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mama dan uwak @ Gelanggang Samudera Ancol

27 april 2009

Jakarta, 27 April 2009
Hongkong Cafe, Thamrin
hujan
skripsi yang skripsweet
cancelled lunch
gorgeous shoes
fab outfit
calmity
jazzy ambience
masih hujan, adem
belum sholat zuhur
minum perfect match
back to the same seat as the first visit here
hujan...zzzzz....
adventurous mind
passionate spirit
love it
masih hujan di jakarta pusat
:)

visit malaysia ad

i thought it was a visit indonesia ad huhuhuu

[almost fiction] cumbuan sore

Akhirnya sore mencumbu
Bak rindu yang berbalas
Sore ini segar namun hangat
Dan semua senang pelukannya

Setelah seminggu penuh hujan dan hujan
Kota ini berair
Memaksa penduduknya untuk mendingin
Agar tenang merayap ke dalam

Kota ini pun banjir
Kedatangan tamu setahun sekali
Banyak yang sudah bersiap
Karena sudah biasa bahkan langganan

Kembali ke sore yang hangat
Ke rindu yang dibalas
Dan mentari yang tak lelah menjawab
Bahwa ia masih hadir bersama hangat dan asa


19 Januari 2009 16:44
Taman Menteng

what you miss from Jakarta when you are not in Jakarta

• Jakarta's rain
• driving in Jakarta
• the cheapness of dining sushi (compared to other big cities in the world hehhe...)
• seeing full moon from one of the fly over
• riding busway with no intention
• ...
• ...
• ...

please add yours !!! :)

Bolero by Ravel

Bolero is a classical piece made by Ravel.
i have been searching for its CD for years in Jakarta, but happen to haven't found any.
Is there anyone of you would love to offer an aid ??? hehhehe

Jakarta from JITEC Mangga Dua Square's Parking Lot

Thursday, March 20, 2008, 5:36:02 PM

Thursday, March 20, 2008, 5:42:12 PM

Thursday, March 20, 2008, 5:44:54 PM

Thursday, March 20, 2008, 5:46:30 PM

peace is inside

Taman Suropati. Sometime sunday morning. with a cup of Bakoel Koffie cappucino

How can I ask for more from a day such the one I had on the last Chinese New Year ?

How can I ask for more from a day such the one I had on the last Chinese New Year ?
I started the day quite late, checking emails, and got brunch directly.
I felt like watching movie with Ninit and Riska would be fun.
I just called them, and bizarrely they had thought the same thing.
So here we were in Plangi watching “P.S. I love you”
Very good movie, Ninit and I cried and laughed the whole movie, while Riska couldn’t shed a tear, hehehe
We took coffee after, chatting, laughing, smiling, even cursing hahahha
And in order to make the day even more perfect we drove to Monas, just to have a little walk.
Accompanied by “Say” from John Mayer and “3 Hari Tuk Selamanya” from Float we drove the night through the sophisticated Sudirman Ave and Thamrin Ave.
We took some pictures in Monas, and got home.
Just that….
The moments draws smile on our face even until now :)

Jakarta Lately....

Under this strange weather pattern nowadays, Jakarta has been having no rain in the last 5 days. Very contrast to what the city had during the last week of 2007 and the beginning of the new year.

Despite all, Jakarta's citizens happen to get beautiful sceneries during the sunset.

With my mobilephone's camera, here are some catch. (Even with a low resolution, we can still see how beautiful the city can be :) :) :) )

the bridge between Menteng and Jalan Sultan Agung, over the Ciliwung River

Jalan Sultan Agung, Manggarai ; besides Pasar Rumput

Jalan Jendral Sudirman

From Plaza Semanggi's Parking Building

From Plaza Semanggi's Parking Building

From fly over at Casablanca Kuningan

From my house, Tebet

Finding Harmony in Taman Suropati, Jakarta

Coming Soon !!!

again: a prove that if you think of something, the universe builds a path for you toward it, or more surprisingly, it just comes to you . . .

This time, it's about Harmony...

Proudly introduce you to the cuttie SNOW Jr !!!

We were driving down Jalan Barito when i shouted out to my sister Rani and Chadia, "Hey,, Snow's friends are here. Look !!". Jalan Barito is one of the place where you can find pet sellers in Jakarta. And still in memoriam of our beloved rabbit "Snow", it moved us a little bit seeing all those small rabbits outside the pet sellers' kiosk. We thought about whether to buy one or not, but due to the feeling of loss we still had, we decided to buy it latter.

But a few minutes later, my handphone beeped. A text message from my bestfriend Rhita was it. She was in Bogor with his boyfriend (also a very good friend of mine) Ferry celebrating their first-year anniversarry which actually had been postponed because of the final exam. She wrote: "Kiki, if we both want to buy you a rabbit, would you like it ?. Reply ASAP, thank u." WOW!!!! This is one of the prove that the universe consists of and work within connections between souls.

I ask my sisters and of course, it was an aclamation that we would love to have one.

Rhita and Ferry came in the evening. It was still raining, and i saw Rhita hold a little nest made of an egg carrier with a little super tiny cuttie a-cotton-puff-look-like creature. It's him!! He was still nervous. Maybe because of the long journey up from Bogor. The two took him a ride with Express Train and also bus, but i believe that they carried him very gently. Even Ferry who is a total phobia of creature with fur (sorry fer! No offense, :p), took him carefully. I think he started to like this tiny creature. Hehehe

I gave an honour for the lovely couple to name the rabbit. Rhita had like always had a name for him, it's LOLO. Ferry came up with a bunch of other choices starting from BUYUNG, HERMAN, LOLO, KOKO, KOLO, KAKA, STEEL, HERO, RAMBO, STALLONE, ARNOLD, TOMO, BOLAY.

But then my mom keeps calling him with SNOW. So then we decided to name him SNOW Jr. Hehhehehhe

Snow Jr is still a baby-rabbit. He is even smaller than the late Snow when she was first brought to our house by my mom and dad. Snow Jr is an albino rabbit. He has white fur,very thick that i thnik he is an Angora, and he has red eyes.

He sleep mostly all the day, or eat. But he can already enjoy our touch J

Oh he is a total cuttie !!!

Thank you Rhita and Ferry !!! You both made my day !!! J J J

jadwal JIFFEST 2007

below i post the schedule of JIFFEST 2007.

you can easily download it on http://www.jiffest.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=jiffest2007.program&ver=english

Green Certificate: Preventing Suicide of the Common ?

Do you know that starting next year we, cars owners in Jakarta, have to get a green certificate first in order to extend our STNK ???!!!

Like most of you, I just knew that too. Thanks to our dear fellows in ALSA (Asian Law Students Associates) Local Committee University of Indonesia who iscurrently running their second ALSA CARE (For the committee , Caca and friends: Great Idea!! Great Act!! Congrats !!!!) . As part of the whole event, a free emission test is held today in front of the UI Mosque.

If your car pass the test, which means that your car extracts emission level under the emission quota level, you will get the green certificate: SURAT KETERANGAN SEMENTARA MEMENUHI BAKU MUTU EMISI. This certificate is valued for 6 months, so that we have to test our car regularly each semester.

From the brochures the committee had distributed too, i think you should know this shocking fact abour air quality in Jakarta.
According to data collected by BPLHD (Badan Pengelolaan Lingkungan Hidup Daerah) DKI Jakarta, in the year 2000 good air category reached 32 % of the year (117 days in a year) but it decreased to only 6,85 % in the year 2003 (25 days in a year !!!).

Doesn’t it mean that we are technically poisoning ourselves ???!!!