Celebrating Year-End Holiday Season

December 9, 2013 12:31 PM , 1 Comment ,

It has been two years now since our last vacation. Things have been piling up till the top of my head and if we don’t take one I am pretty sure we are nearing a meltdown. How can someone get by for another day without any refreshing time in 365 days?

Though budget is stretched I am happy that we are still going to have a one-week break out of the city. I so can’t wait!

While I am gearing up for my vacation plan, the whole city is also gearing up for the big season coming up. The Year-End holiday season is right under our nose now and I am sure everybody has got their plan decided. Medan is the fourth largest city in Indonesia with big population of Christian. So of course at time like this, the atmosphere is already felt Chrismasy around here.

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JW Marriott Medan, as the only International 5 stars hotel in town, is all set to welcome the festive season. At the lobby, a 7m-tall white Christmas tree is there to welcome the guests and to wow them with the sparkly accessories, red poinsettias and boxes of gifts in blue and silver colors. Medan is known to be so hot during daytime so white Christmas by the lobby surely brings wintery feeling to the hotel surrounding. Not to mention a Santa’s sleigh is placed near the tree making it a gorgeous spot for pictures.

To make holiday in Medan more interesting, the hotel offers a beautiful approachable luxury for stays at the end of the year between 16th December 2013 to 9th January 2014 with exclusion of 31st December 2013. For that period of stay, an Unforgettable Moments package is launched at only IDR 888.000 nett per room per night with inclusion of complimentary breakfast for 2 adults and 2 children 6 years below, 20% discounts for Spa treatments, 20% discount on Food and Beverage (excl. In Room Dining), free internet connection and free access to the Health Club and swimming pool (registered guests only).

Festive Season at JW Marriott Medan

 

For me going out of the city is something I want to do but if this is not the case for you, especially those who live in Medan, enjoying a lavish celebration to welcome 2014 is definitely a treat I would recommend you all. Thus no other place you can experience that better than JW Marriott Medan!

If you want to get latest updates from this hotel do join its social network at Facebook (JWMarriottMedan), Twitter (JWMarriottMedan) and  Instagram (JWMarriottHotelMedan).

What’s your plan for Christmas and New Year’s Eve?

 

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The Goods and Bads this Week

December 8, 2013 10:25 PM , Leave a Comment ,

Last November I was chosen as Mom of the Month by a society for Indonesian mom bloggers, KEB (Kumpulan Emak2 Blogger). To be honest I feel that I didn’t live up to their expectation back then for lacking of sharing something useful to the community. Just so happen last month I was so busy couldn’t focus on my own blogging world.

The committee said there would be a gift. I had forgotten all of that until last Friday I found a package on my desk. Saw the sender’s name was KEB I was so delighted, opened it at the first chance I got at home.

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What a gift! There were couple of books there, including children book, some handmade floral pins, a scarf and a bath amenities. Super cool! Little A soon grabbed the children book and read it out loud. Only the thing is that he hasn’t been able to read yet so the words that come out of his mouth were just scrambling mumbles ha ha…

Moving on to this week the world was shaken by two sad news. I was shaken too. Only a day before I took a sneak peak on the Hours, the movie where Paul Walker has starred. The next day I heard the news, he had passed away! This is definitely a devastating news to all of his fans. I am not a big fan of him but I have watched some of his movies. Reading about all his charity works I have nothing else to say but “RIP Paul Walker”. Well, they say good people are gone too soon. Are they?

Also the sad news continued with the death of Mr. Nelson Mandela. Ironically there was someone who mistaken Morgan Freeman over Nelson Mandela. His picture was posted on social media with title RIP Nelson Mandela. So stupid (and hilarious too, actually!).

What do you think of Paul Walker and Nelson Mandela? Did their death somehow affect you in any ways?

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Milk Pie from Hepikoekiss

December 4, 2013 1:02 AM , 1 Comment ,

I have a dear friend who is happy all the time. Okay, that is exaggerating but her name is HAPPY so that should say everything about her right?

She was my classmate in high-school with an interesting love story because she ends up marrying my other classmate and together now they are a solid partner for better for worse, and for business.

Happy has been always interested in baking. She has the talent and her cake orders are increasing every year. I think that is why she decided to take her business one level up and call it Hepikoekiss. Again, her made-to-order bakery and pastry business name pretty much straight forwardly representing her name and the products (koekiss = cookies or cakes).

Her latest product for this holiday season is a range of mini milk pies. She posted them on instagram and all I could do was drooling. I love pies. Don’t you?

So when I told her about it she offered me to try a box of the milk pies. Boy, how she made my day!

