MALAM...!

Kau tau?

Hmm.. Kemarin, aku sempat bertemu malam. Aku banyak berbincang dengannya. Aku lewati malam bersamanya. Banyak hal yang kulakukan dengannya. Namun, hanya satu yang paling berkesan hingga membuatku ingin menunggu malam untuk bisa merasakan dan bertemu dengannya lebih lama. Meski aku harus bersabar dikala siang. Meski aku harus melewati sore yang teduh namun senja hingga akhirnya malam datang. Kau ingin tau apa yang akan malam ceritakan kepadamu? Tentunya satu hal yang paling berkesan. Hmm, Bagaimana jika aku beritau di sepertiga malam nanti saja.. Aku tunggu yaa.. ingat di sepertiga malam!

Malam..!

Holiday "apaan banget sih"!!!

Holidaaaaaay!!!!!! Yup.. pekan ini adalah holiday gue. Menikmati kampung halaman itu memang tidak ada duanya. Yaaa meskipun nih kampung halaman puanaaaasnyaaa kagak ketulungan tapi gue tetep cinta! #haseek.

Well, gue mulai cerita gue dengan agenda untuk mengisi liburan gue. Hari jumat lalu, tepat tanggal 1 februari 2013. Gue bersama sobat gue , Mira, berniat pergi keliling Jakarta. Waktu itu kita sepakat untuk ketemuan di PGC. Setelah ketemu, kita langsung caw ke halte busway PGC. Kemudian kita terdiam sejenak karena kita belum menentukan tujuan kita kemana. Gue pun berpikir. Hmm apakah gue harus minta tolong kepada Dora dan boots karena mereka punya peta yang bisa ngomong dan bisa ngasih suggest ?. Entah kenapa gue pengen banget ke MONAS. Itu tuh icon pariwisatanya Jekardah (sok keminggris). Gue lebih memilih apa kata hati gue ketimbang harus minta tolong ke Dora dan Boots haha. Gue pun menawarkan tujuan ke Monas ke Mira and kita sepakat ! meskipun Mira sempet nanya “kenapa lo pengen banget ke Monas?” , yaa honestly, gue udah 2 kali ke Monas tapi itu juga dulu waktu masih bocah. Nah, sekarang gue mau kesana, mau liat kayak gimana bentuknya sekarang dan lebih tepatnya mau maen ampe atas. Noh yang bisa ngeliat kota jakarta dari atas Monas. Pasti cool  haha. Singkat cerita, setelah melalui perjalanan pake busway dengan sedikit nanya2 polos ke mas-mas busway dan ke penumpang busway yg lagi ngantri kalo mau ke Monas transit dimana aja, akhirnya gue sampe di Monas.

Siang itu panaaaaaas baaaangeeet, tapi gue tetep stay cool dah.. demi mencapai puncak Monas #gubrak. Padahal si Mira udah ngebawel aja “duuh panas banget, item dah entar”.. -__-“ baiklah mir, selama puncak Monas belum kita capai maka bersiap siagalah!!! #halah. Sesampainya di pintu gerbang Monas, gue langsung ambil Hp dan ngambil beberapa foto Monas. Nah disini nih ada kejadian yang menurut gue “apaaan banget sih”. Ketika gue lagi ambil foto Monas tiba-tiba ada segerombolan anak2 cowok yang gue yakin umur mereka gak lebih dari 17 tahun. Yaa sekitar SMA kelas 1 palingan. Mereka juga lagi foto2 di Monas. Nah salah satu diantara mereka datang menghampiri gue yang lagi fotoin Monas sambil berkata : “Kenalan dong?” dan ngulurin tangannya. Gue yang lagi asik fotoin Monas kaget, gue langsung jawab “apaan sih, gak gak!”, berulang kali tuh bocah minta kenalan dan berulang kali juga gue jawab “apaan sih, gak gak!”. Gue kaget dan langsung mikir.. woy boy, gue ini udah umur 20 tahun dan mahasiswa semester 6!!!!!! Apa mungkin mereka ngira gue seumuran sama mereka? Apakah gue terlihat berusia dibawah 17 tahun?  Oh no meen.. yang jelas itu kejadian yang “apaan banget sih”. Entah itu Cuma iseng-isengan mereka atau ada hal lain, tapi yang jelas gue langsung badmood. Abis itu istighfar sebanyak-banyaknya. Feel gue untuk menikmati wisata di Monas jadi berubah “apaan banget sih” gara2 tuh bocah2. -___-“. Okelah, gue gak boleh berlarut2 dalam ke-tidak mood-an ini.. akhirnya langsung cuus ke loket tiket. Ternyata untuk menuju puncak Monas mbuleet bener. Pertama, kita kudu ke loket tiket yang ada dibawah tanah. Bayar Rp 10.000 untuk umum, kita langsung masuk ke lorong dan menemukan ruang diorama yang berisi diorama2 peristiwa2 penting yang ada di Indonesia. Banyak wisatawan asing juga yang berkunjung ke Monas. Abis itu naik ke lantai berikutnya dan menemui loket tiket lagi untuk mencapai puncak (mbuleeet kan?). Setelah itu kita orang pada ngantri didepan pintu lift untuk keatas. Yaaa antriannya lumayan. Lift buat naik keatas Cuma ada 1 doang. Sedangkan pengunjungnya ada banyak dan lift itu berkapasitas 11 orang. #fufufu banget kan?. Oke lanjut, setelah itu giliran gue untuk naik tuh lift dan akhirnya sampai ke puncak Monas. Wow.. enak banget adem.. kena angin Jakarta terus gue bisa liat pemandangan kota Jakarta dari Monas. Gedung-gedung tingginya banyak and of course rumah penduduknya padaaat meen. Yups.. that’s it, Jakarta!!! Kota yang keras.. :-D

