Smells Like Coffee

This cafe is becoming our favorite since the last time we had a holiday in Semarang couple months ago. Kopi O is getting even better now with more foods and beverages on their menu, and a lot more customer too. Last day in Semarang and we head off to Kopi O before starting our trip back home. Had a breakfast of toast, coffee, green tea, and a plate of breakfast set.
Oops.. somebody couldn't bear to grab those kaya toast..


Aaaaannnddd.. you know, bad luck does happen.. Our car's battery is suddenly dead! So we have to stay a little longer, call for help, and wait for the mechanics to arrive and get everything done before leaving town. Not to mention that it was Sunday and everybody are in a day off. But luckily we stuck in a cafe! hahaaa.. So we ordered lunch and Q could get a little nap before leaving.


Fish and Chips, and Nasi Goreng Siram (if I'm not mistaken)..


Now there are some things I don't like. I know it's hard to keep up with more customers in store, but you know, you have to deal with it! More customers doesn't mean that you could lower your level of services. As I moved from the middle room to the back, I found this interesting facts that the back space is a very nice place but not very neat.


First, we sat there for about 20 minutes and those dirty dishes are still sitting there, next to our seat. Nobody take them out until I can't remember for how long. Doh?! Dirty dishes on a table are really not a view that I would like to watch for a long time before lunch.


And the second thing was, we found tissues and papers just everywhere. In the sofa, on the table, below the table.. That's too bad.. :(


Well, we all know that customers could be very ignorant about cleanliness. But we should pay on attention on it, especially when working in the culinary business. I really hope they will fix the problem because me and S, we really like that place.. :)

Sipping on a cup of coffee with family or friends on a cloudy afternoon beside a railroad with trains passing by every few minutes. Sounds fun? It was an interesting experience indeed! :)


This is actually a very late post..
A few weeks ago, my friend invited me to try his new cafe, TeraWalk Station. Located at the back side of the Panghegar Hotel Bandung, this place is quite unusual. It's not really spacious, but I kinda like the atmosphere there. With a classic-art deco style, it feels like we're going back to the earlier times.


TeraWalk serve a variety kind of food and beverages. From the local dishes like Sup Pindang Iga Sapi (Boiled Beef Ribs with Spices) and a nice cup of coffee from local coffee beans, to Rissoto and a variety of Mojitos. Their Sup Pindang Patin (Boiled Catfish with Spices) was our favorite so far, it's very rich in flavor. They also have a few type of coffee blends, hot or cold.

Sup Pindang Iga Sapi (Boiled Beef Ribs with Spices)

Green Smoothies & Blended Fruitmix

It's official! Bandung is now has a new park specialized for our lovely pets, Pet Park. It's not finished yet, but it's open for public just a few weeks ago. I bet all of the animal lovers out there are really excited about it as we do!

And here we are in a lovely afternoon, bringing D and N's lovely Baloo to Pet Park for the first time..
Oh I forgot to tell you, we don't have any pet yet in our family, hope someday we'll do! Because me and Sats are sooo in love with fluffy animals. Even our little guy loves to hang around with huge kind of dogs, especially goldens. ♥


Baloo was soooo happy playing with other dogs in the park. ♥

Cool sculpture idea.

Dogie bench

Err.. I guest this should be a trash bin, but not yet functioned.

Having so much fun running and walking and jumping here and there!

Balooooo ♥

Minggu kemarin temen gw tanya-tanya soal tukang yang bisa bikin custom ring, buat wedding ring katanya. Jadi inget pengen share desain cicin kawin gw dari kapan tau tapi belom jadi aja.. Doh! it's been 2.5 years.. I know! hahaaa..

The One Ring [image credit]

Our Wedding Rings

Sometimes there is this kinda moment when you feel like there's no other way to go..

Well, I got that feeling yesterday. It's the final match of our national football league, and our hometown heroes Persib FC is on the game. The whole town were super excited, and the traffic was horrible. It was literally no other way to go!

After got back from Suniaraja to get some stuff, we planned to go back home. But the traffic was awful so S was thinking about going somewhere near to sit back and relax for a couple hours. We went to Paskal Hypersquare and accidentally bumped into this fine pastry shop called Sukha Delights.


It looks like a small shop from outside. Couples of high chairs and round tables outside (smoking area I guess), and some more tables and chairs inside of the shop. We went in and found a lot of cheesecakes, croissants, breads, macarons and other sweet delights in their showcase. Oh my it looks so damn fine, a mouth-watering showcase!

