Walk the Talk - Consistency

Raising a kids might be toughs yet bring you happiness.
When Josh was still a baby, I felt a physically challenge - need to awake on the midnight, struggle for fully breastfeed, facing with the baby common problem, etc.
By the time he grown up,
and now as a toddler, I felt the challenge slowly but sure moved to emotional aspect.

Few weeks ago, my friend borrow a book for me, have a content of key points for handling the kids.
One of them is a consistency of your behavior (between word and action)
Beside the book, whenever I read from article on the internet, I might find the article emphasizing the important of parent's consistency in word and action.

When we are consistent, there will be a trust build on child-parent relationship.
From that, we hope our kids have positive behavior, have a good self esteem, etc. Parent wish the best for their kids, don't we?. We might then put the end of result as our goal and purpose for being consistency.

Saturday Oct 20, We went to a small parent group where discuss about marriage from book (Sacred Marriage - Gary Thomas).
Quote from the Book:
"Bagaimana saya dapat mengatakan kepada anak-anak saya bahwa janji Allah mengenai perdamaian pasti ditepati jika mereka melihat bahwa janji saya sendiri tidak berarti apa apa?
Salah satu alasan saya bertekad untuk mempertahankan perkawinan saya bukanlah karena dengan demikian saya akan lebih bahagia (meskipun saya percaya saya akan lebih bahagia); bukan karena saya ingin anak anak saya memiliki rumah yang aman (walaupun saya memang menginginkannya); bukan karena saya akan hancur melihat isteri saya "mulai lagi" (walaupun memang demikian). Alasan pertama  mengapa saya mempertahankan perkawinan saya adalah karena itu adalah tugas saya. Jika hidup saya bertujuan untuk menyampakan pesan Allah kepada dunia, saya tidak ingin melakukan apa apa yang akan menentang pesan itu. dan bagaimana saya dapat menyampaikan perdamaian apabilsa saya mencari perpisahan?
Analogi mengenai perdamaian ini lebih dari sekedar memberikan tujuan pada perkawinan kita. hal itu juga membantu kita untuk mempertahankan tujuan itu, bahkan saat "kilat menyambar"

(I still haven't had the English book, but you can googling the book and look at the Chapter 2).

Suddenly I thought, will that reason shall be the same with the reason of me as a parent being consistent on my word and action towards my son?
As God is a Faithful God, and God keep His promise.
How could I told my son that our God is a Faithful God and keep His promise if I as a parent do broke the promise?
Through our consistency as a parent, we let the children feel that God is a Faithful God in our life.

I'm still learn how to be consistent and how to practice it on my daily life toward Josh.
Walk your Talk.
Pray may God help us and grant us a wisdom as a parent.

Farewell Grandma

There is a time to meet, there is a time to say goodbye.

First time I met with Grandma, she asked me a question with smile, "Have you eat?, Let's eat"

When Grandma touch our hand, she said that our skin was so smooth.

Remembering the time when we (me and Calvin) stayed with Grandma for a week, there was a day when both of us took her for a morning walk. Grandma remember the path that she usually walk in the morning, we just followed her.

Time did flies.

When Grandma met Josh, she said "sui-sui" - "Beautiful" just to express that her opinion. (But mostly Grandma always told us that we are "sui-sui - Beautiful"

We always heard a good thing from Grandma, that the thing that we will miss and shall learn from our Grandma.

Grandma 3 years ago when we celebrated her birthday.

To our dear Grandma, Ama Coh, May you rest in peace.

Chocolate Chiffon Cake

My best friend having her birthday and I wish to make something more personal for her and I choose to bake a cake.

Last time I made the steamed cake, now I wish to make a light and fluffy one, as Josh like to eat that one too then I choose a Chiffon cake.
Search the recipe online, at the end I select the one provided on Storyofbing blog and do some adjustment.

Ingredients:
A:
5 extra white egg
1/2 cup caster sugar

B:

5 extra egg yolk

1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup vegetable oil
pinch of sea salt (about 1/8 teaspoon)

2 tablespoons water

C:

3/4 cup cake flour

1/4 cup Cocoa Powder

Direction:
1. Combine B, and Sieve the C gradually inside the B until well combine.
2. Used High speed, Whisk A till smooth and soft peak.
3. Fold the Combine B&C into the A, gradually (for not losing too much air).
4. Pour into the Cake tin.
5. Bake it for around 40 minutes on 160-170 C.

Topping:

Melt the chocolate

Pour some milk to make it more liquid

Fruit (Strawberry shall be great choice, but I have none, so I used whatever I have - the Black Grape)

Result:
Josh asked for more, Daddy love it. My friend like it too. Their opinion might bias toward my cake, but anyway, I love to see their expression while eat the cake.

I need to learn how to execute the final appearance ^^. See, I never really plan to bake, I will do it if I have a good mood. Why? when I bake and turn out good, that make me smile even better, but If it wasn't as I expected, at least I won't felt too sad.

P.S. For Josh, I just pour a bit chocolate on the top, but actually he quite satisfied with the cake ^^.

Activity with Toddler - Treasure Hunter

Suddenly I felt I want to do some Treasure Hunter activity with Josh.
(Hehehe, please excuse it if you read a lot of suddenly word on my blog recently. I liked to searched what kind of activity that I shall played with Josh, but somehow the barrier was the material or may be age gap, which means I shall gave up for a while. On the other time, when we just played with our daily stuff, suddenly I could think some activity to played with, then I'm really happy to practice it asap.)

Remember that I made a cheese biscuits last time. I'm using a cute mold which consist of 8 pieces.
So, how about the Treasure Hunter game on finding that 8 pieces cute mold and put it on the treasure box.

