Where Is The Love, Mr. President?

Monday, April 7th, 2008

It seems like our dear Mr. President has been spending his time sleeping rather than ruling the country, as apparent in the many terrible things that have happened in Indonesia during his reign, such as (totally picking things out randomly from the newspaper) malnutritioned children, Lapindo mud and just recently, the ever-increasing price of oil [...]

Why God Created Dogs

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

I’m a dog person.
I’ve known it since I was little that whenever a dog caught my sight, I melted to goo and my heart was filled with mixed feelings of affection (because of how cute it was) and fear (because the dogs that I had stumbled upon in most cases were unfriendly mutts who had [...]

Do You Want To Be Happily Married?

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

 
What happens when two different individuals marry each other?The result is this:

 You can bet that’s what you’re going to see after about ten years or so;
The husband becomes pot-bellied, lazy and ignorant and starts to spend more time with his hobbies, or either find new ones (motorbikes, sports car, video games - you know, the [...]

Slowly But Sure - Too Fast Too Furious

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Have you ever noticed that Indonesians have the habit of being slow when it comes to the importance of others?

Take the girls at the supermarket check-out counters, for example. They beep every single item of my purchase in such a slow pace, it almost drives me nuts. If I had to do it myself, it [...]

Mean Girls

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Girls are mean. Not exactly in a cat-fight kind of way, but more like the bitchy comments they say to each other or the negative responses they give out when other friends are doing better.
I remember when I was in high school I had this best friend (notice the past tense ‘had’) and one day [...]

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