Indra's posts with tag: singapore
|  | Date: Sunday, 29 June 2008
Location: West Coast Park, BBQ Pit 1-2, near Carpark 2
Yesterday morning, we went to West Coast Park upon invitation from Indi and Rani for their farewell party in Singapore. They will be migrating back to Jakarta after Indi secured a new job in a multi-national company there.
At the same time, the IndoSing-Mums community, where my wife has taken part in the past couple of years, is celebrating its fifth birthday. On behalf of myself and my family, I would like to take this opportunity to wish the IndoSing-Mums community a very happy birthday. :)
We reached the park on-time at 9am sharp, but at the wrong carpark. :( I was under impression that the BBQ pits are located along the shore near carpark 3, where all the activities (and the playgrounds) are located. However, the BBQ pits have been moved to a more secluded area of the park, near carpark 2.
We needed to go to Suntec City for Irza's drum lesson at 11:15am, so we missed the farewell and birthday event even though we were back to the park at around noon. Nevertheless, Inka and Irza still had the opportunity to try the "car-bike" ride which is available in the park.
After the event, we went to VivoCity and we met Shinta and Aidan together with mbak Neta, one of my best friend Boyke's elder sister, who were on her way back from Bangkok to Batam. We also met Yuwono's family there.
Related links and pictures:
Hari Biru
ISM Ngultah & Perpisahan Rani @ West Coast Park
ISM & West Coast
Ultah Indosingmom 2008 dan perpisahan Rani
HUT ISM + Farewell Indrani.net = Feast !
Ultah ISM
sayang anak..sayang anak..
Wati's photo collection on Flickr
Milad Indosing Mom 2008
West Coast Pk
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| | Date: Sunday, 11 May 2008.
Location: Aci and Mia's residence, Ridgewood Condo, Ulu Pandan, Singapore
Last Sunday, we went to Dante's birthday party, located at Aci and Mia's residence at Ridgewood condominium, Ulu Pandan, Singapore. The birthday party was conducted at their house, and then moved to the BBQ pit for satay grilling. Braddell satay is, again, becoming the signature dish for the BBQ. :)
Irza took the opportunity to swim at the swimming pool there with his friends, while Inka had to attend another birthday party, her classmate's, at Freesia Woods, which is located nearby.
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| | Date: Saturday, 10 May 2008.
Location: HSBC Treetop Walk, Central Catchment Reserve, MacRitchie, Singapore.
Earlier this morning, as part of my so-called "effort" to keep fit and reduce some weight :), I took Inka and Irza for a walk along the MacRitchie trail in the forested Central Catchment Nature Reserve to the HSBC Treetop Walk, a suspension bridge which provide a bird's eye view of the forest.
We started our journey from the Venus Drive carpark located off Upper Thomson Road, where I parked my car. From there, we walk several kilometres along the Treetop trail, past the Singapore Island Country Club (SICC) and going via the Terentang trail, past the Ranger Station and climb up the hill to the entrance of the suspension bridge.
It turns out to be quite a long walk, around 2.5 km and 1 hour walk, from the Venus Drive carpark to the entrance of the Treetop Walk. Luckily the kids didn't complain, they really enjoyed their morning walk through the forest. Wondering whether it is possible to park our car at the carpark inside the SICC, that would greatly help in cutting down the walking time to the Treetop Walk.
The view from the suspension bridge is spectacular. The kids were also enjoying the view and had fun. Unfortunately, the bridge is quite narrow and it's a one-way traffic flow so we couldn't spend much time on the bridge, otherwise we will block people behind. Nevertheless, I managed to take some pictures of the kids while we were crossing the bridge.
Since it's a one-way traffic, we had to move on and follow the Petaling trail to go back to the Ranger Station and further back to the carpark. This is quite a long detour via Petaling Hut and then follow Sime track eastward back to the Ranger Station, adding around 30-45 minutes of journey time. The total length of journey from Venus Drive carpark to Treetop Walk and then back to carpark via Petaling hut is more than 7km, so it might not be suitable for certain kids, especially younger ones. Irza and Inka also started to complain that they're tired when we just left Petaling hut for the Ranger Station, and that was still a long journey back to the carpark. :) Fortunately, they made it. :) :)
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| | Date: Saturday, 19 April 2008
Location: Club House/Function Room, The Waterina, Geylang, Singapore
On Saturday, 19 April 2008, we went to The Waterina for Inka and Irza to attend Anggana's 6th birthday party.
