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Originally posted here.

Mbak Wina habis jatuh tersungkur hari ini karena lupa diri berlari terlalu kencang dan tersandung sepulang sekolah. Dagu & tangannya lecet sedikit, tapi yang paling parah (hanya sedikit sih sebenarnya) untuk standar Wina adalah dengkul kirinya yang membuat dia merasa sakit jika mau jalan. Mana besok harus ada gladi resik untuk acara tahunan manggung di sekolahnya lagi :D. Ada-ada aja deh.

Dengan D80, 1/250s, f/4.5, 85mm, ISO100, 11.10.2008

Hanya 2 Dollar

It only costs you SGD 2 to feed the birds in JBP, but the kids love it. Although if the birds were sometimes very aggressive and they scared the kids away.

Hanya perlu 2 dollar (SGD) untuk memberi makan burung di JBP, tapi anak-anak senang sekali melakukannya. Walaupun kalau burung-burungnya berkumpul terlalu banyak, bikin takut mereka juga.

Jurong Bird Park, with D80, 1/160s, f/2.5, 85mm, ISO100, 11.10.2008

Rare Ringtones

I liked to use musics from the movie I watched as my ringtones, especially japanese movies and also from Japanese musics. It’s an mp3 ringtones, of course. And since I like a lot of them, I keep changing ringtones for voice call and sms everyday.

Some of them are listed here:

• Jyefu from Kiki’s Delivery Service
• Start to Work from Kiki’s Delivery Service
• Engel’s Zimmer from Whisper of the Heart
• Tsuioku from Whisper of the Heart
• Bukimi na Kyodai from Inuyasha
• Three O’Clock Fairy from Sailormoon
• Rakukou (or Rakkou) from 12 Kingdoms
• Piano by FictionJunction Yuuka
• Hogwart’s March from Harry Potter (never forget Harry Potter from your list!)

Audible Kids

Originally posted here.

Other than reading my kids stories, sometimes, but not very often, I used audiobooks from Audible to listen to the stories, using my handphone as the audio player (with AudiblePlayer installed). But Wina would prefer myself reading the stories to her and Celine would prefer the handphone showing her Pingu video than listening to the stories.

Selain membacakan cerita ke anak2 saya, kadang2 walaupun jarang, saya menggunakan audiobook dari Audible untuk mendengarkan cerita bersama mereka. Saya gunakan handphone saya dengan software AudiblePlayer. Tapi seringnya Wina lebih suka mendengarkan cerita yang dibacakan Ayahnya dan Celine lebih suka menikmati Pingu di handphone tersebut.

Now I plan to try a different way, but still using the audiobooks, especially since now Audible has created AudibleKids with different website layout and look-and-feel, albeit in the same domain audible.com but using different subdomain kids.audible.com.

Saya ingin mencoba cara lain walaupun tetap menggunakan audibook, apalagi sekarang Audible menyajikan audiobook2 tersebut melalui AudibleKids, sebuah website dengan deasin berbeda agar lebih cocok untuk anak-anak, para orang tua dan guru atau pendidik.

Anyway, as I was saying, I want to try a different way. This time I need to have the books with pictures with me or I draw the pictures about the stories myself. I know I can’t draw pretty pictures, but I can try, can’t I?

Balik ke topik semula, saya ingin mencoba cara yang sedikit berbeda. Kali ini saya harus menggunakan buku dengan cerita yang sama beserta gambar-gambar di dalamnya atau jika saya tidak sempat mendapatkan bukunya, saya harus siap menggunakan keahlian menggambar saya (yang sebenarnya sangat terbatas) untuk mengambarkan cerita2 tersebut.

So, let’s just say if we want to listen to Lemony Snicket’s books or Rapunzel or Winnie the Pooh, I need to have the book with pictures with me, or I should be ready to draw the stories to them.

Jadi, misalkan kami akan mendengarkan buku2 dari Lemony Snicket atau cerita Rapunzel (ach, nein!) atau Winnie the Pooh, saya perlu buku2 cerita tersebut dengan gambarnya atau saya siapkan senjata pensil warna saya (punya Wina & Celine sih sebenarnya).

But then I think, I will have other problems, because Celine will try to dominate the book for herself or try to dominate the drawing for herself, but hey .. that’s the fun, right?

Masalahnya, seperti biasa, saya tahu bakal ada keributan yang lain, karena Celine lebih suka menguasai buku2 tersebut atau pensil2 warna tersebut. :))

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A Town With an Ocean View

Originally posted here.

Umi no mieru machi … A town by the sea or a town with an ocean view, that where Kiki wants to live when she’s planning to be independent from her parents.

