Today is the last day of 2009! Gosh, can't believe its already end of the year. Looking back, theres been a few highs and lows. I think I achieved quite a lot this year, but on the other hand, theres so much stuff that I still havent got around to. Some of the 2009 highlights are travelling to Fiji, going back home again after 2 years and a new job thats gonna start next year. I think 2009 is quite a good year for me but lets hoping for a better 2010:)

I caught up with Wadam this arvo at Taman Anggrek Mall again to see Sherlock Holmes. Elice was supposed to join us but we couldn't get tickets for the early screening and she can't make it for the later one, so its just gonna be me and Wadam. The movie itself was quite alrite, Me and Wadam found the first part a bit boring and we kept on nodding off. The freezing aircon right on top of us didn't help either. In short, its basically CSI: 18th century London. I'm not feeling Robert Downey and Jude Law as Holmes and Watson at all but at least the movie pick up the pace in the latter half. I gave it 3 out of 5 stars.

This is the picture of the ice skating rink thats located on the second top floor of the mall. I used to came here a lot when I was in high school. It used to be the coolest thing to do after school and me and my friends would just come to this mall, hang out, window shopping and skate. I'm an alright skater, but I wish i could do all those tricks and jumps.

After the movie, Wadam took me home so I can have dinner with my family. Its so nice to have dinner with just the 4 of us on the last day of the year because we don't do it often anymore. People around the neighborhood already started to put on some fireworks. There's no law about fireworks in Indonesia, so everyone can buy it and just play it on their backyard. We then just drove around the complex where I live and watch the fireworks.

Happy new year everyone! I wish you all the best in 2010. Keep on chasing your dreams!:)
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So today I caught up with my friend Hani at Emporium Mall in Pluit. Hani is one of my best friends from year 7. We always keep in touch and I always catch up with her everytime I go back home. She's married with 2 kids now. She's the one in blue, the other one is her neighbour, dessy.

After that, I hopped in a cab and move to the next mall. Taman Anggrek Mall. This one is sort of my local mall since it's not that far from my house. They have these Christmas attractions in the middle of the mall. It's a huge mall btw. I came here to catch up with Elice and Wadam for dinner. We took a few pics and then we went to the pancakes restaurant. That's wadam on the picture as Mrs. Bear with me:)
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It's Vina B'day dinner celebration today. So we all gathered at this private restaurant in Kemang area to celebrate it. It was fun since the whole place was reserved just for us. The food was alright albeit in tiny portions hahaha. Happy B'day Vin! wish you all the best in everything. Love you girl:)
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Well look what I found here, Indonesian Cosmopolitan Bride. It's very hard to tell that this is actually a bride magazine judging from the cover picture alone. Hmmm, maybe I should work here instead? hahaha.
It's good to see different versions of the magazine and see how the designers interpret the brief to adapt with the culture in different countries. Seeing that I'm gonna start working with the magazine next year, I have to start reading these kinds of magazines and paying attention to their style and layouts. So much stuff to learn and it's a big difference to the kids magazine. I'm starting to get nervous and excited! Hopefully I can do it well.
I still haven't found Indonesian Cosmo pregnancy though.
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Went back to Plaza Indonesia again today for lunch with my friends. Yeah, I live and breathe malls here. It was actually nice to catch up with them since I havent seen them in 2 yrs. We had this yummy sticky date pudding at this restaurant. So many restaurants that I visited in the last cpl of days, their names became a blur to me:P

After that, my friend dropped me at Senayan City mall to catch up with other friends for dinner. Duck fried rice for me. It was fine but I was so tired by then so I didnt stay long. I still managed to buy Westlife and Adam lambert's new Cd thou :)
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Another day, another mall hahahaha, well actually it's still Grand Indonesia again. This mall is actually not even close to my house. It's like 30-40 mins drive to get there. Anyway, caught up with everyone again for dinner and then after, we moved to the mall beside it, Plaza Indonesia for a bit of a drink. You would think it would be easy to move because its just across the street. Wrong! you have to go back to the car again and move the car to the next mall. It's because both malls are so big, its takes us forever to go back and forth.

