Masuk Angin: Believe it or not?

When it comes to taking health advice from Indonesians, I have to admit, I have been a little skeptical. This comes from Indonesian friends telling me that Indonesian cigarettes are really healthy because they are made from herbs (not tar and nicotine), and from the constant cracking of bones every time an Indonesian stands up […] Read more »

Jakarta or Bali?

One of the first things that an Indonesian will assume about an expat, is that the reason that they are in Indonesia is that they love Bali. And one of the first things an expat may think about Indonesia, if they are more of the garden variety suburban types (such as myself) is that Indonesia […] Read more »

Scary Muslims? What the?

It’s a funny part of life that you never really know the place you come from until you leave it. Before I left my suburb to go around Australia I thought pretty much everyone was white and catholic. It was only after leaving Australia I realized that I grew up on an isolated island at […] Read more »