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Missing Scotland

Maybe because it’s summer, sunny and hot and it’s Christmas and there’s supposed to be cold and snow. Certainly because Walker’s shortbreads are sold everywhere but I know nothing compares to granny mck’s homemade ones: straight from the oven full of real butter, and made by love. Or maybe I am just still in culture [...]

December 25, 2009 Scotland 2 Comments

Hello From Down Under (1) – The Journey

The confirmation finally came when I was still enjoying my holiday in Indonesia. Yes, we’re moving to Perth, Australia (not Perth, near Glasgow!). The date was finally agreed. Yes, it’s 26 November. Lots of emails went back and forth about how we get there (they sent us a booking with Qantas, I wholeheartedly refused – [...]

December 7, 2009 Australia, Being Expat, Scotland, UK 8 Comments

New Home… Almost

The date is set, the flight is booked. We officially have only less than 1 month in Aberdeen. By end of this month we will start our new journey in Australia. The movers will come to pack everything away a few days before departure, and the list of what we can bring and how we [...]

November 2, 2009 Australia, Being Expat, Travel 12 Comments

Lockerbie Bomber Released

Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi from Libya was jailed for murdering 270 people after Pan Am flight 103 exploded 31,000ft over Lockerbie (a Scottish border town), 38 minutes after take-off from London en route to New York in 1988. He is found guilty of murder after the historic trial under Scottish law in the Netherlands in 2001 [...]

August 24, 2009 Scotland, UK 4 Comments

Scottish vs. Malaysian Myths

I read in disbelief when Catherine Brown, the food write, revealed her discovery that haggis, a very unique Scottish dish, in fact, appeared first in an English cookbook 171 years before Robert Burns even mentioned it. I was still in shocked when Allan Brown in his article “History Behind Scottish Myths”, on Sunday, August 9th, [...]

August 21, 2009 Arts & Entertainment, Indonesia, Scotland, UK 8 Comments

Haggis is English?

Haggis, a traditional Scottish dish, is – according to Wikipedia – made of the following ingredients: sheep’s heart, liver and lungs, minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices and salt, mixed with stock, and traditionally boiled in the animal’s stomach for about three hours. Today the dish is prepared in a casing rather than an actual [...]

August 7, 2009 Scotland, UK 2 Comments

Defacing Bible

“If you feel you have been excluded from the Bible, please write your way back into it.” The above notice, alongside with a container of pens, are put by the open Bible at an exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art (Goma) in Glasgow. The exhibit, Untitled 2009, was proposed by the Metropolitan Community Church, [...]

July 26, 2009 Arts & Entertainment, Scotland, UK 0 Comments

Homecoming Scotland

I was surprised that I haven’t mentioned about the biggest event in Scotland yet. Homecoming Scotland 2009 is a series of events designed to attract people of Scottish ancestry to visit Scotland. The campaign, organised by EventScotland and VisitScotland on behalf of the Scottish Government, and part-financed by the European Regional Development Fund, claims that [...]

July 22, 2009 Scotland, UK 0 Comments

Is It A Bird? Is It A Plane? No, it's…. 60ft Penis Up On The Roof

I have promised myself to publish at least one post on weekday and one interesting news from UK at the weekend. But this one news is worth it! clipped from www.thesun.co.uk Parents Andy and Clare were delighted when builders finished a new flat roof on their £1million house. But Rory, 18, had just watched a [...]

March 24, 2009 Scotland, UK 3 Comments

Jesus Is Found in Scotland!

Although not as bad as Ponari and His Magic Healing Stone phenomenon, anything resembles religious figures always attracts attention. The problem is, I don’t see the similarity!

March 21, 2009 Scotland, UK 8 Comments