Tweet Yes, SQUAT, as in Squat Down Funny enough, this seemingly trivial little fact was only made aware to me recently. I guess when you take something for granted, you don’t really care about it, until somebody point it out to you. I am talking about Squatting Down. Yes, the trivial exercise that most […]
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Culture Shocks #2: Do You Take Milk With Your Tea ?
Posted by Bagus Prakoso in January 14th, 2009
Tweet Err … what ? Hell No ! Tea … you wouldn’t understand the ‘extend’ of the Brits’ obsession for drinking Tea until you actually live for a while in this country. I didn’t realize how much drinking tea were so integrated to the British life that, like football, cricket and rugby, it had become […]
Culture Shocks #1: The Queue Starts Here
Posted by Bagus Prakoso in January 6th, 2009
Tweet Ask any Indonesian to make a line and he will stare at you as if you ask him to take off his clothes! We have been taught (usually by bad experience), that queueing is futile and actually won’t get you anywhere. Any opportunity to jump the queue must be taken whenever possible, and nobody […]
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Posted by Bagus Prakoso in January 5th, 2009
Tweet Happy New Year everybody ! I hope you had a good break (hopefully together with the people you love), and all ready for the year 2009. For me, this year will mark my 13th Winter here in the UK. Yes, it’s been quite a long time since I came, back on 1995. For this, […]
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Christophorus Bagus Prakoso is an Indonesian who works and lives in London, UK. He is a Software Engineer and a Web Developer who spends his spare time crawling the Social Networking scenes and tinkering with Ruby on Rails.