Chronicles

La librairie Pages après Pages met à l'honneur la littérature jeunesse avec "Les papillons de Victor" de Virginie Kasse et Melissa Sunjaya. Pages apres Pages honors youth literature with "Les papil...

Weekend Reading: Catfish and Mandala

It seems that as memoirists, we are not historians, not even of our own lives. That is the job of biographers. Memoirs are our love letters and our letters of apologies, both. [...]

A True Grit

The first time I heard about Maya Tamara - the principal/ artistic director of Namarina Dance Academy - was from Didi, Melissa’s mother. She loved our Les Papillons de Victor aprons so much that s...

Harboring to Hanoi

There is something about Hanoi that mesmerized me. The city is moderately small if you compare it with Jakarta. The skyscraper buildings are countable and it does not have the big malls that Jakart...

A Peace Treaty

Sisters, it seems, spend their time together either giggling and sharing secrets or quarelling like cats and dogs. My little girls are no different: one minute they are best friends, then in the b...

A Tale of The Promenade

My toes embraces the promenade and I feel the sun kisses my skin. I run against the wind and hear the story of the ocean whispered in my ear. [...]

A View of Pepe from Bus 174

At the International Documentary Film Festival held by Erasmus Huis - Jakarta, Myra and I encountered a documentary movie that reminded us to the story of Pepe. Bus 174 is a 150 minutes documentary...

Weekend Reading: Beatrice Wood

You know that sweet and wise little old lady (who plays the aged Rose) in James Cameron’s movie Titanic? That wonderfully eccentric character was inspired by the incomparable ceramic artist Beatri...

Loco for Taco Local

Being always on the lookout for a good taco in Jakarta, we jumped at the chance to give Taco Local a try. Located on Jl. Panglima Polim 5 # 38, this tiny resto is easy to miss. Inside we found li...