Pu'dot Na'fa Pudding and Scrabble

Hi, Maders! Do you like pudding? It’s nice to eat it after your main meal. One day, Mbak Dewi from Telkomsel gave me pudding when I visited her. It’s a few months ago actually. She bought some from her colleague and gave me two bottles. The pudding was special because it’s put inside bottles and given name as Pu’dot (Pudding Dot).

I thought the pudding was yogurt because it’s inside bottle. Usually pudding is put in cups. But when I ate it, hmm it’s in fact pudding! I should have trusted the labels. Hahaha.

It’s common when I visit Mbak Dewi at her office because it’s nice to be at Telkomsel, the coolest office I’ve ever worked with. I was having internship there and that’s why I love it. Plus, we (I mean Telkomsel and I) have the same birthday date. Same year!

I also love playing scrabble with friends (or alone). Scrabble is a smart game because we have to think about words while playing it. I usually use multiple languages, depends on with whom I play.

To be honest, the price of the scrabble was expensive. It cost me two hundred rupiahs more. I thought it would be only around one hundred rupiahs. But that’s fine! I got the money from Dad anyway. Hahaha.

Oh yes, one thing that shocked me when I visited Mbak Dewi was that she’s pregnant! OMG! Alhamdulilah! She has told me a long time ago that she wanted to have one more kid, she has had two children. This is gonna be exciting when I go to her house and they’ll have a baby. I love babies!

They have tiny cute stuff. So adorable!

Well, that’s my review for Pu’dot. Thank you Mbak Dewi for all <3 Happy Eating Pudding, Maders! Don’t have some? Go and buy it. Hahhha. Have a nice day.

The Old Man and The Son

Hi, Maders! Have you ever met an inspiring figure? Since I was a kid, I know about a real story of a man who always looks for his son in the evening because his son always wanders alone from home. Their home is near my ex-house assistant and she has told me a lot about them.

Anyway, I choose 'the old man and the son' as the title because it sounds like Hemingway's The Old Man and The Sea. Hehehe

Now I have grown up and my way of thinking becomes more critical. I’m a language student, so I love stories. This time I’d like to share their amazing tale to you. To keep their privacy, I won’t say their names and show their faces, just a picture originally taken by me.

On Saturday (almost) evening, I accidentally saw the old man and the son on the sideways while I was driving a car. Then I pulled over in front of them. It was the first time I talked to the old man although I have watched them since a long time ago. They’re famous actually because everyone around knows that the son always wanders and the old man will look for him when it’s time to go home. He has much love for his ‘special’ son.

I said I was a journalist from my university and I needed their picture because I wanted to write a story about them. Without any hesitation, the old man agreed and asked his son to stand still. Within a minute, I took their picture with my ipad. After that, I thanked them and left.

As long as I remember, in the morning the son always wanders a bit far from his house since I was still in kindergarten. Sometimes people will give him money or food when he passes by. Next, the old man will try to look for him from 3 P.M. and they will come home together at 5 P.M. This happens everyday. Not feeling tired or confused, the old man always successfully meets his son. Incredible, isn’t it?

From this discussion, I’m gonna say that the love from parents never ends. Even if you’re super duper naughty, yeah probably the parents will be mad at you, but you should know that they love you. Hmm in the movie sometimes the parents throw away their children because they get no love, trust me, they will regret on the other day! To be honest my dad is firm, but he always gives me money so I can complete my Harry Potter series. Haha. Thanks Dad! And thanks Mom for paying my expensive piano course! I’ll do my best! Love you! Bye, Maders!

Making Passport at Immigration Office

Heyho, Maders! Have you ever gone overseas? Surely you need a passport, don’t you? It’s like international citizenship card to let you go anywhere in this world. Hm, there’s visa too actually but this time I just wanna talk about passport.

I made my passport at Immigration Office 7^th floor, HSBC Building at Gajahmada Street, Semarang. The main office is at Siliwangi Street, but it’s too far for me. Just the same anyway.

Firstly, you go inside and tell the security that you’d like to make passport and take the queuing number. Extra patience! I warn you. Hahaha. Then the customer service will call your number and you give them the documents needed such as certificate of birth, family card, and identity card along with the copies. If it’s done, you’ll receive a form to fill out while going back to sit.

