Mommy of twins

Happy Chinese New Year

2012-01-24T14:58:00.000+07:00

Hai......

mau cerita tentang sincia ...

Before D-day

Keluarga mama sama papa masih totok. Suka ditanya sama mama ~ in case gak pakai ~ koq gak pake baju merah...?

lagi BBM hubby : bagus gak? tapi ukuran M gak ada....

Ini yang sempet jadi dilema di Facebook... wkwkwk... Akibat mepet, telat banget ya baru nyari baju 2 hari sebelumnya, size yang tersedia cuma S dan XL. Size M dan L habis. Okee..pakai S sih muat, sangat pas, tapi harus menahan diri. Begitu agak rakus dikit, rasanya bakal sesek nih... Pakai size XL, kaya daster, bo... Akhirnya ambil yang S. It seemed that the universe answered my concern. Itu masakan sincia, mulai dari malam sincia sampe hari H nya..isinya daging semua *tepok jidat*

Kalo yang ini mah gak termasuk pertanyaan mama, tapi lebih berupa "panggilan jiwa"

my first 12cm high heels

Having baking-marathon ... cheesecake..!

Cari jalan keluar yang enak...bikin kue yang gampang aje...

buat mama

buat mertua

buat om (adik mama) : tempat kita ngumpul dinner malam sincia

Untung ada gerombolan imoet yang siap membantu .......

crushing oreo with serious faces

Luna lagi pegang spatula ~ bukan pisau ~ dia 'bertugas' pisahin oreo dari krim nya sementara Jov dan Bas 'menghancurkan' oreo. Setelah selesai urusan krim itu, dia ikut menggerus oreo.

D-day

Happy New Year....

One by one gong xi for angpao

Foto yang lain nya blur semua ....diwakilkan oleh Jov aja deh :b

Lunch di rumah mertua ~> gak foto *hiks*

Dinner di rumah mama

Our family wish you a happy, healthy and prosperous Lunar New Year..... {^,^}

Bento 181

2012-01-20T13:06:00.000+07:00

This is another bento for ~~lazy~~ busy morning ....

I know somebody who is crazy for coke

I made Coca Cola chicken wings.... Just click here for original recipe

Inside the box: chicken wings, onigiri half-wrapped with nori, carrots, zucchini, edamame, red bell pepper and strawberries.

It's gonna be a long weekend ... with Chinese New Year celebration will fall on next Monday 23 January. We do not have any getaway plan. We usually pay some visit to house of both parents and other elder relatives. Under tradition reason, we suppose to wear something new and something red. We will give some money in red envelopes to our kids and younger relatives too. I can imagine my parents and in-laws will have so many symbolic and delicious foods.

Oh..it makes me hungry now {^3^}

Have a great weekend....

Bento 180 it's Elmo

2012-01-19T11:42:00.000+07:00

Let's meet Elmo, shall we..?

for him

He had white steamed rice, cherry tomato "Elmo", chicken karaage, blanched broccoli, boiled carrot flower, purple potato flower, edamame, dragon fruits and a strawberry

I love making chicken karaage, since kids love it so much too and by intention, I made it in tiny bites.

The idea of Elmo making came from Cooking Gallery. Check out her great step-by-step tutorial.

I did not have orange pepper bell, thus I used carrot for his nose. Hm...not so round as I expected... :b

....until next time.....

Bento 179 A Chinese Girl

2012-01-18T11:42:00.000+07:00

I was curious still on yesterday about making bento with Chinese girl theme.

This morning, I quickly made this.

a Chinese girl with her rabbit

He had onigiri - a girl with hair buns - boiled chikuwa, edamame, cherry tomato, flower zucchini-carrot, rabbit quail egg, a grape and kiwi pieces.

The buns were made from rice-wrapped-nori.

Aaahhh...I forgot to add hair accessories {ha ha ha} onto her buns...

While half-done, little B approached me and said "what's your making, mom?" while accidentally chipped the girl's face...Ouch... Before I said a word, he quickly said "sorry...!" when noticing he got some rice on his finger. Hope it didn't make her less pretty. LOL

The quail egg was usual decorated with nori and cheddar sheet for her ears.

Wish you a wonderful day ....... >,<!

Bento 177 and 178

2012-01-17T11:41:00.000+07:00

Let's continue the preparation in welcoming Chinese New Year......yay....

for her

She had white rice mixed with beef floss, hanpen, carrot flower, sauteed green bean with tempeh and strawberry.

I wish to have a Chinese girl, but eventually she looked like a Japanese girl.

The girl hanpen was decorated with kani and nori.

for him

He had white rice mixed with beef floss, sauteed green bean with tempeh, carrot star, zucchini, edamame, hanpen, strawberry and grape.

In this box, the boy was made from hanpen also decorated with kani, cheese and jelly ball -thanks to Lia- for hat. His face was decorated with nori. He was carrying a kani red envelope.

Does he look like a Chinese boy to you? ^.^

Bento 176

2012-01-16T13:52:00.000+07:00

This week, once again, I need to 'survive' with only one house-helper and she just started to work for us less than a week. The other girl is taking her annual leave now and shall return by end of this week. I am not complaining...just a little bit anxious because she is so new with kids. However, I am grateful, in comparing with other houses without any helper, that I still have somebody who is looking after them. Eventually, they are getting along quite fast!

his and hers

This time, I had a chance to take a shot from twins' boxes.

Inside all boxes: white steamed rice, traditional yellow fried chicken, edamame, hanpen, rose apple and cherry.

The girl had Rabbit hanpen while the boys had bear hanpen.

I deliberately differentiate the spot of red kani bow to show a female rabbit and a male bear.

his

Hope it will brighten up their day. She was wearing a gloomy face this morning, perhaps she didn't sleep very well last nite.

{^,^}

Bento 175

2012-01-13T13:06:00.000+07:00

Kids are recovering from their illness. Their high fever only lasted for 2 days (Thank God for that!) but they still cough frequently. I made herbal drink made from grated ginger and honey, to soothe them.

This is the bento for today

Inside the box: Kongbap, chicken cordon bleu, stir-fry red pepper bell with mushrooms, quail eggs, cherries and an apple.

It was my first time to do cordon bleu and I didn't pound it. No wonder it looks ... eerr.. fat *well, I did pound it....ehm, twice. Pom! Pom! that's it ... done....* And the fried quail eggs were not as smooth as I expected. Will practice in some other time.

Happy weekend everyone...
I am trying to stay out from rain :)

Bento 174 little chick

2012-01-10T11:18:00.000+07:00

Everyone in my home seem under the weather now, started in last weekend, including their care-taker. I try to be the survivor to take care of them. They missed the school on yesterday due to high fever, common cold and sore throat, so no bento-making for me. Today J and B finally fit enough to return to classes. Hopefully L too will recover soon!

Well, it is not little after all... I made it a bit bigger hahaha

Pardon me for inferior quality of picture taking. I have done it inside since outside was raining.

Inside the box: yellow onigiri, boiled white egg, bear hanpen, flower kamaboko, butterfly green squash, flower carrot, edamame, mandarins and a cherry in the middle.

I tried not to fill the box too much. Their level of appetite is quite low still.

Have a nice day.... :)

Bento 173 plum blossom

2012-01-06T11:45:00.000+07:00

It is Friday again .... yay...

Last night I cooked pan fried salmon pieces. It dipped in whisked egg, fine bread crumb, back to the egg again and finally to white sesame seeds. For taste, rubbed salmon with salt-pepper prior to dipping and sprinkled some in crumb too.

They smells good .. using my new pan... and few drops of cooking oil only.

hm..they burnt a little bit ...must be from leaving them while washing black rice.

But they tasted good. Juicy tender inside while crunchy on the outside.

Here is the bento

Inside the box: sweet black rice, ladybug sausage, white sesame fried salmon, sauteed baby green bean with shiitake, plum blossom hanpen, strawberry and mini lemon wedge.

Somebody mentioned ladybug on yesterday and made me want to do one. Yeah, I missed its tentacle and black dots. Will improve it in later making {^.^}

Love the plum blossom that gave contrast to the rice. I made them from cheese-stuffed hanpen that my sister brought me .

My early Chinese New Year spirit pushed me to do it....

Have a great weekend everyone.

Bento 172

2012-01-05T12:08:00.001+07:00

Ever been in a condition when many ideas are running in your head then eventually you don't know what to do? I am in that state now..... Many bentoists suggest to write or draw ideas down in a journal. I know that I have too many excuses not to do so :b

So this morning, I came up with these ones

miss L's

mister J's

mister B's

Inside the box: white steamed rice, deep fried prawns in toothpicks, mushroom, flowered carrot, steamed green squash, boiled quail eggs (in some boxes), pink kamaboko, cherry tomato, zucchini, edamame, strawberry and grapes in cups.

Just to realize, mister B's portion was bigger than both L's and J's! How that to happen? By this semester, B started his class by 10 am while his elders remain at 7 am. Then, I have more than enough time to do his box than theirs. I guess it was too much for B *rolling eyes*

This morning I made one bento for hubby. Too bad he didn't give me a chance to take a snap of his box. The content almost similar with kids'. Start this year, he moved to another company. His new workplace is quite far away from home. I didn't want him to be late because of me.... LOL.

I found a deco tape!

See the tape that I used it on top of the shrimp-picks?

Love it...

Bento 171 pink piggy

2012-01-04T10:33:00.000+07:00

Good morning....

Today is their first day to return to school after Christmas and New year holidays. They were so excited to get back to class as they missed their classmates *so sweet!*

This is the bento that I made. Previously I did some bento in piggy theme, but not in pink, I suppose {^.^}

Inside the heart-shaped box: pink piggy onigiri - made from pink denbu- decorated with cheese for nose and ears, nori for eyes and mouth; boiled quail eggs, pan fried mini home-made burger, boiled cheese-stuffed hanpen, edamame, a mini mandarin and ketchup in orange cup.

The nose was cracked a little bit and I was too ~~lazy~~ hurry to replace it. Last night, I tried to make flowered quail eggs, using cutter. I guess it wasn't quite successful :p

Notice the pink Usagi rabbit food pick on the burger? I just bought a pack of them and excited to use one. Hope the rabbit will become a good companion for the pig LOL

Have a nice day.....

Oreo Cheesecake

2012-01-03T11:00:00.000+07:00

Happy new year...!!! 2012 will be a better year...definitely... \^o^/

Sudah lama banget gak baking cake....

Menjelang akhir tahun, 1 suster ijin cuti dan ternyata gak balik *pengen ngejitak dia* so, di rumah tinggal 1 suster aja sementara dari kemarin, gue uda masuk kerja lagi. Hm...kalo ada yang punya rekomendasi atau stock pembantu *kaya barang supermarket pakai istilah STOCK* dengan senang hati gue minta info ya...

Anyway, 'gatel' juga gak bikin-bikin. Biasanya gue suka bikin sesuatu untuk di kantor menjelang Natalan. Tahun ini telat banget ... hahaha

Then, karena udah niat, bahan-bahan cheesecake uda ada di kulkas.

eh, ketemu resep di sini

Baca resep sambil modifikasi karena gak ~~mudeng~~ paham deh baca resep pake cup, oz dan Farenheit. Just convert them and go!

Ini hasilnya

love the yellow surface color

Oreo Cheesecake

Bahan:
500 gr Cream Cheese, suhu ruangan
1/2 sendok teh bubuk vanilla

100 gr gula halus
120 ml heavy whipping cream

60 ml susu cair putih
2 telur

6 keping biskuit Oreo, cincang kasar

untuk base:

250 gr biskuit oreo, hancurkan halus
100 gr mentega tawar*, cairkan

*gue pakai salted butter...males ah nyari lagi yang unsalted...

Cara membuat:
1. Buat base cake: di dalam mangkok, campurkan biskuit dan mentega cair sambil diaduk dengan sendok. Tuang dan ratakan di dasar loyang bundar bongkar pasang ukuran diameter 22 cm, sambil ditekan-tekan dengan punggung sendok. Sisihkan ke dalam kulkas selama 1 jam.

2. Panaskan oven 160 derajat Celcius. Kocok cream cheese sampai lembut dengan mixer kecepatan rendah. Berturut-turut tambahkan vanilla bubuk, gula halus, susu cair dan whipping cream. Kocok hingga lembut dan tercampur rata.

3. Tambahkan telur satu per satu sambil terus dikocok rata. Masukkan separuh dari keping oreo cincang kasar.

4. Tuang adonan ke alas kue (base cake). Taburi dengan sisa keping oreo cincang kasar.

5. Panggang selama 35 sampai 40 menit atau sampai matang. Keluarkan dari oven, diamkan sebelum didinginkan di dalam kulkas minimal selama 4 jam atau semalam.

Gue mulai buat base cake jam 9 malam. Kelar baking hampir midnite. Oven gue kayanya butuh waktu lebih lama daripada 40 menit. Total oven time jadi 60 menit. Pas 40 menit pertama, penampakan kuenya masih seperti puding. Sisi tengah kue masih agak basah. Oiya, kalau mau dapat potongan yang lebih tinggi, pakai loyang yang lebih kecil, misal 20cm atau 18 cm gitu ....tapi jumlah slices nya jadi lebih sedikit juga ya.

Paginya, yang mencoba pertama kali adalah .... Sebastian! karena yang lainnya belum bangun.

percayalah .... porsi dia gak sebesar ini koq.....jauh lebih kecil .... {^.^}

Baru makan dua suap dan belum ditanya, dia sudah nyeletuk "enak, mommy!" Gue cuma nyobain secuil dikit dari porsi dia.

Hm....looks good, smells good walau kelihatannya agak soft. Karena dulu gue pernah bikin pakai strawberry, blueberry dan greentea, rasanya lebih 'padat' Mungkin juga karena ada oreo chopped di dalamnya. Gue bayangkan kalau terlalu padat, saat dipotong malah jadi kurang mulus karena gompal sana sini. Itu juga sisi bawahnya ada crack dikit karena potong kuenya harus dengan sepenuh hati ... dan tenaga! wkwkwk.....

Sebagian kuenya gue tinggal di rumah. Semalam Luna dan Jov tahu kalo gue bikin cheesecake. Mereka bisa nagih kalo gak disisakan. Termasuk bagi si sus yang uda bertahan sendirian dengan 3 anak. Yay.. Sebagian lagi gue bawa ke kantor dan langsung ludes .... mereka (juga) bilang "enak!" thanks, guys. Sorry buat yang gak kebagian ... anda kurang ~~beruntung~~ cepat. Oops!

Untuk yang mau mencoba resep, happy baking!

Untuk yang mau icip-icip (lagi), eerrr..... nunggu nanti mood gue nongol lagi yeh...

Until next time ... :b

Bento 170 Rudolph and Merry Christmas wish

2011-12-27T16:30:00.000+07:00

Merry Christmas everyone.

On 25th morning, I made this for my little sister whom spent nights in our home.

Rudolph the red nosed reindeer

Inside the box: sauteed long beans with red bell pepper, boiled kani with eggs, shimeji mushrooms, pink kamaboko, mini orange and white steamed rice beneath Rudolph.

He was made from egg sheet with some drops of sweet soy sauce, to create the color. His scarf and red nose were made from bell pepper.

She came home this time and brought me these... Thank you...:)

hanpen and kamaboko

From our home to yours

very tricky to take their pics, hm...

From our family to yours......

Wish you all the joy and blessings in this Christmas
Happy holidays........

