Saturday, April 9, 2011

FINISH IT!

Hello readers, greetings from the super windy Jakarta. Okay since my brain is not working, and the post is kinda erhm ( okay i dont know how to describe it) "serious", I'm gonna write the rest of the post in Indonesian (with some mash-ups.)

Hari ini gw akan membahas tentang makanan. bukan tipe2 makanan or whatsoever mouth-watering food lainnya, tapi gw akan membahas tentang kebiasaan orang2 TIDAK MENGHABISKAN MAKANAN MEREKA.

menurut gw its a serious issue, why? karena semakin hari itu semakin banyak orang2 yang gak menghabiskan makanan mereka.

so, di hyatt gw dikasih makan, its a buffet so yeah lu ambil aja sepuas lu. dan biasa gw makan ber 3 or 4 gitu (jadi ada jadwal makannya dan bergilir makannya). nah nah nah, setiap kali pergi makan tuh PASTI ada yang nyisain makanan mereka. ada 1 temen gw, dia sekali ngambil nasi porsi kuli, ngambil lauk pauk sampe itu piring aja gak cukup buat naro makanan dia, sampe tumpah2, dan dengan gilanya, dia cuman makan 1/2 - 3/4nya. jadi setiap kali makan pasti ada deh sisa di piringnya banyak.

oh iya, contoh gampangnya deh, kondangan. pernah liat gak orang di kondangan ngambil kayak orang gila dan berakhir cuman nyomot sedikit dan ngebuang 1 tumpukan makanan itu? pasti sering. kenapa si orang2 suka kayak gitu? karena gratis makanya seenak jidat?

ada juga sekali, anak dari section lain kasih nasi goreng ke salah 1 temen gw, emang quantitynya cukup banyak. dan temen gw nuang semua nasi gorengnya, dia cmn makan 3 sendok dan sisanya 1 PIRING, yes! 1 piring itu akhirnya dibuang. apa gak sayang yah?



sadar gak si kalian, yang suka nyisain makanan, kalo misalkan makan nasi sisa dikit2 tuh bisa dikumpulin mungkin jadi 1 sendok, kalo sisain 1 sendok nasi setiap kali makan, sehari kita (-asumsikan) makan 3x sehari.

1x makan = 1 sendok
1 hari 3x makan = 3 sendok
1 minggu 21x makan = 21 sendok nasi = 1 x makan
1 bulan = 4x makan
1 taon = 12 x makan

yah itu kalo kita sehari sisain 1 sendok, kalo sehari kita sisain 3-7 sendok? nah loh. bisa 36x-84x makan setaon. banyak yah? banget. dan lebih gilanya lagi, di dunia itu yang sisain makanan itu gak cuman 1 orang. gw makan bareng temen ber4 aja ada 2 orang yang sisain, misalkan dari 100 orang, 30 orang nyisain makanannya 1 sendok, wah, 1x makan, sisanya bisa buat makan 360x tuh!


terkadang mungkin orang2 sisain makanan karena "aduh takut gendut". yaudah, kalo gitu makannya share aja sama temen / sisanya bawa pulang. gengsi? yah Joe Jonas yg udah terkenal seantero dunia aja mau kok repot2 makanannya minta dibungkus ( oh iya, kita bahkan ga ngebungkus sendiri, kita bakal dibungkusin tuh makanannya ) bawa pulang dan kasih ke orang di jalanan ( ini jg ditulis di majalah kmrn, looks kalo ga salah )


mungkin juga lu sisain makanan karena makanan itu gak enak, kalo yang ini si emang susah banget buat ngabisin dan kita pasti bakal berakhir meninggalkan makanan itu. cmn hey, pasti makanan gak enak buat kita, enak kok buat orang2 lain yang kelaperan. pernah kan lu kelaperan dan segala makanan di dunia ini terasa sangat enak? nah, pasti makanan ngak enak itu bakal jadi berkat buat orang lain.

setelah dipikir2 si, this is not a big deal but a serious problem. tau dong di dunia ini banyak banget yang sekarang juga, detik ini juga, K-E-L-A-P-A-R-A-N. yes, banyak juga yang mati karena kelaparan itu! busung lapar, malnutrition dan sebagainya. dikala banyak banget yang butuh makanan, kenapa lu buang2 makanan yang lu punya?


salah satu staff di Hyatt kmrn2 cerita, dia pernah ke bawah jembatan dan ngobrol dengan para erhm, bitch di sono. dia nanya, kenapa jual diri? jawabannya cmn 1. demi sesuap nasi.

bagaimana dengan kalian yang gak perlu susah payah cari duit buat beli makan, ga perlu banting tulang dan segalanya, dan poof! makanan udah disediakan di meja. lebih sering kalian habiskan ato sisakan?

dikala kalian membuang2 makanan, ada loh anak yang sampe seperti ini


banyak juga yang seperti ini, walopun ini bukan di indo, tapi tetep aja di dunia ini banyak kok yang kayak gini. maybe sekarang kita gak bisa membantu banyak, gak bisa kirim beras maupun segala macem sembako ke tempat2 lain, cuman menurut gw secara pribadi dengan ngak nyisain makanan (maupun ngebungkus dan kasih orang lain), kita pasti udah ngebantu banyak buat dunia ini.


so yeah, finish what you take, belajar menghargai setiap butir nasi yang ada di piring lu. and, start spreading this serious issue to everyone else, inspire others dan lihat karenamu, berapa banyak orang yang stop buang2 makanan dan lihat berapa banyak kontribusimu terhadap bumi ini.

p.s : personally i think i exaggerate few things, sorry loves! saya hanya kesel aja ngeliat orang ngebuang2 makanan. love you all, xx!

