Perpanjangan Passport di KBRI KL

Kemarin kita jalan2 ke KBRI.. dengan niat mau ngambil hasil keringet di bazar.. mikir2 sekalian lah.. memperpanjang paspor g.. yg walo habisnya masih taon depan.. tp dikarenakan visa udah habis bulan depan.. mendingan bikin paspor baru dulu aja.. sebelum pulang kampung sept 9 nanti.. seharian nongkrong di kbri.. habis ngantri masuk di kasi formulir untuk perpanjang pasport.. trus g fotocopy deh dokumen2 yg diperlukan di kbri tanpa dipungut biaya.. mungkin karna besok mo puasa.. lautan manusia jg yg dateng ke kbri hari itu.. yg membuat nomer antrian yg g dapet lamaaa bener dipanggilnya.. begitu dokumen udah lengkap.. g kasi nomer antrian g ke bagian photo.. gratis jg nih sekarang.. trus liat nomer antrian dilayar.. masih itungan 1210 padahal nomer antrian g masih 1423.. ya sud.. ke kantin aja lah makan gado2 ama bakso dr pada umpel2an di dalem gak dapet duduk.. trus diusir2in ama petugas kbri klo berdiri2 di gang ato deket2 loket.. akhirnya nomer g dipanggil juga setelah jam makan siang.. begini nih akibatnya klo datengnya kesiangan.. dari rumah jam 9 , jam 10 nyampe kbri.. ambil dokat dulu ke lt.7 ama pak sofyan bag. keuangan.. akhrinya jam 10.30an baru bs ambil formulir.. dilayanin jam 2.30.. dgn sikap teges dan nge-bossy banget.. g jg hrs jawab bbrp pertanyan berkaitan pernikahan seperti.. nama suami siapa... udah berapa lama tinggal disini.. nama ayah kandung siapa.. menikah dimana.. knapa paspor nya lecek bisa didenda looohh.. :P anaknya baru satu ya?? setelah bayar RM75 g disuruh tunggu lagi sekitar sejam-an kata doi.. yg ada paspor g baru kelar jam 4.15.. dan pasha dgn suksesnya bobo digendongan mama... udah bosen banget dia nunggu.. hihihi.. tp hebat lah skr kbri proses perpanjangan bisa selesai dalam waktu 1 hari.. dengan menghadapi berbagai macam manusia dan permasalahannya.. maju jaya deh KBRI KL.. akhirnya.. selesai jg urusan dgn kbri.. untung bgt sekarang tempatnya udah ber-AC.. coba dulu.. g bela2in bayar tiket kapal deh pulang ke dumai cuman buat perpanjang pasport doang.. heheheh..

btw buat temen2 yg blm pernah ngurus perpanjangan pasport di kbri KL ini g share persyaratannya..

• Mengisi formulir paspor/splp*


• Membawa paspor lama


• Fotokopi paspor lama (halaman identitas dan halaman visa/permit)*


• Memiliki ijin tinggal di Malaysia lebih dari 6 bulan


• Membawa fotokopi IC majikan (untuk pekerja sektor non formal : maid, baby sitter) atau surat rekomendasi dari perusahaan (untuk pekerja sektor formal) atau surat rekomendasi dari kampus/sekolah (untuk pelajar)*


• Mengisi kontrak kerja (bagi pekerja sektor non formal : maid, baby sitter)*

ciaooo.. ;)

Niat Puasa Ramadhan

To all my Muslim readers, selamat menunaikan ibadah puasa di bulan Ramadhan! Happy fasting!

Just to share with all of you, here are the Niat Puasa Ramadhan in Arabic and in Malay.

Daily Niat

Sahaja aku puasa esok hari pada bulan Ramadhan tahun ini kerana Allah Taala.

Yearly Niat

This is recommended for those who always forget to say the daily niat.

Sahaja aku puasa untuk sebulan pada bulan Ramadhan kerana Allah Taala.

May Allah bless us all and have a great Ramadhan to all!

Family outing before Ramadhan

Ramadhan is around the corner! Every Muslims are getting ready for the fasting month. As for us, last Saturday, we joined the celebration of Indonesia's 65th Independence day at Tasik Titiwangsa. It is supposed to be held on the 17th of August but due to Ramadhan, the celebration was done earlier. Mama Pasha rented a table to sell cupcakes and cookies.

Mama Pasha and her cupcakes, cookies and chocolate lollies.

We managed to sell almost everything! So, it was the effort of getting up at 6am and arriving there at 7:30am. You can read more about it at Bazzar Hari Kemerdekaan RI yang ke 65. The entry is in Indonesian. Let me know if you need any translation. Nevertheless, you can always look at more pictures over there.

Pasha and Dana

And Pasha, as usual would always be with us. He minded his own business and it was not really a hassle for us to have him around. Just get him to be preoccupied with something and we could go about doing our stuffs. By the way, pretty girls always do the trick...

Papa Bear and his favorite pose...

