Guess who’s coming?

 

Mood: disturbed

Watching: F1

 

I hate guest who’s come to my house on sunday (actually I hate any guests at all except the ones that I’m actually invite). But on other days I can stand guest, my mood is good enough to keep the smile and makes little talks. On sunday, I devoid all hospitality manner, it’s my lazy day for me and my family. We usually dress very not approriate for any guest at all every sunday, my bro even don’t taking a bath every sunday (oh he’s quadruple lazy on sunday).

Today is special case though, the guest is people that I abhor. I actually want to puke on the sight of them. So I hide in my room and write this blog. They so annoyingly a gossiper, so just wait for the gossip that ‘my mother’s children is very much lazy and devoid of any manner’. Ah, who the hell care about their opinion anyway!!!

 

Btw I just made a banana muffins and the result is a complete failure >.<

Ok it’s the most traumatic experience with banana… the fettucine is great though

 

 

 

Weather report

 

Mood: hot!

Eating: tutut (it’s like a kampoeng version of escargot)

Listening: moon & sand – Kenny Burrell

Playing: neverwinter nights 2

 

Why oh why..Bandung is so hot lately!

Not the hot beach-oh-sunshine type but the hot humid-it’s-getting-rain type. So this minute you getting hot and suddenly the next minutes you get hard rain pouring down.  Rain is not my favourite weather either because I hate thunder and lightning.

 Yeah, by now you  must be realise that I’m not an outdoor girl.

Btw as the impact of this strange weather, I’m getting insomnia every night. It’s because I practically can’t sleep without blanket but it’s too hot for blanket >.<  And then of course this weather feels like heaven for mosquitos, there’s mosquitos empire in my house!! Although I ‘m not the most favourite victim for those insects species (really, I rarely get bitten by any insects) but the noise is sooo annoying. You know right? The ungg…….angg…. sound that you hear when mosquitos flying around you.

Ah forgive me this is just a rant because this weather is too much. I almost sure this is the effect of global warming!!!

 

Oh no! I’m so common!

crepes with vanilla sauce

 

Mood: feel bloating

Eating: hamcoy kon

Drinking: water

Reading: Indigo rendering tutorial

 

OMG! I catch the housewife syndrome!

I blame it to the Rachael Ray talkshow which I watch every morning on my coffee time. I now realize that the target audience for that show is housewives (yeah..no wonder they got thousand of domestic tips like ‘ how to cook meal that your picky eater child want to eat’). So the consequence is everytime I got spare time I always want to cook something or cleaning my house or even decorating it >.<

 

My guilty pleasure used to be playing games. But the last time I played games on my brother ps2 I actually fell asleep. Oow…yes it’s good that I outgrown my gamer-girl phase but to become another wannabe housewife??? Weks! Gods forbid!

Maybe that’s real nature of every women, don’t you think?

Because right now I’m working together with a woman contractor, who is a VERY successful contractor  (currently she working more than a dozen project). The amazing thing is she’s not that workaholic, everytime I called her on dinner or breakfast time, she seem like different personality. She very much like other housewives whose thought occupied by husband and children problem. So when I asked her about the progress of our project on dinner/breakfast time, I’ll get lasagna recipes instead^^ (hahaha…ok this’s a little hiperbolic, but you get the point, right?)

 

Oh but no worry, I still don’t have an urge to trap the first man I met and become his wife. No no still don’t wanna be attached. I still don’t really want to have husband but I do want to have a family. Ok this is confusing right? I know what my friend will say, “you won’t get family unless you have husband!”

Aw..can’t I just adopted a baby girl?

 

*the next is my housewife personality blabbering, don’t read it if you already fed up with me^^*

Hoho…I got French crepes recipe which I tried last week and turn out very well. Because I got the fla sauce leftover, I wanted to make something to eat with the fla. And my mom has been bugging me to make crepes for weeks, but because I don’t think the usual crepes recipe is that delicious. I searched for other crepes recipes and like usual I found it on epicurious. Hoho..it’s delicious, the texture is more fluffy and easier to make. I made about 2 dozens crepes and my mom ate about half of them, errr….

 

Huaaaa Kimi….

Kimi!

 

Mood: concern

Eating: wedding cake

Drinking: bengkoang-mango-pineapple juice (yes, I know this is weird)

 

Huaaa si kimi sakit….hiks…

Dia terlihat begitu lemas dan lesu and not eating at all since saturday >.<

Dan terus2an muntaber….His former owner said that persian cats is very sensitive to other cat because of course persian always live in a secluded environment with quality air and the usual stray cat live in a dirty  street. So yeah, persian cats is like a spoiled rich kid.

