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'tis the season to share our joy to others! We'd like to share with you something that might be useful for you. Allow us to present... A ringtone for your cellphone made from Noe's lovely baby laughter! Download here in WAV format (355kb) or MP3 format (165kb). Hope you enjoy it, and let us know what you think about it!

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We're in the process of migrating to the new blog engine, which hopefully can be launched by new year. Beta version is actually available, but it's still barren .. email or PM me if you wanna test the beta or help out.. thanks. Some december entries will be available in that location too. In the mean time, please do enjoy Noe's videos for the year 2005. Sorry for the quality, we took it using

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Azlin invited us to come to her brother wedding. This is our first time coming to a malay wedding. Luckily, the Indosing-mums egroups discusses the culture and ethics of coming to a malay wedding in Singapore. Unlike Indonesian wedding where we greet the wedding couple before proceeding to eating the food, Malay wedding doesn't have the bride and the groom when we arrived. We arrived quite

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Dibawah ini adalah surat listrik yang saya kirimkan ke KBRI Singapura: Singapura, 5 Desember 2005 Yth. KBRI Singapura: Bersama ini saya ingin mengajukan sedikit pertanyaan mengenai perbedaan tarip dalam pembuatan paspor sbb (mohon koreksi apabila ada sedikit kesalahan dalam menuliskan angka): Tarif pembuatan paspor bagi WNI yang non-TKW adalah S$85 dengan masa berlaku paspor 5 tahun.

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We went to Giant Supermarket to do our fortnightly shopping. We bought finger food for Noe to see whether he's ready to feed himself with hands. To our surprise, there is Ikan Lele / Sembilang / Catfish in IMM. We've been wanting to eat Pecel Lele and there is still leftover sambel pecel in the fridge, so Rani bought a pair of Lele. Look at how fresh and nicely they cook in the wok, just like a

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On Saturday, after Rani's last exam, Natasha invited us for dinner. Rani cooked baked spinach pasta to bring. Luckily the pasta turned out to be delicious and complement well Natasha's salad. After dinner, Noe had half of jar of gerber prune to help with his digestion. Andi has grown really big and has a big voice too, military style, like the father ;> He already has four teeth and is biting

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I recalled that I still have Christmas point wildrice from Elizabeth that has been sitting in our storage for more than a year. Also, Noe is now eight month old, which means he can eat cheese. So we decided to cook Spinach Wild Rice Casserole for the whole family and for Noe. Ingredients One cup of wild rice Two cups of stock (beef, chicken, vegetable, etc) One onion, chopped Two

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We're back in Singapore. We'll post the stories about our last (extended) trip to jakarta in their appropriate dates. You can find the table of contents here, too. I'll do the table of contents after I finish writing the stories of our jakarta trip. Thank you very much for your support, we really are touched by your kindness. Indi is recovering. He still needs to take a rest to fully recover

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We wrap up the tale of our trip with the finale. Basically we didn't spend much time travelling around Jakarta, since Indi had to take total rest. So we just sit around at home watch TV (I studied for exam of course), playing with Noe. Sometimes Indi went to hospital to settle administration issues. Oh I went to beauty salon for complete facial treatment with massage and earcandling, plus

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Indi's getting sick of the hospital. Once his platelet count reached 100 he decided to walk outta there. Finally Noe gets to see Bapak again. Noe didn't forget Bapak at all. Noe was really elated to see Bapak! Finally together again... When we get back home, Noe was eager to show off that he now can stand up only with one hand holding onto something. Somehow, Noe hated bath in Jakarta,

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We thought we wouldn't be able to come to Djojosugito family gathering taking place on Friday. But since we sort-of forced to stay in Indonesia, I decided to come to the gathering, which I haven't done ever since I started to live abroad. Before we leave for the gathering, Noe played with Nenek in the Kids room in the apartment. Then on the way to the gathering, we saw this lovely grafitti.

