I'll Be Home for Christmas

Yupp... we'll be home for christmas. Semua ticket udah dibeli dan terakhir tadi baru diambil dari travel agent. Sesuai lagunya...

I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS...

Reusable Bags

Ini tambahan informasi tentang reusable bags.

Gue ambil dari: http://www.ecorecycle.sustainability.vic.gov.au/resources/documents/Plastic_Bag_Free_Challenge_-_Factsheet.pdf.

Or you can go to this site: http://environment.about.com/od/recycling/a/reusablebags.htm

Let's save our world for better place for our children. Small thing will be matter (even probably won't put us on the news if we are not celebrity) So frinds..let's go green!!!

Nathan Mo Jadi Apa Kalo Udah Besar???

Cuma selingan aja...

Hari Minggu lalu sambil makan siang di rumah makan langganan kita sepulang gereja, suami gue had discussion with Ariel on what he would like to become. Hhmm..katanya dia udah berubah pikiran untuk jadi dokter, lagi mikir-mikir on becoming something else and crossed on his mind to become a traffic engineer. Huehehe..pengen jadi kek Mamanya, ngkali yee... Trus..banyak deh yang mereka berdua bicarakan. Sampe akhirnya suami gue nanya ke Nathan (my youngest one) tentang cita-cita klu udah gede nanti.

Jawabannya mantuaabbbb...dan meyakinkan: 'Mo jadi Jedi!!!'.

What a dream!!!...

Kog 'dia' masuk berita?!?

Beberapa hari yang lalu gue baca2 di detikhot.com tentang Christian Sugiono. Kebetulan topiknya tentang dia yang masuk berita gara-garanya belanja selalu membawa tas sendiri. Trus...yah gue komplen ama suami gue. Gara-garanya, koq gue yang udah berbulan-bulan belanja bawa tas belanja sendiri ga pernah masuk berita, yah??

Dengan entengnya suami gue jawab, yah iyalah..elo khan ga selebriti? Hiks..Emang klu ga selebriti, tindakan kecil gue untuk save the world do not count, yah???

Nasib..nasib..

Beres, deh..(sebagian hiks..)

Udah lama banget kayaknya ga posting. Yah..mumpung lagi mentok otak dan komputer gue pada ngambek. Heran, deh..desktop dan laptop gue ga running bagus untuk CUBE. Gue udah bosan setengah hidup, nih.. Hiks.. Yah udah sambil menenangkan pikiran, gue curhat di sini aja. Hehehe...

Lebih dari sebulan lalu gue requested ke RE agent gue kalo mo perpanjang rumah sewain ini lagi. Sekalian propose supaya ga naikin harga untuk sewa tahun depan. Gue dengar2 selentingan teman2 kalo harga sewa itu biasanya akan naik tiap tahun sebesar 10%. OMG..ga kuat deh gue bayarnya. Jadi sepakat dgn suami, kalo kita request dari awal yah..mudah2an si landslor belum mikir masalah naikin harga. Mudah2an yah...

Di tempat agent gue, yah..gue sampaikan permintaan gue kalo mo perpanjang tuh rumah setahun lagi dan kalo bisa...kalo bisa nih..harga diturunin. Hihihi..not even proposed minta harga sama. Trus..dijawab ama si agent klu soal perpanjang, untuk fully hak si pemilik rumah. Apa dia tetap ingin put the house for lease or he will come back and live in the house. Soalnya si landlord gue kerja di airforce dan kebetulan pindah tugas ke Canberra beberapa tahun belakangan ini. So..kemungkinan 50 - 50, khan? Kepastiannya...umumnya akan diberi notice 1 month prior the lease end. OMG..gue harus punya alternative, nih...

Nah, soal harga...si agent bilang klu gue betul2...betul2...(sampe 2 kali diasebutin betul2-nya, deh..) mendapat harga yang fair untuk kualitas rumah itu. So..soal turun, hhmmm...ga mungkin lah yaow.. Hiks..lagi deh gue...

But..luckily, minggu lalu yang artinya 2 bulan sebelum masa kontrak rumah gue berahir, gue dapat surat lease renewal dari LJ Hooker (RE agent gue). Isinya adalah perpanjangan kontrak rumah 1 tahun lagi dengan harga...COBA TEBAK....sama, bo'. Mereka ga naikin harganya untuk setahun ke dapan. Oh..senangnya...senangnya..

Langsung deh..suami dan gue tanda-tangan dan mulangi surat itu 2 hari yang lalu. So..horrree...gue ga mesti hunting rumah dan ngurus pindah2 barang. Thanks, God... Satu masalah sudah terselesaikan..

People by Mother Theresa

This morning for the first time I heard this poem. I am not kind of poem-person. Never look for it nor have a passion trying to write one. Only if any friend sent me a poem I enjoyed reading it. So friends..I would like to put this poem here. Hope you will enjoy it as well as me today.

People - By Mother Theresa

People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centred;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you've got anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.

Taken from : http://corporate.skynet.be/zen/mother.htm

Dinner at Our Place

Yyuupp...after sedikit kerja keras dan panik, akhirnya gue bisa selesaikan semua urusan masak tepat pada waktunya. Gimana ga stress..waktu gue mepet banget. Setelah selesai renang, mesti belanja ke kota dan mampir ke rumah teman Malaysia gue. Ada 2 orang yang ngundang untuk lebaran, satu teman kuliah gue dan satu lagi orang tua dari teman anak gue. Ga enak kalo ditolak, jadi...meskipun mampirnya cuma 15 menitan tetap harus dijalani. Pokoke kemarin semua pake hitungan menit. Ffiiuuhhh...

