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Our New Habit

Thea November 5th, 2008

There’s a moment that my hubby and I always wait for. Before going sleeping, we never miss our ritual, reading magazine and book. My hubby longs for time reading Tempo, his fave magazine and I will be drifted in my reading. Now I am reading a popular book about Nokia.

We know that reading in sleeping position isn’t good for our eye’s health. But we keep doing it anyway. I have been doing it since I was a child and Thanks God I don’t have any problem with my vision.

My hubby says that it’s one of the best moment, reading a book which eventually takes him to the sleepiness. There’s prominent change on his habit. Before married, he often sleep after 12 PM. But now, the maximum threshold is 9 PM because there’s a nice reading waiting. Good habit hun:)

Welcome Wet-Cool Rainy Season

Thea October 29th, 2008

Rainy season is underway. It has come since several days a go. It’s been leaving its mark on the muddy land, on the wet street, in the splash of water.

Rainy season this time is pretty much different with that last year. My time to arrive at home is longer. First because it’s farther. Then, when it rains, I prefer to go home by taking busway. Within my way home, I was so upset finding that the busway route was occupied by cars, buses and motorbikes. It took more than one hour to get to Jatipadang shelter, the nearest one with my home.

This is my first rainy season at new home, with a husband:). Last weekend, the ceiling was leaking. Thus, we had to deal with anything to prevent the water going everywhere in our room. I never had such problem before and suprised when it really happened to my house. Previously, I had my father to take care everything. This time, I have to fix it with my husband.

The temperature is getting chiller. When the time has passed its peak, the cool is getting lower. When raining, I have to gather more courage to get up early, conquering my lazyness to remain under warm blanket and wake up my husband.

I love this rainy season anyway because it’s just like a perfect time to sip hot jasmine tea. It’s very nice to have a cup of cappucino and enjoy it, only both of us or just stay under blanket while watching tv cable or reading interesting books.

I love this rainy season, just like its way. Welcome cool-wet rainy season.

Finally, Aora TV

Thea October 23rd, 2008

After discussing some considerations, finally we have a new channel at our home. My hubby, a football geek, can’t live without watching premiere league:p. And now, we’re one of Aora TV subscriber, though it only has several good channels.

Happy watching hun:)

Mudik

Thea September 25th, 2008

My satisfaction with the mass transportation in Indonesia is never fulfilled. Again, this year I am disappointed as I can’t go home to Jogja with the nice-affordable mode.

It’s commonly known that nearing to Eidl Mubarak, there’s a huge surge of people commuting from Jakarta to other cities. People are more than willing to take any risk, despite conditions such as poor facilities or increasing fares, as long as they can go home for celebrating Eidl Mubarak at their hometown. Unfortunately, the condition of transportation modes remains similar year by year. No improvements at all. No enhancement on the number, quality or access to get it. Even, recent years, mudik with motorcycle has been becoming a trend. Why? One of the reason as it’s cheap than taking buses or trains or planes. Meanwhile, motorcycle is basically not designed to transport people within far distance. Moreover, it’s less safer than anykind of mode.

Three years ago, the first year I worked at Jakarta, I stood in line for getting one ticket to go home to Jogja. That was my first ritual of mudik, anyway. i queued for almost two hours and started it since dawn just left, 5:30 in the morning to be precise. By the time I was getting near to the locket, I had to be discontent as it’s announced that the executive ticket was sold out. The one left was business class. I had no choice. And I got one business ticket, but only for a short period as I shortly sold it to a friend. My mum didn’t allow me to take the business class. ” It was too dangerous for a woman like you” She said.

The broker or middlemen, to my opinion, are very powerful in this “critical” moment. Can you find any reason why a locket which was just open about three minutes but could sell all tikcets quota?? It’s insane and ridiculous. It really happened when my friend queued for executive train ticket at Gambir early last month. That’s why I was so so so pessimistic if I can have one no matter effrorts I did, except buying with the broker itself:D. Don’t you think they cheat with the insiders:))??

This afternoon, my husband left me earlier to Jogja with Ayik, Ajik and Herman. They drive car and need to be at Jogja soon. Dad will embark from Bandung and pick Mummy at Cirebon. Both of them will take a car cruising the north coast route (pantura) in the peak moment. Tomorrow, in the evening, I’ll go with plane, whose fare is doubled than usual:((. Soon, we’ll meet at Jogja.

Anyway…”selamat mudik” everybody:)

RD & NG

Thea August 21st, 2008

The advantage of being two, my husband says is you can share yours with your partner and vice versa. For example, when deciding to buy a book, my husband asks for my consideration which is to buy, then of course I will give my opinion gladly to him. Unavoidable, in his choosing, there’s my reference. I can read his books and he can read mine as well.

We have our own reading but we never mind to share what we have. As for me, every month I always buy Reader Digest (RD). This tiny magazine is very helpful to help me learning English. Besides, the information contained is very various, from science, technology, health, psychology up to simple tips. How about my husband? He loves reading National Geographic (NG), a magazine to which I also fall in love. Not only does it contain knowledge, NG also drifts us to fall in love with the beautiful photos captured by its great photographers.

Until know, I keep buying the RD in the small shop-mart near my office. As the month is about to reach its end, I will always go there to find the newest edition. And at home, I read it and my husband would like to know what it’s all about too.

He said, “Hun, don’t discard the RD and NG, instead have all of theme bundled and we’ll display in our library, later in our own home”.

