My Kidney Bean

My Kidney Bean ini blog temenku, mamih Sandra.
Kenalan sama dia karena anaknya, Raya lahir di tanggal yang sama persis sama Daniel..
Lucu juga kita dari strangers bisa ngobrol tiap hari di wa group..

Waktu pertama kali baca nama blognya my kidney bean, aku nebak sih ceritanya seputaran Raya, anaknya (si kidney bean hehe).. dan ternyata emang bener, ditambah beberapa insight dan cerita2 seputar motherhood, plus cerita soal Abah dan Nenda.

Raya ini cute banget... matanya besar, bulu matanya lentik.., rambutnya kriwil2 hiyy bikin gemes..
Terus si mamih ini pinter bercerita melalui foto2...
Salah satu postnya tentang Raya yang aku suka itu yang pas cerita soal Raya piknik di Bogor (yang cerita soal tingkah Raya, duck facenya, main sama daunnya hehehe..)

Selain itu mamih juga sharing di blog kalau dia itu not a very positive person, bitter, jutek dan galak.. Padahal pas ketemu sama dia pertama kali, gak ada itu image jutek dan galaknya sama sekali.. wong suaranya halus, murah senyum pula... (tapi emang Daniel waktu itu sempet mewek sih.. apakah anakku lebih perasa hehehe?).. Setelah kenal lebih jauh sama mamih, memang sih kadang2 dia bisa pedes ngomongnya di wa grup.. tapiii tetep kok kalau ketemu mamih ini ga ada jutek2nya sama sekali..

Aku suka di post itu dia cerita kalau Abah dan tentunya Raya membuat dia lebih positive.. memang sesuai fungsinya, kidney itu untuk menyaring darah. Kidney itu remove wastes, control the body's fluid balance and regulate the balance of electrolytes (ngambil dari www.webmd.com bukan aku yang pinter hehehehe)...  jadi Raya itu seperti kidneynya mamih, menyaring semua aura2 negative, dan bitterness dan membuat mamih berusaha untuk menjadi a positive person..
Kalau kalian yang punya anak pasti tau deh, kalau dengan punya anak itu kita jadi belajar dan berusaha untuk menjadi orang yang lebih baik, menjadi teladan dan contoh buat anak2 kita.

Buat temen2 yang mau ikutan giveawaynya sok atuh ya.. link disini
Aku pingin dapet bukunya.. , terserah yang mana aja, alasannya simple aja sih karena anak-anak seneng baca bukuu, jadi nambah2 koleksi mereka tanpa harus keluar uang hihihi.. 

Daniel 22 m: si beo

Daniel kemarin udah 22 bulan, 2 bulan lagi ultah ke 2.. :)
Kemarin itu kita iseng numpang nimbang dan ukur tinggi di RS..
tb: 93cm
berat: masih 12.5kg saja
Jadi sekarang Daniel sering dibilang orang kurusan...
Setiap yang ketemu dia pasti bilangnya kurusan, sampai oma-nya juga suruh minumin obat cacing hehehe...
Ga tau kenapa dia kurusan, mungkin karena sekarang udah suka pilih2 makanan, atau mungkin juga karena pecicilan terus.. tapi menurut aku malah bagus... :)

Ngomongnya udah makin beooo.. , kalau kita ngomongin dia beo dia ikutang ngomong "beo.."
Tiap hari aku pulang kantor selalu digandeng, diajak naik.. udah gitu disuruh "duduk.."
Nah pas aku duduk dia langsung baringin badannya minta nenen.. sambil ngomong "piss.." (please)
Terus kalau aku udah buka tong, langsung ketawa2 kesenengan... (merasa dilecehkan ga si hahahaa)
Kadang kalau bajunya ribet aku suka bilang "bentar ya mama ganti baju dulu.."
Nanti dia akan ikutin aku ganti baju.. , terus aku bilang "tutup mata ya.."
Terus dia tutup mata.. hihihi lucu banget.. sayang ga ada fotonya yah..
(btw suka heran kenapa banyak ibu2 yang kayanya bawa kamera terus ya, bisa mendokumentasi semua kegiatan anaknya hehehe..)

Oh ya kemarin gak tau kenapa dia suka sama tasku yang kecil warna peach...
Di mobil/dimall gitu bisa duduk anteng mangku tas hehe.. terus manggil dirinya "ibu-ibu.."
terus pernah kebalik jadi "ubi-ubi.." hihihi lucu..

Terus sekarang juga lagi suka bilang "engga .. engga... " sambil lambai2 tangannya.. kayak orang ketakutan gitu .... ehehhe

Pas kita ke Taman Safari kemarin dia agak rewel, kalo gak diturutin dikit marah, terus si Toma udah kuatir anak ini kok jadi begini, harus mulai didisiplin-in.. tapi sekarang2 kok biasa aja.. ternyata setelah aku pikir2 pas kita pergi itu kan dia masih belom recover banget dari diare-nya.. jadi mungkin rewel karena badannya gak enak ya.

