New Year

May we all have a happy, quiet and blessed new year and years to come, no more or no less... hugs!

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Potluck Satay

My potluck menu I bring today for our holiday season office potluck party....let's eat!



Krang Kring Resto

I am obsessed with any chalk wall...And now, I fall in love with the chalk glass painting if I could say so, at Krang Kring resto, Ciliwung street, Bandung.  Another Bandung community endless creativity,.......happy holiday!

Krang Kring resto Bandung

Red Velvet Whoopie Pie

On this holiday season, I had organized few assignments for the kiddos..

Starting today's assignment with red velvet whoopie pie cooking experiment.  I hope the result goes smoothly this time..I rang the kiddos just now, they said it's delicioso!  Can't wait to come home and taste...whoopie whoopie whoppie wooooo..I am coming!

Detik Food - Red Velvet Whoopie Pie



Mint Choco Cupcake

My latest cooking experiment with the kiddos..I melted mint choco with butter in the microwave, add 2 eggs and flour afterwards.  I split the cake mix into two so the kiddos won't fight for their portion.

Pretty well result..only the taste was more to brownies kukus than choco melt..ahh, I blamed it on the mint choco!

Museum Kebangkitan Nasional

Again, this was the eldest' request to visit any museum on the weekends and I accidentally found this place somehow..

Museum Kebangkitan Nasional is next to Paviliun Kartika, RSPAD Gatot Subroto, Jakarta.  

The place is quite spacious, and a bit spooky. It was used to be an old Javanese medical school.  No wonder they're wearing Javanese blangkon all over the place.

Entering the vintage building feels like passing through time tunnel and time has just stopped there..It made us wondering how the students studied with a limited medical equipment and stayed in the quiet dormitory....no internet, no wifi, no CSI sophisticated thingy with DNA identifier and computerized autopsy room? 

They must be very classy and high profile students! 

String Pinata

Promiseeeeee...this is gonna be my last post for bash preparation!  hmm...but someone could break her promise, right?

I also prepared Spongebob Pinata for the party but this time I decided not to do the bang bang..The idea was coming from my last pinata project where the 2 y.o. kid enthusiasticly banging the heavy stick and it turned out to be hitting other children,....sad!

I was putting several strings on the bottom of pinata - do not forget to glue a thinner paper to ease the pull out session...so we did a pull than bang pinata!

And look at their happy faces when pulling out the string, everybody got their turns!



Choco Melt

I know, i know..bit too much to post my bash preparation in several posts....I just could not help it!

I  made the choco melted cupcake because it's simple and yet it took less than 1 hour to bake 40 cups!

You are the Universe

Yes, this is how I feel about you, kiddos.......

You are the Universe, you're a driver, not a passenger in life!

Paper Vs Paper

One busy morning, on a meeting with one of my senior partner and the boss, I ended to an interesting conclusion.

Whenever we agreed on something, the three of us were automatically writing down on a piece of paper to take note.

This is odd, maybe, in the paperless digital world nowadays where we should easily write down with our smartphone....and on another mental notes : the boss is using IPhone and the others are having IPad including me (sigh!)

The most amazing was the partner : he's writing down on a small piece of paper, folded and slipped it on his wallet as he said it's heavy to carry an IPad....Hmmm, and I said : you need to get a personal assistant to carry.. (hahaha!)

I actually tried to use the so called hi-tech equip to simplify my life.  I sometime bring my IPad to read candidate's CV during my interview, but most of the time I skip and  whenever I pass on to my colleagues for another interview, they always ask for the print-out CV!

Conclusion : There's something that traditionally remains unchanged......PAPER!

Another Bash Four

I am not a bday party kinda mom though I like to decorate..for me, bday must be celebrated in a simple and quiet mode...Everyone have their own birthday date, isn't it?

But this time, since it was requested by the youngest and this is gonna be his last year at kindergarten, so why not?

I decided to go for a cheaper goody bag as mine was a small jar filled with hand puppets and choco biscuits  instead.  I bought a plastic jar cost me only IDR 3000 a piece, cut multicolor fabrics  (you could use any used fabrics or buy a cheaper one) and wrapped it with gold ribbon.  And I am done now!

Another Bash 3

And this is the 3rd preparation, the hand puppets!

I luv this, i saw this first at IKEA Abu Dhabi 2 years back and it should be perfect for the goody bag, light and handy...Lucky, they are still on production till now, Yeay!

Happy Foccacia

My level of happiness is simple...and is when you were having Starbuck Foccacia for your breakfast..simple, isn't it?

IKEA Wishlist

My 3 IKEA wishlist from my last trip to Singapore, which will continue as my wishlist till I find a way to ship  to Jakarta..cross finger!