Ultrabook Impian 2: ASUSPRO Advanced BU401LA

Masih tentang pencarian laptop impian saya, tulisan ini merupakan lanjutan dari artikel saya sebelumnya :

Ultrabook Impian 1: ASUSPRO Advanced BU201

Di zaman sekarang ini rasanya brainwash entrepreneurship kian menjamur di berbagai kalangan. Kini banyak anak muda yang ingin menjadi seorang pengusaha, at least meskipun baru impian tapi dikepala sudah merencanakan berbagai hal. Termasuk kemungkinan adanya kendala-kendala yang harus dihadapi..

 Oh ya, seorang pebisnis agar bekerja dengan prima juga harus memiliki perangkat-perangkat yang mendukung kinerjanya dengan baik. Misalnya transportasi, alat komunikasi, internet dan laptop. Memilih jenis laptop yang sesuai untuk pebisnis saya kira cukup penting. Karena dengan performa yang prima diharapkan bisnis yang dijalankan pun ikut berkembang dengan baik.

Bicara tentang memilih laptop. Asus mengeluarkan ultrabook yang sangat cocok untuk kalangan pebisnis maupun pekerja pemerintahan, yakni notebook ASUSPRO Advanced BU401LA. Dari sisi desain, meski ultra tipis dan ultra ringan, ultrabook kelas professional ini juga memiliki konektivitas input-output yang lengkap sehingga sesuai bagi pebisnis yang sering presentasi dengan client. Selain itu, keyboard ASUSPRO Advanced BU401LA juga didesain agar lebih nyaman digunakan untuk bekerja. Touchpad lebar yang tersedia juga menawarkan tingkat presisi yang tinggi terhadap sentuhan

Yang tidak kalah penting adalah notebook ini sudah menggunakan panel layar beresolusi Full HD jenis anti glare. ASUS menggunakan layar jenis anti-glare pada notebook, sehingga tidak silau dan mata tidak lekas lelah. Dan demi kenyamanan lebih saat bekerja pada lingkungan sistem operasi Windows 8 yang bisa diupgrade ke Windows 10.

ASUSPRO Advanced BU401LG berharga mulai dari 17 juta an. Dengan garansi global selama 3 tahun, rasanya cukup memberikan rasa aman bagi kita. Ultrabook ini hanya memiliki satu warna yakni Dark Grey. Processor yang cukup baik tersemat di dalam notebook ini, yakni Intel® Core™ i5-4210U Processor (3M Cache, 1.60 GHz, up to 2.60 GHz). LCD type berjenis anti glare.

Bagi yang suka ber web cam ria pada notebook ini terdapat HD web camera. Fitur finger print pun tersedia pada notebook ini. Hmm dari penjelasan tersebut memang menarik sekali spesifikasi ASUSPRO Advanced BU401LA ini. Cocok bagi yang mobile namun membutuh laptop tangguh. Pertanyaannya, kapan saya bisa beli ultrabook ini?? T.T

Ultrabook Impian 1: ASUSPRO Advanced BU201

Sedikit kesal saya melihat notebook saya yang nangkring di atas kasur. Notebook ini meskipun super lelet, tapi tetap harus disyukuri karena apa daya Laptop yang biasa saya pakai sudah saya balikin ke kantor lama. Hmm… Apa yang hilang memang tidak perlu diingat-ingat kembali. Tapii… rasanya pengen deh punya laptop yang tahan banting dan produktif kayak gitu lagi, habis udah kebiasaan.

Waktu masih di ‘The Blue’ sih laptopnya super duper deh. Mau nyala kepanasan sampe sebulan, mau ditekuk sampe datar, atau mau jatuh-jatuh pun amaan. Secara sering dibawa ke lapangan gituh.

Denger-denger ASUS mengeluarkan ultrabook yang berstandard militer semacam ini. Ultrabook yang didesain untuk kalangan pebisnis produktif  tersebut bernama ASUSPRO Advanced BU201. Bentuknya tipis, ringan, dan tangguh.

Ultrabook ini memiliki material UD Carbon Fiber memberikan keamanan ekstra pada bodi ultrabook ini. Kemudian yang penting, performa dan daya tahannya pun tidak perlu berkompromi, karena notebook ini telah melalui berbagai pengujian ekstrim standar militer US MIL-STD 810G. Wih, keren juga ya. Seperti apa tes nya?

Dilansir dari web resminya, ASUSPRO BU201 ini telah melalui serangkaian pengujian ekstrim standar militer US termasuk tes jatuh dengan ketinggian dua kali lipat daripada notebook standar. Pengujian tekanan 20% lebih kuat untuk daya tahan, serta tambahan 20,000 kali pengujian engsel yang ketat dibandingkan pada notebook standar juga dilakukan.

Oh ya, katanya ultrabook ini juga dilengkapi dengan teknologi anti guncangan. Termasuk perangkat lunak berupa Sensor Accelerometer Digital 3D yang secara cerdas dapat memprediksi dampak tiba-tiba dan secara otomatis mengambil tindakan yang dapat meminimalisir resiko kerusakan pada hard disk.

Haha, udah kayak si TeleScope aja punya accelerometer buat deteksi inklinasi wellbore. Tapi gimana sistemnya ya? Kalau Accelerometer di Telescope sih memanfaatkan percepatan gravitasi buat mengetahui kemiringan sumur bor.

Yang penting juga, notebook ini juga dilengkapi dengan logam khusus berupa kumpulan pengganjal di sekitar hard disk yang berfungsi untuk memperkuat perlindungan terhadap hard disk. Ada juga dengan material berupa bantalan keras yang mampu menyerap benturan, sehingga data yang tersimpan di dalam hard disk akan tetap aman meskipun notebook terjatuh atau bertabrakan dengan permukaan lain.

Hemm.. menarik sekali ya sepertinya, canggih dan produktif. Tapi kelemahannya mungkin di harganya karena bagi kantong saya sih cukup mahal.. :P

Finding The God #5: Tangis

Tulisan ini merupakan lanjutan dari tulisan saya sebelumnya:Finding The God #4: Mengenal Tauhid

Sebelum masuk Daarut Tauhid, saya tidak pernah benar-benar menyukai ceramah Aa Gym. Di Masjid Daarut Tauhid inilah baru saya mendengarkan dan ternyata ceramahnya penting sekali untuk fondasi hidup.

