Paulaner comes to Jakarta

Last night was Paulaner's grand opening in Jakarta. We weren't invited (ahem ahem) but we were a little curious about it so we decided to take a little peek today after breakky. The inside was impressive, well the brewery anyway. The interior was nice but a little tough looking. All the dark furniture made the whole place look kinda dark all around during the day but maybe at night time the atmosphere is different.


We spotted a huge army tank parked right outside Paulaner before we came in and after asking some guys hanging around whether there was a war we weren't told about, the guys told us that a VIP was visiting the apartment building above Grand Indonesia and that the tank was on stand-by...some things still surprise us in Indonesia!

Let's Sushi-Tei it

We are loving Sushi Tei at the moment. In fact we are starting to go there on weekends for dinner or lunch. It's become a little on the obsessive side actually. I'm not sure why we never went here before as we are normally Sushigroove frequents. I guess I'm always a little turned off by the long queues, but as I recently discovered, Indonesians aren't the "lets have some good food and good conversation...and stay here a few hours" kind of people, they are more the..."lets have dinner quickly and go to a coffee shop for a few hours" type. So even if there is a queue of about 5-7 tables, we only wait a few minutes for our turn. And who doesn't love a good sushi train?

company outing

Lining up to go to the airport

A Sunday evening drive to the airport and you'd think there wouldn't be so much traffic...guess again. Thank goodness we went an hour early because it was really such a jam. Not the best way to spend the last day in Jakarta

Kuala Lumpur

So we are in Kuala Lumpur this weekend and amidst the rain, there was enough sun for us to go for a walk and explore a bit of KL.

Personally, I've always enjoyed KL, it's like Jakarta, only cleaner and more organised in the transportation sense but as soon as we got there, I already knew, Marcel is not a fan.

We only just walked around a bit and had a nice lunch outside. It was definitely a nice change to be able to walk around in the open air.

A little walk

Second day in Bandung and Marcel had this idea to visit the hot springs, some nature, fresh air - I wouldn't have minded doing some shopping and eating but hey, that's just me. We got there...and lo and behold, there was more macet


But it was a nice view anyway...
Yes that is Marcel's mobile phone in the corner...and yes he was working!

So Marcel had an idea to take a little walk down to the hot springs. Now I'm always a little skeptical whenever he mentions the words "a little walk" as it usually means a hike or a marathon of some description. In this case, it was a hike through the woods...a rather long one.
Finally we got there and had quite a relaxing time out
The walk up was excruciatingly painful, really, it was an uphil battle with the mud and debree from past landslides. Towards the end I was begging Marcel to carry me but he refused...I guess he will only do it in front of others tsk tsk tsk

behind the scenes

I haven't had a chance to write about what happened on our wedding day because i guess so many things happened that it was a bit of a blur really...mainly because it started at 5:00am and didn't end til 11:30pm. I'm not really ready to write about it just yet but looking over some of these pictures got me a little nostalgic.


...yes it really hurt


it took ages to put these flowers on!


This is probably Marcel's favourite part of the ceremony, where I have to bow down and hold his hand to my forehead...old tradition that Marcel likes to believe still exists


This is my love telling me how beautiful I look despite the infected eyes and me telling him to shut the heck up and that he doesn't know what he's talking about