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Second.
As i grew up and moving forward to the new phase of my twenties life, I encountered countless people which change my fortune yet some of them are a bunch of game changing persons. Here, I present a sincere acknowledgement for these humans.
#2. High School buddies--up till now.
The first time we met was back in 2010. The first conversation we had was introduction to ourself then it grew to much more engaging topics such as which k-drama should we have for sat-night drama marathon this week or who wants to order nasi uduk (jasmine rice) for dinner. A 1095 days of living under the same roof and room has influenced my taste in pretty much everything, starting from food to oppas and helping me to surpass the early stage of a fan-girling phase. These people, have been my great companion since the day i moved to the dorm life. After we graduated from high school, we are taking a different road to continue our journey. I moved again, to the eastern part of my island--a bit far from these people, maybe the farthest among them. It was tough for the first two years (well 1.5 to be exact) residing in a very new surrounding which i was not familiar with their language and culture. A complete mental breakdown even though i was’t the only person from the school who moved to that city. I could not deny that i felt very lonely everyday which i ended up calling (or they called me) them almost everyday just to exchange some stories--most of them were shits--to distract me from boredom. It was very awful, i didn't feel comfortable but they somehow helped me to forget those uneasy feelings.
To Kartika Yolanda N. and Fildzah Alfitri, my do-fun members.
You guys are the best. You are the strongest influence of my immature days--i’m still immature but you played a big role on it--to shape me better from a weak for korean-japanese-british oppa to a slightly not weak for those guys. From a fragile hearted person to a sturdy hearted person. I learned how to choose drama wisely and enjoy some new genres from you. I used to watched a heavy-romance-sweet-sugar-coated drama and didn’t like thriller or mystery dramas at first but somehow you shoved a big spoon of my dislike genre to my likings and it was surprisingly worked. I ended up watching that kind of genre up till now. I remembered calling Tika right after i saw an article about chanyeol was going to be the next WGM (we got married) cast while crying and ranting and saying i will quit stanning him and leave fan girl world immediately but still here today and even created our own king of male actors list (updating the list when new drama airs) . I used to chat Pija for asking a drama recommendation or simply gossiping about idols before we got trapped in uni busy life. The three of us were basically a good influencer to each others--in terms of changing each others’ bias list. You two have been known for not only in k-drama and idol experts, but also in real-life mentors--The ones that always scold me every time i couldn’t stand straight to my principle and the one that i always seeks for dating advices. Every second i spend with you guys are gold times. Got so much insights and precious advises while growing together which i always come to you whenever i face some difficulties in this stage of life. Just like our group chat name; du fan (bahenol), we always have fun in every bit of the conversations whether it was a rollercoaster topic or just a merry-go-round (even though the bahenol part was stands for something else). The last time we met, the three of us met, was in 2014, exactly 3 years ago. It was very hard to match our semester break schedule but i don’t think it will be an issue again next year i guess? See you on our sacred pilgrim. Can’t wait to fool around with you guys again. Our glorious days will rise again!
To Ova Maratus Shafwah (S. Si), Rachmamega Annisaa, Dian Octaviana A, and Birgitta Vania L.
Surabaya was full of horrible things before we start to explore it together. Most of my weekends or short holidays would be very dry, dull, cumbersome, common, ordinary, plain, soggy, unexciting, unpleasing, undeniably boring without having you guys around. Mentioning all the impulsiveness trips and tutti-frutti topics through out all day long have changed my perception toward you guys and also the city. Surabaya can be very hot or scorching but you have been a very functional AC for these past four years--cools me down whenever the heat stroke attacked me in so many ways. The first time i came to that place, i have no knowledge for feeding my self with my own hands or where to go to have some tranquility and you taught me from the unimportant survival skill to the most important one such as how to utilised magic jar for making food other than rice. I would send my most gratitude for you guys from picking me up in the airport to celebrating my birthday every year, without you, my instagram feeds will be monotone with all sorrow and regrettable captions in every picture. To Ova, thank you for bearing your soul and mind to accept me as your pain-in-the-ass roommate, To Mega, thank you for always giving me a good answers to my k-drama questions, To Dian, thank you for always being human-waze every time we hang out together, To Vania, thank you for introducing me to Papaya so i could find a japanese heaven for food and stuffs on SUB. Thank you for teaching me the proper way to fry chicken nugget and finding the cheapest supermarket in town. There are still many things i want to deliver in this preface-slash-acknowledgement-page yet i’m not really sure you will survive reading this eww-cringy-post. But i know you will read while tearing up to the beautiful words i construct here. HAHAHAHAH. Well, let’s cherish this moment together as we grow older. Hope to see you guys in the near future with different stories to tell. Love,
H.
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Greetings,
Earthlings!
