Holi Moli this is So Cool

I'm soooo going again next year.

  ¶ 9:27 PM 8 Comments

  Wo bu yao I discovered a new drink today



Colleague 1 (Indian) : Farida, we're getting coffee, you want anything?
Me (Indonesian) : Bu yao..*
Colleague 2 (Sri Lankan): Ok, I know what she means
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10 minutes later...

Colleague 1: Here's your drink
Me: Huh?? what is it???
Colleague 2: Bu yao
Me: erm....

LOL.
If you're curious, my "bu yao" is tea.
Lesson learnt: Don't assume everyone in singapore knows chinese.

*bu yao = don't want

  ¶ 1:11 AM 5 Comments

  a piece of my life back. I'm happy :)
I found my old blog. It's me and my life in canada.
I'll put it permanently as a link

http://archive.aiesec.ws/fida.aiesec.ws/

*grin*

  ¶ 8:52 PM 2 Comments

  Can your culture prevent you from dancing? I mean dancing other cultures' dances..

So, I was helping out Labake do a small african presentation for a group of kids. She wanted to teach them small dances. Fair enough.

She tells us...
1. African dances are heavily influenced by the beats of the drums.
...cool... although I was slightly confused by the beats she did. They are more complex than most of the Indonesian beats.

2. African dances uses their hipps & butts alot.
...cool... I am going to be a great african dancer!!

3. African dances are also used to tell stories.
...cool... I like stories... :)

4. African dances by maidens are used to attract the guys..
...cool... that's fair.

5. African dances are free flowing movements. When you feel the rhytm, you dance to the beat.
...hmm... you mean there's no, like, synchronized steps???? How do you know if you're doing the right thing????... ok fine, I'll just think I'm in a hip hop club....

5. African dances uses traditional costumes. Some traditional costumes include a string of beads and chalk patterns on their boddies.
...hmm.............
But don't worry, since the white men came, we use a wrappers.
...cool... that's better...

6. The good african dancers attract guys attention. African men will undress you with his eyes. But to african women, it's a natural thing, you just dance more to lure him...
...hmm.......... now seriously, how can you dance well when you know that you are naked in front of a strange man's eyes!!!!!!!

And i lost all my rythms and movements that very instant.

Where I come from, when you are naked in front of a strange guy (or girl!), you better not be dancing, you be getting that wrapper on girl!!

hehehe... the little differences in lifes all around the world.

To illustrate my point, here is one of the more well known type of culture in Indonesia. The Balinese.

Now, do you call this free flowing movement??? No siiree, those arms better be like that the entire time.

  ¶ 2:09 AM 1 Comments

  "I'll be working tonight, honey" It's funny how we hear those words when we were kids. Not often in my family, but once in a while. I always had a picture in my head of my mom/dad working on her/his desk while everyone has gone home. Such a solemn picture of them trying to provide for their family.

Now I work late too (sometimes...) and so do my colleagues.

But yesterday we went out. We ate, we went to a bar for drinks, we played stupid drinking games and told stupid jokes and laughed a little bit too much (I was drinking tea though..) . Then I looked around. What do you think they would have told their children?

I could almost hear it.
"I'll be working tonight, honey..."

I smiled. Thinking of the times my mom and dad went out for drinks. Just taking a breather and have some fun on their own. Acting not as parents but as friends. Now I'm doing that (granted I don't have kids).

It was then, in the middle of eski bar surrounded by my colleagues (who were all high) that it hit me.

I'm a working adult.

Funny how I never realized it.  ¶ 1:49 AM 6 Comments

  Nomenclature Disclaimer. The below is a posting by Dody G (dodyg.org).
I put it here because I agree with every single word.

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I think we should drop the usage of 'moderate Muslims'. We don't use the word 'moderate Christians' or 'moderate Hindus' in common usage to describe believers of other religion in contrasting the mainstream with their extremist factions.

A community of believer is like family. In every family, you have one or two crazy uncles/aunt that totally out of whacked and different from the rest of your family and embarras you in the family Christmas dinner. You call them crazy uncle Joe's or maniac Jane but you dont' call the rest of your family as "moderate Smith".

Use simply the word Muslim for the majority, with their virtues and faults, and probably 'wackos' to describe the little crazy fuckers segment of their community.  ¶ 1:47 AM 2 Comments