What’s on your mind when you grow up and have to start working or pursuing degree? Do you decide to live with your parents? Or start to live independent by rent a room/house? Being a college student is a phase to be an adult where you need to take an attitude. One of the things […]
What are the advantages of having roommates? Is it more worthy compared to the risk you may face from living with complete strangers? Yes, having roommates will not only give you financial benefits, but it can also give a good influence for your career and personal life. Well, there might be some annoying roommates whom […]
Jakarta is surely a friendly city to live in. But, don’t get it wrong, sometimes as an expat you may be facing some challenges especially in managing your living expenses. For example, property provider may charge you for higher renting price than they charge the local people. That is why sharing apartment with fellow expats […]
Do you have an extra room that you can rent out? Do you realize you can make money from your extra room? Well, we are going to share to you on how to gain extra money from extra room at your apartment. Sometimes, as an expat living in Indonesia, you might have limited friends as […]
Living with someone else and sharing room each other is quite difficult enough. You may have struggle to adapt and understand them. Or don’t you just communicate each other? But, you can’t deny it. You still need to communicate each other. Some fights may result if you and your roommate don’t try to understand each […]
Whenever I thought about my late grandma, there are three things that I remember vividly: her taking me and my brothers to this huge playground inside a shopping center, her perfect Dutch when she spoke to people her age, and her big house that she turned into kos-kosan after my grandfather passed away. I remember […]
Living in Jakarta means you have to face the traffic. Commuting to work is becoming more and more impossible. Suburbanites spend as much as 5 hours a day to commute to their office. A waste of time, fuel, productivity, and sanity. It is very difficult to keep one’s cool when you have to be stuck […]