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CIRCLE OF KINDNESS

Tulisan ini nggak terinspirasi dari iklan sunsilk circle of beauty, tapi dari pengalaman gw sendiri waktu jumat kemaren.
Gw dapet kiriman donat goreng isi kornet banyak banget dari forwarder gw, jadi gw bagi-bagiin buat orang-orang di gudang belakang.
Gw sendiri ngambil 2 biji, mayan wat ganjel perut kalo pas laper, kan perjalanan masi panjang.
Pas mau pulang, gw ketemu ama salah satu supir kantor.
Nggak tau kenapa, gw pengen aja ngasih roti gw buat dia, padahal rencananya tuh roti bt gua 1, bt belki 1.
Tapi pan kata orang dulu mah "POLLOW YOR HART" gitu yeh, jadi gua kasiin aja tu roti.
Pas gw udah kasiin baru deh berasa perut gw kerucukan, laper....
Mu makan, pan yang ini buat belki, ya udah deh gw nginyem aja sambil minum banyakan.
Ternyata, apa yang kita kasi ke orang laen, akan kembali sama kita.
Dalam kasus gua, bahkan langsung kejadian.
Sore itu akhirnya karena langit udah gelap banget, gua mutusin untuk nebeng bos gw.
Bener aja, ujan turun dengan deras, geledek menyambar-nyambar, pohon pada tumbang, jalanan pada macet.
Dalam hati gw bersyukur banget, untung gw udah duduk manis disini,
Kalo gw lagi di luar nunggu bis, gimana ceritanya tu?
Belon selese gw ngelamun gitu, tau-tau boss gw dpt epon en dikasi tau kalo pabrik banjir, gara-gara atap pada terbang dan terpal wat ngelapisin atapj ebol kerna keberatan aer.
Akhirnya bos gw balik lagi ke kantor, dan gw terpaksa turun dong...., untung ujan dah brenti waktu itu.
Na, kerna gw nyegat bisnya udah di deket jalan tol, terpaksa deh gw bediri.
Eh, nggak lama, tau-tau ada mas-mas yang nyolek gw en ngasi tempat duduknya ke gw.
Puji Tuhaaan, gw langsung bilang makasih dan gw duduk dengan tenang sampeJakarta.
Gw nggak tau apa yang ngedorong orang itu untuk ngasi tempat duduknya buat gw.
Mungkin, sama dengan dorongan yang nyuruh gw untuk ngasihin roti gw bt pak supir.
Kata-kata "Apa yang kau tabur , itulah yang kau tuai", punya makna bahkan dalam kejadian-kejadian kecil sehari-hari.
Gw jadi mikir-mikir, sering banget ya, kita ngelakuin sesuatu tanpa banyak mikir.
Tanpa mikirin gimana akibatnya.
Dan sering kali juga, kita nggak berusaha bikin lingkaran kebaikan itu jadi bulet.
Maksudnya apaan yak?
Well, intinya gw mu ngomong bahwa kadang-kadang kita nggak menghargai kebaikan orang laen.
Kita nggak ngehargain temen-temen kita dan semua yang udah mereka lakukan buat kita.
Kita terlalu fokus sama diri kitaaaaaaaaaaa terus, bahkan kita nggak peduli kalo kita nyakitin orang laen.
Kan semua yang kita lakukan bakal balik lagi ke diri kita.
Kalo kita memulainya dengan nggak menghargai orang yang sayang sama kita, mungkin balesan yang kita terima akan lebih buruk dari sekedar kehilangan orang yang kita sayang ....

