回家的感觉真好！

This was my diary when i was back home in Singapore from 15-22/March 2007

自由的走动（那里都去-部分是因为健忘，走错路。 后遗征=脚痛，晚 上要擦counterpaint），
新鲜的空气（没有污染），
跳跃的步伐（因为高兴，所以 逛太多），
不停的嘴巴（原因1： 吃不停，因为怕回印尼没得吃。
原因2：讲不停，终于有人跟我讲我懂的话了，感动再感动），
随意的睡觉（高兴几点起就几点吧，别叫我）,
飞扬的嘴巴（因为高兴，可以去TM 了。注：此暗语只有亲爱的L 知道 ）
（注注：Eerrr, 别误会，亲爱的家人朋友，当然啦，看到你们我也好高好高兴哦！真的！我 somba （发誓）。


今天（16/3/07-Sat），和此亲爱的L去买了好多东西，无与论比的高兴！在印尼禁（欲/购）了好久，就为了这一天的逛街节目。心灵得了满足，以下是我的战利品，请看！

啊！我现在期待6月的到来，因为某种不便说明的原因，我跟L下次的约会只能定在那时。好期待那种买东西不担心价钱的感觉，当然，会控制不超出预算。

My new baby-Blacky

Tonight is the first night for my new baby. She is beautiful-black & shiny. The perfect gift for my birthday.

Paid an adoption fee of $1200. Will definitely bring her over to Jakarta together with her sister, Shiny. Will have to pass over information from her sister to her. Oh! I love them both but i just can't keep both of them.

Still thinking whom i shall give Shiny to? I must find a perfect mummy for Shiny, someone who can look after her and take good care of her. She is a definitely a wonderful baby,i think i also paid $1200 for her, but that was 3 or years back. I will miss her.

Have to get new cloth for Backy, when her owner passed her to me tonight, she is naked. Will search around the house tomorrow. Oh! have to remember to register her onlin by 31 March 2007.

So excited when i think of the tricks & things that i can play with her. Shiny is slow & kind of having virus, cant perform certain tricks. Otherwise, she is also perfect.

Let me introduce you to them :
My elder baby Shiny - NEC Versa
My new baby : Blacky-Compaq Presario V31316TU

昨晚的烟花很灿烂

将近晚上十点时，管理会主办的示范公寓庆祝会放了一场有十五分钟的漂亮烟花。

方向不对，在我上空，浪费了我五分钟找寻。本想放弃，但不甘心，对面公寓玻璃的反映太诱惑了，加上金牛座固执本性，嘿！终于脑 袋有灯泡了，让我想到妙计。冲进房间，拿起钥匙，开门关门飞到走廊角落。（以上动作一气呵成，花了18秒，过程中我的仪态请自个儿想象）

Bingo! 我的第八感满分！有一对情侣已经霸占了好风水，pai say ( 不好意思 )，我硬硬挤进去誓死做第三者。一切不言中，他们默默挪了点空位，被迫承认我的身份，让我分享他们的彩色夜空。

长达15分钟的烟花点缀了我的夜晚，层层火花，璀璨夺目，仿佛诉说着一页又一页的美丽童话。距离好近哦！每一次的 故事 都伴随着“砰！砰！”声，我的心跳也此起彼落。半响过后，等我回过神来，才发现我美丽的唇齿半开，好山龟哦！幸好我是站在后面，丑态没被人发现，不然当地2年半的英名荡然无存。

童话结束时，又一发现：快速公路上又大塞车了，大家都停下或放慢速度观赏雅加达难得一见的奇观。后来不知塞多久，因为我继续看CSI 7 了，剧情紧凑，连上厕所也要忍到不能再忍。

Chinese New Year 2007

Went back Singapore for my CNY, wow! How i enjoy it!The food, the atmosphere, the people, the noise(gossip) that i can understand. Sad to say, i still cant understand much of the Bahasa Indoneia after being here for 2.5 years :(

Everywhere i went to is all red red. Have you ever been to chinatown? You must have but i have no time this year to go there BUT, my dear Daddy bring it to my home! Yes! it is RED RED at my living room & outside my house :)


Let me guess how long will he put up the decoration this year? end of March? used to be for very long but now he super on, maybe just after the 15th day of new year he will remove everything. Forgot to ask him yesterday when i called to tell him i am ok here, couldnt feel the earthquake that affected so many locals as well as some places in Singapore.

