DRIP KOPI

How has your relationship with money changed (or stayed the same) as you've aged?

Vik chops it up with our one and only most beloved Dan from Scarborough, England during an autumn evening at Berlin Bar in the Arts District, Las Vegas.

Ah. Miscommunication in the workplace. When your common language amongst peers is English. But your culture and worldview shape how you interpret verbal (and non-verbal!) cues differently.

Which of your friends make your parents nervous? That's Vince for us. And for no good reason other than Vince being 10 years younger than my Mom and Dad, which freaks them out.

"How are you best friends with someone as old as us?"

Cos' Vince is still a kid.

And us kids are getting older so we're starting to plan for the future. Like where to rendezvous for holidays when we're all living in Asia Pacific!

Vik and I can talk each others' faces off regardless of the setting - doesn't matter if we're shuffling about in the kitchen catching each other in between my Zoom calls or if it is in our car for 10 out of 11 hours during a drive up from Vegas to Boise.

But wine bars are our jam. It's where we truly turn off and turn up.

Summer 2023 natty wine bar shoutouts go out to Glouglou in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Garagiste in Las Vegas, Nevada.

We once spent over 24 hours straight without leaving the apartment when visiting our BFFs Big and Tini in Munich because we were having too much fun eating, drinking, and merrymaking at home.

Plop that bum of yours onto the sofa and pour yourself a glass of sumpin' sumpin' while you listen into this merry foursome convo in Berlin after spending 24 hours a day for 10 consecutive summer holiday days together!

Some things bring out the best in people. A long haul flight is not one of those things.

Moving country is like moving house: both bring equal parts risk and healthy optimism to unlock an exciting new future for yourself. And when you happen to find a life partner as a result, what a gift to gift yourself.

We talk big dreams and walk down memory lane with our dear couple friends Aleksa and Daniela - Aleksa was born and raised in Belgrade, Serbia, while Daniela hails from Barranquilla, Colombia - during our summer 2023 evening hang in our former home city (Heimat, heyyyy!) of Berlin, Germany.

Come with us for a bit of armchair travel as we take you around Egypt, Australia, India, Thailand, and Mars.

It's raspy solo dolo Tiff taking in all the feels and sounds of the evening on the MUZE Hotel Utrecht balcony: reflections on homecoming and familiarity during the wettest, rainiest two weeks of 2023 European summer plus a fun reminder that good travel decisions made nearly a year ago can really pay off.

The last time we hung out with my grand aunt and uncle, Auntie Eng and Uncle Piet, in Nieuw Vennep, The Netherlands was on a grey cold day in the winter of 2019. This time around, we let them know that we have a new *hobby* of recording conversations with friends and family (and sharing out for public consumption hurrah)! Lucky for us, they were giddy about using mics and wanted to talk our faces off.

You'll hear three different languages in this show - English, Dutch, and Bahasa Indonesia - and that's because Auntie Eng and I communicate in Indonesian, Auntie Eng and Uncle Piet communicate to each other in Dutch, and in turn, Uncle Piet speaks to Vik and me in English. A smörgåsbord for your little ear drums! And one that we'll recap in English at a later time.

Our little sis is all grown up!

We've known Patrick since our 2015 Bangkok days when she was organising social events for Chulalongkorn University's student exchange program. Chula Pat could've never imagined that 2023 Pat would have already saved a life at 30,000 feet in the air as a flight attendant on a top tier international airline.

And good thing for those uni coordinator skills because we managed to squeeze in a quick Amsterdam-Schiphol airport hotel hang before her next flight sector. We learn that Pat's currently looking for a boyfriend and not a sugar daddy (but times on those dating apps are tough) and that passengers who engage in mile high club activities have, well, questionable hygiene.