Pict: Pada kertas tsb terdapat Gambar Kuburan dengan nama kami diatasnya. Kami diminta menuliskan ketika meninggal siapa yang akan datang ke pemakaman dan amal apa yang sudah kita perbuat. Tak ada yang benar-benar bisa saya tulis...

Ketika mengesakan Allah, tak boleh ada sesuatu yang terlalu mendominasi hati selain Allah. Baik itu harta, pasangan, hobi, atau apapun itu. Semua hanya ujian.

Sibuk dengan dunia tanpa mengingat Allah dalam hati, pasti ketenangannya berkurang. Padahal setiap saat Allah ingat kepada kita. Sepantasnya kita setiap saat juga selalu mengingat Allah (dengan dzikir).

Tak perlu kita terlihat hebat dan istimewa di mata manusia, cukup di mata Allah. Tak perlu terkenal di mata manusia, lebih baik terkenal diantara malaikat penduduk langit. Tak perlu mengharap balasan dari manusia, cukup balasan dari Allah. Semua urusan mudah karena dibuat mudah oleh Allah. Ridhla Allah yang harus dikejar. Lakukan hanya hal-hal yang disukai Allah.

Hati pun harus dijaga. Karena akan diminta pertanggungjawabannya. Sekecilnya penyakit hati akan membuat hidup tidak tenang dan menghalangi ke surga. Kami sering dibuat menangis oleh ustadz-ustadz disini. Membersihkan hati memang harus diawali dengan mengingat dosa dan tangis adalah buktinya.

Pict: Renungan

Itulah sekelumit pelajaran yang saya petik dari Daarut Tauhid, materi tauhid saya dapatkan berulang-ulang selama 30 hari hingga seperti me-brainwashed saya dan teman-teman. Semuanya menancap kuat dan mengakar di Qolbu kami. Namun, Tauhid harus di re-charge terus, karena ketika kembali ke kehidupan riil tidak semudah itu untuk selalu mengingatnya.. .
:))

Finding The God #4: Mengenal Tauhid

Tulisan ini merupakan lanjutan dari artikel saya sebelumnya: Finding The God #3: The Waterfall

Mulailah kami pada keseharian menjadi seorang santri. Kami mendapatkan banyak pelajaran mulai dari fiqih, akidah, tauhid, tadjwid, dll. Setiap hari kami bangun jam 3 untuk sholat tahajud. Kami pun diwajibkan sholat 5 waktu di masjid, untuk melatih kebiasaan. Oh ya, tak lupa setiap hari kami jajan karena buanyaknya jajanan lezat di Daarut Tauhid. hehee

Di kelas, terdapat hijab yang memisahkan antara ikhwan dan akhwat. Salah satu yang saya acungi jempol dari Daarut Tauhid adalah kemampuannya membuat para santri menjadi Gadhul Bashar atau menjaga pandangan. Entah kenapa nasehat yang diberikan oleh ustad seperti terserap benar dalam kepala kami. Di lingkungan Daarut Tauhid yang sebesar itu belum pernah saya melihat ada akhwat dan ikhwan berduaan, ngobrol berdua pun jarang sekali. Berpapasan pasti nunduk. Kalau ada yang penting bicara seperlunya. Di kalangan rohis SMA atau di aktivis dakwah kampus teralim sekalipun tidak se high-class ini gadhul basharnya saya kira. Luar biasa.

Pict: Bersama Aa Gym 

Teman-teman seangkatan memiliki kisah tersendiri mengapa mereka bisa sampai ke program DQ ini. Mulai dari yang baru mualaf hingga yang hijrah dari dunia entertainment negatif pun
ada. Inti dari semuanya sama. Ingin berhijrah, ingin menemukan sesuatu yang terasa hilang dalam qolbu.

Orang kota sering mencari hiburan dengan karaokean atau hangout di mall-mall. Seketika itu memang terasa menyenangkan. Tapi sesudah hiburan itu selesai ya sudah, nanti butuh hiburan lagi. Itu wajar sih. Tapi ternyata bukan begitu caranya menghibur qolbu. Ustad-ustad di sini penghasilannya biasa saja dan tidak pernah karaokean, tapi lihatlah wajah-wajah mereka. Tak perlu hiburan pun jiwanya sudah penuh dengan kebahagiaan.

Itu semua dikarenakan tauhid mereka sudah tinggi....Mereka tahu betul untuk apa hidup didunia ini. seperti apa tauhid yang diajarkan disini??
to be continued...

Finding The God #3: The Waterfall

Melanjutkan tulisan sebelumnya pada artikel: Finding The God #2: Surprise

Akhirnya saya bertemu dengan teman-teman seangkatan pada program Dauroh Qolbiyah. Usianya antara 20 sampai 34 tahun. Total ikhwan dan akhwat berjumlah 32 orang. Dan sampailah kami pada orientasi lapangan.

Awalnya saya heran, untuk apa sih pesantren pakai orientasi segala. Itu kan kuno sekali dan sedikit manfaatnya. Tapi ternyata ospek disini berbeda. Saya masih ingat kami berjalan menuju daerah berbukit. Sepanjang jalan kami disuruh dzikir setiap saat dalam hati. Karena semesta alam pun berdzikir bagaimana kita sebagai ciptaan Allah yang paling sempurna tidak melakukanya?

Akhirnya rombongan tiba di sungai. Kami disuruh rapling menuruni sungai. Saya takjub melihat mbak-mbak akhwat pemandu walaupun berbaju besar pada lincah bergerak di bebatuan yang licin dan rapling dengan gesitnya.

Kemudian kami tiba di air terjun yang cukup tinggi dan deras sekali airnya. Berderum keras suaranya. Masing-masing dari kami menjadi ciut. Kami disuruh melalui (melingkari) air terjun itu dengan bantuan tali (bagi yang akhwat). Ini tidak semudah kelihatannya.

