me and my writings

tanggal terakhir di kalender

2009-01-29T00:07:00.000+07:00

Kira- kira 12 tahun yang lalu saya masih duduk di semester 3-4 bangku kuliah. Saat itu masih doyan ngumpul dengan teman SMA dan salah satunya dengan The DEKiLs, eddy, donny dan Liza. Waktu sekelas, kami duduknya berdekatan…dan paling sering kena tegur guru karena ngobrol terus

Yah...namanya kalo ngumpul, pasti berghibah ngga cerita kuliahan (karena kami melanjutkan di PT yang berbeda beda) , ngga teman2x sekelas dulu deh...salah satu yang dibicarain, teman kita yang lain lagi bernama D**i yang konon kabarnya mirip Atike CB. :D
Donny : si Atiek pacarnya sapa ky?
Kiky : adalah namanya Te****
Eddy : temen kuliahnya?
Kiky : ngga udah kerja, udah tua kok...umur 31 tahun.
Donny & Eddy : *serempak* gila tuh anak...pacaran ama Om-om??
Kiky & Liza = =)) =))

itu saya...waktu berumur 19 tahun, sekarang ketika SAYA SENDIRI berusia 31 tahun... saya jadi mikir... ”berarti gue dianggap tante-tante ya sama ABG umur 19 tahun kali yeeee....???”

L.O.L
-happy birthday dear Kiky-

for my son on your birthday

2008-11-24T17:45:00.003+07:00

Sepetinya lagu ini bukan lagu "cinta biasa", sepertinya tercipta atas suara hati seorang ibu terhadap anaknya. Beberapa blogger mom, mendedikasi lagu ini untuk putra putrinya..:).
This song is my favorite, langsung teringat Kevinku waktu pertama kali dennger lagu ini.

Kau begitu sempurna
Dimataku kau begitu indah
Kau membuat diriku akan slalu memujimu

Disetiap langkahku
Kukan slalu memikirkan dirimu
Tak bisa kubayangkan hidupku tanpa cintamu

Janganlah kau tinggalkan diriku
Takkan mampu menghadapi semua
Hanya bersamamu ku akan bisa

[Reff:]
Kau adalah darahku
Kau adalah jantungku
Kau adalah hidupku
Lengkapi diriku
Oh sayangku, kau begitu
Sempurna... Sempurna...

Kau genggam tanganku
Saat diriku lemah dan terjatuh
Kau bisikkan kata dan hapus semua sesalku

Janganlah kau tinggalkan diriku
Takkan mampu menghadapi semua
Hanya bersamamu ku akan bisa

[Reff:]
Kau adalah darahku
Kau adalah jantungku
Kau adalah hidupku
Lengkapi diriku
Oh sayangku, kau begitu
Sempurna... Sempurna...

Kau genggam tanganku
Saat diriku lemah dan terjatuh
Kau bisikkan kata dan hapus semua sesalku

for ma on your birthday

2008-11-24T17:39:00.006+07:00

everytime I listened to this song on my IPOD, it never failed to make me cry

Il Divo,
Mama thank you for who I am
Thank you for all the things I'm not
Forgive me for the words unsaid
And for the times
I forgot
Mama remember all my life
You showed me love,you sacrificed
Think of those young and early days
How I've changed
Along the way (along the way)
Bridge:
And I know you believed
And I know you had dreams
And I'm sorry it took all this time to see
That I am where I am because of your truth
And I miss you , I miss you
Mama forgive the times you cried
Forgive me for not making right
All of the storms I may have caused
And I've been wrong
Dry your eyes (dry your eyes)
Bridge : BECAUSE I know you BELIEVE
Mama I hope this makes you smile
I hope you're happy with my life
At peace with every choice I made
How I've changed
Along the way (along the way)
Cause I know you believed in all of my dreams
And I owe it all to you ,mama

Despite all my behavious, all my words that hurt your feeling..
please forgive me,ma...I Love you ma...you're the greatest.

takut meminta

2008-09-18T13:31:00.002+07:00

pernah ngga teman-teman merasa takut meminta kapada Sang Pemilik,
takut meminta yang terbaik,
karena takut yang terbaik itu suatu yang menakutkan?
*di titik nadir*

ke- GR-an

2008-09-12T09:21:00.001+07:00

Ini cerita kemaren, yang punya YM id gue, mungkin ingat gue kemaren mendadak disuruh big boss datang workshop Oil and Gas for bankers. Yah..getulah....
Ternyata acaranya selesai lama juga, sampai menjelang buka puasa. Tadinya gue mau cabut jam 5.15 mengejar KRL AC Sudirman Serpong tercintah tapi ternyata di meja gue dari 6 perserta, tinggal 3 peserta aja yang duduk manis.
Gue ngajak temen gue keluar, dianya ngga enak..
Yo wes lah, gue memutuskan tinggal sampai akhir acara.
Pas sesi tanya jawab......
Sejak gue ikutan milis sampah , dimana ini satu satunya milis yang gue ikutin dan gue ngga ada dapat apa-apa kecuali nambah dosa dan hinaan, gue jadi hobi nyampah, dan suka lupa kalo gue di forum resmi.
(selama training gue bukannya nyimak, malah sibuk ikutan confrence di YM dan balas email-email nista itu)
Bertanyalah gue dengan pertanyaan sok penting *yang penting nyampah*

Terus, apa karena pertanyaan gue sophisticated ato gue satu satunya makhluk cantik yang bertanya, pertanyaan dapat hadiah…buku Sophie’s World dari Joestein Gaarder (sayangnya, gue udah baca buku ini sejak 8 tahun lalu).
Dah kelar, sholat magrib…terus mau ngejar kereta Ciujung.
Nyampe lobby, gue bertemu dan ketiga pembiacara tersebut, gue minta kartu nama mereka...surprisely, mereka hafal nama gue (eyalah...)
Yang lebih kocak lagi, salah satu pembicara nanya:
”Bapak kamu kerja di perusahaan minyak ya, pertanyaan kamu agak spesifik”
heheheheh, iya siy sebetulnya...
Cuma yang bikin gue GR, kok dia nanyanya Bapak kamu bukan suami kamu , apakah sejak lingkar pinggang gue menurun 10 cm, dan lemak gue menghilang at least , 3 kg,sehingga stelan rok dan blazer gue muat lagi, gue kelihatan seperti gadis lagi...
*PLETAK*

ramadhan reflection

2008-09-11T21:29:00.004+07:00

it was a-6.00 am- flight on my business trip to Palembang, August last year. Afraid of a possibility that I might miss the plane, I woke up before down. At 2.30 am. While waiting for my-4.00 am- taxi that will take me to the airport, I surf the line (I blog, therefore I am ). I had my shubuh prayer at there and at 7 am, I'd arrived in Palembang.

August the following year, I took BSMR test, a risk management certificate for bankers. Had a great worry that I might failed the test (the result won't be announced until next Saturday via text message,please wish me passed ), I woke up very early 3-4 days before the D day, to study the material.
Just to remind you, I'm not a morning person,so I had an extra effort everytime I have to wake up early. Almost everyday, I wake up at least 5.30 am. As a moslem, you might know what my obligation is.

I live this verse for almost my entire life --- from the moment my parent sign me up for an Al Quran reciting class- back in early 80's:
Wal Asr
Innal insaana la fii khusr

by Asr (the time)
Man surely in lost

but I guess I've been a fool after all this time, I never take a serious thinking about my time management. I was afraid of my existence rather than my self as a Hamba Allah. I act, as if I owned this universe.
Surely, I was among the lost.

self indulgence

2008-09-05T21:42:00.005+07:00

you know something weird? Contemplation become my self indulgence lately.
while I'm doing so, seemed like I have idea how to solve my problem.
I think I've been doing since sometime ago, but it is emphasized since my all-by-my-self-trip to Bali last July .
except this gathering I have with unimportant people from Warung KGB every now and then ,I didn't enjoy being in the crowd that much anymore,:-D

Despite who I was before, and who (or what) I will be in the future,
this indulgence can rouse the positive side of me.
getting older, doesn't necessarily made ones as an adult
A reflection to my past, there ware many occurrence, I was a child that trapped inside a grown up figure.
Like to share what's yours?

Pathetic

2008-09-03T10:22:00.001+07:00

I had this chit chat with an old friend of mine,then realizing - except the part I have those beautiful babies- my life seemed pathetic. *sigh*

a customer point of view

2008-09-01T19:38:00.005+07:00

For years, there were only one mini store available at my office building. So whenever I run out of tissue, or feel like chewing Cadbury, or forget my sock for gym class, there was my (only) place to pick up something missing. Its price more expensive than any regular store, but who dare walking 150 m to Grand Lucky or taking a bus to Carefour during office hour just to get a pack of cigaret or sanitary napkins for instead .

I think since the store has no competitive , that made us, as the tenants and the customer had no other choice. The mini store looked like regular warung --- the mini store in your neighborhood--- but it is equipped with AC, even it isn't cool enough, they don’t stack things neatly, it look more to a warehouse than a mini store.

Moreover, it is illuminated with dim light as well, but again…we had no other choice., and they don't bother to serve us better.

But, few weeks ago, now open this Star Mart Franchise, that offers

local & import magazines,
cooler AC, brighter lamp,
the things for sale were stacked neatly
a coffee machine , and...
whenever you bought a cup of Pop Mie, they'll be glad pour hot water for free as well

The price is slighty expensive that the old store, but for many of us, we better went to SM.

Actually, I wanted to post the pictures for both stores, and that'd be the end of this entry. But it will made my writing meaningless (halah, sok pinter loe ky...)

In my shallow thinking, analogy to human being,

If you do something with extra effort with the way you look, probably you'll gain more respect, remember how important the first impression is? Dress properly, a nice hair do and light make up if necessary and…service with smile!

No, you don’t need to be pretty or wear something branded, just like those two store, they almost sell the same thing.

But how the Star Mart arrange their store, made us the customer, feel better spend money there there instead of the old store.

PS : tetep aja tulisan gue ngga mutu ya...

am a good motha,aren't I?

2008-08-28T13:00:00.000+07:00

One of my relatives,told my sister, to let me know, that in his opinion, I should hug my babies more often.
Well, frankly speaking here , I was pissed of hearing this :(
Then,I remember, I met him and his- I- love u-u love me-we are happy- family is every now and then,with the mother act as -stay-at-home- eventhough we live in the same neighbourhood.
I don't think he aware that my baby boy sleep with touching my big fat belly? :))
With a complain that I should hug my babies more often... probably - I should (at least) reducing my blogging and plurking time.:))
What d ya think?am I a good mother? ;)

Lunatic things women do to impress her lover

2008-08-24T23:41:00.011+07:00

Sabtu lalu, setelah pulang dari Barney Show di Senayan, dan gagal mengajak Aufa, keponakan calon PNS propinsi bangka belitung, keluar,gue leyeh2x saja di depan tivi. Saat itu sedang disiarkan reality show remaja Termehek Mehek. Nonton episode kemaren, antara geli dan kasihan sendiri meratapi nasib si klien TMM itu. Seketika ingat postingan si tax manager dengan judul diatas.

Ceritanya ada perempuan muda bernama Nisa (kalo ngga salah) yang melapor ke crew program tersebut, konon kabarnya her-lover-who-had-offered-her-a-wedding-proposal- hilang raib tak berbekas selama 3 bulan terakhir. Investigasi dimulai dengan cara:

- mendatangi kantor si pacar, nyelonong g masuk ke ruangan HRG Managernya, who-seemed-very-irritated-and-act rude. Well, I understand why, I don't think we suppose to act polite with (seemed to be) less manner individuals.

- terus, dapatlah alamat si cowok ini, yang kebetulan kedua orangtua cowok ini ada dirumah. The mommy gave them the do-I-know-you look dan si babe mengusir dengan sukses romobongan makhluk yang tak mereka kenal bawa2x kamera. Jadi tontonan ~~nasional~~ permirsa aja kalo si Nisa ditipu mentah2x oleh cowoknya dan tak mendapat simpati dari (seharusnya) calon mertua.

-cerita berlanjut ke lokasi si cowok masang audio system buat mobilnya, si pegawai bengkel setelah membocorkan alamat cowok si Nisa, ke gap ama pemilik bengkel dan gelagapan takut dimarahin, lalu salah satu host acara tersebut ngibrit . Duh...semoga si pegawai bengkel tersebut ngga dimaki2x deh ama bossnya, apalagi sampe dipecat...kasihan...orang susah jangan dibuat tambah susah donk.ckckkckckc

- singkat cerita, entah rekayasa entah tidak...di episode berikutnya (giling, cerita ini ampe 2 episode bow,gilingnya lagi, gue nonton kedua-duanya ), crew dan client nemu mobil si pangeran tampan tanpa kuda ini, dan membuntuti mobil berwarna silver tersebut. Lalu keluarlah 2 perempuan ngga kalah muda yang salah satunya ngaku pacar si pangeran tampan tanpa kuda ini--- dan nyolot --- dan berantemlah mereka berdua dorong-dorongan mungkin pake acara keluar makian. You know the the silliest thing is? This was tape on camera and broadcasted to the entire country, Halah...segitu worth it kah, pemuda bernama (ruddy/rully?) ini untuk diperebutkan?

- pokoknya lagi, si Nisa ini dapat bertemu dengan pemuda harapan bangsa-nya, tapi tentu saja, dengan acara maki-maki dan berantem lagi dan diusir lagi and of course it was recorded.
*semoga loe dapat cowok baik ya bow--- kasihan gue liat loe*

Reality show model gini banyak, cuma karena ini yang ditonton agak serius, dan pas abis baca postingan bunda rara itu, ini yang gue tulis.
kapan ya ada reality show yang dapat mewujudkan cita-cita gue untuk membersihkan artificial tatto-nya wentworth miller?

anyway, ternyata ada cerita yang lebih pathetic dibanding 3 exhibit yang dicontohkan Dini dalam postingannya itu (oh yeah, the story is real, gue tau pelaku di salah satu cerita tersebut).

Asking for what is my lunatic action toward a man on my dream was? (as my comment on the related post). I think this is silly/stupid instead of lunatic.
Suatu ketika, di saat berat dan tinggi badan gue masih proposional, I had a major crush on this guy, who happenened to live thousands miles away from Jakarta.Ketika itu, doi datang ke jakarta, gue harap2x cemas diajak ketemuan (dan emang dia ngajak ketemuan). Happy donk...tentu saja.
saat itu gue udah tau mau make baju apa, my white shirt from Gap together with the black denim skirt, dan kebetulan sepupu gue yang kuliah di Perth baru datang bawa tas bludru hitam putih motif zebra buat gue as a souvernir. Berarti tinggal cari...sepatunya.
Ke Metro Pondok Indah lah gue, and purchase a black sandals that cost Rp 289 ribu. saat itu...7 tahun lalu, disaat gue udah lulus tapi belon kerja harga segitu mahal bow!!!!tapi kan demi tampil keren didepan pangeran tampan tanpa kuda versi gue.

waktu sudah ditentukan, dan gue harus ke kampus dulu--- kalo ngga salah, (untuk suatu urusan yang gue lupa apa)...eng ing eng...Dapatlah gue telpon dari pujaan hati gue (saat itu), and he said he was really on a tight schedule to prepare everything before flying on the other side of this world few days later.
at least waktu gue terpuruk lesu, date dengan sang pangeran tak berkuda itu gagal I wasn't on tivi. hahahahahhaha
baru beberapa tahun kemudian gue bertemu lagi dengan pujaan hati gue (saat itu) yang membawa undangan pernikahannya untuk gue. Hahahhahaha

so, care to share yours? *wink*

PS : gue tetap susah negbayangin sebuah Kung Fu Panda pingsan di gym!
2nd ps: cerita diatas benar adanya ,ilustrasi dari koleksi pribadi.
3rd ps : ada untungnya gue baru bisa masak setelah punya anak :P

A banker's life

2008-08-20T06:23:00.001+07:00

ada cerita nyata antara mengharukan dan lucu.
Minggu lalu sahabat gue dari jaman jadi Manajemen Trainee--- yang sekarang udah jadi kepala cabang (termuda bow) Pompi, datang ke Jakarta.
Sebelumnya beliau sudah bolak balik Palembang – Jakarta untuk ini.Rusuh deh pokoknya.
Kemaren happy berat karena mau signing PK (perjanjian kredit) dengan nominal Rp 180 milyar, provisi 0,8% .p.a
Bisa dibayangkan keuntungan cabang Palembang in the near future,belum dari bunga fasilitasnya.

Lalu..
Ngga lama setelah belio balik ke Palembang,
Pompi nelpon gue lagi, gue tanya
" loe lagi di Jakarta lagi?"
dia bilang iya..
karena prospek nasabah dia kemaren...
dipanggil Yang Maha Kuasa...

gue antara berempati dan tertawa terbahak2x...
Tuhan membebaskan (calon) nasabah itu dari hutang Rp 180 milyar...

Carrot Cake

2008-08-16T22:53:00.005+07:00

olla! lama aku tak kembali ke dapur, sekarang mau rajinin lagi acara baking-nya...kasihan tuh oven dan mixer phillips anyar gue. :-D
Last two weeks, I made Spainish (suppose to be Vanila) Mocha Cake, which I accidently erase the pictures from my camera, since I was upset I only brought 1 GB SD card with me to Bali last week.

