Dad's Birthday

For my dad's birthday, we went to this Shima teppanyaki restaurant. It's our favourite teppanyaki restaurant in town where the chef cooks everything in front of us.







This is their signature dessert, i forgot the name but it's banana with vanilla ice cream, pour some alcoholic drink and burned.

Dinner with my cousins

The next day we went to this new place with my cousins. There is a cafe inside, a japanese restaurant, and a french/italian restaurant. We chose the french restaurant called Fleur. Actually all is owned by the same owner so we can order any food from any restaurant.

This is what I and Judith ordered:

Back ribs


Rib eye


Well, there were 2 pizzas and a pasta dish but I was too busy eating that I forgot to take the pictures. My cousins ordered the same main course and I think one ordered the Wagyu beef...looks good. Since it's their grand opening day, everything is 50% off. We spent about $65 for 11 people's dinner...pretty good :)

In the restaurant:


After that we moved to another place for dessert. I saw this Mr. Clown ice cream in the menu and since we went for the Dark Knight movie in the evening I didn't think twice and ordered it...and like the Joker said "Why so serious?"

Granma's Birthday

My grandma turned 89 years old this year and we celebrated her birthday with a party in Semarang.

Menu of the dinner party


Granma with mom & dad and half of my dad's family


Granma & the girls

Zaku-II at Taiwan Airport

They build this Zaku in front of the small electronic shop at Taiwan airport.

Japan - Hiroshima & Mihara

After our Taiwan visit, we flew to Hiroshima for a Mitsubishi Machine exhibition. I was so excited since I have never been to Hiroshima before. The thing is, Hiroshima airport is located somewhere in Higashi Hiroshima, with Hiroshima city on the west and Mihara on the east. In other words, the airport is located somewhere in the middle and it takes around 1-hour bus trip to go to either side. I wanted to stay in the city but Mitsubishi booked us in Hiroshima Airport Hotel.

It is the nearest hotel to the airport that I know of. Only across the street from airport. I went to the airport many times because the only konbini around there is at the airport. But it's actually a pretty good hotel, and the with good engineer the hotel is very very soundproof. I can see the airport from my room (picture below) but I can't hear anything from outside. And Steve package was already waiting for me at the reception...I'll take pictures of the package later...thanks braddah!

Hashizune-san from Daiei Tokyo picked us up at the airport and he took us to the city in the morning. We just spent our time in Hon Dori, the shopping street in Hiroshima. I couldn't take pictures because we were busy walking around looking for omiyage. And we didn't have the chance to go anywhere else since we only had so little time. Then we took the shinkansen to go to Mihara for the exhibition in the factory, which is really really big.

That night, Hashizune-san together with Maruoka-san and Takakuwa-san entertained us with a fine Japanese dining. It was fun because they can speak a little Indonesian and when the sake kicked in, it was pretty loud and fun. We almost had an accident with the fish tempura dish (I think it's called Kizu tempura). Maruoka-san said they always serve fish fresh and we can eat everything of it. And you can see what happened in the picture below. He's lucky that he didn't swallow that thing. As usual in Japan, the manager came and apologized many many times. And we stopped eating the head.

It was very fun and I hope I can go to Hiroshima for vacation next time.

Taiwan Visit

My business trip to Taiwan was very interesting. Actually, that was my first time in Taipei city. I usually only stayed somewhere in Taoyuan because most of the machine factories are located there. This time I had a chance to stay in Taipei because my father was with us and he decided to stay at Sheraton near Taipei main station. The station is very big with quite spacious underground mall inside.

It was a very tiring business trip tho. We visit 2-3 factories a day, starting from 8-9am to around 5-6pm everyday and continued with dinner meeting at night. But it's good that I still have time to visit Nova in front of Taipei main station. I arrived there 10 minutes before they closed the store...got myself a Mario Kart for Wii. I also got the chance to visit the area called Ximending which is quite similar to Shibuya.

I didn't have a chance to visit Taipei 101 tho. But my father's friend Scott and Paul took us for dinner in a very nice chinese restaurant on top of Shangrila hotel (I forgot the name). They serve Shanghai food French style. And we can see Taipei 101 from the restaurant...I couldn't take pictures because it was dark. Anyway, here's pictures from the dinner and some of the food. The rests of the pictures are machines :(