如果shopping = 贡献

印尼昨天又发生地震了，强度高达6。3。早报说80 个人死亡，几百个人无家可归。
难怪姐姐昨天发简讯给我，问我还好吗？原来她的公司靠近海边，大厦有震动，职员都被疏散到楼下，以防建筑有危险。二哥也来简讯，问我安危。和以往一样，我都很安全，也blur blur　的不知道发生什么事。让家人担心，想想，还真过意不去。晚上，赶忙给亲爱的爸爸打电话报平安。姐姐早早就给他打电话，说我没事了。小哥也打给爸爸问我的情况。亲情好温暖！
也许是我福报好吧！印尼近期发生了那么多天灾人祸，我都无恙。只可怜当地穷人，一波未平，一波又起。先是２００７年１月１日Adam Air　坠机，１０２人遇难，一直到现在，连尸体也找不回。再来土崩，后来１月底整个雅加达淹水长达一个多星期。现在３月份又来地震，阿弥陀佛！够了吧！
新加坡无天灾，人祸也没，因为政府管得很严，人民生活都很太平。庆幸我是一个新加坡人。来这里是我的选择，学了也经验了在国内无法得到的体验。希望在这里的期间，用我微薄的力量，为印尼做一点事情。当然，如果shopping 也算是一样贡献，哈哈！

My luggage bag full of Fooooood!

Came back Jakarta on Monday (26/2). Wow! Like pao lu(running away from home),soooo many foods inside my luggage bag, about 90% are food. 20kg, just nice :)
Things that i brought back :

1 roasted duck
rou gan
8 duck wings (4 for $1)
half chicken(to cook rice wine chicken for my friends in Jakarta on sunday)
yu shen (for lao qi)- a singaporean way of celebrating new year, symbolising prosperity, wealth & health
canned food like fishmaw soup (yu piao)
Twisties (2×10 pkts)for Deng
Prawn noodle at Tampines Blk 138 market-damn good, tried last sunday morning,but not so good aldy when we ate it on Monday.
some dried food for my vegetarian meal on every Monday
pig’s oil meat (daddy just fried for me, can put it in when fried vegetables)
Gifts for parents who look after me in Jakarta-maybe buy cookies from Prima Deli
Gardenia raisin Bread

The rest of the 10% are : 2 English books, 3 Chinese books, 1 magazine, 3 newspaper (wan bao, Strait Times)

Oh!! How i miss Singapore food

Rich Dad Poor Dad in Indonesia

Rich Dad : The typical lifestyles of the rich dad are listed below.
Lives in BIG bungalows with villas in every places (Singapore, Australia,UK, etc.)
Many servants - since their pay is only Rp 250 000 to Rp 600 000 (S$50 to S$ 120)
many cars - i saw my student's house at least 4 cars (maybe no COE so can afford to buy?)
Travel during holidays to Europe taking Business class for the whole family. Accomodation? u make a guess, 4 star or 5 star?
Big business like owner of well known restaurants, patrol station, jewellery shop, TV stations, bank, etc.
Education - international schools with school fees amount to few thousands US dollars per term for their children. Otherwise, their children will be studying overseas with own bungalow n car.


Poor Dad : These are the really unfortunate one in here.
No house, stay under bridge or along the dusty road.
No job - beg for food & money. Sometimes, kids as young as few years old begging for food on the street, along the road.
No education.
No integrity-they do whatever they can to survive.
No money or saving.

The living standard here is very low. To quote few examples,see below.
A simple meal of rice, 1 main dish cost Rp 5000 (S$0.85)
Coca-Cola:Rp2000 (S$0.33)
T-shirt :Rp 10 000 (S$1.70)
DVD-not original : Rp 5000 (S$0.85) Buy 10 get 1 free
Facial : Rp 80 000 onwards (S$13.60)
Spa : Rp 150 000 (S$25)
Transport by Trans Jakarta (Air-con)flat rate: Rp 3500 (S$0.60)
Restaurant meal with drink: Rp 100 000 (S$17)
Maid's pay per month(stay in): Rp 250 000 (S$42)
2 room apartment (fully furnish) : rental =Rp 30 million/yr (S$5084/yr), buy=Rp 300 million (S$51k)

This article is jsut an observation of what i know,what i see. I used to be a mountain tortise,open my mouth wide wide when i heard about how rich the people here can be. But now,my mouth not so big aldy,unless u can really impress me. Still must say, 'The gap between the rich & poor are too wide.'

