Family Party

To celebrate Dai Papa's successful heart operation and return from Japan, AND to celebrate him seeing his new born Grandson Rique for the first time, we invited people who knows him and had a BBQ party at home.
Started from 6pm and ended at 12am. About 40 people turned up.

Food is always nice when Daichan fixes them. But for some reasons, he only handled half leaving the other half to Mom and me. For the first time I contributed 3 dishes, spagetti bolognese, potato salad and 2 dips! It's a very nerve wrecking job considering I'm serving them to the iron chef!

Rockabye Baby

Hi-tech baby cradle like this is not available in Jakarta (or it's very expensive) so Grandpa made a make-do cradle from his own sarong. Rique is a lucky baby.

Then I remembered the spooky lullaby "Rock a bye baby" and the ugly monster from Goonies.

Rock a bye baby on the treetop,
When the wind blows the cradle will rock,
When the bough breaks the cradle will fall,
And down will come baby, cradle and all.

X2

Went to check out X2 club in the name of research.

Heard there are few halls playing different music but only managed to go to one room playing House music, where girls gone wild and amazed guys just couldn't hide their excitement.

Like in CJs, working class and working girls cannot be clearly distinguished. All girls just wanna have good fun.

H2O

A bunch of young rich kids (in their 20s - 20s is young when u look back) came to H2O.

They stayed for 7 freakin hours. It's unusual considering how empty 2nd floor was and being partially renovated).

It's a good news for the bar but I wondered 'Don't they have anything better to do?'

And then I remembered, I used to do that too, not long ago.

One of the Korean chic asked my age and when I said I'm in my 30s, the air went cold.

Solo Cafe

Went to DAPUR SOLO with Emi. It's a newly opened cafe/restaurant, walking distance from home, serving traditional Solo (Central Java) food.

To our surprise it was really good. The fresh fruits juice was icy and thick, music was a traditional Javanese music played with Kenny G style, food was presented delicately but generously, and the price is more than reasonable. We will be repeaters.

Trust me it is a sophisticated serving compared to other Indonesian cuisines like Padang food or Manado food.

Each food around the yellow rice has a meaning and the rice is stacked up like a tower - tradition for Wedding banquets represening acheivements and growth or something like that...

Ms. I lost my phone again

If anybody wants a model for a reseach on a person loosing the most mobile phones, or a test dummy for body imbedded phones, that's me.

Yes yes, I will hang it around my neck from now on.
Yes yes, I will get a chain.
I know.... don't buy an expensive phone.
Good idea to buy a spare phone just in case.

And always make a back up!

Matt's 2nd visit to Jakarta

This time we stayed at Dharmawangsa Hotel for the whole weekend.

The Monday 3am flight is a killer for Matt who has to work but I'm not complaining.

Matt got me this film camera (yes, not digital) from Japan.

I miss the whole developing, anticipating and framing the nice photos up experience. I would have been happy with the "bakachon kamera" (instant camera) so this Klasse W is so precious! I'm so gonna hang this around my neck!

Had brunch at home with parents, Daichan, Emi and Rique.