Periplaneta americana Extract

I just want to share an information, please judge by yourself

The information was given this morning by my lab-mate, Mbak Eva. Yesterday she decided to go to a hypermarket. She needed to buy some dairies and toiletries. Then she searched for hair losses treatment shampoo. Her eyes dropped at a brand new shampoo product. How it was put next to other branded shampoo products, made her thought it was a good product also. Mbak Eva then was so curious with this product, and she read about the ingredients. She found that the main ingredient was Periplaneta americana. She was little bit confused with the species. What is that. Then after little time trying to remember it, she was so surprised. She read the producer: Hongkong. Carefully, she put it down.

Periplaneta americana is latin or species name for cockroach. Yes, it was. Just take a look at wikipedia if you still don't know what it is, hehehehehehehe ^^

After listening to the information, I tried to search about this product. And I found on alibaba.com a company named PA EXTRA MEDICAL CO LTD which sell Pa extract as raw material to pharmaceutical company mainly in china, also to the company which manufacture health food supplement, hair and skin product etc.They sell it since 2002 with Southeast Asia (absolutely including Indonesia) as main market.

I don't know wether it (Pa extract) has better effect on hair or skin. I don't know why they choose them as the main material. Well, but I do know that cockroaches will still be shiny without taking bath as long as they live.... hehehehehehe. So, probably both your skin and hair will remain still be shiny when you not take bath or shampoo for a while ^^

Well, I didn't put the brand of the shampoo Mbak Eva found. Because I don't have any bad intension in my writing. Please, judge and decide by yourself about it. And if you have any information about the benefit of Pa extract for hair and skin (toiletries) please don't be hesitate to tell me. Because I'm still so curious about it.

Be shiny, be yourself!
^^

Long Week End with Fishes

Mbak Carla with Indonesian basil. Look at the gazebo and the grass...What a beautiful garden!

After longing for long week end, finally we had one. Me and my friend had planned having barbecue party in one of our senior, Mrs Puspita Deswina ^^
Four of us: Mbak Yeni, Mbak Neng, Mbak Carla and Me, went to her house at Pondok Rajeg. Mrs Deswina - Mr Ricky house is really cool. They have pretty garden with gazebo and green green grass. Wow... it was so quiet, serene and fresh. Hearing how the wind breezed the bamboo leaves, the bird chirped... It was great! It made me remember about my home town (hiks, miss it sooo much).

Before the sun setted we had the fishes done. Then we sat on the grass to start our party. We chatted about our plan to have this party once in a month. We chatted about our hometown, worklife, etc. We enjoyed that party, until the end.

One nice site of the garden... look at our snacks: Kusuka and Superman Wafer ^^

Thank you Bu Des, Pak Ricky... we had a beautiful week end. Don't forget to invite us next month!

Carla & Chef Candidate

It is a story of my cooking experience. I'm not a good cook. Then, I found that cooking can be practiced easily as long as you have cooking book.

These couple days, my roommate [mbak Carla] visit our room. She usually spends her day at Ciomas, miles away from Cibinong, but for 2 days in a week she stays with me. We share a room. She loves to eat spicy food, but hates cooking. Well, not hate-just lazy to cook. Then she persuaded me to cook. She suceed. For these couple days I cooked for her! What a shock!
First day we, well- I, cooked fish ala woku [yellow spices]. At the day, we wanted to fry some tofu actually. But mbak Carla wanted to eat something spicy [without need to cook it, absolutely]. We had some tofu already. I found some nice tofu recipes in my cooking book. Mbak Carla had been enchanted with the woku tofu. Because we lacked of candlenut, Mbak Carla offered herself to buy them some. Got back from the stall, she handed also fishes. Busyet! I didn't know what to do. Well, tofu was just fine for a cook beginner like me, but not the fishes. I was afraid if I would ruin the food later, hehehehe. Hoping the miracle I sliced the fishes into some fillet, put little lemon juice on it and put them into the pan [with tofu and spices]. Voila... the woku was greatly tasted!!! Well done!

Second day, came Mbak Yeni [another labmate of me]. She bought some salted mini-squid and pete!!! I helped her in the kitchen. We cooked them and put a lot of pepper. Ssshhhhhhh.... it's hot and spicy!!! But it was another delicioso....

A day latter we didn't cook anything because we had a party in the laboratory, hehehehe.

This morning, I cooked chicken claw [cakar] stew. I put some crushed garlic and black pepper into the pan and added some soybean ketchup.... woohooooo.... yummy yummy. We're still keeping the broth and some claws for a bowl of soup tomorrow. Hhmm, just can't hardly wait the soup!!!

This evening we plan to have a barbeque party... well we'll roast some fishes actually. Let's see how it will be?! I'll tell you latter.

hm, just considering to be a chef candidate (at least in my dormitory) beside as a researcher candidate... hehehehe

Kristophorus Abhimata Danujati

Hey, it's been a long time for me not writing on this blog. Well, at this time i want to introduce my new-baby-born nephew. He born this January 7, 2009. He is my big brother's first son. My brother gave him a beautiful name: Kristophorus Abhimata Danujati. A very javanese name. Actually his name comes from 'kawi' language, old javanese languange. His name Kristphorus is a baptist name referring to St. Christopher, a Catholic Saint. 'Abhimata' means love and hope, while 'Danu' means light, shine and 'jati' means true, forever.
It has been a javanese tradition to give their children a meaningful name. We do not seem really care about Shakespeare said about, "What a name is!" For us, the javanese, the children's name is the symbolization of parents hope. The sincere prays of the parents for their children are statued in their children names.
Well, Little Kristo... we hope that you will always spread your love and hope forever...