This will be MY FIRST POST WHICH NOT RELATED TO THIS TUMBLR CONCEPT (yes, i was originally planning to fill the tumblr with food-only posts but i’m running out a space for writing decent posts apparently--and instagram won’t allow me to take that much space for an account with no blue thick on the right side of the username. HAHA. So, okay, let me tell you the main purpose of me, writing this post, is no other than extending my preface page from my thesis report. Having to put cute and witty words in thesis preface is strictly prohibited by my supervisor so in this chance, i’d like to elaborate (and add) some of my gratitude towards these lovelies people which sometimes i don’t deliver it properly. Maybe words could help me this time. Let’s see.
#1. MUN mates
I thought my college life would be dead boring, no fun and exhausting. Well, 3/4 of this statement were true. Most of my days were boring and exhausting because of the endless workloads from class and lab work. But honestly, i found fun while stepping into my 5th semester which they said it was full of awful lab works and assignments and hard courses. The fun was coming from these bunch of squishy peeepol. I remember the first time we held our 1st meeting in front of Perpus and i was coming awkwardly while saying hello to Maul and kak Ben (((WELL I DON’T REALLY REMEMBER THE FACES because i hide my face all the time back then, yes, i was too shy))) and you guys coming gradually until we are complete. It was only a complete delegate of ITS delegation for HN 2016 but right after 9 months of bonding, we are no longer just a delegation but a family to each other. Your first impression was really that strong to me--and i have told you my version on kak Ben’s farewell dinner--but now i’m seeing you guys 1000 times horrible than the first time. A horribly sweet persons. The one that i can always rely on making me less insecure through out these thesis days, the one that always cheer me up with your quirk jokes, the one that always being an ice cream companion ((and mostly kak Ben is all-time victim)), the one that always makes phone gallery full with beautiful faces that i will never forget, the one that always using my car as somewhat a racing car, the one that always provide me with good quality talks, and of course, the one that always makes me miserably longing for going back to only meet you for replenishing my energy. I’d personally mentioning all the members here and leave them a piece of my heart;
1. Kak Benyamin; You’ve been always good to me and you already know that I really, really adore you as my big brother which i’m always longing to have one. Thank you for taking a freaking good care of me and wrap me with your kindness and protect me from bad influence such as Irfanda. No, kidding. But seriously, you just like a hot chocolate brownie coming from the oven--a well baked cake which contains goodness in every layer of it. I wish you good luck for your new journey and let’s meet again in the future kak!
2. Kak Yosar; AH, THIS DUDE. You probably haven’t heard my first impression about you right? Let me tell you here (((and i don’t think that you will read this in the near future anyway))). You looked very attractive at first. At first, okay and past tense. Because I saw you with no motion at all. You were sitting still right across my row on the final simulation but America has altered my FI about you (referring to you look good on .jpg format only). But still in a good way tho HAHAHA. Thank you for bringing your yellow parka to US because i enjoy seeing you with that parka on (((despite i really want to wear yellow parka/raincoat while stomping a puddle in rainy days))) it brings happiness i don’t know how. Thank you for being a great friend of mine. Hope to bump each other someday and you still remember this petite friend!
3. Aidhil; Thank you for (unofficially) adding S.T right after my S.Si on my name. Thank you for trusting me from keeping your TV for some days and to recently jampe-jampein your ppt. Thank you for boosting my confidence in every practice session and tagging me along to have belut for the first time in 1267823491 years. We have pretty much in common actually--too many common friends. Ranging from your junior school friend and even your own cousin (which apparently one of my elementary friends). It’s always fun to have you around my papa bear. See you on Sept at Graha!
4. Ekky; HUHUHUH MY ESVICI PARTNER which always been a very patient yet very hard to reach by any kind of communication device. A Bangil pride. Thank you for teaching me on how to be patient and having a silent but gold personality. Thank you for bearing every esvici weight which i sometimes couldn’t bear it alone and you ended up doing my part also (AND I’M REALLY SORRY ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR MATTER). I wish you good luck for your thesis Ky!! Oh ya, thank you for coming to my thesis defence it was a surprise visit and i was really glad to see you!
5. Darosa; MY QWEEEEN! You are the true role model (after Emma Watson). I am very, very pleased and delighted to have you as my best-girl-friend in this chapter of life! Thank you for teaching me how to be responsible and strong at the same time and showing me that woman is also capable to rule this world. Thank you for being my model especially while we are in 40 Berkeley HAHAHAH those gold old times.. Thank you for lending your precious ears to listen to my bored stories and times for a good conversations. Good luck for your thesis and you gonna nail it for sure!!! Let’s take a group pict on Wisuda with other 2013 gengs!!
6. Karina; My. Miserable. Friend. My. teman. seperjuangan. My. teman. sedih. My. partner. in. crime. My. indie. friend. My. up. to date. and. good. source. of. killing. boredom. friend. Thank you for letting me to ruin your college days just like you ruin mine. It’s always a great time while talking some shit and random stuff with you because you are surprisingly a walking search engine HAHAHAHA. Thank you Jo, for being a really good Surabayan people and making me less hating the city because your presence and others. Thank you for always telling me many good places to visit while i’m still in Surabaya and to feed my insta with good picture HAHAHAHAH. Good luck babe, it’s one step more to the final presentation and you gonna nail it!