Dear all my lovely friends-without-kids out there..
I still love you, I really do! But you might want to know a few things that actually happens in my daily life that already make everything change. And when I said everything, I really mean EVERYTHING! hahaaa..



P.S: I love you guys! We're still friends, aren't we?? Hihii.. -xoxo-

Yuuuhuuuu~


The world's biggest furniture seller IKEA has just opened its first store in Indonesia. I'm beyond excited! Why? Just because I've been dreaming to see their so called uber cool and well designed furniture and kitchen appliance, and of course, trying their famous Swedish Meatball, hahaa..


But I guess I have to wait until that IKEA-alsut-udah-buka-yumari-kita-ke-sana fever is gone. Coz my friends told me that it still crowded nowadays since they're just opened for a few days. And I really don't like walking around in store full of human being, or queuing in restaurant with my 19 months old kiddo (nobody would like to do this one anyway).

So, in spite of my desire to take a picture of those Swedish Meatballs and post it in my Instagram and Path account, I think I'm gonna put on a wishlist for my tiny kitchen first.

GNARP set of 5 // DRÖMMAR pastry cutter // DRÖMMAR baking tray // SOCKERKAKA pastry sheet // ÄDELSTEN mortar // TRIPP tin set // MIXTUR serving bowls // GUBBRÖRA rubber spatula

Want to see more? Visit IKEA Indonesia homepage here and see if there's something you would reeeeeally want there. Feel free to leave a comment if you wanna share your own wishlist. :)

My little monster had cough and a sore throat, and here comes the food strikes again! He now turns his nose up at everything except cold milk and juice. Well, at least there is something went into that tiny belly.

Today I made this little muffins, with a little wish that he would take some bites along with his milk on dinner time. And the result was: he took a couple bites of the one with almonds on top, ate all of the almond slices on it, then bite another one with the chocolate chips, and that's all.


Yaahh.. namanya juga lagi GTM, yasudlah! Poting semoga bb-nya tetep naik dan anaknya sehat terus aja deh, amiinn..

Anyway, I got the recipe of those basic vanilla muffins from Kidspot Kitchen here, made a little adjustments, and just add almond slices and chocolate chips on top before they goes to the oven. You could also add some other ingredients for topping, or add 1 cup of other ingredients like dried fruits or chocolate into the dough before pouring it into the muffin liners for extra filling.

Bikin basic vanilla muffins ini super gampang deh..

Bingung mau playdate atau kumpul bocah di mana lagi selain mall atau cafe? Sesekali main ke taman yuk! Sekarang ini kan taman-taman kota di sekitaran Bandung udah makin kece semenjak dirombak sana sini sama Pak RK and teams, so I planned to visit as many parks as me, S and Q could possibly go.

Duluuuu waktu Q umur 7 bulan (kalau nggak salah), taman pertama yang dia kunjungin adalah Cibeunying Park. Terus pas lagi seneng banget di tatah juga latian jalannya di sana. I have shared it for The Urban Mama article over here. Next time diposting lagi deh di sini..

Nah, kemarin aku sama Q janjian buat playdate sama Inna n Qila. Rencana awalnya sebenernya mau ke Taman Pustaka Bunga dan lanjut naik Bandros keliling Bandung. Tapi berhubung Bandung dilanda macet parah banget, dan si gue terjebak di tengah Jalan Pahlawan bersama toddler dan naik angkutan umum yang lalu stuck ga bisa jalan sementara langit sudah memendung, akhirnya kita memutuskan buat pindah ke Taman Film. Well, I thought at least we could walk, soalnya jaraknya kayanya lebih deket daripada ke Taman Pustaka Bunga.

Setelah jalan kaki yang cukup panjang berdua bocah, terus lanjut naik angkot sebentar, sampai jugalah kita di Taman Pasupati a.k.a Taman Jomblo.


Dari Taman Pasupati kita mesti jalan lagi ke arah bawah. Waktu lewatin skate park, kita berhenti sebentar karena Q suka banget ngeliatin orang main skate board. Lanjut ke bawah dan sampailah di Taman Film yang ternyata lagi penuh banget. Mungkin karena weekend, tapi nggak tau juga sih kalau hari biasa seramai apa di sana.

