Jogja At A Time
5. Warm In Jogja

Seti and Asri laughed cheerfully after coming home from South Square. Both of them were either coincidental or how to get past Kyai and Nyai Daru. Tightly joined, Asri's head leaned against Seti's shoulder. His hands tightly hugged Seti's waist.

The soft breath of Asri's joy rubbed Seti's ears. Warm as their closeness that night.

Passing through the traffic jam of Langenastran village Denok drove slowly towards Mantrijeron, Seti looked left right looking for angkringan stall.

"You want me to go to As angkringan stall ?" Take Seti.

"What's that shop ?" Asri asked back.

"A cheap stall... The kost called it a cat sego stall ... If you want us to find ginger tea there."

"Cat sego ? ... Hiiii... Pake cat meat ?" Asri answered in wonder.

"Mahaha ... Nahva ... You know that."

"Mauuuu .. like what the hell the stall is." Asri answered curiously.

After walking down the road for a while, finally Si Denok stopped in front of a sidewalk. Behind the sidewalk was a tent stall.

The orange tarpaulin tent topped a pedicab teak wood wagon with teplok lights and two long benches facing each other became the hallmark of angkringan called Seti.

Two large kettles with charcoal stoves were seen on top of the stroller. On top of it, a pile of rice wrapped in banana leaves. Jejeran tofu and tempe bacem, quail egg satay, intestinal satay, chicken innards satay and neatly served glutinous.

The usual ngangkring must understand the hospitality and guyonan angkringan stall traders who mostly come from Bayat Klaten. Each place has its own jury and is generally closely related.

Seti pulled the hand of Asri who was still standing astonished to notice the empty mat next to the angkringan. Laughing a little, Seti then told Asri to sit in Lesehan. There is a small wooden table that fits for snacks and drinks while sitting on the mat.

"Would you drink what As ?"

"Anything warm Set. It's up to you." Asri still noticed the angkringan atmosphere that he had visited for the first time.

Some of the angkringan visitors looked towards Asri with astonished eyes.

Usually angkringan in Jogja to hang out with men or middle and lower students ... Seeing unusual beautiful women hanging out in angkringan of course invites many male eyes tempted to glance at it.

Seti did not question their curious gaze. There is nothing nosy. Greet familiarly towards them while ordering two glasses of ginger tea pleasing the angkringan atmosphere.

"Nuwun sewu mas," said Seti while taking sticky rice, tempeh, tofu bacem and two packs of rice in front of some of his visitors.

"Monggo," a warm reply sounded polite from all who were called Seti.

"Please spread it out." Seti handed him a plate containing snacks he selected earlier.

"Nrug ... Wherever you are ... Tumben together with cah ayu kok ngangkring," the seller was friendly to meledek Seti.

Some of the men who were hanging out there laughed at the ledge.

"Masangin mas in the Square .. hehehe..." Answer Seti ... There was a proud tone of hearing Asri's beauty being praised.

Seti sat next to Asri after handing over the snacks to be burned. Both of them noticed the crowd of roads passing in front of him. Glancing at his watch which still shows eight o'clock at night relieved Seti's heart. There is still enough time left to be alone with Asri spending the night.

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Mas angkringan seller smiled familiarly while delivering two glasses of hot ginger tea and a plate of charcoal-burning snacks. Seti and Asri returned those smiles of familiarity.

"Oh this is the cat you mean ?" Mumbled Asri while smiling cheerfully. Glad his heart question was answered when he opened the banana leaf package that was already in front of him.

"Pas for cats .. hahaha, " Seti laughed at Asri's mutterings.

"Wah three spoons immediately exhausted Set.. hihihi..," Asri laughed broadly at the sight of a fist of rice and a slice of cob butt and a pinch of sambal tucked in the banana leaf that had just been opened.

"Haha ... You like it ?"

Asri nodded spoiledly. His eyes stared at Seti for a moment. "Enak Set tempe burn it." Asri comments when tasting tempe bacem burn between the rice feed.

Not expecting Asri to enjoy the atmosphere and food in angkringan, Seti increasingly understand the person of Asri. He was afraid that Asri would refuse his invitation to hang out at the angkringan stall.

Seti knew angkringan when he first met Dibyo who invited him to ngangkring during his first night at the Samirono boarding house.

Asri like Seti seems to enjoy the ginger tea and the freshly baked sticky sticky rice for the first time.

"Add the sticky rice or the burning tempeh ?" Seti offered snacks again, looking at the contents of the plate that was not left.

"The devil is Set ... Burn it again but don't be so charred."

Seti. Take a plate and order four more pieces of sticky rice to burn.

"Unfortunately if wrapped it feels different As if it has reached home ... Maybe the smell of charcoal smoke that makes anyone feel at home ngangkring." Seto pointed at the burnt glutinous slices and the bamboo fan that the seller's hands were fanning.

"I love Set, too." Asri said while feeding a teaspoon.

It looks like Asri does not want to quickly spend the ginger tea. Choose to enjoy it little by little with a spoon.

Seti looked at the wet lips of Asri who was playing the spoon. "G ... Why are you looking at me like that Set ?" Asri slightly sulked to realize Seti noticed his actions.

"Hehehehs ... You're so pretty tonight." At last Seti could not help his admiration.

"Thank you for the excitement tonight Set. I'm so happy." Asri tried to hide his frustration at hearing Seti's praise.

"Together As ... I enjoyed it too."

The two stared at each other with their hearts. Fill the heart that was voiced when passing Kyai and Nyai Daru earlier.

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At nine o'clock exactly Seti arrived at the Mantrijeron boarding house delivering Asri. Then saying goodbye after Asri opened the door of the house and smiled broadly at him when Seti promised to visit him in two weeks.

Don't want to linger on the road. Seti drove the Denok towards Samirono. The road still looks crowded and jammed approaching Solo road.

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Half ten nights Seti gets to his hostel. Wash your face in the bathroom after putting the Denok into the kitchen as well as the parking lot.

Muji's room light was still on when Seti passed by. The sound of Geronimo's radio broadcast came from the small radio in the room.

"Well, you look like you're really happy with Set," Muji said hello to Seti who will enter his room.

"Ah you are also Ji." Seti replied while taking off his shoes.

"Haha ... The figure is told to mumble on."

" How was the movie ? Stimulate not ?" Seti wanted to know Muji's comments with his film earlier.

"Oh .. top anyway. Naked tuh si Yeni. The milk looks .. hahahaha..." Muji laughed off. "Let's invite you if there's another stimulating movie." Muji again.

Seti heard Muji's story. Then lay next to him listening to old western songs broadcast radio Geronimo. It was right to be heard while remembering his closeness earlier with Asri.

There were half an hour of Seti and Muji chatting with the radio songs. Feeling sleepy, Seti finally bailed to leave Muji's room.

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*Deplock: lamp lamp with kerosene.

*Ngangkring : hang out at angkringan stalls.

*Cat ego: one-fist rice with slices of small cob and sambal fish.

*Ceret: aluminum water cooking place with funnel in attached.

*Nuwun Sewu: excuse me in Javanese.

*Monggo: please in Javanese.

*Cah ayu: beautiful women in Javanese.