Sunday, April 3, 2011

triple C for cupcakes' copy cat(er)

GREETINGS from the warm city with the bright sun, Jakarta. as I've promised yesterday, I'm writing about this super duper act plagiarism. just read. and see.



so last month someone sent me a msg via fb saying that she wanted to ordered cupcakes from me but I didnt accept the request because now I'm busy with my internship. So these cupcakes (the pict above) are hers, I dont know whether she ordered it or made it. I usually dont really care about other's job. not until ........ hmm... how come i've seen some of her designs??

*and yeah, i blurred the pict because it has the bday boy's name whom you may know. I blurred it for the sake of my friendship with the .......... you know!* -> okay 0nly the "suspect" knows what the hell does this mean.


These 4 picts are my creation

HMM. some things do look familiar. oh yes the heart, what makes me so sure that the one who made it copied me? its because its my ORIGINAL idea. yes its MY idea! its genuinely mine.


i remember i made it in a rush for Damana. I even remember I made it for vday! and you copy it like, even the arrangements of the hearts. like ALL. the color, the places, the flowers and the little hearts! gawd.

the letter. ive seen it somewhere. hmm. let me think. background with patterns, letters with borders! it looks kinda familiar.

oh yes, its another cupcakes i made for valerie which was ordered by Jessica Phan. you see it? 1 letter with darker lines and a background with pattern. this one probably she/he stole the idea from others, but there's a big probability she/he stole it from ..... me!

the birds, at first I saw it like nah, she/he didn't copy me. but hey. wait a sec ....... hmm .......the component seems familiar. 2 birds, on a branch, with flowers under it. HMMMM ...........

oh shit. its another copy! he/she just switched the color and sorry, but this one's a total EPIC FAIL. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA *oh gawd im so evil*

this one I'm not really sure about he/she copying or not, but it does look similar ( and remembering that he/she has copied like the rest of the designs, probably this one, he/she copied it too )


letters, with FLOWERS, some are even with EXACT QUANTITIES of flowers. look at the MINE & ME. same 3 flowers with EXACT PLACING. oh. thats just ..... GREAT! probably he/she wanted to make the same gold writings but lustre dust ( the gold coloring ) is not a common thing people use, so yeah, he/she made it in a different way.

You guys might say the similarities are coincidental, but hell, it is coincidental when you only have like 1 or 2 similarities not ALL.

I may have copied some ideas from a BOOK which i've BOUGHT, so yeah, i have the legal right to copy it since i've paid the copyright thing by buying the book.

okay, gotta jet! talk (or write) again later guys! this post is NOT finished yet! xx

Saturday, April 2, 2011

HELLO WORLD

HELLO READERS I MISS YOU SOOOOO MUCH! yes its great to write again! you know what i miss writing like, a lot! been super busy these days and now in this smokin hot town called jakarta, im eating vanilla ice cream with honey stars and chocolate bits! nyum!

okay so what have i been doing? I'm now doing an internship at Grand Hyatt Jakarta, yes its GRAND HYATT baby!


Its been 1 month since I entered Grand Hyatt, and time flies by sooooo fast! so what am i doing there? i'm doing internship in the pastry department, so yeah, i make cakes, cookies, and stuffs in Lamoda, Plaza Indonesia.

no, i dont work as the waitress there, i work in the kitchen! making cakes like opera, tiramisu and others that are being sold here ;)

Well, life's been sweet. working in pastry department is fun, sometimes its hard though when you have so many things to make yet so little time you have. and why am i so freakin busy? well i got the afternoon shift, which starts at 15.00 and ends at 23.30. ( YES, its freakin near midnight! ) so, usually i got home at 1 in the morning with hands full of bruises and burns ( seriously, i got so many bruises and burns here ) and i go to sleep at 2, and wake up again at 11. take a bath, eat lunch and walk to the bus shelter at 12.30! yes, i cant do anything else. I want to wake up earlier so I could do something else but its rather impossible. too damn tired. haha

and I only have 1 day-off in a week. luckily i always have it on Saturday *yeay* and yes, i go to work on Sundays!!!!! crazy right?

I love my new friends here, mostly theyre from other universities such as NHI-Bandung, there're 8 other trainees and they're soooo nice! the staffs are nice too! well so much

Well, thats the life i've been living for 1 month! hows yours? best of luck for all 12 graders! xx