The Muncruters

20 October 2005. Ada pepatah yg mengatakan, jauh di mata, dekat di hati. Setelah jauh makin kerasa betapa seseorang itu sangat berarti…hu..hu..hu.. Pagi ini dimulai dengan bazz bizz buzz teman2 yg tidak tau malu meski sudah dipasang tanda status forbidden lengkap dengan kata-kata "tugassss…" utk memperjelas makna si tanda palang putih tadi. It’s funny how people could easily stimulated by your personal status in YM or by that forbidden sign. The more you ignore me, the closer i get (Morrisey). Hehehe.

But then, when i really listened to them, it made me realize how much they miss me! How this miss-ing thing starts from a very small thing that you usually do. Even your "natural behaviour" or even if you do nothing that important for them. Well, at least it looked like i didn’t do nothing but accompany them to some places, or listening to their many kind of stories or helping them in times they needed so much… in short, by just.. being there for them. Small things, i guess.

And being missed by other people brings warmth in your heart. That you really meant for other people, for your friends. I never valued myself in the sense that i’m really "that important" to other people, hahaha. But on the other hand, i’m kind of feeling guilty for not being there. I’m sorry prendz. But at least, i’m not leaving you all permanently… thanks to YM

Warm Regards,
Herni

24 September 2005. Hari baik dan hari naas. Sebulan sebelum ulang tahun. Pertama kalinya berhasil menaklukan bahan makanan disini dan mengolahnya menjadi masakan yang enak. Pertama, sayuran di Belanda keras-keras. Setelah melalui berbagai macam eksperimen, hasilnya adalah cara terbaik memasak sayuran adalah dengan menjadikannya cap cay kuah. Modal bawang putih, bawang merah atau bombay dan kecap asin serta garam sedikit lalu diberi air. Sayuran pun menjadi hijau segar dan empuk. Kedua, margarin disini tidak bisa digunakan untuk masak. I miss blue band, simas, and meadow lea. But i finally manage to make nasi uduk and nasi kuning with tasty indonesian fried chicken. Yummy!

It’s so funny that there are many ways to cook nasi uduk and nasi kuning. And i choose the simpliest one of course The first experiment was successful. I invite everyone to come. They like it! And well, at least they didn’t get poisoned after eating it.

Then we went to open market. An old batch gave us a bicycle and i decided i want to try it. But Dina said we’d better to switch our bike because her bike is better than one i was using. And we got stucked in traffic light while dina and chrysant (the only two person who’ve been to the open market before) were way ahead us. Suddenly, i decided to speeded up after the light turned into green. At some point, i wanted to checked whether they turned left or not but without slowing down my bike. Crash! I hit a car. In a second, I managed to gain my balance again but Kristian hit me from the back and I fell successfully!

In a second i stood up. Feel a pain in my thigh but so far i can handle it. But when i looked at that bike, oh no! Ringsek. The front tire, well, it wasn’t round anymore. It looked like… kerupuk

Luckily (well, you still have to see the bright sight out of everything right?), it was in front of a bicycle store! So we just took it there. It cost us 58 euro (dina bought a brand new spadboard). We splited 50-50 (thank God).

My first biking in the Netherlands turned out to be a disaster..:-)

31 agustus 2005. Salah satu hari yg bersejarah dalam hidup seorang herni. Titik awal perjalanan menuju satu fase singkat dalam hidup. Ribuan mil dari Jakarta. Untuk 15.5 bulan. Kenapa menjadi penting? Istilah resminya, sekolah. Dengan sedikit keberentungan memperoleh beasiswa dari Pemerintah Belanda, setelah gagal mencoba mengemis ke pemerintah Inggris. Tak ada Inggris, Belanda pun jadilah. Mengutip ery, mau sekolah koki kek pokoknya asal beasiswa dan keluar negeri

Namun sebenarnya itu hanya sekedar mencari alasan untuk mengasingkan diri, terbebas dari segala rutinitas yang menjemukan, konflik-konflik kehidupan lama, dll. Simplenya, having my own space for the first time. Sekaliiii saja. That’s the real reasons for all of this. Me, Myself and I.

Pada saat yg sama inilah, blog ini diluncurkan. Lagi-lagi semata-mata karena alasan yang sederhana: internet disini cepet, euy (meski telat sebulan baru bikin blog). Ditambah kebutuhan akan adanya wadah baru untuk keisengan dikala gak ada kerjaan, otak mumet, bla bla bla (ternyata usil di milis gak cukup utk menyalurkan hobi iseng nulis-nulis, hehehe..).

Untuk siapa blog ini? Pertama, tentu saja: Me, Myself and I. Kalau ada yg baca ya gpp, gak ada yg baca juga gpp. Wong cuma iseng…:-)

Den Haag, awal agustus 2005.

Herni Sri Nurbayanti