Unfortunately, the camera was having technical difficulties resulting in blurred images on almost all of the pictures. :( After consulting my friends at Indo-Sing Photographer's mailing list, only then I found out that the so called "technical difficulties" was because the camera's lens is dirty... *sigh* :(
Related link:
Happy Birthday Anggana!
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| | Date: 4 April 2008.
Location: Pasar malam next to Causeway Point and Woodlands MRT station.
Ticket prices:
- Bumper car, $4/car (not per person)
- Other rides, $3/person (adult accompanying kids also have to pay separate ticket)
Still, very expensive, IMHO. No wonder why it's a bit empty. No queue at all on any of the rides.
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Ini adalah bagian keempat dari wawancara saya dan rekan-rekan Indo-Sing: Renatha, Judhi, Hany dan Sigit di acara FORUM Radio Singapore International (RSI) Indonesia mengenai topik: bekerja di Singapura. File podcast ini diambil dari sumber aslinya disini.
Ini adalah bagian ketiga dari wawancara saya dan rekan-rekan Indo-Sing: Renatha, Judhi, Hany dan Sigit di acara FORUM Radio Singapore International (RSI) Indonesia mengenai topik: bekerja di Singapura. File podcast ini diambil dari sumber aslinya disini.
| | Date: Friday, 21 March 2008.
Location: East Coast Park, Singapore.
On a Good Friday evening, I took Inka and Irza to East Coast Park for another cycling trip. East Coast Park has always been our favourite place for cycling activities in Singapore.
Instead of renting the bicycles at the usual place in Marine Cove, we rented the bicycles at another kiosk in Raintree Cove, further east from Marine Cove, near a Burger King outlet there. The bicycles are of better quality, with the same price and the same promotion (rent 1 hour and get another hour free).
Similar to Tante Ira and her abang, we cycled for more than 1.5 hours there, after which, the kids were still begging for more (!!!) before I forced them to return the bicycles to the kiosk. We covered the longest route we have achieved at East Coast Park so far, from the kiosk at Raintree Cove going west past Marine Cove and the new Playground @ Big Splash up until the end of the cycling path (near Fort Road) and back, and then passing Raintree Cove further east, past the Siglap canal, circling the Island Resort and then back to the kiosk.
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| | Various pictures taken at IMM Building, Jurong East, Singapore. IMM is one of our favourite shopping centres we frequently visit, since it's very close to our current (and near future) residence.
IMM is equipped with a playground, which is located on the 3rd floor of the shopping mall. There are two playgrounds, wet and dry, which are located side by side.
Not far from the playgrounds, is a halal food court called Bagus, which is managed by Banquet.
Downstairs on the first (ground) floor, there's Giant Hypermart where we usually buy our groceries.
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| | Location: Bugis Junction, Singapore.
Selling Indonesian traditional cakes. Located at the basement of Bugis Junction, next to Delifrance below the escalator.
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Lanjutan dari bagian pertama dan bagian kedua, ini adalah bagian ketiga dari acara FORUM bersama anggota mailing list komunitas Indonesia di Singapura, yang disiarkan oleh RSI Indonesia malam ini. Dalam episode ini, Hany sharing mengenai cara moderator IndoSing-Mums mengatur "lalu lintas" e-mail di milisnya. Judhi juga sharing mengenai tata tertib milis, dan memberikan tips etika penggunaan milis yang baik. Para peserta FORUM juga sharing mengenai milis-milis lain (selain milis Indo-Sing, IndoSing-Mums dan IMAS) yang mereka ikuti. File podcast ini diambil dari sumber aslinya disini.
| | Date: Sunday, 10 February 2008.
Location: Along the route of the Heritage Tour, Hippo bus tour, Singapore.
