Oh noooo….. last year was my parents, now it’s come to me! Like Mufasa talk to Simba, “it is time”
How can I schnorre mich again? mwahaha 😀
It Ends Tonight – Part 2
Hotels Hopping
When my parents are joining us in Bali, we stayed in a very hochwertiges Hotel!
Ayana Rimba (4D3N)
We got our welcome flowery necklace thingy, drink Rosemary tea cold #so good! + hand towel. I was hesitant to take it as I didn’t hear she said “refreshing” I thought it was warm like the one you get on the airplane, therefore when she drop it to my hand I screamed aaaaaaa.
This Ayana Group is a collections of 4 hotels: (Just) Ayana, Ayana Segara, Ayana Wana, last Ayana Rimba. You can go to each hotels for breakfast, swimming at Ayana’s infinity pool or others, kids club etc. They provide shuttle bus every 10 minutes with destinations to each Hotels, Saka Museum, at the end station approximate 10 minutes ride you will reach their private Kubu Beach, be careful there were monkeys on the way.
Visited Saka Museum, went to Auditorium where they explained what kind of celebration Nyepi ist. It is a silent day for all people in Bali to stop doing anything for one day; airports are not operating, hotel will reduce their working hours. We saw Ogoh-Ogoh ~ no picture because I’m 胆小鬼 it is a scary version of Ondel-Ondel. They making it on purposely scary to catch all bad evil spirit to burn it in the midnight. Only then, they started their new first day of the year with Nyepi.
Our room rate included 1 hour free Thalasso Theraphy. Some precautions: it is a salt water pool theraphy, you must eat 3 hours before you do this ~ meaning you can’t go if you just had food for half an hour or else you will feel nausea. We took shuttle bus to Ayana Spa! there is a place for a fucking spa alone! Cray crayyyyyy.
Here is how it go, station number one is to walk against the flow. Boy oh boy, couldn’t even go through, Sissy need to go first. While you passed the curve, there are some rocks on your your feet! aaaahhhh… Station number two is 4 “bubble massage” from ankle to hips, each one minute. It felt good for 10 seconds, longer than that I started to feel itchy. Next is same “bubble massage” for back. I lost control on which station where it was for palm of your feet, we were laughing the whole damn time, was so ticklish. Icing on the cake was “water jet massage” to our shoulders. The pressure was…. we describe it as if we were beaten by 10 people! We were so grateful we only got the one hour free. What confuses us is since this Spa open for public, some people actually paid for getting tortured! We named this therapy a “Rich People Therapy”, not our cup of tea.
Parents and I were kind of explore a bit. Went to Melasti Beach & Garuda Wisnu Kancana. I have been to GWK since I was 16 years old however the complete statue of Wisnu riding on a Garuda has never finished, some says it’s done in year 2019, okay then, let’s check.
At the same time we have World Water Forum where important people such as our President + Elon Musk attended, accompanied by 2000 delegations #Why? I found some WWF cars in Melasti beach but not my President, must be one of the delegations aka not so important people #Causing traffics.
Sissy was kind of bewildered why do I need to go to Melasti beach where we have a private beach at the hotel? she got the point though. Rimba is a kind of hotel where you don’t need to go anywhere else. If you don’t stay in one of the Ayana’s, I strongly suggest you to book a table in Rockbar Ayana during sunset, it’s perfect! located in Ayana hotel so you kind of see what Ayana has to offer. I am satisfied with Rimba!
Apurva Kempinski (3D2N)
I was so amazed by the lobby of Rimba. Schwager said Apurva’s lobby is made of marble, during the evening some stones are sparkling, like a museum it was top top top. To me, the lobby in Rimba is already wow! wait until I arrived at Apurva, it took me to another world of Hochwertiges.
The smallest room is 65 sqm which is bigger than my whole apartment in Germany haha ~ 58 sqm.
What’s so characteristic about Apurva is the stairs, I need to have the IT picture or should I say picturessssss #Plural, can’t get enough, day mode night mode, all of it! The pool also giving an infinity pool vibe, due to the fact it was really infinity haha you looked at the beach in front of you.
Why do we chose Apurva? to celebrate Mother birthdays at Koral restaurant. It is a set menu, I chose Experience Food. Koral has feeding shows, twice a day, the fishes gathered like crazy, fascinating!