Anyway, mbak nining, "master" dalam hal per-baking-an, dimana ketika gue dan kezia ultah selalu mesen ke blio, posting resep ini di blognya. Langsung tertarik, ada wortelnya bow. dengan tekad yang kuat mau seperti De, yang selalu sempat buat kue buat rafa sekolah...gue ngga mau kalah...
wong naik KRL-nya sama-sama jam 7.25 dari stasiun yang sama.
kalo ngikutin yang baik-baiknya ndak papa toh.
Jadilah 3 hari yang lalu buat kue ini, tapi yah nasib...bangun mempet jam setengah 6. dari resep asli, gue buat setengah resepnya. Karena kata mbak nining resep ini kemanisan, gulanya gue kurangin.

Which is...
Bahan:
125 gr gula pasir halus
125 gr gula palem
3 butir telor
250 gr terigu
300 gr wortel kupas, parut kasar --- gue pake 3 wortel import ukuran sedang biar gampang diparut.
175 ml minyak sayur
1 sdt baking powder
0,5 sdt baking soda
pinch of salt
1.5 sdt kayu manis bubuk --- kata mbak nining biar nonjok rasanya...*halah*

How to:
- Panaskan oven 200 deg C
- Masukkan semua bahan kecuali telur dan minyak dalam satu wadah besar, aduk rata
- Tuang minyak pelan-pelan sambil adonan diaduk
- Masukkan telor satu-satu, aduk adonan sampai rata
- Tuang adonan ke dalam cetakan muffin
- Turunkan suhu oven ke 180 deg C
- Panggang kue selama 30 menit
- Angkat, dinginkan

porsi : 12 buah muffin

nah, gue kan ngga bisa menghias tuh, palagi waktu mefet...rada maksa lah interior kue ini pake bunga peka dan kayu manis beneran...kikikikk....dicoba ya! gampang kan! Kevin aja habis 4!

my second bali trip (in year 2008)

2008-08-13T20:50:00.025+07:00

hellow everybody!!!
as I told you before, I came back to Bali with my colleagues. I flied with Air Asia 20.00 and arrived at about 23.00. It was first trip to bali (even first time flying for Roni, the taller man who stand in front of Air asia!) for some of my colleagues.

We stayed in Fourteen Rosses in Legian Street, very affordable rate but their rooms have dull interior, due to its age and served dull breakfast aswell *ada harga ada mutu lah ya…*

The tour had been arranged for us and I was pissed off that the tour schedule was to…Kintamani – tanah Lot – Jimbaran…L.

Months before I fly to Bali on July, the tour agent send us an email telling that out trip was to GWK, Uluwatu and Benoa Bay, that’s why I choose Kintamani route on last July.

Well, whatever!

First we went to Batu Bulan, watching Barong show. I wonder all the castings depend on the enterance fee (tiket harga masuk maksud gue, kikikkk) , If there are less tourists, there won't make more money. Pity for them.

After the shows we went forward to Kintamani, I had lunch in different restaurant from my previous and the food was lame.It doesn't allow us to have another mineral water, even we paid for a-buffet-lunch nor it have a spectacular view like the previous resto,either.

Then, we took (almost) the whole picture of C(redit) M(arket) R(isk) G(roup) gank, pas gue lagi sholat dzuhur...uh, sebel!

After lunch, the big boss wanted to visit Istana Tampak Siring, so we headed there. Good thing, since I didn't stop at this palace last July.

Like any other building in Bali, this palace had pura aswell. Some said, this area form a-balineesee woman figure if we see from high above.

It has a beautiful pool, which water never dry even of dry season. It also has 3 moa (eels), which colors are black, white and red. If you happened to see there of them, it will bring you luck.

tetep aja narsis dan foto ngga mutu.

Then…Sunset in Tanah Lot, and still making a silly pictures.

Then, dinner in Jimbaran.

While waiting for the dinner, Lany and I made unordinary pictures, we bought Jagung Bakar and borrow his stuff,pretending that Lany is the seller. Quite funny don’t you think.

After arriving back to Legian street, we headed to Ocean Beach Club, a famous outdoor- club- in Kuta Area, not far from the famous Hard Rock Cafe. It has a pool int he middle of it, where people going wild , including...errr...Oh, I rather no tell. No..no...not me! We didn't sip any alcohol, trust us.

On Sunday, my flight schedule was on 13.50 and there were no the tour schedule for us who took the earlier flight. Since I failed visitting Dreamland last July,

while dinner on previous night, I told my friends I wanted to paid a visit there before flying back to Jakarta, all my colleagues were agree with my idea, and we hired three cars for the next day. The ones who flight on 23.00 pm refuse to join the tour as well.

So…there we were, taking silly pictures in DreamLand beach!

After breakfast, when I lost my appetite due to lack of sleeping time , we headed there,

mulai foto dari yang mutu....tadinya cuma 6 orang yang berangkat jam 13.50.

sampai ketika pasukan Corporate reviewers lain datang....dari foto ibu dan anak sampai pre wedding ngga mutu.

The six of us, who take earlier flight went to Joger, the others headed their journey to GWK.

ow, what a trip.

here for other pictures

The right to copy

2008-08-07T04:25:00.000+07:00

I told a news to my colleagues about what happend to mbak ellen whose writing was published in Warta Kota without her permission.
A colleagues of mine said it's a legal thing to do since blog is meant for everyone.
A very stupid opinion I must say...

sepatu cinderella

2008-08-03T04:28:00.000+07:00

hahahhaha hihihihi
sepatu cinderella

hahhahaha hihiihhihihi
ukurannya pas benar..

Lihatlah lihat semuuuaaa...
Aku punya pasangannya
Sepasang sepatu ~~kaca~~ kristal
Sepatu istimewa...

*tos tosan ama dinot*

-dinyanyikan dengan nada sepatu kaca cinderella-

kemaren setelah kenyang benar mengunyah Pempek Bangka dan Nasi Goreng Cumi
(yang juga import dari bangka), saya penasaran dengan sepatu ~~kaca~~ kristal si kung fu panda yang konon dibeli karena panas dan kipasi.

Their war is our happyness!

Pantesan sebulan ini ngajak gue makan siang ala warteg terus, jatuh miskin rupanya.
untung punya teman berbadan besar dan berukuran kaki yang sama, pas kami coba, pas dengan ukuran kaki kami.

kapan2x pesta bisa pinjam niy...
* tos tosan lagi ama Dinot*

hahahhah hihihihi
sepatu cinderella

hahhaha hihihihhhiih
sepatunya modal minjam

the comfort zone

2008-08-02T08:14:00.008+07:00

one of my close friend sent me a text message last night when I was on the way from Puncak, and it surprised me, my friend had choose a different kind of life, a very big decision. Realizing this blog meant for public , I won't explain about the decision (our network probably read this blog as well), in short my friend get sick and tired about what happened with our network.

and another friend of mine had also made a big decision,she will quit and will act as a-stay-at-home-mommy and giving up a "senior manager" tittle after her name, and yet, she's only 28!

recently, another friend of mine had motivated us , out from the comfort zone, the zone that often fool us, the zone that made us forget there's a beautiful world out there.
Why I was such a chicken, that I'd chose option #1. I could be a wiser me, who knows? If I don't get a damn job anyway, at least I still sit comfortly with my precious. I ain't stupid after all, sure I can find a beautiful life in my own way.

Like Master Shifu from Kung Fu Panda movie said: if you don't try,we'll never know and there are no accident. (I had the movie in my IPOD,so kind of watching it for many times)

Bismillah...

Warteg Pak MO

2008-07-23T21:09:00.001+07:00

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Lokasi : belakang pasar festival.

Sebenarnya, setiap hari Rabu siang adalah jadwal rutin gw untuk menghadiri ceramah [agama] di basement gedung kantor. Walaupun ngga bisa numpang tidur karena AC Musholla yang kriyep2x dan juga ngga pakai acara makan-makan, yang penting hati selalu adem sehingga kepala pun ikutan2x dingin dan pikiran pun ga kotor *lirik dahlia nun jauh di negeri Karawang sana*.
Tapi yang namanya SYAITON, memang bertebaran dimana-mana.
KungFu Panda nan sexy ini dari kemarin sudah heboh menghasut kami agar makan-makan disini, blogger narsis yang 2 kali nampang di Majalah EVE pun sampai menunda puasanya dan merelakan makan enak di hotel Grand Melia...ckckckckkckck....

Karena gue udah lama ngga buka Warung bersama KGB, hari ini gw terhasut juga. walopun acara makan siang bersama ini dirutuki oleh dua genset Sharp dan calon pengarang kondang yang ngga bisa ikutan gara-gara tandatangan kontrak baru dengan salah satu penerbit bergengsi serta miss crochetting .

Ayamnya dengan bumbu kecap dibakar lalu diletakkan diatas ulekan yang telah diolesi sambal yang pedddaaaassss yang langsung dibuat as your request . Lembut sekali, (ayamnya, bukan talenannya).

Mintalah tahu goreng dan tempe cocol sebagai tambahan lalu celupin ke campuran sambal dan kecap itu. Sambalnya biar pedes tetep pengen di-cocol.

Sebenarnya menu Pak Mo ini juga ada ikan lele, cuma si Kungfu Panda udah racuni ayam, maka ayamlah yang gue pilih.

Akhiri makan siang anda dengan meneguk Es KElapa Muda, agak jauh dari boothnya Pak MO.

dan ketika membayar makan& minum kita, tidak lebih dari Rp 20.000/orang.

worth it kali untuk dicoba detik2x menjelang gajian...:))

PS : kenapa saya kasih bintang 3??? lalarnya banyak bow tapi pengamen jarang, lain kali siapin lilin sendiri deh.

call visit for blogging

2008-07-17T13:19:00.000+07:00

situasi :
berujuh makan siang di Pizza (or pasta?) Matrix Pacific Place, termasuk bos gue dan banker (lebih) muda (dari gue).
Issue:
gender dalam perbankan *halah*

My Boss : "Kata Pak "C", punya anak buah perempuan ngga flexible. Susah kalo disuruh mutasi ke daerah lain.

zzz...hhhmmm....mmmppphhh....(mengeluarkan opini masing-masing)

Gue : gue biar cewek, mau aja disuruh ke Matak. It's a tough journey y'know!
Chica : Alah...loe mah biar ada cerita aja buat blog loe.

Damn he's (kinda) right! :-D

Plurk

2008-07-14T12:50:00.006+07:00

ok, now I join this mini blog kinda thing, the famous....PLURK!
Kak Indah has aksed me to visit her Plurk, then all in sudden..I signed up!
Unlike my other mini blog, twitter board, all your activity will be recorded either to gain or loss your karma.
Let see how long until I get bored with this. heheheheh

yay!

2008-07-10T06:02:00.002+07:00

I'm going back to Gym after absent for approx 2 week.
and y' know what!
I lost 2 kg! Yihhaaa!

di satu bintang aku [pernah] menunggu mu

2008-07-09T11:39:00.000+07:00

ingin kusampaikan pada bulan,
aku terkadang masih merindukan berada di bintang,
Yang tak sempat kau temui aku disana.

my first bali trip (in year 2008)

2008-07-06T21:20:00.004+07:00

Like I told you on my previous post, on Tuesday, I was completely all by my self. Headed for the beach, try to enjoy everything on my own.
bare foot, walk along the Kuta Beach, with the sound of wave as the music , waiting for the sunset. I just made the best out of being lonely.

After the sun has gone, walk along the narrow Poppies Lane, bought sorvenir for my colleagues back in Jakarta, and spending sometime talking to the owner of the shop.
I think when you're alone, you have to make friends with people you met, you won't feel alone anymore.
I stopped a taxi, asked him taking me anywhere *with a good food*
I ended up in Carefour hehehhe.

next morning
*feel like De Ja Vu*
I was the only banker among 25 participants, so everybody
gave me the look what-are-you-doing-here?
*okey, I'm exaggerating*

I found the birds with the same feather, ended my lonely time up in next 3 days.
But all of them were good, they'd asked me to join. *sayang aja ngga ada brondong , *

On friday, the course ended before lunch (bisa aja niy Bp Sutadi,pengertian banget!), we hired a car that took us to Celuk (I bought a flower-silver-pendant), sukowati, tanah Lot and Jimbaran.

Late at night, we had to say good bye.
tapi pak Slamet, dan bu eliza kantornya masih di Ps, Yuni bahkan 1 gedung dengan saya. Masih besar kemungkinan untuk ketemuan lagi.
Sama Kak Grace aja niy, yang jauh, di Balikpapan tinggalnya. Kapan lagi ya ketemu.

Since my flight would be on 20.00 on on satudarday night, I hired a car to take me around.
Don't know what to do to spend the day, I remember there is mas Djaja, a colleague who just move from Jakarta to Depansar.
I sent him a text message in the middle of the night, he replied the next morning saying that he and his daughter were available. Yihhha....
Lumejen, daripada gue manyun.
We went to the zoo in Ubud area (waks, so expensivem the enterance fee is Rp 50.000/person), foto2x di Ubud (terasering---sistem pertanian khas Bali), Kintamani,
dan ends up di Pantai Lebeng...the beach that facing East, so won't see sunset here. I wanna go back here sometime again, waiting for the sunrise.
(hey, I did woke up so early in the morning --- even before dawn--- when I was in Barito River!)

Aksesnya baru dibuka, pantainya belum ada pemecah ombak, makanya ombaknya rada "kasar", penuh batu-batu. Pasirnya hitam, tapi bersih.
duh, semoga pantai ini dibiarkan seperti ini, jangan dibangun hotel dan resort lah...

Our country has all the beauty!

Akhirnya jam delapan juga. time to fly.
Ketika mendarat dan siap-siap turun, sebelum pintu pesawat dibuka, sekilas melihat penumpang lain. Ada satu keluarga kok ya familiar wajahnya.
Ah itu, teh Amel , karena blio kerap posting dengan foto, jadi hapal dengan muka keluarganya.
senengnya bisa ketemu juga akhirnya.:)

PS : why did I call this entry My first Bali trip in year 2008? Insya Allah, I'll be back here on August 8th-10th.

*Suer, gue training bukan liburan…kan ngga mungkin lagi training trus poto-poto*

more pictures are here.

Alone

2008-07-01T11:41:00.000+07:00

I hate airport when it comes to long holiday,not to mention everyperson well almost,wear tank top and short,while i was completely dress up not to mention they travel with their babies while mine had to stay with their daddy at home.
But i had the window seat on the right side,so i can snap the magnificent Mt.Bromo.
This is paradise anyway,so suit yourself Kiky.
*abis berenang,heading to Kuta*
Evil grin.

bangkok vs barney

2008-06-28T23:00:00.002+07:00

a colleague of mine: "ke Bangkok yuks, habis 17-an. deket2x gajian kan tuh. Girls only, mommy time out"
me : "ada barney show "
*padahal siy ngga ada duit,tiketnya juga belum dipesan*

sebel...

2008-06-26T18:13:00.004+07:00

Usulan Training gue belum disetujui...padahal tinggal 2 hari lagi, oleh-oleh batal ya kawan2x...*evil grin*
eh, kalo dah rejeki kan ngga lari kemana, sapa tau disuruh ke Cape Town belajar pembiyaan kapal tanker *evil grin (lagi)*
ngarep aja....

bali, here (hopefully) I come

2008-06-21T15:51:00.006+07:00

I guess I'm over training. Now I'm down with cold & cough! I didn't go to gym for 2 days.
anyway, if it's approve by the authority (of my office), I'll be flying to Bali next week, for a-3-day-training about oil & gas.
Yeah, it is for business purpose instead of a vacation, but any trip away from my cubicle made me happy.
Yihha!
PS : My profile picture is taken in Barito River, in case y'wanna know.

movie review : Across The Universe

2008-06-19T21:34:00.002+07:00

You'll love this movie if you're :
- into musical film
- The Beatles no 1 fans
- Into non-ordinary film screen, that you have to think what is the message behind the screen or the song.

I just knew my ex colleague ID lubeckintheskywithdiamonds actually came from
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds .
The song was played at the end of the movie, and now I can't stop muttering....

