The date is set, the flight is booked. We officially have only less than 1 month in Aberdeen. By end of this month we will start our new journey in Australia. The movers will come to pack everything away a few days before departure, and the list of what we can bring and how we [...]

November 2nd, 2009 by Finally Woken

I had planned my trip to Indonesia oh-so “quietly” I only told some people that I was coming. The mission: to surprise my mom who thought that she is not going to see me until next year or after I move to Perth, and to surprise R & E who are dear friends and were [...]

October 14th, 2009 by Finally Woken

Yes, it has been 19 days since my last posting, but I wouldn’t bore you with excuses. Instead, here is some stuff I could share by now:
Moving – again!
This is the first time I officially confirm that mr.mck and I are going to move down under. The news, of course, has been circulated around friends [...]

September 29th, 2009 by Finally Woken

Have you googled your own name? Or your ex? Do you feel that you are a weirdo by doing that?
Well think again. Apparently people have too much time on their hands – either that or too much imagination – and rely a lot on Holy Google to answer their dilemmas.
The Telegraph has featured 20 Funniest [...]

September 10th, 2009 by Finally Woken

Somebody posted intriguing threads on twitter on the other day. I wasn’t sure what subject that triggered her posting, but she was ranting about Indonesians living overseas who pretend to know more about Indonesia [compares to those who are inside the country], who only like to criticise but do not help. She surprised me when [...]

September 1st, 2009 by Finally Woken

Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi from Libya was jailed for murdering 270 people after Pan Am flight 103 exploded 31,000ft over Lockerbie (a Scottish border town), 38 minutes after take-off from London en route to New York in 1988. He is found guilty of murder after the historic trial under Scottish law in the Netherlands in 2001 [...]

August 24th, 2009 by Finally Woken

I read in disbelief when Catherine Brown, the food write, revealed her discovery that haggis, a very unique Scottish dish, in fact, appeared first in an English cookbook 171 years before Robert Burns even mentioned it.
I was still in shocked when Allan Brown in his article “History Behind Scottish Myths”, on Sunday, August 9th, listed [...]

August 21st, 2009 by Finally Woken

You must have known how many times I complain about Indonesia or Indonesian. And I thought I couldn’t find any other thing worth to talk about as I feel I’ve covered all.
Until a couple of weeks a go.
This particular Indonesian lady, who was gracefully featured in my old post “I Love Indonesia, But…” now will [...]

August 19th, 2009 by Finally Woken

Haggis, a traditional Scottish dish, is – according to Wikipedia – made of the following ingredients: sheep’s heart, liver and lungs, minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices and salt, mixed with stock, and traditionally boiled in the animal’s stomach for about three hours. Today the dish is prepared in a casing rather than an actual [...]

August 7th, 2009 by Finally Woken

Ever had a feeling you’re suffering from a bad hair day? I have certainly had, more than once. The biggest embarrassement would have been when I thought I had a gorgeous perm but was totally mocked by the president director and the department head of hair God company, L’Oreal (read here and here).
This website, Don’t [...]

August 4th, 2009 by Finally Woken

If you read this today, I would have been somewhere in the sky between Aberdeen and London.
Hope you will forgive me as I am away – again. This time mr.mck and I will explore the south part of UK but I will be staying in London for several days first before he joins me this [...]

July 28th, 2009 by Finally Woken

“If you feel you have been excluded from the Bible, please write your way back into it.”
The above notice, alongside with a container of pens, are put by the open Bible at an exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art (Goma) in Glasgow. The exhibit, Untitled 2009, was proposed by the Metropolitan Community [...]

July 26th, 2009 by Finally Woken

I remember when I was in primary school I wanted to be an astronomer (looking for objects up in the sky), archaeologist (looking for objects down beneath the earth), or architect (building things up or down), when I grow up. The first two were clearly and highly influenced by reading too much Hergé and Agatha [...]

July 24th, 2009 by Finally Woken

I was surprised that I haven’t mentioned about the biggest event in Scotland yet. Homecoming Scotland 2009 is a series of events designed to attract people of  Scottish ancestry to visit Scotland. The campaign, organised by EventScotland and VisitScotland on behalf of the Scottish Government, and part-financed by the European Regional Development Fund, claims that [...]

July 22nd, 2009 by Finally Woken

Within hours after two hotels in the heart of Jakarta were shattered by bombs, there has been a big development in Indonesian blogosphere, or should I say twitterworld.

clipped from www.budiputra.com
Started from Friday afternoon, the Indonesian Twitter users put their new red and white avatars (red and white represents the national flag)–while some avatars also have [...]

July 20th, 2009 by Finally Woken

Yesterday was a quite important day for me. As part of my permanent residency process in the UK, I have to take (and pass) the test called “Life in The UK”. To be able to pass this test I need to answer 75% questions correctly, or 18 out 24. I have spent almost two weeks [...]

July 18th, 2009 by Finally Woken

From The Telegraph.
Italian cartoonist Donald Soffritti imagines the later years of superheroes, with hilarious results. His brilliant cartoons have been collected into a book, available here.
Now, can you guess who they are?

July 17th, 2009 by Finally Woken

“Look at us,” said Ecky on one of her texts to me, “We’re miles away apart but here we are, talking about crushed chili!”.
I laughed when reading her text but realised how bizarrely true it was, that despite being separated by oceans and 10-hour time difference, not to mention two totally opposite climates (she is [...]

July 15th, 2009 by Finally Woken

NHS (National Health Services), the publicly funded healthcare system in the United Kingdom, believes that regular intercourse can be good for school pupils’ cardiovascular health and they have a “right” to an enjoyable sex life.

clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk
The advice appears in leaflets circulated to parents, teachers and youth workers and is meant to update sex [...]

July 13th, 2009 by Finally Woken

If women can get pregnant from stray sperms, loads of women would definitely try to find out where George Clooney or Brad Pitt swim!

clipped from www.thesun.co.uk

A WOMAN is suing an Egyptian hotel claiming her daughter got pregnant – from using the swimming pool.
Magdalena Kwiatkowska’s 13-year-old returned to Poland from their holiday expecting a baby.
Magdalena believes [...]

July 12th, 2009 by Finally Woken