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Japanese Autumn Colours in The Hague

Together with some friends, today I went to Clingendael to see its prized Japanse Tuin (Japanese Garden). Clingendael itself is a big and beautiful park. But visiting Japanse…

Losing But Still Happy

Because it’s not a zero-sum game 🙂 Today we ISS students have a sport competition in De Blinkerd between old batch and new batch — volleyball, basketball, badminton,…

Library

The library’s small, but its development studies collection is comprehensive (of course, ISS only offers MA and PhD in development studies anyway..). It’s also well-lit, cozy, comfortable, and…

Museum-hopping

Last weekend was perfectly sunny, warm, and nice. Me and Gina decided to museum-hop in The Hague: it’s fun, healthy, and most important of all: cheap! Using the…

Amsterdam’s DNA

Last Wednesday I went to Amsterdam. Yes dear, again! For the third time since the Friday before. I had an appointment to interview a lawyer there at 13.30….

A Great Day… Not.

This was my plan: Attend the morning class, go to Amsterdam to interview a world-class lawyer from Bohler, stroll the metropolitan in the afternoon, perhaps shop a lil…

Prinsjesdag

Prinsjesdag, literally means Prince’s Day, is the day when the Queen (or King) or The Netherlands addresses a joint session of Eerste Kamer (Senate) and Tweede Kamer (House…

Best Birthday Ever (Away From Home)

Of course birthdays are better if you had it with family and close friends.. But we still have to deal with it in The Hague. This is the…

(Not My Birthday) Party

Just had my first party in the ISS tonight! It’s a welcome party for new students. The music was a combination of great songs and really bad tunes,…

Public Policy vs Public Park

Strolled to Scheveningse Bosjes with Martina, another Indonesian on the same floor of my dorm, on a fine Monday afternoon. Passed by the Peace Palace, World Peace Flame,…

New Labels

Just can’t help bragging about it. Because I wanna fast forward to September, when I will start it. Hopefully, everything will go smoothly.. Now the administration’s not done…

Take Me To The Park(s)

Let’s go to the park I wanna kiss you underneath the stars Maybe we’ll go too far We just don’t care.. (“PDA” – John Legend) Out of the…