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It was just amazing and unbelievable that my body was just possessed by an unknown force. I didn't have any control of what's going on, and had to just surrender to the force. All that I could do is to concentrate and move along with the force, surrendering to the pain. And once it's all over, I trembled, shaken, breathless and tired like I had just gone through a marathon, even though I did not move my body much. All those energy spent to do a marathon are focused on contracting my womb to expel the baby. You may ask, why such unconventional position to giving birth? Current medical procedure makes us believe that there is only two ways of giving birth: Lying down on labour bed or through cesarean operation. Su... http://chaerani.multiply.com/video/item/3/Keis_Birth Mon, 2 Jun 2008 06:20:25 -0000 Steak Tartare A la Bourdain Dalam bahasa indonesia karena udah banyak yang tulis. Dapet resepnya dari buku "Les Halles Cookbook", pinjem dari <a href="http://www.nlb.gov.sg">National Library of Singapore</a>. Steak dari daging mentah ini wuenakkk buanget. Seperti makan salad, tapi ada daging mentah. Rasanya asem asem asin tapi ada lunak lunak dingin daging sapi giling. Bikin steak ini persis sebelum dihidangkan, dan daging sapinya harus sesegar http://chaerani.multiply.com/recipes/item/21/Steak_Tartare_A_la_Bourdain Fri, 23 May 2008 02:41:18 -0000 Legislate Breastfeeding? <a href="http://www.indrani.net/node/322">For full version, click here</a> As a staunch proponent of breastfeeding, I should be happy when the Makassar Province in Indonesia decided to draft a breastfeeding bill, right?   WRONG! I was ambiguous about it, because from the title of the legislation, it sounds that the bill is aimed towards mothers instead of the public facilities and health workers. The title of the legislation itself sounds vague: "Peraturan Daerah Air Susu Ibu". At a first glance, the title seems to "encourage" (force) mothers to breastfeed their babies... but does it imply that mothers are to be punished for not breastfeeding? It's unclear, but many interprets the law that it puts mothers in a disadvantaged position. Vague Title, Absent Content I tried to google about it but couldn't find anything with enough information of the bill. <a href="http://www.kompas.com/index.php/read/xml/2008/05/12/0805139/air.susu.ibu.akan.diperdakan.nah.lho.....">The Kompas article about the bill</a> is unclear: it writes about legislating Early Latch-On and restrict distribution of infant formula. If it's the case, why not make the title of the... http://chaerani.multiply.com/journal/item/102/Legislate_Breastfeeding Fri, 23 May 2008 02:23:59 -0000 Kei First Flight <a href="http://www.indrani.net/node/313">For original article, click here</a> Gosh, such a bad mommy I am, I haven't written anything on Kei ever since he was born! True enough, parents dedicate a lot of resources to keep the memory of the first kid, but the resources are dwindling for the second kid and beyond. As I am the fourth kid, I really understand this, because I couldn't find any pictures or mementos related to my infancy and childhood. Sorry I digress. But with the hectic schedule of taking care two kids, I just realized that Kei didn't have as many mementos as Noe had. C'mon, I gotta be fair to both of my kids. So, now I write something about Kei's progress during the past four months. So far, the only thing that I have written is how breastfeeding Kei has been smooth sailing. Now I will try to add more news. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/indrani/1836926534/" title="20071030-054 by Indrani Soemardjan, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2320/1836926534_7c26afd0dc_m.jpg" alt="20071030-054" height="160" width="240"></a> At five days old, Kei has given his grandmothers the pissed-off finger. Bad bad! At one month Kei began to have a meaningful eye contact and follow objects through his eye movements. But i haven't got his voluntary sm... http://chaerani.multiply.com/journal/item/101/Kei_First_Flight Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:58:43 -0000 Hasil Survey Biaya Hidup <a href="http://www.indrani.net/node/312">Artikel asli ada di sini</a> <a href="http://www.indrani.net/node/302/">Survey asal-asalan kemaren</a> sudah mengundang sekitar 40 responden. Tanpa metode macem-macem, angka yang kita terima kita rata-ratakan per kategori. Hasilnya adalah sebagai berikut. Total rata-rata dari seluruh kategori adalah: Rp 13,156,920. Dengan catatan angka ini tidak termasuk: Cicilan rumah, uang sekolah, senang-senang, kegiatan lainnya, dan asuransi. Murni untuk biaya hidup sebulan untuk keluarga dengan dua anak. Seberapa benar angka ini, kita