Chiang Rai

What a pleasant travelling surprise...colorful flower and light festival,  fresh air, elephant ride, breathtaking handmade headpiece, and enjoying the heart of Indochine civilization at the Golden Triangle....I love Chiang Rai!

Elephant Ride

Hilltribe Museum

Chiang Rai Flower Festival 2014

Chiang Rai Light Festival

Doi Mai Salong Morning Market

Golden Triangle - Myanmar, Laos Cambodia

Akha Hilltribe

Karen Longneck

CFFEO

As I am now living in Bangkok, the best time to night out is on December where they have tons of activities in town.  Nice wintery weather, piquenique in the park, good food, free entertainment..as the Chief of Free Entertainment Officer (CFFEO), what else you expect to have night out with the gang? #bangkoklife

Bangkok Jazz Night by the River

Night at the Siam Museum

Mother's Day

Dear oey doey, I am thanking you for making me a mother, and I am still learning to be the best one! Luv you in zillion years to come!

Bangkok Street Show

My typical weekend at the park....lucky enough they had Bangkok Street Show 2014 this time, ....free and entertaining!  #bangkoklife

Baso Kampung

Nothing can beat the local taste, I may say...luckily I brought quite enough ammunition - my Indonesia bakso - meatballs to satisfy my kampoeng taste!  I knew it was still far way to go though.. #bangkoklife

8th Bash

I was trying so hard not be drowning into heartbroken mellow moment, I prepared our tumpeng tradition for the youngest bday bash.  

Small celebration with our little oey doey family.  Your wishes are well-noted, young boy..We heart you to the moon, to the sun, to the universe...and come back! 

You will soon understand momma! #bangkoklife

Microwave Dried-Shumay

This is what happened when you are far away from home but desperately craving for comfort food.

Look at my homemade shumay trial with microwave, correction : homemade dried-shumay trial, dried dead...hiks.

I chopped the chicken, put tapioca flour, seasoning and garlic, and cooked for 15-minutes heat..next time I need to put only 10 minutes max to make chewy-slash-steamy taste inside! #bangkoklife

Happy Muay-Thai Hour

First timer joining Muay Thai after office-hour, supposed to be my me-happy-hour-time.

But,  sorry boss, I will not come to the office tomorrow...this is too much! #bangkoklife

Jim Thompson Farmer's Market

A happy day trip to Jim Thompson Farmer's Market last weekend..they have a very nice steam pumpkins and juice collections! #bangkoklife

Jim Thompson Farmer's Market

Another Bangkok Treasure Finds

Exploring Bangkok...and this was my weekend getaway, total coziness alert!

Thailand Creative Design Center at Emporium Mall - Phrom Pong BTS

I really love this place...you could spend the whole day just to read and relax....books are everywhere literally and free! #bangkoklife

Cilok Experiment

Soo..this is what i did for weekend.  A complete disaster of cilok experiment, a kinda meatless-shumay with tapioca flour.  Of course it went wrong as I boiled it in the microwave..Go figure! #bangkoklife

Another Flowery Mood

Well, this is not mine basically...was my home assistant completing the orders for my niece.  Another flowery mood?

Monas Pinata

Even when mommy is not around, they managed to build this beautiful Monas Pinata back home in Jakarta...happiness is!

Green Chicken Curry

When you're hungry, alone in the apartment and lazy to even move your feet...just dump chicken and Thai Green Curry ready pack, ring your microwave for 15 minutes, garnish with leftover coriander and you save your day! 

No, no..Kewpie is not included. #bangkoklife

Wintery Beijing

Nothing can defeat the wintery Beijing if you see this beauties! On my 2nd trip to Beijing and this place has never fail to impress....

Hidden Chinese House at Greatwall, Badaling Section

Sanctuary Summer, Summer Palace

Greatwall

Never fail to impress....Forbidden City!

Side Park

Or Tor Kor Market

I think this place deserves one post.  

Located next to Bangkok's busy Chatuchak weekend market, Or Tor Kor market is packed with local produce that ranges from fresh to dry specialities from the Asian continent.  It displays exotic fruits and veggie that are unique to Thailand as well as imported products from around Asia.  The market is immaculately clean, brightly lit, allowing shoppers to cruise conveniently for seafood, sweets and cooked food.  Furthermore, tourists will enjoy wide selection of perpared curry pastes and spices to take home.  Can you see the DURIAN?  oh YES, YES....happy to the MAX! #bangkoklife

Bangkok Life, Easy Life

Been sooo long been away from blogging world...With tons of social media choices, I am now more into Path or Instagram as pictures could tell you thousand stories, isn't it?

Anywayyy....I am living in Bangkok now...easy life, with tons of interesting spots waiting to be explored, and here are some! #bangkoklife

New crush...Jim Thompson Bag!

