Indonesia hates to see you naked!

GOOD LORD, it has been some sex weeks indeed for the country. No, I did not just write sex weeks, I wrote the online widespread of sex tapes featuring celebrities, during the past weeks. And an unbelievable Friday’s breaking news of a Balinese young boy making love to a cow. No, I did not write cowboy, I typed: C-O-W.

You probably hear [international] celebrities sex tapes all the time, it’s like been there for-like-ever; but real Indonesian celebrities sex tapes featuring a famous pop band frontman and his girlfriend and a married gossip presenter are something Indonesians should admit: “new” and juicy.

Wait, I forgot to put the word: ALLEGEDLY. So here it goes again: real Indonesian celebrities sex tapes allegedly showing a famous Peterpan band frontman, Ariel, and girlfriend, Luna Maya, and a married gossip presenter, Cut Tari.

A friend tagged me on this photo on Facebook. Not sure who made this very creative DVD-package

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Does Gaza need you?

I DREAM big. So giant am dreaming of becoming a war correspondent one day. I understand that’s not one noble ambition, because by wanting to be one I need at least a war to be covered. And surely, I despise wars.

I am here not talking with the “vampire-journalists” perspective who feed on blood. The only reason of me wanting to be sent away to a war zone is because I want the world to know what really happens. I want to help people and give them hopes through my writings. Criticizing attackers and war criminals, pushing responsible parties to act and punish human rights violators.

My destination is fixed: Gaza.

I have been reading stories and reportages on Gaza for the past two years now — both from mainstream and indie media. I also follow many Gaza activists on Twitter. I must admit that I probably get a bit “obsessed” with Palestine-Israel conflicts. I badly want to go there — interviewing people, writing exclusive stories, witnessing what happens and later on telling the world all of it.

So as you have heard, read, and seen on newspapers and televisions, Israel has gone mad again by attacking Freedom Flotilla earlier this week. A ship carried aids with international peace activists on it, floating in international waters.

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