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Xander: The Saga Continues…
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Rockpool Restaurant & The Power of Twitter (part 2)
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Posts Tagged ‘Indonesia’
Indonesian Expatriates Forum: Progress Updates
I‘m starting to get some more detailed ideas about the Indonesian Expatriates Forum that I initiated a week a go. Please take a look, and if you have any suggestion, don’t hesitate to let me know, whether through this blog or to my email (finallywoken.blog@gmail.com). As an amateur in the virtual world, I dream big, [...]
2008 Starts With Death
Second day of 2008, I woke up at 7.30 to hear the news about a person we know died this morning. He committed suicide at dawn. It was a difficult to comprehend. Hard to swallow. Not only because the deceased was known to be a very cool, calm, polite person who was in the best [...]
Toilet Humor
In certain shopping malls in Surabaya, like Tunjungan Plaza and Surabaya Delta Plaza, every time you have the urge, you have to pay Rp 1,000 (around USD 0.10) per person to enter the toilet. This weird policy has been applied for years without protests from the visitors or the council. When I was studying architecture, [...]
Rude Indonesians
I‘m just back in Indonesia (I suppose I can’t call it home anymore because Scotland is my home now) yesterday and before too long I’m annoyed already. Not because the idiot KLM counter officer in Aberdeen airport made my luggage wandered around Schiphol Airport without its owner and arrived a day after me. Not because [...]
2008 Bugil’s Calendar
I received Eastern Promise newsletter update this morning. Something caught my eyes and I stopped scrolling when I nearly reached the bottom page. I blinked. Again. And again. Probably I was dreaming. But no. The half-naked lady picture was still there. Stop drooling. It’s not me, obviously. It’s the teaser or promotion of the upcoming [...]
Is Our Ministry of Tourism Sleeping? (2)
Not long ago Rasa Sayange song has sparked a rift between Indonesia and Malaysia because the song is believed to be created by Indonesian (hence, belongs to Indonesia) but was used to promote Malaysian Tourism industry. Now Indonesians are upset again toward a new controversial issue. This time, it’s the traditional dance from Ponorogo, a [...]
What's in A Name? (2)
clipped from news.bbc.co. ‘Muhammad’ teddy teacher arrested Gillian Gibbons is described as “a talented and able teacher “ A British schoolteacher has been arrested in Sudan accused of insulting Islam’s Prophet, after she allowed her pupils to name a teddy bear Muhammad. Colleagues of Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, said she made an “innocent mistake” [...]
What's in A Name?
“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” (Romeo & Juliet (II, ii, 1-2) I‘ve been confused with my own name for my entire life. It started when I was born and continues until today. Unlike Westerners, most of Indonesians don’t have family name except [...]
Bule (Caucasian) Guy Dating Indonesian Girl
I came across this article the other day, and saw that the post got 239 comments. The author and the main contributor of the blog, remains anonymous so I wouldn’t know whether it’s a guy or a lady. A lady named Parvita left a lengthy comment and I guess that was when everybody started the [...]
What A Difference A Nationality Made
In my short career as a globetrotter I’ve learned something valuable: it sucks being Indonesian. As a country we only have dual agreements with 11 countries which allow Indonesian citizens to enter those 11 countries without having to applied for a visa. That means for the rest of countries in the world, we have to [...]