I read in Tasa’s that Whole Food Market encourages its customers to bring their own bags by taking 5 cents to 10 cents off the bill for each. The same policy will be applied to Marks & Spencer’s customers soon.

clipped from news.bbc.co.uk
Marks and Spencer is to begin charging its food shoppers for carrier bags.
Customers will [...]

I‘m writing this in a moving train that is taking us back to Aberdeen. Yes, the train provides a free wi-fi service, which helps me to endure the 7 hours journey back from London. To think that most shopping malls in Jakarta still charge their customers for providing wi-fi service is ridiculous, especially when you [...]

A combination of a scheduler who pays a great attention to details and a natural worrier would be the worst. It’s me. Me. Me. I am such a pain in the butt to those who think that birds are chirping and the world is smiling and everything is perfect even though your life is not [...]

Scotland’s turbulent history has left an enduring mark on the landscape in shape of the many castles, fortresses and tower houses that pepper the countryside. Some – such as Edinburgh or Stirling – rank amongst Europe’s most impressive structures while other less grand examples provide a stark insight into darker times.
The first time I landed [...]

For the past two days I attended a settlement course in a very gorgeous hotel. It’s rather late, considering I have been here since last June and know most of the absolute essentials, but it’s still worth to attend, and I got to see new people and had free lunches, yay!
The course is done to [...]

Fitna is a short film by Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, which explores Qur’anic motivation for terrorism and Islam in the Netherlands (explanatory stolen from Wikipedia). On April 7, Indonesia has blocked access to YouTube and a couple of other websites such as MySpace and Multiply. The Minister of Information and Communications Muhammad Nuh has passed [...]

Shannon Matthews is only 9 years old when she failed to return home from swimming trip on February 19. Her disappearance didn’t hit the news as big as Madeline McCann. Missing Madeline gets full coverages from media and attracts celebrities ‘ attention (on her 100th day missing, both Sunderland and Tottehnham Hotspur teams walked on [...]

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 [...]

It’s mid April. It’s supposed to be spring. Summer should be around the corner. With a high spirit we headed down to Edinburgh. We planned to visit several places. The sun was glowing even with the dark cloud above us. But then God thought it would be funny to blow some cold.
Back in Aberdeen, where [...]

Last night I found out that Bugilsnews displays Indonesian Expatriates Forum (IEF) link and its widget on their site. With a few thousands of subscribers (I was told they had 10,000 readers a couple of years a go and it was when Bugils Group hasn’t been crazily expanding – to how many bars now, five, [...]

On Sunday we had to adjust our clock back to 6 hours behind Indonesia. Spring has come, apparently. Everybody’s mood has lifted when the week has started with a beautiful day. The sun was shining, the birds were chirping, the sky was blue, the flowers have been starting to reappear, and the sale has begun.
Today [...]