Archive for the ‘Life & Style’ Category

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 [...]

Blast From the Past

Social networking websites certainly are on the top of the game, everybody is hooked up and cannot live without it. There has been discussion in many industries about how they could tap into this new trend and get benefits out of it. It is so powerful that HSBC had to cancel their plans to scrap [...]

Summer Theme

An ex-colleague is coming to pursue his master’s degree here, and was quite gutted when I told him to prepare some light layers, even though today is so-called summer. Summer here is not something like in tropical countries or in Australia, where we can walk around with shorts, tank tops, and open-toe sandals, and get [...]

I Love Indonesia, but…

Update: The below article is highlighted in Bugils Newsletter, and in attempt to make it more worth to read – since I wrote it in 10 minutes during Manchester United vs. Chelsea game (in between red wine & chips) – and to look smarter (ha, who am I kidding!), I fixed it a little bit. [...]

Domestic God(dess)

Cooking is something – I can say this with confidence – that many Indonesians don’t master. Generally we are spoiled rotten by our family who can afford maids (or sometimes maid and cook), and by the widely available good and cheap food on every corner in Indonesia. Because of this, some people never visit their [...]

Spoiled Local-Expatriates

The Writer just wrote about spoiled expatriates, “those who come from developed country and get a job in developing country and live like a king/queen“. With salary which is unbelievably higher than a local standard – mostly due to ridiculous exchange rates and tax regulations – and lots of allowances, they soon embrace a lavish [...]

Greedy Green

Greedy Green

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 [...]

Frustrating

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 [...]

Without Prejudice

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 [...]

Spring? What Spring? (2)

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, [...]