Nadiah Alwi

Breakfast in my country is somehow important. Not simply because we care about how breakfast can make you energized during the day, but also because we have various food to enjoy on the list.

So, what’s on the menu today?

Mine is ketan urap. What is ketan urap? It’s sticky rice with grated coconut topping as shown on the picture below:

Normally, people eat that with nut sauce like 0n this picture below — the way my husband likes it:

But, my grandpa made my enjoying sticky rice more colorful. He ate that with rendang (delicous meat with coconut milk cooked for a long long time ’til it’s dark brown — but not burnt out), empal or dendeng (yummy meat cooked twice, first with coconut milk — how we Indonesian love coconut milk, then fried ’til it’s dark brown — but, again, not burnt out), or fried salted fish.

Yesterday I ate it with rendang. Let’s see how I mix the sticky rice today. Only with nut sauce?

With fried meat?

With fried salted fish?

Or, with both fried meat and fried salted fish?

You’re right! Both. But not at the same time. Once the sticky rice got into my mouth with the fried meat, and the next with the fried salted fish. Both are yummy!

What did you have on the menu for breakfast today?

Totally missing it. Blogging.

I used to blog to let go of my tense. And, now, I am tensed. So, I blog.

What to write? Honestly, I still don’t know. Have some ideas in mind but none of them seems to be good enough. And, to be honest, that’s why I don’t blog much these days — plus, of course, the facebook thing, you know…

So, now, I want to go back to my blogging life. Here and the other blogs I have. Now, at least, I have like 4 of them — my daughter has 3, so…my having 4 blogs is nothing compared to hers.

Blogging — or writing — is a part of me I can never get rid of  — bcoz, of course, I don’t want to and I love it. Every time I write, I feel this certain feeling which is both fulfilling and relieving. It’s like I fly to the moon doing it — it’s too much, isn’t it?

Mostly, I write fiction. I even blog some of my fiction work. Yet, I actually love both, fiction and non-fiction. However, I am a bit picky when it comes to non-fiction — both while writing and reading it.

By the way, I love reading, too. As much as I love books. I guess, I love books more than reading ‘coz I have so many books, yet about 2 out of 5 of them are still on the waiting list. I just don’t have enough time to read them all.

I used to have an online book store — it still exists now, I just don’t have time to take care of it the proper way. Do you think I just sell those books there? I used to sell second hand books. It was lovely providing people with books they love. Bcoz I know exactly how they feel. I feel it, too, whenever I have new books.

Hm…seems like my talking here is not about missing my blog anymore — which is the title of this post. But, hey…it’s my blog, it’s up to me how I express myself. Plus, not many read this blog anyway. If you happen to be one of those not many people, hope you don’t mind all my brag here. If you do mind it, well…sorry — I was about to say ‘I didn’t ask you to come over, you came here on your own call,’ but then I thought about it and it wasn’t polite enough, so sorry seems to be a better choice.

Anyway, gotta go. I have a 6 years old who needs help to get ready for bed. See you on the next blogging session — if there was a you.

PS: The pic doesn’t say anything about my missing the blog, but it shows how my daughter and I love to be on the same frame.

Hm…I guess I’m at that stage now. I don’t blog as often as I used to. Almost blame it on microblogging, yet maybe it’s not the only reason. And, blaming something sounds childish, don’t you think?

Know what? This very moment, I don’t know what else to say here.

Let’s see…

Oh…it’s a bad bad bad blogger’s block.

I guess I’ll write again anytime soon.

I decided that I didn’t have to wait until next week to get my blog a new look.

I did some searching today and found this kinda cute and simple blog. And, it also uses one of my favorite fonts, Trebuchet. It also has three of my favorite colors, pink, black and white.

However, there’s something that I think needs a bit of change. It’s the space between the main page and the sidebar. In my opinion, it should be widen a little bit.

Back then, when I used to blog @ blogspot, I learned a bit about CSS and HTML. It seems like now I have to start learning more about PHP. Sounds like FUN!

BTW, check out how my blog used to look like. Isn’t that beautiful? But, what can I do? I need one that is quickly accessed by the visitor. So, I had to change it.

Probably.

At first, when I chose this template / theme, the reason was simply because I wished that my blog looked pretty and chique, and different.

But, then, I found out that it took longer time to finally be seen by the visitors. Read the rest of this entry »