Kitchen’s Secret Guidance

Humans, the most sociable creature, need other people to live. A student needs teachers to help them. Math, for example, is an academic subject that student learn in school from their teacher. Students also learn other academic subjects from textbook with teacher’s guidance with the intention of understanding the material. Students become better students who gain more knowledge when they receive help from a teacher. Athletes become better athletes from their coaches’ guidance. In the book Tuesdays with Morrie: an old man, young man, and life’s greatest lesson tells a story about Morrie, a professor in Brandeis University who retired due to Lou Gehrig’s disease. Morrie mention about the important of teachers as someone who guide other people to better direction (Albom 65). Teachers do not have to be academic teachers. For me, my teacher is my nanny, Ekom, who guide me to better direction.

My nanny, who is in charges in cook, taught me to disobey some of rules in cooking. When making peanut paste, people in my country, Indonesia, always use food grinding. Food grinding in Indonesia made by big plate stone and pestle stone. People have put a lot of effort in make good peanut paste which takes some time and works to have smooth result. However, she prefer to use blender which faster and smother consistency than food grinding. Sometimes, it is better to disobey the rules for better result. My nanny also told me about culture in Bali, where she was born. Unlike other provinces’ culture in Indonesia, that faded due to influence from westernization, Bali’s culture preserves strong. One of the cultures is Bali people use rice, the uncooked rice, as praying facilities which soaked in sandalwood water and then prayed. Sometimes they might ...

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...d done but it was too late. Morrie’s arrogance makes him lost and cannot forgive Norman. Arrogant is negative side of human pride and always bring negative impact in people’s life.

Mak Ekom took care of me and guided me to be a better person. She taught me important things such as how to life, how to distinguish other people, and how to behave. She thought everything in the simplest way, which was very easy for me to understand. Many of her guidance thought in kitchen. Mak Ekom was the best nanny, chef, yet teacher. There is always someone who will guide other people. Sometimes people just never realized who the people that influence them.

Works Cited

Albom, Mitch. Tuesdays with Morrie: an old man, a young man, and life’s greatest lesson. New York: Broadway Books, 2007. Print.

The Holy Bible, Douay-Rheims Version. Project Guternberg Exten. Web. December 1998.