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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

ASURANSI

Sorry guys this one I will write in Indonesian since I think this is more a local thing need to know, just FYI I'm talking about my experiece with insurance here.

Asuransi... pertama tau tentang ini sekitar akhir tahun 90-an dimana pada waktu itu Indonesia sedang kena yang namanya Krisis Moneter, 1 USD mencapai Rp 15,000. Ternyata ortu mengikutkan aku asuransi pendidikan dengan basis USD sejak aku lahir dan pada waktu krismon itulah asuransiku jatuh tempo. Ortu sudah senang dan tenang dong, biaya kuliah pasti nggak akan keteteran karena basis pembayaran adalah USD bukan rupiah (meskipun waktu itu thanks God banget aku masuk PTN jadi nggak ngerusuhin banget biaya kuliah yang tinggi ke ortu).
Pada waktu mau menguangkan asuransi ternyata... pemerintah "melindungi" perusahaan asuransi dengan buat peraturan bahwa asuransi yang jatuh tempo pada waktu itu dibayarkan dengan Rupiah dengan exchange rate Rp 9000-an, padahal nasabah pemegang polis HARUS membayar premi dengan USD, nggak make sense banget kan... Sejak saat itu keluarga menjadi agak alergi mendengar yang namanya asuransi dan SANGAT ALERGI dengan perusahaan Asuransi yang dipakai pada waktu itu.

Seiring berjalannya waktu aku udah kerja, mulai sadar pentingnya investasi untuk hari tua (setelah mendengar Financial clinic di HRFM 87.6) dan menyadari nikmatnya reimburse asuransi kesehatan yang disediakan kantor sama melihat teman kantor yang sedang mulai melihat-lihat asuransi pendidikan untuk anaknya. Aku mulai mencoba investasi dengan nilai minimum ditahun 2008 saat itu sedang krisis keuangan di AS, tapi IHSG kena imbas, rata-rata harga reksadana saham menjadi setengah dari biasanya, saat yang menyenangkan untuk yang baru mencoba masuk pasar tapi untuk yang sudah tahunan BT juga kali ya...

Eh... kembali ke topik asuransi lagi, jadi pada waktu itu aku sekantor ditawarin asuransi kesehatan sekaligus investasi (belakangan baru tau ini namanya unitlink), melihat hitung-hitungannya ya kenapa enggak, lumayan untuk nambah asuransi kesehatan kantor kalau amit-amit harus rawat inap RS, karena kalau dari hitungan saat itu ke RS yang sering aku datangi asuransi kantor nggak akan bisa cover di kelas yang minimum aku mau.
Asuransi yang ditawarkan ini hanya seperti memberikan "uang bantuan" perhari sejumlah yang kita sepakati diawal (ini penentu premi yang kita bayarkan per bulannya) nggak perduli jumlah uang yang kita keluarkan di RS mereka hanya akan memberikan "uang bantuan" itu. Seperti yang aku ambil premi Rp 350,000 per bulan, dapat "uang bantuan" Rp 250,000 per malam, maximum dalam setahun bisa claim berapa malam (kalau nggak salah 100 hari deh).

Tidak berapa lama setelah bergabung dengan unitlink ini baru mendengar di Financial clinic di HRFM 87.6 juga bahwa sebaiknya jangan menggabungkan antara investasi dengan asurasi seperti yang dilakukan unitlink, karena hasil investasi menjadi tidak maksimal. Sangat sebal pada waktu itu mendengarnya, tapi berusaha positive thinking dan tetap melanjutkan program unitlink tersebut. Aku tidak bisa menjelaskan dengan lebih rinci di sini untuk mengapa tidak mengambil unit link, tapi coba browsing dan cari website QM Financial di sana mereka akan menjelaskan dengan lebih jelas atau coba dengarkan HRFM 87.6 yang setiap seminggu sekali tetap on air financial clinic ini.

Bulan-bulan awal mendapat laporan dari investasi unitlink cukup rutin setelah berjalan agak lama semakin tidak ada laporannya. Sudahlah pasti berjalan sesuai dengan yang semestinya. Sekedar sharing, membaca laporan ini aku setengah pasrah, karena persentase pembayaran untuk asuransi kesehatan cukup besar dibandingkan dengan investasi yang ditanamkan, dan ini memang sudah dijelaskan agen asuransi tersebut meskipun dia tidak mau/bisa terbuka berapa persentasenya. Selalu ada godaan untuk menutup asuransi unitlink ini dan tiap tahun pasti maju mundur untuk menutupnya.
Tahun lalu akhirnya ke-BTan pun muncul karena laporan tidak pernah dikirimkan lagi. Mau menghubungi agen asuransi yang memberikan penjelasan diawal tidak bisa karena sudah tidak bergabung sebagai sales dari asuransi tersebut (dikirimkan surat resmi dari perusahaan asuransi). Akhirnya telephone ke call center CS asuransi yang ternyata cukup sulit untuk mendapatkannya karena ada di website dan nomor telah berubah :P

Setelah membaca laporan yang baru dengan lebih detail ternyata ada biaya admin yang cukup besar (biaya terakhir hampir 1/3 dari jumlah premi yang saya bayar) dan tidak menentu jumlahnya terkadang naik terkadang turun, dan setelah menenyakan ke call center mereka pun tidak bisa menjelaskan mengapa biaya admin tersebut bisa naik dan turun seenaknya, hanya menjelaskan bahwa itu berdasarkan rate dan kondisi pemegang polis saat itu. Kondisi saya seperti apa pun tidak bisa dijelaskan karena sampai saat itu saya tidak pernah claim. Sangat disayangkan agen asuransi yang menawarkan diawal itu tidak menjelaskan mengenai adanya biaya admin tiap bulan yang dipotong dari uang premi yang kita bayarkan dan jumlahnya atau persentase biaya tersebut.. Akhirnya keputusan saat itu yang diambil adalah
TUTUP Unitlink ini. Tapi.... sebelumnya aku harus cari asuransi dulu yang bisa cover kesehatan untuk minimal mendapat "uang bantuan" kalau harus rawat inap.

Ternyata mungkin memang sudah diatur sama yang diatas kalau waktu belajarku dengan unitlink sudah selesai dan mulai pelajaran yang lain. Aku ditelephone asuransi yang bekerjasama dengan kartu kredit dengan mendapatkan jumlah "uang bantuan" yang sama Rp 250,000/malam dengan premi Rp 80,000/bulan tanpa ada biaya lain lagi dan sama seperti unitlink yang aku ikuti sebelumnya mereka menerima kalau menjadi asuransi tambahan tidak perlu claim dengan kwitansi asli melainkan copy tapi dicap untuk legalisir. aku berpikir, wahhh.... ini sangat murah dibandingkan pengeluaran yang aku keluarkan sebelumnya untuk unitlink.
Saat ini aku bergabung dengan asuransi ini, semoga tidak akan ada masalah kalau claim nanti (amit-amit ketok meja kayu 3 kali aku nggak pernah mau dirawat inap).

