KAFTAN

These dresses are originally from Persia, they called it "Xaftan" means Over dress.  In my country is become "Kaftan". Who's wearing this dress? Usually moslem ladies as they have to cover their body from neck to ankles. 

These days, Kaftan is become a "Trend" in my country. It doesn't matter if you are moslem or not, it doesn't matter you are skinny or big, short or tall, everybody are wearing it without considerations! Yup. It's a 'Trend" that you "Must" follow or you will left out hahaha.  

In my country, if you are going to pengajian (prayer) this dress is a MUST or someone is gonna watching you head to toe and wondering: "What the heck you're doing here, gal?". That is so true. I got this experience by myself on the beginning I came to the prayer, luckily the host is my friend and she lent me kaftan to cover me up! so embarrasing!! after that I have to go shopping for my kaftan! Aha .. kinda blessing in disguise for me.

The funny thing, I see some gals are wearing these kind of dress even on casual event, it's not only go to prayer but to the mall! Yes. Mall. Well .. this kinda dress is very thin layer and very sexy sheer, if you have a great body and very confident to show it off, here we go ...  I see that a lot in the mall.  However, I won't  do that hahahaha. Being sexy and comfortable on my own skin are two different things! 

FASHIONISTA in FRUGALISTA

Story from my old diary last  year, end of June in Indonesia.
Packing semua baju"musim panas, musim semi dan sebagian musim gugur, simpen semua winter clothing. I know it is gonna be hot season and raining for a bit in my motherland, Indonesia. Still need some cotton sweater just in case I am going to mountain, that still crisp cold. 

The first day impression:
Very Hot, babe!!! Thanks God, aku dah prepare semuanya. Begeto landing di bandara SoeTa, sandal  dah nempel di kaki hahahha. Berdua ama anakku, di Taiwan sempet bengong lihat TKI disana pada dress up, malahan ada yg pake winter boots, believe it or not!  Mau mudik kemana, ya? Canada ato Indonesia? hehehehe  hmmm ... kale biar keliatan keren dr luar negeri gito kale ya hehhehe. Aku dari dulu emang gak pernah peduli soal status dari luar negeriku, so what geto lhoooo!!!

Mulai dari airport sampe makan malam di mall, dimana" aku lihat ibu" dan mbak" pada pake legging. Yup, thight legging and temperature is above 30C!  I can't believe myself. How did they do that? I was like 'Wow .. aku sejak dr airport smp detik mau balik ke Canada, kemana" pake celana pendek dan short sleeveless, suamiku malahan pake sarung dan sandal! hahahaha

Second fact:
Kebanyakan orang disana ikut trends very regerously & at the same time, they luv "branded item". Pake branded items menunjukkan "status" siapa mereka. They are trying so hard to give the impression that they "have", even some of them are not rich or even can't afford to buy it! Aku perhatikan mulai dijalanan waktu macet, orang naik motor sampe di mall dimana pun, tua muda nenteng tas "Louis Vutton" ato Guccci palsu!  They love these two brands. They don't even care if it's fake!

Don't get me wrong. I don't hate fake stuff but I don't like to impress someone! That's the 1st RULE. Aku suka sesuatu yg "descent" dan membuatku comfortable. Seringkali aku lihat ibu"muda cantik di mall yg dandan head to toe with branded item but .. she doesn't look confident . How did I know that? I noticed from the way she is looking at me! hahaha.  I don't even carry LV or Gucci but I know someone notice me, Ups! It's not my fault that I was born with the good gene, hahahahha. Sorry, does not wanna be an arrogan Bitch but that is the truth! LOL.

Anyway, aku jadi keinget waktu berlibur ke Italy, temenku ngingetin untuk gak belanja branded bag imitasi ini kalo kita mau nerusin perjalanan kita ke Paris. Aku tanya kenapa? temenku bilang kalo di bandara France ada LV detective yg detect orang"yg bawa tas palsu LV masuk ke Paris. Jangan coba" pake ato bawa tas LV palsu, mereka langsung tangkap kau dan bisa kena denda 7 kale lipat harga tas asli plus dipenjara! Phuhhh .. serem banget dengernya.

