Finally--we could go out of the town! So we went to Jakarta by 9 a.m. last Thursday, Dec 31st '09: me, Mum, Ben, Clemy and Aunt Ellen. We stopped at one of the rest areas for lunch and arrived at Taman Alfa Indah (West Jakarta) by around 12.30 p.m. to Aunt Dewi's house. She prepared us meals so we ate and had some rest until it was 5 p.m.

We departed from the house by 5.30 through the Pesanggrahan and Kebon Jeruk Highway, through the Alam Sutera and Serpong--all along the whole 35 km to de Latinos, the housing complex where my Aunt Sisca now lives with her family. She just moved in there few days after my Dad's death and we were there to see the new house.

We arrived there the first and had a little tour around the house, and moments later the other arrived and we had a little but fun gathering there, with lots of delicious food such as ketupat, Manadonese woku, baked potato (that tasted more like lasagna), and others. It was nice to see the whole family together again and I had real good time that night.

Oh, there was a moon eclipse, too, just right after the old & new at around 1-1.30 a.m. and we witnessed the bright white moon that was so beautiful inside the rainbow ring beneath the gray clouds up there. It was beautiful, but still we had to go back so we turned via other road that is much a shortcut than the one we went by before.

On Friday noon we had lunch at Gado-Gado Cemara at Pos Pengumben, then we split: Mom with Aunt Dewi went back home while the rest of us went to Grand Indonesia. I met Siska and Arnatt there and had a 2-hours-conversation at the Cold Stone Creamery before Siska had to go at 5 p.m. After that Arnatt accompanied me looking for a shirt for a friend until it was almost 6.30 p.m.


And today, I went to see Julie and Fendy at Stone Cafe after church from 7 p.m. till they were closing at 10 p.m. It was such a nice moment to go seeing friends again--something that I haven't done in months and missed so much--and a real 'have fun'. Although I haven't met any of my girl friends after my Dad's death, it was nice to see other friends like them all who I met.


Oh, before I forget, at Dec 28th Mom's cousin Tante Shunny came with her daughter, Karen--who made us the cute Christmas cupcakes--and we went to Lisung for 4-5 hours talking after having another 4-5hours of chatting at our home after lunch. It was so nice to have them here, because we didn't know we had other family such as them who are connected and so nice. Thank God for that!