Thursday, July 25, 2013

Kimchi. Kimchi. Kimchiii!!!


Ok guys, yeah, I know, yesterday I broke my own challenge. For my excuse, I skipped yesterday because I got a really bad mood due to the heat, and it caused everything went not smooth that day…, one of it, I lost a lot of photos from my Blackberry because of the broken SD card. DAMN! It ruined my day a lot :(

But today is Friday… yeaaa, a day closer to weekend, so I will talk about… FOOD. Sounds ‘gluk’ right? (I am fasting now, and writing this post makes my stomach a little bit noisy, hehehe).

A while ago, I posted in Facebook the video of my sister making “kimchi”, yes, that famous Korean dish. I was really excited. Why? Because, the video was made by me, as editor, and my husband, as cameraman. And the video is made for video competition (ok, my sister know more about this than me). And…, actually my sister can not cook a dish (she can only bake), except this. And it is the yummiest kimchi I ever taste, even than those in Korean restaurants.


So, when we (me and my husband) visited my hometown (I come back hometown for once every two-three weeks), my husband taped my sister doing the cook. Really, it was not as simple as it seems, cooking kimchi needs almost a day!! And I, honestly, am not a very patient cooker. I don’t really like to cook such very slow food like that :p

Oke, here is the video!




Then, when I tasted it… As I mentioned, it still the yummiest kimchi I ever taste!!! It taste fresh, a bit spicy and sour, and doesn’t taste weird at all. Above all, I love the crunchy texture of nappa cabbage, carrots and radish inside. Kraus Kraus…

Okay, if you interested for the detailed recipe, let me know, I will ask my sister and send it to you or post again in this blog.

See you tomorrow, and keep excited on writing (this part I talked to myself, hohoho!)

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Begin Again.


Hello all!

Since it is Ramadhan, how is your fasting? I already broke three days because of fever :( hiks. But now, I do it happily and healthy. Wish can do it well till the last. OSH!

Yea, I know I didn’t post anything for quite long time, as always. Since I got busy with thesis, wedding, and such stuffs.  And now, I am totally jobless, just doing nothing everyday. Then my husband told me to start writing again to fill my time than wasting it. Hehehe. So that, inspired by the photo or blog challenges in Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and blog, now I challenged myself to write. To fight against this laziness, and to make my brain work again :D

I admit it, after Multiply closed the socmed features, I become desperately disappointed. I had been there for around 4 years and felt so comfortable with it and mainly with the community. I gained friendship in it with many good and great people, and aaaah… WHY I BECOME SO MELANCHOLIC AGAIN??!! Stop it, I have to move on and… here, I begin again.

I really want to gather my passion in writing again. Actually it is one of my favorite activities. But I don’t know how I become this lazy to write again, even updating Facebook status, event tweeting!! Hoooossh…, this is not good.

Ok, first, I wrote a plan for my own weekly writing challenge. Here we go!

MON – book 
TUE – photo 
WED – what’s new 
THU – live in Thai 
FRI – food 
SAT – movie 
SUN - travel

Yeah! Seems nice. Let’s see how will I do with this challenge. But I feel excited about this. I wish you guys also ;)

Since today is Wednesday, so the topic is… WHAT’S NEW.

What is the ‘what’s new’ today? Many stuffs!

Because I just start writing again, I wanna briefly summarized what was happened in me lately.


One – Got Married

This is the most wonderful thing I ever experience, with the most wonderful love of my life. Hyehehe… and really, married life is amazing. Somehow, it is not that easy to get used with this new life, since I get used to live alone within these two years. Got used to make decision by myself somehow made me feel uneasy to negotiate for deciding many stuff. But this is the beauty of marriage, sharing, and I have to learn more. So far, my husband is very patient in comforting me adjusting the new life *kiss kiss


my father kissed me on forehead

bride shower

groom shower

I wish they'll be the next, my sister and her boyfriend

my husband-to-be :*

with my sister in bachelorette party

with my beloved cousins

my besties... not complete though

after the vow

my family... *hugs

my new family... *hugs

to be a beautiful Javanese bride, hehehe

we are now married

Ve is coming across the sea to attend my wedding *hugs (thanks also to mba Dipta...)


and this is the whole new family... *double hugs and kisses

Aaa, if you wanna know how was my wedding, here is my wedding video made by my best friends in FIAGRA. Check this out!


Two – I am now MSc

After those gloomy times, full of tears and headache, I finally finished my master study in AIT. And yeah, studied disaster management was a disaster for me… I got a lot of hard times during the study, such difficulties somehow turned me into stress.  However, beside those hardship, like a disaster, there always good things behind. I got good friends, not only in class but also in entire institute, they’re really good and helped me a lot in releasing stress and even encourage me to do something great for my study. And well, the study also gave me chances to many unpredictable things that I only dreamed before. One of it was going to Japan :)


with papa and mama

with my little sister ^3^

with my husband

with Mill, one of my best friend in AIT

with my girls classmate

with Indonesian girls, we entered together, graduated together!

Three – Go again to Japan

Yay! Finally officially got scholarship for my doctoral study in Kyoto University, Japan. Seems great, but I kinda feel worry about myself. Sometimes I thought that I’m not such a diligent student that can glue my head to books and works. I love to be on the outdoor, enjoy traveling while doing my research. Really, I love doing research since I did it for my bachelor, it was fun (but my master research was really not fun, hehehe). Japan may be tougher than I ever experienced before. In this point, I have to force myself to be better, to be ready for the tougher study. But I pray to Allah to give me such a fun study in there… Amiin. Plus, my husband is planning to accompany me and also study for his master (and also doctoral, amiin) in Kyoto. Wish our plan going well as planned *praying

Four – Running a blog again

Hehehe, as I mentioned in the beginning, I will write again! Please kindly follow my blog and leave responds, this will be so much fun to interact with you guys. I know I should move on from Multiply, and gaining friends again in other media.

Okay, this is for a new beginning.

Yoroshiku nee ^_^


PS: thanks to my brother Nadira Amal for the header, finally you made it ;p