belly painting

one of my besties, Kirana -- a make-up artist, asked me to draw on her bump for her personal maternity photo-shoot. i wasn't really sure what to draw or paint. though i'm a graphic designer, i'm not really good in drawing nor painting, lol.


she told me i could paint anything i like/want, but i know that deep down inside she wanted me to paint a neat tribal (oh well -__-") well, actually i did, but i wasn't really happy with the result, so i won't show it off here :P but, i was quite happy with the other one, this simple painting :)







anyway, Kirana gave birth to her second child on April 3, 2011, 6 days after the photo-session. it was a baby girl, named Refana Ayesa. Picture taken from Farry's (the dad) facebook :)

is that reaally youuu?

featured on Genie, a local tabloid, last week's edition 1-7 April 2011. thank you for Rahmi (writer) & Rahmat (photographer) who came along the way to my place in Bandung :)

april 2011 giveaway

oh how i love april :) april could be so special because of (#01) my birthday (!), (#02) both my parents were born in april, (#03) their wedding anniversary is also in april, and (#04) my sister's wedding anniversary is, too! so we have so much celebration in april :)

this year i would love to throw a giveaway for you dear readers. i will be giving away 2 sets of k.e.d stationery. the first set includes the stripes-12-month journal and the traditional-toys greeting cards. while the second set are the pattern-12-month journal and the say-it-with pencils.

if you are interested, all you have to do is (#01) become a follower of this blog (if you have, thank you so much) and then (#02) tell me whether you like (or not) writing down your daily schedules or journals, why? and since when?, and then (#03) would you please tell me which k.e.d's product you like most and why. simply by leaving your comment at this post. 

the giveaway will be closed on 22.04.11 12.00 PM right before my birthday. i will pick up 2 winners randomly and announced it here hopefully on my birthday 23.04.11. regretfully, this giveaway is for indonesian's residence only :)

good luck! ;)

sunday at home

breakfast: pancakes, hot choco and hot tea. i remember this recipe, so i asked sami to make half of the pancake batter into crepes batter :P easy to do, just add (for example) one tablespoon of milk for one tablespoon of batter :) 

and this is how my ham and egg square crepes turned out to be.. 

geez looked awfully embarasing, no? compared to kate's here. lol. will try to make this again someday :)) picture taken from here.

lunch: fresh home-made pasta with garlic buttered prawn by sami :)

tea time: lemon crepes, recipe from MSL Indonesia January 2011.

on a saturday

we've promised to take nataya to kampung gajah (translated as elephant's village or `tempat elephant' -- that's how she mentioned the place) since weeks ago. we were about to cancel going there (again) since nataya suddenly got a stuffy nose. but she didn't got any fever, so we decided to stick to the plan.

it was actually our second visit there. the first one happened on may last year and  i didn't make any blog post about it :P when we revisited the place yesterday, we spotted new games at new areas and various new eateries.

the place itself offers various activities, both for children and adults. but the parents went there to accompany the kid to play. so i myself didn't think a bit of trying those adult games though it should've been a lot of fun.

nataya's main aim to the place was having a horse-riding besides playing around at the playground and having a bumper-boat ride. she did have them all though the weather wasn't really nice. it rained once in a while. so we had to take shelter in the middle of the play, not really comfortable, but no problemo, we just tried to enjoy it. besides, we could wait for the rain to stop by having a sip of tea and some snacks at the free-wi-fi-ed cafe :) nataya should've taken a nap while waiting for the rain, but i guess she wasn't really into it though she told us that she was sleepy. so she ended playing games on my cell-phone.

sundanese menu for lunch

playground

horse-riding

the bumper-boat's lake

strawberry field

we closed our visit by picking up fresh strawberries at the strawberry field. the strawberries were surprisingly good, not as sour as the ones we usually got at the market. nataya really enjoyed the picking and loooves the strawberries as well, she couldn't stop munching them.



the fresh strawberries, picture taken the day after, at home :D