Heeeeeeeeeey!! We’re back!! Samudra and I just returned from a super lovely three week trip back to Melbourne to visit family and friends. The crazy drop in temperature from 30+ degrees to 0 degrees left us both with a dose of flu when we first arrived and knocked us out for two weeks, but it […] 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 »
Public Holiday Fun in Jakarta
Jakarta has so many public holidays that it’s difficult to keep up with them, especially when you don’t travel to work in an office so every day feels sort of like a holiday, even if you are working super long hours, because you have a sense of delicious freedom not having to leave the house. I […] 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 »
Indonesia Creative Week 2014
Today I have decided it’s high time I FINALLY sort out some photos off my desktop and clear my computer as we have many adventures coming in the next few weeks and I need to de-clutter my laptop before it gets out of hand.. and besides, I am so far behind in blog posts that […] Read more »
A lovely Sunday morning stroll….
Hello! Remember me? I seem to be neglecting this blog yet again and of course can offer many excuses but really I have just been living and I haven’t had a chance to transfer all my camera memory cards… in WEEKS… now the backlog is making the task of writing quite daunting! So instead of […] Read more »
One Fine Sunday… Taman Suropati, Menteng
Another early morning and Putra left for filming in Kelapa Gading at 5.00am so I was wide awake and wondering what to do for entertainment with Samudra on a Sunday. I wasn’t feeling energised enough to make the long walk for Car Free Day but decided we would head to Taman Suropati so Samudra could […] Read more »
Ohhhhhh yum….
Anyone who has been following this blog would know that I have spent many mornings out walking in the complex at supid-o’clock with little Samudra… which I have actually LOVED, and then just recently, I looked a little more closely while we were doing our rounds near the park to discover this cake seller! He […] 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 »