yesterday, we had a mini family gathering at my uncle's cafe...

oh wow~ thanks to my mom suggestion we had to go there. she was the first one who came out with a very interesting comment~ "stupid people only have family gathering in cafes.." and i do wonder why, she is the one urging everyone to host it in my uncle's cafe? look who's talking.

thanks to her, we left the house later than expected. why? she was sooo engrossed in some indonesian horror movie. the best part? no one in the family has the ability to speak and comprehend indonesian. in other words, we were stuck waiting for my mother for a pathetic reason. =_=

my sisters brought many things to the cafe, we were very well equipped. i must add in. we brought multi-plugs, laptops, mouse, wires and etc. well, we predicted that there would only have one socket available and lo and behold~! how true, we were. it seems that i had forgotten to inform my cousin about the internet availability in my uncle's cafe, and my cousin didn't bring her laptop with her. to say that she was disappointed and angry was an understatement of the century.

i brought my laptop with the thought of doing my report, however, lady luck was not smiling upon me and i can't seem to go into the sites i wanted. so, i had no choice but to let my sister use my computer and listen to my relatives conversation.

my relatives are an interesting lot. i had an aunt who is scared of almost everything in the world, including the unknown. and my relatives are enjoying talking about the unknown dimension, the explained theories, ghost stories, you name it. i was sitting there, laughing to those funny and interesting ones and ponder if it was Halloween.. =__=

if the stories were meant to scare my aunt, then it has done a good job. in fact, it had scared most of us there. ahaha ^_^ one of my youngest cousin was freaked out, and my aunt.. was scared as usual. unfortunately, the stories... had zero malice.

we had an enjoyable time there, my uncle brought many food into the private that was specially booked for us and we ordered many drinks... of course, being his cafe, we had no choice but to patronize his cafe. =_= numerous plates of pizzas, nuggets, different types of cakes were brought in... and we had many types of coffees and teas.. being the famous one in the family of getting something out of the box, i had again ordered a tea which looked so interesting that they (my aunts) admired my drinking tea-cup. =_= my uncle was merciless in bringing the food into the room; and had only stopped when my aunts complained that if this continued, their bill will BOMB... i was laughing silently and evilly as usual.. ahaha ^_^

i played chinese chess with my cousin; it was boring to play with him. not that i look down on him, but... i won him without losing any of my pieces.. =_= next, we played with the instruments in the mini music room. there were this odd looking flute-recorder instrument. my cousin, my sisters and i were playing and trying out the instrument. we were making a hell out of the room. eunice later, went to try her skills in playing the 16 string zither while i played the mini guitar and samantha played the piano. i can't remember all my scores and i was figuring out the notes, eunice managed to played a piece while samantha managed to play canon thanks to her memory. sigh~~~ i feel left out. T_T

my dad came, and we had to go to some place and have some indonesian dinner. it was all chilli... non-spicy. yay~ well, not so great for my sisters as they don't chilli. dinner was painstakingly long for me. my plate never seem to deplete even though, i was eating from it. why? when samantha hate eating some of the items, she will place them on my plate. my parents were like putting more food into my plate too. sigh~ i was super bloated by the end of it. opposite me, my cousin's plate was the direct antipodal of my plate. her plate only contains rice and very little ingredients with very little quantity. quite a sad life. ahahaha~

we wandered through clerk quey later, and it was an eye opener for me. i had never been there, and i had never knew that such place existed even though i am a local. there were many pubs, bars and clubbing areas. though, i must add, those areas are not my cup of tea. there are so many people smoking! the smoke is enough to smoke me alive. there are loads of tourists, mostly westerns. my cousin was telling us the safety precautions about coming and entering to these places, i must say... she was quite worried.. ^_^ ahaha~