Om Umar jalan jalan

Ada Om Umar nih! Jalan-jalan di HK. Om Umar ini temen baik ayah sejak masa kuliah. Cuma sebentar sih... tapi Wina dapet buanyak boneka hasil kemenangan main di AIA HK Carnival, hehehe. Ayah seneng banget Om Umar dateng berkunjung.

-----msh di apt---------Om Umar coba peruntungan---------Gedean bonekanya drpd Wina---

Beijing Freezing

Beijing, is a huge city like Jkt, but more structured, cleaner, wide pathway and public transport friendly (that doesn't sound like jkt, eih?). We went there on Jan 4-7, already knew that the temperature is below 10. But what we didn't expect is the wind that made the current temp add -10. Brrrr...it's freezing!!

We went to the Summer Palace (get the idea why it's called SP, coz it's only beatiful if u go there on summer), Great Wall Badaling, Beijing Zoo, Temple of Heaven, Tiannamen Square and Forbidden City (huge..HUGE palace square). We went to some other park and palace, but those mentioned are the must visit. Too bad we didn't have the time to ride any hutong (a.k.a becak), and also missed the Great Tomb. Oh, but we saw a big mosque. Fyi, there's quite a population of moslem chinese living in the city, and we got to see some of em walking with their peci on.

Anyway, the most coldest time is when were at the top of Badaling. Man... we couldn't even stand straight coz the wind keep blowing us off our feet. And withWina in her stroller, we couldn't go strolling the wall up and down in stream stairs. So there we were, only made it for about 15 minutes on the Badaling Wall. Fiuhhh! Hands and feets r all frozen -almost had frozzbite-.

The only barrier is language. The people doesn't speak english. When we got in the cab from airport to hotel, cab driver didn't know our hotel. Apparently, they turned avery single word into chinese. Do you know what Hilton or Hyatt in chinese? I can't even say it! So, everytime we went out, we stoped by at the concierge to get the chinese writing for every place we tended to visit. Phew!!

Macau Watchout

Finally we stepped our foot in Macau, after living for quite a while in HK -as if we're such a busy person, hehehe-. By ferry, we went there with Mama & Pawo & we were lucky enough to get fist class lounge with normal price (thanx to our patience being a waiting list for earlier ride). I thought 6 hours in Macau wasn't enough to see all the sightseeing, but it was done in 4 hours. Wow! Macau was actually small -didn't expect that-. Well... we didn't cover all, just the famous attractions, and we didn't gamble nor shopped, so it pretty much done in 4 hours. We saw Portuguese signs everywhere, & they say that it's the official language (& Chinese), so we assumed the citizen can speak Portuguese. "No we don't. I think even the government officers barely speak Portuguese," said the driver. Shocking!

First we stopped by at the famous St. Paul's Ruins (this place is like "u r not in Macau if u don't visit this". Next to it is Monte Fort, that give a splendid views of Macao on top. Then the driver passed by a lot of casinos down town -huge casinos-. We stopped at one of the casinos just to watch a dancing water fountain in front of it, pretty. Macau museum is also inside the Fort.

----------- St. Paul's Ruins ----------------- Mont Fort ----------------- Macau Museum ----------

Then the driver took us to some temples like A Ma Temple, another one i forgot. But it was nothing compare to China's and Hong Kong's. Not interesting. Macao Tower is very tall, but it look similar with Auckland's Sky Tower, though Macau is taller. There's a bungy jumping nearby, I was so eager to try it, but it was on maintenance check. Not lucky!

---------- Garden ---------------------------------- Fisherman's Wharf ----------------------------

At the end of the trip, the driver dropped us at Macau Fisherman's Wharf. Naaaahh, this is the best attraction in Macau. It's a theme park that replicates Cape Town, Italy, and Amsterdam. Hehehe, at last Wina feel fun in Macau.

Overall, i must say if you are not gambling in Macau, the place is less interesting. But, it wouldn't hurt to visit just to take a glimpse of this beautiful man made city that offers mortality excitement.

Mama's here, horraayy!!

Mama tinggal di HK selama 2 miggu akhir tahun 2006, Wina seneng banget! Lagi suasana natal di HK, jadi meriah deh jalan. Mama beliin Wina big Elmo, trus nganterin Wina skolah, belanja, maen ke taman, ada juga x'mas party(cuma ngeramein aja) di skolah Wina ikutan juga. Wina sempet sakit beberapa hari, jadi gak kemana2 deh. Trus 3 hari sebelom natal, pawo dateng bergabung. Baru deh jalan2 serius, naik Ngong Ping, liat Giant Buddha (guede benerr). Haha, pas naik cable carnya agak2 seyyem, soalnya puannjaaanng banget. Gak lupa ke Harbour jg, dan the Peak(wajib bo).