Sekitar tahun lalu mulai tertarik dengan produk asuransi jiwa murni dan mulai mencari-cari informasi mengenai hal ini di perusahaan asuransi unitlink yang sebelumnya aku ikuti. Ada pertanyaan nggak kapok atau apa nggak ada tawaran asuransi lain? Hmmm.... jawabanku : Waktu itu ada teman kantor yang ikut unitlink yang sama dengan aku (untuk suaminya) dan pada waktu claim tidak ada masalah, sangan mudah dan lancar. Ini plus point untuk aku, selain itu karena tempat untuk daftar dan claim asuransi ini sangat mudah karena kantornya ada yang dekat kantor dan dekat rumah jadi tidak perlu ke Sudirman (rata-rata kantor asuransi lain di Jakarta) untuk mengurus apa pun.
Pada bulan Mei 2012 aku minta dibuatkan proposal untuk premi yang dibayarkan dengan UP yang aku inginkan dengan jenis 10 tahunan, nilai premi cukup besar buat aku jadi pastinya sangat membutuhkan waktu untuk berpikir. Kebetulan bulan November ini aku harus ke kantor asuransi itu lagi aku pun meminta untuk dibuatkan proposal dengan UP yang aku inginkan dengan umurku saat ini. Ternyata jumlah premi yang dibayarkan lebih rendah daripada yang ditawarkan pada bulan Mei, pada waktu aku menanyakan sebabnya ternyata rate setiap periode tertentu memang berubah bisa naik bisa turun. Agen asuransi ini pun menawarkan tambahan asuransi kesehatan untuk melengkapi proposal premi asuransi jiwaku ini, yang ternyata sama manfaatnya dengan asuransi kesehatan unitlink-ku yang lama (tentunya tanpa embel-embel investasi) yaitu mendapatkan "uang bantuan" Rp 250,000,-/hari dengan premi tahunan Rp 252,000,- per tahun!!!

Bayangkan berarti selama beberapa waktu kemarin mengikuti unitlink itu aku sudah membayarkan terlalu besar berapa kali lipat untuk manfaat asuransi kesehatan mendapatkan "uang bantuan" Rp 250,000,-/hari, mungkin hampir 4 kali lipat dari harga yang seharusnya.

Sekedar informasi tambahan, pada waktu aku menanyakan asuransi jiwa PASTI agen asuransi berusaha untuk menawarkan asuransi unitlinknya dahulu atau produk asuransi yang sedang mereka promosikan saat itu meskipun hampir tidak ada hubungannya dengan AsJi, jadi aku harus menegaskan bahwa aku mau ASJI murni.
Kemudian kenapa tertarik jenis yang 10 tahunan dan bukan tahunan meskipun yang tahunan preminya lebih murah? Karena premi yang dibayarkan akan tetap sama selama 10 tahun dan 10 tahun mendatang baru akan disesuaikan dengan rate dan kondisi kita 10 tahun yang akan datang sedangkan yang tahunan, premi bisa berubah-ubah tiap tahun. Sebenarnya aku dengar ada yang 20 tahunan atau 15 tahunan, tapi kebetulan di perusahaan asuransi yang aku ambil ini  maximum 10 tahun. Meskipun jenisnya 10 tahunan bukan berarti bayaran preminya harus sekaligus 10 tahun ya... melainkan tetap kita bayarnya per tahun jadi nggak terlalu berat :) Sampai saat ini aku masih mencari produk AsJi murni yang lebih baik daripada yang sudah ditawarkan ke aku saat ini, semoga aku enggak salah memilih :)

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Saturday, October 3, 2009

August ’09 Bali Honeymoon Trip – Uluwatu, Dreamland & Jimbaran dinner

Plan for today is Uluwatu followed by Dreamland and ended with a nice dinner at Jimbaran. Now... lets talk about Uluwatu... how I describe it : HOT!!! Really really HOT, for the weather I mean, even after putting on a 30 SPF all over my face and arms I still got tanned, though thankfully this time is not as bad as the one that I had in Bangkok  J



The view is beautiful, Uluwatu could be said as the most southern part of Bali island, as most of part of Bali for sure there would be pura as well. But what made this trip worthwile is that the Pura is on a very high cliff (75 meters), with the view of Indian Ocean. I just can’t help myself taking lots of pictures there. Oh... and there is a trail we can follow, even very easy for us non sport active like me to take. At the end of the trail there is this quite big platou where we can take pictures of Uluwatu but with a quite different surrounding. And for those who hadn’t prepared themselves with a bottle of mineral water there is a little shop selling it and other stuffs.


Now... is the time for warning, take care of your belonging. The monkeys there are ridiculously smart, efficient and organized as they work in team for their crime, I even think they were trained. While we were there, we saw 3 victims of their crime, a tourist lady whose sunglasses were taken while she was wearing it on top of her head, our friend’s hat (these 2 events happened in front of our own eyes in just around 2 minutes) and a little boy’s flip flop sandal. The lady’s sunglasses and our friends hat came back to them as there were kids around there who threw a tomato inside a closed plastic bag, then the monkey would let go of the stuffs they stole for the fruit. Then we would certainly give the kid pocket money for their good gesture of saving our belongings, hey... tomatoes are not free right?

But the boy whose flip flop sandal were taken, his fate was not as good as the earlier, since there were no boys with the tomatoes in plastic around, the big monkey was furious as he bit and broke it in pieces, the boy just sadly cried in his mother’s arms.


Dreamland beach is on the way back home to the hotel and decided to make a stop, we even past GWK (Garuda Wisnu Kencana) as well but decided not to visit there as we went there before and heard that there were no real difference than our last visit, but if you haven’t been there I recommend you make a stop there first, it’s quite worth while with the huge ongoing statue and the surrounding area.



This is our first visit to Dreamland beach, to reach it we must past a huge real estate, as this beach is part of them, there is no admittance fee, we just have to pay the parking fee for IDR 15,000.
There were not really much to see, it’s just another surrounding for a beach with walls of stones as our background, but taking pictures there is recommended, I was even surprised with how well the pictures turned out there.


I had been curious with jimbaran seafood dinner, and it’s in my list for our things to do for our honeymoon in Bali. We decided to take a package meal for each person, so we can taste each food, there are 2 types of package, with or without lobster. Personally I think the taste is just ok, but having it lit by the candle on our table with sand below our feet, and serenaded with live music coming to each our table with our own request of song really brings up the mood for us honeymooners. Oh... don’t forget to tip the band please J

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Friday, October 2, 2009

August ’09 Bali Honeymoon Trip – Pura Candi Gunung Kawi & Sanur

We made another stop near by, I had no idea nor what to expect at this stop, our friend just told us the name is Pura Candi Gunung Kawi. I thought it was just going to be another Pura, just like the others, boy... was I wrong... it was nothing like the common Pura in Bali, I never even saw anything like it before with my own eyes.

