These days, my weary self yearns only for one kind of travel, to time travel to the pre-covid era — when I could travel on a whim, even with a very limiting Indonesian passport.…
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I am writing to you mid-flight, in between Jakarta and Melbourne. In between Indonesia and Australia. In between Saturday and Sunday.…
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On our last night in Tokyo, when my friends were resting in the room, I wandered around Shinjuku to find Dorayaki.…
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What is coffee butter? Should I get it? Does it mean we should get a loaf of bread as well? Why none else is getting it? What if it's terrible?…
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Happy New Year, the year of Omicron. Do you remember precisely when Covid turned your life upside down? Mine was when I reached Bali and got a plethora of text messages about the then-new-to-me Covid thing. That was two years ago. Today, I get to eat Amma’s home-cooked meal at the dining table together…
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I have been collecting Japan things to do for years in my notes. Things to do, to eat, to check out that I missed or want to do one day.…
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Hello from the quarantine hotel in Jakarta! Here are on the menu for today from breakfast, lunch, snacks and dinner.…
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Another day of quarantine. My mind is elsewhere. My thoughts are scattered. I think! I didn't bring enough clothes here; oddly, I like it.…
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I have passed the mid-point of quarantine. Is it weird that I am a bummed about it? I missed my parents, but I could also use more me-time.…
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Good morning from my Jakarta Quarantine hotel. It's only 6 am here, and I woke up at 3 am and have been unable to sleep ever since.…
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