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After 13 years, Paris is as crowded, dirty, and expensive as my first encounter in 1998. It was the height of Asian financial crisis, rupiah was at one…
Almost every meal time with Yoga is an adventure. Mixing whatever we have in the kitchen. Yesterday it was spaghetti with soy sauce and minced beef. Today it’s…
Days are passing so fast now since Yoga’s around… 🙂 I haven’t even shared how he went here in the first place. It all started last year when…
To my dearest one on his 28th birthday =) May happiness fill your life — our life — always. “Joy, my love, joy in all things, in what…
..we finally meet again. No moral boost is better in this cold winter! *the last time we met, October 5th 2010, is of course more than 500 days…
All Indonesians know corruption is harmful, but ironically it persists, if not has been increasingly practised. Indonesia needs a new strategy to fight the plague: it is time…
Going for Rotterdam to see IFFR is a little bit like scavenger hunt. The clue is the funky tiger face across the city. Last Saturday was my first…
I also went to last Saturday’s Winternachten. Coincidentally met Nany and Thandi there.. 🙂 The ticket price was pretty steep — 13.75 euro and it was student price,…
I went to the Writers Unlimited and it was amazing to see the wordsmiths at play. The first event I attended was the Oxfam Novib/PEN Award on Thursday,…
After four nights in Firenze, we went to Pisa today. The practical reason is because our flight tomorrow will be at 6.30 am from Pisa, so it’s more…
Arrived in Firenze tonight, and had to face a misadventure for a while: we could not contact the apartment owner’s employee! The apartment owner lives in Milan so…
So the essay frenzy has ended, rather disappointing and unsuccessfully, at 10 am this morning. I practically tortured myself with that piles of reading and almost no time…