2008
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Maid – The Answer For Everything
In the process of moving to Jakarta, we’re grateful that our family and friends has been really helpful. Many well-meaning individuals, family and friends, are eager to help solving the problems that we’ve encountered. But interestingly, many of the problems…
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Culture Shock
Academics said that there are three or four stages of cultural adaptation / culture shock: The Euphoric Stage The Hostile Stage, which consist of Frustation and Depression stages The Acceptance Stage Having moved around several places in the past twenty…
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Kei’s Birth Video
Finally after about 6 months, Kei’s birth video is done into a 5 minutes short clip. See here: While I was editing the video in Yodhi’s mac, I went through a flashback of the labour process. It was just amazing…
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Legislate Breastfeeding?
As a staunch proponent of breastfeeding, I should be happy when the Makassar Province in Indonesia decided to draft a breastfeeding bill, right? WRONG! I was ambiguous about it, because from the title of the legislation, it sounds that the…
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Mereka Masuk Penjara
Anda ingat tulisan saya yang menyinggung soal Kasus Korupsi di KBRI Singapura? Nah, mereka (ex-Dubes Mochamad Slamet Hidayat dan ex-Bendahara Erizal) sudah masuk kurungan (tapi tidak kelihatan malu!). Beritanya ada di Tempo: Tersandung Sisa Renovasi. ex- Wakil Dubes Eddie Suryanto…
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Indi and Rani Dealing with Semi-Duality
Today, Rani and I took Jung-Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) tests, a psychometric questionnaire designed to identify certain psychological differences according to the typological theories of Carl Gustav Jung, and we found out that: -I am an ENFJ (Extraversion, iNtuition, Feeling,…
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We Lost to #1 Seeded Players
We fought hard against the #1 seeded doubles team of Singapore open. Royson’s powerful flat serve and Arjun’s tricky net game really killed us. They always returned our serve low over the net with a slice and the balls never…
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With Rani’s Support, We Won
For the last four weeks, Rani has been taking a very good care of the kids at home during my regular tennis practice with Yodhi. Yodhi and I even troubled her by adding more to the laundry basket with our…
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Dr.M’s Blog
Dr. Mahathir Mohamad started to blog at chedet.com, including receiving comments from people too. He could be the first and only (former) country leader that blogs, and a blogger of the highest government rank – Prime Minister, that is (albeit…
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Tennis Doubles Tournament
My brother Yodhi and I have registered to play doubles at the Singapore Tennis Association’s SONY ERICSSON Open 2008 on 3-11 May. The last time we played in tournament together was perhaps in the 1980s where we toured around Java…
