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Saturday, July 25, 2015
Eid Ul Fitr 2015 Part 2-Finish
Hello everyone! Kali ini aku mau nyeritain part yg kedua Eid 2015. Bilingual boleh lah ya hehe.
Jadi, H+6 aku ke rumah eyang lagi di Lamongan. Tujuan utamanya adalah ngerayain adat istiadat islam yg terkenal di tanah jawa, yaitu RIYOYO KUPATAN (Hari raya/ lebaran ketupat).
Tradisi di keluargaku ini nggak hanya bikin ketupat (kupat) tapi juga lepet. Kupat dan lepet ada filosofinya. Kupat itu berarti nga"ku" (mengakui) dan le"pat" (kesalahan). Sehingga dengan ketupat sesama muslim diharapkan mengakui kesalahan dan saling memaafkan serta melupakan kesalahan dengan cara memakan ketupat tersebut. Kupat ini adalah simbol sebagai seorang wanita apabila dibagi menjadi dua. Lepet juga memiliki arti yakni sebagai simbol lelaki yang diikat oleh 3 tali, yaitu IMAN, ILMU, AMAL. Tradisi ini dilakukan setiap tahunnya.
So this is the picture of Ketupat and Lepet. Making and eating ketupat (kupat) and lepet are one of Javanese muslims' culture.
My uncle
Ketupat dan Lepet
My grandma is the best at making ketupat and lepet.
Ketupat and lepet are made of young coconut leaves but with different ingredients. Inside of ketupat is cooked-rice while lepet is filled by green bean, ketan and shredded coconut. They are all steamed.
Sore harinya aku sama ayahku ke mud pond buat ngecek ikan Koi kita. Dan ada segerombolan kambing-kambing yang gendut dan lucu. Nih foto anak kambing lagi makan kangkung di deket mud pond
Lucu yah hehe tapi maaf cuma ke foto dari belakang karena jujur aja takut deket-deket kambing haha.
Udah dulu deh cerita Eid 2015 kali ini. Semoga bisa ketemu lagi Eid tahun depan, aamiin.
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Monday, July 20, 2015
Eid Ul Fitr 2015 Part 1
Hello everyone, i'm back! It's been a long time and finally i write again, yeah!
Ada beberapa hal sih yang pengen aku ceritain disini. Tapi sebelumnya aku mau ngucapin Eid Mubarak / Selamat Idul Fitri 1436 H minal 'aidzin wal faizin mohon maaf lahir dan batin :)
Eid tahun 2015 ini berasa beda nih guys. Eid tahun ini tuh tetep mudik ke rumah eyang di Lamongan sih tapi 4 hari berturut-turut bolak-balik Gresik-Lamongan beuh haha. Seneng aja sih rasanya bisa sering pulang ke rumah eyang, eyang mana yang ngga seneng dikunjungin sama cucunya ya kan?
Jadi pas hari H-eid itu habis sholat Eid terus maaf-maafan sama ayah-ibu, dan keluarga aku yg deket rumah. Habis itu langsung menuju ke rumah eyang di Glagah, Lamongan. Hari pertama perjalanan terasa lancar dan jalanan lengang. Sempet tanya diri sendiri sih kalau orang-orang hari rayanya sama gak yah. Sampe di rumah eyang, maaf-maafan sama paman (aku manggilnya pak po) sama bude dan tentunya eyang. Setelah itu... Menyantap sajian makanan khas setahun sekali yg dimasak budeku. Ada sate, gule daging kacang ijo, sayur manisa+telur puyuh, lontong dan semur ikan bandeng. Beuh..lezat mantaaap!! Tapi, sayangnya gaada dokumentasinya guys hehe maaf ya...insha Allah tahun depan deh, Aamiin.
Ramadan 2015 berat udah turun 8 kg, masa pas hari raya naik juga? haha jadi aku makannya cuman sedikit aja haha. Keluarga kita yang lainnya juga ikut kumpul bareng di rumah eyang. Ibaratnya base camp eid itu yaa di rumah eyang. Kita kumpul bareng disana mulai pagi sampe malem guys. Seneng rasanya bisa kumpul lengkap sama keponakan, kakak sepupu, dll meski cuman setahun sekali.
Sorenya, aku sama ayahku ngajakin semua keponakan ke mud pond yg ada ikan koinya. Mereka pengen liat gimana sih. Pas waktu di mud pond mereka seneng banget, ngasih makan ikan koi, ngecek keadaan mereka dan nyemplung juga haha.
