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Breastfeeding – It’s Difficult To Be A Woman
Breastfeeding as Enlightenment Breastfeeding for me is an enlightenment. Breastfeeding is a “source of thoughts”, as quoted in Breastwork (Bartlett 2005 pp. 21-22) “The bosom” is regarded as the seat of thoughts and feeling. … Lactating breasts become fertile grounds…
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Singapore NAVY Open House at Changi Naval Base
Jendral Augie from Memphis is in town so we took him to Changi Naval Base to see what it’s like since Singapore Navy were having Open House 2007 for public to have an opportunity to have fun and get inside…
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Noe Indi and Rani as Actors
The Breastfeeding Mothers Support Group Singapore assigned me to take part in a documentary film program on Breastfeeding. Not that I have a beautiful actress’s face, heck, I never even use lipstick in my daily life! I was assigned because…
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New Hairdo
We shaved Noe’s hair because we still do not know how to properly cut a kid’s hair. Here’s the result: Before: After: In March, Noe have had his second birthday and we just made a…
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Michael Moore Should Have Come with Us to Cuba
‘Hasta la Victoria Siempre’. Michael Moore is now under investigation for having visited Cuba for his recent film SiCKO (this film does for the US health system what Fahrenheit 9/11 did for Mr Bush and Bowling for Columbine did for…
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Violence on TV Mobile
I was travelling on SBS Transit bus number 97 from Alexandra to my office in Jurong East yesterday morning (8:30am) when I was really shocked to see something that I think should have been censored but shown on the small…
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Police Chief threatens to hit a Pregnant Woman in Jakarta
Forwarded from Tomi Satryatomo. Should I translate this into english? This is sickening Kekerasan, arogansi, power abuse di Indonesia??? ?? Oooh…ini mah sudah tradisi!!!! Mungkin pelaku2nya sudah gak makan nasi kayak kita2 lagi jadi merasa sah2 saja menindas, menyiksa, menghina…
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Prophet Muhammad, our Ancestor
Last year, we began creating family tree in the Wiki-based genealogy site, Rodovid. At that time, we discovered that both Indi and I were descendant of Ken Arok, and we shared the same ancestry up to Bhre Kertabumi (Brawijaya V)…
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Ikea discourages the use of plastic bags?
Indi went to Ikea Alexandra with Noe yesterday to buy tent for Noe’s playhouse. We knew that Ikea in Singapore had just adopted the policy of discouraging the use of plastic bags, and we truly support it, to minimise waste!…
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Corruption off the record
I just heard a news about an acquaintance, who works in an organization within in the Indonesian army. He/She was tasked to sell a thing owned by Indonesian army to fund his/her organization. After a few months, finally that thing…
