In Reply to: Knowing your Indonesian background - posted by Filo on Monday, 30. June 2008 at 07:43 Bali Time:
It's taken many, many years to perfect that look :) But you're right, the Indo background does help a little.
All I did was explain to the the guy, very patiently, that the goods in my lost suitcase were worth far more than what was in the boxes :)
And as soon as I soon as I explained that they were handmade teddy bears he lost all interest - clearly not worth re-selling (not that that ever happens people...)
Anyway, happy to help out Filo, every little bit helps. The boxes disappeared from Swastika so I'm assuming they got picked up OK!