And so it wasn't much of a sucessful publication, partly because during the delay of the last issue, no body had commented about it, asked about it or tagged about it. What a pity, the first (and probably last) online publication made by the BigFatSmiles.BlogSpot.Com (worth 18000dollars in who knows what currency valued by Technorati) is therefore deemed a failure. Whatever, we can always pick up and walk the long lonely road again can't we? So anyway, I have to finish what I have started, and here, presented to you is Viva La Timor Loro Sae Issue 4.
Editor's Note
It has been really my pleasure to have been working on this short 5 series publication (4 issues with one with 2 editions). I have delayed this last issue for a pretty long amount of time- apparently hearing no complaint from my readers thus feeling a little dejected. This will probably be the last publication and soon a blog will be put up- just featuring this 5 series, 4 issue publication alone. Something to look forward too =) Also put up will be tips on travelling to East Timor- should anyone wish to give a shot at walking into the world's newest indepedant nation. So yarh, here is the last issue of Viva La Timor Loro Sae. Enjoy!
Signing out,
The Editor
Editor's Note
It has been really my pleasure to have been working on this short 5 series publication (4 issues with one with 2 editions). I have delayed this last issue for a pretty long amount of time- apparently hearing no complaint from my readers thus feeling a little dejected. This will probably be the last publication and soon a blog will be put up- just featuring this 5 series, 4 issue publication alone. Something to look forward too =) Also put up will be tips on travelling to East Timor- should anyone wish to give a shot at walking into the world's newest indepedant nation. So yarh, here is the last issue of Viva La Timor Loro Sae. Enjoy!
Signing out,
The Editor
Some small notes...
Did you ever know what does Viva La Timor Loro Sae mean?
Well, Timor Loro Sae means East Timor in Portugese. Since Portugese is the official Language of the Nation, Viva Timor Loro Sae was said by the President (Xanana) at election speeches or national events which means "Cheer on East Timor" in Portugese.
Sabbath in Dili
The first Sunday spent in Dili!
While everyone was settled in the air-conditioned church building in motherland Singapore, the Timoree trippers (us) were saddled in the open air sanctuary situated in Rua iz de Outubron, Dili. There was a tentage above all our heads with flags of most nations painted on the tentage. On why the Israeli flag was placed in front- I don't know. The worship session, which got the ball rolling, was in the Tetum language. The songs however, were the same, and translated from our typical English to their traditional Tetum. The sermon was preached by the Leader of our Team, who was also one of the pastors in the Motherland church. Overall, it was a very spiritual and engaging service.
YOUTHexplosion Concert and Bazzar
Was a pretty interesting way- on how we distributed our donated items to the Timoreese. A Bazaar was held and visitors were led in to some building which I forgot what was. So anyway, the locals were led into the building- free of charge, and were given free coupons indicating $1 or 50cents. So these locals could go around the Bazaar "buying" stuff and playing games with the coupons. And so I was placed in the Security Section (can you believe they put me in SECURITY???) and was in charge of Securing the Ropas or Clothes stall.
Why I was able to sneak away to take this photo was all due to the wonderful slack atitude of your Big Fat Smiler. However, this was not much of a busy time in the stall- "still very little people" as Kwan would say. So yarh, as people came into the Bazaar, more and more people came to help out in the Ropas stall. Because every visitor was flocking to the clothes section! And soon, the men got rowdy and there was all kinds of commotion. I got quite freaked out. And then we decided to throw all the clothes from the provided tables onto the floor. At first I thought it was quite a bad idea- after all, who wants to wear clothes ON THE FLOOR? It was a good idea anyway, cause everyone was pushing and all that shit. Thus the job of being a cashier got even worse when the people were not allowed to choose their clothes from the table but from the floor. We, were the
pickers for them and thus they were pointing here and there and we had to pick it for them. Due to language barriers, when they said "Skirt" or "black" or whatever I did not understand and some were pretty angry with me. *oops* Some of them were wearing quite interesting clothes though- may I direct your attention to the 3rd picture in this section? Click on it- it'll zoom. YES! That is a PE tee from Tanjong Katong Secondary School! Haha, apparently it was thrown in some donation drive and the donation drive donated it to this nice Timoree here. The Timoree was pretty embarassed when I took a picture of him though.
After the Bazaar was the Youth Concert held in an extremely dirty stadium. Oh my god I hate that place. The amount of dust swept up was absolutely humongous and the chairs were filled with filth. I was cursing under my breath when I was cleaning that filthy place. The toilets were worse (thank god I wasn't assigned that place) but we had to draw water from there. And the water was in this disgusting well like thing with a aged bucket inside and we had to draw from there. The toilets in the toilet were choked.
Haha, enough of the gross. The Youth Concert was absolutely great! My goodness! The weirdest thing was that the people there were smoking during the worship concert (Timorees are heavy smokers- much due to the cheap cigarette sails). I was not down there with the congregation because I was trying to get the people to stand. About 70% of the individuals were sitting on the seats above. They were sitting! I can't imagine anyone SITTING in a youth concert. So yarh. It was a great time.
Tips on Timor Travel
We flew on JetstarAsia- which was a chartered flight. Other alternatives include a 7times a week flight from Bali and a more frequent flight from Darwin Australia.
Timorese are mostly Catholic there. Should you be entering the villages other than those in Dili- caution yourself when taking out the bigger cameras, it could frighten.
