Jumat, 25 Januari 2008

how to eat

Food is important in our life. Eating is fun and result in lost presure. We find some kind of value for our self in eating something. I think lobster is an excelent food. Lobster is one of the few meal choices that invites you to choose your own victim.

While there are some restaurants in the Midwest where you can pick out your own steak, it's not like seeing the whole cow. With lobsters, you do see the whole thing. This leaves the diner with several tough decisions:

· We should have a soft-shell or a hard-shell lobster?

· Will a large lobster be as tender as a small lobster?

· We should choose a male or a female?

· We should choose a green lobster or a red one?

Lobster meat can go bad quickly, it's generally necessary to cook a lobster while it's still alive. That means you pick a green lobster, but don't eat it until its shell turns red! Never eat a cooked lobster with its tail uncurled, as it died before it was cooked.

what better place to discuss lobster anatomy than at the dinner table? The first thing to do when your cooked lobster arrives is turn it over and announce whether it is a male or a female.

Most people start by breaking off the legs. Holding the lobster by the back, gently pull off the legs with a twisting motion.

Tear them off at the first joint, again with a gentle twisting motion, and note that the crusher claw usually is bigger than the tearing claw.Gently remove the loose part of the claw. Again, check for especially tasty morsels in small parts.Using a nutcracker, break off the tip of the large section of claw, revealing the meat

With our forefinger, push the meat from the tip of the claw out the larger open end. Notice the mouth parts, antennae, antennules, and rostrum or beak, all of which are inedible.Grasp the tail portion with one hand, and the back with the other hand. Twist to separate the two sections.

After that, turn to end of the tail which has small flippers, or telsons, at the base. These provide tasty if miniscule chunks of meat to those who don't mind a little extra work. Arguably, the best part of the lobster (the debate rages between tail lovers and claw lovers) is the tail meat. Then insert your fingers into the telson end to push the tail meat out intact through the larger opening. Peel off the top of the tail to reveal the digestive tract, which should be removed before eating the rest of the tail meat. Intrepid diners who explore further find small chunks of meat inside the carapace, the hard shell or body of the lobster. They may also encounter the gills, the circulation system, and green "tomalley"(the digestive gland) and in a female lobster, red "coral" or "roe" (the unfertilized eggs). Hard-core lobster lovers eat the latter two.

Kamis, 17 Januari 2008

Indonesia Currency

Indonesian Currency

The rupiah (Rp) is the official currency of Indonesia. Issued and controlled by the Bank of Indonesia, the currency code for the Indonesian rupiah is IDR. The symbol used on all banknotes and coins are Rp. The name derives from Indian the monetary unit rupee. Informally, Indonesians also use the word "perak" ('silver' in Indonesian) in referring to rupiah. The rupiah is subdivided into 100 sen, although inflation has rendered all coins and banknotes denominated in sen obsolete.

The first rupiah was introduced in 1945. During the Indonesian War of Independence (1945-1949), the rupiah circulated alongside the Netherlands Indies gulden (including issues of the Japanese government, the Javanese Bank (Java rupiah) and the Dutch Government (NICA gulden)) and theNetherlands Indies rupee, which had also been issued by the Japanese government. By the end of 1949, the Republic's rupiah had replaced the other currencies throughout Indonesia.

Indonesian currency is rupiah. It is influenced by the name of the Indian rupee? We do not know exactly. It was long time ago Indonesian people and culture and Hindus. The reason is that even up no nowadays many Indonesian names and terminologies are Indians such as, Madura, Sri, Wisnu, Yudha, Atma,etc.

The following is very simple history of our country. First, during the Dutch colonization, Indonesia well-known as the Netherlands Indian used guilder, the Dutch currency, and its small change, cent. They were cast on gold, silver, and brass. Then, it seems that when the Japanese Colonized Indonesia, rupiah was firstly used by Dai Nippon Teikoku Seihu, and they still used cent for small change. They were printed on paper. At last rupiah has been used since the early of the Republic Indonesian. Indonesian sent it was cast on some kinds of metals, aluminium, nickel, and brass and was used until 1968. The values were half a sen, on sen, two and half sends, five sens, ten sens, twenty five sens, and fifty sens. Before the end of the president soekarno’s area, one sen, five sens, twenty five sens and fifty sens were printed on paper. Until about 1967 the highest value of our currency was Rp100. as sen disappear in 1968, the smallest value which has printed on paper was Rp1 the highest was rp1000. Today the longest dgital currency in the world is rupiah, Rp100, 000. How high the value of our currency at that time was. Today if we talk about our salary or other income, tax and other expenses, we must used the words of millions, billions even trillions of rupiahs, the words that were never long time ago.