06 May 2013
An attractive woman in a Jakarta bar looks around for the drunkest and most clueless unaccompanied male foreigner – the competition is usually pretty fierce. She chooses a target and informs him she is desirous of having sex. If the man is staying at a five-star hotel, the woman may claim they cannot go there [...]
Posted in Info for Expats, Other, Scams in the City 85 Share(s)
06 May 2013
Meet Stephen Chatham, the well travelled family man who has a soft spot for Indonesia. Hi Stephen, where do you come from? I come from Australia, but was born in the UK before moving when I was 5 years. What countries have you lived in before Indonesia and what brought you over here? I have [...]
Posted in Meet the Expats 14 Share(s)
06 May 2013
As I sit here in my empty apartment a weird feeling settles over me, it feels like insecurity mixed with sadness and excitement – we are moving home, city and country. Everything I own is packed and carted away and each room echoes with the nostalgia of a hollow drum played to an empty village [...]
Posted in Health 3 Share(s)
06 May 2013
With all the talk of equipment bans, golf balls that fly too far, and the various rule changes, it has occurred to me that golf is simply too difficult a game! With 34 rules, 100 sections and subsections and over 2,000 explanatory decisions, golf is the most complicated and “unfair” game in of all sport. [...]
Posted in Health, Other, Sports 4 Share(s)
06 May 2013
The civilisation of Java boasts of intricately artistic traditional architecture that stands the test of time. But people often forget that Java is not only home to the Javanese and the Sundanese. One of these lesser-known ethnic groups is the Osing of Banyuwangi. After a temple-hopping journey across Java, I ended up in Banyuwangi—my final [...]
Posted in History, Travel 54 Share(s)
06 May 2013
Cali Deli is a Vietnamese chain of deli-restaurants that gained its inspiration from a restaurant in California and established itself in Jakarta 7 years ago. Although Pho would come to mind for most people when discussing Vietnamese food, Cali Deli specialises in Vietnamese sandwiches with an Indonesian twist (they do of course offer broth soups [...]
Posted in Food & Drink 4 Share(s)
06 May 2013
Herwan’s shirt keeps the paint from dripping on his face. He figured out how to wrap the turban on his first day, two weeks ago when he took up the brush in an effort to slap a fresh coat of paint on Jakarta. Underneath the Semanggi flyover, tiny drops of white paint are sprinkled in [...]
Posted in Faces of Jakarta, Other 7 Share(s)
06 May 2013
When it comes to ostentatious shows of wealth, no one does it better than the Europeans. Backed by generations of inherited riches, the elites of England, France and Germany would express their affluence the only way they knew how; building bigger, better, brasher country estates that screamed ‘look at me’ at their neighbours, peers and [...]
Posted in History 12 Share(s)
24 April 2013
No, that isn’t a spelling error, but you’ll have to read on to find out why. I first started wearing glasses when I was seven years old pupil at Charlton Manor Primary School in southeast London. These were provided by the then fairly new National Health Service, along with a third of a pint of [...]
Posted in Health, Other, Sports 8 Share(s)
24 April 2013
Nigerian Sweetheart Unlike most scams coming from Nigeria that rely on greed, the Sweetheart Scam preys on heart-strings to loosen purse-strings. Scammers trawl social networking sites, looking for profiles of white male models, soldiers or even handsome oil workers, choose one, copy his photos – and any videos he may have posted – and then [...]
Posted in Info for Expats, Other, Scams in the City 5 Share(s)
24 April 2013
It’s only a few weeks to the European Champions League Final, May 25th, and though it will take place far way, in London, England, and will involve no players from Southeast Asia, let alone Indonesia, the drumbeat to the match will be clearly visible here. As the date nears, expect to see growing number of [...]
Posted in Health, Other, Sports 27 Share(s)
24 April 2013
Meet Gareth Rae, a British Expat and the Captain of Jakarta Komodos, who has lived most of his life in Asia. Gareth, where do you come from and what brought you to Indonesia? An interesting first question and I get a lot of stick for it. I am “British.” I grew up in Hong [...]
Posted in Meet the Expats 52 Share(s)
24 April 2013
IT development never stops and has found its way into sports, to make our life, during our games, easier and perhaps even better. How cool is this? A soccer shoe with a chip! Imagine that you can track your stats just like the professionals. The new Adidas miCoach technology brings new meaning to the phrase [...]
Posted in Other, Sports, Technology 14 Share(s)
24 April 2013
Its origins can be traced back to a game called Poona, British soldiers felt it was fun when they played it in India, So the blokes decided to bring it back to the land of Big Ben, Where it was played for many years by children, women and men. In 1873, the Duke of Beaufort [...]
Posted in Health, Other, Sports 15 Share(s)
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