Banyak pepatah yang mengatakan untuk selalu mendengarkan nasehat orang tua, atau orang yang lebih tua. Hal ini bisa dimengerti, karena biasanya mereka sudah mempunyai pengalaman yang lebih banyak daripada kita; istilahnya sudah banyak makan "asam dan garam dunia" (serta asam dan garam beneran).
Tapi kadang nasehat2 dari mereka yang tua2 bukan hanya sekedar berbau moral, melainkan segala sesuatu yg berbau mistis, seperti:
"KATANYA gak boleh begitu, soalnya BISA BAWA SIAL... "
Apakah kita sebagai generasi yg lebih muda dan lebih modern harus selalu menuruti nasehat mereka... walaupun alasannya tidak logis?
Mungkin kebanyakan akan menjawab "iya" karena tidak mau dicap durhaka.
Sekarang pertanyaan selanjutnya: apakah kita sebagai generasi sekarang akan memberikan nasehat yg sama ke anak2 kita dan generasi selanjutnya walaupun menurut kita sendiri alasannya tidak masuk akal?
Mungkin banyak juga yang akan menjawab "iya" karena mereka merasa lebih nyaman untuk percaya akan hal itu. Percaya gak percaya.. mendingan percaya aja deh... daripada ntar malah kejadian yg ngga2... Dan mitos2 itu pun terus berlanjut turun temurun.
Kadang gak cuma menghindari segala sesuatu yg membawa sial, tapi juga mengejar sesuatu yg bawa hoki (padahal belom tentu). Misalnya orang2 yg berebutan venue untuk menikah atau ngantri operasi caesar supaya bayinya lahir di tanggal2 bagus. Atau ada orang yg terobsesi pada angka tertentu karena membawa untung buat bisnisnya dan menyalahkan angka tertentu apabila membawa malapetaka.
Buat gue pribadi, kadang nasehat2 yang gak masuk akal tersebut lebih terasa seperti upaya orang2 di sekitar untuk "nyumpahin" gue supaya gue jadi sial. Misalnya seorang teman yang bilang ke gue bahwa, "memakai baju pengantin 2 kali itu sama dengan membawa kesialan di rumah tangga berikutnya" akhirnya terdengar seakan2 dia mengatakan, "gue sumpahin elo suatu saat akan bercerai dengan suami lo!"... walaupun gue yakin bukan itu maksud dia yang sebenarnya.
Sama seperti kejadian dimana nyokap mati2an melarang gue dan kakak gue menikah di tahun yang sama. Alasannya karena dulu dia dan adiknya juga menikah di tahun yang sama, lalu beberapa tahun kemudian rumah tangga oom gue hancur berantakan. Padahal yang membuat hancur bukan karena mereka menikah di tahun yang sama, tetapi karena konflik intern yang terjadi di keluarga mereka. Tapi kenapa malah yang membuat trauma justru karena hal2 mistis yang sebenernya gak ada hubungannya?
Memang harus diakui bahwa kita manusia mempunyai keterbatasan2 tertentu. Bahkan teknologi pun sampai saat ini masih belom bisa menjawab semua pertanyaan tentang dunia ini. Mungkin mitos2 itu tercipta untuk menjawab semua pertanyaan2 yg tak terjawab dan memberi alasan2 untuk semua pertanyaan "mengapa begini dan mengapa begitu?".
Bisa juga mitos itu timbul setelah orang2 jaman dahulu menemukan solusi untuk suatu masalah tertentu, dan solusi itu membawa hasil positif (padahal belon tentu hasil positif itu tercapai berkat solusi tersebut). Sebaliknya, mitos itu juga bisa timbul ketika mereka mencari kambing hitam atas semua kesialan yang terjadi.