It really was something, but gosh... you really need extra effort to get there and a more extra extra effort to get back to the parking area. What do I mean by saying that? This is the thing... this place is located below your parking area, to get down there are steps.. oh... let me elaborate that a bit... lots and lots and lots of steps!!! And it really was something for me who was having a knee problem due to some kicks I did at my body combat class :P


But the hard job really was worth it once you got down and saw the pura, it really is an awe. Pura or candi are usually build by putting blocks of stones on top one of the other, but these pura are made from big hill stones carved into the form of a pura, it instantly reminded me of Petra in Jordan. The immense size of it made me feel so small. Though the carving decorations are not as excuisite for it’s details as it is in the other candi-s, this is something new, it’s so different than the others.



The complex area itself if I’m not mistaken is divided in around 10 area, we could only cope to explore 3 of them. While we were in one of the inside pura area, it seems that there would be a ceremony to be held in a few days, since there were lots of local people that were preparing things, offcourse I won’t miss the chance of taking pictures with them, with their permission first for sure. Once we are done looking around and taking pictures, I just found out that the exit way is another way from our entry, now... the pura made me in awe but the exit way gave me a shock!!!

Subak - Balinese irigation system & Padi field
The first part of the exit way was really steep that made us have to crawl on our hands and foot, we joke around saying that it’s the spiderman style of exit, afterwards it is joined with the stairs again where we entry the site again, mind your balance please coz if you fall you’ll land on a rice padi field. Just make sure you wear your comfortable shoes or sandals, and no high heels please.

Going back South of the island we made a stop over first at Sanur beach, I forgot that in August there is Sanur Festival where lots of things happens, including the kite contest, we past by the contestant who brought back there kites, it’s as big as trucks, it’s my first time (again) seeing kites that big not on tv. Sanur beach itself looks like a local beach, not as clean as kuta, many children were playing around the beach. Local meatballs known as ‘bakso’ were sold there, usually it is made with meat, but Hindu considered cow as holy and not allowing the followers to eat them, so they sell “bakso” from chicken, and it tasted quite ok as chicken bakso.

Tonight we are checking in at Novotel NusaDua, I guess we made the right decision for choosing the place as our place to live at our last nights in Bali, Save the best for last, I agree so much with you dear Vanessa Williams J

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Thursday, October 1, 2009

August ’09 Bali Honeymoon Trip – Babi guling ibu Oka, Tirta Empul & Tampak Siring

Woke up quite early today, but looks like we have beaten by the kids our friends who have woken up much more earlier. We saw that they have taken over the swimming pool, it’s always nice hearing kids having fun in the pool. While watching them swim, we had our breakfast next to them.

Took a shower afterwards and packed, we checked out from the hotel at around 11 am, then went straight to Ubud market, it’s quite fun watching the things they sell, I always have to keep myself thingking, “do I need the stuff? If it’s really that nice, where am I to put it?” The thinking was almost a success, I passed most of the vendors, up until I can’t help myself from touching this big brown bamboo woven bag, and in the end I bought it for Rp 35K (around US$4) loving it and have no regret up until now J



Finished with our little window shopping, we went for lunch at the famous suckling pig mixed rice by Ibu Oka, I liked it especially the skin it;s really crunchy and almost has no fat in it.
Ok... one tip I can give at this place, once you are inside the restaurant at lunch time, don’t join them as we did!!! Coz they are ordering to take away, go straight inside, just look for a place to sit in, then make a choice from the big menu on the wall, and call the waitress to make your order J

Now is the time to start travelling again, we decided to make our first stop at Tirta Empul and Tampak Siring. Once we went down from the car, vendors start coming towards us selling bananas and such, remembered what our friend told us, though not at the area he specified, I didn’t dare touched what they sell. But once we are inside the area there were no more vendors.


The first sight which greeted us was this pool with lots of gold fish in it, one of the restaurant beside it sold packages of fish food for Rp 1K,- per package, we had a good time watching the fishes rumbling for the fish food, I guess it made a great photo too and it attracted other people to look at the fishes (even the locals were looking, which we found a bit weird).


Then we went inside the pura part where at that time, some people were giving their offerings. One side of the pura wall is adjescent to this pool of spring water, since it’s not deep, you can see the bottom of the pool really clear, but make sure you obey the sign for not throwing coins inside it as we used to at water fountains. It is said that there is this a big fish living in it, but hiding, so it is said that if you can see the it you are a lucky person. If our friend didn’t say he saw the fish himself, I would n’t have believed it since you just can’t seem to find a spot where a big fish could hide there.




Now for the most important part of Tirta Empul is this pool where you can take a dip in, but make sure with traditional clothes on please. The pool is divided in 3 parts, each is for it’s own use, the first one is the ones we, common people could use, the second is for the king and the third one are for the dead ones.
The pool which are for the common people is divided in 2, by this bridge of stone, it is also said that there is a big fish living under the bridge, besides the small fishes which you can see clearly and it will come out if you give it an offering of egg.
It is said that if you take a dip in or wash your face with the water you will always look young, well.. I guess there is nothing wrong with washing my face there, if I’m lucky I’ll always look young, but for the most of it I certainly do feel refreshed after washing my face.


Tampak Siring is the President’s palace in Bali, it is build since our first president, it’s located above Tirta Empul, so I guess it’ll have a good view of the people dipping there :P
Too bad we were there on Sunday, which is the time it closes for public, so we can only see it from the outside. But seeing the structure itself from the outside is stunning enough, it looks like the house is divided in 2 parts, each on 1 hill, connected by a bridge. There is this steep steps that connects Tampak Siring to Tirta Empul.

There is this really big old tree nearby the exit which almost as if trying to bid you farewell from your trip to Tirta Empul. Passing the exit gate or the bridge brings you back to the parking lot, you will be made to walk in the souvenir market lane of the place. The people selling at that place really amazes us, as they would offer you their goods in so many languages, which they would thought where you came from, it’s really something.

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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

August ’09 Bali Honeymoon Trip – Ubud & Danau Batur

We left Harris Resort at check out time, with our friend’s family straight to Ubud.
It took around 1 hour from Kuta to Ubud. Ubud is in Gianyar area, known as the central of the Balinese culture, even our friend said he sometimes went to Ubud to let go of his need to paint there.
The same thing for me as walking down Kuta beach at day time, I’ve never went to Ubud before this trip. I always thought of it as a remote place and mostly rural, I was not expecting to see cafes and boutiqes in a row of the road, but that’s exactly what I saw. It’s not as crowded as Kuta for sure, but it certainly has developed to meet the needs of tourism.

Our hotel
After putting down our luggage at the hotel we went straight to Lake Batur, oh.. the name of the hotel is Taman Sakti. We didn’t really go to Lake Batur as we went to Lake Bratan, we only saw the lake from the top, known as the best place to look at the lake, the place is named Penelokan.
One thing our friend kept reminding us while our trip in Bali was to never touch the things sold by the vendors in Lake Batur if you don’t seriously will buy it, since they would be really angry if you have touched their goods such as souvenirs and not buying them. I followed the tip dilligently as I don’t want to give us any trouble with these vendors.


