Singapore

Hi, I went to Singapore last week end. Of course not by my self, but with my son Akira and my wife, Aya. Aya took the airplane because her office already bought her a plane ticket. It was a long journey for me and my son, because it took 5 hours to go to Singapore by bus. Why bus? Because it was pretty cheap, about 85 ringgit for each person. Poor Akira, he keeps telling me that he was bored along the way to Singapore. We arrived at Singapore on 23:15. Akira look so tired, because we had to took off from the bus twice for the immigration stuff.

Finally, we arrived at Conrad Hotel at 12:00, Akira told me that our room is so tiny compared to ascott apartment. Yes, our room is so tiny, but who cares, we are gonna stay for only 2 days and it's free..... As long as we could sleep and go to the bathroom. It's OK Akira!!!

Aya left in the early Saturday morning because she has to attend the meeting that would be held from 9 till night. So, it's only Akira and me left. We were having so much fun together. I did not have an ambitious plan to see all of the Singapore in just two days. Akira would be whining and got tired. Mostly we just walk around the Conrad Hotel and came back to Hotel to studied, 'cause Akira will take an exam on Monday. At dawn, we took a boat and have fun together.

We (aya too) met Indra Birowo in the next Sunday morning. We had a cup of cofee at starbucks, chichat and then took a boat (again???) to see Singapore from the river point of view. At 14.30 we were heading back to Kuala Lumpur. Arrived on Kuala Lumpur at 20.00.

Kampung Warisan

At last, after moving our stuff and all of kind of kids stuff from the ascott apartment to kampung warisan, we did move to our new apartment on 3 February 2006. Thanks to Maureen who help us to bring the stuff with her big car. After 1 days stayed at Kampung Warisan, Warsih (our maid) has to go back to Indonesia, because her visa permit will be expired on 3 February.

So, I took her to the KL airport on 2 February and hope that she could take care of her self from the KL Airport to Soekarno Hatta Jakarta. And, Thank God she did! After Warsih departing, who would take care of those 2 kids? Who would give them a food, take them to bath, take care of the food, take care of the laundry? Suddenly I realize that all of Warsih responsibility would be mine soon....

Hello Malaysia

Well...we've been in Kuala Lumpur since January 3, 2006. I was quite surprise with the first apartment that we have. The apartment name was The Ascott, it was more like a hotel than an apartment, because it was really-really a big apartment, 3 room 3 bath room, 1 kitchen...and the room was very-very big. We were happy to live here, Akira and Lintang both looks happy too.

Now, we have to say goodbye to ascott, because 1 week from now we have to move to our new apartment. Our new apartment name is 'Kampung Warisan', it's quite far from KLCC, about 5 stop if you using a LRT to KLCC. Kampung Warisan doesn't look like most apartment we have seen before. It's more like a village, a kampung, surrounded by a giant tree and very quiet, far from the typical busy living of the city.

Selamat Ulang Tahun Akira

Anakku sebentar lagi berulang tahun ke 5, tanyanya semakin banyak, tawa dan jeritnya bikin budeg, loncat-loncatnya membelah bumi, takutnya membuatku bingung, mainannya membanjiri ruangan, ngompolnya membangunkan malam....

Six Feet Under

Pernah nonton film six feet under? Film drama keluaran HBO dengan cerita yang lumayan 'gelap'. Kisahnya berkisar tentang satu keluarga di kota Amerika yg mempunyai bisnis agak aneh yaitu mengurusi jenazah. Preambule dari film selalu di awali dengan kematian. Kematian berbagai macam manusia dengan berbagai macam penyebab kematiannya, tanpa pandang bulu. Terkadang penyebab kematiannya aneh, sadis dan membuat gue bergidig dan sadar bahwa ternyata kita ini semua calon mayat!!!!

Yg gue suka dari film ini masing-masing tokohnya dibangun dengan karakter-karakter nyeleneh, tapi jujur dengan berbagai macam sifat bawaannya, enggak terbebani oleh moral, agama or whatever. Dialognya enggak klise, gak kayak film sinetron kita yg semuanya serba hitam-putih, benar-salah, pinter-goblok, cantik-jelek, kaya-miskin. Jauh banget lah.....

Film ini dialognya bagus banget, kadang gak terduga. Kok bisa yah orang sono buat dialog seperti itu. Otaknya lebih gede dari kita apa yah????