september ceria

purple thing in Centennial Park (a park near where I live) I'm starting a new journey! After about 2.5 years leaving school, I am finally starting my PhD! What a dream comes true! Hahaha... Really? Is it really a dream comes true? Yes , I've been wanting to do a phd as soon as I submitted my master dissertation. And I've been seriously sending application for scholarship for a year: to the most desired one KGSP (to go to Korea!), Monbusho (to go to Japan), and LPDP. The first two is really an obsession of mine. I doubt I will get much - academically speaking, since anthropology is not that well-established in the said countries), but I always wanted to do research and live there. So yeah... Not really , because I was actually unsure about the choice of university that I finally landed in. I applied to two other universities (Heidelberg Uni - Germany and Uni of Edinburgh) before, and made contacts with a potential research supervisor at ANU (that I know from re...

penampakan tempe dan jamur goreng tepung selama dua bulan ini, saya puasa makan tempe. well, i won't be a drama queen. i guess, banyak org yg tinggal di luar negeri indonesia, pada ngerasain lebih parah. atau malah selera -nya sudah kompromi dengan rasa makanan impor di sini.... :) wktu minggu pertama, saya dan partner saya sempat makan di rumah mkan indonesia. partner saya pesen tempe dan tahu grg, she's a vegetarian. dia blg tmpenya rasanya aneh. dan saya jadi males beli tempe. meskipun di dua toko swalayan asia ada tempe.  here i am, counting the days of my last month in Sydney. dan kemarin saya tergoda untuk membeli tempe. kelihatannya meyakinkan.  hari ini, saya masak jamur tiram grg tepung (favorite food, dan sudah lama juga ga nemu). enak. tpung yg udah dicampur masih sisa, finally, i decided to put my tempe in. trus goreng lah. pas makan. yes, jamurnya enak banged. agak pedes krn emang pke tepung bumbu pedes. begitu ngerasain tempe. oh my God, bless peo...

"Lebaran sebentar lagi..." Hore sebentar lagi lebaran ... hehehe... wah senang ya, sebulan puasa akhirnya hari raya sudah mau tiba.......... Hore!!!!!!!!!!! Tapi gak kroso e di sini... Argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Dua kali puasa dan lebaran nih, ga di rumah. Berturut-turut pula. Gak enak ya. Meski kalo di rumah, ga ada ritual yg begitu spesial, kaya masak lontong, ketupat, opor ayam, dsb. Tapi di rumah, ada ibukku. ada keluarga. hihihi. hiks. Di rumah, biasanya masak sambel goreng ati, atau daging giling ... Terus, g ada kue2, tapi adanya cemilan kering2. kaya ceker ayam. sm kue cina yg selalu diberi orang. Dlu waktu eyang putri masih ada, tiap lebaran pasti ngumpul. Cucu pd nginep di rumah eyang. Puasa bareng. Maen kembang api bareng. hiks. Tapi skrg, ngumpulnya paling pas lebaran aja, pas trah besar. oohhh, mengapa tak ada suara takbir bertalu2??? sebenernya sih, beberapa tahun yg lalu, pernah juga sekeluarga lebaran di Bali. engga kerasa apa2 juga. namanya ju...

good morning!! another day with my sleepy head.  :) semalem tidur jam 12an setelah sahur dini hari yang dilakukan untuk mengurangi resiko tidak bangun ketika wktu sahur. fyi, i got one bedroom for me and my friend (partner at work) . tidur seperti biasa. entah jam berapa, kebangun gr2 denger org lgi senandung ... it just sounded like javanese song, which i forgot the title. but if you've ever watched KUNTILANAK movie, i bet you've ever heard of it (the song to call the spirit). or maybe it sounded like the song in REALIGI reality show which i watch sometimes, coz my mom likes to watch it  (the song when Dea, one of the TV crew, got possessed. she sang this). dg mata yg masih pengen terpejam, ak bangun, liat sekeliling, dan baru sadar, kalo yg nyanyi adl temen sekamar. waks?? ngelindur?? hmm, oke dehh... mgkin dia emg lgi ngelindur. tpi dia masih ngelanjutin nyanyi ampe beberapa lama. sumpah, bulu kuduk naik. sedikit merinding. akhirnya, ak balik badan,  ke...