Biasanya yang ditakutkan dari ospek adalah ketika dibentak-bentak dan dihukum karena kesalahan. Disini berbeda, disini kami dibuat takut dan hilang nyali, takut nyawa melayang atau kenapa-kenapa. Namun mau tidak mau kami harus melakukannya. Disitulah kalimat ALLAHUAKBAR yang membahana keluar dari setiap mulut hingga bergetar kerongkongan. Cuma Allah yang bisa kita mintai pertolongan disetiap kesulitan. Itu inti yang ditekankan disini. Hati ini benar-benar mencari Allah.

Awalnya saya kira mudah. Toh ada tali ini. Kesombongan hati kecil saya terbaca oleh Allah.  Air terjun yang mengucur dari atas terasa sakit mengenai kepala dan karena banyaknya air saya kesulitan menemukan udara untuk bernafas. Baru beberapa langkah saya merasakan sungai semakin dalam dan air semakin menikam dari atas. Saya terus menarik tali tambang agar cepat sampai ke tengah putaran pertama. Semakin lama saya benar-benar tenggelam. Saya ketakutan. Arus yang deras dan berarah memutar menyebabkan orang yang bisa berenang sekalipun tak akan berkutik. Akhirnya saya berhasil sampai ke setengah putaran pertama walaupun dengan terengah-engah. Setengah putaran selanjutnya berhasil saya lalui juga. Banyak teman-teman akhwat yang awalnya menangis tidak mau ikut tapi dipaksa, "Kamu yakin punya Allah??KENAPA TAKUT?!"

Pict: Melalui tantangan air terjun :)

Ini hanya melatih keyakinan kita bahwa kita manusia yang kerdil. Kita tak mempunyai kekuatan apa-apa kalau bukan Allah yang berkehendak memberikannya.

Itulah sekelumit kisah orientasi saya....tidak muat kalau semua diceritakan disini.. :3

Finding the God #2: Surprise

Ini adalah tulisan lanjutan dari posting saya sebelum nya Finding The God #1: Arrival,

Malam semakin larut, seorang mudaritsah (seperti kakak pemandu) mengantar saya ke dalam muslimah center. 

"Nanti tidurnya disini ya, bareng - bareng" katanya. Ruangan itu cukup besar, beralaskan karpet hijau dan terdapat lemari-lemari kecil berjajar. Ternyata kami harus tidur disatu ruangan berisikan sekitar 30 orang. Wow, saya belum pernah berbagi kamar dengan segitu banyaknya orang. Terbayang nanti pasti nggak nyaman. 

Lalu beliau membuka koper saya untuk memilah-milah baju. 

"Wah, baju kamu semuanya nggak lolos" 

Apa? lolos apa?? saya pun sedikit bingung. Ternyata selama di pesantren kami harus memakai baju yang benar-benar syar'i. Gamis hitam panjang, jilbab putih besar, lengkap dengan kaos tangan, kaos kaki, daleman jilbab dll. Jadi terpaksa saya beli hampir semua baju-baju saya on the spot. Sedih juga melihat dompet, tapi nggak apa lah. Ikhlas. Karena memang sebelumnya saya nggak punya gamis, cuma punya rok sedikit. Sisanya celana jeans. 

Lalu kakak mudaritsah bertanya kepada saya,

"Nomer pentingnya sudah dicatat? hapenya saya sita ya" Jederr. Saya nggak tau kalau hp bakal disita. Saya datang ke sini memang dadakan dan nggak tau banyak info. Alhasil saya pun mencatat dan menghubungi orang-orang dekat  bahwa saya tidak akan bisa dihubungi selama sebulan kedepan.

Program Dauroh Qolbiyah (DQ) yang saya ikuti sebenarnya sudah dimulai. Saya telat 2 hari. Santri DQ lain sedang menjalankan program orientasi katanya. Asiknya saya hanya akan kebagian 2 hari orientasi ke depan hihii.. Itu pun juga surprise, Pesantren ospeknya seperti apa ya? ahh.. tapi di geologi saya sudah makan asam garam per ospekan, kayaknya nggak akan ada yang lebih dari itu. Dulu di geologi ospeknya saja 9 bulan. Kurang apa coba? Tahun pertama kuliah teman angkatan pada rata-rata semua perutnya saking seringnya sit up. Eh tahun-tahun akhir malah pada membuncit lagi.haha Jadi saya pun santai menghadapi orientasi ini....namun ternyata...

To be continued...

Pict: Masjid Daarut Tauhid Bandung. Kami wajib shalat di masjid ini selama program berlangsung.

Finding The God #1: Arrival

Pesantren Daarut Tauhid Bandung... 

Tempat ini  menakjubkan buat saya. Awalnya saya kesini cuma karena ingin memperbaiki sholat saya yang buruk. Ternyata saya mendapatkan lebih dari itu. 

Sore hari menjelang buka puasa di hari kamis, saya sampai di pesantren itu. Tukang ojek yang mengantar saya pun pamit. Firasat saya tempat ini pasti menarik, karena sepanjang jalan saja yang diobrolkan tukang ojeknya adalah: Tauhid!

"Coba deh teteh jam dua bangun, sunyi.. dunia lagi tertidur teh.. tapi coba bangun dan sholat.. beuh itu rasanya teh, seperti dekat gitu dengan Allah!" begitu masih ingat saya kata - kata tukang ojek tersebut. Cukup kaget juga saya mendengarnya. Saya pun tersenyum dan merasa ini bukan jalan yang salah.

Ketika sampai di pesantren, ternyata pesantrennya berada di lingkungan masyarakat dan terbuka (bukan berpagar tinggi seperti bayangan saya). Waktu itu menjelang adzan magrib, saya melihat ratusan santri duduk berjajar berhadap - hadapan di bahu jalan membentuk barisan panjang. Di depan mereka terhidang banyak makanan dan cemilan untuk berbuka. 

Mereka memakai syal warna - warni. Masing - masing warna menunjukkan program yang sedang mereka ikuti. Takjub saya ketika melihat barisan syal biru tua yang bertuliskan "Santri Tahfidz Daarut Tauhid". Saya belum pernah melihat sekumpulan penghafal Al-Qur'an sebanyak itu. Jangan kira santrinya hanya usia remaja, dari anak kecil hingga tua renta ada. Jujur saya menitikkan air mata, namun masih sambil tersenyum.