Still making use of the 3-in-1 Duck, Hippo and DHL Balloon combo tickets promotion, at the end of the long Chinese New Year weekend last month, we took the Hippo Tours bus ride around Singapore.
There were two Hippo Tour routes being offered: City Tour and Heritage Tour. We took the Heritage Tour route, which brought us through Little India, Kampong Glam, Arab Street, Chinatown and the Civic District of Singapore.
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 Program acara “Blog Bicara” di Radio Singapore International (RSI) versi bahasa Indonesia selalu saya tunggu. Hal ini dikarenakan, sejak siaran perdana-nya sekitar tiga minggu yang lalu hingga sekarang, program acara radio yang membahas tentang blog dan blogging tersebut selalu menampilkan rekan-rekan blogger Indonesia yang kebetulan berada di Singapura dan tercatat sebagai salah satu kontributor Planet Singapura, situs agregasi blogger Indonesia di Singapura yang saya kelola. Dimulai dari ulasan mengenai blog-nya JaF aka mas Rane, lebih dekat dengan blog Indrani-nya Indi dan Rani, dan yang terakhir minggu lalu membahas cerita fiksi di blog-nya Renatha aka Dodol Surodol.
Lagi penasaran kira-kira blog siapa lagi yang akan dibahas minggu ini, tiba-tiba Fika dari RSI telepon, meminta saya menjadi nara sumber untuk program acara Blog Bicara minggu ini. Halah.  Dalam wawancara ini, beliau ingin saya membahas mengenai agregasi blog, dan secara lebih spesifik, Planet Singapura, yang saya kelola. Mungkin karena kebetulan topik mengenai agregasi blog ini sedang hangat dibicarakan di blogosphere Indonesia? Wawancara dilakukan kemarin (27/2) siang, dan disiarkan malamnya. Gerak cepat juga. Dalam wawancara tersebut, saya membahas mengenai definisi dan fungsi dari agregasi blog, dan bagaimana cara membuat agregasi blog (secara teknis). Dalam kesempatan itu juga saya menceritakan tentang visi dan misi Planet Singapura sebagai situs agregasi blogger Indonesia di Singapura, dimana tujuan saya membuat Planet Singapura adalah: - Untuk memberikan gambaran kepada pembaca Planet Singapura mengenai kehidupan orang Indonesia yang tinggal di Singapura; dan
- Untuk menjadikan Planet Singapura sebagai media (atau wadah) bagi komunitas blogger Indonesia di Singapura.
Saya juga sharing mengenai situs-situs agregasi lainnya yang cukup populer di blogosphere Indonesia, seperti Planet Terasi, Merdeka, Planet Kronologger dan Rumah Blogfam. Fika juga memberikan pertanyaan yang cukup menarik: apakah kita perlu meminta ijin dulu kepada pemilik blog sebelum kita mengagregasikan blognya ke situs agregasi yang kita kelola. Saya kurang tahu apakah ini berhubungan dengan postingan saya mengenai Ikatan Blogger Takut Aggregator (IBTA), hahaha. Jawaban saya? Silahkan saja dengarkan file podcast-nya yang bisa diambil dan didengarkan disini (sumber aslinya diambil dari sini). Link terkait:
Ini adalah kelanjutan dari bagian pertama wawancara FORUM bersama anggota mailing list komunitas Indonesia di Singapura, yang akan disiarkan oleh RSI Indonesia malam ini. Di bagian kedua ini, Hany menceritakan lebih lanjut mengenai milis IndoSing-Mums, dan fungsi milis tersebut bagi para anggotanya, baik sebagai media untuk "kopdar" maupun sebagai "katalisator". Renatha juga sedikit bercerita mengenai sejarah milis Indo-Sing pada saat terbentuknya milis tersebut di tahun 1999. Kita juga sama-sama membahas mengenai bagaimana membuat sebuah milis tetap "atraktif" bagi anggotanya. Disini, saya lebih menekankan bahwa "fungsi" sebuah milis akan membuat milis tersebut tetap exist. File podcast ini saya ambil dari sumber aslinya disini. Selamat mendengarkan. :)
| | Date: Sunday, 3 February 2007.
