The weather has been really confusing here lately. Some days the sun would shine throughout the day; some other days it would rain nonstop. We were unsure about whether to go out for the weekend or not, but when Saturday morning was sunny, we decided to go to Taman Bunga Nusantara which we thought were not too far away from our house. We left the house at about 11am. Turned out, the place was not as near as we thought. It was already 2pm when we arrived, and the sky was already gray. Uh oh… 
Lucky for us, we had been there for about 3 hours when it started raining. So we had enough time to snap some pictures and enjoy the gardens. Since it was cloudy, there were not too many people. It was quiet and peaceful. It felt like we had the gardens for ourselves. Hahah
We spent the afternoon taking selfies with our phones, that we forgot to take pictures of the gardens. Haha… So sorry if this post is filled with our faces only. Maybe someday we’ll go back there and I’ll do full review of the place. Let’s just take this post as my humble brag of being married and free to go anywhere with the man I love :p 
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I’m keeping this blog.
Look at this Clothes Mountain I should be ironing and yet here I am blogging instead Man, I miss blogging. And by ‘blogging’, I mean like 2011 blogging: consistent and regular, with the words as if they were flowing like a river out from my brain. Yesterday I read my old posts and I couldn’t recognise the person who wrote them. Was it really me? Because it didn’t feel like reading my own writing; it was like somebody else’s.
When I quit teaching and decided to work from home, I thought I’d have time to be back to regular blogging (like I had promised for a gazillion times). But no, friends. I’ve been busier than I have ever imagined. Being a stay at home wife is not always rainbows and butterflies; it’s also dishes and laundry and groceries and errands. Blogging can’t be a priority right now. But I’m also too much in love to quit it for good. So here I am, making yet another promise:
I’m keeping this blog.I will try my best to post once a week, at the very least.I don’t even care if nobody reads it:I’m keeping this blog.I have tons of stuffs I want to tell you all, like our wedding (or weddings, ’cause we had two receptions), our honeymoon, our very first ferry boat ride together, our house, and Miss Molly. And I will.
Oh I will.
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Goodbye, Molly…
After months of being unable to walk with her rear feet and two weeks of being cage-ridden, Miss Molly passed away on Friday morning. It broke my heart; I had always thought that she’d have a long life and someday my children would play with her and pull her tail. Yet, I am relieved. She was in so much pain and had been like that for far too long. I’m relieved that she’s in a better place now, perhaps playing with her three kittens who went before her. She will always be remembered and missed.We love you, Molls.
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No-scale Pizza for Lazy Girls
It’s our first Saturday with nothing to do. We decided to stay at home after a week of commuting to Bandung. We’ve been super lazy since morning. We stayed in bed for hours, but when we finally got up, I decided to make a pizza. But since we don’t have kitchen scale (our kitchen still lacks a lot of stuff), I had to improvise. I made two attempts in making this pizza; the first one failed miserably (though still edible) but the second one was perfect. Trust me.What we need:
For the dough
– 9 tablespoons of flour
– 1/4 teaspoons of salt
– 1/2 tablespoons of cooking oil
– 1/4 teaspoons of dry yeast
– 1/3 small glass of warm water
For the topping
– 3 tablespoons of spaghetti sauce
– 2 slices of burger meat; cut into smaller pieces
– 1/2 onion; sliced into pieces
– 1/2 potato; cut into small cubes
– grated cheese
Steps:
– Put the flour into a medium-sized bowl. Add salt and stir. Make a small crate at the center of the mix.
– Add the dry yeast to the warm water and stir. Put them into crate on the mix and add cooking oil.
– Mix them all with your clean hands and then start kneading for about 15 minutes or until the dough is no longer sticky to the bowl and to your hands.
– Leave the dough in the bowl for about 15 minutes.
– After 15 minutes, you’ll notice that the dough is bigger now. Punch it as hard as you can, but make sure not to break the bowl.
– Leave the dough in the bowl for about one to two hours.
– Fry the burger meat and the potato cubes for 3 minutes. Dry them and set aside.
– Prepare your baking pan. Put some flour (not too much) on its base so the pizza will not stick.
– After two hours, put the dough into the baking pan. Spread it with your fingers so the dough cover all the pan’s surface. Don’t make it too thin or the pizza will be hard; don’t make it too thick either or the pizza will not be baked well. About 1 cm is better.
– Pre-heat your oven at 220C for about 20 minutes.
– Spread the spaghetti sauce on the dough. Put burger meat slices on top of it, followed by the potato cubes and onion. Lastly, cover them all with grated cheese.
– Put it into the oven and bake for about 20 minutes or until the cheese start to look brown.
– Slice and enjoy the pizza with a bottle of coke. Nothing beats pizza + coke combo.Now, let us continue lazing around.
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I’m Back
Yes, yes! I’m finally back now!These past three weeks have been beyond crazy: I got married, moved in with my husband, went to Jogja for our honeymoon, and just last week we went to his hometown to have our second wedding reception. It’s amazing how we didn’t forget to eat since our life was in such a fast pace.
But now I’m back, you guys! I’ll tell you all the things that happened since the end of December later (I still need to gather all the photos from our cameras and phones. Hehe…) See you soon!
PS. Happy new year 😉