Pict: Muslimah Center. Tempat tinggal santri perempuan di Daarut Tauhid.

Di Muslimah Center, sendirian saya menunggu admin untuk mendaftar dan membayar program yang akan saya ikuti. Terlihat berlalu lalang para santri, dimana - mana membawa Al-Qur'an. Mereka berjalan sambil menghafal, duduk di genteng sambil menghafal, di balkon sambil baca Qur'an. Sungguh, dimana - mana terdengar lantunan ayat suci Al-Qur'an. 

Aneh, sepanjang hidup dibumi manapun saya tidak pernah merasakan suasana seperti itu. Lingkungannya benar - benar damai. Wajah - wajah disana berbeda sekali dengan wajah yang biasa saya temui di kota besar seperti jakarta. Disini orang - orangnya auranya beda, tenang, senyum, damai, terlihat sekali bahagianya. Benar sekali firman Allah di surat Ar-Ra'd ayat 28  ".. Orang - orang yang beriman dan hati mereka menjadi tenteram dengan mengingat Allah. Ingatlah, hanya dengan mengingat Allah-lah hati menjadi tenteram". 

Pada hari itulah perjalanan saya di pesantren asuhan Aa Gym tersebut dimulai. To be continued...

Cooking Class 2 "Soto and Stir-Fry"

My mother next lesson is chicken soto and Tempe & Green bean Stir-fry.

3. Chiken Soto

My Chicken Soto

Ingridients for the gravy or sauce (kuah):

2 spoonful of Pepper

6 Onions

2 red onions 

4 lemonleaves

2 ginger plants (pound roughly once)

1 gingger (pound roughly once to extract the smell)

1 Kunir (Javanese yellow ginger)

2 salam leaves

Salt (as you desire)

Ingridient for main content:

3 slices of chicken

1 cabbage

1 cup of bean sprout

celeries

Chicken stock

10 glasses of Water

Ingridient for condiment (sambal):

10 small chillis (hotter than the bigger one)

2 small onions

salt

How to make the gravy or sauce:

1. First create the spice: Pound the pepper, onion, red onions, salt, and kunir, make sure until very tender

2. Boil the water (100 degres celcious), mix with the chicken stock, 

   then put in the spice, plus: salam leaves, orange leaves, ginger plant, gingger 

3. Stir for 5 minutes

How to make the main content:

We will boil each vegetable separately.

1. Chop cabbage into very thin long slice, put in boiled water (not the gravy) for 1 minute, then lift and set aside

2. Put in the bean sprout in boiled water for 1 minute, then lift and set aside.

3. Fry the chicken, then shred them by hand into small pieces, set aside.

4. Cut the celeries

Put each vegetable in one big plate to serve.

How to make the condiment (sambal):

1. Put the all the chilis and onions into boiled water for 2 minute, and lift.

2. Pound the chili, onion ad salt on a pound stone (using a blender will reduce the taste)

topping:

cut 7 red onion into thin slice, then fry it until brown in colour. 

This fried red onion is used for topping.

Serve each component (vegetable, sauce, condiment, and topping) separately on the dining table.

How to eat is: take a half cup of rice, put each vegetable and a little condiment nicely on top,

then pour the sauce in the bowl. Complete it with fried onion topping or chips. This recipe is for 5 persons.

This is basicaly what soto is, but usually Indonesian people eat soto with any side dish (lauk) as desire.

For example with fried tempe, or fried chicken.

Soto is a very common Indonesian dish, especially in Java, even for the poorest one. We eat soto usualy for lunch, but it's dependent.

Many school canteens provide soto as their menu for school break. I ate soto almost every first break at junior high school.

4. Tempe & Green bean Stir-fry

My Tempe & Green bean Stir-fry

Ingridients:

5 onions

5 red onions

2 red chilis

2 green chilis

3 small chilis

1 bundle of green bean

1 carrot (sliced)

1 tomato (sliced)

tempe (chopped blocky/ cube)

1 ginger plant

1 salam leave

3 sponfull of dried shrimp

Salt

sugar

javanese sugar

Soy sauce

1/2 glass of water

How to make:

1. Cut green bean into 3 cm length manually by hand

2. Fry tempe until half cooked, set aside

3. Chop onions & red onions into thin slices. Chop all chilis into oblique or skew orientation.

4. Prepare the pan, fill in the cooking oil until medium heat

5. Fry the onion & garlic until half cooked

5. Put in all chilis, dried shrimp, tomato, salam leave, javanese sugar, and ginger plant, until smells nice

6. Put in the green bean, carrote, and tempe into the mixture

7. Put in the water, cover the pan and wait until the bean tender

8. Put in the salt, sugar, and soy sauce

the dish is now ready for 6 persons, serve with rice and side dish.

The side dish (lauk) could be anything, but here I will prepare "tiny sea fish crispy chips" ("keripik teri"...what a long translation) as a very traditional and original side dish:

1. Soak the tiny sea fish in hot water for a while

2. Create flour dough: mix flour with water and egg, put in the tiny sea fish

3. Fry the fish and flour dough litlle by little on hot pan.

Finally, serve the Tempe & Green bean Stir-Fry with rice and side dish.

Maybe this dish already exist for hundred of year in Java. But I don't know. As soto, this dish seems very traditional, but still acceptable & delicious.

Cooking Class 1 "Vegetable & Chicken Liver"

How fun to be a female. When we're kid we play cook with fake ingridient.
Now, we know how enjoyable cooking can be. The famous American cooking book "The Joy of Cooking" really figure it out.
Eventhough a lot of chefs are male, but million other male don't care about cooking.
Females born with hormon that makes them love this kind of thing. So, thank's God.

My mother teach me to cook the dishes I'll post in this blog. Mostly are Indonesian daily traditional food. Old recipes, but that's okay.
A simple dish could be amazing, depend on how the cook. Remember Ratatouille?

My ability is average, but I'm eager to learn.

