Recently, Indonesia has been hit by flooding cases several times, especially our two big cities, Jakarta and Surabaya. As pictured in the newspaper, the flood level was no joke as it was half the car and surely we can imagine how dangerous it could be for the car to continue, for it can damage the car’s engine.

Today, specifically just now, a hard rain poured to almost all areas in Surabaya. Both the west and the east sides of Surabaya have been pooled by flood. Some people got stuck in their cars, while others, including me, stranded inside offices or homes. In many ways, I feel thankful that I still have a shelter; I just cannot imagine what it would be if we happen to be outside during that moment and caught by a very hard rain, making sure we are all wet head to toe..

Plants and animals, however, are not free from the negative impact the flood brings as it destroyed their habitats. Flood can be destructive towards anything, be it living or inanimate ones, and this is concerning to the environment if there’s no measure taken to prevent growing this problem.

Littering is one and foremost public concern in our society up to this moment regarding this flooding issue. Non-renewable resource such as plastic have scattered around the roads and clogged the sewerage, making the rain water couldn’t find its way to go under easily. This has put many lives in danger for it triggers road congestion and health problems from diarrhea, skin disease, influenza to malaria.

Therefore, I would like to once again encourage everyone to care about our place of living together by littering properly as that’s the least we can do to fight this nature issue.

Craving in the mid of night, especially after doing some work, has never been easy to calm down just by going straight to sleep, making late supper a must for night owl-peeps; instant noodle and other quick meals become a must have item at home. However, having it all alone turns out to be boring as it feels like there is no other option to eat during night time, especially if the hungry one craves for fresh food. With this phenomenon, cat rice aka ‘sego kucing’ was introduced, providing variants of food, snacks, and also drinks served in small portion opening during night time usually.

Sego kucing’s name is based on a fact that cat doesn’t eat a lot, and so it matches with some people’s preference for not eating a lot at night despite feeling hungry. This later allows people to have more variants of dish on their plate 😀 It now sounds more interesting, right? Oh. Also, this dish was originated in Central Java and becomes more popular in other regions as well. For your reference, here is how it looks:

Alright, now that you guys get a better idea of what sego kucing is, I would like to share a bit of my fascinating experience last year in Solo, Central Java, a day before attending my friend’s wedding on the next day.

So, at around 8 PM, the four of us managed to get to this famous place for sego kucing in Solo called the Lawang Djoenjing. The name in fact represents its look – a gate leaning sideways as pictured below:

It serves variants of Indonesian traditional dish from snacks to drinks. All packed in small portions (except drinks). I like almost all the variants as they have both spicy and not spicy ones, and trust me it tastes good! I can still vividly remember how the roti maryam (chanai bread) tasted that time. It was so buttery and mixed well in harmony with the chocolate sprinkle. Sorry that I have no picture for this :p as the lighting of the place is too dark to take a picture – an opened area with big umbrellas covering each table and chair. The weather was really nice during night time there. It was mildly windy, and many people gathered with their friends while enjoying their food.

On top was a picture I took that time as it looks bright due to the light, and you can see the variant of the dishes on a pottery plate. What a nice Javanese style arrangement for food!

I would like to recommend everyone who plans to go to Solo to visit this place. However, feel free to share your experience in having any sego kucing in your cities 😀

Happy Cat Rice-ing peeps!

Sawatdeekhaa!

Feeling excited to share a bit of my trip back then in Thailand with you-know-who 😀 this time – Yes, Momo is, and so did our adventure began. It all started by a mixture of sudden plan and accident causing us to stay for more than a week of vacation. Thanks to all the coincidences, I never expected that this trip would be filled with so many fun and memorable moments.

Flying straight to Bangkok from Phuket, we’re all so thrilled and anticipated what we could discover here as we had planned to visit some must-visit-spots before hand. And the first place we checked out after touching down in Bangkok was a super fascinating one we couldn’t wait to explore.

