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About us
We are Indonesian-Dutch couple, married in 2002, resident of Utrecht - The Netherlands, have one spoiled dog named Milo and one "gonna be spoiled" baby Isabelle.
This webpage mainly is use to share our story and pictures to our family and friends. But of course we always welcome for new friends.
The idea of this webpage is to share our story and pictures to our family and friends.
Since Ira's Dutch language is far from perfect and Dimitri's Indonesian language is even worse, we decided to use English as the main language in this blog,
eventhough lately due to the laziness of Ira, Indonesian language seems to take over.
Please feel free to browse around and give us your comment.
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Thursday, November 25, 2004
Do you guys believe in spirits? Or ghost? Or other subtances on earth other than just human, animal and plants?
I do believe it. Most Indonesian believe it.... I have to admit that I never meet ghost or spirits... and I don't want to either... I'm too chicken for that...  Dimitri knows how scared I am after saw horror movies.... I don't even going to my own bedroom after if the curtain not closed... that's how chicken I am. But that doesn't stop me watching horror movies.... Dimitri often says that I'm a bit sadistic to my self... afraid of ghost but love to watch horror movies.
Anyway, I wasn't about to talk about me being scared. The other day I was reading online newsletter owned by Dutchman that lives in Indonesia. He owned bar in Jakarta. Like other Dutch/Western, he doesn't believe in ghost. But he got some experienced watching staff got possessed, screaming lodly and went into wild aggressive trance. Then one of his kitchen staff that knew some supranatural thing tried to heal the girls. He wrote it that his kitchen staff took his little keris in both hands and went into trance too. He held his keris fiercely in front of the girls while he was swearing heavily in the old Javanese language. He then managed to calm down the waitress. The Dutchman still skeptical about it until now.... but it happened
As the reaction from the story he told on the newsletter, he received email from one of his reader. I'll quote it here... and for reference, here's some translation of the indonesian words
Orang pinter/dukun: syaman or psychic, someone that have supranatural power, can see and talk to the spirits, can heal, can find missing object.
Guna-guna: bad spell, sick spell, love spell
Mandi bunga: being in the bathtub with 7 kind of flowers, believes to clean your bad aura
Keris: Javanese weapon, believes to have supranatural power and give strength to who owns it
Bule: indonesian terms for western people
Hi Bart,
Before coming to Jawa I was a skeptical as the next guy about the "spirit world": These days I am still skeptical but have moved the "scepto-meter" several degrees towards the existence of the "spirit world":
Remember my story about my fiance and the faith healer - well the faith healer did not clear up the acne but she went to see another "orang pintar" who suggested that there were some "remaining bad feelings" from another woman that were causing here to be very spotty. This "orang pintar" suggested she use honey (real honey not purified) to treat her face. No kidding after one week her skin is totally amazing - better than ever.
Two years ago I witnessed a "possession" of a girl by "a spirit": Complete BS? Well the girl developed the voice of an old man and the strength of an Olympic wrestler while under this "spirit's" influence. In fact her brother and I could not hold her down, such was her strength.
On the subject of girls using "guna guna" to captivate a bule (for purposes of commerce and not true love) I have personally experienced this two years ago (yep same gal that had the possession) - you know in the horror films the feeling you have when the teenagers decide to stay in the spooky old house even though for sure they are all going to die in there? You know the feeling: You want to scream "get the hell out of there". Well two years ago I could see myself in this terrible relationship so I tried to end it. Ha, easy you say - well for one thing after I had gotten the girl out of my rental house I had hot dizzy spells for nearly a month - I tried my own "dukun" a father of a friends wife, I tried the "mandi bunga" nothing worked: Finally I moved house. Moving house was very effective.
One of my good friends, an American guy has been trying to ditch a girl for 3 years, according to the girls friends (bar girls so the reference is tarnished) she spends a few juta each month on a dukun that keeps my friend captivated by her. It is pathetic to see but he is totally non functional when she leaves and within a week he always begs her to come back (with an offering of gold):
Believe it or not...... they are there... The good thing is that I less scared in The Netherlands than in Indonesia. Do you know tha we even have our own ghost in my mother's house in Surabaya  but that's another story to tell
and here's keris
 
Thursday, November 18, 2004
And after boerenkool...... on one lazy sunday afternoon..... no one can separate a man (read: boy) from his toy.... ignoring the wife that has been cooked for him for a X-Box.... hikssss hikssss   
one lazy husband and one lazy dog
 
