A glimpse of my dream

it has been very long since my last post... well better late than never, right?

it has been really very tough for me to pass the last two years...

I've resigned for my job, that I have worked there for 8 years, it's not easy to forget, since I've spent most of my time there... being a quick busy bee and become as slow as a mule, sometimes it's frustrating, sometimes it's kinda a relief...

it has been my passion in the food industry since the beginning of 2000, after I was introduced by yahoo to the pretty and kind lady, Fatmah Bahalwan, whom become my teacher, my mentor, that gave me all the courage that I need to jump to this food industry...

later on, when she founded Natural Cooking Club, a group of people, who share the same interest and passion to the food. I joined the group, and made an amazing friendship with other members since then, whom that also become close friend who gave me enough courage when I'm down and felt alone, I cannot mention all, but really thanks to Peni Respati, Riana Ambarsari, Nieken Larasati, Elly Zein, Nadrah Sahab, Eka Arei Shanti, Yenni Suryasusanti and many others who amazingly helped me through the problems by the e-mails or the short message text (SMS), and made me realized that I'm not the only one whom ever faced the problems....

as the time passed by, my dream changed...

I ever had a dream that one day, I'll become a career woman, a very successful business woman, but it's all gone when I'm in love with the food... Yes, I'm in love... it's kinda felt like, when you just broke up with a guy, and for quite sometime you don't have any boyfriend, you had a plenty time to kill with many activities, then suddenly a friend introduced you to a new guy, and you fell in love with that guy... you really want to know more about the guy, and really crazy about him... that guy for me is the food in its all form, cakes, snacks, cookies, meals, anything that edible...

now, I would simply want to be a cook... yes a cook, not necessarily a chef, but a cook... I want to be able to cook the food from its raw, to become a tasty one, with all the recipes in the world if possible, and present it in style...

I want to be a cook and one day, I really want to have my own cafe... Back in 1999, I visited a cafe that become the barometer of my ideal cafe... it's in Boston, it's called Tridane... it's small, served simple food, but surround by amazing books... it became one of favorite cafe for the Harvards and The BUs, because of its amazing collection of books...

now, after almost 10 years in love with it, at this moment, finally, I saw a glimpse of my dream...

in the beginning of 2009, I reunited again with my best friends in high school through the facebook (thanks to mark zukerberg), Dee Dee (angeline dian paramita) and Pee Pee (happy rini damayanti)... we hang out again -- A LOT -- and we've shared our ups and downs, since then, and felt like teen again...

I never thought that at this age, I will hang out with them again, since we took our own path in career, it never came to my mind that we will spend most our time together again like in high school... but who knew that now we've shared the same passion -- in love with the food...

beginning of this month (May 2010) we've talked about having a cafe... a place that the three of us will enjoy it much... I will be very enjoy to cook it, Dee Dee will enjoy to eat it, and Pee Pee with her sharpen taste of tongue, will enjoy to criticize it...

we're still work on it, it will take a very hard work, spent a very long night of discussion in planning, but here we are, a breath away from one of our goals...

at this moment -- I saw a glimpse of my dream...