Sekarang aku lihat dimukaku orang pake tas imitasi dimanapun aku jalan!  I was thinking ... hmmm .. what if these detectives on vacation in my country and see all of these everywhere? hah?! They will suffer heart attack probably or they just closed they eyes pretend they don't even see a thing?? 

Sohibku bilang susah untuk jadi who "you are" in this country! Orang bisa bilang kamu gak "normal" kalo kamu gak sama dengan orang lainnya! Aha! Kebanyakan orang melihat what is "IN" rightnow, seperti yg aku bilang diatas, ngikutin trends. Mereka gak lihat if "it is good for me or not", as long as they are "following" the trends! Yup, that is super fact! heheheh

I see a lot of my friends are trying so hard to dress up for impress. They did not impress a man but they're trying so hard to impress the girl - to make them jealous! hahahha

I find out myself when I went out and someone is  asking me: what should I wear? I was like what? What is the question? you are asking me what to wear? I was quite surprise. The first time, I thought it was joking and I keep fooling around and do the same question hahahha. Actually they are seriously asking that question.

For me, that is a wrong question if you asked me. My rule is "NOT" following the rule what people normal do! I have my own rule in terms on wearing thing. I did not follow the trends!! I don't even  care what people think about me.  Dressing up is a fun thing. I don't like any pressure from the right and left.  I dress myself up according to my mood swing and the weather that I am where at.  

Lasem by AGATO

When I was in junior high school, I took an extra curricular subject 'mbatik' - traditional painting on fabric using a manual wax.  This subject is very difficult since I don't have patience! exactly, patience and intenseness.  That is why  I do really appreciate when I see a beautiful or gorgeous batik with the price of  million million rupiahs! I can imagine how this artist was painting on this fabric!

I am very lucky that I got the opportunity to see the biggest exhibitions while I was in my country : Batik world summit and Ina Craft.  I see a lot of batiks from different villages, city in my country from the cheapest price to the expensive one.  They are really really amazing, not just amazing .. I can say it's the Best of the Best. I  can spend my whole day on the exhibitions and if my husband is not coming with me, the result made him cranky since I was busy checking out the batik and I forget to text him!  Aha!

However,  batik is making me like a little child who is fallen in love with a lollipop on the first sight!! Yup .. I can cry for it if I can't get it! hahahaha.  I just love Batik so much!! I don't even know how to discribe it.  I wear batik almost every day on daily basis if I was in Indonesia.  Well .. the weather is pretty hot and batik material that I had is very nice cold,  so relaxing.  I don't care if you see me on my FB pictures,  I wear the same dress all the time.   Wong jowo bilang: paten lo!!! hahahahah

I learn a lot about batiks while I was in my country for these 10 months.

I was very lucky I guess.  One of my fave batiks is batik Lasem as I shown you in this pic.  The color is very eye catching as well as the painting on it.

You can bring me whatever batiks to me and I can tell you what kind of batik it's  from the color, aha!

My Old fave one is batik Sogan from Solo, the second one is batik Madura - the place that I belongs, the 3rd row will be Lasem and the last one from Ndiwek, Jombang that I can't afford it as it's too expensive to sell it!

I am very particular choosing my batiks. I don't like to buy whatever batiks and make whatever design.  I have to touch the batiks and  see the picture on it so I can imagine in my head this batik is good for whatever design I had. I see batik is already very beautiful on its own, so I don't need to add more on top of it. I just need a very simple design for it and Voila!

That is why it's not easy to find a batik, especially if I have to ask someone to shop for me. Basically, she has to know me better first before jumping to that, hahahaha    

People in my country usually wear batik on special occasion but now it's start to wear it every Friday at the office. Basically, now batik is more modern than previous years ago which is good since it's nice and beautiful if you know how to find the good one that suit your style.

to be continue .....

AGATO

4 months only I did not write, felt like I did not write for a year!!!!  Felt so bad since I got a lot of idea to write and it all stuck in my head, damn.  My computer was broken, I guess it's too old like my age, too much memory that I have to keep, ups. Need to get a new one but still luv the old one, hehehe but it's too late now, it is all shut down already! hiksss ...

