My uncles

This is my uncle Mulya. He is good at carpenting and home repairing. He is the cousin of my father, I'm calling him 'Uda'. In batak language, We called differently the uncle from father and the uncle from mother. Yes. this is very difficult to understand for new people. But that's the way in our tradition. Every relative in the family is called differently. I called 'Bou' for the little sister of my father. I called 'Uda' for the little brother of my father. I called 'Uak' for the older sister of my mother. And 'Tante' for the little sister of a better.. etc. I explain all of this name later.

In the picture, he is like a 'bandito', very rough face and the impression of violence, but it's not true, actually he is very nice and funny.

 

 

This is my other uncle. His name is Bernauli, he is a sculptor, and i create another blog dedicated to him, it's still new and not finished. He is good at making 3D objects. but the real one. I love 3D in the computer world. That's the difference between me and my uncle. In this picture he resemble to my grandfather. I actually never met my grandfather. He died before i was born. I knew him by looking in the pictures which my father kept.

He wears a national hat. It's called 'PECI'. it's very popular in our country and the hat makes you look very mature and respectable.

Older man seems to like to wear PECI, especially, when going to the mosque and praying.

Here's another version of the PECI, with more decorations.

Bunga Bondar Market

The traditional market in bunga bondar is not very big, but the place is very crowded, people buy whatever they need, as you see in the picture, there are boxes everywhere, every seller have their own space.

The traditional market is crowded on friday, because on that day, there are more seller from outside village.

This is my uncle khrisna, it's a hindu's name, but actually we are moslems. He stays at Padang, the city is very religious, and the people are nice. When we go to padang, we stay at his house.

He has a lovely wife, and two daughters. And he loves computer like me.

He is a contractor, and he works at Pakanbaru, that's four hours travelling from padang. He returns to his house at padang only on the weekend.

 

 

 

Tapanuli people have their own traditional clothing which is very popular, they called it 'ulos', actually, every region of north sumatra have their own pattern.

The 'Ulos' is a 'must-have' when we have a traditional occation. if it's a marriage party, the ulos will be covering the two couples. For other occation the ulos can be used as a cover or decoration.

The 'Ulos' is produced by older woman, and traditionally home made business. They sell it beetween families or other region.

But in big city like medan, we can find a lot of ulos design, they came from many villages. And every villages have their uniqness in their design.

Don't forget to buy some ulos when you're in north sumatra.

My 'kampung' home, Bunga bondar

okay, enough writing,.. now some image. (i've made some cool drawing? eh?)

This is my 'kampung' home, 'kampung' means hometown or village, yes.. this is so far away from Jakarta. It's in bunga bondar. My great grandfather is born in that village. It's in Sumatra Island. Please check the google map if you don't know where it is. =)

In Indonesian or mandailing language, Bunga means flower, Bondar means sewer (artificial conduit for carrying off waste water, but it's not underground). So Bunga bondar means 'the village where the flower grow even in the sewer' .. cool.

My home is small, as you can see in the picture, the house is a little bit elevated. Back then, they use this space for animal cages or rice storage. We already renovated the house so the gap is little lower, and nothing there. We still use wood for the primary structure and wall. The weather is very great. It's not hot at afternoon, and a little bit cold at night.

In general, habitants over there still cultivate rice, but now, they planted coffee too.. did you hear sumatra coffee in Starbucks?  yes.. it's from my country. You may be pay 5 bucks for one cup, but 5 bucks there you can get one bag of plastics of pure coffee for maybe 100 cups.

My family planned to go there on may 2008, we already reserved the plane to 'Padang' and then we travel by car to my village. It's a long trip by car, maybe it's 10 hours by car to get there. The plane is one hour from my home (Jakarta). So now i can't wait to go. Here some map to check out. There's my home and my destination.

We can also fly to medan and go down to my village, but the road is very bad at 'aek latong'. Sometimes they closed the road when it's raining.

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Limbat

Another ten laps, but my mood is better than yesterday, i think there's some bright light about this talking thing. Tomorrow, my mom will come from Medan, i'm sure, she will bring me some 'limbat'. It's a smoked fish, very dry and crispy. We mix that fish with 'sambal'. It's very spicy, the appearance of the dish is not very cool, because it's mainly black and red. But it's very yummmyy.. That food came from Tapanuli Selatan. my 'kampong'

Another ten laps

I just finished fast walking again, today, I have done ten laps, my legs and my shoulders hurts. I suppose to warm up correctly, but today I just walk and run with no warm ups. Probably, because my bad mood from last night. But right now, I feel great and nothing can stop me. I feel I can play this game more than I thought, do you want to play one day? one week? one month? one year? sure, I can follow you.. paan seh??

my smile is mine.

PS: I have just created http://bpulungan.blogspot.com. It's my uncle site. he is an sculpting artist, he is so talented, In Indonesia, he is a senior in his field. Please, would you check it for me?

Fast walking

This is the second time, i fast-walk in the park very slowly :) . The park is located near my house, it's feels like i have more energies, it's not a long walk and large park, i have done only 4 laps. In fact, that's because i have a flab of fat around my belly. That's why, i could not catch my breath after the runnig part. But i am also happy now because i'm starting what i think is good for me. Now, i think i can start the day with much greater conciousness. My Intention is clear: I wan't healthier body and mind, can i?

Hello, Testing, Testing..

Ahh.. there he is..