Last Monday (13 July) I went to the immigration office here in Balikpapan to have a third extension of my visa. I submitted my application (which included a guarantee letter from my sponsor) and was told to come back on Thursday. So I did, and on Thursday I was given a brown envelope, and was […]
I am fortunate enough to stay in a comfortable tropical climate such as in Balikpapan, just 140 km south of the Equator. Below a table with some weather statistics for Balikpapan. Pretty stable conditions, so to say… Balikpapan climate. Source: weatherbase.com
Today is the day for the election of a new president in this country. I joined Caecil and Astrid to watch them casting their votes at the residence of our local RW. It was in walking distance from our residence. Box used to cast votes. Inked fingers, preventing a person to vote twice.
I had a rather unpleasant experience today. I opened a pack of biscuits recently purchased at Hero supermarket, and took a good bite before actually discovering what was inside the pack: small, white worms moving around… which remind me of a similar incident back in 2003, when I happened to eat a meal consisting of […]
It is amazing the number of cockroaches, and the size of the rats running around here in our residence in Balikpapan. I just went to the kitchen and felt something soft touching my naked feet; a rat almost as big as a cat! Almost every night we can hear sounds from the kitchen area, and […]