Malang Berkebun 2# New Blossom

I was so occupied lately. It made my garden abandoned. 

Sunday Morning. The street was very crowded with vehicles that were heading to MTD (Malang Tempoe Doeloe ) Festival. 

I had no eager to go with that flow. I'm not into festival and communal things lately. I just don't get it why I must go to that 'trying to present the odies feeling' in the heat sunday morning. If it was a swimming pool or beach party, I would definetely come!

So, there were I, working in front of my PC all day made me very tired. But I have to finish all this job to make my time easier for next week. Yes, I know it's sunday, and it's odd to work really hard in the day. I love it though, working on sunday with big cup of coffee and long list to do. 

OneI finished working, I walked to the  backyard where I found a new blossom. I plant the seed 3 months ago. It's a red gladiol. I took my camera and got these pictures

The blosomm cheris my sunday

The biggest sunflower with abundant of pollen. Where are the bees?

The tomatoes. We will harvest them in weeks!

The small garden we made become the favorite place for the Klub Jenius. They are learning English through  cooking activity with Miss Gaby (the girl with High school uniform. Yes, she is a student) and mr. Ikin. See, they are happy to enjoy their food!

I plan to buy some seed with various colour

This small garden is my sanctuary. It always present me tranquility and peaceful.

Malang Berkebun 1# Melon and Sunflower

Meja saya hari ini. Kamboja dan Melati dari kebun belakang.

Saya baru sadar kalau hari ini adalah hari libur setelah semalam Mr. Shine bilang mau kabur buat Long weekend yang dia gabung dengan liburan. Instead of staying at home to celebrate the lazy time, I'm in office now, working on some work files and updating this blog. 

I was checking the small garden I made in Backyard and was very happy to see a melon tree bears a small fruit. 

My baby melon. Waiting to grow and ripe!

The sunflower start to blossom. Its bright yellow blossoms brighten my small garden, like sunshine. Together with fragrant yellow frangipani, jasmines and roses, they make the garden colourful. 

I started to do my old passion, gardening. Doing little things in this small garden always make me happy. Some nights ago, I and some colleague friends had a tea party. There were bunches of cake and big pot of tea in the real ceramic pot and ceramic cup I bought in Dinoyo, the central of ceramic industry in Malang. Perhaps, for you it's just a usual drinking of tea, but for me, I made it special by inviting friends to sit in the small garden backyard under the full moon. It's no longer usual tea drinking when you have nice conversation, laughter, and sharing. From that tea party, so many ideas related to our work popped up.  You just need a pot of tea to create a good moment so everyone comfort to talk and share their work problem. This is appliable either in work things or relationship things. You can try it with your friends!

My Bali Life# ; Goes to Buddha Soul for Apple Pie and Carrot Cake

We were in the mission of tasting as carrot cake in several cafes and restos in Bali, especially in the south coast.      It was another visit to Padang-padang beach when we finally stopped at Buddha Soul after have been passing it without eager to stop for many years. Dominated by white, this organic restaurant is situated among the lush of teak wood forest. It's located before the Mango Tree Cafe in Labuhan Sait-Uluwatu road. 

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This cafe has boutique separated by a rolling glass door. The heat of the day didn't take any effect becouse of the breeze wind and the lush of tropical trees. I felt like want to stay there all day long. When we were there, some tourist are sitting with their cakes and drinks while their laptop on. The type of surfer tourist. They stayed in the surfer homestay located somewhere in the midle of that lushious tropical trees. I will definetely stay in this kind of homestay in my next visit, escaping from the crowded Kuta and Seminyak.

This time Mr. Shine decided to take Apple Pie and I was still with my Carrot Cake. As ususal I couldn't  not to bite Mr. Shine's part, and as usual he always spare a bite for me. However, too bad I couldn't post the cake's pic. I missed to take it! Bad photographer (wannabe)!

Bddha Soul's Bar and Pastries

Buddha Soul's backyard

My Bali Life# ; Carrot Cake and Lemon Tart in Mango Tree Cafe

One of my favourite beach destination in Bali is Padang-padang beach. Despite of its beautiful white sands, scattered rock and clear water, I also love the road takes me there. Unlike thestreet of  the Kuta and other urban areas which fulled of buildings, this road is still quit like the other country side road. The road takes you down from the hill of Bukit Jimbaran to the south coastal. Therefore, along the way you can see the blue ocean down there. However, the things I like most are the small boutiques, cafes, and restaurants popped up among the forest and bushes. It's worth to stop for Mango Juice and carrot cake in outdoor seats in the breeze wind after swimming and sunbathing in the beach. It's kind of place where I want to spend all day enjoying the breeze with good reading in hand.  

