Expat life in Bangkok White Boys in Asia....and their women!: Bargain Time

Expat life in Bangkok White Boys in Asia....and their women!

Just my notes and stories about Expat life in Bangkok. Our frustrations, our laughs! Despite it all Bangkok is still the best place to live and we ENJOY it!!

 

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Monday, May 16, 2005

Bargain Time

As business as been so quiet we have just put a great Ruby ring, giant natural certified stone for 1 Aussie Dollar no reserve...go check it out here . Its worth 1000AUD in the trade so someone is gonna get it very cheaply. Our expensive party weekend has to be paid for somehow so we decided to throw one of the rings that owe us a few quid into the marketplace. Good luck. If it goes over 1000$ I won't cry but 1200$ would make me smile.


Also I just got off the feeds this:-

"An Indonesian high court has upheld a two-and-a-half year sentence handed to Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir for his role in the 2002 Bali blasts that killed 202 people, an official said on Monday "

then compare it with this:-

"Indonesia's ambassador, Imron Cotan, has called on Australians to show faith in Indonesia's justice system, as it deals with 10 Australians currently detained in Bali on drug smuggling charges.Schapelle Corby, 27, is charged with attempting to smuggle 4.1 kilograms of marijuana into the country in her surfer's bodyboard bag, while nine other Australians are facing the death sentence for allegedly trying to smuggle heroin out of Indonesia."

So you should have faith in a 100% corrupt country that sentence the head of Al Qaeda who is responsible for the deaths of 500 people in Bali (the fugures were fiddled) to just two years but who intends to execute a girl for a bit of hash??????

Oh ya also remember this quote from the Indo Ambassador after the Bali bomb:

"If Australian Federal Police continue to arrest Indonesians in Australia then we shall have no choice but to withdraw our support for the Bali Bomb investigation"

When will the world wake up and start treating the Indonesian Government for what they really are? Or have our governments become no different from them?

2 Comments:

Blogger Duke said...

I am to the understanding that the Indonesian judicial system is a will be tough to change for no other reason then it's sheer size. But from what I have heard the wheels of change have slowly begun turning with the new President.

True or not?

4:24 pm  
Blogger gemdealer said...

Well to be honest there has been some changes as there has been with all of the post Suharto presidents but corruption is worse now than it was when Suharto was in power.

This president is making token gestures which is a good start but corruption is so part of Indonesian's daily life one could almost say that Indonesian's are genetically corrupt. I have yet to meet one who isn't.

12:21 am  

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