Neither did I know, my cousin Santy knows someone who works in Koral so the diver dives to our table, carrying a print out Happy Birthday sign while other people doesn’t get this special announcement, thank you Santy!
We also visited Pandawa hotel just because its 10 minutes away while private beach is walking distance #Mom’s logic. I think we were happier had we stay inside Apurva, feeding fish, walk around or so haha
You need to have a really good Orientierung here. I mentioned the stairs is what makes Apurva different. Why stairs? because the lobby is on the 15th floor whereas your room is down with different elevator. They have buggy services too yet not durchgetaktet like in Ayana, you need to use the phone provided there, in the end we didn’t even use any buggy service, not needed anyway. Downside of Apurva, the check in process dauert Ewigkeit, of course you get welcome drink etc to buy you some time. However you’ll reach the point of “these freebies are not enough, give me my room”.
I think Apurva is fit for honeymoon while Ayana is fit when children already arrived 😀 The kids club in Ayana is better when your child is still small while in Apurva is more suitable for toddler above 5.
Swiss Bell Tuban (2D1N)
Pay attention to the very important Hotel you can’t miss, on your last day in Bali before you go to the Airport, you must sleep at Swiss Bell Tuban. It is located only 10 minutes away from Airport, with traffic it will still manageable within 1 hour. I remembered when I still with Irina at Menzel it took her 2,5 hours to Airport, you don’t want to deal with that stress! It doesn’t mean there is no attractions surrounding btw, there are many restaurants, laundry service is just 60 meters distance, hair salon right next to the hotel.
Our room is on the ground floor, hence we could go direct to swimming pool. Downside is people thought the “balcony” is for public, I had to warn them to remove their belongings and don’t talk there because baby is sleeping on the other side of the door which of course she wokes up haha
Do not buy any souvenir in terms of food or stuff everywhere else, just buy it from Pusat Oleh-Oleh Krisna near Swiss Bell, it’s open 24 hours #Heard that Germany 🙂
What I take from my hotels hopping experience is I would never be able to work in hospitality industry, too many basa basi chit chat, can I help you with anything? Get lost dude! help yourself haha or the famous German phrase “Es ist so wie es ist”
Time stops when I was there…. Listen Bali, I’m coming again XOXO
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Je suis Susi – Part 4
Susi will be my niece’s nickname for a long time, it suits her well #Stay with Susi.
Their final destination is Frankfurt Airport, distance from Colmar to Frankfurt is a bit too far, too much car seat time for Susi. Therefore Sissy and Schwager spontaneously decided to stop at Baden-Baden – stay one night in Heidelberg – next morning Frankfurt Airport.
Susi woke up just in time for Schwager to make an exit from the Highway to Baden-Baden. Priority: Susi!
DM has a baby changing corner, complete with wipes and diapers sizes. From all the sizes on the below shelf available, of course Susi’s size was empty!
Credits needs to be given though, it’s my first time seeing a changing station in DM #Thumbs up.
After Susi has changed, we were more relax for sightseeing and lunch.
We walked passed one museum, making fun of the Peaky FUCKING Blinders! #Arthur’s voice. The fans would know it, the Faberge Egg’s scene.
We were very happy at Baden-Baden, not sure why? maybe just because the name is Baden-Baden 😉 we stayed there longer than we planned. Jumping on the stones, visit the church, had ice cream- I ordered Casis, don’t do it, when in doubt, chose Hazelnut #Sissy wejangan.
Suits ourselves, continue drive to Heidelberg. It was a Saturday afternoon, Heidelberg was packed, I meant packed packed PACKED PACKED!!! I still didn’t do the justice of how packed it was. People everywhere, all parking place were full so full to the point we were waiting on the line to get into the Parkhaus. One car out from the Parkhaus = one car move in from our line and so on.
What do we do while waiting? called our Hotel to ask if they have a Parking Place. The receptionist asked under which name the rsvp was made. Only for us to hear “I can’t find your name, please just come here and we will sort it out”
In the meantime Schwager check his mails, we booked the wrong date! Let’s just carry Susi with Björn, go to Hotel maybe they have free room for tonight.
