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Monday, 24 May 2004
sore throat
Mood:  don't ask
hari ini agak meriang karena sore throat. Sempet ke dokter tapi periksa alergy kemaren. Aku kena skin allergy !!! Bayangin seumur-umur baru kali ini keserang. Gatel banget rasanya kaya digigitin ribuan semut. Tadinya sih ngga kerasa pas aku bersih2 allotment. Kukira gatel karena kena daun2an. Eh abis mandi kok jadi merah dan bisulan. Panik langsung !!! beli macem2 produk ngga ada hasil. Dikasih tau mba srie kalo pake Bioplacenton malah manjur. Cuma makenya boros amat padahal cuma punya sebiji.

Allotment progresive banget. Dalam waktu kurang dari 2 minggu udah lumayan banyak tanaman, walau sebagian sumbangan dari tetangga. Dapet runner bean dari Bill, spinach and sweetcorn dari Sandra juga dapet tomat dari Pat. Kayaknya semua pada terharu liat perjuangan aku and Mark ngerbesihin plot dan merubahnya jadi edible. Bayangin kami ngerubah plot penuh weed, nyangkul dan masukin pupuk. Untuk saat ini sih masih kerja di separo lahan karena kondisi lainnya penuh dengan nasty weed kayak couch grass dan docks. Tapi sebagian besar docks udah disingkirkan, grass udah dipotong. Cuma kudu nyangkul. Rencana ke depan kita olah separo lahan yang ada trus kita tutup pake pelapis biar grass nggak tumbuh. Rencana juga beli greenhouse secondhand aja karena gw kepingin banget nanem chilli dan nyobain tanaman Indonesia.

Weekend kemaren kita nanem strwberry 20 biji Cambridge and Hapil, uga beli raspberry. Tapi kudu nyari straw buat mulching. Rencananya sih beli pelapis. Tapi harganya #7.50 per pack (1x6m) ngga cukuplah buat my pathces. Juga nanem beberapa cabbage. aku belum cek apa mereka bisa tahan ma slug ya...Kayaknya hari ini aku mau ke allotment bawa bekas bata buat ngasih protection di bagian depan (khusus cabbage family). Aku percaya sama teori companion plants, but ini di allotment bukan di rumah. Jadi kita liat aja hasilnya. Mesti nengok walau sakit2an begini.....

Posted by ambarbriastuti at 3:12 PM BST
Updated: Monday, 21 June 2004 7:47 PM BST
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Thursday, 13 May 2004
kuliah di UCE and allotment
aku mangkel berat karena gak jadi ambil part time course di UCE. Kukira aku udah bisa claim sebagai home student kayak yang di Stratford dulu. Ternyata fee yang cuma #89 untuk home student jadi sekitar #780 !!! Gila nggak ??? Lagian tutornya juga nggak pro amat...Mendingan yang aku pernah liat di Focus on Imaging di NEC by Photoshop CS.Bagusan belajar di rumah pake CD dari majalah photo yang lebih oke dan menarik. Kayaknya klo belajar di Uni atau College sama2 gak ada mutunya.

Oya kemaren aku resmi punya allotment. Gak jauh sih dari rumah paling cuma jalan kaki 5 menitan. Aku dapat site yang mangkrak punyanya IT Dept Solihull Hospital. Gratis lagi untuk tahun pertama. Habis kondisinya payah banget....Aku exicement pengen nanem2 yang disini ngga ada kayak bayam and kankung. Si Bhayu yang di Jogja udah tak kontak minta dikirim bibit2 dari Indonesia. Namanya percobaan siapa tau ya ngga..Tapi melihat kondisi tanah dan ini udah bulan Mei kayaknya ngga bisa produk segera tahun ini. Mungkin harus nunggu taun depan. Pagi ini aku mulai ngebersihin site. Gile !! banyak banget weednya. Aku kudu nyabut satu persatu dan rada teler juga. aku abandon Mark yang masih ngorok pagi tadi. Sampe sekitar jam 7 nyusul to say I love you .....
Garden mainly finish. Kita cuma kudu ngerjain dikit2 kayak rapiin yang deket dapur ma jalan masuk dari gate. Kita beli koi hari Sabtu lalu. Seneng deh liat ikan2 pada jalan2 atau nikmati makan....

Posted by ambarbriastuti at 11:11 AM BST
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Monday, 3 May 2004
May Bank Holiday
It's been three days doing garden. Start Saturday I dug more soil for extend my vegie garden and build bamboo climber for pea. I managed to dig for cable and fertilizer, did some pointing as well. On the other hand Mark did cutting for patio slab and laying it.
Monday start with raining so we delay more pointing and fixed the gutter instead. Start from blocking on up footpath to around house. It took most of the day. We had break for lunch/breakfast about 2pm. Then we cleaned backside and driveway to put rubish to skip nextdoor. I managed to cut conifer while Mark doing clematis willow. He help me for took the root off before he'd off for doing office work. I contiued creade border for flowerbed . A bit hard work for the edge but finish about 8pm. I really tired and Mark too. Our hands just sore and dry 'cause work for ponting and gutter. Mark got view bruises on fingers and I got scratches from conifer tree. It's seriously hard work. But when you sit on patio, listening water dripping on pond and nice lawn, all pay off. It's relaxing, good environment, good exercise. We put list about things to do. I got another flower bed and planting flower to do. Still have to prepare my vegie but things getting better....

ps : got a bit arugument with Mark today. He piss me off when doing gutter. He demand to do things together and I never have a change to do thing myown.....

