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“What would you like to drink?”

I just finished my order when the waiter asked me. I guess I have no choice. I, then, ordered a glass of ice tea.

Actually, the foods price here isn’t high. On some small restaurants, you can even pick your own dishes. It’s up to you how much do you want to eat. But, you must pay it before you eat it. The problem here is about the drink.

Based on the drink availability, there are two kinds of restaurant or cafetaria. The first one is my favorite, the restaurants that provide free drinking water visibly . They usually have some jugs or water dispensers with a bunch of clean cups. The customers are free to drink the water at any time as much as they want.

The second one, is the restaurant that invisibly provide free drinking water. They usually ask us first about what we want to drink using the magic question, “what would you like to drink?”. If you’re a shy person, you’ll just order ice tea or warm tea. But actually, if you dare, you can always ask plain water for free.

I’m telling you again, it’s not always about the price. The ice tea here is just cost about one thousand to one thousand and a half rupiah. It’s pretty cheap compared to the price in Bogor or Jakarta. The real problem is about self healthiness. Drinking too many tea or coffee is not good for health in the long term. Not to mention the sugar that accompany the tea or the coffee itself.

So, from this point forward, on my daily meals, if someone asked me, “what would you like to drink?”, here, I’ll answer, “just gimme a plain water”.

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I sent out my graduate’s application letter at the end of April this year. The application process was simple, thanks to the Internet. I just need to register myself to their site, print out the registration form, then send it along with the academic requirement to their office. The official site said that the selection will be held in early May. So I just need to wait for their calling.

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By the time I wrote this post, I’m reading this book called The Catcher in the Rye. This book was written by J.D. Salinger in 1951. One of the most interesting part about this book is its relations with John Lennon murder and other various homicides. That’s one of the reason I read this book anyway.

I started reading the book yesterday and it already killed me. I very like the way the story is written. It’s just so natural and flowing like you’re having conversation with the person in the book, this Holden Caulfield. Everytime I paused the reading, I started to thinking about describe anything around me with this kind of words. Unaware, I criticized the people, place, or situation that shown in front of my very eyes. And I’m not this kind of people before.

Anyway, I was thinking, maybe I should write this way sometime. So free and careless, it’s like there’s nothing to fear about. But still, I’ll refrain myself not to speak profane as in the book. That’s the end of this short brainwash. As soon as I finished reading this book, I’ll write another post about the book.

Have you read the book? Give me your feeling about it.

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Today I deployed a new theme, let’s call it birds.

In the early 1976, two young men started to build a computer prototype in their garage. Computer at that time still limited both in hardware and in software. Among computer freaks, this prototype is considered as a jewel and sold good. A year after that, Mike Markkula, an investor, came to plant money on their new company. These two people are Steve Jobs and Steve “Woz” Wozniak. And the company is Apple Computer, Inc. Continue reading