Cooking time!

Yesterday I spent 5 hours in the kitchen to play table tennis....

Triple duh! Of course not. I cooked 3 kinds of dishes: ragut ayam (chicken ragout), hotplet kangkung daging sapi dengan telor puyuh (beef and chinese watercrest hot plate with quail eggs), and tahu telor (egg tofu). Today, I also cooked bakwan sayuran (deep fried vegetable dough). The recipes come from Dekap and Keluarga Nugraha. Thanks a lot to both sites for providing the easy recipes.

The ragout took lots of time to make. The result was not as good as my mom's Risoles (similar food with the same filling), but it is still edible. I was actually proud to be able to make it. The hot plate was perfect! I bought the real kangkung this time. Last time I mistakenly bought a different vegetable that was too chewy, I still finished it though. Hehe... The tofu resulted in something completely different, because I ran out of eggs after making the ragout. It still tasted good =D The vegetable dough just needed a little bit of salt and pepper, otherwise it was great. Haha.. I guess I still need to learn more on how to cook better. But seriously, I'm so proud of myself coz three years ago I could only boil water, make instant noodles, and fry eggs. YeaY! Go go Pei!!! ^^

And to Mr. SanSan WaWa, I was actually gonna let you eat my food. Too bad you weren't here, so I'm just gonna present you some pictures of it now xP~~~


Ragut Ayam (Chicken Ragout)


Hotplet Kangkung Daging Sapi dengan Telor Puyuh (Beef and Chinese Watercrest Hot Plate with Quail Eggs)


Nasi Putih dengan Tahu Telor (Rice with Egg Tofu)


Bakwan Sayuran (Deep Fried Vegetable Dough)

Shoujo Dream

I think I have to reduce the amount of manga that I read, or dorama and stuff like that. Especially stories about Japanese high school girls. I think I watch or read those kind of stories too much. Hahaha.. I actually do like them a lot, because it's full of colors and romantic! When I say it's full of colors I mean it in a connotative way. It doesn't necessarily mean I read full-colored manga, if you know what I mean. I think it's like a fantasy to me. I really wanted to experience all those stuff if I could. You know, stuff like high school cultural festival, Tanabata festival, sports festival, making and giving chocolate on the Valentine's day, walking with a boyfriend under a light snow while viewing a great scenery on the Christmas eve, all those stuff that you can read in girls manga. Hehehehe... But somehow it's a bit too much until a similar manga storyline got into my dream last night. When I think about it again, I just couldn't believe I had that kind of dream. Hahaha... But I guess it's a fun thing to share with, since I've never dreamt something like this before.

It began when my friends and I got into a concert site for a famous new music duo. We didn't have the tickets, I don't know why. Maybe because I wasn't a fan of them before. So basically we just took a peek on those singers since we were allowed to be on the site until the show started. One of them is a girl, a gorgeous one! She looked so energetic and pretty, and I felt like I wanna take a picture with her. But too bad the show was starting, so the security asked us to leave. Then I decided just to hang out outside until the performance was finished, and I would take a picture with her.

I walked around outside to kill the time; there were some free food for the guests but the staff didn't know who were guests and who weren't, so I just picked up some food. In my dream, I even remembered about fasting time, I asked the staff if it was Friday because I saw bacon on the food. Fortunately it was Thursday so I could eat the food. Before I knew, the show had finished. I spotted the other singer, a guy, and with lots of effort I brought him to my group of friends. I asked him to wait there because I wanna find the gorgeous girl and take a picture together. I did find the girl, and it was all fine. I asked her to come along with me but when I reached back to my group of friends, she wasn't there anymore. I don't know, it was very crowded so I couldn't see her anymore. Maybe other fans were trying to take pics or get signature from her too.

The guy said it didn't matter, so the two of us took a pic together. He was taller than me, so he bent his knee and reached my shoulder so the picture looked kinda cute. Hmmm... a nice guy, I thought. And when I looked at him and thought about it again, this singer was actually pretty cute! He had a long hair, shoulder-length. Just the type that I like in a manga. Then all my friends, me and him took a pic together again. I stood beside him, and I leaned closer to him. And apparently, we were very close to each other, so after we took the picture.................. I got kissed.

And that's the end of the story. Because my alarm clock went off and it showed the time was already 11 am. Hahahaha... So that's the story, pretty cool huh? I've never had this kind of shoujo dream before. But seriously, the guy was cute! Kakkoi desu ne.... =P~~

Eating Healthy

Recently I'm trying to have a healthy meal everyday, though I realize this costs quite a big amount of money, as my spending on groceries becomes double than usual. But if it can help me to stay healthy, I don't mind.

