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 .....

Friday Flip-off Spin

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A different take on Friday Flip-off…please bear with me. Join in the fun virtual detox at Kludgy Mom. PS: Btw, I meant to say July 16, not June 16. Duh!

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 .....

Chinese Safety Saw

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These images belong to my husband friend, an awesome photographer Steve who also created the PDF file for it and I just ‘ripped’ it apart so I can post it here. Safe Money With A Chinese Safety Saw!!! Measure once and just cut, the Chinese safety saw has everything you need right out of the box. 1. Nonadjustable blade never needs adjustment! 2. Capable of cutting even the thickest types of wood! 3. Solid Steel drive belt guard and industrial strength motor! 4. Saw can be quickly shutdown by ripping the wires from the motor! 5. Small and portable, bring it with you anywhere! 6. Includes modular Chinese electrical safety panel free of charge! Modular Electrical Safety Panel (Free of .....

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. .....

Weekly Round-up – Second Week of July

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Another week gone by too fast or at least that’s how it feels for me. About ‘that girl‘, well I got plenty of curious questions about the girl I mentioned on my Friday Flip-offs, some of the comments I received totally crack me up. You guys are the best! Here’s the story: Late last December an old friend from college asked me if I’d be interested in doing some   translation job for her friend – see I don’t know ‘that girl’ personally. Off I worked my behind off to translate two killer Press Release for ‘that girl’s company for a friction of a cost licensed translator would charge. Press release means it will be published somewhere right? I didn’t have .....

Friday Flip-off – 2nd Week of July

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Can’t tell you how much I enjoy this virtual detox day, a brain-child of Gigi from Kludgy Mom, she provides a way for us to unload what pissing us off weekly. Head bows, fingers ready…. To that airline that cancel my aunt’s booking 2 days later…For the records we picked you because you were the last option! Pfft! If you stated with big bold letters that you can’t buy tickets online for someone else I’m sure people will avoid your stinking dying airline even more! If that is your rules – then why the heck did you took the credit card info when I enter it and proceeded anyway? It should’ve STOP right there when I enter the credit card .....

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, .....

Invasion of Thomas

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Time for Wordless Wednesday Are we really had ventured into these toddler playing games on the computer period? Let’s just say I still haven’t decide if I should thank DH for getting the Thomas game for Lil’ A or raising my eye brows! Hop over to Alicia at A Beautiful Mess to join the fun.

That Demon Was Real

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photo credit: helgasms Some of you, especially mothers know what Baby Blues is all about. You might have read it somewhere or heard it through the grapevines, just like I had heard about it before and proclaimed that I would never go through one. Big mistake… With a difficult pregnancy caused by my severe preeclampsia, bed ridden for four weeks straight, two hospitalizations, never ending check-ups followed by an emergency c-section at 35th weeks of my pregnancy then later watched our newborn baby helplessly laying under an oxygen hood…it took a toll on me emotionally. What suppose to be happy new mommy moments seemed like a far away dream for me. Yes, I cried happy tears when I finally got .....

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