All three we went, no free room. We asked her if there is something today, to this she answered, “nothings happening, it’s just normal Heidelberg on a weekend”
Me and Schwager went to few hotels & restaurants nearby asking if they have a room: zero squared. Only then we realized our attempt to stays at Heidelberg crashed in front of our eyes. It was a sea of Menschen, impossible to find a hotel here.
Let’s make a cut, quit Heidelberg, snap some pictures here as our hotel was exactly on the city center, this is the only chance we got haha so we could say we already went to Heidelberg 😉 The focus at this moment is to find a new hotel for tonight somewhere else. Get out from the Hype-Heidelberg.
Schwager kept driving on the highway direction of Frankfurt. We will passed few cities beforehand. When we read some name like Weinheim, Heppenheim, Bensheim, search on Google- Hotel.
I felt like a Detective in the movie, with 3 phones + 1 GPS looking which directions should we go, should Schwager took an Exit to any Heims-City or keep going. I said the hotel name, Schwager put it on the GPS, responded “no it’s another direction” next, next, next we were like that for def under an hour, although at that time it feels like forever. We do have Stau so Schwager can type something on the GPS.
The call was always “Hallo, wir sind 3 Erwachsene und 1 Baby. Haben Sie zufällig heute ein Zimmer frei?” always got replied “Nein, tut mir leid” fuck fuck fuck! No, don’t take exit on Weinheim as there is no hotel anyway, keep on the lane to next city, Heppenheim. Sissy entertaining Susi or keep feeding her banana. The stakes are high, we all knew the moment Susi cries it’s game over.
We kept driving directionless or we gonna end up at Ashley and Ongky’s couch haha I swear if it’s only 3 of us, without a doubt we would slept on the car, doesn’t really matter, go to a restaurant, use the facilities, we already got spot in the Parkhaus anyway, next morning go to Frankfurt Airport earlier to use their shower room. Since it’s not possible, keep focus!
Just to add some tension, the Benzin could only fit for 60km left. AHA! icing on the cake #face palm. It’s getting dark too hahaha strike after strike after strike, give it full gas to our last day. Relax? what’s that? #Hold my beer.
First priority sofar is unfruitful hotel searching, now our second priority is catching up with our first’s, which is to find the Tankstation. Took an exit, fuel some Benzin, next to it there is a McD, Sissy said “let’s sit down, we need to eat something”
We were not really a big fans of McD but at this point we were already desperado haha
We were still calling many hotels near by to no avail. We know we needed to be in big cities. It’s logic, no way in hell all hotels in big cities are full. The situation now is Susi still happy, we all are full, we are secured. The -Heims are small cities maybe the kind of hotel was family own which only have 4 rooms, that could be one of the reason.
Schwager called one last hotel in Darmstadt, hole in one! We got direction on where to go, finally! Now I look back realizing of how calm we were actually. We were just in disbelief or denial phase but not panic since we all aware there will always be a hotel for us, it’s just how far should we drive. What the hell is happening on this Saturday, is it Oktoberfest? yes it’s the very first day of Oktoberfest but we are not in Münich, why would be the reason of this full-ness?
Btw if you wonder how Susi was doing when we were unter der Druck setzen? She was soooo calm the whole damn time! didn’t scream, she even slept! that makes a loooottt easier. I was very very very proud of Susi for being so considerate as if she understood the situation.
Susi was so happy in the new, bigger hotel 🙂 Plaza Western PLUS you saved 4 asses that night! We will never forget you.
We slept so damn well, happy to have a refreshing shower in a big bathroom. Overall, this hotel is better anyway than the small hotel in Heidelberg.
Checked out is at 12, distance from Darmstadt to Frankfurt Airport was only 20 minutes. My luggage is already done, Sissy hasn’t finished hers. She can’t find her legginggggg yet it’s already time to check out. In order to not get a late check out fee, we just checked out first the re-open Sissy’s Koffer in the lobby haha! Schwager started moving Susi’s travel cot or some other Kram to the car on by one. I played with Susi, meaning: Susi is eating my handy case while in return I got Susi’s headphone. At some point I ask “why Susi only wear diapers?” “Where is her pants?” the hectic has taken all of us, here wear the yellow one! Now we all are decent.