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
*siul2xmodeon*

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - The Beetles

Gettin [a bit] smaller

2008-06-13T10:18:00.000+07:00

My waist line reduce from 100 cm to 96 cm in 2 weeks,i lost a pound though.yay!;-)
Ps: o yeah,i'm that BIG!

going back to gym

2008-06-07T13:52:00.003+07:00

as my twitter board said, I signed up for a gym class again, just in the basement of my office building. I went to the gym either at lunch time or after office hour.well, I've only been exercise for a week, 4 times already and I really intend to do the same in the future, using the famous treadmill for 30 minutes on top, and static bicycle for 15 minutes on top, but I think I've already gain the advantages, such as :
- Now I can wake up early even before azan shubuh!
- I don't yawn after 8 o'clock anymore, really!
- so that, I don't need my wake up call (Mocchachino from Nescafe) that often.
- I don't starving at night like I used to, an apple and a glass of low fat milk are fine with me now.
- and ha! the- two pieces - Punjabi dress that my hubby bought from Mumbay me a month ago, fit on my body! I haven't lost my weight yet, but...oke lah...

picture taken from here.

mereka sudah hampir lulus

2008-06-05T06:19:00.003+07:00

postingan ini bukan untuk menyombongin diri...mohon maaf sebelumnya...
saya lupa tepatnya kapan, tapi yang pasti setelah Kezia lahir. Guru ngaji mama menawarkan untuk membiayai beberapa anak (lupa jumlah totalnya berapa), anak-anak SD di daerah Sukabumi dekat pelabuhan ratu sana.
Saya, poppy dan Susi pun jadi volonteer untuk membiayai mereka...toh jumlahnya sangat-sangat ringan buat kami, hanya untuk membiayai SPP dan buku-buku. Ada beberapa anak yang disantuni...
Waktu berjalan cepat...
kemarin siang yang panas, di depan gedung megah di sudirman...sebuas sms masuk..
" assalamu'alaikum wr wb,kiky ini ibu XXXX. Saya mau mengabarkan, anak-anak yang kiky & teman2x biayai sudah mau lulus, mereka mengucapkan terima kasih...bla...bla...etc"

ah, tiba-tiba ada sebuah perasaan haru di hati saya....semoga rezeki mereka kedepannya lancar, sehingga dapat keluar dari lingkaran yang itu-itu saja...amin.

my first borneo trip

2008-05-25T19:28:00.016+07:00

*muke gue muke tambang kali yeee*
Jam 10.30 WITA, mendaratlah GA 530 di Bandara Syamsudin Noor.
Berhubung ini pertama kali saya menginjakan kaki di pulau ini, rasanya perlu diabadikan *narsis akut*
tetep dengan stelan merah walopun beda komposisi.

setelah mengisi perut di satu rumah makan kecil, we headed north.
Sepanjang perjalanan melewati kota banjarbaru dan martapura, apabila melihat pom bensin
maka pemandangan yang ada adalah antrian dump truck pengangkut batubara yang tidak dapat beroperasi karena :

"maaf solar habis" & "maaf bensin habis*

Kali ini sebuah perusahaan tambang batu bara di propose oleh business unit tempat saya bekerja. Rasanya, belum pernah kami membiayai industri sejenis langsung kepada pemilik konsesi, makanya saya "diundang" untuk melihat langsung. good, learning a new thing, quite an ectassy for me.

Dengan mobil 4WD, khas mobil untuk daerah pertambangan, 2 jam kemudian sampailah kami dilokasi pertambangan di Kab Rantau.

So there I was, for the first time in my life I saw :

A crushing plant
(alat ini menghancurkan batu bara dari diameter 25 cm menjadi 5 cm)

and off course a coal mining :

dan ternyata pertambangan ini awalnya dimulai dari atas sana,

sampai saat ini dibawah sana,

hmm...berapa ya tingginya...kiloan meter lah yang jelas.
Heavy quipment itu saja tampak seperti mainan, padahal diameter rodanya lebih tinggi dari saya.

kemudian kami ke site yang lain. Kalau tadi melihat dari kejauhan, sekarnag dimana kita berada didasar pertambangan itu sendiri

mengetahui pertambangan butuh studi eksplorasi yang akurat dengan biaya yang tidak sedikit, walaupun sebagian besar pertambangan di negeri ini menggunakan metode open pit (pertambangan terbuka, setelah eksplorasi cuma butuh min. excavator+ dump truck),
maka saya iseng bertanya kepada nasabah dimana posisi seorang Aman Jagau *ternyata....disensor*
eniwei, setelah dieksploitasi, pemilik konsesi wajib mereklamasi kembali daerah tambang yang bolong kemudian ditanam pepohonan.

mengunjungi 2 pit lain dan sebuah crushing plant lain, kami kembali ke Banjarmasin, diatas jam 3 sore Pem Kot banjarmasin menginjinkan truk2x pengakut batu bara masuk kota, maka apabila kami terlambat, yang ada terjebak macet.

Ah sayang, kota martapura terlewat begitu saja tanpa singgah (tentu aja berarti tanpa melihat batu2x indah untuk perhiasan dan kain sasirangan)
*pergi sama brondong mana kepikiran sama kain daerah dan sungkan juga siy minta mampir*
Sampai di Rattan Inn jam 7 malam, saya melihat gambar pasar terapung dari situ timbul niatan untuk ke tempat ini esok pagi dan menyewa taxi hotel. Kapan lagi
ternyata, lantai kamar saya sama dengan Novus Spa, fasilitas Spa dari hotel tersebut, iseng bertanya harga paket karena ingin dipijat akibat lelah, quite resonable price for me, sekembali makan malam saya pun ber-spa ria.
dipijat dan dilulur, sedap!relaksasi yang menyenangkan.

Jam 5.15 WITA, masih ngantuk berats karena Spa kemaren baru selesai jam 11, berangkatlah ke sungai barito.
Ahirnya ngga jadi naik taxi hotel, dipinjamkan mobil nasabah tadi. Untungnya Johnson mau ikut juga, si oriental brondong ini juga tidak mau melewatkan fajar di sungai barito. Good, I got accompany!

Sebuah sampan bermotor kami sewa, konon kabarnya sebenarnya harga sewa cuma Rp 50 ribu, mungkin karena keliatan kita bertampang turis lokal *ya eyalah, bawa2x kamera gitu* jadinya 70 ribu, padahal sudah ditawar pak Yusuf , ya sudahlah, harga solar besok juga naik.
bermulai dari sungai yang tak begitu lebar, 5 menit kemudian bermuara di sungai Barito,
Jaw Dropping for me seeing the sight, saya tidak pernah menyangka sungai barito seluas ini!wow!

memang tidak lama disini, hanya sekitar 1,5 jam. Kami juga tidak sempat ke pulau kembang di seberang yang habitatnya monyet
setelah makan pagi, kembali mengunjungi sebuah crushing plant yang mempunyai dermaga.

Tongkang telah berisi 8.000 ton batubara dan akan segera diberangkatkan ke negara seberang, karena ingin melihat tongkang di atas kaki saya (excavator itu berada diatas tongkang )"terperosok".

Ketika membuka sepatu di kantor,
argggghhhh sia-sia spa tadi malam....kaki dan sepatu saya hitam oleh debu batubara.

Setelah berdiskusi, saya dan johnson berpamitan kepada nasabah, kami terbang ke Jakarta lebih dulu.
sempat melintasi sebuah kantor camat yang penuh oleh masyarakat ---yah taulah mengapa mereka disana.
ironis...cadangan batubara terukur di propinsi ini masih 2,428 milyar ton dengan harga jual USD 113/ton. Pajak ekspor juga cukup besar, 13% dari total penjualan.

Sampai di airport saya melihat counter kain saisrang, dibeli sajalah :P, ya harganya memang sedikit lebih mahal (katanya salesnya siy-"cuma" 20 ribuan lebih mahal untuk kain yang saya beli) dan pilihannya tidak banyak.

Quickpost this image to Myspace, Digg, Facebook, and others!

Jadwal pemerbangan masih 1,5 jam lagi, ngaso2x di Blue Sky Lounge.
Mengetahui kami belum check ini, maka pihak lounge menawarkan untuk membantu urusan check in, bagasi dan pembayaran airport tax...kami tinggal duduk manis saja di lounge sembari ngopi dan makan pisang goreng. Life is good! :P
dan ternyata tidak sampai situ, kita tidak perlu ke ruang tunggudi lantai 2 bandara ini, ada jalur tersendiri untuk langsung ke pesawat setelah ada pengumuman boarding...
dan cihuynya lagi neh,
sejak Adam Air diberhentikan, otomatis armada ke kota ini berkurang, mengakibatkan pesawat sering penuh, maka...
di pernerbangan GA 533 ini kami duduk di executive class *evil grin*
kami tertawa geli saja, melihat mayoritas penumpang kelasi ini pejabat look-alike, sedangkan kami "kefret-kefret dengan kaos,jeans dan sepatu kets yang hitam we were "gembel" who just lucky sitting in the front seat

good morning Barito

2008-05-24T15:34:00.004+07:00

as what my twitter board said, I went to South Borneo on thursday & friday for business trip.
Even I was so tired on Thursday, I won't miss the famous Banjarmasin Floating Market, just be there before dawn :-)
here for another pictures.

hair quake (mariskova)

2008-05-16T21:49:00.004+07:00

Bukan karena cover buku ini berwarna merah sehingga saya memutuskan membawa buku ini untuk menemani perjalanan saya ke kepulauan riau minggu lalu.

Judulnya aja Hair-quake dengan gambar perempuan dengan rambut kribo yang sangat jauh dari kesan modis, saya pikir kisah nyata pengarangnya…hahahah,

Di blog penulisnya tercantum “welcome note” The only things I don't have in my life are: regrets, and a nice hairstyle!

Cerita tentang seorang guru bahasa Inggris, jomblo, yang selalu yakin kalo rambutnya tertata indah pasti mood dan harinya indah, better hair brings better luck. Sayangnya, rambutnya yang ikal tak jelas itu sering merusak moodnya, dan berakhir dengan kejadian2x yang tidak menyenangkan buat Andita --- bahkan menjadi tertawaan nasional karena pernah dimuat di Majalah Wanita!

Tapi bagusnya, buku ini tidak melulu menceritakan bagaimana Andita berkutat dengan rambutnya *fiuh*, namun juga diurusan standard wanita 24 tahun --- karir dan cinta.

Perjalanannya untuk menjadi supervisor di tempat dia mengajar nyaris terputus karena dituduh telah mengkopi thesis rekannya yang juga bersaing menuju posisi yang sama, dituduh berselingkuh dengan Ferry, yang telah menikah dan mengajar di tempat yang sama, lalu parahnya presentasi terakhir untuk memperoleh posisi tersebut rambut Anindita benar-benar dalam keadaan…argh…lebih dari sekedar berantakan! Disaster!!!!!

Gaya tulisan dibuku ini kurang lebih sama dengan gaya devina (yes, Mariskova is her real name, but I called her MbaK Devi ) menulis di blognya, sinis, judes, keluar kalimat-kalimat tak penting namun jenaka.

Tapi rasanya saya kurang puas dengan karya perdana mbak devi ini, ketika Andita dituduh mengkopi thesis tersebut, rasanya sebelumnya kurang diceritakan bagaimana dia berusaha keras untuk mengumpulkan referensi dan menghafal text book, sehingga saya tidak ikut “gregetan” ketika dia nyaris didiskualifikasikan.

Dan ending cerita ini hmmmm.... sebenarnya ending cerita ini banyak ada di buku ber-genre sejenis…namun saya tetap kesal dengan ending kisah cinta Andita…berharap mbak devi membuat sequel-nya.

Film kaleee……

PS : Mbak Dev, sorry deh kalo salah2 penulisan nama, bukunya saya kasih Gita males bawa lagi ke Jakarta, tagih dia aja suruh nulis review *wink* dan berani kan gue nulis di blog....*melet lidah*

my latest trip - Singapore

2008-05-15T20:04:00.006+07:00

continue from my latest trip,

It was at about 5 pm Harbour Front’s time, :)

yep I cross the border to Singapore.

It was my first trip to this country by ferry.

It kind of pissed me of a bit, when the immigration officer spend so many times just to stamp the passport. The immigration officer at Changi Airport were quick!

I saw many of them were being interviewed, probably an illegal imigrant?

We stayed at Mandarin Hotel at Orchard Road, I stayed there about 8 years ago.

Not long after that, each of us doing sperate ways...

I planned to visit my friends from college Gita who has moved to Pungol from Simei.

I headed to Somerset MRT.

Now that I wasn't familiar with MRT Vendor Machine, it took minutes for me figuring out buying the ticket.

Luckly, a singporean man help me buying a single trip ticket. I had to change the vehicle in Dhouby Gout Station, I remember it was a small, less people, quite MRT station now it is HUGE!

Arriving at Pungol (the last stop for North East LIne), I proceed to higher level getting on LRT to Meridian.

Yeah, it is my first trip using LRT - it's monorail look a like.

But when I put my card to open the gate at Meridian Station, it didn’t work.

I was panic, the old man on news papper stand didn’t help me either.

The machine gate said my card was under credit.

Then I remember, the man at somerset press Pungol on the vendor machine instead of Meridien.

take a glimpse at the Meridien Station, I found another vendor machine and put another cents on that.

*fiuh* now I can get out.

I spend like 2 hours in GIta's new house, my daughter like Fathir so much, she even declare to everybody that Fathir is her Singaporean boy friend.

(alas, she's only 4!).

We asked for Mas Roni (Gita's husband) permission for mommy time out

We hit Mustafa Centre in Little India the place where I bought many chocoholates for my colleagues back in Jakarta.

Of course I won’t miss buying After Eight Chocolate Mint for my self, taste heavenly and bought a Punjabi Dress for my daughter.

At 10.30 pm we were heading to Farrer Park MRT Station, and said good bye. Thank you gita for accompany me. See you on June, Insya Allah.

I woke up a bit late, and meet my colleague at breakfast lounge.

Again, we were heading seperate way, realizing my cashflow wasn't fully recovered yet from my last trip to Kuala LUmpur I didn’t want to spend anything here.

I decided heading Bugis Street to spend the day after I did window shopping at Paragon. I took many pictures, how I like this clean country – tourist friendly - east meet west buildings - even I'm broke...:P

I wish Jakarta would be like this....*dreaming*

An hour later, the sky was dark I get in OG, it wasn’t Great Singapore Sale yet, but I saw a-Red- Polo Beverly Hills - 4 wheels- cabin allowed by IATA- luggage- for 50% off!

My insanity back, I purchased that RED luggage and drag it over back to Orchard Road (the size was acceptable for cabin and MRT). Putting my previous small luggage inside, checked out and heading back to Harbour front.

Back in Batam, we had lunch in Padang Restaurant, heading to Nagoya for sightseeing. There were lots of Bag (claimed branded) & perfume shops, but I doubt those are genuine. I only bought - imported from Malaysia- chocholates, candy and drink. Hard to find some of those in Jakarta.

Unfortunately, the access to Cengkareng Airport. *sigh* was closed due to flood. This is embarassing, considering that Jakarta is the Gate To Indonesia. So, our flight was cancelled for 2 hours. Anyway at 11.00 pm arrived back in my house. J

What at trip! 3 different islands in 3 days!

my latest trip

2008-05-09T23:12:00.018+07:00

1 foker 50,

2 malam,

3 pulau,

4 peserta,

5 pelabuhan,

431 gambar,

lots of my first - “something”

(yeah, termasuk pertama ke batam….suer)

Dan disanalah saya rabu pagi kemarin…

Menjelang magrib di hari selasa, kami sampai di Pulau Batam (ya, ini kunjungan pertama saya ke pulau ini, hahahah). Langit merah menyambut sangat indah, this is going to be a wonderful trip. Langsung menuju wilayah batu Besar untuk makan seafood enak di restoran Rejeki.

Rasanya belum puas merebahkan badan di kasur , namum jam 5 pagi harus sudah berangkat dari hotel Planet Holiday, Nagoya menuju Hang Nadim

Dengan pesawat chateran foker 50 milik Riau Airlines berangkat jam 6 pagi bercampur dengan 45 lelaki yang bekerja di ladang minyak lepas pantai, pengalaman pertama naik pesawat dimana penumpangnya lelaki semua…ah, berasa cantik.

(2 pramugari ngga dihitung penumpang kan….???)

Perjalan menuju Matak awalnya tenang dengan cuaca cerah, namun setengah jam sebelum mendarat bukan main turbulence-nya.

Waktu baru menunjukkan sekitar setengah 8, tetapi cuaca di luar, kiri kanan pesawat awan gelap disertai kilat dan hujan. Seperti di film saja.

Spontan saya membangunkan Dana yang tertidur pulas.

“Dana, bangun loe…kok bisa2xnya siy loe tidur pesawat kaya’ gini”

(note, saya termasuk orang yang paling tidak bisa tidur di pesawat)

*Dana yang bangun dan pasang muka masa bodoh*

“Mau gimana lagi, ky….gedor2x jendela pesawat?”

Ah ya betul…tak ada yang bisa dilakukan kecuali berdoa

*dan pegangan kursi pesawat, suerrr ngeri banget*

Sebelum pukul 9 sampailah saya di PUlau Ini, base camp tempat ratusan crew dan field engineer sebelum pulang atau diberangkatkan dari/ke platform-platform yang ada di lepas pantai berjam-jam dari pulau ini.

Menyaksikan keributan “crew exchange”, pertukaran shifting antara group yang 1 dengan group lain, wajah-wajah lelah yang (mungkin) suntuk mingguan berada di lepas pantai dan sudah rindu keluarga dan wajah-wajah malas2xan yang masih menunggu mingguan lagi untuk berkumpul dengan keluarga. (mengingatkan saya pada rutinitas kehidupan ayahnya Double Ke. 2 tahun lalu bahkan bertugas di Belida Field,Natuna. ya tentu saja, ke Matak 2 minggu sekali adalah rutinitas beliau). Menyaksikan chopper silih berganti terbang dan mendarat yang datang dari platform untuk mengantarkan/menjemput pekerja lepas pantai tersebut.

Sampai kami ke sebuah jetty untuk naik kapal penumpangkapal pun berjalan dan kemudian mendarat lagi untuk pergi ke “base camp”.

Tak lama di pulau kecil ini, rasanya belum puas melihat beningnya air laut dengan udara yang sejuk. INgin rasanya berenang, bahkan merendam kaki pun tak sempat, waktu terlalu lama dihabiskan di kapal tadi. Ah, Kapan bisa kembali ke pulau ini lagi dan menyebrang ke pulau Tarempa dan pulau2x lain. Maskapai komoersial memang tidak setiap hari singgah di pulau ini.

Perjalanan kembali ke batam tertunda siang itu, cuaca yang buruk tidak mengijinkan pesawat untuk terbang.