Anak segini lagi lucu2nya yah... ngomongnya udah bisa tapi masih salah2.. terus suaranya cempreng lucu.. ahh.. :) (mohon maaf anak sendiri jadi subjektif penilaiannya)

Aku bersyukur waktu itu walaupun tanpa direncanakan Tuhan udah kasih Daniel di hidup kita.. coba kalau belum ada, mungkin saat ini lagi mikir mau punya anak kedua lagi dan harus h2c lagi :)

Oh ya  2 bulan lagi Daniel ultah ini.. ada yang punya saran dekorasi ultah buat di rumah? hehehe

senang main kereta2an, mobil2an.. 

sama teman2 di sekolah

sama cici hehe 

mini me

naik becak.. gayanya sok cool 

gaya bos

Into the jungle: Safari Lodge/Caravan Hotel and Cimory Riverside

During our last trip to Puncak, we stayed at Safari Lodge - Caravan Hotel, which is a hotel managed by Taman Safari itself.

The weekdays rate is Rp 750,000/night (receive discount Rp 50,000 for entrance fee to TSI)

Weekend rate is about Rp 1 million 

However last time we were charged Rp 1,450,000/night (maybe due to long weekend) !! but we received 4 free tickets to TSI. 

Being an accountant i immediately counted the difference, it was about Rp 300,000 hehehe

The caravan was okay, all clean (although Toma found about 3 cockroaches) 

We were only provided with one blanket.. 

And it was verrryyy cold at night.. , so if you want to stay here better to bring extra blanket and jacket.

The breakfast was also so-so.. just standard fried noodle/bihun, soup, fruits, toast, cereal..

However the surrounding was very refreshing... 

There were lake, river..monkeys, swans, swings, statues of animals etc... 

Oh ya, the kids especially loved the swings.. :) 

I'm not picky, but i think i can get a better (and warmer) hotel with the same rate.

I guess they are trying to sell the "spend-the-night-at-the-jungle" experience..  

living room (sofa, TV, fridge), the door was the shower/toilet's door

bunk bed, on the right side of the living room

master bedroom

in front of the caravan

in front of the caravan (2)

view from the caravan

Restaurant  (sometimes on weekend there will be orangutan/birds in front of the reception to greet the guests

badminton court

lake

artificial waterfall near the restaurant
oh ya, there was a swimming pool as well but i didn't take any picture of it

zebra yihaaa... 

giraffe yihaaa 

artificial river? 

can you spot the monkeys?

pretty swan

what were the kids doing? hehehe

Cimory Riverside

Before going back to Jakarta we decided to have lunch at Cimory Riverside..
When we arrived there the place was already packed with people.. we have to wait about 15 minutes for our table to be ready.

I think the place is like Bandung's Prima Rasa/ Kartika Sari..  everyone will stop here to buy some snacks/milk for their friends/families back in Jakarta.

We had some sausages and strawberry jelly, picked up some snacks and soya milk.., played at the playground, took some pictures and went home before the road was closed (one way up).

the shop

Daniel loved the bus

the playground

bro and sis at cimory (daniel for some reason still had his food in his mouth :( )

mini trolley :) 

Trip to Taman Safari Cisarua

The last long weekend we went to Taman Safari Cisarua, Bogor.
It turns out that it was already 3 years ago since we went there. Last time it was on April as well!
What a coincidence!

To avoid traffic, we went there on Thursday morning before the holiday, and went back on Friday when people were just coming up. We actually planned to go on Wednesday, but Daniel had diarrhea, so we decided to postpone the trip to Thursday. The only setback on this was the different hotel rate, which was quite a lot :)

We left Jakarta at about 7.30ish and arrived about 10.30am, which was quite good considering Toma accidentaly forgot to take left turn to Jagorawi. So we ended up taking the nearest exit and went back to the reverse direction, which traffic was quite bad (due to weekdays where everybody still on Jakarta bound).

Immediately after reaching Puncak, we were greeted with a cool and fresh air...
Learning from previous trip, we bought 7 bundles of carrots to feed the animals in the street near Taman Safari (3 bundles = Rp 10,000, if you buy 2 you receive 1 bundle extra). There were several carrot seller in the street. I guess they were offering the same price. So you don't have to choose whose to buy from.. (not a good business btw).

Upon arriving, we went to the Safari Lodge/Caravan Hotel (I will make a separate post about this) to confirm our reservation and received the free tickets to Taman Safari.

If you don't stay at the hotel the entrance fees are as follows:
Entrance fee for adult: Rp 150,000
Entrance fee for kids > 1 year: Rp 140,000
Car: Rp 15,000

Then, off we go!

