The Gelatinous Blue Moon Scoop : 21st

21st December, Sunday

Went to church early in the morning. It was the last advent week before Christmas. The sermon today was from Luke. It was about how Zechariah praised the Lord for the coming of his son Jesus Christ. He was overjoyed after 9 months of not being able to speak/hear since he didn't believe that God could make her barren wife, Elizabeth, bare a child. But during this time of silence, he had more time to think and believe that the old testament are fulfilled through Jesus Christ.

After church, I went home with dad. Vivi and Helen had library duty every Sunday while Mom teaches sunday school. As per usual, we ordered Bakmi Cen2, it got delivered to our place which is super efficient. I love the kwetiau! . Anyway, to kill time, I played the piano, re-playing all classic songs. Then, I browsed for trips to Bangka Belitung as we were "planning" to go there. I hope we do though. But to our bad luck, all hotels were booked!

I started to read The Elite again. I continued but still couldn't get the hang of it. We went out for dinner that night to Fairy Garden. Ate hotpot there. It was good. We went there a lot when I was little during family gatherings. But I guess, the price has inflated so much that we rarely go there anymore. I think this was my first time visit again since idk, maybe in 4 years.. I don't know. Well, who's counting anyway. We were the first ones to arrive. Apparently it has just opened. The fried prawns wrapped in hams are delicious but the price was too much though. Oh, something peculiar about the menu was there was no price written on it. The ham fried rice is to die for too! But the portion has way decreased compared to ages ago. Afterwards, we bought more durians! Why are they so deliciousss.

love this <3

22nd December, Monday

Finally got the chance to meet up with Ci Lisda after so long. We were planning to exercise: playing the badminton or swim, at Ci Lisda's place but then again circumstances happened (mainly laziness) and we ditched the whole idea and decided to just go to the mall. We met up at Olimo and proceeded from there on to Grand Indonesia. It was quite fun when you have companions on a boring bus ride. Vivi and Helen went on to watch the Hobbit while Ci Lisda and I sat down and catch up with one another. You guys could look at the pictures below. But I'm going to write down everything here first. It appears that the text that I have typed were gone! I have no idea why, it was quite weird since I have written everything the other day and even published it, but when I tried to upload the last picture on this post via my phone, the published was reverted to a draft again and all the text was gone. Super weird.

I always adore the oreo mint flavor from Dairy Queen. It was top-notch! We sat down in the food court sky bridge and talked there. Then afterwards we went to Forever 21 in which I was in much contemplation in deciding which outfits to buy or not. We spent 2 hours and in the end I just bought ONE pair of jeans. Even the leather skirt that I tried on, the one that I fell in love at first sight, the one that I spent ogling at myself in front of the mirror, yep, in the end I didn't buy it, and I regretted it. It was a bit pricey and was not on sale so I just had to move on! There are plenty of skirts out there.

At about time, Vivi and Helen finished watching The Hobbit and so we ate at pizza hut for a late lunch! It was nice and we even tried out the new pizza flavor. I forgot whether it was called the okonomiyaki or takoyaki but whichever, the concept was inspired by the Japanese treat of some sort. It was good! Great experience in the taste buds. We continued satisfying our tummies by buying bubble tea from comebuy! Bubble teas in Indo are so cheap. I don't feel guilty at all buying it, I just feel guilty of the calories though but oh well.... A girl needs to eat her daily dose of bobbas, am i wrong? LOL. #soasian..

Krispy Kreme has its daily Monday promo on getting a free dozen of glazed donuts with every purchase of a dozen of assorted donuts. We were aiming for the glazed donuts but we were too late in buying them and it was out of stock so we got icing donuts instead. But both donuts are equally sweet.

Spent sometime browsing through Kinokuniya and bought Neil Gaiman's Stardust.

Then went around the mall intending to go home straight after we bought the book but we saw a lot of offers available written on the christmas decoration display. One was for L'Occitane that if we took a picture with the christmas display and post it on twitter with mentioning it and include the hashtag, we could get a free sample set of L'Occitane. We tried it but it took us a while to post it on twitter. The reception was terrible. But we got our free samples anyway. Then we took more photos with the telephone box and other displays in which I failed completely in even attempting to keep my eyes open. way to go..