juga ga tau. Beberapa orang yang tidak menjawab dengan detail memberi kisaran 10-15 juta perkeluarga per bulan. Wah, mahal juga ya, untuk kami, ini artinya sepantar dengan biaya hidup di Singapura, dengan kualitas hidup berkali-kali di bawah Singapura. Kami harus siap siap mengencangkan ikat pinggang. Berikut angkanya secara detil: A. Biaya hidup pokok <ol><li>Berapa rata2 belanja makanan dan kebutuhan pokok sebulan dengan asumsi belanja di pasar becek dan supermarket? Rp 2,303,061</li><li>Berapa rata2 tagihan listrik per bulan? Rp 620,69... http://chaerani.multiply.com/journal/item/100/Hasil_Survey_Biaya_Hidup Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:53:41 -0000 Tagged with 123 meme <a href="http://www.indrani.net/node/311/">For full entry, click here</a> Sorry <a href="http://theunspunblog.com/2008/03/02/tagged-with-123-meme/">Mr. Ong, for responding so-very-late to your 123 meme</a>, Indrani have been occupied with things, sick kids, and flying back and forth Singapore-Jakarta. With easter holiday in the horizon, we just found the time to write again. Indi hasn't been reading books lately, too busy with work, so that leaves me responding to the meme. The meme rules are:<ul><li>look up page 123 in the book that is nearest to you at this very minute</li><li>look for the fifth sentence</li><li>then post the three sentences that follow that fifth sentence on page 123.</li></ul> Here goes: <blockquote>"The increasing pull of children was weighed against women's solid sense of identification with their careers and the heavy investment they had made in them. Women took pride in their professional accomplishment and tremendous pleasure from their work. Wendy Friedman voiced the difficulty many women felt in making the decision and reflected on the variety of losses it entailed"</blockquote> The book titled <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Opting-Out-Women-Really-Careers/dp/0520244354/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205986536&sr=8-1">"Opting Out: Why women really quit careers a... http://chaerani.multiply.com/journal/item/99/Tagged_with_123_meme Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:29:26 -0000 What Is Your Earliest Memory? <a href="http://www.indrani.net/node/309">For original entry, click here</a> I am trying to remember what is the earliest event in my life that I remember. Sure enough, I don't really remember myself being a baby in a diaper. But there are some remnants of memory in my brain that, I'm sure, happened before I was five years old. Some events even happened before I was three year old because I could remember them, even graphically, mainly because of a significant time marker in those events. Those events are as follows: I remember my maternal grandfather passed away. This happened when I was about 2-3 year old and my sister was just a few months old. This might be the earliest memory that I could remember graphically in my brain. I remember approaching my grandpa's body in the living room of his house and my aunt told me that grandpa was just sleeping and that he was going to some faraway place to be "repaired". From then on, I believed that my grandpa will return to our family after the reparation is complete. A few years later, when ... http://chaerani.multiply.com/journal/item/98/What_Is_Your_Earliest_Memory Sat, 1 Mar 2008 16:01:22 -0000 Tracking My Time <a href="http://www.indrani.net/node/308/">For original entry, click here</a> I've been <a href="http://www.indrani.net/node/296">tracking my time for the past few months</a>. I'm able to do this perhaps because I'm just a housewife with plenty of spare time(Yeah right, the truth is, being a mom is a 24hr job!). Let me share with you about it. In the beginning... In the past I have been thinking about how to track my time, mainly to find clock in hours I spent doing different projects. However, no tools have struck me to be particularly useful. Some tools are too confined within one PC (i.e. time tracker in <a href="http://desktop.google.com/plugins/i/tasktracker.html?hl=en">Google Desktop Sidebar</a>), and some tools are too disconnected that they can't be synchronized with the PC (i.e. some pocket pc tracker program, or even manual notebook with pen). Or, I had to pay hefty price to buy time tracker software. In short, I needed a time tracker that can be accessed anytime anywhere and can aggregate the data into a report. Using Twitter and Google Spreadsheet Come <a href="http://www.twitter.com">Twitter</a> and <a href="http://www.google.com">Google</a> to the rescue. During the past months I have been using twitter to tr... http://chaerani.multiply.com/journal/item/97/Tracking_My_Time Sat, 1 Mar 2008 15:56:25 -0000 Easy Peasy Ceviche