Friday, August 03, 2012
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Dorayaki
Penasaran kayak apa sih kue kesukaan Doraemon? Bisa dicoba resepnya sekarang :)
Bahan:
2 butir telur
80 gram gula
1 sdm madu
1/2 sdt baking soda
50 ml air
130 gram tepung terigu
100 gram anko (selai kacang merah)
Cara:
Kocok telur sambil memasukkan gula dan madu. Kocok dengan tangan selama kurang lebih 3 menit.
Larutkan baking soda dalam air, lalu masukkan ke dalam kocokan telur.
Masukkan tepung, aduk rata.
Tutup dengan plastic wrap , lulu biarkan selama setengah jam.
Panaskan wajan (yang rata), tuang adonan dengan sendok (yang berbentuk bulat).
Caranya agak mirip seperti membuat pancake, hanya saja satu sisinya dimasak lebih lama sehingga warnanya lebih coklat daripada sisi yang lainnya.
Angkat dan dinginkan.
Masukkan anko (jika gak suka anko, bisa diganti dengan yang lain, seperti selai strawberry atau nutella) di antara 2 buah "pancake", lalu tekan hingga berbentuk seperti dorayaki.
Tempe Bumbu Bali
Bahan:
400 gram tempe, potong sekitar 1x2x2 cm, lalu goreng setengah matang
2 batang serai yang dimemarkan
2-3 cm lengkuas
1-2 cm jahr yang dimemarkan
100 ml air
5 sdm kecap manis
gula dan garam secukupnya
Bumbu Halus:
5 butir bawang merah (bisa diganti dengan 1 buah bawang bombay)
4 siung bawang putih
cabe merah sesuai selera
5 butir kemiri
1 sdm asam
Cara:
Tumis bumbu halus, jahe, lengkuas dan serai sampai harum. Lalu masukkan air dan kecap manis, masak sampai mendidih. Masukkan tempe goreng, tambahkan garam dan gula sesuai selera. Masak sampai kuah mengental.
Monday, October 24, 2011
13 tahun yang lalu
Tiap orang memang suka merayakan tanggal "hari jadi" untuk segala hal. Entah "hari jadi" untuk kelahiran (alias ulang tahun), "hari jadi" untuk pacaran atau pernikahan, "hari jadi" untuk perusahaan atau organisasi, dan beribu macam "hari jadi" lainnya. Dan kali ini gue merayakan "hari jadi" persahabatan gue dengan 2 orang yg sangat penting dalam hidup gue.
Kita sendiri mungkin gak ingat, apa pemicu persahabatan kita, atau kapan sebenarnya kita pertama kali hang-out bareng. Sadar2, orang2 di sekitar kita menganggap bahwa kemana2 kita selalu bertiga, entah di sekolah maupun di mall. Hingga suatu hari di bioskop, kita menetapkan bahwa hari itu adalah "hari jadi" persahabatan kita.
Pertemanan gue dengan 2 sahabat ini, mungkin agak sedikit unik. Mengingat bahwa kita berbeda satu sama lain; mulai dari fashion, hobby, musik, sampai selera cowok. Mungkin karena itu kita bisa bersahabat... karena kita bisa saling melengkapi.
"Alle gute Dinge sind drei" (arti: "segala sesuatu yang baik ada 3") bisa menjadi panutan dalam persahabatan kita. Karena apabila ada yang berantem, salah satu pasti menjadi penengah. Dan kita pun selalu hadir untuk satu sama lain di saat masa2 puber merajalela.
Bernostalgia kadang membuat senyum2 sekaligus iri, iri terhadap kehidupan kita yg dulu. 13 tahun yang lalu dimana kita masih bisa tiap hari bertemu di sekolah dan tiap weekend jalan bareng atau nginep di rumah mereka. Kekhawatiran kita hanya PR, ulangan besok, apakah cowok yang kita taksir naksir balik, weekend mao jalan kemana, serta uang jajan yg kurang...
Dan sekarang, 13 tahun kemudian, kita semua sama2 punya kehidupan masing2 dan berada di 3 negara, 3 benua, serta daerah waktu yang berbeda. Hanya bisa saling menyapa lewat internet, dan semua punya kesibukan serta masalah masing2. Sejak lulus SMA pun kita gak pernah punya kesempatan untuk berkumpul bertiga lagi.