posted by Nemot @ 9:53 AM 1 comments

HSBC ALL U CAN EAT DI ZENYA

Sebagai pemegang kartu kredit HSBC, gua antara sedih-sedih seneng sama program-programnya dia.
Senengnya, HSBC ini ngertiin banget kalu gw doyan makan, dan emang diskon sama program khususnya HSBC kebanyakan buat orang-orang yang doyan makan.
Contonya program All U can Eat andelan yang sukses bikin gua bolak-balik batal diet.
Nah, udah tau pan ye kalu gua cinta banget ama yang namanya Zenya, diantara resto-resto jepang yang laen, eh kemaren beneran aja lho, ada All U can Eatnya disini!!!
Jadi ada 2 macem, kalu yang 60 rebu nett, kita bole makan Fusion Sushi sama minum
Na kalo yang 80 rebu, ada supnya, salad, appetizer, yakiniku, soba, samaFusion Sushi
Emang pilihan menunya ditentuin, contona favorit gua Chuka Wakame (seaweed), Agedashi Tofu sama Chuka Idako (baby squid), nggak ada dalem menu. Tapi mayan, gua jadi bisa nyoba yang aneh-aneh.
Kemaren ini gua udah nyoba sekitar 10 menu yang ada disitu , sengaja guatulis biar si Belki ngiler bratssss!!!!!

1. Kani Salad :
Ini salad biasa yang dibikin dari Kani Stick (entuh, crabstick yang bentuknya kayak guling dan warnanya rada-rada orange) dan timun jepang yang dirajang aluuuuuuusss banget, trus dipakein mayones. Rasanya mah jangan ditanya, endang majendang dan krimi cekali, cocok banget buat mompa napsu makan biar tambah gede .....

2. Ika Furai :
Bahasa kerennya : Calamari.
Versinya Zenya ini manteph banget karena cuminya gede-gede, kira-kira 2 sentian gitu deh lebarnya, udah gitu cuminya bner-bener empuk krenyes-krenyes ngbul-ngebul.
Pokona sedap banget dah!

3. Curly BonitoIni salah satu Fusion Sushi, yang bentuknya kayak maki (rollnya rada kotak dan gede-gede ukurannya), dalemnya kalo nggak salah salmon trus dikasi Bonito Shavings
Bonito itu semacem remah-remah yang suka ditaburin diatasa gedashi tofu, yang tipiiiis kayak kulit bawang, tapi sebenernya ikan. Yang ini si gua bilang standar aja, banyakan nasinya jadi bikin kenyang.

4. Cheesy Volcano
Na ini dia ni paporit - na si Belki. (maap, interupsi dari publisher: SAYA EMOSSEEHHH!!! :p)
Ini sushi yang dalemnya isi salmon, trus dikasi thousand island , keju parut, dipanggang dan dikasi roe (telur ikan yang kecil-kecil oranye itutuuuuu) dan dihidangin panas-panas.
Rasanya???? Jangan tanya!!! Ini yang jadi turning point dan bikin Belki jadi doyan sushi!!!

5. Gyuniku Enoki Maki
Adalah semacem sate, yang dibikin dari daging sukiyaki yang udah dibumbuin, diisi sama jamur enoki (bentuknya panjang-panjang dan ada kepalanya kecil putih, kayak tauge) terus digulung, ditusuk trus dibakar kayak sate. Satu tusuk isinya 3.
Rasanya enak kayak beef teriyaki, aplagi makannya panas-panas ....Sedaaaaaaaappppppp!!!!

6. Sasami Chicken
Isi daging dada ayam yang digulung dan dalemnya diisi pake cream cheese,terus disate.
Daging ayamnya empuk, cheese creamnya berasa banget, enaaaaaakkkk deh!

7. Absoutely CrabSushi
ini isinya soft shell crab (semacem kepiting soka gitu) yang digorenggaring, wasabi dan ditutupin roe yang warnanya ijo.
Rasanya udah pasti enak lah ya .....

8. Hardy's
Sushi ini toppingnya unagi ...., nuff said

9. Pearly Cream
Isinya scallop, pake roe dan mayonaise .... sedaaaaappp

10. Salmon Kama
This is the biggest surprise. Ternyata orang Jepang sma gilanya sama orang Padang, karena ini adalah 'Kepala Ikan Salmon Panggang!'
Tapi tenang sodara-sodara karena ternyata kapala ikan salmon itu enak banget dan nggak amis sama sekali. Ada lemak-lemak ikan yang gurih dan katanya mengandung omega 3 dan sehat buat jantung! Rasanya kayak lemak ikan yang ada di perut bandeng presto itu lho! Enak!Porsinya mayan besar si, jadi cocoghnya dimakan terakhir aja hehehe...

