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Rockpool Restaurant & The Power of Twitter (part 2)
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Posts Tagged ‘Scotland’
Spring? What Spring? (2)
It’s mid April. It’s supposed to be spring. Summer should be around the corner. With a high spirit we headed down to Edinburgh. We planned to visit several places. The sun was glowing even with the dark cloud above us. But then God thought it would be funny to blow some cold. Back in Aberdeen, [...]
Spring? What Spring?
On Sunday we had to adjust our clock back to 6 hours behind Indonesia. Spring has come, apparently. Everybody’s mood has lifted when the week has started with a beautiful day. The sun was shining, the birds were chirping, the sky was blue, the flowers have been starting to reappear, and the sale has begun. [...]
Bloody Eejit
My friend Anja has just arrived from Holland a couple of months a go. She learns that even though she speaks impeccable English, she still can’t understand what Scottish people say half of the time. Well I couldn’t blame her, I’ve been here for over 8 months and I still don’t get it sometimes. And [...]
Kilt
One of the Scottish national symbols is kilt, a traditional garment of modern Scottish and Celtic (more specifically Gaelic) culture typically worn by men (from Wikipedia). clipped from www.macgregorandmacduff.co.uk The original kilt was known as the feileadh mhór (philamore) or “big wrap”. After the ban and during the 1800s the kilt evolved into something like [...]
You Know You're in The UK When…
I was ordering a new wardrobe at John Lewis. It’s sort of custom made; we could choose size, colour, model, and additional bits according to the given catalog. After settling all the major parts, like size and colour, I began adding the elements like lights, drawers, and tie hangers. The cheery shop assistant happily took [...]
Celebrating Valentine’s Day… At The Football Stadium
When the chairman of the West Sumatra branch of the Indonesian Clerics’ Council (Majelis Ulama Indonesia, MUI), Buya Mas’oed Abidin, urged people to stop the Valentine’s Day celebration and accused it as a part of capitalist-Jewish conspiracy (see Indonesia Matter’s Jewish Conspiracy), 12,000 km away from my home country I get to see how Aberdonian [...]
Céilidh
I went to my first céilidh (pronounced kay-lee) in Aberdeen last December at The Marcliffe Hotel (which, to me personally, was a disaster, since I wore a long ball gown that sweeps the floor, very glamorous for waltz but not suitable for Scottish dance which involves lots of bounces and skips and takes so much [...]
Let It Snow
It’s been a long time since I bitched about Scottish weather. Not because I’ve had settled here nicely and developed thick skin to bear the cold. Not because I have had run away, back to sunny Indonesia, for almost 2 months so I missed the most miserable weather. But seriously, because since I’ve got back [...]
Burns Supper
We’re back in Aberdeen after 6-week holiday in Indonesia and Vietnam. The prospect of going back to cold, gray, wet weather wasn’t really appealing; especially when we were transiting in Amsterdam and seeing outside the window of Schiphol Airport. But surprise, surprise, last weekend wasn’t actually that bad. The sun was shining, the sky was [...]
Donald Trump's Scotland Golf Plan Rejected
It’s not everyday Donal Trump faces a rejection. But his plan to build a £1 billions (that’s Rp 20 trillions or about one-third of Indonesia State Budget of Revenues and Expenditures!) golf complex and housing development at the Menie Estate in Aberdeenshire was rejected last weekend by Aberdeenshire Council’s infrastructure committee. It doesn’t matter that [...]