My earliest memory is of my mother reading to me. She was reading a book that showed a picture of a man on a camel in Egypt. I told her that one day, I too would visit the Egyptian pyramids and ride a camel, and I did.”...more

I was still teary-eyed from the freshly prepared sambel embe – handmade in front of me on an elegant Jenggala-made rectangular mortar – I had greedily consumed just moments before when the food tray came. “Here comes the duck,” I thought. To be honest, I wasn’t excited in the beginning...more

breathing underwater isn’t as easy as it looks. however, while there are indeed a lot of things to master before you are allowed to dive in open waters, the view of what lies beneath is worth all of the hard work ...more