You will never feel happy, if you don't make it
Making is a keyword. Freedom or choice of making is another keyword.
I got period after two months, yeay! I suffered from social insecurity. Am I pregnant or not meanwhile others thought that I am pregnant and I can’t go diet because it’s forbidden for a baby. If not, I want to get period as soon as possible to fix my fertility scheme. But it is not! Yeay!
Moreover, this time is an exactly time for baking cookies as I don’t have to fasting and I can try the bake whether it tastes good or not. As planned, today I spent time for making Kastengel (Indonesia Cheese Cookies), for celebrating Ied with our family. Early morning, after sahur (opening supper for fasting), I went to traditional market to buy everything I need. You can find them inside that place with cheap price. I already bought Edam Cheese, as I underestimated they can’t provide you that good, but they have! I was surprising! Even the good butter for cookies, they do either. I bought 1 kilo of middle low protein wheat flour, ½ kilos of butter, 1 kilo of eggs, 1 pack of corn flour (maizena) and 2 packs of cheddar cheese. After the market, I also bought another goods from little shop nearby from my home such as, 1 pack of milk powder and 1 pack of margarine. While I made it, my husband suggested that I have to add some wet margarine into that dough. I thought it is unnecessary. But I was wrong. The dought was pretty hard to be mixed, and I took for granted from Internet recipe that human’s hand will influence the mixture of dough. Once again, I was wrong.
My husband then added the wet margarine into that dough and grind to be solid mixture (His hands are very strong!). We started to score the dough into pieces and prepared them into oven. Voila! After 5 hours of making process, we already served all cookies and the taste? Very gooodddd! My mom in law very likey. We now have Kastengel without buy in the store. As having Ied, they are very pricey! We have another jar for my mom, for my friend, for our trip going to Java, my husband’s homeland.
Cookies were done! I continued my book review entitled, Measuring Welfare by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Amartya Sen, and Jean-Paul Fitoussi, which already postponed for 2 days.. Sen and Stiglitz are economy nobel receivers who have alternative model in economy as an human effort to pursuit their definition of happiness. This book introduced the concept of objective attributes to make us easily analyse or measuring the welfare from the quality of life. It surely contradicted from BPS's finding had been released in Kompas, about three months ago. BPS stated Happiness Index with result of measuring that happiness level of Indonesia people is 65, from 100. The highest happiness is among people with higher education, living in the city, have upper income, have household with two kids, and in between 17-24 years. Here is the link: file:///Users/mac/Documents/Feminist%20Tea%20Towel/Review%20Buku%20Mengukur%20Kesejahteraan%20(Bagian%20Pertama)%20.htm
The book is very great for reading though some people thought that the book review is not important, not for me. The book was provided to add another information to frame your thinking and sometimes, it is very useful in unexpected moment such as today, I received email that I will be invited to Feminist Transformative Leadership Training and the source book had already resumed two months ago and be my guideline for self preparation. As you know, the training is my first one after I get this job and I will create that moment to be important and priceless for my life. That’s my happiness around, adding my capacity. As Amartya Sen said: welfare will be seen as how much your capacity you have to raise all goals of life and your subjective definition of happiness. Hehe. Thanks Amartya!
