A memorable Christmas 2011

I've always dreamed of taking my parents to Jakarta for Christmas. I used to visit them in my hometown, Kalimantan in Christmas season.

In 2011, finally my dream came true. See, if you can dream it.. you can do it!

They came on 24 December and stayed with me until 29 December then visited my sister and other relatives in Bandung after. My young sister also joined us. We were so happy to be united again.

Here are some pictures of our happy moment in Christmas season.
I hope next Christmas, I could take them somewhere else, a more beautiful place :)

xoxo,
Ita

Innocent Girl

I adore her beauty, especially her innocent eyes

Her soft-curly hair looks mess, but cuter even!

Drawing...

...and drawing... so serious!

Sometimes I wish I could go back to my childhood...


xoxo,
-Ita

Outbound Trip with my nieces

Last week was a long week. I went to some places after work and went home late in the night. It made me miss my room more than I've ever had!

I stayed over at my big sister’s place on Friday night, went there straight from the office with public transport. I stayed there because early on Saturday morning we must gathered in the church for outbound trip of my sister's kids. I'm not a member of this church but my sister registered me to join this outbound trip, and I didn't mind at all to help her accompanied her kids during the trip. The bus left at 8 AM and the trip only took about 30 minutes, it’s in Cibubur area. The kids did some activities like singing together, flying fox and swimming. It was a HOT sunny day and it’s unbelievable that these kids didn’t look tired! I was exhausted! Hahaha...

Tania climbed to the tree

Ela was ready to slide

I like to see these kids while they were playing, it reminds me of my childhood. They didn’t look scare of anything, sometimes I wish I could return to my childhood and look at the world just the way the look at it! It was another long day and I returned back to my place at 8 PM, had cold nice shower, watched DVD “Night at the Museum 2” and then slept so tight. On Sunday, I planned to swim in the morning but then I decided to just do nothing and I did! Nothing else better. It was a nice day although it was hot during the day.

Look, they were not tired at all!

We were ready to jump into the bus and going home :)

Thank you Jesus for another blessed weekend!

-Ita

Weekend Fiesta

Last Saturday I had a Birthday lunch with my big sister’s family. It was my niece’s 5 year old birthday and I gave her a swim suit as a birthday gift. I think she loves it, I can see from her eyes and her shy smile.

1, 2, 3... blow the candle...

There was no big party, just 5 of us had lunch at one of big shopping centres and we had steak plus a slice of birthday cake each as a dessert. We enjoyed this small party in simplicity. The most important thing is our togetherness. There was unexplainable feeling of joy that I felt inside of me when I saw smile on my big sister’s family faces.

Me and my cute little nieces

Yay, I got swim suit!!!! :)) and it's 2 pieces!

I stuck in this shopping centre when it was time for them to return back home. I got some nice clothes and a cute handbag for good price! I love this place!

I had a good sleep in the night and woke up with smile on my face on Sunday morning. I saw again Project Runway season 5 Finale and so glad that Leanne Marshall won it. I loved her designs from one episode to another. In the afternoon, I went out to a movie theater to see “Transformers 2” with some friends. I came early to get the tickets otherwise I didn't think I could get the tickets, so many people want to see Shia Le Bouf, Megan Fox, nice cars and plenty of robots in Transformers 2! After about an hour in a queue, finally I got 4 tickets on the 4th row from the screen, not such a good seats. As we entered the studio, we surprised that we found our seats been taken, double tickets were sold!!! There was a mistake!!! We reported this matter to one of the employees of the movie theater. After 15 minutes waiting, she apologized then gave us the best seats for VIP on the next show, hehehe… Guess it's our lucky day ^_*

We went to Beirut and Lebanon Restaurant afterward, it’s my first experience to taste Middle East cuisine and found that the meal I ordered was delicious. It was lamb in thick yellow sauce a la Lebanon with tomato. The appetizer was superb too, it’s Hummus and it was automatically became my favourite. I would love to comeback to this restaurant again soon….!

Hummus

Lamb in Lebanon sauce (I can't remember its name!)

With Love,

-Ita-

A lovely weekend

I had a nice weekend, visited my big sister’s family on Saturday and visited my friend and her boyfriend at his new apartment. Since I have a big plan in the beginning of August, so I need to start saving up from now. I went to my sister’s place by public transport and bit regret because I didn’t bring something for them. I used to bring something (sweets or bakeries) for them but not this time because I really really need to save up! I promised to myself that I’ll invite them for lunch in the end of this month, still thinking about the venue but I’ll save some budget for this. From her place, I went by public bus to the city centre and saw my friend there. We talked about our next trip in August and I got a cute straw hat just exactly like I always wanted. It was a lovely day and I took some photos of my cute nieces.

Tania really wants to have a long hair, she wore her pyjama as her wig :P

And her little sister too as seen here!
I love you, Tania and Ela
What a cute smile

Tania

Ela

I woke up a bit late on Sunday morning, took sometime do nothing on my bed, cleaned up my messy room and picked up by my friend in the evening to my friend’s new apartment. He has a nice 1 bedroom apartment located in the city centre, very strategic location. We swam for around 2 hours and I met a nice (he is cute by the way) Russian guy who wanted to teach me to swim! He got my number and I got his number, he asked if I wanted to swim again this week and I said yes. I didn’t take this kind of guy seriously, because it’s not a big deal for me. If he wants to see me again, then he will text or call me, if he doesn’t then he won’t contact me. That’s simple. In fact, I have planned to swim on Saturday at my cousin’s place with my friend. So, I won’t depend on someone else on my swimming schedule. I stayed over at my friend’s place that night, we had late dinner near to her place and I slept so tight after. What a lovely weekend.

It’s been rainy in Jakarta since few weeks ago, heavy traffics are everywhere and I got caught by flu since the weekend. However, I’m feeling better today. Yesterday was a birthday of a friend. I don’t know what I am to him or what I was to him, but I can say that he is a special friend for me.

I went to a new magazine launching last nite, it was held in Hotel Indonesia Kempinski, a re-new and re-managed 5 star hotel in Jakarta. The venue was nice, there was fashion show, good wine, yummy canapés and I saw many good looking people.…I had good time. I met some new people and met some people from the past as well. I was a bit high last night after sipped 2 glasses of red wine before my dinner. I knew it, but I thought it wasn’t gonna be a big deal. In the end, I slept around midnight after said a little pray for his birthday. Happy Birthday and God bless you.