.Belitung, 2010.

it's one of the best trip i ever had...thank you guys.

my bed, love the curtain :)

some shells i found on the rock

a man on the first beach we visited.

found this on the first beach we visited that day.

another thing that i found.

branch.

another branch.

coconut tree :)


i found little flower!


i climbed this giant rock!

1 vs 4



starfish :)


the view in front out cottages.


me!


:)

.21 February 2010.

I know i've been abandoned this blog too long.
dont hate me okay? :(

.26 December 2009.

Merry Christmas everyone, for you who celebrates it or not. May all this joyful euphorias in the air do not blind us from the real meaning of Christmas itself :)

Anyway, I've been placed at new location for this last 3 days, it's still around Kuningan as usual. New place = new food.
Soto Kudus. My workmates dragged me here on one of the rainy days. Having a bowl of soto on cold weather was a real bliss.
The second day, he dragged me to this place. Ayam Bakar something , i forgot the name. The portion was big, tasted good, and cheap of course :P I couldnt stand myself for not having the second plate, huhu. And their bakwan jagung was good too :)

Anyway, lately the weather is really cold, watch out guys, do not get any cold! :)

.12 December 2009.

So, I'm 24 now.








I have a great job. [and team, of course]
I got a partner to share my life.
I have goals to reach.
It's still a long way to run............ :)

.09 December 2009.

I love biscuits ;)

.06 December 2009.

I think i kinda fall.
into something i dont know.


Still dont know where to go yet,
but I'm already packed.


This is the time when you dont know the answer.
but you know you gotta try it for once in a lifetime.


To fall.
into deep.


yet still know how to swim through the surface.

.Domba Africa, Tanah Abang.

One trendy food at Jakarta : Domba Africa.

So, the team and me went to visit this one, I forgot where's the exact location, I only remembered it was at Tanah Abang. Forgive my stupidity in geography -__-"

Well anyway the seller was really an african [ I dont get his picture :P ] They only served grilledlamb, with 2 choices, servedwith rice or grilled banana. The second option sounds really weird, so I gave it a try. Well, let's say..... Of all the dishes I ate that time, The most interesting thing for me was the banana. It tasted really really really good. The banana was ripped at the right time, grilled with charcoal and served with some rojak sauce. The sauce was really good too! I was drolling at this time .... T^T I've never been a fan of satay, or any other stack of meat. so let's say I have no comment for this one :) Anyway about the price, well yeah it's kinda expensive if you compared it with satay or else. For a portion of the meat, it costs 35K and for each portion of the banana, I think about 10 or 14K.

Huks I want go back here again for the banana T^T

.Relationship.

I dont know about other people but one thing I learn,
I think it's better loving without being loved,
rather than being loved but you dont have any love to share.
At all.



.Jakarta, November 29th, 2009.

.28 November 2009.

Been abandoned this blog again for a month :( I had too many things in my head right now, so I'll make it quick. As always, although it's been a hectic month, I always been blessed by all the friends and colleagues. Got lotttsss of things as present :) especially chocolate! Even in this past 2 days, I already got Famous Amos cookies, soft cake, and brownies. I also got 2 packs of soft chocolate cake, sausages, etc from Germany. And I had to count few packs of Guylian chocolate on my fridge -__-" And i cant remember the other things in my fridge, some of them already gone anyway :P [of course we know where did it go right?]

And for the next week, my sister already noted that she would bought me a pack of Juhi from Bee Cheng Hiang [tasty!] and few fancy glasses from Ikea :) Anyway about glasses, my little sister bought a set of fancy glasses for me! yay! They know how I love glasses! :)

Ah me so blessed by all this people right? :)

Anyway it's been raining a lot lately, so I ate a lot of warm soup lately. Like this one.
Prawn soup from the seafood soup stall near my office :)
Beef Rib's Soup at Perintis, Mega Kuningan :)
Last month, me and mr O went to have a long lunch at Cafe Gulali, City Plaza. I kinda like the place atmosphere, it's cozy and they have lots of tea varieties to try! Me already tried 5 of them, one that really impressing was Lavender. I've been a Lavender lover since I was a little, but for this one, I would say I'm not into it at all -__-" Maybe I should stick with the ordinary Jasmine or Chamomile :)

Anyway, last month I got an office thing at Simatupang area, which was really far from my home area. I felt like it's an adventure :P On the lunch that day, I decided to give this one a try, Bakmi Hijau. The green color came from Spinach, well the odd thing was not the color. But the mushy things on the top. At first I thought it was cheedar cheese, but I was wrong. I still didnt know what it was, it tasted nothing I guessed. So I kept on ate and ate [it did not taste good, just so-so] until I realized, the mushy thing was chicken chops! or should I said, blended chicken meat? Yeakh totally turned my mood OFF. It felt like you're eating ampas for your lunch.
Seriously, it's really not interesting and amusing for putting some blended tasteless chicken on the top of noodle!


