Tagged With: Dutch

I just got back from Jakarta late last night. The trip reminded me of something I’ve been planning to blog about for quite some time now — the Dutch influence on the Indonesian language. You see, Bahasa Malaysia (Malaysian language) and Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian language) are very, very similar. The structure is the same, sentences … Continue reading »

I bought a carton of vanille vla (pronounced as ‘fla’) in Amsterdam, thinking it was vanilla-flavoured milk. So when I opened the carton and poured the vla into my cup, I was shocked to see a thick yellowish substance pour out slowly. “Has the milk gone bad?” I wondered. I took a whiff of the … Continue reading »