Kata mudik konon berasal dari bahasa Betawi, udik yang artinya kampung. Ditambah awalan huruf m jadi mudik = pulang kampung. Mudik memang identik dengan hari raya Idul Fitri. Menarik sekali melihat hiruk pikuk dan repotnya orang, baik yang akan mudik ataupun yang ditinggal mudik. Menurut gw ya mudik itu pindahan massal tahunan selama maksimal seminggu … Continue reading
Yesterday I came back to The Netherlands after spending 2 weeks in Indonesia. It was a family visit with the same reason as that one in July 2013. This time it is my mother who is severely ill. My mother and I July last year when she visited me in The Netherlands. Mid February I … Continue reading
This week’s BEC challenge is about most favorite Indonesian food. As an Indonesian living abroad and a foodie, I think about food all the time. Sometimes I long for certain Indonesian dishes. I have twenty – thirty most favorite Indonesian food/dishes but it is impossible to share them all here. Hence I chose sate. Sate … Continue reading
Almost every day I have been thinking of you this past year. Today I will think of you and father. Today I especially think of your last moments among us last year. It was striking that you went on the same day as our father did 15 years ago. I know you are pain free … Continue reading
Today is 69th Independence Day of Republic Indonesia. After years of fearing the worst, now I have hope with the newly elected president, Djokowi. Let me reflect on what it feels like living as an Indonesian abroad. These things come to my notion observing Indonesian chauvinistic trait against Indonesians living abroad. Chauvinism is a form … Continue reading
Yesterday my husband and I went to Tong Tong Fair in The Hague. It is the biggest Eurasian Fair in the world. We loyally come to this event because it is part of the Indo culture. Indo here is not an abbreviation of Indonesian but Indo means Eurasian from The Netherlands Indies. Last post I … Continue reading
Berhubung gw udah dari 1995 tinggal disini, gw akan berbagi cerita tentang reaksi orang Indonesia yang tinggal di Indonesia kalo denger gw tinggal di Belanda. Tinggal di Amsterdam? Ada beberapa orang yang tanya ini begitu tahu gw tinggal di Belanda. Belanda itu memang kecil tapi Belanda bukan hanya Amsterdam, situ ngertos? Sama seperti Indonesia bukan … Continue reading
