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I'm a 25 year old English bloke and I live in Jakarta. It's a bloody great town.
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I'm a 25 year old English bloke and I live in Jakarta. It's a bloody great town.
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» Hidden Treasure
Baghdad Booty
About a week before I arrived in Baghdad, the hotel I was going to stay in took eight direct hits from some big Russian rockets. I got assigned a room next door to one of the rooms that got hit. You could see where the missile had come in through the blast shield, through the window, through the wall of the bathroom and had detonated in there, blowing the wall down and turning the previous occupant (who'd been asleep) into a series of tea-coloured stains splattered all over the walls and the ceiling.
Ah but what booty he did possess, whoever he was: Two entire cardboard boxes filled with FHM, Maxim and porn. We also used his room to evade the stupid security rules and hold clandestine parties. We called it the Rocket Room.
(Fri 1st Jul 2005, 4:59, More)
Baghdad Booty
About a week before I arrived in Baghdad, the hotel I was going to stay in took eight direct hits from some big Russian rockets. I got assigned a room next door to one of the rooms that got hit. You could see where the missile had come in through the blast shield, through the window, through the wall of the bathroom and had detonated in there, blowing the wall down and turning the previous occupant (who'd been asleep) into a series of tea-coloured stains splattered all over the walls and the ceiling.
Ah but what booty he did possess, whoever he was: Two entire cardboard boxes filled with FHM, Maxim and porn. We also used his room to evade the stupid security rules and hold clandestine parties. We called it the Rocket Room.
(Fri 1st Jul 2005, 4:59, More)
» The last thing that made me cry
Iraq
I lost 33 of my staff in one week there. Then I got emailed footage of three of them being executed. So I got outstandingly drunk and wept like a banshee. I am not in the army.
(Thu 14th Apr 2005, 12:33, More)
Iraq
I lost 33 of my staff in one week there. Then I got emailed footage of three of them being executed. So I got outstandingly drunk and wept like a banshee. I am not in the army.
(Thu 14th Apr 2005, 12:33, More)
» Airport Stories
Many, many airports, one abiding memory...
I've spent a great many hours in a great many airports over the years, from elephant-dung studded grass strips to the very big ones. But my best airport experience happened in Colombo.
I was on the Emirates flight that stops there on the way to Singapore from London. I'd been out the night before and I could still feel the pills as we landed in Sri Lanka. I decided to get out and have a few beers- not hearing the request to stay on board.
After an hour and a half of very enjoyable beer drinking, I began to wonder why my flight had not been called or displayed on teh departures board. So I strolled nonchalantly up to the Emirates desk. But before I could open my mouth, an angry Arab jumped up and said 'You're Mr _!"
They put me in a van with two men carrying AKs and drove me to the plane where I was scowled at by several hundred passengers and was served no more booze.
I'm sorry, Emirates.
(Wed 8th Mar 2006, 14:45, More)
Many, many airports, one abiding memory...
I've spent a great many hours in a great many airports over the years, from elephant-dung studded grass strips to the very big ones. But my best airport experience happened in Colombo.
I was on the Emirates flight that stops there on the way to Singapore from London. I'd been out the night before and I could still feel the pills as we landed in Sri Lanka. I decided to get out and have a few beers- not hearing the request to stay on board.
After an hour and a half of very enjoyable beer drinking, I began to wonder why my flight had not been called or displayed on teh departures board. So I strolled nonchalantly up to the Emirates desk. But before I could open my mouth, an angry Arab jumped up and said 'You're Mr _!"
They put me in a van with two men carrying AKs and drove me to the plane where I was scowled at by several hundred passengers and was served no more booze.
I'm sorry, Emirates.
(Wed 8th Mar 2006, 14:45, More)
» Near Death Experiences
It's my metier
Okay. My friends say I look for it. I say I get paid to take the risks. I've been:
-Shot at by East Timorese
-In a 4x4 that flipped 5 times. I had to persuade my driver he was still alive and needed to get out before it caught fire
-In a 4x4 that hung two wheels over a cliff
-Been shark hunting so drunk I couldn't stand
-Fell into a fishpond in my 10-kilo flak jacket
-Flown in a Russian helicopter with drunk pilots and no glass in the windows
-Been in several motorbike accidents, one resulting in temporary blindness
-As I say, I just moved to Baghdad
I also have a wonderful girlfriend waiting for me in my house in Jakarta, so maybe I'll give it a rest. After this mission.
(Sun 28th Nov 2004, 15:20, More)
It's my metier
Okay. My friends say I look for it. I say I get paid to take the risks. I've been:
-Shot at by East Timorese
-In a 4x4 that flipped 5 times. I had to persuade my driver he was still alive and needed to get out before it caught fire
-In a 4x4 that hung two wheels over a cliff
-Been shark hunting so drunk I couldn't stand
-Fell into a fishpond in my 10-kilo flak jacket
-Flown in a Russian helicopter with drunk pilots and no glass in the windows
-Been in several motorbike accidents, one resulting in temporary blindness
-As I say, I just moved to Baghdad
I also have a wonderful girlfriend waiting for me in my house in Jakarta, so maybe I'll give it a rest. After this mission.
(Sun 28th Nov 2004, 15:20, More)