We went to San bernardino at 5 because Rully said he was performing at 6 pm (and I later found out he didnt tell anyone else!) But he was awesome, see for yourself:

Rully’s Performance

After we saw Rully, we hung out since there were sooooo many kinds of Indonesian food. Yuum Yum…. I had Mpek Mpek, Nasi Padang, Risoles, Tahu isi, Siomay and Martabak Manis (this was the best). They also had Es Mambo (brings back so many childhood memories)!!! At 8-ish the people we know started arriving (even Bang iwing dropped by, but for the food not for Slank ) It felt really cool being surrounded to tons and tons of Indonesian, it kinda feels as if I were home… Slank was supposed to perform last and Srimulat (OMG , they were hilarious) was performing before Slank.

Before Slank:

During Slank:

Some Video of the concert:

Slank San Bernardino 1 

After Slank:

Someboody sure was going a little crazy in the parking lot after the concert , LOL

Friday nite, Rully called and asked us if we wanted to hang out with Slank while they were practicing for their upcoming concert in San Bernardino. he said their practice would start at 8 pm and they would want to go to a bar afterwards. Since it had been a long day for me, we decided that we wouold just meet them after their practice. We had set the place to be Geisha House and so we left at 11. When we got there, Roland and his friends were already there and on minute after we paid the $15 parking fee, Rully called and said there had been a change of plans. Slank now wanted to either go to Viper Room or Roxy, but they hadn’t decided. So we thought because we had already paid for parking, we might as well just chill , have a few drinks and wait until they decided. While waiting we got hungry so we sat at a table and ordered some sushi. After calling back and forth with Rully for a few times he said they have decided on Viper Room. But by the time we finished eating it was already 1 am, and Viper Room closes at 2 am. Besides we were full and quite tired at that time. So, we called it a nite and decided to just meet them at the concert the next day.

“Slank is coming to LA!” That’s what someone told me weeks ago, but I didn’t know exactly when just until a couple of days before. There were rumors that the show would start at 7 pm @ BB King Club at Universal City Walk and so Baby and I got there at aproximately 7:30 pm. It turned out that the doors weren’t even open, but we saw Sammy waiting outside. Sammy said he had been there since 7 pm. We decided to go grab something to eat first.

It turned out that there were a lot (and i mean A LOT) of bands before Slank who were performing and ecah of them had some sort of technical difficulties, thus, more and more delay… Hung out with the Justinians, Jerry, Edwin and Yolana while waiting.

By midnight we were debating whether to woait or just go home. Luckily, we then got introduced to the band, and we felt so sorry for them (they looked really tired since they just got there) and they were also just waiting to perform. One thing I can say about them, they are really cool and down to earth. here are more pics while waiting… (and one is actually with them =) )

Finallyyyyy after a very long wait, they performed at 1:15 am, and one word: AWESOME! It was worth the wait, definitely. Now, I definitely have to go to see them oagain at San Bernardino this coming Saturday

I stll need to figure out a way to upoload my videos, but meanwhile, here is the link for a part of Slank’s performance @ BB King:

Slank @ BB King 1

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We did nothing but hung out and party during this long labor day weekend. I got too fucked up last nite (ok so I had a little too much to drink ) I woke up this morning (more like afternoon) with swollen eyes, bruises on my arms and legs ( I distinctly remember that I fell, bumped into things, fell again, and so on, LOL) , and the room wouldn’t stop spinning. So here is what we did:

Friday:

Went to lunch at CPK with baby, I missed him since our schedule conflicts with each other and I haven’t been spending a lot of time with him lately. Lighted up some hookah while waiting for Dave and Jerry who told us they might stop by. They couldn’t make it and said they would stop by the next day.

Saturday:

Went to Camarillo with baby (I knowwww, agaiiiin….), and we went home around 9-ish. We haven’t gone clubbing for a while so we decided to go to hollywood and then decide later where to go after grabbing a quick dinner. Originally, Rully, Dave and Jerry were going to meet up with us but we didn’t hear back until midnight so we decided to walk over to King King since it was pretty close to where we ate.

We bumped into Sandy, Roland and Rara at King King and they decided to drop by our house. So we went home at about 3 am, and the party didn’t stop there , more drinking to come, lol. at 6:30 am we were all happy and ready to go to bed

Sunday:

Woke up with a hangover at about 1 pm and geez, when I went out these other guys have already started drinking again!! lol Roland was bbq ing some meat (yum, steak with wine) I wasn’t feeling too well that afternoon so mostly I took a nap while the others were karaoke-ing in out living room( Damn, Roland can sing!!!) This is one of the examples of the craziness, lol

Darius and his friend came at 5-is. Baby had to ‘rest’ around 6-ish so I went out to entertain all the guests David came at about 6 and he brought some yummy vodka (yaaayy)

Jerry showed up with some sprite and lemonade to mix the vodka with and from that point on everything was pretty much a blur. One thing I remembered was that Jerry also had to ‘rest’ because of an incident, LOL.

Some people said I was giving Dave a hard time (but you know I didn’t mean to , Dave, right?, hehehe) Good thing baby finally woke up and took care of me during my night of madness =) I’m glad everyone looked like they were having fun (too much fun I think )

Last weekend was my dad’s last vacation weekend here before he had to fly back to Indo. So we tried to make the most of it. Yeah lots of quality family time for the whole weekend. Bang Iwing also stayed over from Friday till Monday.
Friday:

Went to Macy’s in the afternoon (they’re having an awesome sale) and went to dinner at Geisha House. Dad and Bang Iwing have never been there, they said they loved the place and the food. I was craving for that juicy choc souffle cake! To top it off, out extremely nice waiter gave us all free geisha shots (it’s so good I wonder whats in it)

Saturday:

Went to Beverly Center in the afternoon (yeah, another sale ) and went to Crustacean right after that. Delicious Crab and Garlic noodles! I didn’t realize dad had been craving for the Garlic noodles since he didn’t tell us. Ugh I realized I forgot to bring my digicam’s memory card, so these pics were taken from my cellphone’s sucky camera (when will that sony er P990 be relased??!!!) We finished at around 11:30 pm and we decided to have coffee and dessert (napoleon and choc eclair) along with some hookah at Gypsy cafe. It was getting a little chilly later on so we went home around 2:30 ish.

Saturday:

Family BBQ Party!! (again )

The whole family plus Reza, Cody, Ellen, David and Jerry was there. I cooked some sambal goreng ati and dendeng balado and mom made some salad. Den BBQ’ed the beef ribs that cody and ellen bought.  I made a first  attempt to bake a choc souffle cake, and although it’s no where near the geisha house souffle quality, i could say it was decent enough to satisfy the cravings (eek I think I ate 3 pieces that night!) Last guests went home at 2 am ish. Definitely lots of eating, drinking and talking that night (especially David with the talking part *WINK *WINK, LOL, I’m just kidding Dave)

I haven’t seen my old bud Farrah for the longest time although she lives in Northen Ca! So when she told me she was coming down for the weekend I was thrilled I promised I would take her and her boyfriend, David,  out to a place where we can hang out, drink, talk and smoke too! So I chose Geisha House. The sushi is delicious and their molten chocolate lava cake is TO DIE FOR! best of all, you can smoke since its supposedly ‘outdoors’ It’s also not too loud so we can still chat without having to yell too much. At midnight we requested some birthday candles on the molten cake because it was David’s Bday!