After <a href="http://www.indrani.net/2006/12/25_december_chichen_itza_to_playa_del_carmen">eating mexican ceviche</a> last year and watched Anthony Bourdain's Peru episode, I want to try to make ceviche. This is a type of Latina appetizer made from raw fish... delishioush... My attempt was quite OK, I really enjoyed my codfish ceviche. This dish is easy peasy but looks http://chaerani.multiply.com/recipes/item/20/Easy_Peasy_Ceviche Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:42:41 -0000 Lumpia Basah Vietnam Ditulis di sini biar ga http://chaerani.multiply.com/recipes/item/19/Lumpia_Basah_Vietnam Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:13:28 -0000 Soto - Pho Vietnam Ditulis di sini biar ga lupa. Berhubung udah banyak resep dalam bahasa inggris di internet, jadi di sini ditulis bahasa Indonesia aja. Diambil dari <a href="http://www.vietworldkitchen.com/bookshelf/articles/pho_SJM.htm">http://www.vietworldkitchen.com/bookshelf/articles/pho_SJM.htm</a> tapi cuma setengah resepnya, dan ternyata oke punya.. Disebut Soto karena emang mirip http://chaerani.multiply.com/recipes/item/18/Soto_-_Pho_Vietnam Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:08:22 -0000 Otak Goreng Bumbu Cajun Ke pasar Tekka, nemu otak kambing (Mahal, 1 biji 3 dolar) jadi pengen otak http://chaerani.multiply.com/recipes/item/17/Otak_Goreng_Bumbu_Cajun Tue, 5 Feb 2008 06:30:30 -0000 My ankle I am pissed off by whoever did the paving along <a href="http://www.nparks.gov.sg/nature_labrador.asp">Labrador Park</a> using limestone (or whatever material) that becomes slippery when wet. It was raining so I slipped and sprained my ankle this afternoon. I landed from my fall the wrong way because I was trying to protect my baby who is sitting in my baby bjorn carrier.  And now I can only walk with turtle pace, and my ankle hurts, it is a bit swollen too. ARRGH! http://chaerani.multiply.com/journal/item/96/My_ankle Sat, 2 Feb 2008 13:24:53 -0000 Berapa Biaya Hidup di Jakarta? <a href="http://www.indrani.net/node/302/">For original article, click here</a> <a title="20051101-089, by indrani" href="http://flickr.com/photos/indrani/64694561/"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/25/64694561_65e6319b2a_m.jpg" height="240" width="160"></a> Berhubung ada kemungkinan kepindahan kami ke Jakarta, kami perlu mempersiapkan diri untuk tahu kondisi hidup di Jakarta. Saat ini gak kebayang berapa sih biaya hidup di Jakarta. Dari beberapa kali pulang kampung semenjak tinggal di Singapura, kok Jakarta rasanya mahal cukup mahal? Perasaan ini timbul dari sekilas membandingkan harga-harga makanan di toserba seperti Hero atau Carrefour Jakarta dengan harga-harga makanan di toserba menengah di Singapura (NTUC atau Shengsiong). Ini baru bahan makanan, kami belum tahu harga-harga kayak listrik, air, transportasi, dan komunikasi. Kami ingin tahu kira-kira berapa banyak sih kami bisa menabung. Sejauh ini, sewaktu kami bertanya kepada teman-teman di Yahoo Messenger, jawabannya sangat bervariasi. Jadi tambah bingung deh. Karena itu kami mohon (mohon bangetttt plisss) bantuan pembaca sekalian untuk memberi input dengan mengisi komen di bawah atau kirim email ke indrani.soemardjan di gmail. Silakan copy paste poin... http://chaerani.multiply.com/journal/item/95/Berapa_Biaya_Hidup_di_Jakarta Sat, 2 Feb 2008 07:25:42 -0000 Tian Jin Hai Seafood <a href="http://www.indrani.net/node/300">For full article, click here</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/indrani/2224708524/" title="20080126-014 by Indrani Soemardjan, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2027/2224708524_531ba5d0bf_m.jpg" width="240" height="160" alt="20080126-014" /></a> I just got a chance to watch the recording of <a href="http://anthony-bourdain-blog.travelchannel.com/">Anthony Bourdain's</a> <a href="http://www.travelchannel.com/TV_Shows/Anthony_Bourdain">No Reservations</a> Singapore Episode last week. As usual, <a href="http://www.anthonybourdain.com/">Bourdain</a> visits nondescript, hidden, non-touristy places which are frequented by the locals with the sole goal to enjoy good food. For the Singapore episode, I'm glad to know that I too had known and love some of the places he visited, such as Maxwell Food Centre and Golden Mile Baharudeen Soup Tulang. I think the local fixer (was it <a href="http://wineanddine.asiaone.com/Wine%252CDine+%2526+Unwind/Features/Short+Takes/Story/A1Story20070523-9049.html">Seetoh from Makansutra?