Nih foto ngasih makan ikan koi
Gimanaa seru kan ya? Liat guys ikan koinya lahap banget kalo makan hehe. Lebaran kali ini emang beda guys bagi aku khusunya. Mereka itu hewan yang jinak kok guys. Alhamdulillah mereka semua sehat wal 'afiat :)
Habis ke mud pond trus kita balik pulang. Malemnya banyak tamu yg datang. Bisa dibilang eyangku itu yg paling "sepuh" di desa beliau. Banyak juga murid-muridnya budeku yg dateng. Budeku sendiri ada yg jadi guru Mts di desa.
Lebaran di desa itu nyenengin guys mulai dari suasananya, rasa kebersamaannya, dll ngga kayak di kota. Kalo di kota itu para murid ngga ada yg ke rumah gurunya untuk bertamu waktu eid, mereka mengandalkan "halal bihalal" di sekolah mereka masing-masing. Beda dengan di desa, mereka datang ke rumah guru-guru mereka untuk bertamu.
Dan malam hari sebelum pulang, foto dulu meski nggak full-team karena yg narsis cuma yang kecil-kecil haha
4 cowok 1 cewek cantik, tapi pas mewek ngga mau difoto haha.
*fast forward* H+2 Lebaran 2015
H+2 eid jadwalnya masih tetep ke rumah eyang dan keluarga-keluarga yang lain. Tapi yg pergi ke rumah eyang cuma aku, ayah dan ibu aja. Karena kakak-kakak sepupuku kan udah berkeluarga semua jadi mereka pergi ke keluarga istri masing-masing.
Sorenya, aku sempetin ke mud pond lagi. Ngasih makan ikan koi pastinya. Jujur, kegiatan itu bisa menghilangkan stress dan penat guys. Ditambah lagi angin yang semilir.
Nih videonya guys
Dan pas pulang iseng foto-foto nih mumpung lagi pas momentnya
Btw kedua gambar di atas no filter lho guys wkwk itu filternya asli dari alam haha. Pas dibonceng ayahku, aku juga iseng buat video amatiran nih guys hehe
Gimana guys, seru banget kan cerita Lebaran Eid 2015-ku. Cukup itu dulu deh ya yang bisa aku ceritain. Keep update for my next Eid Fitr 2015 stories.
Hello everyone! Lately, i've been teaching my koi fishes to get the food by approaching to my hands. I've found many people feel a little bit hard for feeding their kois come close to hands. Well me, i tried to make my kois diet at first. Previously at my pond, there are 9 big koi fishes. But now it added about 13 baby koi fishes. I can say their behavior is different as baby kois are in better class. Before, I fed them three times a day with large hand grip. Then, I read some references and got enlightenment.
Don't give too much food to your kois. Don't worry about they feel hungry or lack of food. Basically, inside your fish pond some algae and mosses exist. I feed my kois only twice a day, in the morning time and night time before i go to sleep. So now, before feeding them i always put my fingers into water, play with them and they'll approach.
Hello everyone! I know it's not Wednesday but let me tell you my great story of this week in English.
Well, yesterday May 2nd, 2015 my parents and me went to 4th Asia Cup Young Koi Show at Surabaya Supermal Convention Center (SSCC). It's still about koi fishes everyone haha. Like i've told you my parents and me love having koi fishes. As true koi lovers, we pleasured to visit it. It lasts for three days only, May 1st-3rd 2015. The show is joined by 400 participants around Asia such as Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. But, koi's clubs local are dominating. The judges are from Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia.
To be honest, it was my first time to visit koi fishes show and I couldn't be happier about it. Here's me:
Photo taken by my mom
Lovely, isn't it? Haha. The hall is so big and large. When we came in, the judgement was already started. The owners had to measure their fishes by themselves. But, if the judges see there's the size of the fish is suspicious so they measure it.
Judgment
I was mesmerized by the blue big tube thing. It's the fish temporary pond. It uses for the show only.
We also saw big and high quality koi fishes there. But, i didn't take any single photo of it sorry. I once asked to one of the owners of koi farms, "How much are these Kohaku?" Then he said, "Well, these three packages are already booked. Each of it 5 millions rupiah." "Hmm...very great!" I only could say that haha. What a fish! Each package consists of three Kohaku (variety of koi fish) with size 33-35 cm. Basically, all koi fishes over there are sold nearly millions rupiah. But you are guaranteed by the high quality. Koi fishes which are shown over there include in superb class.
