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That Saturday morning, we went to Kelab Darul Aman where a soccer game was to be held between IATMI members in terms of World Cup 2006 fever, with other programmes such as poco-poco and farewell party to 3 IATMI families who are moving from KL.

When we arrived, the poco-poco has just started. I followed the dance, while Frieza went to kick balls with some others who didn’t join the dance and Radit played with his friends too. Thanks to Mba Sulandari who taught me the poco-poco steps at the office 2 years ago, now I can join this society dance. Then the men started playing soccer while the ladies tried other dance steps, enough to let your sweats out. I tried to follow the salsa steps with confusion and fun.

Around nine o’clock, me and Radit went to Q-dees because Radit was going to do a performance in the event of Flip-tech (the method they use in the school) celebration. The performance started at 10 o’clock and Frieza came just in time to see Radit and his classmates sing and dance. What a cute performance ! It was our fisrt experience to see our son perform in front of other people. Radit actually did sing and dance, he wwas having fun ! Unfortunately we forgot to charge our camera’s battery, so we could only take pictures from Frieza’s handphone. After Radit finished his performance there were other performances from the other classes, but we just left the school and went to baso Afung at Sri Hartamas to have brunch. Afterwards we went home to rest.

In the evening we went back to Sri Hartamas to meet our friends Rani-Indi-Noe who’s been living in Singapore. We arrived early and didn’t know where to go so we went to the Sri Hartamas Shopping Centre. Looks like a new shopping centre, quite large and not many people compared to KLCC or Midvalley. Many restaurants. Surrounded by shophouses. The area looks like a nice place to walk and hang out if more shops are open. While we were walking around, Rani called and said that they are at Hartamas Square, and after guided by her friend Collin, we found out that the place was near baso Afung that we just visited this afternoon.

So we met Rani-Indi-Noe, Rani who came from the same school as me (our beloved Taruna Bakti) is actually 3 years younger than me and I forgot how we knew each other in the first place, although if you went to school at Taruna Bakti, you are familiar with the entire students at school (junior & high school), at least by the face. So when I entered Taruna Bakti Junior High School in 1989, I could get to know my senoirs who were as old as my sister Wendy who is 5 years older than me, and when I was a senior high school student, I could get to know my juniors. That’s what I loved most about our school, we get to know a lot and actally play together and hang out with friends from different ages.

There were Rani-Indi-Noe’s friends : Collin & Trudy, a Chinese-Malay couple, where Trudy works for UNDP while Collin is a homemaker working in the IT section if I’m not mistaken; Dimas, a Bandung-ers who has stayed 7 years in Singapore and 1 year in KL, a musician who makes music for artists and movies, and also Rani’s future brother-in-law; and Fay, a Malaysian who has an obsession with Indonesia and owns a website about it. It was a fun and interesting reunion and new community we met. We talked while having dinner there, the food is not bad. We just found out that the place is a very popular place to hang out during the world cup season, and  watch the game together.

Then while we were still hanging out, there was an announcement that there’s going to be a black-out for at least half an hour, so we decided to move to baso Afung (again!). We should get a discount card for visiting the plays 2 times in a day, and bringing friends during our second visit of the day. Actually we were already full, we just came for desserts which unfortunately the es teler and avocado juice were not yet available. So we just ordered drinks and snacks, some ordered baso just to satisfy their curiosity.

Around 10 o’clock we went home. The area was getting crowded with people who just arrived to watch the world cup soccer game.

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