Like most people, we drove around the safari trails and feed the animals first before going to the play areas.

Toma opened all of our car's windows.. so ocassionally there were animals peeking through the window which caused me to scream and kind of scared Daniel.. (sorry kiddo... )

When we passed through the lion's area, a lion suddenly walked accross  the street..., my heart kindda stopped a while hehehe
It was a "truly safari" experience.

some of the amateur photos that i took 

After finishing the safari trail, we went to have lunch at the food court.
I was a bit surprised with the food price.. it was quite expensive and the taste was very substandard..
Maybe next time I consider to bring lunch from home and have picnic in there :)

After having lunch we went to the penguin area.., looking at the tiny penguins and took some pics..
It was the first time I saw penguins in Indonesia.. I think there were none in Batu Secret Zoo.

Then we went to catch the cowboy show at 2pm
We were there a bit too early, so we explored the area first. There were some cows (very smelly though...) and small artificial waterfall and river... There was a souvenir shop as well, which has a good variety of animal dolls...

The cowboy show area was large,  i think it was the largest area among all the shows.
Daniel was a bit scared at first due to the sound of gunshot, etc..  He held me very tight.., but after a while he was okay. I put my hands on his ears just in case.
I think the show was not really appropriate for children since it involved mild violence..
However, the show was quite good, in terms of the sound effect and props.
It's a bit "hollywood" kind of stunt..

in front of cowboy show area

beginning of the show.. (i didn't take any more pics because it wasn't allowed)

From Cowboy Show we drove and parked near penguin area to see the sea lion show.
The sea lion show was quite similar to the one we saw at Ancol Dream Samudra.
There were 3 sea lions, one female (named Cinta Laura btw hehehe) and two males..
The highlight of the show was the trainer climbed on the pole (which has two red balls), and put the fish on her mouth. The sea lion had to jump from inside the pool to eat the fish right from the trainer's mouth :) I wondered what if the sea lion missed and eat the trainer's mouth instead.. >_<

sea lion show's setup

take pictures first.. 

After sea lion show we sent to see the tiger show.
The kids were already very tired and sleepy... while waiting Daniel was fallen asleep and slept throughout the whole show.. Faith was also very sleepy, but she woke up when the show just began.

This was the first tiger show that I watched.
Even though the tiger were properly trained, I could see that the trainers were very alerted.. not laid back like the sea lion's trainers..

tiger show

After the tiger show, since we were already tired, we decided to go back to the hotel...

The next day, since we were the hotel's guests, we can enter the Taman Safari again, but not the Safari trails. So we decided to pick up what we haven't seen on Thursday (gak mau rugi hehe)

First stop was to the Baby Zoo..
Inside the baby zoo was a collection of birds..., kangaroo, orangutan and also tiger/lion.
We can also take pictures with the tiger/lion with Rp 20,000 per person..

suspension bridge.. daniel was so happy jumping on the bridge :)

in front of kangaroo

birds and waterfall

While taking pictures, i heard a mom told her son about Faith,,, "tuh liat dia aja berani...." 

Then suddenly the lion waved her tail... and look at Faith's expression :)
Faith takut juga kok tante hehehe

We also saw Elephant show, but i didn't take any pictures..
We also offered Faith for pony ride but she didn't want it.
There were a lot that we didn't do in Taman Safari such as riding the camel/elephant, playing at the mini themed park, or swimming at the waterpark. But we were more than happy.

Since it was already around noonish, we decided to go to Cimory to catch some lunch before heading home.

Kalau tidak ada yang baik untuk dikatakan, jangan berkata apapun

Mungkin lebih terkenal dalam bahasa inggrisnya ya
"if you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all"

Beberapa blog akhir2 ini membahas soal komen2 nyinyir yang diterima oleh pembaca blognya..
Blog ini untungnya (karena gak banyak pembacanya) jadi belum pernah menerima komen nyelekit.. :)

Aku sendiri termasuk orang yang berusaha sebisa mungkin gak mengucapkan kata-kata negatif ke orang lain..
Mungkin aku terlalu sensi atau gimana tapi aku mikirnya kalau aku digituin pasti gak enak, jadi jangan gituin orang lain

Balik lagi ke pepatah tadi..
Kalau menurut aku bukan berarti kalau ada orang yang sikapnya gak baik kita biarkan..
Kalau memang dalam kapasitas kita (kita teman baiknya, atau lebih2 keluarganya), ya harus kita tegur dan nasihati gak sih?
Daripada kita diem2 aja tapi misuh2 dibelakang?

Menurut aku kalau mau menegur juga dengan kata-kata yang positif, supaya orang menangkap maksud positifnya.. dan (moga2) mau dengerin nasihatku.

