You Are My Candy Girl

I have two cute little nieces they are Ina (the girly one on the left) and Ira (the clown one on the right), they spent school holiday at my house on December and on that week my house is full of laughter and joy with these two little. Having them for a week I guess it's a little practice for me when one day I'm having my own little one, and oh boy they were pretty handful.
Unfortunately for me two days before my nieces coming, my house maid is on a leave and hubby need to go to the office due to end of the year deadline, so I was let alone taking care of my nieces and the house of course at that time my house was look like a crashed plane and I look like a zombie.
Between flipping pancakes, cleaning dishes, doing laundry and chasing them down the house to take bath, and other million chores since I'm also hosting my niece 7th birthday celebration, I was about to passed out being a full time house wife and mother was not a joke at all and I don't know how they have the energy to do it and still manage keeping up the house from collapsing.

Yumm strawberry pancakes!

Ha-ha seriously??!!

Pizza night

Hey fishy 

But it was a lot of fun and make me forgot that I'm really tired, we played dress up, video games, feeding and catching the fish, watching them singing and dancing especially Ira she can do a Gangnam style dance in her silly way I laugh my heart out when I see it.

Then it's time for Ira birthday, we decorate the house with balloons, I order a barbie birthday cake, my family coming and we're having lunch together it was so lovely.
I can't wait to spend another holiday with them and news flash my sister in law is 8th month pregnant so I'll be having a new nephew/niece (I hope it's a boy) I'm really happy being an aunt of these girls and I hope they don't grow up so fast so I can always played with them.
Until then I'm back to my normal life, taking a long bath, taking a full body massage, and my maid is also back from her leave (thanks God!)... See you next year girls!

Happy birthday chubby Ira ^^

Love them so much

We love pink yeaay ^^

KL Trip - Part 1

There's nothing more in this world that I love the most than going on a holiday to my favorite places and new places of course, just thinking about the idea make me so excited. This is sort of belated post on Novemb..err (if I'm not forgetting) me and my family take a little trip to Kuala Lumpur to attend my second cousin wedding and of course to experience the city of truly Asia. I mean seriously if New York is the melting pot of the world then Kuala Lumpur is the melting pot of Asia, they got Melayu, Chinese, India, middle east, and other Asian. Yet of all a lot of culture living in the city you would probably think would have highly dense population but of course you got it wrong because the city population is only 2 million people compare to Jakarta with 10 million people ...fiuhh.

rushing to the Airport with no make up on, I'll blame morning flight for that

On our second day at KL my parents and my aunt was going on sightseeing with the relatives from KL, meanwhile me and hubby decided to explore KL by our own with buses, subway and monorail luckily the public transportation at KL is way better than Jakarta. We visited KLCC (Kuala Lumpur Convention Center) one of the popular attractions in KL. My favorite part of KLCC is the huge landscape around KLCC, which I think bring quite relaxing  and refreshing atmosphere to the center of busy KL.

 

On the next days I wished I had taken more pictures of the food since I'm a food-natic, the food was so delicious Malay cuisine is rich of curry and spices kind like Indonesian food but stronger I think, my favorite are Lemak Rice, Tea Tarik and Kandar Rice hmmm...yum. And also I got many recommended places to eat from my Bos whose such a big fan of culinary and traveling but unfortunately I didn't get the chance to taste them all. I really enjoyed exploring KL with hubby, we went to Genting Highland, Bukit Bintang and One Utama, the only bad thing is I can get really moody when we're had been taking a very long walk but turn out that we've gone to the wrong direction this happen few times there, but thank God hubby still got some patience for me.

Satay on Madame Kwok

Sky way

Genting Highland

One Utama

New Days Has Come

Hey... happy new year everyone, wow it's 2013 already! I guess time really caught me off guard.

Valuable lessons I've learned from 2012 are ; People come and go in our lives let go those who walked out and welcome those who come in, always do good things while you can because good things happen to good people and God never sleep, hold your loved ones and tell them how much they meant for you, I'm personally still overcome the lost of my adopted little sister, she was adopted from a baby so our family is the only family she knew, it's been so hard since we're grew up together, we fight, we laugh and cry together and I was her shoulder to cry on. Sometimes I still couldn't believe my self that she's gone forever and I couldn't hear her silly laugh again....still I have to let her go because she's in a better place now, and she's not gone she will always in my heart. 

With all that said and done I'm very thankful for everything God given me in 2012, I believe that everything happen for a reason and that you can't control everything in your life, the bad and the good things.

