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Blog Description: A tale about culture shock. An Indonesian stranded in Scotland and has to deal with Scottish people, accent, weather (most of the time), food, and football. If you think eating chips with vinegar is normal, think again!
Blog Tags: Indonesia - Scotland - Expat - Culture Shock - Current Affairs
Christmas is coming, and it means it's a gift time! I am sure most of us have been in and out shops to find out the perfect gifts for our loved ones, but usually, we either forget one important person, or the purple scarf we have bought for Mrs Boss suddenly look to cheap or you overheard her say she hates the colour. Or like my dear husband, you couldn't bear to go into overcrowded shop where the guests are elbowing you and the assistants pretend to be too busy to serve you.
With so little time and so much to do, especially in this chilly winter, online shopping comes to the rescue! But having to open the virtual world suddenly we are usually overwhelmed by so many websites offer so many things. Before we know it we'd spend hours on the net trying to find the best deal on perfume or Barbie doll.
That's why the website like Savebuckets and its extensive range of gift ideas is perfect for us. The site is a price comparison site which allows you to compare prices on a wide range of products through hundreds of different shops.
Check out its Christmas Gifts section, listing products from shops like House of Frasers and I Want One of Those. If you are looking for gift particularly for children, you could click here. Your girl deserves the best perfume so find the best one for her in the perfume section. You want to send a hamper for your boss? Savebuckets has food hamper section you could look into. Need a cool gadget like laptop for your men? Try to find it here. Or if you fancy an ipod touch (I know I do!), the website offers the product that starts from £221.70 to £409.00.
Isn't cool? It's like going from Harrods to House of Frasers to Harvey Nichols with your jammies and slippers, by sipping a big cup of coco! No snotty shop assistant, no rude customers, no frozen toes for standing too long outside the shop, and no wasted time to find perfect gifts!
Since the first time I saw Rachel from Friends, I thought how cool it would be to be able to do my greatest hobby, which is shopping, for a living. Rachel's job as an assistant buyer (and briefly as personal shopper), shows the glam and luxury of working in the fashion industry. I also have a friend who works as a fashion stylist, and I remember how jealous I was every time I saw her with the latest skirt, bags, and shoes, immaculate dress and incredible make-up. Just like in any other industry, there are many things people could do in fashion industry. If you're in the production, you could be Fashion Designer (the next Coco Chanel or Yves Saint Laurent?), Accessory Designer, Fashion Merchandiser, Fashion Sales Rep, Showroom Sales Rep, Product Manager, Clothing Patternmaker, or Pattern Grader.
I can't turn back the time and become a college student again. But you might!
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Bugils Jakarta (I can never know the right spell. Is it Bugil's or Bugils? BuGils or BuGil's?) will hold their very last party in December 13th. We have heard the rumour about Bugils closing down forever, but this time it is for real. It should be official, because the bar throws the countdown parties, starts from Monday, December 8th, and ends on Saturday, December 13th.
It's a goodbye, big goodbye to its loyal customers who have survived together with the legendary bar during raids, floods, ghosts, deaths, smelly socks, drunken customers, crazy barmaids, and God knows what else. A friend told me that she is planning to fly to Jakarta to attend the party. Another will fly from Hong Kong. I am sure the original shareholders, who are as mysterious as the myth of a beer glass put every night to feed the ghost, will turn up too. I am sure Bart will try to push the sale of 'Barack Bites' stroopwafels, the same stroopwafels which have been around for at least a couple of years before reemerging with a new name. The book, Bule Gila: Tales of A Dutch Barman, certainly will be there too. I don't know if the second book will ever come out, since Bart has been busy with his new celebrity status, being interviewed by CNN and such, and embracing the holy mission of conquer the world with his Aaltje Bakery's stroopwafel.
Every year, every body tries to beat the record of staying, standing, and surviving at the party. I heard the record is from two PM until five AM, 15 hours, held by none other than Lens, the man behind Eastern Promise's phenomenal success. That's a lot of beer. Every year, and just for once a year and only in that particular party, the bar will suddenly be flooded by young, gorgeous, broke, tan, fit blokes, outnumbering sleazy, aging, pot-belly men. They look too young to drink (but who cares and is there such rule in Indonesia?), perhaps make a detour from their international schools, and definitely come for free beer. It is refreshing. Every year, everybody suddenly becomes friends with real friends, ex-friends, enemies, frenemies, ex-boyfriends, ex-girlfriends, ex-fiances, ex-wives, ex-husbands, their new partners, their ex-partners; basically the entire romance history suddenly will flash before your very eyes and there's nothing you can do except to nod and smile, keep a poker face and jot down a mental note that A is now seeing B, C just broke up with D, E is pregnant by F, and G is gay.
I wish I could be there to say goodbye to the bar personally. The last time I attended the party was in 2007 and as far as I remember, and judging from the immortalised moment on the right, it was a blast.
