Knowing the risks
Posted: 15/05/2013 Filed under: about me, English, Science, some thoughts of mine, Women | Tags: Angelina Jolie Mastectomy, BRCA gen, Breast Cancer, Richard Brohet Leave a comment »Angelina Jolie’s preventive double mastectomy dominated the news yesterday. By sharing it she intends to raise awareness about the disease which was quite succesful.
Unconditional love
Posted: 12/05/2013 Filed under: about me, Dutch Affairs, English, some thoughts of mine, Women | Tags: Moederdag, mother child love, Mother's day 6 Comments »I have been spoiled to the bones by my daughter today at Mother’s Day. This morning she stood by my bed with a menu card for breakfast. I chose for caramelised banana and yoghurt along with a cup of tea. She prepared the breakfast herself. On the breakfast table she gave me the presents (a cook book, a pot of candies and a shopper) and a card.
Sunny Amsterdam meeting
Posted: 28/04/2013 Filed under: about me, Dutch Affairs, English, Indonesia, some thoughts of mine, Travel, Women | Tags: Amsterdam, Café de Jaren, Indonesian bloggers, Kopi darat, offline meeting 7 Comments »Today I had a pleasure of meeting two fellow Indonesian bloggers: Teppy (left) and Oppie (right)
How old are you?
Posted: 19/04/2013 Filed under: about me, English, some thoughts of mine, Women | Tags: Age thing, why women lie about their age, Women 7 Comments »This simple question could be very difficult to answer for women in general I thought. So I put a poll on Facebook about this last month. The reactions varied. A friend wrote: she prefered not to tell her real age. When she answered honestly, she’d got asked again “How do you stay fabulous at your age?”. Another friend added she once experienced when she openly shared her age, the following question came “Why don’t you get anymore kids? At your age it is still not difficult to get pregnant”.
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