Third Culture Chick

Sorry about the lack of updates on VOX. I just can't keep up with all the other sites I manage. I've got blogspot, plurk, myspace, friendster, multiply, facebook. I'm an internet freak, but I think this time my enthusiasm in joining every site in the world has finally overwhelmed me.

Me so tired.

Hook us up with 2(or more) tracks from your library that share the same exact title.

14th Street - Laura Cantrell

Laura Cantrell

14th Street - Rufus Wainwright

Rufus Wainwright

Hey, I watched AlJazeera the other day and saw a feature about a non-profit organization called Urban Farming, which uses abandoned and unused land in cities throughout the US and turns them into, yep, urban farms. The produce from these farms are then given to homeless shelters and other places that desperately need food. With the recession hitting strong in the US, efforts like Urban Farming is just one of the ways to get rid of hunger.

The organization accepts donations as well as volunteers. So sign up as a volunteer and plant some carrots (or lettuce, whatever you like).

Check out their website and contribute ^_^.

I'm sure Indonesia could do something like this, too, if the people had enough conviction in themselves to start making some changes.

When I was 7 years old, I said to my mom that "I will never get married until I am age 100."

For some reason, I still don't want to get married. Even if I were to start a family, I don't think I wanna sign any papers either. It would be great to just live together with someone without having to worry about what "should" be done. But perhaps that is because I really haven't found anyone that I'd consider marrying.

Well, here's a photo from one of my distant cousin's wedding. It's always funny to me that Indonesian wedding receptions have so many camera people running around. It's like a red-carpet event with non-celebs.

Due to some family stuff going on, me and my bro are not going to Bromo after all. We're just gonna go to Bali in two weeks and maybe Krakatoa the weekend after.

Boo-hoo-hoo.

I'm gonna take a trip to Bali next week and then perhaps a trip to Mount Bromo the week after, so I'm gonna come back with (hopefully) amazing photos! YEEYYYYYAY. I am loving photography more and more even with my shitty point-and-shoot Cassio and Sony. True, I can't quite play with the camera settings as much as I would, but at least they give me an outlet to experiment with image composition and positioning.

So far so good.

My brother is here in Jakarta for a one-month vacation and he brought his Nikon D80. GREAT! He says I can use it to practice taking pictures. Must get one of my own.... Saving up money for one and a wide lens.

But until then, here are more pics from the Azanaya tour.

Street vendor in Bogor:

Organic farm in Cisarua:

Still from the tour.

Wet spring roll, Bogor Specialty.

Es Doger street vendor.

The photo on top is of Pak Nana, the street vendor of the delicious laksa pengantin which I had last tuesday on the Azanaya Bogor Naturna tour. He's the third generation in his family to sell this particular recipe, and he looked so shy when the Trans TV camera panned on him. Haha. Poor guy was probably overwhelmed.

And apparently, me and my dad showed up on Trans TV at 11:45am... eating some stuff too. I totally forgot that it was going to air, so I didn't see it.

I was invited to go to one of Azanaya's grastronomic tours around Bogor yesterday. The tour took me and my dad around Bogor and Puncak to taste local delicacies, most of which were really delicious. Some foods I still had to get used to (I grew up on burgers and hot dogs, okay).

The picture you see there is of one of the dishes we ate on the tour. It's called Laksa Pengantin (bridge/groom laksa). What makes it special than other laksas is that it uses some variant of lotus flower as an ingredient.

The laksa tasted sweet, which is what the Bogor people like. I'm not used to sweet laksas so my brain had to process it slowly, but in the end, I found it to be really delicious. Left me wanting more.

If you want to go on a gastronomic adventure around Jakarta and Bogor, just visit Azanaya's website and find out about their packages.