Category: Life
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Utsukushī furawāgāden
A dream come true when I got to see and experience these beautiful flowers and garden. #travel #flowers #purple #lilac
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Blangsinga and Tegenungan Waterfalls
On our way home from Saba to Songan, Kintamani we wanted to visit a new place. My husband mentioned that there are a waterfall close by. He said its called Tegenungan Waterfall. I searched for it and found that it was quite close to another waterfall called Blangsinga Waterfall. I did not really checked it…
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Balinese Blends Modern and Traditional Life
Bali is known for its beautiful landscape and unique culture…the image of Balinese women dressed modestly, carrying offering in their heads across rice field have been the object of a lot of paintings, postcards and posters. But, Bali is not immune to the lure of modernization. Development driven by tourism has certainly changed the face…
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Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Inspired by several pictures of rainbow over my Twitter feed in the last days, I dug my own photo collection. Can you spot that its actually a double rainbow? The second one was not really clear in this picture. But, I still had a vivid mental picture of it. It was one of those after…
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Surabaya: City of Heroes
Isn’t ironic that I talk a lot about Bali and other places, but I have never wrote anything about the place that I currently live, Surabaya. I tell you why. From the first time I came to Surabaya in 1994, I came to think of it as quite boring. Well, how can you blame me,…
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Bali: the Island of a Thousand Temples
Aside from beaches and nature, Bali main attraction is inarguably its art and culture. The majority of Balinese are Hindu and they conduct their main religious activities in a temple, known as Pura. You can find pura in every corner of Bali, from the houses, markets, courtyards, or cemeteries. There are Puras located in the…
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Mount Batur
What did you do when you felt so tired but you cannot rest? Write a blog post 😉 A couple of days a go I started following a twitter account that depicted active volcanoes in Indonesia. The account belong to a Norwegian gentleman that currently lives in Indonesia. Its very interesting to me to think…
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Day 12 of Social Distancing: Memory of Didsbury
On my twelfth day of working from home, I did quite a lot from preparing some data for research collaboration, conduct an online class, review a paper, and planning for an online workshop. By 8pm, I decided to give myself a little Me-time. My mind flew back to the time when I was finishing my…
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7 Hours Stopover in Singapore
22:47 I was still up last nite. Still trying to process everything and reorient my mind from the fact that I have to postpone my trip to Nottingham. I was supposed to fly Singapore Airlines to Nottingham at the end of this month. In any other day, i.e. normal days with no Corona Virus outbreak,…