persiapan mudik

ternyata bloggernya bisa dibuka lagi. jadi masih nyempetin nulis sedikit catetan.
persiapan mudik repot juga...dari pesan tiket sampai belanja oleh2.


TIKET
maklum, maunya cari tiket harga termurah. akhirnya dapat tiket discount, mesti balik dalam 14 hari. cocok banget, soalnya kerjaan kantorku dan kantor suami sama2 gak bisa ditinggal terlalu lama. kalo kerjaanku, gak bisa ditinggal karena aku kawatir gak ke-handle dg baik.
kalo suami, pertimbangannya, kalo lebih dari sekian hari (lupa berapa hari), bonusnya bisa hilang. dan bonusnya itu separoh dari gaji.

tiket discount Garuda pulang pergi Shanghai-Jakarta harganya US$500/RMB 3845 (all in, udah termasuk tax, fuel charge dan sebagainya). karena tiketnya special discount, tiket untuk Crystal (infant) bukan yang seharusnya 10% untuk anak di bawah 2 tahun, tapi kena 20% (aturan internalnya Garuda). jadi harga tiketnya si kecil mayan juga... RMB 3310 (US$430).

tiket Jakarta-Jambi juga dah dapat: Rp 338,000/adult, Rp 68,000/infant.
jadi rada tenang sekarang.

untuk Hefei-Shanghai, kita naik kereta malam. jadi bisa tidur di kereta. ada tempat tidurnya dan ber-AC. biar irit ... hehehe! kebetulan schedulenya juga pas dg jadwal terbangnya.



BELANJA OLEH2
repot juga yah kalo punya sodara sekompi. bayangi makku total ada 11 bersodara (1 orang dah meninggal) dan babe 8 bersodara (ada 1 juga yang dah meninggal). masing2 oom dan tante punya anak 3-6 orang. dan 50%-nya dah married dan punya anak 1-3 orang. kalo didaftar kira2 kayak gini statistiknya:
oom dan tante = 25 orang (termasuk pasangannya)
sepupu = 28 orang (gak termasuk pasangannya)
ponakan = 30 orang (estimasi aja..soalnya gak ada update yg pasti).

maren mertua gua belanja chinese teh (Huangshan Maofeng, Huoshan Huangya, Lu An Guapian, Longjing) nyaris total mencapai 8 kg. packingnya dalam bentuk kalengan. total 1 kardus ukuran sedang. itu pun gak semua tante/oom dapat jatah. kalo yg tinggal di luar jambi / jakarta, udh gak dijatahin .. hehehehe..! gua sendiri belanja cemilan2 khas chinese di carrefour, plus belanja sedikit baju/celana untuk ponakan, sodara dan bonyok. total 1 koper gede. hehehee...!

oh ya, untungnya bokap mertua banyak channel nih. beli chinese teanya itu nyari teman "seperjuangan" waktu di tentara kelautan dulu, yang kebetulan punya adik yang buka toko chinese teh. uuh... discountnya gila-gilaan. bayangi aja, harga normal pasaran (udah gak bisa ditawar) untuk Huangshan Maofeng adalah RMB 480/kg. nah, bokap mertua gua itu bisa beli dg harga RMB 160/kg (udah modalnya doang).



sebenarnya pusing juga, belom mikirin oleh-oleh untuk teman2 dekat, yang kayaknya udah gak muat lagi, alias mesti di-skip kayaknya...! =( soalnya masih mesti bawa koper baju dan menggendong si kecil, kalo dia gak mau jalan repot juga kan... gua dah nyari semacam tali buat gendong bayi gitu. (apa yah namanya?) biar tangan gua bisa bebas narik koper.. gak nemu euiii... adanya yang rada belibet gitu... gak ringkes. akhirnya gak jadi beli.


di samping belanja oleh2, kudu belanja baju-baju tropikal untuk si kecil, soalnya banyak baju kala summer tahun lalu dah agak kekecilan. repot juga belanja buat si kecil .. baju-baju, sepatu untuk summer belom launching di toko2. ujungnya, gua cuman dapat 1 buah rok terusan. akhirnya coba bongkar2 baju-baju tahun lalu. yah... beli di indo aja deh, solusi termudah.

repotnya lagi.. pas gua nyoba-nyoba topi buat si kecil, semua ditolak ama dia. juga sepatu, nemu satu di stok lama yang punya toko, terlalu ngepas banget, gak ada ukuran yang gedean dikit. takut gak nyaman di kaki, udah gitu, dia juga menolak, protes-protes terus pas dicobaiin ke kakinya. emang paling pusing kalo beli sepatu buat dia. solusi terbaik adalah nyari yang persis sama dg model yang dia pakai saat ini. tapi di toko gak ada yang sama persis. toko tempat gua beli tahun lalu kebetulan dah tutup, dan buka tempat mandi untuk baby.

di rumah ada beberapa pasang sepatu yang dibeliin, dia gak mau pakai. setiap kali dipakaikan ke kakinya, nangis2, ngomel dan protes, dan dilepasin sendiri ama dia. puyeeengggg...!


