Comments on: Bombs in Bali

By: jennie

jennie — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 03:15:02 +0000

brad,

thanks for the good news. just hope that this time the news is true and that all is well!

By: Brad

Brad — Sat, 08 Oct 2005 05:00:00 +0000

Jennie,

Suzanne has received another note from Lee’s work that he’s OK…was in Hong Kong. She talked to his brother who was oblivious to the whole thing.

Strange?

Brad

By: jennie

jennie — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 10:35:53 +0000

dear suzanne,
no, i don’t have his family contact info. i think his family lives in seattle. but not sure…
thanks for keeping us up to date!
jennifer

By: suzanne

suzanne — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 15:10:11 +0000

brad and jenn,
I’ve been in touch with the US consulate office in Bali and they have no information that any american citizens had been transferred to singapore. She asked how I had received this information, so I shared with her how we have been informed and updated. I’ll keep you posted. Do either of you have any of his family’s contact info here in the states? I used to have their info, but not anymore, but I’d like to get some answers here and would just assume pick up the phone and call or email them directly.
thanks, suzanne

By: jennie

jennie — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 10:27:26 +0000

brad,

wow, that would be VERY GOOD NEWS… hope it’s true that lee wasn’t in bali at the time! but who is this joko then? please let us know the latest news!

jennie

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 10:08:11 +0000

Jennie,

About Lee Turner, conflicting reports. I e-mailed his job and they say he wasn’t in Bali and he’s e-mailed them since. So, I’ve e-mailed Lee and am waiting.

Brad

By: jennie

jennie — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 08:39:43 +0000

hey suzanne and brad! please keep me/us informed about lee! we travelled with him for a week in china and are shocked to hear about this news. actually we had planned to visit him two months ago – but didn’t work out.

a candle is burning for him and he’s in our prayers…

jenn

By: Shounak

Shounak — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 07:27:22 +0000

Hi Nick,

Thanks for your account of the tragedy. I live and study in India and have had opportunities to visit Srinagar, Sri Lanka, and even Bali, some time just an year ago. The reason of my choosing these names are obvious … i see how much mindless violence has taken its toll in beautiful idyllic places! But again, i suppose these are not “mindless” acts but part of a careful and prolonged plan to cripple the economy of these places. Funnily enough, the people of these places are the most soft-spoken, easy-going lot, perhaps resigned to the goings-on.
The thing about Bomb blasts are that long after they happen, lives of many are shattered, especially the poor, with the trickling tourism livelihoods drying up. It is indeed sad to read your report, and so excruciating to even imagine that Bali should go the way the other cities I mentioned have gone! I have faith in people; for them I pray not – just my best wishes. My prayer is that Bali may have a different, peaceful future!!

Cheers

Shon

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 07:08:37 +0000

Hey Suzanne,

I’m a friend of Lee’s from California, just saw him here 3 weeks ago. I rec’d an e-mail from Joko saying he had been transferred to a hospital in Singapore and his parents were flying in to see him. Joko wrote that he was fighting to hold on ’til they arrived so this doesn’t sound good.

Hope for the best,

Brad

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 04 Oct 2005 03:29:45 +0000

Lets get real, people. I live in SE Asia. Been all over the shop, provinces and all. Tackling lofty and politically correct evils like terrorism and drugs should be undertaken way after smaller, mundane, daily irritations like greasing traffic cops are eradicated.
Paying for stopping ‘too long’ at a stop sign is illogical to any right minded human who actually passed and holds a valid driving licence (non Indonesian, of course) Aspiring cops take out huge loans to pay ‘someone’ and get into the force. Some money goes to the photocopy shop where limited numbers of application forms have to be bought from ‘someones’ relative. Cop spends the next few years ‘taxing’ all and sundry to repay his loan. Everything that happens or does not revolves around one word. Its not resolve, duty, responsibility. Its ‘MONEY’. Who gets what and how much. Drugs = lots of money. Terrorism, not as much but they’re definitely working on milking it.