Archive for June, 2008

Keeping It Private

Is this a growing trend among Indonesian bloggers? I have found out that at least three of my blogbuddies have decided to restrict their blogs, which means only invited users can read them. They’re quite popular and one of them has been listed consistently on the top 100 in IndonesiaMatters. I asked two of them, [...]

Blog and Blogger, Tech & Web June 30, 2008 4:55 pm 21 Comments

The Long And Winding Working Hours

I have quit my job and left Indonesia a year ago, but still receive job offers from time to time, although no one dares to relocate me back to Jakarta as en expat (*wink). But when I was visiting my ex boss in his fancy office after having dinner with my ex-colleagues, seeing the whole [...]

Indonesia, Life & Style, Work June 26, 2008 12:52 am 18 Comments

I'm Not An Indonesian, Not Yet A Scottish Lady

I think the combination of being in a holiday mood, having too many things to do/people to meet/parties to attend, and having crap internet connection at home, makes me abandoning my blog. It has been over a week and I haven’t been bothered to update it. So I arranged to meet up with Therry at [...]

Being Expat, Indonesia, Life & Style, UK June 24, 2008 5:54 pm 13 Comments

Certain Friendships Don't Last Forever (2)

Sometimes when you’re sleep deprived, you start imagining things and seeing stars before your eyes. That’s what I thought the first time I saw them. On the way back to Indonesia I stopped over in Singapore to see my best friend from high school, who’s heavily pregnant and ready to explode any day now. I [...]

Indonesia, Women June 17, 2008 1:14 am 16 Comments

Travel With Dignity

I‘ve been putting the packing activity off forever until the last minute. I have piled everything I know I am taking home in the bedroom corner for days, but every time I wanted to start, I just couldn’t be bothered. Plus I’ve got zillion things to do in the last minute, as usual. This comes [...]

Travel June 14, 2008 5:48 pm 10 Comments

Your Comments Worth A Million (And You Don't Know It!)

This is a wake up call to all bloggers. Somebody – or many people – out there, is/are listening, or to be precise, reading, whatever you say everywhere in the virtual world. It doesn’t matter whether it’s trashy, unintelligent, boring, or lame. It doesn’t matter whether you pour your heart out in your own blog, [...]

Blog and Blogger, Tech & Web June 12, 2008 10:27 pm 9 Comments

Chick-Lit Overload

Here’s a question. Why do most of the chick-lit novels have their main characters working either as an author, a journalist, or as an editor in book publishing industry? Remember Candace Bushnell’s Carrie Bradshaw (a columnist), or Helen Fielding’s Bridget Jones (an editor) or Sophie Kinsella’s Becky Bloomwood (a journalist), and of course, Lauren Weisberger’s [...]

Arts & Entertainment, Women June 12, 2008 6:39 am 7 Comments

The World's First Pregnant Man

The world’s first pregnant man, is preparing himself for the birth of his first baby, which is due in four weeks. Thomas Beatie was born female, named Tracy Lagondino, but had gender reassignment surgery and is now legally male and married to a woman. However he keeps his ovaries and womb so he could have [...]

Women June 8, 2008 7:44 pm 12 Comments

One More Beer, Please

Apparently the sentence above is really important and must be translated into 50 languages. Forget how to say please and thank you, don’t bother to learn to ask for a direction in a local lingo, as long as you can ask for one more beer in a strange place, you’d be fine, and you’d charm [...]

Being Expat, Food June 8, 2008 8:16 am 5 Comments

Feel Phenomenal

Scottish version of the famous Rudyard Kipling’s “If” poem: If you can bounce in six inch heels all night And still walk home in your bare feet If you can keep two passions burning bright And see there`s still some romance in defeat If you can hit a foreign beach without a tan Or brave [...]

Food June 3, 2008 7:58 am 5 Comments