Monday, January 31, 2011

A little story about Charles Gray

Another inspiring story taken from my brother's english text book:)

"Who wants to be a Millionaire? I don't," says Charles Gray
Angus Deyton interviews ex millionaire Charles Gray

Sixteen years ago, Charles was a college professor with a huge six-bedroom house and a fortune of $2 million. Today he lives in a small caravan where there is only second-half furniture. There are certainly no signs that Charles was a rich man! There is a small garden outside with a few fruit trees. Charles grows some vegetables and a few flowers. He gets his clothes and a lot of other things from charity shops.

But this change is not a tragedy. Charles was happy to give up the lifestyle of a rich man. He was tired of being a person who had everything in a world where many people have nothing. He made the choice to give all his money away. And this, he says, has brought him happiness.

"A few years ago," says Charles, "Iwas a millionare, but I knew there were a lot of hungry people in the world." So he gave away all his money to charities. When he had two thousand dollars left, he gave away small bank notes in the street of local poor areas. Did he feel like Father Christmas? "It was a lot of fun," says Charles.

Charles believes that many people want to earn a lot of money so that they will not have any worries. However, most people never make much money. Charles Gray decided to drop out and has discovered that having only a little money makes you free. Are there any things he misses? "No, I'm much happier now. I wouldn't go back to being rich for anything - no way."

( Adapted from In Search of Happiness by Angus Deayton and Lise Mayer)

Friday, January 28, 2011

My antidote

This week has been completely hard, mentally. I'm thinking too much. I also thinking of unnecessary and unimportant things, really really wasting time. My high school mate ever said : if there's something sucks u up, go find antidote immediately. I did it. And my antidote was cooking! hohohohoho.....
For the first time in my life, I was cooking, 100% by myself. No mom, no her helping hand, just me alone at kitchen yesterday afternoon. I made Steam Cashew Brownies...haiiyahh...sounds great, eh? I read the recipe, ingredients and how to, looked easy, so I started cooking with big self-confidence. It was going well untiiiilll.....I realized my mistake while I mixing the dough. The title of the cook was STEAM, so it had to be steamed using steamer. But why oh why I took out OVEN.!! That was totally idiot. In recipe it told that it was
for a brass. It was wrong, the dosage in that recipe is enough to make 2 brass of brownies. Everything was going crazy. The tidy kitchen changed into a mess. But the point is, with all the craziness happened yesterday, I could stay calm and cool. I wasn't angry, didn't bark or threw any kitchen tools away that I used to to if something doesn't going right at kitchen. I practised the anger management, and it worked. I didn't really hope that my brownies would taste good cause of the previous craziness. But, it taste great, after all.! hahahaha..... I'm so happy.. My mom gave her compliment when she tasted it.
And today mom and I made Otak-otak, it's a spesific meal from south sulawesi. Mom ever made it, once. It was good, but it could be more yummy than that. So we tried cooking it using different recipe. I made the otak-otak, mom made the peanut sauce. The result is, better than before, but still can more than this hahahaha... We'll try again on the other time :)

Monday, January 17, 2011

Marriage, pernikahan, atau apapun namanya....

Today is my parents' 25th wedding anniversary. Dulu waktu masih SD aku selalu iri sama pasangan2 yang ngerayain ultah perkawinan perak, emas, dan apapun yang lebih dari itu. Bertanya-tanya, kapan ya pernikahan orang tuaku mencapai umur segitu? Gimana sih rasanya? sebagai orang tua maupun sebagai anak? And it happens today, finally hehehe.... Rasanya senang, bersyukur, sampai sekarang mereka masih sama2, masih mesra. Sebagai anak, aku cuma bisa berdoa sama Allah, semoga mereka langgeng selamanya, hanya dipisahkan oleh maut, amin..