Jadi biarlah hari ini gue tenggelam dalam nostalgia.. tentang masa2 yang tidak akan bisa kembali lagi...
Happy 13th Anniversary! Miss u girls alot!
Kita sendiri mungkin gak ingat, apa pemicu persahabatan kita, atau kapan sebenarnya kita pertama kali hang-out bareng. Sadar2, orang2 di sekitar kita menganggap bahwa kemana2 kita selalu bertiga, entah di sekolah maupun di mall. Hingga suatu hari di bioskop, kita menetapkan bahwa hari itu adalah "hari jadi" persahabatan kita.
Pertemanan gue dengan 2 sahabat ini, mungkin agak sedikit unik. Mengingat bahwa kita berbeda satu sama lain; mulai dari fashion, hobby, musik, sampai selera cowok. Mungkin karena itu kita bisa bersahabat... karena kita bisa saling melengkapi.
"Alle gute Dinge sind drei" (arti: "segala sesuatu yang baik ada 3") bisa menjadi panutan dalam persahabatan kita. Karena apabila ada yang berantem, salah satu pasti menjadi penengah. Dan kita pun selalu hadir untuk satu sama lain di saat masa2 puber merajalela.
Bernostalgia kadang membuat senyum2 sekaligus iri, iri terhadap kehidupan kita yg dulu. 13 tahun yang lalu dimana kita masih bisa tiap hari bertemu di sekolah dan tiap weekend jalan bareng atau nginep di rumah mereka. Kekhawatiran kita hanya PR, ulangan besok, apakah cowok yang kita taksir naksir balik, weekend mao jalan kemana, serta uang jajan yg kurang...
Dan sekarang, 13 tahun kemudian, kita semua sama2 punya kehidupan masing2 dan berada di 3 negara, 3 benua, serta daerah waktu yang berbeda. Hanya bisa saling menyapa lewat internet, dan semua punya kesibukan serta masalah masing2. Sejak lulus SMA pun kita gak pernah punya kesempatan untuk berkumpul bertiga lagi.
Jadi biarlah hari ini gue tenggelam dalam nostalgia.. tentang masa2 yang tidak akan bisa kembali lagi...
Happy 13th Anniversary! Miss u girls alot!
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Wedding (the website)
Good News everyone..!
I'm married for 2 months now!
Whew... time flies....
I just visit our wedding website, which I ignored after the wedding day... and just realized, that it will be expired in March 2012.
Well... basically, the website was made give our guests all information about our wedding day. So... I thought.... maybe I should copy-paste all articles we wrote on that website before it's too late! I might want to re-read them in the future :)
(I suppose... this blog will still exist in the future... no? )
So... here we go.......
Welcome
Welcome everyone to our wedding web site! For those of you who will not be able to make it to our wedding, we thought this would be a great way for us to share all of our experiences with you. For all of you who will be attending, all of the information you could ever want to know about us and our wedding will be available for you here.
After almost eight wonderful years together, we are looking forward to having our dream wedding in Fulda, Germany. We have chosen to get married in Frauenberg and the reception will be held at the Orangerie. It's absolutely beautiful there and we know you will all agree.
For all of you who will be coming in from out of town, we have provided you with suggestions of places to stay. Hopefully some of you will decide to make a vacation out of this and extend your stay to a full week.
We would love to receive messages in our Guestbook from anyone compelled to do so. Please check back often as we will be making frequent updates to the website as the plans progress.
We are looking forward to seeing everyone in just a few months. Thank you to all of our friends and family for supporting us and loving us over the years.
Arthur and Cheryl
FYI: My hubbie's name is Arthur... but our indo friends and family call him Ody...
Proposal - the story
I'm married for 2 months now!
Whew... time flies....
