This weekend with chocolate

Sabtu pagi Mommy udah bangun barengan Raysa terus nemenin Raysa, main kejar"an di baby walker. Raysa galak banget. Mommy di tabrakkin terus sampe kakinya sakit. malemnya tapi Raysa nggak pergi kemana" soalnya her dad had a seminar to attend and mom had to tag along.

But on Sun, Raysa pergi ke rumahnya andung. Tapi pas sampe sana Tante Ti-nya tidur soalnya kecapean ngurusin acara semalem. Jadi deh cuman becanda" sama andung ajah. Pas di rumah andung ujan terus Raysa seneng banget pas diajakkin ke balkon. Tapi kalo dibawa masuk lagi dia ngamuk berat! Alisnya udah naik" terus mukanya galak banget de.

Abis dari rumah andung Raysa jalan" ke PIM, wah seneng banget dia! Secara anak mall gituh, kalau gak liat mall seminggu ajah udah heboh kayak uler keket di rumah pencilaan terus (bahasa jawa nih ya?). Raysa sempet ketiduran pas didorongin di strollernya, tapi pas kita ngafe di Death by Chocolate dia kebangun deh, melototin Chocolate Meltnya Mommy, marah soalnya dia gak dikasih. I must say, chocolate meltnya enak banget, instead of an ice cream they serve it with cold chocolate mouse dan pastinya pake chocolate sauce juga. Tapi sayangnya chocolate cakenya di dalemnya nggak ada chocolate yang melt keluar gitu, tapi rasa cakenya enak pait" manis, sort of bitter sweet gitu. But I still prefer the one in Urban Kitchen by Chocolate, oh didnt I tell you about that one? Enak banget! Chocolate souffle served with chocolate fondue, vanilla ice cream and fresh strawberries. Last week I went crazy and ate Chocolate Souffle 4 times in a row. LOL!

Below is Raysa at Death by Chocolate, ho ho itu yang pertama Raysa lagi marah karena nggak dikasih Chocolate Melt sama mommy. And look at that, sepatunya dimasukkin ke mulut? Ck ck ck padahal dah dibilangin gak boleh dia malah marah. The next one is her playing with her bottle and the last one, pastinya nggak mau ketinggalan kalo orang gede lagi buka" menu dia maunya juga punya buku sendiri!

Coffee makes me happy

There’s no other better way to start you Monday morning than a perfect cup of coffee.

I leave home earlier than the usual cause my Dad need to be in his office before 8, therefore I had spare time before I need to clock-in to the office. So I decided to go to Starbucks Melawai, I wasn’t sure they were already open at 8 – this is Jakarta, mind you! Surprisingly, they started brewing as early as 7, if you’re being nice they might let you have your coffee couple of minutes before 7!

By 8.15 I was already in my desk at the office spooning the foam from my dry non-fat cappuccino with extra caramel sauce and eating my chocolate croissant. This is good. Life is good from this point of view. Why do I stop taking coffee in the morning? It makes me happy and helps my brain connect all it wires together. During my Uni years, I could not passed the HQ coffee stall on the Melb Central train platform without even parted with my $3.50 for a cup of Hazelnut Latte. I even made friends with the Barista (which makes delicious coffee), turned out he was doing engineering in my university! And I collect all those little swirl stamps so that by the 10th stamps I will get my Tall Latte for free.

Oh rite I just remembered now why I stop buying coffee in the morning, there’s hardly any decent coffee shop that serve coffee early in the morning (except for Starbucks) and conveniently placed within walk distance of my office. Besides, the price a cup of coffee in Starbucks is a killer, with the price of 30k+ a cup, if I keep it up daily, I could be a millionaire by the time I was 50 (okay I’m exaggerating!).

Nevertheless, I started this week in a good foamy way

Two times in a day

Met Mei" twice today for lunch and dinner. We had lunch in Wendy's at Senayan City, its been quite a while since my last junk food meal so I thought Wendy's is appropriate. Still in the hype of italian food, I ordered Spaghetti with extra cheese sauce, love the sauce! Of course, to end the perfect lunch would be a cup of coffee at Starbucks.

