Jakarta Fashion Week 2015 – Day 2

Day 2 of JFW and Putra packed up Samudra and some bathers and headed to PIM for lunch and a swim with Samudra and all the family, and I packed my camera and caught a taxi back to Senayan City for more shows in the afternoon. Again, I will only show a few photos to […] Read more »

Happy 1st Birthday Samudra!

Well today marks the beginning of August.. so July just flew by and I have barely sat at my computer as life has been filled with adventures, play dates, birthdays, voting, Ramadhan, Lebaran, and most importantly for me, July marked the first Birthday of our beautiful boy, Samudra. Due to school holidays and Ramadhan, most […] Read more »

Lestari Sayang Anak’s 5th Anniversary

This is another incredibly late post, but I wanted to share some pictures from the anniversary of Lestari Sayang Anak in Cipete. Five years ago, Ingrid and her husbands dream to open an orphanage to improve the life of abandoned babies and toddlers, who cannot be taken care of by their biological families, came to […] Read more »

100 Days of Happiness – Day 99

This morning we missed out on our morning walk as it was a little late before I managed to get up and find motivation and the sun was already far too warm.  If I miss the early morning window to walk then I end up covered in sweat and uncomfortable within a minute of walking […] Read more »

100 Days of Happiness – Day 98

We were up way too early again as usual and headed off for our beautiful morning walk around the neighbourhood, stopping to chat to the ibu ibu and babies as always, but Samudra seemed quiet and tired so we didn’t walk for too long today. Although it was he that was poking me in the […] Read more »

100 Days of Happiness – Day 97

This morning I couldn’t decide whether I had the energy or not to go for a walk too far, so thought it best I just do a quick block around the house and so didn’t take the camera with me.  How silly of me.. of course once Samudra and I went out the front gate we […] Read more »

100 Days of Happiness – Day 96

Ohmygoodness.. another night of sleeping with a snorer and crying baby meant absolutely no sleep for me so I spent the whole night playing on my iPhone in despair until 4.30am when I remembered that today was Sunday… and that means Car Free Day.  At 5.00am I got up to shower and asked Putra to […] Read more »

100 Days of Happiness – Day 93

Although I was awake with Samudra so early today, I tried to stall getting out of bed for as long as possible as I had it in my head that I wanted to take him to Ragunan Zoo for a change of scenery, but remembered that it wouldn’t open until 9.00am.  I figured by the time […] Read more »

100 Days of Happiness – Day 92

Another morning, another fuzzy head so I have to accept that this is a new phase and it too shall pass.. and I am sure I will miss it when it is gone as being up early is actually refreshing… it’s the afternoons I struggle with and I am ready for bed so early these […] Read more »