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coffeeholism

Writing Class II – Making Essays

Sari Susanti / 4110004

School of Foreign Languages, Salatiga

September 29, 2011

Coffeeholism

Coffee is one of the most familiar things we have in our daily life. In other words, we can find it in many different places all around the globe. For example, in cafes along the bistro area in French or small Acehnese coffee stalls in Indonesia. The purpose is also varied. Some young metropolis people have it as a habit, whereas Javanese people use it as a means to socialize. Drinking coffee habit can globally be ascribed to various aspects, such as personal interest, cultural sides, and lifestyles.

The way people enjoying coffee depend on their personal interest. First, it means that they choose this beverage as their favourite instead of tea, for example, or many other beverages. Second, the interest here can be referred to personal tastes. Some people demand high quality brand of coffee, while others prefer the aroma of home-made ground ones. Some like Arabica better than Robusta, roasted or not. Some like it black, some add it with milk or cream. Even, instant coffee is also popular. Therefore, personal tastes really play role or influence the drinking coffee habit.

Drinking coffee cannot be separated from several cultural sides. Coffee has widely known in many countries for centuries. Therefore, it explains why coffee or drinking coffee is really attached to many cultures. Since the old times, coffee has been culturally served as the way of socializing – to welcome or honour guest – as found in the Middle East and some Asian nations. In other places, Europe and America, people are used to wake up in the morning with a cup of coffee, before and after having breakfast, or before going to work. This old culture is also found in Indonesia, for example in Aceh and Manggar-Belitung, since the old Chinese traders used coffee stalls as place to meet, talk, and do business. It is also true in many other continents that coffee or drinking coffee is highly linked to culture.

Nowadays, coffee drinking is becoming a lifestyle. It especially can be seen in big cities, the places where modern urban people live. This trend particularly affects young cosmopolitans due to the increasing number of coffee shops. Recently, we see more people spend their time in a coffee shop, whether just sitting, reading or working with their computers, while enjoying a cup of hot (or iced) coffee. Also, we often see people walking and bringing a paper cup of coffee from Starbucks, for example. It can be said that we are witnessing, or perhaps experiencing, a growing trend in our society.

The trend of coffee shops indicates the growing interest in drinking coffee, especially the youngsters. Also, the booming business of franchised coffee houses enlivens this arena. They really serve the instant need of urban people in their hectic cosmopolitan life, even give more choices in types or tastes, and also comfort and atmosphere. To put in another way, this old culture has spread to various people, in different age levels, professions, and places. To sum up, drinking coffee crosses the boundaries of cultures, preferences, and also lifestyles.         


NOTE:

Above is my essay for Writing Class II. In this first phase, we should practice about:
1.    How to make a topic
2.    Brainstorming about the topic
3.    Decide our “thesis statement
4.    Make our “introduction, the body, and closing paragraph”

•      For the first week, we learned the theory if essay writing, types of essay, etc.

•      The next week, we tried to choose our topic, brainstorming, and narrowing our chosen topic.

•      We also could perform it at home, because Mr. Idea was not always around.

•      Thesis Statement is a sentence (not a topic or a noun or a noun phrase).

•      The third week, we make our “Introduction paragraph that contains our thesis statement, preferable at the last sentence of the paragraph”

•      After being checked, we continued with our “Body”

•      And the last week was for the “Closing Paragraph”

As you can see my TOPIC is: Coffee.
And as THESIS STATEMENT, I decided to be like this:

Drinking coffee habit can globally be ascribed to various aspects, such as personal interest, cultural sides, and lifestyles.

So in accordance to above thesis statement, I have to make THE BODY that encompasses three paragraphs which elaborate three main idea in my thesis statement: personal interest, cultural sides, and lifestyles, of course, related to coffee drinking habit.

The last paragraph is called CLOSING (CONCLUDING) PARAGRAPH.

Finish all, so I deserved to get this sign from my lecturer :D

 

Pecel

Today, well yesterday, decided to make this kind of dishes. It is my mom who actually requested it. So I hurriedly bought some vegetables, ingredients, and seasons, because I should have serve it for breakfast, and recently it always be highly hectic in my house in the mornings.

For your information, I rarely engaged to or take part in the kitchen activity. My mom does it all the time, or my sister sometimes. However, finally the time is coming for me to be in charge in household matter, or you can say cores. Honestly, it's kind of another achievement for me.

Back to Pecel, It can be said, or I name it a traditional "Javanese salad". You'll find vegetables and "sambal" or the spicy sauce. And, I decided to make my own "sambal", means I should grind all the ingredients such as fried peanuts, chilies, garlic, tamarind, slices of lime, and coconut sugar. Quite sweating, yet it's worth, although the peanuts are quite burnt. I did this kind of grinding "ulek" while boiling the vegetables. I have cabbages, sprouts, and "adas" instead of spinach, and my mom asked me to add tofu.

When the light in my rice cooker turn from "cook" into "warm" mode, means the rice is cooked, my dish is ready, as follows:

Also, we ate it with "rempeyek" or kind of little fish crackers that can be substituted with fried chicken, fried egg, etc.

Here is the recipe if you wanna try this kind of meal:

Ingredients:

• 250 gram peanuts, fry 
• 6 chilies (depends on your taste) 
• 3 cloves of garlic
• 3  leaves of lime (or the skin of lime)
• 2 or 3 tamarinds
• 1/4 tea spoon of dried prawn paste (terasi)
• 300 ml water (boiled one, not necessarily hot)
• salt and coconut sugar, according to your taste

How to make:

• Boil each vegetables, separately, and drained.
• Grind chillies, garlic, lime, tamarind, dried prawn paste. Add salt, grind until it mix well in smooth texture,after that add the peanuts and grind until they mix well smoothly. 
• Cut the vegetables according to your taste (small is preferable), arrange it on the plate.
• Take the grounded spicy sauce, add it with boiled water, pour it on the vegetables.
• Voile, it is ready to be served :)
  

Happy cooking ^_^