Sempat berbincang dengan seorang wanita istri dari prajutir Angkatan Laut yang menunggu pesawat charteran dari COnocoPhillips.

Pesawat komersil yang mendarat di pulau ini tidak banyak, mungkin seminggu 2 kali dari Tanjung Pinang, sehingga apabila pesawat chateran milik perusahaan Amerika itu kosong boleh diisi oleh penumpang non-karyawan.

Kita berpendapat sama, sayang pulau seindah ini kurang terawat…padahal kurang kaya apa wilayahnya, jalan ke mess PT XYZ bukan main buruknya. Minyak dan ikan nya berlimpah, pura-pura tak tahu kah mereka? *sigh*

Saya merasa beruntung, pernah menginjakkan kaki di gerbang utara republik ini.

Sekilas info Kabupaten Natuna, dikutip dari majalah Kilau Natuna yang saya ambil (ijin dulu kok sama pramugarinya) di Riau Airlines.

Pesawat komersial ada dari tanjung pinang namun ke Ranai, dengan jadwal 3 x seminggu. Menurut laporan disitu, harga tiket tanjung pinang- ranai dilayani oleh Merpati dipatok Rp 500 ribu saja dan terbang 3x semimggu. Sepertinya landasan terbang Ranai lebih panjang daripada Matak, karena pesawat Merpati pesawat jet.

Jika ada yang berminat ke kabupatan Natuna, di majalah tersebut ada rekomendasi travel, penginapan dan restoran, call me if you need it.

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Lalu, perjalan pulang kembali ke Batam siang itu. Mengingat pengalaman turbulence yang bikin saya sakit perut, saya sempat panik ketika pesawat Foker 50 itu hanya baling-baling sebelah kanan yang berputar.

"Pesawat ini yang jalan baling-baling kanan dulu kok, ky...santai aja" *fiuh*

Kebaikan hati Pak Bambang dari pihak client, diantarkanlah saya ke Jembatan Barelang. Jembatan yang menghubungi pulau batam ke Pulau Tonton...dan disambung dengan jembatan lain sampai pulau Galang total . Kabarnya butuh 1,5 jam untuk sampai di pulau terakhir. Kami tak sempat, sudah lapar.

Perut telah keroncongan, meluncur kembali ke arah nagoya untuk mencicipi Sup Ikan Yon Kee yang terkenal itu. Slurp.
Jam 3 kami tiba di Batam Centre...yep....saya bertemu Gita di rumah barunya malam itu.
di pulau sebrang...tak banyak cerita....
Foto-foto lain ada di multiply.

disney on ice

2008-05-01T23:24:00.005+07:00

yep, disney on ice is coming to Jakarta, and there we were this afternoon.
I already bought 4 tickets for my family, but unfortunately my hubby isn't in town.
Not that confident babysitting my two precious but not that willing if the nanny come along (well, errr...the ticket a bit costly for me ...)
so I asked my sister and her son to join us. Kevin caught cold and cough , he need a rest.
(sorry dear...bunda will make up to this sometime) *wink*

The play start at 3.30 pm, we were a bit late. And of course camera and video recorder were probihitted. So I took the pictures using my mobile phone, not that good of course.
There were 4 acts from Disney Picture which were Lion King, 101 Dalmation, Little Mermaid, Peter Pan and Lilo & Stich.
These two pictures are from Peter Pan.
The right one was when Wendy and her brother are flying bcak from Neverland to London.

The show was great, but then I wonder...
If there is a folk tale like Sangkuriang, Timun Mas or Malinkudang on Ice, will it be great??
What do you think my Indonesian Fellow???

PS : the ticket vendor said there will be Barney Show on June, sure I'll take my son this time.
And mommies...let save a penny a day for Barney.

dasar ibu2x...

2008-04-28T14:00:00.004+07:00

tadinya,cuma mau beli es krim setelah panas-panasan makan siang.
Kemudian...
melihat harga susu yang kevin harus minum (anjuran dokter gizi,karena dia underweight),
6000 rupiah lebih murah...
gue beli itu deh...
padahal di rumah masih ada 1 yang belum dibuka...
dasar ibu2x...

mbah jingkrak

2008-04-20T09:44:00.003+07:00

this week, to celebrate the birthday of my future direct supervisor, we had lunch in this --- not so fancy but a bit above average-restaurant MBah JIngkrak.
A traditional Javanesee food. I like its brown rice, not so hard, just like the regular white rice. I'm thinking switching from regular rice to the brown one, it's healthier anyway...
more pics is here.

postingan terlambat

2008-04-18T22:21:00.003+07:00

sebenarnya mau posting Kezia ulang tahun keempat tahun ini, ultahnya kemaren.
tapi pesan dari blogger.com, blog saya blog spam. Jadi harus verifikasi ulang plus nunggu review dari blogger machine.
Halah..
ya sudahlah...saya posting di rumah satunya dan di blognya Kezia.
happy birthday MY daughter...:)

three of us + the tag

2008-04-12T18:42:00.003+07:00

on this entry, I made a comment my passion to travel alone...
then, reading carefully, about those American couples who bring their 5 babies...
I changed my mind...
I like to hit some places (outta town, of course)...with just the three of us!
do you thing Bandung will be a good start?
(the daddy is here every now and then, can't really depend on him. :P)

anyway, bunda vera kasih tugas :

1. Panggilan spesial apa untuk pasangan anda ? (soalnya kata 'sayang' saat ini sudah agak menurun mutu dan kualitasnya) ?
2. Bagaimana cara anda merawat dan menjaga cinta pada pasangan ?
3. Kapan terakhir jatuh cinta (lagi) ?

jawabnya apa ya...???
1. abang
2. gimana ya....??? *garuk garuk*
3. sama suami sendiri? , tadi waktu telpon2x di YM...dah lama ngga tilpun2x..

ok done, tag kemana ya....????ngga usah deh...

facebook

2008-04-09T21:56:00.003+07:00

I guess it's a funny thing for me when I saw my-mom's-high-school-buddies- on facebook....:-D
PS: and still, my mom asked me to write an email to their friends...she still think she doesn't need to learn how to make yahoo account,yet...

Mini Opera (as a browser)

2008-04-07T21:47:00.006+07:00

since my Mozilla doesn't work as it suppose to, now I'm using opera as the browser. the good thing is, opera has mini version (well...uhm....I just learned it).

so I just download the mini version to my mobile phone and...voila...!
I'm so satisfied! Sony Ericsson W 550i used netfront (or netscape?...ah, I forgot) as a browser. Using the previous one, the appearance doesn't look good, I hardly read my favorite site. I can't even access pop up- blogger comments if I need to.

As its name, it is a mini version from the regular website --- fit to the screen of your mobile phone. A square is provided, when you'd like to read one particular side, just click the square, then it will zoom that part. And it fast as well.
Oh...I'm SOOOOOOOOOOO Late.......!
Ah, nothing can stop me now!

PS: ok...I know...except those credit proposal. *sigh*

my blueberry night

2008-04-06T23:36:00.005+07:00

starring Norah Jones, Jude Law, Natalie Portman.
I watch this movie to end this weekend :)

it reminds me...:

Jude Law is sooooo cute in any angle,

ah yah...Natalie Portman too :P

the highway to Las Vegas, suddenly the memories in 1990-1991 popping up again...we used to spend the long holiday in the highway!

My favorite quote is :

Leslie :" He taught me after 10 is Jack!"

My Man....muah!

2008-04-03T22:17:00.005+07:00

what a title! hehehhehe, I just got tag from elaine ling ,who dying to see me in her hometown.
this is a funny tag, I guess...well next month is our 5th anniversary, a nice way to recharge our love *wink*
what I love most about my man --- the father of my babies...:

1. sure he gave the good gen, look at my babies, aren't they cute....?

2. he doesn't mind I'm overweight...well, ya...probably a bit..kikikik...but as long I'm comfortable he feel ok...(hell.yeah..it is ME, that doesn't feel comfort with my own size) *sigh*

3. he doesn't mind I'm working and doesn't feel irritated when my job requires some traveling and he has to stay home, take care of my babies..

4. oh yeah...he's good with our babies as well.

ok hubby, even you annoyed me sometimes, you refused to buy me a pair of diamond ring for our 5th anniversary, but I love you even more

PS : honey, how about a second honeymoon to paris? --- ok, i knew I dream my life away...

anyway, I like to pass this to mica, vera, and lalaine, bintang, and maya.
ok, if you're Indonesian...sure you may write in bahasa, elaine won't fully understand if I post this in bahasa...hihihihi

ok, I'll write in my language...
akhirnya...setelah ngidam bertahun2x, melihat parkiran pancious Permata Hijauh penuh terus....jadi juga makan di Pancious tapi yang di Pacific Palace. :-D. Janjian dengan dian dan rafnila, teman smaku di kelas 1...

tips from me : it loooookkkk small, but it doesn't! so beware :))

never me!

2008-03-30T21:04:00.009+07:00

I've been blogging since January 2005, so it has been over 3 years. My first entries was pictureless, to make it more interesting I started to post some pictures. I remember we have to post via Bloggerbot.com back in those day.
Well, since I'm a blogger...I almost carry my camera every time, took pictures of everything that made some of my clique wondering why do I have to take unimportant pictures. Whatever! they don't have blog, they don't have anything to be shared.

Like today, we have lunch in a traditional restaurant ---- not a fancy one, bit cost above average

We were there to celebrate on my auntie birthday...so there we are, the second and the third --- and the fourth generation of Datuk Ibrahim. :). it was a rare opurtunity for us --- sit in the one big table together, even we lived in the same city

the sky was clear, my cousins asked me to take their pictures. Since all of us was there, I like to make the picture unusual, then I find the hole in this yellow tube at the children playground made a unique frame...I just love it. so does my cousins --- the third generation of the Ibrahims. :P

and the I realized....NO me in that picture. *sigh*

tekadku (hampir) bulat

2008-03-27T21:32:00.003+07:00

yes, 5,5 tahun sudah cukup.
time to move on...
bismilah...

*update CV*

here's my story

2008-03-20T15:58:00.007+07:00

Like I told you, it was last minutes approval from my boss,
and to make it worse, there's no daily allowances for offshore trip.
I caught cold, cough and fever, up to 38 degree (normally below 37,5),
I didn't get seat by the window ,
aut I could get a good sleep, which I rarely have one when it come to flying. When there was an announcement the flight will be landing in 10 minutes, I wished the airplane fly for another 2 hours
Ugh...I still need a rest.
And yes, it was raining...*sigh*
new for me : we don' t need the Imigration Form in Malaysia anymore *good,I hate filling the form*

Oh the meeting? when it comes to be on a presentation and arguing to the people who doesn't speak your language ---- argghh, it caused me a great headache.
and it rained and rained again, I didn't take many pictures.

anyway, there will be Formula 1 race in Sepang, so the F1 things is in the air. And I just learned that the actual size of the racing car is BIG.
There were a great sale as well, too bad it's a week before the pay day (usually on 25 every month) :P.
But I get 2 boxes of peppermint tea, never try before and a timer for baking from IKEA .

Back to Jakarta in the morning flight, which mean I have to wake up early. Oh yeah, I have problem with early wake up :-D

and I hate airport when it come to long holiday....

Ah, me-always-complaining!

i'm in KL

2008-03-19T07:58:00.002+07:00

actually, last minutes approval from the boss
I got bad cough & cold, my body temperature heating up a bit.
I can't really enjoy the time...*we're staying in the same hotel anyway*

granted

2008-03-17T17:10:00.000+07:00

My wish just granted, too bad I caught cold...
packing dulu ya....

just a- today-story

2008-03-14T20:55:00.005+07:00

Mind about indifferent of Indonesian people who so reluctant to queue, I found another "unique" one this evening on the way home.

I took express train from Dukuh Atas Station (in Jakarta Downtown area) to Bintaro (my neighborhood, outskirt of jakarta), it spent around 30 minutes to get home, much better if you rive your own car...up to 1,5 hours during peak hours. Unfortunately, the last two schedules was collided, so the train kinda full.

But when I entered the train, I still one free seat, but when I want to sit down, thAT lady in purple said

“this seat is taken” and pointed out.

I just muttered “how come?”

Hello… this is mass transportation we’re talking about, not your fancy BMW (if she has one)

I feel irritated first, but I thought maybe her friend is pregnant or an elderly so I refuse an arguing.

And turned out….that lady in white is her friend…look young and health.

Well, forget that I have to stand 'cause there were no seat left, it just their manner that made me sick! and when the train stop at another station,there were a family with 3 toddlers, two elderly (the grandparents) and a pregnant lady.

Do you thing these two –look-educated-people- would give their precious seat to them…?

Of course they didn't give a damn care!

Just another two people with no manner and no brain I guess!well, did I say they do look educated!

Why don’t they buy the train themselves…and safe the seats to all their friends…

oh, how I love today!

2008-03-11T22:42:00.006+07:00

- My hubby brought a (4 actually) boxes of Anthon Berg Choco Mint Chocolate --- dark Chocolate with delicious mint feeling, arghhh taste heaven! I love mint!
- Still to emphasize this posting "kalo dah rejeki ngga lari kemaneeee" or literally means if it is for you it won't go anywhere, I have a watch from C*****, for free! someone just give it to me (for my 30th b'day? it's late but thanks anyway) :P
- nothing better to end a tired day with a cup of peppermint tea from Dilmah.

a very yuppy wedding - Ika Natassa

2008-03-10T17:51:00.006+07:00

Tertarik baca buku ini karena sms-nya fanny si betawi merantau, karena tokoh utamanya seorang bankir briliant dan ambisius bernama Andrea yang menangani kredit commercial/corporate….nanganin perkebunan kelapa sawit…oh…so me…(dan juga pabrik plastik yang mau bangkrut, pertambangan minyak lepas pantai & tengah hutan, pabrik onderdil sepeda motor, de el el *sigh*).

Well anyway, Andrea-in her late-20’s punya pacar ganteng abis bernama Ajie, brilliant dan ambisius kayak dia juga, keturunan baek2x, sudah mengajak dia menuju pelaminan juga yang sayangnya….satu divisi dengan dia. Sama seperti tempat saya jadi ~~bankir~~ kacung, di banknya Andrea ini suami istri ngga boleh satu kantor…(tapi untung tidak se-extrim “Bank Perdana” tempat Andrea kerja sih…).

Padahal, dia akan dipromosikan menjadi senior account manager di Medan, kota kelahirannya, yang merupakan impian dan ambisi Andrea --- menjadi area manager sebelum dia berumur 30 tahun!

Dan tidak itu saja, tiba-tiba menjelang menikah makin banyak saja “gangguannya atau godaan”, Radit, mantan pacarnya dulu dan Ajeng, newbie di Bank Perdana yang terang-terangan menyatakan mengagumi Ajie. Manakah yang dipilih? Worth it -kah melepaskan ambisi demi seorang Ajie?

Ternyata kehidupan bankir menarik juga dijadikan novel, dan mungkin karena latar belakang Andrea di Credit Corporate/Commercial membuat saya senyum2x sendiri…oh…ternyata Pinjaman SIndikasi bisa dijadikan setting yang menarik dalam sebuah novel dan istilah Dekolektibilitas itu...hahahahahah! belum covernya dengan post it disertai kata2x "ujian level 1 BSMR" *ah,ya...oktober ya?*, "cek SBI rate", dan "draft PK NOtaris...."

Favorit quote saya selain :

“ Pernikahan itu bukan cuma untuk menghalalkan hubungan seks,Dre, tapi untuk menyatukan pandangan dan pemikiran serta saling melengkapi”

Adalah….

"Cewek ngga kerja sama saja dengan pabrik kelapa sawit ngga pake kebun"

PS: yang saya tekankan bukan cewek ngga kerjanya lho…tapi " sama saja dengan pabrik kelapa sawit ngga pake kebun”…kata2x andalan saya kalo coaching brondong-brondong baru di kantor. Saya suka berasa “pintar” kalo udah mengucapkan kata2x sakti disertai anggukan2x sok ngerti brondong2x itu He3x.

a little note :

ada comen di SB saya :

kiky, there is difference being account manager and account reviewer, so, andrea is not so you lah, jauh..., hehehe... makanyacobain deh jadi AO...

maksud saya dari kalimat :" oh…so me…" karena latar belakang pekerjaan di commercial/corporate nya, bukan jabatan yang dipegang sama. Kita (sebagai tim supporter business unit --- setidaknya di tempat saya) juga ikutan stand by ketika panita kredit senior meeting untuk memutuskan satu account yang dipresentasikan, terkadang malah kita yang back up data walaupun harusnya independen. belum ikutan call visit ke tengah laut/tengah hutannya...malah kadang2x kita becanda dengan tim BU

"giliran ke tengah hutan loe ajak2x analys, giliran di,entertain ke Finland, lupa ama kita" atau bolak balik ke tim legal untuk klarifikasi macem2x...maklum AO kan sibuk beratssss.

masih banyak lho pak oci masyarakat umum yang beranggapanperempuan kerja diperbankan dipukul rata jadi kasir atau service administration semua (tanpa mengecilkan peran mereka lho!)

Jadi AO? nah itu, saya bukan manusia super seperti pak OCi :)) ..tapi pernah lah ngerasain di BT-in tim support/dikomplain nasabah / ditagih "setoran" oleh Panitia Kredit :)

but, thanks untuk komen dan waktunya mampir secara gue tau loe AO andalan di *tut tut tut*...mohon maaf ya kalau tidak berkenan. =))

another eight from me...