</a>) did a great job because he was able to paint realistic image of the daily lives and peculiarities of Singaporeans (except for the segment in Aurum restaurant). One segment of the show was seafood, which I love! For this one, Bourdain visited a place that we didn't know had existed: Tian Jin Hai Seafood. In the show, Bourdain and Seetoh ordered Chili Crab and Steamed Shark Head. Both seemed so much mouth-watering that I wanted to eat the TV. It was decided: I needed to try Tia... http://chaerani.multiply.com/reviews/item/6 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:12:00 -0000 Inspired - Around the World as a Family <a href="http://www.indrani.net/node/299">For original entry, click here</a> Traveling around the world need not be limited to adults. Children, even the very young ones, don't need to be excluded from the experience. These families are our inspiration! They share one thing in common: they are families of world travelers<ul><li><a href="http://www.rfleming.net/">The Fleming Family</a>: They quit their day job and took the whole family for around the world trip for one year. They homeschool their children on the road</li><li><a href="http://www.hackingfamily.com">The Hacking Family</a>: Around the world with their sailboat Ocelot over these past few years with their teenage son and daughter. They homeschool their children on water</li><li><a href="http://blog.sailconstante.com">The Ibanez Family</a>: Our friends in Singapore with their two toddlers, departed November last year with their sailboat Constante for a trip around the world that will take at least five years</li></ul> This list will be added once we come across other silmilar families.And hope that we could follow their footsteps in a few years, and if possible, with a boat! http://chaerani.multiply.com/journal/item/94/Inspired_-_Around_the_World_as_a_Family Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:11:45 -0000 Traveling with Toddler <a href="http://www.indrani.net/node/298">For full article, click here</a> Many people considered that our last <a href="http://www.indrani.net/book/travel/2006_2007_mexico_cuba_and_california">one-month trip to Mexico and Cuba</a> has been a hard-core one. Meaning that people think that it is such an impossible journey, that many people would think many many times before actually committing into it. But I suppose traveling is so much our passion that we're willing to take risks and plan such trip. If money is not an issue, we'd like to travel all over the world! And why are we bringing our little one? Many (Indonesian) parents would think that toddler wouldn't be strong enough to endure such travel. But we want to experience the world as a family, and we're confident that we would be sensible enough to travel with considerations of our toddler's needs and wants. We hope that Noe would be bitten by the same travel bugs that bite us. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/indrani/358156106/" title="20070104-143 by Indrani Soemardjan, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/142/358156106_dc4b92104a_m.jpg" alt="20070104-143" height="159" width="240"></a> Indi+Noe against Carribean sunset in Havana, Cuba So, some people have asked us, how do you manage to do such a major travel with a toddler. Our answer would be one word: <a href="http://www.indrani.net/node/297">planning</a>. Well, ... http://chaerani.multiply.com/journal/item/93/Traveling_with_Toddler Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:00:54 -0000 Travel Planning <a href="http://www.indrani.net/node/297/">For full article, click here</a> Indi and I shared one common thing: We love to travel, to see and experience the world (*if money is not an issue). And with travel, we also share one common trait: we plan for it in detail. Why do we plan? Easy answer: because that's our style. Some people likes to travel unplanned, arriving at the airport not knowing where to stay or where to go. But not us. A more difficult answer would be: Because we want to minimize uncertainties and maximise our enjoyment. As much as possible we do not want to be bothered too much with logistical issue. Moreover, we lug our toddlers along with us, hence the need for proper planning. Here, we'd like to share with you our style of travel planning. We did this for most of our trips, particularly the ones outside South-East Asia. <hr>A. Planning For The Trip The first step that we do is of course, to decide on the destination. For the Cuba trip, for example, we were in a bookshop in Kuala Lumpur with our friend <a href="http://www.myindo.com">Fay</a>, and there we ca... http://chaerani.multiply.com/journal/item/92/Travel_Planning Sun, 13 Jan 2008 02:05:31 -0000 Obsessed with Tracking Stuff <a href="http://www.indrani.net/node/296/">For full entry, click here</a> I think the sayings "What gets measured, gets managed" is quite true.... Tracking our expenses and transactions We have been quite rigorous in <a