Location: Cavana chicken rice restaurant, Marina Square, Singapore.
Cavana chicken rice is one of our favourite restaurants in Singapore. It's halal and the classic chicken rice on the menu is always becoming a hit for the kids.
It has many outlets all over Singapore but the one we usually visit is the one at Marina Square.
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Walaupun acara bagian pertama dari FORUM bersama anggota mailing list komunitas Indonesia di Singapura baru akan disiarkan malam ini di RSI Indonesia, namun ternyata file podcast-nya sudah tersedia di website RSI sejak pagi ini. FORUM bersama anggota mailing list komunitas Indonesia di Singapura ini dihadiri oleh Renatha Dharma, saya dan Sigit Sukrisno yang mewakili Indo-Sing, Suryatmaning Hany yang mewakili IndoSing-Mums, dan Judhi Prasetyo yang mewakili IMAS. Efika Rosemary (Fika) adalah presenter dari RSI yang mewawancarai kelima peserta FORUM tersebut. Di bagian pertama dari acara FORUM ini, setelah acara perkenalan para peserta FORUM, saya mendapatkan kesempatan untuk menceritakan sejarah dan asal-usul milis Indo-Sing, sementara Hany menceritakan sejarah milis IndoSing-Mums (dan kenapa milis tersebut kenapa dulu dinamai Indomie-Lovers) dan Judhi sedikit menceritakan tentang sejarah dan fungsi milis IMAS. Sigit dan Judhi juga membahas mengenai fungsi dari milis-milis ini untuk para anggota komunitas Indonesia di Singapura. Lanjutannya, bisa didengarkan minggu depan. :) PS. Teh Mela, Mbak Lenny, jangan kaget kalau nama (lengkap)-nya sempat disebut disitu ya... :) Berikut adalah file podcast-nya, untuk mendengarkan podcast-nya, silahkan klik tautan "Play this playlist" dibawah, sementara untuk men- download podcast-nya, silahkan klik tautan "Download" di bawah. File tersebut diambil dari sumber aslinya disini. Bagian kedua, ketiga dan berikutnya akan saya upload juga nanti kalo file podcast-nya sudah tersedia di website RSI. Selamat mendengarkan. :)
This article is originally posted on ABN's Asia Travel Blog here.  Singapore DUCKtours is a combined city and harbour tour in Singapore, using a refurbished ex-military amphibious vehicle they call as "duck" which can travel on both land and water. The one-hour tour comprises of 40 minutes water tour around Singapore's Marina Bay area and 20 minutes land tour around Singapore's civic district. The water tour in the Marina Bay area will show you places around the Singapore Flyer, Benjamin Sheares bridge, the floating platform, Esplanade and the Merlion, while the land tour in the civic district area will show you places around City Hall and the Padang.
 The tour departs from Suntec City on an hourly basis between 10am to 7pm, subject to weather conditions. The price is $33 for adult and $17 for child, quite expensive since it's catered more for tourists. To purchase the tickets, we can approach the ticketing counter, which is located at the Suntec City Mall, near the Convention Centre area. We can use major credit cards for payment.
 We will board the duck on an open area just next to the ticketing counter. There is a tour guide who accompanies all the guests throughout the journey and give running commentaries with regards to all the tourist attractions along the way. The best photo stop would be the Merlion, where the duck boat will have a brief stop to allow all guests to take pictures of the Merlion from both sides of the boat.
Note: More pictures can be found here.
| | Date: Saturday, 16 February 2008.
Location: Signature Park, Singapore.
Today, we attended a Chinese New Year Family Carnival at our apartment's complex. My wife also participated in the bazaar, getting a table to sell her specialties: food and accessories, together with jeng Epha. Some of their friends (some with their husbands and kids) were also coming to support them.
There are lion dance performance and magic show, and the kids were also participating in some of the games. Inka got herself a tiny little fish on one of the games, and Inka and her team won second prize for costume design competition, which Inka was the model.
On a pleasant surprise, we also got ourselves the second winner of the door prize! :) :)
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