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Indonesia: Facts for Dummies

Indonesia: Facts for Dummies

Having lived for around a year in the UK and extensively interacted with people from different countries have revealed some intriguing facts to me. Whenever comes the situation where one has to introduce oneself and make a casual conversation, it appears that it won’t go anywhere but around one’s country of origin. Not only is it always a good topic …

Tano Batak Day 7: Departure – Bandung

Tano Batak Day 7: Departure – Bandung

This post should have been written nearly a month ago but I just did not have the time. There are many things happened and I was so occupied getting them all through. I was so busy preparing my travel documents, turned 23, and opened a small office for ColorLabs just next to my house. I guess every day was a …

Tano Batak Day 6: The Pearl of Lake Toba

Tano Batak Day 6: The Pearl of Lake Toba

Lake Toba is a lake and supervolcano, 100 kilometres long and 30 kilometres wide, and 505 metres (1,666 ft) at its deepest point. Located in the middle of the northern part of the Indonesian island of Sumatra with a surface elevation of about 900 metres (2,953 ft), it is the largest volcanic lake in the world. In addition, it is the site of a supervolcanic eruption that occurred 74,000 years ago.

Tano Batak Day 5: Thoughts on The Establishment of The Province of Tapanuli

Tano Batak Day 5: Thoughts on The Establishment of The Province of Tapanuli

There was nothing essential this day, it’s another half-day in Prapat, a quarter-day in Pematang Siantar, and a night at Berastagi doing nearly nothing. We spent most of our time on the road laughing and screaming to make ourselves happy while crossing the borders which happened to be so lenghty and exhausting. The infrastructure was terrible and unmaintained but we …

Tano Batak Day 4: Prapat – Lake Toba – Samosir

Tano Batak Day 4: Prapat – Lake Toba – Samosir

First of all, I want to say that I have made myself a record! How on earth can I have one blog post each day? Hahaha. I guess this was due to the fact that I had nothing to do but to eat and sleep during my abundant free time. On the other hand, I just could not help seeing my laptop intolerably unoccupied thus blogging was what I did.

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I am an Indonesian web designer, petroleum engineer and chemical engineer living in London, UK.