Ramblings about Rain, Playboy, Bali
This morning it's been raining from dawn. On my way to Pasar Minggu train station, I get caught in a shower, which lasted for less than a minute but was enough to soak me.
After I took off at Cikini Station, I hailed a bajaj to take me to my office. As the bajaj halted in the intersection of Jl M Yamin and Jl HOS Cokroaminoto, like a ray of sunlight in this cloudy morning (the weather really brings out the poet in me), a street newspaper and magazine vendor waving the 2nd edition of Playboy Indonesia showed up.
Playboy Indonesia, after those rallies against their activity, had moved their office to Bali to comply with the chief of Jakarta Police Department's suggestion. This seems in accordance with Bali being as an exception in the Antipornography bill draft. I assume that it's due to the fact that Balinese people are okay with naked breasts.
Balinese people, in their daily traditional life, consider breats as nonsexual objects. This is just a cultural characteristic, just like how a fair neck and upper back area of a lady gets japanese men aroused. The sight of bare breasted ladies doing daily chores was one particular reason why so many western people came to Bali since the beginning of 20th century. Artists captured the sight in their artworks in a highly dramatized way. Then they started to nickname this tropical island "Paradise on Earth", and it's got nothing to do with the green mountain and blue sea scenery. That's the place where cultural differences actually come face to face in mutual understanding.
So, although people of the island of thousand temples could accept topless women as they thought that breats are meal for babies, you would wonder whether an older baby Hugh Hefner considers tits as merely meal. Probably he does. I really think that they're the source of energy for the founder of Playboy International so he could live up to a really old age.
After I took off at Cikini Station, I hailed a bajaj to take me to my office. As the bajaj halted in the intersection of Jl M Yamin and Jl HOS Cokroaminoto, like a ray of sunlight in this cloudy morning (the weather really brings out the poet in me), a street newspaper and magazine vendor waving the 2nd edition of Playboy Indonesia showed up.
Playboy Indonesia, after those rallies against their activity, had moved their office to Bali to comply with the chief of Jakarta Police Department's suggestion. This seems in accordance with Bali being as an exception in the Antipornography bill draft. I assume that it's due to the fact that Balinese people are okay with naked breasts.
Balinese people, in their daily traditional life, consider breats as nonsexual objects. This is just a cultural characteristic, just like how a fair neck and upper back area of a lady gets japanese men aroused. The sight of bare breasted ladies doing daily chores was one particular reason why so many western people came to Bali since the beginning of 20th century. Artists captured the sight in their artworks in a highly dramatized way. Then they started to nickname this tropical island "Paradise on Earth", and it's got nothing to do with the green mountain and blue sea scenery. That's the place where cultural differences actually come face to face in mutual understanding.
So, although people of the island of thousand temples could accept topless women as they thought that breats are meal for babies, you would wonder whether an older baby Hugh Hefner considers tits as merely meal. Probably he does. I really think that they're the source of energy for the founder of Playboy International so he could live up to a really old age.
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