Megan, Daddy,

DH had went to Jakarta for business for two months. While he was there, he would call home daily and and sometime I'll put him on speaker and he would great Megan. Megan usually laughed or smiled to the phone and sometime, she would kissed the phone.

When DH returned after the long trip, Megan can hardly recognized her daddy at all. She put on sour face and going to cry face when he wanted to hold her and screamed when he insisted to bau bau her.

Hubby was so disappointed, his precious baby girl didn't recognized him at all. But he keep calling her said ' Cing Cing (her Chinese name) this is pa pa..." repeat it over and over again, not long, she seem recognized her voice dared herself to touch her papa. Then, some how, she remember! She laughed and smiled and willing to be bau- bau. DH was so happy ....

Now, as she learn that her papa spoiled her so much, she became manja. If she was forbid to grab something, she will hit anything around her, she will even turned her face away from you when she's not happy. What a temper my daughter has!

But, she also built up her soft side, she love fluffy dolls. She will kiss them. hug them and make 'ng..ng..' sound. She sleep with them ,carry them everywhere.

Hahaha I never known that my Megan will be so girly. I was tomboy when I was child, my toys were swords (plastic) and guns (plastic)

But she is still a baby, but I hope she will never like me hehehehe

PC DOWN!

My old PC down again! I really need to buy a new one but I'm really broke now. Aiya... Head ache...
I add this blog via cellphone and I cant write too much cause it's expensive.
Now is the time to be frugal. Limited on spending to save more money to add capital into business.

Stair 'walker'?

Megan no interested be stair 'crawler' now but instead she has evolved become stair 'walker'. Look, how happy she is...

Distrubing

I saw something very disturbing at gas station yesterday. From the car next to my petrol stand, a mummy hurried brought her daughter around 5 or 6 years old out from their car to the green area (where the station plant a little grass and scrubs) and asked the little girl pee on the grass.
Hello! There is a toilet in the station and the green area is by the road side and so many cars were passing by. How come a mother can asked the girl to do that? She supposedly to teach her appropriate a habit and to respect herself. Not to pee by the road side. Don't resonate that she is just a little girl and no need to be shamed. And there are many pedophilia out there and the mummy even left her alone to squat there to pee while the mummy continued to fill up the tank. She can be snatched away unexpectedly.
There are so many missing kids articles on TV station and from newspaper, didn't that taught her anything?
I was tempted to horned my car and asked her not to pee there but the station was very crowded and the car behind me already horned me to drive faster ,so , I drove away....

updating on car accident

Me and the driver of the car I hit has met at my insurance company. They agreed to pay all the repairing expenses on both side, me and the victim, I also take this chance to claimed some body care such as dented I've made on the back bumper.
But now, seem can't figured out the time to take the car to workshop leh.. no time.
Daddy.. can I borrow your driver, please..please...?

Megan and stranger

I'm so glad Megan hair is long enough for me to clip. She look more girly, before that she just look like boys. Well she got her daddy face, what can I said?
Dresses I bought for her (since I was pregnant)fit well now. Hehe, mummy can play barbies on her baby girl :)

Compare with her cousin, she seem so afraid with strangers(a.k.a my friends or my relatives), she will hide behind my leg or asked me to bau-bau. Even though,some of them has met her several times,she also always put on sour or cold face in the crowd
and clingy on me, must I concern? or she will just grow out of it?

Megan has only 6 teeth, she is nearly 14 months already,and she can't even called me mumma yet just randomly mam..mam..mam...aiyo...really worried lah. but can recognized things well such and do as she was told but I just worried lah
Megan and Jasmine at Ka Ya Kun

Megan and Jonathan at SushiTei( note: Ive clipped her hair but she kept taking them off)

Can't Sleep

It've been hours. I just tossed around the bed, felt tired but just can't keep my eyes shut. My heart beating rapidly, my mind and my nerves so tense. Maybe i still in shock. I accidentally hit a car this afternoon. Luckily nobody hurt. But the car I hit was dented and it's bumper felt off. Toyota Advanza had no chance when bumped by x'trail which front bumper was also a bit off (you can imagine, how hard the impact). Another still count lucky was my car was still being insured,means insurance company will cover up all.
It all happened because I answered my cell phone when driving on crowded area. The car ahead suddenly slowdown and i just didn't aware because i was staring on my cell's screen-then-BANG! I hit it.
I never hit any car before or even being hit although driving in Medan is like driving in war zone, but i was a careful driver. Until today. *sight*
Oh yes,another lucky is i was alone, thanks god i didn't bring Megan with me.
Next time I'll be more careful. Please forgive my uneven writing because I'm blogging on my bed from my cell.
Got to try to catch some Zzzz.. Had to go to insurance comp tomorrow, ups..., today

Combi: Toilet Training Seat

I bought Combi: Toilet Training Seat two weeks ago from SOGO. It look cute and sturdy. The most important is Megan like to seat on it.
The seat is suppose for 18 months toddler and below 30 kg. But because Megan already able to sit straight and without assistance, I thought, why not give a try?
To introduce the seat to her, I put her on it when she just wake up dry from a nap and asked her to shi-shi by making shiiii-shiiii... sound and she peed in the toilet. Since then, in these past two weeks, almost every time she want to shi-shi, she'll tell by making 'nng' sound and tapping her diaper. Glad it's useful.

