Agronesia

I just added an image to Gravatar so that it will appear as my avatar when I comment on blogs. It’s just exactly my old WordPress.com avatar, the mathematical integral image. When adding, I met this amusing screen midway:

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This shirt contains the Thailand alphabet. I lived in Thailand for around 4 years, but couldn’t read anything at all. What’s interesting is that the Wikipedia articled states that space is generally not used in writing because most words are monosyllabic. Never realized that also.

I sadly couldn’t speak Thai. Well, I probably can speak the two most important expressions for a man: “khong nam ti nai?” (where is the toilet?) and “pom rak kun” (I (male) love you). I’m of course using the never-before-heard Agronesian romanization.

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Probably around once every two or three days, a house-to-house soymilk seller comes to my house. He will park his bicycle outside and greet with the Islamic greeting, using a semi-loud voice, “Assalamu’alaikum!”, to inform the people inside the house that he has arrived.

The milks are sold in small transparent plastics with vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate as its flavors. The one pictured above is the chocolate flavor.

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In this hard times I call “the Indonesian power crisis of 2008″, PLN once again shut the electricity off. But this day, they did it starting from around 17:20! It’s now 18:12, and Sokaraja Tengah is still pitch black. Luckily my laptop has batteries and my modem can live off the UPS.

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Some days ago I went to Indorizky to buy some eggs. My mom said she needed 0.5 kg.

The egg place was easy enough find. Once I got there, I only needed to take the provided semi-transparent plastic bags and fill it with the eggs.

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I just bought some drawing equipment from the nearby Sokaraja Indomaret. It’s an HB Staedtler pencil, a cheap black Snowman marker, an eraser, and a sharpener! That’s because I draw illustrations for my Japanese language blog Yumeko and my pen just isn’t enough!

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An innovation has just been made!

Well, using those yellow-brown tapes, I attached a piece of A4 paper to the wall on the left of my chair. Now, when I have a blog post idea, I can just pick the pen on the desk and jolt it down there! After an idea have been materialized on the net, I can just easily strike it out.

Right now, there are 5 entries on that note :). As expected, pen and paper is still the best!

Not even a week after the last outage, my house at Sokaraja Tengah, Purwokerto went dark again! This time the lights went off at around 8:30.

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The last time the battery was on the verge of exploding. This time, the handphone just wouldn’t turn on!

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Today, around 9 AM, when I was translating a chapter of Tae Kim’s tutorial, the lights went off. Well, as expected of PLN, the national monopolizing body of electricity in Indonesia.

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