Bento 169 Snowman

2011-12-19T11:13:00.001+07:00

Let's move on with some more Christmas-theme bento, shall we?

Made this on Sunday morning, I must admit that bento making is addicting.

for a gentleman friend

Inside the box: snowman onigiri -stuffed with chicken floss- and decorated with kani scarf and nori for facial expression and buttons. Surround him were blanched shiitake, broccoli, carved-flower carrots, nori tamagoyaki and strawberry.

Never done snowman bento before -I believe- and I love his silly smile.

....and my friend loved his lunch too... yay...mission accomplished :)

Bento 168 Santa

2011-12-18T23:04:00.000+07:00

Christmas is really really near.....

Within this week, kids already finished their exams and I got their school reports. They are doing quite OK with some improvements to be made of course *wide grin*

Anyhow, since they are in off-school period, I made a bento for a friend of mine

Here it is

I made Santa theme bento some days ago in here

Inside the box: Santa onigiri made from ketchup-tinted rice for face and white rice for beard. The hat were made from kani. I added some fried chicken, boiled squash, flower carrots, sausages and edamame.

They looked adorable and I am pleased that she loved her lunch.

Bento 167 Bear Sandwich

2011-12-08T11:03:00.001+07:00

I seldom pack a sandwich for kids. They said sandwich is not filling enough.

Today the twins are having off days from school, thus this one was packed for mister B.

Inside the blue box: bear wheat sandwich, filled with peanut butter. Decorated with cheese, kani and nori. Rolled kani, blanched shimeji, cubed and mistletoe zucchini.

He loves peanut butter since the first introduction. In fact, he even sometimes has it by spoon right from the jar ... *rolling my eyes*

Weekend is coming.... \^o^/

Bento 166 Santa

2011-12-06T13:02:00.001+07:00

Happy day, everyone....

All of sudden, by this morning I woke up and wanted to make sushi. With limited resources in the fridge, here is that I came up with.

Inside the box: kani and zucchini sushi roll, quick-boiled shitake and shimeji mushrooms (yes, I love them and still have some left from yesterday), strawberries and red ginger-gari.

They were too pale? yeah, I shouldn't peeled the zucchini....

I used regular white steamed rice for sushi and add too-few rice vinegar powder. Luckily I brought enough soy sauce to compensate the taste.

My Christmas spirit had encouraged me to put a Santa head on top of sushi ^.^ He was made from cheese sheet, kani and nori. Could you see his smile?

Bento 165 Pine Tree

2011-12-05T11:27:00.001+07:00

Happy Monday...

The usually busiest day of the week... for me...

Last night, little B had a very late bed time and this morning - as predicted - he whined and all teary-eyes in getting dressed for school. I was a bit nervous in kitchen preparing boxes while hearing his voice.

I asked hubby to first send twins to school, in avoiding them to be late. Normally, hubby dropped all of them before 7 am so miss L and mister J will get into classes on time. Mister B officially has 30 minutes later to start his class and hubby will hang around with him for a while in school before he finally gets in. This morning he had to go back and forth from home to school, luckily it is a close distance.

little boy's

He had: fried rice with mixed vegetables, boiled broccoli, 'pine tree' zucchini and some apples. The star on top of tree was made from cheese.

His big brother and sister have the same thing, however, only his box that I could managed to take the picture at.

it's mine

After those cuties left, I had a quiet me-time.

For lunch, I prepared: inari zushi filled with furikake, mini zucchini 'pine tree' and gari (pink ginger). A shitake and some shimeji mushrooms. Also some apple pieces and edamame. All were quick-boiled except for apples and zucchini.

It was my first time to have shimeji for my lunch. Just love it!

My little sister came over and will spend 2 nights in our home. I imagine that they will have good times while I am in the office :)

Have a great start of the week \^.^/

Bento 164 Christmas Wreath

2011-12-05T10:24:00.001+07:00

Hi...

Done this bento during weekend for a belated birthday of a nice sweet pretty friend

She had: Christmas wreath made from boiled broccoli, which each stem stood on boiled chikuwa. Hello Kitty was decorated with nori and kani sheet for her bow. Same sheet used for bow of the wreath.

I was about to decorate the wreath with cut-out cheese pieces. Later on, as time did not permit, I sprinkled the furikake on top of broccoli. Believe that it got the nice festive effect, even better from cheese dots - I think - coz the cheese I have is in mono-tone. I did not add some more salt on veggies since the furikake is a bit salty.

Too bad, I do not have round shape box suited for this bento. The kids have them but they were too small. Ah...I imagine this would be perfect in round shape box. Is it a signal that I should do some more bento-stuff shopping? LOL Anybody want to join along? LOL again

Bento 163 First of December

2011-12-01T10:41:00.001+07:00

It is first of December today...! oh my...time flies away.

The twins are having their exams since last Tuesday until next week and I pray that they will do well.

However, below bento is mine.... \^.^/

I seldom make one for me and take this opportunity to indulge myself

It has all my favorite foods : inari zushi sprinkled with veggie furikake, edamame and gari; nori tamagoyaki and strawberries.

There was a bear soaking into an inari pool he..he... She was made from sliced kamaboko. I just punched it out and got the slight pinky ears. I left it be, seeing that she looked pretty. I added remaining pink part for her blushes, nori for her facial expression and two hands for her to relax in her bath. LOL

It was my first time to do tamagoyaki with nori filling. I just love it and had 3 slices in this box, underneath the seen one. This bento was done within 20 minutes.

It is one of my today's simple pleasure :b Have a nice day, everyone

Bento 162

2011-11-29T10:24:00.001+07:00

Bought some new bento boxes for kids, days ago.

As predicted, miss L chose pink box, mister J chose blue box and mister B chose yellow box. So, everybody (yeah, including me!) are happy

It comes with spoon, fork and chopstick.
One more reason to be happy about \^.^/

The content inside

Each of them had: Kongbap, pan-fried lap cheong, boiled baby corn, pan-fried green bean overwrap with beef-slice, strawberries, purple sweet potato and sweet jellies in pail.

Although it looks deep, the content couldn't be so much, since the white top lid is quite tall. It consumes the total volume of box.

They also excited about the new yellow duck food pick which sat on top of the beef. Eeerrr....perhaps not as excited as I am. LOL. I should be grateful that our kids are not picky-eaters. They all finished their lunches...woohooo...

Bento 161 Giant Rat

2011-11-23T14:18:00.001+07:00

A giant rat bento for daddy

Inside the box: giant rat on top of black rice, sauteed chicken pieces with sausages, boiled chikuwa with edamame, star carrot, kani, strawberries and lemon wedges.

The rat was made from hard-boiled egg, soaked in sweet soy sauce and decorated with punched-out nori.

Hope the above portion is enough for him :)

Bento 160 Wishing on a star

2011-11-22T11:32:00.001+07:00

Hello...how are you...?

Aware that Christmas is coming, I already excited about it and do not yet have any idea for Christmas bento. However, continuing from last bento, I wish to have just a little bit touch of the holiday spirit ...

wishing on a star

The idea for the first-tier box, was to have a bear tip-toeing thru the window to watch a falling star. Apparently, I missed the ears and feet, thus make him more like a flying alien than a chubby bear. LOL

The "bear" was made from punched-out hard-boiled egg-white which soaked in sweet soy sauce to get the brown color (I love the soft tone, by the way). The window and star were made from kani.

It is kids' first time to have black rice in a bento. I just hope they like it.

balance diet

Inside the second tier box: stir-fried chicken cubes with minced-onions, heart boiled-cocktail sausage, steamed shitake mushroom, boiled halved-chikuwa underneath of steamed broccoli, boiled seaweed meatball underneath of flowered carrot. Also strawberry, lemon wedge, flowered purple sweet potato and some edamame by foodpick inside a mini pink pail. I avoid deep-fried dish since lately they are having mild sore-throat.

Just learned to carve carrot from Megan. She has a beautiful bento blog. Thank you for the tutorial :)

adorable Kokeshi

I made three sets, exactly like this, each for mister J, miss L and mister B. All of them in Kokeshi lunch box. Just so adorable!

Happy lunch... \^.^/

How the kids are doing now

2011-11-16T15:11:00.001+07:00

Sudah jarang update tentang anak-anak ya, kebanyakan makanannya aja, hehehehe...

Would you prefer pictures to words of story? well, I'll give you both!

Beberapa bulan yang lalu lagi suka menggambar.

draw something

hasil gambarnya

hers

Terkadang pergi dengan sesama keluarga muda hehehe

Akhirnya, Luna pinjam baju renang, sementara cowok2 itu cuma pakai celana dalam dan semuanya nyebur ke kolam renang. Anak kecil memang senang berenang ya :b

Mulai suka menulis

Waktu baru masuk SD, aih...menulisnya disambung terus, kaga pake spasi, apalagi titik dan koma. Penggalan katanya juga sesukanya. Yang baca bingung....

Ini tulisan Jovann

whewwww...

Makin lama baru makin bagus deh tulisannya. Uda gak segede-gede gajah lagi dan gak lompat2 keluar-masuk garis2 buku. Cara mengajari mereka, dibandingin dengan prestasi mereka sendiri sebelum dan sesudahnya. Setiap hari mereka nulis agenda. Jadi, gue suka bilang "nah, sekarang tulisannya sudah lebih rapi nih...coba lihat waktu kamu baru masuk SD..." karena menurut gue gak fair juga kalo tulisan Luna dibandingin sama tulisan Jovann atau sebaliknya.

Last weekend attended a cousin's wedding party. Somebody whom addicted to picture-taking is .....

Waktu ditegor orang-orang, dia manyun aja, pas mulai difoto-foto, dia baru ketawa-ketawa. Ada istilah bekennya tuh....banci foto...wkwkwk

the boys

Gue baru perhatikan model rambutnya Jov sama Bas sama ya. Hihihi...ya karena gue cuma bisa potong satu model, ya gitulah hasilnya.

three cuties

Sebastian masih suka bikin kita tertawa geli karena gaya bicaranya, beberapa sudah gue posting di status facebook:

Dad: "de, kamu tadi kenapa sih ngambek sampai nangis2 gitu?"

B: "soalnya aku kan masih playgroup, jadi aku masih cengeng...."

wkwkwkwk.... *guling guling di lantai gue dengernya*

Me on the phone: "de, mami mau ngomong sama Luna dan Jovann dong..."

B: "oh, koko dan cece sibuk!"

gubraaaaakkkkk......

Dia sampai saat ini masih suka nempel ala lintah sama gue. Sedangkan kalo gue gak ada, dia mau mau aja sama daddynya. Gue sudah pernah cerita disini.

So, pernah satu weekend, kita pergi ke mall, dijanjikan sama daddynya mau ke T*me*one. Di jalan, hubby elus kepala Bas (saat itu dia lagi gue pangku). Bas langsung siap-siap mau ngambek mukanya, trus daddynya bilang "eehhh...daddy kan sayang...bole kan kalo sayang, pegang kepalanya...nanti kita ke T*me*one" Bas langsung nyengir. Setelah pulang dan bersiap tidur di ranjang gue, hubby elus kepalanya lagi dan Bas langsung cembetut dan ngambek. Jelas hubby bingung "lho...katanya kalo sayang boleh elus kepala dede...?"

Apa coba jawaban Bastian? Gak usah coba-coba nebak, Bas bilang gini "kalo di mall boleh....kalo sekarang aku gak mau dipegang daddy...." coba ya...koq bisa ya.... Hubby langsung protes "koq dede gitu sih...habis manis sepah dibuang..." uda saking kagetnya, hubby gak sadar kali, mana ngerti Bastian sama peribahasa gitu... wkwkwk... alhasil, gantian hubby yang manyun dan 'maksa' cium saking gemesnya dan anaknya jadi nangis....haisss.... *geleng-geleng*

Last but not least, I found this on last night when I arrived home. I wonder who put this baby bear to sleep .....

Yeah...my girl did this.

Beruangnya sih punyanya Bas, tu bear dipakaikan diaper segala... ^o^

Anak-anak memang ada ada saja ya....

Bento 159

2011-11-14T13:00:00.001+07:00

This bento was specifically requested by mr. J

On yesterday, he read one of my bento book and pointed at a picture "I want to have this one for tomorrow..."

Ok, not exactly matched the image in the book, but he was excited about this

love the handsome face, for mr. J

Inside all boxes: white steamed rice onigiri, pan-fried mini burger, boiled-kani wrapped with yellow egg sheet, chikuwa stuffed with boiled edamame and baby corn, star-zucchini, cherry tomato and mango jelly.

The food picks were selected by themselves. It is almost a morning habit :b

love the cute expression, for mr. B

White head-band were made from egg sheet and sprinkled with black sesame seeds to give color difference from white rice. The facial expression was, as usual, from nori.

love the pretty smile, for miss L

Mini burger was home-made from ground beef added with chopped onion, whisked egg and corn pieces for extra fiber (I should have used grated carrot but I just ran out of one) Then sprinkled with salt and black pepper for taste.

The pair of red gloves, made from kani and cheese for buttons, remind me so much of Christmas mittens.

Hey, Christmas is coming soon.....

Bento 158 - something left from last weekend

2011-11-14T11:43:00.001+07:00

Hola...buenos dias

Bento from last weekend, read as forget to post it until today...

Looking at its size, yeah, it was for my hubby

Inside of box: 3 onigiri with black sesame seeds, chicken floss and white sesame seeds on top, fried chicken, some boiled veggies and grapes

Have a nice day....

Bento 157 Mickey Mouse

2011-11-07T11:22:00.001+07:00

Good morning...

I didn't do Mickey Mouse bento obviously, but I think the kids get the idea.


for mr. J.....err..the ears are too big :)

for miss L

for little boy, B

Inside all boxes: drumstick fried chicken (their favorite!), edamame, boiled kani, cherry tomato, jelly balls in food picks and white steamed rice.

Mickey's hands and pants were made from Kani sheet

I intended to do onigiri too for L and B, just like what I did for J. However, need to confess that I ran out of time :) but they didn't say anything about it *pffiuuhh*

Have a great start of the week!

Blog Award from Bonita

2011-11-02T15:23:00.002+07:00

The next award, came from Yunita Rahmasari

I adore her sharp and great photography for all her lovely bento.

Thank you so much, Ta...

These are some rules for the award receiver:

1. If you get this award, pass it on to other 7 blogs

2. Put in the award picture in your post

3. Don't pass the award back to the award giver

4. Answer the questions below and post them in your blog

Only 2 questions, it's good to know you better :D

1. What makes you feel great about yourself?

2. Who inspires you most? Also be more specific, which qualities inspire you, in each person? You can list as many people you like.

My answers:

1. My positive thinking towards people. I believe in general people are nice.

2. My parents. They are hard-working people and always being helpful to others.

Let me pass this award to 7 lucky beautiful blogs in random:

1. Bento Anarchy

2. Bento Fun

3. Cloudy with a Chance of Crazy

4. Cuteobento

5. J-mama's Kitchen

6. My First Bento

7. Oen Kitchen

Have a terrific day... ^o^

Blog Awards from Cooking Gallery

2011-11-02T11:37:00.001+07:00

Lately I have been receiving some awards from some bento pals, but haven't yet find time to post them until now.

These awards came from Cooking Gallery.

She has a beautiful blog and I adore her creations

Thank you so much, CG. I am so honored to receive these awards.

Bento 156 Cinnamoroll

2011-10-25T15:40:00.000+07:00

I made Cinnamoroll theme bread bento

for B

Inside the box: rolled up green pandan bread stuffed with chicken floss, boiled sausages and dragon fruit pieces.

