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Yes, I am still alive
Heya gang - it's been quite a while, I know. My whirlwind trip home included a sick Dad and a wedding, and since I've been back I've been studying my butt off! Next Sunday I head back to Jakarta and the world of 'real' work... but what has me terrified is the fact that I have to sit my language exam on day 2!!!!!!!! ( Read more... ) -
Ho hummmm...just another earthquake
It's okay - if you pop on Google Earth (as CNN did during its coverage, I note) you will see that Sumatra is a long way from Yogya. Unlike the last earthquake we didn't feel a thing, but I understand it shook up a lot of my friends living in Jakarta. I was excited because I was watching Indonesia news and then finally understood something... it's ( Read more... ) -
Back in Indo
So, after a very dramatic couple of weeks I am finally back in Yogya. I arrived a couple of hours ago and am currently basking in the warmth (and lack of humidity) at my favourite cafe in the quiet old dutch area of town, a coffee and big glass of water at my elbow, with the Goldberg variations on my iPod. Life is good! Promise more updates of ( Read more... ) -
shake and quake
My inner (asleep) monologue ( Read more... ) -
My life is a deodorant ad...
That's right, just like those ads for those really sickly sweet deodorants you loved when you still read Dolly magazine...when I walk down the street absolutely every turns around for no apparent reason and stares at the wierd, gigantor with the white hair! Look at the freak, they seem to say (and they do indeed point, and occasionally make wierd ( Read more... ) -
Day in the life
I thought I would recount my day yesterday because it occurred to me that just crossing Yogya to study at one of my favourite cafes is actually quite interesting in itself! So, most days now I get up and about by about 8ish and try to head to a cafe to study by myself for the morning. This is usually advisable because the construction work-that- ( Read more... ) -
Studying mojo has returned! Hurrah!
After a fantabulous break in Singapore I have had something of a studying lull - not happy Jan! I actually think, after waking up with a sore throat and runny nose today, this could have been a result of an incoming cold... although let's never discount the return-from-holiday syndrome ( Read more... ) -
Cooking up a... um, storm, in Singapore
With Mum feeling better we ventured off to our cooking class in a lovely destination in the middle of a park where taxi drivers felt compelled to avoid with the result that were dropped off in the middle of nowhere and told to go "in that direction". The first problem was that we had been dropped off at the wrong carpark and, therefore, the second ( Read more... ) -
Shopping, more gin fizzes and fun in Singapore (and rain...)
So Mum is well (hurrah) and we've had a day chock full of shopping, eating and, more importantly, drinking at Raffles (and other places of course) as well as walking around in the rain! Here's some photos :) Oooh, and I also found a teeny-weeny yarn shop and stocked up of yummy gelato coloured fine-cashmarino yarn (no photo of that though)!!!!! ( Read more... ) -
Rain and a Gin Fizz in Singapore
Ah, this is the life... sipping a gin fizz under the eaves of the Raffles Hotel while a storm crashed and flashes outside and the fans whirrrrrrr above. I feel positively colonial, even more than when I catch a becak in Yogya and have another human being push me around in the midday sun... I always tip very well on account of the huge guilts I ( Read more... )