Baiklah, itu sedikit cerita gue dari liburan kali ini. Sebenarnya masih banyak hal yang mau gue share. Tapi pasti bakal panjang banget. So, tunggu aja episode berikutnya.. oke?

This is it! (Cooking Time)

“Liburannya diisi dengan hal yag productive ya ukhti.. selamat liburan”, begitulah ucap salah seorang ukhti kepada saya..

Yups, sudah menjadi resolusi saya di liburan kali ini untuk bisa “MASAK” haha. Bukan karena saya gak bisa masak, tapi saya pengen bisa lebih mendalami makna dari kata MASAK. :-D  #aseeek. Setelah beberapa waktu lalu saya masak tumis kangkung, karedok dan jagung manis pedas dan jagung manis susu. Malam ini pilihan saya jatuh pada menu : Pudding. Setelah googling resep pudding yang simple akhirnya saya dapat. Resep ini diambil dari nutrijell smartkitchen. Gampang loh bikinnya..  kalian pun juga bisa bikin. Apalagi kalo dimakan pas dingin.. hmm segeeeeeer. Cekidot resepnya :

Nutrijell Pudding Mangga

Bahan pudding

1 bungkus nutrijell rasa mangga

4 bungkus pop ice rasa mangga

700 ml air

4 sdm gula pasir

Cara membuat

Masukkan Nutrijell, Pop Ice dan gula aduk hingga bercampur – ini untuk menghindari Nutrijell menggumpal dan supaya lebih cepat larut saat dimasak- lalu masukkan air, masak diatas kompor sambil diaduk hingga mendidih. Tunggu 3 menit lalu masukkan fruity acid (asam buah) aduk kembali, pudding siap dicetak dan tunggu hingga mengeras lalu dinginkan

Saus Vla

1 bungkus pop ice rasa mangga

1,5 sdm tepung meizena

300 ml air

Cara membuat :

Semua bahan dicampur jadi satu lalu masak dengan api kecil hingga mendidih dan fla agak mengental,angkat dan dinginkan

Resep ini bisa diaplikasiin untuk pudding rasa yang lain, misal coklat, strawberry atau anggur dengan cara masak dan komposisi yang sama.

Oiya.. saya juga mencoba untuk membuat karedok. Tau karedok gak? Nah, karedok itu masakan khas sunda. Semacam gado-gado tapi kalo ini sayurannya mentah semua. Kan kalo orang sunda mah sukanya ngelalalp gitu alias kalo makan ada sayuran lalapannya nah karedok ini isinya pun gitu. Cara buatnya mudah, bahan-bahan yang dibutuhkan juga gampang untuk dicari. Pastinya makanan ini sehat karena isinya sayuran semua. Sayuran yang biasa diolah dalam karedok ini adalah terong belanda, yang bentuknya bulat warna ijo, kacang panjang, kemangi, mentimun, toge dan bisa pake sayuran lain.. kalo saya tambahanya pake daun kencur. Semua itu diolah dengan kacang goreng dan bumbu yang diulek deh terus semua sayur dicampur kedalam bumbu kacang itu dan tambahin potongan tempe goreng dan bawang goreng diatasnya. Hmmmm ajiiib! Bisa dimakan pake nasi atau digadoin juga bisa. J

So, selamat mencoba yaa J

Mission Holiday is completed!!!!

Tugas UAS :)

PANDERMAN MOUNTAIN : a story from 2000 mdpl

By : Resti Pratiwi

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 “It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”  Sir Edmud Hillary

No need travelling to the other country for just enjoy the beautiful view but in my opinion, climbing mountain can become the destination to enjoy the view. Although, you will feel tired and dehydration for some situation but it will be paid by what will you see in the top of mountain and it becomes my first experience in my life. Malang becomes the best town I ever stay. I have been here for two years ago. I can find many things on it. Also, some places which can make me feel enjoy. One day, my eyes focus on row of mountains which I can see when I go to the campus. Panderman mountain. Many people said that panderman is not the mountain but that is hill. The high is only 2000 meter from the surface of the sea (mdpl). Well, I do not care about that. I just think about planning to go there. And the story begins.

