John, Ginny, Tri and Cai: Happy Birthday Tri

Friday, January 30, 2009

Happy Birthday Tri

Well Tri turned one year old yesterday. To celebrate, we're posting two videos. One shows how adept Cai is at crawling. The thumbnail on the front features Tri (since it's his birthday, but it's really about Cai).

The second video shows Tri kissing his stuffed animals. Soon it will be the ladies, but for now, it's just the animals....and my feet. Yesterday for some reason he kept wanting to kiss the socks on my feet (maybe because it's softer than the scruff of my face). What is cool in this video is it happens to catch the very first step that mommy and daddy have seen Tri take. It's not a big one, but the longest journey begins with a single step. Here it is.

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SamanthaJanuary 30, 2009 at 10:10 a.m.
I went to see it, it was worth it! Definitely a first step and a pretty cool dance step at that.
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margaretJanuary 30, 2009 at 10:34 p.m.
Waaaaaaay cute!
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AnonymousFebruary 9, 2009 at 4:16 a.m.
Bob the builder...can he fix it? Bob the builder...oh, sorry. Its tough to get those songs out of one's head. Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale... Help! Help! I've fallen and i can't get up!!
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It is really hard to imagine what Jakarta is like, unless you visit....and we hope our friends and family do just that.

What can I say? Jakarta is busy, overpopulated, polluted and the traffic is a nightmare. Really. Unbelievable traffic.

But there is another side to it: the people in Jakarta are warm and wonderful. All you have to do is go for a walk in one of the kampungs (local, poor neighbourhoods) to see the baik-hati spirit of the Indonesian people. They have very little, but if you needed it, they'd give you half.

And to be a bule (pronounced boolay)! A bule is a white person. Although there are many of us here in the capital, Indonesians are still curious. You cannot avoid the inevitable probing questions. "Where are you going?" "Where are you from?" "How old are you?" "Are you married?" "Do you have children?"

They are not being rude - quite the opposite. They want to KNOW you and they love it when you get to know them, too.

Very different from the New York or Toronto subway experience, where merely glancing at a fellow traveller must surely mean you need to be committed!

And so, we put up with the smells and the traffic...give a little to get so much more in return.

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John, Ginny, Tri and Cai

Friday, January 30, 2009

Happy Birthday Tri

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