I ever caught him reading RD with full of concentration. Intrigued, I asked him” Why so serious, hun?” and his answer made me laugh,…”because it’s in English”:)).

Uupppss…then I remember what he ever said to me…”this magazine will be a friend of our guest if we have coffee shop or restaurant”. Yeah, a dream that we share together. It’s marriage, the art of sharing:)

If a Picture Paints a Thousand Words*

Thea July 9th, 2008

Why you love to photo? a friend asked me.

I just want to keep the moments, I replied. Keeping them in my mind isn’t enough, then sheets of photos are gift for me, assisting me to save the reminiscence. When I want to remember how innocent we were at our young age, the photo will be very helpful.

The pics, which I post in flickr and I keep in special folder in my pc taken from many occasions, by various cameras, and with different quality of brightness. Yet, I love to have all of them. In my down time, I often watch them one by one, sometimes I laugh remembering the funny story behind it. And about the sad story, I regard it as a lesson-learned:).

*the song title of Bread

The Make Up; Past vs Now

Thea July 2nd, 2008

Ever since i moved to Pasar Minggu, there is a thing changing slight significantly in my daily ritual.

When staying at Mampang Prapatan, which is relatively near from my office, I was used to do make-up at boarding house before going to work. Now, as the distance, I should say is far and takes more time, I decide to do the make-up at the office.

Why? Now, I need at least 45 minutes to get to the office (while previously only 15 minutes walk+ojek). Within my way to the office, I am so close with the dirt and dust, accompanied by the unfriendly pollution. Being 45 minutes in a bus makes my face sweaty. As the consequence, I wash my face once at the office. Should I apply the powder and its friends at home, then I have to re-do it at the office. Then I assume it will cost me much more:D. Therefore, I let my face plain leaving the house and make it a little bit more impressive at the office:P.  I load more stuff in my bag, not only a simple make up set like I brought before. And this ritual started effectively today.

Finally, at the New House

Thea June 30th, 2008

Last weekend, finally we moved to our new house. It took only one day, but the preparations spent two days. I needed a pick up car to load all my things. Refrigerator, TV, three suitcases, pillow, bed cover, boxes of shoes (more than ten shoes,hehehe) and other things.

Sunday is the execution day. Ogi and I worked together to clean up the floor and wash the dirty parts. One day before, we cruised along the Pramuka street to buy the bed. Having compared the price and stuff from one store to the other stores, finally we picked up one jati-wood bed with the spring bed. Afterward, we took the suit that Ogi ordered for our wedding. Once there, he tried the dark-brown suit and he looked great that way:D.

We had to buy bed cover for our bed and another necessary thing to start up our new house. Hence, we went to Plaza Semanggi in the Sunday Afternoon. We bought two bed sheets and it bed cover. We chose the color suited to the wall color of our room.

Moving house is very exhausting and needs extra money. Moreover, many things that we still have to buy. Stove and the gas, big cabinet just to name short of them. We plan to buy it next month, just after our marriage. This time, we just have to save our money just in case the wedding party budget will be swollen. As we finance our wedding party by ourselves, it definitely dries up our money:D. But we’re happy and proud as we can stand up with our own feet. Just can’t wait to make it. Now, we’re preparing for the greatest moment of our life:)

Woman’s Best Friend

Thea June 11th, 2008

What’s woman best friend? You can say friends, you may answer books, you may answer travelling. But this time i say shopping:)

This night, Wipi and I planned to take our best friend, Nora, who would go to Australia for pursuing her master degree. The plane’s managed to take off at 9 pm. Wipi, who’s lately very bussy with cyclon nargis, couldn’t escape from office earlier than 7.30 pm. Therefore, if everything ran within schedule, Wip would pick me up first and we’d go to airport. It turned out the plan didn’t run smoothly like we anticipated. The heavy traffic jam defenitly hampered our way to airport. Realizing that we couldn’t make it to the airport before nine, we just called Nora to let her go. She cried and we’re very sad.

As we canceled our errand to airport, we altered the destination. Where did we go? Centro at Plaza Semanggi. Wipi said, let’s get rid of our sadness by having new clothes. Oh my goodness, i already had my last one about three weeks ago. Yet, I couldn’t resist. The sale tag was very alluring. Finally, one cloth moved to my shopping bag. Stop please!!! I said to my self.

That exciting activity can help us forgetting our sadness for a moment. Shopping is indeed our best friends.

Our New Castle

Thea May 27th, 2008

Finally, we find our new house. It was found not in purpose. In Tuesday morning, Ogi passed a house with a “For rent” tag in the wall. And then, we called the number in the tag and asked further about the house’s specification.

After listening to the house owner explanation, we made an appointment to have a look at the house. In the afternoon, we went there and met a nice elderly couple who owns the house.

The house is just like what we look for. A quite large house with two bed rooms, a living room, a family room, kitchen and a garage. The neighborhood is nice. The water is clean. and the most important, the price is so friendly, suitable for our budget.

I believe that hunting a home is like looking for the Mr or Ms. Right. Need extra patience:p. Maybe the fortune star is shining above us. We get new house without exhausting efforts and with the quite cheap price. I just can’t wait my time managing the house and cooking in my lovely kitchen:)

We manage to move within months ahead, just one month before our wedding. Should you have a chance, please have a visit to our new small lovely castle at Pasar Minggu area. We’ll be ready with a cup of hot tea for you:)

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