Author Archives: Jessica Wong
How Colombians celebrate Christmas
A ‘luxury’ version novena, in which a Vallenato band has been brought in to celebrate the hostess’ birthday which happened to be on one of the novena days. Christmas celebrations in Colombia really start nine days (I know, rather different from the Anglo-saxon 12 days) before Christmas, which explains the name of the rather beautiful tradition novena, when […]
The hottest song in Colombia at the moment
I’m not embarrassed to admit that recently I fell in love with ONE thing about Colombia. It’s the first thing related to Colombia that I admit I’ve fallen in love with. The country’s been making some really good music and the rest of the world would benefit from knowing about that. So I’m starting a series about Colombian music! […]
It’s AMAZING!!!
Every foreigner who has lived in Colombia for 1 year would know that Colombians say everything is ‘AMAZING!!!’ When you come to experience the thing which they call amazing you are like.. ok.. underwhelmed, to say the least.. For example, let’s say you’re travelling to somewhere, say Cocuy. You’ll often get the response ‘it’s BEAUTIFUL!!! You’re […]
No pain no gain baby!
These are clips of a TV advertisement I recently saw, which rendered me absolutely speechless. I’m no social science expert so I hope I won’t be getting any attacks about how flawed my arguments are. I just want to share how I found it incredibly sad and unfortunate that these images seem to show such […]
I’m VERY CONFIRMED! CONFIRMADISIMA !
I previously moaned about how flakey people are. (Now I’m starting to think that perhapsrather than being nationality-specific, it’s more a problem with the tech era in which we take advantage of having a cellphone to flake on someone just because something else more interesting has come up.) Recently I found myself bewildered by this term in a group […]
Where to find sweet potatoes
Sweet potato is one of the many false expectations I had before coming to Colombia. I had thought it would be abundant in the land of potatoes. According to the International Potato Centre (yea.. It exists..), ‘there are 4,000 varieties of potatoes in the Andean countries’, i.e. Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador. I would think Colombia […]
Brunch in Bogotá
There are different kinds of people. The meat lovers who love a big fat piece of steak, the sweet-tooths who can’t finish a meal without something sweet. And I am one of those breakfast people who love anything made with eggs. So it’s about time for a breakfast/brunch review! When it comes to breakfast, there are plenty of options […]
Bogotá’s art scene
Recently something really cool in Bogotá is making the city much more attractive and liveable than before. It totally took Bogotá up a few notches. The city that is commonly seen as having nothing interesting to do at weekends when most people who can afford it would flee to their country houses in search for some sweltering sun, or […]
How to arrange to meet in Colombia II
It’s Friday and for sure many of you are making plans for the weekend, especially since it’s a bank holiday weekend (er..again!? Yea, we only just had one last weekend!! #ThisIsColombia. Remember Colombia is one of the countries in the world with the highest number of public holidays!?) While some of you are heading out for the night, […]
El Chocho
Video courtesy of Lydia Cheung Spanish speakers (or, more precisely, Colombians, since I have not yet explored the extent to which this word is country-specific and so might only make sense to Colombians as there are so many regional differences in Spanish) will be shocked at the title of this piece, that’s to say the least.. Actually I was […]
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