Have you ever wished to be in a place where it feels like you are in Willy Wonka’s factory? If the answer is yes, your wish is no longer a dream as now you can find it for real in Bangkok, Thailand. It’s called the Chocolate Ville. There are many themed spots you will like, and here are some glimpses of the beauty:

This view was taken by the lake in the Chocoville restaurant. The visitors can also explore the mercusuar building. Following this, there was a beautiful swan lake dancing on the water besides its extremely hot weather that time:

For your information, these old looking pictures are taken by Momo’s phone 😀

Of course sitting only is not allowed in a restaurant wherever we are right? Therefore, here is one of the dishes we had that time:

We loved this dish! Served with Bangkok’s chili sauce, it filled us up with some kind of energy to explore this made old town afterwards. Until it led us to this lake spot aside from the one in the restaurant in which the houses resembled those in Austria (please set aside the color of the water in this picture okay :p):

The last but not least, here is a photo bomb of all photos I gave before for your surprise if you’re thinking where is the part of this Chocoville which is similar to Willy Wonka’s exactly:

It’s me on the sugary pink old Vespa! It might look really off with me covering my face with a scarf as it’s so freakingly hot there, making me feel like I cannot stand the heat for too long as I might pass out anytime due to dehydration. But taking a picture before it happened still sounds a good idea after all, doesn’t it? :p

All of this euphoria I shared today was actually just a day of our exploration in Bangkok. Please stay tune for more of my adventure series guys 😀

Happy travelling!

Hello art lovers! as one out of many art lovers out there, in this opportunity I would like to share what I like doing these days in my free time: making my DIY products!

The picture on top is just a glimpse out of many wool felt doll characters you can find on the Internet. For more ideas, you can check on pinterest as it will also direct to the web page of the creators for more instructions of how to make this little cutie ourselves 🙂

A bit of story before sharing the result of my own creation of this product, I really thank my friend that time who brought me this wool felt kit back from Singapore without me knowing it as she considered me as an art lover and explorer.hohoho!

Presenting you what I got from my friend back then 😀 (I got a pack of dog wool felt kit, so I give a photo up there for your reference – you can either find it in the online or offline craft store)

Ever since I got that DIY package, I never have an idea of how to make it since the instruction is pretty much unclear written in japanese mostly until I came to an understanding that I should find the tools in order to make it (I finally managed to find it online), thanks to youtube and google information! So here is how the tools look like:

Those are cheerfully colored wool felt material and some special needles in varied sizes along with a white thick plastic mat. The wooden tool besides the needles is the holder to hold the needle firmly, and with some magic touch, you will create such adorable buddies for decorations or even customized birthday gifts! Here is how my wool felt made looks like:

It turns out a bit blurry in this page 😦 I don’t know why. Sorry for the incovenience. But I hope that this little puppy can cheer up your day as much as it did on me although I spent around 5 hours to finish it :p

If you are interested, feel free to google or youtube the steps for more instructions of how to start and create your own wool felt doll 🙂

Happy woolfelt-ing everyone!

Tea, more often than not, is linked with old people taste for drinks, with no exceptions to the younger generations. However, of many people I know, I could say that most of them – those in the same age as me are more into modern types of drink like soda to liquor, and not to forget coffee indeed. In a more detailed perspective, coffee is the most common and favored one, making it looks like almost no adult could ever live without coffee. But the ugly truth is I am not a coffee person, and I could firmly say that I don’t enjoy drinking one (no offense to all the coffee lovers out there okay :D).

To add more facts about my different preference in enjoying my cup of drink, I could dare myself saying that I am a tea lover, and to be spesific, I like the old chinese tea flavor most. Proudly introducing my newest choice for tea these days:

This Yabukita Blend nail it! Starting from the first sip, I can instantly taste the 2 combined flavors: brown rice and green tea in a harmony. The color of the tea once met the hot water never gets darker as I allow the tea bag in even after the next 20 minutes which shows how stable the content is and so does the taste. Love this tea a bit too much now! Big thanks to a friend who gave me this before 😀

Feel free to comment or like below if you know this product and happen to like it as well :)!