Off to Frankfurt Airport. We were all in one toilet in Baby Room in Airport until we got a knock haha All in! It takes a village 🙂 It was amazing that I met them 3X within one month, always come and go, one weekend, next week and one full week. It was so hard to be parted with this kleine Mote since she’s very menggemazkan hhmmmm.
I witnesses the moment she articulate Papa, Dada, played “hide and seek”, peekabo, screaming, number 2, mingkem, cengegesan. So many once in my lifetime memories created and stored innerhalb der kurzen Zeit I have with small Susi. Next time I see you, you’ll be already able to walk, will be very seru!
Big big big thank you for Sissy and Schwager to include me on their trip. I’ve seen + been on tons places because of you. We had so so so much indescribable fun, I’m very happy 😀
Danke – Merci – Terimakasih – 谢谢
么么哒 Kuss
May the force be with our for our upcoming trips
#When you know, you know 😉
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Je suis Susi – Part 3
Morning walk with Susi to the Hay, saw horses, wore Flannie together #Matchy matchy. We coincidentally met our Landlord, at first she spoke French to us, none of us understood here, we can’t say Je suis Susi or whatnot right. Schwager replied “Allemand” then she strike a conversation auf Deutsch with French accent. Whoaaa felt like home! it’s very useful to know German hay!
Second try of sightseeing in Colmar. We had our best ice cream so far. Kept coming back to the shop, from three Kugeln on a Becher to one Kugel on a cone to two Kugel on a Becher. The more Kugel in one purchase desto billiger, we should’ve have done the math pffff. Don’t worry, we didn’t overlook Susi, we also gave her some tiny bits 🙂
At some point, the beauty overwhelmed us, let’s drive home, we have some Boci to played. Put Susi to nap, while I prepared our Boci. We made our own rule, hit the ball to the stick. We were laughing a lot because Sissy didn’t even aim, she just hit randomly. It took her 6-7 tries on one stick before she get the grip out of it. See the glitch in Matrix where we laughed the same way 😀 We closed our Boci game after 3 rounds and had our kind of photo session.
It was our last night in this AirBnB, very peaceful, I like the idea of going to Supermarkt, cook at home, eat in the Patio until…. we got unwanted guess. Schwager suddenly said “Hello Buddy!” my back was facing the so genannte “entrance” therefore my first response was who the hell is Buddy coming in this hour?!?! Should I run? break the plate, take the fraction of the plate? In my mind it’s a lost person or thief, be aware it’s dark plus not to mention the obvious, we were in the middle of nowhere. Can you guess who is the Buddy he meant? it’s someone’s dog haha all good! he must have been smelling our food.
Sun rises, we didn’t want to leave the Tiny House but we have too. We need to leave Je suis Susi country to be back to Ich bin Wurst. Not gonna lie, I feel so good to be back to Germany haha the country where I can speak the language!
Before we moved to Wurst, I just want to clarify something. Susi ist the niedlichen version of Sausage or Sosis in Indonesian and here is the blatant proof of “why” 🙂
#Which one should I eat?
So far seems like a relax day closing our trip hey? just wait, it’s about to reveal sooner than later 😉
Alsace, you’ve been good! Merci!
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Je suis Susi – Part 2
Back to Susi! can’t be parted long from the cheeky chunk of meat 😉 Our next destination is Colmar. In between there is a castle called Chateau du Haut-Koenigsbourg, our pit stop.
Where to park? There were many cars parking on the so genannte “Parkplatz” 700 meters before the Chateau, we ain’t gonna park there, noone gonna carry Susi for 700 meters, proceed drive further. We parked 200 meters away, with this distance ist Susi tragbar #Agreed!
Susi was very aufmerksam the whole time, look here and there as if she understood everything whilst zip her mouth hmmmm or pull my hair.
The Chateau is quiet refreshing, was a good decision to stop there. We had a noice lunch at the Chateau’s Restaurant, looked at the cakes, yep we got it too! Susi had a Kindersitz with a little marbles on it for playing. She’s doing super great!
