“Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.” Khalil Gibran Dreamland, Bali Larger version: www.thejavajive.com/photoblog/?p=155Read more
Packaged purity (in black and white)
Taken in a kampung area in North Jakarta. I wrote an article about the experience of visiting this area a few years ago. Photoblog versionRead more
Three Reasons Why Netbooks Just Aren’t Good Enough (techcrunch)
Three Reasons Why Netbooks Just Aren’t Good Enough (techcrunch)Read more
Tweeting the terror: How social media and Twitter reacted to Mumbai (CNN)
Tweeting the terror: How social media and Twitter reacted to Mumbai (CNN)Read more
A former Malaysian flight attendant who repeatedly scalded her Indonesian maid has been jailed by a court in the capital Kuala Lumpur for 18 years. (BBC)
A former Malaysian flight attendant who repeatedly scalded her Indonesian maid has been jailed by a court in the capital Kuala Lumpur for 18 years. (BBC)Read more
Do you dream in your mother tongue or other languages?
On Twitter, I posed the question, “Those of you bilingual (or tri, etc). Do you dream in your mother tongue or the other languages as well?” Interesting and varied answers from some of my Twitter contacts are listed below (will update more as they roll in): I dream in Lao and English. Less Lao now, since I’m not near my family. both! weird, I just realise it. Brilliant question! both, sometimes just the mother time, sometimes the other language, sometimesRead more