I just found an interesting slide show on internet, you might like it…
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This is the first post of this OFFICE HOUR category. Actually it is not about the daily office yet, i just want to share something in my past. I just found an old image from my mobile phone, just take a look down here…
That image represents the lunch I had almost everyday on my house when I still worked at home. let me describe it:
a small bottle of kecap bango (sweat soy sauce)
home made chili sauce
two kind of tempe goreng (fried soybean cake)
steam cassava leaves
ikan cuek/kembung (long jawed mackerel)
do you know how much i paid for that one? I paid Rp 50.000,- (about 5 USD) to my maid to cook up the meal everyday. That number excluded the rice, cooking oil, gas, and spices which I bought personally each month from Carefour.
if I went to nearest warung tegal (some food stand beside road), I could get maybe 4-5 times a lot more fancy luxurious dish compared to what I had those day. It could cost me only about Rp 6.500,00 (less then 1 USD) for each person with the same dishes.
I just could not believe if we made the dishes was much more expensive than buying the already served one, So one day I decided to take a whole day off (even i was working at home) to find out where those money flew to… and I found where they went.
My maids never took that money, but she made a lot of dishes, sometimes she made 2kg of fried tofu. the other day I found she’s making 3 bowls of oxtail soups. Once I found she bought almost 2 whole chicken then fried them… many more of those dishes bought from money, and never came out on my dinner table.
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