30 days blogging challenge
There are 5 simple ways to catch my attention:
Sincere Smile
I will guess people are giving me a sincere smile or just-only one. For me, a sincere smile is smiling with your eyes. Not something that you do with just lift one of your lip corners and left the other still in its place. Keep it for several seconds and face-to-my face till you end your smile.
Good Speaker
I am kinda shy when meet new people. That's why I will really thank if those new people are good speakers, so they will be the ones that start the conversation. I am a good listener but hating to be asked so many questions in adjacent time. I also really get pissed off by the same questions been asked more than twice. But, ask me to listen to the your whole story only without asking if I have any opinion is more annoying.
Keep Your Promises
To be honest, I'm a forever-kid. Don't you ever try to say any promise to me. I can't hear a promise. I will take it seriously and never forget to request you to make your promise to be a realization. Lol.
Good Foods
Haiya. I love to eat so much. I had said this several times, I can enjoy foods though they are not tasty at all. How can I resist if you give me so yummy foods?
Cute Stuffs
I smile every time I see cute stuffs. Feel the happiness when touch them. I can't bear to ignore them. I'll fly if you give them to me. You are a pro if you give them to me in pink.
I think I will stop this 30 days blogging challenge but I'm sure I still have the chance to finish it. hehe. The topic for today is with whom we want to have some dinners includes the menus. I'll also choose the people (randomly) from other countries (some of whom are popular people) with the menus which instead of being favorite meals, they are something I can only see the pictures from Google. But at least I ever heard about the foods from some dramas. hehe.
Bondan Winarno
He is the one who pioneered a very well known culinary tour community in Indonesia. Every food no matter how we imagine it will taste, will look so delicious if it is eaten by him. Moreover if he uttered his characteristically expression "Pokoke maknyus!". Hmm.. He can influence people to think they should open their door and go anywhere to find those foods. Lol. I want to ask him to have this as our dinner:
Mie Rebus Medan and orange juice. Yes, I'm a roadside food lover. About this one, I can explain the food in detail. It's one of my forever-favorite cuisine. Mie Rebus Medan is a stick noodles (the white one) served with the thick sauce made of shrimps, palm sugar, galangal, lemongrass, onions and garlics, bay leaves, and other unsayable seasonings. With boiled potatoes and egg, fried tofu and traditional red-and-white crackers and hot water-dipped bean sprouts as the complement. Add cayenne paste to balance the sauce sweetness and sprinkle with fried onions and celery. Orange juice is just the best partner to me.
Mario Maurer
Thailand's signature cuisine Tom Yum and iced watermelon drink (Nam Dang-Mu Pan) as the drink. I prefer the Tom Yum with rice of course.
Lee Min Ho
Bulgogi with rice and mineral water is enough I think. As South Korea is very well known for its Soju.
My friend, Fani
Fani is so into Italian foods. And the easiest way to find the Halal one in Medan is Pizza Hut for sure. I'll choose black pepper fettuccine for me and lasagna for her. For the drink, she rarely sees the drinks on the list. She will ask if there is any avocado drink or not and she will order it. And I will order Blue Ocean.
My Cousin, Noni
She my best cousin and best partner in enjoying foods in Es Teler 77. Baso super spesial jumbo (special super jumbo meatballs) for me and Mie ayam bakso (meatballs chicken noodles) for her. For the drink, we never turn from the Es Teler.
Everyday I always have some blogs to be my reading. I read some of them because I need the informations they serve, I read some because they are my friends in real life; they are my college friends, I also read some because I love to do so. It can be their writing style which interests me to bookmark their blogs or their stories are indeed lovable to read. Sometimes I learn a lot by reading their blogs. Some of them are successfully amazed me and make me desire to build my own blog.
Here my five favorite blogs in sequence alphabetically:
I super love Ce Vania's blog. It suits her blog title, her blog is about the delicious foods and their recipes and her cute family's adventure to visit various places in this country. She writes in English so well, like a native. She is so smart in arranging the words and make the sentences building a full blogpost chronologically. Her photography skill is like a pro. Every places can be an adventure for their family. Even they can snatch memorable moments from a traditional market, museums, any festivals and train station. She can make no matter what food it is, looks so yummy. A muddy traditional market can be looked an artsy photo by her hand. I follow her blog and enjoy her family's story. Since they got their first daughter, the second son, and now the children are in their pre-teens age. I follow their stories when they moved to stay in India, Malaysia and now they are in Indonesia. I am a fan!
pictures are credited to her blog.