href="http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2006/09/22/track-every-penny-you-spend/">tracking our expenses and transactions</a> since the first years of our marriage. We log our expenses up to the cents. When we got marriage, we were quite carefree about spending our money, particularly for dining out and entertaining people. Then we realised that we couldn't account of the spending: it seems that our money just vapored out into thin air, and the savings didn't grow as much as we wanted it to be. "It couldn't be!" I thought, "Where does the money go?" Realising that something needed to be done about it, at the beginning, it was just me who took note of the expenses. But then I persuaded Indi about the benefit of doing so and he was willing to give it a try. After doing it for a few months, Indi too realised the great benefit of tracking. Now it has become a habit for both of us. We didn't just stop at tracking ... http://chaerani.multiply.com/journal/item/91/Obsessed_with_Tracking_Stuff Sat, 12 Jan 2008 19:26:55 -0000 TV Confusion <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.indrani.net/node/294/">For full entry, click here</a> You readers may have known that we, Indi+Rani, don't have TV at home (many of you asked, "WOW, how do you manage to live without TV?" Then read <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.indrani.net/blogger/2005/04/celebrating-life-at-home-without-tv.html">this</a>, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.indrani.net/2006/07/jangan_lakukan_hari_tanpa_tv">this</a>,  <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.indrani.net/2007/05/violence_on_tv_mobile">this</a>, and <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.indrani.net/2007/07/indonesia_distasteful_tv_and_public_behaviour">this</a>.) Well, that doesn't mean we don't have TV set, actually, there is one TV set in the living room (and that's not ours! That's Yodhi's TV Set which he bought for the world cup). But the TV set is only plugged into DVD player and not connected to an external antennae or cable network. So, beside video, there's no possibility for channel flicking in the TV set in our home. The thing is, although we are disconnected from the TV network, we do not totally prevent Noe from watching videos in the TV set. Why do we prefer video to TV network? Because we want to have the power to choose programs and we don't want to be exposed to TV advertisements. So far, it worked well. We got ourselves various DVDs of kids shows ranging from Sesame Street series (love it), the Wiggles (initially hated it, but n... http://chaerani.multiply.com/journal/item/90/TV_Confusion Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:54:26 -0000 Resolution 08 Actually I never consider new year day as a special day to mark a new future, except for the fact that 31 dec is the date that I backup my computer and consolidate my finances. Other than that, new year day is just another day for me. Hence I rarely made new year resolution. But I just realized that I was tagged by <a href="http://simandoux.multiply.com/journal/item/259/I_Need_My_Resolution">Leyla</a> to write down my resolutions for next year, so here goes. 1. Be frugal, save as much as possible, and invest. Target: Saving and investing at least 20% of household income. The more, the better. Keep thinking: buying a boat, buying a boat, buying a boat... in 10 years, in 10 years, in 10 years... First step: Make a budget for next month and stick to it. Cut off savings portion in advance, first thing to be done during payday. 2. Earn my own money. Either do more freelance job, part time work, or set up a small business. As for 2008, unlikely to get a full time work have a very young baby to attend to. First step: decide what I want to do and make rough action plan. ... http://chaerani.multiply.com/journal/item/89/Resolution_08 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:58:11 -0000 Looking for the 60s version by The Zombies please, anyone has the original 60s version of this song by The Zombies? It's a really fond memory for http://chaerani.multiply.com/music/item/6/Looking_for_the_60s_version_by_The_Zombies Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:51:43 -0000 Mie Ceker Bakso Jamur (modifikasi resep Inong) Resepnya sih dasarnya dari Inong, tapi daging ayam diganti pake ceker... jadinya ada tulang rawan, tendon, kulit, lemak, dan daging http://chaerani.multiply.com/recipes/item/16/Mie_Ceker_Bakso_Jamur_modifikasi_resep_Inong Thu, 20 Dec 2007 02:03:38 -0000 What Happens When an Agnostic Follows the Bible Literally for One Year? Hera, Mela, you should try http://chaerani.multiply.com/links/item/6/What_Happens_When_an_Agnostic_Follows_the_Bible_Literally_for_One_Year Fri, 14 Dec 2007 06:01:49 -0000