Where’s Charles? Merdeka Atau Mati (Surabaya 45) Full

A long time ago on an island faraway my brother, Charles and our friend Zask, were recruited to act in the most expensive movie Indonesia had undertaken.

Surabaya 45.

Hugh Paxton’s Blog has visited Indonesia on numerous occasions. A very large country made up of many islands. Nobody and trust me on this one, nobody! can agree on how many islands there are.

Let’s just put it at lots!

I’ve seen many things there. Volcanos erupting, Komodo dragons, a bunch of destitute drunks offering boat tours to view rotting ancestors in lakeside open coffins, delicate art, hospitality, rude Islamists, the best reef diving in the world (check Bunaken Cha Cha web site) but my brother in a tank ordering a counter attack – I hadn’t seen that!

The movie is out and has been about but for years we never found it. Now we have found it on YouTube. But we can’t find Charles. Or Zask. They should be in a tank somewhere in the movie but we can’t find them. It’s not a case of Where’s Wally? It’s a case of where’s Charles? Or where’s Zask? Or where are both of them?

If you can speak or understand Bahasa perhaps give this lengthy movie a look? Anybody who can find him (Charles) or them (Charles and Zask) and their tank might receive a prize!

Please help!

Cheers from Bangkok! Read on for the Surubaya link!

Hugh

Holiday photos

Hugh Paxton’s Blog has just been on holiday and what would a holiday be like if you can’t send photos to everybody who didn’t have a holiday or who had spent their holiday in a Red Sea hospital vomiting and wishing they had opted for Brighton or Gravesend?

There are hundreds of holiday photos but as a supporter of the Humane Society, which rejects cruelty in all forms, I’ll only inflict three on you.

For the time being.

Like most holiday snaps they will be of little interest to anybody who doesn’t want to see a picture of my daughter with a horse,

BLOG ED NOTE: You hated that horse!

HUGH: Come on! Hardly fair! It hated me!

BLOG ED: Why didn’t you take a photo of you chasing the horse round the field waving hay and trying to get it back into the stable?

HUGH: Because I didn’t have a camera! And it took two hours to kick the horse in the way its private and sensitive parts deserved! And I don’t want to be photographed involved in acts of animal cruelty.

BLOG ED: You didn’t even catch that horse. Did you?

HUGH: Not as such. It was fleet of foot. It was a veritable Pegasus! Who’s going to catch that by waving hay and stumbling over thistles and mole hills? Anyway, Annabel and the horse – pony- got on. The donkey was the troublemaker. And all the chickens! And the guinea pigs! The rat! The tortoise! The dogs! The cats! The voles! Forget Gerald Durrell for my Family and other Animals. Visit my sister’s farm!

BLOG ED: I note that you have posted images that bear no relevance to this horse issue.

HUGH: Andy Luck, world famous wildlife photographer, my daughter, both flying a plane.

BLOG ED: I’d rather fly Air Malaysia.

HUGH: Tasteless!

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