17 February 2012
Do you remember the song Love is in the Air, which was a big hit by John Paul Young in 1978? I guess the normal people under us will, and don’t get me wrong, I don’t mean old people. When I say normal I mean the people that do not need the Internet to find [...]
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17 February 2012
If you’re starved of somewhere to have a decent cup of coffee, look no further. Anomali prides itself for having the best local coffee from around Indonesia, with their fresh beans coming in from Bali, Java, Toraja, Flores, Papua, Aceh and Mandailing. We took a trip into their latest branch in Kemang to discover some [...]
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17 February 2012
Meet Simon the happy bachelor who doesn’t feel the need to fall in love. Simon, which answer best describes your current love situation? a.) Single and happy b). Single and lonely c.) Single and definitely not lonely or d.) In a committed relationship. C. Single and most definitely not lonely. I didn’t even have to [...]
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17 February 2012
Meet Anna Ingrid Woolcott Feliciano. The Danish Aussie animal lover who’s lived in more countries than most people will ever visit. Where do you come from? I am half Australian and half Danish. I’m officially an Australian, and I was born in Canberra, which I regret to say. Probably one of the most boring places [...]
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14 February 2012
That’s the most stupid fake date on earth! When I was a teenager in Europe, it even didn’t exist (or maybe it did but I didn’t notice). We didn’t used to celebrate this date despite that it basically comes from the Roman Empire. Then when I was 20 or something like this, America sent us [...]
14 February 2012
The early days of the expatriate in South East Asia, back in the 16th and 17th centuries were fraught with danger and the unknown. Never knowing when a passing ship would call in and take them home and consumed with a fear they may never make it back, some of those intrepid pioneers would often [...]
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06 February 2012
Jakarta is probably one of Asia’s best golf destinations and certainly when judged from the amount of courses that can be played in and around the city, thirty eight in total. Next to fabulous golf, Jakarta also offers a thought-provoking package in “after” golf, meaning those pretty awesome things you can do once you’ve made [...]
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06 February 2012
We call the magical device we have in our pockets a “phone”, but it really should be called a “communicator”. Amazing advances in technology in the last few years have turned the simple phone (which was amazing enough in its day) into a multi-platform multimedia communications device that gives us the ability to communicate in [...]
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06 February 2012
Nielsen’s Southeast Asian Digital Consumer claims that Indonesia’s Internet penetration rate is at 21%, growing at 20% annually. Rama compared this to Singapore’s 67% which makes Indonesia’s adoption rate look very low, but consider the population numbers between the two countries, not to mention geographical differences. Indonesia had 237.6 million people in 2010 with an [...]
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03 February 2012
The Jakarta Players are a group of people, young and old, from working mums and dads to students, from teachers to ladies who lunch, both expat and Indonesian with one thing in common; the passion for theatre. Come rain or shine, they gather for evening rehearsals during the week as well as rehearsals over the [...]
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