Spring cleaning: thorough cleaning, especially of a residence when winter is over.
The first time I heard spring cleaning term was when I was working back in Indonesia. Every time we were ready to move a company to their new office space, the removals or movers would come to identify each staff’s items, pack them in [...]

Yes, it has been 19 days since my last posting, but I wouldn’t bore you with excuses. Instead, here is some stuff I could share by now:
Moving – again!
This is the first time I officially confirm that mr.mck and I are going to move down under. The news, of course, has been circulated around friends [...]

I have encountered a bizarre moment this week. Suddenly someone I barely know cowardly sent a private message to  friends of mine, saying how embarrassed she would be if she doesn’t work and yet keep spending her husband’s money. A friend alerted me and pointed the fact I posted a good news a mere minutes [...]

I just purchased two tickets for Nickeback concert in Glasgow next May, and am very excited since it would be the first live concert that I watch. To say that it was the first as real first isn’t true, because when I was working in Fox Studio complex in Sydney, the Channel [V] often hosted [...]

It’s been a painful week, basically: mentally, physically, spiritually. Practically avoided 3 dimensional human being and ignored phone calls and texts and only did a one way communication through faceboook, which isn’t really communication but over-sharing tool. Funny that we could decide not to tell anything while at the same time reveal everything. Decided to [...]

It’s been pretty quiet since London girls’ trip. The taste of purple martini at the Purple Bar still lingers (too expensive, that is. One glass cost me £17.00 (Rp 350,000). It’s good, but I find it hard to justify the price), and there’s a talk about repeating it in Dubai or Ascot. Maybe Ascot, I [...]

Today has been a very busy day. And although I was able to read most emails through my iphone, I couldn’t check my blog(s) until 10 PM tonight. By the time I opened this blog, I had lots of comments to responds to. And since Monday is my ‘major blogwalking’ day, which means I visit [...]

It is not like me. I am usually able to publish two-three articles in a week. In good days, even almost everyday. My blog, which has started since March 2005, and is over 3 years old, is a standing proof about how consistent I have been.
But not now. I have been occupied with lots of [...]

Sometimes I am so gullible and oblivious. I thought every blogger is just like me, who writes about IT, or making money online, or writes about their daft, boring daily activities, or about cooking, or kids, or fashion. Or politics. I didn’t realise there are bloggers who write about sex.

That until last night I watched [...]

I have been searching for it. Deep down inside my mind, heart, and soul, I know what I’m looking for, but it would be impossible to explain it to the world. It’s my exclusive journey, that I and only myself could understand, that I must endure privately.

I once tagged about this by Fida, asking what age I wish to get back to, and I have briefly mentioned about it in this post because at that moment people from the past suddenly reappeared in my life at the same time, a long overdue project was back in full speed, and of course, [...]

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, [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

There was a big hoo-ha a while a go when Fatih raised an old issue about anonymous blogging. He particularly dislikes those who blog anonymously on sensitive issues, like politics or religions, and suspect that they have hidden agendas. Fatih’s post generated ripostes and comments from expats in Indonesia.
Unspun, stands firmly behind Fatih, showed how [...]