This week, I got a big stack of mail–Christmas cards, birthday card, letters postmarked since 7 Nov 2007. At least I got them. I’m wondering where the jam was at as a watch my brother sent as a Christmas gift arrived just after the New Year. Hmmm. I guess I should [...]
Last week, I observed my first thesis defense here. A requirement for graduation for all undergraduates here is the writing of a thesis. Most of the students in the education department perform some sort of classroom research, write it up, and make a defense with three faculty members grilling them. It’s quite [...]
Another excessive holiday post (unless you’re going to north Sumatra, then you might be interested):
Once again, I found myself with a gap of days in which I wasn’t going to teach, so I arranged to meet up with some colleagues in Medan to head to places as yet explored by me. I met up [...]
Eventually, one finds the ego boosting area on the Wordpress interface interesting. Today, I find out I’m being link to as part of Top 100 Indonesian blogs (in English). Keep scrolling until you hit number 80. Wooooo!
Got back last week from more orangutan visiting in Bukit Lawang and my first visit to [...]
Perhaps, if one is to live where earthquakes occur regularly, then they probably don’t need to blog about every darn one. But I will get the ones that wake me up at three a.m. Here’s your link to the 5.4R that shook me up: USGS link.