Christian Razukas

Hi! Go-to word-slinger in SE Asia. Small fates, tall tales and strange crimes. 🗞️ ex-JakPost 🇮🇩 immigrant, 14 yrs.

[Christian Razukas @hellochris]

🇮🇩 Why is Indonesia not a world leader in serving pizzas cooked on lava flows?
https://t.co/VC35lo0lrF

[Christian Razukas @hellochris]

🇮🇩 “A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.”

https://t.co/2O0pCjderF

[Christian Razukas @hellochris]

Could someone please explain why the new-ish Indonesian province of Southwest Papua (Papua Barat Daya) is located in the ***northwest*** (barat laut) part of the island?

[Christian Razukas @hellochris]

🤖 I fed ChatGPT about 30,000 words of my articles, and it said I wrote like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Raymond Carver, Pico Iyer, and Anthony Bourdain. So I've got that going for me. Which is nice.

[Christian Razukas @hellochris]

🇧🇦 In Bosnia and Herzegovina, police seized 124 kilograms of cocaine hidden in packages of bananas mistakenly delivered to a company that had neither ordered the cocaine, nor the bananas.

https://t.co/wk0qWPNrPR

[Christian Razukas @hellochris]

✍️ I've done three ghost book projects. Writing is the easy bit–but it takes a reporter long years to learn how to connect with sources to get their story.

A spot-on accurate, warm, great, funny, and illuminating read by @JRMoehringer via @jkottke

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@alwyn_lau It forces a person to focus and the technique works for online lectures, too. Also been going on since Douglas Coupland wrote about it in Microserfs in the 90s.

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🇵🇭 Edilberta, a missing grandmother from Quezon City, has been found. Robbed and slain by a taxi driver–Cosio–who, police say, was also a gun runner, drug pusher, explosives seller, and kidnapper.
https://t.co/UAURU1NOPs

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@miketatarski Look at the size of that thing!

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@Bali_chris This is can-do Indonesian market saavy at its best!

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@travelfish Travelfish gets better by the day. Posting on Twitter about Internet Explorer? 😀

Thank you, Stuart, for the low-hanging fruit. Ha ha.

[Christian Razukas @hellochris]

🇹🇭 Ms. Pukthong Kuthong, a wheelchair-bound seller of lottery tickets on Pattaya's streets, has forgiven the pistol-wielding gambler who robbed from her a phone, several amulets, and 4,000 baht.

Still pressing charges, though.
https://t.co/Dmty4oMckX

[Christian Razukas @hellochris]

🇸🇬 In Singapore, four husbands with wife-sharing fantasies met online and conspired to have their own partners sedated and raped.
https://t.co/p0mSfihHrC

[Christian Razukas @hellochris]

The winning numbers were 1592 and 4412, represented by these icons from my 1960s-era Indonesian language dream interpretation book, 1001 Tafsir Mimpi 250 Trilyun.

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🇲🇾 In Perak, a sleepless pensioner bet on lottery numbers inspired by his nightmare of a robbery and awoke 22.8 million ringgit richer.

https://t.co/nIy5DIBEka

[Christian Razukas @hellochris]

@nisatyas 🇮🇩 In crocodile attacks, Indonesia leads the world!

https://t.co/xmeFbTpSAt

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🇮🇩 Doing well with some lacerations, Arya Tri Putra, an angler of East Kutai, fell asleep while waiting for the fish to bite and awoke with his head in the jaws of a four-meter long crocodile.

https://t.co/7aoKIRXex3

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🇨🇳 "Keep a fast junk in the harbour with gold bars and a second set of papers."
https://t.co/TxMLoWm06z

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🇹🇭 For serving to students lunches of rice noodles with fish sauce, Somchao Sitthichane, the former director of Ban Thai Mai school, has been sentenced to 385 years imprisonment.
https://t.co/SAoUFZSplF

[Christian Razukas @hellochris]

🇮🇩 A kerambit and a sangkur were used by robbers to stab fatally an online taxi driver (in North Jakarta, grand theft auto) and 12-year-old schoolgirl (in Cimahi, cell phone).

https://t.co/RJqoHPbLLq
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[Christian Razukas @hellochris]

🇮🇩 At The Jakarta Post, pearls have been clutched.

https://t.co/7xLAYkctQE