Hello everybody! Sorry about late posting. Today i'd like to tell you about one of my hobbies. It's having pets. Basically, my family loves animals. I have some birds at home. A mated pair of straw-headed bulbul (Cucakrawa in Indonesian) and Magpie Robin (Kacer in Indonesian), four canary birds, two orange-headed thrushes (punglor bata in Indonesian), and a baby Chesnut-capped Thrush (punglor kembang/anis kembang in Indonesian).
baby Chestnut-capped Thrush
Beside those birds, i have some koi fishes or Nishikigoi in Japanese. Nishikigoi or koi fish is a group of fish that are kept for decorative purpose and pet in pond. Its varieties are distinguished by coloring, patterning and scalation. The major colors are red, white and black.
Koi fishes are classified into eleven varieties but i only explain six of them:
1. Gosanke
Gosanke classsification is the most popular and most wanted among koi fans. Kohaku, Sanke and Showa are included in it.
2. Bekko
Koi bekko is a koi that doesn't have red stripe along its body, except Aka bekko. The basic colors are white and few black spots.
3. Utsurimono
Koi utsurimono is koi that has black color as basic with additional color.
4. Asagi.
Asagi koi has a unique color. It's pale blue color tends to grey as salted eggs with red stripe below.
5. Tancho
Tancho is koi with solitary red patch on its head. The fish maybe Tancho Showa, Tancho Kujaku, Tancho Goromo or even Tancho Goshiki. It's one of my favorite koi varieties.
6. Hikarimono
It's any koi with metallic color or shiny golden color. There are Nezu Ogon, Yamabuki Ogon, Platinum Ogon and Orenji Ogon.
Koi Fish pond at home
Short story: On April last year, i told my dad to construct a fish pond. Its size 2m x 1m x 50 cm. Two months later it finished. Afterward, we bought many koi fishes. Sadly, some of our koi fishes were dead because of a disease and the pond wasn't mature yet (according to references that i had read). So, we've lost about more than twenty five fishes. But then, we bought some koi fishes again haha. Now, we have nine big koi fishes at pond. Its size 30-40 cm up. We have shiro bekko, showa, yamabuki ogon, koromo and etc.
Here's the video:
I classify koi's classes into three: super class (champions), medium class and market class. Koi fishes in my pond include in market class. Nevertheless, I love seeing at them. I love koi because it has beautiful colors and patterns.
Having Koi fishes can bring you luck? Some say, yes. Believe it or not. Placing a water-filled pond and Koi fish body color patterns are believed to bring a good luck to the owner or even where the fish pond was constructed/ placed.
Well me, be positive thinking. Give suggestions to your mind that it can bring you "luck" whether you wanna make a business from it or just keep it.
I'm a newbie half-death koi lover. There are so many koi varieties I have to study. I'm also pioneering a Koi fish business with my dad. But i have to study more with all koi masters. Wish us luck!
Here are baby koi fishes. We've been learning to quarantine them for five days.
Here's the video:
I think that's all for today. Please watch my own videos and don't forget to click the like button if you like it. Thank you so much!
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015
The best twins, Jack and Finn Harries.
Hello everyone! I've got something to tell you. Every Wednesday i'll try my best to post something or someone in English. Whether it's about Youtubers or the latest interesting news. But today i'd like to tell you guys about one of my favorite youtubers. It is Jacksgap.
Jacksgap is a British YouTube channel run by twins, Jackson Frayn Harries "Jack" and Finnegan Frayn Harries "Finn". They both were born on May 13, 1993. Jacksgap channel was launched in July 2011 by Jack Harries. Its purpose was to document Jack's gap year.
Jack (left) and Finn (right) Harries
So basically, the first youtuber whom i know is Grace Helbig. Then she did a collab with Jack and Finn Harries. They impressed me because they have good-looking and attractive. Since that, i directly came into their channel and subscribed them. I love British people!
They are inspiring. Their videos aren't only about their daily life but also travelling and inspiring things. A year ago they made videos called "The Rickshaw Run". It was a documentation of their trip across the width of India. They traveled from east to west while raise as much money as possible for Teenage Cancer Trust.
They were always together. But now, Finn lives in New York city for pursuing his dream and studies at Parsons School of Design.
