Jakarta 2012 - 20th to 24th Jan

Almost every company were giving their staff half day on Friday as the first day of CNY was on a Monday. We flew into Jakarta on a 8pm flight. We had a quick A&W dinner and Papa came to pick us up at the airport. CNY is not an official holiday in Indonesia so Papa had to work. He left us the car and driver so we could go around the malls. So we spend the next few days going around Jakarta in its eternal jams and horrid highways to have our meals. There were of course several highlights.

21st Jan - Lunch was at the big prawn place again. The prawns have strung, most probably due to over harvesting. Dinner's at 4th Uncle's Japanese restaurant, it's a yearly tradition. It's my first though and the dinner is really good.

22nd Jan - We are at 1st Uncle's home for dinner tonight. Mama had a hand in the cooking, so that guaranteed top quality dishes. I've always joked that Mama could open her own restaurant with her skills and recipes.

23rd Jan - We are at 4th Uncle's home today. It's a huge bungalow, complete with it's own garage, mailrooms, swimming pool etc. It really is a beautiful house. Meimei had a great time with playing with their 2 dogs.

Going back on 24th. I really liked coming to Jakarta for CNY. I can't say I would like to do this every year. I would like to go visit relatives with Dad and Mum too. I suppose we have to make the alternative year arrangement work. :-)

Early CNY Dinner 2012

I had this agreement with Meimei that we will try to alternate our CNY celebration between Singapore and Jakarta. So last year we spent the first day of CNY visiting relatives and then flew to Jakarta after. This year we are skipping CNY in Singapore and going to Jakarta instead. So we decided to have an early CNY dinner with Dad, Mum, Bro and Sis-In-Law at our place. 

Thankfully Dad and Mum were ok with the idea. We were afraid one of them would be unhappy about it. If they did, they didn't show it. So we had them over for a steamboat lunch. I specially peeled the shell off the prawns as Dad isn't the type to do it himself. I wonder what the arrangement would be like next year.