Checking out I-City

Tonight we visited the I-City. Located just a few minutes from our home, we decided to go there since Papa Bear's Mom is here visiting and she has never been there. We just need a reason to go there... In fact, all of us have never been there since it is too near to us. You know how people always prefer to visit places that are far far away rather than those places that are within a walking distance from them...

From a distance, that would be the first thing that you would notice. Colorful trees! At first we thought that they were real trees but when we got there, they were not real trees... That's good! We would not like to see real trees being treated like that... Anyway, it was a breathtaking sight!

Mama Pasha, Bear's Mom and Pasha posing among the colorful trees...

Now it's Papa Bear's turn to pose and Mama Pasha take the picture...

It was not easy to get Pasha to stay still while we took his photo without the help of the flash. Anyway, Pasha had a great time walking around the park. He must have felt like a big boy as he refused to let us hold him. The yellow thing that he hit was actually a crescent moon shaped lamp. Now it looks like a tanglong...

This shot of Pasha and Mama taken at the bazaar area. Pasha was already preoccupied with the flashing and twirling light stuffs that were on sale there. He finally chose a remote controlled car with lighted tyres after spending some time trying to decide what he actually wanted out of the many interesting stuffs sold there...

Peace!

I-City is a good place for a whole family to just hangout and go for a fun stroll at the park. Located in between Shah Alam and Bukit Raja, it is open from 7pm to 2am. Don't go there during the day okay!

Our trip was worth it!

Coming Home

MAS flight from Jakarta to KLIA - April 25, 2010

It was time to go home. A clear day with the sun shining brightly and the sky... err what did the sky supposed to do eh? Well, the sky was clear dotted with some sparse clouds... Yeah.., something like that as shown in the picture below. It was just past noon WIB when we took off...

My definition of sparse was that I could see the ground from up here...

Pasha was seated by the window while Mama was in the middle and Papa was on the aisle seat. Yo can see how bright was the day from the window next to Pasha. I was sleepy and Mama and Pasha were hungry... Just wait until the food was served...

What did I tell you? Mama and Pasha were busy digging into the food. What happened to Papa? Papa Bear ate after these pictures were taken and no picture of Papa Bear eating because Mama was too hungry too snap any picture... heheheh...

Soon after that, I went to sleep... If I am not mistaken all of us went to sleep... Did they? Hmm....

Goodbye Jakarta...

Pasha’s day out

Posted on the May 22nd, 2010 under Pasha by papabear Edit

Pejaten Village Mall – Jakarta April 22, 2010

It was Pasha’s day out. Before he got totally bored at home, we took him to the Pejaten Mall so that he could run around for a while. He loves any playground and he would say yes especially if the place has at least a slide. He has an obsession with slides. When he was younger and smaller, my body was one of his first slides…

Here are the pictures taken at one of the playgrounds in the Pejaten Village Mall where Pasha and his Aunty Yuyi (Ruri) had a blast!

Pasha loved climbing and walking on high ground but Aunty Yuyi was having a bit of a problem there.

“It’s strong enough to support adults Aunty Yuyi. So, do not worry too much!”

Pasha is on the ground again and Aunty Yuyi felt relieved.

“What’s in the pool Pasha?”

I was tempted to get onto the bubbly pool but I managed to hold myself after contemplating about the consequences of bursting it. The plastic felt quite thick though…

This is Pasha’s favorite place. It’s a big slide. First he made Aunty Yuyi follow him down the slide. Then he had a girl joining him up and down the slide and finally, he had another boy who happened to enjoy the slide as much as he was…

Then a ball was brought up to the slide as well. Somehow the two boys felt an extra sensation when the ball joined them sliding down the big blue slide. That poor ball had never been so scared in its life that it didn’t say a single word…

There you go! Aunty Yuyi finally could easily breathe. The ball was feeling better when it had to slide no more and most importantly, Pasha had a super duper sliding-with-a-ball time!

Nasi Padang and No reverse Gear

Jakarta April 24, 2010 - Somewhere in the city...

After spending more than half a day at the Inacraft 2010,we headed to our MPV to go home. Guess what? The MPV could not be reversed anymore. No matter how hard we tried putting the MPV into reverse, it kept on going forward. In the end, it had to be pushed out of the parking lot until there was enough space to move forward. When I took over the driving, I realized that the car only third and fourth gears left. So, first, second and reverse gears were gone!

Anyway, since all of us were famished after a long walk in the exhibition hall, we decided to get our lunch first. The trick was to go to a restaurant where we could easily park and not having to worry about reversing too much. Basically, if the MPV could be pushed out from the parking, that place would be selected.

Eventually we found a nasi padang restaurant by the roadside. The place was nice and food was not bad either despite being a bit pricey compared to the nasi padang places that we would normally go.

PapaBear pushing the 1,950kg beast + a 100kg brother in law at the steering wheel...

Here are the pics at the restaurant. I was too hungry to take any picture of the food but you could see some of them there. In KL when you go to a nasi padang restaurant, you choose what you want and then only they would serve you. In Jakarta, and other parts of Indonesia, I think, you just have to sit down and they would just bring everything to your table. Then you just eat whatever you want and leave the rest. You only pay for the food that you ate.

Anyway, it is not recommended to click on any of the pic above for a bigger view as we were busy making faces... You have been warned!