Wann bunda nicht zu hause da

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Wann bunda nicht zu hause da,



Heute morgen bin Ich weggegahren. Meine dotter, Kamila had den ganzen Tag mit mein Mann gespielt. Das was schön, aber jetzt ist es Abend. Jetzt will Kamila Mir. “Bunda kommt erst morgen wieder, mein Mäuschen” Sagt meinMann.
“Möchtest du noch ein Marmeladenbrot?”
Aber Kamila möchte kein Marmeladenbrot. Kamila möchte sich auch nicht ausziehen. Und nicht Zähne putzen. Und schon gar nicht schlafen. Kamila will Ich. Jetzt! Mein Mann seufzt, dann hat er eine Idee. Er holt Mein Nachthemd und wickelt es um Kamilas Kuschelkissen. Mmh..., das duftet so schön nach Bunda….
“Aber morgen kommt sie wieer,ja?”
“Ja. Morgen ist Bunda wiere da. Schlaf schön, mein Mäuschen!
Gute Nacht!

Eid Ramadhan

Alhamdulillah...
We welcome ramadhan with the whole of our heart
We do apologize with all the things which had happened, either by accident on not.
Wish you get a very blessed Ramadhan

Lets come closer to the GREATEST who has all this things happen in us.
Happy eid Ramadhan
Marhaban Ya... Ramadhan

The Setiawans
Ayah, bunda, Mas Arsya & Adik Kamila

Regretful with all the things...

Hah, I missed my Blog a lot!
I was very busy for the last two weeks, prepared my company bidding to the Oil Company. Not easy although it is not also not difficult.
As always happened at the end of the day, we got very stress to decide how much is the price of our quotation. When we win, we do regret : why should be this price, what if we can increase little bit more, we'll get more margin on it.
When we lost, we do regret: why shoud be this price, what if we can decrease little bit more, we'll be the winner!

Regret never happened in advance, always happen in the last occurance.

What was a regret?
Regret is an intelligent (and/or emotional) dislike for personal past acts and behaviours. Regret is often felt when someone feels sadness, shame, or guilt after committing an action that the person later wishes that they had not done. Regret is distinct from guilt, which is a deeply emotional form of regret —one which may be difficult to comprehend in an objective or conceptual way. In this regard, the concept of regret is subordinate to guilt in terms of its "emotional power". By comparison, shame typically refers to the social, (rather than personal) aspect of guilt or (in minor context) regret as imposed by the society or culture (enforcement of ethics, morality), which has substantial bearing in matters of (personal and social) honor.

Reference:
Hein, David. "Regrets Only: A Theology of Remorse." The Anglican 33, no. 4 (October 2004): 5-6.

Money...Money.. and Save your money

Read the book of Safir Senduk, "who said that being employee can not be rich? " indonesian version. It isreally impressed me, with an easy reading book now we can deploy all the stuck and messy wired management. Usually in procument management world call as supply chain.

As always happen ini every month, we were confuse to manage our money, although we are not the one who had low income but saving money is a hard job. We found a defisit case on the end of the month:)
Now, I try to evaluate, the things that can help us to save our money, adapt from Safir Senduk's book and some tips from some website.

1. Save your money at the beginning of the month, dont forget to pay insurance, credit card, you personal load then monthy expenses.
2. Think about future, now widely known famous pension management, you can manage how much money you want to get after you are 55years old? be aware about the inflation.
3. Be aware for hidden waste, what was that, be wise that cell phone is not purposed for long distance call, use you home phone or go to public phone services where you can pay in advance.
4. Watch you credit card, use you credit card in porper time and way, dont ever think that you credit card is Money Goodess, once you are late to pay, remenber 3% charge.
5. Plan low cost family vacation
6. Become a smart shopper, leave you credit card at home, make a note of your expenses list and dont be out of the list
7. Keep a tight rein of your budget

Hope those tips can help us to save our money in the future.

Today, 5 years ago.

I still remember, 5 year ago, I was having dinner with my friends at our dorminitory when I watched Metro TV and knew that US was bombed!

Sept 12, 2001
My friend at New York office was very difficult to be contacted either by phone or internet.

Sept 15, 2001
Glad to know that my friend, Mike Clearly was oke! Fortunately, he was out of the office that day, but... a very deep condolences I had to convey when he told me that he was very sure that some other friends were burried in.

September 11, 2002
Karlsruhe - Germany,
With a bent head, I convey the many times condolences to them who was burried in with those smoke, dust and beton.
But I cant forget the eyes of my german tutor, a suspicious eyes looking at me down! Dont know what's wrong with her eyes, suspect me, suspect my veil, suspect the moslem.

One important thing, until now, the mystery of it havent solved yet and and I am very sure thats not moslem way!

ps.
B-3 Bismarck Strasse 76133....
fuer frau Lechner, was is passiert mit mir?

Time Management

We have 24 hours a day, but a repeatedly question: That’s not enough!
How comes?
Have you managed your time well? Yes
Have you managed your work well? Yes

All those stupid questions are should be answer wisely. Time Management skills are essential for successful people - these are the practical techniques which have helped the leading people in business, sport and public service reach the pinnacles of their careers.

