What’s important to you when you chose a hotel? Location? Price? Decor? Breakfast? Service? Bed? For us, location is very important. I also like to stay at a hotel with a nice … Read more
Monday Mode ☆ Vietnamese Ao Dai
My girls love their new dress-up outfits from Vietnam, Ao Dai (pronounced Ao Yai in the south and Ao Zai in the north), the Vietnamese national costume.
I had always had an image of wo… Read more
Wednesday Wall2Wall ☆ Asian Ruby 3 Hotel Ho Chi Minh City
ASIAN RUBY 3 HOTEL in Ho Chi Minh City
Kids Bedroom
Our Room
This door connects the two rooms, the one my husband and I slept and the other room where our two girls slept. It was great to h… Read more
Back From The Land Of Pho, Vietnam!
We just got home from our vacation in Vietnam. What a fabulous time we had! We were in Ho Chi Minh City and Hoi An. I have so many photos to sort through and edit. We loved our time there an… Read more
Project KOI ☆ Photography IV
This is the fourth session of the series of the Project KOI. I take these photos, but I am also in charge of styling the table and decorating the space by putting ornaments and decorat… Read more
Project KOI ☆ Photography III Belgian Mussels
How about KOI’s special Belgian mussels with wine?
Or with Beer?
It comes with good looking fries in a cone.
The owner of KOI Restaurant and Gallery, Alain Cornil, is origina… Read more
Kids In A New Outfit
My older daughter got this shirt and jeans from my husband’s dad and step-mom as a Christmas gift and my younger daughter got this dress from my husband’s mom and step-… Read more
Monday Mode ☆ Gray Shirt Variation
skirt: LOFT, shirt: unknown bought at ITC Permata Hijau
skirt: LOFT, shirt: unknown bought at ITC Permata Hijau, necklace: gift, earrings: Bay Window in Rockport, Texas
necklac… Read more
Merry Christmas 2010
This is what it looks like after my girls opened their gifts and had Christmas breakfast. Aren’t they couch potatoes? They’re watching “It’s a Very Mer… Read more
Project KOI ☆ Photography II Florence Dining Collection
Florence Dining Collection
With this photo project with KOI Restaurant & Gallery, I am assigned a subject or area where the photos need to be taken for the day. If the subject is … Read more
Our 3-Year-Old’s First Haircut & Bangs
Our second daughter had the first haircut this past Sunday. It all started spontaneous. When I was cutting my first daughter’s bangs in my bathroom on Sunday, December 19, 2… Read more
Project KOI ☆ Photography I
This is a photo I took and KOI used on their table ad for an early bird breakfast for two (or more) which KOI introduced to its customers in the recent past. Basically you pay for the cof… Read more
Kaki Lima ☆ Street Vendor in Jakarta
Kaki Lima literally means five legs in Bahasa Indonesia. If you look at the food cart in the first photo, you see that there are two wheels and 3 legs supporting the cart. Street vendo… Read more
BAZAAR FASHION CONCERTO 2010 ☆ FASHIONTECH
BAZAAR Fashion Concerto 2010 hosted by Harper’s BAZAAR Indonesia was simply incredible and fascinating. I have always dreamed of going to a fashion show and thanks to my fr… Read more
Friday Finds ☆ Hotel Aryaduta Lippo Village Karawaci
ARYADUTA HOTEL IN LIPPO VILLAGE, KARAWACI
HOTEL ROOM – CABIN SUITE
Since we stayed during the promotion, which I will explain about later in this post, I have nothing but goo… Read more
BAZAAR FASHION CONCERTO
I had a wonderful opportunity to go to a fashion show, BAZAAR FASHION CONCERTO 2010 (music starts when you access the site), the very first time in my life, thanks to my new friend, Vi… Read more
Mart ☆ Japanese Magazine
Weekend in Lippo Village ☆ Karawaci
How was your weekend? We had a great one. We went to the town 30 km from the heart of Jakarta called Karawaci. I heard about this place from my friend, Julie, when I was telling her that m… Read more
Birthday Girl
I never knew until I became a parent that birthdays are exhausting. Is it just me? I had another daughter’s birthday on Tuesday, the 23rd. My two girls have birthdays within t… Read more
Indie Ink
Have you heard of Indie Ink? I learned about it from the blog I recently discovered Sunday Photo through one of the blogs I follow, Croatia.
I noticed that Krystal, the author of Sund… Read more
Fancy Indonesian Movie Theater ☆ CINEMA XXI
Last Thursday was a day off for my husband, so we took our girls to see a movie. We watched “Megamind”.
We went to Cinema XXI inside of Plaza Senayan for the first time. It … Read more
UN Day at School
My child’s school dedicated two days to celebrate diversity at the school. They called it a UN Day. The first day was a food tasting for students to try food from different cou… Read more
Saturday Night at Grand Indonesia
It’s Monday! How was your weekend? I hope you had a nice weekend and you will have a pleasant Monday. I kind of like Mondays because it’s a fresh start of a week.
Last Satu… Read more
Traffic + Rain in Jakarta = Cahaya Revisit
I deal with the hustle and bustle of Jakarta on a daily basis. We still don’t own a car, so I use taxis to go everywhere. Since sometimes it’s faster to walk, I walk. This i… Read more
Movie Premiere in Jakarta ☆ EAT PRAY LOVE
My husband and I received invitations to go to the premiere for “Eat Pray Love” in Jakarta last night. It was part of the Balinale Movie Festival. It was my first experi… Read more