Jujur, sebelum hamil dan melahirkan aku emang gak terlalu notice sama ruangan satu ini, yup, Nursing Room. Saat hamil pun aku sebenernya gak terlalu ambil pusing sama ruangan ini dengan pikiran, "toh sekarang kan ada nursing apron". Ternyata oh ternyataaa biar gimana juga Nursing Room adalah salah satu ruang yang teramat penting buat para ibu-ibu menyusui dan babies yang udah saatnya harus ganti popok padahal emak-bapaknya baru aja sampe mall! Karena nggak semua baby mau menyusui sambil ditutupin apron.


Waktu hamil Q, aku sempet baca artikel yang menjelaskan bahwa sebenarnya udah ada undang-undang pemerintah yang mengatur soal ruangan menyusui untuk tempat umum, perkantoran dan perguruan tinggi (CMIIW). Tapi prakteknya sih tetap kembali kepada si empunya public space yaa. Nyatanya di Bandung masih banyak tempat-tempat umum, kantor, apalagi perguruan tinggi yang sama sekali nggak punya fasilitas Nursing Room. *helanafaspanjang

Dari hari pertama Q ngemol sampe saat ini, setiap nemu Nursing Room aku selalu nyempetin foto buat bahan postingan di mari. Tapiii yaahh yu now lah yaa, karena setahun kemarin off dari blog, jadinya si foto-foto itu pabalatak alias nggak tau ada di folder mana aja di harddisk. Setelah ngubek-ngubek hd minggu kemarin, akhirnya ketemu beberapa foto Nursing Room yang ada di beberapa public space di seputaran kota Bandung ini. Let's take a peek..

Ever since I got pregnant, there were so many things I wish I made it myself. Since I already got a baby crib from my final project (we'll talk about it later), I actually wanted to make another furniture and some other decoration for our room. Unfortunately we didn't have that much time to make some big things, so I started with a small ones.

I came out with some handmade stuff. The first one is a pair of crochet little mittens for those tiny fingers. Did some trial and error with some materials until I had the finest one. I couldn't believe its sizes when I finished it, but then I found out that a newborn's hand is really that small!


I found the pattern online, but didn't save the page (sorry..) so I guess you should search it 'google-way' . :P



On our 1st PED visit after we discharged from the hospital, Q's PED told me to remove those mittens when he is being breastfed. The reason is because we can see if he is hungry when we see his hands. Hi will hold his fist while he is hungry and being breastfed, and it will getting loose and loose when he is full. So I only put the mittens on when he is going to sleep, to prevent him from scratching his face with those tiny fingers.. :)

Hmmm.. Let's throwback for a while.. Mengenang kembali litlle Q di setahun pertamanya, yang juga setahun pertama kami, as bubun and momo..

Qavi - Newborn

I decided to move all posts from my other blogs here couple days ago, and I did move them all yesterday. Turns out it was very easy to move all posts from one blogger to another. I just need to export all of my posts from the other blogs and import them here.

Here is one of the biggest things this year: our little Q was turning one!

Times flies.. I do still remember how he was being such a nice and kind little baby growing in my womb for months. No morning sicks, no nausea time, and he was very cooperative during those days, thanks God! And I still remember how all of the pain was like suddenly gone on the second that he was born. It's all worth it.

They say..

"a baby's first birthday is also a mom's first birthday"

..and it's totally true! I learned soooo many new things since the very first day I met this little angel. And still got so much to learn in the future. The first year was like the most trying year of my life. After all, we are so glad that we have him in our life.


We didn't want to held a big birthday party for Q, but we did want something to be remembered a few years later. After days of so called research, hahaa.. we decided to make a little smash cake party for him. I made this sugarless banana birthday cake with cream cheese frosting and put a simple decoration on the top of it.

Hello there again! it's been a very long time, like.. a year since my last post?? Oh my, what a shame!
Let's recall what has happened in my life later.. (well, my life here means me, Sats, and our little Q of course, hehee..)

The past year have been a roller coaster for us. There were smiles, laughs, tears, hundreds of joys and sorrows. I might gonna start to post some of our old pictures while recalling those stories. But today, let me share our latest ones.

It's harder now to take a picture of us together, since Q has been running here and there. I even started to think that we need to have a tongsis, kind of a mono-pod that has been sooo popular in Indonesia lately, just to get the three of us together in one frame more often, hahaa. This one we got from our dear friend Owndy when we had dinner together last month.