Ocean'o Writing

Home sweet home, home is wherever place you feel comfortable in. For me, the best place in Sekaran is my boarding house. In there I rest my exhausted body and burning mind from the long day activity. My boarding house is entitled Kos Cute. It is located in Gang Sirandu no 12 Sekaran Gunung Pati, right behind the wall of FBS faculty.

                It is not difficult to find my boarding house. It looks east with large yard. On the front of my boarding house, there are a coconut tree and 2 garbages. Its wall painted cream, there is a small veranda which leads to the two leaves door painted white. On the door, it was once attached the word CUTE, but right now the letter T is vanished, so it leaves only CUE word.

My boarding house is not the best boarding house ever. Comparing to the other, Kos Cute considered as bellow average boarding house. Actually, the location is nice but the facility is not. It consist of seven bedrooms, and three bathrooms, one living room and one garage. The living room is decorated by  4 wooden chairs and a table. There also a television and a mattress there to watch TV show comfortably. For each room, we are facilitated with a cupboard, a table, a plastic chair and a not so pleasant bed. The existence of a window for each rooms makes the healthful air flowing the room. Something missing from this boarding house is kitchen.

Right now there are 12 persons living under its roof, all of them are students from Art and Langage Faculty. The owner of Kos Cute is not living with us. Even so Kos cute is keep tidy and clean because it swept and moped everyday. All of the member make sure that our home is clean. If I can describe my boarding house with single word, I will called it Tokyo, a small area with lot of people live there and noises never absent, but it is still clean and we live happily there.

                

                Eggs are producted by female bird and have been consumed by human from a long period of time. They suppose to be a bird if they are laid by their mother. The egg which consumed by human is the unlaid one.

Egg’s shape is oval with a thin hard shell covered the white and the yolk. The shell which colour usually white or brown contains calcium carbonate and dissolve in various acid, that is why the eggshell is hard and cannot be consumed. Egg white is liquid part inside the shell. It consists of water and proteins with almost no fat. Its job is to protect the yolk. Egg yolk is the yellow/orange part in the center of the egg, it is round and firm contain protein and fat. As the yolk ages, they absorb water from egg white, increasing its size and volume.

Eggs are widely used in many type of dishes, the most common preparation method are scrambled, fried, boiled, omelettes and pickled. Sometimes it consumed raw, but the protein will increase into twice if it cooked. To preserve the egg, the most common method is to treat it with salt. Not only in culinary, eggs also popular in some tradition, one of them is in Easter tradition where eggs are painted and become the object of Easter egg hunt activity.

The Legend of Kawah Sikidang

 AN: Kawah Sikidang is a crater in Dieng Plateau, Banjarnegara.

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                Onne day, a prince named Kidang Garungan amazed with the figure of the princess. He wanted Shita Dewi become his spouse. With his beyond ordinary wealth, he proposed Shita Dewi. He sent the messengers to Shita Dewi.

                “Send this message to Shita Dewi: Just tell me everything you want, I will give it for you, everything, no matter what. The total wealth from people in this world is not compared with my uncountable wealthy” said Prince Kidang Garungan to the messengers.

                After say ‘yes’ the messegers went to Shinta Dewi’s palace. In the palace, they completed their task. The princess easily say yes. She was hipotized by the extraordinary wealth that Prince Garungan offered. Besides she believed that a very rich man like Prince Garungan must be have an extra ordinary handsomeness too.

                The messengers backed to Prince Garungan.  Prince Garungan was really happy because Shita Dewi accepted his proposal. The next day, he and his retinue headed to Shinta Dewi’s palace preparing the wedding ceremony. They brought the dowry, jewels, gold,  diamond, and lot of good.

                While Shita Dewi and his house had prepared a welcoming party to great her fiance. They prepared lot of food and entertainment. Shita Dewi waited Prince Garungan’s arrival by with an irresistible smile. But his smile faded imediately afer Prince Garungan appeared. Instead of a figure of handsome prince like she had imagined, Prince Garungan was a weird one. His body was human, but his head was a head of a deer!

“I am so dead. What kind of creature he is? What a joke it is? I do not want to marry a deer.” Shita Dewi whispered in her heart.

But it was no use crying over split milk. She could not cancel the proposal. Willy nilly she must marry with Prince Garungan. She had tried to face her fate, but her heart could not accept it. Then she was thinking so hard finding a way how to cahnge her horrible future. Before the wedding, she asked a Prince Garungan to make a large well in one night.

“You have to know, my prince. Our people always deal with water proplem. It is so hard to get watter here. So for the betterment of our land and future, I asked you to make a well by yourself alone as one prove of your love. Will you?”  With this non-sense request, she believed Prince Garungan would not make it. But she did not know that Prince Garungan had spiritual power.

“I will, sweet heart. Anything for you” answered the Prince then kissed her hand.

Right after that, he digged the Shita Dewi’s choosen land. He digged it by his barehand, sonetimes by his horns. Without any complain. His tired is not compared with his happiness imagining Shita Dewi’s happy smile – satisfied with his handmade well and prouded with her fiance.

When the well was almost done, panic-attact was crawiling on the heart of Shita Dewi. Her body was trembling. She is too afraid if Prince Garungan would make it. She started crying and thought so hard with her dumb head. Then she asked her men to heap the well up. Prince realized that he was going to burried alive after a piece after piece of soil hitted his head.

“My princess, stop it!” Price Garungan screamed his heart out.

The louder he screamed, the faster they burried him. His boddy was fully burried, he used his power to escape, then the well exploded. But they continued burry him, until Prince Garungan dead. In his last breath, he cursed Shita Dewi’s heir will have gimbal hair. While as the time past by, people named the exploded well Kawah Sikidang.