Today started out pretty well. I forsook the early morning swim for a little more sack time. Then I breakfasted on croissant and coffee freshly ground and brewed in my Aeropress. Yes, then the lady at the taxi call center finished the sentence I use to order my taxi. They apparently [...]
This week had been quite normal until yesterday. I have a speaking class for fourth semester students and they were giving process speeches. Most were pretty humdrum; some were well-planned, some were not. The best topic of the class so far (two are to go next week) was “how to rid someone [...]
It’s Good Friday and the university is off. There is also a conference co-sponsored and coordinated by UIN Alauddin on Gender and Women in the Era of Globalization. There are some speakers here from a university in Hamburg, Germany doing the honors as well. It’s a cool 250,000 for the three day [...]
As you might have noticed on the news, there was an earthquake on Sumatra. The magnitude was higher than the one that hit Yogyakarta last year and killed over 5000. This earthquake, far away from where I live, was 50km or so from Padang. The extent of the damage is yet unknown [...]
Last night, I attended a concert by Maurice Rugebregt and his band. The show included vocalist Julia Lo’ko as well. I arrived around 7p for the 7.30p showtime, not knowing what the crowd would be like. Safir and I weren’t the first to arrive, but we still waited almost 45 minutes for [...]