Our first in this series of DRIP KOPI Euro treasures with friends and fam kicks off with Ryana, my bestie in Sydney who I've known for a whopping 18 years (!!!!!!) now - that's freaking half my life! Even though we've lived oceans apart for the majority of that time, we still like to leave each other random silly voice notes every now and then, have a hearty long FaceTime at least once per year, and have somehow made it possible to see each other in person about every five years. It's such a celebration of deep love that we've cultivated in our friendship that allows us to pick up where we left off every single time.

For this episode, I went over to Ryana's hotel room in Paris to sit on her bed and mooch off of her strong WiFi for a couple hours so I could get work done while she enjoyed a croissant and scrolled endlessly through Instagram next to me. We finally mic'd up and you'll hear us jump from topic to topic as we'd normally do: talking story of family drama and trauma, aging and dying, as well as personal hygiene and genetic predispositions. It's like an extra pumped up pressie especially for all our Chinese-Indonesian third culture homies out there!

Whenever Ryana and I get together, we always mix between English and Bahasa Indonesia. And even if you're not bilingual in these two languages, you'll still be able to appreciate the sentiment of our stories and have a laugh at the jokes - or a laugh at our laughs.