My experience, I worked for 8 hours a day, but there is time in between when I don’t have any idea to do this or that. Sometimes, the internet connection availability is a disaster when we add on Yahoo Messenger while we are working. We just keep chatting and browsing otherwise our work become overload.

Starting with scheduling your daily activity will help much you time management. Here I adapt from the book of: Make Time For Success


Scheduling is the process by which you look at the time available to you, and plan how you will use it to achieve the goals you have identified. By using a schedule properly, you can:

1. Understand what you can realisticaly achieve with your time;
2. Plan to make the best use of the time available;
3. Leave enough time for things you absolutely must do;
4. Preserve contingency time to handle 'the unexpected'; and
5. Minimize stress by avoiding over-commitment to yourself and others.

Hopefully we can be wiser then!

GPS, I am almost lost!

This afternoon, I had a chat with my beloved hubby, he asked me:
“how much it the price of GPS”
I said: 2 million rupiah
My Hubby: If it is a used one?
I said: I don’t know, not my interest in used one or new one, my interest is how much data does it have in? more valuable I think..
My hubby: Oh…



GPS or Global Positioning Systems now known well as a survey gear, guiding us to find the place we will visit to or to reconstruction the place you ever experience in, now, many applications has been applied. From fisherman to the President, from Boy Scout to the military general.

GPS as I know, now not only belongs to US, since the Galileo, the EuropeanGPS, be aware that The Galileo project calls for developing and launching a network of satellites that would reduce Europe's dependency on the GPS system. The Galileo positioning system is a proposed satellite navigation system, to be built by the European Union (EU) as an alternative to NAVSTAR (which is controlled by the United States military) a The system should be operational by 2010, two years later than originally anticipated.
As I know Galileo is intended to provide:
Greater precision to all users than is currently available.
Improved coverage of satellite signals at higher latitudes, which northern regions such as Scandinavia will benefit from.
A positioning system upon which European nations can rely even in times of war or political disagreement.
Back to NAVSTAR GPS, one interesting point when I read an article from http://www.useu.be/ when Mr. Bell from US Mlitary Dept. warn the EU. If the Galileo signal directly overlays the GPS M-code signal, he warned, "jamming one would also jam the other, resulting in a negative impact on NATO's military effectiveness in the area of operations, potentially risking fratricide on friendly forces and civil populations."
I am waiting to the coming of 2010.

Ps. Hunny, seems that you shold change your bussiness card address not with a street address anymore, should be a coordinate! Miss u much!

Reading and World in hand

Your children is very curious, does it means that your children is very smart?
This morning I got a newsletter from www.balitacerdas.com , it is really interesting topic to be discussed among moms.
If your answer of above question is YES, good!
But, please look toward to the second condition, does you children keep answer of his curiosity or just ignore it, leave it away and change to other question.
If your answer is: Yes my children keep asking me about the same topic but in different thing, means that your children is really…really…smart, keep watching on her! Cause you need pay more attention.
You need to guide her to focus on the topic keep guiding her, remember with Pascal Triangle? Make it sharper in every stage! Be aware!

You must facilitate her to increase and enriching her capability, reading is one great gate to her throne. No matter what she reads but please be focus on how she reads. The Reading activity is really influenced her thinking way, and later then will be impacted to her intellectuality.

We must stimulate her after read some books, ask her to tell you what she has read, make a quiz, and play with. It is the further step to trigging her.

Don’t ever force her to read a special topic you are interested in, but, let her choose.
Remember, if you make you children fall in love in reading, means you give her the world.

Our Second Step creating a new you!

We just wish we can pass all this through.
We just wish we will be healthy on that moment
So will our family.
We just wish we have enough energy and great idea at that moment.
We just wish ALLAH always with us
Shine our way…
Blessing our way…
Ya ALLAH, if it is ours, sure YOU will always shine our way
YOU will always make our shoulder strong to face all the challenge.
Ya ALLAH we do it for our family
So please….bless us….

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September 21st – 24th 2006
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Bye - bye Diapers

There are several documents that refer to the special clothing used for the babies of ancient times. Milkweed leaf wraps, animal skins, and other creative natural resources, a far cry from today's disposable diapers. The Egyptian, the Aztec, the Romans, and many others, who left documentation of their day to day activities, mention its use. Its need covers all segments of the population, from princesses to beggars.

This is one of the very first items that distinguished man from animals, believe it or not! ; Infants have been "wrapped in swaddling bands" in many European societies since antiquity. Swaddling bands were strips of linen or wool that were wrapped tightly around each limp and then crosswise around the body (like many Yoga advocates still do in India). In Elizabethan times, babies were treated to a fresh diaper only every few days. Innuits, an Eskimo people, placed moss under sealskin. adapted from Richer Investment Consulting Services

For almost a week, my son Arsya has said “bye –bye’ to his diapers. I think he got trauma with hairy worm bitten. About a week ago, he was playing with ‘mama’ his grandma, by accident, mama found hairy worm and showed to him, my son get very surprise cause it was his first time to see hairy worm, about 30 minutes later, his body became itchy, got many red spot (Biduren, Javanese) and swollen . GOD! He was fussy all day through. Then his baby sitter swiped him with petrol to avoid another red spot. Take a bath and smeared with Caladine Lotion. Alhamdulillah, thanks GOD, he became calm down, and sleeping.