So Kimi is sick because of jealousy and virus, he’s been so jealous since I bring Mao2 home.

Sometimes a pet is as demanding as your own child, right?

 

Want to live a little longer?

 

Mood: PMS

Listening: Kimi’s purrr…..

Eating: pudding

Quote to remember: Sexiness wears thin after a while, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh everyday, ah, now that’s a real treat. (Joanne Woodward)

 

 

I :heart: Reader’s Digest! It’s a cheap little magazine but with tons of informations, trivia things and hilarious jokes. For me who has a habit to bring a book everytime I enter bathroom, Reader’s Digest is the perfect reading material. And because not everyone reading this magz (which they shoud do^^), I will often share an artikel from Reader’s Digest just because it’s interesting.

 

So here’s from RD’s June 2002

Biologist reckon our bodies could last up to 120 years. We all know about smoking, exercise, diet, etc, but here are some other longevity-boosters (nb: gains aren’t cumulative)

1.Ask lots of question

Add up to 5 years

Research following 1200 pensioners for five years found those who were most curious had a 30% better chance of living beyond this period. Higher curiousity levels may mean better adaption to changes, challenges and stress.

Note from the blogger: who said that curiousity kills the cat? 

2.Don’t make mobile phone calls in the car

Add 1-2 years

Every day people blabbing on mobiles while driving crash. Each one-minute shaves an average of 45 seconds off your life.

3.Think positives

Add 2 years

A study of AIDS patients found those with pessimistic outlooks died on average two years before more positive subjects.

4.Go to church twice a week

Add 7-14 years

An American study reported that white people attending religious services more than once a week lived on average seven years longer than those who didn’t. Among black people the figures are 14 years. Churchgoers have lower rate of smoking and drinking, and strong social ties.

Note from the blogger: Thus conclude that it’s nothing to do with religious fanatism, just a matter of self control and better discipline in your life (which is the base of some religion teaching)

5.Be eccentric

Add 5-10 years

A Scottish neuropsychologist studying 1000 eccentrics (one abseils from building dressed as an pink elephant; one built a lectern on his roof to preach to his sheep) found they live five to ten years longer than normal people. One reason, they are unencumbered by the usual worries the rest of us fret over.

Note from the blogger: Well, being different is always fun and now it’s proofed can longer your life span hoho…

 

 

update from MaO:

OK I’m impulsive! But never thought I will become this impulsive ’till actually kidnapped a stray kitten. I forget how relentless a kitten is, he’s continuously miauuuwww and mioww-ing all day >.<  *sigh* after get used to Kimi who hasn’t an attention deficit syndrome, this new situation is quite annoying. And apparently Kimi is annoyed too, because he looks angry everytime MaO start meowwing.

 

black cat!

mood: ecstatic

Aaahhh I have new cat! Finally I have a black cat! So cute….too cute!

 

OH CARAMEL….

 

Mood: hungry

Listening: TV

Drinking: orange juice

 

 

so beautiful.....and delicious!

I have a coffee pudding recipe that I’ve been want to try it.  I got the recipe when I waited for my grandma check up, it looks so delicious so I torn up the page from the magz (haha..well it’s better than steal the magazine right?)

Usually pudding is simple  enough and easy to make. But because it’s a 3 layer pudding, it looks pretty complicated. And finally I got some spare time so I definitely will try the recipe. (although my mom request the crepes, but crepes have to wait for another time mom)

The first layer is simple enough, but the second layer is the caramel layer. So of course I have to make caramel.

From the direction making caramel is pretty easy. Just mixing sugar and water in a low heat.

But Oow….the sugar and water turn into a lump of crispy thing! Waks what did I do wrong???

I really really hate u caramel!!!!

 

Btw after I google it (thanks GOD for google!!) and look for caramel sauce in epicurious.com, they say that no stirring until the sugar turn brownish. Well, I do stirred my caramel sauce ’till the sugar and water have little bubble all over it….hahaha…

Second attempt still a failure >.< errr…… But then I figure out that I add to much water, it need a ver small amount of water just to make the sugar dissolves then heat up untill it turnd deep brown. So third times is a charm, this time I succees make caramel hohoho….

 

Anyway a few days ago, I ate nasi jambal! And Ohhhhhhh it’s absolutely delicious. Very spicy though, I literally had vertigo after eat too many dishes. But still…..yum yum. I even eat the leftover for days^^ after adding green tomatoes, oh it’s still so yummy!

 It’s  around Halmahera hospital, if you like fish and spicy food, you definitely should try it!