Yah..sambil ngeliatin jam terus, tangan kerja terus.. Klu kaki juga bisa dipake buat motong dan bersihin sayur, gue pake dah.. Ini juga sambil beberes, loh.. Tahukan kalo anak gue 3 orang and cowok semua, rumah serasa bagaikan kena angin taufan melulu. hihihi..

Finally at 18.30 everything had been set. Akhirnya...leganya gue n suami gue telp, Eyal nanya gue mo dibawain apa. Gue bilang gak perlu bawa apa2. Dia ga mau, It was his custom to bring a company for friend's house along with all the happiness, he said. Well, just don't bring wine, I said since we will have durian for dessert and it is not good to have it along with wine. So he brought chocolate instead. My favourite..hehehe...

It was really a casual dinner and I served Indonesia foods I could make. He loved to try any kind of foods. And on their biz trip to India few months back, he was the only Caucasian that did not get food poisons there. The other 4 got sick and had to be hospitilized. haha! Then Bangalore soon became their nightmare. Poor them. So I would not be worry to prepare a bit spicy food since Eyal could handle it perfectly.

I bought durian. Not only one but 2. My husband told me that during their biz trip back to Batam last June, they eat 6 durians and just sat at the side of the street and enjoyed it. Just the 2 of them. It was the 1 st time Eyal ever enjoyed durian and he loved it. It was true. He finished big part of those durians, actually. He even claimed that durian is one of the connoisseur food. And he said durian was the fruit of heaven, the fruit for angels. Ha! Even elephant eats durian, I added.

We did had a good time. I promised him when the weather becaming warmer, we can have a nice and delicious indonesian bbq at our backyard. It won't be long since summer is already on its way here.

Renang lagi..

Iya nih..ga bosan-bosannya ngomongin soal renang. Maklum...soalnya seminggu terakhir ini, itu aja kerjaan gue. Nongkrongin anak2 di kolam renang.

Hari ini adalah hari terakhir mereka ikut Swimming Vacation program, jadi tadi pagi datang juga langsung disodori sertificate. Duilleee...sertifikat mulu nih sekolah. Heheh..tapi anak2 gue senang banget nerimanya. Nah..setelah ganti baju, langsung deh..anak2 gue nyemplung dan kebetulan juga instrukturnya udah pada nunggu.

Ga lama kemudian si supervisor datang buat ngecek2 perkembangan murid2. Gue liat mereka diskusi agak banyak dgn instrukturnya Ariel dan Ariel kemudian disuruh melakukan backstroke style. Si supervisor tetap ngerasa kurang puas dan dia menyarankan Ariel teknik2 tertentu. Pada putaran ke-3 si supervisor mulai tersenyum dan bilang, 'well done!' Dan dia datang ke gue dan informasi kalo Ariel passed the backstroke with kicking and akan dapat serttifikat after the class. He will need to pass one more assessment for breathing then he will be ready for the next level, Marlin.

Ariel senang banget. He feel confident and exciting for the next assessment.

Sedikit informasi, di sini mereka mulai ngajari anak2 dengan freestyle and backstroke style. Klu di Indonesia, anak2 gue diajari breaststyle dulu baru freestyle. Jadi sampe sekarang breaststroke anak2 gue belum diliati, deh.. Ga apa..yang penting mereka exercising and more than that bisa ngilangi rasa 'eneg' mereka berenang. Now..they love to swim. Termasuk Nathan, he got one certificate already in successfully putting his head in the water. What a certificate, right? I am trying to book the class for him but it is still full for the next month. Hope he will get space soon.

Senangnya...senangnya..

Kemarin gue belanja ke Central Market karena malamnya kita ada acara ngundang atasan suami gue buat makan malam di rumah. It has been months suami gue mikir buat ngundang Eyal. Soalnya..suami gue ga gitu suka mencampurkan urusan kantor ke rumah. Dia pengen membuat hubungan dgn coleagues tetap profesional, katanya. Gue sih..punya pendapat yang berbeda, tapi let him to decide. They are his friends, after all. Sampe pada saat his biz trip to UK last July, he was invited to have dinner to Eyal's place. And he started to think to invite him back to our place and this was it. It was fine for me. I always enjoy company, actually..

Jadi setelah susun menu beberapa hari sebelumnya, gue belanja ke Thuan Phat buat beli apa yang perlu. Gue udah lama banget nyari bumbu Sate Padang merk Munik. Gue beli di Sydney beberapa bulan lalu dan it was running out very quckly. Hehehe.. Udah gue coba pesan dgn yang punya toko, tapi dia kayaknya kurang ngerti, deh... Sampe kemarin waktu gue lagi cari2 bumbu, ada bapak2 yang nyapa. Dia emang berdiri aja di depan rak2 bumbu Indonesia sambil nyatat2, en..gue cueki aja, sih..

Dia tegur gue dan nanya apa ada yang lain yang gue butuh tapi ga ada di sini?? Wah..kebetulan banget!!! Gue ini paling pantang ditawari, koq. Hihihi..langsung gue sambar tawarannya dan minta disediakan bumbu sate Padang. En..untungnya lagi dia ngerti ttg si bumbu Munik ini. Okay, katanya. Nanti akan dia stocked. Ada lagi yang lain??? Hhmmm...gue ga bisa mikir yang lain lagi, niy.. Si bapak itu bilang kalo lain kali gue pengen atau butuh sesuatu, tulis aja di selembar kertas dan kasih ke yang punya toko. Nanti yang punya toko akan kasih ke dia dan dia akan usahakan sediakan. Wah..senang banget.. Trims..a lot bapak distributor!!! Hehehe..

Nah, buat teman2 yang di Adelaide..ini informasi bisa dipake. Silahkan pesan, deh..