Beijing, day two.

After a long forgotten queue of my Beijing journey, here it is. For the first part, click here. I know it's so last year and I blamed myself for my procrastination == so here it is, better late than never right?

I spent the second day around Tiananmen Square and Hutong.

[1] The cafe menu at Tiananmen (which actually shouldn't be photoed) [2] One of the antique clocks at the Clock Museum

[3] The walk at Tiananmen [4] Locals playing chess at one of the houses in Hutong [5] Chocolate ice-cream I got from my guide before we rode the rickshaw [6] Collection of refrigerator magnets at local tourist shop [7] Fruit seller at the street

[8] Chinese Sprite. I'm not racist. [9] Sliced melon at the street. I't's melon right? Or it isn't?

As always, because of the heavy pictures.

Beijing, day one.

As you might have known, few months ago I went to Beijing, China, for five short days.

Here goes the complete journey of my first day in Beijing (I will divide the journey into five parts.) 

[1]. Mint and hazelnut ice-cream [2] The inside of the Temple of Heaven [3] Lion doorknob 

[4] Chinese tea at local restaurant [5] Temple of Heaven [6] Lotus flower on my porcelain bowl 

[7] Fruit dessert [8] Vanilla and watermelon ice-cream. Yes, watermelon. [9] Random regulation I honestly can't read ._.

This post will be picture-heavy.

Roppan snacks

Few days ago I went to Gandaria City, a rather new mall in South Jakarta, and I had a snack time there :D
Great place, so crowded and noisy, though.
The Roppan Toast is basically a toasted bread slice with various topping on it. I think they named the toast funny though, like Ike-banana for a banana topping and so on ;)
Anyway, here goes some photos:

the tissue, fork, and knive, notice the smiling faces on the tops :D

my toast and my green tea latte

my mom

Jeffrey-bro :D

and at last Erick-bro B)

well I didn't take pictures of myself because... I had a bad hair day, haha :p

This post should even be before the Haircut post, my my~

Their Birthday Brunch

So, not so long after our final exam, Bunbun and Ilen treated us a brunch... at a very expensive all-you-can-eat restaurant, American Grill!
We were like, "What the heck, this tiny chunk of steak is IDR 250.000?!" and it was expensive for us students, and quite dissapointing that we ended up buying one steak and fulled our stomaches with... refillable salad!
I had fun, though!
Thanks, Ilen and Bunbun~

Yoan, Bunbun

Icil, eating a lot more to gain some weight :P

Ingrid and Devi

Regine, Ilen, Devi
Devi wants to be on every photos! Haha :D

The super extensive treat, we divided them to seven tiny parts!

Ilen freaked out, Regine busy texting

but then becoming very happy! 

My food looks like this, this salad only is already quite expensive ==

My treat (my, because it takes my own personal money, haha) for  the birthday babes :p

Ilen and Regine and their desserts

Bunbun looks as chubby as her donut! Hahah :p

In front of the restaurant
Icil, Ingrid, Yoan, Bunbun, Devi, Regine and Ilen

Again, thanks for the treats, Ilen & Bunbun!

Private Birthday Dinner Party

I know it has been one and a half month since my party, but now I'm uploading the photos from Arif's and Bunbun's camera, yay!

Yoan & Arif, my photographer ;D

One of the boys ;;)

Priscilla, my darling Icil & Yoan

Sheryl & Yoan

left to right: Claudia, Devi, Ingrid, Yoan, Regine, Elsa, Jacqueline

With the piano ;)

Some of IA7 guys; I didn't invite everyone. It's a private party afterall :p

Regine & Yoan

Erwin and Bunbun playing the make up games. So funny!

Bunbun & Yoan

Sany, Yoan, Erwin, Bunbun after winning the make up game ;)

By the way, there's still much to be posted, but I'll be off now because it's already late!

See ya:*

P.S. I made an account on Photobucket under a name yoantjokro, and that's why I could put these photos on their correct angle.
P.S.S. These are only from Arif's and Bunbun's cameras, and I haven't received the ones from my brothers. Maybe I'll put them sooner or later.

New Year Eve Dinner

I don't know why but I can't get this picture landscaped. I thought this was funny because my Mom was trying to prank Jeff and it worked. It's not shown in this picture but Jeff was really surprised by the sound. So funny!

First of all, I just wanna say Happy New Year!

By the way, yesterday I had a blast. Yeah we shopped for groceries because we were having a steak for dinner. We went to Ranch Market and spent much on the groceries!

And then we cooked together. There were my auntie (for the next I'm gonna call her by "Mamie"), my big bro Erick and Jeffrey, my Mom (who's not helping too much because she's also busy with Pocky) and me.

I love those moments and I was absolutely having fun.

And I actually did some helps. I did these:

1. Rinse and clean all the vegetables, then peel the carrots and cut the rest.
2. Help Erick to tie the steak meat. Yes, tie, so they remain round ;)
3. Cut the chicken breast into small tiny part for the Zuppa Soup
4. And my best part; I made the whole mashed potato, from peeling them (with Erick) then mashed them, adding butter, whip cream, salt, nutmeg, pepper, and a pinch of sugar. They're so damn yummy!
5. Wash and cut the mushrooms
6. Help Mamie cut the sausages, but failed miserably so I just let her finish the rest :p

Potato peeling

While Mamie and I were working hard, you can see my Mom was goofing and joking around. But she did helped (though she's not working as hard as us) really!

BY THE WAY, IT SUCKS BECAUSE I CAN'T UPLOAD THE PICTURE IN THEIR CORRECT POSE (PORTRAIT or LANDSCAPE) AND I DON'T KNOW WHY BECAUSE IT SEEMS RIGHT IN MY FOLDER BUT NOT QUITE RIGHT ON THIS PAGE :/ 

My Mom helping my Mamie putting a glazing on the Zuppa Soup' pastry. See, she helped kok ;)

My (repeat, MY) mashed potato. I worked so hard for this one and it worthed the work.

My Mamie cutting the pastries layers

All done by me; all is fresh, all is clean, all is peeled, all is yummy, all is crunchy, and so on

The Zuppa Soup ready to be oven-ed (what to say it?)

My Mamie covering the whole soup with pastries. Yes that's me on the background :p

Toldya my Mom did help us kok! Haha :D

The steak and sausage on the grilling

Jeff was grilling as an expert, but you can't see he had a timer on his iPhone (not shown here) to time everything and he had previously googled the time of grilling :p

My mashed potato and the gravy-to-be on the right

Zuppa Soup has turned bronze and ready to be served! Yum!

Everybody busy in the kitchen

See, you can see Jeff's iPhone! He's not as pro as he might look :p

Everybody busy in the kitchen B)

Mamie, Jeff, and Erick

Preparing the salad

Everybody ready to eat
l/r: Me, Erick, Jeff, Mom, Grandpa, Mamie, Papie (Mamie's husband)
Erick's fiancée is taking the photo, her name is Pamela and she's kinda funny and close to us

Zuppa Soup

Main course, the steak with mushroom gravy.

Pineli's Scarlet

Brown Brothers' Lexia

I'm still 16 but I'll turn 17 soon so everybody say I'm okay to drink. I drink a lot and was a little tipsy at night.

By the way, Pamela told me the difference between tipsy and drunk:

Tipsy is when you are on a happy state and sleep safe and sound and wake up fresh

Drunk is not on a happy state and the rest isn't that safe and sound

Now that's Pamela!
Erick was whipping a whipped cream for the dessert

A very yummy chocolate cake, special with whipped cream :)