This little monkey is now  10 months 3 weeks old. And SHE IS FINALLY WALKING ON HER OWN.  Whooo-hoooooooo.  She had her first 12 steps a few of days ago on February 20th – that’s when uncle David was in town. Yups, he came for a visit to spend the weekend with us. Briana sure [...]

Actually oma and nene have been here in Shanghai for almost 2 weeks. They both arrived on Feb 10th close to midnight, to a pretty cold shanghai temperature about minus 10 degrees (I think ?) which is quite warm for us who are used to Hohhot’s bitter cold.  Once they were settled in the room,  [...]

….. lewat tengah malem sambil bongkar pasang blog theme buat websitenya  Eliza ….

Setelah begadang kemaren malem dengan hasil (cuma) ngapload satu theme saja, siangnya waktu Bri bobo siang dipake buat bongkar pasang kode. Tumben nih anak ngebo bener tidurnya hari ini, sampe ngelewatin jam minum susu dan makan siangnya. Baru kebangun jam 2:30 dengan ketawa [...]

Bye mom, I’m off to see the world. See you next month

Yes, we like to hop, crawl and now walk….  with this new bright thing. Since we bought the second walker, her walking skill increased tremendously. More sturdier steps with perfect steering directing the walker to where she wants to go.  My part on this? [...]

Yups, this is our new home. Shanghai. Better place with better opportunities for the 3 of us. I keep telling myself how relieved I am to be back in the civilized world. At least living would be so much easier here, easy access to health care,  friends to go out with (real human contacts … [...]

Finally it’s the day we’ve all been waiting for. M had been arranging the entire moving process to be as smooth as possible for us. The big headache just passed. The movers came on time –  sampai 3 hari yang lalu kita masih belum dapet kepastian karena kabarnya jalan utama dari Shanghai ke Hohhot ditutup [...]

Sitting in the living room’s couch with my laptop on, I could feel the cold breeze in the room. Much much colder than usual that even a pair of woolen socks can’t protect my poor toes. The biting cold feels like slicing my skin through to the bones. It is a clear day outside with [...]

Akhirnya brunch yang ditunggu-tunggu kesampean juga. Weekend brunch dengan free flow champagne di IC Hotel. Whoo hooo!!! Concierge tempat hotel kita tinggal udah wanti-wanti duluan kalau taksi bakalan susah dicari, kemungkinan bisa stuck disana karena nggak ada taksi untuk pulangnya. Iyalah, secara seluruh jalanan berselimut salju – yang akhirnya bercampur lumpur dan mengeras jadi es! [...]

Time to give myself a break from continually tweaking site layouts, Cooking Etcetera that is or any other sites, which has become such a sick obsession. I couldn’t help myself changing and adding new features. Guess what, now I’m stuck with a slider plugin that wouldn not work. Of course, being obsessed with solving puzzles, [...]

A crawling baby can end up anywhere. Including in the office during a serious F&B meeting.
Mommy ran back to get her camera while the meeting was on hold as the baby positioned herself nicely on the floor, as if listening intently to the heated discussion, putting on a curious look on her face. Then the [...]