Then at about 6ish if I was not mistaken we decided to go home. There was a light drizzle but we made it in time before the rain poured, it didn't though. The bus stop was OVERCROWDED again! Workers have started to go home at 5ish so yeah it's packed, what do you expect. Good thing we didn't have to transit on any stops. When we reached back to Olimo we were planning to take the bajaj home. However, something happened, as because of my stubbornness, we didn't take the bajaj and walked home instead.

Basically there was this negotiation thing going on between me and the bajaj driver. They didn't want to take my offer of 10k. I was thinking I could pay the exact same amount I paid for the bajaj like the time we used bajaj when we were on our way to the bus stop earlier that day. So I decided to not ride them and rejected 2 bajajs. So we started to walk. Vivi and Helen were complaining as they were tired and were parched. Then I came across this bajaj and this time I got rejected as he was in the middle of his break. We made a quickie stop to indomaret to buy water. And we reached home safely getting the exercise we wanted in the first place!

ci lisda..

guess how many teddy bears are there and you could win yourself one of 5 teddy bears

L'occitane nutcracker display

look at me, i'm such a derp closing my eyes -_-

23rd December, Tuesday

Today I had to catch up with Willdy and Sheila!! My long time buddies since Junior High! I went to Central Park to meet up with them. But since I arrived a bit too early, I hung around Taman Anggrek first since Vivi and Helen are meeting up with Vivi's friend to watch The Hobbits. So I on the other hand, just strolled around to see sale promotions. Then, when I was trying to fit myself into 2 very cute tops which I didn't buy in the end, I got a call from Willdy saying that both of them had reached the place already. We were meeting up at Kitchenette. So I told her I would see both of them and then I rushed off to the lobby to go to Central Park which was just right beside Taman Anggrek. But to my bad luck, it was raining heavily. I waited for 10 minutes but the rain would not be stopping any sooner. I tried to text both Willdy and Sheila but then again I ran out of phone credit and unable to reach them. I couldn't even call them. It was such a terrible situation not being able to contact anyone, and stuck inside the mall with a heavy downpour, despite the fact that it was located literally beside the mall I was heading to. I felt bad for hanging both of them, not to mention, they probably had not eaten lunch yet and most probs be super hungry, so I braced myself out to the rain with my small pink umbrella (good thing I brought this), and made my way there. I even turned in the wrong direction and even spent more time in the rain. By the time I reached the mall, I was half-ly drenched and my sandals were quite squeaky. I quickly speed-walked to the restaurant after asking directions from the receptionist.

Upon reaching, I thought I was expecting to other people: Ricco and Michael. But apparently, I was the third one to arrive. LOL. Then after a while they both came. It was a bit awkward for me to hang out with them since I never hung out with them. There was this friendship gap between us but then again they turned out pretty okay and friendly and so yeah the meeting turned out fine. However, I had to leave an hour later since I was trying to avoid overcrowded bus during peak hours.

Basically Vivi, Helen and I took the bus earlier that day and guess what we were aiming to arrive at 11 so that we could spend more time hanging around in the mall, but the bus didn't show up for 1.5 hour! Could you believe that! Come'on! It was super hot and in the end we arrived at around 12:20 at Taman Anggrek, just 10 minutes earlier before The Hobbits start. Lucky for Vivi and Helen. The journey was quite far since we had to transit 3 times from Harmoni to Grogol 1 to Grogol 2. Harmoni was the crowdiest place of all, people were squeezing and standing so close to you with their sweats trickling out from their pores. The odour really made me dizzy and for a moment I thought I could end up smelling like one of them if I had to spend any minute longer. So yeah, this was the reason we had to go home quickly. It was quite a shame though since Willdy and Sheila was only available during that day.

At around 3, Vivi and Helen called me up and we decided to meet up. I bid everyone goodbye and joined them. And, they had not eaten lunch yet so we made a quickie stop at Mie Laiker! They ate mie-kangkung there which tasted so good! Then afterwards we went home! The buses were not at all crowded which was awesome! We even got seats. Then when we arrived at Olimo we searched for bajaj and I have learnt from my mistake, I took the offer when he reached 15k since it was pretty far away. All in all it was such a great day.