My Beloved Rice Cooker

Hi..My beloved..A rice cooker is not a sexy girl.It's just a object but I love it..he he, Do you want to know the reason?

Please read this the following....

I am originate from a village at the west side of Star mountain regency, Papua. My village name is Borban. It’s about 600 kilometers from one of the capital regency. It has natural fertilized lands from the organic stuff ash produced by the chemical decay. So, it’s no wonder that most of the people living around my village work as farmer. They cultivate their field in a traditional way. For example, they work their garden with cut the tress in a forest and work movely.

Then I go to a city for studying. I study in a city that’s famous for its citation as a city for students. It’s Yogyakarta. As a city for students, of course, it has many educational institutions like; schools, universities, and other informal institutions for education. I choose one of the well known private universities there to study. It’s Sanata Dharma University.

Guys...It’s shocking for me to move directly from a village lifestyle to another one, especially the city lifestyle. This new lifestyle is very different. The city seems never sleep and move on every single minute. The people are very dynamic and love practical things a lot. “If I can buy and enjoy the things I like, then why should I wait for it?” So, if I want to eat, why don’t I buy them in a cafe or restaurant now? I need more effort to adjust or adaptation myself to this new situation.

As a new comer, I live in a boarding house. I chose one that is not too expensive but conducive to study. Then I get one. My boarding house has 5 rooms and most of the lessees are students. My room is painted white color. It makes my room is seemed large though it’s actually a very narrow room. I am like an animal that lives in a den.

Living in a boarding house as a man with a villager nature is sometimes ridiculous. I don’t like the hurried lifestyle. I cannot go with the saying ‘if I want to eat, why I don’t go directly to the canteen.’ It makes some of my friends laugh at me. They think that I can’t do so because of economical reasons. I don’t get bothered with them for what they are thinking is not totally wrong. So, I buy a thing that I am going to describe for you something relating with my semi-descriptive story as I told above. Here we go my beloved.....

I have bought a thing that’s useful in my life, especially at this moment in the boarding house. It is a rice cooker. I bought it for almost two year ago at an electronic shop in Pasar Demangan, Yogyakarta. It still works well until now. The shop selling my rice cooker is a big building located in Pasar Demangan. It has a big board indicating the name of the shop and the services available there. It sells various kinds of electronic stuff like television, tape recorder, DVD players, rice cooker, and many others.

My rice cooker is not the big one. But it is beautiful and fits to be placed in my room easily .I placed it in the corner of my room, close to the electric socket. It’s good because the cooker’s cable can be adjusted tidily. When I finish working with it, I put them nicely between my desk and the bookshelf.
The cooker has two main parts. These two parts are very important because if one of them does’t exist then the rice can’t be cooked. The first part is what’s so called pan with a stainless-steel lid. This pan is made of aluminum. It is coated with a special metal layer so that the rice can be cooked perfectly and not sticking to the pan. This pan is unpainted to avoid the dangerous poison of the paint for human body.

The second one is the main body containing heater element inside. The heater element is made of thick aluminum while the main body is made of thin metal that is painted in white. On the main body is placed the switch for cooking. There is a sticker on it indicating that this electronic stuff is energy saver and low wattage.
This cooker is featured with a plastic cup to measure the rice we cook. The cup is as big like a tea cup. The amount of rice cooked determines the water needed to cook. Three cups of rice is the same amount with 250 gram of rice and it’s the maximum capacity of my little cooker. It takes about 30 minutes to cook rice at the maximum capacity. It can be used to cook water or instant noodles as well as rice.

That’s one of my beloved things in life. I love my little rice cooker because it helps me much in living as a simple man in a simple boarding house. Thanks God I could have this one.