About Choco

December, 2014

Hi I'm Choco !
I'm an ordinary happy mom who likes to talk and share about recipes, beauty, health, crafting ideas and of course cosmetics. I call myself Choco because I like chocolate very much and that where my name came from. I enjoy cooking and baking activities with my boy, but I'm trying to avoid as much as possible cleaning the house and gardening. This blog is the story of my life which brings me to the world of blogging and... This is my story.....

I've got married 11 years ago, and we are blessed with a beautiful little boy since 9 years ago who lightened up our life. I live in the one of provincial capital in Indonesia, it's not a small town nor a big town. We don't experience a rush hour here nor having a hard time to get to places, but the city is still growing though.

As a couple, my husband and I have been through so much hard time and bad time since I married my husband in such a young age, but it doesn't mean we weren't experiencing glorious happy life, of course we do, until now I'm still thankful that I have this life. In our first year of marriage, my husband had been working for his family's company that have run for 30 years by his late father, and now it is time for him to take over. The company is owned by family of four, they were my late father in law's friends. And our family was elected to run the company.

One and a half year after I got married, my son came to the world. I'm trying so hard to be a good mom for him in such a young age, until now then I'm still learning to be one. Thus, I didn't complete my study in the University and had a career. When our son was 2,5 years old, my father in law passed away. Because of that, the majority of share holders wanted to take control of the company, but my husband was trying hard to hang in there to protect his father legacy. They casted my husband away and took his family's house with all it cost. As a result, in the half of our marriage's life year, my husband quit from his job for some reasons, he couldn't stay anymore and I realised that we have reached the low point at that time and I had to get our house for sale and moved to my parent's property. Our life has never been better since then. At that time I didn't know what I had to do to help our family existences, it was hard to find a job for me who has married with no job experiences. We had no money and we had to pay the debt that we have, we live day by day. Just be thankful that we could provide food at the table. I learned to survive in this condition and tried not to ask for help from others. But I have my parents that always helps us when we need it, and through their help I could help my husband to built his new business, yeah it sounds like I'm a spoil brat but in the reality it's not. Me and my family, we have a very strong bond family relationship, we help each other.

My husband and I worked so hard that we don't have time for ourselves anymore, but at the end, the business that we built together for years not running well. I'm soooo frustrated, I don't know what will happen in the future if we're still living like this and have more debt from our failed business and I'm thinking about my parents too. The world was so dark for me at that time.

In that circumtances, I found my passion again. Since I was  young, I love writing, crafting and baking, and I'm starting browse internet too. I began to discover the world of blogging. At first, I didn't pay my attention to the blogging things. Since I like baking, I browse internet to searched recipes, even though I didn't get to try it because I don't have baking equipment, but I enjoy it. Instead of baking, I do cooking, I'm trying so many recipes. Also found that as a woman I like to dress up, things that I don't have for long. I love to do my make up done and started to pay attention to the trend of Korean make up. I also make my own beauty products with natural ingredients to maintain my beauty treatment and it save our money because I don't have to buy the products I normally use and other stuffs. I even make my own household products to save up money too. I felt a life, I could do what I've to do to lessen my husband burden. It also lifted my spirit up again to face the world and started a new plan even though we were still struggling. Fortunately, after 7 years up and down experiences, my husband got a new job, it's waaaayy better than before, he loves his job that he has passion in. I believed that we could settle down and plan our future again.

A month ago, I took the courage to build Choco Tells All, after months of much consideration. Apparently, since I enjoy writing, I couldn't resist the desire to write and share my thoughts with you, and  I hope you guys will also share your thoughts with me, I'd love to hear your inspiring story. Hopefully this can inspire us, and brings us the joy and happiness to our lives as sweet as chocolate.

In the end, I realised the importance of having passion in the one thing that you love. When your world was so dark, just have a dream even though you can't yet reach it, it gave you a hope at least. That way you can survive and keep your spirit alive. That's what this blog is mean to me. By doing what you like, you can face the world to be better and complete. I've found mine, what about you? I hope this blog could help you improve the quality of life and gives you an inspiration too. Thanks for visiting my blog and ENJOY

Lots of Love

Choco