11. Horenso Goma Ae
Hidangan penutup pengganti dessert (yang emang nggak ada di menu list).
Dibikin dari horenso (bayam) rebus, dipakein wijen dan rasanya manis-manis seger gituh.

Untuk semua menu diatas, cukup bayar 80.000 saja dan masi ada menu-menu laen yang belon dicoba....

jadi belki..., kapan ngikut gw ke Zenya????? (preeettttttt :p)

posted by Nemot @ 9:44 AM 1 comments

THIS PLACE CALLED ABSENCE - LYDIA KWA

Wu Lan's life, a Singapore-born lesbian psychologist now living in Canada, is suddenly turned upside down by her father sudden death.
She feels unable to help herself to overcome the weighing helplessness abouther father's fate, let alone help her patience.
In a year's time leave of absence, she journeyed through a journal about twoS ingapore ah kus , a polite term for prostitutes in the turn of the century.
The fascinating story of two prostitutes entwined in desire, opium and the dream of fleeing themselves free, somehow helps her to comprehend herfeelings and helped her open up about her devastations.
It was then she learned that she is somehow connected to Lee Ah Choi andChow Chat Mui, the two subjects of those sensuous journal.

posted by Nemot @ 9:42 AM 0 comments

DESIDERO ERGO SUM

I am made of desire
Of two people merged in love and passion
I grew from their heat, gained life from their fluids
They desired therefore I am

I am made of desire
To get all life has to offer
To stand out, to cry out, to show out what I have but have to keep
I desire therefore I am

posted by Nemot @ 9:40 AM 0 comments

DESPERADO

Today I woke up feeling weak.
My mind was travelling far, but my body wanted to stay longer in my bed.
Thinking of what I'm doing everyday : getting to work, do some papers,everything lost meaning.
Just another routine.
At last, I forced my self to get up and take a shower.
Water ran measly, barely enuff to rinse off my moisture-rich shower gel.
Life is tough and uncomfortable in this country.
You practically have to fight for every little thing and it seldomly paysoff.
It took almost an hour to fill up my water bucket, washing my clothes woud probably take half the day...
Getting out of my room, I stepped slowly to the walkway.
The sewer filled with what looked like rat droppings.
I saw it last night, the ugly black rat, my heart lost a beat when it ran through the walk way and into the sewer.
I mustered my courage several times to clean up its nest, shoved up the pileof garbage it puts to clog up the water.
Swept all its dried droppings and flood the area with kerosene andmothballs.
It stayed away for a while.Then the stupid girls staying on the neighboring room bought a small dustbin and put it in front of their room.
Throw food wrappings in it and invited back the rat.
Senseless, those village people with their thick accent.
They're too used to live in filth to bother about rats.

I saw the lopsided huts just in several feet across our rented rooms.
A family with three kids live there.
I don't pay much attention to them but they know me by name.
When the mother was there she fought constantly with her 10 year old daughter.
The daughter's foul mouthed, always argue about everything but mostly about her pocket money.
Most mornings she would wail loudly, ranting in local dialects and faked tears, calling her father in a make-believe anguish.
Several months ago, the mother left to open a small canteen.
The fake wailings died instantly, only bursting on the mother's rare homecoming.
But now it's the baby who's constantly weeping, missing her mommy.
One particular morning, he started crying desperately at 5.
I actually pitied him, but he wailed on and on for an hour and a half.
It started to annoy me that nobody in the family paid attention to him.
Impatience took the better of me and I got out of the room, carefull to slammy door loudly.
I went to and fro several times and slamming my door each time.
Finally her big sister picked him up and he stopped crying at once.These ignorant people!!!!How can they let a baby crying for so long and do nothing to soothe him?
On remembering this, my heart felt heavier.

