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Taman Suropati Chamber

December 13, 2009

I was in Taman Suropati in Menteng today… just walking around the neighborhood, one of the few areas of Jakarta with usable footpaths… not that I encountered a single other person doing such a bizarre activity such as “going on a walk.” I’m such a weirdo… I happened upon the rehersals of the Taman Suropati [...]

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Cali Deli, Jakarta

December 13, 2009

I love Vietnamese sandwiches.  I love Vietnamese coffee. Heck, I love Vietnamese cuisine full stop. My obsession with the sandwiches didn’t actually start when I went on my school trip to Vietnam in 2002… I can’t remember eating any of them there?  Just tons of Pho and spring rolls!!!  The love affair began later on, [...]

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Suicide reporting, responsibility and Twitter

December 5, 2009

Wow, I’m going to write something serious on my blog for once.  About the media.  WOAH. This week in Jakarta there have been three cases of suicide in shopping malls.  Read here and here. One of the Jakarta Globe reporters wrote an opinion piece about the dangers of Twitter journalism, which you can read here.  [...]

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Phone photos

November 29, 2009

I don’t know if I mentioned this on here, but I now own a CrackBerry phone.  I’m one of THOSE people.  Always checking their unimportant emails on the go, cos I’m a busy woman. Anyway, love the phone, the camera isn’t great, but I’ve been playing with it a bit.  Here’s a few shots, with [...]

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Hello, new peeps

November 5, 2009

It seems like I had quite an influx of visitors today from The Punch, where I had a piece up about fat hate in the weight debate.  Read it here, if you like. So, if you’re newly visiting my blog, thanks for dropping by!  I write about all sorts of things… travel, food, Indonesian life, [...]

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Someone get this family a manager…

November 2, 2009

I went to see the Michael Jackson flick last night “This Is It”.  I was bored! It was ok.  I had already heard it was just a bunch of rehearsal footage strung together, so I wasn’t expecting anything more really.  I mean, he was an amazingly talented man, and the footage showed he was talented [...]

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A piece of advice

October 25, 2009

Don’t get paratyphoid fever.  It really, really sucks. You will feel absolutely horrible. You will lose a week of your life or more to it.  For me, NINE DAYS OF ILLNESS, STILL NOT FULLY RECOVERED. You will have to go on nasty antibiotics that have terrible side effects such as “tendon pain” and “emotional instability” [...]

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Examined. Exhausted!

October 10, 2009

Sunset at Pantai Padang, March 2009. What a crazy past two weeks. The Padang earthquake was so tragic… I had such a fantastic time when I went to West Sumatra earlier this year and met so many wonderful people, so the disaster out there made me especially sad.  Once I had a moment to think [...]

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The year of living… interestingly?

September 14, 2009

Someone riding a horsey on Seminyak Beach in Bali I’ve been here in Indonesia for a year!!! (well… from tomorrow I’ve been here a year, but lets just say I’m a bit over maths revision so am writing this now…) The beauty of having a blog is that you don’t forget stuff (unless you forget [...]

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Independence Day

August 17, 2009

Today was Independence Day here in Indonesia, celebrating 64 years of independence following Dutch colonial rule.  It was pretty quiet today, because this year the day ended up being a Monday, making a long weekend so a lot of people left town apparently.  But in my local kampung, there were quite a few gatherings where [...]

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Wedding (not mine, obvs)

August 2, 2009

Went to a lovely wedding yesterday of one of our business journos, Dian, and David. Dian’s hairpiece was amazing!!!  It was a really lovely wedding.  Congrats to the happy couple! Tweet Delicious Digg Facebook Ping Stumble

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Stitch me up

July 24, 2009

Something a little lighter.  The sad face on the last post makes me sad. This is a vermak in Benhil.  Basically, a mobile tailor repair service.  Got a hole in your pants?  Need your pants hemmed?  This guy will stop and sort you out for a good price, with on the spot service.  He spends [...]

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Jakarta bombings

July 19, 2009

A woman outside the Ritz Carlton bombing site on Sunday. For those that have been hiding out in caves over the last few days, there were two suicide bombings in Jakarta on Friday morning at the JW Marriott Hotel and the Ritz Carlton in Mega Kuningan. So far, the death total stands at nine, with [...]

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Straight lines

July 11, 2009

Pedestrian walkway to Benhil Transjakarta stop Tweet Delicious Digg Facebook Ping Stumble

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Photo walk — Benhil

July 10, 2009

These are from a few weeks back, when Trish, Lisa and I went for a photo walk in a kampung in Benhil.  I made some kids cry with the camera, but lots of others started following us, and the little guy in the white told us that there were animals nearby.  There was a little [...]

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