My first boerenkool !!!! 
Yep..... you read it right.... of course it's not really "my first boerenkool"... I've been eating them many time in the past 2 years but it always microwave stuff from Albert Heijn or Dimitri cooked it. But this time I cooked it my self from scratch  and it tastes good, if I may say it my self....
To who doesn't know... boerenkool is typical dutch food, especially in the winter. It contains potatoes, boerenkool (I have no idea what it called in english), bacon, some milk and sausages. And it actually very easy to make it... just lots of work... 
Oya, this is how boerenkool looks like:
 
And this is how I made my boerenkool.....
First boil the potatoes with some milk and water, boil boerenkool in another pan, fried the sausages...
Mixed potatoes and boerenkool, add some pepper and salt
Mash potatoes and boerenkool, add some more milk if you like
Mash it some more.... I did told you that it involved a lots of work, didn't I?
Put some bacon for extra taste... mash it again...
In serve
Dimitri tries his best to looked that he liked it... hehehe... just kidding.. of course he likes it... does he? doesn't he? hmmmmm
Friday, November 12, 2004
Today is Domino's day on SBS6, some local channel in here... it's quite fun to watch eventhough it becoming boring after 15 minutes. This year is my second domino's day, it's opened by Shania Twain . Last year was being opened by Nick Carter, ex Backstreet Boys.
According to the presenter, it should be around 4.250.000 pieces plastic to fall on each other and break a new record. But it already went wrong from the beginning.
It began with Shania Twain pulled on some string or something, I don't really see it clearly and then it caused the flags of all EU countries opened and there was a plastic brick that tied up to a string falling down in somekind of bungee jumping way. This brick should hit a plastic plate and that plate should start the whole domino effect.
And that doesn't happen ... that stupid brick falling nicely but the string was too short, so it just hanging about 3 cm above the plate... it doesn't even touch the plate at all.... ... don't know what ms. Shania will think about it... hehehe so, they have to do manually... hit the plate with some long stick... I watched it for 20 minutes then moved to other channel....
But now, I wondered... what will they do with all the plastics when domino day's over?
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Sofar I never tell anything about my work, am I? Yet I'm almost one year working there. I started 5 December 2003. At that time I was still sit in Dutch cursus. In the morning I went to school until about 12 am, then went home to have lunch and walked Milo, then went for work until 7 pm..... quite a busy day everyday.... but I liked it..... now I work almost full time
Anyway, the company name is Medical Care Logistics or MCL, it's a transport company that also provide warehousing for their customer. They are specialized in transporting medical stuff from big to small i.e: hospital bed, miscroscoop, neddle, stetoscoop etc.
MCL is a family company. And when I said family company, it's a realllyyy company family... The owner, his wife, his sisters in law, his son, his daughter in law, the mother of the daughter in law... they all are working there. Practically, only one Dutch girl and I that aren't related by blood..... and of course all the drivers. The owner is Dutch and his wife is Indonesian.... but most of them can't speak Indonesian properly cos most of them were born in Netherland.
Since it's a family company, they work that way too.... And because the whole family work there, no one cook at home... so mostly they just doing it in the office, we have a nice and large kitchen in the office... the advantage is that I get almost everyday lunch or snacks
Last week I brought my digicam with me to office and I captured my lunch for that day...
 
That was my lunch, nasi goreng.. hmm lekker... and that's Olga, queen of the kitchen in MCL
 
That's Mieke, one of my collegue enjoyed her nasi goreng .. and that's the afternoon snack, broodje ei and kroket... 
 
I choosed broodje worst plus some hot sambal.... lekkkerrrr
Now you guys know, why I gained weight....
Tuesday, November 09, 2004
I've been trying to juggle with 3 blogs at the same time, but it doesn't work... what's the point anyway of telling the same things three times 
So to keep the Dutch blog from stagnant, I decided to use my Dutch blog as a way to learn a new word or a expression in Dutch.
I also change the url name from www.learningdutch.tk (sound ambitious, am I? Choosing this name as url ) I choose www.goblog.tk , www.learningdutch.tk is sounds more like a site that give lesson in Dutch.
Goblog, on the other hand, have two meanings. In English, in my opinion goblog is something like go.. go.. go blogging, some kind of motto to keep me write. In Indonesian goblog means stupid, that's who I am, at least in Dutch.
So, let's see....
Adding clock in hamira, goblog and webkita.
Adding shoutbox in goblog
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