Currently, I'm working as a web content editor for http://astro-oasis.com/en/. What must I do? And, what makes me love this job?

Here are the answers:

1. I have to update the website at least four to five times a week.
2. I write articles on various Astro Oasis programs.
3. I have the chance to watch various excellent documentaries--because I have to write about them.
4. I prepare live chat events with various Indonesian prominent people.
5. I also have to do some reporting jobs should there be any interesting external or internal events.
6. I have to submit program schedules once a month--and that takes me about 2 whole days to complete.
7. I also have to submit daily praying time.
   
8. I prepare monthly report on visitors and hits.
9. I manage the whole content.
10. I have to connect with the website provider--which is quite challenging!
11. I love this job because it suits my passion (writing and web content editing)
12. It relates to my belief, so I tend to become more religious.
13. It broadens my knowledge.

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I'm back! And, I'd like to share my experiences on going back to work...

1. I drink more water, not tea, not coffee, because everyday, on my desk, there is a huge glass of water, well served.
2. I know that actually mu hubby does worry about me. He calls everyday to check out when I'll be back at home. The working hours end at 06.30 PM and it's ark already at 06.00, with the traffic jam, I'd reach home only at 07.00 (or 5-10 to 7), it varies.
3. My babyhana misses me so much. Once, she walked on her sleep, calling my name...I feel like crying when hubby told me this.
4. I can bring lunch to office. Thank God! That way, I don't have to spend 10% of my salary only for lunch and spend it on other more important things--like going out with my daughter.
5. Once, I wore a baby-doll kinda blouse and a nice lady on the bus offered me her seat because she thought I was pregnant. Oh, Ma'am, I'm chubby, that's all, not pregnant. But, thanks anyway for your kindness. And, of course, I didn't take the seat.
6. On the second day, I joined my colleagues to visit another colleagues who has just given birth to a lovely baby. Oh...every time I see babies, I feel like having one...
7. On the second day, I got totally wet. It was heavily raining and I had to go home anyway.
8. I eat more for dinner. Normally, I don't. But, since I worked, I ate A LOT! Yeah, forget the diet!
9. The people in the office are nice. I love nice people!
10. Yesterday, there was a party at the office. It was cool! We even got goody bags. I gave it to my daughter and she was so happy about it.
11. I put my daughter's pic on the desktop. And, that makes me miss her even more!
12. I haven't got a phone line. Well, my job doesn't require me to make lots of phone calls, so, be it.
13. I pray everyday that things will be just fine. Would you pray for me too? :D Thanks!
    

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1. I'm being vulnerable since last night, I hope things do get better.
2. My mother's maid had to go back home to her kampung because her mother is ill.
3. Due to #2, I have to do everything by myself--normally she can help me doing little things like doing the laundry and ironing--how I hate ironing!
   
4. My daughter and I made a promise to "be good" while the maid is away. Hope this really works!
5. I've just looked for a kindergarten for my daughter and got shocked while seeing the tuition and fees!
6. I need some more sleep!
7. Two days ago, I talked on the phone with Liza, my dear blogging friend from Malaysia who came to Jakarta for some business. I wish I could meet her.
8. I need to buy a monitor. Previously, I borrowed my cousin's but now he has to use it.
9. I get stressed easily and I hate myself for that!
10. I'm glad that I have Nonie as my best friend. She has always been there for me. We can cry together then laugh together. That sounds crazy but it helps me save my sanity.
11. I don't know what to prepare for today's breakfast *It's 08.20 in my country*
12. I am on a diet.
13. According to my friend, #9 is the result of #12...is it true?!

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About Myself

• 1. I need a maid, or at least a nanny to play with Hana whenever I need to work.
• 2. I tend to eat a lot; these 3 months, I've gained 6,5 lbs!!!
• 3. I become too attached with my computer.
• 4. I'd prefer working--in my case it's writing or blogging--than cooking.

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About Me and Hubby

• 5. We work in separate PCs now--he also works at home, and we don't miss each other that much anymore.
• 6. We chat! Yeah, we use YM to send kisses and some funny talks or links...in a way, it's romantic, and it's also fun because it's like there is a space between us.
• 7. We become more like friends than husband and wife.

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About Hana

• 8. She's smarter than I thought.
• 9. Seeing her growing up each day amazes me a lot. She is tall!
• 10. We can talk. I thought she would never listened, but she did. If she's feeling upset, I let her cry for awhile, then after that we talk about it and I love it.
• 11. She is good in negotiating. She knows what to say or offer to get what she wants.
• 12. I might homeschool yet only in English, not in other subjects. She understands some English words and phrases now--English is not the language used in my country, Indonesia.
• 13. She has a great imagination. Whenever someone asks her if she wants to have a younger sibling or not, she says, "I already have one, his name is Kemal and he lives in the UK, now." So, who's cheating, me or hubby...in the UK?! Sounds like fun! ;D

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My hubby is not a romantic person. Yet, I never stop wishing for a romantic session with him...