Hey. He is the organizer of the 30 days blogging challenge. He's a Tiong Hoa blogger but so nationalist in my sight. I mean, the race issue is very sensitive case in this country. He is not too biased to any ethnicity. His writing can make me like looking directly what happen in his writing. He makes them in a very detailed way. He is so friendly to reply any comment in his posts and answer the questions not in a to-taste way. He even gave a patient answer when someone left, according to me, something inappropriate questionable. And now I like to follow his journey of studying in China.
She is a Malaysian blogger. I love to read her adventures of visiting various countries around the world and her writing skill to retail what had happened within her travels are very interesting. She is fashion blogger, too, I think. She has a unique taste in fashion, like her hair.
They are two blogs actually. Written by Dee for Kutudrama and Fanny for Kdramatized. They are partner in crime to write the full synopsis of Korean dramas. I am sure they are good at English, that's why their writings are very comfortable readable since the online-watching K-dramas give English subtitle.
I know it is a site but please let me put it in my list. This site will serve you everything you need to know about Illuminati, in deep analysis and include supporting theories. No one is missed from VC's observations: movies, ads, musics and their clips, fashions, social phenomenon, and even any policy by the government of a particular country. My favorite segment is the Symbolic Pic of The Month, where the author (s) collect pictures from any publication papers like magazines or something like that, and give the analysis about those photos.
I still have another good blogs to read but they are my top five. Do enjoy those links I've attached.
Finally I can continue the 30 days blogging challenge by Emotional Flutter. One week stayed in my granny's home, I had completely lost contact with my blog. I brought my modem so I could make some posts with Noni's notebook but I didn't know how to do the setting as the signal was found but the operator was not.
The topic for this day-15 is what super power I wish to have and how I will use it. Ouch, what an imaginative person Ko Keven is. Lol. I love being a 'normal' human being like bleeding when got cut with knife and wait several days to heal and need some transportations to reach some places. Lol.
But to be honest back when I was a kid, I ever dreamt to have a magic pencil like what Sanju owned in Shaka Laka Boom Boom. I wished I could make the delicious beef balls and noodle soup just by drawing them on a piece of paper and taa-daa they would be real.
And now, if only I could ask to have some super powers, I will not ask to be given flying ability since there are already too many cameras nowadays. People can snap me flying at any time and I don't want to be the center of attention and make people assume I was one of those extraterrestrials what people called alien. I am also not very interested in the ability of disappear in one wink. That's too implausible and really not human being. Lol.
Sometimes I felt someone acted too polite or told too sweet words to me. Those exaggerated actions kinda made me gave them negative thinking. Was I that good? What they really wanted to convey? What they want to get from me? Was that because their relationship with my parents? and something like that. And it's also not rare I found people with sharp as knife tongue who actually had so sweet hearts. That's why I think it will be a wonderful gift if I could be a mind reader. haha. You can't lie to me! I can read your mind.
That will be really great, right? I can know what the backstabbers want to do to me so I will be able to reverse the situation. Those too sweet words, I can find what the true purpose is the speaker utter them. Besides that, there is no special sign which will make people know I have a super power as long as I don't make it as a gossip subject. Lol. But living this life just the way it is, without adding some forced things, is the best way a human can do. According to me...
Hmmmm.. I don't know how to convey my thought about the topic for this Day-14 of 30 days blogging challenge by Emotional Flutter. I'm not a successor of Nostradamus since I never believe in any prophecy. I always avoid praying in any social media, no matter what its occasion. So, let me use this post as another words assembling exercise. haha.