I just visit our wedding website, which I ignored after the wedding day... and just realized, that it will be expired in March 2012.
Well... basically, the website was made give our guests all information about our wedding day. So... I thought.... maybe I should copy-paste all articles we wrote on that website before it's too late! I might want to re-read them in the future :)
(I suppose... this blog will still exist in the future... no? )
So... here we go.......
Welcome
Welcome everyone to our wedding web site! For those of you who will not be able to make it to our wedding, we thought this would be a great way for us to share all of our experiences with you. For all of you who will be attending, all of the information you could ever want to know about us and our wedding will be available for you here.
After almost eight wonderful years together, we are looking forward to having our dream wedding in Fulda, Germany. We have chosen to get married in Frauenberg and the reception will be held at the Orangerie. It's absolutely beautiful there and we know you will all agree.
For all of you who will be coming in from out of town, we have provided you with suggestions of places to stay. Hopefully some of you will decide to make a vacation out of this and extend your stay to a full week.
We would love to receive messages in our Guestbook from anyone compelled to do so. Please check back often as we will be making frequent updates to the website as the plans progress.
We are looking forward to seeing everyone in just a few months. Thank you to all of our friends and family for supporting us and loving us over the years.
Arthur and Cheryl
FYI: My hubbie's name is Arthur... but our indo friends and family call him Ody...
Proposal - the story
It was about November 2009 when Arthur asked me if I could take a holiday between 24th-26th January 2010. And he didn't want to answer why because he wanted it as a surprise. He successfully made me drown in curiosity for the whole 2 months because of it.
After we celebrated New Year, suddenly Arthur gave me an envelope with our plane tickets to Venice in it. An (2-long-months-worth-to-wait) answer that I couldn't even guess even in my dreams.
It was a sweet journey, a little bit spontanious and unplanned, but we just really wanted to relax and have fun without any hectic kind of feeling. It was winter, but thank God the weather was quite nice.
On our second day of visit, we decided to take a small tour with gondola. As I wanted to take out my camera to shoot a couple of pictures, suddenly the gondola man shouted something. I thought at first I was not allowed to take any photographs. But it was actually a signal for Arthur to "do" it.
Arthur suddenly held my hands and talked about our love journey, about how thankful he was that I was always there for him in his good and hard times, then he knelt down and asked, "Will you stay forever by my side and marry me?"
...... I cried and answered, "Yes!!!".
About Fulda
Since Fulda has a very special meaning to us, we decided to get married on the very town that we had spent our first 5 years together. We know that it will mean a great deal to us that we will be beginning our lives together in the very place, where we shared most of our moments and times together.
Fulda is a small town in Hesse, Germany with population about 70,000. It's located on the river Fulda and developed around a Benedictine abbey founded in 744 by Sturmi, a disciple of St. Boniface. The abbey became a missionary centre, and its school was one of Europe's important seats of learning during the early Middle Ages.
Most of Fulda's noteworthy buildings form an integrated Baroque district, including the cathedral (1704-12; with the crypt of St. Boniface); the episcopal palace (1707), now the city hall and a museum; and the Orangerie, before which stands the Floravase (1728), carved out of a single piece of stone.
The Church of St. Michael dates from about 820, and the Probstei Church at Petersberg (just outside Fulda) is also 9th century. The Frauenberg Franciscan monastery (rebuilt 1760) is to the north of the city. Nearby Adolphseck Castle (1730-50), a former summer residence of the prince-bishops, is now a museum.
(official website of Fulda is here)
Ceremony - Frauenberg Kirche
Long time ago, I've dreamed about walking down the aisle to my knight in shining armor. In my mind, I would picture a beautiful white church with lots of flowers and even more love. Now that we're finally here, it seems unbelievable to me that my dream will actually come true.
It was a little bit hard to choose where our ceremony being held. There're so many beautiful churches in Fulda, but we could only choose one. In the end, we decided to have our ceremony at Church Frauenberg. It's a beautiful old baroque style church, built in 16th century, and located on the top of the hill. As we lived in Fulda, we used to walk up the hill together, to see a beautiful view of the whole city.
