October 23rd, 2008
On a rare occasion I was let out of the office to visit a construction site near Lhokseumawe in Aceh, where they were building the pre-fabricated houses which had been shipped from Canada. It was satisfying seeing the houses built, and the community already living in some of them, rather than just as a part on the ledger in the warehouse.
October 15th, 2008
Arriving back to oppression in Indonesia…
Airport Restrictions in Indonesia:
Animals, Guns and Cooking – Understandable
Cooking – Inconvenient
Wheels on Heel – IS NOTHING SACRED!!!
October 10th, 2008
And try to take a bite out of the Big Apple…
Lady Lib
Rockefeller Center
Grand Central
From Central Park
Sarcophagus in the Met
Giant Balloon Animals
Police Line around Wall Street (during the stockmarket crash!)
New York Stock Exchange
Times Square
Durians in New York
Ground Zero
Irony
For some reason an article titled “Charities struggle to spend cash for tsunami”, with a few chunks cut out of it became an art piece in the Museum of Modern Art. I appreciated a certian irony, given that my trip to North America was partially funded by my Rest and Relaxation (R&R) allowance from the charity I work for, using money donated for the tsunami.
Inscription from the foyer of the American Museum of Natural History
A suitable epilogue to my North American Expedition.
October 7th, 2008
Visit a friend in Boston, and touch on an childhood dream…
Me at MIT
(I don’t think that I’ll ever do that PhD in Robotics anymore)
October 5th, 2008
And to visit Montreal…
Old Montreal
Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal
Saint Joseph’s Oratory
Leaves changing
Sun diffraction through leaves
Autum Leaves
October 4th, 2008
Having been in Indonesia for over 6 months straight, they decided it was time I took a holiday. So I decided to go somewhere completely different… Canada.
Parliament of Canada
Peace Tower outside Parliament