I’ve been in Boras for three days… Still try to adapt with the different environment. Snow is everywhere…!! I got a very nice room in an apartment… Have a nice lectures, friends, school… But everything is so different! How, for example, the car will give you a way if you want to cross the road. [...]
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18 Dec
English in Japan…?
We all know the stereotype about Japanese people and English: How they don’t really able to speak in it. Well, I found that the stereotype was not necessarily true. Because mostly Japanese people I met have nice English, if not excellent. Of course, the fact that I attend and international conference could be an important [...]
13 Dec
Punctuality!
I was reading Understanding Diversity by Barbara F. Okun et.all (Brooks/Cole Publishing Company, 1999), when I found interesting things related to my experience in Japan: Cultural difference regarding perception of time and space. On the conference, the committee kept reminding us to be punctual. Even our orientation always been started with the announcement that we [...]
5 Dec
Japanese Hospitality
After the conference, I got new impression about Japan: That they are really an excellent host. This impression has been felt even before I enter Japan, when we need to arrange the visa and plane ticket. We almost do nothing regarding the visa -only filling some forms and giving the passport- because it has been [...]
29 Nov
Knowing Your Neighbors
This is my confession: I know more about Japan (thanks to their manga and anime and doramas) rather than Laos, my neighbor country. I know more about US (thanks to their media domination and of course, Hollywood) rather than Thailand, my other neighbor country. I never care about this fact until I attend Japan-ASEAN Student [...]
18 Nov
Fall in Japan….
I thought it would be warmer… BEcause in Yogya, the temperatures were like around 25, and even 37 at the noon… But here, wow… every time I breath, I could see it…!! White…! Soo… After not updating so looong, I’m back. I supposed to report about all my trips around Indonesia lately, but still have [...]
17 Jun
Vote for Dragon Island!
Until I was in high school, I never know that Seven Wonders of the World are always changed every year. I mean, we used to memorize it in the elementary school, on the social science class: that The Sphinx and Pisa Tower and Borobudur and everything are an unchangeably Seven Wonders. They even ask about [...]
24 May
Tasty Tasty Tasty Part 2
Culinary report from Korea part 2! So, after leaving half of my heart in WCYF, we went to Seoul and rent a very nice hostel there… They provide kitchen and we can cook anything there (brings our own ingredients), but of course we decided to eat in Korean restaurants. Thanks a lot to Mbak Ossa [...]
18 May
Tasty tasty tasty part 1
I don’t know whether I’ll be able to write my whole travel stories, because so many things to do here, more over I’ve already written a travel journal while I was in Korea, so it will be tiring for me to re-write the same things.. So I’ll just write some random stuff about it, now [...]
15 May
Friends…!!!
Trying Ice Tower with Moram and In Soo… Very nice new friends..! Come to Yogyakarta and I’ll take you to eat Ice Dawet here…! Ehehe…