You! That's me with my MIL. I just finished my lunch + teh botol + a banana + teh tarik. Despite the pose, I had a great nasi padang at Seri Garuda, Kampung Baru. Yes, we went there again. That was our second time there since Mama Pasha was craving for nasi padang.

Papa Bear's lunch

1. White rice


2. Ikan Merah (gulai) aka Red snapper (curry)


3. Hati lembu aka Liver (ox)


4. Terung aka eggplant


5. Urat Tunjang (gulai) aka Beef tendon (curry)

How's that? Can you eat what I ate?

Runaway Train - Live by Soul Asylum

In 1994, I was sent to Switzerland to collect and bring back some technical drawings. For 5 weeks, they put up in a house in a quiet little kampung called Langenthal. In between the sound of cow bells and the fresh smell of cow dung every time the window is opened, the only entertainment there was from a small TV in the basement.

It had limited channels and all of the were in German. My favorite channel was one music channel, which I could not remember the name, that played lots of German and French songs and once in a blue moon, would play an English song. During my 5 weeks there, the only English song that was aired over and over again was Runaway Train by the rock band Soul Asylum...

Enjoy the music from the past :)

By the way, this song won Grammy Award for the best rock song in 1994.

Call you up in the middle of the night
Like a firefly without a light
You were there like a blowtorch burning
I was a key that could use a little turning

So tired that I couldn't even sleep
So many secrets I couldn't keep
Promised myself I wouldn't weep
One more promise I couldn't keep

It seems no one can help me now
I'm in too deep there's no way out
This time I have really led myself astray

Runaway train, never going back
Wrong way on a one-way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there

Can you help me remember how to smile?
Make it somehow all seem worthwhile
How on earth did I get so jaded?
Life's mystery seems so faded

I can go where no one else can go
I know what no one else knows
Here I am just a-drownin' in the rain
With a ticket for a runaway train

And everything seems cut and dried
Day and night, earth and sky
Somehow I just don't believe it

Runaway train, never going back
Wrong way on a one-way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there

Bought a ticket for a runaway train
Like a madman laughing at the rain
A little out of touch, a little insane
It's just easier than dealing with the pain

Runaway train, never going back
Wrong way on a one-way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there

Runaway train, never coming back
Runaway train, tearing up the track
Runaway train, burning in my veins
I run away but it always seems the same

D cuppies July 2010

by http://cuppies.kisahberuang.com

Weeding out bad followers on your Twitter

This entry applies to those who are using Twitter as a tool to do whatever it is that you do. If you are not using Twitter, you can skip the entry and go straight to the comment form and tell me that you do not use Twitter... :) ... And if you are a celebrity using Twitter, this entry does not apply to you too...

Assuming that you are using Twitter to promote something, you would need to have lots of followers. In order to have many followers, you have to have something that attracts people to follow you or you can start following as many people as you can and hopefully some would then follow you back in return. The latter since to be a workable method to build up your followers despite that it is a time consuming effort.

But then, there is a problem to that method. Twitter impose a limit to the number of people that you can follow based on some caculated ratio that is only known to them. That means, if you only have 1 or 10 or 100 followers, you could only follow up to 2000 people. After that, the ratio kicks in and you must have some number of followers before you can follow 2001 people. This is mainly put in place to get rid of spammers and other undesirable people.

So, from time to time you would get people following you and some people, such as I, would then follow them back in the intention of having mutual benefits of following each other. Like anything else in this world, there would be some bad people who would follow you just to get you to follow them back so that they can increase their followers. Once you have followed them, they would them un-follow you so that they can start following someone else and increase their follower again. You would end up with less followers thus you are unable to add more people to follow... Bad eh!

What can you do? I think that there are many tools out there to help you manage this. My favorite is FriendorFollow. This is a site where you can check/do 3 things.

1. People that you are following but they are not following you back


2. People that are following you but you are not following them


3. People that you are following and they are following you back

I make use of no. 1 and 2 a lot. No.1 is for me to remove those who have stopped following me. You don't follow me, why should I follow you unless you have something that I really like.

No. 2 is used when I want to return the favor to those who take the trouble to follow me. But when they misbehaved, I would then use no.1 on them... :)

By using this, I can weed out any bad followers as easy as 1 2 3...

The service is Free! No registration required. Just key in your Twitter ID on the front page and then use the Following, Fans, and Friends Tabs accordingly. You must log on to your Twitter if you need to follow or unfollow someone. FriendorFollow is at http://friendorfollow.com/

Happy Twitting!

The Flame – Live by Cheap Trick

Another blast from the past. The Flame was one of the songs that I played a lot in 1988 when I was living in the US. 1988 was my first year in the US and I was longing for home, family, friends, people and pets... I was stranded by myself in Beaumont while all my friends were having a great time in Houston... duh... They are both cities in Texas and only about 1 hour drive away, in case you are wondering...

Anyway, here is a live clip of that song, which was first released on July 25, 1988.



Enjoy listening... Layan... And here is the lyric for those who wish to sing along or wondering what were said in the song...

