Posts Tagged ‘Maintain Friendships’

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 [...]

Tech & Web March 8, 2010 5:00 am 4 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 [...]

Being Expat July 15, 2009 10:31 am 4 Comments

Wrong! It's Hard To Say I'm Sorry

Why is it difficult for some people to admit they are wrong, let alone apologise, even though they know they are wrong, or proven wrong? In my attempt of trying to understand this particular person who has caused a major headache for the past two days, because I couldn’t put myself in her shoes, I [...]

Indonesia, Women July 21, 2008 4:29 am 16 Comments

Blast From the Past

Social networking websites certainly are on the top of the game, everybody is hooked up and cannot live without it. There has been discussion in many industries about how they could tap into this new trend and get benefits out of it. It is so powerful that HSBC had to cancel their plans to scrap [...]

Arts & Entertainment, Life & Style May 28, 2008 1:21 pm 5 Comments

Friends Abroad

Last night I found out that Bugilsnews displays Indonesian Expatriates Forum (IEF) link and its widget on their site. With a few thousands of subscribers (I was told they had 10,000 readers a couple of years a go and it was when Bugils Group hasn’t been crazily expanding – to how many bars now, five, [...]

Being Expat, Life & Style April 1, 2008 11:01 pm 6 Comments

On Life, Being Busy, and Moving On

It’s Monday night. I find myself sitting in a big table in Cazbar, drinking glasses of good red wine, listening to the good music (although there was one time I raised my eyebrows when they played Wham!’s Wake Me Up Before You Go Go – and was surprised that nobody protested, not even Jasper, the [...]

Being Expat, Life & Style January 7, 2008 3:29 pm 6 Comments

I'm Too Busy For You

Last week I went back home. When I say home, it means where my parents live; since to me home is a vague concept (is home where you’ve spent most of your time in your life? is it where you were born? is it where your parents originally come from? is it where you like [...]

Women April 12, 2006 8:56 am 0 Comments

To Make Friendship Works, You Have to Work It Out

There was something wrong between me and this girl. We have known each other for a year and between 5 of us, this girl is an enigma. My other girlfriends are easy, we have everything in common, we like and dislike the same thing, we have similar opinion about things in life, we have similar [...]

Women July 17, 2005 8:24 am 0 Comments

Certain Friendships Don't Last Forever

I just discovered that someone who has been really close to me in the past 6 months is withdrawing herself away from me lately. As a self-conscious person I started asking myself whether I’ve done something wrong to her. When I couldn’t find any, I sent her email, asking if she’s mad at me, and [...]

Women April 9, 2005 3:44 am 2 Comments