She's Gone

Saturday early morning (20/9/14), phone rang and suddenly I got up from my sleep. I saw who was calling, my mother. My heart was beating faster, because somehow I knew something not good happened. She's gone. My beloved grand mother is gone.

Only prayers that I can sent to her.. because I know, I did not do much while she was sick. May Allah accepts your kindness, Nek, for being mother for three generations, forgives your mistakes, and puts you in Jannah. Aamiin.  I also want to say thank you for people who nursed her when she was sick, my mother and all of my cousins who live in Bandung. I know we had done the best for her recovery, but Allah has better plan for her :'|

Now.. There won't be your pic again Nek if we travel to some places.. But don't worry, you're always still in my heart. Till we meet again, Nek.. I hope :)

Happy Moments with My Beloved Grandmom

Kids Activities

Surprisingly, there is a lot of activities that kids (even babies) can do. And I already realize it by looking back again to my Pinterest account. There is sooo many things to pin, to read, to do, related to parenting things that I have not known before. I am the last child in my family and I do not intensively relate to little children until I have my own daughter. So I am a newbie in this playing and having activities with kids.

Another thing that surprise me a lot is how western mothers are very diligent and care about their children's activity. They finds new ideas on kids activities and they are constantly write up on their own blog to share what have they already do. And, what surprised me the most is western mothers have including their religion into kids daily activities and mostly I find, they are Christian. They read the Bible verse to their child every day, tell them their prophets stories (regarding to Bible of course), and have a lot of media to teach their children about religion and God via toys and games that little children would like to do such as coloring, crafting, etc.

Another thing that I adore about western parenting is how they relate their kids into BOOKS. Yes, even since baby, they have given their children books. From books that contains only images, images with a little story to tell, until a real books. 

And then I look into myself. What has I done to my daughter (beside doing daily routine such as breastfeeding, bathing, feeding her, and buying her needs)? Am I introducing my religion in her daily activities? Am I educating her to be what I want her to be? Those questions are slapping me on the face.

And then I decided to follow what those western mothers do, to have my own daughter's activity every day. I usually do this activity at night (after my working hour) and in the weekend. Mostly I follow kids activities schedule in this link, beside the Bible related things of course. This link is like a very complete calendar: every day activity with different thing to learn every week and different theme every month. I also only utilize stuffs that I already have at home. It minimizes me not to buy a lot of things needed for support the activities. I only bought what I really really need such as:

- Coloring & crafting equipments: crayons, glue, coloring pencils, watercolors and brush. I only have used the crayons and glue.

- Some books:  one book about introducing vegetables and one book about 25 stories of Moslem Prophets.

Here they are the activities that I have tried with my daughter:

Month 1:

Theme: Creation, Adam & Eve

Gross motor: Rolling ball

Color: Red

Letters: A, B

Shape: Circle

Al-Quran: God created all things and He maintains everything (Az-Zumar:62)

Week 1 (taken from the link September - Week 1):

- Coloring house 

- Mommy dressed-up

- Baby-bottle bowling

Week 2 (taken from the link August - Week 1):

- Coloring apple

- Free-play dump and fill apple and balls

- Cut & color small apples, put apples in the floor and let your children put apples in lunch box

- Make "apple pie". On paper, make a circle (I using plate). Color it with brown and glue the small apples in top of brown circle paper.

- Rolling ball

- Coloring number 1 and 2

- Coloring letter Aa and Bb

- Read book about Adam and Eve

- Touch and play with real apples

- Sort ball by color

- Tell them: Allah made plants, grass, and dirt

Week 3 (taken from the link August - Week 2):

- Coloring bear

That's all until today.

Hope this useful for you, Mommies! 

And continue with so many other activities you can find on Pinterest! :D

Outdoor Weekend Activity

Here are my outdoor weekend activities in this two weeks:

Have Lunch @ Kampoeng Aer, Serpong

Located at Gading Golf Boulevard, Serpong, Tangerang Selatan, this place is suitable for family and business gathering. This place is wide, equipped with children playground, and moreover your children can ride bicycle which available there for free. You can choose whether you want to eat indoor or outdoor in gazebo. There is also a live band who plays updated songs, very very well played, and you can request songs you like too. The food is delicious with no MSG, they said. The drink is also fresh, you can order coconut, juice, smoothies, etc. For the price, it's quite expensive I think. Better go to this place in small group :p

I went there with my hubby and my daughter, my mother, and my sister's little family who already have 3 months baby :D Here are the photo:

Dinner @ Serpong Culinary Festival, Summarecon Mall Serpong

Summarecon Mall Serpong held an event, Serpong Culinary Festival, from August 15th to September 7th. The theme was Sulawesi culinary, which the menus are Coto Makassar, Mie Cakalang, etc., but there was another Indonesian food also. There was no entering ticket, but we must fill electric card first with some money and bought the food by using that card (just like Eat & Eat). There was also stage for live performing music like kolintang, Sulawesi traditional songs, and acoustic music. Behind the stage there was a huge boat as the symbol of Sulawesi people who likes to sail over the sea. Here are the photo:

Swimming @ Aquatic Fantasy, Telaga Golf Sawangan

My daughter already have a new swimming suit to wear (hehehe) so we decided to take her to swim at Aquatic Fantasy, located at Telaga Golf Residence at Sawangan, Depok. In the weekend, the entering ticket is IDR 35K per person (more than 2 years) or IDR 100K for family package (4 person). There is two swimming pool area, the first area is more for children, where the pool depth is shallow. In other area, there is still swimming pool for children but there is also swimming pool for adult. I tried the waterslide there :D We also can order food like fried rice, noodle, and kwetiaw in the cafetaria or buy snack like siomay (recommended), sausage, crepes, etc. Here are the photos: 

 

 Let's try another places on another weekend! :D

Arkadia

For several months, I went work to Arkadia Office Park. Located in South Jakarta, at TB Simatupang Street, this place is a green, comfortable, yet pretty fun to work inside there. Many trees planted, many places to eat to choose, from the cheap until the expensive one, from the food court until restaurant like Solaria and Starbucks, complete ATM center, bank, sports & spa center, etc. There are also food, clothes, and other type bazaar, also live music every month. It's like one stop living for people who work there. 

I kind of feeling closer to be a client (hahahah) since we are sharing tower with BP and PHE. Like to be more fashionable when went to office and feel happy can meet the face I have known before. Oh those times.. Only two days I had left from Arkadia but I miss it hehehe.. Except the access gate I think. Because of that thing, I come back to Tripatra Head Office hihihi..

Here I post some photos about this place, but taken from other source since I had not taken any photo there.

 Tower C or "Angin-Angin" where is so windy and many bazaars hold in this place 

Nestle Tower

Tower D (right) where I worked

 

 Greeny Corners

The Ambiance

The Fountain

Fish Pond

Swimming Pool

Tennis Court

The Bazaar

 Last but not least, sport I used to do in Lifespa: Step

And now I am thinking to go back there!!! Haha.. silly thoughts :p

Positivity

Surround yourself with positive and happy people, and than you surprisingly become one of them. Just smile, seek the best inside of you, do what you wanna reach, reach them, and than your smile becomes bigger than before. Repeat the cycle and forget negative feelings and negative people out there..