So, let's start the class:



1. Gado-Gado

I  forgot to photo the dish, do I browse from the internet  

This is a very fresh dish.

Ingridients of main content:
4 boiled potatoes
1 bundle of green bean (buncis)
1 carrote
3 tomatos
1 cucumber
4 boiled Egg

Ingridients for nut sauce:
1 cup of fried nut
4 red chili
1 onion
a little salt
3 spoon javanes sugar
2 lemon leaves
1 tamarind
1 glass of hot water

How to do the vegetable:
1. Boil the potatoes, buncis, and carrote, until tender, then  set aside.
2. Cut the potatoes and all vegetable into small pieces.

How to make nut sauce:
1. Fry chili and onion until half cooked
2. Pound the chili and onion on a stone pound
3. add salt, lemon leaves, javanese sugar and then pound again
4. Blend the nut until soft and tender, then pound it with other ingridient
5. Soak tamarind on hot water for a while
6. Add the tamarind water with the nut condiment to make the saouce more liquid.

How to serve:
Put the potatoes, vegetable and the half of bolied egg on a plate, then pour the nut sauce on top.
This recipe is for 4 persons. The key of making gado-gado is the freshness and the correct vegetable boiling time, and also the deliciousness of nut sauce.
It's so yummy...


2. Sambal Goreng Ati

I  forgot to photo the dish, do I browse from the internet

I'm not sure what's the english translation.

ingridients:
5 boiled chicken liver
7 red chilis
2 small chilis
5 onions
4 red onions
dried shrimp
salt
ginger plant (pounded once)
salam leaves
1 stalk of Petai
2 cup of coconut milk
a glass of water

How to make:
1. Pound onion and red onions, all chilis, dried shrimp and salt.
2. Fry the pounded ingridients in a medium heated pan until half cooked
3. Add salam leaves, ginger plant, petai, stir a while and then add chicken liver, stir it.
4. Add water, let it mixed a while
5. add coconut milk, wait until boiled, then add salt again as desire.

Serve it with rice, for 5 persons.

When I was a Kid #2: Bedtime Stories

I think, in  the game of life, Childhood is a bonus stage from God.

At kindergarten, I rarely watched our old colourless television.

I often played arround at my aunt's house, watched everything she watched like some dangdut tv program and adult sinetron though I didn't get it.

Japanese cartoon hadn't enter my favorite list yet. So, my brain was still original, with no foreign cartoon intrusion.

At that time, every night my father told me bedtime stories, kind of old local fairytales. So, we sleep together in one long room (now the room's almost collapse caused by earthquake).

There're two big bed for 5 of us. Sleep time was the time we had waited all day long, as if we wait to watch favorite tv drama.

Kancil

My father was really good in telling stories. It's flowing. No tv, but it felt like I watched a big cinema screen on my mind, every sceen was up to me, I mean about the setting, the faces.

The title were: Kidang Talung, Bawang Merah Bawang Putih, Timun Mas (Golden Cucumber?), tens stories of Kancil Nyolong Timun (Mouse deer the Cucumber thief), Kancil Ngapusi Buaya, 

Popok Beruk Keli, Belang Telon, Malin Kundang, Roro Jonggrang, wayang, and a lot more. Yes, I know all that stories before I fell asleep, created amusing dreams.

Timun Emas

My favorite story besides fairytales were stories about the world outside, for example about pasar malam, country abroad, or story when my father wandering for job.

Me and my young brother would cry like a baby if my father wouldn't tell stories. Besides stories, my father had plenty of riddle and magic trick collection, and also story telling with finger siluet on the wall when the electricity off.

We always failed to answer the riddle or magic trick. What a kind father he is, He bought bunch of little toys for us when he get back from work by his bycycle.

On the other hand, my mother only knows one story titled The origin of "Tinggi" (tinggi is kind of bed louse). We weren't bored even she had repeated it for many night.

Yeah, all of those thing triggered me to had a better childhood imagination. Deepest thank's to my parent. :)

.........After that period, tv played great role on my childhood world with american and japanese cartoon.

Flashback to my 2011

Hi there,

Maybe I'll give a little short post, in this new year... How was my 2011? 

It was the periode of my duty to be a secretary at HMTG FT UGM (student organization in my departement). I took that position though I'm not really confident in being a secretary, something that really not me.

Why was it so? First, I'm not an industrious and careful person, both are the basic needed requirement to a position which the job desks are concerning the meticulous administrative problem.

But, I did learnt a lot. Anyway, HMTG is a good place to learn. For me, it's more look like a life miniatur of someone who tried to reach succeed. Many of enthusiastic and hardworker friends created many amazing programs. They all did and thought their best.

And what else?

Oh, KKN. Two months from july - August, together with 19 other UGM's students, we did an obligatory task to dedicate our knowledge for the good of society. It could be a good idea, perhaps they wanted us to make change or bring solution to the community.

But, in reality, it was no really use. Plenty of uneffetive and useless time, with no great result. Or maybe it was just the case in my KKN.

On top of everything, I do love the volley ball game in my KKN society. I call it: Great game, Great players! Okay, however chalenging the society is, for me KKN is over after 2 month and nothing really attach in my attention besides the volley game. It was a lot of bored.

I tried to learn french by my self with no background study. I'm at the very very beginner level. I admit that it's a difficult language especially to hear! How fast and how unclear!

If I'm allowed to wish, I wish someday I could understand and able to hear the french thoroughly. I'll be thrilled and delightful. If only I could take a course. But, a million thank to the internet. For me, internet is the "new" window to the wide world.

Tens of language websites with hundred of pages are available free to learn, by hearing mp3s, watching videos, pictures, games, flashes, softwares, books, and more!

We can do almost everything through the internet.

At june 2011, I lost my Dell laptop and smart modem. Both are perfect and quite productive for me. Until one day at monday morning, when I got back from campus, I found my room's door was opened harshly, a lot of wood cutting on the floor. I was unbelievably saw no laptop above the table. Soon I realized what happened.

Dell Vostro

I hate to loose something expensive and important, I searched it with every effort I could. Well, it's clear that I'm neither spy nor detective. Later, I understand that I shouldn't regret the incident. If you loose one, then just get a better one someday! Now? I'm using a 10" netbook, less responsive, less productive, too slow and not suit me. But, I'm grateful for this little help.

