Sundanese Breakfast Gathering :)

Every sunday, my housemates and I together has gathering on breakfast. We share our food n meals and eat together outside on veranda. Because we stay in Bandung, west Java, our food is mostly dominated by sundanese food such as raw vegies, salted fish, sup, friend fishes, soybean cake (the traditional food, made from fermented soybean), tofu (same product from soybean).





Here is menu and some pictures captured during breakfast gathering.

The complete menu for Sunday Gathering ( traditional sundanese food; salted fish, sundanese chili sauce (sambal terasi/belacan), friend eggplant (terung), soybean cake (tempe), friend tofu, and sayur asem (sundanese vegies soup).

Traditional sundanese very spicy salted fish

It is a beatiful Sunday, we share and chat happily. Next weekend, we will arrange the same moment and good for us to be relax during weekend.

Enjoying the food with our styles :)

I thanks to all my housemates, host for your kindness. I am happy to be with you all.

THE PAST

By Ray Parker

I was wrong when I hurt you
But did you have to hurt me too
Did you think revenge will make it better?
I don't care about the past
I just want our love to last
There's a way to bring us back together

CHORUS:
I must forgive you (I must forgive you)
You must forgive me too (we must have to try)
If you wanna try to put things back the way they used to be(honey let's start again)'
Cause there's no sense in going over and over
The same things as before
So let's not bring the past back anymore(no looking back, we can't look back)
(honey let's start again)

Out of all the good we had
You only keep track of the bad
Though you knew
I never really loved her
Didn't anyone tell you yet
That to forgive is to forget
How can you be mad if you don't remember

CHORUS:
I must forgive you (I must forgive you)
You must forgive me too (we must have to try)
If you wanna try to put things back the way they used to be(honey let's start again)'
Cause there's no sense in going over and over
The same things as before
So let's not bring the past back anymore(no looking back, we can't look back)
(honey let's start again)

I must forgive you
And you must forgive me too
It's the only thing that's left that we haven't try to do
One thing I'm sure will work
That we haven't tried before
Let's not bring the past back anymore(no looking back, no looking back)
(honey let's start again)

Talking About Appreciation

Hi all,

Just wanna share what I saw, to what I feel and to what I did last week when I attended the seminar in my temporary office. One of the Government Institution in Indonesia particularly in Bandung, west Java.

I with two other my friends organize the seminar and talkshow about up date news related to the natural disaster to what happened lately in Tangerang. Note that, what I am sharing here it is not about the technical discussion but HOW do we appreciate the presentar in front of the forum.

To be honest, before the talkshow begin, the participants always sit AT THE BACK first, they dont willing to sit IN FRONT. The MC keep announching to the audience till the first presentar come in front and present his materials.

Only several people especially the students which I think they are forced by their lecturer to keep concentrate on the presentation as part of their assessment :).

Secondly, is when the presentation is going, many of the audience they keep busy talking discussing with his friends beside him. Seems like they dont follow to what the presenter discussing in front. Thus, it was disgusting as I am the one who sit beside them..

Surprisingly, the VIP person who sit very In Front ( I said this because they are Very Important Person, as the head committe of organization). They keep busy with "their blackberry" weeeks...

To what I saw I can conclude that :
First, we are less antusiastic to attend the event like seminar or whatever which If I can take the benefit from this event. We gain more knowledge by attending this momoent and listening their sharing to what happened technically in Situ Gintung Dam Demolished, Tangerang, Banten.

Second, the less appreciation from us to listen and just "be silent" while the presenter talking in front of the audience.

Lastly, to what the main committe do with "state-of-the-art Blackberry" is seems they just though that this seminar is like only "promotion event" nothing more than that.

Why?? it because during the seminar going, only the presenter, panelist, notulent and some of anthusiastic participants who keep concentrate to what presenter discussing. The committe just busy with their new sophicticated gadget.

Lol, I might guaranty that they might open "facebook" hehe..upps..sorry, Obejctively, I try to write not based on the fact..lol..

Well, I write those things above not for unproductive purposes. Those happended not only to them, it probably happended to us when we might not realize that we did it. Let's we learn from those situation. We can do some " morality contract" by do as follow :

1. Please, try to appreciate people as much as we can
2. Be silent when you are in the seminar and not talking to friends beside you. If so, just whispering and please dont do it more often. Imagine, if you are inside cinema. someone beside you keep talking and Indeed, you fell insult to this situation and therefore, cant enjoy your movie !! Thing about that ..!!
3. If you are not interested with the topic, please get out from the room and you are free to chat with your friends outside.
4. The main committee should give the good manner and attitude. So that, we can absorb the good value of them..heuheu..poor our leader..:(
5. Last but not least...keep trying to change our BAD HABIT. At the first time I know it would be difficult BUT by doing this we have finished 50% from our target !! so...Be Spirit all the time !!!

Well, Hope my sharing would be our advantage to whom want make our life BETTER !!!

House Inspection

2nd January, 2009

I start my second day of 2009 with house cleaning. As a stay in my friend's apartment. I ve to help her clean the apartment. We havent finished all the cleaning, and suddenly, the agent came and i just grabbed clothes to cover my body, lol..it was so hot here..the temperature could be rich to 37 degree in the afternoon. Then it is predicted to be more humid.

Indeed, i am starting sweating now..huhu..

Wanna escape to the beach anymore..lol..

