I'm going to "tell it like it is". Drama is synonamous to Italian. I'm first to admit that I've become one myself that it takes 2-3 weeks for me to metamorphose and revert back to the natural and gentle Indonesian me whenever I'm back in Jakarta and even when I just joined this Forum.
My exageration of praises to you, Roy, was derived from my gratitude to meet someone who is generous with his knowledge and since it is not the normal practice in this country, I was just so elated to see that I finally found people that I could relate to which happens to be in this Forum that I went overboard by gushing all over with compliments and what not. And of course, they were miscontrued but I didn't mean anything but a genuine appreciation since noone in this country is willing to part with his knowledge and it would be a suprise to many, that many Italians do not know their own history and many other world knowledge, for your information. It's very very provincial and closed-minded here.
If I were you, I wouldn't worry about it too much, mimpimanis, just because one member leaving the Forum. Imagine me living in this country for years now on and off. I've had to face a person as such many times over and every day. Thus for my preference to stay most of the time at home for the last 3 years now as I realised, it's the only way to live sanely and peacefully. Not only that. But there's a local saying that goes: "phoney like Juda". Unfortunately, anytime I see a nice Italian person (based only on my personal experience) and my husband's --- it's fake! This is what I learned by living here. But I thought this time was going to be different thinking that Australian-Italian must be way more temperate than an Italian-Italian.
Little did I know that by wanting to engage in a topic of the phenomenon of women today -here in Italy, I was accused of wanting to gossip.
And how condescending to want to teach me etiquettes. But I let it go and just ignored.
Now, it's also time for me to express the truth as it must be put in the open, regardless that this Forum is about Bali.
Once again, this is strictly taken from my own very personal experience and my Italian husband. I do have 2 best Italian friends and some aristocrats as well. They are the ones who are humble and genuine people but also some who come from the simple backgrounds are truly and genuinely sympathetics if not funny. My husband couldn't agree more.
My apology if I do not write or speak as elegantly as some of you but I'm a to-the-point kind of person or tell-it-like-it-is as some would call it. I don't mean harm but only truth.
Thank you.