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  I’m in Sydney today and tomorrow to do some work with the clients – the office couldn’t find me a hotel in the city due to the Edinburgh Military Tattoo Festival. They could only get me an accommodation in Bondi Beach at the Swiss Grand Spa & Resort. The hotel complex is within a [...]

  Changi Airport always feels so familiar and yet there are always changes and improvements that are being implemented every time I happen to be here. I’m waiting for the flight that will carry Yani and myself back to Surabaya – the extra hour of delay brings a blessing in disguise as it allows us [...]

  It’s our third day in Singapore and the highlight of the day was our visit to the Singapore Flyer, amongst the usual visits to the numerous malls, the favourite pastime for Indonesians in Singapore. Singapore Flyer is the tallest giant ferris wheel in the world at the moment. It’s my second observation ferris wheel [...]

  So this is the new year – HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! I believe it’s going to be a year of training and adjustment for me. It’d be quite  a slog changing my behaviours and the way that I think and react from being a single, self-centred guy to a married, more sharing and caring kinda [...]

  It’s so hard to control yourself when you’re confronted with the variety of food that I cannot find in Australia. Having a lot of siblings means that they also want to help me enjoy the food that I miss in Adelaide. On top of that, whenever I visit my extended relatives to drop my [...]

  I’m back in Indonesia again and even though it is not home as I know it – it will always be ‘home’ to me.  I dreaded it a bit as I was waiting at the airport, thinking of the complicated etiquette, what-to-say and what-not-to-say, the faux politeness, the lack of privacy and other things [...]

    I spent the weekend in Millicent, in the southeast region of South Australia. A friend of mine works in Millicent and manages the herd of cows located at the farm there. His work is pretty much cut out for the whole year, from calving and mating that goes throughout the year, as well [...]

It has been unusually cold here in Adelaide and it came as a shock after a succession of glorious Spring days. Strong wind brought cold air into the State and even whipped up some dust storm into Sydney and Brisbane earlier this week. The wind came again yesterday and while it was nice to hear [...]

My soon-to-be ex-colleague, Ben mentioned that he always felt a bit uneasy about Brisvegas (the nickname for Brisbane) – according to him, Brisbane had all the potentials to be a beautiful city, but everything was done so wrongly. I only visited Brisbane once in 2003 and that was just a fleeting trip – as soon [...]

It’s so nice to have a sunny day again – no, I’m not in Adelaide at the moment. I’m currently in Sydney, to attend a training programme tomorrow. After arriving at 11.30am, I had a rest for a bit in the hotel room – just sorting out my stuff. The hotel is located in Milsons [...]