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The Mighty Boosh

Billy came and stayed with us on Friday night a few weeks a go. He brought two rucksacks, one contained his laptop, and the other contained his stuffs for the night. Inside his laptop, he had a DVD of The Mighty Boosh. On Saturday morning he made us sit down and watch the show. I [...]

March 31, 2008 Arts & Entertainment, UK 1 Comment

Tunnock's Teacake and Tablet

I blame Scotland for my weight gain. This country seems to have endless collection of sweets and savouries, and none of them are healthy! It seems that all sin ingredients are mixed together to create devilish, high calorie deserts. I thought STP and deep fried Mars bar are the only bad sweets, but everyday I [...]

March 28, 2008 Scotland 10 Comments

Table Manners – Eating Without Prejudice (?)

In Indonesia, when we go to restaurants, there are no other ways to grab waiter’s attention but calling {this can go from mbak (sister) or ibu (ma’am), to unnecessary flirtatious remarks like sayang (darling) or cantik (gorgeous)}, waving (hand or napkin), or – these are extremely rude manners – whistling, clapping and flicking your fingers. [...]

March 25, 2008 Being Expat, Life & Style 15 Comments

Caucasian vs. Indonesian Men (modified)

Note: The original article was posted on Thursday, 20 March 2008. In regards to those who has requested me to remove the family reference, this article is rephrased, although I try not to go too far from where I stand and believe. After the article is published as of today, I will remove all comments [...]

March 24, 2008 Being Expat, Indonesia, Life & Style, Women 17 Comments

Caucasian vs. Indonesian Men (2)

My previous post sparked lots of heavy comments. First came Oigal, who said I was nasty and too personal. He asked me to remove my reference regarding his family from my blog. I did reply to his comment, saying that I was in rush to go to funeral (and it was Good Friday for goodness [...]

March 22, 2008 Being Expat, Indonesia, Life & Style, Women 7 Comments

American I-Dull

I am embarrassingly watching American Idol now. I have never been a fan, and only saw the show on and off, if it happens to be on telly, but since a few weeks a go I decided to tape it so I wouldn’t miss it (people in Indonesia would not be familiar with Sky TV; [...]

March 19, 2008 Arts & Entertainment 4 Comments

When Indonesian Goes Shopping

I have landed on a blog written by an Malaysian expat who now lives in Jakarta. Some of her articles tickled me and I just realized that is how people see us, Indonesians. One that makes me smile is to read her amazement to see the ladies who go to shopping malls with big hair [...]

March 16, 2008 Indonesia, Life & Style 13 Comments

Bloody Eejit

My friend Anja has just arrived from Holland a couple of months a go. She learns that even though she speaks impeccable English, she still can’t understand what Scottish people say half of the time. Well I couldn’t blame her, I’ve been here for over 8 months and I still don’t get it sometimes. And [...]

March 15, 2008 Life & Style, Scotland, UK 4 Comments

On Anonymous Bloggers (2)

There was a big hoo-ha a while a go when Fatih raised an old issue about anonymous blogging. He particularly dislikes those who blog anonymously on sensitive issues, like politics or religions, and suspect that they have hidden agendas. Fatih’s post generated ripostes and comments from expats in Indonesia. Unspun, stands firmly behind Fatih, showed [...]

March 9, 2008 Blog and Blogger, Tech & Web 5 Comments

Kilt

One of the Scottish national symbols is kilt, a traditional garment of modern Scottish and Celtic (more specifically Gaelic) culture typically worn by men (from Wikipedia). clipped from www.macgregorandmacduff.co.uk The original kilt was known as the feileadh mhór (philamore) or “big wrap”. After the ban and during the 1800s the kilt evolved into something like [...]

March 8, 2008 Life & Style, Scotland, UK 9 Comments