15th January 2010

Kaktus and the new years eve dinner stories…

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yihaa…(mentang-mentang lagi ngafe@Black Canyon neh critanya jadi rada terkena atmosphere western2 gitu …)

My hubby n i lagi pake free wifi-nya Black Canyon. Dengan cergasnya dia mendonlot-donlot segala macem jurnal kedokteran, mumpung gretong kan…hihihi…

It’s been a month and 2 days since i set foot here. Kayaknya udah lumayan terbiasa ama ritme kehidupan sini.  Tapi memanggg, masih butuh penyesuaian di sana sini. Ehm, well eniwei, sbenernya mau cerita ttg hal-hal kejadian everyday, my habitual action hahaha. Cuman ada 1 hal yang masih terngiang-ngiang di kepala n mendesak pengen dimunculin di blog (narsis neh critanya…).

Last year, on Dec.31,2009, ceritanya si hubby mau gave me a gift by staying 3days 2 nite @hotel. Katanya, pengen suasana baru aja. So, there we go, bobo @ the hotel yang ternyata packagenya include new years eve gala dinner.

Padahal, that nite kita udah diundang ama keluarga Dion n Lolita buat spent the last nite of 2009 @their lovely house, skalian papi n mami Dion, n juga Eldo the brother dateng dari Jawa. Trus, ada tante n spupu-spupu Dion yang laennya. Yah, pokokna ramee dah.

Berhubung di rumah Dion start jam 8-an,kita dinner dulu@the hotel skitar jam 7-an. Buffet dining, lumayan banyak pilihan buat si manusia roti ini hihi. Dessertnya bener-bener mengundang selera kite. Si hubby sibuk milih main course yang memang jarang-jarang ada di menu sehari-hari kayak roasted turkey, ribs bbq,dll, aku malah melototin aneka pie, pudding, mouse, dll. Hehee, jadinya kalo kita cuman dapet 1 menu yang terdiri dari appetizer, main course, dessert, kita udah pasti ga bakal bertengkar kkkk…

After incip sana sini, kita berdua meluncur ke rumah Dion. Diiringi ujan gerimis rintik-rintik. Bener-bener feel@home di rumah Dion. Ada orang tua n tante Dion, spupu-spupunya, reminded me to my big family back home. Kita mulai acara dengan sharing-sharing semua yang dateng di sana waktu itu. Buat aku, cukup bikin hati ini ceria lagi. Coz denger pengalaman spupu-spupu Dion yang scattered all around the places, cieeh…Jakarta, Pekanbaru, Mojokerto, and Rochester,NY. Gimana yah, as usual fuel up my spirit gitu. That there are lots of people struggle for their life out there. I’m totally not alone.

Thank you for Dion n Lolita for inviting me to the nice n warm new years eve dinner. Nanti foto-fotonya di upload di sini deh…promise ^_*.

Back to the hotel, buat countdown to 2010…

Ada satu percakapan ama si hubby yang bikin aku slalu pengen  slapped me on my own face for being so ignorant. Ceritanya di meja kita  ada sebentuk vas berisi kaktus yang lucu menurutku. Senggolsenggol tangan si hubby,”mau dong bikin ini satu, buat dipelihara dalam rumah”

kaktus-on-the-table-2

Si hubby dengan cool-nya diem aja sambil senyum simpul.

Beberapa hari kemudian, waktu bukain pager buat si hubby berangkat ke r.s,

kaktus-1

Ngekngok

Alamak, kita punya se-pot besar taneman kaktus itu, juga temennya yang jenis ini…

kaktus-on-2

So, hit me please…on the head…

Well, that nite, ini di luar per-kaktus-an, kita ngedapetin grandprize malem itu…tiket pp Garuda, Manado-Jakarta. Thank God for the blessings upon us.

Me, still, still, have a big urge to hit my own head for the ignorance of the cacti…huuuuhh…


29th December 2009

Mendung dung…

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Hellowww again…

As soon as i stepped my feet on Manado, almost every day I saw the cloud covered the sky above. Maybe it does not acknowledged as a good sign for someone in the new land, new environment, according to the grannies words. But, for me, it is a really good sign. Since, because of the heavy rain, the water debit at the lake (i don’t know which lake it is) is sufficient for the eletricity.