But I know Bugil's Jakarta would not be easily defeated. So wait for another year or two, and Bugil's Jakarta part two, will re-emerge somewhere. Just like Bart's stroopwafel!
You might not realise that Donald Trump is half Scottish. But it is the only reason why he insists on building the golf resort in Scotland, surrounding his mansion (which is called 'The Donald' by his ex wife Ivanka) in Balmedie, north of Aberdeen. Trump was reportedly considered more than 200 sites in Europe before opted Scotland. The plan was rejected by the local council last year, but the central government decided to take over the matter and...
After over two years of legal battling with local and national officials in Scotland, Trump International Golf Link has finally received the green light. The proposed £1 billion resort will be the biggest in Europe, as along with the two links golf courses, it will feature a clubhouse, a golf academy, a five-star 450-bedroom hotel and spa on site, 960 holiday homes, and 500 private houses.
The new Star Trek film is infuriating its Scottish fans, apparently, because chief engineer Montgomery ?Scotty?, played by actor Simon Pegg, has unconvincing Scottish accent. But this is not the first time an attempt by a non-Scot to do Scottish accents provoke controversy. The Sunday Times (Nov 23/08) made a list of actors who tried and failed successfully, like Mel Gibson, who was said to "had eaten something that didn't agree wit him judging by this pained, vowel crushing performance" in the famous Braveheart (1995) movie, and Christopher Lambert, who in Highlander (1986) sounded more "Gallic than Gaelic".
Although I wasn't equipped with Scottish accent, I have survived last Saturday's snowy St. Andrew's ball, despite wearing strappy stilettos. My bare feet and toes were frozen, sunk in the snow when I was walking from the front door to the taxi and from the taxi to the reception hall. I didn't wear tights or thermal underwear underneath my gown - couldn't take risk of flashing uninteresting sight when dancing and accidentally lifting the skirt up - and the photographer who stopped us by the door insisted on taking our picture under the snowflakes without my coat on. Stuart was on kilt so he was securely protected from head to toe; I consider myself lucky I don't catch pneumonia. I didn't know that the cloak room was actually a room (I thought it was a tiny closet like in the movies) and other ladies smartly wore wellies and changed into their jeweled shoes when they were in the ballroom, put the wellies in in the cloak room, and changed their stilettos back into their sensible wellies when they were about to go home. The Indonesian St. Andrew's Ball will be held in Jakarta this coming weekend. It is so much easier as you don't need to coordinate your gown with coat scarf and a pair of gloves and Ugg boots and dancing shoes! If you are interested you should click here.
The band at the ball is Red Hot Chili Piper and everybody loved them. The band members either has red hair, red socks, or red glasses. I have never seen bagpipers who play AC/DC and Queen before and these guys make bagpipes and bagpipers look so cool.
I am off to Edinburgh this weekend and going to try the ghost tour where it will "take a light-hearted look at Edinburgh's dark side, including tales of witchcraft, plague and torture. You will explore the eerie alleyways and creepy courtyards of the Old Town with your ghostly guide, who will blend history with humour and facts with fables, while 'jumper-ooters' provide guaranteed ghastly appearances". I just hope this weekend wouldn't be freezing, snowy, and windy, otherwise I'd be seeing real ghosts. I wonder why Indonesia doesn't organise such tour. We have so many ghosts like 'si Manis jembatan Ancol' and pretty much every single item surround us has a history and its ghost. Might as well make money out of it!
It's been a painful week, basically: mentally, physically, spiritually. Practically avoided 3 dimensional human being and ignored phone calls and texts and only did a one way communication through faceboook, which isn't really communication but over-sharing tool. Funny that we could decide not to tell anything while at the same time reveal everything. Decided to go all the way with plurk, twitter, and ping. Maybe I will follow Tree's step to create a porn-self. It was fun for a while.
Life goes on and it was decided on Wednesday although it will take forever to heal the wound. Funny that something that is not even real can mean so much more than anything in the world. The world stopped spinning and the heart stopped beating and for a while the room seemed much smaller than before. Didn't even know how to start but the grief forced to be noticed so nothing else to do but curled up and embraced it.
For no reason jumped into a mission of finding a song which tune has been bugging for days. Remember the video clip but never paid attention to it since it was lame but tonight it was a holy search. Video clip memory didn't help because still needs band and title, or at least some part of lyrics. Google still cannot find things by humming, have made a note to self to send a suggestion so they could develop some tool to hear, not just to read.
So tried to type 'one hit wonder' and after hours found that the bug was East 17's Stay Another Day. Very ironic because whatever that was it decided to not stay for another minute and said goodbye early this week. Bah.
