Family Summer Vacation 2013 : Jakarta
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Hi guys...
We're actually planning to blog about my birthday celebration today, but #Undecided's very busy lately so... That's gonna have to wait until she has a little spare time! I have so many product reviews drafted but i've been blogging nonstop about beauty related stuffs lately so i decided to post this drafted snippets of our family time in Jakarta a while back.
We're actually planning to blog about my birthday celebration today, but #Undecided's very busy lately so... That's gonna have to wait until she has a little spare time! I have so many product reviews drafted but i've been blogging nonstop about beauty related stuffs lately so i decided to post this drafted snippets of our family time in Jakarta a while back.
I'm done with my JB/SG posts (finally), but afterward we still had another week long holiday in Jakarta and Bandung. And i wanted to blog about them too (mainly for our non-Indonesian readers-some who thought Indonesia is some kind of a primitive and backward place hehehe) to complete the whole story. I tried making the rest of the trip into one post but i decided it'd be best to separate the Jakarta post from the Bandung post. Just to make it (a teeny tiny bit) tidier.
As you probably all know, nothing much to do in Jakarta for someone who frequents it.... It is just another metropolis for me. One with crazy jams that drives me up the wall 90% of the time (seriously, how do you Jakarta people deal with the traffic? I think my blood pressure always shoot through the roof whenever i'm in Jakarta, which is pretty often PFFFFTTTT).
And most of the time we spent there, we went to one mall after another. Not even that much (of different ones) because after a while all the malls blurred into one for me, so i prefer to stick to the ones closer to our place (our ultimate fave is Mall Kelapa Gading-which is not super far from our apartment, huge and more than a little complete-it has everything! Well, maybe not designer branded stuffs, but i don't even shop for designer stuffs in Jakarta anyway)-maybe the more upscale ones-once or twice (Grand Indonesia is another must visit for me because i HAVE to shop at Forever 21 everytime i'm in Jakarta!).
But this time we're in town just in time for a new, Ciputra World mall with a huge Korean department store-Lotte Avenue. Now, you know i'm not much into Korean cultures (i'm a J-lover through and through) except for their food and Running Man-so it was not the main reason why i wanted to visit it *LOL*. Any new mall tends to attract us lah, we just want to see it. Turned out it was not such a wasted visit anyway (even though lots of the stores weren't open yet!) because they had such cute decors all around the mall! Like this one :
Baby Boy and i, on a huge splattered ice cream cone hehehe |
Lots of spots to cam-whore with, but i wasn't dressed for a cam-whoring session and i was a bit embarrassed because it was not very full *so someone cam-whoring in every spot is bound to be attracting a lot of stares, no?*, so i mainly snapped a lot of pictures of Baby Boy in every decorative spot hehe. But i'm getting a head of myself.
Other than the pictures in Lotte Avenue, there are some random pics i took on our stay in Jakarta.
After watching the movie |
This guy's obsessed *LOL* |
Look at KC's annoyed expression! ROFL! |
Cold Stone Creamery!!! Don't come to Surabaya, you devil!!! I do not need any extra fat! |
Errrr... i just realized... That's all the random pictures i took before Lotte Avenue! LOL. The next day we went to Bandung-which like i mentioned earlier will be covered in another entry, so... Here's Baby Boy's Lotte Avenue's cam-whoring session! LOL.
Hahahahahaha |
OMG, what's hunny doing? He wasn't picking his nose, no? LOL |
Halloween props in July, really? |
Errrmmm, yeah, i did cam-whore a little bit lah :P |
I cannot resist the cute lollies!!! |
Entering Baby Boy's dreamland : HUGE Toy City |
It's seriously massive they could actually house this gigantic dinosaur! |
LOL |
The only interesting store that's already opened in that mall was Uniqlo, it was the first Uniqlo in Indonesia or something? I bought a cute jacket that i'll show you in my haul post okay... It was having a huge opening sale and i immediately regret buying (hunny's) clothes in Singapore's Uniqlo because it was so much cheaper in Indonesia (on sale okay) zzz.
I also eyed a very cute purse in Lotte Avenue's bag section but apparently it was a freebie if you buy a bigger (less cute) bag. At almost 2 mill, i hesitated for way too long. Yes, of course i bitterly regret not getting it. Until now FML.
Look at hunny's criminal face. We were trying to steal some errr... sperm-shaped balloons LOLOLOL |
I'm not usually impressed by a local mall's decor, but this one reminds me of overseas (like, Spore or KL's) malls so it was pretty special |
Gargantuan Dorothy's shoes? |
That ended the series of cam-whoring pictures we took at Lotte Avenue! Baby Boy wanted to go to DuFan but, haishh i think we had enough of theme parks for one vacation lah! But i'd still go (because i actually do love them too) if it wasn't during school holiday, we'd be fried to crisps queuing for the rides in DuFan on a peak season! It's just not worth it so i sneakily steered him towards... Sea World.
The only picture of me that day, even though i was wearing such a pretty dress hahaha |
The last set of pictures were taken on our last day in Jakarta, just before we rushed to the airport to catch our flight (Baby Boy's staying behind for a week or so with his grannies). Felt bad about leaving Baby Boy so we tried to entertain him as much as we could that day. Went to one of the best kiddie mall in Jakarta (IMO), Mall of Indonesia (lots and lots of arcades and indoor theme parks, even though the shops itself wasn't interesting at all. We usually go there to play with Baby Boy or watch a movie at Blitz Megaplex).
And this, a mini roller coaster. I am glad that Baby Boy's a lot more courageous now when it comes to this kind of rides (a far cry from just about a week earlier when he cried after i suggested he tried the mini roller coaster at Lego Land out!) |
The friggin popcorn was much bigger than my face T.T |
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lotte mall itu lucu amat ya.. banyak spot buat foto2 :)
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