Fortunately, my husband is very nice to let me borrow his computer to check out my stuff. However,  blogging - it's not that easy as I need to have the computer alone for the whole day. Blogging is almost like dating someone, you need to have a lot of time to spend to know each other.

Anyway, last time I am telling you that I am doing my clothing line project, yes .. finally my project is done.  Don't expect too much when you look at it since my design is very simple like the way I am,  no string attached heheheh.

I got the name also for my clothing line. The name is AGATO. I dedicated this clothing line for my kids,  so AGATO means Any-yoGA and Topan.  That is the good news from me since everything is according to my plan. The bad news, I am not sure yet if it's going to be continue as I have to go back home with my husband, hiksss ... so sad, eih?  


Why?  I learned from this project, the difficult part it's not just to make it since I have someone who will do the sewing and I did the design. The difficult one is finding the fabric.  As I can't ask someone to do that for me!

At the same time, that is the fun part making this project!!! Why? I have to travel to wherever place to find the material or if I am lucky, I can get it from the biggest batik exhibitions that usually happen once or twice a year in my city.

Well .. I am very picky on choosing material since I need to make a clothing that is perfectly beautiful on all skin tone since batik it's not solid color and not all the people suitable with all the print on it. At the same time I want to make clothing that has a good texture so it's good on your skin.

I got my website for this clothing line but it's still not done as I don't have computer.
For the time being, I will do it on FB when I am back next month.

  

Finally

In the beginning I am blogging,  I was thinking to blog all about my passion for cooking. But … blogging is not something that you do like copy and paste.  For me, blogging is kinda ‘me’ time alone, hehehhe. If I don’t have the mood swing to blog, hell ya .. my brain and my hand are not functioning properly, not synchronized at all. 

It’s not just mood, music can changed my mood also. If I listened to the music and I'm hooked up, trust me, I just keep moving.

Actually before interested in cooking, I was crazee about fashion. I think I got this from my mom. When I was little, my mom was always dressing me up like I was her doll.  If I see all the pictures when I was a kid, I was so a little live doll, hehehe. 

My mom’s very passionate with fashion.  She is very pretty, beautiful probably is the right word for it and very concerned about her style.  Orang Indonesia bilang: JAIM artinya: Jaga Image (maintain the image).  Whenever she is out there, she makes a sure she is pretty (using make up and so on). My mom is always upset with me just because I dress whatever I want. She always wanted to dress me up like a model.    Me is the other way around, I don’t care if I am a model.  Being a model is just for fun when I had time to do it.   I am so basic with just Go gal. I don’t even comb my hair to tell you the truth, until now but  since I am getting old now and I live in my country, I do taking care of my hair to make sure they do not tangle each other,  hairspa once every two week, hahahaha.  What a spoiled brad, eih?

I remember when my mom was upset with me and she said she never get it why there is a guy so craze in love with me.  I don’t even look pretty like her at all,  my nose is not that tall like her, my eyes so squinty,  my lips so thick, my eye brows is a just, not too mention I had a very long face! But my best friend told me just because all the imperfections in my face, I look charming. My boyfriends even told me they love me as I am so natural! Aha … am I excited?  Alright … Nope. I am just an ordinary gal, and I don’t care whether she or he likes me or not as I don’t easily trust whoever say this and that.

Anyway, when I was 5 yrs old, my mom even has some seamstress at home who works for her to make some clothing.  Since I was a little so I have no idea what is going on and I’ve never ask questions to her! When I was grow up, for sure I know that my mom is a good chef! She has a good taste on food, like she had in clothing.  If she said it’s not good means she mean it what she said it’s NOT good food! Heheheh. 

