The Muncruters

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..:-)