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Archive for April, 2008

inuka: the polar breaks

Posted by leonardus on April 26, 2008

His birth, 16 years ago, had enough to amaze the world as the first polar creatures to be born out of tropical country. And while Inuka is enjoying the full care of the zoo’s employees, little he realizes that his fellow species, at the other corner of the earth’s pole, has shown a sign of […]

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tibet: in flame

Posted by leonardus on April 18, 2008

A student activist, Lhadom Tethong, said during the recent Free Tibet rally in San Fransisco:
This is not about us battling torchbearers. This is about the Chinese government using the torch for political purposes. And we are going to use it right back.
Months before it reaches the unsettled Tibetan regions, the Olympic torch has been struggling […]

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koln: we will rock you

Posted by leonardus on April 12, 2008

The first time I saw the giant poster of the Queen’s musical show was last year in a Musical Dom, just besides the magnificient gothic church of Cologne Cathedral of Germany. Little I knew about this show until finally this month, I managed to grab front-seat tickets during its tour at the Esplanade Theatre of […]

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brussels: mannequin the piss

Posted by leonardus on April 7, 2008

Exactly 1 year ago, on 7 April 2007, I was out to Belgium for a weekend trip from Frankfurt, to a city called Brugge.

The trip is well-accomplished, except that I came back with a corrupted and undetectable hard disk. And for almost a year I gave up not being able to see all my […]

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