Family Day (Saturday, 22 March 2008) part 2

OK... Now I will tell about our second destination: Masjid Dian Al Mahri which is also known as Masjid Kubah Emas.

Masjid Dian Al Mahri (front view)

Masjid Dian Al Mahri is located in Depok, West Java. It was the second time I visit this masjid but the first time for the other members of my family. So, I become navigator for this trip . Based on my previous visit, I know that the street to reach Masjid Dian Al mahri is quite difficult for beginner driver like me so that from Cilandak to Depok, my father was on driver seat :P

Because of heavy traffic jam, we could reach this place after 1,5 hour. To enter this masjid, every car must pay Rp 3000... for parking... may be...

Just like the first time I visit it, Masjid Dian Al Mahri had amazed me. Its golden dome shines. It has wide yard with beautiful flower which is grown inside elegant pot. I opened my car window and felt fresh air blow on me. I could see a lot of visitors there, not only using car but also bus. I guess that they are ibu-ibu pengajian.

The Park

After parking the car, we enter to the masjid to pray Dzuhur. For women, we can enter from back side of the masjid while men, from left or right side. To enter the masjid, we must take off our shoes of sandals (of course). There is special place to put your shoes/sandal, so you do not have to worry that your shoes/sandal will be missing or difficut to find. After my mom, my sis and I put our sandals, we take wudhu. Then, we enter to the masjid. Before we enter the "real" inside part of the masjid, there is a very large space which makes this masjid look very wide.

OK.. then we enter the masjid. One thing which shows the luxury of this masjid is a beautiful lamp that hanging below the dome. It is very big one. The paint under the dome is also beautiful. It just like the sky... beautiful!! FYI, there is warning that we may not take picture inside the masjid. But, for me, because the view is too beautiful not to be captured, then I use my cellphone to take some picture, especially that big lamp.

The lamp

After we finished praying, we got out from the masjid. Then we tried to find my father and brother. After we met, we took some picture outside the masjid. FYI, if you do not bring your own camera, there are a lot of fotographer there. They can take your picture and you can have the result after that. About 3 PM, we went to home.

Yeah, that's all my story about my family activity. Hopefully, it can give you some useful information. Thanks for reading :)

Family Day (Saturday, 22 March 2008) part 1

Fyiuhhh... Finally, my family can spend one day to hang out together. Last time was when we spent one day together (+ my cousin, Mia) in Dunia Fantasi in September 2007 before Ramadhan. Our destinations for this vacation were lunch at Cilandak and visit Masjid Dian Al Mahri which is well-known because of its golden dome (kubah emas). In this blog, I will tell you about our first destination.

OK.. Let's start the story...

About 11 AM, we went from home to Coto Makassar Daeng Memang on Jl Ampera Raya, East Cilandak, South Jakarta. FYI, this time, I drove my car from home to not far way from the restaurant because it was a little bit difficult for me to park the car in this restaurant :P This was the 3rd time, I drove my avanza on public road. Because of long weekend, it seemed that most of jakarta citizen were travelling to out of the city so that there was no traffic jam. After about 45 minutes, we arrived there. The place is not far from Trakindo Cross-road. If you are from Pasar Rebo, you must turn right while if you want to go to Trakindo, you must turn left.

The restaurant is simple, not too big but also not too small. Inside it, there are about 10 tables which there are 8 chair in each tables. When we arrived there,the visitors had filled about 1/3 of the tables. Based on my mom's story, in lunch time, the restaurant is usually full. Now, it's time to order!!! And this is the menu...



My sister and I ordered Sop Konro/Iga Bakar while my father, mother and brother ordered Coto Makassar. For Coto Makassar, there are two choice, full meat or mixed (meat and jeroan). For drink, my sister, brother,and I ordered es campur; my mother ordered es pisang ijo; and my father order es jeruk. About 5 minutes after we ordered, the waitress deliver Coto Makassar and our drink. You can eat it with rice or lontong. Sop Konro/Iga Bakar came about 10 minutes later.


Lontong-----------------------Coto Makassar with lontong----- Coto Makassar with Rice

My menu (Sop Konro/Iga Bakar and Es Campur)

I will tell you about my menu. Sop Konro/Iga Bakar contains of cow ribs, kuah (which is same with Coto Makassar), and peanut sauce. I ate it with lontong. I cut lontong using spoon and put it in kuah bowl. It's easy to separate meat from rib' bone. After you separate meat from bone, you can put it in kuah bowl and eat it with lontong and kuah or you can eat with peanut sauce. Both of them are delicious :P My drink is es campur. It just like common es campur contains avocado, cincau item, mutiara, jackfruit, coconut, milk and ice, of course. For sop konro/iga bakar, I give score 7,5 for 1-10 scale. The price is Rp 25.000 for Sop Konro/Iga Bakar, Rp 1.000 for one lontong, and Rp 7000 for es campur.

We finish our lunch at 12.30 PM. It means we are ready to go to our second destionation for today. I will tell about it in my next blog :)

B 7651 WJ

Sunday afternoon, 25th November 2007, one day before my 24th birthday, My parents and I went to AUTO2000 Kramat Jati. Before we went there, we only planned to see and ask about the car they sell, find out the price, and many thing you should know if you want to buy a car. When we arrived there, a sales girl opened the showroom door and then she gave a lot of explanation to us. And guess what happened next? We decided to buy Toyota Avanza type S. I paid some money to order the car... Yup, for this type of car, you must order first, and your car will be available about 3 months later. To me, she promised that my car would be available on February or March 2008.

Thursday morning, 21th February 2008, I went to the bank to transfer the total DP then I went to showroom to give the copy of transfer receipt.

Monday morning, 3rd March 2008, again... I went to AUTO2000 Kramat Jati to finish administration related with my car and.... to see my Avanza for the very first time!!!
It would be delivered to my home at the afternoon.

Those processes were begun with a dream. I can not remember when I start dreaming to have my own car. For sure, my family never have our own car. For daily activity, we mostly use public transportation. When I was a student, sometimes my father dropped me to school or college by motorcycle. Not only me, but also my mother and my younger sister. Only my younger brother who go to college by his own motorcycle. About the end of 2006, my mother got car facility from her office. Don't imagine the brand new car!! I remember one day my mother had told me that that car might be the oldest car her office had. It seems that what my mother said is correct because there are a lot of problem during we use that car. However, this car is very useful and helpful for my family.

Well... I'm so thankful and glad because I'm not only make my dream comes true but also my family dream.

Hmm... There are a lot of gifts for me on these days. My dreams, the big ones, had come true.
My first 2 blogs, this blog and the previous one, are telling my dreams which have come true.

I still have a lot of dreams... They like source of fire to burn my spirit in my life. Hopefully, this fire will never extinct :)

6 months...

Wow...I can't believe it. It has been 6 months since that day. The day when he told me about his feeling to me and he asked me that question. I replied "yes". And it had changed my days after become brighter.. better... beautiful...The point is "just like my dream come true... i finnally found him"

Yup...you never know when...where...or even who. It just like a mystery. Even you meet him almost every day. Even you are not far away from him. If it is not the time, it will not happen.

I became closer to him when we were separated in far distance. YM had become "the bridge" for us to know each other better and we became closer day by day. We never plan that our relation will be more than just a friend. I don't know why, I feel very comfort when I chat with him even in my "crash day" at office. Sometimes I felt that there was something missing in my day if I couldn't talk to him even only via YM.

Hopefully, he is the one that will accompany me in the next days, months, and years in my life. There will be a lot of beautiful moment that we will pass together.