert.

july - my sister’s birthday. we technically celebrated it 4 days earlier because she had to move into her new flat but we had a nice indian take-away and another bloody chocolate birthday cake.

july - my mom’s birthday. i honestly cannot remember what we ate - i think we had homemade pizzas in the garden??? it’s weird when food dictates the differences between days. anyway, i definitely made another birthday cake.

july - went for a socially distanced walk with a friend i haven’t seen in ages. it was lovely and the weather was very kind to us and it was great to go walking across fields and to a reservoir i hadn’t been to in years and years. 

august - my brother got his GCSE results and we ate pizza in the garden to celebrate. after the monumental government fuck-up with results, we were a bit nervous about how badly they’d ruin his chances but he did very well.

september - went to visit my grandma. she had been living by herself for the entirity of the pandemic (she doesn’t mind, she’s loves to garden and she does online latin and pilates classes, she’s a very busy lady) but i think she enjoyed seeing us. we were plied full of food once again. we went for a lovely evening ramble on the hills right by her house. on the sunday, my dad went for a walk with a friend he hasn’t seen in ages while me, my brother and my grandma went for another hill walk elsewhere. i think my grandma really enjoyed that because she hasn’t been able to go walking much because she was so anxious about tripping and being completely alone, or being rescued by someone carrying The Virus. so it was nice to accompany her. after that, we had a nice socially distanced meeting with my grandparents in their garden. it felt very risky to me because i am insanely anxious but my grandma, my grandad and my nana are all very safe and healthy.

october - halloween!!! i never celebrate halloween BUT this year, i was so sick of being the house every single day i decided to organise something different. so in the evening, me, my dad & my brother went for a halloween walk in the countryside through a graveyard, then through a field where there used to be an old abonnonded saxon village, and then finally through hagley wood where bella of wych elm was found. my dad & my brother were completely uneffected but i was absolutely shitting myself at every tiny little thing. my dogs had their little flashing colours on and we all had torches but i was still so pathetically spooked by everything. after the walk, we met my mom in the car (i had to get changed in the car from my walking stuff to vaguely presentable clothes) then we went to a goddamn PUB!!!!!!!!! to eat a meal!!!!!!!!!!! i went a bit overboard making my family santise their hands every 5 minutes but we definitely had a lovely meal.

november - did a bonfire in the garden for bonfire night. ate homemade vegan chilli and then apple crumble. it was freezing cold and we tried to stay out there for as long as we could. i even managed to find some sparklers and me & my brother waltzed around the garden with them, likesay we’re not an adult and a child-grown. the others melted marshmallows on the fire and i just enjoyed watching the fireworks i could see and throwing balls for the dogs.

november - we’re brits lmao but when joe biden’s presidency was finally confirmed, we celebrated with an indonesian take-away because fuck it!!!!!!!! gotta celebrate where we could this year!!!!!!!!!! 

december - christmas!!!!!!!!!!!! we usually have christmas every year at my grandma’s house with my aunt and her boyfriend. it’s a fairly decent sized house out in the countryside and she has a wood-burning fire and it just Feels more christmassy there, especially as i’ve literally only ever spent one single christmas at home before. but we still managed to make it very special this year i think. my sister came on the 13th and we got quickly into a routine of watching christmas films in the evening. on christmas eve, i made vegan gingerbread biscuits and vegan mince pies and my sister made a chocolate yule log cake and then we watched a film. on christmas morning, we all opened our presents in our own living room which felt weird but was still lovely. afterwards, we went for a family walk. my mom pretty much single-handedly (me & my sister helped) cooked a whole christmas dinner for the 6 of us with all the trimmings. usually it’s my grandma, my aunt and my mom but the fact my mom managed to cook such a goddamn feast with our shitty oven where the grill doesn’t work and you have to slam the oven door at least 5 times before it shuts.......... i’m convinced she Might be superwoman?!?!!?!? and it was SO good. in the evening, we had cheese & crackers and my sister’s tasty yule log and we watched many a film. boxing day was much the same but still nice. this whole stretch between christmas and new years day is usually painfully boring but this year has been good, i think. i have consumed an entire army’s worth of cheese and chocolate and i have definitely enjoyed the snow we’ve had here recently.

so. yeah. this is very basic and boring. none of these things would usually end up in my write-up of the year. but i haven’t been to a single concert or theatre trip or even really left the midlands at all. in my round-up last year, i wrote some stupid sentimental bullshit about romanticising “the most basic and boring aspects of life” and never has that been so apt. on the face of it, this year has been SO boring. but i’ve managed to make it enjoyable in the tiniest ways.

for example, i enjoyed every single sunny day. i would jump on the trampoline and listen to podcasts. i would go running and listen to podcasts. i would go walking and listen to podcasts. i owe a lot to podcasts, i think. but i definitively owe a LOTTTTT to walking. i walk for a living (i’m a dog-walker lmao) but i would still go out for walks with my own dogs in the evening or go out for walks with my dad in the morning where i could. if we thought we made good use of the pizza oven last year, this year has been insane. i have made and cooked SO! MANY! pizzas this year and they were all excellent. i feel like food has been really important this year. like i said, it helps distinguish the days, especially “special” or “treat” foods. like everyone i have done a lottt of baking this year. especially when it’s been such a great year for fruit!!! there’s a field near me and there’s just simply shit loads of blackberries and raspberries that grow there. i remember one evening sat in the garden eating some mango sorbet my sister made with some raspberries i picked from the field and thinking that life simply does not get better than that. idk. it’s nice to take pleasure in the smallest things i think.