That afternoon we decided for the second stop at Mango Tree Cafe. Situated just in the slope road near the Padang-Padang beach car park.

There we were. I and Mr. Shine took the outdoor seat under the Mango tree with Mango Juice and Mango smoothie that were not good becouse they blend the unripe mango I guess. It's not the Mango season like our prevoius visit to this place.

Mangoo Tree's carrot cake. The most delicious carrot cake I've ever tried!

The carrot cake and Lemon tart were superb, especially the carrot cake. It's our reason to stop. The smell of cinnamon, domminant ingredient of carrot, chocholate and almonds went so right.

Mango Tree's Lemon Tart. I'm not the fan of lemon tart anyway.

Thanks to the kitchen master who created this heavenly taste cake. I will definitely stop by for anothe carrot cake next time.

My Bali Life; Breakfast with Style in Tuckshop Seminyak

Since I didn't have my camera with me, I took all the pics in this post from this cool blog; Crema and Crumbs. So, the photo credits are on him/her

Breakfast is one of the most important thing for my day. for me, good breakfast creates a good whole day. Anytime I visit my mother, it will be me who prepare the breakfast for the big family. What I prepared range from simple pancakes or the pancakes that i made by trying mixing this and that. And the last time, I made a pumpkin pancakes with the freshly picked pumpkin from my sister's garden. Preparing the breakfast is one of my "Joie de vivre".

When I was in my recent stay in Bali, I was addicted to 'breakfast around'. I and my friend tried several places for the breakfast around Seminyak and also Ubud. It started becouse the fancy budget hotel in Seminyak where we stayed for some days didn't serve the breakfast in the hotel package.

Riding the motorbike along the small street in Seminyak we tried to find the restaurant serving breakfast took us uncoincidely to a small place in the corner of Laksamana Oberoi Street and Kayu Aya street. Coming back and forth passing this street before, I never realized that this is a reastaurant. I wondered it was a boutique becouse what i see from Laksamana Oberoi Street are the display of fashion items. This place is more wellknown as Corner Shop wich is the name of the boutique, while the real name of the restaurant is Tuck Shop. It's a combination between cafe, deli, boutique and gallery.

Once we entered the restaurant, i was welcomed by the smell of coffee from the busy grinding coffee machine operated by two man beside the door. That smell somehow created a tranquil feeling on my soul. I always love the smell of cofee!

The interior is really fancy. Tables are situated among the manequinn and fancy clothes hunging with designed forms.I love the place more and more when I sat in the big table in front of shell that full of books, magazines, dayly newspapers and the display of some organic product like jam, coffee bean, and tea.

I was confuse which breakfast I wanted. All are tempting and mouth watering. I ended up taking the baguette sandwich, and Cappuccinno. Wow, it was a very big plate contained of baguette and two pieces of sadwich that I thought I couldn't eat them all. Both I and mr. Shine, was amazed when in the end we found my plate was clean!

What I like most from this restaurant is the atmosphere. You know what, almost everyone I saw was busy with their Apple stuff. See that man in the corner table near the tank top t-shirt collection! His cuteness improving some bars becouse of that Mac Book Pro. Dressing in a fade orange t-hirt, dark blue very short pant and flat make him looks georgous. And that ellegant expensive looks lady with her  new I-pad sitting with two men occupied with their Mac Book beside me just made me soooo jealous. It seems they worked on their business while having their breakfast. In the other corner, a group of mothers with their baby seems enjoying their gossip time.

This fancy place are commonly fulled up by expats who are based in Seminyak area. Therefore, just few locals can be found here.

I've pick this place as one of my favourite breakfast place in Bali. It's really reccomended place for you to end up your jogging in the morning or just simply the place to see and to be seen. and don't worry, you can have your breakfast even in the afternoon here becouse the restaurant serve the breakfast until 18.00. It's all day breakfast!

For me, I'll visist back this boutique resto with more preparation; good dress and fancy gadget!