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Date:
Thu, 26 February 2009 10:05 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject: Series of Visits, From US Secretary of State And Thailand PM
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton waves
upon her arrival at Halim Perdanakusuma airport in Jakarta, Wednesday, Feb 18, 2009. Clinton is hoping to
rehabilitate America's image abroad, especially with Muslims, during a visit to Indonesia and to strengthen
economic and development ties with Southeast Asia.
(AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
Wed Feb 18, 3:28 AM ET
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Indonesian
junior school wave to journalists upon her arrival at Halim Perdanakusuma airport in Jakarta, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009.
Clinton is continuing the Obama administration's efforts to rehabilitate America's image abroad, especially with Muslims,
during a visit to Indonesia that began Wednesday.
(AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana, Pool)
Wed Feb 18, 4:16 AM ET
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left, walks with Indonesian
Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda prior to a press conference following their meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009.
Secretary of State Clinton is continuing the Obama administration's efforts to rehabilitate America's image abroad, especially with Muslims,
during a visit to Indonesia that began Wednesday.
(AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
Wed Feb 18, 7:33 AM ET
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, left,
is greeted by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono prior to their meeting at the palace in Jakarta,
Indonesia, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009.
(AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
Wed Feb 18, 11:09 PM ET
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, bottom, signs a guest
book as ASEAN Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan, right, looks on during her visit at ASEAN secretariat in Jakarta, Indonesia,
Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009.
(AP Photo/Irwin Fedriansyah)
Wed Feb 18, 8:23 AM ET
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton,
left, listens as she visits a USAID project to provide clean water for residents at the Petojo residential area
in central Jakarta on Thursday February 19, 2009. Clinton on Thursday relentlessly hammered home the
Obama administration's message that America is under new management and ready to listen and engage
the world.
(AP Photo/Beawiharta, Pool)
Thu Feb 19, 2:41 AM ET
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (centre R)
waves as she walks through the Petojo residential area in central Jakarta February 19, 2009. Clinton made
small talk on a popular music TV show and toured U.S.-funded aid projects on Thursday as she tried to
improve America's image in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.
REUTERS/Bagus Indahono/Pool (INDONESIA)
Thu Feb 19, 3:00 AM ET
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Indonesian President SBY and new PM of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva
on a press conference at Istana Merdeka, Jakarta, Friday afternoon 20 Februry 2009.
( photo: haryanto / presidensby.info )
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to Jakarta on 18 and 19 February 2009
becomes important because it was among her official first visit abroad as Secretary of State, which includes Japan, Indonesia, China and South Korea.
And for me it becomes important because it was like a series with the visit of new Thailand PM Abhisit Vejjajiva on 20 and 21 February 2009.
Since Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s husband is former president Bill Clinton, whose first
name is like your first name, so this series of visit with new Thailand PM later on becomes like to help support me realize the
"test" for the good of this world.
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Date:
Thu, 26 February 2009 10:15WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject: Socks Died After Hillary's Visit To Jakarta
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In this March 19, 1994 file photo, Socks the cat peers
over the podium in the White House briefing room in Washington. Socks, the White House cat during the Clinton
administration, has died. He was about 18. Socks had lived with Bill Clinton's secretary, Betty Currie, in Hollywood,
Md., since the Clintons left the White House in early 2001.
(AP Photo/Marcy Nighswander, File)
Fri Feb 20, 7:52 PM ET
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In this Dec. 20, 1996 file photo, then-President Bill Clinton holds
Socks the cat as he and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton hosted Washington area elementary school children at the White House.
Socks, the White House cat during the Clinton administration, has died. He was about 18. Socks had lived with Bill Clinton's
secretary, Betty Currie, in Hollywood, Md., since the Clintons left the White House in early 2001.
(AP Photo/Ruth Fremson, File)
Fri Feb 20, 8:06 PM ET
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Just one day after U.S. Secretary of State left Jakarta on 19 February 2009,
the next day on 20 February 2009 there was the news about the death of Socks, the White House cat during the
Clinton administration. What makes this news important is besides Socks was among the rare cat living in the White House,
in this case during president Bill Clinton and family were there, it also had the similar "Batman" look just like the
cat in the house where I live that I wrote in my previous letter
"God's Answer, 3 Kittens With A Batman Inside".
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Date:
Thu, 26 February 2009 10:22 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject: Visiting Franchise Exhibition
After I wrote about
Ray Kroc Started Mac Donald At 52 Years Old
on 18 February 2009, coincidentally there was an exhibition of Franchise and Business Opportunity
held at Balai Kartini, Kuningan, Central Jakarta. I knew about it from an advertisement in the Kompas
newspaper, when I happened to buy a newspaper on Saturday 21 February 2009 after rarely bought it in recent years.
Since it seems like related with my quoting about Ray Kroc’s
successful franchise MacDonald, I took time to get there. Especially since by the time I was thinking about
writing Ray Kroc’s story, there was the rare
worst wildfire in Australian history.
The last name of Ray Kroc reminds me with Crocodile Dundee, the famous movie about Australian crocodile hunter.
As if it was a sign from God, that rather than becoming the trigger of disasters, I should be better become
the developer of good business like Ray Kroc.
The exhibition was only for two days, 21 and 22 February 2009, so I went
there on Sunday 22 February 2009. Yet, even the morning went not so easy that day. By the time I was going to
the toilet as usual in the morning, the building labors happened to cut off the water flow. So I have to wash using
demineralized water for car battery that I happened to buy several months earlier when my brother in law’s Chevrolet
Blazer had trouble with the battery. After he purchased the new battery, the water was no longer needed, so when
on Saturday I was in short of water supply, I used it. Still, upon arriving in the exhibition, the first thing I did was
to go to the toilet to clean more.
Participants in the exhibition were vary, from hamburger, pizza, doughnut,
child education, English course, car cleaning service station, mini supermarket, all of them offering franchise
opportunities. Hopefully I would participate in the franchise business after my 15 paintings have been sold,
therefore I would no longer search for a job instead providing jobs.
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Date:
Thu, 26 February 2009 10:40 WesternIndonesiaTime
Subject: VP Visiting The President
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Indonesia's Vice President Jusuf Kalla is flanked
by Mohammad Hidayat (L), Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce, and Belgian Foreign Minister
Karel De Gucht (R) after being awarded "Order of Leopold" in Brussels, February 6, 2009. Jusuf Kalla is
on a two-day official visit to Belgium.
REUTERS/Francois Lenoir (BELGIUM)
Fri Feb 6, 9:19 AM ET
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Indonesia's Vice President Jusuf Kalla waves to the media when his car
left the house of president SBY on Sunday evening of 22 February 2009.
liputan6 / SCTV
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Sunday 22 February 2009 in the evening on TV there was the news
about Vice President Jusuf Kalla visiting the house of president SBY, for the first time since he went to
several countries abroad and came back to Jakarta without meeting the president. As if it was inspired
by my going to the exhibition which was at Kuningan area, whereas the name Kuningan is like the word
"kuning" which means "yellow", the traditional color of Golkar political party headed
by the Vice President.
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