Thursday, October 19, 2006

Shopping Combi


Welcome to Combi's world.
Combi is a well known Japanese brand that specialize in light weight, easy to fold strollers in sleek designs, as well as car seats and modern toys.
Their website is pretty ugly, but I had fun checking out the virtual demo, in which you can drag and turn the stroller 360 degree to see from side to side.
The Japanese website is better, beautifully modern, but of course you would not understand a thing :)
You can now get your cool combi's stroller at the Children's store, a heavenly store full of cool strollers and imported toys. They are located at Senayan City level 4 #95-97, ph: 72781292.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Cordlife Indonesia


This is a new trend.
A few friends that I know has taken the trouble of storing their baby's cord blood stem cell in Cordlife Singapore, as a future health insurance. And now the 'leading cord blood bank in the region' together with Indonesia's Pt Kalbe Farma has set up Pt Cordlife Indonesia, as announced last Saturday (14/10). The cord bank is expected to be fully operated by January 2007.
Call 021-5208122 or check out www.cordlife.com
Quoted from Kompas (16/10), the cost for the initial collection of the cell is about SGD$ 1.400, and the yearly storage fee is about SGD$ 250.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Use Bob for TV and Media Control

This is cool stuff! My son is not even two but he loves to watch TV extensively, and I dare not wonder how he would react to video games when he grow up. Here is a gadget that let you control the amount of time that your children spend in front of TV and computer. Simply hook it up, lock it (yes, your kids cannot simply remove it. haha) and give each of your kids their password. The screen will automatically turned off when the time is up.
Check out http://www.usebob.com/

Junior in Aksara


Finally, after a tip from our reader, I found that Junior magazine, as well as Junior pregnancy and baby, are available in Aksara bookstore (Kemang, Cilandak Town Square and Plaza Indonesia).
I bought my copy for Rp 93.000

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

In Search Of Mary Poppin


This is a book that contains essays from mothers that highlights the love-hate-relationship with their nannies. Sound like an every day theme in our home isn't it? Especially here in Jakarta where the population of nannies nearly outnumbering the babies (I've heard of mommies who assigned two nannies for each of her two children). And anyone knows that a good nannies will be kept like a guarded secret to prevent nanny-highjacking. I guess this is a book that gain an insight of the real feelings and attachment formed between nannies and mothers, a very complicated affair. I'm looking forward to read it.
Priced at $16 in Amazon.com