One more day to go before the grannies fly back to Jakarta. I wouldn’t want to talk about how Briana is going to cope with them both gone. One day they’re there, next day they’re gone. Everyone suffers. *hiks*   I really have to start looking for a domestic help, pronto!  Otherwise it’s going to get [...]

Xintiandi is a fashionable street for pedestrian in Shanghai. The brick wall in most buildings are still the original ones from the 1920 of  stone gate houses typical in Shanghai.  Architecture wise, it is simply a-m-a-z-i-n-g. Every corner seems to be photo ready for the artistic type of black and white photography.  I rarely see [...]

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 [...]

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! [...]

Weekend kali ini kita jalan-jalan lagi ke Beijing, dengan harapan bisa bawa stroller keluar karena biasanya temperatur di Beijing nggak sedingin HH, yang saat ini siang hari temperaturnya dibawah minus 15 derajat celcius – apalagi malemnya, bisa minus 2oan kebawah deh. Rencananya kali ini diniatin cuma untuk refreshing aja dan ngebrunch — sama sekali ga [...]

Finally back home again after being stuck in Beijing for 2 days.  The snow storm was quite heavy, worst in the last half century according to a local media.  I’ve never seen snow that much in my life anyway, so I got a bit carried away with the photos.  I’m still working on the photos [...]

Kalau ke Dubai, belum mantep rasanya kalau belum mampir ke Burj Al Arab (Arabic: برج العرب‎,”Tower of the Arabs”, also known as “Arab Sail”). Hotel kedua tertinggi di dunia, iconic banget di Dubai. Untuk membatasi jumlah pengunjung (terutama turis yang mau numpang foto doang kaya gw ini) supaya nggak ngeganggu in-house guest, mereka [...]

Perburuan barang2 sale masih berlanjut sampai hari berikutnya. Balik lagi ke Dubai Mall, karena masih banyak banget tempat yang belum diliat. Dubai Aquarium, Ice Rink, Ski slope lengkap dengan skylift nya (itu yang difoto diatas)  Kidzania. Si daddy mau aja diajak asal dibolehin bawa laptopnya sambil kerja dan ngopi di cafe. Ngemol adanya dari pagi [...]

I’m glad that Bri traveled well for such a long distant flight- more than a 10 hour total.  To be honest, I was very anxious whether she could cope with the trip and was really counting on Daddy’s help. He’s been such an enormous help all this time with taking over baby when I was [...]