mood: full music: 'romance d'amour' by nil

tonite, i'm posting from solo, the epicenter of food on my trip. here's a quick itinerary:

legend--> city, amount of time spent here, epicenter of ___

yogya (pronounced 'joke-jah'), 4 days, epicenter of family
jakarta, 2 days, epicenter of shopping
solo, 1 day, epicenter of food

and good god is it the epicenter of food. the irony of it is, though, that i spend the least of my time here, and the most in the most boring place, the epicenter of family, yogya.

anyways, i took a walk the other day around the neighborhood i was staying at in yogya, around my grandma's house. it turns out there's a new convenience store down the street, and being an american, i gotta love my convenience. guess what i found right next to it. no, it wasn't a flower and kitten shop. it was a masonry (is that the right word?) and not just any masonry. it was one that made gravestones. peachy. note to self: don't make anymore nocturnal trips to the convenience store.

anyhow, my trip's been going just about how i planned. a lot of waiting, a lot of sweating, and a lot of eating. it's been 2 days since we got here, and already my diet's been obliterated by the evil assortment of fried goody-goodies or as we call them here, goreng-gorengan. my diet regiment's coming back with a vengeance once i land back in the US.

ok, tomorrow i take the 2 hour car ride back to yogya and on the 10th i fly to jakarta. i'll probably post again then. toodles.

---Goei===