I kept walking on the alley.
Children running naked along the street, their face and feet thick with grime.
Their ever-pregnant mothers gossiped about carelessly.
Their sagging breast protruded from their lanky night dress.
If they're lucky to live to be sixty, and got married at their late teens,it means that they spend forty years doing the same thing days over.
The most exciting things to ever happen would be occasional weddings,circumcisions, independence day and the end of fasting season.
Are they content?
Have they ever want something more in their lives?
Mean while their lazy husbands are lying around with their exposed potbelly.
He had a job at a factory back then, but quit cos he was not allowed to smoke during worktime.
He chose to pull pedicabs instead, where they're free to take their nap.
To smoke and spit wherever they want, spent their hard earned thousand notein illegal lottery draw.
Sleep the night away in open air, spoiling their already weakened lungs toTB.
Have these people ever realize there are so much more things in life?

Arriving on the road side, I cross the railway.
I waited for my bus to come, mind still wandering.
I look along the railway sides, here and there a pile of junk emanate foul smell.
Flies buzzing noisily.
As I got on my bus, I noticed that not one single patch of land are free of junks.
Plastic wraps, cigerette butts, empty bottles, rotten food.
They have enough money to build a mighty fly over but can't spare their budget to provide gargabe bins.
Maybe in a hundred years time this town will swim in junk.
While in other side of the world people have cutting edge tech to convert junk to energy, these people don't care if they shit in their home-front sewer.

I feel weaker and helpless.
I lost all hope.
The more I know of the world, the more I want to flee from here.
I've little left to hold on to.
Every trickle of my blood want to fly free.
But so much things are holding me back, draining my what little strength I have.
I know the world are outside, thriving and throbbing beyond my walls.
And yet I find no door....

posted by Nemot @ 9:33 AM 0 comments

Review : The Curse of The Ring

Ini pelem cerita jaman kuno - kuno gituh, katana si, legenda bangsa Vikingini yang mengilhami, (tsah ....., bahasanya ...mengilhami) JRR Tolkien untukmbikin LOTR.
Katanya si gitu
Cerita na gini kira-kira.Jaman rikiplik dulu, ada naga yang namanya Fafnir, dia ini ngejagain emas yang buanyaaaaak banget.
Cuman, emas ini gak bole diambil sama manusia, karna emas ini kepunyaannya 'The Immortals'.
Salah satu immortal yang serakah pengen punya emas itu akhirnya dikutuk jadi dwarf yang namanya 'Nibelung'
'Nibelung' tinggalnya di hutan deket gua tempat Fafnir selama ini tidur.

Di negara yang namanya Xanten, diserang sama The Twin Kings.
Semua anggota kerajaan mati, kecuali pangeran kecil yang namanya Siegfried, yang hanyut di kali.
Dia ditemuin sama seorang blacksmith di kerajaan Burgund dalam keadaan amnesia, dan dikasi nama Eric.

Suatu hari, waktu lagi ngambil aer di pinggir kali, Eric ngeliat kapal kerajaan Iceland dan Queen Brunhild yang kebeneran lewat disono.
Kayaknya si dua-duanya naksir-naksiran gitu.
Na pas lagi ngobrol-ngonbrol sama Mbah Dukun penasehat spiritualnya, Queen Brunhild yang gagah perkasa kayak Xena itu dikasi tau bahwa akan ada bintang yang seperti api di langit dan jatuh ke bumi.
Setelah api, akan ada cowok (ganteng), satu-satunya orang yang bisa ngalahin Queen Brunhild dan dia ini jodo-na.

Beneran aja, malem itu ada meteor jatoh nggak jauh dari tempat Eric tinggal, dan kemahnya Brunhild.
Mereka sama-sama nyamper ke tempat itu dan bertarung.
Brunhild kalah, terus dua-duanya liat-liatan, terus, kejadian deh ....
Pas pisahan, Brunhild bilang kalu dia mu nungguin Eric wat ngejemput dia diIceland.

Eric ngikut bokapnya ke ibukota Burgund wat pertama kalinya.
Bokapnya ini biasa bikin pedang wat kerajaan.
Dalam perjalanan, dia ngeliat desa yang dibumi angusin, kayaknya si abisperang gituh
Ngeliat itu, si Eric jadi pelan-pelan inget malem waktu dia dilariin dari istana kerna perang.

