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My Love-Hate Affair with Jakarta

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Things I will miss if I move back to the US: My immediate-big-crazy-obnoxious-families of course – do I need to say more?! The authentic Indonesian foods – Most definitely, I will find myself hunting for the right ingredients at an Asian Market or ordering it online with a more expensive price tags of course then slaving away in the kitchen, just for the sake of satisfying the craves of the delicious food from home. The beauty salons – There is no way in the world you can get a 2 hours hair spa treatment plus arms massage (sometimes back if you have my ‘guy’!) for $4! Let alone a 2.5 hours of spa treatments (full body scrub, massage, steam, and .....

Noisy Much?

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Today’s article on The Jakarta Post about In Search of A Good Night Sleep got my mind reeling and I know I just have to blog about it. With the recorded population number of over 8 million (and I’m sure it is more), Jakarta is definitely one of the loudest city I have ever known. Not very many people especially the locals are aware of this because when you born-raise-grew up here and pretty much never left the city you will not get to see how loud Jakarta really is. Let’s look at the malls here; just about every shop has music blaring at what seems to be 120 decibels. That is loud! Not to mention when they are having .....

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