Griff88

Well, that's how it should be...

Joko Widodo officially began his second term as President of Indonesia by appointing ministers to his cabinet this week. For Minister of Defense we have.... the other presidential candidate who has been trying to topple him for years. Almost all of the opposition party get sucked in to the governing coalition except one party. The hardcore fanboys of both sides now confused. How come these sworn enemies unite in one government?

We don't need to worry about atmosphere, since Indonesians are mad about football no matter how suck the team and how corrupt the federation is (as long the tickets are not very expensive).

Looool we became U20 World Cup host

Not about qualified nations but Myanmar has the potential to qualify in badminton. Their best player, Thet Htar Thuzar, is currently 46th in women's singles Olympic ranking and that means she is holding the 27th spot (from provisional 34) as of this week. If she can keep her performance for another 6 month, she can easily qualify.

Yeah, I agree. The lazy virus in designing Para-Games logos is infecting more and more..

Egalite et fraternite

It is not that bad, but I can't just find myself liking it...

https://thebridge.in/hammer-throw-kills-17-year-old-kerala-athlete/ My goodness this is so sad

Make the agitos looks more like crescent and make the colour less dark... Voila! Perhaps someone with OCD complained too much?

A popcorn machine set off the fire alarm and made the Denmark Open final suspended

KOREA

The bid logo has done its job. Let's hope doesn't turn into something like: ___* | | -----

Exactly what happens here. People usually play recordings of someone reciting some surah from Quran without really understanding the full meaning but they feel the calmness and peace fulness from the recordings.

Apparently our basketball federation's logo is so old-fashioned that even FIBA ordered to change it https://sport.detik.com/basket/d-4750915/logo-perbasi-jadul-fiba-instruksikan-ganti-baru

We have quite a lot Arabic vocabularies which was spread from Muslim merchants about 700 years ago. Even some country names in Indonesian used Arabic derived ones because those merchants are the ones which made people at that time aware of those countries like Mesir, Aljazair, Yunani, etc. With the exception of Morocco, somehow we used the Western derived "Maroko". In Malaysia they still use Maghribi (and the number of Arabic vocabularies in Malay is even more prevalent than in Indonesian).

Just don't say "Do you speak Iranian?". I remembered a video where a man meets an Iranian immigrant and he hesitated to ask that. Fortunately the Iranian put him out of misery and just cut the question and replied "Yes of course I still speak Persian"

I think no one beats when Xi visited Venezuela a few years back...

And now I wonder whether there are words in Slovak that is normal but became a profanity/negative words in Czech? Indonesian and Malay have a lot of these words, and sometimes it caused some trouble for travelers from both countries. For example: Dadah Indonesian: This word is used when you ask little kids to wave goodbye to someone else ("C'mon, dadah to grandma before we leave") Malay: narcotics Butuh Indonesian: need Malay: d*ck Pusing Indonesian: dizzy Malay: turn (left or right) Banci: Indonesian: drag queens Malay: census Seronok: Indonesian: Lewd Malay: Fun Also there is the word awak which means "you" in Malay but in West Sumatra it means "I" (other regions use different words). Imagine if someone from Malaysia comes to West Sumatra....

I used to... I don't have enough perseverance unfortunately, but still refuse to uninstall it from my phone

and is usually said to be 90% intelligible (for the formal/standard language) since it came from the same root. But from what I observe nowadays, younger generation in Indonesia will have more difficulty in understanding Malay because there are many vocabularies that is now become rarely used by them. And with more Indonesians understanding English, they just won't bother to think about trying to understand Malay when they happen to meet Malaysians. Side story: As I am Chinese descent with ancestry from Fujian Province, I speak Hokkien. And I found out that even Hokkien speakers in Indonesia has different variations, where sometimes the difference in the vocabulary can be quite big. The Medan Hokkien (the one I spoke) is mostly intelligible with Penang Hokkien in Malaysia, which means it's quite isolated compared to other variants. My father once arranged to meet a Singaporean businessman and my father thought that as they both can speak Hokkien it is alright (he barely understands English or Mandarin). When they start discussing, it turns out my father doesn't totally understand what the Singaporean was saying. Luckily I was there, and suddenly became the middleman between them lol

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1086046/tokyo-mayors-shock-at-marathon-switch Looks like a drama is coming

Talking about this, I remembered last year Hong Kong considered a bid for 2021 (but of course it is certainly cancelled due to the unrest)

Han Aiping passed away due to lung cancer http://www.badmintonplanet.com/badminton-news/14811-former-world-champion-han-aiping-passes-away-57.html

Definitely, because Cali is in Colombia