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I seriously dont know how this book landed on my shelf because i never remember buying it. All i know is it's been there for a while and eventhough i was close to throwing it a few times, a voice inside my heart always tellimg me to keep it, just in case.

I guess that little voice is called hope. One of my biggest desires is to travel the world and paris is in my must visit city. I cant be thankful enough that in less than a month i will ride the eurostar from london to paris :)

I really didnt expect this trip to come this soon. I was content to wait for another two or three years, but a pit stop at the exhibition speed up the plan. Thank You :))

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Not me, obviously, but my brother in law. I'm attending his dissertation defense presentation at IPB. If he can tackle this, he will come out as the 7th graduates from Program Pascasarjana Manajemen dan Bisnis Institut Pertanian Bogor. He did his master's in Saitama University, Japan and also an ITB graduate.

I'm not surprise if he is going to pursue another degree right after this :D

I have a great deal of interest on education too, I LOVE school, believe it or not. But getting phd title just never interest me. I guess I'm just not into academic field. But I do love being in a classroom and being intellectually challenged. I think I will go back to school someday!

Now that I think of education. My family from Oki's side has a long history of scholar. Oki got his master, and so did bh of his sisters. His dad has an MBA from SIU Carbondale. Even Oki's grandpa holds an MBA degree from Virginia Tech University. Wow..I don't even think my grandpa even graduates from elementary school..:D. My side of the family is heavy on the entrepreneurial background. None of them is a corporate slave as opposed to Oki's side. Interesting to see that we both now are a representation of our side of family :). With the exception that I'm also a believer in the importance of academic degree. When I was in high school, all I ever desired was to study abroad and get my master. It was not easy to convince my dad to let me go. He offered me a brand new car instead if I wanted to go to college here..but then he realized that putting up with my everyday nagging was too much to handle. So off I flew on that plane. One of the best decisions I've ever made.

By the way, Oki is about to have interview with Google, the greatest company on earth, in a few minutes. Just like I wrote on my Twitter. Google receives about 30000 resumes per week!. So to be selected for an interview is already an achievement in itself and shows how above the rank you are. Nothing but ProuD! ♥ ♥ ♥. Best of luck dear nduti.

Alright, enough bragging for today!
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It's Sunday and we're staying home. I've spent the last two hours looking through my printed photo albums, sorting the pictures I want to frame while going down memory lane.

I am a happy snapper, always take pictures. So we do have a lot of them. They are my most treasured possession.

And then I came across this pictures of Oki and I. I forgot the exact date, but I remember it was taken on my first few months of living in Carbondale. I think it was Spring time of 1999, maybe in March. It was almost a year since we've dated each other.

By the way, the picture was taken in Rafi & Lin's house. They had gone back to Malaysia a few years before us, have two kids..but now they have separated :(. Something I didn't see coming. I remember that shiny nylon jacket was from Express, I got the blue one for Aan, bought in upstate New York just before we were about to meet up. Underneath the Mossimo Jacket. Oki was wearing the Hawaian shirt I got him for Valentine's day. It was from Structure.

It's nice to know that eleven years have passed and I have never stopped blessing the day I found him..:)

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Kayanya mandek di hari ketiga deh..:D. Yang hari kedua pun belum sempet di foto. Oh well..yang penting NIAT nya kaaan?..hihihi, padahal gue baru bilang tadi di acara Universitas Sebelas Maret Blog Fest. Kalo mau ngeblog ya langsung jalanin aja. Capcus. Nggak pake nunggu nunggu. Jangan cuma diniatin aja, tapi dijalanin juga. Untuk kehidupan beragama mungkin niat aja udah ada nilai plusnya. Tapi kalo untuk kehidupan duniawi..niat is not gonna get us anywhere. It's all about excecution.

Anyway, sekarang lagi di Airport Adi Sumarmo, pesawatnya delay 25 menit..jadi terpaksalah buka laptop daripada mati gaya..:p. Hari ini judulnya day trip ke Solo. Berangkat jam 4.30 pagi dari rumah. Kasian tadi pas Jehan nangis pula..memang jam segini ini jamnya dia mimik cucuuuu!. Tapi disusuin sebentar trus gue langsung bilang "Udah yaaa Mommy mau kerja dulu yaa..."..

Katanya sih dia sempet nangis beberapa menit trus abis itu ngomong sendiri.."Mommy kerja yaaa?"...

