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Vaguebooking: A Cry for Attention

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One of my morning rituals, among many, is checking out my friends’ Facebook status. For someone like me who has friends all over the world, Facebook gives a simple outlet to keep in touch with everybody without spending too much money for texting and SMS-ing, or wasting too much time in chatting (time difference makes [...]

May 24, 2010 Tech & Web 6 Comments

Where We Belong

When the idea of having a junior high school reunion was thrown into the discussion, I asked the self-appointed committee to set the date at least 3 months ahead so I (and others who now live out of town or country) would have time to plan the journey back. Alas, as normally Indonesians do, the [...]

April 14, 2010 Being Expat 11 Comments

On Old Friends in Facebook

Budi Putra posted a very interesting fact about Facebook: as of March 2010, Indonesia is at the top rank of Facebook users in Asia. With 18.9 million users, Indonesia is well ahead of the number two, Philippines (10.5 million), and number three, India (6.8 million). I am not surprised. Indonesia might pick up the trend [...]

March 8, 2010 Tech & Web 5 Comments

Beyond The Blog

Two weeks had past so quickly I woke up today in Perth already. It felt like it was only yesterday I was stuck in traffic jam in Jakarta, desperately wanting to pee, in a taxi that smells like feet, helplessly looking at my watch, worrying I would be late for my appointment. Two weeks had [...]

February 16, 2010 Blog and Blogger 5 Comments

Surprises & Secrets

I had planned my trip to Indonesia oh-so “quietly” I only told some people that I was coming. The mission: to surprise my mom who thought that she is not going to see me until next year or after I move to Perth, and to surprise R & E who are dear friends and were [...]

October 14, 2009 Indonesia, Travel, Women 3 Comments

Long-Distance Friendships

“Look at us,” said Ecky on one of her texts to me, “We’re miles away apart but here we are, talking about crushed chili!”. I laughed when reading her text but realised how bizarrely true it was, that despite being separated by oceans and 10-hour time difference, not to mention two totally opposite climates (she [...]

July 15, 2009 Being Expat 4 Comments

UK Teenager Saved By Facebook

I know I have been publishing stories about facebook a lot lately, and here is another one! clipped from news.bbc.co.uk A British teenager who took a drugs overdose has been saved after the American girl he was chatting to online raised the alarm. The 16-year-old boy from Oxfordshire had sent her a message suggesting he [...]

April 5, 2009 Tech & Web 4 Comments

Bizarre Virtual Attack

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 [...]

April 3, 2009 Being Expat, Indonesia 10 Comments

Facebook Has Taken My Friends Away…

…Literally. I am deleted from someone’s friends list because apparently his wife was jealous at me. I also found another friend has deleted his own cheeky comments and his tag in several pictures because his wife has just joined facebook and might see our pictures grinning at Dragonfly and wouldn’t be happy about it. I [...]

March 25, 2009 Women, featured 33 Comments

What Bloggers Do When They Meet Up

For the past two weeks in our holiday I have got to running around from one place to another on daily basis. After going back from Siem Reap, we’ve had lunches and dinners appointments every single day I start making schedule so I wouldn’t forget which couple or people we are meeting today and tomorrow. [...]

February 9, 2009 Blog and Blogger, Indonesia 17 Comments