Proper Job
- I will have a settled job with so good salary,
- With 'not dictator' boss, willing to listen to his/her employee's opinions,
- Cooperate with responsible and patient people since I am someone with learning difficulty, in a very healthy work environment,
- With no restrictions on religious activities,
- No prohibition of dating among the co-workers,
- Free outing once every six months. Lol
Good Living
- Live in a healthy and lovely environment,
- Meet so many kind hearted with good attitude people,
- Nice home with large yard where there are a beautiful garden and a private swimming pool,
- Facilitated with hi-tech household appliances, so I can say goodbye to broom and mop.
- Friends with very friendly girls,
- Meet a man with higher level of faith, having almost perfect subsistence, loving and patient, and of course young and single. haha.
There is no any big change I can make in the period of this 2 years. The most substantial of course I could finish my S1 belonging timely. But it is less able to be recognized as a success because until now, I have not found a place that would accept my service in commensurate exchange called a salary.
Maybe I'm too picky. S1 turns out to be an unwritten rule, which I claim myself to be able to get a job that most people called "decent job" for S1. Though there is still no provision for what categories to show a decent profession for S1 too for sure, right? There are, anyway. The dogma from our community! And I've already swallowed it, so be patient with the opportunity to get what is called a proper job is the only thing I can do. Do not want to be a hypocrite as well. I did very little effort.
In this two years, I also began to understand as the name: the treatments that we give to other people, have a major influence on any outcome that we receive from any intention we want to do. So I started to learn to control the nature of my easily angry. Yes, despite good intentions certainly be an easy target for the devil to ruin. haha. Every time it came for me to do some good intentions, there's always temptation that made me really hard for restrain anger.
Patient.. Patient..
It's my biggest target.
Yeayyy.. I have entered the twelfth day of 30 days blogging challenge by Emotional Flutter. Topic for this Day-12 is about my favorite TV shows. I have some and I'm really sure most of you will list them as the favorite shows of yours, too. tee hee.
Kick Andy
It's a talkshow by Andy F. Noya in Metro TV. How to talk in this program is similar to the way in Oprah by Oprah Winfrey. Kick Andy began broadcasting on March 1, 2006 to present. This event presents informative, educational and inspiring real-life stories. Guests are presented is not limited by profession, so many exciting stories about the lives of people throughout Indonesia. In demeanor, host Kick Andy has unique character and language style. In each of the question points that are direct asked sarcastically but instead inviting laughter, and the speaker feel comfortable when answering questions. Like its predecessor Oprah, Kick Andy always handing out free best seller books written by the famous writers. Source.
I have the two most memorable episodes from Kick Andy. The first one is the episode of Jugun Ianfu where the speakers were Mardiyem and Emah who were the victims of Japanese colonial violence who were still alive at that time (4-5 years ago if I'm not mistaken). That episode had opened my eyes that there are some things I never know about our national history. I never find any explanation about Jugun Ianfu in any book of History class I had when I was a school student. But my younger blogger friend told that he ever found about Jugun Ianfu in his History textbook.
Jugun Ianfu (従軍慰安婦) is a term used to refer to women who are victims of sexual slavery during World War II in the Japanese colonies and war zones. The women were forced to be satisfying the sexual needs of Japanese troops in Indonesia and also in other countries colonized by Japanese during the period 1942-1945. Source.
And the second is the episode which I forget what the title and when the episode aired is. Kick Andy invited Lt. Commander Alfredo. What makes me most remember this episode is where the interview held was never being revealed. Because at that time, Alfredo was a fugitive of Timor Leste Government. Even Timor Leste's president at that time, Xanana Gusmao, officially issued the arrest warrant of Alfredo, dead or alive. There was only black cloth as the background of the interview.
On The Spot
Knowing the variety of unique information from different parts of this world is the main attraction served by On The Spot. This informative program presents so many important, unique, entertaining and educational information which sometimes are unthinkable by us before. Accompanied by mild description and short video or pictures courtesy of YouTube, the most unique things sorted in terms of segment 7 versions of On The Spot. Like 7 most deadly viruses, 7 mysteries had been revealed, 7 most sadistic murders, 7 most mysterious dolls, 7 full of mystery songs.
