A Quiet Week

This week has been rather quiet, I was rather busy in office with lots of things to do for Thailand office.  They have new requirements, old requirements that need fine tuning and some clarifications on existing features and requirement.

I've been not feeling well too from earlier this week due to the gastric pain which eventually settled down on Wednesday.  But guess what...  I got a viral infection in the eye and a sore throat.  Seems like I'm going to end up with flu sometime soon.  Singapore has been hot this week and I think I didn't stay hydrated much which contributed to these ailments...

Tomorrow's a new start to the week again. Hopefully things go well.

Here's a closing shot for this short entry.

Orchard Road From ION

~ Photo taken with LG G3 ~ 

Surabaya Trip - Part 8

This will be the last entry for my Surabaya trip series.  Quite short too....  Day 9 was spent with the kids.  Again, I didn't bring my Sony as I wanted an easy day so I just used my G3.

We started the day by going to Livana to buy some spikoe cakes.  The cake shop is very near, just outside the roundabout in Jln. Mayjend Soengkono.  My wife, myself and the kids absolutely love Spikoe, so we never fail to get some whenever we're in Surabaya.  After that we went to Ciputra World to let the kids play around and just jalan-jalan.

On the way back Lindsay mentioned that she wanted ice cream.  That gave me an idea to try a new cafe in Kupang Indah.  It's a cafe specializing in matcha desserts and some Japanese food.  The place is called The Matcha Cafe (unsurprusingly....) - UPDATE: Matcha Cafe has since been closed.

Nutella parfait, green tea cake parfait, matcha latte - taken with LG G3

The Batam Life - Part 1

Life in Batam is very different from Singapore.  Its amazing how these 2 places are just slightly more than 20 km away from each other and yet worlds apart, although some of the people are pretty much the same in terms of behaviour in both islands.

At first it was quite hard for me to adjust to the new house, new place and new life in Batam.  Fortunately we met a good friend of my wife's brother whom I'm really grateful for, he helped us so much to adjust to life in Batam.

One big change is shopping in the wet market in Batam.

Avava Fresh Market - nearest market to our house in Bukit Mas Nagoya

5 Days Black & White Challenge

Here's my first entry for the month of June.  A short one, but hopefully interesting, as it is about the 5 days black & white challenge.

When the B&W challenge hit, I was voted by my good friend (Richard J.O. - another "arek suroboyo") to get involved.  The challenge had been around for quite a while but I didn't really get into it as I was not so into B&W photos.  I still don't have the eye yet for B&W photos, but it was fun to experiment and see what I could get.

View of PSA container yard and berth from Office - by LG G3

Biz Trip to Bangkok 27 - 30 April

What a packed 3 days of business trip...

I started my day on Monday 27th April at 4:45 in the morning, getting ready for the 7:40 flight.  I eventually arrived in the airport at 5:55.  Yep, just 5 minutes to 6:00 a.m.  And luckily I already did the electronic check-in the night before so I only had to drop my bag and get the actual boarding pass.   The normal check-in row was snaking with too many people....  It was on reaching Bangkok that I realized they were connecting to Chiang Mai or Phuket. 

Soon I was on board the plane, ready for take-off and shortly the plane was on the sky.

Waiting for take off, and look at that great view once we're up in the air