But, unfortunately, everything under the sun has two sided. The negative side of having cloudy sky almost every day is that the temptation of lazying around is getting higher and higher. I pictured myself as a polar bear lay over a big block of ice and drink a bottle of coca cola with stripped straw.

i didn't get the picture i mentioned, so i put this cute lil polar bear taken fromhttp://sweetiegirlz.wordpress.com

i didn't find the polar bear pic as i imagined before, so this one is quite funny i think, taken from somewhere around wordpress blog

It’s quite a changing in my life. Cooking, cleaning the house, washing clothes, etc,etc are not new for me. But, i did not get used to do them in a series everyday. So, i’m still working on it. Try to fit in.

Some of my married girl friends told me that they prefer to finish a hard case in office or face some annoying customers over domestic jobs. Well, i guess i shall consider join the club ^^. Naaah, it is not the time to surrender, it’s way too early.

Hmmmh, i think the picture of the polar bear does not represent me much, than i think the picture below will give u a better understanding on a lazying around stay at home housewife.

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taken from phillips.blog.com

15th December 2009

@Manado now…

Post Meta Posted by at 5:31 PM under the queen's bubbly words post a comment  4 Comments »

Helloooww my world…

The longest hiatus i ever had hehehehe…

Sorry ye, kalo kali ini emang karna halangan yang cuman kejadian sekali seumur idup..kkk…buat crita2 pesta dsb,dsb nya, as soon as possible ya…

Currently, i’m trying to fit myself to the new environment and status,too. So, i gotta put a big bag of attention on them.

Kali ini aku cuman mau quote myself…

Mungkin aku memang cocok di kota yang angkotnya ngadep depan…

i did fit in Beijing, n i gotta feeling that i do really fit in here…^^v

9th November 2009

complicated? naaaah…

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Huhuhu.

I’ve just finished my labelling duty. Labelling here can be best described as putting the self adhesive label in front of the invitation card. Ehmmm, yes, they are my wedding invitation (background music: original classical wedding hymne). Since it will be held in Jakarta, I do not invite many people to come. Just some closest friends (the circle of series of sisterhood…^^) and some relatives n friends of the family who happened to be in Jakarta and surroundings.

things i've been dealing with for the last an hour...

things i've been dealing with for the last an hour...

I have a bad habit to procrastinate duty or errand that i thought would be difficult in the process. It happened this afternoon. Before I started to begin the labelling thingy (well, u know, u should print the name and address on the self  adhesive label, which is not have regular pattern. You should do the trial-and-error method to have it finished), i have a visual in my mind that it will be such an annoying activity that should not be done in the middle of a cozy sunday afternoon. Sounds toooo lazy, aren’t I?.

Then, i realize that i don’t have a printer back in Jember (i am currently in Malang) and it will draw more times to have my invitation cards sent, if  i did the duty in Jember. So, i put my lazy ass on the chair in front of the computer n starting to type a few names. I tried to print them on the back of the self adhesive labels. Of course I did not get the best result on the first shot. After I saw the first printing result, i managed to calculate how much row or column should i move or add. On the second trial, I got the bigger picture about how to put them right. Finally, on the third trial, I decided to print them directly to the blank white  self  adhesive label.

Silly me, i felt a little bit PROUD about my small success…(i do really embarass in admitting the proud feeling). I finished the duty not more than half  an hour. I’m very thankful that i made a best decision to do it right here right now in Malang.

Sometimes, in real life, i face some real problem that actually smaller than i have them in mind. But, it’s really the mind that has it set, so that it looks bigger than the actual. So, i have to start think the problem as big as the real one, and stop making my ability to solve them smaller than the actual.

4th November 2009

Kesiyan, tapi mau numpahin marah ke siapa?

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sakitBeberapa hari yang lalu, dengan amat sangat terpaksa, aku balik ke dokter buat kontrol perut yang ga segera beres dari masalah diare ini. Entah apa yang terjadi di dalam sono, masih ada suara-suara air bergemericik, sesekali diiringi suara gemuruh gitu hahaha, eh tapi ini beneran lho. Kata orang-orang sih, mungkin terlalu nervous mau merit. Hmmmh, masa sih?tapi ga tau juga ya..^^

Kurang beberapa jam mau berangkat, eh eh eh, ternyata si bibik di rumah bilang tenggorokannya serik n batuk. So, mamih nyuruh si dia ikutan periksa ke dokter juga. Berangkatlah kita ke dokter langganan (hehe, nadanya kayak “tukang sayur langganan” gitu ya,sori dok)

