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We've been talking alot through facebook, I must say Facebook is Awesome, I found lots of my high school friends, my neighbors, my cousins and relatives and of course my brothers and sisters plus nieces and nephews hehehe. Anyways, I would like to wish my dear sister of mine a VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY! may God bless you with happiness and good health always!
I phoned her awhile ago in time when she was about to go out to have a birthday lunch, we talked about my problem of getting out of UK to Netherlands to visit her that might be cancelled coz for one, I have to apply for the visa in London and two...I don't think I can afford it if my hubby wants to tag along hehe.
So we decided that my sister is going to be the one who is coming to visit me in the UK in August, I'm so excited about that as we will go to London, yeah pathetic isn't it that I've been living in the UK for a year now but haven't yet step a foot in London, the capital city of England!
Anyways, my sister is celebrating her 41st Birthday and I gotta say, she's not getting older but getting sexier hehehe. Love ya sis!
After a year long, I've finally decided but more like braving myself to go for a haircut, hubby warned me not to cut it short although i was tempted to do it as it's so windy in the UK and I kept trying to hold my hair together whenever the wind blows to no avail hence I always look like a lioness. Anyways I went to a salon last week not too far from where I live and asked to cut my hair a few inches shorter as I started to get split ends and my hair is abit dry. The lady who cut my hair was the owner of the Salon, she's nice and we had fun, I asked to take a picture of her and one of the worker who is so tall which I found out later that she's a part time model too.
Well, I am satisfied with the result, my hair not is more light and stylish hehehe and I'll definitely come back there again. Thanks Tigi Salon!
....in the UK that is, after the back garden has finished, finally...we could celebrate it by having a barbeque, of course the guests of honor would be hubby's parents who contributed alot in paying the gardener. It was also a celebration of my 1st year in the UK, tomorrow would be my first time stepping down from the plane last year in the UK, how time flies quickly!
Anywayz, just a quick update as I'm very tired and just wanted to upload the pics i've taken. We had duck spring rolls for starter, barbequed prawn with peppers and marinated chicken for main course and raspberry ice cream for desserts and lots and lots of gin and tonic with lemonade drinks.
That's it...going to rest now...
On Saturday, hubby and I went out to town to look for a bag for me, the only bag that i could bring to the UK was my special favorite bag from my best friend Connie as gift when i was in Jakarta. The bag's handle was using chains and it was broken about a week ago although I managed to fix it but i really dont want it to be totally broken so it needs to carry more lighter stuff now, it cant carry lots of things anymore as I normally do. So I found a nice not too big a bag in town from River Island.
well I'm too early saying it but I gotta post this as me and hubby were invited by his parents on sunday to have lunch together and she told me about the tradition of Pancake's Day that was suppose to be on Tuesday, i think she said hehe. Unfortunally hubby's dad had an urgent matter to attend coz when we arrived at their house, he wasn't there so my mother-in-law entertained us the whole day. She made pancakes for us after we had baked beans,minced beef and dumpling stew with steamed veggies and potatoes. I absolutely love pancakes! I might have a go making it myself this week.
I think we stayed at their house for almost 5 hours and then took our leave around 4pm. Hubby is going to have his 44th birthday on Friday, I'm trying to plan something for him, not sure what to give him as a birthday gift as I'm not working yet so I am not earning any money and if I did take some money from him that means he's giving himself a gift, hehe so I'm thinking of making him something, we'll see then.
I met up with Komang again yesterday, Im beginning to feel at ease taking bus these days and roughly know how much I should pay, she and her daughter picked me up at the bus stop and we walked back to her house, we spent the day at her house coz her daughter wasn't feeling well, we watched some cartoon which I enjoyed much coz it was funny, She made me "Nasi Rawon" for lunch, I absolutely loved it as I have been missing Indonesian food. She is a very nice lady, we talked and talked for hours, seems like Im beginning to know her alot now and we do have something in common.
I had to go at 4pm as my hubby text-ed me coz he was on the way back from work, I walked to my parents-in-law's house which is near Komang's house coz I usually go shopping every tuesday with hubby and mom-in-law. Hubby picked us up there then we went to Sainsburys. My Mom-in-law invited me to have lunch with her and her husband in town today, so I'd better go and clean the house first before I could go out of the house. Till later...
On Valentine's day we had a fight, yup instead of celebrating it or be lovey dovey, we had a big fight. You see a few months ago we were invited by my hubby's colleague to his wedding, I was so looking forward to it, it would give me a chance to get to know more of hubby's colleagues and others and I also wanted to know how they do wedding traditionally here in the UK, it's something I want to experience so yes I was excited about it, I kept talking about it to hubby but on the day we were supposed to go which was yesterday on Valentine's day, he got sick (again) mind you that wasn't the first time he got sick whenever we were invited to an event, on Christmas dinner that was held by hubby's company last year, we also couldn't make it coz he suddenly fell sick. When we were in Jakarta and I was so looking forward and already promised my best friend to get together in a Cafe, he was also suddenly fell sick so I had to say sorry for not meeting her and other friends. Okay once and twice, I was worried and tried to take care of him as he was sick but third time? I was starting to wonder if he did it purposely coz he's the type who doesn't like to go out alot. Anyways, yes we had a fight but it's over and done with and we made up this morning, so he's suddenly feeling fine but I just couldn't get angry anymore coz it's not worth it, we decided to celebrate our valentine's day today by cooking a steak with veggies and potato wedges, we bought lemon sponge pudding for dessert and well I'm glad we're back to lovey dovey.
Yesterday I went out for the 2nd time to meet my new friend Komang, it was my 2nd time taking a bus here in UK, she was taking me to town as she and I needed to buy some stuff and she also needed to return some books to the library in town that she borrowed for her daughter.
Once there she took me first to several Job Centers to find me a job, well I didn't get it though, no surprise with the recession going on right now, so we went shopping at Debenham.
Well I'm going to cheat for the first time, hehe actually I took this pic yesterday on sunday after lunch, I invited my parents-in-law for a sunday lunch at my place, when me and hubby were sick a few weeks ago, my MIL came and took care of us, she did the dishes and made some food for us, so hubby and I decided to invite them over as an appreciation, when my fridge was broken and had to call a repairer, my FIL went to my house to accompany me to watch over the repair guy, so yesterday, it's our turn to cook them a special lunch and made them relax even just for one day, I made them a Japanese dish called Teppanyaki which my FIL loved so much coz he said it reminded him when he went to sea and stopped over in Japan, as for dessert, we served them English Sponge pudding with custard.
Yesterday, I went to meet my new friend that I met in Facebook, she's an Indonesian too who lives in the same town I live here in Worthing, I must say I'm glad I finally found someone that I could ask alot of questions about life in the UK and also someone whom I could talk to using Indonesian language. Yesterday was also the first time for me to take on a bus trip in the UK alone, I must say I think I got the hang of it and might go out more by bus to town by myself in the future hehe.
Komang is a nice lady, she's from another part of island in Indonesia called Bali the most popular and beautiful island in Indonesia while I'm from the Java Island, so basically we have different dialect but we're all taught Indonesian language at school, I couldn't use the city slang with her though as she's speaking in correct indonesian language with Balinese accent and occasional english words as she's been living in the UK for 10 years and already a british citizen since 2 years ago, she told me about her life and how she met her englishman hubby in Bali and about their only daughter Tasha, She made me Indonesian food for lunch which I long for, I was so happy! I got alot of useful information on what I should do or go to now that I'm in the UK. She's also willing to help me to familiarize myself in Worthing and so we're going to meet again next week! Thank You Komang!
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