My Grey World

Please tell me I’m not the only one who found the service level in Singapore is like 6 feet under. It sucks. Almost every time I sit down in a restaurant, or simply ordering food at hawker centres, the server/hawker will only ask “Yes, order?”. Sometimes there is not even a question. They will only [...]

Indonesian Chinese Chinese Indonesian Chindo Indochina Cokin Tong ngin Tionghoa Cina There are a lot of things people use to call me and similar people : a person of Chinese descent/ancestry who was born and raised in Indonesia. But in English-speaking world, I always choose to call myself “Indonesian Chinese”. Sometimes I don’t use it [...]

I know it’s been so long! Nevertheless here’s my entry! 24th of May, the last day of our competition It was the folk music category.. Songs that we sang: Sohran Bushi (Japanese) Xiao Huang Li Niao/小黄鹂鸟 (Mongolian folk song, sung in Mandarin) Mamayog Akun (Philippines) Dayung Sampan (Singapore, with melody adapted from a Chinese song) Now [...]

I put the celebration in quotes coz I don’t really think monthversary should be celebrated but yeah.. We did. My relationship turned 2 months at 25 January and so we decided to get together and.. just be merry =D Actually we already talked about this since we were still in holiday at Jakarta. We should [...]