At Penelokan we chose this little place which sells instant noodle and soft drinks, why we chose this place? Coz it’s located at the edge, having a view of the beautiful lake and mountain, especially it has this outdoor second story which allow us to go up and took some interesting pictures as well.


Satisfied taking pictures there, we went back to Ubud, had our dinner at Bebek Bengil, it’s a really romantic restaurant, tables are devided in places some are even standing on their own, lamps are only used around the tables area, most of the place are quite dark dimly lit by small lantern almost as candles. After sitting on our table we just realized the surroundings are padi field, it’s quite something, I wonder how it looked like during day time, though I’m sure it’s not going to as romantic as it is at night.



We took the packet which consist of tom yam soup as the appetizer, the most delicious offcourse would be the main course of the really crispy fried duck which the portion at first looked too big for me but to my surprise was able to finished it since it’s really really good, and had a piece of tiramisu for the desert. Having a full stomach we went back to the hotel and had a creepy time of my life finding a gecho in our bedroom.

Being a person who is disgusted and always freeked out at the sight of gecho I asked my husband and his friend to the rescue, and both of them turned out to be my hero of the night for setting the gecho out of the room, thanks alot guys it meant alot to me J
Now is the time to sleep...

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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

August ’09 Bali Honeymoon Trip – Bedugul & Kudeta’s Beach

Having a friend who lives in a place of our trip is always a plus point to our trip but having a friend who has photography skills and has a travel agent who is willing to take us to many places at a place of our trip is a very high bonus point. Too bad we only have our 3x optical zoom 5 MegaPixels Kodak pocket camera at that time, since our friend’s camera was not available at that time, it is used for his business, so we use our own camera and his video cam.



Plan of the day was Bedugul, the precise spot is Lake Bratan. Hubby drove from the hotel for about an hour and a half to get there. We had our lunch there as well, at a buffet type of restaurant which opens only for lunch time, the food was quite ok.



Done with our lunch we walked across the street and rent a little boat which we row on our own, thankfully our friend is an expert with boat, so we were safe and don’t have any trouble with it. Just be sure not to use the boat when there is fog for you can’t see where you are going and you can get lost to the middle to the lake, but thankfully usually the fog doesn’t stay that long.



Satisfied taking photos on the boat, we went to Candikuning. It is still in the Lake Bratan area, took some pictures again, it’s a cool place to take pictures too. Finished with Candikuning we went back south, to Kuta area, but first we stopped at Kudeta’s beach around Seminyak, it’s really beautiful, the waves are much more stronger than the in Kuta beach. And being there at sunset is really the best time, as you can see at the picture above the sand looked like a mirror, reflecting our image on it.
Me & hubby can’t resist playing around there and me running away from the waves for dirtying my pants and at a time trying to rescue our errrrr... my sandal from the wave J



Not feeling to well after riding the car with open windows, hubby and his friend needed hot food to fill them up, so we chose to have porridge as our dinner at Tuban area called Laota. Not being a fan of porridge, at first I wasn’t really happy for having porridge as dinner, but after tasting it I love it alot, we ordered 1 seafood and 1 chicken porridge, both are really delicious, 2 bowls are enough to be divided between the 3 of us. (I even came back to this place when I went to Bali again with friends, it became one of my favorite place to dine in Bali) Time to go to rest and start for a brand new day tomorrow J

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Monday, September 28, 2009

August ’09 Bali Honeymoon Trip – Kuta day




On our first day in Bali, we really made it as “a day tribute to Kuta”. Since we just wanted to make our trip a relaxing one, we decided to take a long sleep, woke up at almost noon, made us missed the hotel’s breakfast. Driving around and found my favourite german sausage restaurant “Mama’s” or “Mama’s Deli’ as we used to call it at Legian area to have our brunch there. I forgot what I ordered, but the meat was from the shoulders part, I regretted it since it’s a bit too salty for me, I should’ve ordered what I used to, the sausages or the crazily big and delicious pork knuckle for the both of us. Hubby ordered the breakfst menu, and I liked that one much better. I guess in the morning my taste bud becomes a little bit more sensitive than in latter time.


Finished with our brunch, we went back to the hotel and park the car there, had a little nap to let the sun come down a bit to my skins favor (don’t want to get too tanned when I go back to Jakarta). Then we walked from our hotel to the beach. Though the hotel was said to be in front of the beach, part of the hotel that’s beach front is the main gate dear that’s why it cost a little bit less than the others J But we have no regrets for that, it’s still ok for walking distance to us, around 100 m. Though I’ve come to Bali several times, I haven’t strolled the beach at day time, so it’s my first time of doing this. The first crowd we saw beside the sunbathers was the Falun Dafa followers putting on a yellow banner on the beach and doing some kind of a Yoga.



While walking on the beach we heard an announcement made that there would be baby sea turtles to be freed to the sea. I looked to my hubby and with a hintfull smile letting him know I want to do or at least see that. I thought we were too late to get the baby sea turtles, since there were lots of children there holding a bowl with a baby sea turtle in it. But then they offer to us if there would be any others, I raised my hand quickly and yeayyyy.... me got a bowl of baby sea turtle to be freed too hehehe... I got in line with the others who participate in the event and let go on our mark by the person in charge (PIC).
It was quite an experience of seeing a baby turtle trying to get back to the sea, and once we let go from the bowl we were not allowed to touch the baby turtle again as he or she has to make it on their own. Once the wave came in and touched our feet, we were not allowed to move coz the PIC screamed “Diam!!! Diam!!!Diam!!!Diam!!!Diam!!!Diam!!!” which means “Stay!!! (for 6x)” until the water go back to the sea again and repeated his screams again when the wave came in this was repeated till almost sunset.



After sunset and taking pictures we stroll the beach again till Hard Rock Hotel, and walked again trying to find “Mini’s seafood restaurant” for dinner as my hubby had a good memory for the taste and good price of it but we can’t seem to find it and once we found Discovery Mall we just decided to have our dinner there at the food court there. I can’t say the food was bad though but it’s not that good either. Since by the time we want to go back to the hotel it started to drizzle, we decided to take a ride on the local horse carriage called “delman” in Java, the horse name was Adul it cost around 20 or 30 thousand rupiah from the mall to the gate of our hotel since he can’t get in and we ran to the hotel building.