It was not as easy as I thought in rolling up the bread and decorated them with Cinnamoroll cut-outs. I should find a way to better do it ^o^ but at least, he happily smiled.

Each Ms. L and Mr. J got the bread too. Theirs didn't show in the picture.

Bento 155 Hello Kitty

2011-10-24T12:23:00.002+07:00

It is Monday again and I had a great day during weekend to spend with some close friends. So close that they feel like a family to us.

It started to have some rain days ago in last week. Thus, on last Saturday morning, I had a moment of joy by staring on rain drops while sitting and munching my veggie salad at our porch.What a simple pleasure :)

During Sunday afternoon, I made some bento stash for today's lunch boxes.

for the girl

Inside the box: stir-fried broccoli with salmon pieces, white steamed rice, boiled sausages, edamame pieces and dragon fruits pieces.

On top of white rice was Hello Kitty! It was made from sliced cheese, kani (for body and bow), kamaboko (for her shirt). Her eyes were from nori and her nose was from corn piece.

Hello Kitty is one of my favorite from Sanrio's character and It was my biggest obsession to do this particular HK since I got my hands on Akinoichigo's book.

Notice something weird in here?

Yeah, I forgot her ~~mustaches~~ whiskers! *thanks sis for correction*

For most Mondays - but not always - the kids are a bit cranky in starting the day. So I ran back and forth from kitchen to bathroom upstairs, to calm and persuade B to take shower. Also from kitchen to dining room, to hurry the twins in having their breakfast.

I totally forgot it ... until kids left to school ... and I laughed myself out during cleaning the kitchen :D

I will talk to her later on, if she or one of her friends spotted it. LOL

How was your weekend? Have a lovely day

Some more bento

2011-10-19T11:03:00.000+07:00

Things are really piling up in my desk. Whewww.... :D

Some bento that I previously made and just upload them now

for hubby

with sauteed veggie, chicken teriyaki, egg flower, apples, cherry tomato and purple flower sweet potato

Mr. B's snack time. Should I call them bear or pig?

B's lunch

veggies with mushroom and roasted chicken, also apples and strawberry

love the boy and the girl

All of these were not made in one day :)

Well, better return to my report-making now he he he

Have a great day, everyone... ^o^

Bento 151

2011-10-14T09:47:00.000+07:00

I am back!

From 17 days of my business trip to US, central and South America. The visiting cities were Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Salvador and Santiago, with some transit hours in Atlanta, Miami, Bogota and Lima. I was exhausted but did managed to enjoy the trip. Miss bento making while I am away :)

Today's bento is inspired by one of Akinoichigo's book. Love the book so much!

For him

for her

Inside the box: White steamed rice, halved boiled egg, cloud-cheese, edamame, star purple sweet potato and sauteed stringbean-carrots with spam.

As normally happen when returning to office, many reports and meetings await *sigh*

Deseo una buen dia

Wish you a nice day ^o^

On way back home

2011-10-08T07:01:00.002+07:00

Kamis, 6 Oct, bangun jam setengah 4 pagi, karena mau check out dan jalan dari hotel jam setengah 5 pagi, untuk ngejar pesawat jam 7 take off. Bangunnya aja uda mulai berat, soalnya baru tidur jam 12 malam...hihihi agak nekat ya...tapi, gimana gak tidur jam 12, wong makan malem aja baru jam 9 lewat koq. Dimulai deh boarding Santiago-Lima (Peru) total flight sekitar 3 jam. Tiba di Lima, local time 10.00, beda 2 jam lebih telat dari Santiago. Cuma dikasi waktu sejam, udah boarding lagi ke San Salvador.

Keselnya walau transit, harus lewat check point, berarti harus keluarin laptop, copot sepatu, lepas sweater, dll...mana rame.

Dari Lima ke San Salvador sekitar 4 jam flight. Sempet agak telat take off karena bandara Lima yang sibuk, jadi take off delay 20 menit. Gue mulai manyun deh.

Tiba di San Salvador, karena telat, cuma tersisa waktu 30 menit. Boarding uda dimulai untuk ke Los Angeles 5 hrs flight. Untung gatenya sebelahan, karena memang bandara mereka gak gitu gede koq. Tapi check pointnya bikin repot, mereka gak pake alat alias rogoh manual. Isi tas gue jadi dibukain semua, trus officer yang cewek juga periksa2 badan kita. Duehhh...gue sambil deg-degan. Gue cuma berdoa, jangan sampe koper gue ketinggalan. Kalo iya, mateng deh....soalnya harus claim baggage dan check in dari awal di Los Angeles, karena dari Santiago sampe LA gue naik airline yang berbeda dengan China Airlines, gak bisa baggage check thru.

Sampe di Los Angeles, masih jam 7 malam local time. Duh, bersyukur banget masih banyak waktu dan sekaligus bersyukur banget bagasi gue ada! Karena claim baggage dulu, jadi harus lewat imigrasi dan custom lagi. Untung gak lama. Mereka cuma nanya2 di sini ngapain, karena gue emang cuma numpang lewat, gue bilang transit, ya mereka gak nanya2 apa apa lagi tuh. Mereka juga uda biasa kali nerima banyak orang transit di situ

Keluar di terminal 2, gue harus pindah ke terminal Tom Bradley International. Jalan kaki bisa sih, itu bersebelahan terminal 2 - terminal 3 - Tom Bradley, cuma males deh dorong2 koper gede. Jadi naik free shuttle, di shelter warna biru dan bus nomer A. Gue selalu inget kalo pergi2 kudu banyak nanya. Uda nanya di bagian information, nanya di tempat shelter dan nanya sama supir bus nya. Biar lebih pasti dan gak buang waktu, kalo pake acara nyasar segala

Sampe terminal baru jam 7.30, gate baru open 9.15, jadi makan dulu. Ternyata bagasi gue kelebihan 5 kg, seharusnya cuma 20 kg aja. Pasti ini gara2 brosur material exhibition Vegas kemarin. Gue gak banyak beli apa2 koq, paling coklat doang.

Nunggu boarding, gue uda mulai lemes. Jam 00.40 baru dipanggil boarding. Jadi gue udah mondar mandir dari jam 9.30 kan. Uda mulai terserang ngantuk luar biasa. Uda melek hampir 24 jam. Mau tidur, khawatir juga karena sendirian, bisa sih, tasnya dijepit di kaki, tapi gak bisa tidur juga jadinya.

Akhirnya jadi keisengan sms temen2 yang di Jakarta, yang masih pada kerja pagi hari.

Gue pas di San Salvador aja uda mulai eneg boarding. Tiap sampe di airport, beli air minum, trus pas boarding tu air minum gue habisin daripada ntar gak bisa masuk pesawat, jadi kembung dan eneg. Selain itu juga eneg liat pesawat. Tapi pas landing di LA, uda seneng banget lho...kayanya berasa uda deket sama rumah. Padahal mah masih jauuuhhh...Begitu take off, gue udah pules deh, gak inget apa-apa lagi. LA-Taipei 12 jam. Rata deh pantat gue.

Sekarang di Taipei jam 6.15 pagi, Nunggu boarding 2 jam. Asikkk...tinggal 5 jam lagi sampe Jakarta, walau bete, seharian ini kerjaannya boarding mulu. Gue uda gak gitu inget di sana sini persisnya jam berapa, tiap kali landing, adjust jam tangan. Udah gak peduli deh beda waktunya, cuma harus adjust waktu hanya untuk tau jam boarding aja. Dari Santiago, ternyata ada flight via Lima dan Los Angeles, gak usah lewat San Salvador lagi. Next time -if have to- mending pilih airline itu deh...

Rasanya uda kusut deh, belom mandi nih...sikat gigi sih udah tadi..wkwkwk...laper pula. Makanan airline ya biasa lah, tapi porsinya dikit, bikin gue laper terus...hahaha

So nice to come home

Days in Santiago

2011-10-06T07:12:00.000+07:00

Okeee...lanjutttt...

Senin mulai kerja, dari pagi uda dijemput sama customer ke pabriknya. Udah diskusi dan keliling pabrik, akhirnya kelar deh jam 5 sore. Mereka kebetulan ada acara jadi gak bisa ngajak dinner. So, gue sendirian ke mall deket hotel. Lumayan lah buat cuci2 plus makan malem, daripada bosen di hotel terus. Di bulan ini adalah permulaan spring, jadi, jam setengah 7 pun masih terang, mataharinya masih nongol.

Nama mall nya Parque Arauco. Well, keliling2 sendiri tuh kadang bingung juga yeh..jadi ngomong sendiri kadang2. hahahaha. Mall nya lumayan gede, hampir segede Plaza S*n*yan. Cuma, kalo PS kan model plong gitu ya, tinggal diputerin. Kalo mall ini agak berbelok2. Trus pintu masuknya banyak banget, jadi harus ingetin masuk dari mana. Dari hotel gue jalan kaki, 2 blok ke kanan, trus belok kanan, lurus 3 blok, nyampe deh di seberangnya jalan tol, jadi harus naik jembatan penyebrangan.

Uda mabok keliling2 di mall, baru ngeh, pulangnya udah malem. Jam 9. Gue balik jalan kaki lagi ke hotel. Cuacanya uda agak dingin, untung pake sweater. Trus, area jalan kaki itu daerah perumahan penduduk. Terang sih...tapi sepiii...gawat. Gue pas jalan baru keingetan, aduh..kalo ditoel orang gimana yaaa...Akhirnya jalannya jadi cepet2. Setengah karena kedinginan, setengah karena celingukan sendiri. Udah sampe blok hotel sih lebih ramai karena jalan raya.

Selasa pagi, kerja lagi

Dijemput sama customer yang berbeda. Kalo kerjaan mah gak ada cerita serunya ya...

Tergantung daerahnya tapi Santiago keliatannya gak terlalu banyak gedung tinggi. Kalau tinggal di rumah pun, rumahnya keliatannya cuma selantai ya. Trus ada sih apartment, juga gak tinggi2 banget. Mereka bilang itu bangunan lama, kalo bangunan yang baru, dibangun agak tinggi karena sekarang mereka juga merasa kekurangan tanah. Tapi di sini banyak taman terbuka. Di tengah di antara jalur kiri dan kanan jalan, suka dibuatkan taman, ditaruh mainan anak2 dan orang banyak yang jogging atau bersepeda di weekend.

Yang bikin gue ketawa sendiri, agent gue di sini orangnya uda tua, di atas 60 tahun gitu deh. Selama ini, orang kantor selalu ketawain gue karena gue bergaul dengan opa-opa. Agent gue yang di daerah lain juga uda agak tua. Eh, sekarang dapet agent baru, juga gak muda lagi...:D Anyway, sempet koq cuci2 karena kan si agent2 ini, punya anak laki/perempuan. Nah, gantengnya lain deh sama Asian. Wkwkwk...*mulai gelo*

Makan siang, diajakin ke resto Brasil. Makan crepe tapi dalamnya sayuran. Enak lho... Selama trip, customer (yang baru) kalo mau ngajak makan, suka promosi..."ini resto steak nya enak lho..." udah dia bla bla bla...gue nyengir dan bilang "sorry but I am vegetarian..." Ntar mereka heboh nanya2 kenapa vegetarian? ada juga yang nanya, makan ayam gak? (ayam termasuk sayuran bukan ya...hihihi) atau makan seafood gak? (hmmm....sami mawon)

Tapi, di overseas, mau makan tanpa daging mah gampang banget. Di tiap resto, pasti nawarin salad. Malah kadang gue yang engap...saladnya semangkok gede, bisa buat bertiga kali. Ahhhh...selama pergi ini kesel banget karena kamera BB rusak, sama sekali gak bisa dinyalain. Sebal kan gak bisa langsung diem2 foto. Tengsin atuh kalo ngeluarin pocket kamera buat foto makanan.

Malamnya diajakin dinner di tepi pantai. Chile ini kan memang memanjang di tepi pantai ya, ternyata mereka juga ada pegunungannya (San Christobal). Tetep makanan sini porsinya mirip Amerika, banyak, Makan risotto dengan 3 macam jamur *maaf gak foto, tolong dibayangin aja* dan mojito. Entah kenapa jadi demen sama mojito setelah nyobain pertama kali tahun lalu. Di Las Vegas juga sempet minum itu dan yang di sini agak beda, mungkin karena rum nya bukan fruit based, jadi kurang manis, menurut gue. Gak bikin mabok lah...campurannya air, rum, lemon juice, sugar sama mint doang koq. Uda kena dilute water, alcoholnya gak gitu berasa.

Hari Rabu, yaaa...masih kerja koq

Gue hari ini udah mulai ngantuk, di jalan tol (di-setir-in customer) sempet ketiduran pula, gak lama lah cuma 10 menitan aja. Gak sadar gitu langsung merem. Padahal gue rutin minum vitamin (bukan obat kuat yeh) tapi gak tau kenapa hari ini capek banget. Mungkin juga uda kelamaan jauh dari rumah.

Karena gue pergi dengan agent yang sama di hari Selasa dan Rabu, dia bikin jadwal masing-masing 4 meeting di 2 hari belakangan ini. Walah...selesai dari meeting ke-8, rasanya kepala berkabut+berasap tapi lega banget.

Oiya, orang sini makan siang sekitaran jam 1 atau 2 sampe jam 3. Trus makan malemnya jam 9. Weleh...kalo gue ngikutin mereka, bisa cepet gendut kali ya. Kan abis makan gak lama kemudian tidur.

Hm, will have a nice quiet dinner all by myself in hotel after this. Besok pagi gue mulai fly balik ke Jakarta. Dari Santiago take off jam 7 pagi! mateng deh, musti check out dari hotel jam 4.30. Using local airline, rute transit pertama bakalan ke Lima di Peru, trus San Salvador (lagi). Di San Salvador ganti pesawat, lanjut ke Los Angeles. Di LA kayanya harus claim baggage dulu deh, trus check in lagi via China Airlines, untuk ke Taipei dan landed di Jakarta hari Sabtu jam 1 siang. Whewww...dari sini hari Kamis pagi nih...Kudu ciak po biar gak teler hahahaha...

Miss Jakarta so much and miss bento-making so much.....

I am still on trip

2011-10-03T06:20:00.000+07:00

Yeah, I am still on trip

Setelah transit Taipei, gue lanjut landing di Los Angeles. Namanya kerja, waktunya agak tight. Sempet diajak kopdar sama Arman, huhuhu..maaf ya Man..gak sempet...tiba kamis malam, sabtu pagi jam 8.30 sudah out lagi ke Las Vegas. Ternyata beberapa teman memang stay di LA area. Next time will find some time to meet you guys.

Tiba di Las Vegas, masih pagi. Flight cuma 45 menit, LA-Vegas kan deket banget, kaya Jakarta Bandung. Di Vegas sih gak banyak cerita lah...Gue dateng ke exhibition di sana, so udah pasti ceritanya adalah kerja lagi. Tapi emang pengalaman pertama juga ke Vegas. It is adults playground. Banyak casino, rata-rata hotel di sana memang casino hotel. Gue gak bisa judi...gak ngerti mainnya gimana...*parah* Gue datang bareng bos GM dan MD gue. Si bos GM emang dulu sekolah di Amrik, uda ngegodain "pertama kali ke Vegas ya?" sambil nyengir-nyengir...Huh! There is always a first time for something for everyone. Betul gak?