Material needed:
Treasure item (i'm using 8 pieces cute mold)
Treasure Box

Here the Step:
* Put the treasure below the blanket, up on the chair, inside the box, inside the drawer, behind the book, anywhere you could think that safe and easy for direction. Don't let kid's saw it :p
* Let him know the one piece of treasure and inform him that he shall follow your direction to find the rest.
* Clearly direct them to find each of the treasure.
* Whenever they found it, sing a happy jingle song, do some hi five, praise them.

Learning Point:
Learn to listen and follow the order.
Learn about space.

Have Fun :)


Update: 7Nov2012
The other day I used the Colour pencils as the treasure. Then today, Josh suddenly hide the colour pencils like I did.
Problem is, when he hide it, we will never find it all in one time searched. So I need to open all the possible place, and try to find the pencils one by one :p.

Green Green Green

Many of us might heard about Ecosystem Conservation or Waste Management - 3R - Reduce, Reused and Recycle. Many of us heard about how to keep our green environment. Heard about the impact of waste into our environment.

The Insentive of 3R:
The 3R’s of reduce, reuse and recycle have been considered to be a base of environmental awareness and a way of promoting ecological balance through conscious behavior and choices. It is generally accepted that these patterns of behaviour and consumer choices will lead to savings in materials and energy which will benefit the environment.
Source: Wikipedia

But How many from us who really applied the waste management starting from our home?

So, These days I really want to practice it on my daily life. If it's not today then when?

What little simple thing that I'm going to do? Ok, I start with the Reduce and Reused and I have no capability at this moment for the third R - Recycle.

Reduce

 * Bring along with you the bag/plastic bag to the Market/Supermarket/Hypermarket.

My experience: On the traditional market, the seller seem to automatically put your belonging into the plastic bag. Even I offer my own plastic bag, they have put on their plastic and then put inside my plastic bag - double plastic. To change a habit is not easy task. Most of the time I still forgot to bring the bag with me, then I just as much as I could on one plastic bag, instead of asking more.

* I barely used the floor cleaner liquid and choose the plain water for cleaning the floor.

The left water, instead for throwing away, I used to watering my plant.

As no chemical on the water (even bit dirty cause cleaning the floor), then I think it's find to throw it on the soil.

* To have a home with many window on the strategic spot became my dream for a long time. Why? I could used the direct sunlight instead open the lamp. -> This surely has to be planned before your home was build/ taken renovation.

Reused:

Oo I found so many boxes, plastic left, bubble wrap when you brought a new stuff. Some of them, I keep it on my garage room till a period of time, till I'm sure I will not used it.

One of the thing that I made was Cover from bubble wrap for washing machine to protect from the heavy rain cause there were open area next to the washing machine. I got the material from the chair that I brought, I cut it and sew it as I want it. I could open the front loading machine without moving all the cover, just need to open the frond cover ^^. Not easy to find what you wish somehow in the market hehehe. So today, when the heavy rain, my machine stay dry.

One day I found out my garage room floor was dirty, due to dust could came in from the small hole.

As we barely came into the garage room, therefore, I used a plastic to cover the mosquito wire. You see the blue tape? I got it when I brought the refrigerator and I removed it carefully so I could used it again :p.

So today, the floor stay cleaner for longer days.

For the Styrofoam left, I make a box cover with wallpaper left and used it.
For the box left, I plan to make something for Josh to played with.

For the daily waste - I separate the plastic and box type with the food waste type on different disposal bag.
I saw that the collecting disposal worker divided the item on the truck. I wonder what kind of thing shall we done to make them easier on doing the splitting task.

Anyway, that just a little thing that I did and I knew I'm still need to learn a lot for being green.

Good day and Go green everyone!

Two Woman and half man

End of Last month, two aunties came and visit us.
One of the auntie could play the piano and she played a happy birthday song for me when I celebrated my first birthday. While the other auntie is Mama's ex-coworker, and they keep in touch till now.
I love to play with them especially if the auntie took me out with her car *hahaha*
Come and visit me again auntie, I will wait for you.

Sunday with Friend - Jakarta Culinary Festival 2012

After reading the Storyofbing blog about the Good Food and Wine Show in Africa, never imagine that Jakarta - Indonesia have the Jakarta Festival Culinary also ^^/ (where have I been going?) for the 3rd time held from 4-31October2012. There were 12 International Talents, and 45 Local Culinary Stars and over 150 performances.
Check the website for more information.

Taken from the JCF booklet: Hope that JCF will promoting Indonesia as a must visit gastronomical destination.
From Wikipedia, I get known -> Gastronomy: is the art or science of food eating. Also, it can be defined as the study of food and culture, with a particular focus on gourmet cuisine. One who is well versed in gastronomy is called a gastronome, while a gastronomist is one who unites theory and practice in the study of gastronomy

But but, I just snip a bit of the euphoria of the Grand Opening Expo (4-7Oct2012) on Sunday *sigh*. Very late to gather more information. Beside, I knew I'm not good at cooking. But I really love watch cooking show. I wish one day I could see a live demo from a chef where I could only seen them from TV before.
For the cooking demo, you shall buy the ticketing.
Anyway, wishing for the next year festival. Hope and hope could enjoyed it more.

P.S. Went there with one of my best friend - Yohana. Love to hang out with her.

Just enjoyed the Ice cream

You could buy a cocktail here.

Looking at another demo.

Dynamic duo sisters.

Amuz Booth, serving the free stuff, see all gone in minute :p

Indonesia Food Corner

Another Demo Stage

One smile can means everything!