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Weekly Roundup – 4th Week of July

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WOW…July is almost over? Hard to believe how fast the weeks has gone by. Here are some updates from my side of the world: I had join SITS in doing the ProBlogger‘s 31 Days to Build A Better Blog (31DBBB) since last Monday (July 19, 2010). Actually, I had ‘attempt’ to do this in January but never get to finish it so when the SITS girls came up with this I signed up and it’s more enjoyable to do this as a community. So far I’ve ‘met’ new fantastic bloggers through the challenge and although it’s not easy to keep up with the task especially during the weekend, I truly enjoy this challenge and hope to complete it along with .....

Bule Style Girl?

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Couple of months ago when I went shopping at one of the ‘average malls’ here in Jakarta and in between trying on some blouses the very helpful sales associate asked me something that no one…had ever asked me before. “Are you married to a bule*?” My hands stopped mid-air while handing her back some of the blouses I just tried on. “Uhm, yes. Why?” Someone ask you that, you just have to know why and I knew DH was at the play area with Lil’ A. “Oh, it’s just your style…” she hesitated for a moment. “You just looked like that type of girl a bule will hook up with.” *insert dropped jaws here…* Of course she got me more .....

ProBlogger’s 7 Link Challenge

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Darren from ProBlogger give this 7 Link Challenge that sounds like fun so I’m gonna jump and give it a try. Your first post Well, this one is a bit tough since I’ve been blogging since 2005 first on Blogspot but I had deleted that blog then move to Multiply and when I moved here to Tatter Scoops just last year I ‘brought’ back some of my old posts. Read my frustration of having a Not-So-Asian-Figure. A post you enjoyed writing the most I Used To Dream of Pink Bows. This is the one post where I poured my heart out and yes, it involved some tears typing it down. Another one is Chasing Away Bad Dreams because that’s the .....

Marital Culture Shock

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This is a more serious spin on my suppose-to-be-entertaining-list of things you’ll face after you married your foreigner husband. Marriages between two Indonesians with different tribes can cause problems, so a marriage with a foreigner means you’ll need bigger efforts to bridge the cultural differences, we did came from a totally different worlds so to speak. Although my past of living around expatriates did help to understand the western cultures, it doesn’t mean that it’s a smooth sailing for me – or for my husband. He will talk about it more so stay tuned. Marriage life means both parties needs to synchronize their differences and the process actually started before we got our marriage certificates. But surely dating and actually .....

No Matchmaker

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photo credit: Robboguy An old friend from college chatted with me a couple of days ago asking one of the ‘famous’ questions that us Indonesian women who married to white men often hears. “Do you know a single bule* guy?” Apparently she has a friend, let’s name her “Betty” who just broke up with a white guy here and that girl is so brokenhearted but not wanting to date Indonesians. Now, I’m not going to attack that girl for her taste in dating white guys because I too had actually stopped dating locals’ years before I met DH. It got nothing to do with the ‘trending lifestyle’ as some would put it, for me it’s a matter of personal choices. .....

7 Things You’ll Face After Moving to Your Husband’s Country

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After your dream wedding, you’re now officially Mrs. Someone. Your new life as a couple will start in a foreign country if you decided to follow your husband, which is usually the case. There are many many adjustments we – the Indonesian wives have to deal with and here are just some fun list of things that you might face after you got married and supposedly moved to your husband’s foreign country: People will stare at you less: Ehm…remember those annoying stares you used to get in Jakarta (or Indonesia in general)? Well, the natives in your husband’s country won’t stare at you from head to toes – at least maybe not as obvious as Indonesian does. Housewife chores: Yes, .....

For The Love of Dog(s)

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Ever since I was little I knew I’m a dog person. As much as I love dogs, growing up we never have any dog in our house. It wasn’t until years later while I was working; my two younger brothers were in college living with me in a rental home when Danny (my youngest brother) got a pug. He was the cutest puppy ever. It was love at the first sight. He was my baby although ‘legally’ he belongs to my brother. Danny was busy with college or girlfriend(s) or whichever comes first so I took care of Bogel (means: Shorty in Indonesian’s slang) most of the time. Sadly he got sick, a skin conditions that mostly happened to pugs. .....

Near Death Experience – A Guest Post

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This is a very special Guest Blogger – if you can call him that way. It’s a story that is very near and dear to my heart and very religious. So if you can’t stand reading something like this, feel free to browse along other posts. I present you my Dad…he wrote this himself and I proofread. My Near Death Experienced actually happened way back, on 25th of January 1999, an experienced that I will never forget for the rest of my life. This is the story………………. 25th January 1999. At the time I was still working with one of the biggest Coal Mine Company in Indonesia. On this particular day,  I was working to start  a new safety training. .....

Tooting My Own Horn

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This might well be the hardest post I ever make because it’s so far out of my comfort zone but what the heck, I’m posting it anyway… Brilliant Gigi from Kludgy Mom and Melissa from Miel et Lait has join forces to bring us a brand spanking new place that will take bloggers behind the scenes of the blogsphere and to do so you must write a blog post of why your blog should be consider as an A-lister. So here’s me in all my glory… What makes this blog different? From all the blog groups I joined from mommy ones to non-mommy ones, I found there aren’t many blog quite like mine out there. Yes, there are some big .....

Sex Tapes & Quake Victims

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That got you wondering what the heck I’m talking about? I’m talking about the recent scandal of sex tapes involving a singer, and two model/actresses that crowded not only the airwaves but also became Twitter trending topic. Everyday their news are on TV from major news time slots down to those infotainment gossip shows. A sex tape(s) is a sex tape(s)…deal with it…move on already! Not so much! This thing had caused so much uproar in Indonesia that the parliament members feels it is important to hold a special meeting to discuss it? Holly cow, Batman! Ridiculous is an understatement, many Indonesians doesn’t even know that a pretty big earthquake at 7.1-magnitute struck Papua province last week, June 16, 2010. .....

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