What Terrorists Should Understand

It's, again, shocking to know there were terrorist attacks that happened within three days this week in Makassar and Jakarta. Thank God there're no fatalities except for the attackers themselves, which were, still, sad to know they ended their life for nothing. Concerning the issue, I have some points to say about what terrorists should very much understand and I'm trying not to drag it to political, racial, religion matters, but more into humanity in general, as it is universal.

Craving for Heaven

Nobody doesn't really want to go to hell even though for some people it won't matter, simply as they don't believe in such thing. It's a matter of beliefs anyway, but picturing "hell" is not always a good idea for most of us whatever it is. The doers of the bomb attacks believed that they're gonna go to heaven because they've done "the right things" and "justifiable" that make them "eligible" for the tickets. 

Here's the thing. Every house has its own rules. You can do this, but this one just don't. If you do this, if you avoid this, you'll go to heaven. But how can you go to heaven but in the meantime you create hell for you and people around you? That's the attackers should've very much understood before taking decision to commit to any terror attack. 

Is killing a right thing? Definitely not no matter what. Taking somebody's life means taking a son or a daughter from their parents. Taking somebody's life means taking parents from their children. Taking someone away so nobody can support the house. Or taking one who's become the only reason for someone not to give up. And when they're taken away from their families or friends, means that some part of their lives are also taken away. And it's not justifiable for anybody to take what's not theirs. Did they even know the first messages from Him included do not kill? 

At this point, are they still eligible for heaven?

Relationship with God and people

Becoming a faithful or religious person cannot be taken as bad. Practicing what the religions teach you is a good thing. By doing so maybe it will take you to a closer and intimate relationship with God. But what people need to always remember is that having a good relation between people is manifested from their good relation with God. No matter how close someone feels about their relation with God goes to redundancy as long as they have no good intentions to the other people. Does God really want you to get close to Him by asking you to make the other people your enemy?

Disagreements on things and that really sound ridiculous, and here they are:

  1. Disagreement on conventional banking and it's sinful. Do they know that there is now Sharia-based banking system with its banks available that they can use? They can choose which one suits them most. 
  1. Disagreement on government, which eventually lead us to talk about people relation and the complexity of life aspects interrelated nowadays. If they don't want to live under the regulation of a country, they can move somewhere foreign and remote where nobody's gonna reach them, and no products or values they will infuse and threaten their ideal of purity. Since there is no, nothing, pure nowadays. Okay, let's say, should they make it, living in their own place with their ideals, still human relation is inevitable. Otherwise they have to use to find any other way as current technologies and products even concepts and ideas are not 100 percent based on their purity ideal.

The world evolves and bad things happen, either due to force majeure or human-designed. Killing, attacks, any other form of terror just make it worse. How can you expect something better when you're making things worse? At least for yourself first. 


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Cobain Sate Bulus Siong Banjarmasin


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Sate bulus siong Banjarmasin


Suka sama saté? Sate ayam atau sate kambing? Tunggu dulu, ada yang sedikit berbeda satenya kalau main ke Banjarmasin, yakni sate bulus.


Wait, what?

Iya. Sate bulus. Hewan jenis labi-labi ini selain terkenal dengan minyaknya, dagingnya juga bisa diolah sebagai sate. So actually I've known this place for a year already, tapi baru sempat coba. It's a small warung yang ada di ujung jalan Simpang Ulin, tembusannya Jalan Veteran Banjarmasin. Warung ini dikelola secara turun temurun, dan sekarang adalah generasi ketiga. Warung ini buka setelah tengah hari, mulai jam 2 siang sampai petang. 

Untuk harganya Rp7,500 per tusuk. Ada 4 potongan daging bulus di setiap tusuknya. Saya beli 1 tusuk saja, karena ini benar-benar pertama kali dan sayang nanti kalau tiba-tiba berubah pikiran sate ini akan terbuang sia-sia. Mau dikasih ke orang juga mereka belum tentu mau. I mean, it's a little bit unusual (okay, mungkin lebih tepatnya weird).

Rasanya?

Personally, rasanya enak. Just good. Kan ada 4 potongan daging, 3 diantaranya berupa daging dan 1 seperti lemak kenyal. Rasa dagingnya enak, warna dagingnya cokelat muda dan berserat. Namun tidak seperti daging sapi yang terkadang terasa sekali serat-seratnya. Dan ada bau khas I dunno how to describe, tidak terlalu mencolok tapi lumayan. 

Untungnya ada saos yang menjadi penyelamat. Saya yang terbuat dari cabe kering dan bawang merah ini mengurangi kesan "aneh" dari daging bulus dan membuatnya lebih diterima oleh lidah. Tapi tetap saja, bagian yang kenyal tidak aku makan because it's just too weird for me. 

Hmmm...penasaran gimana buatnya...

Tempat ini hanya membeli bulus yang masih hidup, jadi mereka mengolah sendiri dari proses awal. Dan tidak ada bulus yang disimpan di lemari es karena rasanya akan berbeda. Pengolahannya sendiri membutuhkan waktu sekitar 4 jam. 

Oh iya, selain sate, di sini juga ada minyak bulus yang dijual dengan berbagai ukuran. Mulai botol kecil sampai botol kemasan 100 ml. Minyak bulus ada yang berwarna kuning dan ada yang berwarna putih. Harga yang kuning lebih murah dibandingkan yang putih. Ini karena minyak bulus yang berwarna putih didapat melalui penjemuran bulus di bawah sinar matahari, bisa dibilang sedikit intervensi jadi lebih pure

Manfaat minyak bulus sendiri banyak, bisa Google aja sih. Haha. Karena penasaran, aku coba oleskan di punggung telapak tangan. Its just normal, like olive oil or sort of. Sampai akhirnya tercium bau yang sangat menonjol, dan tidak mengenakkan. It's just distinctively gross, to be honest. I mean, the smell. 

Overall, sate bulus is unique dan ini salah satu makanan yang relatively okay lah, apalagi ada saosnya. Not really bad at all. Though I'm still unsure whether I can take the complete portion at one time. 


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