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Xander: The Saga Continues…
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Rockpool Restaurant & The Power of Twitter (part 2)
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The Singing President
Simon P., a.k.a Metromad, who usually appears in your Sunday’s Jakarta Post, is a proof of life that you should never make a big decision when you’re still under Bintang Beer influence. Under a mysterious spell, he went to the music shop, saw the poster of our president’s album, Rinduku Padamu (My Longing For You), [...]
Binge Drinking… In Indonesia?
Binge drinking is a big problem in the UK. BBC reported that Britain’s binge drinking culture is costing the country £20 billion a year, according to a government report. The study by the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit shows 17 million working days are lost to hangovers and drink-related illness each year. The annual cost to [...]
Suharto seen from Different Angles of Perspective
Being 12,000 km away from Indonesia, I received the news of Suharto’s at least 8 hours later. Yesterday, as Stuart directly went to sports channel, I went blogwalking and found out that the former Indonesian president died. I immediately sent texts to several friends asking how the situation in Indonesia after the news is spread [...]
Tantrum Injury: A Massage Experience in Saigon
Have you ever been in the situation where you were so mad you did something silly that hurt you back? It happened to me last Saturday in Saigon, which generated tantrum injury term from Stuart. Here’s the story. After wandering around Ben Thanh Market in a hot, humid temperature to buy oleh-oleh, we ended up [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Is Our Ministry of Tourism Sleeping?
I never thought I was a proud Indonesian. There are so many things our nation has done that made me embarrass enough to admit that I’m from the largest archipelago state. It struck me when I was living in Australia, especially during East Timor’s independence issue. By that time we were still recovering from economy [...]
Etiquette
Etiquette, one aspect of decorum, is a code that governs the expectations of social behavior, according to the conventional norm within a society, social class, or group. Usually unwritten, it may be codified in written form. Modern etiquette instructs people to greet friends and acquaintances with warmth and respect, refrain from insults and prying curiosity, [...]