ours

Insha Alloh, our home sweet home


2 storey
Land : < 800m2
Building : 350m2

my girl's room

Farah's room is the biggest one.

dressing room

her kitchen

My boys room

Daytime. They're at school.

Neat and clean..


























































wow..messy, oh well..!



















Emir... why don't you just put your nose on the TV then..??

Office

Daytime is for me

Kids - after school

papa - night

Broadband is a must. Online for 24 hours (well almost).

No chatting (but mama does, sometimes...), no games.......

The Master Bedroom

the chair in front of my writing desk is an antique. Hundreds years... , it's been my chair since I was in elemantary in Surabaya. My late father gave it me. It is a "kursi kartini" (the name), Kartini's style. I love it very much. When I moved to US 7 years ago, it happened that that chair wasn't be brought. Fortunately my husband's former boss (2 months after we moved) went back home to US and they kindly brought this chair for me.

Oh yeah.. our bedroom is so big. Maybe it's around 10x10 m2, not included the dressing room (3x4 m2) and a bathroom.

My kids like to watch TV here. Emir and Farah always, well almost, sleep here everynight before they move to their own room.

dressing room, and next to it, is the bathroom

LANTAI ATAS

Let's go upstair

HOUSE HUNTING

Cari rumah di Pattaya yg bisa kita sewa sesuai budget dan dengan kondisi rumah yg kita mau cukup susah juga...



2 minggu pertama di Pattaya masih dapat fasilitas kantor. Jadi berhak nginap di hotel Dusit Resort. Bosennn...ya bo!. Bayangkan waktu itu kedua lelakiku udah sekolah. Jadi tiap pagi berangkat sekolah dari hotel. Yg enak cuma nggak usah nyiapin sarapan. Mari kita turun ke bawah saja...buffet.

Kalau siang, anak2 sekolah, Dudi ke kantor, kerjaku pergilah bersama agen2 pencari rumah. Hampir desperate, soalnya susah yah...belum lagi kasihan sama Farah waktu itu dia masih 1 tahun umurnya. Masih aku tenteng terus pakai carseatnya. Belum untuk dia masih penyesuaian dengan hawa panas yg lengket. Kasian deh si bioneka, basah terus. Keluar dikit dari mobil dah keringetan. Untung dia badannya kuat. Nggak sakit.

2 minggu berlalu tanpa hasil. Karena bulan Oktober sebelumnya Dudi udah look see duluan dan kseimpulannya cari cumah disini susah. Jadi keadaan begini sudah diperkirakan. Mangkanya dah dia atur sebelumnya. Jadi setelah 2 minggu di hotel kita pindah ke fully furnished condo 3 stories di Burapha Golf Course. Rada jauh dari Pattaya city tapi ke kantor dan sekolah dkeket. Sewa hanya untuk 1 bulan. Jadi diitung2 biar pas hari2nya sama barang2 kita datang dari US. Wah jangan lama2 disini, karena rentalnya sangatlah tinggi melebihi budget yg kita siapkan.

Rata2 rumah disini menganut paham European style. Trus nanti kalau ada swimming poolnya, menurutku sih aneh. Soalnya pasti swimming poolnya letaknya di depan !. Kesannya begitu buka pagar, masuk, lalu disambut mari.....monggo...berenang sekalian. Hi..hi..hi... Gw belum pernah tinggal di Europe sih jadi nggak tahu deh apa memang adatnya pool itu letaknya di depan. Soalnya kalau Di Indo yah tentu saja tidak sopan. Halah ! di US juga. Perasaan selama tinggal disini belum pernah gw lihat pool di depan. Kecuali kalau summer tiba, lalu ada pool jadi2an, hah.. ?! apaan nih. Itu lho... pool yg bisa bongkas pasang. Nah ini baru karena nggak ada lahan cukup, jadi sementara aja pasang di halaman depan rumah. Nanti kalau musim dingin datang yah cabut lagi, simpen. Trus..trus...selain itu, susahh...deh cari rumah yg unfurnished di Pattaya ini. Udah desperate deh gw. Bosen....!!!. Rumah disini rata2 kalau untuk disewain pasti deh furnished. Sekalinya ada juga wow!! muahal, soalnya kita cari rumah yg cukup besar. Habis barang2 kita dari US 2 container @ 40 feet.

Alhamdullilah, akhirnya....batas terakhir kita di Burapaha ketemu deh ama nih rumah. Jodoh kali yah cuma beda beberapa hari sama penyewa sebelumnya. Jadi cukup merepotkan landlord buat mempersiapkan rumahnya. Tapi pasti senenglah, wong nggak susah cari2 penyewa dah ada aja penyewa selanjutnya yaitu kita.

Landlord buaiik...sekali!!. Tumben..suami istri orang Tahailand. Biasanya yg udah2 istri Thai suami bule. Yang tak kita sangka2 ternyata nih rumah letaknya di daerah muslim. Wah bersyukur. Mesjid sekitar sampai 3. Adzan?? wah jangan ditanya kayak di Indo. kedangaran deh. Kalau Ramadhan, apalagi ngaji2 terdengar, oh...indahnya.... Kalau local market, hi..hi...deket!. Gampang cari daging halal.