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Sunday, September 27, 2009

August ’09 Bali Honeymoon Trip preparation




Dengan ke-PD-an yang cukup, sebelum nentuin tanggal nikah, hanya ancer-ancer awal bulan Agustus, kita putusin untuk booking Airasia gara-gara promo Rp 0,- and beneran tuh kita dapet yang harga promo Rp 0,- jadi total setelah kena pajak biaya pesawat PP tiap orang kena Rp 185.000,- hihihi.... makanya berani aja pesen pesawatnya, jadi kalo pun ternyata gak kepake gak terlalu sakit hati. Toh biaya ke bandara malah mungkin lebih mahal kalo naik taxi J
Setelah ngambil keputusan akhirnya jadi honeymoon ke Bali, mulai deh search dan nyari-nyari hotel, damn... baru inget kalo bulan Agustus itu high season di sana... harga hotel meningkat semua huaaaaa.... nyaris mau kita undur aja soalnya sayang harga hotel2nya, tapi akhirnya suami tersayang luluh juga waktu gw minta untuk berangkat Agustus ini hehehe.. thanks hon.
Kita putusin untuk 3 malem di Harris Kuta Resort yang di depan pantai, 1 malem di Ubud (hotel diputuskan setelah sampe Bali) and 3 malem terakhir di Novotel Nusa Dua, save the best for last dear (and am really glad we did that). Aku dan keluargaku biasanya gak pernah pindah-pindah hotel selama di satu daerah, baru kali ini nikh aku begini, and it’s quite an experience.
Yeayyy... setelah capek gila mempersiapkan pernikahan kita, akhirnya bisa berlibur ke bali 8 hari 7 malem, what a great relieve.
BALI.... here we come !!!!!

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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Pemilu oh Pemilu... 2009



Hmmm... apa yang special di Pemilu ini ya?

1. Good news : Starbucks bagikan kopi gratis untuk tiap voter :)

2. Bad news : gw sekeluarga gak ada yang terdaftar sebagai pemilih... kesian deh.. padahal udah ada yang mau aku pulih loh untuk pemilu kali ini.. hiks...
Kebayang gak sih... dari 6 orang di lantai kantorku 3 orang nggak terdaftar loh... 50% bow... gile aja ya..
KPU.. kamu kejam!!!!
KPU pemilu yang lalu jauh lebih bagus kinerjanya, yang sempat jadi pertanyaan kan apa jangan2 KPU sengaja supaya jumlah suara partai Demokrat menang??? entah dehhh... padahal di Pemilu lalu ini hanya partai gurem lohhh... banyak yang mempertanyakan, bahkan tgl 9 malem pas nonton RCTI ada beberapa pembicara diantaranya Eep S. bilang kalo banyak WNI pada pemilu saat ini yang dipaksa untuk menjadi golput dengan tidak terdaftar.
Ok kalo untuk kasus gw sih memang agak special, alamat gw sekeluarga dengan alamat KTP beda, tapi ini juga kondisi gw yang sama di Pemilu lalu and gw masi terdaftar loh...
And untuk 2 temen kantor gw yang gak terdaftar itu mereka udah lama tinggal di rumah itu, tapi tetep gak terdaftar tuh... aneh ya...

3. Sad news : ikut sedih gak bisa jadi pemilih and gak dapet kopi Starbucks gratis hihihi... teuteup :)
I hope all of you out there are much luckier than me to be able to vote this year :)




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Friday, November 14, 2008

Laugh of the day...

So... yesterday as usual I went back home from the office at around 05.45 PM. my friend wanted to go along with me up until near the toll booth, but after looking that the toll road is jammed, she decided to go further along.

You see... my friend is single and sometimes when she drove by herself she would tease on this particular guy (which we now call him "kawan" hihihi... I know I deliberately misspelled his name dear) who works on the toll booth to give out the toll cards.
My friend, thinking that my window is tinted quite dark bravely wave her hand to the guy who was working on the other line. But I guess this guy notices that there were 3 pairs of eyes who was seeing him and looked directly at my friend as she was waving at him :D
Oh... and he smiled very widely back at my friend.... my friend's face turned red instantly and we instantly laughing and I teased her half of the way back home :D

Thanks for the laugh my friend :)



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Thank you Hon...

Last Tuesday I slept at around 01.30 AM, but awaken with a great feeling of freezing at 02.30, changed my sleeping attire with long pajama pants and long sleeved t-shirt. It still hasn't stopped the coldness, so I doubled up my knitted blanky with my fleece blanket. Afraid that my temperature is heating I checked myself, but still in the safe zone of 37 degrees.
Tried to sleep but awaken again in the next hour, now I felt that I'm not feeling well, took the thermometer again and check myself.. I'm heating up, it has reached 38,5 degrees.

Then back to dreamland again for an hour and woke up feeling that my body has heated up, checked it again and the device showed 39.3 degrees, not a good number at all, then text my BF about my condition knowing that he hasn't slept yet.
Got a text confirming that the text is sent, than a few minutes later he called me. I just told him that I won't be able to go to the office today and I have to go to the doctor. He asked me who will accompany me, I said I have to go alone with the driver as my dad has to take care of my mom (who was also sick that night) and I don't want him to go to my house to take me to the doctor coz I know he hasn't slept yet.

Waking up in the morning I came to realize that I can't walk straight, I need my dad to take me to the doctor. But I was surprised when my doorbell rang and to find that my honey is on my doorstep ready to take me to the doctor. Muach... thanks hon... you're a savior coz now my dad can still take care of my mom (though she is getting much better than last night)

Oh... the story didn't ended there...

After taking me to the doctor, who said that I have a digestion problem (it really took the doctor a much longer time than the usual to hear my stomach with his stethoscope) diagnosing that I have bacteria attacking my digestion causing the high fever and nauseous (I can't eat anything) ohh... and you know what... he said that I would get diarrhea as well from hearing the sound of my stomach though I haven't had it yet (and it's true the next day I got it). I refuse instantly when the doctor advise me to be hospitalized... I always hate being hospitalized, the last time I was hospitalized was at junior high. But besides giving me medicine, he also gave me a letter to take blood test if I was still vomiting the next day or still having fever the day after tomorrow.

My BF stayed at my house from that Wednesday morning till Saturday, full taking care of me. He is the one who prepared my medicine to drink and fed me my food from breakfast to dinner and some snacks too when I can bite on it and even the one who jumps and ran to get plastic bag when I threw up.
Thanks a lot Honey for being there it really meant a lot to me... Luv u...

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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Resiko kerjaan... nyawa???

Semua kerjaan pasti memang ada resikonya kok... dari yang tingkatan paling rendah sampe paling tinggi. Tapi baru tadi pagi gw bener2 ngeliat kerjaan yang sangat memperlihatkan resiko kehilangan nyawa yang gede...

Sehari-hari gw naik mobil dengan jalan tol menuju ke kantor, di pembatas jalan dengan jalur sebaliknya biasanya diantara pagar pembatas ada jajaran tanaman yang cukup rapih, I always took it for granted kondisi tanaman yang cukup rapih ini, gak pernah kepikiran gimana caranya mereka ngerapihinnya, palingan kalo pun kadang2 terpikir, paling mikirnya pasti ngerjainnya malem2 waktu mobil gak banyak yang melintas and ada truk tol di jalur kanan untuk ngelindungin orang2 yang kerja ini seperti yang untuk nyiramin tanaman tol ataupun mungkin mereka mengerjakannya dari bagian tengah 2 pagar pembatas.