Marketing and Designing

Let me share with you why I sell bra, No, not that my design project has been cold down but marketing world always appealing me in some way. I always tell my sisters that I want to try to be a marketing especially women and children products, just to try, to challenge myself.
Architectural world is a lot different with marketing world although in some aspects still the same ' selling'. In designing, we listen to client's demand and create their dream into reality, sometime, we guide them a.k.a influence to create a good design but mostly we met clueless client who really didn't know what they want. This type of client is the one make me headache, they've money and just want to show off, they want their house to stand out but still demand: kitchen like Helena's or living room like Ellen's etc. and we, as architect, if just heading their command.... the result will be chaos.
In designing, we must have a theme, a story-line to create a type. Then from a type, we create detail which show off the owner character and needs. These process rarely applied in Medan, the houses just lack of process, don't have story lines and most of them just look similar, lack of character.
I can truthfully admitted that I'm not very enjoying myself as an architect in Medan. Maybe because mostly my client didn't give me a space to create a really good one but instead they're busy dragging me to their friend's houses and ask similar design which mostly collided each other. Usually I'd try to consult them but mostly they are stubborn.
Have you seen a house with Classic Design with all the sculptures and details but with modern minimalist interior in black and white? They just a goner, so mismatching even DECONSTRUCTION Architect Pioneers will give out a cried. BUT these are favorite here, in Medan. And I dislike them although I also design them for money (can't be too idealist, right?)
The second reason, In Medan, there is no rules in designer, almost all designer just copy the design from magazine to present to the owner and worse, just copycat others designer's project. My design has been stolen over and over and being an idealist (was) It really depressed me. HAH! All the sleepless nights result of thinking and designing just being copied by others and claimed to be their own design were really frustrating.
Third, client just pay cheap for designing fee, because there're so many copycat architect and designer out there, I can't really blame them. Who want to pay high price for your services if they're doubtful if their house design is genuine one?
I have bad experience in this case once, with my cousin. She paid me only 2.500.00 IDR for her whole house design (16mx 25m, three stories) because a contractor offer her RP 2.500.000 to draft my design into CAD (I used to design old fashionably with pencil and papers on drafting machine because I felt this way represent each architect character more, it show how an architect drew lines and more artful, what an idealist me) and when I told her my fee is cheap, I only charged her RP. 5.000.000 (too cheap, even my colleageu blame me for offering too low for standard price, but she is my cousin and her father a.k.a my uncle has help my parent a lot when my DF business was down, for me it was a thank you project and I even offered her free charges but she's the one who demand me to give her the price) I tried to explain that the fee was for my painstaking design idea, not for buying pencils, erasers and papers but she just can't accept it and kept accusing me for charging her too expensive (just info, she is very very rich and has very successful husband, even her boys PS cost more than RP.5.000.000 and she bought them several). So I said ' Okay, just don't pay, I'll give you for free.'
Later, she asked her driver to give me Rp. 2.500.000 in cash. At that time I was so tempted to reject the money but DM told me not, just accepted them and let go. I donated all of them for charities, for 'kuat' or buang sial hehe.
What until now I can't understand is, she is an educated professional herself and why act so unprofessional? and also her husband is an Aussie educated, General Manager of a wooden frame company . I really really don't understand.
From that moment, I never ever accept a design project unless I also construct them ( I built a partnership with local contractor and gain fee from there). Much less fussy and gain much more money. What an experience.

In marketing, we promote the goods, educated and influence people to buy them and to satisfied with them and although I met so many character of buyers not to mention many shape of breasts hehehe... for me, selling is much much more easy but less less money.
Before decide to be sole distributor of Elling Bra in Medan, I was tempted to set up e-store to sell cloth diapers and pads instead ( inspired from www.miabambina.com and several others) but after long survey, I decided the time is not right yet, and people here just don't care about trash, hygiene, environment like us, they didn't bother at all. And the capital is huge and all the importing goods procedure make me headache.
Finding Elling Bra was really a pure coincident. I just looking for good bra for myself to reconstruct my sagging breast after nursing Megan for 1 year. I found them very interesting, promising and giving a fresh head start in Medan is challenging. So, I and my cousin become sole distributor in Medan
So, do I selling bra for money? Yes, but not the most focus but I do sell them for experiences and for building friendships.
Applause for me *plok..plok..plok* hehehe

Beijing Olympic 8-8-2008 Opening Night

Did you watched it? Oh.. So spectacular. Splendid!!! It show a very deep meaning and history yet now day very High Tech China. Well done.
DM,DF, as my translator and I even asked bibik to stay over to look after Megan so I can watched it without disruption. Hehehe It paid off and I'm very satisfied. Can't wait for the closing ceremony, must be another amazing one.

Megan

After almost a week, Megan still have runny nose. My aunt said if she still like that on Monday, I better go to pediatric to get some antibiotic prescription for her.
Although she is still active as usual and no puke anymore, but she is skinnier, maybe because of her appetite is down due to runny nose. She also has 'panas dalam' her lips so red and sweat a lot.
I've fed her some bird's nest soup but she didn't like them. I only put some ginseng and tang kua sugar(rock sugar?) when cooking the soup so maybe they still a bit smelly.
I drink them too, woke up in the midnight (the best time according to DM) just to drink the bird's nest soup because I felt my throat was a bit sore,have some phlegm and also stuffy nose. And in the morning... I felt so fresh and my air way was so free. All the symptom gone..
But Megan still running around with runny nose, my poor baby...

Beijing Olympic 8-8-2008

The fever of Beijing Olympic opening ceremony is so fascinating. I can even feel the excitement here, in Medan, Indonesia. Surely I'll watch the opening tonight from TV.
Here is a cute, most popular, hair cut I've found from China Daily news. Enjoy :)