Anything else?  

Well, another assistant activities, another movies, books, languages, knows more people, starting my final assignment, and nothing of my goals really become true. But I am working on them.

When I was a Kid #1 : The Changing Dream

Now I am 21. I'm getting bigger. Many good things and bad things happen in my life journey.

Now,

I understand more difficult phrases; I met people from vary ethnic groups; I ate  different taste of foods; my heart feels many kind of new feeling like hope, fear, worry, passion; I brave enough to travelling alone; I met some extraordinary personality of person; my brain start to think logic on money & future; my working is guided by confining rules; my life is on the straight track; what I always see in front of my eyes is targets.

It sounds tiring, right? I realize something important is lost. Something that can make us feels the freedom, flying, no rules, no restriction. It is the precious imagination.

That's the reason why I want to start this series of story. This is the story where I still dont know what geology is or  why people so worry about getting much money. This is the pure me.

1.                        When I was a kid, I have several of dream job or goal. The first I want to be a scientist. I was interested in natural science and act like I understand biology and physic. That's affected by an American  cartoon show titled E= mC², with the major character is a scientist girl name Emma C². What a weird name. Emma experiencing many adventure and help her friends through the knowledge she has. Her brain was brilliant and I liked to see her in action. I usually did the experiment I knew from Bobo magazine.

                                                                                       

2.                        My other dream job is to be an architect. This when was at 4th - 5th grade of elementary. My drawing not really good, but not bad either. The reason is becaused of my favorite magazine 'Bobo' often gave a bonus for several edition such a set of mini town called 'Kota Kelinci'.  The set comprise of one base ground of the city made from glossy carton, then the houses, bridge, restourant, school, and trees made from cork which we should arrange by our self.  Other building-like bonus was  'market bobo'. It made from carton, comprise of one shopping trolley, then many different  goods was available. Me and my brother loved to play those sets. Then this dream was getting bigger. I created a small two floor terraced house from carton. The house complete with the interior design. There was a curtained window, a little photo frame, a set of soft sofa made from cotton. The second floor was for bedroom. My creativity seems raised again. The next I had an idea to create a map of my village. I didn't know if that kind of work belong to architectural work or not. That planitary map consist of every small roads and houses in my village with the name of my buddies on each house, I didn't forget to plot the mosque and the school on the map.

                                                       "Keluarga kelinci" on Bobo magazine

3.                        Someday my neighbour brought a notebook contain a story the adventure of a kid and a bee. It's one of greatest story I've ever read that time. The writer is his sister. I admire his sister a lot. I always thought she's a genius. Her drawing was excellent . I often imitated her japanese comic girl drawing. She schooled in best school in Klaten. She's the one who introduced me with hollywood movie when I was at 3rd grade. That's when I finnally wanted to be a writer. I tried to make some short story. But I never finished any storry well. I wasn't  a good writer. Then I started other hobby, create comic book on my notebook. My friend told me that it was good, but it never finished too.

 I used to had a lot of barbie cards collection. The cards size was 4 x 5 cm. I bought them from the school yard.  Then I created a barbie album. One page for one barbie and I also gave the name & comment for each barbie.  In my 6th grade, inspired by Bobo I created my own magazine. I forgot the name. The size was only 7 x 15 cm. The content is : a fairy tale, a short story, a crossed riddle, general knowledge, a short fact, and an 'imagination test' quiz plus a coupon inside to join the quiz. What a funny. The only one who read my magazine was my young brother.  And that was the last time I show my desire to be a writer.

But I still loved to read. The first novel I read titled 'Nabi Muhammad'. It's 300 pages. I read it when I was at the 3rd grade, then continued with Harry Potter and the soccerer's stone. I always curious with my father's book shelves. There was a lot of bussiness book, though my father was one of the worst bussinessman ever. I read those kind of book too without knowing the actual meaning. It just because there's no other book. But my father sometimes bought story book from his office (elementary school).

4.                        This was just an imaginary dream job. I always wanted to be a spy. The word 'adventure' was my favorite. I imagined using advanced technology to fight the crime. Using the  weapon, armed with the multifunction wacth and glasses, operate  jet plane, decoding, fight with kung fu. This was inspired by Spy Kid movie released in 2001, at my 5th grade. I like the role of Carmen on that movie. She's smart and cool. Carmen also had a young brother like me.  My other imaginary job was to be a hero like in the cartoon. I created Clow Card like in the Card Captor Sakura, I draw angel for each card according to the card name, for example : Rain Card, Music Card, Fly Card, Jump Card, etc.

 I couldn't remember the other story.... I'll write again in the next post.

A Boredom And A Positive Person

Almost  one year I didn't write for this blog. Now am I changing or what? Sure I do, I believe that every person must change in every second of their step,  not to be another person but a better person.

Let's check about my condition now :

What I feel now is a huge boredom. A super duper boredom, caused by my own choice to have a lot of extra spare time. Never in my mind I thought that studying in geology could have this kind of situation. In  this 7th semester, I only take one subject - Petroleum geochemistry - I interested in petroleum basically, and also the nice lecturer. Beside that one subject, I also take my mini thesis to accomplish my undergraduate degree study. My topic is rather unusual. It's about the origin of lithology used in Borobudur temple. I fight against my self to decide whether this topic is right or wrong for me, maybe I'll tell about it later.

The point of all of it, is that formally I only go to campus one day in a week! It's my beautiful Tuesday which I will meet my friends and my awesome lecturer, hearing stunning explanation about petroleum system and it's geochemistry. Beside Tuesday, I have no persist schedule. With the natural behaviour of mine that actually  I'm a lazy girl, I almost doing nothing in my daily, except watch movies and read novels. Plus, this semester stupidly I'm not taking any  opportunity to be assistant in laboratory like I did last semester.  What was I thinking? Tired of learning...? I never tired of learning , but the burden in learning environment sometime  heavier than the learning it self.  Studying should be just light and fun.

