Lady RaRa Jakarta
I am a 23 year old Scot discovering the highs and lows of life in Jakarta, Indonesia. My blog is filled with amusing articles about the weird and wonderful things I encounter here, alongside some advice for any newcomers who might feel as lost as I did when I first arrived.
tags: adventure, clubbing, funny, jakarta, travels
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I'm an Arts graduate and budding journalist exploring the weird and wonderful country that is Indonesia. My blog will chronicle my adventures, the ups and downs of ex pat life and the lost-in-translation moments I will have during my year in this beautiful place.
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RaRa on Samantha Brick's Diet
Posted on 20/04/2013
The story below does not relate to the man in the above picture. Though they do both like pudding.I was sheltering from torrential rain in a doorway next to a supermarket, waiting for a...
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Adventures in Bikram
Posted on 17/04/2013
Saturday morning, West End. I'm chatting to two strangers, an older man and woman both in their late 50s, about the musculoskeletal system and degenerative discs. We're all...
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Paris Brown and Adventures in Adolescent Erotica
Posted on 08/04/2013
At some point during 1999/2000, when I was a desperately bored 13 year old hanging out with several other desperately bored 13 year olds, we decided to write a story. If we hadn't been...
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Arran and Small talk fails #348556
Posted on 28/03/2013
I've no affinity with Arran (Scottish island currently submerged in freak snowfall, deprived of electricity) aside from wearing jumpers made from its sheep and a week spent in a...
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I borrowed a Persian and made demands of it.
Posted on 29/01/2013
Hello.HelloooooQuickly! Eat Claire's hair.Good. Now....look really freaking surprised.Look away in shame.Be a really sad cushion.Plot my death.Plot deeper.Aaaaaand.......SURPRISE!Now,...
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Blue Monday and the Tuesday factor
Posted on 22/01/2013
Yesterday was Blue Monday, the wet dream fantasy of travel companies keen to harness our own misery as a marketing tool. It's meant to be a scientific equation of Christmas debt plus...
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The Wee Man
Posted on 20/01/2013
Paul Ferris is a notorious Glasgow gangster who once spent his time organising crime, but is now in retirement from extortion and violence, does other legal business and writes books. He...
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Zumba. Endorphins. Wow.
Posted on 14/01/2013
I have an extremely low tolerance for caffeine. Imagine feeding a toddler a barrel of Skittles then letting it loose on the helter skelter, and you have a vague idea. Multiple tasks are...
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Viper Revisited
Posted on 13/01/2013
"Do you like gang bangs? Because I know a gang."In the last-stop bar before the looming inevitability of a night in Viper, an old friend introduces me to a chap he plays rugby...
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How can I get in touch with you. I am an Australian living in Indonesia at the moment.
I'm Oki, just wanna have a chat with any scots to practice my scots accent...
:)
0817 177 898