mie aceh meutia

Banyak yang bilang mie aceh meutia yang di benhil adalah yang PUALING UENAK dan berhubung saiya lumayan seneng mie aceh, selama ini penasaran pingin coba (tapi ada satu orang yang bilang gak enak, kakakku. Menurutnya lebih enak mie aceh jali-jali yang di food court jembatan ambas-itc kuningan).

Kemaren waktu dinas luar, berhubung waktu masih panjang (merasa rugi kalo cepet balik kantor ) dan ada duit makan, jadilah mencoba si meutia inih. Saiya pesan mie aceh tumis super special. Super special ini pake udang, cumi, dan kepiting. Kaget juga waktu liat mienya, udahlah pake udang dan cumi, ada pula SATU EKOR KEPITING. Kalo kata orang, crustacean shellfish kandungan kolesterolnya tinggi, jadi yang berkolesterol tinggi disarankan jangan makan yang super special. Untuk cewek yang jaim, juga jangan pesen super special atopun yang kepiting. Karena makannya rada barbar, secara kepiting gitu lo, krauk krauk gigit kaki-kakinya, sedot daging kakinya, korek daging badannya. Pokoknya gak ada manis-manisnya dah makan kepiting. Cewek-cewek di meja sebelah ampe ngeliatin daku. Mungkin karena saiya tak pake pembuka kepiting, cukup bermodalkan gigi dan tangan. Heuheu.

Tapi walopun makannya seru begitu, overall, si mie-nya sendiri tidak begitu memuaskan. Kurang berbumbu menurutku. Tapi kenapa si meutia ini bisa ngetop banget dong kalo gtu?? Setelah dipikir-pikir mungkin dia justru ngetop karena rasanya sudah disesuaikan dengan lidah orang Jakarta. Kalo pake resep asli acehnya yang ada mungkin bakal kelewat berbumbu bagi yang tak biasa dan lidah mereka mengalami sensory overload. Tapi bagi diriku yang orang sumatra dan besar dengan masakan sumatra, itu mah tak berasa. Sebetulnya aku belum pernah makan mie aceh di banda acehnya bener, pernahnya makan mie aceh buatan orang aceh di medan. Jadi mungkin parameterku juga bukan yang otentik (gak pake ganja misalnya ). Tapi intinya kalo punya lidah bebal kayak lidahku sepertinya gak akan cucok dengan si meutia. Mending carinya mie aceh yang rasanya sesuai dengan lidah sumatra, misalnya jali-jali yang di ambas/atrium ato mie aceh di casablanca cabang titi bobrok medan.

Live a healthy life and die gracefully

I get sick easily, so I try to live a healthy life as much as my big appetite allows. You know what the doctors say: eat more fruit and veggies, less red meat, and exercise regularly. Now, even though I’m doing all that in my quest for a healthy and fit body, I fully realize that it will not prevent me from dying. I don’t understand the scientists with their study on dying. I can appreciate when they are trying to comprehend the mechanism of a disease and as a result devise the treatment and hopefully the cure. But the cure of dying??

Humans are mortals, period. As much as it is hard to accept, we will all die. What matters is how do you want to die? Do you want to die of diabetes? Heart attack? Or just dying in your sleep? Take your pick.

I think that’s the point of a healthy life. Instead of spending the last 10 years of our life being incapacitated, or worse, in a vegetative state, because of a stroke, we could wean ourself from all those meaty oily dishes and start eating more greens. And hopefully, we’d die gracefully.

congrats

Dulu aku bingung setiap mau mengucapkan selamat ulang tahun/lebaran/wisuda ato apapun. Ngomongnya apa yaa yang lucu tapi keren tapi bermakna juga dan orisinil, de el el de el el. Jadinya kalo dapat sms yang bagus disimpenn terus tar pas ultah temenku dikirim (ini mah udah gak orisinil ya ).