Sebelomnya aku rewind dulu, si bibik ini punya kebiasaan minum satu jenis obat yang sebenernya termasuk jenis obat alergi, namanya L*n*d*x*n, sebenernya udah dari kapan ari si mamih nyuruh si bibik ini berhenti, cuman menurut pengakuannya, dia udah minum sejak pertama kali nglahirin anaknya (fyi, anaknya 2, n udah punya 2 cucu juga dia). Pertama kali dia minum, “Dikasih sama ibu (=emaknya)sehabis nglahirkan”,gitu katanya.  Seluruh orang dewasa di desa dia minum, karna dianggap vitamin, yup, i repeat V-I-T-A-M-I-N…

Selidik punya selidik, menurut google efek samping dari obat ini peningkatan rangsangan getah bening, berkeringat, sakit kepala, luka yang tidak sembuh-sembuh, gangguan siklus haid, dan mempengaruhi pertumbuhan anak. Di kolom PERINGATAN & PERHATIAN tertulis:

  • Harus diberikan secara hati-hati pada penderita jantung, diabetes militus, kerusakan ginjal kronis, dan penderita usia lanjut.
  • Menekan gejala khusus penyakit infeksi.
  • Pemakaian jangka panjang harus dihentikan secara berkala

Gila juga si bibik ini, dibilangin kagak percaya, malah bilang,”Kalo saya ga minum, saya langsung lemes, ga bisa kerja, non”. So, sampe sebelum ke dokter itu, dia tiap hari tetep minum obat ini.

Akhirnya, karena aku pikir skalian lah, mungkin si bibik ga mau denger, karna yang bilang kita-kita, bukan dokter, sewaktu pak dokter nulisin resep, aku nyeletuk,”ini dok, dia punya kebiasaan minum L*n*d*x*n, sejak lama”. Pak dokter yang tadinya tenang sambil nulis resep, tiba-tiba berhenti nulis sambil agak melotot ke si bibik,”lho, jangan lho, obat itu selain menimbulkan efek ketagihan, juga pemakaian jangka panjang bikin tulang keropos, ngehantam maag, ginjal, dll”. Pak dokter nyuruh si bibik ngurangin pelan-pelan dosis tablet yang diminum. Terakhir sebelum balik lagi nulis resep, pak dokter ngadep ke aku sambil bilang,”Memang banyak orang yang seperti dia. Biasanya orang-orang yang cuman mau untung banyak. Padal obat jenis ini di Amerika gak bisa sembarangan beli”. Si bibik cuman manggut-manggut n senyum-senyum agak malu ke aku.

Waktu perjalanan pulang, aku nanya si bibik…

emang siapa yang jualan obat itu di desa?

ada orang, dateng naik mobil gitu

sampe sekarang orang-orang desa masih tetep minum obat ini?

iya,soalnya kalo ga lemes, non…

Sebegitu kejemnya dunia ya, sampai keselamatan orang juga dikorbankan, hanya demi kantong sendiri. Kesiyan bener mereka. Mungkin karena pernah ngeliat betapa tersiksanya my beloved grandma karna gangguan ginjalnya. Sakit ginjal itu ga murah lho, n belom lagi sakitnya yang macem-macem. Cuman bisa krasa miris, n berdoa supaya Tuhan beri kesehatan lebih untuk orang-orang yang sudah terbohongi.

Dan buat yang udah dengan tega ngebohongin, well, uang memang penting, tapi bukan yang terpenting, guys. Satu lagi, ada hukum tabur tuai lho, ato kalo sulit dimengerti, ada lho yang namanya karma. So, siap-siap aja deh…^^

p.s: the pic of cute girl above is not mine


23rd October 2009

You’ll never know, until you have it yourself

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It’s been 5 (five) straight days for me to help my mom in the store. Fyi, the store was newly opened for 5 days also. I have just realize that I am not suitable in just staying in store. Well, i’m not the one who can be a storekeeper. I think I will be most suitable as a buyer. Yup, yup…a buyer. I pick stuffs from the supplier and deal the prices.

Well, this post is not aimed to be the post where the writer complains the most, but I just want to write down the feeling from my point of view, the store owner daughter of a store owner, especially the one who still run it with traditional system.