PASSPORT
sempat nyaris batal rencana pulang bawa anak dan suami. soalnya sempat passport suami gak diloloskan dg alasan yang gak jelas dan gak penting banget. tapi akhirnya dg bantuan sodara / oom yang di kepolisian, akhirnya jadi juga paspornya 2 bulan lalu. fyuuuh....!


SINGAPORE dan BALI
tadinya sempat mikir mampir dulu 2 hari di singapore, soalnya kebetulan gua ada customer visit ke singapore. udah nyiapin uang jaminannya segala. warga PRC yang apply visa singapore mesti bayar jaminan RMB 5100/orang, dewasa maupun anak kecil idem. eh.. pas lagi mau urus2 visa via agent, ditolak, karena katanya maknya orang asing, agent gak bisa urus visanya, mesti urus sendiri ke konsulat singapore yang di shanghai. cari info di website, katanya sih warga PRC yang mampir di singapore gak lebih dari 96 jam, bisa visa free. tapi ada syarat ini itunya, yang akhirnya males juga ngecek lebih jauh, lagian takut kalo bermasalah pas di sononya .. malah repot.
yah sutralah... akhirnya mutusin gak mampir ke singapore, tapi langsung beli tiket ke jakarta.
ternyata mau "keluar negri" itu repotnya juga minta ampun yah!

sempat nimbang mau ajak suami jalan2 ke bali, udah contact guide segala. tapi sutralah..takut si kecil gak kuat fisiknya, kecapean jalan jauh, akhirnya ditunda untuk beberapa tahun aja lagi.


GAK SABARAN
oke deh... dari segala pernak-pernik persiapan mudik di atas, gua paling gak sabaran pengen cepat2 menikmati pempek, sate padang, siomai, ayam bakar, ikan bakar, sambal terasi, sayur asem, gado-gado, martabak, bakso, ... kuetiaw/bihun goreng.... nyammm....nyamm....nyammm... ! jangan kata gua di china sini, tempat asal kuetiaw dan sodara2nya; kuetiaw, bihun goreng atau bakmi terenak tetap aja dari indo. hahahahaa!

libur posting dan libur mau pulkamp

gak tau napa, blogspot di tempatku gak bisa dibuka (baik komputer kantor maupun komputer rumah). yang kayak gini nih sering banget. periode tertentu bisa buka. terus periode tertentu... gak bisa lagi. aneh ... !
cuman bisa buka dashboard dan kirim entry, tapi gak bisa lihat hasil jadinya.
jadi libur posting dulu ah... juga libur mengunjungi blog2 teman2 ..! =(



ada satu lagi ... sekalian libur mau mudik nih.
rencananya mau pulkam, Jakarta, Depok dan Jambi ... 31 Mar-13 Apr.
langsung kebayang makanan2 enak ... paling kangen pempek nih !!!!!
terus ayam bakar cikini !!!!!!!!

because .. again .. puzzles ..

BECAUSE
Crystal can use "because" to answer a "why" question.
Mama: Jingjing, do you love mama?
Crys : love mama
Mama: why do you love mama?
Crys : Because Jingjing wants to get down.
Mama: hah .. what relation it has with you love mama?!
Crys : (thinking..) because mama is nice.
Mama: Of course mama is nice, because mama loves you. (kiss.. smack..smack..)


AGAIN
Crystal always loves to play with spoon. Mama's feeding Crystal with her lunch. She said one word that I never expected she could say it, which is "again"; like this: "spoon .. give to Jingjing. Mama take one again" (pointing at the kitchen cabinet).



PLAYING 11pcs PUZZLES
Crys : cannot match
Mama : change another piece
Crys : (take another piece) cannot match
Mama : take this one
Crys : cannot match
Mama : turn it another way
Crys : can match now

and when she finishes the puzzles, she will say, "yeah..." and holding up her hands. (this was taught by her grandpa)

weird .. chicken? doggy?