I try my best to fulfill the principle that everyone in Indonesia has learned since he/she was in the kindergarten: 4 Sehat 5 Sempurna (in English it literally means '4 Healthy 5 Perfect'. Hmmmm... Sounds weird. Hahaha...) Well anyway, 4 Sehat 5 Sempurna states that for a meal, people should eat enough carbohydrates, meats, veggies, and fruits to make them healthy; to make it more perfect, they should also drink milk. That's the gist of it.

So here is what my last week meal looked like everyday:
Carbs - Rice, Garlic Bread, Muffin
Meats - Beef, Pork, Imitation Crab, Meatball (a.k.a Steamboat)
Veggie - Spinach
Fruit - Banana
Drinks - Chocolate Soy Milk, Water, Apple Juice
Desserts - a block of Dark Chocolate or a block of Ferrero Rocher, Chocolate Ice Cream
Snacks - Chocolate Hazelnut flavored Pirouette, Kebbler's Soft Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies
Others - Egg

Yeah, I'm trying to gain weight. But the weird thing is that I keep losing weight although I keep eating and sleeping. Hahaha...

Anyway, this week is a week of cooking! I cooked a lot. Seriously... For someone who lives by herself, I cooked 4 kinds of dishes. Cool huh? Yesterday I made Teriyaki Beef and Ayam Bakar ala Edo (Edo's BBQ Chicken), though the chicken was not successful at all. Just now I made Cah Sosis Jagung Manis (Frank & Sweet Corn) and Tumis Sapi Lada Hitam (Black Pepper Beef). Yeay! Now I don't have to worry about not having any food to eat but lazy to cook. The Black Pepper Beef is kinda bold though. If I eat it without rice, it will be too hot.

The recipes for Tumis Sapi Lada Hitam and Cah Sosis Jagung Manis are from this website. Thanks for the site-owner ^^


Tumis Sapi Lada Hitam. I didn't put kapri (I don't know the English word for it) because I don't like it.


Cah Sosis Jagung Manis

Funny video

Watch hyde's expression here. He was so funny till I laughed so hard. Poor him though, he looked so frightened...



If you want to watch the complete version with English subtitle, Arc in the Sky (the team that generously provides the subtitle) has a torrent download link for it.

aku dan kamu

Berulang kali ku tahan gejolak dalam diri
Gatal, jari-jemariku tergelitik tuk menekan tombol-tombol berteknologi tinggi
Tatkala namamu muncul di sudut layar lebar berukuran 13 inci
Biarpun ku terus-menerus menerapkan sikap pengendalian diri dari ilmu bertajuk kemoralan yang selama 18 tahun mengindoktrinasi pikiran seorang pelajar
Toh akhirnya runtuh juga
Kutekan segiempat biru berlabel namamu itu
Dan kutulis...
an kupanggil...
Dan ku beri sejuta alasan untuk bertanya dan berbicara
Hanya denganmu...
Dan kau jawab aku,
Dan kau beri ku setitik harapan,
Dan kau berusaha seminimal mungkin untuk tidak melukaiku,
Dan ku tetap mengerti,
Kamu palsu
Tapi,
Ternyata,
Aku masih mengharapmu

hanya ku

Kulihat punggungmu semakin menjauh
Kau pergi
Dan ku takkan dapat melihatmu lagi
Terakhir kalinya ku ingin melihatmu
Sekilas saja

Namun
Detak jantungku serasa berhenti
Ketika kau berbalik
Dan ku segera menyembunyikan mataku
Harapanku

Namun
Dari sudut mataku
Sekilas ku merasa
Kau melihatku
Walaupun hanya sedetik
Dua detik

Sekejap pikiranku terbang melayang
Apakah halusinasi?
Patutkah kulambungkan kembali mimpiku?
Inginku?

Dan ketika kuadukan segenap nyawaku
Kucoba
Kau tak bicara
Hampa
Bisu

Kau balikkan punggungmu sekali lagi
Menjauh
Tanpa menoleh
Dan ku tahu
Semuanya hanya ku

15 Desember 2006
Kata-kata yang berhamburan keluar di antara kekacauan ujian sekolah

missing you

As I realize I might not be able to see you anymore this year, I keep dreaming about you when I'm in the middle of my sleep. I know I should focus more on my finals, and the logic says it's good that I won't be able to see you so that I can focus more on my study. But my brain and my heart are not synchronized, they just don't go together. If only there is any functionality like in the JAVA programming, by using the keyword synchronized or by using a binary semaphore to limit an entry into a critical section, perhaps I won't get easily distracted like this. Oh gosh, how much I really want to see you. Do you even realize that I'm longing for you? All the good time that we had together, as well as the bad times that made me so frustrated, I will cherish all of them. But please, let me get some peaceful rest. Get out of my mind just for a little bit, will ya?

December 14, 2006
* A modern poem written by Pei
** If there is any similar situation, it is just a mere coincidence. I am not responsible for anything that you feel after reading this post.