Sesudah nyampe ibukota Burgund, Eric ini terlibat adu pedang sama beberapa anggota kerajaan yang bisa dia kalahin, padahal bokap (angkatnya) nggak pernah ngajarin ilmu pedang
Adek ceweknya raja Burgund yang ngeliat dia langsung tersepongna dan napsu berat gituh ngeliatin si Eric yang machoh dan sluruph-sluruph ...
Setelah ngobrol-ngobrol ama keluarga raja, ternyata desa yang angus tadi itu gara-gara ada naga ngamuk. Fafnir yang udah Setelah... (to be continued)

posted by Nemot @ 9:28 AM 0 comments

GOD IS....

God is not only good
God is great, or so we say

God is kind
God is generous

God is full of blessing
God is ever giving

God is omnipotent
God makes everything's possible

God is everywhere
God comes cheap

God is a TV star
God is such a money spinner

God is a commodity
God is selling like hot cakes

In time when everyone's wish is to get closer to God. All they need to do is dress in rags, chant a prayer praising God
Doesn't matter if they don't mean it, doesn't even matter if they don't pronounce it correctly.
Just say someting God - ish, and people'll start throwing out their money
Hoping that the their little-more-than usual charity will buy their way to heaven

Building God a proper house is a bit trickier.
You need an army of idle youngsters to stand around in busy streets
Stretching out their fishing nets, staring threateningly to passers by.
It would be helpful to brandish a stick, come in handy to scratch those car who wouldn't even slow down.
Well, maybe they'll jam the traffic a bit, those idle kid. But it's OK.
People'll understand.
What wouldn't people give to get a house for God?

God makes the best selling show on TV
It doesn't matter if the story doesn't make sense, or if it's extremely violent, cos God would make it acceptable.
Its ok to picture super-mean underage villain conduct unthinkable evil. Justmake sure the good-girl say God's name every five minute or so
Oh, and don't forget to make God punish the villain severely in the end, herface melt in strong acid solutions for instance.
Another show of a pretty lady seeking fortune from a wicked old witch.
Maybe this other adult villain could rot in hell, or a snake could strangleher in her dying bed.
Her dead body oosing blood from her foul smelling womb.
Serves her right don't you think? She's been such a prodigy. Send her mother off on the street in the middle of lashing rain.
Said her mother was a nagging old useless slut.
But of course, a priest will pray for her. Ask God for forgiveness, and lether rest in peace.
That's the show was all about, repenting!
Although admittedly only a small amount of repentance scene is involved.
But God drives rating up, and that's what matters most.


God can make you a mighty healer too. Maladies are evil aren't they?
Evil makes people sick and the best way to cure it is to throw out. Relieveyour stomach, see.
And give them bottled-cure-all-repell-all-anointed oil. They're as good asamulets.
Soon you'll have congregations spring up like mushrooms everywhere. You'resuch a busy preacher that you have eight schedules a day.
Doesn't matter if you have to go to and fro all day, you'll only spend halfan hour or so.
You've talked about God's same word so often, you've got it all in yourhead.
Well, maybe in your heart once in a while, during quiet moments, you just don't have enough time now, so many people demanding it from you.

God needs you as defence armies.
As long as you fashion a banner bearing God's name you can do anything. .
Your business is meddling people's relationship with their God.
God gives you the right to get rid of those people wishpering God's name ina non-origin language.
People need to worship their God in ways you know and not others.
How can people hold fast to their faith if temptations are luring them tomaking sins?
So to prevent people from doing sinful things, you'll sure need to banishall temptations - literally.
Not from your mind, not from your heart, not with your strong will, but withforce.
Destroy them all, bring down their wall and cry out for God while doing so.
How can you resist God's will to be God's soldier.
It's a noble cause isn't it?

