7 Happy Things This Week

How is your weekend? Your mother's day? I have lunch with my big family today to celebrate my sister's birthday (yesterday) and mother's day... I met my auntie, my grandma, mom and sister and her mom in law... so here we are..6 moms on the dinning table.. hahaha... we have a yummilicious chinese food! Sluuurrrp...*behave mom* kekekeke

Oh! My mom made this bracelet for me! I love this swarosvki (right spelling?!) crystal gems very much! The bracelet is far more beautiful than this picture though it doesn't use a gold cufflinks I still love it.. do you think I am a silly daughter? Instead of giving a gift for my mom, I receive this lovely gift? hahahaha.. thanks mom!! Love ya! *hope my mom read this post, ok mom?*

Last night, my hubby and I have an endless LOLOLIULIU when we all were together on the bed... clay and cliff were joining us laughing without knowing why we laughed that loud.. huahaha... WE REALLY LAUGH TILL WE FARTED! huahahaha... brooot here...brooot there.. broot everywhere.. huahahaha...

I really try to have a chat before bedtime with my family.. that means, I will be offline earlier and earlier... can't blog too late at night.. I invest my time to build a good communication as well as memories with my family... awww...so liu (sweet)... *liu liu* (blink blink) hehehe

For those who often hang out at LB's blog will know that now I am having fun to chup number 69 in his comment section... I've got 69, 169 and today Lisa booked the 269th comment for me..hahaha.. yes that's true! Lb's later post has more than 270 comments today and the numbers will be grow and grow and grow! We want to break a blogsphere book of records.. hahaha... aim to get 750-1000 comments at the end of the month.. hahaha.. the people over there think that number 69 is sexy number.. and what a coincident I got the number this time.. and look friends, I even find this sexy number at a book store! hahaha... I am not interested to see what is the book all about, just took the cover picture only.. hehehe...

Cliff had a cough again... this is the third day, but still under control, no need to see the doctor yet... and Clay has a week school holiday! So we will have fun the whole week.. me and the children..the daddy has to work of course.. hehehe *kiss hubby*

Yesterday, we went to a grand wedding party... the party was sooo... crazy.. because they sent 1000 invitations, that means there were around 2500-3000 people attended the place! We couldn't hardly enter the room, so packed..so crowded! We have to queue only to enter the room and could hardly move inside the room.. HA!! I gave up... I asked my hubby to go home or have dinner somewhere else instead of queuing for food and queuing to shake the brides' hands... With some efforts, we finally managed to meet the bride and the groom... and with difficulties as well, we finally manage to get out of the room... hahaha... Thanks God we found a friend, who also went home without eating, who parked the car nearby... so he helped us to get into our car that was parked so far from the building... pheww... no need to walk too far with this coughing Cliff.. :-)

Mary loved her little boy as I do...

Happy Mother's day to you, your moms, your wife or may be.. your daughter.. :-)



Early Photohunters can be seen here

Old Beautiful Days... Old Tracks that Will be Erased...

This May, the heart icon will be red again to support MANCHESTER UNITED... hahaha.. I hope by putting red hearts all over the blog, MU will feel the vibes and win all championship... kekekeke... Yes, you can chup this post!

Picturing of Life start this tag "Time Capsule". Looking forward for everyone to join with her in this new tag "Time Capsule".

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Let's fly to the old times!! I wanna be in my 4th birthday party... wow.. more than 30 years ago! Ha ha ha... I was surrounded by my love ones, so happy, no worries, no sorrows... just sing and smile and laugh... Look at my little sister, so cute as well! We always sing many songs together at birthdays with my cousins... I miss my beloved granny too! When Clay saw this video, he recognize his grand grand mother.. :-)

Still in the Time Capsules, this morning I burnt many many memories,diaries, letters, books, burnt them all! Good bye to the past! Too many troubles, too many boyfriends monkey loves hahaha.. just don't want my children read them and ask many useless things...hehehe..

I even found some lost friends' letters... I try to search them and google them, but can't find them...

Mr. Cordell Clark, a man who wrote me letters from Ontario, USA... we met at my mom's shop and he often sent me letters and pictures, back to 1994! I was in early twenties while he was 37 years old... hehehe...

I miss my triplets: Angie and Liz... from USA too, they are twins who share the same birth date with me, and Angie used to call me her triplet sister... Met her on the chat board... around that years as well... 90s... I thought it will be easy to find her in internet, but I still can't find her!

I write their name here, hopefully someday they will google their name and find this page, and contact me!!

