So you just got married. And what else is there to do afterwards if not to have a child? Why indeed? If your answers are:
a) It’s the natural thing to do. After marriage, comes children
b) My parents are itching to hold their first newborn grandchild
c) I’d like to have a miniature version of me
d) [...]

So I was in Aksara bookshop in Plaza Indonesia the other day. I was busy scanning the half-off sections when I noticed a little commotion right near the entrance, and I saw an old man holding a little baby girl, cooing and talking baby language, with the parent standing nearby and proud smile plastered on [...]

This term came up when I was having dinner with my boyfriend at a nearby eatery around the Cikarang Baru area. The place was located in a middle-class area and there were scruffy-looking little kids who came around every now and then, begging for money and pretty much annoyed the heck out of us.
It didn’t [...]