Ivana's kicking Paris out of the Blog

I have come to realize that Paris has been taking a large chunck of my life (read:blog). For that reason, it is crucial to recognize Paris' role in my life(read:blog) may not be sufficiently addressed if he is to stay with the Lumba2 Blog.

From this day onward, Paris can be found at

http://mycotondetulear.blogspot.com

and bits of pieces of his daily life which occurr during Ivana's daily life will precede to be at Lumba2 blog.

We appreciate your constant patronage and invite you to check both blogs.

Trick on Dog's nose

Here is Paris doing his best trick: He has his treat on his nuzzle, and he can't move and have the treat until I tell him that he can have it.

Isn't it just great??? Took the other dogs (at Petsmart where we learnt this trick) weeksssss to learn this trick, but it only take about a week for Paris to learn it.

You know why? Ever since he was a puppy, I trained him to sit and stay in front of his treat without moving, and he could only have the treat after I signalled to him that he can have it.

Miss Kacang and Shier

Come on you guys, faster return to LA..or come to LA for Kacang..

Paris and I are waiting for u guys here.. :)

Maintining my resolution

It's been hard... Once I go to the gymn, I can easily hit the treadmill for 30 or more minutes.. trying to burn 350 calories or more.. But before I reached the gymn, I just feel exhausted.. SIGH HELP.. Luckily , Kevin just had an enlighment to go to the gymn so hopefuly his enthu can spark back my enthusiasm.

Another temptation that I have been having is : Dessert, fried food, oily food.. Extraordinary dessert, Martabak Manis ( A very good indonesian dessert with peanut and chocolate ), Fried Gyoza.. etc etc.. I shall curb it down :)

YUMM part 2

Yumm yumm yumm

Paris in UCLA. He's sooo White...

Learn from Others

I want to go home!!!! I was depressed ( still am ), sad, worried, uneasy.Yesterday though I felt better. My co-workers yesterday taught me how to make a wise investment decision. You know: stocks, bonds, mutual fund, foreign currency, comodities, options. It was amazing: imagine two experiences investors teaching me about all these stuff.

After that , at the end of day, Grace ( my new found friend/co-worker) taught me about saving up money, budgeting and investing. She told me that she budget her self, not daily but monthly. She saved up her money ( and she is able to save up well ), put aside half of this saving to investment and the other half to Money Market. Wow..... and look at me... I didn't even know how much I have saved from my three months salary. ( wait!!! I actually knew, after talking to Grace last night I tallied up my expenses. And hell, not much money I have saved ).

I have never even thought about investing before meeting my co-workers. I had savings, my grandparents gave to me, last time when I was in Singapore. You know what I did : dump it in a low rate saving account ( leave it there for 2 or three years and never thought of putting it into CD).

But then again, what has passed is in the past. From now on, I am a change woman! I will start planning for the future and invest. That is if, I have some money to invest.......

Valentine's Day

Valentine's day.. Single Awareness Day.. whichever way you wish to call it. This year I went to :

Drago
on Wilshire blvd , cross st : 26th

It's an Italian restaurant, nice ambience and doesn't kill your wallet. Kevin had the sea bass. It's SOOOO Goooddd... The sea bass was served as a whole fish ( and it's good good good good!). I got the stuffed quail and didn't really like it. The price range is about 30-50 bucks so go ahead and check it out :>

I received : flowers, best chocolate ever, and a card. Okay let's talk about the chocolate!!!

Great chocolate! I love the champagne filled truffles, its most favorite pieces. Check out the link about and you can see the review from citysearch.com. Or else go to www.teuscher.com

I bought Kevin a coat ( finally after wanting to give him that for Xmas. Darn, did I still owe him a Xmas present.. Oh Well). It's a cute army jacket. I'm really helpless about choosing presents for Kevin, so you know what I did : went to the store, saw three jackets that I liked there, called Kevin up and described the jackets to him, Get him to choose what he one.

Ahh.. the beauty of technology ( cell phone I mean )

Some People Come and Go

February 2006. All my batch friends (indonesian UCLA 2005) have gone home, well all except Erly me and a few others. Makes me think if it's time for me to go home too..

I am still waiting for news (some of you know what I am talking about ).. Cross our fingers and we'll see what will happen.. Where I'll be this exact day next year.. We'll see

I am going to Paris by the way!!! Did I tell you?? THis june.. Paris here I come.. I am actually going to take French lesson.. Bonjour. Comment allez vous? Tres bien Merci.

HAHAHA I'll update you guys soonnn