@Marc: hello again, long time no see you! How’s the cat(s)? Yeah if you see the comments here and any other blogs or sites, no one actually thought it was worth to watch, and everybody doesn’t think it represents Islam in general and no one condones this. So why Indonesian government made such a fuss about it? Insecurity? Trying to steal the momentum? Or just because they can’t operate their laptop to watch it? The latest is my theory *wink.

USD 2000 laptops. Shite.

That’s such a waste considering there are plenty of cheap ones that only cost 5 mill rupiah and can still work as good if one only wants to open Microsoft Word or play DVDs

Or place their Starbucks coffee cups in the DVD-ROM. Hahahaha.

@Yuki: yeah, in Indonesian it’s called “kebakaran jenggot nggak jelas”. The Indonesian government behaves like 5 years-old child. And it’s disgraceful to see they think we’re not smart enough to distinguish between good and bad.

@Toni: Barolo for you?

@Colson: I could translate the jokes verbatim but it will loose the little essence. Maybe your daughter in law can help you with it?

@Therry & Andie: I suspect the jokes did happen too. Sensible, smart people will find USD 2,000 laptop is too expensive especially when you can get a super duper one with less than that. And if they don’t even understand what ‘executive summary’ is, then how in the world we expect them to be able to operate a sophisticated laptop?

@Yuki: shame. I did enjoy Da Vinci Code. And was v.excited to find lots of Mason buildings here.

We are having our governor election in a couple of days. A bunch of us have decided to not participate. Why? Everyone of them is hopeless. And it will annoy us less if we don’t have any expectation on them. So why bother?

I actually enjoyed reading Da Vinci Code even though I love Jesus, and I actually don’t mind if he did end up with Magdalene

@Anita:

Thanks for the jokes, I won’t be surprised if they’re actually inspired by real incidents mwakakka… bloody eejits.

The good news is that the Geert W. hype seems to disappear and the Indonesian government offered apologies for blocking YouTube etc.

The bad news is that jokes in Indonesian still are acabadabra to me (I badly need a speed course on Bahassa Indonesia).

I’ve written my opinion on Fitna two weeks ago. I’ve always been against those who disrespect religion and I feel sorry for all Muslims in the world, there is nothing to worry about from Fitna though, it’s just a tasteless work.

Banning some websites (I heard, people can access those websites again yesterday) is just simply stupid. Look how Indonesian women who use Multiply to sell goods suffered. Look how the government didn’t know that we could still access those websites from anonymous proxy.

It’s funny to see people are so worried about Fitna although they haven’t seen it, it’s funny to see how government quickly reacted to prevent people from having access to it. Most importantly, it’s funny to remember how books and films which, for instance, depicting Jesus Christ as married man and other stupid conspiracy theory on Christianity can be found easily in Indonesia and there was no single official reaction to condemn those “masterpieces”.

I’m sorry if any of you offended.