Posts Tagged ‘Expat’
Things that We Thought Are Normal….
Mr. mck finds me crazy. Well, it’s not the first time, but this is the first time I realize that what we usually have in Indonesia are considered crazy. Here they are: Pisang goreng (banana fritter). Pisang goreng with chocolate sauce, condensed milk, and grated cheese. Or pisang goreng with melted brown sugar and icing [...]
Confusing Weather (2)
Note: I must say here that I am forced to write something good about Scottish weather. Mr.mck and GG are deeply concerned that I have sent the incorrect message across the nation that the sun forget to shine in Scotland and the weather is entirely, continuously dreadful. But to me, the virgin of weather-changing-climate, the [...]
Confusing Weather
Tips: read this while listening to Ciara’s 1,2 Step song. Let me see ya 1, 2 step I love it when ya 1, 2 step Everybody 1, 2 step We about to get it on People have had warned me that UK weather is terrible, but I’ve only come here during autumn and it was [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]

















