Our Restaurant Business : Warung Sop Sapi Abah Haji

My hubby is a good cook. His passion is running his own eating place business.Thank God we already have a restaurant business though still a small one. A blogger and vlogger friend made a video about our business.

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Should We Celebrate Birthdays?

Today is my birthday. My husband and I don’t have any plan. We just prayed together this early morning and it’s already a special celebration for me. Do you always celebrate your birthday? How do you celebrate it?

I found a good article written by Simon Jacobson. I agree with his thought. If we’re grateful for what we have in life now, we should also be thankful for the tree that bears the fruits of our life -our birth- that actually is our beginning.

The celebration should be much more than an event to receive gifts from close people. Birthday celebration is a time to commemorate the birth itself, a chance to rethink your life. A birthday could be an annual refresher.

He said that there is no better way to celebrate a birthday than to accomplish a special act of goodness. Not because one’s advices; but because your own inner soul wants to convey its thanks for being born and alive until today.

For Blue Monday, I want to share a stone of my husband’s collection. We got the rough stone from a brother who works in a famous mining company. I still don’t know the exact name of the stone. Some friends identify it in different names. Perhaps we should take it to the stone lab. The dark stone has wonderful blue touches.

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Random Blues during Last Holidays

Hi, guys, happy new week to all. Actually, it’s my first personal post after coming back home again from Feast holidays in my husband’s hometown. We went nowhere there –just around the city- since traffic jams found anywhere. I didn’t take many photos during last holidays but fortunately I still have some latest blues to share in Blue Monday. 

Leaving Gambir Station (Jakarta, Indonesia)

 We reached my husband's hometown by train.

 

Captured from moving train -one empty Jakarta street. Happens only on long Feast holidays.

The alley of my FIL's house.

The recent look of the house. It still has blue touches but without the guava tree in the front. My BIL said that the tree was too old to be kept.

Arman -a nephew- trying to make a step on a rice field located beside his home. As a village boy, he can see rice fields every day. But for my other nieces and nephews who live in a big city, rice field is a rare view.

  

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Happy Eid Ul-Fitr

To every friend who celebrates:

May Allah flood

your life with happiness on this occasion,

your heart with love,

your soul with spiritual,

your mind with wisdom,

wishing you a blessed and very Happy Eid ul-Fitr.

This year we celebrate the Feast Day here, in our home. My brother and family who live in the same home have left to his wife’s hometown since last Friday. Happily, my third brother and family came to our home and spent the Feast Day with us. They will go back home tomorrow.

Anyway, my husband and I will visit my father in-law in my husband’s hometown next Wednesday (July 30^th). We’ll go by train and we’ll spend several days there.  I’ll seldom open this blog and visit you for a while. See you soon.

 

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Monday Post

I have another lazy Monday. My husband is still out of town. He’s supposed to come home since last Friday but an urgent problem came and he had to postpone his schedule. It caused some plans must be cancelled.

A niece who studies in another town came last Friday –almost midnite- for a short weekend getaway as she’d like to celebrate her birthday with us here. My SIL bought a birthday chocolate cake last Saturday morning and we held a small celebration. My niece took the first flight this morning.  

There’s no blue on the birthday cake, so for Blue Monday; I share other random shots.

Letter boxes for sale displayed on a tree. Some are blue.

 

Hanging lamps decorate a mall.

 Since two months ago, I'm a blog content writer for another website owner. I have to write articles in Indonesian language regularly. I know, I know, I have to fight my lazy mind and bad mood. Wish me luck.

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Busy Weekend

My weekend was a busy one. My husband and his high school friends will hold a reunion two weeks ahead. They want to have a reunion in Bogor, the city we live, so since there’s only my husband who lives in Bogor, I must help him to arrange the event. On Saturday, my husband and I searched for a place to rent. We have many hotels here but guest houses to rent are only a few options. After visiting several places, we decided to book a guest house that usually used for military officers. It located on a main street in the city so it’s easy to be reached for his friends who come from other towns.

 

The elderly. On the left is my late father's brother.

The lunch food.

Meet the youngest family member

Another cutie

On Monday, we attended a family gathering at a cousin’s house. After the gathering, we continued to visit my three in-laws in their different homes. We went back home from the third destination almost midnight. Happily they live close each other, even homes of two in-laws are located on the same street.   

Blue Monday

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