Tadi pagi gw kaget banget... ternyata prosedur pengerjaannya gak seperti bayangan gw... mereka itu ternyata

berdiri di atas pijakan di samping pagar yang arah jalan tol dengan tinggi sekitar 10cm... kebayang gak sih... kendaraan yang lewat dibelakang mereka itu hanya berjarak sekitar 1 meter, apalagi kendaraan yang mengambil jalur kanan itu adalah kendaraan dengan kecepatan tinggi, bus atau truk dengan kecepatan tinggi bisa membuat mobil disampingnya seperti "terlempar sedikit" ke arah sebalik dari bus atau truk itu, apa yang terjadi dengan orang yang tidak punya pegangan, hanya memegang gunting rumput dengan agak berjinjit supaya bisa mencapai ketinggian tanaman????

Memang sih.... biasanya orang2 ini dilengkapi dengan kerucut orange yang biasanya diletakkan sekitar 2-3 meter sebelum tempat mereka bekerja.... tapi kan tetep bahaya banget....
Dan memang sih... bolak balik dibilang ibukota memang lebih kejam daripada ibu tiri, dan mereka membutuhkan kerjaan ini supaya dapur emreka bisa ngepul...
tapi apa gak bisa ada standard prosedur yang diberikan jasa marga untuk lebih menjamin keselamatan orang2 ini? Apa perlu ada korban2 dulu supaya diperhatikan???
Semoga aja enggak.... dan semoga aja kengerian gw ini gak pernah terjadi pada mereka... kasihan....

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Tuesday, September 9, 2008

"My Ndok... Birthday"


We have a maid that has been with our family for more than 30 years, at first she worked for my grandma, but when my mom married she chose to be with my mom and since then she is with our family all the time, that's why she is considered as family already.
Since she started to work with my grandma since she was a teenager, she is called "Ndok" which means little girl... but because of this she is always called as "Ndok" not with her real name up until now :)


You see... just like other people at her age from the village it is common that they don't know their exact date of birth, usually their parents would associate their children's birthdate with a time mark that happened at that year, such as volcano eruption or something like that.
This is why our "Ndok" didn't know her exact day of birth up until last year, hey... even at her IC... her date of birth is 1st of January :P
Last year when she went back to her village for her mother's 1000 day of death, she went to the village office and asks if there is a data of her birth date and she got it :)
So when she went back to Jakarta she told me her birth date, the only thing is... I only wrote down the date and month, but not the year.


So this year on June xx, I congratulate her for her birthday, but when I asked her about her age, she forgot and she has lost her book where she wrote it down hehehe... I guess her age will always be a mystery for us.
And being this the first year she knows her birthday... getting back from the office I bought a cake and some food for her to have a little party with our family :)
And you know what... though it takes a little effort to buy all those things back from office, it was really worth it, she cried with happiness when she saw that I bought all those things for her birthday.
We had a good time, she was smiling all the night :D just see the pics I took. There was only 1 candle on the cake because it's her first birthday ever celebrated.



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Friday, August 22, 2008

Udang goreng Telor Asin...

Tgl 18 Agustus ini kan libur nasional soalnya 17 Agustus jatuhnya hari minggu, gw and temen2 SMA yang udah lumayan lama gak ketemuan (terakhir ketemuan waktu Vera nikah). Kita janjian di Grand Indonesia sekitar jam 12.30, jadi pas untuk makan siang, setelah ngumpul semua kita muter2 nyari tempat makan, di food courtnya (Food Lovers) penuuuhhhh buanget gak ada tempat duduk and pasti kita gak akan nyaman untuk duduk and ngobrol2 yang agak lama di situ.



Muter2 di lantai tempat makan kok kayaknya gak ada yang cocok, pas ngeliat tempat yang lucu, lupa namanya tapi makanannya japanese style pasta kayaknya menggoda banget, dimana bagian depan resto itu seluruhnya kaca etalase full contoh2 makanan dari plastik or lilin gitu untuk menu2 makanannya, menggoda banget deh... tapi antreannya... gak kuat ... panjaaaaaaang aja... udah gak napsu ngeliatnya, padahal itu udah jam 1/2 2-an loh...
Ternyata setelah nge-google : namanya Pasta de Waraku


Akhirnya kita2 masuk ke Duck King aja, pesen udang goreng telor asin, tahu and 1/4 bebek panggang, semuanya enak tapi itu udang goreng telor asin uenaaaaakkkkkk banget dehh... garing banget, remah2nya aja berasa banget telor asinnya, harganya sih memang agak lumayan tapi menurut aku sih cukup sepadan lah... udang pancet 400gr kita kena 112.000++ (15% tax & service) Gw pasti akan balik ke duck King lagi demi udang ini :)


Oh iya di Duck King ini kita makan, ngobrol-ngobrol and ketawa2 ngakak hampir 3 1/2 jam, meja-meja sekitar udah berganti2 orang kita masi betah duduk di situ hihihi.... Kabar and bahasan hari itu temen kita ada berita baik mau nikah taun depan tapi setelah pemilu presiden.


Ceritanya hari ini aku penasaran dong pengen nyari resep untuk udang goreng telor asin ini... jadi search di google eh... malah nemu ada resto di area deket kantor yang jual udang goreng telor asin : kedai 12 Bakul. Jadi siang ini gw ngajak temen kantor untuk nyobain ke situ, ternyata tempatnya kecil and kita satu2nya tamu di situ, gw langsung pesen nasi udang goreng telor asin, temen gw pesen Mie ayam lada hitam and untuk makanan barengannya kita pesen rujak uleg.
Secara keseluruhan sih makanan di situ lumayan kok... untuk variasi makanan kantor quite ok, tapi kalo untuk udang goreng telor asinnya jauh lebih enak yang Duck King (iya... iya... tau memang gak boleh dibandingan lahh...) yang di duck king kan garing, kalo di situ ada saosnya gitu. :)





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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

17 Agustus...

apa yang beda ya 17 Agustus ini dengan yang dulu2?
Dulu waktu TK - SMA pasti upacara bendera, terakhir ikut upacara bendera waktu penerimaan mahasiswa baru 1996, seluruh angkatan baru plus rektor dan staff, ada beberapa yang pingsan gak tahan panasnya matahari, yang paling lucu waktu gw denger suara "gedebug!!!" agak keras di belakang... ternyata yang pingsan SATPAM!!! hehehe.... bukannya harusnya mereka udah dilatih fisik ya? hihihi...
Untuk upacara bendera 17 Agustus-an yang gak terlupakanuntuk gw waktu ikut upacara penurunan bendera di istana waktu SD sama bokap, rasanya special aja, soalnya kan gak setiap orang bisa ikut upacara ini kan harus ada undangannya bowww... bokap bisa dapet undangan soalnya opa gw semacem pahlawan daerah gitu deh, thank you opa jadi aku bisa iku upacara di istana sekali seumur hidup :D

Sekarang setelah kerja semakin gak pernah ada in touch sama yang namanya upacara bendera lagi, denger lagu2 wajib lagi, bahkan udah lupa urut2an standard upacara bendera. Tapi 17 Agustus kemaren gak tau kenapa kok semangat juga ya pengen nonton upacara bendera, pas pengibaran Sang Saka Merah Putih semua stasiun TV nayangin detik2 ini (meskipun gak ngeliput seluruh rangkaian upacara) kecuali 1 stasiun TV : DAAI gak tau kenapa, yang ada malah talk show gak jelas, heran gw...


