Finally...
*drumroll*
I'm back with another oreo hack~
Kali ini saya membuat pumpkin pie alias pie labu dengan oreo sebagai crust atau kulitnya. It was an easy cooking, karena tidak menggunakan oven tetapi hanya dengan pan fried alias teflon. Sangat sederhana dan hemat listrik tapi tetap enak :p

Ingredients:

Oreo 60gr
Biskuit Roma 60gr (bisa mix dengan ini atau tidak)
Coklat secukupnya
Labu kuning sekitar 450gr
Susu cair 50ml ( saya menggunakan ultra milk full cream)
Gula pasir (sesuai selera)
Margarine 100gr
Agar- agara bening
Air

How to cook:

1. Kukus labu sampai matang kira-kira 30 menit lamanya. Sementara itu, hancurkan oreo dan biskuit sampe halus dengan rolling pin. Lelehkan margarin dan coklat.
2. Setelah oreo dan biskuit menjadi crumbs, campurkan margarin dan coklat perlahan.
3. Untuk membuat pie crust, pindahkan mixed oreo dan biskuit yang telah tercampur margarin cair dan coklat ke pan fried. Tekan- tekan sampai penuh dan melekat.
4. Didihkan agar- agar bening yang ditambah air, gula, dan susu cair. Lalu campurkan dengan kukusan labu kuning yang telah dihaluskan.
5. Panaskan pie crust dengan api kecil sekitar 2menit.
6. Pindahkan isi pie, labu kuning yang tercampur agar- agar ke atas pie crust. Diamkan hingga dingin.
7. Pumpkin pie with oreo crust siap dihidangkan~

Anyway, it was my second time cooking pumpkin pie. Sebelumnya saya membuat pie crust dengan biskuit roma saja. Told ya, ini easy, simpel,  dan kind of lazy cooking 😂 Bisa jadi cooking hack buat anak kos yang pingin cemal- cemil enak tapi hemat dan ribet :D
Happy cooking!

home cooking Life Hack recipe

6:45 PM

Loving you was like the amber of morning rays, came through those triangle windows in the kitchen filled with aroma of morning coffee.  A cup of your favorite black coffee and a cup of mine,  cappuccino. It never served without baked croissants nor almond brownie i cooked. Instead of watering the plants, you clinged to me like a glue while i was busy with the kitchen stuff.

It was nice when you put your head on my shoulder. It felt like you were sharing the burden you've tried to carry alone. The next routine, we drank our coffee with bliss.

We talked a lot of things like a silly joke you watched last night, my failed new recipe, a stripes bow tie your father gave you, a powder on my pink floral apron, a bunch of dark chocolates you would like to buy me, and how you loved the smells of the sea.

Morning was always our best 'us time'. 
The rays have always been shining the backyard of our house, shimmering the wild flowers we picked then planted it between the unpretentious dandelions.

poem prosa random

12:26 AM

Falling leaves

Falling down

Humming, humming, humming

Dancing with the blow of naked wind

Falling leaves

Falling down

Running, running, running

Swallowing pain through the mountain

Falling leaves

Falling down

Hanging, hanging, hanging

Waiting for tomorrow rays of sun

Falling leaves

Falling down

Spelling, spelling, spelling

over

Would you come?

poem poetry prosa sajak

10:10 PM

…through my sleeping playlist.

Saya berencana membuat seri ‘Take a Look Inside My Mind’, postingan-postingan yang berisi hal-hal yang mencerminkan seperti apa diri dan isi kepala saya—bahkan isi hati juga bisa saya cerminkan kalo perlu XD—melalui misalnya musik, buku, isi tas, dan lain sebagainya. Kali-kali aja ada yang terinspirasi gitu, kan.

Di Take a Look Inside My Mind edisi perdana ini, saya mau sharing isi playlist buat tidur saya yang berjudul ‘Sleepless Nights’ yang baru-baru ini saya susun ulang. Totalnya ada 49 track tapi saya mau share 11 aja. You know, it wouldn’t be funny if I bare my entire soul.

Remember That – BtoB

Ini lagu terbaru yang saya masukkan ke dalam playlist. Secara BtoB baru comeback akhir Maret lalu. Selain karena Yook Sungjae, maknae mereka, saya nggak terlalu into BtoB sebetulnya tapi lagu-lagu mellow-nya adem banget untuk didengerin malem-malem sewaktu nyari ngantuk. Lagu bernuansa musim semi yang manis ini salah satunya.

