Din-din at boardinghouse

Have a dinner alone outside, that's usual. I love culinary but I'm not spend my (special) time for hunt some foods around. That's boring if doing alone. A lot of food in Jogja: traditional foods, Indonesian foods, Italian foods, Japanese & chinese foods, etc. If I had a dinner outside, I often ate foreign foods, that's make my tounge so adaptive, but I'm still love Indonesian foods, especially if it made by my mom. My friend Jo came to my boardinghouse, we were very hungry, whereas we had already eaten. I thought it's time to eat local foods. Jo and I were hunt some local foods near my boardinghouse. We bought 'Martabak' (sweet & salty) and 'Nasi kucing'.




It's 'Martabak' and its couple 'Acar' or pickles. Martabak is Indonesian foods. This food spread in every city in Indonesia. The ingredients are simple, just egg(s), vegetables, flour's batter, meats (optional). It's the salty one, taste more delicious if you eat it with Acar (vegetables mixed with spices) or hot sauce.


Here we go. Nasi kucing, in english, it's Cat's rice ...LoL... It's traditional inhabitant food in Jogja, but not just in Jogja, some cities has it too. Why it's called Nasi Kucing or Cat's rice? Because the portion is a little and the side dish too. That's why the price is cheap. We ate it with salty Martabak.


The last one is sweet Martabak, It's for our dessert. The ingredients are same like salty Martabak. The differences are the kind of flour's batter and nuts that's replace the vegetables. Thick and sweet.

That's all our happiness dinner. We just spend a few money for it, but we're so satisfied. Really nice foods. If it sold abroad, it must be a new favorite food there. Yummy!!!

Documentary fiancee

It's my second experience to go to the fiancee. First time, I went to my older sister's fiance last year. Last february, I went to fiance of my friend's older sister. I came with my madness friends: Bas, Jo, Alex, Yosi. We came not as family or witness, we came as documentary. My friend Enny asked us to document the event. No briefings, we're familiar with this activity. We just prepared the tools: camera(s) & handycam plus tripod.



Start from morning till afternoon, we documented the event. Sometime we just gawk while see the event, probably we want to be the man in that fiancee. Probably we're too young, but we're growing become a real adult and start to ready become a father. I asked my friends to wears Batik in this fiance. The event's closed with took pictures and ate together in restaurant. Yeah, because the event's happened in that place.

Winning 11 mania

Playing a game, everyone love playing games. Mostly people know about PlayStation (PS), yeah!!! I play this since I studied in Junior high school. That game console is already in my boardinghouse, but I never play it alone. I must wait my friends before play it. It's so boring to play it alone. Our favorite game is winning eleven, football game. Mostly male likes football. Sometime we play from night till morning or till weak and feel sleepy. Haha, my friends and I infrequently play this game together, because we has different activities and also different spare time.

New table

Last early February, I bought a new table. Honestly, since year 2009, I want to buy this one, but I didn't find table that I want. Month by month, my room's getting full. I felt not comfortable to study, doing my works, etc. Now, my only one computer table is full with DVD's, headphone, sound systems, ups, etc. It's impossible to write or put my notebook or something in that table. Sometime I need a place to write, create a sketch or just read a book. Absolutely, if I do something that I need to work with notebook while read the manual book, I must have a bigger place to put those.



This early year is my 8th semester in my study (in university). I need more comfortable place to do my last assignment. No time for wait and search a table that suited to me, I bought a new table in carrefour. My friend Jo helped me bring it from there with motorcycle, WOW!!! It was tiring us. The table is flat and light, but it's too wide. Now, I can do a lot of activity that I can't do before because of I didn't have a table. My friends and I can do something together in this table and of course I can put my stuffs above it. The height is not proportional with my chairs, but it's portable and still suitable for me.

Cons feat Rbk

I really love to collect footwears, especially sneakers. I bought 1 sneaker from converse and 1 moccasin (but not like an indian moccasin) from reebok. I had bought the new one before I bought this footwears. I can't hold my passion to buy and collect that. Although I use that very rare, but I likes to see it. Every footwears that I bought has an unique and nice design. I always matched up my dress with my shoes before go to somewhere. So, I have many choices with my footwears. Nice performance can thrill my activities.



I bought this converse (GRIMES-OX) in Surabaya. First time I saw it, I thought I have ever seen it before. Haha my skate's friends had this one too, but different color. The sole of this shoes is unique, it's flat but it isn't full combine in the sides. The material is dominant from suede, the color of it and the sole is different. This shoes looks brighter when I see the sole. The last is the adventurer series of reebok. Long time I'm not using footwears like this. I can use this in formal & informal situation. The sole and the rubber is soft and comfort with my feet. Dominant with black, good choise. Suitable with my character.