We had drinks at Cork n' Screw. I don't know what wine my friends ordered but it was so nice and sweet. In jakarta, theres no rule about alcohol limits and stuff, so everyone can drink freely and drive after that. I remembered when I went back last time and me and my friend were so drunk we took 2 lanes and stopped every 10 minutes to puke on the side of the road. since he got some police/military symbol on his car, no one dare to stop us. Man, that was some crazy times:)

After that, we all went out to Dragonfly. It's one of the hippest, coolest club in Jkt right now. You have to be on the list to get in apparently, and lots of Indonesian celebrities and socialites go there. I wouldn't know if I bumped into any of them since I don't really watch Indonesian Tv much. The club itself isn't too big. It's alright I guess. Lots of foreigners too. I'm not feeling the music much and we only stayed there for like an hour or so.
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It's Christmas today, so Merry x'mas to everyone who celebrates it!:)
As for me, since my families are so original, we decided to go to temple today. It's located around 2 hours drive outside Jakarta, so its quite a long way. I always go to this temple everytime I go back, to pray. It's under renovation now because of the fire that happened earlier this year.
And Yes, I'm still wearing the same shirt as yesterday. I didn't bring back much clothes and this one is still clean, so zip it ppl :P

Once we get back to Jakarta, I'm getting ready again to go to my friend's friend's X'mas dinner at his house. I only know a cpl of people there, but Its not like I got better things to do anyway.
We are doing kris kringle and since I don't know anyone, I ask Vina to get me a present. Its supposed to be a unisex one, but I got a woman's purse, socks and bandanna, grrr!
The house was amazing Btw, very comfy and theres tons of foods leftover there. As Martine would say, it's such an asian thing to bring way too much foods.
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I flew back to Jakarta this morning with Iwan. We didn't realise we are gonna be on the same flight up until last weekend when we asked each other plans. We can't get a seat beside each other thou, so he ended up sitting behind me. That's us waiting on the airport lounge. The plane was delayed for an hour. Typical Garuda. Other than that, it was smooth sailing.
Arrived safe and sound in Jkt. Got picked up by my parents and bro. Man, its frickin' hot here. You'll just stand /sit there doing nothing and you start to sweat. Thank gawd for aircon.

After I unpacked and had dinner, I went to Grand Indonesia Mall with my brother to catch up with Vina. Gawd, I've known her for more than a decade. We used to live together back in our uni days at St Leonards, that was a great time. She's working now as a buyer for Burberry. My how times have changed, we used to work together too as a casual waiter at Star City. Coffee, tea or soft drinks people? hahahaha
Apparently she's now a big fag hag. She introduced me to all her friends and we went to SoHo bar for drinks. It was a nice place albeit really hot since we sat beside the open balcony. This is the view of the city from the balcony. I'm home now:)
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It's a half day work today because The kids and Parenting team are having a picnic lunch today at Centennial Park. Everyone who has kids can bring their kids along to the picnic so it's more like a family picnic environment. Surprisingly they all brought their daughters. I don't think any of them have boys at all. It's gonna be a man-drought in 15 years I think.
Karen brought Phoebs along which drove Tash crazy in a good way. She kept on taking pics and making baby noises. Lucky Phoebe is a really patient and quiet baby. By quiet I mean she doesn't cry at all and just frowning all day hahaha... she prob thought we were all a weird bunch of people:P

The food was suprisingly really good. I said suprisingly because I've been complaining to Martine non-stop about how she's been ordering this healthy salad and sandwich and no KFC bucket in sight. but in the end I actually really enjoyed them. The tuna salad and pumpkin was amazing and the prawn sandwich was nice too. I kept on coming back for more. Also, thanks Martine for the brownies. They were really yumm:)
Packing and ironing for me tonite, since I'm flying tomorow morning. Holiday mode starts NOW!!
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