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The JH Syndrome
Although it’s been more than four years living as an expat, which is nothing compare to my partner who has been doing it almost all his adult life, I think I have done what most expat done. Moving from one country to another. I started with a suitcase and a rucksack when I left Jakarta [...]
Crossing
While I enjoyed traveling Business class, Keith who traveled a few days after me had to struggle driving the car crossing the borders into Saudi Arabia before arriving at Qatar. The plan was to leave our apartment for the last time at 8.00 am in the morning and hoping to reach our Doha office at late lunch. Around 2 pm max.
It was eleven o clock, and I was fiddling with my Arabian map in the office, and trying to figure out where abouts he was in Saudi and say he drove an average of 100km/hour… either he had passed Dammam (the closest city in Saudi to Bahrain) or still around Dammam when Keith called me, “Hello Nin…., I am still alive and still at the Saudi Border!”
Expat !
Saya memutuskan untuk bekerja dan berangkat ke Qatar, padahal semua orang menganggap ini keputusan gila, saya sudah punya pekerjaan yang mapan dan jabatan yang cukup OK di kantor konsultan ternama di Jakarta… “apa lagi yang saya cari sebenarnya…” begitu pertanyaan orang pada saya. Tapi untuk saya, ini lebih kepada petualangannya….mengalami dan merasakan bekerja dan [...]















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