Lama-lama, seiring berjalannya waktu, kebijaksanaan bertambah (huekcuh) I no longer saw the point of cute sms or witty sentences. Apalagi capek juga nyimpenin sms, inbox penuh bow sampe-sampe sms baru susah masuk (nasib punya hape jadul). Kurasa yang penting adalah doanya. Mau pendek pun kalo kita dengan tulus mendoakan (mudah-mudahan) akan lebih terasa. Jadi teman-temanku, harap maklum ya kalo ucapan dariku pendek. Tapi yakinlah kalo aku tulus mendoakan.

Tenses, tenses

Bahasa Indonesia tak ada tense. Bahkan kata untuk tense pun kurasa tak ada (ato aku yang tak tau?). But after my father’s death, I realized that tenses is kinda cruel. If I speak of my dad now, I’d have to use the past tense. And that kinda hurt. Speaking in Indonesian helps me avoid facing the reality. Apakah ini berarti bahasa Indonesia tak mau menghadapi kenyataan?

trivia of the day

Did you know that body odor starts really early? And I mean REALLY early, as in only several months after a baby is born. Ini berdasarkan kesaksian temanku whose second child has an, shall we say, “inconvenient” body odor. And the poor child is a girl. Apparently she inherits her dad’s “aroma” which also means body odor is hereditary. Yah setidaknya ibunya bisa bersiap-siap dari sekarang dengan mencekoki dia berbagai jamu dan menyiapkan kembang tujuh rupa untuk mandi.

say no to ngupil (in public)!!

To the good people of Jakarta, I beg thee, please stop picking thy nose in public. ‘Tis very unsightly. And also very unhygienic.

Gak cewek gak cowok, belakangan ini kok makin banyak orang me-”ngupngup” di angkot atopun busway. Apakah ini berarti udara Jakarta semakin kotor? Tapi sekotor apapun udaranya gak berarti bisa sesuka hati ngupngup di depan umum kaan. Yang ngeliat kan jijay bombay bajaaay. Yang paling parah itu kemaren di busway dukuh atas-tu gas. Si bapak duduk pas di depanku dan dia ngupngup dengan asiknya. Awalnya tiap tangannya mulai ke idung, kuliatin, tangannya turun lagi. Masih ada malunya. Tapi abis itu dia curi-curi lagi dan secara aku udah jijay juga jadinya mengalihkan pandangan. Eh langsung lah the onslaught began dan dia ngupngup dengan konsentrasi tinggi ampe kupelototin juga udah gak mempan. Semua jari (kecuali jempol) kayaknya masuk tuh ke idung. IIIHH JIJIK BANGET SIIIIIHHH >_< Dan secara ya, dia itu kan duduk di depanku, ampe pegel leherkuw gara-gara ngeliat ke kiri mulu demi tidak melihat “pemandangan” itu. Pas udah capek ngadep kiri, kembalilah saya menghadap depan, berharap “kerja bakti” udah selesai. Ternyata beluuuum. Akhirnya setelah beberapa lama ngupngup selesai tapi ternyata kelakuan jorkinya belum selesai, dia menaruh tangannya di kursi kosong di sebelahnya. OH NOOOOO lama-lama gw mending berdiri aja deh di busway..

Satu hal yang kuamati, yang ngupngup itu rata-rata bapak-bapak ato ibu-ibu lo. Belum pernah ketemu anak sekolah yang ngupngup. Memalukan masa orang dewasa kelakuan kayak gitu

To my eldest brother

Looking back, I think my eldest brother is an exemplary older brother. Back when I was small, the family pc was in his room, so the youngest trio (my bro, sis, and I) was in his room almost everyday to use it. Can you imagine going home from school and finding the little tykes in your room playing games and basically just being noisy? I’d go ballistic for sure. And kick them out of my room. But I’m the youngest, I never had to tolerate annoying little kids. My eldest bro never ever did that. I don’t recall ever getting kicked out of his room. In fact, I don’t remember ever seeing him angry at us for being in his room.