This morning around 4am, suddenly Crystal woke up and cried.
Crys : get it ... get it ...
Ma : what do you want to get?
Crys : (still weeping a bit) shao zi
Ma : what? (couldn't understand clearly)
Crys : shao zi
Ma : xiao ji? (it sounds like 'xiao ji', chicken)
Crys : shao zi
Ma : ok, mama will get the chicken for you (wooden chicken)
Crys : (still crying) shao zi .. shao zi..
Ma : (listen carefully .. seems not chicken)
Ma : xiao gou? ok, mama will get the doggy for you.
Crys : shao zi...shao zi...
Ma : (think a while, aah.. remember now. go and get a spoon)
Crys : another one. another one.
Ma : ok, ok... get another one for you.
Crys : (back to sleep calmly by her hands holding 2 spoons)


Crystal likes to play with spoon. she has plastic, wooden and iron spoon. last nite before sleep, she was playing with 2 spoons. then i said to her, "let's put the spoons on the shelf, you can play it again tomorrow when you wake up. ok?" She noded.


weird ... ! =)

WHINING PRINCESS

Crystal now can whine more and more.
A toddler is smart. Once she knows she can get something by whining .. hah .. she will whine more and more often!

if we don't let her climb the table .. flings on the floor .. whining ..
if we don't let her play with a glass.. whining ..
if I want to go to toilet, she won't let me .. whining ..
if I want to eat my dinner, while she wants me to play with her .. whining ..

so I have to distract her, so she forgets to whine. Lol.

She always wants to do things we do. Anything! Even my glasses have to be put by her on me.. instead of wearing it by myself.
If I take her to toilet with me, she will get a wipe and said, “wipe mama's butt.” she will also try to pull up my jeans. Hahaha!

Sometimes she will pick up phone, and said, “hello. where are you?”
That's what her grandpa says every time he calls his sons.
Or she will say, “hello. who are you looking for?”


Usually I seldom forbid her doing anything she wants, coz I think it’s a learning process for her, unless doing something which has relation with fire, hot water, electricity, knife, or medicine.

Two nights ago, after repeated twice, I said to her:
Mama : Crystal, there are 5 things which are forbidden for children.
First is fire, second is hot water, third is electricity,
fourth is .. (I stopped a while, thinking what's next)
Crys : knife!
Mama : ah .. you remember. and fifth is ..?
Crys : medicine!


Last night, she climbed the tea table in the living room.
Mama : Crystal, get down, or you might fall.
Crys : (keep climbing)
Mama : Crystal, get down. If you won't listen, you have to stand on the naughty corner!
Crys : (went to naughty corner for 5 seconds, then back to climb the table again).
Mama : Get down, or mama will spank you
Crys : (ignore mama's words)
Mama : mama will spank you if you won't listen (spank her twice)
Crys : (still ignore and leaning her tummy on the table)
Mama : get down quickly.
Crys : (ignore..ignore..)
Mama : (spank twice again)
Crys : (come to mama, crying and beat mama's hand)
Mama : mama's not wrong, why do you beat mama? (beat Crystal's hand)
Crys : (lying on the cold floor and crying loud)
Mama : stand up, the floor is cold.
Crys : (still crying loud for few minutes)
Gr'pa : (come to carry her up and go to dining room)
Crystal doesn't want mama, mama is bad.
Grandpa carries you.
Crys : (stop crying)
Mama : mama said you should not climb the table. Do you understand?
Crys : (don't reply mama's word, looking at mama with angry face)
Mama : (repeated the same question)
Crys : (keep silent, still with angry face)
Mama : (cant keep smiling behind Crystal)
Gr'pa : go and pinch mama's nose, mama will not be angry anymore.
Crys : (come to mama, pinch mama's nose and smile)
Mama : next time you should listen to mama, will you?
Crystal: listen to mama.
Mama : what shouldn't you climb?
Crystal: tea table
Mama : if you climb tea table, what will mama do?
Crystal : spank Crystal.
Mama : so, will you listen to mama?
Crystal: listen to mama (nodding her head)

Rich

just a thought ..

when you are very rich and wearing a fake-branded product,
people around you will think it's real one!

but when you are not rich, and wearing a real-extremely-expensive-branded product,
people will anyway think... aaah.... it must be fake!


moral:
when you don't extremely have much money, focus your money for buying something more useful or functional, of course considering the quality properly.


(don't have much time to write lately...)