1. A second honeymoon in the same place that we went to for our first honeymoon. It's Kampung Sampireun in Garut, West Java.
2. A candle light dinner in a fancy restaurant where he secretly orders a band to accompany me sing my favorite songs.
3. Fill our bedroom with flowers.
4. Tell me to get out of the house for two or more hours, and when I got home, he already prepares the table and the food--his own cooking if possible, if eatable, if not, some delicious meals from some resto would do me good.
5. Sing a song for me right after I wake up...I prefer "You Make My World So Colorful" by Daniel Sahuleka--because from what I heard, he wrote the song after seeing his wife waking up and looking so pretty in one morning.
   
Daniel Sahuleka lyrics

6. Write a song for me--he used to be able to write songs, I wish he would write another one for me...
7. Sending me a poem by airmail.
8. Surprise me of an unthinkable thing--I can't think of it now.
9. Surprise me with a voucher from a bookstore--unlimited one! Ha!
10. Close my eyes and bring me to a shopping center and let me smell some perfumes and let me choose one or two (or three) just by smelling them and shop a dress for me that he only allows me to wear with him--no need to be a sexy one, just something pretty for me to wear.
11. Fly me to a beautiful place where he makes sure that I would not be able to think of anything else--works, deadlines--but romance.
12. A romantic video tape where he says everything nice about me and beautiful things about us.
13. Read this post! Ha!

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1. Hello Kitty: The Remarkable Story of Sanrio and the Billion Dollar Feline Phenomenon
2. Falling Angels
   
3. Girl with a Pearl Earring
4. Michelangelo's Notebook
   
5. On Writing
6. Web Copy That Sells: The Revolutionary Formula for Creating Killer Copy Every Time
   
7. Follow Your Heart
8. The Orange Girl
9. Sam's Letters to Jennifer
   
10. Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas
11. Zoya
12. Peel My Love Like an Onion: A Novel
13. Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window

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1. The Cat Mummy
2. How To Start And Run A Small Book Publishing Company: A Small Business Guide To Self-Publishing And Independent Publishing
3. The Bride Stripped Bare: A Novel
4. I Don't Know How She Does It
   
5. Hannah's Gift: Lessons from a Life Fully Lived
6. For Matrimonial Purposes
7. The Mistress of Spices
8. The Anastasia Syndrome
9. The Godfather
10. Omerta
11. 22 Indigo Place
12. You Belong to Me
13. Ocean Sea

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1. Creative Wisdom for Writers (Paperback)
2. Frankie, Peaches and Me (Stella Etc.)
3. Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable
4. Nemesis (Miss Marple Mysteries)
5. Who Moved My Cheese
6. Third Year at Malory Towers
7. A Lucky Luke adventure - Billy the Kid
8. Asterix and the Big Fight
9. The Sisterhood Of Traveling Pants
10. The Cat Mummy
11. The Princess Diaries
12. The Mystery of the Green Ghost (Alfred Hitchcock & the Three Investigators 4)
13. Good Old Secret Seven

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1. Dan Brown
2. Nora Roberts
3. Meg Cabot
4. Stephen King
5. J.K. Rowling
6. Dean Koontz
7. James Patterson
8. Jodi Picoult
9. Danielle Steel
10. John Grisham
11. Michael Crichton
12. Roald Dahl
13. Tracy Chevalier

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1. I celebrated New Year's Eve working!
2. I went to my in-laws and had fun on January 1st.
3. I have started trying to homeschool my daughter--although I am still not sure about that.
4. I've just bought Roald Dahl's Tales of Childhood: Boy, and am so excited about it!
5. I've also bought Ratatouille for my babyhana.
6. I am now working on the web content for a fashion site and that is interesting.
7. I have just bought three Indonesian fashion magazine (secondhand)--which I never did before for I'm no fashionista!--and I plan to read them to help me write the fashion details for the web and soon for the company profile.
8. I plan to add more books on my online so-called bookstore.
9. I plan to submit a novel to an editor in one of the biggest publishing house in my country.
   
10. I need to finish the novel that I have started last year.
11. I plan to submit some short stories I've written last year.
12. I plan to write more short stories.
13. I plan to write more very short stories at http://nadnuts-shortstories.blogspot.com.

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Don't want to call them resolutions. I'd rather call them 'my dreams'...

