Last week I found myself on a visit to the gemstone market at Rawa Bening in Jakarta, wondering WTH I […]
Archive for ‘Island-hopping in Indonesia’
Inside Museum Bahari
My exploration of Jakarta is totally ON! Picked up an excellent book called Jakarta Explorers – it’s got hundreds of […]
Out in the open
Today I got on the back of an ‘ojek’ (that’s Indonesian for motorbike taxi, like xe om in Vietnam), such […]
A change in career?
This weekend we have the whale of a car all to ourselves. So we took off to the zoo early […]
Jakarta Old Town
There’s something about old heritage structures, whether spruced up or decrepit, that makes me admire a city. I guess, for […]
Indah Bird watching
Souvik thinks I’ve been trashing the city, but I don’t mean to, really. It’s just that I wish the dull […]
Out and about
After wallowing in the apartment for weeks, I ventured out to see if Jakarta was truly as boring as I […]
A ray of sunshine
We’ve had such a lesson in bike shopping in Jakarta. My old Oyama is in transit, and Souvik wants to […]
Catching up with Bollywood
The only tiny positive I’ve found in Jakarta so far is the latest Hindi movies on screen! And near-empty theatres, […]
Moving on in Jakarta
2 weeks since we moved to Indonesia, and I’m finally shedding the Hanoi hangover. Not without thrashing about and complaining […]