Than I want to take an English course to help me learn conversation formally. But I still need other activity. One different that I realize on my psychology is, that now I feel like I want to meet as many people as I can, talk and smile to more person. I hate doing nothing in my room. It's different if I remember that usually I always deny on people rather than come to them gladly and smile. By the way I learnt this from someone, a dancer I watch in American 'so you think you can dance'. She always smiling sincerely with her heart, and her smile is so loud that it spread fast to the room and then everyone  also smiling  too. Her smile is affecting. She said she is a positive person, who always laugh and smile, think positive on anything. For me it's a damn inspiration. I try to learn from everything I met in  life.

Okay, that's why this course is not enough, but I have no other idea how to spent my lot-of-spare time.  Other choice, is  the library. Of course I have to go there many times looking for references. But who will I meet in there? a little of other students and thousands of books.

My head could have explode by now, if I'm not considering poring this to my blog. Explode of boredom.

I used to want to immediately graduate or go away from this campus. I still want to, but..  There's something I have to do first before someday I leave. Something is missing and I have to find it soon. Something I have to take away on my ride.

Some View From Songs...

Now I got two old song from Joss stone that I think the lyric could be an inspiration to anyone. If you don't know the song, simply read the lyric is enough to show the power of these song. Well, the first titled, " Right to be wrong". Coincidently I found this song after my KL (Kuliah Lapangan) lecturer check out my KL poster for first consultation before the poster be displayed in about the next 2 weeks. And he found too many mistakes on my work, althoughI think I had already done it as good as I can. He detailly check it and scratched many part of it with his pen to correct it. Almost in all sections had something wrong on it. Yes, I look awfully stupid that time. But this is very important since KL is 4 SKS (credits) and cost 5 million in average. I wont give a damn or too puzzled if it isn't cost that expensive. I realized I had a willing to be an expert, but the way I am now is too far from that hope. Then I googling the full lyric of the song and, it help me to little bit recover.

"Right To Be Wrong"

I've got a right to be wrong
My mistakes will make me strong
I'm stepping out into the great unknown
I'm feeling wings though I've never flown
I've got a mind of my own
I'm flesh and blood to the bone
I'm not made of stoneGot a right to be wrong
So just leave me alone

I've got a right to be wrong
I've been held down too long
I've got to break free
So I can finally breathe
I've got a right to be wrongGot to sing my own song
I might be singing out of key
But it sure feels good to me
Got a right to be wrong
So just leave me alone

You're entitled to your opinionBut it's really my decision
I can't turn back I'm on a mission
If you care don't you dare blur my vision
Let me be all that I can be
Don't smother me with negativity
Whatever's out there waiting for me
I'm going to faced it willingly

I've got a right to be wrongMy mistakes will make me strong
I'm stepping out into the great unknown
I'm feeling wings though I've never flown
I've got a mind of my own
Flesh and blood to the bone
See, I'm not made of stone
I've got a right to be wrongSo just leave me alone

I've got a right to be wrong
I've been held down to long
I've got to break free
So I can finally breathe
I've got a right to be wrongGot to sing my own song
I might be singing out of key
But it sure feels good to me
I've got a right to be wrong
So just leave me alone


Joss stone

Okay, the second song is really deep if we read it when we feel like we're having so much burden we can't carry on longer. So sad and melow, I wish I have no reason to vivify it according to my real life experience. But here the sadness is somehow beautiful. I don't know, just check it..

"Sleep Like A Child"

Tonight when the darkness comes
Why don't we treat it like a friend
Then we'll both be glad to see the night
And we'll be hoping
It's never going to end

So don't be afraid of what the night-time may bring
You must understand that you can dream of anything

[Chorus:]
So fall into sleep
Peaceful and deep
And may this journey help you fly
When you can't hold out much longer
Don't you cry
When the darkness is getting stronger
Sleep like a child
Peaceful and deep
And when you lay you down
I pray your soul to keep
Sleep like a child
Peaceful and deep
And I when you lay you down
I pray your soul to keep

You won't be alone
For I will not be denied
Under the darkest of skies
I'm gunna be by your side

[Chorus]

Well I know
I can see it in your eyes
You're tired of fighting everyday
Trying to struggle through the night
Yes I know that it's hard to carry on
So just lay down your head
And in your dreams you will be strong

Sleep like a child
Peaceful and deep
And when you lay you down
I pray your soul to keep
Oh like a child
Peaceful and deep

Sleep like a child
Peaceful and deep
And I when you lay you down
I pray your soul to keep

The Great Ability to Wake Up

I’m not talking about wake up from sleeping, instead wake up from suffering, down, break, depress and escape from tiring life. What a lucky person to have such great ability. Such person won’t often feel sad and embarased for too long. One way to do it is forgetting suck thing that had happened although it’s never easy. My treatment of forgetting things is by drowning my self into busy day. Doing business we like makes everythings seems okay.
Well, this semester we learn 8 interesting subject. Analitic Stratigraphy; Geologic Research Methode; Religion; Geology of Indonesia; Philosophy of Knowledge; Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology; Geo Gomputation; and Geo Chemistry. This 5th smester is kind of a free half year. Yes we are busy of maintaining our KL data analysis, interpretation and of course data visualization, but in the other hand our lecturing schedule’s containing many spare time. And I take anvantage of it by being an asistant in Dynamic Geology Laboratory for Basic Geology subject. This new hit likely taking over my time badly. I ‘m assist about 120 new student to help them recognize the basic principle of geology. Wondering how apparently I really enjoy explaining everything I’m capable of. Explaining’s fun. Looking at those innocent face, recall me back into my early year of struggling in geology. They get everything easier now, how could they still busy of beefing this and that too. If only they knew what happened to my first semester. But these days, I realize something that perhaps very related to comfortable feeling. That is, to be appreciated, to be respected. I love to share my knowledge to them, my ability being appreciated. I never perceive being appreciated like this before. Really never.

Then, I’ve a plan to make my days even busier by learning spain. I thought spain’s the best choice considering it’s the easiest foreign language to learn for a zero newbie. I realize perhaps Franc or Deuch is more popular and widely used here, but remembering the difficulty of those two language I think it’s really hard to master. Anyway, Spain’s more beautiful to hear, and simple to learn, that my target is to master at least 2/3 of it in less than 2 year. I wonder if my plan will going right or the opposite. I know this is good for me, and the point is I want to get busier than now.