Usually I will have oolong tea (chinese tea variant) when I am eating out for its bitter taste at the end of the sip – it really helps me neutralize the strong taste of the chinese food I have usually. Then, on the oher day I will have chrysanthemum tea (types of flower used for tea) which ranks second to me after that brown rice and green tea bag. Other recommended variants that would also be good to have would be chamomile, goji berry and lemongrass*. (this is a type of plant usually used in tea as one of the ingredients to make javanese tea that you can find mostly as the welcome drink in hotels and in traditional food restaurants)

PS: I have chrysant flowers stock at home although it is not that much 😀 but I would love to share this to anyone who is interested to try

Happy tea-urshday!

Never comes on my mind that COVID-19 known as coronavirus is at an alarming rate in the asian countries, particularly in China regions these days. This pandemic issue has tremendously affected humanity in general as it contributes in the vast number of victims, bringing the total death toll to 2592 nationwide by now.

In the midst of this outbreak, I would like to encourage everyone to fight this issue together. It is not only about how much money we spend to help the victims out there, but also about how we can support them psychologically. Let’s stop spreading hoax and taking an advantage from this matter, instead, let’s give more awareness and spread love by taking care of ourselves and surroundings.

Hohoho! Are you familiar with this picture? Supposedly, yes, who wouldn’t know this popular fried chicken icon – the happy meal from McDonald! Mcd fried chicken has been widely known for its taste for a long time even up to this moment, and its fun package has also succeeded to attract kids as their major customers as it’s packed with fancy thematic toys each season, no wonder why many people are in love with this quick-tasty-meal more than ever.

However, all the interesting features of this product can never be seperated from the downside it brings. There is a high level of health issue ever since fast food is vastly available all around starting from obesity to a life threatening matter. This later got me thinking that aside from my appetite to eat this fancy meal, I feel the need to change my consumption for a better condition. So, I start to have more veggies now than ever before despite the fact that I don’t like eating greens at all when I was small.

Here I go now – fruit and vegetable salad. Fruit is never an enemy to me, so it is easy to have this on my bowl; however, it can’t be true for veggies, so I kinda had a hard time to have one until I got enlightened by my beloved boss about how to befriend this green stuff – adding the right sauce to boost my appetite.

Never comes to my mind that I could finally fall for salad for my meals! (Really, you guys have no idea how I hate greens before). The recommended sauce has successfully spell its magic power to boost my appetite – roasted sesame salad dressing by Kewpie.

Now, I really enjoy eating those greens with this dressing. It is a good companion for salad starter; you can also combine it with chicken for more nutritious contents. There are also other good variants of salad dressing you can find in grocery stores like caesar sauce, thousand island and many more. By means, you can adjust the salad dressing with your taste, and that will help us make no excuse for not eating veggies 🙂

Such consumption really has an impact on my physical and emotional well-being. My body feels light even when I am full after thing those greens, and I feel happier eating lots of this as there is no risk of getting fatter as it is low in carbs. So, I would like to encourage everyone out there to try this consumption, slowly adopting a more healthy lifestyle for a better life ahead.

Happy Salad-ing everyone!

I bet most of the readers will yell at their phone, “what?!” the moment this title pops up on their screen. With all due respect, allow me to share what it deals about actually. My closed ones have known more than enough the fact that I enjoy most of my time talking with friends and or anyone around me. I can talk almost about any topic be it serious matter or a joke. Some even say that despite the annoyance it might bring – listening to me talking absurd stuff, they still enjoy the moment we share together since some people are just good listeners, and they would love listening to others talking most of the time. Therefore, quite recently some of my friends refer me as a walking radio. As ridiculous as it sounds, yes, I got more votes to this title like it or not, so I have this firm belief that I appreciate all my voters out there to be my biggest fans. Haha! My warmest hug and love for you guys all😋😎

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— Oscar Wilde.

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