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 [...]

Note: The story happened more than 6 months ago. By then I was still working for L’Oreal Group Indonesia. I was managing a finance project which consolidated 9 countries throughout Asia, and then my boss decided to go ahead with office renovation project, which was my responsibility too. I thought it should be easy, but [...]

We were in the finishing stage of this particular project, when the internal auditors came. There were 5 people: three guys and two girls. All blonde, tall, very young, extremely diligent, always look serious, very intimidating, and gorgeous. The people in the office were anxious because these 5 people came from the headquarters (some country [...]

After an emergency meeting with my hairstylist last weekend, he taught me how to style my hair so it would look like Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears, and Kate Beckinsale altogether. He took the criticism from those biggest cosmetics company people really seriously, so he makes sure I would show up with my immaculate hair and [...]

Melly just has had a wonderful curly hair and talked me into it. Last weekend, for the first time in my life, I permed my hair. I went to my hairstylist, and 15 minutes later, my hair is curly.
I thought it is cute. I thought I look cute.
Until the real trouble comes the next days. [...]