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i am not a celebrating-type of person when it comes to new year. i don't like to hang out and i don't like crowds . hehe. but what i do like when it comes to new year is to wish what i want to achieve for next year. i said wish because i don't want to set any target at all. i know what i want but i want to let it flow. being sagittarian makes me not want to leash myself (aka. rebel girl hahaha) for this year, I am truly blessed to be given perfect health . not only for me, but for my son, my husband, and my whole family. i grace health a lot because it is the upmost gift that we often forget how precious it is when we are overtaken by the busy working life. after health comes happiness . i graduated my master. we managed to buy a house. we enjoyed furnishing our house and at the same time saved a tiny bit of our income. Arazki celebrated his first birthday. my parents working, healthy and happy. this is more than i can imagine. alhamdulillah ya Allah. and for 2011? muahah...

Yes, we finally laid our heart in rattan for the dining table . It was a very nice venture - looking at two rattan stores in Bogor and my hunch is that we are not mistaken in choosing our store. At first we hesitated because t he owner just sit behind the table , watching our moves. Just so you know, I am a terrible consumer. I always honor the motto " Konsumen adalah raja . You need us, not we need you" hahaha... *ketawa mangap gede banget*. But then I changed my mind when she (the owner) stood up and, to my surprise, took us around the store , explaining the variety of rattan they use, and offer some bonus for us. Wowww.. now this is what I called a good seller. In the end, because of her promotion, we end up not only ordering dining table for six, but also room partition and two guest chairs , already completed with table and pillows. We also get two bonuses: a "tudung saji" and a hanging lamp. For free. Yay! The total cost is less than 5 million. I think it is w...

happy BESTday Ayah. semoga tambah ganteng, perutnya bisa six pack lagi, tambah rajin beliin istri kepiting saus padang, dan tentunya sayang sama kita-kita :) I love you honey. taken on Dec 3rd. a small surprise from Ibu and Razki for Ayah.

apologies for this unnecessary post (apologies melulu). :) post ini ingin menceritakan betapa dilemanya saya dalam memilih meja makan. suara hati iseng: tuh kan ga penting! suara hati serius: penting itu penting ! as you guys might have known, my husband and I are in the middle of filling in our house. due to many reasons we can't move in the near term so we determine to do at least something to the house. for now, we want to make the house not too empty. we now have our own sofa, TV table, coffee table and console table. now I want dining table. at first I want it to be jati. tapi oh tapi, yesterday we passed by a store which sells furniture out of rattan. yes, rotan. hela hela rotane. sudah sering lewat toko itu sebenarnya and it already tickles my curiosity.but only until yesterday that I asked my husband to pull off the car and visited the store. the store turned out to be very beautiful. it shows various type of furniture of rattan and beautifully designed. it instantly made m...

one of my dear friend, Puput, voiced a very good point about a relation between MMR with genetical autism. this issue started when I said Razki's pediatrician said MMR is fine and the rumor that it can cause autism is a total hoax. but, she (the pediatrician) also said that I have to take a careful look if in our family there has been a record of autism. i can't remember the reason why she said this (sorry put). i guess i have to do a more in-depth research on this. apa hubungannya anak yang membawa bakat autis dengan vaksin MMR? if you know this, please share it with me ya. have a nice weekend!

this might make me look so narcist :P , apologies, but we need to gratitude ourselves once in a while, right? I am profiled in my office Scientific Staff Profile . for me, it is an achievement because for long I have wanted to be a researcher or scientist (the latter is much more difficult though) and now I am on my way there. another achievement this year (again for myself) is for me to be a co-author for one of my office's publication . although I am the last author but it means a lot for me. thanks to my boss who give me the opportunity :) the last one is the one that I favour most, two of my snapshots are selected for my office's publication ! yay! this one makes me happy because i love taking photographs and knowing that one of your shot is displayed in a publication is just.. amazing! :) alhamdulillah, thank you Allah for your super generosity. Hopefully next year we can be better at work and of course, better at family and parenthood.