It’s said “Like mother like daughter”, exactly. I  got what my mom had. I got a really good taste on food. Not just food, I even crazier on clothing on the beginning after I am doing modelling and walking at the cat walk when I was young. My talent on cooking just came up after I live abroad 18 yrs ago. As I am so hungry and I need my comfort food (my mom food kinda style). From there I am nailing my mom recipe from the scratch.  Now, you name it, I can cook all over the world food, from Asian style to western style.  It’s just bam bam bam, you’ll fall in love with me, hahahahaha

Alright .. now I am talking about my  ‘finally’ title.  This is ‘the thing’ that I wanna do when I am going back to my country. It’s all started when I am trying to find a clothing in here, I have difficulties to find the size! Yup the size, exactly.  If I live in North America or United States, I had a normal size. The gals down there has my average size.  Either Medium size or Small if I am lose weight.  Never go Large except I am pregnant! Not in this country, people are making clothes with size “All size” for me.  That is making me so sad since I am not in all size, hikssss …

I felt so bad too for people who is bigger than me, sometimes they don’t have the size! Well .. you can imagine if my medium size fit for all size. How about the XL gals? Is it gonna be triple size?  I remember my mom, she never find any clothes @ department store since there is no such of her size! So after that she decided it to buy material and bring it to the seamstress to make a dress etc.  That was my mom story and now it’s become my story!!

Yes, I am getting a material, I had my own design, and bring it to the seamstress to do my clothing.  Yes, finally! I had time to do this on my own. I am creating a clothing line that make a sense, that everyone with size Small, Medium, Large and XL can wear their clothing according to their size.  I learned from my seamstress that the different from size Small to Medium as well as Medium to Large is only 2 cm, believe it or not! 

I am so happy with the result and collaboration my idea with my seamstress.  I am very lucky that my seamstress is very smart. She know what I want, she know how to cut, know how to sewing and know me better than anybody else! That is the most important in this collaborations.  I can’t imagine if I had so many ideas and she doesn’t understand what I am talking about. That would be disaster to my clothing line.

Anyway, I felt like I was reborn at age 41 yrs old and  had a new baby.

My clothing line  is not a mass product, it’s more custom made.  I made special for people who is very special also, means my special customer.  This clothing is made from  special material originally from Indonesia, batik.  The style that you’ll see also is different than the one in store in my country, as I am trying to design all my stuff  are according to my style and comfort zone. I luv wearing stuff that is simple, comfortable but still chick. Yes, definitely simple, definitely beautiful and smart chick.

You know what .. I think I rather show you my collections instead of talking about it too much and you’ll figure it out what I am talking about. It’s free to judge my design, hahahah. You will pay if you buy it for sure.

Thanks! 

  

RINDU

RINDU

Selama aku mencari

Selama aku menanti

Bayang bayangmu  di batas senja

Matahari membakar rinduku

Ku melayang terbang tinggi

Bersama mega mega

Menembus dinding waktu

Kuterbaring dan pejamkan mata

Dalam hati kupanggil namamu

Semoga saja kau dengar dan merasakan

Getaran dihatiku

Yang lama haus akan belaianmu

Seperti  saat dulu

Saat saat  pertama

Kau dekap dan kau kecup bibir ini

Dan Kau bisikkan kata,

Kata: Aku cinta kepadamu

Peluhku berjatuhan

Menikmati sentuhan

Perasaan yang teramat dalam

Tlah kau bawa

Segala yang kupunya

Created by Erros Djarot

The lyric is very simple but so deep touching my soul while I am sick.

Thanks God for the love of  my family, relatives and friends.

Live is a Gift, so .. are You.

RAMADHAN

Pertama kali puasa di Indonesia sejak 18 tahun meninggallkan negara tercintaku ini. Suara adzan terdengar dimana mana even di lantai paling atas (36^th floor) di apartmentku.  Sujud syukur aku masih mampu mendengar suara ini! Begitu syahdu suara itu terdengar lima kali sehari untuk memanggil umatnya untuk berhadap kepada Nya.  Tenang dan hanyut akan panggilan ini.  Suara ini salah satu suara yg aku kangenin sewaktu aku tinggal di Canada. Walaupun aku bisa dengarkan di youtube tapi tetap beda seperti yg aku dengar di negaraku.  

Tidak terasa 3 hari lagi lebaran tiba. Puasa 26 hari tidak berasa sama sekali. Setiap hari kurasakan  nikmat sekali saat buka puasa setelah tidak makan dan minum selama 13 jam. Kalo aku saat ini  di Canada puasa bisa  hampir 17 jam.  Lama sekali karena matahari baru terbenam jam 9:30 malam kalo Summer tiba. 