Actually, I’ve one more responsibility to be a guide or asistant for islamic sharing group in my campus. It’s okay for me to talk or speech in front of those new students, but to talk about Islam? Despite of it could be a positive business, but, I don’t think I could. My position now is currently farther from God, if I compare with when I was in senior high where I was so excited to learn holy Quran everyday. I’m not reading Quran everyday now. Also I completely aware that my sholat’s not as good as in my past which I was being so humble and khusyuk in communicating with God. This is awfuly bad degradation, I know. And if I stay like this, sure will be very dangerous for my afterlife. I’m feeling emptiness. In my deepest, I do really want to change, yet I perceive dont know where to start. I’ve to wake up from this first. Thats why I reject the invitation to be the guide, and nevertheless I want more time to handle my KL data.

By far, after more than two year studying here, finally I understand how this world could strictly turn us up and down in a certain period of time. Because, this is the world of chalenge, where demand is everywhere. We can’t just acting like a kid with no responsibility to be completed, which our duty is just to play outside the house with our friends and then laugh. The world outside the house now could killing us softly by it’s hardness. When the world seems unfair and I feel uneasy of everything, I’ll just remember that the terrible won’t last forever. God won’t ever let us feel sad for to long. That’s what I believe now. All I got to do is find a way to cure my self when something bad happened. Like what I’ve told before. I really need the ability.

Hammer on My Left Waist

I see my self this time. I'm a geological engineering student and I got to deal with the hardness of field work, though honestly I feel I'm not really own a high sensitivity on anything related to the field. So how could I survive on this kind of work? Let's see how time would help me, as I see it needs a long experiences and filedtrips on many more geologically challenging places. Anywhere in Indonesia seems like incredible places to learn geology . Thankfully we have a complete packet already containing vulcanoes, mountainering , valleys, streams & rivers, cliffs, lake, beach with dunes or coral, caves and outcrops, that available and waiting unpatiently to be observed.

This mind bother me after I undergo Kuliah Lapangan Program which include 12 days KL Bayat, 3 days regional geology excursion on at least passing accros two basin (Yogyakarta Basin and East Java Basin), and the last was Individual Geological Mapping located in 65 different kavlings for each student. My kavling was at Padas Subdistrict, Ngawi, East Java. In this program we taught how to work as a real geologist, and definitelly it much harder than theories we used to learn at class. Some lessons I captured were that geology's an expensive work so that we must have a strong dicipline and hard work, no beefing, not afraid of hot or rainy weather or even extreme field, and pay attention on field data accuracy. How important the data is like keep the data as keep our soul! Hah..

Many lecturers involved in this program, they taught us how to use compass for measuring the strike and dip of rock bedding also for determining our exact location by shooting two possitions of points in front of us that recognizable on topographic map; then how to use hammer for rock sampling; noting and plotting datas we got from the field including morphology, petrology and structural geology datas; next was doing measured stratigraphic for detail analysis and interpretation of depositional environment, the age of rock and also integrated historical geologi.

Geo Hammer: One Weapon for Geologist

In Bayat we once again introduced about "tired" as one of geologist bestfriend. We walked all day long on our mapping area with the widht of 2 x 2 km from 7 am until 5 pm for about 10 days. My legs was felt like going to broken. My back was never as painful as it was. Yeah, mostly Bayat felt like a hell for me, especially the earlier days. As usual, I didn't feel comfort with such a thing, that's why I always got to bed earlier compared to other girls. But, a lot of memories I can remember from that 12 days.

The following program was regional geologic excursion . We had trips around Yogyakarta, Wonosari, Kendeng Zone, Rembang Zone and the surrounding. It was quite relaxing, not as heavy as in Bayat. We just came into one stop site, doing a little observation and then hearing explanations from lecturer, and moved to another stop sites. I prefer to record the explanation than to made notes, as I mentioned before that I was very easy to get tired or get sleepy when the day hot, and then my concentration and focus were gone, my mind think slower and bla bla, especially when I worked in group, things are different when I worked individualy that I could only depend on my self, it push me to stay awake and focus.... huft, yeah I don't know that Geology could be this difficult. Anyhow, I'm really proud to bring hammer on left waist, and say, I'm a field worker!.... :D

And finally we had arrived to the most important part, that is individual geologic mapping. I'm so lucky to had my own porter to help me doing my mapping. He gots everything easier, starting from driving me during the proccess, help me memorize the strange little paths wandering the forest, until sampling many rocks to be observed more precissely on campus laboratories (Optical Geology & Paleontology Labs). My group comprise of five people. We're living for about 12 days in a comfortable basecamp in Bringin Subsdistrict. I love to be together with them, basically we're all some sort of lazy people (but we all had high intention to be smarter J) that lined up in one appropriate group. I really feel comfort with that fact, because I hate to be pressed, I want to get free and relax in a while too. But it's still long long way to go until this mapping fully done. Data processing is my next challenge to comprehends all that I got from the field. The presentation will be held at Desember or January next year if I'm not mistaken. Hopefully everything will going right for me.

Here in this mapping , I'm helped and guided by one of my lecturer that I think He's awesome and great regarding his fantastic life experience. I always love hearing stories like that. It felt like fairytales to me, but could give me inspiration and more power to confidently moving foward better reaching what I deserve to. Questions often bugging my head, something like," will I be like him", or, "look at your self now, what's on earth to make you feel like you are going to enter one of that Big Fishes? Or even the small one!!". To be honnest I feel like having nothing to be sell to them. Yes I have, I meant, I now how my self is, but it's hard to show my energy up. Reading in many geologist blogs, it seems that entering geology is very promissing decision, but for me it also frightening and fearing. Or probably I just hate the demand. Anyway, life's full of demand, isn't it? Eventhough underpressure life is something that definitely being a burden to my shoulder, but sometimes I have an excited time enjoying adrenaline rush living under that burden. I'll going crazy if I think negatively all the time, right? Push and push positive mind to stay survive.. :)