A Little City Called WAGENINGEN

Here are some conversations:
conversation one: me and cousin:
Cousin : dek, jadi berangkat ke Belanda kapan?
Me : tgl 24 dini hari Mbak/Mas, jd 23 malam sdh harus ke bandara.
C : Good luck ya. Btw, ke kota mana nih
M : Wageningen.
C : Oooo... [tanda engga mudeng]

conversation two: me and my boss
M : Pak S****, saya keterima beasiswa NFP, Pak
B : Wah, selamat! Belanda ya? Keterima di Universitas mana?
M : Wageningen
B : Wah, selamat..! Selamat hidup dengan sapi-sapi, menikmati pedesaan, jauh dari peradaban kota.
M : Saya suka sapi koq Pak [jawaban ngasal]

Wageningen, have you ever heard about this town?
For you who study in natural science, may be you heard about it once or twice, about the University. Well, the Wageningen University and Research Center is really well-known for life science students. But not about the city. I never know about the city before. I got little story about the city from my boss-wife who spent 4 months here for her Post-Doc. But I think it's not enough.

If you ask me about Wageningen in words, I will say: suburb, farms, silent, cold, beautiful. I love it!
Just judge it yourself by these photos, please

the crossroad

me, in front of our temporary house

the housing

unique residence

the water canal

the centrum

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!
^^