Temen2ku disana bilang aku crazy karena puasa ini. Mereka gak habis pikir aku gak makan minum selama 17 jam!  Mereka bilang aku 'torture diriku sendiri.  Well .. it's just different thinking apa yang ada dibenak mereka dan benakku. Buatku puasa itu bukan untuk menahan lapar diperut aja tapi lebih ke detox.  Aku lihat tubuh kita ini seperti mesin mobil aja, once in a while butuh berhenti dan dibersihkan dan diperbaiki dalamnya dan pemikiran lapar juga ada di otak kita.  Kalo kita bisa kontrol semua itu, kita bisa menjalaninya dengan baik.  Rasanya aneh emang kalo aku disana puasa, sementara lingkunganku tidak ada yg tahu apa itu bulan puasa yg sebenernya.   Perbedaan waktu tidak menjadi masalah besar, yang bikin aku kangen selama di luar negeri, suasana bulan puasa disini yang aku tidak dapatkan disana.  Buka bersama keluarga, teman dan kolega rasanya melengkapi ibadah puasaku disini. Selain itu, aku lihat disini bulan puasa juga membuat solidaritas orang tinggi sekali terhadap sesama.   

Selama ini aku denger cerita orang dinegaraku selalu negatif, mereka selalu punya pikiran banyak  orang dinegeri ini  tidak peduli kepada rakyat kecil ini itu dan sebagainya.  Ternyata setelah aku lihat sendiri dengan mata kepalaku, enggak semua orang di Indonesia seperti yang mereka ceritakan ke aku. Sudah jelas banyak  juga orang yang egois ato koruptor ato apapun namanya cuman aku juga melihat bahwa tidak semua orang seperti itu, masih ada juga orang2 yang mempunyai hati nurani dan peduli terhadap sesama disini. 

Aku sendiri tidak akan ngomong kalo gak ada faktanya. Waktu itu aku sedang dijalan dan sudah hampir menjelang buka dan aku masih terjebak oleh macet.  Tiba2 pintu kacaku diketuk orang, ternyata seorang anak muda ini membagikan takjil (makanan ringan u/orang berbuka puasa).  Satu bungkus ada 3 macam kue ringan (lumpia, lemper dan bikang ambon) plus water.  Alhamdulillah akhirnya aku dapat berbuka dijalan.  Aku masih gak percaya dapat buka dijalan gratis, enak lagi makanannya.  Ini gak cuman aku, semua orang yg terjebak macet dijalanan itu dikasih takjil ini. Aku baru sadar kalo dideket lampu merah itu ada masjid makanya ada takjil ini.  Anak2 muda berjilbab dan mas2 dengan  sukarela membagikan takjil ini dengan senyum bertebaran. 

Indah sekali suasa ramadhan disini, mereka itu tidak tahu siapa aku,  aku sendiri pun masih merasa asing di negeriku sendiri dan mereka dengan senyum dari sanubari yg paling dalam, mereka menyapaku dan dengan ramah tamahnya mengulurkan tangan untuk memberi makanan kepadaku.  That is never happen to me before.  Subhanaallah, masih ada orang yang peduli terhadap sesama dinegeri ini!  Waktu aku ceritakan hal ini kepada temanku, dia malah bilang gak cuman takjil aja, ada juga yang nyumbang nasi kotak untuk berbuka puasa di masjid. That is really nice of people who did this. Jadi kalo mau makan gratis, dateng aja ke masjid.  Pertama aku sendiri gak percaya sampe pas kejebak macet lagi dan kebetulan lewat masjid di daerah pasar minggu. Tuh masjid meluber orang dan mereka pada antri makanan dengan tertibnya. 