Starting that moment, he did want to wear diaper anymore, he feel very scare when he saw his penis swollen. He thought that the diapers caused his penis swollenJ. We just happy, to see it. My son getting mature, at his age, night sleeping without diapers and urine expelled in his bed is a quantum leap in his mental and physical development.
My additional task is binging him in the middle of the night and ask him to pipi. For first one and two days it is hard job, and he was objection by saying : please bunda no…
Thanks Arsya you are a really smart boy! Alhamdulillah Ya ALLAH, for giving us this wonderful gift. So does kamila.

Soya Milk

It has been almost a month, I am the regular cunsomer of Soya Milk, every morning after arrive at my office, Tyo my friend, will delivery me two pouch of milk, one for me and another one for my two cute children, Arsya & Kamila. Usually, I save the soya milk for my children in my office fridge, while for me, I prefer to drink when it's still warm. Something funny, my son always call it with : Soya Juice!
He thinks that the milk only come from cows not ever from Soya.

Here I adapt from Soya , how to make your own soya milk at home. Can be tried as a weekend break, Thanks GOD it's friday:)

It's very easy to make soy milk at home. If you make soy milk on a daily basis you might find a soy milk maker (or soy milk machine such as Soyajoy, Soylife, Miracle...) very helpful.

Step1: IngredientsYou need about 125 g whole soya beans to make 1 liter of soy milk.

Step2: Soaking and dehulling the soya beansClean the soya beans and soak them in water for 10 - 16 hours. Although not necessary, you can remove the hulls be kneading the soya beans and flushing the loose hulls with water. Removing the hulls makes the extraction process more efficient. An alternative is to crack the soya beans before soaking. The hulls comes easily loose and can be washed away. When you use cracked soya beans you need less soaking time: 6 - 8 hours.

Step3: Heating the soya beans (optional)Heating the soya beans will destroy enzymes which are responsible for the development of beany flavour. This heating can best be achieved by microwaving the wet soaked soya beans during 2 minutes.

Step4: Grinding the soya beansGrind the soaked soyabeans and 1 liter water in a blender. Sieve the mixture trough a cheese cloth and recover the soy milk. The insoluble material which remains on the sieve is called okara, and can be used as an ingredient for bread making or as cattle feed.

Step5: Boiling the soy milkHeat the soy milk till boiling point and continue boiling for about 5 to 10 minutes. After cooling, the soy milk is ready and can be kept in the fridge for another 3 days.

Step6: Flavouring the soy milk (optional)The soy milk can be drunk as such but taste can be improved by adding some salt (also cow milk contains a lot of salt).With soy milk you can easily make your own fruit smoothie. Fruit smoothies are very healthy because they contain soy milk and a lot of fresh fruits.

Den Haag

Got an SMS from my hunny yesterday:
" I am in IC train to Muenster and will transfer with bus then go to Den Haag! "

Den Haag or in English The Hague, is the capital of Netherlands, The Hague is located in the centre of Europe, between London, Frankfurt, Berlin, Paris and Rotterdam-- the world's largest port.

The Randstad:
Cities on the EdgeThe Hague is at the heart of the Randstad, the urban conglomeration in the west of the Netherlands outlined by Amsterdam, Utrecht, The Hague and Rotterdam. Not just the highest population centre, the Randstad is also the centre of business, and where the majority of international companies are located. Other major cities in The Hague region are Delft, a popular tourist destination and home to the Technical University; Zoetermeer, a widely-recognised IT centre; and Leiden, home to one of the largest and best-known universities in the Netherlands.
Centre of OperationsWith two international airports, several railway stations and a network of motorways, The Hague offers maximum flexibility for getting around anywhere in Europe. The universities of Delft, Leiden and The Hague with nearby Amsterdam and Rotterdam universities provide a high-quality labour force, and the 85 embassies located in The Hague add to the international flavour.

Madurodam



Madurodam is a miniature city located in Scheveningen, The Hague in the Netherlands. It is a model of a Dutch town on a 1:25 scale, composed of typical Dutch buildings and landmarks, as are found at various locations in the country. This major Dutch tourist attraction was built in 1952 and has been visited by tens of millions of visitors since then. The miniature city was named after George Maduro, a law student from Curaçao who fought the Nazi occupation forces as a member of the Dutch resistance and died at Dachau concentration camp in 1945 and whose parents donated the money to start the Madurodam project.
On July 2, 1952, teenaged princess Beatrix was appointed mayor of Madurodam, after which she was given a tour of her town. When Beatrix became queen of the Netherlands, she laid down this function. Today, the mayor of Madurodam is elected by a youth municipal council consisting of 25 pupils from schools in the region.