It’s almost been 10 years (calculated from the year I got my 1st job  ^^) that I viewed life on the other side. It was definitely the opposite of the employer’s point of view. It was the place where someone will always think,”It does not make a big effect for me whether the customers buy our company’s products or not, I still got the salary”. The thing was that I did not realize that I have that kind of thought! (i feel like Nicole Kidman, in her movie, The Hours). I’m sort of shocking a little bit. Because actually, I spent 5 years to work in family’s business, and I still did not change my point of view towards my job. Fyi, if my mom or her siblings read this blog, I will surely get a long speech along my weekend. Thank God, nobody (in the circle of my mom n her siblings) reads this blog, especially the one which using english. I suppose…

Become a shop owner is not as easy as i thought. If someone ask me to tell about what kind of thing that will burden me the most, I will be mention 2 (two) things. First, it will be about how I throw those things in the market before the deadine and the last thing will be the waiting (of customers) to come in to the store and spend the money. I obviously understand now the statement that it is hard to make money nowadays. So, I should read and learn more to be an effective store owner.

Hopefully, this experience will teach me more about making my dreams come true..(especially in the field of money, works, and ……)

*smangattt*

4th September 2009

I am back on the couch…

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Heiii yeeaaaay…

Finally, i’m blogging again. Pardon my hiatus, pals. It was on July 21, 2009 that my last blog was created, besides my twitter’s update of course. I did super duper busy. No kidding. In August, I was at Surabaya from 3rd to 9th. Then, I went to Jakarta and stayed there from 9th to 17th. Last destination was Manado from 17th to 29th. Awesome, wasn’t i?.

Well, my journey successfully gained a conclusion that home is really sweet home!!. Even a travel addict like me will miss her own pillow at home.

The journey itself was not a holiday, nor business trip. It was mostly for the wedding party or any things related to it. You gotta doing it good, since it was only happened once in a lifetime, isn’t it?.

I am not writing the journey onto one post. It likely will be separated into some parts. I think there will be 4 or 5 parts that will tell about one journey, ehm…my journey.  See ya…very soon…

8th July 2009

Random ocassion…

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This is the first time I post something in random…but, really excited bout them all…^*

1. Today…AKU NYONTRENG

nyontreng!!!and kali ini rasanya bedaaa

nyontreng!!!and kali ini rasanya bedaaa

Sbenernya, entah karna dpt nya yang kacauw balauw ato terlalu sibuk, my mom n I did not get the kertas pemilih. Nah biasanya, kalo dah gini, kita males lah belabelain ke TPS, bawa KTP & KK. Apalagi untuk TPS ku ada aturan, kalo yang pake KTP nanti, jam 12 tet…Bisa dibayangkan khan, panasnya?. Tapi entah knapa, my mom & I tanpa dikomando, jam 12 udah rapi n siyap pergi ke TPS. Sampe sono, TPS nya sepi, n mom as usual nyapanyapa temen sekomplek yang jadi panitia. Trus, KTP n KK dicatet, kita dapet surat suara, menuju bilik contreng, n…srettt contreng, dilipet kertas suaranya, dimasupin kotak suara, celupcelup di tinta. Aneh, ada perasaan legaaa…

2. The Shawls has arrived…

me so likey...

me so likey...

my new beibeh arrived 2 days ago…

I shopped in here. First time I saw the shawl, i just know that these are the things I need for so long.

Check these awesome picture on how to wear them. Fyi, I took deep purple for classic shawl and london creme for the fringe one. Should I take the Krey?. Dun think so…we’ll see…

ini yang fringe,punyaku yang london creme

ini yang fringe,punyaku yang london creme

*photo belongs to cotton.ink

The classic one has now fringe, so it is just a regular one and I think it’s really suitable to have it in the cinema (sebagai alat bantu melawan udara AC kkkk…).

3. My head piece came in the same day with the shawls…

I don’t want to have ordinary things. That’s why I use to put something to make anything I work on is different from the others. So, for the engagement, I decide to have different hair piece (or head piece…) so that it will give different colours.

I found clay in Livia’s page. Thank’s to Livia and Elise of course, to make my dream come true…Clay has an online store in here. You can find it in Facebook under the name KLEITION

These are my babbies now…

1st beib...

