Field Trip : Kediri - East Java

This is my first field trip to Kediri, East Java. I will be here for about 4 days and 3 nights.

The reason for this trip is for me is to introduce my self to Tripper's organic ginger and turmeric supplier, because I am involving in purchasing this raw mat.

Before I go further, I want to share how to get to Kediri, so I took morning flight from Denpasar to Surabaya for about 45 minutes and then continue it by car for about 3,5 hours. Whew...the car driver is a pro hahaha, drive fast and lucky me I dont vomit! I think it is because the road condition is not too bad and I have good stamina...

Ok, back to field, I will spend around 2 full days to go to ginger and turmeric fields and check whether they are ready to harvest or not

The target is also to communicate with supplier of how he will fulfill the order until end of this year

Hopefully everything will run smooth and back to Bali soonn...

---Never too late to learn new things---

Nat Geo People

Nat Geo People is one our favourite channels. Yes, our, me, my sister and my mother.

It is all about various cultures, cooking, chefs, and foods from around the world, owesome!

I can sit and watch the program for hours, same like I spend to watch the K-Drama, but this time my mother has the same interest.

My mother is not a person who like spending hours in front of TV, even she likes the show. She think that addicted to a program/show is not healthy and make you depend on it and cannot pass it

Well, she likes Nat Geo People, but she watch it just for a moment, maybe around 30 minutes to a hour. Then, she leaves it and do another things.

Back to Nat Geo People,  I like this program, because its about cooking and food :D

Cooking is always interesting, I like to cook simple and fast food, so thru this channel, I see and learn more about cooking and variety of foods. Guess? Today I got new way to make kimchi, a traditional food from Korea, its similar to pickle.

It can be made in very simple way and fast, my mother is also agree to make a trial..

Lets do it Mom!

---Knowledge is possible to get thru various ways---

Glycerin

Today posting kinda different, I will writing about an ingredient that usually using in food industry.

According to Wikipedia "Glycerol (also called glycerine or glycerin; see spelling differences) is a simple polyol (sugar alcohol) compound. It is a colorless, odorless, viscous liquid that is sweet-tasting and non-toxic. It is widely used in the food industry as a sweetener and humectant and in pharmaceutical formulations. Glycerol has three hydroxyl groups that are responsible for its solubility in water and its hygroscopic nature. The glycerol backbone is central to all lipids known as triglycerides". Additionally, In food and beverages, glycerol serves as a humectant, solvent, and sweetener, and may help preserve foods. It is also used as filler in commercially prepared low-fat foods (e.g., cookies), and as a thickening agent in liqueurs. Glycerol and water are used to preserve certain types of plant leaves. As a sugar substitute, it has approximately 27 kilocalories per teaspoon (sugar has 20) and is 60% as sweet as sucrose. It does not feed the bacteria that form plaques and cause dental cavities. As a food additive, glycerol is labeled as E number E422. It is added to icing (frosting) to prevent it from setting too hard (taken from Wikipedia).

As I worked in food industry, the Glycerin, Propylene Glycol, High Fructose Syrup are familiar to me, we produce organic extracts. Those ingredients must be ready in stock all the time, if one of them is run out of stock, it can be affected to our production activities. Well, of course!

And here I am, come to the office in Saturday, to make sure that Glycerin order will arrive and production is able to use it right away for to produce our VIP's order…

Glycerin oh Glycerin :)

---Do your best, Let God do the rest---

Lesson of The Day : Respect !

In Indonesia, there are several education levels
It start with elementary school, junior high school, high school, and university
In university, normally you will need 10 semesters to finish your bachelor degree, we called it Sarjana (S1)

To get your degree, you need to conduct a research related to your subject/major study, and compile it into an essay, we called skripsi
To help finishing the skripsi, usually you will get two lecturers to guide you, she/he will make correction here and there until it is good enough to be represented in front of some selected other lecturers.

I still remember, the skripsi process was not easy, full of challenges, sacrifice, wake up in the middle of the night, sitting down in front of the computer to find ideas…
The worst thing was when one of my lecturers made correction from page 1 up to final pages…cried a lot :D
But it was turning point when afterward I did my best and I got A for my skripsi, it worth enough.

Why I share you this?
Yesterday, there were somthin happen in Medan, Indonesia. A student killed his lecture after discussing about skripsi process
The real reason, why this student did this, is still under investigation
In an article, the lecturer is good one.
Even I dont know what the real reason behind, I think as student, you need to respect your teacher, guru, lecturer, or whatever just name it….I met good and bad of them
But I respect them, I learned many things, they thought me many things.

You are the one who decided what you wanna be
I choose be a good one, a good one is not perfect
But the good one knows how to respect others!

—Life is too beautiful to messed up which such lil things---

My Stupid Boss

Take it easy, I am not talking about my Boss..

This is about a book which I have read all its series, there are 4 books not included special edition etc.

The story is about Indonesian worker who work in Malaysia, in a Malasian' company as secretary which owned by Indonesian.

Short long story, the Bossman is stuborn, oftenly asking for somthin impossible, but miracle if it could happen...ups it is about true story, so the author is the employee itself

You wont stop laughing if you read the whole series

Of  course, it is not all about funny and crazy things.

Bossman, eventhough he is unique, but he is a good boss, he take care his secretary when her husband passed away

He encourage her to be strong during the hardest moment.

Bossman's wife is also unique, which so beautiful, and still no answer why she can be fallen in love with Bossman hahaha.. .

This wife oftenly ask the secretary to teach her Indonesian's food...and this moment is kinda a nightmare to the secretary because she will record the process with handycam instead to focus learn the cooking process

Even..the secretary and Bossman always have somethin to argue in every single day, the Bossman will always find her, when she submit resignation letter...

This story is adapting into a movie, and cant wait how the story it would be.

I hope its as good as the books

---Good Boss, he spoils you with problems and chalenges, yet He cares when you're in real troubles---