Well, at least what is in the movie “Kiki’s Delivery Service” by Hayao Miyazaki.
In “Beach Boys”, another Japanese movie, they say, “In summer, you have to visit the sea!”

Where would I wanna live in real life?
My wife loves to live in the mountains, where the cool wind breeze everyday and you don’t have to use aircon to prevent the heat. :D And where you can do alittle bit of farming. Certainly we couldn’t do those in Singapore, but she’s happy here still.
As for me, I could live anywhere, as long as my daughters could play happily everyday.
My daughters? They will follow their parents anywhere.

Singapore had been a place where we lived for almost the last 8 years. It has a very special place in our heart. We had Wina & Celine here. They grew up here. We had a fair share of happy & sad memories here. We had and still have best friends here, but after eight years, is it maybe time for us to go somewhere else? Is it time to go back home? Maybe.

So which town should we go next?

Wina, riding her bicycle at home

Ovi by Nokia

Originally posted here.

Just found out a new service provided by Nokia. The good thing is, it provides (or promised for now) unlimited storage, and it can display full size original photo. It seems like a free version of Flickr. I haven’t tried extensively but other than photo uploads & sharing, it also provides video sharing, and much more.

Baru tahu ada service ini dari Nokia setelah lihat2 Nokia 5800 XpressMusic. Seperti Flickr, dia menyediakan unlimited storage dan foto dalam ukuran aslinya setelah kita upload, hanya saja ini gratis. Selain foto, ada juga video dan banyak lagi.

Visit it here for mine, just for testing.

Ini dia link punya saya, hanya testing.

Chicken Rice Again

Originally posted here.

The first day after Hari Raya, and after all those Ketupat & Opor the day before, I was brought back to reality. Back to Chicken Rice.

I found out that not even one Malay food stall was open, and I have to go to this Chinese food stall selling Chicken Rice (it was a halal one, of course). Not that I complained, I liked it a lot. It brought back memories indeed, since this is the same chicken rice stall where I tasted my first one in my first few days in Singapore. Then, myself and some of my colleagues in SingTel (our office in Dover road) liked to go there sometimes.

Hari pertama setelah Hari Raya, dan setelah puas dengan ketupat dan opor sehari sebelumnya, saya harus kembali ke dunia nyata, kembali makan Nasi Ayam.

Ternyata tidak ada satupun warung makanan Melayu yang buka, jadi saya terpaksa makan di warung makan Chinese dengan Nasi Ayamnya. Tapi saya suka kok. Saya ingat hampir 8 tahun lalu, waktu saya masih di SingTel, saya & teman2 kantor saya kadang pergi kesini untuk makan Nasi Ayam.

With N73

Agnes Monica, Part 2

Originally posted here.

Sesuai dengan posting pertama saya tentang potongan rambut anak-anak yang baru, ini dia foto-foto mereka sehari setelah mendarat kembali di Singapura.

At Home, with D80, 1/200s, f/2.5, 85mm, ISO100, 05.10.2008

At Home, with D80, 1/60s, f/2.5, 85mm, ISO100, 05.10.2008

Foto2 Hari Raya

Lebaran atau Hari Raya Idul Fithri di Singapura di tahun 2008.
1 Oktober 2008, 1 Syawal 1429H

Walaupun (atau justru karena?) sedang 'bujang lokal', saya ikut ngumpul2 dengan rekan2 'seperjuangan' (sama2 lebaran di Sg), untuk acara halal bi halal. Wina, Celine & jeng Iin sedang di Jakarta sejak sebelum Ramadhan.

Lokasi:
- Function Hall Blok 314 Anchorvale Link,Sengkang. Tuan Rumah: Pak Bagus & Mbak Luki
(Disini saya datang nomor satu. Wuih, kalau sholat jum'at itu pahalanya lumayan gede tuh :)) Itu sebabnya nama saya nomor satu di buku tamu :-P )
- Rumah kediaman Pak Ibnu & Ibu Dian (Sudah lama kenalnya karena dulu sering nge-gank bowling bareng, tapi malah baru pertama kali saya ke rumah beliau. Perlu banyak silaturahmi nih)
- Rumah kediaman Pak Toriq (yang ini tidak ada fotonya)
- Rumah kediaman Pak Sigit (nu iyeu, teu aya fotona oge)

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• Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License 2008 Wawan Setiawan
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• In human language: you can copy, print, distribute, reuse as much & as many as you like, but you may not use them for commercial purposes, and no modification is allowed (personal reason: to prevent abuse), and you have to use the same license. Still confuse? Me too sometimes :))

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