Well anyway I think that's for now, I havent manage time to shoot the rest of chocolates, later I think :)

.Things For This Month.

This month is really exciting for me. Meeting lots of new people, new places, and new things to do. And of course, new menus to eat :P

I ate a lot of sweets this month, too bad, I did not took all of their pictures [blame my glutonny mode :P] Few sweets things that I'd remembered :
Custard Pudding from Maqui's, Senayan City. Saw this stall unexpectedly after lunch, and I did not want to join the froyo session [the team like it so much], so I decided to give it a try. A little bit tasteless, and the texture was almost like kembang tahu. I think I'm gonna go again for their chocolate mousse. Hmmm yum yum I guess :)
One of the most visited bakery for me is Lemon Cakery, located at Emporium Pluit. I forgot the cookies name, but if you are a chocolate lover, I think you should try it. It kinda reminds me of TimTam a bit though :P
Durian Ice Cream. well, it tasted fine. But I remembered this one, because I had it when I really had a bad day. And I am really blessed by a friend who accompany me that night[thanks G!].
I, well actually we, me and mr G had this one on that night too. Blueberry Ice Cream and Pancakes. The Pancake's texture was good, but still cant beat my sister's [Hah!] but what I really impressed was the jam and the fruit. Most of the restaurants that served desserts nowadays, for example, Blueberry Ice Cream, it usually came as a fancy bowl with a scoop of Ice Cream + Blueberry Jam, and they priced it about IDR 30K or more. Heh? And this one was about IDR 30k too, but at least they are using the real blueberry! Ha! Btw although the ice cream tasted like Wall's but the jam was really good*droll*

And also, few menus that I'd remembered :
Fish Soup, available at a stall near my office. Tasted yummy for Lau A Ma! :)
Another thing that I ate before the Durian Ice Cream and Blueberry Pancake [pictures above]. Tasted monochrome, well it has to tasted like that. Beside the 'krecek' thing, everything tasted ok.

Nasi Pandan [yeah i ate a lot of rice lately...] at Cafe Gulali, City Plaza. Love the rice so much! :)
mr O told me he was having an urgent wanting feeling [baca : ngidam] for baked rice. So that day on lunch, I found myself digging in for this, Baked Cheese Rice from Pizza Bar. Tasted...hmmm salty :P I rarely eat cheese actually, but that week was a cheesy-week for me!
Another cheesy food on that week. Baked Potato with Cheese from Raffles. I love their sandwich, but that day I want to try something different, and I ordered one from the least-thing-I-ordered list, Baked Potato. and Cheese! whew. Well anyway I prefer Wendy's Baked Potato.

Well, I still have a long list to share, later on okay :)

.Warung Tekko, PIK.

So, after the last attempt, last weekend me and my sisters and cousin went to Tekko! Haha! Me already want to try this one, this place has already lots of fans, and I'm just curious! The place was really crowded by the time we arrived [8.30 at night and it still crowded? whew!], after waited for sometime, we got spaces at indoor area. I think this place were lack of waitresses [by quality and quantity], our order need about 30 minutes to be arrived. 

In fact, about the slow-serving-time, there were few persons were complained, even I saw a girl were saying that out loud, angry about how the drinks were not arrived even after her meal was finished. The manager [I think he's the manager or somewhat-supervisor] were firing the waitress in front of all the customers. The girl said about 'cari ribut di luar' or something like that with loud voices, and the boy [I think he's the girl's boyfriend] were saying about 'hati2 aja kalo pulang'...errr I think they're watching too much drama or what? 

 I know these days the restaurant service sometimes really annoying but I think if you want your voices / complains / advices to be heard, you should had a good attitude to show it. Showing it by loud voice in front of other customers, is not one of the good ways. 