 

BROKEN HOME?

 

Mood:  want to pee…..

Listening: somewhere beyond the sea

Playing: sketchup ( I hate working on interior…so boring!)

 

I never realized that divorce is such a big situation. I was raised up by a single mom and I actually thought that the situation is pretty cool.  It’s because I saw that my friends mom was always had that worn out housewives look. They always fat, messy or looks miserable. And I was pretty proud with my mom who is always beautiful and stylish. So in my childish mind  I have equation, husband + kids = desperate housewives.

 I was still thought that nothing was wrong about my family situation until oneday, one of my friends parent asked me about my family. And then I answer that my mom and dad are divorced. And I saw that petty look followed by the words of consolation. That’s the first time somebody actually petty me because my parents was divorced (and so now when somebody asked me about my family, I always say that my dad is died long ago, they have more horror looks actually hahaha, but at least they stop asking why). I was of course baffled. What’s wrong with it? I was a happy child and although I ocassionally missed my dad but I got used to situation. So everything is really okay!

 

And then in highschool, I had a some kind of seminar in Gambung about family and all that stuff. Because I was a crybaby (and still is), I cried over insignificant sad story. Apparently   other people were not as crybaby as me. So when I was still crying, others were busy asked what’s wrong with me. And then they pointed out that I was sad over my family situation.  One of my friend actually gave me the lecture about how my parents still love me although they was separated. And the other friend  gave her family secret how she was adopted when baby and pointed out that her situation is more sad than I was (I feel guilty actually because I wasn’t that sad but just trapped by situation!!!) Oh crap, I already know all that stuff, I get over my parents divorced long long ago (When I’m thinking about that now, I think I was on my PMS period because I always such a crybaby on my PMS).

 

Anyway I told about this because I have a family gossip. One of my relative is just a girl barely out of highschool. But she already has piercings and tattoos everywhere. And she declares that she actually craving to being hurt. Oh my…. What a scandal right? One of my relatives actually has tendency to bondage! She began hurting herself when her parents is divorce not so long ago.  And in my opinion that is sooo stupid reasons, in these days how many people has divorced? Lots of them! She also has other family who really care about her, and her dad is not suddenly dissapear (like mine btw..). Her dad still come and go everytime. I don’t know if it’s because she’s not strong enough? Or she just reasoning her odd behaviour over  something? I almost down to that self-destructive road though, and I still don’t know what made me choose not to. Let’s just accept my vanity conclusion that I strong enough to pull myself out that destructive force^^. Whatever it was, it was a small miracle and I still grateful for it. I can turn out okay and without scratch from my adolescene period, hmmm….maybe I have to think a spare time career as a child counselor^^

 

MAKE LOVE….NOT WAR

mood: miss a bear hug!
listening: Let’s Call A Whole Thing Off

 Shock!
One of talented people what I watch in dA is actually living in a war zone.
<a href=”http://anuk.deviantart.com/journal/19875354/#comments”>Anuk</a>
She is living in Tblisi, Georgia and Russian army is bombing all the city in Georgia.
It’s really a disturbing news, because although I know that there’s a war in other side of this world.
But I never meet a person who actually live in the war zone.
Imagine when I sip a tea listening to my playlist and thinking about insignificant problem like love or family matter, there’s people who prays for their life or their loved ones.
There’s no word to describe this horror.
War is sucks right! I know no matter what I think it can’t stop war.
But the least we can do is think about those people who trying to survive and remember the next time you complain about your life you just make a fool of yourself. Be grateful we can live without worrying whether the next minutes we still a living person or a corpse!

 

vista….

mood: confuse
drinking: soy milk (mocca flavour)
eating: sandwich
listening: nothing (my playlist is boring!)

I was playing a popcap game when suddenly my screen went blank…dark…nada…
And that was my worst experience using vista, ugh! I hate vista!
Vista is like Paris Hilton, beautiful but a little stupid.
And then after cursed vista and Bill Gates for about an hour, I went panic!
This is one of the moment when I have to restrain myself from the urge to run to him.
Yeah, the hardest thing about my breakup is not the heartbroken experience but an urge to run to him
everytime my PC got some trouble >.<
So I went to Toshiba technician and PAY just to format my laptop and be tortured by vista again.
Apparently those technician doesn’t live in the same realm as the other Indonesian people, they pretend
not to notice that people actually using piracy software (blah!).
Btw I’m still grateful that all my data is still intact but now I have to install all my software again, and re-setting my speedy connection (thanks to speedy technician btw, they have the best service!)

ps: why I can’t change my font color???? something error…..