My Cute Nephew

Have not seen my little nephew for some time and last sunday my sister-in-law brought him to my in-laws place when we were there.

He used to be very red when he was borned so now it has subsided and looks cuter. That's him with his sister in the pic on the right.

Busy Weekend

Hubby was away for a holiday with his parents and I had the whole weekend to myself.

My weekend started on Friday night where I met up with some of my JC classmates for dinner. It's been a while since we last met and now one of them is pregnant with the second baby.

On saturday morning, I woke up around 10am, I think. I am going for some aerobic classes in town and hoping to beat the ERP at 12pm, i decided to go out earlier but guess what? I made the wrong exit and was stuck in a jam and was hit with the ERP...sianz

I went for my first belly dancing class today, it was quite fun but being the inflexible me, I am still having problem trying to handle the moves.

As I didn't park in the building where the classes are held, I was stuck when it rained after my classes end. Heavy downpour. I was like standing there for a while before deciding to make a dash across the traffic lights to the other building. It was still early for my manicure and pedicure appointment, I decided to walk around and did some shopping. And in the end, I spent another $120 on clothes...heehee

I bought a chicken burger for lunch and thought of eating it in the car before going for my next appointment. But too bad, someone was waiting for my carpark lot so I had to pass on that thought and drove away. As I was driving and eating (I eat only when the lights turn red in case you are wondering if I am doing it dangerously), I missed my exit again. And I was caught in the jam again. It took me a whole 50 mins to reach my destination which could be accomplish in 20 mins.

My manicurist told me he has moved and as I was so used to going to his previous shop, I just walked there and when I am almost there, I realised I was going the wrong direction. That was so funny. The new place has a new name and a new decor theme and new staff.

As the place is sharing the space with a hair salon and me needing a haircut badly, decided to ask if I can have a haircut after my mani and pedi. And the owner says they are closing. They didn't want to do my business???? The moment I was there, the owner was sleeping all the while and she don't want to do my business? Then a caucasian mum brought 2 kids and wanted a haircut for the boy and owner obliged!!!! That's racism, so angry.

Never mind, I went to another hair salon a few shops down the street and had my hair cut. After the haircut, it was already around 8.30pm. I bought dinner and headed back home.

After dinner, I did some ironing, watched some TV programmes and went back to bed.

Hubby coming back on sunday night so i spent the whole sunday relaxing and doing nothing...: )

Jakarta, Indonesia

My first visit to my Indonesia office. I keep hearing people say not safe in Jakarta, kidnapping etc, wonder how true that is.

Took a garuda flight as it's the company policy to take a cheaper flight. And it's only a S$12 difference between Garuda and SQ. I even offered to pay the difference but was not allowed to do that.

Luckily it's only a 1.5 hours flight. Reached the airport around 4pm and was picked up by the hotel's transport. Reached the hotel about 5pm, thank god no jam as jakarta is well-known for bad traffic.

Stayed at the Mandarin Oriental hotel and it's diagonally across the Grand Hyatt hotel. The security at the hotel is very tight, when you reached the entrance, there is another check just like the airport kind where you need to put your luggage and bags on a belt for scanning.

Then it started to rain and I could see the traffic starting to form from my room. Eventually, I went out at about 9pm to the opposite Plaza Indonesia (next to Grand Hyatt) for dinner. The hotels are located in a huge roundabout and I literally had to run across to the opposite side to get to Plaza Indonesia. Later when I am back, I was told that was a very dangerous act to do.

Plaza Indonesia is pretty much like our Paragon where big names such as Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Salvatore Ferragamo etc were there. Wanted to get some shot glasses from HRC for my sister so I walked and asked around where the place is.

Finally found it. The shot glasses are so expensive. About S$20 each!!!! After that I proceed to this place called Sari Ratu for dinner as recommend by a friend (Arifin: if you are reading this, the food is not nice). The moment I sat down, they started to bring out about 8 kinds of dishes such as rendang, ikan asem pedas, sayur nangka, gulai otak, ayam gulai, telor and some others which I didnt eat so I guessed not charged (i copy these from the receipts..hahaha), when I asked is this a set, the waitress don't seem to understand so I just say never mind and proceed to order some steamed rice to go with all the dishes. In the end, the whole meal costs about 75,000RP.

The next morning, I started the journey to the industrial area of Jakarta about 8.10am. Reached there about 8.50am, not bad, not much jam too. The meeting was good but we went past the time and by the time everything ends, its about 3pm and my flight is 4.30pm. I was so anxious as there was a huge jam, I kept telling the tax driver to hurry as my plane is flying off. Eventually reached the airport about 4.10pm, I ran like mad to the check in counter and was told that the flight is delayed to 5pm. Thank God...

I was like breaking into cold sweats throughout the whole taxi journey and I could feel myself hyperventilating and I almost vomitted. By the time I reached singapore, its almost 8pm, what a long flight....2 hours and I still have a concall at 11pm the same night.