Posted by ambarbriastuti at 9:48 PM BST
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Friday, 30 April 2004
pics test

Segernya buah dari Indonesia...hiks jadi pengen rujak deh...


Posted by ambarbriastuti at 1:01 PM BST
Updated: Friday, 30 April 2004 1:18 PM BST

blog error?
sorbet mangga

Bahan:
225 g gula pasir
250 ml air
80 ml air jeruk lemon
4 buah (1,5 kg) mangga Arummanis, kupas, ambil dagingnya, cincang
2 putih telur ayam, kocok lepas

Cara membuat:
Masak gula dan air hingga gula larut tetapi tidak mendidih.
Masukkan air jeruk lemon, aduk rata. Sisihkan hingga dingin.
Taruh mangga dalam mangkuk blender, proses hingga lembut.
Tuangkan larutan gula dan jeruk lemon serta putih telur. Proses hingga tercampur rata.
Tuang dalam mangkuk dan ratakan.
Simpan dalam freezer hingga hampir beku. Aduk-aduk hingga terbentuk butiran kecil. Bekukan kembali.
Sajikan dingin dengan irisan mangga segar, jika suka.

Posted by ambarbriastuti at 12:41 PM BST
more letters
Letters to :
Kevin Garner, the new award leader about my status
Alison Fleece, to arrange new appointment/retake Financial Application of CAD
Heather form Jobtemps, send uni letter and my passpor to copy. I just call her and will pop in the office after lunch time.

Things to do when in town:
Ask about driving lesson at BSM or private one
See any good book about HTML (I need to learn !!!)

Posted by ambarbriastuti at 10:27 AM BST
Thursday, 29 April 2004
have a nice chat with Fika (Wolves)
Today I went to Uni by tram (back to memories). The weather still raining and quite chilling even temperature raise to double digit. I was desperate to see neither Lamine or Alison when I found out that their office been moved for refurbishment. I had a quick chat with excentric lecturer next door (he is teaching interior architecture !!!) and found out another surprises. First that Lamine left from Uni this semester and David Hessom took over all the Project. He pointed on off office that Lamine might drop off for few reason. I rushed to office where somehow on a Millenium Building Basement. Nothing !!! So I was running back to SEBE office and asked somebody there. They gave me name that probably will take care my case. Then I went to Registry Office, asking my study record which quite dissapointing me. I thought I am only need one assignment to do, in fact I have to do Project Management as well (damn !!!). So I walked back and met Fika, a nice little lady from Jakarta. We went to Thornthon (she need to buy pressie for her father inlaw's birthday). Afterwards we looked any possible place to have lunch. We pop in Drucker (pattiserie) and we have had long talk. From how the house and end with a few complaints about kids in "Pengajian". She got one occasion on her 40th day of his dad and found out that most of kids hasn't got any manner. The parents seemed ignorant for these issue. The kids just playing around, moving things and did some dangerous stuff. I knew about that when I joint on "Pengajian" in Birmingham few times. Parents looked not really keep an eyes their kids and just pretended that those none of their bussiness (damn not true!!!). Where's the manner, where's the "tata krama", where their religious value ?????? Bull shit !!!
The pond seemed full of water when I was back to feed the fish. It must be quite heavy rain in past three days. Mark reduced the water volume to fix the pond's cap which loosened. My vegetables garden looked growing with potatoes (on bag), lettuce, cabbage and brussel sprout. Shallots and onions looked healthy and I was not worry about their appearences. One celeriac looked tired but I did check it today and back to life (walllaaaa!!!). Strawbery looks burst to life after long sleep. I am really happy with it. It was easing my guilty to leave them grow wildly. I might do little bit planting on front garden today. Hope weather little bit on my side !!

Posted by ambarbriastuti at 5:15 PM BST
Updated: Thursday, 29 April 2004 5:27 PM BST
Wednesday, 28 April 2004


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Posted by ambarbriastuti at 4:49 PM BST
patio chaos
finally the pond and rock garden were finished. We got problem for few leaking on stream bed but Mark did seal it with waterproff cement. It wasn't convinced me at all though, 'cause the water level seemed to high for stream highest level. I told Mark about my doubt but he insisted that his system is the best still. We did some pointing yesterday start about 19.00 when the weather quite nippy. We cover patio with plastic sheet to protect from waterlogging on the gap. Seemed Ok !
Today he was off early morning 630 to Duseldorf to have a meeting with Vodafone guys. He said that he'll back sometime evening. More sand and cement coming today but I wont do anything. The weather look like changes everytime I look on my window. I fell not pretty well to do streneous work as couple weeks ago.
I called my mum this morning to say hello. I missed her much !! I got v=funny dream last night about Mum and Dad. They have arguing about family picnic when the day start raining....what a dream. Mum and I had long conversation before handed over to my sis Dian. We had nice chatt also a bit pushed her to go Uni. She's just need more will to do herown study !!! Failed to talk to my little sis, Devy 'cause she on school (shame her !!). But was good speak to everybody at thousounds miles from here....

Posted by ambarbriastuti at 4:03 PM BST
Updated: Wednesday, 28 April 2004 4:30 PM BST

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