Klub Bung@ & J@tim P@Rk

I remember a year ago when I came to Klub Bunga & Jatim Park, Batu-Malang for vacation. It was after Christmas in 2007, about 5 hours from Solo by car. We used 2 car at that time (you’ll know why I tell you this). Klub Bunga is a hotel which we spent 3 days and 2 nights there. If you want to read some books you will able to read available books at library in the air conditioner room. Clean and Quiet. Klub Bunga gave us free coupon for breakfast, lunch and dinner, free coupon for ice cream, discount 50% for Jatim Park ticket and free coupon for water massage. The place where people got the ice cream is so unique; they also sell some potteries there and decorate them minimalist. Klub Bunga has a special link to Jatim Park (a recreation place besides Klub Bunga). Jatim Park, as I told before, is a recreation place that has temple miniature, animal area, swimming pool, etc. Some part is like Taman Safari Indonesia and some part is like Dunia Fantasi. We’re really enjoyed our vacation there until the second day we watched television which said flood everywhere, including in Solo. Not only flood but also slide of hills! It’s time for us to go home in the day after. On the way home, exactly near Madiun, we couldn’t pass the road because of flood! And it was almost night. So we stopped for our dinner and started to think and decide the best solution in a situation like that. We’re afraid because we had a little girl and we had a tight schedule because the day after my cousin will be married! And we had to wait until the flood was over, don’t know when. The worst, tire of my father’s car was flat! So for emergency action, my brother gave his back up tire to replace my father’s (you know what, it’s not the same car type!) Thanks God, it was work! Finally we decided to look for a hotel near there to stay. After hours we looked for through rainy day, we found a hotel in Madiun which very cheap rate: only Rp 90.000,- per room. You must imagine that it’s a small, dirty and bad hotel. You’re wrong; it’s not too small and clean. After we’d spent a night there it’s time for us to continue our way home. We listened to radio and asked the police about alternative way to Solo. We must follow the alternative way which was more far than normal way. Fortunately we could be at home safe and could attend my cousin’s wedding just a little time after we came home. It’s the most adventure journey that I’ve ever had. For the first time, I should say thank you to the police :)

Christmas Decoration

Is it too early to talk about Christmas? I don't think so, because it's early December when we will see christmas decorations everywhere : at mall, at recreation place, or even at our home. We also will hear christmas song everywhere. Yes, people are busy to prepare all of this to make it all perfect. Each mall has a unique and different christmas decorations, christmas tree and all of its stuff. Now I will post some pictures to describe all I told about in above although it's not an updated christmas decoration yet. I'll be back to post some pictures about Christmas of this year soon.
Christmas also means that I'll be home to celebrate it together with my family; also to celebrate my niece's birthday. She's so exciting and can't wait till the day comes :)



At Jatim Park, a year ago :

At Taman Anggrek, a year ago :

At Jatim Park, a year ago :

At Takashimaya, a year ago :

At Plaza Senayan, a year ago :

Sepa Island

Without any plan, I came to Sepa Island for the first time in Sunday morning; about an hour from Ancol by boat. You know, the islands in Indonesia are beautiful and this island is the one of them so we must be proud of it. Many tourists came and enjoyed to spend their vacation here. We can do many activities here like banana boat, snorkeling, diving, fishing, etc. The weather was so hot so my skin is turned black now :) The water was so clear until I could see the fish from above and I love the water color gradation. I'm sad if the color is compared with the water color in Ancol, it's so dark and there's many rubbish there. Rubbish are everywhere so sometimes they make the boat break down. Here are the pictures that I took to see the color difference between them :

Funny Stories

Well, let me tell you funny stories from my office ...

fiRSt, this happened when we want to make "bakso" order.
The secretary listed friend's name on the paper and asked me to coordinate it. So I began to ask friends according to the listing on the paper by calling them one by one. I called them like this : Wayan! And Wayan said : Bihun bakso! I called : Betty! And Betty said : No! And then I scratched on her name. Until I called "Mila" for about three times and nobody answered. When I feel strange, I began to think .... And ... nobody named Mila in my office!! The right name is MIRA!!! Then I called Mira! Mira said : No! Then I scratched on her name again. May be you confused and ask : so which part that is called funny story??? Hmm my story has not finished yet. The funny story is when I told everybody why the name on the paper Mila, not Mira ... The secretary suddenly shout : "I can't see the difference between letter L and R!!!" And then you know, everybody laughed continuously ... :P

SeCoNd, today some of my friends bring some cookies like panada, black sticky rice, gendar with pecel sambal. We call it "we celebrate for Obama's win" hehehehe. And then we call black sticky rice with "Obama cookies", do you know the meaning? Think it for yourself :) It's just for fun ...