Ngomong2 soal nikah ni ya, jadi inget jaman menjelang dan awal2 lulus kuliah. Waktu itu ngebet banget pengen nikah. Sampe2 berdoa biar dipertemukan sama jodoh hahahahaha...bodoooohhh..!!! Aku juga bingung koq dulu bisa punya keinginan yang amat sangat untuk SEGERA menikah ya... Oke, mungkin waktu itu kan baru lulus, masa depan masih buram, ga tau pastinya mau ngapain, nah kalo nikah kn pasti tu kerjaannya apa aja hehehe... Lagian temen2 juga udah mulai estafet pada nikah. Aku mikirnya kita dulu sekolah, main, nakalnya sama2 koq, umur juga sama. Masa mereka udah nikah trus aku belum?

Oke, itu dulu, tahun lalu dan tahun sebelumnya lagi. Sekarang malah kebalikannya. Nikah itu kayanya masih jauuuhh gitu, ga mau nikah dulu, ga mau mikirin nikah juga. Padahal temen2 makin banyak yang nikah, tapi aku ga kaya orang kebakaran jenggot lagi. Dulu juga punya terget nikah umur 25, sekarang malah masa bodoh sama umur. Aku benar2 memasrahkan sama Dia. Jujur aja, pengalaman gagal yang trakhir kemaren bikin trauma. Trauma pacaran. Serius deh, aku ngerasa terlalu menyakiti hati dia, walopun aku sendiri juga sakit sih. Tapi kan ide putus dulu datangnya dari aku. Dan sampai sekarang dia masih kaya gitu, makin bikin aku ngerasa bersalah. Dan kenangan yang dulu2 juga kalo diinget-inget masih suka bikin sakit, padahal semua itu kenangan yang baik, putus juga waktu itu baik2. Sekarang pengennya langsung nikah aja, tapi nanti, bukan sekarang hohohoho...
Allah pasti mendengarkan, maka mari berdoa semoga Dia mengabulkan :))

Saturday, January 15, 2011

A sucks thing called broken-hearted

Hari ini tanggal 15. Berarti 2 hari yang lalu tanggal 13 Januari, hari kamis. 2 hari yang lalu aku galau sekali, entah kenapa. Pokoknya soundtrack hari itu lagu patah hati smua. Tiap kali bersenandung (maafkan bahasanya yang terlalu unyu..) pasti ingetnya lagu2 patah hati. Bahkan ketika meu tidur malam pun diantar oleh:

                   Breathe - Taylor Swift ft. Colbie Caillat
                   Vanilla Twilight - Owl City
                   The Only Exception - Paramore

Tiga lagu itu aku puter masing2 3 kali. Rasanya sediiih. Tapi ga tau kenapa. Sampaaaiiii......kemaren malem. Liat status mantan di facebook dan ingatlah aku apa yang terjadi 13 Januari setahun yang lalu. Yep, that was the date we broke up. Aku inget siy tanggal itu. Tapi pas hari H nya malah lupa sama sekali, cuma ngerasa sedih banget hari itu, tanpa inget kalo kami putus setahun yang lalu.
Hmm..kira2 ada hubungannya ga ya? Yah kayak alam bawah sadar gitu..
It's been a year, and I'm still disable to let him go, 100%. But I keep trying, so that I can move on..

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Enjoy Cooking

Memasak adalah salah satu resolusiku taun 2011. Ralat, serius belajar memasak.
Sebenarnya aku ga bensi masak kalo lagi mood bisa semangad banget. Aku selalu bersemangat ketika mulai memasak. Yap, awal doank, yaah ampe proses pertengahan lah. Setelah itu, kalo bosen, atau kesulitan2 memasak mulai muncul, mulai deh ngamuk Dan thank God for giving a mother like my mom. Biasanya mama yang beresin segala kegilaan dan kekacauan yang udah aku ciptakan di dapur, dan semua terselamatkan, termasuk si masakan. Tapi ga mungkin kan kaya gitu terus. Aku juga pengen bener-bener bisa masak sendiri. Dan aq juga pengen ngilangin high-temprament kalo lagi di dapur, dan ga gampang nyerah kalo menemui kesulitan. Serius banget yak? hehehe...