but, like i said, i have been so lucky this year. i was only off work temporarily and none of my immediate circle have been directly impacted by the effects of covid. as annoying as they are, i’m very lucky to have spent so much time with my family - as opposed to be being by myself - because it’s nice when we make food for each other and watch tv and films together or go for walks together. 

god. this is long and waffley. if you read all this: what the fuck is wrong with you? but also: thank you! i know 2021 is definitely going to start off rocky but i strongly believe - and i’m a massive pessimist - that things are going to get better.  love and strength to everyone. wishing you peace and comfort x 

(again: i cannot believe i have been writing up this silly little incoherent things for a decade!!! sometimes i like to go back and read the earlier ones and remind myself of old fun times and cringe at teenage me. here’s to... 10 more years??? hahahahaha. anyway:here’s the other 9 years of nonsense: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, and, finally, 2011.)

[mon-cafe-noir]

Hi friend!! Sorry, this is a long one... for the colour asks: red, orange, green, blue, frost, Prussian blue?

red: describe your favorite shirt

>> my red flannel that's almost too big for me and has clicks buttons rather than proper buttons!!!

orange: if you could, would you change your eye color? why? to what color, if so?

>> I don't think I would change them unless it's a very temporary change! I don't mind my eyes!!! If it was like a temporary tattoos, wears off in a day or so type thing, I would definitely cycle through every colour known to man!!!!

green: do you have a favourite flower?

>> I have a few favourite flowers!!! The sunflower, the snapdragon and the daisy!!!

blue: preferred type of weather?

>> the ideal weather is monsoon rain in Indonesian heat. There is no competition.

>> once I was in an outdoor swimming pool in Indonesia and it started raining whilst I was in the pool and that was one of the most breathtaking moments in my life. Just existing in water and having it come gently fall upon you was so serene, so mythical!!!!

prussian blue: what's your first choice at the vending machine

>> whatever is cheapest. I would say I'm a broke bitch, but I am acutely aware that all my friends are technically in debt and I'm the only one who has a means of making it rain.

>> vending machines are a scam.

>> though in a worst case scenario, I would buy a drink. In a beat case scenario, aka I'm a millionaire waiting in the lobby at Heathrow, I'm buying a damn Ben and jerrys from that damn machine (it haunts me in my dreams)

Thank you for the asks, my dearest friend!!!!!! 💖

[where-our-stories-start]

Tortall Fancast Series - Dovasary Balitang

At thirteen, Dove is described as looking a bit like her sister Sarai, with creamy-gold skin and long black hair. She is also said to have "observant black eyes" and is small-boned. She is considered plainer than her sister, and considerably more inconspicuous, a trait she uses to go unnoticed, collecting gossip and news. As a half-raka noble, she has mastered a polite political face, showing nothing but pleasant interest. (x)

Similarly to when I did a Thayet fancast post, I struggled with the racial dynamics of this one. The Copper Isles are generally based on Indonesia, and Tamora Pierce has stated that the raka’s physical appearance is primarily based on that of native Indonesians and Malaysians. Surprise surprise, finding child actors from the appropriate ethnicities with appropriate clothing proved... difficult.

Once again, I settled on balancing both racial accuracy with the physical descriptions in the novel. Given that the Copper Isles are a mash of real-world cultures--the environment is a mix of South American and Southeast Asia, the people are described as brown-skinned with straight black hair, and the racial dynamics are reminiscent of colonialism in Africa and India--I feel comfortable choosing fancasts that fit the books’ physical descriptions of Dove and feel authentic to her character. I prioritized finding Indonesian actors, but didn’t limit it to that.

RACHEL AMANDA - ACTOR AND SINGER

Rachel is an Indonesian actor who fits my mental image of Dove pretty closely. She was 13 in 2008, and she has a fair number of credits 2006-2009, so it’s not hard to find images of her at that age, although few have her in clothing appropriate to the Copper Isles.

CINTA LAURA - ACTOR

Cinta Laura (also known as Cinta Laura Kiehl) is mixed race German and Indonesian. She started acting in 2007 at age 14, and the images I’ve found of her show a range between lighthearted and serious that’s really necessary for Dove.

TANVI GANESH LONKAR - YOUNG LATIKA (SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE)

Honestly, Tanvi is probably closest to my mental image of Dove, despite being Indian rather than Indonesian or Malaysian. She was 12/13 when filming Slumdog Millionaire. She doesn’t have a ton of scenes, but what she has is pretty good source material.

KEISHA CASTLE-HUGHES - PAIKA (WHALE RIDER)

Keisha is mixed race Maori and white, and she was 12 when filming Whale Rider. I know her hair is all wrong for Dove, but her energy is all right, so I included her.

ASSORTED  PHOTOS - GOOGLE

I’ve also included some photos I found just from googling images of Indonesian preteens and pulling anyone who reminded me of Dove. A reverse google search should take you to these, but if the cropping screws that up, let me know and I’ll point you to the originals.