Super Uber Thread of Life and Pictures

[Westley Walters-Kirkland]

So we had an event in my city where all the restaurants come out into little booths and you buy tickets to get cheap little samples of their food.

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[Cute little advertisement for a pop up lunch]



Swordfish Skewers

Spicy Tuna Roll & Cucumber Avocado Roll

Super tasty beet soup

[DERP]

yo I'm home

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{Museum (no weird pics here)}

a replica of a ship carved on Borobudur Temple, Samudraraksa (ocean protector)


old cannons from colonial era


diorama depicting the national revolution; the carried chair was used to bring the Indonesian general. He was sick in the war.


dishes used in war era... actually my grandma still uses this kind of dishes lol. It's not uncommon in rural areas.


the enchanted blades (keris) from Mataram Sultanate.


a detail of Ramayana themed carving. The carve shows the scene of Shinta chasing a golden deer into the forest before she's kidnapped by Rahwana. Shinta and the deer are in the pic.


an axe from Mentawai Island.




moniessss. Up is old Indonesian monies, middle is Dutch money, last is Polish monies!


Jesus wayang/shadowpuppet.


this is a water jug thing btw

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{The hotel we slept in at Semarang}
outside views




inside interior

I want this map








interior and scenery were superb, but service and food were meh... maybe it's because of peak season.

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{Around grandma's house}



these are taken in front of grandma's house. Uncle #9 has tomato and lettuce planted in some places. Third pic text means "I know what you want, but when do you care about me?" usually this boards have environment-keeping messages but this one just kinda off fff

these are taken around my great aunt's house.




mom went to her elementary school teacher's house in a nearby village so I snapped some pics as well.




this is a swallow farm, but only their nest is harvested. Houses like this are commonly seen around Java. It's easier to harvest the nests like this rather than hunting to caves.

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{Some food}

front is a sweet fried version of getuk. Back is chips made from sticky rice.


teh poci (ugh there's no decent english article about this drink) is green/jasmine tea served in clay tea set with rock sugar.


BANANA CHIPS BANANA CHIPS BANANAAAAAA


rice krispies


klepon

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{Cipali Highway, West Java}


the scenery is beautiful. The mountain is Ciremai (dormant) Volcano, surrounded by limestone hills. Before this highway is made, we used the road circling the hills.

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{Cat}

he likes eating the rice krispies and regularly fed with rice along the chicken/fish.