Nanti foto2 nya menyusul ya

Hari Rabu malam, hampir midnite, gue sendirian pindah ke San Salvador, transit di Atlanta. Mereka punya jadwal sendiri setelah dari Vegas dan balik ke Jakarta. Nah, di sini lah cerita serunya mulai. My flight to Atlanta was for 11.30 pm, jadi bisa dibayangin, bakal tidur di pesawat, da landed by 6 am local time. Udah bangun, kucek-kucek, sikat gigi, trus sarapan di airport. Begitu mau check-in lagi ke San Salvador, gue ditolak boarding. Alasannya karena San Salvador butuh entry visa for Indonesian passport holder sementara gue gak punya visa.

Lah, memang gue uda cek sama customer di sana, bahwa gak perlu visa. Apalagi kan gue hold USA visa, visiting time less than 90 days and I have a return ticket out from San Salvador for Saturday morning. Mereka gak mau ambil resiko karena cek lewat internet, cuma ditulis, Indonesian needs visa, printed and stamped on passport. Gue uda nawar2, gue bilang customer informed me no need for visa, nanti kalo gak lewat di imigrasi sana, gue bisa cari visa on arrival. Walau, dalam hati penasaran juga.

Karena ditolak, gue diminta ke ticket counter untuk tanya sebaiknya ticket gue itu diapakan. Pas di counter, mereka re-check dan somebody in counter said, I actually have no problem to board. Nah lo... tapi pesawat nya uda take off. Mereka bilang ya uda, besok aja berangkatnya karena Atlanta-San Salvador cuma ada sekali dalam sehari. OMG...gue langsung panik. Gue bilang, kalo gue gak terbang hari kamis, gue bakal miss business meeting on Friday.

Akhirnya mereka cariin flight schedule dan nemu Atlanta-Miami-San Salvador. Berangkat dari Atlanta sore ini juga dan tiba di San Salvador malam jam 7. Gue uda pasrah, tadinya bisa tiba di San Salvador 11.30 am, sekarang nyampe jam 7 pm pun ya oke lah. Gue langsung contact customer untuk ganti schedule.

Naaahhh, ternyata the chaos was not stopped in there. Begitu gue sampe di Miami, mau boarding jam 6.30 local time, gue ditolak lagi! Dibilang you need entry visa since you are Indonesian. Haduuuhhh...uda nego2 kiri kanan, sampe debat2 orang airline yang di gate, tetep gak bisa. So, gue ke counternya sekali lagi dan mereka suggested me to get a visa from San Salvador consulate in Miami. Itu berarti, gue harus nginep di Miami, besok paginya ke kedutaan, langsung minta visa dan balik lagi ke airport untuk ngejar same-time flight di hari Jumat sore.

Gue uda stress berat. Gile, uda kebayang bakal miss my meeting, jadwal berantakan, bookingan hotel uda gak bisa dirubah, but I need to do something. Option #1 adalah cari visanya dan semoga kedutaan mau issue visa immediately sehingga gue bisa on board by Friday afternoon. Oprion#2, forget San Salvador, modify the ticket and continue to Santiago. Udah nimbang-nimbang sana sini, telpon2 sana sini, akhirnya gue pilih option #1

Airline ngasih semacam kupon hotel untuk penumpang yang having flight trouble. Gue harus call untuk booked nearest hotel di airport at discounted rate. Dapetnya di Courtyard Mariott, cuma 1 mile dari Miami airport. Not bad the hotel dan kebetulan banget nemu coin laundry. Langsung deh nyuci dan ngeringin baju. Udah on trip dari seminggu yang lalu, ya udah numpuk deh tu baju kotor. Tidur jam 12 deh.

Besok paginya jam 7.30 gue uda check out dari hotel menuju ke consulate yang alamatnya uda dikasi dari airline. Wadau, ternyata itu alamat lama, mereka udah pindah. Gue sama supir taxi nyari2 gak nemu, Ditelpon juga gak bisa, untung si supir nanya "elo nyari alamat siapa sebenernya?" Dia ternyata punya buku daftar kedutaan. Jiah...gila juga tu airline ngasih gue alamat yang kaga updated! Jumat pagi ini pula, BBM gue resmi rusak! gak tau kenapa, sama sekali gak bisa dibuka. Tambah spaneng deh gue, gak bisa ada yang diajak ngobrol. Modal gue cuma ipod doang deh, biar gak suntuk.

Pengalaman berharga lainnya, taruh chargers di carry-on bag!

Selama ini gue selalu taruh charger laptop, handphone, (sekarang bawa) ipad, ipod di checked-in luggage. Karena kan berat kalo dibawa-bawa, gue pikir. Nah, setelah kejadian ini baru panik. Memang koper bisa mereka tarik kembali saat kita batal boarding, tapi semua perangkat gue terutama hp udah low batt banget, udah merah. Kalo emergency, gak bisa nelpon ke mana mana. Sementara harusnya bisa gak low batt, airport sedia tempat charger, asal kita punya kabelnya hahaha

So, sampai di consulate, gue langsung minta immediate process of visa. Syaratnya sebenernya gampang: passport, pasfoto (untung juga gue bawa), invitation letter dari San Salvador (yang ini gue uda minta dari semalam, langsung gue minta di-fax ke embassy) dan surat sponsor dari perusahaan gue, menyatakan kalau gue memang karyawan dengan penghasilan sekian sekian. Mereka bilang, kalau semua surat dilengkapi, visa bisa keluar paling lambat dalam waktu se-jam.

Ehm, surat sponsor nya yang susah nih...Gue di embassy jam 9 pagi, berarti di San Salvador jam 7 pagi dan Jakarta jam 10 malem. Siapa juga yang bisa sediakan gue letter jam segitu? Customer gue berbaik hati mau langsung fax letter nya, sementara gue nego sama consular. Gue bilang Jakarta is almost midnite now, boleh gak surat itu ditiadakan? kalau memang surat sponsor tujuannya adalah untuk guarantee expense gue selama disana, gue akan minta customer sebagai penjamin. They are so nice! mereka bilang boleh dan gue ngerepotin si customer nya untuk revise letter and re-send by fax.

You know what, jam 11 kurang sedikit, tu visa kelar. Ongkos USD 30 single entry. Haduuuhhh..lega banget. Gue buru-buru ciao ke airport. Bayangin ya, gue ke embassy dengan semua luggage gue..repot tapi daripada bolak balik makan waktu, lebih baik repot dikit.

Sampai di counter airport, semua orang langsung ngenalin gue di airline itu dan nanya "ow, you are back. Have you got your visa..??" hahahhahaa...I said "yes and this time, you have to let me go.."

Ternyata masalah belum selesai sampai di situ. Flight gue ternyata di booked Atlanta-Miami naik A airline dan nyambung Miami-San Salvador using B airline. Jadi, waktu gue check in ke B, mereka bilang, A harus issue ticket dulu untuk ketauan nomer booking. Gue balik lagi ke A. Di situ gue problem banget. A bilang gak ada seat di airline B untuk Miami-San Salvador. Ajegile...gue langsung mabok lagi. Lah, gimana gue akhirnya uda punya visa tapi tetep gak bisa berangkat?

Gue cerita ke airline jadwal gue selanjutnya ke Santiago hari Sabtu, pakai C airline. Jadwal original gue adalah San Salvador-Bogota-Santiago. Jadi mereka bilang, gini aja, mereka bantu gue re-route, untuk Jumat pagi using A airline Miami-Atlanta-San Salvador dan bisa nyambung pakai C airline San Salvador-Bogota-Santiago. Jadi kamis malam ini gue musti nginep lagi 1 malam di Miami. Alamak....dengernya aja gue uda mau pingsan. Nginep lagi semalam di Miami? Balik lagi besok paginya dari Miami ke Atlanta? Trus nyambung all the way sampe Santiago? gile, sampe Santiago uda jadi encok kali gue.

Gue mikir-mikir sementara balik ke B airline, mereka bilang, kita ada seat koq, gak full...kenapa A airline bilang penuh? Mereka bantu kasi kode booking dan minta gue balik lagi ke A airline. Total gue mondar-mandir antara A ke B adalah 3x bolak balik. Sampai supervisor antar 2 airline itu telpon telponan. Masalahnya adalah, A gak bisa liat sistem booking computer B dan sebaliknya. Trus, jadi gimana nasib gue? itu ticket ke San Salvador kan gue uda bayar juga, ex ticketnya Vegas-Atlanta-San Salvador?

Dengan penuh pertimbangan, akhirnya gue beli one way ticket ke San Salvador pake B airline. Tiket A airline uda gue waive aja, karena non refundable. Gue uda gak ada choice lagi. Kalau gue tetep ke San Salvador, paling gak gue bisa pake bookingan hotel yang jumat malam di sana, dibandingkan harus keluar ongkos lagi nginep hotel di Miami. Customer gue juga uda mabok di sana. So, dengan penuh perjuangan (lebayy) Jumat malam jam 7 local time, gue mendarat di San Salvador.

Pas mendarat di sana dan lewat imigrasi pun, mereka sempet tanya visa gue "where did you get this?" gue bilang dari Miami embassy. Mereka manggut2 aja sampe pinjem passport gue untuk fotocopy. Gue masih iseng nanya "if I have American visa only, can I enter San Salvador?" Mereka jawab "ya...US visa is ok" haduuuuhhhh....gue korban sistem nih....Keluar dari airport, langsung dijemput customer dan gue juga langsung curhat. hahhahaa...Dia pun bingung kenapa gue butuh visa, setau mereka, tanpa visa, apalagi dengan visa Amerika, should be enough. Ya udalah uda kejadian...Memang orang kantor juga belum ada yang pernah ke San Salvador, jadi situasinya serba gak pasti. Kalo mau ngotot sama airline, gue juga ragu, kalo mereka ternyata bener, gimana? Gue dari airport masih nyambung dinner meeting sama customer sampai jam 11 an.

Si customer berbaik hati jemput karena dia bilang kalo cewek jangan keluar malam sendirian, bisa diculik. What! Lagian tu aeropuerto letaknya jauh banget dari kota, sekitar 40 km. Sebenernya itu gak seberapa sih, karena airport Jakarta kan juga jauh dari rumah gue. Tapi yang bikin serem, jalanan dari airport ke kota, gak ada rumah peduduk, alias pegunungan. Jadi gelap2 gitu, mana hujan pula waktu gue tiba.

San Salvador sendiri kota yang gak gitu gede, penduduknya sekitar 6 juta dan itu aja dia bilang uda padat, sering macet. Gue lihat kayanya macetnya gak seberapa dibandingin Jakarta, hahahha...

Sabtu pagi, gue masih diajak factory tour sama customer sebelum gue buru-buru ke airport untuk mengejar flight San Salvador-Bogota-Santiago jam 14.55 pm. Trus, selama di San Salvador, gak ada sinyal telepon di hp gue. Biasanya begitu mendarat di satu tempat, ada local phone provider yang bisa kita pakai. Kali ini sinyal gue di sana bener-bener SOS dan gue gak punya waktu untuk ngurusin. Selama di San Salvador, serasa MIA (missing in action) gak bisa contact ke mana-mana. Gue sempet deg-degan waktu naik taxi menuju airport, kalo ada apa-apa di tengah jalan, gue bahkan gak bisa telpon customer gue buat minta tolong. Thank God mulus aja sampai airport.

Transit di Bogota, gue masih deg-deg an, inget pengalaman 2x ditolak boarding. Chile, kata colleagues gue, pakai visa on arrival. Waktu boarding, di gate gue di tanya, "where are you come from?" gue jawab "Bogota" dia bilang "no..before Bogota?" gue baru ngeh, oh iyaya...gue kan lagi di Bogota, kenapa gue jawab dari Bogota. Itulah error deh. Akhirnya lega take off juga.

Dari Bogota sekitar jam 10 pm sampe di Santiago jam 5.30 am. Selama di pesawat, gue lupa tidur, karena asik nonton Kungfu Panda 2 (lagi) dan Ever After (lagi). Pas di imigrasi, ternyata visa on arrival hanya berlaku untuk passport Albania, Australia, USA dan ada lagi mana ya...lupa gue. Pokoknya Indonesia bebas visa deh. Di imigrasi biasanya kan ditanya, elo di sini ngapain, tinggal di mana, bla bla bla. Ini cuma stamp doang trus lewat, ambil bagasi.

Gue breakfast dulu karena lapar, selain itu masih kepagian untuk ke hotel. Habis itu booking taxi airport. Customer Santiago gue bilang, Chile aman sih, tapi ya waspada aja. So gue gak mau naik taxi sembarangan deh, yang dia kasi tau aja. Tiba di hotel gue langsung check in. Itu masih jam 10 pagi, thank God kamarnya uda ada. Gue masih pede nanya ada gereja gak sekitar sini? pengennya naruh tas trus gereja dulu, uda dari minggu lalu gak misa. Eh, begitu taruh tas, mandi bentar, gue langsung bablas tidur, sampe jam 5 sore nih baru bangun. Capek gila banget, ngantuk, pegal, semuanya deh.

Besok pagi Senin jam 10 udah janjian dijemput mulai kerja lagi. Sampai Kamis pagi gue baru kelar dari sini dan balik arah dengan route Santiago-Lima-San Salvador-Los Angeles-Taipei-Jakarta. Di Los Angeles ganti pesawat, balik lagi naik China Airlines sampe Jakarta. Diharapkan landing di Jakarta hari Sabtu siang. Nah, itu akan mulai encok lagi tuh, hahahhahaa....

Gue cari dinner dulu ya....See ya...

Jakarta - Taipei

2011-09-22T20:48:00.000+07:00

Jam setengah 10 malam, lagi transit di Taipei dengan final destination to Los Angeles.

Naik China Airlines. Hm...bareng TKI lagi neh. Gue sih gak takut ke-saru yeh, tapi kadang gue suka geli liat kelakuan mereka.

Waktu check-in aja, gue baru naikin bagasi ke timbangan, uda ada yang tiba-tiba di samping gue, alias maju dari barisan. Aih, kaya takut ketinggalan kereta eh pesawat banget sih. No personal space deh. Alhasil gue bilang "saya belom kelar, mbak..."

Then, ternyata beneran rame banget. Gue duduk di bangku yang isi 2. So karena gue pergi sendiri, ya sebelah gue pasti gak gue kenal. Begitu taruh hand luggage, gue basa basi negor "ke Taipei juga, mbak?" Gue style yakin panggil dia mbak, wong dia nya persis model pembantu baru gitu. Dia setengah kaget dan bilang "orang Indonesia juga ya mbak, saya kira Taiwan" Jadi, confirm dong kalo gak ke-saru.

Akhirnya jadi ngobrol. Iyalah flight 5 jam kalo diem dieman kan gatel juga ya. Dia ternyata dari daerah jawa barat gitu, baru pertama kali ke Taipei untuk kerja. Sebelumnya kerja di Arab. Bahasa mandarinnya belom lancar dan bahasa Inggris gak bisa. Nah looo...gue sampe mikir, ni mbak nekat...Alhasil, pramugarinya nanya, gue yang jadi penerjemah. Mau minum apa...makan nasi apa mie...tasnya taruh di kolong...." hiahahahahaaa.....

