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It has been a busy week for me and my family.

After receiving our sea cargo from Indonesia, it took days for us to check and get all the items out of the boxes. It has been awfully long as we sent the items since November 2021 and they arrived in the beginning of March 2022. Surely it's one of the longest cargo shipments I had since Melbourne, Geneva and New York! Apparently the combination of COVID-19, lack of shipment heading to New Zealand and the Pacific areas as well as long procedures made us wait too long for our items. 

Unfortunately, the liftvan we had was somehow broken on its way here and some boxes got dampen from water. I was so sad to see some hand woven items, shoes and clothes were either broken or very moldy due to this. I have one of my tenun bags being demolished with the mold and my purple Gucci bag got some patches of mold as well. Not to mention some other bags and shoes. We also have to wash and dry clean so many items from the boxes as they have this unpleasant aroma. It was quite a I am calculating all these damages and will definitely claim for the insurance.

On the bright sight, I had the chance to visit more cities in the North Island, namely Hastings, Napier and Hawke's Bay. We had series of meetings with the Mayor of Hastings, as well as business associates and Indonesian communities based in this area. It's always interesting to see the new places and learn more about its history as well as its ties with my country and my people. Too bad it was raining when we were there and we were not at the liberty to explore this charming city on foot. but for sure I am more than happy to go back there again.

Beautiful painting depicting New Zealand typical landscape

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WW: Visiting Napier, New Zealand - the Art Deco Haven

Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

Let's continue our trip around New Zealand!

This time, I have the opportunity to enjoy Napier, Hastings and Hawke's Bay, three lovely cities in the region of Hawke's Bay, at the North Island.


The Daily Telegraph Office


It takes us around 5 hours drive from Wellington to reach this area. We passed Palmerston North and the wind farm of  Te Apiti. We saw lots of wind turbines and stopped for a while.

Welcome to Te Apiti Wind Farm


We went through this wonderful, quaint city in the coastal area of Hawke’s Bay, famous for its rich soil, wonderful beaches and agriculture fresh produce. Plus unique art deco dominating architectures in many parts of the city. Truly a lovely place to visit.
one corner at the city center

We have series of meetings with Indonesian community here who will be hosting Batik workshop and fashion show in April. We briefly visited the Creative Art Napier which will be the venue of the workshop. We had dinner at Restaurant Indonesia, one of the oldest restaurant in town, with homey decoration and fantastic, authentic Indonesian food. After a while, I enjoyed nasi bakar komplit, with sayur asem, ayam goreng, ikan jambal roti and sambal, plus pepes kakap and wedang ronde. Heaven!

beautiful snapper pepes! Super yum...

our lavish dinner

Restaurant Indonesia from outside

We also met the Mayor as well as the local business. Although we haven’t really got time to explore the city and its lovely corners, but we managed to stop here and there. We got a tour in the District Council and the Opera House as well. I really have to share more in details in the next posts! 

For now, here are some photos we took along the way. Enjoy!

one mural in the city center

Napier Road

St. Columba Church

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Hello everyone..

I hope March has been treating you good. And I hope it’s not too late to say Happy International Women’s Day to all the amazing ladies out there!



We are still witnessing the spiking numbers of Omicron case here in New Zealand. We already had rapid antigen test twice at the office and thank God, Alhamdulillaaaah, we had negative results. Nevertheless, we still work from the office except for those who are showing some symptoms. The daughter is still having her classes off line, while my son has 2 offline classes only on Wednesday and Friday. Well, hopefully things will be improving soon.

Wellington continues to be in a good mood as we have some beautiful days this week. Lots of sunshine and that means our ourdoorsy activities can be done cautiously by following health protocol. I hope I can share 

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WW: Cape Palliser Lighthouse at a Glimpse


More outdoor session here in Wellington and the last time we had beautiful days during the weekend, we went to Cape Palliser in Wairarapa Region.

It was around 2 hours drive and we certainly enjoyed the fantastic weather in balmy  summer and lovely landscape along the way. Before that, we stopped by at Putangirua to see the famous pinnacles that had been used as the movie set for the Lord of the Rings - Return of the King. 









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