Lain ladang, lain belalang. Kalo disini memang hal ini dilakukan perorangan tapi itu bukan berarti tidak ada. Ada dan banyak. Aku sendiri selama disini, kalo mau nurutin makan gratis tiap hari juga bisa karena  undangan buka bersama disana sini. Baik keluarga, teman dan kolega bisnis suamiku, semua pada mengadakan acara buka bersama dan mereka bukan mengundang  temen aja, tapi lebih menitik beratkan mengundang anak yatim piatu, tetangga yg tidak mampu. Salut dengan orang2 kaya seperti  mereka.   Rumahnya sudah seperti dapur umum Unicef aja, masak untuk 200-300 orang tiap hari.  God bless their family.  Udah selesai acara, mereka juga kasih duit dan bingkisan lebaran juga untuk anak2 yatim piatu ini. Aku terharu melihatnya. Ternyata masih ada orang yang mau peduli disini dan ini bukan satu dua. Aku dengar dari temanku yang bekerja di suatu bank, mereka itu bahkan punya anggaran setiap tahun untuk memberi anak yatim piatu makan minum bingkisan, basically menyenangkan anak2 yang tidak berbapak dan beribu ini.

Fakta2 seperti ini aku tidak pernah dengar ceritanya disana.  Bagaimanapun tidak bisa membandingkan negeri kita dengan negara2 maju seperti US ato Canada.  Di Canada dan US, semua penduduknya sudah makmur dan terstruktur dengan baik.  Tentu saja, memberi makan homeless setiap hari sudah suatu hal yang wajar karena mereka punya duit yg berlebihan. Di negeriku ini satu orang sudah tentu tidak akan mengubah negara berpenduduk lebih dari 200 juta ini tapi kepedulian itu ada di semua mata hati orang. Kalo kita mau jujur, enggak perlu dah banyak ngomong ini itu menjelekkan negara sendiri.  Just do it for yourself! Kalo enggak mulai dari kita sendiri, siapa lagi yang memulai? Kalau cuman ngomong doank sih gampang.  Sekalian aja ikut adat western, kalo gak bisa ngerjain dan banyak omong ini itu, just Shut up! hahahaa 

Salah satu tradisi lain dibulan puasa ini, berbelanja  baju lebaran. Aku tidak pernah memikirkan hal ini sama sekali sampe sepupuku bbm aku dan nanya: lu sudah belanja baju lebaran? What? dengan singkat kujawab: maksud lu? mau pake baju seperti apa emang? Kata sepupuku .. lha kita kan mesti dateng ke keluarga ini itu, kan lu mesti pake baju baru donk!  Hah? seriously? aku aja juga baru sampe dinegeri ini belum ketemu semua sodara, gimana dia tau aku pake baju lama ato baju baru? Do they check my clothes when I am visiting them?  Duhhh ... sudah lama sekali tradisi ini aku lupakan! Sepupuku mengingatkanku waktu aku masih umur 5 tahun, yap .. sejak umur segituan lah  ibuku terutama sibuk ke toko pakaian mencarikan aku baju lebaran!   Yang pasti judulnya lebaran, belanja baju itu seperti sudah jadi salah satu kewajiban yang mesti kita lakukan. Aku lupa persisnya kapan aku pake baju baru lebaran di Indo. totally can't remember it at all.

Shopping with purpose, that is what I luv since I am trying 'NOT' to be 'impulsif buyer! hahaha.  Judulnya kalo mau ada perlu baru shopping berat, hehehe  Yes, babe! Shopping .. let's go gals! Akhirnya aku jalan ma sepupuku rame rame hunting judulnya baju lebaran! Jangan nanya de judulnya toko mall dimana pun banjir orang! Duhhh .. apa gak salah nee belanja dibulan seperti ini? Berhubung aku orang baru disini, aku jadi gak mau banyak komentar, just go with the flow.  Aku perhatikan orang tawar menawar, it's very interesting karena aku gak pernah merasakan judulnya tawar menawar seumur umur aku tinggal di negara orang! Duhhh .. rasanya otak ma mulutku dah kelu duluan mau ngeluarin kata untuk tawar menawar ini. Ini saking lamanya aku tinggal diluar ato aku aja yang bego gak pernah tau gimana caranya nawar!

