nonong.

here is one of my mom's dog // Tave's favourite dog while in Indonesia

there's a story behind this dog when we were in Indonesia.

after the wedding finished, we came home around 11.30pm and when mom was about to hop into bed, she realised that nonong was missing (ok.. one dog out of 15 dogs that she had) so here's my dad, Jeremy and the maids went around the neighbourhood around midnight looking for this dog. we expected he went outside the house around mid day (since our house was pretty hectic during this day)

at around 3am, we found out that he was found by a becak man (becak: an indonesian rickshaw) who sold him to a bad animal market for $15! so mom freaked out and talked to him the next morning and asked him to get nonong back! and get this! he asked for $60!!! grrrr... seriously... people could make a living doing this! at this guy had his brother killed because apparently the guy stole so many dogs to be chopped up as dog satay at his streetside restaurant! Oh MY GOSH!

ok. nonong is safe now. hooray!

THE wedding day.

We're HOME!!!! at last! after being 5 weeks away, we are finally home! in our peace and serenity of Australian home. I have to say, although i am so terribly homesick of Indonesia (my family and all the yummy food), i am happy to have my bed back and my little kiddies routine! woooo....

I'm so sorry i haven't had anymore post lately, due to:
1. so jetlagged from a crappy Bali-Darwin-Brisbane jetstar flight (travelling with kids with this flight is really really terrible!!!!)
2. setting on routines back for the kiddies
3. you'd so laugh at this.... i have to adjust back to normal life! no more indo maids, cooks, and free babysitter! hahaha.... it was a blissful holiday i have to say.

So a lot of you have been asking me about this wedding! HOW WAS THE WEDDING? here are some of the pics i managed to take on the day while juggling with BIG dress i had to wear, a big camera and my little boy who couldn't sleep due to a super loud entertainment on the wedding. oh well we all had fun!

look how proud my dad is! it was such a special ceremony. yes yes i did cry....
the reception was so out there! floating giant cake, entertainment across from the pool, 600 guests, and the food was amazing! gotta say... wedding of the century!

4months.

i can't believe how fast 4 months has gone. here is my little prince with his great grandad in my parent's car spare parts shop. ah he's such a delight

animal market.

welcome to the animal market of Jogjakarta. this is a new market, supposedly cleaner than the last one. hahaha. not that i know.... crazy place. there's lots of owls, big lizards that makes crazy noise, birds, puppies (with their fleas), cats, rabbits, bats, turtles, you name it!

makes me wonder what these people do to catch them.

ps. i so want a bunny!!!!! nearly bought one. haha my dad would freak out. our house is a zoo already

a date with my dad and sisters

i think its gonna be a long time until we do this next time... since my sis is gonna get married, and we all live so far away from each other. i love these dates.

we went out searching for dinner (normal thing to do for indo ppl) at about 8.30pm...
and so here we came to a little local restaurant for some indo fried rice and noodles. yummmm
i even got the shot of the owner sitting by his restaurant waiting for his place to shut at night. we might be his last customer.

Bon appetite!

and i will be bringing some indo photos soon soon soon! can't wait to take mr. Ay-Jay for a ride around Jogja! weeeee

THE family pet :: hedgehog

did i tell you my mom has a pet hedgehog? of course... amongst all other pets she has.... dogs, cats, birds, turtles, fish... what else.... yes, a hedgehog! he doesn't get out of my lens box that much, but he's so so cute. when you hold him to see his face, he just hid his head in and put his nose out. too too cute!

ps. yes.... my house in Indonesia is abit of a zoo.

things you didn't count in.

when you're holidaying and eating tons and tons of yummy food.
Your child got food poisoning.... not just any food poisoning... really really really bad food poisoning.
sigh. breaks my heart. little princess had to stay in the hospital and got an iv drip put in cos she ran out of fluid. gosh. just in time...

she's all good now and home. hooray! xo
thank you for all the prayers and texts... we felt so loved. and tave did too.

Hello Jogja

here i am. finally at home. to those of you who asked how my trip was... it was unbelieveably easy. I don't know why i was so worried. Both kiddies were awesome and so easy. before i knew it, 10 hours flight came around so quickly. although i wish i finished my movie before Benjamin needed another feed during the flight.

Just wanted to share with you some of the images i got from home. some of them are mom's dogs (can you believe she's got more than 10 dogs around her home), an inside view from mom n dad's car spare parts shop, a food lady who came to our shop and we just picked food from her little cart thing and a trip my sisters and i took with Cynthia's in law to the mushroom restaurant. fun fun fun. til then, let me take some more pics and post some here.