See the Light – GOT7

Introducing my latest and greatest obsession, GOT7. I’ve heard them since their ‘A’ comeback tahun 2014 lalu waktu saya lagi ngikutin Roommate season 2. Tapi waktu itu dengerinnya nggak begitu gencar karena saya lagi sibuk sama obsesi Bigbang saya. I know I’m a fickle heart, terlalu mudah bagi saya untuk jatuh hati.
But since I saw their not-so-chic leader in red hair, their If You Do MV, and a picture of Wang Jackson’s airport fashion—with his all-back blonde hair—later that year, long after Roommate S2 has ended, I fell in love once again. And I can say that this love will last for a long long time, seeing the fact of how I started to fangirl them every now and then and at the fact that it is gonna be another pathological celebrity crush. Ok, let’s save this for a separate blog post.
See the Light adalah salah satu track dari album Flight Log: Departure yang juga baru rilis akhir Maret lalu. Pertama denger preview-nya saya udah langsung suka karena saya selalu haus lagu-lagu ballad mereka dan See the Light adalah lagu ballad-ish di antara 8 lagu bernuansa dance di album ini. One thing I love the most from the song is Bambam’s rap part! Kudos, Mark and Bambam for writing the rap lyrics!

If You – Bigbang

Waktu comeback-nya tahun lalu, Yang Hyun Suk sendiri menyatakan bahwa If You adalah lagu mereka yang paling sedih. Saya setuju. Dari sekian banyak lagu ballad dan non-ballad mereka, If You memang yang vibe-nya paling menyayat. Slow guitar—and GD—never fails..

Let It Go – James Bay

Saya selalu punya writing theme song, semacam satu lagu yang saya jadikan soundtrack dan saya khususkan untuk meng-influence ketika menulis sebuah cerita. Let it Go saya pakai untuk menulis metropop terbaru saya—yang sialnya lagi mentok di tengah jalan. Biasanya lagu-lagu ‘soundtrack’ ini saya ‘sakralkan’, hanya didengar ketika saya menulis saja supaya nggak gampang bosen dan lagunya betah saya dengerin selama saya menulis berminggu-minggu bahkan berbulan-bulan. Lagu satu ini pengecualiannya. Let It Go selalu sukses bikin saya mendadak slow dan mellow dan mushy wushy dan ujungnya bikin saya tidur—if that makes any sense.

From Me To You – Joo Young

Another Korean song I picked from the playlist :P I’m not gonna apologize for being so tendencious this time. I just happen to love Kpop so much. Joo Young, though, is an underrated R&B singer who joins Sistar’s agency, Starship. Saya pikir warna suara Jooyoung cukup umum di antara berjenis-jenis suara penyanyi R&B yang lain di barat atau timur. Tapi entah kenapa ada sesuatu yang menarik di diri dia dan lagu ini *bahasanya -__-*

Di dalem playlist saya ada 5 lagu Joo Young termasuk hitsnya sama Hyorin, Erase. But the X factor that makes me pick this song and keeps me listening to this for like a zillion times is the part on 3:14 to 3:47. Love that a lot, can’t help but singing along that lovely part every single time.

That XX – G-Dragon

Saya curiga ada misteri di balik lagunya karena That XX ini adalah lagu yang paling paling paling paling sering ke-shuffle setiap saya dengerin lagu dari playlist. Dalam 20 kali pencet next ada kali, ya 6 kali lagu ini muncul. Selain itu suara G-Dragon dikali lagu bertempo pelan dikali unplugged sama dengan addiction. The lyric is seriously something, by the way. My heart torn in two between GOT7’s lyricist, Junior and GD T___T

Farewell – GOT7

Curangkah memasukkan dua lagu dari satu penyanyi yang sama di antara 49 lagu yang ada? Bodo amat. Saya terlalu cinta sama lagu ini—and the boys too!—dan kayaknya kudu aja dengerin ini sekali atau dua kali setiap buka playlist.
Susah bagi saya untuk tidak memasukkan Farewell ke dalam blog post ini karena begitu mikirin sleeping playlist, saya akan langsung memasukkan Farewell sebagai salah satu yang terfavorit. Bukan cuma karena arrangement-nya itu sendiri tapi karena part Wang Jackson—lagi-lagi—nyanyi! Hahahaha denger Jackson nyanyi karena role main rapper doi. Let me tell you one thing, switching role in GOT7 is what makes me love the guys so much because it turned out that they’re so good aside their main roles. And Wang Jackson is a pretty good vocalist, though. Listen to their Japanese Single Stay and Forever Young in their 2nd mini album ;D

Dreamlike – Vodka Rain

Don’t even get me started to talk about how I love TvN’s choice for their drama OST. Selain OST Cheese In The Trap dan Heart 2 Heart, saya sangat menggemari track-track dari Ex-Girlfriend Club. Ada nuansa ‘movie’ yang kental dari setiap lagu-lagu k-indie-nya. Well, I guess I have a thing for indie songs everywhere, Indonesian or Korean or Western. It keeps me wanting more and feeling calmer. (but wait, is ‘feeling calmer’ an actual phrase?)

