As Indonesian Indians, our Diwali celebration is not exactly the same as the way Indians in India celebrate Diwali.…
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The first thing my parents ask for whenever I visit home is to give them my passport so they can safely keep it until I leave again.…
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Lontong can then be served dry with a drizzle of a generous amount of peanut-based sauce or submerged in coconut milk-based soup.…
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Post-audit exhaustion, I couldn't think of anything else but Satay Madura, arguably the most famous Satay version in Indonesia.…
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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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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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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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