Precious Moments

Just as what the title say, first of all i must tell you who Wina is. Full name is Jausha Winayla Dewita, born at Jun 4th 2004, Jakarta, produced by me and Toni as a gift from our hawtt honeymoon, hehe. The first two years she grew up between PI house and her mama's house, in Duren Sawit. Breastfeed her till 8 months, gotta stop coz of work 'bootcamp', i was isolated the whole month, missed her and her dad so much. I was no longer a full time mommy, the title goes to her grandma, mama. I worked as a PR in a national electricity company.

So many unforgettable stories, like on the day she was born i was enjoying Mcd in the morning. At 6 months, she fell from a 10 steps of stairs while playing in her baby wheel. She stayed in a hospital due to a virus just in her 7 months age, saddest moment. She had seasons of smile and laugh (one day it was giggling laugh, next months it was princess laugh!????). First word, first stand, first walk, first birthday, first run, first tantrum...... my very precious two years!

Konichiwa Tokyo!

Moshi moshi. We're at Tokyo! Huhuhu, I was so excited!!! I mean, this is the second Asia city most wanted to visit in my list. JUst going off the plane my body giggled happily..... hehehe.

Toni was on a meeting here for three days. But we extended longeg so we could take a look around Tokyo. As usual, getting around with Toni is getting around independently. He's very different from my dad. My dad would take some time to study the city that we're gonna visit and tried to cover as many places as we can, take all the important city tour, as if we might never go back there. Toni... he would think a lot of her lil girl, won't take exhausting trip, won't take trip that would make him nausea... Seems like we're in a hurry yet the trip we're taking are trivial.

But anyway, I'm just glad I finally stepped my foot here in Tokyo. Yada!!!!!

So on the days on his meeting, we stayed at Hyatt, but on our own expenses holiday, we moved to Prince Shinjuku Hotel, hehehe..... so moved in and out of Shinjuku. Shinjuku is the central Tokyo. Thank god it wasn't too far from Shinjuku Station, where there's a shuttle bus to Hyatt. The airport was very far away, and we were also caught up by traffic on the highway.

Tokyo is a big city like Jakarta. It has a lot of districts. We didn't covered all the district, there are 23 of 'em. But we did go the famous districts, such as Shibuya, Harajuku, Ginza, Odaiba, and Shinjuku of course.

The only tour we took is to Hakone, is at the foot of Mount Fuji, where there are a lot of hot spring water, Lake Ashi -a popular tourist attraction- and Hakone Ropeway, cable car alongside the Lake which goes to the top of Mount Komagatake. We didn't hopped on to Hakone Ropeway becoz Toni couldn't ride it (he has a high phobia) and I couldn't ride it alone, leaving Wina with him. So we just enjoyed the hot spring. It's really fascinating how they design the hot spring, there are many kind of water; green tea, coffee, mud sea... or entertaining type; stream, slides etc.

Fashion is also something else to look at there. Either they are very conservative or very girlish.

Lots of barbiedoll lookalike in every corner of Shinjuku to Harajuku. What's also amazed me is how they just wear a short skirt in a very cold windy temperature. So fashion victims!

Another unforgetable experience is that we rode a Gigantic Ferris Wheel on a tranparent cubic. OMG, i couldn't move my head and body, and I was shaking like crazy. Toni and Wina ddin't seem to have trouble looking around, while I am dead-frost! I will never forget the feeling, and never ever gonna ride on any transparent thing in a high places. But the good news is, since then, I never had any high phobia in getting to very high places. How weird and lucky! hehehe....

Hellow blog!

Hello!!! It's my first post in my own blog!! Finally i made a blog, it's about time! I have so much to write about, so it looks like i'm going back and forth in filling it, just like Memento. So many journeys we made before and after living in Hong Kong -not to mention future trips-, quite enchanting moments, with Wina tagging along everywhere, haha... She's a very lucky baby i guess! So slowly but surely, I'm gonna fill the blank pages in this blogs until u won't noticed the page templates anymore. Good luck to me! I hope i don't loose the mood (I'm such a moody person) n