Temen2nya ada sih...yg gue heran, temennya bukannya duduk sebelah dia, tapi di depan dan belakang dia (dalam 1 row gitu). Jadi dia bolak balik ngobrolnya gaya ngintip2 gitu dan bawa bekal roti. Gimana gue tau? ya gak lama setelah take-off, dia nawarin ke gue koq. Waduh *gue tepok jidat* kan dikasi makan juga ya, mending tu bekal buat nanti. Yah sok lah...itu kan urusannya dia. Yang jelas gue nolak dengan sopan...menyiapkan space perut untuk dinner :D

Then, dibagi immigration card, dia langsung isi tuh, tapi nanya gue. Semuanya, dari last name, first name, address, dll itu deh. Aiyaya...gue ya bantuin aja sih. Trus pake inflight entertainment juga nanya. Itu lho yang nyalain video, denger music sampe matiin lampu baca yang di atas. Uda sampe situ, gue agak heran. Dulu dia ke Arab naek apa ya? harusnya pesawat kan kurang lebih sama ya?

Habis dinner, dia tidur. Gue mah nonton 3 film. Lha kalo gue tidur, ntar Taipei - Los Angeles gue melek...Pas dia udah bangun, dia nanya masih lama gak ya sampenya. Gue bilang gak tau juga ya, karena gue kan gak perhatiin schedule, lagi asik nonton. Dalam sejam ke depan, dia 3x nanya, sampenya masih lama gak ya? hehehe gue serasa tour guide dia.

Saat, mau landing, dia iseng nanya tujuan gue ke mana. Gue bilang ke Amerika. Dia beneran kaget lho dan bilang "wah...Amerika? di sana, kalo tenaga kerja Indonesia, gaji nya tinggi gak ya?" Gue sih otomatis jawab "gak tau saya..." sambil dalam hati ngomong sendiri, elo pikir emangnya gue punya pengalaman jadi TKI di sana? atau jadi makelar TKI di sana ya? Huahahahhahaa....

Sayang banget yang kali ini gak landed di hello kitty gate, seperti tahun lalu. Dari landing terminal 1 harus pindah ke terminal 2. Kan pindahnya tuh pake monorail ya. Huah...masih pada pake style takut ketinggalan kereta gitu, jadi gerubakan masuknya, gue sampe diem-diem melipir ke samping, biar gak disangka satu rombongannya. Tadi juga keluar dari bangku pesawat aja, pada gak mau ngalah (atau takut ketinggalan rombongan yeh?) Dueeehhh....

Dah...nanti lanjut lagi ya, gue mau jalan-jalan liat toko sambil nungguin boarding. Dag....

Sok tua

2011-09-20T13:40:00.000+07:00

Kali ini cerita soal miss L

Waktu weekend kemarin, di mobil cuma kita berlima. 2 dewasa, 3 anak-anak. Tiba-tiba kita perhatiin muka mister B yang kayanya diem banget. Hm...kalo gayanya gini, pasti dia mau poop.

Hubby langsung nanya "de, kamu mau poop ya...?"

karena dia masih diem, gue bantuin nanya "kamu mau poop atau uda poop di celana?"

Dia langsung bilang dengan suara memelas "kalo aku bilang, mommy jangan marah ya..."

Gue langsung ngeh dong "iya..mommy gak marah, tapi kamu memang poop di celana, kan..??"

Dia sebetulnya uda bisa bilang kalo pengen2 ke toilet. Jarang banget sebetulnya dia poop di celana, tapi kadang kalo lagi seru main, bisa juga kebablasan.

So, sebelum B jawab, L dengan sok tuanya nyahut "iya mommy jangan dimarahin. Nanti kalo dimarahin, dede nangis..."

Gue setengah mengabaikan omongan L, dan masih lanjut ngomong dengan B "de, lain kali jangan poop di celana dong..kan malu..dede langsung bilang aja kalau sakit perut.."

Ternyata, miss L ini kepo bener, dia nyeletuk lagi "yaa..namanya juga anak-anak, mommy..."

Gue langsung mendelik. Pengen gue ketok, gak sih!

Udah nyamber aje, masih "nasehatin" gue lagee...huh... >.<!

Alhasil gue bilang "kamu jangan ikut-ikutan..." tapi sambil guuoondok...

Bento #150

2011-09-16T17:09:00.001+07:00

Hoorraaayy ...

This mark my number 150 in bento making!

I didn't expect earlier that I will reach this number but well, here I am now.

miss L's

mine

Mister J had exactly the same lunch as miss L's while mister B didn't have his box. He is off from school for every Friday. However, I didn't have a chance to shot it this morning. Hubby already said "let's go..." to them :b

Inside the box: white steamed rice decorated with purple-flower sweet potato and edamame, fried chicken wings with heart steamed carrots, sauteed green vegetable with baby corn and some strawberry pieces.

In the middle of those flowers, I placed the punched-out cheese sheet.

Ah, I am certainly in love with this crunchy sweet potato.

Meanwhile, I am still struggling with all of my schedules as next week I will be on business trip to North and South America. Let's see if I still can do one or two bento before I leave.

Wish everyone a delightful weekend ^.^

Bento #148 and 149

2011-09-13T13:20:00.002+07:00

Good morning....

I didn't come up with any idea for bento since last night. So here are the result

Mister J's ~ I find the cheese flower cut-out is cute, isn't it?

mister B's

a little improvisation for miss L

They chose the foodpicks themselves.

Hm..it is noticeable what is their favorite pick, correct?

Inside the box: onigiri, fried SPAM (in triangle shape, coated in whisked egg prior to frying), tamagoyaki with orange paprika, steamed green squash, edamame, apple and strawberries.

this is mine

Remember Kokeshi bento..? Previously I posted the story in here

I borrowed from miss L to make my lunch.

Inside the box: mini onigiri with furikake and edamame. Another orange paprika tamagoyaki with steamed green squash, cherry tomato and purple star sweet potato.

LOVE the purple sweet potato, also the squash!

They are so crunchy.

Bento #147 The Puppy

2011-09-11T08:30:00.000+07:00

This weekend, I tried to do stuffed bread bento. Thanks to Lia I gave it a try after reading her tutorial because I normally do only burger and hotdog buns. Many bento books will show how to do stuffed bread too.

The puppy - stuffed bread bento

I used 3 different kind of sandwich bread: wheat (light brown), pandan (green) and chocolate sandwich bread. For inside, I put chicken floss, marmalade and blueberry jam. I should remember not to fill so much, otherwise it will leak and spoil the bread. The long ears were bread cut-out too, while their eyes were from cheese sheet. Raw spaghetti was used to keep the eyes and ears in place. I rolled the bread with rolling pin for the ears to keep them not-so-fluffy :)

For final touch, they eyes were tinted while nose and mouth were drawn with chocolate paste using a toothpick. Guess that using chocolate pen would give better result, I will try it in some other time.

This bento is given as a birthday gift for a good friend of mine and I chose puppy theme since dog is her Chinese zodiac sign. I put each bread in cupcake paper and added some strawberries also lemon wedges, as to prevent the content from shifting around during transportation. I am pleased that she loved it.

I made quite a lot of these for kids' Sunday breakfast. Miss L and mister B love bread so much, while mister J prefers to have a full meal, which means rice and its side dishes. But he ate a piece though. I said "mommy is trying a new recipe. Would you be my food-tester guy?" LOL... He was so sweet to always say yes to my requests.

Wishing you all a great start of the week :b

Bento 146

2011-09-08T11:51:00.000+07:00

Welcoming Weekend ... ^o^

I just love doing onigiri.

Inside the box: Triangle onigiri stuffed with beef floss, sauteed baby corn, steamed green squash, boiled crabs, seeweed and sandwich tofu.

Recently the weather is so hot in here and I keep reminding the kids to drink lots of water.

I miss the rain a lot.

Wish everyone a great weekend :)

Bento #145

2011-09-06T13:34:00.001+07:00

I woke up rather late this morning! Ah.. I am sure the alarm clock worked well but strangely I didn't hear it rang ^0^

In addition, the kids were a bit cranky. While I rush them for morning shower, our maid fixed their lunch boxes already. Nothing fancy, just fit the meal nicely together. After they left, I prepared hubby's lunch box.

Inside the box: panko chicken breast (from last night's dinner), sauteed butter lemon shrimps, steamed green squash, purple-flower sweet potato, white steamed rice, cantaloupe, grapes and strawberry

I am excited to find purple sweet potato nearby. I just steamed it and the kids love it for its sweetness. It gives nice color for bento too. I am sure will use it again for next making.

Wish everyone a wonderful day

Bento #144 Chicken and Fish

2011-09-05T14:50:00.000+07:00

Hello...I am back from one week-holiday for Moslem New Year. The office was closed and also the school. Today is the first day everyone returns to their routine. Some are still in off-days but mostly have come back. I guess so are the traffic jam in usual places.

We didn't go to any specific get-away place. We are trying to enjoy the less crowded city as much as possible. It only happens once a year! I made some simple snack bento during holidays but didn't post it yet since my computer were in off mode too for a week. LOL

Thus, during off days, I read some more books that were waiting for me by bedside. One of them was The Just Bento Cookbook by Makiko Itoh

I have had this book for ages. I quickly flipped the pages and admired the fine photography inside during it's arrival. Not until recently that I carefully read one fabulous page to another. One time is not enough. The recipes look easy to follow. Each bento was given a timeline. The book simply makes me want to cook something.

I gave it a try for Chicken Kijiyaki Bento

for them

Inside the box: white steamed rice underneath of sliced-chicken, steamed broccoli, sausages, strawberry, cherry tomato and lemon wedges

for little man

for little lady

for their dad

Inside the box: same as above but I add two fish-sausages and double up for almost every contents.

It cooked and tasted like chicken terriyaki. One thing make me curious. The skin is not crispy at all while the recipe said it should be.

Days ago, the kids received a birthday gift from their aunt

The adorable Kokeshi Bento (Momotaro, Hanako and Ichiro) from Bento & Co

I should call this a sweet belated birthday-gift. Although was meant for my kids, I am excited about it, since I am the one who will pack some food inside :) She was right when saying this gift was a surprise for me too.

The kids are thrilled to accept those and used them for breakfast at home! Whew.. :D

The top part, served as eating bowl, the middle part has inner dome leak-resistant lid able to put soup into and rice was put in the bottom compartment.

I will surely use Kokeshi Bento later on for their lunch *wink wink*

Kungfu Panda 2

2011-08-22T11:11:00.000+07:00

Kemarin, akhirnya nonton juga nih Kungfu Panda 2 ...

picture courtesy of Wikipedia

Sudah berminggu-minggu yang lalu, ditagih janji nonton sama anak-anak. Kita selalu bilang, "nanti ya..kalo ada film untuk anak-anak, yang sekarang filmnya orang dewasa semua. Memangnya mau nonton film seram..?"

Begitu film ini keluar, kita langsung deh nonton. Bioskop nya sih di mall deket rumah aja. Pas datang, ternyata agak telat dikit, sudah main di jam 12.00 jadi kita nunggu yang berikutnya di jam 13.50. Ada sih 1 studio lagi yang putar film ini tapi 3D. Ah, entah kenapa, gue nonton yang 3D malah pusing ya menurut gue, jadi kita pilih yang biasa aja.

Alhasil, ya keliling dulu, temenin mereka main ke Timezone dulu.

Kali ini bekalnya gak banyak2 amat koq. Karena sudah makan siang dan ngemil2 sebelumnya, jadi cuma bawa 1 bucket popcorn dan cheeseburger pesanan Jovann. Minumnya aja pakai botol air mereka masing-masing. Gue gak demen deh ngasih soda/limun gitu.

Sengaja pesan kursi di row paling atas. In case mereka bosen dan berdiri, gak ganggu penonton lainnya. Gak seperti pengalaman nonton sebelumnya, kali ini Bastian duduk sendiri. Dikasi makanan, jelas mereka anteng.

Setengah filmnya berputar, Jov berbisik "aku sudah pernah nonton film ini..."

Gue balas "iya... panda nya sama, tapi ceritanya beda..."

Saat di akhir film, ada sedikit flashback dari seri 1, Jov bisik lagi "tuh, kan..betul aku sudah pernah nonton ini..."

Kalau menurut gue, seri 1 lebih banyak lucunya daripada di seri 2. Tapi seri 2 bagus koq. Ini menjawab pertanyaan gue, kenapa seekor angsa bisa punya anak panda? Dulu, gue suka bercanda sama temen2 gue, the moral of story is a goose can have a panda as son :D

Terus, banyak filosofi nya juga ya... Gue paling suka pas Po inget masa lalunya, si peramal bilang "gak penting siapa kita di masa lalu, yang penting siapa elo sekarang" Yeah, gak persis kata-katanya gitu lah...

Hehehe..speaking of "lah" gue intermezzo sedikit cerita belakangan hari ini, Bastian demen banget ngomong dengan "laaaa"

Gue: de, mau tidur di kamar mommy atau di kamar koko?

Bas: mau di kamar mommy laaa...

Gue: de, mau makan sekarang atau nanti?

Bas: makan sekarang laaa...

hihhihihihihi....

Bento #143 Burger Boy

2011-08-18T16:34:00.000+07:00


burger boy

A simple bento for little boy, mister B

Love the perfect round and smooth surface of this bread. It definitely looks like a chubby face :b

Inside, I put Thai fish cake (too lazy to cook a burger from minced beef), piled with lettuce and cheese sheet. Sauced with some ketchup and mayo. Later, it decorated with cheese eyes, nori and dabs of ketchup.

Off he went happily to school... :)

Bento #141 and #142

2011-08-18T11:33:00.001+07:00

Hello All....

So busy lately that I didn't have a chance to upload the pictures until now

Those 2 bento are the ones that I made for friends.

One was a bento for a golf-freak. It should be seen as a golf course, although it may seems like a fish! LOL Besides, it has no sand box and pin as well :) The course was from egg sheet and hand-cut.

In the box were fried shrimp, sausage, roll egg sheets, broccoli with corns and some strawberries

Another was an onigiri bento.

There were fried longbean wrapped with thin-sliced beef, egg rolls, grape tomato, broccoli with carrot stars and some strawberries.

I put several carrot stars to cover some flaws in hand-mold onigiri. Ho ho ho.

Have a nice day :p

Bento #140 Om Nom

2011-08-08T13:33:00.000+07:00

Ouuuuhhhh... I wish to do Om Nom in Cut the Rope game

picture courtesy of Adium

Here are the results

one for the boy

one for the girl

They were too round? Not so much like the original at all? LOL

Inside the box: fried panko shrimp, broccoli and strawberry.
They were made from egg sheets

Hadiah kuis

2011-08-08T10:12:00.000+07:00

Thank you for Selvi

Kejatuhan rejeki nomplok :)

Kalau diinget-inget, bulan Agustus tahun lalu juga gue banyak dapet hadiah kuis.

Kayanya jadi bulan baik nih *lebayy...*

Another year another party

2011-08-05T15:29:00.001+07:00

Gak terasa, sudah setahun lagi. Sepertinya baru kemarin Luna dan Jovann pesta ulang tahun di sekolah sewaktu mereka 5 tahun. Ceritanya disini untuk party tahun lalu

Kali ini, persiapan pesta agak mendadak. Baru dipersiapkan kurang dari 1 minggu sebelumnya. Sempat terpikir, tidak usahlah pesta setiap tahun, tetapi mereka baru naik kelas 1 SD. Yah, sudahlah. Tahun depan gak usah pesta lagi ya....

