upper east side?

We're in J-town last week, attending Ricky's bestfriend wedding and Ricky is one of the best men. We're staying in Hotel Mulia fo the first two days and honestly I'm quite disappointed with the room, it's old and dark hence spacious. On the third day, we moved to Grand Hyatt Penthouse! And it's wauwwwww!! I'm totally in love with the design, it's similar to Blair Waldorf's house if you watched Gossip Girl series. It has 2 big bedrooms, spacious living room and dining room, study room and kitchen. It's my fist time staying in Penthouse and walaaaa it feels up in the air. Imagine living in Upper East Side world! U know what I mean.....

Surprise!

Two days ago, we're waiting in the boarding room in Jakarta airport. We took the earliest flight at 6:30 am, which means we need to woke up at around 4am. Basically we didn't have a good sleep. Both of us were very sleepy and tired after all busy and fun days in Jakarta. Suddenly we heard the operator called our names. And we thought hmmmm what went wrong? Somehow, don't you think it's so easy for human to think all the negative possibility that might happened? Cut the story short, we walked to the operator desk and the ladies said "you're lucky, you've got upgraded to Business Class" Me and Ricky look at each other with wide smile :))

This's the second time we've got upgraded to Business Class!! Praise the Lord and I hope more to come :D Lesson to learn, I need to have more positive attitude and thinking :))

my new BFF :)

I've been complaining about the pain and discomfort on my right hand for a while and it gets worst everytime I do my baking especially when I have to do lots of mixing and creaming. Few days ago, my hand mixer was broken and I feel so sad :( So we were browsing around for mixer on Saturday, 3rd Sept, and Ricky bought me a present, my dream KitchenAid stand mixer in candy apple red! I chose the new model which comes with 2 mixing bowl, 5 and 3 Quart. And the flat beater and dough hook are made from metal. Blessing in disguise!

Yesterday, I tried to use the mixer and wauwwww I'm speechless and amazed with the result. It makes my baking process so much easier. Creaming the butter seems effortless to me. Really it's my new BFF in my kitchen! No wonder all the top notch bakers and chefs love to use KitchenAid!

Thank you hubby ^^

3rd Sept 2011

Dentist after 13 years

When's your last visit to Dentist? The last time I went to Dentist was maybe 13 years ago. It's been a long long time huh.... So finally Ricky made a Dentist appointment for me on last Saturday but it was postponed due to some water problem in the building. So at the end I went to Dentist this morning. I love my Dentist, he's very kind and he seems really good on it. Totally different from my Dentist in Medan who look very serious!

I'm very nervous and very much ready to hear all the complains from the Dentist. I did the X-ray too. Honestly, I'm quite amazed with all the hi-tech tools. It's totally different from what I saw 10 over years ago. He started the examination and he said NO PROBLEM at all with your teeth, all are very well maintained. And I was super duper happyyyyy!!! Next step, he did the cleaning and polishing. It's a little pain but still endurable. Finally, he checked the X-ray result and he told me "you will never have any wisdom teeth, that's very rare but you're one of the lucky one" My heart jumps even faster!!! I'm so grateful!! Deep in my heart said maybe God knows that I can't bear any kind of pain so he didn't give me any wisdom teeth :)

I promised myself to go to Dentist at least once a year for my own goodness and since it's all covered by insurance hihihihhi :p So my next visit will be on August 2012 :)

Summer Holiday

Summer holiday is finishing soon. Went to Macau for a short getaway on the 15th July to celebrate our 2 years wedding anniversary at Four Seasons Hotel. It was great and totally love the service, and the atmosphere. Above all I'm so grateful to have such a thoughtful husband :)

Three days later, I went back to Medan for almost 10 days last month, enjoying the Indo's luxury life such as go to salon everyday, massage, spent time with my family, not to forget EAT sate padang, martabak manis, kwetiaw goreng, mie pansit, nasi padang, etc etc etc!

And tomorrow I'm off to Singapore for another summer break for a week with my mom, sis and bro before starting my hectic schedule on the 23rd August. And here goes another eating list. I can't wait to eat Boon Tong Kee chicken rice, Newton fried oyster, yakun kaya toast, old chang kee curry puff, and CHILI CRAB at Long Beach! O well get ready to gain weight again.... That's the saddest part :(

Anyway, have a lovely summer and

Happy Summer hols everybody :)

i love it...

I'm not the best teacher in the world,

Not graduated from some kind of fancy University,

but I always put my best effort in all I do,

passionate about it

and always

gets really excited when I see my student improves in their playing

Few days ago I received an email from one of the parents:

"I must say thank you to you that you have absolutely inspired my girls and both of them are enjoying playing the piano now.She had the final audition yesterday and she will be one of the children who are playing for her graduation ceremony. The reason why I am pleased is not because she is being chosen. It's because she wants to do it and bothers to practise for the audition. Your effort and encouragement is really appreciated".

Can't asked for more but I'm truly grateful to be able to inspire and encourage

my students to love piano

Sometimes I wonder how I do it but I believe it's God's grace, wisdom and

favor that overflow in me

....I love to be a teacher, never regret a single day....

home sweet home

It's been 7 months I live in Hongkong and I started to call it home now. I realize home is where you are with your most loved one, it's a place where you found your joy and happiness. Even though I've been married since July 2009 but practically we are only together and live as husband and wife for 7 months. I love the feeling that I'm not alone anymore but he's always there by my side and we could talk about everything from the silly stuffs to serious matters. Thank God for this wonderful 7 months in HK and I believe greater journey are yet to come.

Still remember clearly the time when we were searching for apartment. As you know all apartments in HK are pretty old and look quite scary from the outside. But Thank God! He's never too late but He's just right in time and give us this apartment which just launch 3 months before we moved in on last November. So it's a brand new apartment and unit that we are in now. And it's so close to the city like only 10 minutes journey. Furthermore, it's a full facilities apartment with swimming pool, a huge gym area, yoga/dance studio, piano room, massage room, function room and I like the most is it has the steam and sauna in the changing room! I really love my apartment here :)

Because it's a brand new unit, so it is totally empty and we need to fill in with all the furnitures even the lighting. But I do really enjoy the time when we search for the furniture and keep in mind the mood of the home that we want.

So here's a short tour to my little sanctuary that I call home!

our cosy living room

cuckoo clock from German

musical mask from Venice

mask from Venice

our mini library

my baking spot

photos gallery which shows all the country that we went before,

it leads to our bed room and changing room

finally we found this painting

bedroom

my changing room

of course, bathroom