Closer – Boyce Avenue (Ne-Yo cover)

What’s wrong with Boyce Avenue? Semua lagu semacam jadi punya dia kalo dia akustikin—maafkan kosakata saya yang miskin. I adore him so much the moment I found the accoustic version of this song. Sejak denger versi originalnya jaman SMA, udah lama banget saya nyari-nyari siapa kiranya yang nyanyiin lagu ini versi akustik. And it turned out to be Boyce Avenue! I think this song is destined to be sung in the accoustic version. Trust me. You should really listen to the original one.

Reality – Richard Sanderson

This song feeds my old soul, my eternal thirst for old songs. Saya akrab banget sama lagu ini gara-gara banyak k-movie, k-drama, dan variety show Korea yang saya tonton—WGM, Running Man, Sunny sampai Reply series—yang menyelipkan lagu ini sebagai back song-nya. Bukan sekali dua kali tapi berkali-kali. Thanks to the popularity of La Boum around 80s there, I found another baby that puts me into sleep.

Be Be Your Love – Rachael Yamagata

Sekali lagi saya mau terima kasih sama PD-nim-nya WGM yang berbaik hati menayangkan lagu ini versi CNBlue’s Jonghyun, Q’s foreverly flower boy (pardon me, Q, but I can’t help myself from picking this great song and adding this comment hahaha).
This is a hard choice. No, not the song pick but the video link I should put for reader’s preview. Ada godaan besar yang membuat saya ingin sekali memasukkan link versi Jonghyun waktu doi nyanyi di Yoyogi Park, Jepang karena saya lebih suka versi akustiknya dia dari pada versi Rachael Yamagata, tapi ada perasaan fangirl yang harus saya jaga *sungkem*
kapan-kapan aja kali ya saya share video itu yang sudah di-cut sedemikian rupa hahahaha

Now, that’s a wrap. I’m baring myself. I think somebody will see something inside this deep dark labyrinth of my mind. Semoga ada lagu yang nyantol di hati kalian pembaca yang lagi nyari track-track baru untuk playlist sebelum tidur. Sukur-sukur kalo saya bisa ‘menjaring’ satu fangirl! *ketawa jahat*

k- life k-pop music take a look inside my mind

5:04 PM

On winding road

And

a generous night,

You drove me slowly 

by millions constellations

Then i realized,

When my eyes

met yours,

i was drowning

in a deep blue sea of 

your mind.

(At their office, one fine sunny day)

poetry prosa

9:51 PM

source

1. I’ll still blog every flash fiction I write every week
2. I’ll be on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Path 24/7 watching after what children’s doing there – they’ll hate it but never mind, I have my own things to post
3. I’ll play video games – old and new ones - several days a week  with my children and they’ll ask me about the walkthrough when they get into difficult levels
4. I’ll read my children Dee’s Supernova for their bedtime stories
5. I’ll be drawing in the same canvas with my husband just like what we did when we were still dating
6. I’ll be sitting together with my husband with a cup of coffee or tea – me facing a  notebook, him facing his sketchbook – don’t bother talking
7. I’ll be the place where my children ask on how to do coding for their blog header or widget
8. I’ll jug between catching up kdramas and night sleeping
9. I’ll spend my morning cooking breakfast, preparing for children’s school, do the chores, and copywriting for clients
10. I’ll spend my night cooking dinner, assisting children with their homework and writing my next metropop or a dark young adult
11. I’ll make a copy for my children’s school project so they can put it in their socmed or blog
12. I‘ll have a shelf full of books I’ve never get to afford when I was young and a drawer full of expensive stationaries
13. I’ll take my husband and children backpacking to a deserted island in Norway or Helsinki
14. I’ll be on my phone reading and asking weird and funny answers on Quora everyday
15. I’ll watch horror or thiller movies alone in one weekend night in the dark of my study
16. I’ll spend hours in a bookstore – I don’t think I’ll know how to quit though
17.  I’ll have Corinne Bailey Rae’s songs blaring in my kitchen every morning when everybody’s are away
18. I’ll keep my children away from tablets, computers, and smartphones (outside school work) until they’re 13.
19. Instead, I’ll make them play video games
20. I’ll make my children read books they like everyday and write the reviews once a month
21. I’ll tell my children that it’s okay to be an introvert and it’s not some kind of mental illness
22. I’ll teach my son a gentleman manner and to have a thoughtful sense towards women, elderly, and children
23. I’ll teach my daughter that they don’t live just to be someone else’s wife or someone’s mom or someone’s daughter-in-laws and that they should live up to pursue their greatest passion
24. I’ll be sitting in our TV room playing 500-piece puzzles, lego, or nanoblocks as my ultimate me-time
25. I’ll tell my kids that they should worship God not because they’re afraid of Hell but because their God is worthy of worship

thoughts

6:54 PM