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My Survival Kits

A month before quitting from L’Oreal Group, the news that I was moving to Scotland was spread and everybody always gave me the same questions: 1) where is Scotland, 2) it’s far and cold, how do you survive? and 3) won’t you miss Indonesian food? For number one, I’ve already tried to explain it in [...]

Being Expat July 22, 2007 4:35 pm 0 Comments

Leaving on A Jet Plane (2)

I think I should write this now before it’s too close to my departure. I know when the time comes I will be too emotional, and I hate showing tears in public. I’m known to be feisty and distant, while secretly I’m helplessly sappy. Living in Scotland would not be a problem at all to [...]

Being Expat, Scotland, Travel, UK May 31, 2007 8:11 pm 0 Comments

Leaving on A Jet Plane

I’m leaving. 35 days from now, I will be sipping cappuccino in Starbucks, but thousand miles away from here. The coffee will taste the same, but everything else won’t. I’m leaving. 35 days from now, I will be typing my blog in an apartment, but thousand miles away from here. I will type the same [...]

Being Expat, Scotland, Travel, UK May 25, 2007 4:55 pm 0 Comments
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