Going Home Rituals

We are planning to go back to Indonesia this weekend to attend my sister’s wedding. It’s only a short trip, Friday to Sunday, and there are many planned activities waiting for us. That means we will not be able to experience the best part of going home, which are the nasi padang, soto betawi, batagor, sotomie and pecel.

We are going to spend most of our time in Bogor this time, to help the preparation for the wedding (if needed). So once we arrive in Jakarta’s airport, we are going to take the shuttle bus to Bogor. But once we arrive in Bogor, we will surely feel a new sensation that we seldom feel when we are abroad, the feeling of numb on our butt.
It’s because the trip will last for 2 to 3 hours and there’s no break in between. So when we arrive, we usually cannot feel most of our body parts from the waist down. If there’s a thief who’s planning to take our wallet, or our shoes, he would be able to snatch them away easily and we would not notice anything and just continue reading our gossip newspaper. Heck, he can even snatch our legs away and we still wouldn’t know it.

In Bogor, our only plan is to do our hair. We always do that every time we are in Indonesia, because when we look at the quality and the style of the hair stylists in Singapore and Indonesia, the Indonesians have a quality that differentiate them from other hair stylists in the world, they are cheap.

Then what we usually do is to have some Indonesian food (hope we will have the time). Soto betawi and batagor are some of the must have every time I go home, and we are going to have a lot of them. Eat often, eat a lot is basically our motto when we are in Indonesia. 2 kg is the minimum addition to our tummy every time we go home.

We might visit our relatives to say hi, but I don't think we will have time, besides they might not have food. We also want to go shopping if we got the time, for DVD, computer things, and food. And maybe, if we have time, we will eat.