Ramadhan is around the corner! Every Muslims are getting ready for the fasting month. As for us, last Saturday, we joined the celebration of Indonesia’s 65th Independence day at Tasik Titiwangsa. It is supposed to be held on the 17th of August but due to Ramadhan, the celebration was done earlier. Mama Pasha rented a table to sell cupcakes and cookies.
Mama Pasha and her cupcakes, cookies and chocolate lollies.
We managed to sell almost everything! So, it was the effort of getting up at 6am and arriving there at 7:30am. You can read more about it at Bazzar Hari Kemerdekaan RI yang ke 65. The entry is in Indonesian. Let me know if you need any translation. Nevertheless, you can always look at more pictures over there.
Pasha and Dana
And Pasha, as usual would always be with us. He minded his own business and it was not really a hassle for us to have him around. Just get him to be preoccupied with something and we could go about doing our stuffs. By the way, pretty girls always do the trick…
Papa Bear and his favorite pose…
You! That’s me with my MIL. I just finished my lunch + teh botol + a banana + teh tarik. Despite the pose, I had a great nasi padang at Seri Garuda, Kampung Baru. Yes, we went there again. That was our second time there since Mama Pasha was craving for nasi padang.
In 1994, I was sent to Switzerland to collect and bring back some technical drawings. For 5 weeks, they put up in a house in a quiet little kampung called Langenthal. In between the sound of cow bells and the fresh smell of cow dung every time the window is opened, the only entertainment there was from a small TV in the basement.
It had limited channels and all of the were in German. My favorite channel was one music channel, which I could not remember the name, that played lots of German and French songs and once in a blue moon, would play an English song. During my 5 weeks there, the only English song that was aired over and over again was Runaway Train by the rock band Soul Asylum…
Enjoy the music from the past
By the way, this song won Grammy Award for the best rock song in 1994.
Call you up in the middle of the night
Like a firefly without a light
You were there like a blowtorch burning
I was a key that could use a little turning
So tired that I couldn’t even sleep
So many secrets I couldn’t keep
Promised myself I wouldn’t weep
One more promise I couldn’t keep
It seems no one can help me now
I’m in too deep there’s no way out
This time I have really led myself astray
Runaway train, never going back
Wrong way on a one-way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I’m neither here nor there
Can you help me remember how to smile?
Make it somehow all seem worthwhile
How on earth did I get so jaded?
Life’s mystery seems so faded
I can go where no one else can go
I know what no one else knows
Here I am just a-drownin’ in the rain
With a ticket for a runaway train
And everything seems cut and dried
Day and night, earth and sky
Somehow I just don’t believe it
Runaway train, never going back
Wrong way on a one-way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I’m neither here nor there
Bought a ticket for a runaway train
Like a madman laughing at the rain
A little out of touch, a little insane
It’s just easier than dealing with the pain
Runaway train, never going back
Wrong way on a one-way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I’m neither here nor there
Runaway train, never coming back
Runaway train, tearing up the track
Runaway train, burning in my veins
I run away but it always seems the same