Friday, March 31, 2017

Hong Kong Trip 2017 - Day 3

Day 3 was when the excitement started as it was the day we moved to Disneyland, the happiest place on earth!  We took the train to Disneyland because we wanted to experience riding the special Mickey Mouse trains from Sunny Bay to Disneyland.

The Disneyland train from Sunny Bay - LG G5

Sunday, March 26, 2017

Hong Kong Trip 2017 - Day 2

Day 2 started at 9 in the morning.  We planned to visit Citygate Outlets (https://www.citygateoutlets.com.hk/)  at Tung Chung which is approximately 45 minutes away from Tsim Sha Tsui.  However prior to that we made a quick visit to Jenny's Bakery to buy all the cookies my wife wanted so that we could settle the packing later on that night.

Jenny's Bakery Tsim Sha Tsui - LG G5

Saturday, March 25, 2017

Hong Kong Trip 2017 - Day 1

During the March school term break we took a 5 day trip to Hong Kong.  It was the first time the kids went to some place other than Indonesia.  The weather was very nice too, at a cooling 17-21 degrees Celsius.
It was very exciting from the very beginning, we couldn't wait for the plane to take off once we were on board.

Waiting for other passengers to board - LG G5

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Lindsay's 4th Birthday

Just a few weeks back we celebrated Lindsay's 4th birthday.  My wife had arranged for a celebration in her school earlier which I did not attend.  So I only celebrated with her at home in the evening.

It was a small and intimate celebration for Lindsay.  My little girl is a year older now, naughtier for sure....  but lovely as always.

Happy birthday my little lovely angel...
~ Photos taken with Sony RX100 Mk 3~

Friday, February 24, 2017

Seoul Biz Trip Feb 2017 - 안녕하세요

Last week I just came back from a business trip to Seoul.  It was the first time in my life I had ever been to South Korea as I had never thought of or imagined travelling here. It was definitely an eye opening trip for me.

The Singapore to Seoul flight was at 2:45 a.m. in the morning, I really hate night flights because I have trouble sleeping in aeroplanes, and true enough I could only manage 1 hour of sleep in that 6 hours flight.  I was in the same flight as my boss by the way, but we had different seating.

That's the plane to Seoul - RX100Mk3

Sunday, February 19, 2017

Home Made Cold Brew (みずだし)

So a colleague in office told me that he likes cold brew coffee.  I had tried one in Starbucks but was not really impressed by it so I dismissed it as some hipster brewing method for people with too much time.  However, I also know this colleague of mine to have quite a distinguished palate - at least for coffee.  So if he said cold brew is good, then it must be good.  Perhaps the one in Starbucks had not been up to my standard, so I thought I'll try to brew one myself.

The brewing instrument I use this time is a Hario Mizudashi pot.  I bought this pot in Batam 6 years ago and used it to brew tea instead....  Well, now I use it to brew coffee.  

As for the coffee itself, I used 100% Java Arabica at 100 grams.  The ground has to be medium coarse.  A good reason for a medium coarse ground is so that the water can pass through the ground coffee and then through the filter when you pour it in.  Coffee connoisseurs might say that it is for better taste and less grimy final solution (whether coarse or fine you'll still see some sludge deposit at the bottom of the container).  Well, I'll just say use medium coarse ground and let it stay at that.  

100 grams of Java Arabica from Excelso