She sent this for free as part of her shipping trial. She received a lot of orders from out of town, which need shipping. We all know how fragile pies are. You have to send it by yourself and do not even think to have it shipped. But she wanted to give it a try and her husband, who is also my dearly friend, came up with this very smart and efficient packaging that managed to hold up for the pies to arrive safely un-broken and un-crushed at my doorway. FYI we don’t live in the same island so the pies were air-shipped.

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Unfortunately Hepikoekiss only ship within Indonesia. Contact her on instagram or email hepikoekiss@gmail.com for orders.

Meanwhile, I just found an old post from Savory Simple about Momofuku Milk Bar’s Crack Pie and I think you should take a look at it because the recipe is so simple yet the end result looks so tempting!

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Handmade Card for Teacher’s Day

December 2, 2013 9:00 AM , 2 Comments ,

Last week there was the Teacher’s day. The kids had some mini project to do to celebrate that special day. I decided that we were going to make a card. And so we did!

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Working Moms’ Endless Battle

December 1, 2013 10:00 PM , 6 Comments ,

Moms who work in an office outside home are likely to come to a point when they question about the whole meaning of their job in the first place. No matter how much fun we have along the road in the end we all will have to come up with priorities set. All of us have different priorities. For some of us a job is the only way to provide better living for our family. However, is money an enough reason to make us leave the kids at home attended by care taker or other people?

Only recently a friend came up to me to ask my opinion on her desire to quit her job. She has been the busiest person in the department and at the same time has to care for her three children at home. She wakes up very early in the morning to do all the chores before leaving for works. These days it has become all too much for her and she starts questioning her own priorities.

“Should I quit my job?” she asked. “Does the money I get from this job worth my time?”

To be honest I didn’t know the answer. I don’t think there is a right or wrong answer here. “You need to follow your heart” that was what I told her and that came from my own experience some years ago.

It is indeed weird how men rarely have to choose.

In my opinion, whatever decision we have made we must do it with all our heart. If working is something that you do (regardless the reason why you do it) then please do it like you mean it.

Sometimes I just have to frown to a mom who only comes for work for the sake of coming. She shows up in the office, underperforming her job and likes to complaint. At the end of the day she is just wasting her time.

When you are at work you better make the best out of it because this is the time that you could have used with your kids at home. So don’t waste it!

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Had an awesome dinner with awesome people. Thank you for the lovely evening team!

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Red Carpet Manicure 2013 Holiday Collection: A Touch of Bling

November 26, 2013 1:14 AM , 5 Comments ,

I believe  that I don’t need something to validate my existence in this world as a mom. Maybe some of you will say, oh your kids are the validation. Maybe you will say you can’t be a mom without a kid. Hmm to that point you may be right. But you know what? I think the thing that validates a mom is actually the nail.

There were times when I bumped into other moms and caught the glimpse of their polished nail, and I couldn’t stop thinking how they managed to do that. I mean it is already hard enough to take care of two kids and topped with the endless chores. To find a time to have proper treatment on as little as my nails is definitely luxury. So moms with nail polish always wow me. Either they have a troop of support system at home or they just manage their time well. Obviously kids and house chores should not get in the way for us to keep looking good and the vice versa.

So how do they manage it? How do I manage that?

Turns out in order to have healthy and beautiful nails I don’t have to go to a nail salon nor spending too much time on them at home. Some of natural care for lovely nails include drinking a lot of water, apply light hand moisturizer daily, wear gloves when cleaning and properly trim the nails as they grow longer.

And then comes the nail polish!

Playing around with nail polish has become one of my favorite things to do in my spare time. I love to see the end result when my fingers get some splash of colors be it pink, brown, red or even black. It’s just felt refreshing! Also when I am wearing colors on my nail somehow I feel fabulous. Nail polishes are good to lift our mood up and be confident, don’t you think?

Now that I am back to office job painting my nail has become my small obsession. The nature of my job that pretty much represents the company and also meet with many people sort of demands me to always look good. People talk and people observe hence from head to toe I try to look at least professionally decent if gorgeous is not the exact word (ha!).

But, again, being a working mom with two kids and no house assistant at home makes it difficult for me to spend a luxury time at nail salon. Forget nail salon, sleeping is already on my luxury list these days!

Therefore I am thankful enough for something as good as Red Carpet Manicure. They have awesome collection that can make every nail polish lovers in this world crazy! The website is also complete with how to videos and useful tips around nail treatments.

For this year’s holiday season, Red Carpet Manicure launches their holiday 2013 collection “A Touch of Bling”. Let’s add some shines and blings to your holiday memories!

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Click here to buy some of the holiday collection. If you run now to Red Carpet Manicure Facebook page they are hosting a sweepstakes for this fabulous collection. Who knows you win!

 

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