Sad but happy, happy but sad

Life is running, everybody has own destiny in life, in their daily life, education, personal life and work.

Again, one of my workmate was resigned and we celebrated it by taking some pictures at office and also gave farewell party at next day by having dinner together at Puang Oca, sea food restorant after office hour.

Laughing, smilling, screaming decorated session of taking picture. Gift was given to her as souvenir to remember us as her ex workmates. It is a good idea to give some as it is the first time for me to know there will be souvenir. Some friends were resigned before and I do not see any gift for them, or maybe I was lack of info??



Small review about Puang Oca. It is a sea food resto from Makassar, capital city of South Sulawesi. They are famous of sea food wealth, ikan kakaktua (sparrow fish), "sukang" fish (kind of sea fish), kepiting asap (smoked crab) are one of their menus.

But you can find traditional dessert like Palu Butung Ice or Pisang Ijo Ice (Ice of green banana, banana is covered by green flour). Both are almost same, use banana as main item, adding coconut sauce, red syrup actually, but I think it is a bit different in this restaurant, they did some modification on these ices.

Very happy for eating together, chit chatting about office matter, funny, sad, anger, mixed into one story. 16 persons joined, from purchasing dept, marketing dept, even our boss secretary. I liked to come and sit together. Forgot about tiredness for a while till the time to go home was remind us. It has been late, and my home was very far now. The venue was in the downtown and my place location was in suburb. It was the 1st time for me to go out far away from home since I moved to suburb. Never mind, I was still enjoying it.

Lunch together

This was the 1st time for me to treat my fam, having lunch together at my new place. It would be more than happy to cheer them up. But, forgave me as I think I forgot that the participants were a bit fat and able to eat much, thus the portions that I served were still less.

The menus were Ayam penyet (It is a fried chicken, lightly smashed using a pestle in a mortar laced with sambal (spicy mixed blended a lot of chilly, tomato,garlic,coriander,salt,palm sugar) and adding basil and cucumber as additional dishes. It is one of the popular foods in Indonesia, especially in East of Java. It was introduced by local footstall (warung) in the street, then finally it’s getting more popular and now it's become one of menu in Indonesian restaurants. I bought at famous traditional resto. It was delicious, lately my sister in law admitted. Thanks sis!), Oseng toge ikan asin is called for sauteing bean sprouts and salty dry fish, Fried calamary in flour, Fried tempe (fermented soybean cake-javanese) and tofu, Baby mango sambal, Salty duck egg, Cheese roll tart as a dessert, and Fruit juices

At the end, for dinner, I bought meatball for them and they were very full. Great! I could compesate for something imperfect. But, still I need to prepare more. Since I did not have furniture, all had to sit in floor, just sitting in mat, with cross legged. Poor my daddy as he was old already, it was a bit hard for old man to get up after sitting so long. Need help, Gee...next time he should sit on chair. Pray me to have enough money to buy chair for my guest room and my eating room.

Anyway, thanks for coming. See you at next program guys.

HecTic DayS

Left end of 2011 by attending my best friend wedding again and opened the 2012 by attending another best friend wedding again. Oops, it made me bought a new dress and a new shoes for that ceremony. Gee...4 friends are almost in one year actually, and 2 friends before, now is pregnant!


Another hectic was attending lunch gathering with workmates twice, one session was to close 2011 and one session was to open 2012. Location is at our own office. Then we also had small dinner gathering at Pisa cafe, outside in the downtown, still with workmates, about 20 persons.

More hectic by moving to new house that I am hiring for 2 years. Small house, homy, still, quite, I think. The environment is good, still having fresh air too. Location is in suburb out of my hometown but not too far. I was very busy and tired for packing all stuffs, then moving and unpacking the stuffs again, and still not finish till now...