(You can find the website here)
Reception - Fulda Orangerie
The Orangerie was built just across the City Palace at the same century as the cathedral, 1721-1724.
The abbots used the baroque rooms for summer parties. In the winter months, ornamental trees such as oranges and lemons were stored there, that's also explain the name Orangerie.
Until now, the Orangerie is one of a popular venue for parties, meetings and ball nights. On the one hand because of its interiors, like the nobly decorated Apollo Hall, and on the other hand the terrace area that connected with the fabulous castle baroque garden through a flight of stairs.
Today the Orangerie belongs to Maritim Hotel, and thus not avaliable for sightseeing. But at the time where there is no event occur, the Cafe and the Restaurant will be open and let the people enjoy the historic baroque style.
(The website of Maritim Hotel in Fulda is here)
...
Well, I don't copy-paste the informations about visas or transportation since it's a little bit out of (wedding) topic... and right now I'm kinda lazy to add any Photo... (again... laziness as an excuse!)
But I promise I'll write about the whole wedding day in the near future ;)
About Fulda
Since Fulda has a very special meaning to us, we decided to get married on the very town that we had spent our first 5 years together. We know that it will mean a great deal to us that we will be beginning our lives together in the very place, where we shared most of our moments and times together.
Fulda is a small town in Hesse, Germany with population about 70,000. It's located on the river Fulda and developed around a Benedictine abbey founded in 744 by Sturmi, a disciple of St. Boniface. The abbey became a missionary centre, and its school was one of Europe's important seats of learning during the early Middle Ages.
Most of Fulda's noteworthy buildings form an integrated Baroque district, including the cathedral (1704-12; with the crypt of St. Boniface); the episcopal palace (1707), now the city hall and a museum; and the Orangerie, before which stands the Floravase (1728), carved out of a single piece of stone.
The Church of St. Michael dates from about 820, and the Probstei Church at Petersberg (just outside Fulda) is also 9th century. The Frauenberg Franciscan monastery (rebuilt 1760) is to the north of the city. Nearby Adolphseck Castle (1730-50), a former summer residence of the prince-bishops, is now a museum.
(official website of Fulda is here)
Ceremony - Frauenberg Kirche
Long time ago, I've dreamed about walking down the aisle to my knight in shining armor. In my mind, I would picture a beautiful white church with lots of flowers and even more love. Now that we're finally here, it seems unbelievable to me that my dream will actually come true.
It was a little bit hard to choose where our ceremony being held. There're so many beautiful churches in Fulda, but we could only choose one. In the end, we decided to have our ceremony at Church Frauenberg. It's a beautiful old baroque style church, built in 16th century, and located on the top of the hill. As we lived in Fulda, we used to walk up the hill together, to see a beautiful view of the whole city.
(You can find the website here)
Reception - Fulda Orangerie
The Orangerie was built just across the City Palace at the same century as the cathedral, 1721-1724.
The abbots used the baroque rooms for summer parties. In the winter months, ornamental trees such as oranges and lemons were stored there, that's also explain the name Orangerie.
Until now, the Orangerie is one of a popular venue for parties, meetings and ball nights. On the one hand because of its interiors, like the nobly decorated Apollo Hall, and on the other hand the terrace area that connected with the fabulous castle baroque garden through a flight of stairs.
Today the Orangerie belongs to Maritim Hotel, and thus not avaliable for sightseeing. But at the time where there is no event occur, the Cafe and the Restaurant will be open and let the people enjoy the historic baroque style.
(The website of Maritim Hotel in Fulda is here)
...
Well, I don't copy-paste the informations about visas or transportation since it's a little bit out of (wedding) topic... and right now I'm kinda lazy to add any Photo... (again... laziness as an excuse!)
But I promise I'll write about the whole wedding day in the near future ;)
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