1st beib...

and this…

2nd beib

2nd beib

maniss kan?…^^

*all photos belong to Kleition

Last but not least, sebenernya ini lebih ke keluhkesah.

I love to watch movie in the cinema. Sayangnya, selama 1,5 taon tinggal di Malang, cuman kira-kira (seingetinget nya…)5 kali!!!

1. Pelemnya Nicole Kidman ama anak2 kecil yang ada 2nd sequelnya…(duuhh lupa judul)

2. Pelemnya Nicholas Saputra, 3 DOA 3 CINTA

3. Fast and Furious 3

4. Red Cliff

5. Terminator Salvation

dibawah ini sisa bukti kalo aku pernah nonton di Malang (mhmhm,udah mau aku buang, jadi perlu tempat mengabadikan, dimana lagi kalo ga di siniii…)

two title of dibuang sayang ...

two title of dibuang sayang ...

So, I hope in the new land of hope (a.k.a Manado), I hope he does not forget his promise…^^

So,enough for today’s random bubbling word…time to sleep now…

1st July 2009

First day of not having steady job…

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“Segala sesuatu pasti ada awalnya…”,

gitu kata nyokap waktu sore-sore sebelum hari pertama masuk SD kelas satu…waktu itu perut udah mules,takut ga punya temen (pemikiran imut waktu kecil dulu yaa)…

Nah, ini juga yang aku rasain sekarang. Hari pertama tanpa pekerjaan tetapss… Sementara ada kakak salon (wuiiidiih) doing something on my hair, I can feel that I can’t make my mind to stop thinking about any kind of business yang bisa menghasilkan kkkkk demi keberlangsungan gaya hidup. Sbenernya sih sayang yah,udah resign skarang, Padal hari “H” masiiii…5 bulan lage. Apa daya, hal-hal yang harus diurus banyak pula (mengingat jarak Jember-Manado)…surat ini itu,foto prewed,ntar buat resepsi inih ituh…whuuuaahh…

Yah,kalo buka jadwal,memang 2-3 bulan ini udah packed ama schedule,apalagi bulan agustus ntar…cuman, kayaknya kegiatan-kegiatan yang meng”hasil”kan itu masih rada minim…hihihi…*plakplak*. But,I’ll do my best deh, mumpung masih belom diboyong (aiihh…)ke sono. Take more quality times with family n friends, especially with mom n aunties…can’t imagine away in Sulawesi without their laughs hahhahaa…

Well, me sooo likey, baca-baca biografi orang-orang terkenal,ato just “orang” ajah,tanpa embel-embel terkenal. Nowadays, di koran ato majalah, kan sering banget ada cerita sukses orang-orang yang kena phk,korban bom bali,ato lumpur lapindo,gimana mereka bangkit dari keterpurukan. Kayaknya, kayaknya neh, dirikuw lagi pada fase jatuh-n-mau-bangkit neh…kkkk…or, sbenernya I just have to be more relax a little,then ideas will come more n more???

23rd June 2009

Time to organize…

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*taken from: flickr.com

I’ve just come to a conclusion that the day, not the “w” day,it’s the engangement day. It has come closer, closer…

Kerasanya gini, this evening, around 3 o’clock p.m. I chatted with him.  It’ s different from our yesterday’s chattings. It was  about buying the airtickets. Airtickets for his family.also for himself. Which flight should he take and which time should he booked the tickets for the families members who will come to our engagement (which only a month and several days ahead…help help…)

Today, our discussion involved the vendors also.  Mostly I did the telephones and texting them.  Well, the end of the chatting thingy which was around 5 o’clock in the evening, we have made several appointments with the vendors. Starting from 1st August 2009 till almost the end of August 2009, there will be hard to find times to meet me (vendors, suppliers, please note this kkkkk…).

I never imagined that conducting an engagement and a wedding party from two places distracted by mountains and seas (Manado and Malang, Jember eventually after June 2009) will be this hard. Not easy, but yup, we’re survived. Please help us in prays.

And I think I should wrote all of the engagement I’ve made,so that I won’t miss some things.

Meanwhile, I have not packing all of my stuff since I have to move out from Malang base to Jember in the early of July, 2009. H-E-L-P!!!
p.s:do you guys notice that I use “I” to mention myself and will use “thequeenherself” or just simply “queen” in a quite relaxing moments. Which one do you like best?

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