Bodo ah... gak mau ngebahas itu... nah malemnya nonton tuh yang acara nyanyi2 gw lupa di stasiun TV apa tapi ada Maia, Opick dll. Dari gw kecil, lagu wajib kesayangan gw itu Rayuan Pulau Kelapa yang ditulis bapak Ismail Marzuki, dinyanyiin malem itu dengan duet Opick and satu lagi gw gak tau namanya... tapi sayangnya dibagian awal lagu itu Opick keliatan gak hafal and jadi kagok, untung diselametin temen duetnya. Meskipun gak sempurna mereka nyanyiinnya, masih bisa bikin gw nangis loh... mungkin juga gw terlalu melancholy ya malem itu...
Tapi rasanya sedih banget.... waktu gw kecil tuh ya denger lagu itu gw percaya banget kalo Indonesia itu memang indah, subur, aman dan kaya, jadi potensial banget untuk rakyatnya jadi kaya, tapi waktu malem itu gw denger mereka nyanyiin lagu itu hati gw miris banget... kok negara kita yang segitu indah dan kayanya, rakyatnya tetep aja miskin gini mana udah gak aman lagi dengan teroris2 gak jelas... meskipun untungnya akhir2 ini udah agak lebih mendingan sih ttg teroris2 ini...

Rayuan Pulau Kelapa
ditulis oleh : Ismail Marzuki

Tanah airku Indonesia
Negeri elok amat kucinta
Tanah tumpah darahku yang mulia
Yang kupuja s'panjang masa

Tanah airku aman dan makmur
Pulau kepala yang amat subur
Pulau melati pujaan bangsa
Sejak dulu kala

Melambai-lambai nyiur di pantai
Berbisik-bisik Raja Klana
Memuja pulau nan indah permai
Tanah airku... Indonesia


Ada satu lagi lagu yang gw lagi suka :

Melati Suci
Dinyanyikan oleh: Tika Bisono
Ditulis oleh : Guruh Soekarno Putra

Putih.. putih melati
mekar di taman sari
semerbak wangi penjuru bumi

Seri .. seri melati
bersemi anggun asri
kucipta dalam gubahan seni

Tajuk bak permata
siratan bintang kejora
‘kan kupersembahkan
bagimu pahlawan bangsa

Putiknya pesona
rama-rama ‘neka warna
‘kan kupersembahkan
bagi pandu Indonesia

Su ci.. suci melati
suntingan ‘bu Pertiwi
lambang nan luhur budi pekerti

~{}~

Tajuk bak permata
siratan bintang kejora
‘kan kupersembahkan
bagimu pahlawan bangsa

Putiknya pesona
rama-rama ‘neka warna
‘kan kupersembahkan
bagi pandu ( bagi pandu.. bagi pandu.. ) Indonesia aa~ aa~

Lambang nan luhur budi pekerti

Ooh melati…
Ooh melati..
Ooh melati…




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KejuMoo..... - Senayan



2 Minggu lalu waktu liat festival jajanan bango udah tergoda tuh mau pergi... tapi akhirnya gak mood untuk jalan2, jadi batal ke festival jajanan bango.

Tapi minggu lalu waktu dapet e-mail tentang festival makanan keju kraft langsung semangat dong pengen nyobain apalagi judul makanan2nya sangat menggoda untuk penggemar keju seperti gw :D
Antara lain yang menggoda : cireng keju, kerak telor keju, sandwich bakar, asinan ny. isye and yang paling menggoda untuk gw diantara semuanya : Iga Bakar keju.
Bow... yang gw bayangin itu iga bakar dengan keju meleleh-leleh diatasnya nyam nyam nyam....

Akhirnya sabtu 16 Agustus kemaren itu gw and nyokap bela2in deh ke Senayan untuk pergi ke sini.. menghadapi macetnya warung buncit, gile juga ya itu jalan, udah lebar banget, hari libur pula masi juga gak bosen2nya untuk macet :P
Sampe di tempat festival (plaza selatan senayan, deket lapangan softball)jam 12... teriiik banget... ternyata setelah ngeliat sekeliling, orang2 yang udah pengalaman pada bawa payung... berhubung gw & nyokap masih baru pertama kali dateng ke acara ginian kita gak bawa, sambil mikir... halah... paling hanya kena panas bentar... ternyata penyesalan memang dateng belakangan... hiksss...... puanaaaaassssssss banget.... pulang2 kulit muka gw tambah gelap deh... hiks, pas di acara itu juga ngeliat ada ibu2 yang kayaknya sedang peraatan kulit and gak bawa payung... haduh itu mukanya terutama pipinya merah bener kayak kepiting rebus hehehe....


Muter2 ngeliat makanan2 yang ditawarin, akhirnya pertama langsung gw berenti di cireng mau beli cireng keju, tapi hikssss..... udah abis.... (padahal kan baru 2 jammmm.... kok udah abis seeehhhhhh.....) akhirnya beli cireng sapi & baso, nyokap berenti di booth singkong meletus and beli keripik kejunya, kita semua lagi bosen sama singkong keju jadi beli kripik aja hehehe....
Eh... si bapak kerak telor ketemu... wahhh seru nikh.... apalagi ngeliat di samping pikulan si bapak kerak telor ini ada foto2 dia sama Fauzi Bowo makan kerak telor (mestinya kerak telor bapak itu kan???? hmmm... gw jadi mikir.... hehehe), mestinya enak dong.... Setelah itu beli asinan untuk dibawa pulang and perut udah mulai krucuk2 nikh.... jam 1 kita blom makan apa2, yang dari tadi gw sebutin itu kita bawa pulang semua. akhirnya pilihan gw jatuh ke iga bakar yang udah gw idam2in and nyokap milih baso.