Before we continued our journey, she need to have a new diaper. Oh diapers! Remember I bought her diapers the day before right? it was the damn wrong one, there are two types heyyyy, the real diapers with straps or the pants diaper. Of course I bought the pants diaper which was meant for babies who has been potty trained. How did we changed her pants diaper? #Disaster! Went with Sissy to the bathroom, boah! Sissy said “hold her, hold her” I looked on the other side saying “my hand is holding her body, I think it’s her feet”
She managed it in the end, out from the loo, I felt I was grasping for air, wanted to put her back to either Baby Björn or Pram until she realized there were one dot of residue on Susi’s leg, Sissy scream “Bebesup, Bebesup (read: baby wipes), gimme now now now” Schwager searched for it, I tried to pour water to her leg. I don’t have any water on my bottle left but Susi does! Took her bottle who’s already Childsafe approved, you need to suck the straw, only then the water will come out. It won’t work by turning the bottle upside down hahaha! Well, at least I tried!
What’s more important is…. Susi is now clean, safe and sound, aman sentosa. Get going, makes our way to Colmar-Adjacent.
We need to turn around 2 times as google mislead us. Our second accommodation was in fact in the middle of nowhere, very very very countryside like a tiny house with everything you need! Never have I experienced it! Adults are happy, Susi is happy, everything just fell into place, we need this goddamn relax to close our trip #Slow life.
I chose to sleep on the sofa, it was only around 20:30. Sissy and Schwager decided to have something to eat, yet they rather eat it inside on the small round table next to the Sofa or my feet (if I lay down) than outside on the Patio. What a view they could have.
They prepared the evening + food, closed the curtain, there is still some gap. Schwager did a DIY curtain to block the morning sunniesssss. Hmmm still not enough, moved the table and chair where they supposed to eat, into other side to be able to hold the hanged the clothes. Looks good, all bedeckt…. but…. where will they eat? Right next to my face had I sleep in, so I ate too hihihi
Next morning, went to visit Schwager’s relative in Colmar.
Oh this City is welcoming me! Hello ladies and gentlemen, my name is Mar-Lyn. The Col is on my left hand side which is not something you need to worry about 😉
The food was good, the location is in the middle of city center. Susi is having her fancies Kindersitz ever! All went well!
Will we get a full relax to close our trip though?! That’s a mystery we were about to unfold, brace yourself 😉
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Je suis Susi
We need to get ourselves used to “Bonjour” “Allemand” since we are in French bzw. Strasbourg!
Wawa booked an apartment which is much much much oh sorry we need to say beaucoup beaucoup beaucoup bigger than our pervious Unterkunfts, it’s also in a center-adjacent area. Susi (we are in French, do as the French does, not saying the word S in the end) and I got our own room… although she sleeps in a travel cot on the floor nevertheless 😉
It is boucu boucu boucu hot heyyyy!!!! at the same time boucu pretty! Were totally overwhelmed by the beauty of Strasbourg. Owing to the fact that none of us eingecremt, we went inside the cathedral to “hide” from the sun for a bit.
No…. it won’t cut it…. the heats makes us feels tired, Susi’s too, we decided to go back, do a bit of nap. Snoozed until I heard Susi’s laugh or her crawling sound. The cheeky baby has woken up 🙂 in another word, we need to transfer into “go go go” mode before she shut down again in 3 hours. Clock is ticking! Change clothes, wash face, sunscreen!
Our first destination is La Petite Alsace, instead of following Google maps, we were back to ancient times, pay attention to “sun time” as in where is the shade?!?! the path with shadow is the path we choose.
Oh ice cream, you are so delicious! We had three scoops of ice cream in one Becher. Susi was with her father on Baby Björn, I was taking her pram, left Wawa who’s in charged for feeding us the ice cream, shouldn’t have trusted her, she did cheat sometimes. For example “OK, last Chocolate” “No it’s not, there is still some spoons left, how can it be the last? it ain’t the last scoop yo” #I didn’t born yesterday 😉
Bridge!! you protect us!! we saw two dogs swams on the water, cathing balls, taking sticks, cool down… how I… still not want to do that haha I know it’s very hot yet not to the point I’m gonna jump into the water #facepalm. Few more steps later, I witness something really cool science in this canal. A tourist boat went in between two doors, then the level of water raised until it’s enough for the front gate to be opened so this boat can get through. It’s pretty cool in real life. This La Petite Alsace is very picturesque 🙂 Love it so much!