Pengalaman di UISI (Universitas Internasional Semen Indonesia)
Oke, mungkin semua orang belum tahu tentang UISI. Universitas Internasional Semen Indonesia (UISI) adalah sebuah universitas berjenjang S1 yang merupakan tanggungjawab sosial perusahaan dari perusahaan semen terbesar di Indonesia, yakni PT Semen Indonesia (persero) Tbk. UISI dibentuk dan didukung oleh PT Semen Indonesia (persero) Tbk dan Semen Indonesia Foundation. UISI ini adalah pengembangan dari STiMSI (Sekolah Tinggi Manajemen Semen Indonesia). Jadi gaes, dulunya nih di STiMSI cuma ada dua jurusan yaitu Manajemen dan Manajemen Rekayasa dan sekarang di UISI ada 10 jurusan yang dibagi dalam 3 fakultas.
Nah, aku ini mahasiswi manajemen semester 2 di
UISI. Selama setahun ini, banyak banget pengalaman yang aku rasain. Salah satunya berikut ini: Flashback dulu yah, hehe. Pas waktu awal aku masuk kuliah nama kampusku masih
STiMSI dan aku adalah angkatan yang kedua. Pastinya, bagi anak yang baru
mbrojol dari SMA masuk perkuliahan pasti ada yang namanya ospek. Omongan sana
sini tentang ospek itu menyeramkanlah, inilah, itulah, apalah-apalah hahaha.
Selama ospek (IOMB) banyak kesan dan pesan yang didapat. Salah satunya adalah
ketemu temen-temen baru dari luar Gresik. Well, tbh aku orang Gresik asli lho!
Dari SD sampe kuliah menempuh studi di Gresik. Bingung juga antara terlalu
cinta atau emang cari aman. Yaa mungkin sudah jalan-Nya disyukuri saja ya, to?
:) Emang sih, mayoritas mahasiswa asli Gresik tapi juga ada yang dari daerah Tuban,
Bojonegoro, Nganjuk, Mojokerto bahkan luar pulau seperti Medan dan Madura. Nah,
mereka tuh punya ciri khas masing-masing. Salah satunya adalah cara bicara
mereka. Nggak tau kenapa, lucu aja dengerin orang Tuban dan Bojonegoro ngomong
yang bagi aku pribadi terdengar aneh tapi menggelitik. Contoh nih ya, sepuluh jadi sepu-loh,mulih(pulang, dalam bahasa Indonesia) jadi
mu-lehdan sebagian dari
mereka ada yang ditambah -nem(-mu
dalam bahasa) contoh,"Pensil-nem wes tak balikno?"Hahaha. Dan mereka juga suka
digodain akan "keunikan" tersebut. Maaf ya temen-temen yang merasa, nggak bermaksud jelek kok hehe.
Fast forward. Setelah IOMB, semua mahasiswa masih ada "ospek" lanjutan yang mana setiap hari sabtu kita harus dateng pagi-pagi ke kampus untuk ngumpul dan diberi materi oleh kakak SI 1 (angkatan ke-1) yang berlangsung selama kurang lebih 3 bulan. Intinya sih, kita itu harus sadar akan arti mahasiswa yang sejati seperti apa dan bagaimana bekerja dalam tim dengan baik. Softskill apa yang harus dimiliki agar kita sukses kedepannya karena orientasi kebanyakan mahasiswa setelah lulus adalah BEKERJA.
Selepas itu semua, ada yang namanya Character Building alias pembentukkan karakter. Tujuan program ini adalah untuk membentuk karakter mahasiswa yang "kuat". Tidak hanya hardskill yang diasah, softskill juga harus dilatih dengan baik. Karena di Indonesia ini banyak banget orang "hebat" dalam hardskill tapi softskill nggak mumpuni. Program CB (Character Building) antara lain mentoring agama, bike to campus, senam pagi, menanam pohon, senyum-salam-sapa dan juga one student one blog.
Setiap hari Jumat pagi nih, selalu ada senam pagi bareng-bareng (kecuali hari libur) di halaman kampus tercinta. Nggak hanya mahasiswa yang dateng, dosennya pun ikut lho! Tapi sayangnya, nggak semua mahasiswa berpartisipasi dalam program kampus yang satu ini. Entah kenapa yang dateng senam pagi cuma orang itu-itu aja, bosen liatnya haha. Seharusnya, mereka itu bisa mengerti dan mendukung program kampus yang beginian. Toh ya itu semua juga buat mereka sendiri.
So, UISI ini bisa jadi alternatif buat adik-adik SMA yang mau ngelanjutin kuliah. Ayo-ayo buruan daftar. Bisa cek webnya di sini: http://uisi.ac.id/. Sekian terima kasih.