Setelah aku pikir-pikir, kayanya aq tau deh penyebab aq gampang ngamuk kalo lagi masak. Aku terlalu fokus pada hasil akhir, sampe-sampe ga menikmati proses memasak itu sendiri. Aku berharap bisa sehebat mama didapur. Padahal itu kan butuh proses, mama belajar masak sejak masih gadis dulu. Dan mama belajar masak semata-mata karena beliau emang suka masak. Ga kayak aku, aku suka masak, tapi alasan aku memasak lebih didasarkan pada pembuktian kalo aku bisa kayak mama, masak apa aja selalu jadi dan enak. Mungkin bisa, tapi ga sekarang kaleeeee.....goblok emang.

Beberapa minggu lalu aku (akhirnya) nonton film Julie & Julia. Dan film itu berhasil menginsirasiku hohoho... Julie Powell did it. Gara-gara nonton itu, semangat belajar memasak muncul lagi. Kali ini dsertai kesadaran diri bahwa proses memasak itu harus dinikmati, kalo gagal ga boleh marah-marah kqkqkqkq...
Well, mulai taun ini aq list apa aja yang udah pernah aku bikin, plus sedikit campur tangan mama hehehe... Sejauh ini udah bikin:
> Udang goreng saus tiram
> Steak lidah sapi
> Tiramisu kukus

Pengen masak lebih banyak lagiiiii....!! :D

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Leonardo

Holla...
First saturday of this year. Gile, dah seminggu aja ya.
Orang pinter tu banyak ya. Jenius, brilian, dan sebangsanya lah. Apalagi jaman dulu, banyak penemu2. Favoritku nomor 1 pastinya Thomas Alva Edison. Terimakasih tak terhingga kepada Mr.Edison yang telah menemukan bohlam, Anda telah menerangi bumi ini. Dan yang lainnya kaya Walt Disney, Albert Einstein (walopun aq sama skali ga ngerti E = mc2 itu apaan xixixi...), Wright brothers, Da Vinci, etc.
Speaking about Da Vinci, well aq tau dy hebat, ilmuwan, pelukis juga dsb. Dulu punya komiknya juga. Nah dasar geblek, apa karena masih kecil ya, jadi dulu aq ga pernah benar2 ngeh sm apa yang dia lalukan untuk peradaban ini. Buatku dia hebat, seperti jenius2 lainnya. That's it. Until I found  interesting facts about him in my brother's old-english-textbook. Here it is...

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) was an incredible man. He worked as an architect, artist, mathematician and scientist. He also worked as a military engineer and was a good musician. When he was child, Leonardo liked school but he hated Latin. In 1466, Leonardo's family moved to Florence and he finished school. In 1482, he moved to Milan and started to work for the Duke of Milan. He designed many buildings for the Duke. He also studied Mathematics. His drawing for Anatomy of a Man showed him to be a great biologist. In 1502, he returned to Florence and painted the Mona Lisa. He carried this painting with him when he travelled. From 1514 to 1516, he lived in Rome and continued his scientific experiments. He died in France in 1519.

Oh, here is another facts:

He wrote from right to left - we needed a mirror to read his handwriting.
He could write one sentence with hid right hand and a different sentence with his left hand. At the same time.
He invented scissors.
He drew architect's plans but never built a building.
He had many talents. He made models and in his notebooks there were plans for a tank, a helicopter, and a submarine.
His scientific observations were a hundred years before his time.


Wow wow wow....aq cuma bisa mangap waktu pertama kali baca fakta ini. Aq tau dia jenius. Tapi aq bener2 baru tau kalo dia bisa melakukan banyak hal. Leonardo Da Vinci, may you rest in peace.

Monday, January 3, 2011

Galau lagi....