Coba bayangin saat kita salah dalam pekerjaan dan bos kita ngomong gini:
Bos 1: "Bego lo, gitu aja gak becus.."
Bos 2: "Sorry, coba diperiksa lagi kerjaan kamu, sepertinya ini salah deh, lain kali yang teliti ya.."

Enak yang mana?

Kalau aku sih pasti akan sebel dan dongkol sama Bos 1, apalagi kalau diomonginnya didepan banyak orang..
Sementara kalau sama Bos 2 pasti aku akan malu dan berusaha supaya lain kali gak buat salah lagi..

Tapi ternyata aku ketemu sama Toma yang kalo bisa dibilang can be very mean and sarcastic hehe..
Maksudnya dia gak sampai ngomong kata2 kasar seperti bego dll.. tapi nyelekit aja omongannya..
Kalau menurut dia orang itu harus digituin, kayak di "slap" supaya sadar gitu dan berusaha merubah/betulin kesalahnnya.

Memang sih cara seperti Bos 1 itu lebih efektif, apalagi untuk orang yang udah bebal..
Tapi i think cara itu also spread hatred in the process...

Update sekolah

Setelah melihat perkembangan Daniel di sekolah selama 2 bulan ini yang cukup positif, kemarin akhirnya kita decide (maksudnya udah bayar) hehehe buat pindahin Faith jadi 1 sekolah sama Daniel..

Alasannya karena sekolahnya lebih dekat, terus guru2nya terlihat lebih professional, cara mengajarnya juga menarik, sekolahnya lebih lama berdiri, fasilitas juga lebih menarik, ..

Yang aku gak suka cuma harganya hihihi.. 

Tapi lumayan Faith dapat sibling diskon 50%, Daniel juga dapat diskon 50% karena sudah masuk playgroup disitu. 

Anyway kemarin sebelum membayar aku sempat trial lagi sama Faith..

Kenapa dibilang lagi? karena dulu pernah trial disana! ehhehe 

Pas pertama2 Faith malu2 maunya ditemenin aku, udah gitu gak ngomong sama sekali..

Tapi pas abis break udah mulai berani dia, sampai gurunya bilang ternyata dia banyak ngomong ya :)

Aku senang sama metode mengajarnya.. pake nyanyi2 dan games..

Ruang kelas juga terang banget, banyak sinar matahari masuk.. di jendela juga digambar rainbow, pohon, dll.. terus ruangan kelas banyak dihiasi prakarya2 anak2.. dan banyak gambar2 seperti alphabet trees, emotion pictures, today's weather dll.. 

Nah kenapa dulu udah trial disana gak pilih disitu? 

Mungkin karena dulu masih gak yakin sama harganya.. 

terus masih bimbang harus bayar uang pangkalnya... (ga ada diskon sih dulu)

Dan Faith memang banyak perkembangan di sekolah yang sekarang ini... 

Tapi makin kesini makin sreg lagi, apalagi sejak dede sekolah disana.. 

Ditambah dapet diskon.. (emak irit)

Ditambah deket banget sama rumah..

Semoga cucok lah ya Faith dan Daniel.

Oma juga senang sekali anak2 mau sekolah disini.. 

Kalau aku terus terang worry dengan harga2 yang melambung tinggi.. 

Apa aku sanggup ya bayar uang sekolah dan uang kuliah anak2 nanti..

Tapi nyokap bilang mesti berserah sama Tuhan, nanti ada aja berkatnya..

Dulu katanya dia juga gitu.. kalau dipikirkan dengan akal manusia gak mungkin banget bonyok yang cuma lulusan SMA/SAA bisa sekolahin kita berdua sampai ke luar negeri... 

Ini yang namanya walk in faith ya? 

Sorry seems to be the hardest word

image dari sini

Bukan, ini bukan membahas lirik lagu..

Tapi mau bahas perkembangan Faith

Dari three magic words yang aku ajarin ke Faith, rasanya sorry adalah kata yang paling susah dia ucapkan..

Mungkin karena saat bilang thank you, dia sedang merasa senang karena baru diberi sesuatu

Mungkin karena saat bilang please, dia punya pengharapan akan diberi sesuatu

Tapi saat harus bilang sorry 

Mungkin dia gak merasa salah

Mungkin dia merasa malu untuk mengakui kesalahannya

Mungkin dia takut sama orang yang dia mau minta maaf

It's ok, it's a learning process ya Faith. 

Kadang orang dewasa juga susah bilang sorry

Karena dia gengsi, arogan, tidak menghargai orang yang dimintakan maafnya 

Memang terkadang orang bilang yang penting sikapnya udah menunjukan penyesalan

Tapi menurutku kata sorry/maaf itu penting...

Yang lebih parah banyak orang dewasa yang sudah tau salah tapi gak mau ngaku..
Terus menggunakan berbagai macam alasan
Kadang malah menyalahkan orang yang lain lagi :)