Another lovely topic for this 30 days blogging challenge by Emotional Flutter. We are asked to make a post about our ideal (I prefer to call it favorite) menus for breakfast, lunch, diner and snacks. I eat not only for the reason of my body need, but I love to. I felt happy every time I was served with so delicious foods. And something I'm proud of myself is it's really rare found leftover on my plate! I can differentiate which food is tasty, but I refuse to use the not-tasty one as an excuse to throw the food to garbage.
But now I am on on-going OCD, so I do not have breakfast and diner. I still cannot increase my Fasting Hours and stay in my current Eat Window. That's the reason why I am not really breakup with my usual weight, maybe. Lol. But, I love food so much! Happy tummy, happy life! haha.
Note: Images are from Google
Breakfast
For breakfast, I always eat rice. Fried rice and Lontong Sayur (veggie rice cake) will be my favorite. The Lontong Sayur is not a dish you can make in only thirty minutes no matter it's only for a breakfast. You must boil the rice cake at least 8 hours to get the perfect texture. So, buy Lontong Sayur from my favorite lontong sayur seller with her pushed cart is the best option. For the drink, usually I got hot sweet tea but mineral water was the most often.
Lunch
Everyday I have rice as my main menu for the three-times-eat-a-day, I'm truly Indonesian. Here, you have not eaten if it's not rice. Lol. But, if I was not at home or was deliberately looking for food from the roadside stalls or the lovely traditional cuisines pushed carts, the choice would fall on Ayam Penyet (smashed fried chicken) and Meatball noodle.
Ayam Penyet is Indonesian dish consisting rice, fried chicken which had been smashed to make it softer, fried tempe (soybean cake) and tofu, sliced cucumbers and raw cabbage and long beans with the spicy sambal (condiment) which was made with the mixture of chillis, onions, garlics, tomatoes, belacan (a seasoning made from fermented fish and / or rebon shrimp, shaped like a dough or pasta and coloured black-brown) and lime juice.
For the drinks, the spicy dishes need some sweet and refreshing drink. I'll choose ice young coconut and ice lemon tea. For the ice young coconut, I really love if it was added with kasturi juice and liquid brown sugar.
Diner
I really like to have Mie Rebus Medan (Medan boiled noodle) and fried Kwetiau for my diner. Back when I was a college student, I and my housemates would walk to Griya to buy Mie Aceh to bring home as our diner. And for the drink, we ordered ice fruit soup.
Snacks
I don't really like snacking but I can't resist if you offer me the cup noodle called Pop Mie, chocolate ice cream and Bagelen (bread/bun spread with margarine, sprinkled with granulated sugar and then baked in the oven to dry) from Kartika Sari. haha.
The menus above are not the list I eat everyday. My mother will get mad if I do that unhealthy eating habits. Once in two weeks is enough, I think. *A healthy diet freak will call me crazy*. Lol. My mother serves us daily healthy food for our body. Veggies, fish, meat, or seafood.
My house is not that far to a beach. But, to be honest I never see the blue colored water sea which allows me to see the sand through the clear water . I never go travelling to some place where I will find that kind of landscape. I still love you, Lestari Indah, by the way. hehe. So, here some places I wish to visit someday.
. I never go travelling to some place where I will find that kind of landscape. I still love you, Lestari Indah, by the way. hehe. So, here some places I wish to visit someday.Note: images are from Google
Dari Sabang sampai Merauke, itu lah Indonesia...
From Sabang to Merauke, that is Indonesia...
Sabang
Beside the beautiful beaches, the other reason why I wish to visit Sabang is to see Indonesia's Monument of Zero Kilometre which is the starting point to measure the width of our beloved country. Sabang is a city located in Weh island.
Raja Ampat
Raja Ampat means Four Kings. It's not easy to come to this island, beside preparing a huge amount of money, you must be an educated person to be able to enjoy this heaven on earth. That's according to Sapta Norwandar, Indonesia's Deputy Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy.
The efforts to maintain its sustainability is by restricting the diving activities in Raja Ampat. The reason, the temperature released by the diver's body is feared could damage the coral reefs. That's why Sapta Norwandar told that it must be the qualified and educated people visiting Raja Ampat, so they can understand how to behave, not damage the coral reefs. Source.