 Well anyway actually I was kinda full [well after the pancake + hotdog + nasi hainam + starbucks -__-] , so we only ordered Iga Penyet 25K, Gurame 36K, and Empal 15K. Hmmmm I loved the chopped fried garlic they put on the chili..the chili itself was good [too bad she had moncor2 after this :(] , it's really hot, be careful guys when ordering the chili grade. The meat was tender, tasted fine. Still I didn't know why were everyone visiting this place over and over again. Next, Lekko on my list! :P

.Melting Pot, PIK.

Few weekends ago, me and the girls were having girls night out, not as usual :P We wanted to try Lekko / Tekko, unfortunately that places already filled with people, so we chose the other restaurant near them. Me was in Indonesian food lover mode ON [and still on that mode after few weeks later!] so she insisted all the girls to try Melting Pot.
We were kinda in a rush at that time, our karaoke room already booked :P So we ordered anything that would be served fast [or what we thought it would], well it didnt -__- at least the service was good.

So anyway they have lots of packages to offer, we order few packages, most of them cost about 25K, and consisted of Sayur Asam, Tempe, Tahu, Meat [Chicken, Duck, etc] and rice. I didnt remember much the taste, but the duck was good. And she ended her dinner with a coconut-orange, had good chit chats with old fellaz, and ready for the next round, karaoke :)

Well, that's it from my lovely weekend story.

.23 September 2009.

This week, i ate a lot. really a lot.
Before trying Domino[which turned out to be average] and totally tempted by my friend's photo on fb, me and mr G went to K's Bakery. Unfortunately, most of the meaty-things were sold out :( I didnt remember what I took on my tray, I only remembered all of them were sweet. The sponge cake was good. If I had a chance, I'll go there again! :P

And my sister made me a pancake.
Actually, me and my sister didnt have any experience in making pancake, so after few trials, at last we had a real pancake :
Mixed with raisins, and then topped with honey. Well the honey itself was really good, my sister said it's fresh from Sumbawa, gosh it smelled totally divine! *droll* I had my pancake with a cup of coffee as breakfast, it's really a good starter for that day!

For lunch, my sister made me [I think she had a goal for today : making me more fat :( ] hotdog.
I never thought that scrambled eggs will be a perfect combination with honey, you should tried it!

Anyway, I bought a bottle of Snapple the day before.
Having an afternoon with myself and accompanied by cold drinks is really a good way to relax.

PS. Sorry for the photo quality, me too lazy to use my real cam! :P
PSS. from now on, I think I'll put the watermark on my photos, already seeing my photos used by others! :(

.18 September 2009.

During this period, I learned lot of things though. That what you see is maybe not what you get. Sometimes I'm being laper mata a lot, I'm rushing things as fast as I can, I dont pay attention on what I want, and what I'm capable of. I think I'm kinda messed up my life. I lost the most important aspect in my life [beside God of course], my work life. 

I had to pick one by one the little pieces left, felt the humiliation from others[for being a jobless person, no offence for all the jobless people out there!], started things on again, and left everything just go with the flow. I can only said to my Father "God let all Your will happen the way it should be. Even if it's the hardest one. During that time, please let me be a more faithful person." And it happened the way it should be. 

I got the job that I want since college! And now it's 1 week toward my new job. Well not a really new one, I've already joining that office for 4 days last week due to training thing, still it feels awkward...and of course, exciting. Ah maybe I'm just being dramatize right? Well anyway what I want to said is, I'm still don't know what I want, I don't have a dream job, I don't have a goal to chase, but guess what? I don't care. We all have sucked up in our life, and if you're still need time to pick yourself up, take your time. Remember, that our God never fails us. That's my word for today.

.Lau's Kopitiam, Emporium Pluit,

During my last week at old office, I had a lunch with a friend at Lau's Kopitiam. I already want to try this place since they opened, but they always looked full all the time :( So, that day fortunately we got our seat!

I dont remembered much what I ordered exactly, but I remembered their Kweetiao Goreng Seafood and Kweetiao Siram was good. We also ordered their Toast, but me personally prefer Yakun's rather than this. About the drinks, I only tried their Lychee Ice Tea, Kopi Susu, and Kopi-O. Hmm I cant comment much about the coffee, me not a coffee drinker. But the ice tea was also good, if they do not put sugar that much :( too sweet for my taste :)

Will be back later on for their Kweetiao ! :)

.Cream and Fudge Factory, FX.