Enchanting wheels @Asiatique 

Thai Silk in the making

Fave place, sanctuary moment...@Jim Thompson Museum

Morning ride @Chamchuri Square

Cooking Me Time

Been busy lately with worklife, I guess i need to have a break sometimes, not to complain though...

I always find myself enjoying the moment when someone ordering me to cook for small event.  I am not the one who cooks, of course, I will leave that to my trusted Mbak Harti, as i know she loves to cook so much.  We both had agreed, unconditionally, that, she will do the cooking, I will help a bit and do the photography side!

Aha, yes..some people may say this is truly unfair but hey, people may have some special interests on their life and we seal this as our cooking ME TIME!

Sad Face

Hey you...don't be sad! #pinata #robot #sad #face

Another Cooking Class

Was so excited preparing the cupcake project for my nephews and nieces and their gang. 

At first i was thinking to have skirt sewing class where they could learn to cut and drag the sewing machine.  But then I realized it's too ambitious with only one machine and at least 5 kiddos to handle...no no no...plan B please!

I think it's still quite ambitious for having the cupcakes just to consider I never bake any before.  Baking is not my thing.  Well, of course I can dig up some recipes but for the first timer like me to seal a cupcake approval?

To make more fun to the story, when I was done making the cupcake one day before, I was uploading the picture to my instagram and path.  My bestie suddenly texting me and asking what kind of food coloring I used.  She instantly recognized I used one brand when she was using earlier and made her cake become bitter!

OMG, not now, not now!  I hate this shocking news.  This is my first time cupcake and i don't have time to bake more cake tomorrow as I must cook for the birthday lunch as well!

Luckily,  the cake went fine though is as not as fluffy as I thought.  I was running out  baking soda and vinegar and as usual my buttermilk was slightly off my expectation.  All that trouble was really paid off looking at the kiddos happy face when they're screaming for more cupcakes...Happiness is!

Bebikinan Baroe

Working on Indonesian vintage ad for my new wall decor....

Dia.Lo.Gue

This place has never fail to impress!

Pancake Experiment

Experimenting on Martha Stewart Best Buttermilk Pancakes...my big failure is to substitute the buttermilk with the milk and white vinegar mix.  I was so overwhelmed to mix the vinegar with low-cal milk which I think is a big No!  I turned to add greek yoghurt to the mixture, and thankfully it works....well, If the recipe asked for heavy milk, then you follow it, please! 

Anyhow, first effort was okay...but i think I will add one more egg on the next batch to elevate the moist!

Happy Palette Seat

This Happy Seat from  Balka Furniture is finally arrived...happily arranging my new wall decor with vintage printing and new seat!

Heavy Hippie Hi-Lo Combo

Last night, we did some experiments on late-night snacking....

Starting with the usual fried banana order from hubby, I dumped some Oreos into the batter, seeking an approval from the youngsters for their new snacking. They nodded their head saying yes at loud and I love how the Oreos melted in your mouth. But I doubt to do the second batch....oreo and deep fried? too much? hmmm...

Second dump is the mbak's creation...CHEESY MAC! (yes, with capital letters!) 

This is her go-to snacking whenever she felt clueless what to serve for breakfast.  She always feels the kiddos will get hungry easily during their school-time and she decided to load with heavy meal in the morning.  She does this all the time, I sometime argue but most of the time I let it go...Well, at least it's saving my morning hassle running late!

And last, inspired by this vegan banana pecan muffins I eagerly copy cat the recipe...sort of.  I thought I will have a nice-smell-good-light muffin...but I don't think i copycat the recipe religiously, kinda not liking the smell and texture.   Anyhow, will try the second batch at the soonest, wish me luck! #talkingtomyselfmoment

Let's seal the day with Heavy Hippie Hi-Lo Calorie Combo!

Fruity Morning Splash

A splash of morning fruity...overnight chia seeds and flax seeds topped with youngster homemade banana berry frozen shot and my leftover morning coffee..how cool is that?

What's in the LunchBox

Despite the thigh pain while doing my 3-days juice detox FR TWO last time, I think i started gaining benefit while doing so...I feel my body adjusting itself in some ways i could not describe.  

Headache, fatigue and sleepy-head are moved away slowly. And I am full easily after one full bowl of papaya in the morning and stop craving on black coffee dipped with choco biscuits for brunch.  oh yes, i will not stop this fruity-thingy-habit then.....desperately need a light-weight body conscious!

Banana Berry Ice Cream

We were having so much fun last night stirring, punching, smashing the banana...the youngest was so happy to create, he even asked me to take a video of him like a professional chef doing the How-To!  

The happiness continued as he asked to do the hi-five celebrating our ice-cream success story,..hahaha....too bad, the eldest had gone sleeping last night, else we will be the best trio ice-cream maker.....Say Banana!