the birthday stroll

First thing first, before I head to another weekend, let me recap my birthday last week. On the day of my birthday, there were two disasters hits my beloved country, Indonesia. The explosion of Gunung Merapi and the other one is tsunami which strike one of the beautiful small island, Mentawai. There were lots of  casualties caused by these disasters and my deep condolence goes to them who have lost their loved one.

After Jakarta was also receiving a heavy rain and massive traffic, here I am with my family having seafood dinner at Kelapa Gading. We were really full with Ikan Gurame Goreng, Ikan Bakar, Kepiting Soka, Kangkung, Cumi and Udang saos Padang. Sounds very delicious, isn’t it.

Next day, I had a birthday celebration with my boss. The dinner it self take place in Harum Manis. It is a Fine dinning Indonesian cuisine which located in the area of Apartment Batavia. It was even more great, especially with the surprise cake which suddenly came with their home band singing happy birthday. Making me so touched and overwhelm. Not to mention, Harum Manis also giving me a one small plate of Tumpeng.
After we had dinner, we went to karaoke at Senayan City, XKTV. Last time I’ve been to this karaoke was when Erica having her bachelorette party. We had fun, except the karaoke remote control was totally irritating, it doesn’t really work properly. We even had the technical assistant coming to check the bloody remote and TV, and finally we changed room. Anyway..i had a wonderful time.

The following day was my time with Genk awur-awuran Ama, Riefa and Lydia. We had no other than Italian. Apparently this time we didn’t go to our favorite place Pepenero, but we choose to spend our session at Cheese Cake factory, Cikini. We didn’t want to take the risk to reach somewhere far despite of the heavy intense traffic. But it seems that even the closet place we could ever reach was also surrounded by traffic. How I hate Jakarta!!. As we catching up each other story, we also try to give our best friend a support and courage to face her big day of surgery. Hopefully, everything going well with her and she could get her spirit, smile and health back again.
Afterwards, we continue our silly conversation and laugh at Bakoel Coffe, which was just across the street from cheese cake factory. This time, I treated them a little something to drink.


On Friday, it was my time with Icha, Imel and Dessy. I decided to treat them at Ikan Bakar Pak Ugi. Not so convenient place tough, but it was definitely value for money along with the great taste. Taking this moment also, Imel was reviling her divorce story. Tragically she got abuse physically by her former husband. She is now standing as a single mother, struggling a better life for her and only son. I just want her to know that she always have her friends and family who always support her. But then again, I know the situations are not easy to deal with.
Just further down the street of Kelapa Gading Boulevard, we were craved for Es Pisang Ijo and so we went there and had a bowl of es pisang Ijo to close our night. Consider that as a desert.

As for this week closing, on Saturday afternoon I went to Social House for Lunch having a tasty four cheese pizza and fettuccini, not to mention the great ambience and even more complete with a little surprise birthday cake which brought by all the waiters in social house by singing happy birthday. I felt really embarrassed, but that was the sweetest. What can I say ????

After I met with Dewi who picked us up at Grand Indonesia, then we went straight to Bogor. The plan wasn’t really going too well when we arrived at House of Cupcakes. Nice little place, but actually there weren’t much variety of meals. Well, except the cupcakes, obviously.
And, since it was on Saturday night, many restaurants were full, but luckily we manage to get our self a seat at Warung Kita. We went to Puncak after we had dinner, just to have the taste of Jagung Bakar and feels the night cool weather there.

Then, it’s all a wrap.

:: Kadang banyak hal yang memang harus kita syukuri. Banyak hal yang bisa kita petik dari kehidupan orang lain di sekitar kita. If somehow you thought you are the loneliest person in this entire universe, well you are wrong. Some even sleeping with their dog just to keep them accompany and erase the loneliness out of their life. And also, I do learn one thing that happiness does come from within. Lots of married couple’s lived unhappy some got beaten by their spouse just like my friend. So, then again I was wrong. i used to think that getting married will bring to my happiness but unfortunately married might not be the only key to your happiness. But, the key to your own genuine happiness is your self.
So..go on create it.