After the dinner, we went to find something's sweet as a dessert. One of our friend was in love with frozen yoghurt, so she had her yoghurt already at PP, but the rest of us did not want to bully ourself by eating yoghurt [the zero-calorie claim? blah! yeah the yoghurt is zero calorie, but the topping? I dont think so!] , we chose ice cream for ended that night. It's 10 at night already, and most of ice cream counter at Pasific Place was closed [it's weekend, and you closed your counter only at 10? whew] Well anyway, so we drove to FX later.

Being promoted by me, we chose Cream and Fudge Factory. 2 days before, me already tasted their Peach Melba and Strawberry Fantasy. yum yum! The Peach Melba tasted quite good, although I could not stand the caramel, too sweet for my teeth! But the Strawberry Fantasy was really a good choice.

We ordered Cookies and Cream, Raspberry something [I dont remembered the name], and Chocolate / Coffee something [Gosh their ice cream's name is really hard to remember]. My Raspberry something tasted good with lots of lady fingers, caramel, raspberry and strawberry ice cream :) The others was good too! And the best thing was they gave 20% discount if you're using Flazz card hoho!

One other thing, aside Cream andFudge Factory, there's always a Coffee World counter. If you had a chance, try their Apple Ice Tea! :)

Anyway here's the picture of us :
Hahahahaha we're such a big eater!

.The Spaghetti House, Pasific Place.

Last weekend, me and the girls decided to have a meeting at Pasific Place. We planned to have dinner at The Spaghetti House, turned out it was the wrong choice -__-

We ordered Beef Spaghetti HK Style 39.2 K, Bacon Sausage Spaghetti 39.2K, Neapolitan Spaghetti 39.6K, Lasagna 39.2K, Spicy Potato Au Gratin 21.5K, and Super Deluxe Pizza 34.5K for share. I would say...I was not impressed by the spaghetti. I even could not finished my HK Style Spaghetti, tasted really weird. The sauce was tasteless, but I think the most dissapointing was the spaghetti itself, the texture was too hard to chew, and also kinda smell weird. The Lasagna was also dissapointing, the sauce was too watery for my taste [even Secret Recipe's Lasagna better than this one!]

But the good thing is the Potato Gratin was good, even the Deluxe Pizza was excellent! Okay maybe we'll be back for another menu -__-

.Pepenero, Kuningan.

So, after visiting Brew & Co, I had an interview. After that, since I was at Kuningan [which is a rare event], me and miss I decided to visit Pepenero. We've been wanting to visit this one since God knows when, too bad our hectic schedule is not friendly with our plan. Anyway mind the photos, my phone cam was not working well :(

It's Friday afternoon already, and the restaurant was almost full by the time we arrived. We got a seat on the outside of the restaurant [still in the building though], because the restaurant already booked :( The waitress came and gave us a menu [they do not put any photo on the menu :( I didnt know what to order huhuhuhu.. ] and a compliment consisted of 2 thin breads topped with chopped tomatoes salad [mixed with olive oil, vinegar, etc.]

We ordered Sushi del Chianti 59K, Capricciosa Pizza 49K , Lingu Granch 51K, Island Cooler 36K and Italian Soda 36K. After we ordered, the waitress asked us which one of the main course we would like to come first, and gave us a basket of breads, a big basket actually. Maybe because the restaurant quite full at that time, our drinks came late, it came during our main course -__- Gosh me already thirsty!

Our appetizer Sushi del Chianti actually is a big plate of salad consisted of boiled spinach [the spinach is really different from the ordinary one, it's greener and thicker], carrot, tomato and other vegatables, and few stack of raw meat mixed with olive oil and vinegar. I think this was sort of fear factor show for me, me do not like raw meat -__- nonetheless, the salad and meat tasted great, fresh and tasty! Anyway I think if you want to try this restaurant, you should consider about the portion. They were HUGE, not big. even for a big eater like me, I could not finish it -___-

The next menu was Cappricciosa , it's a pizza topped with ham slices, olive , etc. I didnt remember the topping clearly, I only ate 1 slice -__- The next one was Lingu Granch or Crab Meat sort-of-Spaghetti. It came with another big plate [our table was already full at that time, so did our stomach huhu] lingu mixed with crab and tomato sauce, and served with a big crab. I know how they said the food will be tasted really good if we're hungry, but even if me already full at that time, that pasta was totally a kick ass!

Anyway, I would say it's a nice and cozy place to sit, have some chit chats with good friends, enjoying the weekend, and of course the good food. Totally will be back [with more friends! haha!]

PS. guess what? they did not charge us any service tax, whaw!