Doger

Es doger or doger ice. I don't know, is this beverage just have in Indonesia. This beverage is sold in small stall till big food stall in mall. It's commixture from fruits, milk, ice and bread. The taste is very sweet, fresh, and cold. In my first semester of my study in University, I always go to the small stall which sell this beverage near my boardinghouse. Long time not go there, my friends (Bas, Alex, Jo) and I went to here last month. Eat some food and share stories with each others are our activities when we flock together. Unhappily, now, this small stall evicted

Sin Tjia at Lenmarc

Still in Surabaya, before went home. I dropped in Lenmarc mall to celebrate the Chinese new year. Just took pictures with the chinese new year celebration atmosphere in there. First time I came to this place, in the 1st floor, the atmosphere is so silent. It's because this mall is new, but I saw interest spots there: RC car's competition, show room of Harley Davidson community, show room of exotic auto europe car, etc.




My older sister and I found a big rabbit in the front gate of the mall. The height is about 5 meters. Rabbit is the symbol of this Chinese Year (2011 / 2555). Two big rabbits and some gold coins around them.





After that, I took some pictures in front of fake chinese building before got away. On the way to parking lot, I saw wishes trees. Kids made a wish, wrote their wish in the red card then put it in the tree. I red some wishes from them: they want a car toy, get the first rank in school, etc. I want to do the same but I'm not a kid anymore, haha. Just let it go and wish for more luck in this year.

Amazing Citraland

Finally, I went to Citraland. For me, Citraland is looks like an elite spot. There is an billion of rupiahs price houses, schools, shops & restaurants, etc. Probably, if I'm living there, I don't need to go outside the Citraland because all I need is already in there. Citraland is belong to Ciputra. He is an amazing entrepreneur. He has a lot of business in Indonesia and foreign. For peoples who live outside Citraland can use this place like a holiday place, they'll see beautiful gardens and good architectures. It located in Surabaya city, East Java, Indonesia. Peoples said, "Citraland is Singapore of Surabaya"



Yeah, I found the Singapore sculpture. That's a symbol of Singapore country. Haha, fake sculpture of Singapore. I had no need to buy an expensive ticket to go to Singapore, I can took a picture with that sculpture just in my country. The most interesting with this place for me is the layout of the place, really nice, I felt like in foreign. After that, I dropped in Ciputra University, that was awesome. Although the university is looks like an apartment, but from outside, it looks like a high class university. A lot of facility in there. Honestly, I hate to live in there, because it can make me become an anti social human, but actually, peoples are social creatures.

BNS

There is a place in Malang, East Java, INA, that's cold and harmonious. That place is Batu. In Indonesia, Batu is well known because of the apple production. This apple is fruit, not a technology like iPad or iPhone. I was there last end January with my older sister and others. We weren't come to bought or ate some apples, We were go to BNS. BNS is short of Batu Night Square, that was my first time in there. Usually, I came to Malang just for go to the beach, there are a lot of beatiful beach.

I went to BNS after my grandmom's died 1 day before. Just to forget about the sadness story. I didn't know that this place start open at 5.00 PM. Yeah till 12.00 AM, according to the name, we can't see a night in the afternoon. The place is so romantic if come with couple or probably family. Inside of BNS is full of lamps. The playgrounds, the games, the gardens. I like the lampion garden in there. In that garden, I walked around, saw sculptures made from lampion or lantern, miniature of eiffel tower, romantic pool with lamps around it and in the middle of it.





The situation made me forget about the sadness of one day before. When I went there, the time was countdown to chinese new year celebrations. So, a lot of chinese lanterns are spreading around BNS. Some time, I want to go there with my couple or my homies.

ride (or photo) around jogja

My friends: Ari Momo, Yeni, Bebe and I still weak after road a day before. No problem, we ride and have fun together. We'll feel tired if we do something with not fun. No tired, just fun. Same like a day before, we road with the same bike too. The differences is we had a new member and we started the journey in the afternoon, about 3 or 4 P.M.. The new member is Tee, she is my friend in campus, we're studying in the same grade and major. She's tomboy like Yeni hohoho. So, I felt like ride with my boy friends. No racism & discrimination. Just go!

I thought that day we'll ride our bike, what was happen. I felt like in photo session. Started from we flocked together, we took pictures together. Everywhere we passed, we must took some pictures. Tee & Yeni are likes to did that, maybe because they're participating a photography community. We just road around Jogja city, when we arrived in city field, we took pictures again. Hoahhh it wasn't boring. We spent time for took some pictures more than ride a bike, it was fun!!! We did a lot of madness pose in front of peoples around, LoL.

We forgot about the time. We ride until evening, about 7 P.M.. Then, we continued our journey, we walked to city field to enjoy the atmosphere there. There is Sekaten that held untill the middle of February. Sekaten is ceremony to celebrate Islamic new year, but it wasn't the ceremony. It was the traditional market that held before the main ceremony. Enjoyed the night at Sekaten, bought some traditional food, laugh out loud, and slept like a pig after that.