After a bottle of wine and hundreds of calories, The Killers asked if we are human or dancers and for a second I thought the were asking about me. I wondered if Chris Martin ever takes a shower because he always seems to overdue in hygiene department although it doesn't stop Gwyneth Paltrow and other millions of fans to adore him. I'm lost in Lost! (don't forget the exclamation point) together with Jay-Z. Suddenly remember the very first crush was George Michael when the picture of him in white underpants in the shower graced "Hai" magazine about 20 years a go. Him, and Bon Jovi, of course. All loooked so well groomed. Not like Chris Martin. Does being enviromentally friendly mean to grow 5-o'clock shadow to be 5-weeks old shadow?
Sick of Katy Perry's I Kissed The Girl tune, because, honestly who hasn't? But only her who boasts to the entire world about it and now it is a big deal again. Funny that Beyonce thought to undergo a sex change operation because she wondered if she was a a boy. Maybe she wanted to kiss Katy Perry. The Script's Breakeven and Take That's Greatest Day were in every channel and I couldn't tell the difference. The first thought by wearing leather jacket and real mic means they're more tough. I enjoy the songs though. Rihanna thought I should live my life and Kanye West instructed to keep the love locked down, but he's always in holier-than-thou mode and no one dares to tell him that his glasses are so ugly. I don't understand why Kanye is such a big hit even himself thought he wasn't worthy to receive the MTV award and said Lil Wayne was better. But that before he punched some paparazzi.
St. Andrew's Ball will be a good thing because it pushes nice dress to be out of closet and mindset to be at anything but that. Maybe there will be panic at the disco. It's almost 4 AM and I should get some rest and try to look good tomorrow tonight.
Update November 22:
Forgot to mention the most anticipated Guns N' Roses' new album: Chinese Democracy, which is already banned in China. One newspaper gave 2.5 (out of 5, I guess) for the album, but I think after 17 years there is too much expectation on Axl. The fact that it is just him without Duff, Izzy and Slash slips from everybody's mind. It's Axl and the band, not Guns N' Roses. It's not the same. But it would be a great choice for Christmas gift though. That, and a Prada bag.
Cazbar is celebrating its anniversary, and I am proud to announce to the world, that the bar, which name was formed during a weekend away at one of the shareholders' house through some quiz (the one who came up with the name that would be used for the bar will get free beer and {updated Nov 21} the stool with his/her name), is already 3 years old, and they will share the joy and happiness by throwing a fab party with free beer and entertainment for the whole night.
I like Caz not because I have to, but because the place is friendly for female patron who comes alone. The staffs are friendly and call you by your name, and the place provides free wi-fi too. I feel secure there and could hang around for hours with my macbook and glasses of wine or cappuccino without being interrupted or disturbed by sleazy old men like in most bars. I spent many times having work lunch at Caz since my L'Oreal office was only stones away, mostly with Tamara or Rocky. I occasionally took my staffs for afternoon coffee (disguised as 'meetings'), and spent Saturday mornings with late breakfast and The Guardian papers. Friday lunches were sometimes with GG and he would be having fun guessing what I would have for the day. Most of the times he was right as I often went for lamb chop (still do), although apparently my choice of meal was criticised by an Indonesian blogger -- who thought I trespass the international luncheon code of ethics because lamb chop should only be served as dinner -- which is funny since the said bloggera) definitely isn't a chef, has a zero knowledge of how to build up a menu for international guests or how to run a restaurant or pub; b) has never set foot at Cazbar, let alone tasted its food, yet found a liberty to criticise its menu. Rocky the chef would be delighted; c) as an Indonesian, should be familiar with full meal breakfast concept like fried rice, satay, or soto and even can have them at 2AM off of street stalls and yet thought that having red meat at lunch time is wrong and d) urged me to stick with vegetable instead, which is the most bizarre advice I have ever got in my life, especially since the said blogger isn't my dietitian, personal trainer, doctor, spouse, even friend.
Cazbar was also a choice of venue to meet other bloggers offline. I met Therry there for the first time, and then met Therry, Elyani and Ecky there too. If I didn't have to have Sunday brunch at 4 Seasons, I would have met Toni and Elyani at Cazbar too! One of Caz's best thing (apart from lamb chop, obviously) is their Caswell coffee. It tastes much better than coffee from other franchise stalls, and although a cup of cappuccino can contain hundreds of calories, I keep ordering it after meal (now that is something that actually the said blogger should criticise, as Italians only have cappuccino in the morning and never have it after meal and have espresso instead).
This Saturday, I would be dancing at St. Andrew's Ball, 12 thousand km away, but in my heart I am dancing for Cazbar.
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Blog Description: A tale about culture shock. An Indonesian stranded in Scotland and has to deal with Scottish people, accent, weather (most of the time), food, and football. If you think eating chips with vinegar is normal, think again!
Blog Tags: Indonesia - Scotland - Expat - Culture Shock - Current Affairs 
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Blog Owner: anita
Blog Added: December 05, 2007 12:56:42 PM
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