Avigayil Damm

This morning started like any other morning. After the usual morning routine, I started up my computer, checked my emails and then started on some ‘housekeeping’ of my files. I generated an invoice for a job I had just completed last night and sent it off to my client.

Later around lunch time I casually opened my Facebook account just to see what was on. Boy was I shocked when I read an update by one of the pages I was following, saying (translated), “Indonesia Unite conveys its deepest condolences on the passing away of our brother, Alex Abimanyu, one of the initiators of Indonesia Unite movement. May the Lord grant him with a fitting place by His side, for his services, works, aspiration and dreams for this nation. Amen.” My reaction was, “What? That can’t be!” (more…)

I was shopping with my hubby at a nearby supermarket when I noticed this car parking in a way that hogs two parking spaces. It’s not an uncommon scene in Jakarta, and usually this would really annoy me particularly when there is no other parking space available. Normally I would immediately judge this person as an incompetent driver.

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At the end of 2009, I participated in the Group Writing Project: 90 Reviews of 2009 and wrote about My Top 10 Recipe Sources in 2009. It was not only a good opportunity for me to promote my blog, it was also very interesting to be part of a group reviewing the year that has passed from different perspectives, and a lot of the other participants’ articles were very interesting for me. These are my favourites, followed by a short comment from me.

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Apparently it has not been so easy to blog during holidays, since there is just too much fun to do out there than just sitting and writing behind my little iBook. So I ended up with plenty of pictures of food but I haven’t really been able to write about them and upload them here.

Basically we had a lot of fun in the sun. My hubby’s daughter left on Sunday, 2 August, right after we enjoyed a family brunch at the Four Seasons. His son, however, stayed another 8 days and left on Monday, 10 August. (more…)