We are going to shopping center for making "nasi lemak" after surviving eat the western food. My friend learn how to make it and it is not bad..i like it mainly for salad..love salad very much..

Hoho..ok, we re going now..

Welcome asian food..i miss you so much..

Addicted to Jogging..

I spent whole Christmas and New year holiday at my friends apartment. It is lovely apartment close to the Swan River, I called it Swan Riverside apartment. Coz, I really love its location. I was so thankful to my friend allow me stay at least one month before I search some new shelter for my nomadic life before ending my master study in Perth.

Huaa..at least the jogging track makes me so exicited...

Suddenly, i became addicted to jogging..especially when I bought the new running shoes from Boxing Day Biggest Sale of the year 2008. I cant hardly wait till the next morning to try the shoes. Lovely pinky adidas running shoes. I showed up to my friend and she did too with her new dress bought from Half Clearance Sale.hahaaa...typically girly shopoholic..

At night after shopping, even I dreamed I wore the running shoes and did jogging..Then, when I woke up, my body was so tired and excited at the same time. I woke up and jump and just grap my new shoes and go outside river jogging track. Enjoy the freshly morning air and joint with other jogger..( haha..is that name for jogging addicted people ?? not sure..should ask to my native english friend..).




Lol...hope my addicted to jogging has the positive aim for healthy reason, it is not just for excuses to what I called personal problem with related to people lately.

Graduation

Today I gonna attend graduation, its informal graduation held by International Office for those who wanna go home by December 2008. Actually, the formal one is on February and end of November each year. I practically always attend that moment almost every semester coz my friends always invite me as their guess. For this, I fell lucky.

This December is another one. I ask Julie, staff of International Office, to ask whether I can attend graduation or not. Just for the ceremonial, since I dont really even want to attend that thing. But, If as a research student, it is impossible to attend the formal one on February next year, since we need approval letter from uni that we finished our study and the result should be come out. In my case, February is my time to submit my thesis. Thus, when I submit, it means that I have to wait for another at least three months to get my result from examiner. If I am lucky there is no revision. But the chance for that it almost 0.001% which is impossible. So, I predict I will revise my thesis and sumbit for the last time to Uni. After that, my certificate will be commenced by Uni..

So, based on that reason, Julie suggested me to attend informal graduation just for ceremonial reason. I agree with her. You know, what I am thinking on graduation is I should get dress up and make over. It shouldnt be like that actually, just act normally. However, my friend said this is special day. Whatsover, I dont really care. But, that still around my mind.

Then, yesterday, I went to Carousel just for looking for the lady shoes. Lucky me I found the two pair of pretty shoes with the fantastic price..!! 30 bucks only for two pair..!! this is really cheap compare to normal shoes price here in oZ which I hate it, better I buy the nice one back home in Indonesia.

Huaa..finally, I dressep up,my friend will be surprise with my new costume haha..
Let see, what she finally wear..

Actually, I just need some photo of my graduation to send home. Just want to see my parent are happy look their daughter graduate from overseas Uni in Perth. In fact, my last graduation when I study undergraduate at home, it was nothing special and I was not interested to attend. That was a bad time, my parent hasnt came since they dont have any money to travel from my kampoong to Bandung, the city for 4 hours drive, where I spent for undergraduate study. At the same time, after graduation I have to go for part time teaching. And the next day, I feel soooo..helpless and just realize my status not to be student anymore..ANd ready to get unemployment soon If I havent got the job soon. Thank God, Finally I got the job even as a public servant and I can continue my master degree here at Curtin Uni.

Back to graduation, I was waiting for my friend to take our regalia..huaa..
Hope I can enjoy this moment, since to be honest for me it is like Fake Graduation.. IT IS hehehee..

Thanks Julie..

is he married ???

Just curious want to ask him about that. I thought that it is reasonable when I saw he has been sleeping in the sister's apartment for long. If it is true, than it is Ok. If it is not, it is the matter. How I really wonder about him and his position as religious leader.

How I become a pathethic one who wont believe what the name of "sister" and "brother" again in term of religious thing.

It is really traumatic experience, feeling very untrusted to saw people who pretend that they are so kind, so lovely and so care. In fact, what I learnt is fake..all fake..

I feel so bad and punished myself that I did a dirty thing and now, I realized that even she is the same one. Dont think that she will keep my reputation, in fact she did the same. What the...!!!

Even the brother doesnt feel guitly and just ask for "forgive" but in fact he still doing it. He never learn from the mistakes last time.

I hope for those things that I think is not true. Again, I still keep the good imply for them. In fact their love make them crazy..!!

I dont understand people can do anything because of love and they use the name of God to make them legally exclude married. They even know that someone has been hurt because of they are doing.

I warned them directly, and the sister acted like she didnt do anything. The guy also refuse to do anything by saying when I witnessed that he slept at her house. " It is between he, she and God.." How dare he used the name of God. In fact " there is no God, when only two of you (sister n brother) instead of Syetan.."

Dont you realize that ?? and we are definitely not an angels and we are people who easy to be tempted by the dunia.

It become tricky when we said that we love someone because of God. None of things.

Whatever I can learn is that if you like someone, just maried, make relationship without married makes a lot of Fitna, and Su'udzon. Unless, all you guys a free thinker, thats another matter.

I personally, officialy feeling acute untrusted to both of them. Help..!!