Ok, silahkan dilihat aja deh foto-fotonya

Sempat (bukan ~~sempat~~, tepatnya, tapi selalu) bingung menentukan tema kue untuk mereka. Kalau masing-masing 1 kue, gak terlalu bingung. Tapi dobel juga repotnya kalau pesan 2 kue. Akhirnya pesan tema yang netral, Hello Kitty ! *Ini sih kesukaan mommy-nya* ukuran kue 26cm. Untung mereka tidak protes. Blackforest 2 buah itu untuk wali kelas mereka masing-masing.

Menyiapkan goody bags juga beli-beli sendiri aja. Jadilah malam sebelumnya juga packing-packing sendirian. Sempet agak heboh karena toko yang gue pesan untuk souvenir ini ternyata salah mendatangkan barang. Supplier nya sih yang salah, tapi gak apalah...melesetnya gak jauh banget koq

Seperti biasanya acara dimulai dengan nyanyi bersama, tiup lilin dan potong kue. Karena waktunya terbatas, sudah diatur untuk acara di aula tempat latihan menari. Diminta datang jam 11.10. Tempatnya seperti gazebo yang besar. Jadi anginnya kenceng deh. Untung cuma kertas tissue aja yang bisa beterbangan, wkwkwk.

Luna kelihatan senang ngeliat kuenya. Sengaja gue bikin surprise, mereka sama sekali belum ngintip kuenya sejak dari rumah. Jovann walau gak comment, dia malah doyan makan kuenya. Well, that's something new. Dia biasanya gak terlalu suka sama kue.

Sebastian juga ikutan antusias. Dia udah pulang sekolah duluan, mandi sebentar, trus ikut balik lagi ke sekolah.

Habis itu, dibagikan goody bagsnya. Hm...ini moment yang anak-anak biasanya suka. Memang heboh banget pesta ulang tahun untuk 2 kelas sekaligus. Masing-masing kelas isinya 36 anak, termasuk Luna dan Jovann. Perbandingan murid perempuan dan laki-laki nya hampir berimbang. Sudah gue hitung jumlah anak cewek-cowoknya supaya goody bagnya matching. Soalnya selama ini pengalaman sendiri, Luna gak mau dikasi barang2 bermotif/warna cowok dan begitu juga dengan Jovann.

Jam 11.45 bubar untuk jam pulang atau jam istirahat siang (untuk yang ada pelajaran tambahan). Kebanyakan, mereka ikut kelas tambahan, saat mereka kembali ke kelas masing-masing, gue potong2 kuenya jadi mereka bisa langsung makan di jam break.

Kue nya ternyata kegedean untuk anak-anak SD, jadi masih ada 1/3 kue yang dibawa pulang. Kuenya ternyata enak lho...sampai hubby yang biasanya gak doyan kue, bilang enak.

Happy birthday dear cute angels... May God bless you with happiness and wisdom as you grow up *muach muach*

Bento #139 Back to School

2011-08-02T13:05:00.000+07:00

A simple bento in this morning.

These are actually their second lunch boxes. Before they were off to school, they have brought their boxes for break-time on 9.20 am. Nothing fancy for their earlier boxes. After school finish on 11.25 am, they will have a short break to continue with extra curriculum activities for an hour. I thought they must be hungry. So I quickly fixed these for their noon meal-time.

miss L's

mister J's

The theme is Back to School. I also post this to Bento Club. They are having giveaway until 04 August 2011.

Inside the box: seaweed-fish squareball underneath of quail eggs, cherry tomato, edamame and mini green apple.

Bento #138 Emoticon

2011-07-29T11:59:00.002+07:00

Hi, good day all....

Today, the kids are having a day-off from school in welcoming first day of fasting month on 01 August 2011. We are not Moslem and their school is in Catholic-based curriculum, so they just enjoy an extra holiday. This event is quite common to happen, mostly in schools and certain offices. Thus, I made a non-charaben bento.

Inside the box: onigiri stuffed with beef floss and wrapped with nori, kani rolled inside with cheese and egg sheet, broccoli, cherry tomatoes and some boiled edamame pieces.

The emoticons on top of onigiri were made from cut-outs egg sheet and nori. I hope they look for real *wink wink ... *

I dabbed the bottom part of emoticons with mayonaise so they would not slided-down until I arrived in the office. And they did safe.... Pfiuh!

These are the emoticons that I so often use in BlackBerry Messenger with friends

;) wink and :p tongue out also =)) ROTFL *rolling on the floor laughing*

The challenge lied on wrapping onigiri with nori sheets. Perhaps I did them too tightly so they cracked a bit here and there. Hope none of you will spot the cracks. LOL

Sending love and wish for happy weekend from our home to yours.

Bento #137 The Princess

2011-07-26T14:17:00.002+07:00

Good day...!

The inspiration of today's bento is from Rapunzel *hmmm... not so much look like her LOL*

This time, I cooked vegan carrot noodle and put the face in the middle. The noodle has mushrooms which I hide them underneath.
The face was made from zucchini, to have steady position, and cheese on top of zucchini, to provide smooth texture. The menu was quite easy to do.

We can recognize which box belong to whom, by looking at the color of box LOL
Blue box is for mister J, yellow box is for miss L and green box is for mister B
Purple box? ehm, that's for me :D

Cerita anak (baru) sekolah

2011-07-25T16:59:00.001+07:00

Ini baru kejadian kemarin nih

Gue suka gendong dia sambil bilang "sayang deh sama dede. Dede sayang gak sama mommy?"
dia bilang "sayang..."
Daddynya nyamber "sayang daddy juga gak, de?"
dia bilang "engga...soalnya daddy sering pegang-pegang aku..."
Buset deh, bapaknya sampai mendelik dan protes "mommy kan juga pegang kamu terus, de..!"

Seperti anak-anak seumur dia, demen pake kacamata hitam di mobil
Habis pakai, selalu nanya "apakah aku keren..?"
Lebayyy...
Terus, dia berpose seperti ini sambil bilang "ini serasa di pantai.."

hoalaaa...dia belum pernah ke pantai koq..apalagi berjemur di sana

Anak yang baru sekolah ternyata punya banyak cerita lucu.

Ternyata dia semangat pergi ke sekolah.
Pernah satu pagi, dia mendadak bangun dan langsung ngomong "maaf mbak, dede bangun kesiangan.."
Dia ngomong itu di hari Rabu minggu lalu, masih masa orientasi masuknya baru hari Selasa dan Kamis. Mbaknya sampai ikutan kaget kirain dia beneran terlambat.

Pulang sekolah, Bas ditanya sama susternya
S: De, banyak temen gak di sekolah? namanya siapa aja?
B: ada Niko
S: ooh, ganteng gak, de?
B: ganteng, tapi ganteng-an aku..
GUBRAK!!

Centil bener siyyy....

Bento 136

2011-07-25T13:17:00.004+07:00

Good morning...!

Today, everyone will have full school day. The twins will be in from 7 to 11.25 am. While the little B shall be in from 7.30 to 9.30 am. I am glad that they enjoy their school days so far.

Here comes the time when I have to make 3 bentoes in the morning (Ha.ha!) and a trial to do two-toned onigiri. I don't know the specific term. Let me call them by that name.

Miss L's

mister J's

Inside the box: Onigiri with nori, fried chicken coated in honey-sauce, steamed green squash, steamed broccoli in halved chikuwa, butterfly carrot, strawberry and mini orange.

I made first two sets as priority , since L and J will be picked up earlier. After they left, I quickly assembled another one for B. Thank God for that! Otherwise, I should wake up at dawn to prepare 3 sets at once. *can't imagine about it*

mister B's

His was a bit different, with addition of edamame in mini train food pick. He insisted to choose this one after checking on my collection. Hopefully he won't forget to bring it back home later on. LOL

Ok, this one is a bonus

daddy's

My hubby is so often fixed own breakfast, since we do have different breakfast style. I prefer to have something light. I can eat bread, cereal, even fruit/veg salad while he said all of them are merely snacks. So, this morning he made himself a bowl of Chinese noodle. While in kitchen, he pointed to my bento stash and said "Are these for my lunch?" Ho ho..I had no objection in creating another one and time allowing me to do so. I just need to hold myself in placing eyes and mouth. Instead, I put beef floss inside and edamame pieces on top of onigiri.

Inside the box: two stuffed-onigiris, fried chicken, boiled crab-meatballs, steamed carrots and green squash, also mini orange.

Whew... \^o^/

Wish everyone a good start of the week

Bento 135 - We are twins

2011-07-21T14:39:00.000+07:00

Hello...!

After long holiday for school break, I come back today in making bento for the twins. The kids are now in Elementary grade. They will have more serious curriculum than in Kindergarten, not forget to mention, longer school hours too. Thus, my job every night is to check on their agendas to make sure they have prepared the right books and outfits for next morning. Previously, my husband and I thought, it is better for them to be in separate classroom, for them to have own circle of friends. However, one class may have different timetable with another, thus I should be very careful in doing my night work. Haha!

yes, we are twins

I sent them to class on their first day and get introduced with teachers. Each of their teacher was surprised in finding that the kid is having twin in the other classroom.

miss L's

mister J's

In the box: twins face from kamaboko and nori, grilled chicken piece, candy sausage, broccoli, mini star carrots, grapes and apple sliced.

Have a lovely day....

First Day to School - Sebastian

2011-07-18T14:53:00.001+07:00

Ok...today is the little boy's turn :)

Jadwal orientasi di minggu ini, Playgroup (PG) adalah selasa dan kamis. Masuk jam 7.30 sampai jam 9.00 saja.

Minggu depan baru masuk full senin sampai kamis, jam 7.30 sampai 9.30

Kebetulan semester ini dapat giliran pagi. Nanti semester berikutnya, gantian masuk siang, jam 10 sampai 12.

Seragamnya senin dan rabu kotak-kotak, dan selasa kamis pakai baju olahraga.

Pagi-pagi sudah excited untuk pergi sekolah, karena dari 6 bulan yang lalu sudah gue brainwashed bahwa sekolah seru lho. Selain itu, mommy dan suster gak ada di kelas ya, jadi Bastian bareng-bareng teman dan ibu guru aja.

Sayang banget, beberapa hari yang lalu, dia habis jatuh fell flat on his face jadi hidungnya lecet dan bekas lecetnya masih ada. Gapapa ya, de....eh, Bastian...tetap semangat!

I am so ready for school

Gue antar dia ke sekolah. Jam 6.50 berangkat dari rumah. Deket koq, cuma 3 km dari rumah. Masih di dalam komplek Kota Wisata.

school bag, contained lunch box, water bottle, spare shirts & pants

Tas sekolahnya ini sudah lama banget gue beli. Ada kali 2 tahun yang lalu *mommy lebay*
Saat itu dia lagi seneng-senengnya sama Pocoyo dan pas gue beli saat business trip
Dia senang banget sampai gue bawain tasnya aja gak boleh. Monggo, de...digeret sendiri ^o^

Pas masuk kelas, dia mau kenalan dengan gurunya. Guru-guru PG sudah kenal banget sama gue, mommy Luna dan Jovann. Mereka bilang "ah, ini adiknya Luna dan Jovann kan? kenapa hidungnya..?" whew...

Sebelum kelas dimulai, boleh main dulu

Gue yang udah siap-siap mental seandainya dia maunya nempel terus, malah 'gigit jari' aja lihat Bastian langsung mau ikutan main dan ngobrol dengan gurunya.

Saat toddlers berkumpul untuk bermain, baru ketahuan siapa yang 'egois' dan siapa yang pasrah alias pasif. Wkwkwkwk. Bastian masih dengan sopan bertanya "boleh pinjam gak?" kalau ada mainan yang dia mau pegang. Beberapa kali ngomong, gak ada yang kasi, langsung dia rebut sendiri :D

Setelah bel berbunyi, kelas mulai berdoa, absen dan berkenalan, bernyanyi dan menempel. Satu kelas berisi 16 murid.

Kalau gue sedikit lebih lama merekam, ternyata Bastian dipanggil untuk menempel di papan tulis lho...

Jadilah cepet-cepet gue rekam lagi nih

Mari makan siang ....

Lunch time!

Kalau soal makan, kayanya semua anak gue gak perlu diawasi :p

Bastian dengan pedenya makan sendiri. Waktu gurunya mau bantu sendok atau suap, dia dengan tegas menolak Gurunya sampai ngedipin gue dan bilang "pinter makan sendiri ya..gak mau dibantuin..." Hahahaha..ibu guru kudu lihat jam-jam makan di rumah saya, buuu...

I am so hungry.... :)

Sehabis makan, ibu guru membacakan buku cerita

story telling time

"cerita tentang gajah..."

Sehabis story telling, mendadak Bastian deketin gue, lalu minta dipangku sambil bilang "kenapa sekolahnya lama sekali, mommy...???" Nah lho...

Untung dibujuk-bujuk, dia masih mau..tanggung tinggal 30 menit lagi jam 9.

Akhirnya jam 9, pas bubar deh. Berdoa untuk pulang dan berbaris menuju ke pintu gerbang penjemput. Guru akan bertanya bila anak ikut antar jemput atau dijemput mbak/ayah/ibu/supir. Kalau gurunya gak mengenali siapa yang jemput, anaknya gak dikasi keluar gerbang.

stay in the line...

Sambil menunggu gerbang dibuka, dibagikan hasil prakarya menempel tadi

oww...my first school work...

Di sini, tampangnya dah 'teler' tapi masih kekeuh, bawa tas sendiri

look...! 3 stars...

Congratulation, kiddo... you are doing well in your first day.. \^o^/

First Day to Elementary

2011-07-18T10:12:00.001+07:00

Hiyaaa..today is the first day for twins to get into Elementary... *so excited*

Mereka sudah terbiasa bangun pagi jadi tadi pagi gak susah banguninnya. Yang penting, seragam baru...!

a pair of cutie in their new uniform

kenapa Luna cembetut? Dia merasa topinya kegedean

Dodolnya, sudah sampai di sekolah baru ngeh, kalo rompinya dipakai rabu dan kamis.

Jadi senin selasa putih merah, dan jum'at nya pramuka. Ada juga baju olahraga dipakai sesuai jam nya nanti.

So, karena ini hari pertama, gue antar sendiri ke sekolahnya, sekalian kenalan dengan wali kelas masing-masing. Luna di kelas1A dan Jovann di kelas 1B. Yep, anak kembar memang disarankan pisah kelas, supaya punya teman masing-masing. Guru mereka pun sempet "heh? ada kembarannya..?" yeap!

duduk di kelasnya

masih anteng

Sudah merupakan peraturan sekolah, kalau anak perempuan yang berambut panjang, harus diikat rambutnya.

Tadinya, setelah saling berkenalan dengan wali kelasnya, mau gue tinggal. Sudah bye bye berulang kali sama mereka. Dan mereka juga keliatan tenang-tenang saja koq. Tapi begitu gue mau meninggalkan kelas, mereka dipanggil untuk berbaris, upacara bendera. Haaa...jadi ikutan bersama segerombolan orang tua excited lainnya buat ngeliatin mereka berbaris di lapangan.

Pas berbaris, baru ngeh lagi, mereka termasuk imut, dibandingkan temen-temen sekolahnya. Aiiihhhh...

Sebelum upacara dimulai, gue tinggal ke kantor deh. Karena yang berbaris kan nungguin semua anak SD dari kelas 1-6 berbaris. They'll be fine....

Silly Jovann..... \^o^/ he he he...

Have a great day in school...!

