Dino Duel

The Arcade game industry has evolved much nowadays. Threaten by the home console, they introduced card based system arcade machine. Each time you play you will get a new card which you can collect and also serve as memory card to store your game customized settings or simply to unlock your game character as part of The game play. This one is Dino Duel which Rafif start to like and begin collecting the character cards.

Buying Koi Fish

Aya and Rafif are weighing their options on which Koi fishes to buy at Radio Dalam fish seller center.

My First Folding Bike

Bought my first Folding bike last weekend. Cant wait to take this baby for a ride tomorrow.

Kartini Day

We celebrate Kartini Day today by wearing traditional Indonesian attire such as Batik and Kebaya.

Agung and Cika Housewarming

We attended Agung and Cika house warming party. They just moved in to their new house at Pondok Indah area. The house has modern minimalist design with few touch of wooden arts, which is nice. Congrats Gung, Cik!

Jimbaran Resto Ancol

The best thing about Bali you can find in Jakarta without going there: Jimbaran restaurant at Ancol. It has beach side, open air restaurant which replicates Jimbaran sea food place in Bali. Tonight it has Balinese dance and music performance, an excellent way to showcase total Balinese atmosphere.

On the Top of The World

Elok and Aya sit on Dufan's ferris wheel while we are on the top altitude. An attraction that never gets old.

Sea World Tunnel

Aside Dufan, Sea World remains to become favourite among Ancol visitors. Here we observe the fish through its giant aquarium tunnel.

Morning Cycling at Ancol

We spend two nights in Mercure Ancol this long weekend. Ancol offers lots of family entertainments from theme park, beach to giant aquarium. We opted to do cycling around the beach this morning. Fun and healthy.

Blue Marked Finger

Those who had voted will be marked with this permanent blue ink on their finger which will stay for 2-3 days. This will cease for a person to vote twice. I have exercised my right to Vote! Now ladies and gentlemen, please use our vote responsibly! Allah bless us.

The Voting Sheet

Here is the Voting Sheet to vote your legislative party of choice. Well with so much names unheard of, most of Indonesians have only 5-8 choices. My vote is in!

Elok Exercises Her Right to Vote

Elok is exercising her right to vote, accompanied by the ever curious Aya :-)

List of Candidates

Supposedly we can look at the names of Candidates it this board. But our Voting post received only 1 from 3 lists, and none of the candidates I personally know or heard of. Oh well. At least I know which party to choose.

Our Voting Post

This is our voting post, TPS 33 Bambu Apus, where we will exercise our vote. This is the typical Indonesian voting post, decorated just like traditional Wedding tent.

Let's Go to Vote!

Today is election day for Indonesia to choose our legislative representatives. I and Elok are registered as voters in Bambu Apus, Elok's mother house. As good citizens we all go together to TPS (Tempat Pemungutan Suara), or voting place. As shown are Uki, Endah, Elok and Elok's mom.

Meet with Nat

One of our Singapore International Foundation fellow from Thailand, Nat, visited Jakarta for business. Ubai, Rey, Miki and me had dinner with her in Grand Hyatt hotel. We haven't met for 13 years, so it's been a good reunion.

Supper in Wiwied

We have supper tonight at Wiwied, popular Roti Bakar place, just few minutes from our house. Aya and Rafif enjoy the food as much as we do.

Helping Out Aya on Her Project

Aya has presentation to do on Tuesday, hence she has to prepare her story board. Well, that turns into a family affair, everybody is lending their hand to complete the project.

The Suka Motret Group

From left to right: Rima (apparently annoyed with the flying bee on her right side), Anung, Dine, Marcus, Cika, Iben and Winny (not shown, as she was the one who took photo.. sorry Win!)

Situ Gunung

This is Situ Gunung lake, our destination for photo hunting. Alas, as we were so tired, had just arrived in our camp at midnight, we woke us late and could not catch the early morning sun. So much for a photo trip.

The Camping Ground

Our camping ground for this photo hunting trip. It's nice and really can make us sleep well last night.

Five Star Camp

We spent a night at Tanakita camp, a so called 'five star' camping site. The comfortable beds inside the tent really invite the tired body and legs to lay down and call it a day.

On the Way to Situ Gunung

My office photography buddies arrange a photo hunting trip to Situ Gunung lake. We left the office quite late, had a dinner first in Jakarta, and stopped by a rest area near Ciawi toll gate. Hope we still have energy to wake us early tomorrow.