Hasil Review :


1. Iga Bakar Keju????

huaaaaaa..... jauh banget dari impian gw.... beneran deh jauh lebih enak iga bakarnya Gantari. Secara rasa seperti iga bakar biasa, memang nggak alot and udah dipotongin mungkin disesuaiin karena peralatan makan dari plastik jadi untuk praktisnya udah bebas tulang and dalam potongan tinggal suap, dengan bumbu iga bakar biasa and diatasnya dikasih parutan keju dikiiiit banget, basa basi gak ada rasa keju sama sekali, apalagi untuk harga 30 ribu per porsi sangat2 nggak representatif menurut gw dengan barang yang di dapat. Apa jangan2 biaya sewa tempat/tenda untuk diacara ini mahal banget ya????
2. Cireng sapi & cireng baso
gw bingung... itu cireng baso or cireng sosis ya??? apa orangnya salah kasi ya??? soalnya baso gw kok warnanya merah???
And after taste msg (mungkin royco) terlalu berasa.
3. Kerak Telor Keju
hmmm... udah harapan ini ada sesuatu yang beda dengan kerak telor ini... at least itu keju dimasak di anglo juga... ternyata setali tiga uang sama iga bakar... hanya basa basi, setelah seperti bikin kerak telor biasa dipotong jadi 4 masukin ke kotak plastik ditaburin keju parut sedikit.
4. Baso Keju
standard baso deh.... kuahnya menurut gw kurang gitu enak, memang baso belakang rumah sakit pd Indah paling enak deh.... hmmmm.... malah jadi pengen ke sana :)
5. Asinan Sayur
nah yang ini gw puas banget.... enak, seger, porsinya pas meskipun harga muenurut gw agak mahal untuk asinan sayur tapi gw rela banget kok soalnya puas :)
6. Kripik singkong - meletus
lumayan enak, not bad :)

All in all gw kecewa sih dengan makanan di festival ini, mana lagi matahari terik banget, di area meja tempat duduk payung nya terlalu sedikit, masa dari segitu banyak meja hanya ada sekitar 3 payung??? mestinya tiap 4 meja disediaiin 1 payung dong panitia... panas banget loh waktu siang :P
Setelah ngobrol sama temen gw yang ke festival jajanan bango minggu sebenlumnya, memang festival makanan begini mereka nggak maksimal deh dengan menu2 mereka... sayang ya... padahal ini kan kesempatan mereka untuk ngenalin makanan2 mereka :P




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Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Nyamuk kupriiiiitttsss......

Iiiihhhh...... beneran deh gw musuhan bener sama nyamuk!!!!

Tadi malem gw tidur jam 12 abis nonton filmnya Adam Sandler : Zohan (lumayan lucu), tiba-tiba jam 4 kebangun nggak rela gitu... nggak sadar juga sih kenapa kebangun, tapi nggak tau kenapa kok tiba2 reflex megang idung... kok cuping idung yang kanan keras kenapa ya???
cek lagi... kok masi keras ya??? udah gitu... kok lubang idungnya perasaaan tambah gede siiihhhh???? hadooohhh...... kenapa neeehhhhhh....
Cuex aja deh... coba bobo aja lagi... tapi kok lama2 senut2 ya cuping idung yang kanan huuuuuu.... harus bangun ke kamar mandi cek deh....

Dengan mata1/2 idup berusaha ke kamar mandi jam 4 pagiiiiii!!!!! (aaarrrggghhhh.... I'm not a morning person....) and liat di kaca... ternyata emang beneran bengkak.... kayaknya digigit nyamux kuprits.... soalnya lengan kanan juga digigit.
Tapi anehnya kok gak gatel ya kalo digigit nyamux????
Ah bodo ah... paksain bobo aja lagi...... palingan entar kalo bangun udah ilang....
Dan untungnya bener... setelah bangun di jam yang manusiawi bengkaknya udah ilang, idungku udah gak keras lagi hihihi :D
Tapi tetepppp... gw menabuhkan genderang perang sama nyamuk-nyamuk yang gak sopan itu !!!!!



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Monday, August 4, 2008

A Saturday with Ari :)



Udah rencana mau ke Asemka sejak beberapa bulan yang lalu, tapi baru kesampean Sabtu kemarin.
Janjian sih ketemuan di EX jam 10, tapi gara2 malem sebelumnya closing ampe malem di kantor jadi gak yakin nikh bisa jam 10, jam 9.30 telpon Ari confirm jadi ketemuan, aku berangkat jam 9.55 dari rumah, jalanan sepi jadi jam 10.45-an udah sampe di EX and telp Ari nanyain udah di mana. Tapi yang ada malah dapet kabar yang ngagetin... si Ari bilang "Mbak, aku masi di Pancoran, aku tadi nabrak orang tapi gpp, nanti aku ceritain kalo udah sampe"
Haduhhhh.... langsung kaget denger kabarnya Ari... ternyata dia mundurin mobil gara2 jalan sempit and depan ada mobil, tapi pas mundur gak keliatan motor dibelakangnya, jadi nabrak and motor ibu itu jatuh, tau2 anaknya ibu2 yang bawa motor itu teriak2 "Aduh mama.. sakit" Untung aja anak itu gak kenapa2 berikut ibunya.... lain kali ati2 ya Ri.... :) Tapi Ari memang baik... setelah itu anak mau diajak ke dokter nolak , Ari ninggalin no telp-nya ke ibu2 itu kalo ada apa2 sama anaknya untuk telpon and dibawa ke dokter.

Oh iya... setelah ketemuan kita sampe di Asemka, yang letaknya itu diseberang stasiun kota, jam 12 and ngubek2 lantai 1 selama 2,5 jam... bener2 banyak banget pernak pernik yang lucu2 di situ, untung udah diingetin Ari supaya gak laper mata :D
Mungkin karena mereka barang2nya hampir sama semua and harganya mirip2, susah buanget untuk nawar 5000 aja, apalagi untuk pembeli kayak kita yang gak beli banyak2 (ukuran jualan di situ kan lusinan, minimal 3 untuk harga lusinan, harga satuan lebih mahal.
Setelah masuk mobil baru inget kalo belum makan siang, makan pagi juga seadanya, jadi kita mampir ke bakmi GM dulu yang di jalan Gajah Mada baru ke Grand Indonesia, pengen liat Gramed yang baru yang katanya no. 6 or 7 se-Asia Tenggara.




Hmmm.... pastinya beres2 dulu dong sebelum masuk Grand Indonesia setelah kucel & kuyel keluar dari Asemka yang super sempit tuh lorong2 di dalemnya. Hasilnya??? Jangan tanya... asli gak keliatan loh... hahaha.... (liat aja foto2nya) ;)
Gramed yang di Grand Indonesia ada 2 lantai, lantai pertama untuk buku2 lokal and lantai 2-nya buku2 import & stationary. Pengaturan memang udah jauh lebih menarik, buku2 lokalnya sama seperti di tempat lainnya. Meskipun buku2 traveling import yang sumpe loh mahal aje... (untuk ukuran kantongku deh ;) ) rata2 300rb-an (tapi memang rata2 segitu harga buku traveling dimana-mana, tapi sayangnya buku2 novel import (bhs inggris) masi kurang banget koleksinya (memang Borders blm ada yang ngalahin deh untuk gw (utk sekitar Jkt, S'pore & KL), gw blom pernah ke QB kemang sih, terakhir ke QB yang di pondok indah)



Abis dari Grand Indonesia kita balik ke EX untuk ke mobilnya Ari, tapi mapir beli roti keju & roti tawar yang nyam nyam di Imperial Kitchen. Setelah mau balik ke mobil liat tulisan di Death by Chocolate buy 2 get 3... langsung mampir and ngejubreg dulu deh di sini ampe jam 1/2 9.
So... that was my Saturday with Ari... had a great day :) Thank ya Ri... lets do this again sometime, tapi PS : jangan ada acara nabrak lagi ya.. baik untuk loe or gw :)

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