The Book: A Survivor's Story - Lance Armstrong

2011-07-12T15:00:00.000+07:00

image from gramediaonline

The book is really motivating. Talking about his childhood, the struggle against cancer and the fight for Tour de France championship. When I started to read it, I couldn't stop. I finished to read it three days in a row.

At first, I thought I will find a "creepy" story, since I never knew anyone with cancer before. However, the book told the disease in uplifting spirits. In middle part, there are some cool photos of his life. From this book, I also aware, a little bit, about this kind of sport. When reading it, I can visualized the beautiful scenery in their cycling pathways.

Always, it is best if you can read it by yourself and prepare to be touched.

Mommy's boy

2011-07-04T16:49:00.000+07:00

Kali ini cerita khusus tentang Sebastian. Dia ini agak2 "lucu" belakangan hari ini. Kalau ada gue deket2 situ, dia pasti gak mau sama daddy nya atau yang lainnya. Dari dulu juga udah mulai begitu sih, tapi sekarang makin parah.

Kalau dia mau tidur bareng kita, dia pasti tidur menghadap ke sisi gue, trus mepet juga ke tempat gue, sampai gue rasanya sempit banget deh. Trus daddynya sempet tanya "de...tidur nya ke sini-an aja ...nanti mommy di situ sempit.."

Dia jawab (nadanya kolokan) "engga...aku gak mau deket-deket daddy..." Lho...!

Daddynya "Lah...kenapa, de...?" sambil usap-usap kepalanya

Bastian langsung ngambek dan bilang "mommy...daddy pegang pegang aku..." trus dia ambil tangan gue untuk usap usap kepala dia bekas tempat daddynya tadi usap. Lucu bener ini anak.

Daddynya sampe gemes dan kadang bilang ke gue "elo sih manjain dia terus...bilangin gak boleh gitu dong.." Lhaaa...masa gue yang ngajarin gitu..kan gak mungkin toh?

Yang lucu, kalo gue belum pulang, dia mau koq guling-gulingan sampe kejer-kejeran sama bapaknya. Dan gue juga suka bilang "de, daddy kan sayang sama dede...gapapa ya daddy pegang dan cium..."

Dia pasti bilang "gak mau...mendingan disayang mommy aja..."

Inget...semua suaranya waktu ngomong itu kolokan sekali...Huh...

Then, semalam, gue juga sempet nanya "kenapa sih, de...koq gak mau sama daddy?"

Dia bilang "soalnya daddy sering gangguin aku..."

Hm...?? Bapaknya sampe bilang "sumpe...waktu elo belum pulang, dia MAU sama gue..."

Daddynya sudah berpura-pura nangis segala, trus pura-pura mau pergi ke mall, tetap aja dia gak mau. Yang lucu, kalo pura-pura ke mall, daddynya bilang "de, daddy mau ke mall lho...kamu mau ikut gak? sini dong deket2 daddy" Trus, dia dengan pinternya malah nanya ke gue "mommy ikut gak ke mall? kan mommy ikut ya? aku deket2 mommy aja..." hiyaaa...skak mat deh bapaknya.

Sampe kapan dia sindrom begini yeh? Coba nanti kalo sudah masuk sekolah, barangkali membaik wkwkwkwk....

Diselipin 1 cerita lucu nih...cerita yang beneran lucu

Suatu hari dia lagi minum yoghurt botolan, yang pake sedotan tuh, trus bapaknya nanya "de, susunya uda habis blom?"

Gue dengan iseng koreksi pertanyaan bapaknya "itu yoghurt kan ya, de?...bilangin daddy, bukan susu..."

Dia sambil masih asik minum, nyahut "yoghurt kan terbuat dari susu..."

Gubrak! huh!

Ipod !

2011-06-27T11:35:00.000+07:00

Somebody is so kind in letting me to have this ipod! that's my lil sister
Thank you :)

She sent the ipod with its USB-charger and I simply use it.

For the past years, I did not have any interest over the ipod and similar stuff. However, recently, I fall in love with podcast. I use it for learning Spanish and Japanese language. *Wheww...wipe the sweat out from forehead* Those languages are not so so easy for me..and it's kind of 'headache' learning two different languages at the same time. But I enjoy them so far.

For Spanish, I can use it for simple communication with my customers within Spain and some Latin America countries. Just to build a closer relationship.

As for Japanese, I have started to learn this some years ago, not so much and not so serious. I thought, well, even though I am no longer in charged for the territory, I continue to learn since like it anyway

Let's hope these will last... LOL

She also filled the ipod with many many songs of her choice.

I couldn't dislike her preference and listen to them during sleeping time. Ah, heaven!

Lasagna

2011-06-22T11:39:00.000+07:00

Never tried to do lasagna before

Just found an oven-ready pasta sheet in a box. Grab some ground beef, mushrooms, onion and mozzarella cheese altogether. I did not refer to any recipe. So, just tossed-in a spoon of margarine and chopped onion into frying pan. When onion looked tender, I put in the ground beef and chopped mushrooms. Sprinkled with salt, pepper and crushed oregano to taste. Lastly, to put ketchup and stirred evenly. No style at all. LOL

Preheat the oven, I used 150 C for 30 min. Coated square glassware with margarine, then placed pasta sheets and beef-mixed, sliced zucchini, grated parmesan, mozzarella. Then re-do again another layers from pasta sheets. Ah...! I should use spinach but I didn't have in hand. Zucchini will do good.

take a peek in the oven

The glass tin was too big :D I do not have the perfect size, either too small or too big. I went for too big.

love the mozzarella

I can't taste it myself, it was so meaty. So, I asked my hubby to taste this. He said "it is cheesy..." Ah..!

Enjoy a bite or more

I need other proof. So I packed some for kids and some for my work colleagues.
The kids said "it is good" Ah..! Love them for always like my cooking
The co-workers also said "it is good" Hm..... Want some?

Bento #134 Rice Ball

2011-06-14T15:40:00.000+07:00

Hey hey hey... Look what I've got...

Yeah.... a rice ball box...!
so surprised to find it in nearby supermarket.

I quickly did this

non charaben bento

The contents:

Top part: triangle onigiri with furikake

Middle part: chicken nuggets, boiled sausages, narutomaki, broccoli, edamame and zucchini

Bottom part: grape fruits and checkered apple

It certainly made my day .... *o^

The Book : The Five People You Meet in Heaven

2011-06-14T14:33:00.000+07:00

By Mitch Albom

image from internet

Done reading it.

This is the plot summary

Waktu gue mulai baca, dari judulnya saja sudah terbayang kalau ini cerita mengenai after life. Yang menarik, dari awal, seperti diberikan stop-watch. Sekian jam menuju kematian, cerita beberapa paragraf dan seterusnya. Jadi deg-degan...

Cerita kehidupan Eddie, dipanggil Eddie Maintenance, karena memang itulah kerja nya di suatu taman bermain. Suatu hari, waktu dia berusaha menyelamatkan anak kecil, dia jatuh dan tewas.

Mulai deh ceritanya, bertemu dengan orang pertama sampai kelima. Setiap orang yang dia temui mengajarkan sesuatu atau memberi jawaban tentang sesuatu yang selama hidupnya, tanpa sadar, tidak pernah Eddie ketahui.

As usual, baca sendiri, lebih seru...

Have fun reading yourself...

Bento #133

2011-06-13T14:16:00.001+07:00

This bento was made for meal-time after kids' Sunday school.

Let's admit it, most things unpredictably happen in mom's life.....

I had prepared the bento stash during night before and planned to carefully assemble them in the morning.

Then later during night, 2 kids needed my attention due to bad dreams. Unavoidably...I woke up rather late the next morning...Ouch.. The kids couldn't be late for Sunday school, thus, the bento was done in a hurry ...

Inside the box: three smiling onigiri in nori suits, heart-punched boiled sausages, sauteed baby corn, boiled quail eggs sprinkled with boiled edamame, pan-fried Thai style-fish cakes and zucchini flowers.

After church, we were having a day out with a high-school friend and his family. They have 2 kids, a teen and a toddler while the little one is at the same age with my youngest. Then, I thought, why didn't I make another set for the daughter. It would be great to have kids' lunch session :p

The items are exactly the same with the first box, except for a cup of almond pudding with fruit cocktail added into. My kids already had their puddings at home.

Eventually, they had a fun lunch and finished their meals!

Bento #132 Kungfu Panda

2011-06-07T12:05:00.001+07:00

Yeah, I am talking about the movie 2nd sequel

There is an euphoria out there about this movie. Too bad, it won't be arrived in here. Don't ask me why.

So, here is the bento

pink box for miss L

Inside the box : Chicken katsu, mini mandarins, edamame, white rice and panda figure in cheese, nori and kani.

blue box for mister J

I am hopeless .. cut the nori on the night before, the next morning when to be used, the sheets were shrinking a bit.
Aaahhh....

Makan Bakmi

2011-06-06T16:00:00.001+07:00

Kalo cerita soal anak-anak, udah kehabisan judul neh

Pulang gereja kemarin, makan ke resto dekat rumah. Yah, boleh dibilang udah jadi langganan karena seringnya kita makan di sini. Dibaca: yang punya resto, kenal sama anak-anak :D

Temani Bastian makan, gue berusaha mengarahkan dia "cara makan yang benar"

Gue (pas lagi makan bakmi) : "de...itu kalo makan, mangkoknya dipegangin dong...Biar mangkoknya gak lari"

Bas (sambil tetap mengunyah) : "emangnya mangkok punya kaki, bisa lari..."

Gue : ....... (speechless)

Luna dan Jovann lagi senang-senangnya pakai sumpit

yuuuummmm.....

kennnaaa....

Jovann lagi gak ada foto nya karena dia makan nasi tim, bukan makan bakmi. Gue cukup heran, dia suka sekali makan nasi tim di resto ini. Kebetulan daku gak foto, bisa mendadak lapar kalo lihat cara dia makan.

Posting ditutup dengan video, as requested by my lil sister earlier.

Sis, this one is for you. Enjoy...:)
The title : trying my new shoes

Have a nice day

Bento #131 Sweet Lady

2011-06-06T11:40:00.005+07:00

Hello, there....

Hope you had a good weekend. We had long weekend, due to public holiday on last Thursday, some people took Friday as an off day. It wasn't including myself :p

Then on last Saturday, some close friends and old folks visited us for a cooking party. Yeay! Tired but excited, we had a wonderful time! Well, I missed a lady due to her work on that day, so I made this for her.

Inside the box: steamed star-carrots on top of white rice, steamed broccoli, panko-fried chicken strips, cute quail egg, strawberries, lemons, blueberry bear-jellies and an apple piece underneath the jellies.

Too bad the jellies didn't show clearly in picture :)

That was a quick preparation, believe me.

I have made those jellies in previous night. In the morning, I had done with broccoli, carrots and quail eggs for the party.

So, I just "stole" some of the items to assemble this bento. LOL. The Extra things to do were only frying the chicken, punching carrots and washing fruits. That's all :D

I seldom use food picks lately, but this yellow bow made the egg prettier, don't you think?

The face, as usual, done with punched-out nori and dabs of ketchup.

So sweet of her husband to be a 'delivery man' and it's my pleasure to hear she enjoyed my bento.

The Book : Tuesdays with Morrie

2011-06-03T12:31:00.000+07:00

I finished reading this book.

Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom.

True story, mengenai relasi dekat professor Morrie Schwartz dengan mahasiswanya, Mitch Albom. Saat sang professor terkena penyakit ALS (Lou Gehrig) mereka memulai pelajaran tentang kehidupan. Setiap hari Selasa Mitch mengunjungi Morrie (mereka menamai diri: manusia selasa) dan berbicara tentang 1 topik kehidupan. Banyak hal yang menyentuh, termasuk semangat dan cara pandang Morrie sendiri setelah terkena penyakit ini.

Baca sendiri cerita selengkapnya yaa...

Bento 130 Angry Birds

2011-05-26T11:52:00.003+07:00

I have done the angry bird in previous post. The red and furious birds! Well, have to confess that mine were not looked angry at all

This is the target of those angry birds

Miss L's

The pig is not silly enough, yes?

Inside the box: green onigiri, steamed green squash, star and flower steamed carrots, sausages and egg "flower bouquet", halved oranges, lemon and grape.

Another yummy target

Mister J's

The kids went into hysteria upon looking their boxes. So much excitement that they noticed neither a minor flaw on the pig's eyes nor the uneven green shade of onigiri.

Kids are forgiving :D

But I do love the bouquet. Don't you feel so?

Bento 129 Pacman

2011-05-24T11:09:00.002+07:00

Who does not know about Pacman? or never heard about it? Hurry ask my kids.

They are recently love to play it although most of times they will get mad unable to clear the game.

Miss L's

A simple bento made them off to school with excitement.

Mister J's

The main course was Chinese style stir-fried noodles with squid-pieces and vegetables. On the side were grapefruit and strawberry. Here they are - eggsheet Pacman and friends (should I say friends or enemies? you decide..) - on top of wax paper, to provide a steady ground.

Have a lovely day.

Mommy's note

2011-05-23T11:37:00.002+07:00

I am talking about kids' world

Cerita seru-seruan aja

Kata Luna ke Jovann : "kamu harus bertanggung jawab..."

Waktu gue tanya ini meja makan berantakan banget dan gak ada yang ngaku siapa yang bikin berantakan

Mommy's note : sok tua banget ya dia :b

Sebastian suka duduk dipangku di kursi depan dalam mobil. Trus, kalo dia duduk agak maju kedepan, daddynya suka kehalang sama kepala dia melihat spion.....Jadi, daddynya bilang "de...duduknya bersandar ke mommy dong, kan daddy gak kelihatan kaca spionnya..."

Dede dengan polosnya bilang "kan masih ada kaca satunya lagi di sana (nunjuk spion)....."

Mommy's note : betul betul betul...:D

Seminggu kemarin, Icen pulang ke Jakarta, cuti. Kita sempet pergi sama dia ke mall. Di jalan, Icen pangku dan usap-usap kuping Jov, then suddenly Jov bilang : "Aku suka deh sama kamu karena kamu selembut bayi..."

Mommy's note: lebayyy... :p

Di kesempatan berbeda, tapi tetap di mobil, Bas minta botol minum dan dikasi sama Jov.

Bas : "Terima kasih koko...koko baik sekali..." dengan tampang serius

Mommy's note: ehm...ehm...

Pas daddy U-turn ditempat tanda yang disilang

Bas : "Kalo ada tanda belok disilang, kita gak boleh belok, daddy...lurus aja ikutin jalannya..."

Mommy's note: mateng deh >,<

Jov bernyanyi "warna-warna......warna apa yang akan kau pakai di musim panas..ha..ha..ha...".

Kata dia ini lagunya Felipe di Handy Manny Playhouse Disney.

Bas : "Aku juga bisa nyanyi, ko..."

Jov : "oke..tapi lagunya gak boleh sama ya.."

Bas : "oke....warna-warna.......warna apa yang akan kau pakai di musim semi..ha..ha..ha..."

Jov : "Lho..de...koq lagunya sama...tadi katanya lagunya lain...?"

Bas : "Aku kan bilang musim semi......ha..ha..ha..."

