Quit

Do you ever hear somebody said 'once quitter will always be quitter' anyone? I did, not exactly the right sentence but it could be something sounded like that. So what if someone decided to be a quitter? To me, even to quit is a decision indeed. What if you just got no better choice and have to quit? What if staying is so and too miserable so you encourage yourself to quit? What if you stand in the wrong place and need to quit?

Exhausted

I just hit a car. Nobody gets injured, but yes i have to pay for the repair. I thank God the owner of the car that i hit didn't sue me (fiuuuhh..long deep breath). So, i took a one day leave to fix the name change on Electricity Account. Me and my husband just bought a new house, and the electricity bill still named the previous owner. So, the process took a little while, but you know what? I have to give a standing applause for PLN (the national electricity company) for their services that was free of any charges, how awesome that was! I have to admit i had a bad thinking about PLN. I was thinking about briebery 'money politics' and a long bureaucracy. But in fact i was wrong! I came to the office and a security led me to a machine that gave me a queing number, i wait for a while until my number shown on the display. The process was quite okay, take a reasonable time, the best part is that they didn't charge me for anything! I hope this is a good sign for my country and the government, the public service is getting better and the public officers are dedicated. One issue i have to raise after my visit to PLN, they only allow me to raise one subject. On that day i can only submit an electicity account name change, when i request another service (i was about to change my electricity meter machine, it was old and rusty, and almost broken)the officer told me that one name/account could only raise one service request every month. This means that i have to go back next month to ask for the new meter machine. So i was just hoping that someone with position in PLN would read my blog and reconsider this policy. Returning from the PLN office, i went to my apartment, i was about to check the furniture installation and found that my kitchen set was have all right doors (no left door). Another deep breath, i drove to the furniture store and ask for the appropriate part. I hadn't even got my lunch! i got really exhausted, drove my car and hit the car in front of me. What a bad day..!

tinny bites

so this hobby brought me some extra income!! that's just great, you know, doing things that you like and get some cash from it, magic uh?

cookie probably one of my expertises. so i tried to make some sample of my cookies and let my friends try it. Yep, they like it so much and starting to order. one jar, two jars, four, twelve, thirty something jars!!!!! and the nightmare began. The fun part was no longer fun when you got exhausted.. But still, after all the hard work, cramping hands, non-stop baking, and crazy cleaning up the kitchen, i can smile ;)

i even have a label now,i designed the name and logo myself and i think it's not bad for a non-designer product :p
my jars named Tinny Bites and here they are

cooking class

my last post on this blog was on January, wheeew!! not so fancy. I actually had millions of stories on my head, but i just couldn't find the appropriate time to write it down here. But here i come..

so, today i attend a short cooking class at NCC. This NCC probably the biggest cooking community in Indonesia and they periodically hold some cooking class in certain places in Jakarta. This morning i attend a halal dimsum (Chinese dumpling) class. I actually not so interested in dumpling, but my husband loves them soooo much and he's actually the one who encourage me to attend this class. The result, not bad at all.

I got siomay, hakao, angsio chicken feet, and shrimp roll mayo. The steps are easy, i'll show you my next experiment at home, but first of all i got to add more stuffs on my next grocery shopping.

Bebe Mikail!!

Alhamdulillah 7th January i gave a birth to a baby boy!
My husband named him Mikail Esa Widinugraha.



Welcome sleepless nights, diapers change and bunch of fun!!

counting the days

so, this is my 38th weeks. From the latest USG my doctor told me that my baby 's weight is about 2.7 kg, and he will still gainning more weight until the delivery day. I couldn't dare to see myself in the mirror, i'm a big fat mom-to-be right now! hahaha! I even walk strangely like a north pole's pinguin. The baby's position was also OK, although my doctor said there's a placenta around the baby's neck, he said i can still working on my plan to have a normal delivery, the conservative way.

my activity? doing some yoga for pregnancy, stop baking for a while, preparing some stuffs to be brought to the hospital on 'the day' and praying. Due date ( i saw it in my doctor's computer) for me is 11 january, so i hope everything is going to be fine as it planned. I'm so nervous and exciting!

