Hello! Welcome to Sereleaungu 🙂.

I am May. Indonesian, born and raised in Bandung, and I have spent 22 years there before I started a new phase of life as an independent young woman.

I was living in Jakarta twice, almost a year from July 2003 – May 2004 and almost 7 years from February 2007 – December 2013. In between I was in Balikpapan and now I live in Kuala Lumpur.

I love reading books, to travel and to cook. I also love to write, my dream since junior high school was to become a journalist and was almost there. Back in 2004 I was accepted as a journalist for one of major newspaper in Indonesia, and at the same time as a Geologist for one of multinational oil company with a prospect to continue my study overseas. My late mother told me the 2nd one is a better option; hence I followed her suggestion.

Another new blog?

I started blogging in 2004 and it was fun on Blogdrive, and then Blogspot came to my life. However, it was then replaced by Multiply for short a while and then I back to Blogspot and finally on WordPress since 2013. I had and have so many blogs, but it has been an on-off hiatus period. Hope this new one will be my last and the most productive.

I decided to write here for my daughter, documenting my stories, my journey also my thoughts.
Also, a gift for myself. I write to give myself strength.

With love,