Rutinitas

Dulu pas baca bukunya Laura Ingalls yg blg di seluruh negara hari Senin mencuci, Selasa setrika, etc aku pikir: strange, masa iya seluruh negara follow the same schedule.

But wait a minute, here I am in NL, 21st century, yet similar things happen. Today, like any other first Monday of the month, at noon, alarm kebakaran bunyi. Nggak di Enschede, nggak di Amsterdam, first Monday of the month at noon itu waktunya untuk ngetest apakah alarm
kebakaran msh berfungsi dg baik.

Blm lg fakta bhw Sabtu itu harinya semua org belanja, Minggu itu hari libur, kecuali koopzondag -- normally first Sunday of the month (and it only starts at 12.00). Trus hari Senin pagi itu semua toko tutup -- waktu untuk inventory checking. Semua org kerja di waktu yg sama --
imagine how can you go to the bank if banks only open during your time at work!

Blm lg ada yg bilang bhw Wednesday is gehakt dag -- almost everyone in the whole country eat gehakt (daging cincang) -- krn all butchers sell gehakt for cheap on Wednesdays (unfortunately I don't buy my meat at butchers, and supermarkets don't follow this rule).

Trus ada lg hari apa gitu yg jgn makan ikan -- hari Senin kalau gak salah, soalnya stock ikan datangnya tiap Selasa -- yg beli ikan hari itu can only be tourist (who obviously don't know the rule).

Love

What does the Bible say about love?

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NIV)
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Bible Museum

Last Saturday I went to Bible museum in Amsterdam. BAGUS bgt!!! Di sana ada model Bait Allah, dibuat dg skala 1:12, dg bahan2 yg diusahakan sebisa mungkin sama dg aslinya. Bukan cuma tendanya, dibikin dg pelatarannya segala, dg model orang2an dan binatang2an. Jadi ada pojok tempat binatang dijagal segala. Gimana bajunya Imam Besar, dsb. Dibikin berdasarkan apa yg ditulis di Perjanjian Lama. Mungkin buat org yg nggak ambil pusing sama bagian ini di Alkitab ya biasa aja. Tp aku, at the back of my mind, for some years, I've been thinking: I can't imagine this, even though it seems very detail. Masa sih somewhere nggak ada satu pun org yg tertarik dg ini dan bikin modelnya? I'd like to see it. Jadi begitu masuk ke museum itu -- and
it was the first thing I saw, wow, dream comes true deh rasanya. WOW!

Trus di ruangan lain ada 'pojok aroma', kita bisa mencium bau2an yg disebutkan di Alkitab. Di kebunnya katanya ada tanaman2 yg ada di Bible jg, tp aku nggak sempat ke kebun, lagian dingin bgt. Kalau udara udah lbh hangat aku mau ke sana lg kayaknya. (Berhubung udah beli museum year card, aku bisa masuk museum gratis, jadi nggak keberatan balik lg.)

uitsmijter - karne melk

Yesterday I tried uitsmijter -- ternyata cuma roti, dikasih ham, keju, sama telor mata sapi. Satu porsi isinya 2 slices of bread, tiap slice dikasih ham, keju, telor.

Trus aku jg nyobain karne melk. Aku pernah nanya sebelumnya apa itu karne melk, dan jawaban yg kuterima: I'm not sure, all I know is either you love it or you hate it, nothing in between. So kemarin aku nyoba seteguk --> yaik ... aku gak suka!

----- update ----- 28 March 2005 -----

As Indres said, karne melk = butter milk. It's the leftover when one makes butter from milk.