I met her on campus. Her name is April. I know her as a climber when she was in senior high school. At that moment, when the holiday was coming, I told to her about my planning, climbing mountain. I want to make different for my holiday in that semester. So, April agreed with my planning. We decided to climb panderman mountain. The mountain which is not too high, but I am sure the view must be beautiful. but, we have to look for some friends who will join us. Day by day, I text some friends. I invite them to join in this planning. some friends said “How about the route? Do you know it?” and the others said “Have you ever go there before?”. Unfortunately, I have not go there yet before even the other mountain and I do not know about the route  but I am sure that I can be there. Then, for 2 days, I was in front of my notebook. I was goggling. I searched the article, writing about Panderman in blog of people and also the picture. From the sources which I got about the route, I am ready for it.

I prepared all the things. Began with the clothes, meal, drinks, and etc. Our team consist of me, April and my others friends, Andita and Dinda. From many friends that I have invited, only Andita and Dinda who fixed to join us. Four girls climbed Panderman!. It is such a interesting challenge. First, we briefing for all things, especially for the route. The route stated that we have to go to pesanggarahan village. Pesanggrahan is the name of village that are in the foot of panderman. Then, we prayed for our safety and started to go by two motorcycles. After we arrived in Batu, we can look Panderman mountain stands strongly. With the blue sky and the beautiful shape of the mountain, it will be very excited trip. There is a story behind the name of Panderman. According to the article that I have gotten, the name of Panderman is from the name of a Dutchman who loved to the beautifulness of that mountain. His name is Van Der Man. So, that is why the people around there named that mountain as Panderman.

We over the uphill way toward pesanggrahan village. Finally, we arrived at pesanggrahan by about 45 minutes.  By paid Rp 2500,00 we can left our motorcycle in one of the villager’s home and registered our self by wrote our name and domicile. Before me and my friends started our first trip, the villager told us about the route and give the advice that we will meet many apes on the way and on the top of the mountain. When the time shows at 15.10 PM, we began to climb. We walked one by one. The road began to uphill and sandy. Masker is very important to wear if you want to breath well during the trip. At that time, the weather was the dry season. Obviously if the sandy soil on the road we have been through was too hot. Several times we stopped and coughed because of the dust of sandy soil. Again, this is not an excuse for us to suffer from this challenging trip. I encourage my friends and they do the same. The fatigue  that I feel is replaced with admiration when I saw rows of pine trees that are still green and make form a hill. Voices of forest insects were responded each other. Maybe, it's a sign they welcomed me and my friends. After about 45 minutes we were walking, we met a two groups of climbers who all consist of men. One of them asked "Hi, Do your group are only four girls?"

“Yes, only four girls”, I answered.

“Okay, Keep on spirit! Here is the route to Panderman. Be careful.”, Said him with smile.

We continued our journey. Our energy more decrease and for addition previously we did not exercise so it's easy for me and my friends to feel tired. I realized that my team consists of a group of women that would break a lot of time that we spend. In the afternoon, we arrived at the Latar Ombo. The first post to the top of Pandeman. Latar Ombo is a vast land and usually used for camping. However, I and my friends have agreed to continue our journey. The dusk came. Fog started to descend. I did not dare to continue our journey. Among us who were carrying flashlights only two people, Andita and Dinda. I imagine narrow path and we do not know what the road is like. Finally, April invited us to set up a tent in the post two, watugedhe. It seems like I have to burn my expectation to see the sunrise in tomorrow morning from the top. I realized that if I and friends continue the journey, there will be many safety risks faced. After we set up camp, the two of us pray Maghrib and two others set the campfire. April boil water for dinner. Our evening meal was only noodles and other snacks. I saw a beautiful view from where we set up camp. The lights of the houses and when I look up to the sky, the stars scattered. Lots of stars. I like a very small part of the universe. Yes, only God almighty.

 We talked for a moment and then we slept. We also divided the shift guard. The first two people slept and two others just after the first got up.
The morning came, morning dew covered our tent, the birds began to sing, welcome the sunrise. I woke up and followed by others. I realized that no other climbers on the last night besides us and I thanks to God protect us. I will never forget this experience. Thanks God.

First activity, we having breakfast. Before that, we did some stretching and ready to continue the journey. We walked one by one. I was in front of my team. On the way, we met some beautiful butterflies and flowers until we arrived at the narrow road with cliff beside us. We walked slowly. Although we felt tired and fear because of the road but I enjoy it. It was challenge for me and my friends. One of my friends, April, felt tired because of that bag. So, we have to turned to bring carrier bag. One hours later, we arrived at the field that was not large but from it, I can see the beautiful view of Malang. The sky was close to us and I can hear the voice of wind. The clouds was under us. It made me want to fall on it. Awesome.

After 45 minutes we took a rest at that place. we continued the journey. It was about 20 minutes, finally, me and my friends arrived at Basundara, the top of Panderman. 2000 mdpl. There are so many things and lesson that I can get from it. yes, it is not about the mountain we conquer but ourselves ; sacrifice, laziness, arrogant. Because nature will give us great lesson!