2008-03-07T10:14:00.008+07:00

I think I have done this before, the eight things, but with diffrent topic. Teacher Jullie, my new pinoy friend just tagged me, here it go :

8 things I’m passionate about:
-my family ( ok, i copied your answer :P)
-any trip away from my desk *lazy employer*
-photography
-skinnier :P
-travelling
-another position (been a credit analysis for 5,5 years,yeah I'm getting bored)
-anything mint

8 things I say often:
- Bismillah (In the name of Gracious Allah)
-Alhamdulilah ( Thank you,Allah )
-Kezia, don’t do that
-KEviiiinnnnn *yelling mode on*
-Thank you
-What so ever
-Enough is enough
-I’m starving *how will I loose the fat?*

8 books I’ve read recently:

-Rahasia Meede by ES ITO
-The Naked Traveler by trinity
(those are local books)

-In to The Wild by Jon Krauker
-Splendid Thousand Suns by Khaleed Hoseini
-The Road
To be read :
-eat, pray and Love - ELizabeth Gilberth

8 things to do before I die:

- Pilgrim to mecca
- See my babies grow up
and give me a grandchildren 
- Around the world trip
- being a better person
- yeah, can't find another 4.

8 songs I could listen to over and over again:
You’re beautiful - James Blunt
Just the two of us -
From local singer:
Any D' Cinamon songs
Sempurna – Andra and the back bone
Menjaga Hati – Yovie and the Nuno

8 things that attract me to my friends:
I’m “wild”, easy going, and…errr…let them decide

8 things I learned in the last year:
-better keep my mouth shut,
-Never trust a person so deepl...
-Control the temper,
-Don’t hate a person too much,
-Exercise good for your health,
-Kalo emang rejeki ngga lari kemane….
-Ah…what else? *bingung mode on*

8 people I am excited to tag:
Ok, this is hard…
- Intan,
- Mama rafi,
- Ellen,
- Mica,
- Napaboaniya
- Holly,
- yaya
- ina *hai, how are you?*

Hahha…done! finally!

Blogging makes me Happy :)

2008-03-06T10:12:00.002+07:00

I got this award from Napaboaniya, wow..did I? What an honor!

I'd like to pass it to her back, riri for helping me with that blogrolling things, mica and ellen, and all the regular visitors of this blog.

Thank you guys!

sometimes I wonder why

2008-03-04T10:07:00.004+07:00

Quintarantino from Portugal drop a comment on my photoblog:

This isn´t fair … you got all the beauty of a charming landscape to get a fantastic photo and left us nothing.

I post the picture above, for a meme titled Sky watch Friday and his comment made me smile and wondering something.

Tell you the truth , I haven't explore my country as much as other people.
I was nothing compare to my college buddy, Ais, who I guess has explore this entire country.
But, yes I did prefer to post those beautiful landscape or antique buildings and give brief explantion about them from those places I have travelled to.

but, why currently, the Indonesian Airlines such as Garuda and Mandala have a nice - low fare package for Uniquely SIngapore, or local banks (with their credit card programs) offered reasonable price- some tour packages - to Bangkok, KL or even European Countries

Well, please don't get me wrong here, but when I read KONTAN yesterday, it said those near by countries did hit Indonesian tourist as their visitor, and I guess nothing wrong with that.

Those country has a-well-prepared program, like eastcostlife wrote in here. Off shores visitors feel welcome and comfortable in those places, easy to find directions, free from flood & heavy traffic jam International airport *sigh* bla...bla...bla.

just my thought. I mean, I think it's ironic, this year suppose to be Visit Indonesia Year 2008, right?

craving for food

2008-03-02T14:37:00.003+07:00

I'm craving for food for this past two weeks. I have a complete meal for breakfast, which probably other normal people will have that for lunch after a tired morning, and...I still get hungry, or wanna chew something at 10.am (i usually have my bf at 7.am-8. am at the office)
And on lunch, yep...I have another com*plete meal again, still starving at 3.pm.
Back to home, I have my dinner as well.

A friend of mine said look like I add another fat, well yeah I did, successfully add another 1 ,5 kg.
I said to my self " only 2 possibilities whenever I'm so starving like this, get pregnant or get my period soon"

well, i use birth control (IUD) after I gave birth to my baby boy, but who knows?
this lady still get pregnant after she use IUD.

But, actually, I was a bit worried, cause my baby boy still need extra care for his health somehow I will need extra effort , and I plan to lose all extra 20 kg this year. If...I get pregnant again with this weight, it won't be good for my health either (I'm more than just overweight, obese might be)
well, from last night, suddenly I lost all my appetite...and this morning...I got my period. :P
yippie...

mother & daughter

2008-02-29T20:21:00.007+07:00

this lady made the hot gossip again, she was cursing her two daughters and (again) it was taped on camera. *sigh*.
PS : for non Indonesian blogger, her daughter is a not-so-famous-movie star-but-everybody-know-her -since-she-often-on -TV-staring-that-horror-movie.

I remember when she did that (swearing on her daughter) years ago, I guess everybody remember and got chilled, we (as a daughter then a mother) won't ever ever do things like that. There was a very bad words, scary cursing - she said she was in her deepest regret to gave birth to such a sinful daughter, she was in her deepest anger (yes, It was on TV!)

on this current cursing, she accused that her two daughter didn't paid her a visit when she was hospitalized not paying the hospital fare neither, so she sold her fixed asset top another Indonesian celebrities. It was also on the screen, she pulled one of her daughter hair and scratch her face!
Off course, the daughters denial that, when her mother just go mad and wild, she just keep her mouth shut.

Anyway, I have met this lady on person my self. I was in operation room when Kevin went for his circumcision surgery on September 2006. We (me and my husband) didn't recognized her at first, but when she had a slight conversation with us, my husband recognized her at that moment.
She was with a-look like- 15-year-old-teen, who (as her confession) is her surrogate daughter who stand next to her bed . I was feeling sorry for her, she was going to have a surgery on her back bone, and has no mental support from her family.
*long sigh*

well, I 'm not judging who is right or wrong here but I just don't want turn out to be rebellious daughter to my parents eventough I had some disagreements with my mom. And I don't want cursing on my babies with such bad and appropriate words. I hope their problem will be clear very soon, and they will have that beautiful relationship between mother and daughter back.

photo taken from here

tribute to that rocker star

2008-02-28T18:26:00.000+07:00

ya, saya baru ingat,
dulu waktu saya sepuluh tahun, saya bertemu dengan beliau di kediaman orangtua saya, saat itu masih di Puri Indah. Beliau temen dari salah satu saudara mama. :)
saat itu dia sedang jaya-jayanya...

dan dengan bangga saya perlihatkan ke teman2x saya bahwa Agenda saya (yang SDnya pertengahan tahun 80-an pasti punya deh buku agenda yang diisi
Nama
Alamat :
Cita2x:
Kata Kenangan:

bahwa agenda saya itu ditulis dengan handwriting beliau lengkap dengan tanda tangan dan foto beliau. Tadi sempat mencari foto-foto lama itu, namun sejak orang tua pindah akhir tahun lalu, barang-barang dari rumah lama belum dibereskan semua.

Yang saya ingat, almarhum humoris, cuek dan tidak sombong.Jauh dari kesan roker kondang. Tahun 80-an itu, berapa orang siy yang jadi artis, TV saja masih TVRI. Mbak Tini, mbak saya saat itu juga ikut2x minta foto dan tanda tangan beliau,

beberapa tahun kemudian ada Tabligh Akbar di kampus saya, bintang utamanya siy ustad seribu umat itu, beliau hanya jadi 'band pembuka" kalau dianalogikan dengan konser musik
Setelah berbagi pengalaman rohaninya di mimbar, dimana beliau dulu sangat akrab dengan miras dan obat terlarang. setelah itu, tanpa berbasa basi lama beliau langsung pulang.
Saya enggan menyapanya, pasti om itu sudah tidak ingat saya lagi.

-kenangan saya tentang Gito Rollies-

this is it!

2008-02-26T23:49:00.003+07:00

I need a break...a loooongggggg one. Haven't been to Bali for almost 3 years, I need coming back there again. That was a sunset in Tanah Lot, Bali. Beautiful isn't it?

PS : I'm tired of being narsis

after abandoning this blog from couple of months, looks like I'll be back writing in this virtual home.
rumah satunya cuma buat mosting potoh2x aja ah....unless buat posting2x untuk orang2x tertentu saja....

I'm-43-fast

2008-02-24T23:54:00.002+07:00

ok, I got the tag from another philippines blogger, this time Ellen gave me this interesting game.
well, ellen I actually tried 3 times
I am using my lap top, I can do better if I use my PC

Here the result:
43 words

Speedtest

allright then, I'll pass it to indahjuli, riri, and bunda tiara, and napaboaniya,my singaporean friends.
monggo jeng dikerjakan...
it means : go head guys, do it!

I'm a cockroach

2008-02-24T17:26:00.003+07:00

there you go, I was tagged by Mica, my new Phillipine blogger friend who currently live in states, (btw, you're a pinoy, right? you look like an Indonesian to me :P). She did a good job updating her blog. :-D

so I just copied this and spread it to the world...

an As$ : A very loyal and sweet person. Your loyalty can never be doubted. You are quite honest and sincere when it comes to your attitude towards working. You are a very simple person, indeed. Absolutely hassle free, humble, and down-to-earth! That explains the reason why your friends cling on to you! You have a good taste for clothes. If your wardrobe is not updated with what is trendy, you sure are depressed. Popular and easy-going. You have a little group of dignified friends, all of them being quality-personified.

LOOK UP YOUR BIRTHDAY AND SEE WHAT YOU ARE. FORWARD ON TO PEOPLE THAT YOU THINK THAT WOULD GET A KICK OUT OF THIS... INCLUDING THE PERSON WHO SENT IT TO YOU. PUT YOUR BIRTHDAY ANIMAL IN THE SUBJECT LINE AND PASS IT ON.

Don't forget to scroll down to see what it says about you.

January 01 - 09 ~ As$ (i replaced s to $)
January 10 - 24 ~ Slug
January 25 - 31 ~ Cockroach
February 01 - 05 ~ Parasite
February 06 - 14 ~ Bullfrog
February r y 15 - 21 ~ Skunk
February 22 - 28 ~ Snake
March 01 - 12 ~ Ape
March 13 - 15 ~ Cockroach
March 16 - 23 ~ Slug
March 24 - 31 ~ Parasite

April 01 - 03 ~ As$ (i replaced s to $)
April 04 - 14 ~ Snake
April 15 - 26 ~ Slug
April 27 - 30 ~ Skunk
May 01 - 13 ~ Slug
May 14 - 21 ~ Bullfrog
May 22 - 31 ~ Cockroach
June 01 - 03 ~ Slug
June 04 - 14 ~ Skunk
June 15 - 20 ~ As$ (i replaced s to $)
June 21 - 24 ~ Ape
June 25 - 30 ~ Parasite

July 01 - 09 ~ Slug
July 10 - 15 ~ As$ (i replaced s to $)
July 16 - 26 ~ Bullfrog
July 27 - 31 ~ Parasite
August 01 - 15 ~ Ape
August 16 - 25 ~ Slug
August 26 - 31 ~ Skunk
September 01 - 14 ~ Bullfrog
September 15 - 27 ~ As$ ( i replace s to $)
September 28 - 30 ~ As$ (i replaced s to $)

October 01 - 15 ~ Ape
October 16 - 27 ~ Skunk
October 28 - 31 ~ Snake
November 01 - 16 ~ Cockroach
November 17 - 30 ~ Parasite
December 01 - 16 ~ As$ (i replaced s to $)
December 17 - 25 ~ Ape
December 26 - 31 ~ Bullfrog

If you are an As$ (i replaced s to $): A very loyal and sweet person. Your loyalty can never be doubted. You are quite honest and sincere when it comes to your attitude towards working. You are a very simple person, indeed. Absolutely hassle free, humble, and down-to-earth. That explains the reason why your friends cling on to you! You have a good taste for clothes. If your wardrobe is not updated with what is trendy, you sure are depressed. Popular and easy-going. You have a little group of dignified friends, all of them being quality-personified...

If you are a Slug : Always up to some sort of a mischief! The mischievous gleam in your eyes is what makes you so cute and attractive to everyone. You are an extremely fun-to-be-with kind of person. No wonder people seek your company and look forward to include you for all get-together's. However, you are sensitive which is a drawback. People need to select their words while talking to you. If someone tries to fiddle around and play with words while dealing with you, it is enough to invite your wrath. God bless the person then!

If you are a Cockroach : Quite contradictory to your name, you are a peace loving person. You best try to avoid a situation wherein you are required to fight. An outdoor person, you dislike sitting at one place for a long duration. You are a born leader, and have it in you how to tactfull! y deriv e work from people. You love being loved and when you receive your share of limelight from s omeone, you are all theirs! Well, well... Hence some people could even take an advantage, flatter you to the maximum and get their work done. So be careful.....

If you are a Parasite : An extremely lovable, adorable person, sometimes shy, with a passion for quick wit. At times, you prefer quietness. You love exploring various things and going into depth of each thing. Under normal circumstances you're cool but when given a reason to, you are like a volcano waiting to erupt. You're a fashion bird. People look forward to you as an icon associated with fashion. Basically, you mingle along freely but don't like talking much to strangers. People feel very easy in your company. You observe care in choosing your friends.

If you are a Skunk : You are near to perfect and nice at heart! . The e xamples of your kindness are always circulated in groups of people. You, too, love peace. You wouldn't like to retaliate even to a person who is in the wrong. You are loved due to this. You do not wish to talk behind one's back. People love the way you always treat them. You can give, give, and give love, and the best part is that you do not expect it back in return. You are generous enough. Seeing things in a practical light is what remains the best trait of you guys.

If you are a Bullfrog : You symbolize a very happy-go-lucky approach in life. Whatever the surroundings may be, grim or cheerful, you remain unaffected. In fact, you spread cheer wherever you go. You are the leader of your group of fri ends! and go od at consoling pe ople in their times of need. You dislike hypocrisy and tend to shirk away from hypocrites. They can never be in your good books, no matter what. You are very methodical and organized in your work. No amount of mess, hence, can ever encompass you. Beware, it is easy for you to fall in love....

If you are a Snake : You are mysterious. You are someone who can handle pressure with ease, and can handle any atmosphere without going berserk. You can be mean at times, and love to gossip with your selected group. Very prim and proper. You like all situations and things to be in the w! ay you desire, which, sometimes is not possible. As a result, you may lose out in some relationships. But otherwise, you love to help people out from difficult and tight spots when they really need you.

If you are an Ape : Very impatient and hyper! You want things to be done as quick as possible. At heart, you are quite simple and love if you are the center of attraction. That way, you people are unique. You would like to keep yourself safe from all the angles. Shall your name be dragged or featured in any sort of a controversy, you then go all panicky. Therefore, you take your precautions from the very beginning. When you foresee anything wrong, your sixth sense is what saves you from falling in traps. Quite a money minded bunch you people are!!

I like to tag sili, ina, mutia, and intan

missing you

2008-02-22T11:13:00.000+07:00

it has been 7 weeks,
and I'm still miss you,
and still in my regret why I barely had you on the phone.

If only those Duri business trip hasn't been postponed,
I wanted to hold you thight, and never let you go.
I miss you grandma,
I really do...

benar2x menyebalkan : Asuransi Sequislife

2008-02-21T10:25:00.004+07:00

Update : lihat dari traffic di feedjit, banyak yang akses posting ini. Dibagian bawah akan gue tambahin komentar dari beberapa rekan blogger, so I didn't made this thing up! Banyak yang kecewa juga sama perusahaan ini.

Ugh, sejak kejadian sangat tidak menyenangkan dari customer service tuh perusahan rese itu, gue sebenarnya udah malas berhubungan lagi di tuh asuransi. cuma kata suami gue nanggung, kita udah place deposit disana.kejadian kan...

gue udah bayar premi asuransi dari sebulan yang lalu...kemaren dapat pemberitahuan gue belum menerima pembayaran, dan polis asuransi gue mau dibatalkan.
Ngga ngerti gue sistem kerja mereka...??? apa mesin fax mereka ngga sanggup nerima kopi bukti pembayaran premi,capek deh.

satu hal yang belum gue tulis di postingan sebelumnya, ketika komplain gue melalui email, pihak
Care: bilang
surat diterima tangal 12 Februari 2007 dan suami gue sendiri yang menerima.

padahal tanggal 12 feb itu, pagi hari beliau sudah berangkat ke India! kalo tiketnya masih ada pengen gue attach deh lepas tanggung jawab, mungkin? atau halusinasi tukang pos?

gue cuma email mereka, trauma gue ama perkataan kasar Customer Service mereka, inget susahnya menelpon bagian CS mungkin jam masuk disana sesuka hati kali ya. Buat yang ngga bisa online ditelpon teross mana sempet follow up lageee...
kalo ngirim "brosur rayuan"...weh, kertasnya bagus banget....sayang juga hutan dunia dipangkas untuk omong kosong perusahaan itu(kertas dibuatnya dari kayu bukan....????)

yang lagi BT...
yang lagi BT...
yang lagi BT...

berharap tuh perusahaan diakusisi perusahaan lain yang lebih baik....