Another night slowly closes in, and I feel so lonely
Touching heat freezing on my skin, I pretend you still hold me
I'm going crazy, I'm losing sleep, I'm in too far, I'm in way too deep
Over you, I can't believe you're gone
You were the first, you'll be the last

Wherever you go, I'll be with you, whatever you want, I'll give it to you
Whenever you need someone, to lay your heart and head upon
Remember, after the fire, after all the rain
I will be the flame, I will be the flame

Watching shadows move across the wall, I feel so frightened
I wanna run to you, I wanna call, but I've been hit by lightning
Just can't stand up for falling apart
Can't see through this veil across my heart
Over you, you'll always be the one, you were the first, you'll be the last

Wherever you go, I'll be with you, whatever you want, I'll give it to you
Whenever you need someone, to lay your heart and head upon
Remember, after the fire, after all the rain
I will be the flame, I will be the flame

I'm going crazy, I'm losing sleep, I'm in too far, I'm in way too deep
Over you, you'll always be the one, you were the first, you'll be the last

Wherever you go, I'll be with you, whatever you want, I'll give it to you
Whenever you need someone, to lay your heart and head upon
Remember, after the fire, after all the rain
I will be the flame, I will be the flame

Whatever you want, I'll give it to you
Wherever you go, I'll be with you, & whatever you want, I'll give it to you
Whatever you want, I’ll give it to you

Half Naked

The luscious flesh is half exposed. Voracious fingers are quickly losing their patience. The desire to fully uncover is unrelenting... And...

What were you thinking of?
I am talking about my half peeled Salak. This one was brought over from Dumai by Akung and Uti Pasha. Have you eaten it before? I do know some people who has never heard or seen this fruit before.

Salak aka Salacca Zalacca aka Snake Fruit is a species of palm tree from the Arecaceae family. The skin is reddish brown and scaly thus the name Snake Fruit come about. The skin has a distinct tip and by pinching the tip, it can be sloughed off and pulled away.

Inside, there are three lobes of edible flesh. The taste is normally sweet and somewhat acidic. Each flesh contains a hard inedible seed. Do not try to bite or eat that!

Anyway, that was my last Salak...

Yet another Sunday at Kizsports and Gym OU

There is a place where Pasha likes to go on weekends. This is the place for him to release all his excess energy as well as an opportunity to get out of the house and meet other kids out there. This place is called Kizsports and Gym. There are a few outlets out there but the one in One Utama is the best for him.

This is one of his favorites. A little swimming pool where he can slide into those colorful balls. Those balls are generally harmless. Most of them would hit your head with a thud but a few of them would hit your head with a "ke-tonk" sound... Those are the few harder ones. We would normally be throwing balls into the pool as well as at each other over here.

And this is the one that Pasha likes the most out of his favorites. You need to climb all the way up there and go down via that spiralling green tube that you can see a bit on the left of this picture. The entrance to the tube is where you see a red pail hanging by a pulley as shown. Mama Pasha and Pasha are up there on the second last landing before shooting down the green tube.

That's where you come out. Both of them made 10 trips into the green tube and Pasha still wanted more... 10 times! Bravo Mama!

And yes, Papa Bear did it too. Once only! It was harder than it looked. You had to crawl through series of tubes, netting and climb up multiple landings to get to the top. I kept on asking Pasha to wait for me as he was zip-zapping his way to the top. He even gave me the stop-whining-and-hurry-up look as I asked him to wait at every landing... Banyak betul energy budak2 rupanya...

For those who prefer a less strenuous action, the big slide is a good choice at it is quite easy to reach and you can take your own sweet time sliding down as the slide angle is not that steep.

And finally, the good boy deserved a good kiss from Mama... By the way, Pasha refused to go home and we had to "bait" him with a trip to Toys R Us... And he grabbed the Action Chugger there...

Baby Allysa, Sate Kambing and Kolak Durian

About visiting Baby Allysa. A little gathering with some yummy Javanese food...

Baby Allysa. Born on July 15, 2010. Latest addition to the family of Mas Adi and Mbak Ira.

Mama Pasha and her kids. Not quite... :) Aiman and Allya, the big brother and sister to Baby Allysa and Pasha.

Akung Pasha and Uti Pasha with the kids. Mas Adi looking on...

Aiman and Allysa, the big brother and sister.

Mbak Ira helping herself to the food... Yum Yum...

Papa Bear and the sleeping Baby Allysa...

Now the food part. Where's the food? Sorry, did not get the chance to take picture of the delicious food. Well, this entry should be more about the baby and not the food. However, there are lots of pictures on Google so, just click the links below...

We had sate kambing aka mutton satay as the main dish, you can view some uploaded pictures in Google here.

We also had some kolak durian aka durian compote, eaten with ketan aka pulut aka glutinous rice for dessert. Very nice eaten warm! See some pictures in Google here.

Apart from that, we also had gulai kambing aka spiced mutton and pepes ikan aka steamed fish in banana leaf eaten with warm rice. You can view their pics here and here.

Lovely treat of Javanese food... Burp! Excuse me...