Hmmm sway. I would have looked pretty foolished if I had described your old one and then you had changed in on me.
Beetle I lived there for almost 5 years. I lived in a place called Mura Badak which is just south of the equator on the east side of Kalimantan for almost 2 years, then in Jakarta for a year then in a place called Prabamulih which is in the middle of Sumatra and finally in Bogar (north of Jakarta) for a year.
I drank tons of iced drinks, ate local food (even from vendors) for years, brushed my teeth out of the tap and never got sick once. Used to play golf all the time even in Prabumulih. I was a member of the local golf club there. I still have a membership to a club called Karawang International near Jakarta. It cost $60,000 then and is probably worth $6 today.
I still go there all the time. Will probably go again in Feb on business.
Bintang in bottles is the worst beer as they put a preservative in it. Used to give everyone a wicked headache. Now Bintang (especially draft) is considered better than Anchor but I lived way out in the boonies so no draft and the beer was warm for months until it was sold. I used to drink Anchor. When I was feeling rich I would go to a supermarket that sold imported beer and buy Japanese or Austrailian or Kiwi beer.
I used to go to the TopGun all the time. I even dated a girl who worked there. I remember watching the Toronto Blue Jays win the world series at 5 am while sitting in the Top Gun eating a buffet breakfast and drinking beer. I was the ohly guy cheering for the Jays. Everyone else was American.
