Glasses..

Saving me some money instead of wearing daily acuvues :D

Oakley !!!!!!

But it's fake, i admit it. I can't bear to spend that much for a real oakley frame :p

Though it sure looks real and it's even fitted with transition lens! Those that will turn brownish under sunlight and even more opaque under direct sunlight. The lens are a bit thick though as they don't offer thinning service for transition lens. I'll probably get another frame with an EMI coated lens for use with my PC since it's dirt cheap and super value for money.

Ignore the scribbles

Oakley logo

Damn I love my country !

Food Feast ~

Chinese New Year has come!! ... and passed as well in a twinkle of an eye

Haiz, no ang pao this year as well T_T

Only pictures to show, yum!

团圆饭 for dad, mom & me

Prawns & fish

Home made assorted balls & dumplings

Veggies & MushrooomsFish stomach & sliced beef
The killer chilli that made everything gel

Yum Yum !

And this is as close as you can get to see CMI CNY decorations in the streets of Jakarta.

Sick

Flu and sore throat... the worst potent combination of common sickness...

But i have 罗汉果 here to dispel it! Hope it works in time before CNY comes around :|

Next year doesn't look too bad for us pigs, nor too good either. so let's not hope too much for anything this year and just accept whatever good things that comes to us as bonuses!

Looks like an egg huh..

Mini Theatre

Ta Da!! I present my humble and simple home theatre using what else other than cheap stuff collected here and there :p

Lousy wall mount that costed me 200,000!!! Rupiah :p

Screen using embroidery paper, free of course

And first movie premier honour goes to Dark Night

And wow, i found this really new innovative electrical appliance which i've never seen before. It works like a switch, whereby you plug in the connector and rotate it so that it becomes "armed" (lol) with electricity. I hope the picture can tell a better description than i do. The brand is Eubiq though if you plan to source for it in Singapore. I think Home-Fix or the likes will have it.

Connector, choices of round pins or 3 pins

Plug and rotate

And happy birthday Mom

Tired yet refreshed...

Phew, I'm back after a whole week spent in the mountain and Bandung (city just beside Jakarta). It was really great to discover more beautiful places about my home country and her history during my travels.

Though the time spent travelling was really long, I was glad we didn't encounter jams along the way.

Pictures and stories will come up when I get my short break :|

We spent a day in Bandung and was caught in massive jams due to the holiday peak period. But we still endured the trip and hiked up the mountain to get to this place, Kampung Daun to get our breakfast + lunch. It serves traditional Sundanese cuisine, the food was quite standard nothing nice but the place sure is.

Small huts where we ate in

The view from our hut

Traditional system to call for the waiteress

And guess what this place is? It's actually a strawberry farm !! (though they spell it as stroberi here in Indo) From the picture below, to the left are the farms and all you need to pay is IDR50,000 (equivalent to USD5 or SGD7) and you can spend an hour plucking strawberries. Unfortunately the place was overrun with visitors during this holiday period and they decided to close the farm to prevent them left with just tree twigs :p

Christmas is all about...

Being with your loved ones and friends taking a break from your job or worries but here I am watching DVDs all alone by myself at home.. sob.. sob..

I really need to get to know more people here, and as soon as possible or I'll be spending my weekend nights with the TV and DVD player instead of friends and girls heh...

I did go out though for Christmas lunch with my parents to Pacific Place - some mall in the city. We had Japanese food at Rakuzen, yes the same restaurant that we (YZ & JW) went in Millenia Walk and got butchered by the price. I had the same Gyu Tataki stuff again and it was much better done here. Overall the food served is better than Sushi Tei and the decoration and ambience of the restaurant was superb. Place to bring girls to, check :D

Nicely decorated ceiling

More seats downstairs

Awesome pillars and surroundings

This mall has all the shops that you will find in a posh shopping centre in Singapore. The LV store was HUGE! And with the current currency exchange rate, the price is competitive and comparable to Singapore. Even Pedro here is cheaper than in Singapore now, which was a perfect excuse to get myself a pair of slippers though.

I also managed to pick up a PC casing yesterday and proceeded to assemble it back the whole of yesterday night which explains the slight headache (from the lack of sleep) I have while typing this post.

The box

Everything assembled - Non Lit

Assembled - LitHuge 200mm silent cooling fan
The front view

My room and stuffs are slowly falling into place now !!

Ta da my really humble table that took me a full day to assemble, set up and move to my room. Now that it is all set up, i just need to get a new PC casing and reassemble my PC to get it running.

I'm also thinking of getting a rack and fit it just above my bed so that it can house my projector and turn the room into a mini theatre. Oh yah, need speakers as well...

Modem, Router, Network HDD, S10

Strange sight?? Not in toilets here

By the way, what are all these mineral water bottles doing in some toilets, do you guys know OR want to know? This my friend, is the flushing system for the toilets!!

Enough to scare you guys for one day, I will find more strange stuff here and take pictures of it.

DIY = Die If You try...

I went shopping for furnitures few days back and tried to be clever by getting a DIY desk thinking it would be easy to assemble it like those from IKEA.

Unfortunately I was wrong... very wrong...

Uncovering the box

1 part labelled as part no 17

The same part labelled as no 25 at the back...

I will never ever (x100) get any DIY stuff here anymore. I'll rather get an assembled furniture then to spend just the whole day figuring out which part is which.

On the bright side, i got to taste this wonderful stuff. It's called murtabak (pancake) but not the type of murtabak you get from prata stalls in Singapore. It's a dessert here so it's sweet and goes very well with black coffee.

Mouth watering ain't it!

1 side chocolates and nuts

1 side lots of cheese