After the office hour I met with Mei" again and ate in Bakmi GM, didn't really enjoy my seafood fried rice though. Had Caramel Machiatto in Starbucks afterward (again!). My second cup of coffee for the day, to make it right, I ordered decaf.

Since Mei" and Adi came a bit late I had quite alot of time in my hand to stroll around the beauty dept in Sogo and decided to get a makeover in MAC. My fave MA from PIM is not in PS anymore so I decided to go along with the petit chinese MA and she's quite nice. She shows me all sort of stuff and teach me hot to put on Sable on me. It turned out really good, so decided to buy it. Ok, I felt guilty, I shouldnt have stopped by the MAC counter in the beginning! I even tried the concealer at Shu, and it's really good, creating a major lemming, darn!

I really miss Raysa though, she was asleep when I got home. But when I move her to my bed she's wide awake and happy to see me (am happy to see you too pretty baby!).

Chocolate Melt

Tues - Had a nice lunch with Mei" at Izzi Pizza Mahakam. A bowl of minestrone soup, prawn linguine and a very nice warm chocolate melt with ice cream. Though I still think the chocolate melt in Gran Mahakam/Harvest are much better but I enjoyed lunch. Came home and felt really sick so I decided to pay the doctor a visit. Turned out I had low blood pressure (90/60) and a swollen tonsil.

Wed – Skip work and must stay in bed the whole day. Kind of not a v nice day, inclining towards a mild depression. Of course I cannot kiss kiss Baby R which I cannot help every time I’m around her cause she’s just too cute so I have to restrained myself from her so the virus will not be transferred to her. But I did enjoy the Ugly Betty marathon on DVD, Betty Suarez was hilarious and Daniel Maede is oh so cute! Can't wait for the new episode!

Thurs (today) – Another lunch with Mei” cause somehow I’m 35K short on my CC payment. Bakerzin is great as usual, had oxtail pizza and warm chocolate melt for dessert. Compared to the one in Izzi, I prefer the Izzi one cause this one is too bitter. BTW YouTube is down! Cannot download the Heroes preview (Sobh!)

Sweet tooth

Never much of a chocolate amer person before like Mei”, if I had to describe myself with one of the cakes in the coffee shop display I would say I’m a fraisier. It’s a yummy cake with a lot of whole strawberries in it arranged in an almond sponge cake which has previously soaked on strawberry liquor. The contrasting color of the mousse and strawberries makes the cake look v interesting. But lately I’ve been attracted to chocolate amer, what could I say … the bitterness of the chocolate mousse and powder really leave a nice after taste on my mouth. The texture of the cake was really soft and I especially love to have it with a nice cup of latte or cappuccino.

I'm sorry fraisier ...

Porridge for the soul

The rain was pouring down on Jakarta’s street today. Traffic was bad, the rain top off the normal rush hour jam and the construction works on most major streets made it even worst. I took a taxi to Setiabudi to meet R & my SIL for her b’day celebration dinner. Thank god the taxi driver knows his way around Jakarta.

The dinner was simple and nice, we had delicious porridge at Ta Wan. The place was not that big, it has the typical red and lantern Chinese restaurant decorative ambience, simple furnishing and bright lighting. The porridges were great, they have extensive choices that you can choose from. Don’t expect the usual Indo porridge here because the way the Chinese cook their porridge is very watery and sticky. I think they used starch to build up the texture of the porridge but this is only my wild guest. My choice of porridge for the day was duck porridge, the duck meat tasted yummy against the thin texture of the porridge. R had snapper porridge and this really taste good as well; the snapper kind of melted in your mouth along with the porridge cause the meat was really soft and juicy. No fishy smell detected as well.

Eating porridge reminds me of the nites in Melb with Sid. We usually head down to Ori for a late nite (or should I say early morning?) meal. It was usually almost 3 o’clock in the morning when we consume the century year old egg porridges with Chinese donut. It was especially good to eat it during the winter nite, it warmed up your belly and your freezing brain.

BTW Im wondering how’s Sid doin lately? I text him but so far there’s no reply. Im dyin to hear it from his own mouth about the wedding plan news! When, Where … let me know!