Category: The Firmansyahs in a Nutshell
My husband, my two kids, and me.
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Photo dump from 2025
2.5 months since the last post, and here I am. Not a lot of things going on, though. For my birthday, I got myself some plants: Two pots of flowers and a bayleaf plant. Bayleaf is pretty important in Indonesian-Malaysian cuisine, hence the plant because I want to ensure a fresh supply, hahah. (BTW, I’m…
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Eight weeks
Apparently, it was only for eight weeks. Well, eight or ten, I’m not sure. That said, it was back on Monday, almost two weeks ago, when the doctor scanned me, and as she put down the scanner stick, she looked at me with such a look — a look that somehow my gut was already…
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We just got a brand new Discman
My eldest, Wira, has been fascinated by the technology from the 80s and the 90s since years ago. I’m not sure how it was started, but I remember it was one fine afternoon during the global lockdown when he asked, “can we trade our TV?” I looked at our flat-screen LCD TV, perched proudly on…
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Little Blob update and dietitian visit
I once saw someone, an Indonesian, wrote on Threads: “It always feels easier to journal things in English as it’s not our primary language, and it makes us detached from our feelings,” and it stuck with me ever since. Perhaps that’s the reason why I have been feeling so frustrated with my blog (for the…
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Another Little One
It was last week, when my precise-as-clockwork period schedule suddenly missed for four days. At that time, there were three things on my mind: Then again, I decided to do a test, just to eliminate one possibility — until I saw a faint second line. It was midnight, and Ari already fast asleep, but he…
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Lunchbox
For the past week, I have been preparing lunchboxes for my husband and kids. My husband usually bought his lunch at a shopping area near his office, and the kids had their lunch provided by the school canteen with a monthly fee. Things were okay-ish (or so I thought) until several weeks ago, the youngest…
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13 years and counting
Happy 13th anniversary!
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Manchester and London Trip: April 2024
A trip to Manchester and London. The museums, the parks, the best palak paneer I ever got in Manchester, the importance of recognizing one’s wealth and technological advancement usually comes from other nations’ expenses, and squirrels.
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Life update and Bandung trip
It has been, like… 3 weeks (?) after my last post of having hospitalized due to an accident, and I can say that I’m recovering. I’m pretty happy with the progress, although I must admit there are some aspects that I have strong opinions on. First is the cane. The walking cane. Or stick. Whatever.…