烧香拜佛我还活

75% 的雅加达都被水淹了，我是幸运的25%， 也可能是10%吧！

第一：水没淹到我家-我住公寓高楼
第二：有电，有水-没有电我怎么上网？没有水-如何上大小号？洗澡？不行！
第三：有钱 - 嘿！不是我炫耀，新加玻人来这里全都是亿万富翁。不信？
ok, lets calculate : 比如你很穷，只有S＄1000 在POSB
S＄1000 x Rp 5900 = Rp 5 900 000！
亲爱的，来到这里，你的身价爆涨，是个亿万户。
这里的工资，比方说一个佣人，每个月的月资是 Rp 250 000 ，秘书月资是Rp 2 500 000。
第四：有饭，肉，菜，水果，零食，食用水
朋友好惨，普通一瓶AQUQ 平时卖Rp 9500 ，因为附近缺水，卖了强盗价Rp 50 000 ！

比上不足，比下有余。所以，朋友，惜福啊！

Borobudur-Indonesia-Yogjakarta

记忆的味道

妈妈做的最后一个布包，我还收着
12 月份回家时找到的，好担心会不见，赶快藏好，也存挡起来。用的布是妈妈家常服改过后剩下的，青色小花， 就像她一样淳朴。整个包都是她亲手做的，花了她好几个星期。

那时，妈妈的视力已逐渐减弱，行动也慢了。有几次的针还是我穿的线。做的过程中她好泄气，后期癌症让她好无力，沮丧，痛苦。但是，她 还是咬牙坚 持下去完成了。

我永远爱你，怀念你，妈妈。

Egg with 2 egg yolks

两个蛋黄跟一个开心傻瓜的故事

那天煮菜时打了一个鸡蛋，跑出了两个蛋黄。天啊！好高兴！七手八脚拿出数码相机猛拍。能不高兴吗？活了 XX 年[， 选择题：（1）18 （2）18 (3) 18]，第一次看到耶！

补习时告诉了二年级的小Irene，之后，只要我煮菜， 她就会问：“有 鸡蛋吗？”小妮子也想一睹百年奇迹。嘻！18 年后吧！

Flooding days in Jakarta. Bad. TV was saying as high as 2 metres. Areas like Bogor, Bundung worst. This is the most seriuos diaster i have seen since i came here 2 1/2 years ago.

The man walking was sitting on the boat a momnt ago. This is actually the entrance to a University, just opposite my condominium. Apparently he asked the men (i would assume is the security guides to row him out of the school, who else would have access to a boat?). Wonder how much he paid them.

Just did a stock check on food supply:

• a newly bought 5-kg rice
• 3/4 full AQUA water (in case anyone ask, we dare not boil the tap water here so those who can afford always drink AQUA, per gallon Rp 9500)
• 1 kg of raw fatty pork meat (asked Chen to help me buy from market last saturday)
• 3 canned foods (sardine, pork, zha chai)
• 1/2 pkt mushroom, ikan bilis, 2 pears...etc.

Guess can last for few days. Will go check see whether got vegetables at HERO tomorrow or not, seem like no rain tonight.

No rain=no flood=car can move=got fresh vegetables

She bought the last bunch of vegetable

Went to HERO this morning, it looks like diaster is coming soon. A sense of panick passed through me. My imagination went wild : if the flood is not going to subside the next few days, i will run out of my 1 kg of pork, my canned foods....

So, i grabbed the red basket & started to do some marketing.

Went to the vegetable counter, nothing green there except for a last bunch of vegetable(i think the name is ji chang-for decoration on top of steam fish). Below are the things that are out of stock :

• potatoes
• eggs (3 broken one left)
• Yakult
• green vegetables or long beans
• canned sardines & others (shelves almost empty so unable to identify what is missing)
• Instant noodles (Indo Mee almost all gone-so Indonesian mainly love this brand)
• Rice left 30 or 40 pkts

Lucky for me, still able to grab some canned food (2 cans of mushroom, 1 baked bean, 1 mushroom soup), 1 pkt of Indomilk, apple juice, a bar of Queen chocolate.

Hmmm, as a precaution-in case i get bored at home, i also bought my favourtite Seng Kong (titbits-i seldom eat chips but this is different, damn crispy, u should try)

Total amount spent is Rp 99.715 (arount S$17)

While queuing up, saw this mother-daughter gang behind me. They bought the last greenary on the shelves :)

This lady in front of me also very cute . Guess she is very bored while waiting (i must admit, took about 5 to 10 minutes), she looked around her & saw this bunch of bananas deserted by somebody. She grabbed & placed it inside her basket.

Hey! That was easy shopping. So, i did the same by looking around me on the floor. Baskets are lying around without owners & the staffs are all very busy, no one bother to replace those food inside the basket to the shelves.

Towels? No, i don't need it. Bread? Eeerr, looks distorted, no way am i going to eat it. After surveying for a while to kill time, i gave up. Nothing i needed or looked appealing to me.

Oh! That photo on top,it had nothing to do with the supermarket shopping lah. Just a photos i took 2 days ago outside my apartment. I like the colour of the umbrella. Bring some colours to this groomy day, don't you think so?

Latest new: no school tomorrow for my kids.