Writing Task 7 : My craziest Experience in a restaurant

I have a friend. Her name is Elsy Arifa.  We have the same hobby to go to culinary place in Malang. We eat in the many places with different concept like restaurant, café, canteen, food court, street food, and the others.

We complete each other in this hobby. She completes me when I don’t know much about the name of vegetables, flavor, and meat. Usually in the new place that we never come before, we often debate where we choose to sit. She likes to try something new especially new menu. And because I’m a fussy eater, we usually debate when we choose the menu. She will reads all of menu and calls the waiter to ask everything for example the menu name, composition from it, and how to cook that. 

Last year ago, we went to one famous café in Malang “Ria Djenaka”. Elsy brought some cakes that she bought when she travelled to Thailand. Enthusiasly, I ate a cake. But when I ate it, one waiter came to us and told us that we couldn’t bring some food from outside. Elsy and the waiters debated for a few minute and because I already ate this, Elsy told to the waiters how much she must pay when we brought and ate food from outside. Then, the waiters count all of the cake in the table and told us how much we must pay. We pay all and immediately went out from this café. What a bad day.

Writing Task 6 : Describe your own eating habits

March,10^th 2014

Writing Task 6 : Describe your own eating habits

Every morning, I only drink a cup of cereals for breakfast before I go to work. While I do my work, I usually make a cup of tea (sometime I make a cup of coffee) and eat some snacks. Until lunch break time, I usually eat much rice for main dishes with side dishes like fried chicken, or tempe, or tofu. For Dinner, I usually eat fried rice and make some coffees while I need to stay up until morning

There are my eats habitual. I eat much food when it’s spicy because I love relish. But, I eat a few  food when it’s soto, rawon, or soup. I like eats junk food like burger, hotdog, French fries although I know its bad for our health.  I have bad habit that I can’t change is I usually eat ice cube from my cool drink. If I eat in the restaurant with my friends and they have ice cube in their drink, I usually ask them to give their ice cube to me. My friends often complain me and remember me that I lost 3 teeth because this bad habits . But until now, I still can’t change my unhealthy eat habits. Maybe tomorrow,  or next week, or next month, or next year. I Hope.

Surat 1 : |Bagaimana harimu, raga ?

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Untuk Raga, langit merahku.

|Bagaimana harimu, raga ?
Hari ke enam aku di pulau ini. Masih ada 20 hari lagi sebelum kembali ke malang. Entah mengapa aku mulai merasa bali begitu puitis. Tentu saja, macet dan banjir adalah dua hal yang tidak termasuk didalamnya. Aku mulai merasa setiap gerakan sembahyang yang dilakukan oleh seorang perempuan paruh baya, ibu pemilik guest house tempat aku tinggal selama di denpasar, begitu indah. Seperti juga bagaimana aku mulai terbiasa mendengar -sejenis- adzan pada saat makan siang di kantin IALF dan setiap menjelang senja di semua stasiun TV. Ada sejenis spiritualitas yang menyatukan manusia dengan alam. Dan itu sangat puitis.

Selanjutnya bisa dibaca di blog baruku : http://ranselperi.com/untuk-raga-langit-merahku/

Writing Task 4 : Describe a celebration that you attended last year

March, 6^th 2014

Last year, I attended many wedding celebration from my friends. Yeah, most of them are from junior high school and senior high school. But, I don’t think that I will marry that year too because my friend married.  I attended every wedding party happily until I know there was something wrong that I felt when I came one wedding party.

Her name is nur fitriana. She is my best friend from junior high school until senior high school. She is a dynamist woman, an activist from one of biggest labor organization in Indonesia. She was a journalist in Jawa Pos Radar Jember and also a novelist. She married with Maman, a friend from the same organization. They married in June 2^nd 2013, a day after Pancasila days in June 1^st that become the important days to them because they like Soekarno very much. Wedding party celebrated in the biggest hall in my town. I went to the wedding with my other friend from the same senior high school. In that hall, I saw my other friends came too. We talked about many things while we ate the food. Of course we couldn’t talk with Nur Fitriana because she was busy in front of us to take picture with the other guest. When we finished, we went to Nur Fitriana and her husband to take picture together. Before we went out from the hall, we got a wedding souvenir. The souvenir is a memoir novel with a title ‘Titik Balik’. Nur Fitriana wrote this novel by herself. Enthusiastically, I read this novel until end and I find many reasons why I mustn’t marry in this year. There were one paragraph that make me so happy:

Maman and I agreed that we married not because our age is too old. We agreed that we married not to legalize for sexual relationship, We agreed that we married not only to had the children. We decided to marry because we certain that we can respect each other. And sure, We decided to marry because our loved was pure.

At the end. I think that I’m single and I’m happy. Just it.

Writing Task 3 : Write a short article for a newspaper about 5 travel essentials. Explain why they are important to take

Do you like travelling ?

If the answers is no, you can stop for read this article. But if the answers is yes, you can go to next sentence. There are several things that must be prepared before you travel. In this article, I will explain to you about 5 point that should be prepared before you travelling.

First, you must determine the destination of your trip because it will affect the next four point. You must determine whether going to the beach, mountain, water fall, or city. Whether it's in the city or not. Whether it's in the country or abroad.

Second, after determining your goals, the next step you need is make information relating to your destination. You should make an itinerary by search information in the Internet. Therefore, you must complete your itinerary with the important information such transportation, accommodation, estimated time and cost budget for the destination. You should have other information that may be you get from your friends or your family who know about the destination.

Third, Prepare your needs during the trip. You should make a list from personal thing such as clothes, food, toiletries, money ,camera ,map, etc. Don’t forget to carry your personal identification such as ID cards (KTP) and driver's license for at domestik destination and the Passport for abroad. Identity is necessary if you have problems while traveling. Put all your stuff in one bag that is comfortable to wear and taken when traveling. In addition, you should record important numbers when it’s need or when you are in trouble .

Fourth, Prepare your physic and mental. Don’t let that factor but distrub your trip so you can’t enjoy the trip even that factor messing up all the things that you are prepared .

The Last, Lets start your trip and Enjoy your journey. There are one sentence from the indonesian movie "Laura and Marsha" is appropriate to describe this point : Sometimes we are too focused on the goal until we forget to enjoy the journey.

So,enjoy the trip !