Grand Indonesia again

This time I brought a pocket camera with me. Everything is inside the mall:








We ate at 5th Avenue restaurant. They have a promo of buy 1 get 1 free for pasta and dessert. I didn't go for the pasta because the steak looks great...but I did go for the dessert. Some restaurants won't allow us to take pictures now...so I took them using my phone's camera. Also, we watched Uber Cup at the restaurant, Indonesia lost to China at the Final (0-3)... it was sad, especially with our lost to Korea at Thomas Cup the day before, also 0-3 :(

Steak with Mushroom Sauce


Chicken Parmigiana


Dessert

Sunday lunch and Grand Indonesia

Went to lunch with my family at Kahyangan today. It was shabu-shabu on the very top of Wisma Nusantara (28F). The place is famous for it's food and scenery of Bunderan HI. I forgot to take pictures of the food but it's similar to regular shabu-shabu anyway...just the taste is great because they have a great sauce.

Here are pics of Bunderan HI from the restaurant:




After lunch, Judith wanted to go to Grand Indonesia. They finished decorating level 4-6 with different styles such as Broadway, Las Vegas, Romans, and China/Japan themes. I can't take pics with my phone because there was not enough light. On level 2, the Indonesian Classic Car Owner Club (ICCOC) put their cars for exhibition. Here are pics of the cars (more cars over there but I couldn't take pictures because there're too many people):

PICCI Congress V in Nusa Dua Bali

I had a congress to go in Bali last weekend so I took my wife there with me. Everything was arranged by PICCI so we basically had little privacy time and the schedule was so tight that I couldn't really enjoyed the trip. But we went to some places with beautiful scenery and I managed to take lots of pics with the DSLR and relaxed for some time...it was good anyway. Not much food pics because we got buffet most of the time. Anyway, here are the pics:

Just arrived:


At the beach:


The Hotel:






The Convention Center right in front of the hotel:




Hard Rock Cafe Kuta:





Beautiful sceneries:




Villa below the cliff:


I'll post more pics tomorrow since my internet connection is very very slow now.

Singapore on Easter weekends

We went to Singapore because we had a very long weekend. Got a chance to meet Brian Pressman, a J/C classmate there. We had a nice seafood dinner and we ordered a herbal tea, which taste a lot more like medicine than tea. Anyway, these are the pictures.





Judith in front of Raffles Hotel.


Got a chance to go to Hooters after spending the whole day shopping till my feet hurt like hell. There are more pictures using my dSLR but I'm still trying to proccess the RAW files into JPEG. Will post once they are ready.

Transformers

Another pics taken by my D40...a bit photoshop...voila!

Gazelle The Peacemaker Black Beast

Took a picture of one of my collections. Picture turns out great. Still trying to use manual mode....

Pictures of New House

More pictures of the house!


Living room:


Master bedroom:


Master bathroom:




Guest room is ready!!!

Honeymoon Trip Part IV

As expected, I'm getting lazy again. Plus my internet connection is on and off all the time. So I guess I'll summarize the rest of the trip here.



After Munich, We went to Lucerne, Switzerland where we went to Mt. Titlis. It was freezing cold at 3020m.



After that, we went to Italy where we spent most of the time during the trip. Lugano, Lake Komo, Milan, Venice, Florence, Pisa, and Rome...lots of cities.



I'll try to upload more pics later but here's some pics of the local food that's really interesting and good.

Spaghetti with Squid-ink sauce (made my mouth all black)

Florentin Steak

HONEYMOON TRIP PART III

Day 7 - 8: Rothenburg - Munich

Another long bus trip :(. Actually, it's not that bad since we made a lot of stops on the way for some interesting stuff. And we got our first snow in Europe today.

When we arrived in Rothenburg. The bus had to stop outside the city wall and we took a walk around the city. Rothenburg is a very nice place, quiet, clean, and kinda relaxing. And we had our first local food for lunch today, started with a vegetable soup and a main course of hamburg.

In Munich, we went on a city tour. We went to the City Hall, Opera House, St. Peter Cathedral, Theater Straat, and Olympic Stadium. We also went to the Nymphenburg Palace with its Baroque style and lots of paintings inside. For dinner, we went to the famous restaurant called Hofbrauhaus and the menu is the famous pork knuckle. I ordered the biggest glass of beeru that they have...look at the size of the pork knuckle and the beeru. I was a bit surprised at first, but it was gooood.

Here's the pics: (outside Nymphenburg Palace and the Hofbrauhaus with the food)

Halfway of the trip already...I hope I'm not lazy to write more later...

HONEYMOON TRIP PART II

Day 5: Paris - Brussel - Amsterdam

So we were in three countries in one day: France, Belgium, and Netherlands. It was a very long ride. But it's very interesting because we had our meals in three countries; breakfast in Paris (American breakfast), lunch in Brussel (Indonesian food), and dinner in Amsterdam (Chinese food). Well, no European food so far, but we had a Belgian waffel in Brussel and it was good.

We also visited the World Exhibition 1958 "Atomium" in Brussel.





Day 6: Amsterdam - Cologne

Today, we visited Volemdam Village in Amsterdam to take pictures in traditional clothing. It was a very nice little village as you can see from the picture below.







After lunch, we left Amsterdam for Cologne in Germany...another long bus ride. There, we visited a big Cathedral

HONEYMOON TRIP PART I

Okay it's time to update my blog. After the wedding, of course it's honeymoon time. We planned our trip around Europe for 16 days. We went to various countries and it was fun except for the long bus ride from city to city. I don't really remember how many days we spent on each country though. Anyway, here's the detail of the trip:

Day 1 & 2: London

We arrived at night and we had dinner (Chinese), then straight to the hotel. The next day, we went to various tourism places: London Tower, London bridge, Big Ben, and Madam Tussaud Museum.

Day 3 & 4: Paris

The next day, we got on Eurostar to go to Paris then straight to EuroDisney. It was packed so we didn't get enjoy any ride, but we walked around the park, took a lot of pictures, and shopped a lot. At night, we got on Bateaux Mouches cruise to see all around Paris.

The next day, we went on a tour bus around Paris visiting Notre Dame, Arc De Triomphe, and Place De La Concorde, then we went on top of the famous Eiffel Tower. At night, we went to the famous street called Champs Elysees and went to Lido Cabaret show.