Avigayil Damm

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…)

In a few days time, I will be starting yet another holiday with my hubby. As I want to be able to immediately blog about some of my trips and my culinary adventures, I wanted to take a laptop with me during my trip. (more…)

In the earlier days, my hubby used to take the back road, Kemang Timur into Kemang Timur V (formerly known as Duren Bangka), crossing Mampang Prapatan into Duren Tiga Selatan in order to get to the office. At one point, he just lost patience trying to claim his way in the midst of the arrogant and aggressive motor cycle drivers. Since then, he’d been taking the main road, Warung Buncit, but still turn into Duren Tiga Selatan taking the rest of the old route.

One day, we left a little too late from our home since our security guard was on leave and therefore we had to wait for our housekeeper to come in. (more…)

Written by Fanny, an Indonesian woman married to a French man.

(Note: Bule is the Indonesian term referring to white-skinned foreigner)
Recently I was involved in a discussion on the scandalous Miss Indonesia 2009, Karenina Halim, who will represent Indonesia in Miss World 2009 without speaking fluent Indonesian. Someone pointed out that the juries – like many Indonesians – ‘worship’ white and half-white looking people, and call them beauty. Another person mentioned that the worshipping is the product of “the mentality of a colonized nation” referring to the 350 year-long Dutch colonization in the country that ended in 1942.
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