Red, White, and Delicious
August always has its own way of bringing the special vibe around us. Top of all the red and white flags lining the streets and the neightborhood, the loud cheers from the 17th of August games are a sure sign that Independence Day is here. And my campus is no different, the excitement isn’t just about honoring history, but also bringing happiness between us and fun and friendly competition through our campus games.
So, in my writing now, i wanna share my campus life when the Independence Day arrive. Then the night before that special day, my senior shared to group chat about all fun competition, like catching fish and decorating nasi tumpeng. That’s sound fun, right? specially the catching fish one? sounds gross but actually fun. And at the same night, I was discussing with my team about ingredients, theme and equiments we need.
We move to the special day, aka The Indepence Day. Around 9 am, I arrived at my friend’s house with my hands full of equiments we need, like pan, knife, or something like that. and then I realized when I arrived, it turns out my friends have bought all ingredients for our nasi tumpeng so we were ready.
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After opening, we started with catching fish competition, and I choose to be the one who catch the fish. actually It’s not just catching a fish, but you’re sacrificing your clothes. We competition started, we should catch a fish with close eyes, of course I couldn’t see anything and I feel no fish around me. I was trying hard to find just one fish but i wasn’t get none. That was so frustrated, but it’s not just because of fishes, my clothes got so wet and fishy smell though. Eventhough I got none of fishes, other team gave us some fishes, atleast we could eat some fishes (tbh I aint fans of fish).
After that, we started to make our nasi tumpeng. One of my friend prepared the rice and I with my other friend prepared the fishes. And I’m not gonna write the details when we made nasi tumpeng but here’s the photo of our nasi tumpeng.
At the photo, our tumpeng’s theme is comfort because the swan feel comfortable on our noodles until lays a golden eggs, sounds absurd right? by the way do you know who decorated our tumpeng? of course my friends did that, they were really creative. Look at the noddle and the sambal, actually we just used instant noodle and sambal😂. Even so, we won for the best tumpeng’ taste, maybe “power of instant noodles”? However, I wasn’t there for the winner announcement the next day because I was sick, but I was still happy to hear that my team had won.