Trips to many of the other Districts in Timor can be boarded via Lorry/microlet which is not a very tourist alternative because of it's packness. You probably would be forced to stand. Frequency are only about once a week. Alternatives are hiring of 4x4s at about 70us a day.
Which ends my last issue! Obrigadu!
Did you ever know what does Viva La Timor Loro Sae mean?
Well, Timor Loro Sae means East Timor in Portugese. Since Portugese is the official Language of the Nation, Viva Timor Loro Sae was said by the President (Xanana) at election speeches or national events which means "Cheer on East Timor" in Portugese.
Sabbath in Dili
The first Sunday spent in Dili!
While everyone was settled in the air-conditioned church building in motherland Singapore, the Timoree trippers (us) were saddled in the open air sanctuary situated in Rua iz de Outubron, Dili. There was a tentage above all our heads with flags of most nations painted on the tentage. On why the Israeli flag was placed in front- I don't know. The worship session, which got the ball rolling, was in the Tetum language. The songs however, were the same, and translated from our typical English to their traditional Tetum. The sermon was preached by the Leader of our Team, who was also one of the pastors in the Motherland church. Overall, it was a very spiritual and engaging service.
YOUTHexplosion Concert and Bazzar
Was a pretty interesting way- on how we distributed our donated items to the Timoreese. A Bazaar was held and visitors were led in to some building which I forgot what was. So anyway, the locals were led into the building- free of charge, and were given free coupons indicating $1 or 50cents. So these locals could go around the Bazaar "buying" stuff and playing games with the coupons. And so I was placed in the Security Section (can you believe they put me in SECURITY???) and was in charge of Securing the Ropas or Clothes stall.
Why I was able to sneak away to take this photo was all due to the wonderful slack atitude of your Big Fat Smiler. However, this was not much of a busy time in the stall- "still very little people" as Kwan would say. So yarh, as people came into the Bazaar, more and more people came to help out in the Ropas stall. Because every visitor was flocking to the clothes section! And soon, the men got rowdy and there was all kinds of commotion. I got quite freaked out. And then we decided to throw all the clothes from the provided tables onto the floor. At first I thought it was quite a bad idea- after all, who wants to wear clothes ON THE FLOOR? It was a good idea anyway, cause everyone was pushing and all that shit. Thus the job of being a cashier got even worse when the people were not allowed to choose their clothes from the table but from the floor. We, were the
pickers for them and thus they were pointing here and there and we had to pick it for them. Due to language barriers, when they said "Skirt" or "black" or whatever I did not understand and some were pretty angry with me. *oops* Some of them were wearing quite interesting clothes though- may I direct your attention to the 3rd picture in this section? Click on it- it'll zoom. YES! That is a PE tee from Tanjong Katong Secondary School! Haha, apparently it was thrown in some donation drive and the donation drive donated it to this nice Timoree here. The Timoree was pretty embarassed when I took a picture of him though.
After the Bazaar was the Youth Concert held in an extremely dirty stadium. Oh my god I hate that place. The amount of dust swept up was absolutely humongous and the chairs were filled with filth. I was cursing under my breath when I was cleaning that filthy place. The toilets were worse (thank god I wasn't assigned that place) but we had to draw water from there. And the water was in this disgusting well like thing with a aged bucket inside and we had to draw from there. The toilets in the toilet were choked.Haha, enough of the gross. The Youth Concert was absolutely great! My goodness! The weirdest thing was that the people there were smoking during the worship concert (Timorees are heavy smokers- much due to the cheap cigarette sails). I was not down there with the congregation because I was trying to get the people to stand. About 70% of the individuals were sitting on the seats above. They were sitting! I can't imagine anyone SITTING in a youth concert. So yarh. It was a great time.
Day of Sighseeing
It's the 2nd last day of the Timoree encounter and we're going Shopping! In Timoree style though =) Well, we visited the Comorro Market- which is market more suited for locals than tourists. It was a great photographic oppotunity though. People selling chickens, toothbrushes, toothpastes, slippers, custard apples, bananas yada yada. More to view at the Flickr! (end of post shall show the URL) We also visited the Soveneirs market- more tourist orientated, selling the Timoree tie and all that. So yarh, invested about 25 US Dollars in the country's economy =)
It's the 2nd last day of the Timoree encounter and we're going Shopping! In Timoree style though =) Well, we visited the Comorro Market- which is market more suited for locals than tourists. It was a great photographic oppotunity though. People selling chickens, toothbrushes, toothpastes, slippers, custard apples, bananas yada yada. More to view at the Flickr! (end of post shall show the URL) We also visited the Soveneirs market- more tourist orientated, selling the Timoree tie and all that. So yarh, invested about 25 US Dollars in the country's economy =)
Tips on Timor Travel
We flew on JetstarAsia- which was a chartered flight. Other alternatives include a 7times a week flight from Bali and a more frequent flight from Darwin Australia.
Timorese are mostly Catholic there. Should you be entering the villages other than those in Dili- caution yourself when taking out the bigger cameras, it could frighten.
Trips to many of the other Districts in Timor can be boarded via Lorry/microlet which is not a very tourist alternative because of it's packness. You probably would be forced to stand. Frequency are only about once a week. Alternatives are hiring of 4x4s at about 70us a day.
Which ends my last issue! Obrigadu!
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