Update : ini beberapa komentar dari blog gue di Multiply dan postingan gue tahun lalu
biarkan orang menilai....

hylmilateef wrote on Feb 28
aduh, ..... saya ini ibunya mba ....eh, barusan saya cerita tentang asuransi yang mba pake ke suami saya, dan suami saya cerita kalau temannya pake asuransi yang sama, dan tau ngga mba, katanya sampe si temennya ini lulus sekolah dan lulus kuliah dan sampe kerja ....dan ..... sampe akhirnya pindah kerja ke tempat sekarang ini, klaim asuransinya baru bisa keluar. bukannya nakutin, cuma pengen berbagi apa yang saya dengar dari suami ....

waahh...sama tuh gw jg punya pengalaman menyebalkan sama sequislife! awalnya gw ambil asuransi pendidikan di metlife, selama masih dipegang metlife, gw ga pernah ada masalah, tiap bulan dikasih billing statement, tiap tahun dikasih kalender gratis, etc.trus gak lama kemudian metlife diambil alih sama sequislife. mulai deh ribet dan menyebalkan!jadi dari awal cara pembayaran gw selalu didebet pake kartu kredit. trus pernah sampe berbulan2 kartu kredit gw ga didebet, tau2 asuransi gw angus! kalo mau di reinstate lagi musti bikin surat kuasa baru, isi form lagi bayar denda pula!yang bikin gw sebel, kok GAK ADA surat pemberitahuan dari sequislife, kalo mmg ada perubahan?! gw nanya ke sequislife juga sama kayak pengalaman kiky, ga ada tanggapan... ribet banget ngurusinnya. stlh gw post email di website mereka ngomel panjang lebar, baru deh ada yg bales.setelah kejadian ga enak yg pertama diatas, taun ini terulang lagi kartu kredit gw ga didebet dan GAK ADA pemberitahuan dari sequislife kl mrk ga bisa debet kartu kredit gw. jadi sama mereka dibiarin aja ga didebet, biar nasabahnya musti byr denda banyak kali ya! sebel kan..padahal kalo bank ato asuransi lain gw selalu terima pemberitahuan, baik itu billing atau masalah lain.bener2 ga professional deh.. kyknya buat mereka, kita sebagai nasabah/ klien tuh ga penting! makanya pelayanannya seenaknya.aku nyesel deh tau gitu dulu ambil tabungan pendidikan di bank yang bagus aja, daripada di perusahaan asuransi yang ga jelas, jadinya malah ribet sendiri... hh..
By Anonymous, at 10:56 AM

cerita payung besar

2008-02-19T13:52:00.001+07:00

"saya disuruh bapak jadi ojek payung" kata anak kelas 5 SD O1 Mampang itu
"kenapa?"
"ibu saya sakit2xan,tante...batuk2x terus, belum sembuh2x"

percakapan saya dengan seorang tukang ojek payung yang terpaksa saya pakai jasanya.
Payung lipat saya tak kuasa menahan hujan besar dan angin kuat yang berhembus,sementara saya harus segera tiba ditujuan pada kamis sore itu, dari gedung ratu plaza ke Plaza Senayan lewat pintu belakang.

" hmmm, mungkin anak ini hanya menjual iba" pikir saya sedikit sinis.
mendekati tujuan

"Saya ngga punya payung besar seperti ini" kata saya berbohong
"berapa harganya?"
"saya nyewa tante Rp 15.000/semalaman"
"hah? mahal juga donk. Berapa kamu dapat semalaman?"
"kalo hujan nanti sampai jam 10 saya bisa dapat Rp 20 ribu"

dan uang yang dia bawa pulang hanya Rp 5000
dan (kalau dia tidak berbohong) kaki kecil itu harus berjalan
dari Sudirman ke Mampang.
Iba saya pun datang juga....

still countinue...

2008-02-18T09:39:00.004+07:00

how come my life become misereable when I turned 30

- I should be careful with my mouth *sigh*
- Lots of bill, extra ordinary ones have to settled..it even exceeded my salary *long sigh*
- I got stuck on the way to the office
- My baby boy was claimed to be malnutrion *sigh*

argrrrrgggh... i need a break, a LONGGGGGGG one!

a melting pot (of my posting)

2008-02-13T10:22:00.011+07:00

My life is a bitch lately, but lots of things made me happy aswell:

I got 2008 friendship contract from Ameera’s mom . Sorry it took a while to thank you. You know what had happend to me, and I'd like to pass this contract to:

IndahJuli, some peole think we look alike eventhough both of us sure I’m much skinnier than her *peace,sis*. I learnt a lot from her, a very sincere friend.

Inawati Chen, my collage buddy…back in those years, everytime I went for a dine in Grogol with her, she’s the one that assured I had Halal Food.

Silvi who's expecting her third precious. Safe labor,sis.

I enjoy my new photoblog, I even made friends with world wide bloggers and even some of great photographers from the other side of this earth --- place(s) I’ve never been to --- stop by.

Sylvi (not that silvi I mentioned before) will take me for another business trip, where she knows I’m dying to fly there, eventhough I realized she just using me since I know she’s a coward, she hate to sleep alone. Hahahha, I’m just kidding.

I’ll meet an old friend this noon. It has been 8 years since our last reunion, so lots of things (read: gossips) has to be updated.

Lastly…I’ll tell you latter lah…*wink*, it has to be confirmed first.

PS : IF THIS POSTING EVER CROSS My Multiply, (I enabled the cross posting facility between blogger & multiply, some time it works sometime it doesn't) I’ll pass that friendship contract to all my contacts in MP. Thank you for all the fun.

home

2008-02-11T07:50:00.000+07:00

daddy already fly back to India (but probably still in Cengkareng Airport by now),
but the the nurse already take the "tube" away yesterday, so...
Today, we're home! Yay.

Nope, he isn't sick,he just pretending to be sleeping, enjoying this bed in his good shape
since both of us promise we don't want to sleep in this bed again :). Hopefully.
This is the third time he was hospitalized,
But he still have 4 schedules of fisiotheraphy, and back to see the pediatric on Friday.

anyway, thank you for all the prays aunties and uncles.
and thanks tante day, tante indah and tante komy for visiting us.

...

2008-02-08T13:05:00.000+07:00

ketika Tuhan sekali lagi mengingatkanku untuk pasrah dan ikhlas...
melihat keceriannya lenyap, terduduk lemas...
*mohon doa teman2x, Kevin masuk rumah sakit karena demam tinggi yang naik turun*

wondering

2008-02-07T12:18:00.000+07:00

bukittingi 29 Februari - 1 maret 2008

pergi...engga...
pergi...engga...
pergi...engga...
pergi...engga...
pergi...engga...
...
???
ongkosin donk, korban bajir neh

*andai nenek masih ada, pasti gue bela-belain*

kebanjiran lagee

2008-02-03T07:31:00.000+07:00

akhirnya yang gue takutin kejadian. :(
sempet2xnya upload photo...ya...gethu deh. :P
foto2x disini.

duh, hujan belum berhenti

2008-02-01T06:26:00.000+07:00

hari ini tepat setahun rumah gue kebanjiran...hiks...
semoga ngga banjir lagi....*berdoa*

daily rambling (yeah, as ussual...)

2008-01-30T08:04:00.000+07:00

not a good thing to start a new year,
enough is enough, ain't gonna be in that circle, no more!
ain't gonna miss the fun either

here it comes

2008-01-29T05:29:00.000+07:00

I wish the clock stop ticking when I turn 27, bu of course I knew I dream my life away.
ain't skinnier none the richer, obviously the reason I failed fulfill my dream. No regret though,
And here come the numbers I let myself join the club.

pretty cake from pretty lady for fatty mama.
Thank you mbak nining.

PS : yang mau nyobain...silakan mampir ke kantor gue.

Review: RAHASIA MEEDE - Misteri Harta Karun VOC

2008-01-25T20:19:00.000+07:00

Author:

E.S. ITO

dulu rasanya saya didera bosan yang amat sangat ketika Pak Qirom berdiri didepan kelas dan mulai berkicau.
Ingin rasanya, mata pelajaran ini dihapuskan saja.
Ternyata benar Pidato Sang Proklamator "JAS MERAH, jangan sekali-kali melupakan sejarah"

Melalui buku ini, ternyata sejarah menjadi menyenangkan, rentetan fakta dari masa lalu memompa adrenalin saya untuk terus membca thriller setebal 671 halaman ini.
Awal cerita sepertinya Batu Noah Gultom seorang wartawan Indonesia Raya, Guru Uban guru sejarah di Bojonggede, Cathleen Zwinckel mahasiswa Universitas Leiden yang (niatan awalnya) menyelesaikan thesis tentang masa kolonial belanda dan Erik-Robert-Rafael tiga orang peneliti dikirim dari Amsterdam , hidup dalam tugasnya masing-masing, ternyata bermuara pada satu misi.

Sebagian dari cerita masa lalu negeri ini diurai dalam buku ini,namun tidak banyak keterangan - kenapa putra bone yang memandu saya di Fort Rotterdam , Makassar- Juli 2005 - itu gusar ketika saya melontarkan kalimat "Arung palaka seorang pengkhianat".

Alur yang melompat-lompat,antara masa kini dana masa dimana negara ini masih dijajah (secara fisik) makin membuat cerita ini memikat, penuh kejutan yang membuat penasaran.
Sebelum melompat ke bab 2, kata2x Bukittinggi-Brussel-Bangka-Boven Digul, membuat saya mengira cerita ini tentang tokoh --- yang hidupnya seperti putaran hari -- Bung Hatta---hah, tidak sepenuhnya salah. Tempat yang semua hurufnya
berawal B --- adalah tempat ditemukan 4 orang terbunuh yang kemudian keluarga ditinggalkan mendapat pesan singkat, bila dirangkaikan menjadi kalimat dari teori 7 dosa sosial Mahatma Gandhi.

"Aku mencium wangi keringat menyambut kedaulatan, Aku tahu mereka ihklas berkerja untuk republik. Untuk masa depan yang mungkin tidak akan pernah mereka alami. Kau tahu, aku sangat mencintai republik ini,saking cintanya aku tidak bisa melihat ia hina, nista dan tampak kumal diantara peradaban lain"
Kata Kalek kepada Batu ketika buronan ini akan diserahkan ke polisi.

Hmmm, andai Agus Salim dan Bung Hatta masih hidup, menangiskah mereka melihat problem bangsa ini?

"mungkin aku jadi kuli bangunan yang bangun rumahmu"

2008-01-23T15:03:00.000+07:00

Di penghujung tahun 2000, saya pernah terdampar di hutan Riau, disitu saya kenal Fanny, si betawi merantau itu dan puluhan teman lain (hampir) dari seluruh Indonesia.
Setelah kembali dari sana sekitar 2-3 tahun kemudian, saya loose contact dengan hampir semua teman2x disitu. Alasannya, organizer yang berisisi foto2x, alamat dan no telpon teman2x,
termasuk catatan kecil testimoni mereka, (saat itu situs friendster belum ada ) hilang.

Data pribadi mereka ada di organizer itu, berhubung organizer itu sempat lenyap, lenyaplah personal info teman2x yang saya kenal di Duri.
Ketika orang tua saya pindah dari Puri Indah ke Bintaro,
voila, organizer itu tiba2x muncul :D<"/>
Senangnya...serasa menemukan sebagian dari diri saya di masa lalu
*halah*

Berdasar nama lengkap mereka, iseng saya mencari teman2x lama saya itu,
melalui situs friendster, karena tampaknya semua orang --- termasuk boss saya yang rada gaptek--- juga ikutan situs itu.
Beberapa pencairan berhasil, sayangnya tidak semua account FS mereka update.
namun setidaknya "bertemulah" saya dengan salah satu dari mereka.

Sebut saja namanya Slamet, seingat saya blio mahasiswa teknik mesin di Unibraw, Malang.
Perjalanannya datang ke Jakarta, untuk mengambil "tiket" terbang ke Duri, Riau
membuat saya tertawa terbahak2x siang itu di MessHall (tempat makan) PT CPI.
Bagaimana tidak, di pertengahan 2000 kali pertama blio bersama 2 rekan lain, tony dan eddy ke Jakarta.
Kenorakan "anak kampung" langsung diceritakan, bagaimana dia foto di tiap jengkal langkah mereka dari Gambir ke Gedung Sarana Jaya belakang Gedung Indosat, berfoto dengan latar belakang MOnas,tanaman2x perdu yang ada disitu termasuk berfoto dengan latar belakang kemacetan Jakarta.
oh lala...macet di Jakarta ternyata menjadikan atraksi yang menarik buat orang dusun (begitu Slamet menamai dirinya sendiri).
Mind you, saat itu belum era kamera digital, sehingga saya tertawa geli mengetahui mereka menghabiskan 3 roll film untuk mengabadikan sudut kota Jakarta yang menurut saya tidak menarik.

itu dulu...8 tahun lalu akhirnya saya "bertemu" dengan blio melalui FS,
daN akhirnya bertukar id YM ,
ingat kata2x waktu dia dan saya chatting melalui YM

S: "aku tuh dibawahnya anak kampung"
S: " anak dusun terpencil ky..."
K:
"Sinyal HP nyampe?"
S: "waktu kita di DUri dulu, sambungan telpon aja belum
ada"
S: " di keluargaku, cuma aku dan kakakku yang kuliah"
S: "bapakku
sampai jual semua kambing dan sapinya untuk biaya aku kuliah..."
S: "untung
aku kuliah"
S:" kalau tidak, mungkin aku jadi kuli bangunan yang bangun
rumahmu"
S: “seperti teman lain di dusun”
K:*iseng* potongan loe dah
mirip siy ya..

sebuah kalimat yang memang asal saja terketik melalui jari2x. tidak ada maksud untuk menghina.

sempat melihat foto2x dia disitus pertemanan itu,
kerja di anak perusahaan BUMN, setidaknya membuat pundi belio sedikit tebal,
kini mampu membeli rumah walopun sedikit di luar kota,
sampai pulalah anak dusun singosari ke Negara tetangga,
mungkin tugas kantor yang disisipi jalan2x namun setidaknya anak dusun itu punya paspor sekarang.
Dulu teman saya sangat norak dan kampungan datang ke Jakarta lewat gambir,
entah kenorakan apa yang blio lakukan ketika menginjakan kaki di KLIA

ada beberapa kenalan saya bernasib serupa, seperti Kardi misalnya.
dan saya selalu mempunyai kebanggaan sendiri mempunyai teman seperti ini,
bagimana keterbatasan --- kata halus dari miskin --- membuat mereka tetap semangat, PD dan tidak minder, ends up keluar dari lingkaran yang itu-itu saja.
Mengingatkan saya untuk tidak cepat keluar kata menyerah ketika sedang gagal dan tentu saja, BERSYUKUR!

Sama-sama sarjana ASI

2008-01-20T15:25:00.000+07:00

Kuda yang kita tunggangi, bernama DAHLIA. asli...disini gue baru nyengir
Kuda dahlia, baru saja melahirkan kuda betina berbulu putih, kata si mamang pemilik kuda, jarang banget bisa lahir kuda putih betina, mengingat si dahlia kuda coklat.

Kata si mamang lagi, anaknya dahlia ini berusia 5 bulan, belum makan apapun kecuali susu induknya.
hihihi...ya kuda...ya orangnya...sama2x sarjana ASI Eksklusif donk kalo gitu....
cerita disini,
foto2x lain nanti ya....*males*

PS : ayahnya si Kuda juga ngga bebulu putih...

another wish

2008-01-16T21:38:00.000+07:00

some time ago, dini sent me email, and said:

"bow, kerjaan loe apa seh...kayaknya jalan2x mulu"

hahahha, my job actually most behind the desk kinda things, but it offered me so trips on the last semester. I hope it still offers me the same eventhough dealing with merging.

My Grandma Pass AwaY

2008-01-07T04:16:00.000+07:00

when I was about leaving the house and kiss my mom goodbye,

Mom told me that My Grandma passed away at 1.00 am this morning.

I didn’t cry when I learnt that my grandpa died 14 years ago, so I thought I wouldn’t this time.

But I was wrong.

When I put my shoes on, I can’t stop my tears from falling.

November 2006, couple of days after Hari Raya, was the last time I see my grandma and introduced her two others Great Grandchildren (she has 31 grandchildren and about 20 Great Grandchildren).

All the memories just popped up,

One day she called me and told me this :

“Kalau kau kerja, jangan kau tinggal anak kau dengan pengasuh, antar ke rumah mama atau suruh mama datang ke rumah kau. Nanti disiksanya cicit nenek, pengasuh sekarang banyak yang ngga baik”

My sister and I were surprised where she came up with the idea, I always thought she’d never concerned about one of this, since she just a regular “old time “ woman, get married at the age 15 and stayed at home brought up her children.

She used to live in Payakumbuh, but moved with my auntie in Duri,Riau since couple of years ago since no one taking care of her. (her son in law passed away 2 weeks ago, a great loss for my auntie, first her husband and now her mom).

Actually, she just built a new house in Payakumbuh (the house is empty, she refused to have it rent since on Lebaran day she’d be there). she even designed the house, and supervised its construction. The house then named after her son, who passed away on July 2001.

She always asking me, when will I visit her in that house, and I keep telling her

“Nanti nek, kapan2x…”

“kapan? Nanti nenek keburu meninggal”

and it happens.

After loosing her husband, her 6 children 1 great grandchild, 1 son in law, now it her turn.

And even worse, I don’t recall when was the last time I have her on the phone.

