Negeriku menangis, lagi

Entah kenapa banyak bencana yg terjadi di negeriku
yg satu belum berlalu pulih, yg laen sudah datang..

Tepatnya sejak tsunami Aceh akhir taon 2004
rasanya tidak henti2 Tuhan memberi cobaan

Waktu bangun tidur hari rabu kemarin,
hubby bilang ada gempa di Padang
aku pun gak begitu menanggapi, krn aku pikir gak parah
aku pun uda beberapa kali mengalami gempa di Jakarta
mungkin krn struktur tanah yg kuat, Jakarta selalu aman2 saja

Sampe aku dpt email dari seorang teman
yg mengabarkan kalo gedung BCA di Padang hancur lebur
barulah aku sadar, mungkin ini parah..

Dan setelah baca2 di kompas.com
ternyata memang parah..
sedih rasanya..

Semoga badai cepat berlalu..
dan kita selalu dalam lindunganNya

Klepon

These are the sticky rice balls (known as klepon in my home country) i made for the international day at campus

They taste much better than i thought, and very easy to make

Ppl keep asking about the green colour, when i said it’s from pandan leaf, they have no idea what that is

Maybe ppl are just scared that i might use some kind of dangerous food colouring..

Well, if it’s so.. i bet they won’t get killed by a tiny little ball.. bener2 deh!

Anyway.. “dagangan”ku habis pada hari itu, he2..

Merdeka 2009

Hampir aja lupa kalo hari ini tgl 17 agustus, abis di sini kagak libur sih, malah jam 7 pagi uda harus berangkat kerja Untung ini hari terakhir nguli, merdekaaa..!! rasanya. Tapi ada senengnya juga nguli, dapet duitnya lumayan Ternyata.. aku masih matre, aku pikir masa2 itu telah berlalu, ha2..

Selamat HUT yg ke 64 utk Indonesiaku.. Berjayalah !

Dan berbahagialah kita yg hidup dalam era kemerdekaan. Terima kasih utk semua yg telah memperjuangkannya bagi kami.

Pic taken from here

memories

This post is about my school, SMA Negeri I Tanjung Pinang.

It’s been sooo.. long since I graduated from senior high school. I have always thought about visiting my school every time I went back to my hometown, but I don’t know why I never did, even it’s just a walk away.

I’m so happy that I finally went there with hubby last april on our trip back home. Nothing much has changed though, except a couple of new buildings here and there. Even my old classroom looked exactly the same

It was a favorite public school at that time (I don’t know if it is still now). To be accepted, you must have at least 37 points from national exam in junior high. As for those who were chinese by born like me, it was 41 points. So if you could get into that school, you were considered the top ones in town

Our favorite sport at that time was basketball, and our favorite hang out place was at Atong’s canteen. Sumpeh, gw kangen banget sama makanan2 kecil di kantin Atong

I still remember all of my teacher’s faces, not all of their names though. As we went there on saturday.. so, all I could see was some students doing assignment together. They do look much younger than we were before.

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Dulu sering ngobrol sambil sandaran di tiang2 itu

These are new.. except that basketball field. I remember we had more trees around that.

We didn’t have such nice benches back then, our were made from wood, not even painted.

My old classroom.. masih sama jeleknya spt dulu, ckckck.. new board though

I was a bit surprised when I saw my high school diploma again, I graduated with flying colors..
That 7 was from mathematics, yee.. i was suck in it, and i still am.. Sin, cos, cosine?, tangen, integral.. all just don’t make sense to me That’s why when they put me in the fhysics class on our second grade, 2 weeks later I requested to be transfered to the economics class.. gak ku2..
and cos I knew what I want, I wanted to be an accountant, cieee..

People always say that memories from SMA is the sweetest, no doubt.. those 3 good years

Mall di Jakarta

Hanya ada satu kata.. “takjub”

Mall2 di Jakarta emang bikin takjub. Baru ditinggal setaon, pas pulkam kemarin ngeliat mall2 baru di Jakarta, gile.. sampe gak henti2nya aku berdecak kagum dan sekaligus kaget.

Ato mungkin krn uda lama tinggal di kota yg kecil ini, jadinya seperti baru keluar dari kampung, he2.. Maklum laa, mall terbesar di sini mungkin hanya setara Pasar Baru dalam bentuk lebih modern aja, he2..

Bukan cuma mall2 baru yg dibangun semakin besar dan megah, seperti Pacific Place dan Grand Indonesia (GI), tetapi mall2 lama juga uda pada berubah makin canggih, Plaza Indonesia (PI) misalkan. Sempat heran juga waktu berkunjung ke PI, uda berubah banget.. keren abis.

Dulu mall Taman Anggrek dan PIM mungkin yg paling keren, tetapi skrg mungkin uda gak ada apa2nya lagi dibanding Pacific Place dan GI. Masih ada 2 ato 3 mall baru yg gak sempat aku kunjungi waktu itu. Hmm.. emang Jakarta tu tiada matinye

Kadang hati ini suka sedih, kalo orang2 di sini ato bagi orang2 yg belum pernah ke Indo, pasti mereka itu pikirnya Indonesia tu miskin banget. Soalnya berita di TV sini ngenai Indo tu biasanya cuma bencana alam dan demo2 doang.

Malah ada yg mengira bahwa airport di Indo itu adanya cuma di Bali doang.. ampunn dee !! siapa yg kampungan, cobaa..

Belum tau aja mereka kalo di Indo tu banyak orang kaya, dan hidup tidaklah susah, kiri kanan ada pembantu, he2.. Na, mungkin yg hidup susah tu ya para pembantu ini, he2.. Tapi kayaknya gak juga ya, soalnya kan majikan suka gak di rumah, abis kerja ya santai2 aja nonton sinetron, he2..

Yaa.. uda mulai ngelantur ceritanya.. ciao dulu ah

The Pacific Place…

Di kelong

Kalo ada yg belum pernah dengar istilah “kelong”, bagiku sih wajar2 aja, sepertinya kata tsb cuma dipake di kampungku jadul

Kelong, ‘e’ disini dibaca spt ‘e’ pada kata bebek adalah rumah ato gubuk kecil yg dibangun di tengah laut ato tepi laut utk menangkap ikan dan teman2nya.

Di kampungku banyak terdapat kelong spt itu pada jaman dahulu, sekarang uda rada jarang krn perkembangan tehnik penangkapan ikan yg semakin canggih.. dan bagi pemilik yg kreatif dan pinter masak.. dibikinlah restoran seafood di dekat kelong.

Pas kemarin pulkam kita sempat singgah di 2 rumah makan di tepi laut. Bagi yg belum pernah tau kelong… inilah dia, kelong beserta makanan dan pemandangan di sekitarnya

Sempet seneng juga waktu ngeliat pohon kelapa di tepi laut.. di sini gak ada laa..