1. Publish several novels that I have been writing.
2. Write other novels and publish them.
   
3. Write more stories and Get them published in magazines.
4. Write non-fictions.
5. Translate more books.
   
6. Read more.
7. Make my online second-hand book business go smoothly.
8. My husband's hardware business gets bigger and bigger.
9. Blog more.
10. Get more income and save more money.
11. Lose weight! (Ever since I worked at home, I've gained 5 pounds...ok, more... ;D)
    
12. Decor my room.
13. Get my daughter to a good school.

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1. The traffic jam is getting worse whenever it's time for workers to go to the office or to go home from work.
2. It has more apartments. But, I hope I don't have to live in one. I'm kinda scared. What if there's an earthquake or fire? (yeah, call me old fashion! ;D)
3. We have more busways. The public transportation is hopefully getting better.
4. In some areas, it really looks like a metropolitan city.
5. It has a river that used to be very dirty but now is built to be a way of transportation (still on process).
6. Every rainy season, flood is almost everywhere.
7. The inhabitants - day: 12 million, night: 8 million. The 4 million are workers living in suburb area.
8. This year, the first election for governor was done. Before, the governor was chosen by the central government.
9. There are lots of restaurants an cafes being built.
10. Inhabitants from other cities prefer to look for jobs in Jakarta since it has more opportunities.
11. It was built in the early 17th century (reconstructed and expanded in 1817).
12. It is a port city.
13. It might not have a Disneyworld but it has Dufan and SeaWorld! Hahaha!

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1. Bake Kaastengel (cookies made of edam cheese)
2. Bake Naastar (cookies with pineapple filling)
3. Bake Chocolate Cookies
4. Bake Katetong (Lidah Kucing a.k.a Cat’s tongue: a kind of cookies)
5. Fry some nuts
6. Clean the house up
7. Buy cakes for my mom and mother-in-law
8. Buy new clothing for my daughter, my hubby and me
9. Get some small changes (At Lebaran Day, normally we give some small amount of money to kids—nieces, nephews, cousins)
10. Make Ketupat (solid ride in the form of square)
11. Donate rice (3,5 liter) to the poor as dzakat
12. Donate some amount of money as infaq
13. Polish my heart the cleanest way possible

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1. Bed. Oh yes, this is my biggest enemy. I work mostly in my bedroom. So, you can imagine how hard it is not to get tempted!
2. My daughter. Now that I work at home, she wouldn't want to be far from me. She always wants to go wherever I go, wants to do whatever I do. And, she always tries her best to get my attention...and sometimes she tries too much and kinda weirdly...
3. My husband. Hahaha! I looove his cuddling me. So, since he also works at home, whenever I see him (mostly when there is a bit of problem with work, I ask him to give me a cuddle...and that might take more than just a second ;D).
4. Baking. I need to bake lots of cookies for Iedul Fitri (holiday after Ramadhan is over), for my mom, my mother in law, myself...
5. Reading. I'm interested in participating in a teenlit project. Yet, I'm not too familiar with it, so I need to read lots of it...yes, it's a distraction.
6. A new idea. Yeah...lots of ideas come to my head and it's hard to say no. So, I've just bought a book to write them down and that's kinda time taking.
7. Internet. I don't have a fixed internet connection yet at home. But my hubby uses his wi-mode connection and that's tempting. *This is not only time-taking but also kinda waste my money for it's expensive and the connection is kinda low*
8. Being sleepy. I get sleepy easily now.
9. Oprah Show. Oh yes, I hate to miss this great show...so, sometimes while working, I also watch the show.
10. My husband's yelling when he fails in his computerized soccer game. Oh I hate it!
11. Hunger. Yet, in the day time, since it's Ramadhan and I'm fasting, I don't feel it a lot. But, at night, I can get so hungry I crave for anything. Yes, kinda starving (I'm a bit exagerating here).
    
12. My daughter's cuteness. Oh yes, she's so cute that I feel like cuddling her again and again.
13. DVDs. My brother has the same taste of good movies with me. And, he has dozens of great movies. And, it's like those DVDs are pulling me. But, so far, I win. Haven't touched any of them! :D

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This will be a great adventure, being a WAHM...here are what i expect:

1. I will have all my liberty to sleep very very late (I prefer working at nite) and can wake up anytime I want.
2. I don't have to dress up.
3. I can play with my BabyHana anytime I want.
4. I'll have a chance to learn cooking (yeah, rite...I doubt it myself *grin*).
5. I can take my BabyHana to school and wait for her there until she's done.
6. I will have more time to write (who knows, my 2nd book might come soon ;D).
7. I'll have time to catch up with my friends for lunch or afternoon tea coffee.
8. I'll have more time to blog.
9. I can go to bookstores or library more often.
10. I can sleep longer (I haven't mentioned it, have I? ;D).
11. I can get online all day long (do you hear me? ALL DAY LONG! Love it!)
    
12. I can learn how to nap (honestly, I can'y nap for everytime I wake up after a nap, I'll get dizzy).
13. I'll have more time to read (there are dozens of books on the shelves left untouched).
    

All these 13 are the pluses...wondering what would be the minuses...let's see if I can work it out for my next-week TT :D

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