The New Normal

Talking about the new normal, I remember the days when I and my kids had just arrived in Jakarta.
The days when I and kids had to do an adaptation to our own homeland, with different circumstances.
The days when I and kids had to transform our good habit just to please our environment...

At the airport, my little girl at her 3 years old, asked me where to put her candy trash that we couldn't find the trash bin everywhere. Someone told her to just throw it. However, she put it in her pocket, brought it home and put it right into the garbage bin.

At kindergarten school of my little boy at his 4.5 years old, took his own meal of my homemade.
All meal were wrapped cleanly in each part of the 'bento case', with proportional main course, fruit, vegetable, and a small pack of milk. Some friends were so jealous at him since their mothers had never made such a cute and complete meal for them.

In elementary school of my second boy at his 7.5 years old, brought his own meal, a bottle of water, a small pack of tissue and a small bottle of hand sanitiser. Once, he used a face masker for he was having a cold.  Some friends were teasing at him for being such 'an odd kid'. Though, he just ignored them and kept on continuing what he believed.

In the same school, my first boy at his 10.5 years old, brought the same things with his little brother.
All meal were wrapped cleanly and no one could join his drinking. One bottle for one person.
Some friends said that they were the two odd brothers. He said once, "This is the way I and brother learnt from the developed country where you will somehow understand how good it is."

Until these days, the days when all of us have to face a shocked virus that change our habit, change our way of life, change our way of thinking.
It is okay to bring hand sanitiser everywhere you go.
It is alright to use face masker especially when you got cough and cold.
It is fine to bring a pack of tissue and use it when you have to sneeze or other things.
Yes, it is good to have our personal belongings and keep it that way.
Those things are for our own good, for our own health, for our own safe...
Then, you are ready for the new normal...

Ied Mubarak 1441 H

Hari Kemenangan telah tiba,
Kemenangan bagi orang-orang yang mampu menahan lapar dan dahaga
Kemenangan bagi orang-orang yang mampu berdamai dengan amarah dan prasangka
Kemenangan bagi orang-orang yang mampu merendahkan hati dan menundukkan kepala
Memohon maaf dan ridho dari sesama dan dari Sang Maha Kuasa

Hari Baru telah menanti,
Bagi kita semua untuk terus berempati dan bersimpati
Bagi kita semua untuk terus peduli, memberi, dan berbagi
Bagi kita semua untuk menaati dan menetapi
Akan hal-hal baru dan kebiasaan baru yang perlu dipatuhi
Dengan ijin-Nya, bersama kita mampu, pasti...

#Lebaran1441H/2020M#DirumahAja#SilaturrahimOnline#

Hot Penne ala Umi Rina

Friday is My Cooking Day, and I'm cooking with LOVE...💗💗
It is a special request from my family to have Italian dinner. Pasta is always at the heart of my family, particularly for the spaghetti and the fettuccine. This time, I have another experience with different pasta, named Penne.

Actually, I'm taking the remaining ingredients in my refrigerator. I just don't want the smoked beef is getting too old in the frozen. Anyway, it is so simple and you can use your favourite ingredients.
So, let's cook....

Ingredients
250 gr Penne Pasta (boiled until well cooked)
50 gr minced beef
50 gr smoked beef (sliced)
3 pieces of tomatoes (boiled and blended)
1 tablespoon tomato puree
1 piece of onion (sliced)
2 pieces of garlic (punched and sliced) 
5 pieces of red hot chilli (sliced)
2 sticks of celery
1 teaspoon of pepper
2-3 tablspoon of sugar
1/2 teaspoon of salt 
4 tablespoon of olive oil


Cooking the Sauce

1. Heat 2 tablespoon of olive oil with medium heat.
2. Fry the garlic and a half of the sliced onion until smell good.
3. Put in the minced beef and cook until well cooked.
4. Put in the blended tomato and mix with all the ingredients.
5. Put in the puree, the sugar, the pepper and salt, mix them all till well mixed and well cooked. 
6. Turn off the fire, put the sauce aside.

Cooking the Hot Penne ala Umi Rina

1. Heat 2 tablespoon of olive oil with medium heat.
2. Fry another half of onion and the red hot chilli, let them smell good. 
3. Put in the sliced smoked beef, mix them well.
4. Put in the sauce and the penne pasta, mix them well.
5. The last, put in the sliced celery, mix them shortly, and turn off the fire.
6. The Hot Penne ala Umi Rina is ready to be served...yummyyyy.....

Have a great Dinner, everyone!!!😍