My Pizza Crunch

My Pizza Crunch is a homey restaurant which sell homemade pizza with affordable price from Rp.13.000. They have variety of pizza for pizza lovers, such as: tuna, ham, chicken, smokebeef, sausage, cheese, strawberry, etc. Besides,they have delicious steak and spicy chicken wing.


I am glad that I had the opportunity to have a short interview with the owner of My Pizza Crunch, Mr Iwan.
Before he started My Pizza Cruch, he had an experience at fishering field. He decided to quite the fishering field as he found out it needs a lot of modals and is too risky for him. His major at his university is a hotel management. After few years at hotel industry, he felt that his character doesn't fit the hotel industry. However, when he was at hotel industry, he was trained to be more decipline, neat and tidy. Besides, he realise the important of customer service. After that, he worked as event planner. He is trained to be more creatife and self-thinking. He realise the important of creative ideas to attract people. When he was at fishering field, he realise that every business has its own risk.
His advice for people who want to start a business is measure your own ability and follow a plan which matches your ability. Besides, he stressed that never try or do things which beyond your ability and limit. He also doesn't encourage people to get a loan from bank as the modal for the business.He believes that even with limited modal and cash, business still can be run and manage but only in a smaller size. He will only try to expand his business when he has confidence and done the market research.
The special Lava Pizza that I have tried.

He stopped working for a year as he felt himself was stuck in life and hardly move forward. He tried to figure out what is his passion for life instead of keep repeating the boring routines to pay the bills. His wife always support and encourage him and never try to give pressure to him. On day, his wife said,"Sience you love to eat and cook, why don't you start cooking something which enjoyed by everyone? You may earn a living by doing what you love to do. Don't you think so?".

He start to think about his wife advice seriously. He had thought about franchise but it was over his budget. He flipped through a magazine which introduce the restaurant in Malang. He realise that there is no crunchy pizza with thin crust in Malang. He feels that this is his great opportunity.

He started his pizza business by delivering order as he try to introduce a new experience for the Malang people that they can enjoy delicious pizza and steak at their home. Besides, he could save part of his modal by not running a restaurant. 

Batik

I would like to share my experience of learning batik at Batik Blimbing, Malang.

I had my first batik class on 12th Feb 2014(Wednesday).

When I entered this house, there is two ladies are 100% focus to paint the batik. They really have a good skill. Thay have painted the flower with red and the pattern with indiogo and dark blue colour. It is a nice piece. The colour is sharp and harmony.

The owner,Miss Ima, came out to welcome me by giving me a warm smile. I followed her to enter her workshop.

The First Step: Draw a pattern on a cloth
I am not an artistic person and not good at drawing, So they let me choose a few flora pattern which are drawn by them. After that, I have to trace the choosen pattern with pencil on a white cloth. An eraser is used to rub out the uneccessary line. To make the tracing easier, the drawn paper is under the cloth on a drafting light table.

The Second Step: Apply the batik wax on the pattern
The batix wax is applied to the penciled outline of the pattern with the tjanting tool. The hardest part of this process to me is the pattern have to be drawn smoothly to prevent much amount of wax at a spot. Besides,I also have to prevent the wax dropping to batik cloth. This step have to repeat at the other side of the cloth to make sure that the wax is penetreted through the batik cloth.

This is my half done masterpiece.... hehe.....

I continued my second batik class on 24th Feb 2014(Monday)

The Third Step: Paint the pattern
I was only able to paint my batik with red and yellow due to I must complete it in 3 hours. As the red and yellow are the colour which dry fastest. When I started to paint, I was completly confuss with the colour. The red will looks like yellow and the yellow will looks like brown. However, the red and yellow will be sharp after half an hour.

The Fourth Step: Apply the wax on the coloured pattern
Wax must be completely cover the coloured patter to ensure that it will never fade and penetrated by the other colours. This procedure should be repeated at the other side of the cloth.

The Fifth Step: Dye the cloth
The cloth should be dye with dark colour, such as: back and dark blue. This will make your pattern sharper and more attractive. This procedure must be repeated for 2 times to ensure the white cloth is completely coloured.

The Sixth Step: Wash the masterpiece with clean water
Never wash batik with detergent and soap as they will the colour fade and dull. Batik should always wash with shampoo so that the colour is always outstanding.

The Seventh Step: Dry the masterpiece
Never put batik under the hot sun. It will be better to dry the batik under a shade and a windy place.

These are the stepes that I have learnt to make batik from Miss Ima. She is kind and patient.

We took a photo with our masterpiece at the end of the class. ^^