Blessings

Alhamdulillah, there is a lot of blessing on this November.

This is my 7th month of pregnancy and i'm planning to start my pregnancy exercise class. My doctor said it will help me on the delivery process. The exercise will help you to learn how to breath, how to push, and how to gain more strenght on the delivery process. But, do u know what is the the most helpful method? Praying! Especially the shalat. In Shalat, there is a position called sujud which help the baby to rotate and move to the right position. It also help your thigh to get stronger. Well, i'm saying this not only because of me as a moslem, my doctor also admit and suggest me to do more Shalat. Isn't that great?

My husband accepted at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this is one of his dreams and he was struggling to the limit to get it. This is a miracle to us. My husband was facing so many distraction and trouble on his way to get this job. I looked at him every night, he prayed and prayed to Allah to give him the best. We handed all the decision to Allah, we believe if the job is good for us and for our life, Allah will show us the way. When we found that he passed all the tests, we're gone speechless, the only thing that remain in mind was to thank Allah for all the blessing that we cannot get without His Merciful hand.

I also start to buy and gather some baby's stuff for my baby. I got this new beautiful crib and bed, baby bath, some tiny clothes, diapers, and breast-pump. This is such a fun thing to do, to buy some cute colorful stuffs for your baby makes you can't wait to see his coming! I believe he will be cute and smart like his father.

Weekend Cooking!!

Since i'm pregnant, food has been an issue. I no longer can eat any sashimi or raw sushi, i have to avoid grilled steak and completely skip the half-rare one, and i'm dying for good food.

So, this is the result of my suffer. I made my own hand-rolled sushi with non-raw filling. It's fried salmon sushi with sauce and wasabi mayo and cheese (don't ask cheese inside sushi?)
I have to be proud, look at the picture, it looked promising ahahaha!



So, another favor, today, i made this 'Burger steak with veggie and fries' for my husband (which actually just a sweet reason to cover that i was dying for it too..)





My husband loved everything on the plate and ate everything in minutes. He kept saying that the steak and the sauce were excellent!

plans..plans..

I was actually browsing for some short trip. Just wondering to bring my baby (after the delivery, of course) later on his first trip (his? my doctor said it's a boy until my last USG). I remembered my boss from my last office, Irek, he and his family are cute travelers. So i checked on his site and find some wonderful destination to be my consideration. his website is www.zyzanski.com or you can find more trips at his another site which he also provided the address on this site.

Oh yep, i'm still on my 6th months, the nausea -thank God- has gone away, and i was thinking to start a trip, actually maybe a very short visit to Singapore. Not actually a short vacation, a friend of mine is getting married there, and she was (also) in the same boarding house with mine when we were at university. She did come to my wedding, so i thought that i have to give her a favor, a short fun visit to fulfill her invitation. Well, let's see what my doctor would says about my plan.

HAPPY LEBARAN!!

It's a little late to say Happy Lebaran, but i couldn't access my own blog on my last 'mudik'. In Indonesia, it's a tradition to travel to your parent's house or your grandma's house or uhm your hometown (usually placed in different city from where you currently live) on last week -or days- on ramadhan. The purpose of this travel is to catch a moment of Ied Prayers together with the whole big family on 1st of Syawal month which is commonly known as Eidl Fitr or in Indonesia: Lebaran Day.

So, i did too. Me and my husband took an executive train to Cirebon, and drive from Cirebon to Kuningan in West Java to see Grandma and family there, this is an annual tradition that we keep and even we admit it was tiring, we enjoyed it so much. After the Ied Prayer and Dzuhur Prayer we left Kuningan for Tasik, my mother's place.

I was on my fifth month of pregnancy, and i had to be extra careful with my body and the baby inside. Thank God, everything went very well and, here i am back in Jakarta safe and sound.

To all family and Friends:
Happy Eidl Fitr
May Allah gives us the forgiveness and let us start the new days with newborn heart..