It's good for us to laugh and live happily :)

Laskar Pelangi

Yesterday I found some new friends : Henny, Nadya and Debby. First, I just know Henny by my work relationship. We were just talking by email and recently we're talking by chatting in yahoo messenger. We're talking to each other about our life and sharing some thoughts about food place then someday we discussed about Laskar Pelangi Movie (Rainbow Troops) and she asked me to watch movie together with her. I agreed and we decided to go to Plaza Senayan. She took 2 colleagues : Nadya and Debby. The nice thing is although we meet to each other for the first time but we feel very close, not feel awkward ... We had our dinner at food court. I ordered Korea food : Han Gang, they ordered Raffles and Sate Senayan. After dinner, we watched the movie with popcorns and drinks in our hands :)

Here is the movie : Laskar Pelangi (Rainbow Troops), the box office Indonesia movie.
The story was very touching our heart and made we cried ... This is "the must" watch movie!! I will get the DVD, book and also the song for collection, for sure! I love the story, the song and the moral story : Live to give as much as you can not to take as much as you can .... We must do something with our heart, not just only money oriented so we could dedicate it perfect.
Important lesson for us to live with.
Bravo for Andrea Hirata, Riri Riza, Mira Lesmana, Cut Mini and Slamet Rahardjo; and also the kids in Laskar Pelangi. Proud of Nidji who creates a beautiful theme song for Laskar Pelangi, also Gita Gutawa and Sherina.
Thanks for giving us so many inspiration ...

Surprised Birthday Cake

Yesterday was my birthday. I celebrate it at my office by bought some snacks from pastel tasty like blueberry roll cake, croquettes and fruit pie for my colleague for 35 people .. (Do I mention the numbers? Yes, for 35 people), so I served 3 kind of snacks for each person. They enthusiastic to give me a happy birthday greeting :) Thanks God to give me a chance to celebrate one more birthday. Of course I pray and also reflect for myself : how my life would be in future; what I have achieved in past and now; what are my dreams and so on ... also be grateful of what He has done to me. And after work I have dinner with my sister, we ate birthday noodle then she asked me to stay a while in her dorm ... and ... she gave me a surprise birthday cake!!! A beautiful package from Eaton that I love the color of that package so much!!! The cake was a fruit cake with kiwi, peach, strawberry, grape and cherry in the surface of the cake and peach inside the cake. Hmmm very delicious cake; the sugar was in a properly taste, not too sweet. Here it is ..... Say Happy Birthday to me :)

Idul Fitri Holiday

After working from time to time so it's time for celebrating Idul Fitri Holiday (yes, a long holiday!).
I spent with my family, include my parents and I'm so glad with this quality time.
It's our family tradition that in Idul Fitri my parents will come to Jakarta (to enjoy the quiet Jakarta) and the children will come to Solo in Christmas.
So .... we spent a day trip to Taman Safari Indonesia because there are some of us that never get there before and of course for my niece, Anne, the little one ...
She was very excited when saw many of animals there just spread everywhere and gave different voices of animals. Anne ride elephant, camel, take a picture with 2 tigers, hmm awesome!! brave!!
Bravo for Anne ..

Do you think that our journey full of traffic jam? No!!!! We only spent in minutes for traffic jam, not for a long time .. fortunately!

And we spent our days just go to mall to mall : Senayan City, Plaza Senayan and FX to see the atmostfear there and my parents so excited with it although they didn't slide into it.

Besides, we spent our days with the best meal to accompany us like Bakmi Kepiting in Mangga Besar, Imperial Chef at The Food Place in Hayam Wuruk. All of them are so delicious!! Awesome.

Today my parents will back to Solo, my home town.
Thanks God to give us our quality time ... to be our guidance ..
Bless my parents in their flight so they could be at home safe.

Thanks God ...