7. Maulana; Oh you again. Everyone calls you bonsai and broccoli but I’m the only person who can call you with the most prestigious nick--U.P.I.L. Do you want to know the philosophy behind it? Ask me directly then HAHAHHA. Thank you for having an indecisive personality so i don’t feel like left alone because we share this character also HAHAHAHAH. Thank you for always volunteering yourself to take the steering wheel and drive very carefully. I hope you could find your princess soon so i don’t have to introduce you to my precious friends because you never do it to me as return!!!! HAHAHAHAHAH no, kidding, i only have my eyes for park chanyeol.
8. Arum; I. MISS. YOU. A. LOT. MY. DISEC. BUDDY. HOW. ARE. YOU. DARLING??? I miss eating together while having a random discussion with you and our girl squad :( I hope you always in a great condition and full of fortune! Thank you for being a really good friend and cute little sister to me. Thank you for being a great partner on council and bear the pressure together and still breathing after comsess end LOL and thank you for introducing me to webtoon world :)
9. Irfanda; Thank you for trusting me to take and process all your photos. Thank you for believing my skill in design and editing. Thank you for always making me istighfar every time your chat appear on my phone. You are my source of ujian keimanan. I hope I will not encounter any kind of irfanda in the future :) Thank you for colouring with black ink marker on this chapter of life. You will not be forgotten.
Your stories have been growing inside me and making a very deep root of mixed feeling. You have a big room on my heart. I will always cherish you in every moment of my life. Thank you, i love you unconditionally.
Best,
Honeystar.

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/ NEW CHAPTER /
It has been really reeeeeewlyyy a very long time for me not having a deep thought on writing food review (and didn’t recall at all having this blog also) so it was kinda hard to start writing again after dealing with my sort-of-messy life back here and shifting my food principal from ‘eat then remember the taste’ to ‘just fill your tummy first’. I tend to forget the feeling of enjoying my brain to process all the flavours and produced happiness and serenity as time goes worst (as an-almost-last-year-of-being-a-college-stud, this time considered as the crucial time). Being a foodie was at first my choice in replenish my happiness (and improving my writing skill) yet my capricious personality couldn’t handle it from time to time, i get bored easily (but too panic to leave my assignments untouched). I tried different method of having a short-gateway, fleeing from bunch of college assignments by writing this fun stuff to eventually being a couch potato. As i said before, i get bored easily. All my assignments are in safe zone right now and i have quite a time to catch my breath now, so i decided to write again and come up with new theme;
food-mood
My next writing will be revolving around what kind of food i feed my self when i have certain mood. It seems like it will actually help my self to express more in words rather than only writing promptly without any message that will be attached implicitly. Hahaha, i just want to make it more fun and engaging with my own thought as i reach my adulthood stage (lol, I'm not sure with that term also) yet i still want my cheerful side to be delivered through my next posts too. I’m considering to post once a month (or maybe more than that!) so we (yes, you and all the passerby) could share the relation between food that change your mood or simply being companion when you are in certain mood. Can’t wait to start my new chapter, ah ya, Happy new year for all readers out there! I know it is super mega late to say this but still, i wish you have a good day ahead!
Cheers,
Hani
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[93/365 1-2-2015] by travel song on Flickr.
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Bunmeido Castella Cake
Hello and good morning for everyone! I haven't be able to post a review for the past several months, right? So I'm going to make a brief review about.......
Bunmeido castella cake!
This will be my first time trying tokyo's castella cake. I'm quite familiar with indonesian sponge cakes and they're pretty well-known here. My aunts are good in baking cakes and i used to request a vanilla marble cake back in middle school. I'm quite found of with sponge cake.
Okay. Back to Bunmeido.
I can't read kanji or katakan or hiragana so i had to search what;s the differences between the green and yellow one and it turned out to be the same falvour; p l a i n. But hey! There's azuki beans on the both sides of the cake, the sweet comes from beans.
I really enjoy the combination between the sponge cake and azuki beans, soft and sweet. For the first bite, it will makes you smile. A gentle flavor to your taste buds. It's a good companion while sipping a cup of hot tea in the afternoon, watching the sun goes down and drowning in an exciting conversation with your friends, for me its the best time to enjoy sponge cake. The cake is really light and sliced in a perfect portion so you won't realize that your first piece has already gone to your tummy!
If you happen to love sweet like i do, you can have liquorice candy alongside with the plain sponge cake to enhance the sweetness.
I hope you enjoy your breakfast today!
Sweetiesweets,
Hani!
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This picture was originally taken for photography competition last week and the theme was food. I hurriedly went to convenience store in front of my home and spent almost half an hour to decide what should i make for making it looks playful. So i decided to buy oreo, toppo, and gummy bears candy and made a story with it. " Those bears were trying to make an oreo tower and fortress so they could hide from human who wants to eat them! " Hahahaha! Lame? i know. I was to immersed playing with food and it's a good activity to increase your creativity! Happy playing everyone!
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Dorayaki package
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