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Yesterday, after visiting Indi in the hospital and on the way to home, I went to Kumis 999 Goat Feet Soup that I have yearned for the longest time. It is finally open after closed for the whole month of ramadan. Basically, here, none of the body part of the poor goat is wasted. I am giving you a preview close up one by one. These are THE goat's feet. To be mixed with soup. The soft bones are

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After having two cycles of fever, Indi became lethargic and his platelet count fell, really low, about 17,000 only (from the normal count of 200,000!). You can see his two cycle of fever in this chart. You can see how lethargic Indi was. He didn't even respond to our jokes! Three days in the hospital and he misses Noe so much. But Noe couldn't and shouldn't come inside the hospital. So how do

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We're still stuck in Jakarta. Indi got hit by dengue fever last saturday and now hospitalised. Please help with prayers for his speedy recovery. Indi is in room 272 RS Internasional Bintaro, do visit him if you can (do bring Lindt 70% chocolate bars if you can :>). I had to evacuate to Menteng and everyday commute 35km between Menteng and hospital. I'm sad because i can't fully stay in the

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Yesterday, Indi's fever didn't subside. Ibu Wies and Pak Ahmad visited Indi to see his condition. Having seen Indi, Ibu suggested that Noe (and Rani of course) needed to be evacuated because it is not confirmed that Indi had dengue (it could be other type of contagious viral infection that may infect Noe), and if indeed it is dengue, it's possible that the mosquito lives around Bintaro and

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Today we plan to do Soemardjan family photo. Having asked around, Yodhi found out that family photo package around Jakarta is very expensive, between three million rupiah or more expensive. It's quite ridiculously priced. So when Yodhi found out that Jonas Photo only charged about one hundred and fifty thousand rupiah, we decided to go there. Besides, I knew Jonas Photo is quite reputable in

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The second day of lebaran we were busy visiting friends and relatives... but of course, we started the day with a good warm bath. Here, Noe and Neo took a bath together, helped by Eyang Putri. In the afternoon we visited Chiki in her house in jalan Erlangga. Noe had a great time exploring Chiki's house. It turned out that Chiki's brother works in a travel magazine, we decided to promote Anai

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Om Caryo's house is full of old photos of Soemardjan Klan. Do enjoy some of the photos here! Today, Dhana dressed up as a saudi mullah as you can see below. Finally, we have a photo of today's Soemardjan Klan After Jalan Bromo, we drove down to Kebon Nanas for Jenie Family gathering. This is Noe with Oma As, while Nenek's hand was spooning kiwi fruit. This is Nana with Noe: After that, we

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Finally, Indi spends lebaran in jakarta, after 13 years celebrating it abroad. Tis the day of ketupat on the breakfast table... After the morning prayers, it's time for sungkeman - bowing/prostrating to the person that we love and respect. In this sense, we bowed to our grandma, mother, father, and spouse (aka husband), and older siblings. This is usually where tears of forgiveness flows. Here

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Today we met with Pak Pudjo and Reza in Shangrila, and later visited Reza's office in Jalan Sudirman. Before we return home to Bintaro, we visited Mbak Nana and Mas Adi in Taman Rasuna. The last time I met mbak Nana was in 1999 while I was in London, and at that time, the oldest daughter Ditte was still two years old. Now she's 8 year old already, in elementary school. Mbak Nana's team won the

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We drove around Jakarta, from the Silalahi House, to Pondok Indah Mall, to Dapur Babah Restaurant in the evening. Do enjoy the picture of the food here! We went to Silalahi’s house to pay a visit to tante Sondang. We haven’t met her since her husband passed away. On the way to her house, we were a bit lost because Jakarta had changed a lot since the last time we were there. Opung Sondang was

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Indi took Noe to the front yard and taught Noe how to drive. Mr. and Mrs. Vidi and their daughter Vla visited us. Vidi is Indi’s friend since junior high. The two of them, plus the other friends, used to hang out in Bintaro house, where they all watched porn video (Betamax, at that time) for the first time. In the mean time, local news on TV screened a story about a grandma died unknowingly in

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I was surprised to see someone who looked like Adi Wicaksono on TV in a cooking show called Magic Kitchen! Those hairy arms were on TV! I found that the show was really amusing and unique, however sometimes I couldn’t really catch what Adi talked about (perhaps it’s difficult to mike it in a real kitchen). So I called Dyah to ask about it, and true, it was Adi Wicaksono. The show has been

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We flew home, to Jakarta, on Singapore Airlines. When we drove to Changi, the traffic along the ECP was unusually jammed (for Singapore standard). I suppose it was because everybody is rushing out of the country for the long week holiday (Deepavali and Hari Raya). And true enough, Changi Airport was more crowded than usual. I guess it’s true that Singapore Airlines’ service on air is one of the

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Noe started to learn to self-feed. Just one day after his seven month birthday, Noe started to grab the spoon from me and put it into his mouth. He seemed to really enjoy taking care lunch time by himself. It surely dragged the lunch time, but it's worth the learning process. Noe also plays with water during bath time more aggresively now. He would hit the water using his hands to create

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