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Weekly Roundup – 3rd Week of July

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Time to do a roundup again. I’m starting to love doing this. Last Tuesday, I had my first guest post over at The Urban Mama. They are one of the most influential Indonesian Mommy Website. Their readers were really sweet and gave me great response. Thanks TUM for having me. Don’t you just love something with a tag line “there is always a different story in every parenting style”. Word of the week in this household has been “Oh, man!!!” Told the Little Tornado it’s time for his bath, he grunted “Oh, maaaan!” same replies when I told him it’s time for bed. I’ve been so fascinated seeing him playing by himself and talking away imagining things while he built .....

Marital Culture Shock

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This is a more serious spin on my suppose-to-be-entertaining-list of things you’ll face after you married your foreigner husband. Marriages between two Indonesians with different tribes can cause problems, so a marriage with a foreigner means you’ll need bigger efforts to bridge the cultural differences, we did came from a totally different worlds so to speak. Although my past of living around expatriates did help to understand the western cultures, it doesn’t mean that it’s a smooth sailing for me – or for my husband. He will talk about it more so stay tuned. Marriage life means both parties needs to synchronize their differences and the process actually started before we got our marriage certificates. But surely dating and actually .....

That Demon Was Real

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photo credit: helgasms Some of you, especially mothers know what Baby Blues is all about. You might have read it somewhere or heard it through the grapevines, just like I had heard about it before and proclaimed that I would never go through one. Big mistake… With a difficult pregnancy caused by my severe preeclampsia, bed ridden for four weeks straight, two hospitalizations, never ending check-ups followed by an emergency c-section at 35th weeks of my pregnancy then later watched our newborn baby helplessly laying under an oxygen hood…it took a toll on me emotionally. What suppose to be happy new mommy moments seemed like a far away dream for me. Yes, I cried happy tears when I finally got .....

Weekly Round Up – First Week of July

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Been a rather busy start of the week here on my neck of the wood. Here’s what we’ve been up to: With how hard it has been for me to find a job here, I had decided that I’m going to try and start my own small business. By small I mean really really small…Let me introduce you to Creative Scoops… Since I’ve been doing these kinds of ‘freelance’ work before ever since I left my old job, I thought why not doing    it   formally? Well, maybe not formally until I can obtain my translator license. Wish me luck, guys! With my Dad leaving back to Zambia on July 7, we’ve been all over the place this weekend and I’ve .....

For The Love of Dog(s)

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Ever since I was little I knew I’m a dog person. As much as I love dogs, growing up we never have any dog in our house. It wasn’t until years later while I was working; my two younger brothers were in college living with me in a rental home when Danny (my youngest brother) got a pug. He was the cutest puppy ever. It was love at the first sight. He was my baby although ‘legally’ he belongs to my brother. Danny was busy with college or girlfriend(s) or whichever comes first so I took care of Bogel (means: Shorty in Indonesian’s slang) most of the time. Sadly he got sick, a skin conditions that mostly happened to pugs. .....

Hit The Road – Baby On Board!

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The first road trip Lil’ A and I did was almost a near suicide mission! Yeah, it’s that bad… Okay, before I scared the heck out of you – calm down! Each babies are different, some can tolerate a road trip better than others. If you’re lucky, your baby will be an angel during the whole trip. It was in August 2007, Lil’ A was only 8 months old and his Mommy was crazy or brave enough to agreed to go on a road trip with another mommy friend + her toddler (her little girl was around 1.5 years old at the time) to Houston, Texas from Dothan, Alabama. She actually drove to pick us up from Sarasota, Florida. So .....

Weekly Round Up

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So, after a small objection from Lil’ A about my blackberry, I took the weekend off not only from the phone (well almost! I still had to communicate with DH!) but also from my laptop and you know what it feels great! But I do miss reading the blogs I love – so will try to do some catch up soon. Milestone wise: The boy now speaks longer sentences, some words just spurted out of nowhere! Like last Saturday while playing with his small uncles and aunts (yes – technically he is their little nephew!) he blurted out “No! That’s not how you do that…here, let me show you!” with a very bossy tones it’s almost make me fell on .....

About Our Short Visit To Singapore

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All of these times Singapore has only been a transit spot for me, meaning I (or we) would fly there, stay at the airport then hopped into another flight out so I never really get a chance to explore the city before. We left Jakarta with the first flight out at 7AM that meant we left to the airport at 4AM. That’s one thing I hate about early flight but Lil’ A was excited and super giddy! Tickets were taken care of by DH as we flew with the airline he’s working for and our hotel in Singapore was taken care of by my brother who’s working for Marriott Hotel and have employee’s discounts for the rooms! Double advantages I .....

Universal Studio Singapore

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Another reason why we went to Singapore was to check out the newly open (well, they’re still on a soft-opening stage really) Universal Studio Singapore. It’s the first one opened in South East Asia. Location: Universal Studio Singapore is located within the Resort World Sentosa, on Sentosa Island. Reachable by cab, MRT or by bus. Easiest way would be to take a cab to Vivo City Mall like we did, only cost us around SGD$ 9 by cab from our hotel at the downtown Orchard Rd. From there we took the Sentosa Express (SGD $3/person) and stop right at Universal Studio a mere few minutes ride away. Opening Hours: Monday – Sunday: 10:00 am to 7:00 pm Thursday  – Sunday: .....

Taman Mini Indonesia Indah – Revisited

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After many years, last Saturday my mom & aunt suggested that we go to Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (literarily translated it means Indonesia Beautiful Miniature Park). It’s a cultured-based recreational area with rides and a lot of stuffs to offer but my favorite part is they house – literately speaking – traditional houses from every provinces of Indonesia. That means 26 different traditional houses, real size! Lil’ A who is train crazed was uber excited when we rode the monorail while his Oma nearly had a heart attack hahaha. Seriously my mom hates rides and basically afraid of heights! We didn’t get to check out the houses like I wanted because someone ehm…was too train focused so after the monorail .....

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