I think we called it a day, were satisfied already, went back home, bought KFC!
The next morning, we had our learning curve from yesterday, went in the morning right after Susi’s woke up before her first nap to walk to the bridge. The sun wasn’t too strong at that time, no need for sunscreen.
As we walked, we passed again the yesterday La Petite Alsace… Hmm… the geographic of the bridge is right above us…. where is the damn stairs? how about Susi? don’t worry, we carry her! if she could say perhaps she thought “Hello you all Peasant, I’m a Princess”
Before her first nap is her very fresh status, Susi is so kissable. Being kissed by a baby is what I called win in life!
Wait it’s not the bridge we intended to go! don’t let this win distract from the real destination! This is the bridge, we let Susi explore the pavement.
Time for her and ours first nap! zzzzzz. On the second time we awake, we think…. a good lunch would be great, let’s search something. We were back to the cathedral alley thingy. I have just learned that food isn’t the priority for us, rather if a restaurant have a high chair für Susi #Princess.
Susi was a bit uncontrollable, not sure why, maybe too hot? She did calm down when she hear the street performance played some music for a while. Susi touched the pot that still hot for a baby, not for an adult, screamed, huhu she isn’t kissable again, she became cheeky! Grabbing everything, taking my glasses #kiddos!
That was it! our afternoon, went back again for our second nap 😉 yes! travelling with baby is full with up and down sleeping. I am not getting not enough sleeping time, I got it, just in a different way, the accumulated hours way
Third attempt! we went to a Museum close by.
Because Susi went back to sleep, I left in the Museum alone… out of nowhere, I got an Archimedes EUREKA! What exactly is that? that’s story for another time 🙂
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Mother’s Dedication
I must give all my four thumbs up to my mother! She planned my sister’s wedding from head to toe as details as what color should the decoration be, what will be the souvenirs, cake taste, our dress plus make up artist, invitation and many more behind the scene stuff all by herself, alone! Why you ask? the answer is both me and my sister were such an ungrateful little bastard hahaha we were so lazy to plan those small things. I’m lazy because it’s not my wedding so why should I care, kind of make sense right 😉 my sister is lazy because it’s just the way she is haha on top of that we are living not in the same time zone so better let mother decide everything together with the wedding organizer in Jakarta. And father? oh forget about him, he’s always the typical of go with the flow “it’s all good, up to you”
We don’t have the photos from professional cameramen yet as it would take round about 1-2 months. So all the photos that you will see here were taken from smart phone. Still, you can see the amazing work my mom’s put on.
I landed on a Friday evening, went to our Schneiderin on Saturday, I love love love her design. Her name is Dyan btw I’d be happy to recommend her to everyone! Too bad even with my 16 cm high heels the gown still too long, she had to cut it, so I’d get it back on Saturday evening.
Right after that we went to Grand Hyatt Hotel. I requested a room by myself, which is not included on sister’s wedding package, yeah I ain’t sharing 😉 We all stays on 18th floor the room was amazing!
Then we had dinner also in Hyatt on their 5th floor. At the beginning-like 2 years ago before Corona, father wanted to have wedding there but he was worried if it’s rain then it will be doomed! so he chose ballroom instead. I had a very good Mee Goreng Jawa, the service was rather slow as they only have 1 waiter but all the complaint gone when he came, the waiter were so funny, thanks Teddy! (not Bear)
Family from Dom hasn’t arrived yet, they arrived Saturday evening. I was supposed to wait for them as in theory I should be on a jetlag mode but meh! rather checked out haha
Sunday morning begrüßt uns 😀 Father and Mother woke up earlier to check the decoration as it wasn’t ready, the still have hmmmm 4 hours… tick tock tick tock….
me on the other hand joined the crowd for breakfast so happy to meet Horst, Renate, Claudia and Mr. Cool Darren once again after hmmm 8 years or so.
