Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Bali, the second home

I'm starting to think that Bali is my second home. First, my grandmother lives there and I always come to her whenever I got holidays and money (considering the fact that I'm still a student). Second, I feel peaceful and free being there for there are no such regulations and worries about how to wear proper clothes etc. despite all its traditional rules. Third, beach. 

Last September, Alwan and I went there again to visit my grandma. Well, it's been quite a long time not seeing her; moreover, she kept asking me to go there. She always says this thing bothering me "Come to Bali before I'm gone.." I mean, what on earth someone sounds so predictable like that. It's just I hate talking about death. It's not that I don't care, but just avoid such words.

Alwan and I didn't stay at home all day long. We went to go around the province just to get a new place that we've never been there. We got some no beaches on the way to Padang Bai, oh it's such a very very very looooooooooong way. If you want to go there, just don't use the motor bike. Unless you want to tan your skin. Finally, we couldn't make it to Padang Bai for me being so fussy about the weather, dehydration, dust, everything. I just want to go shopping because that was my schedule for that day before I spend all the money to some kind of no-need stuffs. Then we turned around and we decided to go to Sanur. I bet you know Sanur.

There are so many things have changed in Sanur. 




Alwan went crazy at that time, he is always happy going to beach. So, I let him be while I prefer walking around it and taking picture of him.


(I got trouble to upload the pictures, I am in my office with certain capacity of bandwidth while someone here downloading a big amount size of whatever. Poor Indonesia, when can the citizens get such big bandwidth for each house?)

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Me and Ice cream

Late at night.. I always have this appetite of having an ice cream.
A sweet vanilla ice cream with brownies topping and melted chocolate.
Yum. I can even taste it in my mouth right away even though I'm not eating it.
Do I sound like a psycho? Am I?
Well, I don't know. It's just the appetite. Nothing's wrong with it.
I'm trying to enjoy my life with the sweets.

I remember these days when I couldn't even eat much anything but fruits.
Back in high school, I was forced into a strict diet. I couldn't take a nap for more than 10 minutes or 5 hours at night. I could only eat half rice spoon of rice. I have to eat many fruits. I couldn't sleep earlier or wake up late. I have to work hard: washing the dishes, clothes. Pathetic? If you think so, it can be yes. But if you think it's not, it's not. It can be both. Because despite all the cannot-do things, now I can take care of my self better than my little sister or my friends.

I'm telling this story because I couldn't eat anything I want at that time but NOW, I can.
It's all up to me now. That's what I like of living alone. No hard feeling about it.
It's even possible will be just me and ice cream. God, I love ice cream.
Now Jenny Weisgerber is singing on my DVD player. Such perfect songs for this cold night and, I don't want to choose hot chocolate, Ice cream.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Sapi kecap made by Alwan


Today, the day of Idul Adha. It's moslem's second big day where there will be a lot of beefs and goat meats. The meats are always given to the people in a neighborhood and the cows and goats are given by moslem people who have enough money to buy them. After that, the animals will be (sembelih) killed and divided into a number of family live in the neighborhood. Finally, all the people will get one bag of meat each family, no matter if they're moslems or not.
Today, i got a coupon and since i live in a dormitory then i'll have to cook for the rest dormers. Thank God, Alwan is here so he and another friend help me cooking the beef.
We cooked a kind of Sundanese food, Sapi Kecap. Yum! Bon appetite..

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Big brother's graduation day


After very long years, he finally made it. It was a hard journey for him, I guess. It's supposed to be my turn as well, still on account of my 2 semesters off, I have to deal with the fact that I'm running for a bus of graduates'.
I'm hoping that day soon will be mine. Well, as for the dinner I got two bars of candies and an ice cream. No sweets, no happiness.

Monday, November 8, 2010

Di kala aku lapar


Di kala aku lapar, semua makanan bermunculan di otakku. Tak peduli apa jenisnya atau dari mana asalnya. Tapi biasanya yang paling sering muncul dalam otakku adalah Pizza Keju asli Italia. Dalam benakku, bisa terbayang kelembutan roti dan kejunya, betapa perpaduan rasa antara mereka begitu nikmatnya hingga bisa membuat kepala saya lepas. apalagi pada saat sepotong pizza diambil dan mengakibatkan kita harus tarik-menarik dengan rotinya karena kejunya yang begitu pekat, tebal, dan pastinya yum!