Skiduearinosuda!

It has been a very snowy spring in Europe. From Portugal to Italy they have recorded record snowfalls this year.

There has been no snowfall in Lombok yet. But we are hopeful and waiting. Rinjani Volcano measures over 3,700m in altitude, so it should be an obvious pick for snowfall.

And then I had a good idea with Kai. There is a perfect statistical correlation between Olympic winter games and snowfall patterns. Preparations in July for Winter Games in December has always warranted snowfall in December too. Much in the same way that "Christmas card sales Granger-cause Christmas!" which is the Granger-cause theorem. So if we all bought tickets for the Olympic winter games in Lombok, there is likely going to be snowfall in Lombok too. So taking this causal relationship to heart, Kai and I drafted up a petition to bring the Olympic winter games to Lombok in 2020.

But it hasn’t stopped there. Imagine carving down the slopes of Rinjani past three ecological zones: first, a frozen volcano crater; second, green rice terraces ; and third, the white sand beaches off Lombok coast. Thusly, our motto will be “ski at dusk, eat rice at noon, surf at dawn” . We sat down with some creative writers and after a few hours they came up with “skiduearinosuda” which we felt captures the motto justly. With this motto we can in fact hold the Summer and Winter Games in the same year!

What are we waiting for?