Esti's posts with tag: ladies day out
 This is a postscript related to my post on PICTURE PERFECT : Curves that got me the cool badge here 
On May 29 for the first time ever in my life I made my way to Jatinegara Market, my friend Ingrid and I signed up for Jakarta International Community Centre monthly Gemstone Tour over there.
In our head we're expecting to learn a lot of things about gemstone, precious and semi precious one but little did we know that we were in for a big surprise 
First of all, it was super HOT day ... the market is quite big with tin roof and stuffy air (thanks to the chain smoker vendors in it). Our tour guide, Otto, ushered us to one shop and start pointing out on several 'rocks' and told us how beautiful and how original it is .. all of us bought some 'rocks' ( there were 6 ladies in our group). Then he took us to the polisher (bunch of smoking boys) and we have to wait for our rocks to be polished and shine so we can have our gemstone ready for some kind of jewelery later on. He didn't tell us that we have to wait over 3 hours for such a tiny little stone (mine was tear shape Lapis Ladsuli) and we were all starving the moment our 'gemstone' ready. No time to pick a pendant or earing to have it custom made, we're back to Kemang for Indian food (arranged by the organizer) and that was our Gemstone Market Tour day.
Will I go back there again ? Don't think so.
Was it interesting ? Yes, I made 4 new friends that day
Also during those hot and stuffy waiting period I saw my 'Umbrella'
Yup, there were soooo many of them, colorful on a hot sunny day, protecting the vendors and the 'gemstone' from direct heat. I only have my pocket Olympus with me but Mr Golden Sun made all the photos come out perfect, some pictures for you all to enjoy (Valerie and April were haggling the vendor for some magnet on the first 2 photos *grin*)
| Start: | May 29, '08 9:00p | | Location: | by JICC |
|  | I've been having problem with my MacBook where I stored all our S'pore trip pictures .. finally have time to go and check it out this morning .. all is good now, pictures are ready to be copied - paste *winking at J & Rani*
Enjoy ;o)
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I had never been to a Baking Course ever in my life (apart from my college time where one of my subject was Food Production back in 1996) and I had a BLAST today.Thank you Mbak Rita, for squeezing me in to join you in Pak Sahak's class today, you are awesome !!!For all the ladies that were in my class today (16 ladies & 1 gentleman actually), was very nice meeting you all and looking forward to the next class .. learning with you all was a great experience 
PS. Incase any of you wondering what we learn today, the results are in the picture, it was Opera Cake, Tiramisu, Black Forest Cake and Japanese style Puff Pastry with Chocolate Filling (Sus Jepang, please correct me if I'm lost in translation *grin*).
PPS. Gotta go pack my bag now, yaaayyy long weekend !!!
HAPPY EASTER, EVERYONE
(^_^)
| Start: | Jan 16, '08 | | Location: | Senayan City |
| | Yes, the globetrotter mindyjordan is in town :0)
She has such a busy schedule but we promised each other that we'll get together today for Indonesian food lunch (Kafe Betawi Senayan City, no picture.. too busy eating & talking hehe) then off to Senopati, pick-up a chocolate cake in Awfully Chocolate (she's a chocoholic too), cross the street to Temple Trees (one of my fave shop in town, they have beautiful stuff from Sri Lanka) followed by a coffee stop in Bakoel Koffie, a quick drop by at Koko Bogana for Indonesian snacks to take away then off to our home for a play with Ariel, cake eating and lots of photo booth sessions.
Thank you for the presents and your time Mindy, it was great catching-up with you today... we really enjoyed your company... see you again soon.
Muchos besos y nos vemos pronto.
(^_^)
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 Once a year the German Embassy together with the ladies association and many sponsors will throw a Christmas Bazaar at Hyatt Aryaduta Jakarta, its always on the first Saturday in the month of December and well awaited for some (me and my friends .. hehe). If you are in town (next year) its a good place to start your Christmas shopping :) My shopping list consist of advent calendar, lebkuchen & marzipan but you can find almost everything in this bazaar... one thing that is for sure, come early if you want to shop. The bazaar started at 3 pm but by 3.30 all the good things (especially Xmas goodies that is in my list) is gone.... SOLD OUT. We're there early (last year too.. with Ariel in stroller still, this year she's at home with Papi), got everything that I wanted.. yaaayyy ! Another main attraction is the food area, there are plenty of yummy German food to choose from.. typically, I ate like crazy ... hehe... Some pictures to tempt you below....  The cakes corner... feast to my eyes :)  Lebkuchen yummmm...yummmmm ... my once a year indulgence...  Gluwine stand.. no wonder the AC was suuuuper cold !  Its packed every year, do come early  Our raffle tickets results :)  My 'sugar-indulgence' for the whole month of December (^_^)
 What a nice morning we had, coffee morning today was hosted by Malathi and its all about Indian food.... yummm... yummm ! I'm being nice here by not posting the pictures of the food otherwise all of you will kill me ;-)
Our husbands work at the same place and automatically we all become good friends (and couple of us actually neighbours too!).
Thank you, Mala for having us .... see you all ladies very soon !!
(^_^)
L-R : Angel, Me, Febe, Elke, Priyanka,Appu & Malathi
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"Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together IN THE SAME DIRECTION."
(Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
"L O V E : Two minds without a single thought."
(Phillip Barry)
"Love is the only sane & satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence"
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