Just feeling what a lousy granddaughter I am.

In her life, She was never been hospitalized, not even once!

She is about in her mid-80’a, no one sure when she was born (the exact Masehi Year, the record was in Hijriah Year).

Good bye, Nek. I’ll miss you! A lot!

dynamic duo

2008-01-05T18:22:00.000+07:00

diingetin ama ardian waktu kemaren chatting.
kalo ngga salah gue masih SMA waktu lagu ini boooming,
lagu yang bikin ABG (saat itu) termehek2x...

postingan pertama tahun ini

2008-01-03T05:06:00.000+07:00

hari pertama kembali "nguli" setelah 14 hari di rumah saja... :). Kembali ngejar-ngejar KLR yang ternyata tarifnya sudah naik itu.ihiks...

Well, berita pertama ketika mengaktifkan email kantor, terkait dengan SIngle Presence Policy dari Bank Indonesia, datok-datok memutuskan

M.E.R.G.E.R

so I guess,

this year,

will be lots of surprises, changes and challanges.

Wish me Luck!

BB

2007-12-28T16:47:00.000+07:00

she was killed,
just like her father.
I didn't admire her that much,

tapi ketika beliau diangkat menjadi Perdana Mentri Pakistan
saya membaca biographynya entah dari buku mana,
waktu itu saya kelas 4,
dialah pemimpin negara pertama,
yang biography saya baca.

a journey to bogor

2007-12-22T16:37:00.000+07:00

this is unordinary weekend for my babies,
not only the destination but I put some (new) adventure for my two precious.
We left home at 6.45 am headed to Gambir,
oh yeah...we left the car at home and took Pakuan Express train.
There were Susi my collegue and....tante D the "Biduan Madura" coming along with us.
Susi and I had planned this trip days ago, and at very late at night I invited Day,
(sorry kak InJul and Bude Dini....:P)

We (suppose) to take 7.45 am train, but it was late. probably there were sooo many people
going mudik...so many train schedule, the peron was so crowded.
This is Kezia 2nd KRL trip but the first for baby #2.
He liked to wander around the train. Hmphhhh....

An hour latter, we arrived at the station, and looked for breakfast
(since we plan to do Wisata Kuliner, we didn't have our breakfast on purpose, but my babies did...)
Actually, I wanted to dine in every place that was recomended by TAMASYA MAGAZINE a month ago but i mistook it somewhere.

we had quite a long walk, we arrived at SMA I Bogor, and there is a hawker centre beside the school.
I asked for Es KELAPA JERUK....what a refreshment!
Susi and I have Kupat tahu and Day had TOGE GORENG, off course.
Then we took delman to Kebun Raya Bogor...
kakak didn't want to join at first and I pursued her,
He asked a plastic ball instead, I let her and her brother buy the toy.Hmpph...o well.
Then we have another walk.

And guess what, this pool has little crocodile! Day ans Susi did saw it themselves, I didn't cause I was taking some pictures.
To watch the palace, I guess Mr President trust the crocodile better than the security.
Kakak was so borring then start to annoy us, she wanted to see deer.
That's why I failed to take some pictures

When we about to left the KRB, we saw the cable car, so we took the trip around KRB.
It cost Rp 10.000/person, and you know what...the KBR only had 4 of this, but today only 2 of thes was operated.
Hayya....this weekend sir, lot of people coming! Lucky us then.
The driver was nice, he act as a guide tour and did his job great.
Dahlia think he kinda cute.
Oh boy!

Another 30 minutes spend here, then we left the garden. as my promise to Kezia who's being kinda annoyig,
We like to see the Deer in front of Istana President,
then wee took Angkot 02. I guess this is Kevin's First Angkot RIde.
it was a loooonggg ride, since there were so many "one way " road in this city latter the angkot stopped not far from SMA !...ughh...we have to walk around 400 m.Kevin was sleeping.

Kezia feel irritated first since she only see the Deer from quite far...but LUcky For Us (again!)
there were 3 deers by The Fence.
I wonder how they get there, because right after the fence was a little river.

It was 12.30 pm, time to eat.
We decided to have lunch In Macaroni Panggang, we took Angkot 03 to taman Kencana, stopped right in front of the resto.
WE ordered (of course) Macaroni Panggang Special, and I ordered Sop Makaroni and Beef Omelet for the babies.
Dahlia ask for Jus Kacang Hijau, and Kezia asked for Strawbeery Juice.
They both taste great.
The store also sell LASAGNA GULUNG, TIRAMISU, STEAK, BLUDDER CAKE(tape and DUREN...oh em gee...)
but off course we don't have extra space trying them all.
should be back there some day.

another 2 hour, we left MP heading for PiA Apple Pie in Jl. Pangrango
We had Cheese Crust and Strawberry Pie, I had Apple Bandrek, Dahlia had Hot Rum Coffee (taste like tiramisu) and susi had BAJIGUR.
An hour latter we left this PIA Apple PIe, and went back to station, I guess the babies tired already.
Oh No, it was raining, and I didn't prepare the raincoat as well as the umbrella.
thanks GOd dahlia bring her rain coat, enough to cover Kevin's head and susi brought her umbrella.
Since there were soooo many One way Road, we had another 15 minutes walked to the main street near Sempur and took any angkot that will get us to the station.

I wanted to take train direct to SERPONG it was 16.28 on schedule, but it isn't operated on weekend.
So went back to Gambir, at the train I meeyt Titut and Mas Made, the participant from Woman ISsue on Pesta Blogger 2007 last October.

Well, anyway shortly after Azan Magrib we were home...at last.
A great little trip for us! thank susi dan day...:)

here for more pictures

dedicated to Riri

2007-12-21T18:00:00.000+07:00

i can't stop laughing reading this entry,
she's expecting the 4th baby boy...
and i tellin' you this
she used IUD already after delivered the third one

safe labor, sis...

(my) Medan Food Story

2007-12-20T15:09:00.000+07:00

seperti janji ku pada seorang teman *Hai rahmi*, berikut wisata kuliner gue bulan lalu,
sekalian melengkapi edisi wisata kuliner yang terdahulu.
Minggu
Pas hari pertama, pulang dari brastagi, sampai Medan jam 7-an malam deh, langsung dibawa ke Restoran Bintang di dekat daerah Kampung Keling (kartu namanya hilang hiks...).
Menu unggulan restoran ini...BAWAL STEAM!
Ikan Bawal yang direbus, disajikan dengan tauco, irisan jahe, cabe rawit...
mak.....
Mana pas dari Brastagi gue rada masuk angin, pede banget ngga pake sweater yang tebel.
*ngga nyangka juga langsung dibawa ke brastagi*
Gue sempet ngelirik harganya *dibayarin bow*, Rp 20.000/porsi.
Konon kabarnya ayam goreng kampungnya juga enak...tapi gue ngga nyoba, udah kenyang...
tempatnya kebuka gitu, ngga pakai AC and in my opinion tempat parkirnya terbatas.*reffooot kalo mau pulang dibelakang mobil kita ada mobil lain*

Senin
Pas jam makan siang, orang cabang jemput rombongan sirkus dari tempat gue kerja itu.
We were heading to JL Jemadi, tempat gue makan udang segede tangan itu.
Ya sayang...berhubung udang laris manis tak sempat kuabadikan, yang kuabadikan Gulai Kepala Kakap nya aja.
tempatnya biasa aja, ngga fancy, ngga ada AC tapi bersihlah dna parkir luas.
Dan berhubung yang bayarin bos besarnya Lubeck, gue ngga tau harga makan2x disini.
Eh iya, es timun dan jus terung belandanya ya segerrrrrrrr...pa lagi kemaren panas. Pas bener...
dan malamnya,
Acay jemput kita lagi, karena hujan deressss, milih di Sun PLaza aja.
Makan di restoran Nelayan kalo ngga salah lantai 3 depan Lift capsul itu.
Pas duduk, kita langsung disamperin beberapa pelayan yang menawarkan Dimsum, Dessert, goreng-gorengan gitu...so tips gue jangan lapar mata deh.
Gue pesen Mie Ayam Ceker (no 1) , mbak Evy mesen paket Nasi bebek (2).
Well, kita ngamblin beberapa dimsum dan desert (yang seporsinya antara Rp 7500 - Rp 15.000-an) banyak banget , Sop Ayam Obat (gambar no 3) buat 4 orang, plus minum Chineese Tea . Kalo ngga salah bayarnya cuma Rp 250 ribuan. Lumayan lah, worth it.
Sup Ayam Obat, sup ayam biasa, porsinya kecil tapi ada rempah dari negri tirai bambu sana yang dapat menjaga kesehatan. Gue ngga tau nama rempahnya apa...dikasih tau siy ama Acay (gambar 4 duduk seblah mbak evy), tapi biasalah...lupa bow.

Selasa
Sepulang gue foto2x di istana Maimoon itu, gue janjian ama temen waktu sama2x jadi Manajemen Trainee ditempat kerja sekarang, tapi doi udah pindah kesebelasan, ntar lagi Lubeck kayaknya nyusul dia.
eniwei, setelah "makan besar", Juniko ngajak gue had a dessert di HAHNDORF.
Kabarnya siy, cuma ada dua di Melbourne dan Medan. Yang punya resto ini pernah sekolah (ato kerja ya...) di Melbourne.
Gue minum Premium Hot Chocolate, makan Wafel dan nyobain buah-buah yang dicelup coklat itu.
Coklatnya, nyoklat banget deh, slurp...
Wafelnya tipis agak crunchy, dikasih topping vanila ice cream plus disiram coklat.
Buah-buahan yang disediain ada anggur, nenas, pisang, stawberry dan....tomat cherry.
Yah...yang terakhir ini gue ngga suka, agak anehnya rasanya kalo dipasangin ama coklat leleh, si Juniko sengaja ngga bilang lagi itu tomat...)
Gue sempet ngelirik tag harga, makanan di restoran ini (dan jualan coklat juga...) antara Rp 17.000 - Rp 50.000...gue dibayarin (lagi) seh....
HAHNDORF ada di Sun Plaza (again....) lantai...hmmm...3 ato 4 kali, sebrang Marrie Body France pusat pelangsingan tubuh itu...*sesuai Feng Shui ngga tuh letaknya*

Rabu,
Malam sepulang berkebun itu, gue diajak Acay (lagi) makan di Selat Panjang, daerah Pecinan. Dan diantara 6 peserta, cuma gue yang muslim sendiri, asli deh...milih Bubur Ayam aja biar aman.
Bubur ayam dicemplungin telur, cakwe,ayam dan daun bawang bisa ambil sendiri (disajikan terpisah), plus telur hitam itu (gambar kiri bawah).
Cuma ya gitu deh, ketika ada satu orang mesen B2, hmmmphhhh...
tuh bubur ngga ketelen lagi ama gue.
Gue ngga tau seporsinya berapa (hehehhehe, for free lagee), but IMHO this isn't a dine place for moslem, better not lah...

Kamis
tambahin ini ah, kalo dari tebing Tinggi restoran ini ada dikiri jalan daerah Perbaung(an?)
Kami makan disini dari PKS PTPN IV itu...karena sudah melewati jam makan siang yang teramat sangat...rasanya siy....enak aja.
Jus terong belanda juga enak...hihihi.
Gue review tempatnya deh, luas bersih walo ngga pake AC, parkir luas, ada buat lesehan juga...dan mushollanya...ber AC...* numpang ngadem*

Malamnya,
orang cabang ngajak makan Seafood di Cemara, duh...lupa gue, ini nama komplek ato nama jalan ya?
tempat kami makan kemaren, masuk komplek, lurus aja ampe U-turn, pas U-turn, restoran yang pertama.
Standard Sea Food lah ya, namun bawal steamnya enakan restoran bintang menurut gue.
Open Air, *kalo gerimis bubar*,
gue makan apa ya...hmm...
kepiting telur, kerang, bawal steam itu, sama ikan baronang keknya...
Berhubung peserta yang cantik gue sendiri *pletak*, (mbak evy nginap di rumah opungnya), dan para lelaki itu kelaparan berat...hanya seginilah yang dapat kufoto.
Dan (again) dibayarin orang cabang, gue ngga tau habisnya berapa.

Jumat Malam,
setelah berkumpul dengan anak dan suami, (akhirnya) gue kesampain juga makan di Merdeka walk, depan kantor Pos.
berhubung dah mau weekend, penuh bow...
Kami makan di restoran Nelayan lagi, cuma disini, ada Nasi Kucing, itu lho...nasi yang dibungkus dan porsinya kecil2x.
Karena gue harus menjaga sang buah hati dan sementara si ayah ngonbrol dengan mas Arif dan acay...no particular food picture was taken here.

hmphh...dan sesudah itu gue baru inget, gue ngga kesampaian makan Roti Jala...ihiks....

another friend wedding

2007-12-16T11:53:00.000+07:00

Rasanya tak lepas gw tersenyum siang ini,
selain bahagia dengan pernikahan salah satu (eh, dua-duanya deh) teman baik,
tapi bernostalgia ke 14 tahun yang lalu.
saya, adhi , dini dan elsye sekelas dari kelas satu, sampai lulus SMA.
Dini dan Adhi bahkan berkuliah di tempat yang sama walopun beda jurusan.

Inget kalo mereka berdua jarang ngomong, duduknya jauh-jauhan, kalo kita lagi "gila" waktu SMA, Dini selaku anak rumahan yang rajin belajar dan tidak sombong jarang banget ikut.
Apa lagi tebeng menebeng pulang, ngga ada tuh, secara rumahnya berjauhan ngga searah (yang ada gue yang nebeng Adhi terossss).

Tak disangka akhirnya mereka menikah, just thinking...
buat rekan2x yang belum dipertemukan dengan jodohnya oleh Allah swt,
coba diinget2x teman sekolahnya dulu...sapa tau he's the one!

buat Dini dan Adhi, semoga menjadi keluarga yang sakinah...Amin.

ke Panti Werda

2007-12-15T15:30:00.000+07:00

ntuk memperingati Ulang tahun Blogfam ke 4,
ditempat inilah kami berkumpul,
kerja keras panitia tak sampai sebulan,
diaz,de, indahjuli, linda,yaya dan dahlia yang kebagian membeli parcel

Panti Jompo plat merah ini
dihuni 99 orang lansia,
hasil penjaringan dari KamTib,
tak ada yang dititipi sanak saudara,
tapi yang dititipi tetangga karena memang hidup sebatang kara
*sigh* sebatang kara menunggu ajal.
mengisi hari mereka melawan sepi,

setelah kata sambuatan dari pemimpin acara dan ketua panitia (yang berusaha manahan tangisnya)
acara langsung dimulai dengan menyayikan
"Selamat Ulang tahun" dan memotong kue
satu-satunya kakek yang berkumpul di Aula,
semangat benerrrr...
"Kalian ngga bawa ayam?" katanya ketika kami tiba
*bengong*
"ayam saya sudah banyak ya mati nih..."

Usai motong kue,
bernyayi dan *tentunya* berjoget bersama,
biar usia mereka senja,
tapi masih semangat,
pengurus berujar,
"Karena ada yang mengunjungi, mbak...mereka senang, semangat, merasa diperhatikan"

Ketika acara masih berlangsung,
saya pun keluar sebentar mengelilingi panti,
Dua orang pengurus ini,
menanti diangkat menjadi pegawai negeri,
1 barak diawasi 2 orang pengurus,
dari lima barak,
hanya satu barak khusus kakek,

"Mereka tak pernah mereka keluar, disini saja sampai meninggal"
ujar mbak een (barbaju merah).

hari demi hari, detik demi detik memang dihabiskan di panti,
timbul sebersit ide,
apabila memungkinkan,
kesinilah kami kembali lagi,
membawa kakek dan nenek yang masih sehat untuk bertamasya.
Kubeli 3 celemek yang dijahit para nenek untuk mengisi waktu,
mereka juga diajarkan membuat bunga dari sedotan.

Setelah acara berjoget selesai,
membagikan makan siang, membagikan parcel
yang dibeli dari sumbangan blogfamers seluruh penjuru dunia
*eh, ini benerab lho*

lali kami keliling ke 5 barak,
membagikan makan siang dan parcel untuk lansia lain yang memang lemah kondisi fisiknya.
sebagian tak lagi melihat,
sebagian tak lagi dapat bangun,

namun sebagian *terlihat* senang kami datang. *semoga*
masih banyak kekurangan kami dalam acara ini,
andai lebih lama kami disana....
tapi mereka harus kembali ke barak untuk beristirahat.

*mewakili panitia*
terima kasih kepada para donatur,
Insya Allah akan dilaporkan pengeluaran dananya di forum *lirik dahlia*

foto ada disini.

what if -part two

2007-12-14T06:20:00.000+07:00

what if,

every morning when you wake up,

open your window for the fresh air,

you have a view like this,

right from your cozy bed,

life is sure beautiful, isn't it?

here for the previous one.

what a coincidence!