The one memory I really treasure is whenever he bought the latest edition of Tapak Sakti. Since I couldn’t wait to read after him, I read it together with him. You have to remember  little kids read slowly yet my bro would patiently wait for me to finish before turning the page. He’d always ask, “Udah?” and only turn the page when I had finished.

The only one instance when he was not comfortable at having to take care of us was when my parents told him to accompany us to watch The Lion King at the movies. Before we left, he told my mom that in case any of his friends called, not to tell them that he was accompanying us. He was embarrassed.

just go to ‘ell

The public outcry over the kOm15i8@yahoo.com bemused me. It  made me wonder, whether  I’m the only one who has given up on the government? So far, nothing those “anggota hewan yang terhormat” did ever surprised me. I view them as lowly bastards of which nothing is too low for them. The porn ipad? Nope. Liburan kunjungan kerja ke luar negeri? Biasa itu mah. I guess I’m being too pessimistic. But can’t help it, not with the types of people in the government..

tupai? bajing?

Well, well you learn something new every day. Aku baru tau kalo tupai dan bajing itu berbeda. Berarti selama ini aku salah menyebut Chip’n Dale (Kiki dan Koko bagi pelanggan Album Donal Bebek ) tupai karena mereka sebetulnya chipmunk yang notabene masih keluarganya squirrel a.k.a bajing. Bagi yang mau menghinaku ya maap, kn saya anak kota. Hehee. Ngeliat bajing aja baru setelah kerja, karena di taman kantor ada bajing nan lucu penghibur hati di kala bosan.

Yang lucu waktu baca di kaskus. Di situ disebutin bedanya tupai dan bajing adalah “tupai itu monyong, bajing engga”. Lah gw juga suka monyong kalo sebel, masa gw tupai

crap

Why do people watch TV? They are full of mind numbing crap. Even though there are some (few) good shows, they cannot outweigh all those craps. Whenever I see someone watch TV, he is either watching the crapful sinetron or the fake live music show. I always wonder how most people can watch sinetron for more than 3 seconds without having severe migraine and the urge to brick the TV. The bad beyond belief acting itself is infuriating enough, add to that the terribly awful plot that has more holes than a fishnet and you start having murderous thoughts of which some are directed at people who tuned to the channel but mostly at the cast and especially at the pun*abis. That’s how dangerous sinetron is. It will turn you into a psychopath if you hate it or a zombie if you love it. I think getting rid of the pun*abis is a public service and anyone who does it should be awarded with Bintang Maha Putera or whatever-its-name.

Sinetron was (still is) crappy enough to turn me away from TV but then came the fake live music show. Dahsyat or busyet or whatever. The whole point of the show is… none. They just gather a crowd and put fake musicians in front of ‘em. The fake musicians would then lip-sync their crappy songs and then the crowd would go hysterical, and companies line up to buy the commercial timeslot. The result? Fake musicians and companies get the exposure they want, the crowd get to see their idols, networks get lots of commercial, everybody’s happy. Except for me. This kind of show only promotes fake musicians and singers who can’t ever perform live. Lip-syncing singers are not unusual, but lip-syncing musicians?? What happened to the Indonesian music scene that lip-syncing are tolerated and even endorsed?? I remember watching Korean TVs back in the late 90′s and early 2000′s. Most Korean performers are groups, either boyband or girlband and they dance while lip-syncing their songs. Looking at them I felt proud of Indonesian musicians who always sing live on TV. Little did I know that we would turn out that way too. And the Koreans are singing live now…

I stay away from the crap that is TV now. I have lived without it ever since university and the only time I miss it is whenever a big sports event, such as the Olympics and World Cup is being held. Other than that, I don’t miss it at all. Why would I miss crap?? And others pity me for having no TV. What an irony. I pity them for selling their soul to the pile of crap and being a slave of it.

Note: I know I use the word “crap” a lot. It was intentional. That’s how crappy I think TV has become.