this past week, pt.1

"...has been a strange one, lazy, new, and good and bad.
feelings come and go and change.
ac/dc, good and bad and sad."

hello tuesday, good to see you again. it's ten minutes to one in the afternoon, i'm hoping to get some thoughts poured out on the blog while the kid's asleep.

i'm losing the will to write a more proper introductory lines, so i just go straight to some highlights (read: the good things) from the week. not in any particular order:

- i finally saw BLUR in their own flesh and blood, performing here, in my country. the third world country they said they didn't want to visit back then on the 90's :'))
it was such a thrill.
never thought they would last this long. more than two decades and still going strong, still creating arts.
and never thought they'd finally be in indo.
alhamdulillah, now i'd be able to cross off one item on my bucket list heheh.
 

- in terms of parenting, i think i've reached one new milestone. the one where i've officially paid uang pangkal masuk sekolah for the kid. hehe. we went to the school on friday morning, bayar-bayar, and bumy was told to try on the uniform. the uniform consist of two polo shirts, two pairs of short pants, and a hat.
bumy was soooo excited. he wore the hat all the way since he first had it until it was time to sleep.

he insisted to put on the uniform, even when his pajamas were on

- we had a different kind of weekend. because adit and i got to spend it alone without bumy, who was picked by his grandparents on saturday. that day, the three of us woke up early, and had breakfast near pasar jagakarsa. there's this hawker center. 

afterwards, we went to pejaten area. at first, our destination was lippo kemang. because we wanted to visit ace hardware, do grocery-shopping, and have a shopping session for me, hehe. but, when we're driving near pasar minggu, adit tiba-tiba ngotot kalau di lippo kemang nggak ada ace-nya. i just sighed and told him he's about to be proven wrong -___-
suddenly he spotted ace pejaten, and he said, "nah ada ace nih! ke sini aja ya, daripada nanti nyesel udah sampe lippo kemang trus gak ada ace-nya!" tsk.
but i followed him to ace pejaten anyway. and i surprisingly had a nice shopping experience there. at first, i found it to be impractical because the store has 3-storey sections. but, as soon as i spent more time wandering in it, i think it's the most convenient ace store i've ever been in. the items are placed neatly, and the collections are quite complete. i found some  stuff i couldn't find even at ace GI. and, the aisles are wide enough it felt comfortable to move the trolley around and not to have any other trolley shoving you to the side. the place is also comfy because there wasn't too many visitors. moreover, there's this restaurant, small, with nice decor, friendly waitresses and broad variation of menu, at the ground floor. as it hit 12 pm, we stopped our shopping to have lunch there, and bumy even had his own time to play at the "playground" near the resto.
after we checked out of the place, i just realized we spent more than 3 hours in the store. the longest trip to ace we ever had, haha. and strangely enough, i didn't feel tired or hyperventilated and dizzy as i used to feel every time we visited ace store. even the small one at cinere could do that to me loh! oh well, despite there's no informa at the ace pejaten store, i think we'd love to visit it again for some good and relaxed homeware shopping experience :P

after ace, we thought it's best to just go home and take a nap. so we canceled the plan to go to lippo kemang. at around 3 pm, my mom dad and sister came to our house. it was already in our and their agenda to pick bumy up and have him sleepover at karawaci. bumy was so excited that as soon as his oma arrived he immediately said, "ayo oma kita ke karawaci sekarang aja!" -___-

after bumy and karawaci bunch went, adit and i... continued our nap, hahha. we dosed off 'til maghrib, and then decided, to have our dinner at lippo kemang. yaay! it's officially a date! ohh didn't we feel so young and free, to stroll around at a mall without having to push around a stroller! ;)))
we had our dinner at ootoya. what a nice place with delicious treats to have on our special night. and then suddenly there was a blast. from firecracker show. a huge one that last about 10 minutes, maybe. trus langsung kepikiran bumy, "pasti dia seneng deh kalo diajak ke sini malam minggu depan!"
after dinner, we actually planned to watch a movie. but, i had a more important shopping agenda to find some items to weat at debby's kawinan. adit said it's ok if we skipped the movie, he rather had me shopping there and then, than pulling him to venture other malls the next day.
i had a nice time shopping, found the kind of clutch i've been searching, and also managed to satisfy my infatuation towards the brand stradivarius, hahah. seriously, i think this brand has scooted over pull & bear as my favorite. the collection is more mature than PnB, but not as 'old' and fancy like zara and mango. i love the summer colors, too. i have special love for their shirts and scarves.
 
 it was already 9:45 when we realized we needed to do some grocery-shopping. as we arrived at hypermart, they were already in the process of closing. so we rushed to find some stuff on our list. it's funny, and a bit unsettling, to face the fact that even on our "date", we still needed to do grocery-shopping. oh marriage life.

- on sunday, adit and i drove around in jagakarsa area to find some good breakfast experience. we had bubur ayam, and it was tanpa MSG with delicious sambal. hmm, the longer i live in the new place now, the more i fall for it :)

afterwards, we did kerja bakti at house.
we got to mrican after maghrib, and hit the road again after isya. the rain poured hard when we're on the toll road. turned out that some areas in jakarta barat were flooded. the traffic outside tol dalam kota was bad. so we rode all the way to tol jagorawi(!) to avoid the flood and the traffic jam. while we're driving, suddenly the song "tender" was played on the ipod. i immediately screamed to bumy, "ini lagu yang dimainin di konser kemarin, my!" because he always busily asked me what songs would be played at the concerts i'm about to go to. it's nice to know my kid loveee the song, hahaha. he caught the words "oh my baby oh my baby oh i oh my" well, and sang it together with me. aww i'm at bliss :')

(to be continued)