2007-12-08T14:55:00.000+07:00

btw,did I spell the word coincidence right?
o well anyway, gue harus ke kantor sabtu ini (ya, mahap ya blofgamers, ngga bisa ke rumah Dahlia)
,setelah siang datang, gue dan susi emang berencana pengen nonton JIFFEST.
udah lima tahun gue absen...yah, gara2x hamil-menyusui,hamil dan menyusui itu, males aja berlama2x keluar rumah.
Mengingat gue ngga bawa mobil, gue milih di Blitz ato Djakarta Theatre, biar...deket ama stasiun Tanah Abang,naik KRL AC Ciujung....hihihihi. Udaah AnKer banget deh gue, kaya' orang mudik aja,

Di Bus Trans Jakarta, temen gue Susi kadang emang suka garing.
Susi : " Kita nonton apa neh?"
Gue : " hmmm, di Blitz aja deh ya....nonton Mukhsin aja!"
Susi : " Si Bagja ada ngga?"
Gue :"maksud loe?"
Susi : "yah...Imam Muksin difilmkan,Iman Bagja ada ngga?"

doi mencoba melucu garing, Iman Bagja dan Imam Muksin adalah 2 orang rekan kantor tapi beda group,mereka sama sama bagian Marketing, sama2x hitam, sama2x garing dan sama2x...ngeselin dan ngga cakep .heheheh *piss yo'*

turun di halte Plaza Indonesia --- kucluk2x jalan ke Blitz (btw, nama pertokoannya apa ya...?) ---- naik lift ke lantai 8 ---- ngambil tiket untuk nonton Mukhsin (film ini gratis) --- dan ketika mau nyari makan di lantai bawah....

YEp, kami ketemu si Imam Mukhsin dengan anaknya....kikikikikikikkkkk......
panjang umur tuh bapak.

anyway, Mukhsin is a Malay Film, talking about Orked's (Sharifah Aryana) puppies love.
Orked's mom told to be a Javanesee...yang mungkin kenapa ada musik KERONCONG dimainkan di film itu. *o well, just a thought*

Kelar nonton Mukhsin,kita nonton FOUR MINUTES (vier Minuten) ,a germany film.
kalo ini mah,...bayar Rp 20ribu yaw....
cerita seorang pianist (Monica Bleibtreu) , yang berambisi anak didiknya, Jenny van Loeben (Hannah Herzsprung) --- yang juga seorang narapidana --- ikutan kontes Piano yang bergengsi.
Beda ama film pertama yang kita tonton, film ini rada mikir, alurnya bolak balik.

untung selepas nonton four minutes gue buru2x ke stasiun, ternyata sabtu malam KRL AC Ekonomi ciujung ngga beroperasi,tapi ada KRL AC Express jam 18.20. Fiuh.....gue sok tau juga seh!

pictures from here.
and here

The New Little Boss

2007-12-06T06:04:00.000+07:00

my dad has retired as of this december

after serving the company for more than 35 years

he was quite busy,

now he can enjoy his time eventhough the new boss(es)

will be very anoyying/demanding/stubborn! hahahah

enjoy your verrrrryyyyy free time dad!

Nah ini dia

2007-12-05T06:34:00.000+07:00

sabtu minggu kemaren gue ke Lembang untuk outing dari kantor,
dekat tempatmenginap ada yang jual es mambo di jL Cijeruk
dari 3 tempat, toko ini yang paling laku
uih...
mantapnya panas2x menyeruput es mambo...hohoho. Precious # 1 came with me, waktu ke Medan kemaren ditinggal kelamaan, masih kangennnnn....She had a great time, main2x ama brondong2x kantor gue, ngga anak ngga emaknya doyan brondong...hihiihihihi

eniwei,
maknya Dimmy and Ardian ngelempar gue dengan tugas ini.
jujur aja neh, resolusi biasanya tinggal resolusi buat gue,
lebih sering lupa.

here's the rule :

Bikin 8 Resolusi hidup kamu untuk 2008 (WAJIB 8 - ga kurang ga lebih-)
Sebarkan ke 8 orang, yang kamu tunjuk dan kamu anggap dia perlu perubahan, dan sebutkan alasan kamu : kenapa milih dia.
Kamu mesti mampir ke 8 orang tersebut, untuk ngasih tau bahwa mereka dapet PR dari kamu....

and here are my answer:

1. dapat kado ini *ngarep* pas ultah biar jalan2x ngga banyak bawa lensa. (halah cuma punya 2 aja,lebay banget gue...)
2. some abroad trips as well as local trips (bukittinggi/belitung/lombok most) with my babies.
3. feb : lebih kurus 3 kg dari bulan Desember
4. April : lebih kurus 3 kg lagi dari bulan Feb
5. Juni : lebih kurus 3 kg lagi dari bulan April
6. September : lebih kurus 3 kg dari bulan Juni
7. November : lebih kurus 3 kg dari bulan September
8. Desember : kembali ke berat badan per 31 Mei 2003 heheehheheheh

maaf ya ngasaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllll!!!!!

diterusin ke sapa ya...

hmmm....indahjuli,linda,yaya,dahlia,dian my sense, diah dan....lubeck! heheh. silakan..............

SuMut TriP - Danau Toba

2007-11-29T08:01:00.000+07:00

Sabtu pagi setelah sarapan, kita naik Betor ke Kantor Cabang di Jl Bukit Barisan untuk ngambil mobil disana karena gue nyewa mobil kantor untuk jalan-jalan.
Lupa banget bawa kamera, jadi double Ke First Betor Ride ngga bisa diabadikan deh.
Sampai hotel, check out --- heading for Tol Tanjung morawa, jalur waktu ke PKS-Palbatu tersebut.

Sepanjang jalan cukup ramai, ngga ada hutan gue kira gitu terus sampe Parapat ternyata setelah Palbatu (PKS yang gue datangi kamis kemaren) mulailah perkebunan sawit, karet, beberapa hutan baru di- “land clearing” kemungkinan besar mau ditanami sawit.
Sayangnya, sepanjang perjalan gue ngga bisa ngambil foto. Jelas kita ngga bawa car seat dan gue juga gak nyari tau nyewa car seat dimana, tanpa car seat kedua krucil itu ngga bisa manis duduknya, berkeliaran ngga jelas aja di mobil. Gue sibuk nyusuin Kevin, nidurin mereka yang ngeluh ngantuk, digendong atau pas udah pada bangun sibuk melerai mereka berantem.
Banyak objek menarik yang tidak sempat gue abadikan a.l :

- Klenteng warna warni di Tebing Tinggi deket pasar, bagus, warnanya meriah

Perkebunan Kelapa Sawit tapi yang udah tua (mati) dan diantara baru ditanam pohon KS umur 1 taun. Menarik aja pemandangannnya. Gak bakal nemu kayaknya di tanah jawa. hhihihi

Aktivitas di perkebunan karet antara Palbatu- Pematang SIantar, karena waktu gue lewat sana, petani berdatangan ke satu titik untuk mengumpulkan karet yang mungkin dijemput untuk diolah oleh KUD-nya ato instasi lain.

Mesjid ngga jauh dari perkebunan karet itu unik, atapnya bukan kubah sepeti kebanyakan tapi dari atap rumah khas batak. Sepertinya mesjid baru masih kinclong banget.

Mobil travel Antar kota dalam propinsi di pematang siantar, dimana atapnya bisa dinaiki orang juga…phiweee….nyalinya pada tebel juga.

Monumen/tugu di tiap kecamatan/kota administratifnya.

But anyway, rumah ibadah disana juga bagus2x, design eksterior gereja, mesjid dan vihara menarik.

4,5 jam dari medan sampailah ke Parapat, makan siang di RM IStana Minang. malas pilih2x restaurant lagi. Amannya, kalo udah lapar mending cari makan di tebing Tinggi. Lewat dari situ…untuk yang muslim (konon kabarnya) sebaiknya jangan makan di warung pinggir jalan sebelum Parapat.

Kami nginap di Danau Toba Cottage International, dapat kamar dengan view danau langsung ….
Hotelnya murmer tarif Rp 240 ribu untuk standard room type A dapat sarapan.
Udah agak tua siy, pas malam2x gue beberapa kali mendengar tikus mencicit entah darimana.
Pas ngajak anak2x berenang, gue agak de ja vu, kayaknya pernah liat dimana gitu, waktu belssan taun lalu ke sini nginapnya di Hotel Patra jasa…baru inget ternyata liat di blognya mbak anne.

continued

North Sumatra trip - Wrap UP

2007-11-27T10:18:00.000+07:00

this time with pictures :)

Minggu : a hard to say good bye to the babies, precious #1 crying when she saw me leaving. take 10.50 am flight by Garuda telat dikit, arrived at about 13.30 pm.

Seorang teman dari divisi yang sama namun Desk Medan, Acay a.k.a marwato pick Arif and me at Polonia medan, then…we’were heading to Brastagi! It took 2 hours to get there,spend some couple of hours…naik delman mengitari jalan utama, beli oleh2x buat anak2x kantor, tentu…foto2x.

ada seorang Ibu rada galak juga pas gue ambil gambarnya, minta duit doi…langsung kabur aja gue (entar fotonya upload lagi..)

Had Bawal Steam for dinner at Restoran bintang back in Medan.

Senin : mulailah training yang panjang itu, tentu ngantuk…ternyata cuma ada 2 bank, bank gue mengirimkan 18 personel dan satu lagi bank plat merah yang cabangnya telah mengakar sampe tiap kec amatan di Indonesia mengrimkan…errr…100 orang ada kayaknya dari seluruh Indonesia, eh ngga dink, dari Indonesia timur ngga ada, padahal potensi pengembangan Kelapa Sawit hanya di daerah Sulawesi bagian barat dan papua yang paling memungkinkan, secara lahan di kedua pulau tersebut masih luas.

Selasa : training masih di kelas, convention hotel emerald

payah banget deh. Keluar lift lantai 2 langsung bau pesing,

karpetnya perlu diganti,belom jalan ke WC lantai 2 juga…persis gudang dibanding hotel bintang 4. satu orang cabut pindah hotel, untuk effesiensi waktu dan kepraktisan sebagian dari kami tetep stay.

Selesai training masih sore, seperti yang gue ceritakan, gue ke istana maimoon…tapi udah tutup gue foto2x dari luar saja…ah, andai saja bangunan ini lebih terawat.

Rabu : kunjungan ke pusat penelitian, di BUkit Sentang Langkat. 2 hours drive from MEdan.

(jalur kuning)

Makan siang juga di kebun dimasakin ibu2x setempat. Hujan yang berkepanjangan menyebabkan jalan becek dan berlumpur hampir tamatlah riwayat sepatu gue itu. Sepanjang perjalanan….ya, lahan sawit aja isinya….sayang juga beberapa paru-paru bumi sepetinya dipangkas untuk kepentingan rupiah eh…dollar deh, karena 75% CPO Indonesia diekspor. Sapa ngga tergiur mengingat harga CPO saat ini mencapai USD 900/ton!

Kamis : kunjungan ke Pabrik Kelapa Sawit (PKS) di Palbatu – Tebing Tinggi, sekitar 2-3 jam juga (jalur merah) dari Medan tapi ke arah selatan. Sayang PKS plat merah ini belum berproduksi secara optimal, masih banyak yang idle…dan beberapa mesin, seperti lori untuk mengangkut sawit ke mesin steam agak out of dated dibanding PKS Swasta --- masih didorong manual, sementara beberapa PKS semuanya udah mekanik…lebih effesien waktu jelas! Sedihnya lagi, menurut gue, Pimpinan pabrik, dia ngga gitu ngerti kondisi produksi pabriknya. Ketika diajukan beberapa pertanyaan langsung nanya asistennya yang lain…piye toh, pak?

Jumat : suara Ebony diskotik di hotel bikin gue bangun jam 1 pagi….giling! kalo terpaksa nginap di hotel bintang 4 ini, minta kamar lantai 6-7 aja deh…gue nginap di lantai 3 berisik banget.

last day of training, study kasus plus wrap up…and Yes, my babies (and the daddy of course) flew to Medan. Hubby mau ngurus perpanjangan visa India-nya.

Sabtu – Minggu : ke danau toba (lewat jalur merah terus jalur biru itu) dan samosir balik ke medan (jalur hijau)…ini seru….dua posting sendiri!

My thought : kecuali di Pulau Samosir – Kabupatan Samosir, sepanjangan perjalan di Sumatera Utara kasat mata gue melihat antara mesjid, gereja dan klenteng(vihara) selang seling, sebrang sebrangan, ato sebelah sebelahan….

Jujur, gue ngga tau apakah mereka akur atau tidak, tapi positive thinking aja iya…

What a great society! Don’t you think?

dua tujuh sebelas kosong lima

2007-11-27T04:09:00.000+07:00

10.45 am

bayi mungil itu,

yang kini beranjak besar,

tepat dua tahun umurmu kini,

dan tugas kami masih panjang,

semoga Sang Rabb,

memperkenankan kami menjagamu,

-lelaki tampan hadiah dari surga-ku,

kau lelaki

melangkahlah kemana kau suka

tapi ingatlah Rabb mu dalam tiap langkahmu,

kau lelaki

melangkahlah kemana kau ingin,

sertakan kami dalam doamu

kau lelaki,

pergilah kemana kau hendak,

tapi pulanglah dengan kepala tegak.

-doa kami tetap sama (dan pasti selalu bertambah)-

VBR, 27 November 2007

home....

2007-11-26T06:56:00.000+07:00

setelah 8 hari, akhirnya pulang...
A very nice trip! I'll tell you later!
but I tell you what,
pulau samosir is A must See!

yelow line : medan - bukit sentang, rabu 21 Nov
red line : medan- palbatu, kamis 22 nov
blue line : medan - parapat, sabtu 24 nov
green line ; samosir-medan, minggu 25 nov

Sumatera Utara --- day One

2007-11-19T12:07:00.000+07:00

gak ada foto yei, ternyata komputer yang disedian di hotel ngga bisa upload foto.
mana internetnya agak lambret jalannya...

Ngga nyangka ternyata pesawat rame fuuulllll! Namun tidak ada turbulence yang menakutkan itu yang bikin gue suka muntah-muntah dan pusing setelah mendarat.
GUe baru tau (baru 2 kali ke Medan, yang pertama dah belasan tahun lalu) keluar bandara langsung perumahan penduduk......aih...apa ngga berisik ya...??? pantes aja waktu pesawat Mandala jatuh banyak rumah penduduk yang kena....rada amazed juga ada pesawat terbang rendah sementara kita tuh di daerah pasar....

eniwei, abis di jemput rekan cabang --- langsung ke Brastagi...enak kali....fotonya entar deh, pas gue nyampe jakarta aja...jadi LInda,,,maaf ya, males bawain terong belanda,,,hihihi....balik ke jakartanya baru weekend. Tapi asli buah2x nya segar2x dan murah-murah.
We had Bawal Steam for dinner back in Medan, taste real good!

TRaining hari pertama...ngantuk, tapi adalah 2 brondong lumayan menyegarkan isi kelas...
dah ah ....bye....

mY fiRst Scrap Book

2007-11-17T15:46:00.000+07:00

HERITAGE (the -so-called-biggest-factory outlet-in-southeast asia) now open In Bintaro Junction,
and just like two others, it has scrapbooking class as well.
I just join the beginner class this morning, and here's my first scrap book,
not bad for the beginner, huh?
PS : o yeah, the cutter cut my finger. :(

kalo dah rejeki (ngga lari kemana...)

2007-11-16T11:50:00.000+07:00

Just when I'm switching from Coffee LOver to Tea Addict,
Sylvi give me this from her last business trip to S'pore.

and
Last MOnday I saw a book in Kinokuniya Plaza Senayan,
It cost over Rp 200 ribu.

when I visit BOOK FAIR in JHCC this afternoon,
A stall sells used-import-book
and found this book FOR ONLY Rp 60.000! YAY!

-still in a berry good condition-

PS: on that book, Sipindan Island considered as Malaysia's teritory. The book printed in 2003.

when was the Sinpindan & Ligitan Issues took place?2004, is it?

peppermint tea(s)

2007-11-11T09:53:00.000+07:00

I’m switching from coffee to tea,
Just like linda did
Hey, how’s Prendjak Tea from me, is it good?

Now I’m into peppermint tea,
Here are ones I had tried,
Among these,
I like Dilmah best
(but, it cost twice than the others…)
smell nice, taste good.

Btw, You can make your own peppermint tea,
Simply gathered some mint leaves
(cost Rp 1.900,- in Alfa Supermarket)
pour boiled water,
leave it for a minute or two
add sugar to taste!

If you have fridgesmart from Tupperware
You can keep Leftover peppermint leaves,
Keep the leaves fresh for up to one week
(I am not tupperware dealer in case you’re wondering) ^_^

See Sari Songket Tea at the very back?
It is lycee and rose flavor,
a great refreshment, I drink those almost everyday during ramdahan for Buka Puasa.
(if I’m not mistaken it is Rp 25,000,- for 25 sachets, well…uhm… I got those for free from my boss!)

MP-ers nambah satu

2007-11-05T14:28:00.000+07:00

ikut-ikutan kak indah

lubeck, salah satu rekan seperjuangan waktu masih jadi Manajemen Trainee di tempat kerja sekarang, menjadi blogger juga akhirnya.

Pernah dua kali jadi topik di postingan gue, pertama kali waktu satrawan Pramodeya meninggal --- dimana dengan spontan doi nulis kekagumannya tentang almarhum (yak...tulisan itu gue kopas dari emailnya) dan yang kedua tentang namanya yang unik.

Dari dulu gue udah nyuruh dia nulis, pemikirannya selalu out of the box.Di milis rekan2x MT, ulasannya blio yang paling ditunggu, tapi dulu dia ogah..sibuk katanya, sibuk nyuci.

Mungkin karena sekarang (baru) nikah, cucian ada yang ngurusin ya,beck...hahahha

ok, guys, go check out his MP! He's so much fun!