2011 so far so good. Kecuali fakta kalo sejak kemaren aq flu berat. Hhrrgh,,,payah. Kayanya urusan menjaga kesehatan juga harus masuk resolusi deh. Pas malem taun baru sebenernya udah brasa. Apa gara-gara asep sate itu yak kqkqkqkq.. Malem taun baru ngumpul bareng tetangga2 sekomplek,bikin acara makan2 plus karaokean di lapangan tenis. Menunya sate padang,bakso,ubi goreng,puding coklat,kacang rebus,pisang rebus...yummy mampus :p
Daaan..awal taun ini kayanya orang2 yang lagi galau tambah banyak..termasuk temen2ku. Dan ntah kenapa pula mereka bisa kompakan curhat ke aq pada waktu yang sama hahahahaa... Tapi ternyata itu ngaruh ke aq lho,bisa2nya hatiku yang lagi sehat2nya ini ikut2an galau,mulai barusan. Diawali dengan ngeliat foto mantan (oke,foto2),dan terhanyutlah perasaanku huhuhu... Remembering the past,when we're still together. Bukannya aq pengen balikan atau apa sih,tapi mengingat yang dulu2 tanpa harus sedih itu masih susah banget,ga nyangka juga kalo bakal se-menyiksa begini. Ternyata aq blum siap untuk memulai hubungan percintaan yang baru :((((
Aaaaaaarrrgghh galau juga deh guehh....

Saturday, January 1, 2011

2011

It's 2011.!!
Happy new year..!
Udah 2011 aja yah..sumpah perasaan taun 2010 koq cepet banget yak..kayanya desember akhir 2009 tu blum lama deh,taun baruan 2010 di kos sm anak2,tau2 skarang udah 2011 aja..
Well,for me 2010 means alot. Tahun yang berat. Tenang aja,aq ga jadi TKW koq hehehe...Tahun yang apa ya..ya itu,berat. Paling sering mikir,sering brantem sm pikiran sendiri,belajar lebih mengenal diri sendiri (udah setua ini,doh..) dan ternyata I found many things..baru dan kadang2 mengejutkan. But I've been trying to control them,as smooth as I can. I control my emotion too. Sometimes I found myself getting upset easily,and I hate that. So I try to change it,make peace with my own heart. Just like Mario Teguh said "Damaikanlah hatimu,karena jika engkau membuat kesalahan,akan selalu tersedia pintu untuk penerimaan dari perbaikan dan pemafaannya." or "Tuhanku Yang Maha Penyayang,damaikanlah hatiku yang mudah gelisah ini. Lambatkanlah kemarahan dari membakar hatiku.". Indah ya?
Banyak terimakasih kepada @Marioteguhquote, @ihatequotes, @pepatah atas banyak tweet inspiratifnya. Dan aq mencoba memahami nasehat2 bijak itu,trus direnungi dan mengaplikasikannya,bukan cuma sekedar mengagumi bahwa quote2 itu memang bagus dan kata2nya indah. Pokoknya tahun kemaren belajar banyak lah tentang aq,hidup,aq dan hidup,...
Dan mulai tahun ini,aq menulis resolusi. Yap,menulis. Maksudku,kali ini resolusi itu kutulis,buka cuma sekedar make wishes pas malam taun baru atau pas doa di sholat subuh tanggal 1 Januari. Yang kayak gitu malah gampang lupanya. Karena cuma diucapin,sekali doank pula,dan aq orangnya pelupa abis. Jadi sekarang mulai lebih serius. Kemaren udah nulis,dan ternyata list nya panjang hahahahahahah.... Intinya,aq mau lebih banyak bersyukur,terus bersyukur,seberat dan seburuk apapun keadaanya. Sulit kayanya bersyukur kalo lagi marah atau sedih,tapi sulit kan bukannya ga mungkin. Beside,I have a Great God :)))
Once again,happy new year.! More happiness,more prosperity..:)
Bismillah..