Ivy & Her Daily RanTs

This morning my FIL accompanied me to an acupuncturist. My right shoulder had been in constant pain since 5 days ago so yesterday I decided to ask my FIL to recommend one. Dr Wang is a Singaporean married to the daughter of the owner of Disc Tarra. When we arrived in his office, my FIL warned Dr Wang about my fear for needles. I’m not…well, a little maybe but I’ve been injected so many times that I am kinda immune to it already. Just that it kinda scares me when my FIL told me that Dr Wang uses a big needle =.= Anyway, Dr Wang said he’s not going to stick me with needles. He’s just going to help the blood in me circulate better. So as I lied on the bed, Dr Wang went on to find certain points of my body and then started to rub them really hard with this pen-like thing. I was in so much pain!! Arrghhh…. I even shed a few drops of tears. By the time he was finished, I was starting to perspire. I was told to come back 2 more times; tomorrow and on Thursday. I do feel a bit better so I think I’ll be going back again tomorrow. These 5 days had been pretty torturing for me. It’s Rp 500K/session by the way. Expensive??? Definitely! I’ll be Rp 1.5 mill poorer by Thursday.

On Sunday, it’s the same routine except we got to stay in my dad’s place till 4.30pm. Sam had to go to Sentul for the drag races (if I’m not mistaken) that Monex sponsored. After fetching us, we went to Plaza Senayan. Sam went to Sogo to buy the new Hugo Boss fragrance and for dinner, we had it in Din Tai Fung, PS Arcadia. They have more varieties and the food does taste better. I ordered a bowl of fish porridge for me which is simply yummy ^^

Monday is a public holiday. We went with my FIL to Villa Meruya to see the beagle breeder. I sms Gina the day before asking her for advice as where to buy one and she told me to look it up in Anjing Kita for the breeder. Thanks a lot Gina. From there, we went to Taman Semanan Indah, to a friend of my FIL who’s also a breeder. This one specialized in Shi Tzu. They are soooo adorable but Sam has forbade us from buying a hairy dog coz Cecil and him are allergic to animal’s hair. Too bad, right? =.= In the end we decided to get a beagle for sure. We have to wait for at least a couple more weeks though before we get our new dog. I’m super excited!!

Yesterday noon, had to drop Cecil in her friend’s house in Green Garden. Casey wanted to go swimming too when she heard that Cecil will be swimming with her friends so I took her to Villa Meruya Sports Club for a swim. The place was so packed. I waited by the pool while she swam with my maid. Then at about 5pm, we left the place to fetch Cecil.

It’s past midnight but I need to blog this before I get too lazy. Might not have the mood to do so in the upcoming days.

Well on Friday morning, went to Jelambar to pray. It’s sad that the ones who pray are left with Afen, Ayau, Cin2 and me. I know people have different priorities but I was expecting that whatever the priorities are, family will always be #1. Hopefully my younger bro, Ivan, doesn’t remain a stranger to all of us for a long time. I miss his presence among us. I really do.

After we prayed, I sent Cin2 back to his office and then I had to go to Plaza Senayan…to look for the watch again for Tedja’s daughter. Couldn’t find any within Sam’s budget. Before I went to BBS to fetch the girls, I went to Tesate to buy back Nasi Pepes for my lunch:

Well, it did taste pretty good. It comes with a bowl of sayur asin. Still, no matter how good a plate of Nasi Pepes tastes like, it’s so not freaking worth Rp 90K! Yes, that’s exactly how much I needed to fork out for that. It’s insane!

Kids and I went to TA again after school. Cecil’s friend, Cathy, came with us since Cecil and her needed to find birthday presents for 2 of their friends. We went to Parisian where we met up with my MIL. I finally got a present for Michael there. As we passed by the counter selling the Beijing Olympics stuffs again, Casey insisted to take a picture with the BeiBei life-sized doll.

And yesterday morning, Cecil had her piano lesson earlier since she had to go to her friend’s birthday party. We left the house at about 10.15am. Fetched Cathy from Taman Ratu first but got lost and was circling the place for more than 15 mins. We just dropped Cecil and Cathy in her friend’s house in Pluit. FIL, me and Casey then went to Mega Mal. While waiting for the time to pass, we went to Ya Kun Kaya Toast to sit down and eat. That was when my FIL decided that we can get a dog! Yipee… well, we aren’t sure yet what dog to get….but it’s either beagle or basset hound. Sam has also given us the green light. Now we only need to find someone who sells either one of the dogs. I don’t want to buy from malls coz my bad experience before kinda left me traumatized so I don’t want to go through the same horror knowing that I can avoid it. Anyone know any dog breeder in Jakarta? Pleasee… I really need it!

At around 2pm, we fetched Cecil from her friend’s house and continued to Senayan City to have lunch in Angus House. This time I ordered the grilled lamb chop.

It’s okay…. Not the best but it’s not the worst either. While window shopping later on, I saw this pair of crocs sandals that I fell in love with. I don’t feel good buying them with my FIL around so one of these days I’ll be going back there to buy myself a pair. Went to Kidz’ Station and bought some tops for the kids. I know Japan’s trip is still a long way from now but I’m starting to buy new clothes already. We probably won’t be shopping when we go to Japan. Things are expensive over there.

Came home and got a package from Yon. She sent me her invitation card:

And an advance thank-you gift:

Really adorable, right? And all that credit goes to Wiwin who designed the card for her. Yon also made a handphone strap for me:

Am using it now on my N82 already ^.^

Time for bed… am drowsing off any minute in front of the laptop soon.