Dear friends (yes, you, my readers!),
I always love our friendship, and I will sure look for you someday if you are MIA... so please keep in touch, don't make me miss you all too much ok! You always have a room in my heart!

Favorite Song

There are many things we couldn't understand,
why all these things happened in our life...
One thing I keep in my heart,
there is nothing happens that God doesn't care.

God understands God cares
every problems we have to face,
He will never let us struggle alone
because God cares...

This song is so powerful! I used to cry and cry and cry when I hear the song... if you never hear the song, you can hear Dwi sang the song for you in the previous post (mini series episode 5).. just watch 1 minute video.. ok? Hm.. just let me know what do you think about the song.. or about Dwi.. whatever... just let me know you hear the song.. *grin*

To Moms...

Mother's day is coming, you have Tribute to Moms blog to express your love to your mom... writing a post to thank her will be meaningful, you can email me your post about your mom and I will upload it to the site, especially for Mom around the world! I have something for you, my mommy friends in the Tribute to Moms as well... please do visit the site.

Still about mom... Do you always chat with your children before they sleep? When I was single, my sister, mom and me always often lying down on my parent's bed for about an hour to chat about everything... we do that almost every nights! We just lied down together, chit chat and laugh together. Hm..I miss those lovely nights! I think I should do this with my family and make it a good habit! It's really a quality and fun time, good for building communication as well...


I upload my conversation with Clifford, my 2,5 years old son here... please hear it, it's cute! I record it by my Ericsson K800i, secretly...

Hand in hand together (mini series episode 5)

Last Episode:
Dwi had been through surgery 25 times, and after 1,5 years at the hospital, the government stopped the economic support. Bethania came to Dwi’s parents to propose him because she didn’t want Dwi to be isolated in remote place.

They finally got married. Though both of their parents refused their marriage, they finally came to their wedding day. Dwi and Bethania really has to build Dwi’s self confidence in small steps. Dwi has to learn to have courage to face others and talk with people. He got the self confidence 4 years after the accident, it means that 2,5 first years of their marriage was spent in patient and struggles… Being rejected, isolated, treated as worthless, was so painful to Dwi. At that time, when somebody looked at him, Dwi thought he was regarded as rubbish, so useless. He has tried countless times to apply for a job but no one willing to give Dwi a job. He tried to start a chicken farming business but it was looted. In this hard time, Ibet always comforted him by saying that their future is in God’s hand, keep on going, keep on serving the Lord.

Ibet never be tired to make Dwi think positively, and she also never demanded that Dwi has to accept his new condition hurriedly. She understood that in Dwi’s condition, he needed some time to recover his self confidence and he needed to be accompanied sincerely and faithfully. Ibet showed her love through her patient and understanding. She really understood Dwi thoroughly, his background, his family, his needs, his conditions, etc.

“If you feel ashamed you will be more stumbled, therefore you have to learn to face the truth, learn to accept the fact with a big heart. When you manage to accept what has happened, you have move one step forward,” she always said that to Dwi. Ibet’s love can finally build Dwi’s character into a positive and strong one.

One day, Dwi was offered a job as an insurance agent. At first Ibeth felt this offer as a mock, because the person said,”Dwi, do you want to be an agent? It will be funny if you be an agent, the client will be scared and run away…” Dwi began to feel inferior,being said like that, but Ibet said to him,”Dwi, whatever that God has put in your hands, you have to do it in God’s name then you will be successful.” Dwi was given a target to get 1 client in two months, in fact, God made a way and he could get 45 clients in two months! He became the best agent in 2003!

Dwi’s self confidence was gradually recovered… He usually couldn’t stand being in crowds, walking at malls with many people staring at him… When they walked at malls, Ibeth held his hand and encouraged him to walk with lift his chin up. They even often heard someone sang,”Beauty and the Beast….” Dwi, now, can laugh at himself.

Dwi and Ibeth has a son name Gabriel Lawrence now. He is an extraordinary son! Everytime his friends come to his house, they usually scare to see his dad, surprise, scream and cry as soon as they see Dwi’s face. However, Gabriel calmly will always explain to his friends,”This is my daddy. He was not like this before. He was a pilot and when the plane was burnt, my dad became like this…” Dwi sometimes cries when he see Gabriel sleeping. He felt blessed… God is so good, in his bad condition he still has a family and even a child. God can do everything, though we may think it is impossible.
Wanna see him directly?

Here…watch this video!