Rumah ini tidak terlalu baru. Tetapi terawat sngat baik. Dan kualitas rumahnya luar biasa!. No 1. Jati2 dimana2. Yg menyenangkan landlordnya sanghat tidak kebaratan kalau kita tidak butuh dengan furnituresnya. Rumahnya luar biasa besuar...dengan halamannya yg luas.... dua lantai, tetapi dengan harga sewa yg sesuai dengan kantong kita. Mungkin juga karena pada waktu itu daerah ini belum terlalu berekmabng. Jalana masih kacau. Dan bukan daerah elite. Nggak terasa kita disini udah 2 tahun 9 bulan. Sekarang daerah ini jadi berkembang pesat sekali. Banyak perumahan2 baru.

back yard

LANTAI BAWAH

starting from

welcome our guests..

FOYER

LIVING ROOM

paintings

Got these paintings from my parents. These are not copies. They are real!!, were painted by the real artists. Original arts.

I don't like copy paintings. Very easily here to get the copy paintings, reproductions. Copy of Van Gogh's, copy of Picasso's, Renoir's, Dali's, Monet's, etc. Berserakan. Everywhere. Why they do that. Actually they are very good artists, they can paint!, they can copy the famous paintings very good. Why don't they just proud of theirself?. Maybe I know the answer, because western people here like to buy those!. For them it could be more class or style, if they have these in their home in Europe. Even they are reproductions off course. Because real paintings must be very...expensive there. They must be proud to have these.

The Krakatau was made around 1960's. It was painted by Srihadi Soedarsono. I think he liked to paint krakatau. Because he had made few paintings about krakatau.

Believed that one of Indonesian tycoons really wants The Srihadi Sudarsono Paintings which were made around 60's. He said that if he could to have those, he would paid milyaran rupiah for one piece. But I just wanna keep it for myself, me, my uncle's niece. Oom Srihadi.

Sorry not for sale. Family value.

















These Lukisan Pasar were made by Koempoel. As a Javanese, (older generation) my late father really liked paintings about traditional market-market life-suasana pasar. These were his favourites. I don't know what year these painting were made. But for sure I've known these since I was a kid, for more than 30 years.....































This painting is belongs to Arif. His opa gave it to him. My late father knew that my elder son likes boats so much. This lukisan kapal was a special gift (special delivery) for cucu opa. Arif Hermanto.

This painting below is also old enough. Painted by an ITB (Institute of Technology Bandung) student in 1960's.

the antiques

I love this gebengan. It's really beautiful. It's old (hundreds years for sure) but elegant. Not to mention it is veryy..heavy.




One day in Surabaya around 1980's. A student college from madura came to my mom ( for some reason he knew that my parents liked antique stuff). He brought this gebengan and begged her to buy this. My mom tried to bargain but my brother who was at the university at that time told her not to bargain. Yes my mom bought this. The young man was happy he said that the money would be for his school expenses.
















The console table, chairs and the mirror are not in one set. But my mother liked to put them together. So do I. They are nice. The table has a hidden small trunk attached. A dutch lady used to keep her sewing stuff and maybe her jewelleries here. The chairs are the oldest. They were made between 1600's. The crown's mirror is not antique. The original crown had been missing. But the mirror itself is old. My father bought them separetely and put them together.
































My parents always got the antique stuff with very good price. Sometime the sellers themself just came and offered theirs to them. Or the stuff had been abandoned by the owner and just gave them to my parents. Well it's destiny, I think. (iku jenenge wes jodohe..)

FORMAL DINING ROOM

Ruangan ini letaknya juga berada di paling depan ruangan. Menyatu dengan ruang tamu ( living room ).

Sehari2 kita tidak menggunakan ruangan ini. Untuk acara2 tertentu saja. Di ruangan ini kita letakkan meja makan dengan kursi untuk 8 orang. Menempel di dinding ada sebuah buffet (milik landlord), dimana jika kita mengadakan jamuan, tempat aku selalu meletakkan hidangan. Memudahkan kita2 untuk mengambil makanan, sesuka hati kapan saja.

Ruang makan ini bersebelahan dengan ruang makan hari2 kita yang berada di tengah rumah.

hidangan

Turkey si bintang utama (thanksgiving 06)

BAR

Nggak tahu nih nama ruangan ini namanya. Seperti biasa rata2 rumah di Pattaya ada bar nya. Mungkin untuk memuaskan konsumen western. Letak si bar nih bersebelahan dengan dapur. Tapi berhubung di rumah ini bar nya cukup besar, jadi bisa diletakkan dining table lagi deh. Di meja ini makanan yg siap santap langsung diletakkan disini. Sayangnya ruangan ini agak gelap, udah gitu Farah nggak mau lagi duduk di her mobile high chair, kesukaannya geser tempat orang, heh..heh..heh.., jadilah kita sekeluarga seringnya sih makan di r. makan sebelahnya (r tengah).