Huhuhu...kasiaan. Jadi mikir lagi sanggupkah gue ninggalin 3 hari untuk ke Singapore akhir bulan ini? :(

Tadi acaranya seru...I think they like the Video that Thomas made. I was a bit nervous obviously but I think I did better than the last time I spoke on public..:). But still have to register at Talk. Inc.
Mahasiswa di Solo sama di Jakarta itu beda banget yaah...I'm not trying to generalizing things but that's what I saw today. Kayanya mahasiswa UNS jauh lebih polos-polos dan lebih santun..:)

Ohh here comes boarding time. Gotta go now!

We're about to enter the third month of the year tomorrow. Crazy how everything seem to move in fast forward mode. Everyone is getting busier each day and it's getting harder to chill back and enjoy the moment.
In this project, I'm trying to take a few minutes off each day, to absorb everything and pay more attention to my surrounding by capturing a moment or a piece of something out of my daily life.
It would be fun..I need to get more mileage from the lumix and/or the 500D. Ohh I'm excited already :))
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I'm enjoying my personal Twitter account. It's nice to finally be able to just write any junk that I feel like writing. Didn't want to broadcast personal infos on Fashionese Daily or Mommies Daily account because I figured the followers decided to follow those two accounts to read fashion/beauty news and motherhood/kids development tweets not to read my uninteresting personal life :D

One step closer. Looking at this list makes me realize that we have bigger dream to catch....so i'll let the small and unimportant things go .

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"A dog has no use for fancy cars or big homes or designer clothes. Status symbol means nothing to him. A waterlogged stick will do just fine. A dog judges others not by their color or creed or class but by who they are inside. A dog doesn't care if you are rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his. It was really quite simple, and yet we humans, so much wiser and more sophisticated, have always had trouble figuring out what really counts and what does not. As I wrote that farewell column to Marley, I realized it was all right there in front of us, if only we opened our eyes. Sometimes it took a dog with bad breath, worse manners, and pure intentions to help us see."

I didn't specifically jot down what this year resolutions are, but I kinda have it in my mind the things that I need to accomplish more and less.
1. Toward the end of the year, I wasn't too proud with my sholat record. Really!. I know I shouldn't justify this but the super cramped space at work really didn't give me a peace of mind when I prayed. I told my self that by the time we moved to bigger office, there's really no reason for me to miss any of it. And that's what happened..:). Now I even feel really bad if I miss it. Not so much because of I feel like I have to, but more like I need to. In a overwhelming world we live in, it's nice to take a few minutes off, to touch the refreshing cold water, to surrender, to put everything aside, and it's just you and your master.
2. Spend more time at home. Which means I have to get home around four. Sadly I haven't achieved this..hopefully the schedule is friendlier next week. I cannot wait to lounge around at home with Jibran & Jehan.
3. Have control of what goes in into my kids mouth, along with my husband mouth, of course. Due to #2, I still cannot cross this list of..:(.
4. Hit the treadmill. I did...for the first time last Sunday :D. Will make it a regular. The goal is three times a week.
5. Save?. Alright, after the big purchase I'm about to bring home this long weekend!. Deal?

Ceritanya Jehan lagi ngangon Raka, anaknya Mbak Atun yang tinggal sama kita. She loves him and always acts like a big sister :)



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solo and yogya. i'm sure it will be chaotic. last time we went on a road trip, jehan was still an innocent three months old baby. this time she is an adventurous nineteen months old..:D i will have my hands full.

maybe i should stop by at the music store to get her some cds that could help entertain her.

i need to buy a butterfly tie for the groom too. he asks me to get a gel from LuVaze too but i don't think i can make it.

hoping i could squeeze in a haircut today to freshen up my look during vacation..hihi, but i don't want to do it at the salon next door though.

still have to write a few post. sort out bags of customer clothes....packing and such.

Barusan disapa bule di PP, yang nanya kalo Senayan City deket gak dari sini. I told him it's nearby, about 10 minutes by cab. Trus dia kayanya lega gitu, katanya udah nanya ke beberapa orang kok ga ada yang tau Senayan City dimana. (Masa sih?!). Trus ya udah gue cuma tekenin lagi kalo itu deket kok. Trus ya udah dia bilang makasih dan jalan lagi.

Truuss sekarang gue baru nyesel aja. I could've been more helpful, ya gak nganterin kesana sih tapi at least tulisin 'senayan city' gitu so he can just show it to the cab driver. Mungkin aksen inggrisnya susah didenger makanya ga ada yang ngerti dia ngomong apa. Kalo gue sih denger nama mall memang langsung ngerti ajaaaa biar yang ngomong pake aksen apa juga..LOL.

Sekarang jadi ngerasa ga enak dan kasian deh sama tu bulay. Gue kaya gak niat gitu yah tadi nolonginnya. Gak nolong sama sekaliii!!!..huhuhu...