Bandung Culinaire

Short Notice

After this post, I will write about mini series episode 5 and you can chup the post ok? Just be patient, I need some time to write. I also need your help, I want to post the audio file... how to do that? I have an audio file for you to hear... please help me, where can I upload the audio file and post it here?

Ok, let's talk about FOOD!

One fine day, 3 young women (me, my sis and my auntie) asked our grandma and her sister to have a lunch together... and here is our food... yum yum yum... Imagine 5 ladies have a Sundanese Party... waaaa so delicious! We, Bandung people, are Sundanese ethnic... we speak Sundanese as well, besides Indonesian. Just like I told Angeles and LB at the previous comment section, we said 'Mangga...' = please/help your self. 'Sit down please...=Mangga calik.'

Mangga in Indonesia means mango as well... and in Sundanese, mangga is called buah. Buah in Indonesia means fruits.. hehehe... Papaya in Indonesia is pepaya, while in Sundanese is gedang and gedang in Javanese is banana.. confuse already? Ok, let's see the food now!



Ah, we have fried gurame, grilled gurame, and fried chicken... you see the Liwet Rice? It's similar with nasi lemak as it was cooked in coconut gravy, but Liwet Rice has chillies, eggs, salty fish, bean sprouts, served in a jar (see the picture above and spy the Nasi Liwet). You have to try this food when you visit Bandung! The Mango Sambal is sluuuuuuuuuurp....!! It's sour, crunchy, a little bit salty and spicy of course.. perfect!



Do you know Sayur Asem? It's also freshy and yummy... red beans, green 'pumpkin', corn, long beans, added with palm sugar and asam (what is asam fruit in English?) it is not tangerine and I can't find the word! Gepuk is delicious as well.. a beef.. and karedok is like a raw gado gado... in peanut sauce.. see that belachan sambal? Sambal terasi!! Ya! Now I am really hungry!

My hubby protests that I should present the pictures in the same 'style' hahaha.. I said I am not that consistence... I made it spontaneously.. and now, I am too lazy to edit the pictures below.. hahaha... I am sorry!

Yesterday I had lunch with my mum and Cliff at The Valley. This is the restaurant I recommended to Farah before. The restaurant with great foods and beautiful views, night or day. The night view as seen on previous post, though it was taken from different restaurant, but it is similar view as the restaurants are near. The Valley is more expensive but the food is more delicious.... I took some pictures using my Sony Ericsson K800i, here is the menu... the price range is around Rp.35.000 - 120.000... average prices..hm.. more than Rp.50.000,-

and the table...


and this is dori teriyaki set menu, we order this and 3 bowls of rice... *grin* for me, my mom and cliff... Rp. 64.500 plus 21% tax and service... So this set + 2 bowls of rice cost me about Rp.84.000,-

Look at the sushi... salmon meat...hm.. I don't like raw meat too much so I gave them all to Clifford.. hehehe.. child need salmon for his brain, right?

Bandung oh Bandung...

This post is for my friend Farah, who will visit Bandung this May... Friends, you got to believe me that Bandung is a great city to visit and shop... read Farah's post about "I love to belanja in Bandung' to read how many clothes and bags and shoes she got when she visit Bandung last March! Hehehehe.... You got the direct flight from KL to Bandung as well! What are you waiting for? Here's my post about Bandung if you missed it.

Here Farah, the picture of 3 bedroom condominium at Aston Hotel... I've surveyed the hotel for you. Look... the dining living room with a large tv (though they didn't use plasma tv mount but it's nice enough), welcoming you... (Cliff was taking a picture of me who was taking a picture of him.. huehehe) We also got a clean kitchen, complete with utensils and a pan for you to cook, stove, fridge and microwave. A bathroom for 2 bedrooms, one single bed and one double bed... one more room is, the same double bed (I think it's queen bed) with a tv and bathroom inside the bedroom... bathroom with bathtub.


The hotel is located and connected with Braga City Walk, where you can find a food court with many choice of delicious food and the playground for your kids to kill the time... you got swimming pool as well in the hotel! So, are you happy with this one? *wink*

I still want to show you the restaurant, where Clay had a piano concert... here is the outdoor area while we can dine under the starry night... Clay was actually playing the piano inside the room...

And this is the Bandung at night, viewed from the restaurant... Isn't it great and beautiful? I always dream that someday I could have a house with this kind of view!! :-)

And next time, I think you will like this kind of Sundanese food, I got more more delicious food pictures but have to edit and resize them first! Waaa I am hungry now..