posted by Nemot @ 11:56 AM 0 comments

SHIRO - A Gastronomic Delight

Itu judulnya resto yang tadi malem gw datengin.
Letaknya di G-05 Wisma BNI 46.
Konon kabarnya, Shiro itu dalam Bahasa Jepang artinya putih, tapi resto inisama sekali nggak bernuansa putih.
Voucher dan menu didominasi warna peach dan pink, dan ruangannya banyak pake warna coklat kayu.
Resto ini gabung sama Lounge yang ada di lantai 2.
Jam buka lounge lumayan panjang, kalo wien sampe jam 2 pagi, tapi resto nya cuma buka waktu Lunch (11.00 - 14.00) sama dinner (18.00 - 23.00) doang.
Ruang tunggunya keren, dan comfy, soalnya ni tepat emang keliatannya mayan eksklusip.
Ya maklum aja yak, kita pan makan disini gara-gara dapet gratisan pocer 250 rebu gituh, kalo kagak mah, ogah ah makan disono, ketauan mahalnya....
Musiknya juga asik.
Kalo emang duitnya kebanyakan, makan disini sambil nongkrong lama-lama si enak juga...
Suasananya remang-remang dan romantis.
Kalo di resto Jepang laen kan rata-rata tamu baru masup aja udah disorakin rame-rame sama waiter-waitress nya
Kalo disini dijamin kagak ada yang teriak-teriak deh.
Waitressnya helpful, friendly, cekatan dan rapi.
Seragamnya semacem kemeja kurung with a smart purple sash di pinggangnya.

Di buku menu ada lumayan banyak pilihan. Dan sebagian pilihan makanannya nggak cuma versi original, tapi di blend sama taste laen.
Misalnya, menu starter, selain ada fusion sushi, ada juga crepes.
Yang gw cobain Age Something Harusame adalah semacem salad dari zuchhini yang diserut aluuuuuuus banget, ditaburin soun korea yang digoreng garing dan dicampurin tuna mayonaise.
Rasanya : enyak, enyak, enyak.
Porsinya cukup buat dimakan berdua.

Menu berikutnya : Dynamite Hotplate
Disajiin di atas pan kecil, isinya potongan tuna, akar teratai, bawang bombay, roe sama thousand island.
Ini juga rasanya seger-seger enak, tapi lumayan greasy.

Main coursenya gw lupa namanya, yang jelas itu Spaghetti, ditaburin pake wakame terus ada daging ayam giling nya satu lagi, semacem Bibimbap, tapi pake Unagi.
Disajiinnya di atas piring batu panas, dan baru diaduk pake saos kalo kita udah mau makan.
Rasanya juga enak, walopun unaginya rada amis karena matengnya nggak kayak kalo kita makan sushi, tpi masi rada lembek-lembek gitu.
Tapi nasinya ini enak banget kalo dimakan sama dynamite.

Selaen menu-menu tadi, ada sushi, sashimi dan teppanyaki.
Yang paling mahal kayaknya Teppanyaki yang pake Kobe Beef, course, udah termasuk cawan mushi, soup, dan nasi harganya sejuta.
Dan yang masak tepanyakinya apik banget, semuanya dimasaknya satu-satu dan kagak bar-bar kayak yang di mal, maen aduk aja semua.Tapi ngeliat harganya yang mayan mahal (king prawn sebiji aja kok 75 rebu gitu loh, males dah!), kita cuman ngintip tetangga sebelah yang kayaknya asik banget yak nginyeeeeem aja kaga berenti-berenti hehehe

Ada kejadian lutu waktu nyobain dessert
Penasaran pengen nyobain Wasabi Ice Cream rasana kaya apa, ternyata biasa aja gitu lo.
Akhirnya biar manteph, gw minta wasabi beneran wat dicampurin di es krim entuh
Rasa es krimnya jadi semriwing dan waiternya pada keketawaan ngeliat orang gila makan es krim pake garnish wasabi.

All in all, puas lah makan di shiro, soale gratis dan cuman nambah goban doang.
Tapi kalu gw sih masi teuteup prefer Zenya ato Sushi tei gituh.

posted by Nemot @ 10:28 AM 0 comments