Blogging from Starbucks at an Ibis Hotel in Menteng...
On a Friday at 06:25 PM GMT+7.
It's been almost five years since Instituto Italiano di Cultura stopped their weekly Italian movie screenings. From 2009 to 2019 I never once skipped the screenings. It was every Wednesday first, then probably starting 2012 screenings were held on Friday at 7 PM. So every Friday, even at 5 PM I would already be at either this Starbucks or any of restaurants in Menteng, just near Instituto, sometimes with a laptop in hand.
I remember these two occasions, in 2012 and 2016 respectively. In the former, I brought my laptop to Starbucks Menteng to work on my postgrad thesis (can't recall whether it was a chapter or a post defence revision), then after that I blogged about Lena Meyer-Landrut. In the latter, I brought my laptop to the same venue to work on my first China publication. After each occasion, I headed to Instituto to watch an Italian movie.
Good times.
It's September 29, 2023.
After revising my part in an Indonesia-ROK policy recommendation, here I am blogging. Reminiscing. I'm heading home after this.