Aku jadi inget kata temenku waktu aku liburan ke suatu tempat dan temenku bilang: lu mesti pasang muka poker kalo beli baju disini dia bilang geto. Hah? maksud lu? terus temenku bilang: pedagang disini gila kalo jual barang! Terus gimana kataku? dia  kasih tips ke aku: Apa pun yg lu mau, lu tawar sampe 50% dari harga mereka tawarin plus tambahin dikit geto kata dia.  Gak perlu itung2 ke canadian dollar ato US dollar!!  Well ..aku selalu membandingkan berapa harga di Canada disetiap pembelianku, so I know the price is cheap or expensive but it was wrong kata temen gue.  Malah temenku sempet komentar, tuh pedagang semua sama seperti orang2 madura ato sumatera, yang judulnya dagang dah jadi darah daging mereka jadi kalo sekale lu gak pasang tampang beli, habis loe! geto kata dia. Wahh .. serem juga dengernya.  Hmm ... crazy world and at the same time 'real world' that I have to live with, heheheh

Satu lagi cerita lainnya puasa disini. One time, aku  nonton movie sampe larut malam karena kehabisan tiket yang sore dan berhubung kita pengen nonton movie ini akhirnya kita dapat yang midnite show! jam  12:30 baru masuk jadi endingnya baru jam 3 an lah. Duhhh .. judulnya sampe mo tidur di cinema hehehe.  Keluar dari cinema,  jalanan yg gue kira sepi ternyata masih hidup kalo di Jakarta! Judulnya rumah makan masih ada yang buka. Lho jam 3 kok masih buka sih geto tanyaku tanpa sadar? Sahur lagi sayang geto kata suamiku! Daaaa ... lupa ya kalo masih puasa??? Ini pertama kali aku baru tau ada resto buka pagi hari untuk melayani orang2 yg sahur. Hmmm .. interesting! Hebat banget pekerjanya ini. Gak cuman resto aja yang melek sampe pagi, pekerja di tol pun juga melek sampe subuh, heheheh.  Bener2 gak ada neee judulnya diluar negeri resto buka jam 3 pagi kalo gak di Chinatown, heheheh Maklum aja, pekerja paling paling tekun didunia ini kan orang chinese. Kalo mata bisa melek 24 jam, mereka bakalan dagang 24 jam tanpa tidur. Gile bener dah. Salut banget dengan orang2 pekerja seperti mereka ini. Bener bener pekerja keras.

Cerita terakhir di bulan puasa yang gak kalah seru, mudik! Dimana aja kalo ketemu temen, pertanyaan yang keluar: mudik lu? Judulnya pulang kampuang ... jangan nanya de. Baca koran 2 hari lalu dibilang yang bakalan mudik sekitar 8 juta orang!  Huh .. ?! Yup! Gak kebayang  gimana dijalannya segeto banyak orang. Judulnya harga tiket pesawat dengan  KA (Kereta Api), lebih mahal harga KA! masih gak percaya dibuatnya! Ternyata gak diluar negeri gak disini pun, judulnya harga tiket pesawat ataupun harga ticket KA juga bisa naik turun. Kalo pesawat aku masih bisa ngerti lah, setiap hari selalu berubah harganya. Aku inget temenku disana sampe online ticket pesawat di computer  tiap hari  jadi begeto ada ticket on sale, dia langsung book. Maklum harga ticket pesawat domestik disana juga gak murah.  Lha ini disini harga tiket  KA geto lho! hehehe.  Serasa di London aja, pake ada sale segala, heheh.

Enggak nyalahin kalo orang mudik dengan kendaraan sendiri lebih masuk akal kalo rombongan karena harga tiket KA/Pesawat/Kapal laut yang gila2an.  Jangan nanya judulnya bengkel kalo hari lebaran, baca dikoran judulnya lebaran adalah hari yang ditunggu oleh mereka karena dibulan seperti ini omzet mereka melojak gak karuan!

Well .. lebaran sebentar lageee .. duh lagunya Bimbo .. kapan terakhir aku denger suara ini? 25 tahun yang lalu kalee, hehehe.  Anyhow,  berhubung aku juga gak pernah tau yang judulnya mudik dan aku pengen tahu juga judulnya mudik itu seperti apa sih? sounds very challenging geto lho, hehehe ikutan mudik ahhhhh ... basically I am willing to try living in different world, real world.

Thanks for reading my story. Untuk yang menjalankan ibadah puasa. Saya ucapkan "Selamat Hari Raya Idul Fitri 1 Syawal 1432 H". Mohon maap, lahir dan batin.

Peace!