Bulan Desember adalah bulan yang spesial bagi saya. Bulan ini telah menjadi “tuan rumah” bagi tanggal lahir saya, suami saya, dan tepat satu tahun yang lalu, anak pertama saya. Satu tahun itu pulalah saya menjadi seorang ibu bagi anak saya. Dan proses pembelajaran itu pun dimulai. Fase awal menjadi ibu ini menegangkan dan sekaligus menyenangkan. Menegangkan karena ini pengalaman pertama saya, saya benar-benar tidak tahu apa-apa dan mengingat anak adalah amanah yang harus kita jaga sebaik-baiknya. Menyenangkan karena di sela-sela ketegangan dan ketidak tahuan, saya menemukan ketenangan. Saya mempunyai tempat berlabuh. Ibarat rumah kedua saya, dia adalah The Urban Mama . Kelahiran The Urban Mama kebetulan tidak jauh dengan kelahiran anak saya. Bagi saya ini sungguh momen yang tepat. Selama cuti melahirkan, ketika di rumah hanya ada saya dan anak saya (pada saat itu saya belum punya pengasuh), The Urban Mama dengan setia menemani saya yang kala itu masih sangat sensitif tenta...

hari ini, tahun baru Islam, tahun baru Hijriyah. hari ini juga, anak saya Arazki memasuki tahun yang baru. alhamdulillah, he is now one year old. kehadiran Razki setahun terakhir ini membawa begitu banyak pembelajaran bagi saya. mulai dari detik-detik kelahirannya, saya belajar menahan rasa sakit dan tetap tenang. ketika dia lahir ke dunia, saya belajar untuk memeluknya di dada saya. seiring waktu berjalan, saya belajar setiap detik untuk menjadi ibu yang baik baginya. perjalanan satu tahun ini terus terang tidak mudah. ada saat dimana saya merasa tidak sebaik ibu-ibu yang lain. contoh kecilnya, ketidakmampuan saya memberikan hanya ASI untuk Razki. masa-masa itu adalah masa-masa terberat bagi saya. tetapi kemudian saya pun belajar. belajar untuk menerima ketidakmampuan saya tersebut dan tidak terpuruk di dalamnya. saya belajar ikhlas. saya belajar melihat perkataan dan perbuatan orang lain dari sudut pandang yang lain. dan setelah melewati titik tersebut, segalanya terasa lebih ringan....

my husband and I decided to take a few days off from work . apart from my husband's and my son's closed birthdays, i personally want to re-energize myse lf . although my work place is near from home, my work load is kind of the opposite. last week was stressful since my project was preparing for our first launch event of our new publication and every little problems suddenly arised like zits ! :D anyway, after two days full playing with our son, my husband took me to a Japanese restaurant in Bogor, Midori . I was quite surprised since I know he doesn't really like Japanese. growing up in a very Indonesian tradition, his favourites are more of a fried cassava (singkong goreng bow), buras oncom, and perkedel :) so when he said "lets eat lunch in Midori", i asked him several times if he was positively sure about it. and he simply said "don't worry, i love ramen". which i doubt very much :) and so, there we were sitting in a cozy and relaxing atmosphe...

have I told you before that my favorite number is 3? i like 3 with no particular reason. i just feel my life is surrounded by this number :) and today, my dear husband is turning 33. on 3rd Dec. celebrated by the 3 of us :) amazing. happy birthday husband. i love you more than yesterday, but not as much as tomorrow :)

berencana tidak merayakan ultah Arazki. tapi ga tahan juga buat browsing gambar-gambar kue hehehe... nemu dua model mobil yang lucu banget. Razki suka sekali mobil. What do you think? sekarang tinggal cari siapa yang bisa bikinin, hehehe.. ;-)

sometimes I think that my husband and I are such spontaneous persons . we do the unthinkable. well at least for me *takut suami protes* :P and here we do it again. instead of buying a dining table , we end up ordering one TV table, one buffet table (which I called meja belakang sofa) and coffee table. this is probably because up until today, I haven't found a decent dining table which I like. I want a dining table that can capture my heart at first sight. I know I am being perfectionist. but for me, I don't mind paying a bit more as long as I like it. it's worthed . and that was exactly what I felt when I saw our tables (the TV table et al). it looked sooo beautiful. the carpenter said other costumers like our design and almost want to buy them if the carpenter didn't mention that those are ours. Alhamdulillah. too bad i forgot to take pictures of them. the carpenter will deliver it to our house this weekend, I will try to remember to bring my camera and share with y...