What a random post! This is the result if an amateur must explain something she never see with her own eyes. No matter what, I have filled the Day-10 homework for 30 days blogging challenge. Lol.
“In life, you will realize there is a role for everyone you meet. Some will test you, some will use you, some will love you, and some will teach you. But the ones who are truly important are the ones who bring out the best in you. They are the rare and amazing people who remind you why it’s worth it.”
Unknown
“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.”
C.S. Lewis
“You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.”
Anatole France
“There’s something beautiful about keeping certain aspects of your life hidden. Maybe people and clouds are beautiful because you can’t see everything.”
Kamenashi Kazuya
“Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”
Lemony Snicket
“Never ignore a person who loves you, cares for you, and misses you. Because one day, you might wake up from your sleep and realize that you lost the moon while counting the stars.”
Nico Lang
“I can’t tell you the key to success - but the key to failure is trying to please everyone.”
Ed Sheeran
“I might appear confident and chatty, but I spend most of my time laughing at jokes I don’t find funny, saying things I don’t really mean - because at the end of the day that’s what we’re all trying to do: fit in, one way or another, desperately trying to pretend we’re all the same.”
Tabitha Suzuma
To: You ♥
I don't know how to call this a secret or a mystery
by God having sent me into your life.
by God having sent me into your life.
Since my first time presence in your days,
I'm sure you had designed so many beautiful dreams and hopes.
I really feel blessed for that.
Your sincerity, warmth,
and everything you had given, gives and will give to me.
Even if I have enough power to chase the whole people
away from this world
away from this world
and put it to your hands,
I will never be able to repay you.
But, time by time,
It's looked like I start to make you think
why it is not going as your expectation.
I change,
but you are still the same.
I make thousands mistakes,
you give millions forgiveness.
Please, let me be a little more greedier.
I hope you will be the same,
keep holding my hands.
Don't let me move out of range of your heart,
as you always say,
there's my name in every time you pray.
You, Mom and Dad
I Love you
Yesterday is history,
tomorrow is mystery,
today is gift.
tomorrow is mystery,
today is gift.
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It's like a backfire when I put "Time Traveller" in the polling section though I knew people MUST be choosing that option. But it's the consequence. I must write a post under that theme. Please take a note that it is only for fun. It's not something which I really hope it will happen to be real. As a Muslim, I believe in the strict prohibition of someone to be a daydreamer. "If only I trust her", "If only I did what she said", "If only I were the deceased Princess Diana's only daughter". Lol.
Time Traveller here is not like something we usually see Doraemon did with his time machine which could bring him and his friends, to go around the world. Like from Japan to hundreds years ago somewhere in Egypt. It 'limits' to the time since I was born and the places I have ever been in.
1. When I was a 6-or-7-months-old baby
I was born in a government-owned cocoa plantation and it was an incident in baby daycare where the parents in the plantation housing entrusted their children in when they were working.
My mom retailed:
When my mother came to the daycare to pick me up, the nanny innocently told her that she was confused why I cried. When my mother saw my condition, she was shocked for what had happened. I sobbed and there were some bite marks on my body. And it's predicted I'd cried for hours.
It turned out the other baby in the daycare who bite me. The nanny who was responsible to make everything under control asked my mother to resolve it amicably but she firmly refused that. She instead asked my father to complain the problem to the supervisor to discharge the nanny. Because the nanny left the babies and she was back to her home to do her personal activity. And it's true. According to my mother, the nanny never back to work in the daycare until her retirement.
The reason I 'want' to be back to that time is not because I want to sue her as the young adult version of the victim baby. Lol. But I 'want' to see how the bite process. Lol. Because my mother added that the incident had caused some hearsay the baby bite me was experiencing demonic possession. Once again, according to what my mother said, it's too hard to believe when seen from the bite marks, they were done by a baby. It's not only one bite mark but there were several which my mother called 'many'.
2. When everything was 100 times cheaper
Have your parents or someone told you that an amount of money at this time which can only buy one kind stuff, could be used to buy so many stuffs 20 years ago? Yes!! I 'want' to be back to the time where I could buy tens of grams of gold with my weekly pocket money and bring them back. Lol.
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