Next, you’ll be waiting again for interview and photo session. Another extra patience! Honestly, the questions are about what country you’ll visit and why. Mostly people will say Singapore and for holiday. Yeah, right!

Look, you must be polite with the staff. Give them your big smile and bright face. I know you’re tired, so are they! If you can laugh together with the staff during the interview, it will be awesome and the process will go well. Trust me! Some of the people there were having trouble with the server. Pray a lot and gain luck, okay.

Finally, you can go home and transfer the money to BNI. My advice is to transfer through teller cause you’ll get payment proof from the bank. Better than you do it through ATM. After the payment, you need to wait for 3-4 days and go back to the immigration office to take your passport. Simple!

Don’t hesitate to make passport because it can be used for 5 years. We have no idea what is gonna happen in the future right. Although you get no plan for going abroad, you had better still make the passport. Who knows there’s a sudden agenda to go abroad with your family or someone pays the whole of your traveling fee. Ahhh, amin!

Well, that’s all for today. Thanks for reading my blog. Happy making passport, Maders!

Special Lebaran Package for Teachers

Hello, Maders! Happy Ied Fitri! Yeah finally we’ve reached the victory after fasting for 30 months. I wasn’t fasting for 5 days because of, you know, menstruation. When ‘lebaran’ comes, I’d like to talk about the food. The best!

I was surprised because I got something from the school where I teach. Every teacher got the same package, it was what the headmaster said. My family’s having close relationship with the headmaster’s family because my dad often goes to the headmaster’s father.

So, the package contained 6 jars of different cookies. Another bag had ‘sarung’ and shirt for a man. I’m a girl, I don’t wear them, then I gave ‘em to my dad. Wow it’s really cool that I could give something to parents because so far they always buy me something. I have my own salary since I teach students, it’s not much though.

I will go back teaching on July 17 and there will be two classes, grade 10 and 11. I’m about to meet freshmen there. Haha. As usual, I will introduce myself as Miss Nissa. Frankly speaking, I’m still young and I know the youngster’s world, that’s why I can get into them easily.

On the other hand, I will start attending class in my new university on August 14. I will only have to attend classes three days in a week. Hmm, I wonder how the professors there. I hope they’re all nice. I hardly know my friends, well, just a few.

This is the longest holiday I’ve ever had. Could you imagine it? 5 months! Yeah I prefer being at home, playing the piano, writing my blogs, playing games. Haha. Sometimes I go downtown to buy books or to eat. My friends will come to my house for a visit once or twice.

Okay, Maders, that’s the special package for teachers I got. Very interesting. No matter how much it is, when someone gives you something, it will always be precious. Right? Have a good day, Maders!

Philately Gathering in June 2017

Hi, Maders! Do you collect something? Well, I’ve been collecting postcards and stamps. Actually I also collect books because I love reading and you can call me a ‘bookworm’. Yes! You can see my collections on Instagram. They’re narnia.philately and narnia.library. I post them there to make the documentation.

Every third week in a month, I need to attend a philately gathering at the central post office in Semarang City. FYI everyone can join us and even you can just come one day to see our collections. It’s funny that mostly my friends are already adults. Compared to them, I’m still a kid. Haha.

This time, I had a chance to meet a Dutch who was being our guest. He bought something at the post office because he’s also a collector. He went there with his Indonesian wife. I could speak Dutch a bit, so it was a great moment to talk to the native speaker.

Mbak Riva, a staff at the philately corner, took my picture with Wilfried, the Dutch man. Thanks to her that she did it because probably I wouldn’t have something to keep.

Honestly I was about to buy postcards for being my stock. In fact, I still have a few at home. Hence, I decided to buy only two postcards to send someday. I’m the member of post-crossing community.

The animal that I’m afraid of is butterfly, but I saw butterfly postcards yesterday. I felt confused whether I should have bought it or not. No! Why do I have to keep something I dislike, don’t I?

Sending postcards is fun because I will receive other postcards as a return. Unfortunately, many people don’t know about postcards or how to send them with stamps. Really bad! Okay I know there’s a smart phone having chat applications but that’s not the point. It’s abstract. In contrast, these postcards are real and I get them from overseas.

Lastly, Maders, please learn about postcards and stamps if you have no idea about them. You live in modern world but it’s not always modern way we need to keep up. See ya!