He was a cave dweller near the banks of Lake Limboto, the largest lake of Gorontalo in Indonesia. Aba Una called it his home until a severe leg injury pushed him out of it. A limestone, said The Jakarta Post, fell on his right thigh, rendering him unable to walk for days. His half-sister, Salma [...]
It’s easy to rattle off the reasons why someone loves to visit a place. I would love to visit London again because I’m intrigued by the historical ambience – current and halcyon days – surrounding the centre and, hopefully, this time cross over to Paris to visit dear friends of mine. San Francisco is another [...]
Banging your head on the hall – figuratively, unless you have a death wish – doesn’t help to ward off the craziness threatening to attack especially when you’re dealing with irrational people masquerading as rational beings . The cloud of madness just hangs around you and over you, waiting to smother you and render you [...]
It’s partially due to the travel advisories and the mind set of people. I’m referring to how Indonesia finds it difficult to attract visitors compared to its neighbour-countries. It has, undoubtedly, suffered immensely from the travel advisories, pushing tourists to cancel bookings en masse. Getting its tourism industry back on its feet took massive campaigns [...]
Staying clear of the debate of whether men and women can be friends worked for a time. But fence-sitting all the time is simply copping out of facing the reality that men and women can never be friends. I’ve always been a strident advocate of platonic friendships but recent personal experiences as well as stories [...]
If there is one thing that I would like to leave when a new animal takes over the reins of the New Year, it would be the small-minded people that flourish like the fungi on week-old leftovers in my refrigerator. They should exit alone with the retiring zodiac sign and the negative energy that enveloped [...]
Maybe it’s because I don’t go out much to the malls as I used to so I don’t feel the spirit or I suppose it has something to do with the fact that it’s a Muslim country (unofficially that is) so Chinese New Year is not widely celebrated unlike in Singapore where tourists and residents [...]
Living with strangers requires patience and a rubber band-like flexibility to quell vociferous arguments at the end of the day. Admittedly, I can be stubborn as a mule, refusing to compromise but, through the years, I’ve learned to be less rigid with my dealings with people and the world. For instance, I normally went with [...]
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