Barbie Doll

Strawberry from Niko, Vietnam

I think after eating these fruits for few times, these two are a perfect match.

This post was also abandoned for so long. This was when I stayed at Lavender, Penhas Road.

Strawberry

Last friday I bought 1 box of strawberry. There are 16 nos.of strawberry in 1 box. Bigger than the NTUC one but I have to pay more for it.

This post was long over due. This was written when I was staying in Tiong Bahru.

My Dark Clouds

I have been under the dark cloud since early this month. I think it's because knowing the fact that I can not afford to buy a reasonable house in Jakarta. The fact that I am working in Singapore and I can not buy house in Jakarta is very painful for me.

With additional problems in office and home, I think I am really in a bad condition. I am no longer interested in socializing.

In these 2 years I was just too nice and too slow. May be I need to start my engine soon.

Dehydrated Strawberries

My dehydrated strawberries are more successful than the kiwi one. I gave a bit to Marco, he choked and couldn't breath. So scary. I think can not give funny funny things to him.

I think this dehydrator is just nice for strawberry. Since strawberry is the kind of fruit which rot very fast, by dehydrating, it can last longer on shelf.

I Used My Right as Citizen

I went to Indonesian Embassy to vote on 6th July 2014.

Jakarta Trip 7th November 2014

Morning 8am we went to Driving Center to renew my license. In fact over there, the anti corruption committee was conducting a control. So my agent could not accompany me to go inside. He told me already to go to counter no.23-27 for photo taking. But there was no one in the counter for female applicant. I walked to another counter, no.17. When I was there, there was some mistake in my address. 19A. It supposed to be 19.H. So the lady officer told me to go to counter 13 to rectify the data. After that, my picture, signature and thumb print. They asked me wait at counter 30.

After few seconds resting my back on the waiting chair, my name was called. So fast! Well, I feel my Rp400K is worthed. Total time of renewing my license was less than 15 minutes.

Coming home was heavy traffic. We continued the trip to Golden Truly. Bought Marco's clothes Rp.60K for 2 pieces. I found my working clothes 2 pieces for Rp.160K. Then we ate lunch at Hoka Hoka Bento Rp.70K.


The rest of the day I just stayed at home waiting for my MIL. We had dinner together today. She wanted to treat us at Cahaya Lestari.

We ordered Fish soup, salted egg yolk prawn, and eel with fu mak. Total bill was Rp.350K. MIL treated us.

Jakarta Trip 6th November 2014

Morning, I asked my mother to send me to Mall Taman Anggrek. I cut my hair at Jhonny Andrean Salon for Rp.120K with Rp.20K tips. My hair was cut by Ani.

Then I continued to Gramedia to get my comic. 4 Smurf comics and 2 Jeremy comics for Rp.178K. I should have bought these comic with somebody else who has BCA credit card so I can get 10% discount.

I met Tongtie and ate at Eaton. I ordered Sea Food Fried Kwetiao. Tongtie paid for the food.


We continued our food experience to dessert time. I wanted to sit at Honeymoon Dessert. We could not find it. It has closed down. So we went to Pancious. I ordered Choco Baileys. I think what I got just out of my expectation. The ice cream doesn't have alcohol at all. After eating half of my crepes, I felt bloated.



4pm he needed to send me home because after that he needed to pick up his wife. So we slowly went home while chit chating in the car.

Resting for less than 1 hour, Jessika came to my house. We chit chat while waiting for Hellena to come. We eventually went to Bakmi Aseng. I ordered swee kiao. Their swee kiao was very nice.

Going home, I was sent by Jessika. At Pasar Asem, there was a bit jam. Suddenly the people shouted and knocking our car. They said our car ran over a cat. So Ika took Rp.20K out from her wallet and gave the man for helping to bury the cat.

I think I became paranoid after that I worried when Ika went home alone. So after that night everything was alright.

Jakarta Trip 5th Nov 2014

I totally forgot to ask for more front seat as I checked in the automated counter. Seeing the queue, well, it may be the trade off to get check in faster.

We reached Jakarta on 9.30am. Took a blue bird taxi and spent Rp165K because the driver suggested to go by Roxy exit which eventually I found it's bad idea. We straight away went to Chandra to have early lunch and to exchange money. The exchange rate for SGD was Rp.9.385,-

I ordered Empek empek (indo fish cake) Rp.31K for 1 kapal selam, 1 bulat, and 1 kulit.


I also bought 6 pieces of cheap clothes for Marco Rp.50K.

Eat siomay again Rp.15K. Bought potato chips for Rp.75K.




Went to BCA Asemka to settle the safe deposit box. Went to BRI to replace my ATM card and deposit Rp2M to my account.

Went to Carrefour Mangga Dua to buy diapers and the instant seasoning Rp.400K.

After all these activity, both my mother and I were very tired. We rested a while at home and went out again to eat Bakmi Gajah Mada with my autie and tante Kinyo our neighbor. We ordered 3 normal chicken noodles, 1 special noodle, and 1 portion of fried dumpling for Rp.150K.

Marco Has Fever

It was Thursday afternoon when my maid messaged us in our group chat that Marco had fever. His body was so hot. We brought Marco to clinic and the doctor said he infected by virus. The fever was expected to occur until Sunday.

We decided to brought him sleep inside our room on Saturday night. I didn't sleep as I looked after him, kept him cold. His head was extremely hot. His fever shot up to 39.5 deg Celsius. I handed over him to my maid on 7am in the morning on Sunday because I really needed to sleep. I asked Niko to wake up on 8am and to take over the baby from the maid as she had day off.

Sunday also his fever still hadn't subsided. I asked Niko to go to doc. The clinic said may be we can observe for another one day.

Sunday evening I noticed Marco had rashes around his right eye and the back part of his body. Then I told Niko to go clinic on Monday morning.

Monday morning, the rashes were so bad. The entire scalp, his face and his body were full of red dots. We also noticed that his right eye lid was swollen.

We reached the clinic around 8.40am and we got no.12 while at the moment the doctor was serving no.1. Literally after waiting for 2 hours, it was our turn. The doctor confirmed that Marco has been infected by Roseola virus. It was not harmful. In fact that the rashes gave him the clue that it is not rubella (german measle-campak german), not other kind of virus. As soon as the rashes came out, the temperature will go down. So we will see within these 2 days. I hope he gets well soon.

Marco is 8 Months Old

I try to increase his weight. His appetite is really good, but somehow he is still slim.

Marco currently has fever since Wednesday. I worry if something wrong happens to him. The doctor only gave syrup for his fever. The worst he got was 39.5 deg.

I think he got it because everything he puts in his mouth.

He is almost 9kg now. His appetite doesn't go down even though he has fever.



He has been falling for so many times as he is learning to walk. At the moment he is still cruising. hopefully he can walk soon.

I also noticed that he started pronouncing some syllables like he is actually talking but not sure what. So cute when he starts talking. But he only talks morning and certain timing only.