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It's fasting month in Saudi Arabia, India, America, and in my beloved country Indonesia. This year, and last year, I'm fasting in Depok-a small town on the ouskirt of Jakarta where to many people moving in while the city infrastructures are not ready yet.


here's a trend in Depok-perhaps in other cities throughout Indonesia as well- that during Ramadhan a few hours before the time to break the fast (around 6 pm) some people are becoming instant entrepreneurs by selling ready-to-eat food on a "Ramadhan Bazaar", in a market even on the rode side. They sell any kinds of food that usually show up only on Ramadhan, such as kolak (a thick sweat delicacies containing palm fruit, banana, sweat potato), es kelapa (a sweet drink made from the water of a young coconut fruit, along with its meat, a little liquid brown sugar and some ice cubes), dates, and timun suri (a kind of white-flesh pumpkin-because of its tasteless nature, people usually have it with syrup) and other indonesian cuisine.

Speaking of food and drinks, it's 5 pm now. So its around one more hour before i can have them. To wait for the maghrib-here we call it ngabuburit- people do it in many ways. Some are staying at a mosque reading the Koran, the youngster are usually hanging out at malls or riding thier motorcycles around the city and some... well posting their blog-just like me.

Posting a blog while fasting is quite enjoyable. Surprisingly with an empty stomach my mind becomes more cooperative so i can produce this writing. And by writing i didn't even notice that the time to break the fast is near. I mean instead of doing other things that are, maybe, useless and might breaking the essence of fasting itself, writing is an act of an angel.