I don't have any specific resolution in 2013, I just want to be a better person and to have a better life in general. Having a marriage life is a total life changer for me since my single life is all about having fun 24/7 ( I know stupid huh) and life as we know it doesn't last forever, but I'm totally blessed having a husband like mine he's my rock, my life, my love and my hope. I cant wait to build our dream and our little family together and I hope in 2013 our prays and dreams could come true.

2013 we're ready for ya!

Long Weekend Getaway

Yeaaaay.... I was so excited me and hubby went to Bandung last long weekend, our favorite city to get away for a while from the hectic life in Jakarta. We spent two nights there and we purposely avoid the down town Bandung because we want to spent time in peaceful and serenity side of Bandung so we go up on the hill of Dago Pakar. Unfortunately hubby is a little sick from cold a day before our trip so we spent most of our time at the hotel. Here are some pictures from our trip...enjoy!

Buffet breakfast is one of my fav thing, make me super full

Road trip!

a big pool on our first hotel that we don't have a chance to use due to non-stop rain

Posing by the pool... dear God look how chubby I'am now

The Stone Cafe

Our hotel room

So called candle light dinner

 We're having breakfast with this view

this pool on our 2nd hotel was a lot of fun

Over all we enjoyed our trip to Bandung, it just too bad that rain is pouring almost all the time during our trip and since I try to brave my self swimming during the cold rain now I'm getting the cold too, and maybe also getting infected germs from hubby...hatchoo!. See you on our next trip!

Asian Delight From My Messy Kitchen

I think that Asian food are the best food in the world, don't you agree? They're rich of flavor and spices. Over the weekend I'm experimenting with some recipes they are my favorite dish when I eat on Asian restaurant, since I'm just an amateur cook so I made it more simple version and so here it is....and in me and my husband opinion the taste was not bad at all.

Tom Yum Fried Rice

Ingredients :
2 minced garlic
3 citrus leaves
2 egg (scrambled them first)
1 table spoon seafood sauce
1 table spoon sweet soy sauce
1 pouch of Tom Yum paste
1 table spoon butter
2 plates of cooked rice
your favorite seafood i'm using : shrimp, squid and fish ball.

First stir-fry minced garlic and tom yum paste with butter, then add citrus leaves, and seafood sauce do this with small fire. After it start to smell nice add all the seafood (shrimp, squid and fish ball) and stir evenly don't over cooked the squid cause they could turn hard, just about 3mins and then add the rice, scrambled eggs and the sweet soy sauce, stir them up together until they showed some nice reddish-gold color. Ready to served!

Okonomiyaki (Japanese Pizza)

Ingredients :

8-9 table spoon wheat flour
2 eggs
half tea spoon baking powder
a table spoon butter
a cup of cold water
cabbage (thinly sliced)
carrot (thinly sliced)
lobster ball (boiled first and sliced)
salt & pepper


Toppings :
sea weed sheet
mayonaise
dried chilli

Sauce :
(mix together)
2 table spoon teriyaki sauce
2 table spoon seafood sauce
2 table spoon water

Mix all the ingredients together in a big bowl, mix it until it became nice slightly thick dough.

Pre heat a non sticky pan add butter, I'm using a double pan, then pour the dough evenly.

cook with small fire then after the bottom part is well done flip the dough and wait until the color become nicely gold. Then served it on a plate add the sauce and some toppings.

My Life On Captured

Here's what happen on my life recently as captured from my phone camera... xo

Express breakfast

isn't she a lovely lady

Katsu Udon!

 Posing with B'day girl

keep your cool girls!

My fav drink ever

Rainbow cake and Tiramisu Pudding

Sky Fall!

Caramel Popcorn

Yes, I really do!

Love is Getting Fat Together

Over the weekend since our house is currently on finishing process there's a lot of dust and loud noises from workers during the day (even on nights when the workers have to stayed for overtime until 9:00PM), making us super uncomfortable to stayed at home. I use it as an excuse to make my husband take me out on dates and for me good food equals good date. So we went out to town for a movie (actually every Friday night is our Movie Night), groceries shopping and a quest to look for delicious food in town. We're having a lot fun and also a lot of stuffing our face together .... so thank you Husband for making me happier and fatter.

Fries!

Zombie invasion on Friday night

Yeeay Ice cream!

Okay, be easy on the ice cream dear

Meat ball brown sauce cheese Pancake

Carbonara Fettucini

I love Nanny's Pavillon

Cookies and cream mix with Strawberry Cheese Cake

Lunch at Sapo Oriental

Posing with  my Matcha Red bean

A smile and a doughnut

Another posses with my Matcha