If I were a linguist, I will put mudik (going home) as the newest entry for the encarta dictionary. I mean, mudik is going to be a hot new international term heh heh. Yes, I do believe that . Because the mudik phenomenon here is so powerful, and big and heartbreaking…(what?!!). Just look at the sacrifice we are willing to [...]
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coming home
Posted in indonesiana on September 28, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Waterdays
Posted in indonesiana on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When my boss asked, “what do you say about having the West Kalimantan trip during Ramadhan?”, I simply said no problemo. I had a firm confidence that observing fasting days will be just fine for me anywhere in this lovely archipelago. And then something hit me, I mean, this trip would be in the equator’s point zero, the [...]