Mommy's note: iya bener juga sih ^o^

The Book: Berani Menertawakan Diri Sendiri

2011-05-19T15:33:00.001+07:00

Judul buku: Berani Menertawakan Diri Sendiri
Pengarang : Sulaiman Budiman

Saya tertarik pada buku ini, pertama karena tertarik pada judulnya.
Terbayang isinya pasti lucu, karena ada kata "menertawakan"
Setelah baca sinopsis di bagian belakang buku, saya jadi tertarik untuk membeli.
Buku tidak terlalu tebal. Hanya berisi 198 halaman
Benar isinya lucu dan berisi kumpulan cerita-cerita pendek.
Tentunya semua mengandung moral yang baik.
Cerita-cerita yang menginspirasi, disisipi Golden Word di setiap awal cerita.
Salah satu cerita favorit adalah Be All You Can Be, cerita tentang tikus yang ingin jadi kucing, lalu ingin jadi anjing, dan seterusnya, sampai akhirnya kembali jadi tikus.
Kata-kata yang mengena adalah Percuma saja jadi harimau kalau masih bermental tikus. Yes.....!
Juga ada kisah yang sudah pernah saya dengar, Apakah Tuhan itu ada? Percakapan menarik antara tukang cukur dan pelanggannya.
Saya juga tersenyum-senyum sendiri membaca Kapten Kapal Tidak Mabuk, Perbuatan Baik yang Terlambat, Seorang Ayah dan Bayinya, dan beberapa lainnya.

Baca sendiri deh. Be inspired!

P/S: Sebelumnya menulis mengenai buku yang sudah dibaca disini tapi ternyata repot juga mengatur lebih dari 1 blog. Jadi, dijadikan satu saja di blog utama yaa...

Long Weekend

2011-05-18T15:46:00.002+07:00

Acara long weekend kemarin.
Gak persis long weekend juga karena gue masih masuk kerja hari Senin 16 Mei. Dari hari Jum'at 13 Mei, Icen lagi main di sini.

Minggu 15 Mei
Undangan married sepupu

Selasa, 17 Mei
Berenang di Ocean Park, BSD
Lagi promosi buy one get one dengan kartu kredit tertentu

Sorenya diajak ke mall sama Icen dan dinner dengan our parents

ngambek pas mau difoto Icen

masih manyun

mulai nyengir

ngikik...

malah ketawa ...

keterusan....

hm...???

si bandel...tangannya berbentuk V gak ketinggalan

Ada foto lucu nih, ditemukan oleh Icen

di depan salah satu toko di dalam mall

Bento #128 Tinkerbell

2011-05-04T14:24:00.001+07:00

Aha...this is the girly bento for miss L

I done it this morning, together with mister J's bento. It is almost impossible to do only one charaben. Either two or none, that's my option.

Lately, she fond of Tinkerbell.

I should made it on top of colored-rice, instead of white, to give the contrast. Too bad I didn't have enough time. But I guess it looks like Tinkerbell, no?

The whole body was made from white egg sheet, including the wings. While the hair was made from yolk egg sheet. For her green dress, I created it from zucchini. Glad to get the perfect green :b The facial part was done with nori. Her face was so tiny that I refrained myself in adding eyebrows. At least, she is smiling, that's good enough for me. LOL

Inside the box: Tinkerbell on top of white-steamed rice, Indonesian yellow fried chicken, boiled edamame, grapes, strawberry and lemon wedge.

Bento #127 Miffy

2011-05-04T09:52:00.001+07:00

Hello..hello...

It's been a while since my last bento post. Lately, I've been packing something simple for kids' lunch box and I do not think they were post-able. Thus on yesterday, I had a chat with Yuli and made me squeezed my time a bit to do charaben ^o^

Here is a bento for mr. J

In the past, I've done similar theme bento, by bento #10 I just hope this one looks like Miffy!

As usual, this morning I've done another bento for miss L. Since it was so girly, I have no choice but to do two-themed bento. I'll post her bento separately after this one.

Inside the box: Miffy from egg sheet and cheese sheet, Indonesian fried chicken, boiled edamame, grapes, strawberry and lemon wedge.

Hari Kartini di sekolah

2011-04-29T12:03:00.000+07:00

Hari Kartini dirayakan setiap tgl 21 April. Tahun ini - untungnya - sekolah merayakan seminggu kemudian, tgl 28 April. Semua anak PG, TK wajib pakai baju daerah. Hm...dari seminggu yang lalu, gue uda bingung cari untuk sewa baju daerah. Di mana yaaa... Untung (lagi) ada di dekat kantor...Ongkos sewa 75 ribu per piece, sudah komplit. Setelah pilih-pilih, jadi mengambil baju Bugis. Tertarik sama warna hijau terangnya.

Dari sejak hari minggu tgl 25 April, mereka sudah concern bahwa hari kamis mereka memakai baju daerah ke sekolah. Daddynya sempat iseng bilang kalau waktu kecil dulu, pakai baju tentara ke sekolah saat hari Kartini. Mereka dengan bete nanya "loh...koq baju tentara sih..." trus mereka tanya gue, "pakai baju daerah mana, mommy..?" Gue jadi menjelaskan bahwa bajunya dari daerah Bugis.

Berlanjut deh, hari Senin, Selasa dan Rabu, setiap hari gue ditanyain "mommy sudah dapat baju daerahnya belom? oiya..baju daerah mana, mommy..?" S e t i a p hari ditanyain lho... Sampai puncaknya waktu Rabu malam, gue cek mereka sudah tidur, sambil merapikan selimut dan cium mereka, Luna sempat terbangun dan tanya (once again) "mommy sudah dapat baju daerahnya belom..." hiyaaa....

Kamis pagi, Luna sudah excited. Bangun lebih pagi daripada Jov. Itu di luar kebiasaan banget. Biasanya dia susah sekali bangun pagi.

Mulai deh gue pakai bajunya ke Luna sementara mbak yang lain bantu pakai ke Jov.

Ternyata susah oi pakai kain sarung ke mereka, sampai 3x bongkar pasang. Dijepit pakai peniti. Kainnya masih kepanjangan buat Luna, jadi gue pakai seperti memakai kemben, padahal harusnya jatuhnya di pinggang.

Trus, pakai ban pinggang, pakai kalung dan bando. Oiya..dan selop! Gak pakai anting (dia gak ada lubang antingnya) dan gak pakai gelang (katanya sakit). Harusnya baju atas dimasukkan ke dalam sarung dan dipakaikan ban pinggang ya... dia bilang gatel ... Ya sudahlah...

beginilah jadinya

Jovann selama dipakaikan baju masih agak malas-malasan. Dia bilang "aku lucu sekali pakai baju ini..." sambil cemberut. Trus bolak balik tanya "aku lucu gak..." Pertama gue berusaha menghibur "iya Jov, kamu lucu..." tanpa mengerti maksud dia 'lucu' adalah dalam konotasi negatif. Setelah berulang dia tanya begitu, baru gue rubah "Gak Jov...kamu gak lucu...tapi keren..." Baru dia agak cooperative pakai bajunya. Kain Jov juga kepanjangan, dilipat-lipat di bagian pinggang sebelum di-peniti. Kemeja dan kain sarung, ban pinggang, ikat kepala, keris kayu dan selop. Waktu disisipkan keris pun, dia masih nolak "ah...gak mau pake ginian..."

tralaaaa .....

Gue langsung bawel deh banyak pesan. Karena habis sekolah, mereka masih ada les dekat sekolah, gue berpesan untuk minta tolong guru sekolah untuk ganti bajunya. Jadi di tas, mereka bawa baju bebas untuk ganti dan sepatu sendal. Gue masih cerewet bilang, gantinya hati-hati ya..dan jangan ada yang ketinggalan di sekolah... Masih nambahin untuk hati-hati jalannya, jangan lari-lari, nanti jatuh *mommy bawel*


cocok deh sewa bajunya sepasang

Ternyata, sekolah menghimbau untuk tidak foto-foto sendiri di sekolah. Jadi mereka ada sesi foto individu trus bareng per kelas dan tiap anak dikasi CD. Ditebus dengan 25 ribu saja.... aaaaa....

Hayo berangkat....!

Pas berangkat, keris Jov ketinggalan.... jiah... daddynya bilang biarlah, daripada tu keris nanti malah ketinggalan di sekolah

Alhasil, semua perlengkapannya kembali utuh tuh... Good kids...:)

Seru walau ngerepotin.... :b

Cerita Sebastian

2011-04-20T15:47:00.003+07:00

Belakangan ini lagi masa-masanya Sebastian yang nyeletuk lucu. Kalo Luna dan Jovann dah mulai nyeletuk serius dan kadang bikin orang mikir. Nanti gue kumpulin dulu ya.

Beberapa note lucu dari status FB

Minggu2 yang lalu, Bas lagi main seluncuran di resto fastfood. Pas anak gak sengaja nyenggol dia dari belakang, dia langsung brenti trus noleh ke belakang dan "ngomel" ---> kalo mau main, jangan dorong-dorong dong.

Gue sih gak liat sendiri, daddynya yang liat. Dia yang ngelapor "tu si dede tadi ngomong begitu..." hihihihi...gue cengir-cengir sambil bayangin tampang dia.

Pagi-pagi saat Luna Jov udah pergi sekolah dan gue mau ke kantor, gue lihat dia lagi nonton Playhouse Disney. Karena itu tv udah nyala dari sebelum mereka ke sekolah, gue bujuk Bas supaya matiin tv nya

"De...stop nonton mickey nya ya..kayanya mickey nya dah capek tuh"

Bas nyahut "kayanya belum capek deh mami, kan kalo uda capek, keluar tulisannya CAPEK gitu..."

ah, alesaaaaannnn aja...dia kan belom bisa baca...

Suatu pagi juga, Bas nangis-nangis karena mau deket sama susternya, sementara si sus ini lagi gue istirahat-kan karena cacar air.

Akhirnya gue bujuk dengan roti, keju, pisang, anggur...semuanya gak mau. Weleh, tumben gak mempan sama makanan? then..tiba-tiba gue inget...mereka lagi seneng main angry birds dan cut the rope di ipad. Langsung deh gue tanya "kalo main game di ipad mami..??"

Nangis nya langsung reda lho walau gak langsung bilang mau, tapi dia brenti nangis dan mulai nyerocos sendiri. Jiah...anak sekarang mainannya 'berat'

lebih pinter dia yang main daripada gue

kalo lagi akur nih

Hari minggu yang lalu, biasalah jalan ke mall. Sampai mau jam makan malam, gue masih pangku dia duduk di mobil. Lalu tiba-tiba aja lho dia bilang begini "mami...kalo nanti uda gede, aku yang pangku mami, gendong mami biar gak capek...trus setirin mami dan ajak mami ke mall..."

Ekspresi mukanya itu serius dan nada ngomongnya itu seperti lagi ngebujuk anak nangis. aaaa...so sweet yaaa...

Gak sabar ni nunggu bulan Juli dia sekolah...Hm...sama gak ya kejadiannya kaya Luna Jov pertama kali sekolah ya? Biarinlah biar dia mandiri dan gak kolokan. Sekalian gue juga penasaran sih, nanti masih bisa rebutan sama temennya gak ya...Di rumah aja rebutan mulu dan dia ngeh posisi dia sebagai anak bontot. Huh...

Terakhir...
2 hari yang lalu, gue uda keluar rumah dan keluar cluster, baru menyadari kalo hape ketinggalan. Wah, wajib balik deh. Jadi pas di berdiri di depan pintu (males buka sepatu lagi) lihat Sebastian langsung bilang "de...tolongin mami dong, ambilin handphone mami di meja makan"
Itu anak bukannya langsung ke meja makan, tapi malah mendekati gue dan bilang "makanya...harus dibawa..." gubrak...!
Gue nyengir2 dan bilang "ayo buruan, de..mami telat nih.." akhirnya dia lari-lari kecil ke meja makan, ambil handphone dan kasi ke gue.
Gue buru-buru masuk mobil lagi dan dia langsung ikutin gue dan teriak "lain kali jangan ketinggalan lagi yaaa..." sambil melambai

Aaaaaa....kedebug-debug....

Bento #126

2011-04-15T11:14:00.000+07:00

Long time do not post any bento pics...

My original intention was to do sea-lion

Due to limited time, they came up like this..and my son said "it's a piggy"

I just gave a hopeless grin..:b

Inside the box was onigiri with cheddar and nori, stir fried stringbean with garlic and champignon mushroom, boiled narutomaki, green melon and grapes.

Happy weekend, pals

Bento #125

2011-03-28T12:11:00.000+07:00

Starting today, miss L is off from school since she got chicken-pox on last Saturday. So I will make bento for mister J.

The theme was decided on mister J himself on last night. He was looking at Kaerenmama's book and pointed at one particular bento for next Monday. Actually he wanted to have inari bear, but unfortunately, I did not have inari. He then agreed to have a piggy.

Inside the box: piggy onigiri with cheese and carrot ears, steamed green squash, flower zucchini, sausages and dragon-fruits.

I am so excited, today is my birthday.... and I gift myself some bento tools. Set of punchers, scissors and sushi-mat. Ah! I forgot to take pictures :D whew..must be due to morning chaos from L's condition too :b

Bento #124 Angry Birds

2011-03-25T11:04:00.000+07:00

The game is quite popular recently. However in our home, it is usually mister B whom fond in playing it. Within these days, my colleagues also admit their fondness :b Whew...

This inspired me to do Angry Bird bento

miss L's

The facial expression is less fierce than I expected! LOL
The bird was made from halved hard-boiled egg with kani sheets, carrots beak and nori.
On the side was steamed green squash, carrots, grapes and mini mandarin.

mister J's

The difference between two boxes only in head-bow worn by bird in miss L's box.

Have a delightful weekend :p

Bento #123 Belong to daddy

2011-03-23T11:43:00.000+07:00

As promised, here is the bento for hubby

I did not plan to make charaben, but I could not help it. Inari shirts in 3 different styles (well, they did not show it clearly..) with heart carrots on top. I imagined those inarizushi symbolized our kids chatting together. LOL. In middle part was soy-sauce bottle. I intended to use bigger bottle but it wouldn't fit.

Garlic-buttered sweet peas with cocktail-sausage pieces.

Dragon fruits with lemon wedges and cherry tomato.
It was exactly the menu that kids had on yesterday, only in bigger adult portion.

Daddy has own bento box but he seldom use it. Yeah, one of reasons because I mostly do bento for kids. Thank you Sheri for sharing the idea of using it :b

Daddy's gear


It's all set to go

Bento 121 and 122

2011-03-22T12:32:00.001+07:00

I admit to have not re-fill my fridge and this morning had to work with something easy...

Jov's


Luna's

For those who been following my bento-making journey, should already feel 'bored' that I very often came-up with inarizushi bento. Pardon me...(with helpless smile...).

This time, I made inari resembled a kid wearing sleeve-shirt. I did not have a chance to ask kids' opinion about it. Just hope they will like it. On the side was a crunchy tiger-prawn. It was dusted with wheat flour and coated with cereal crumbs before deep-fried them. Other side dish were boiled sweet peas, cherry tomato, flower carrot, strawberry and dragon fruit.

When I was about to clear-up the table, the youngest boy, came to kitchen and declared "I am hungry.....and I want my meal in a lunch box..!"

Yeah, he must have been watching the elders. Under limited time, I made this for him.


Bastian's

Boiled sweet peas and narutomaki on top of white rice. Sprinkled with fried-cereals crumbs on bottom and slitted chikuwa on top (...like clouds..? no?). He just went "wow..." and finished his meal at once. I deliberately did not fill much since he just ate a bowl of cereal beforehand. Oh my...

I actually made a third bento afterwards. For my hubby. He will have an important meeting today and I just want to offer my support. It just too much bentoes for a day, LOL, I'll post it on tomorrow then.