We all have our private LO wth is that? she’s and he for Dom are a Liaison Officer. My sister’s LO named Susan, mine called Lea, Renate and Claudias called Virgin, their boss is Michelle and her bos is Mona-the iron lady. Hmmm what about my mom? maybe also Lea haha so we ain’t do nothing, we ain’t carry $#it! I want to have LO for life! haha they’re the one with a rundown event, remind us to drink, eat, help us with our clothes, make sure we are on time whenever wherever we needed to be. They were with us the whole f#ck!ng day! Since we are not the main star of the show, we got some time after breakfast to just walk inside Hyatt before make up begin 🙂
Then we went for a make up while father went to checked the flower. Nope, not the flower in the garden but the flower that Indonesian will send to us and check the decor one last time, progress expected heyyy 😉
Almost 1,5 hours later, make up plus hair do done, let’s get dressed up and join my sister’s in their Suite room for picture time 🙂
Another picture session in their lobby, followed by checking the final decoration, practice our walk on the aisle 🙂
Families are coming, we start with the blessing’s in another room which I didn’t see it before, the flowers and decoration in this room also spot on! Good job Mom! On the same room, we have our Tea Ceremony or we called it Tepay wohooooo money money money #drolling! Not big decoration changed only from Katrin & Dominic to 喜喜
Then the final event! Wedding reception! We also got it live streaming from youtube for Dominic’s family in Hannover and some of their friends in Australia. My job is not to fall down during the walk and eat haha such an easy one 😀
Then what my father and Dom’s already practiced, the wedding dance as their final event 🙂
Thank you Mom! we wouldn’t be able to have such a perfect party without you! This is very memorable not only for my sister but also for me <3
P.S: Here is the full live streaming in case you want to see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxjn7dDvPt8
The Insurance Jargon
“One for all, all for one” for some reason it reminds me of the jargon that insurance company always use haha! due to Covid-19 we are not able to meet our uncle, aunts, cousins etc, not that we always meet each other without Covid-19 anyway haha #facepalm from time to time yes but not every-time, we have life to live haha! But this current situation made everything escalates to a higher level and a feeling of “need to connect” got a high priority.
My mother’s family is really big! She’s the 5th child out of 9! damn! I never understand the old jargon saying “more kids, more happiness” well maybe I understood some part of it, if you know what I mean 😉 #wink wink.
From her side I have 2 cousins that is in Australia and my aunt and her husband that is living in the USA but the rest is in Indonesia. We wanted to have a zoom call but we are actually more interested with my aunt and her husband that is in USA because we haven’t seen them since forever! they haven’t even installed zoom and don’t know how to use a computer, obviously they are like over 60! So, while waiting for them we do our own zoom testing and the one who participated always the same haha! #we are all the WFH-ers
Since I’m the one that is more familiar with zoom so every-time I’ll be the host but I only have 40 mins of free group call, don’t know why maybe it’s old account? because all of them that sign up now they have unlimited group calls… hmmmm
Anyway, I posted the link on our WA group and the one who joined always my cousin in AU, Santy in SG and my two uncles in Jakarta and this happened many times so we kept asking “is there anyone joining the call” but we got ignored so many times! haha because all of them waiting the eldest aunt to installed zoom and then make the video call.
I think it took my aunt 1 whole week to succeeded installing zoom and we can make the final call. Yes it is a final call because again, back to the jargon, one for all and all for one that I interpreted as once is enough! haha
My sister never replied to any of my link before but for this time she’s joining! but still not all of my uncles and aunt joined, people! sometimes its really hard if you have such a big family…
And what was the result of having 6+ people joining the call? CHAOS! as everyone talks at the same time and one said “ha? what did you say? I can’t hear you” while the other “who else joining, I want to watch soap opera”
And on the top we all have 11 people joined the call and the result is APOCALYPSE! since I’m the host once I silenced everyone and make the announcement “we can only hear if one people speak” but when I un-muted them all somehow they forgot this one and only rule pffffff to take a screenshot for them was always a struggle but finally we got one last shot!
Wogh! while my 40 mins was gone, we all said bye but the one who still wants to gossip will stay using my cousin’s number and where I was? I was gone as well!
Suddenly I was tired right after the call fiuhhh it consumed much of my energy! haha but thanks God the rumor of Zoom is unsafe and people can hacked it even though I’m sure nobody will hacked us, even if they succeed on hacking us, we have no valuable things to be hacked, no money and no info haha so mind as well the hacker quit by themselves. Some people started to uninstalled zoom, pity that the efforts of my aunt to installed it will never happens again haha! but lucky me! as I am and will not ready to have the second one! 😉