Jim Finnel
Fallen Cannabis Warrior & Ex News Moderator
Almost two months after being put in hospital with severe depression, Schapelle Corby was all smiles yesterday as she enjoyed a games day at her Bali jail.
Corby, 31, hugged a senior prison officer and clapped and laughed during a pre-Independence Day fun and games event at Kerobokan Jail.
She told a local journalist she was not sick, despite prison doctors saying she remained on anti-depressants and was still "not 100 per cent" better.
Radar Bali journalist Mohammed Ridwan spoke to Corby and asked about the fit of depression that saw her confined to a Bali hospital for three weeks in June.
"Saya tidak sakit," Corby told Ridwan in perfect Indonesian, which means, "I'm not sick".
Corby also sang along to the Michael Bolton song To Love Somebody, swaying with the music.
When Ridwan invited her to dance Corby said: "I'd love to, but you go first."
She also joked and asked him to delete a photograph he had taken of her on his mobile phone, telling him that it was "ugly".
She also asked Ridwan which paper he worked for and told him that when she was in hospital that she had been very angry with the media.
Asked why, she said jokingly that if she told them, the media would make another story. She put her hand over her mouth and laughed.
The games day, held inside an auditorium at Kerobokan Jail, was held in the lead-up to this Sunday's Indonesian Independence Day celebrations and included prisoners taking part in wacky competitions.
Corby did not compete but was an enthusiastic spectator with people saying she looked healthy and happy.
She certainly looked better than the last time she was seen - in Sanglah Hospital where she was medicated for depression brought on partially by the rejection of her last appeal and the deaths of her father and stepfather.
The jail's doctor, Agung Hartawan, said yesterday that Corby was still not 100 per cent stable and she was still taking anti-depressants.
"She is much better compared to when she was in the hospital but she is not 100 per cent stable," Dr Hartawan said. "Sometimes she cries when she meets or talks with someone close to her, especially to her family or to the consulate."
He said Corby's feeling that she was innocent and trapped in the jail without cause made her upset.
Corby is in line to get a short amount of time cut from her sentence on Independence Day, however, authorities said the remissions had not yet been announced.
Corby is serving a 20-year sentence after being convicted of trying to smuggle 4.1kg of marijuana into into Bali in 2004.
Last month, after her hospital respite, she was refused permission to move to a low-security prison in Bali.
Before her hospital treatment, prison officers said she had been unable to sleep or eat in prison since learning that her final appeal had failed.
Corby's appeal failed in March, when Indonesia's Supreme Court upheld her 20-year sentence.
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Corby, 31, hugged a senior prison officer and clapped and laughed during a pre-Independence Day fun and games event at Kerobokan Jail.
She told a local journalist she was not sick, despite prison doctors saying she remained on anti-depressants and was still "not 100 per cent" better.
Radar Bali journalist Mohammed Ridwan spoke to Corby and asked about the fit of depression that saw her confined to a Bali hospital for three weeks in June.
"Saya tidak sakit," Corby told Ridwan in perfect Indonesian, which means, "I'm not sick".
Corby also sang along to the Michael Bolton song To Love Somebody, swaying with the music.
When Ridwan invited her to dance Corby said: "I'd love to, but you go first."
She also joked and asked him to delete a photograph he had taken of her on his mobile phone, telling him that it was "ugly".
She also asked Ridwan which paper he worked for and told him that when she was in hospital that she had been very angry with the media.
Asked why, she said jokingly that if she told them, the media would make another story. She put her hand over her mouth and laughed.
The games day, held inside an auditorium at Kerobokan Jail, was held in the lead-up to this Sunday's Indonesian Independence Day celebrations and included prisoners taking part in wacky competitions.
Corby did not compete but was an enthusiastic spectator with people saying she looked healthy and happy.
She certainly looked better than the last time she was seen - in Sanglah Hospital where she was medicated for depression brought on partially by the rejection of her last appeal and the deaths of her father and stepfather.
The jail's doctor, Agung Hartawan, said yesterday that Corby was still not 100 per cent stable and she was still taking anti-depressants.
"She is much better compared to when she was in the hospital but she is not 100 per cent stable," Dr Hartawan said. "Sometimes she cries when she meets or talks with someone close to her, especially to her family or to the consulate."
He said Corby's feeling that she was innocent and trapped in the jail without cause made her upset.
Corby is in line to get a short amount of time cut from her sentence on Independence Day, however, authorities said the remissions had not yet been announced.
Corby is serving a 20-year sentence after being convicted of trying to smuggle 4.1kg of marijuana into into Bali in 2004.
Last month, after her hospital respite, she was refused permission to move to a low-security prison in Bali.
Before her hospital treatment, prison officers said she had been unable to sleep or eat in prison since learning that her final appeal had failed.
Corby's appeal failed in March, when Indonesia's Supreme Court upheld her 20-year sentence.
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Source: News.co.au
Copyright: 2008 News Limited
Contact: Contact us | NEWS.com.au
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