2nd anniversary

Yesterday was my 2nd wedding anniversary. Me and my husband celebrated it with a special menu for the dinner. We did not have any chances to dining outside since it was a busy day for both of us, but we still could manage to have dinner together at home.

We prepared special dishes for the dinner, roasted lamb-mashed potato-steamed vegies, a Western style dish. This was the prove of a good corporation between husband and wife. I marinated the lamb with special ingredients, while my husband roasted it in the oven. He also boiled the potatoes then I mixed them with milk and butter. After that, we prepared the veggies together. We enjoyed the food as it taste so delicious but more importantly, it was spread with love. Although it was not a candle light dinner, as we did not have any candles left..:).. it was still romantic with the sound of love songs as the music background.

In this 2nd year of our marriage..we have learned lots of things. Sharing to and understanding each other, more joys and happiness..but we realise that there are still much more things to learn ahead to keep our marriage happily ever after. Happy anniversary to us !!

My 1st article in Panyingkul

It has been quite long time not to fill in this blog. Nothing so special coming up since the start of February, just dealing with my daily activities, houseworks, and of course those related with my study program. But today when I opened one of my favourite link, I saw my article has been published there. It's about the book fest in Brisbane that I posted in this blog last month, but in Indonesian version coz the website is for Indonesian people. I am happy about that coz finally it get published after waiting for days in wondering.
You can find the article in this link http://panyingkul.com/view.php?id=733&jenis=kabarkita but of course you have to understand Indonesian first :)

Book Hunting

Yesterday I went to the Biggest Book Fest in QLD. It's held by Lifeline, the charity organisation. Thousands of used books were available during the 5 days of the fest, from children collections, textbooks, references, adults, hobbies, art, until rare collection. Magazines and cd/dvds were also available. There were three sections, unpriced, priced, and high quality. The 1st section was the used books and magazines with low quality, meaning that might be some tears, or writings in the books. But all of the items in this section were not more than $2. The 2nd section was the used books with better quality than that available at the 1st one, hence, the price also varied from less than $1 to more than $2 depending on the subject of the book. The last section offered high quality, like very new condition. Even some books were still in plastic sealed. In this section, the price of the books varied from more than $4 to almost $15 but compared to the original price it was much much cheaper. No wonder, the Brisbane Convention Centre, the place where the book fest was held, was full with people from babies until elderly. It became a heaven for the hungry readers.

To add my library collection, the hunting started from the priced section then continued to the unpriced and finally ended at the high quality section. In total, i spent about $150 for almost one hundred items. what a bargain !! I got heaps of story books, learning aid books, and jigsaws for children. For adult collection i got psychology, health, photography, food magazines, and parenting education.



Photos by Arief Budiman

New year begins

Photo by Arief Budiman (2007)

A new year begins, without a new year resolution but many hopes for more success in my study, marriage life, and my career.

New year eve celebration at South Bank Parkland with fully shining fireworks and little shower,, what a lovely evening in the coolest summer night in Brissie!!