I had a whole set of things which I had stored on my computer photographs, recipes and the various presentations I had prepared and presented. All was backed up on an external hard disk. When my laptop crashed I thought I had it all, only to realize that my external hard disk also had decided to pack up at the same time.Now I am starting afresh trying to recreate some of those memories. At the same time we were migrating from India to Indonesia to a place called Semarang which I heard for the first time. Moving to Jakarta and other cities had a lot of useful suggestions but none for Semarang. This is my contribution to those who may come across similar situations. I will try to answer questions for which I found no answers till I came here...