First Christmas

It’s my first Christmas without my family.. my mom, dad, and sis..
a little bit sad at the beginning, but it’s okay now.. at least I’m with the one that I love..
If the time comes, I will walk alone without them anyway.
But yess.. being far away from home often reminds me how I do really love my family.
Am I a family-minded person? ya, perhaps..

Anyway.. I was in Hamburg during Christmas.
Friday, took 9 o’clock train and arrived there around 12.
We went to Toko Indonesia first. I bought saus tiram and sambal ulek. The others bought indomie, bumbu2, etc..
From there we went to Thai store and other asian stores.. just to find Toge.. :p Yup.. toge.. hehe..One family in Emden asked us to buy toge to make Soto Kudus komplit.. (for unluckly I missed the opportunity to eat it because I will stay in Hamburg.. )
Almost 15 o’clock, we went back.. took Metronom to Bremen.
Wihh.. I saw a lot of people in Hauptbahnhof..
I thought people here also like ‘mudik’.. going back to their homeland or to their parents..
Somehow, I can feel people here still celebrate Christmas in ’sentimentil’ way.. but I like it more than just having fun with parties..

The menu for dinner was Nasi Campur ala Thai.. (the one that I told you here before)
Smeck gut..
Around 7 pm we went to Hamburg again to see the movie.. (Narnia)

Saturday, Dec 24.
We met Kom, Xiang, Burak and Erkhan at Hauptbahnhof.
From there we walked through Monkebegstrasse (hopefully it’s correct) and went to Rathaus.
Took some pictures here and there.. and then continued walking to Alster lake.
Saw a little demonstration on the Street near there (about Afganistan if I’m not mistaken), and then went to Landungsbrueken (hopefully it’s correct again)..
From there we took the ship to another place.The wind was very cold.. but I enjoyed it.
Walked to Altona.. and ended up in a Turky restaurant..
Went home.. I wanted to go to the Church..
Lucky there was still one messe at midnight..
But really unexpected, many people came to attend it.
Huhu.. really sad when I was in the Church..
Some because I missed a lot of people, some because of other reasons.. ;(
Hm.. mesti kuat..

Sunday, Dec 25.Again, together with my friends walked around Hamburg..
And went to Reeperbahn, a famous prostitution area in Hamburg.. yup.. it is..
We just walked around, and let the boys walked through one street where only man can get into.
Well ofcourse, it’s Christmas.. so they met nobody.. all the girls looked like going home for Christmas.. hehe
Sunday night then filled with Carcassone game.. until 3 am..

Monday morning, Dec 26.
Again, became the first person who woke up.
I saw outside, it was snowing..
So I took everything and went out.
Walked alone under the snow rain, I smiled and cried.. feeling peace inside and also lonely..
Nice way to re-think about everything and pump up my positivity to face life easily.

One thing I got:
Kalau bebanmu terasa berat dan merasa tidak kuat lagi utk menahannya,
selalu ingat bahwa masih banyak orang lain yg punya beban jauh lebih berat..orang2 yg harus mencari cara utk bisa makan hari itu, orang2 yg sedang berjuang melawan penyakitnya, orang2 yg tidak seberuntung kita..
Dan akhirnya aku bersyukur utk semua yg aku dapat sampai hari ini..

Merry Christmas!