Agronesia

Well, not a thorn actually, but I got a small furniture splinter stuck on my right hand’s palm. I used the old and trusted method to get the invasive object out…

First, you need to have a safety pin which we call “peniti” in Indonesia. Then, burn the sharp tip in the stove to make the safety pin… er… safe to use! It’s supposed to kill all the evil microbes in it. You can see in the photo above that it’s pitch black because of the fire.

After that just use the sharp end to stab and push the wood fragment out. It might hurt a lot depending on the penetration deepness. But of course it’s better than letting the small thing stay there and risk an infection.

Quite easy, actually…

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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