RAMADAN: Fasting With The Locals in Indonesia
good morning good morning it's uh 304 you just heard the morning wake-up call that's the morning prayer call and also the morning wake-up alarm to get everybody up and start making breakfast i think they're already up good morning eating he's already at it, he's already eaten Ibnu is still sleeping? all right so yeah today i'm gonna try fasting. I'm gonna try it, so i think i've got about an hour to eat up and uh drink up. i think that's the most important key is just to get as much water in me as possible so but all right let's go drink some water have you already eaten? not yet we have 1 hour until 4:00 you sleep? i could sleep where did you shower? i showered here.. and there nick do you want coffee? i don't want no thank you hot water okay so yeah notice this was hot water she asked me if i wanted some coffee but i don't know i'm thinking I'll try to eat as much as i can and then drink as much as i can and then go back to bed for as long as i can. sleep again? no, it's probably no problem for her
nick, time to eat yeah for breakfast, we have tempeh, tofu tofu rice and some pickled vegetables maybe drink tea? you want? i want to drink tea, yes so nice I'm not really hungry but I need to eat the tea is in here huh? okay that's sugar, that's good enough that means enough filter right there up before the chickens for nick they're trying their best to accommodate me and i appreciate that, i'm sure it's not easy i try to make it easy on them. time to eat? now it's her turn do you want some? a little thank you thank you okay i'll try a little bit okay thank you thank you for sharing so how do you guys do it? do you wake up early early and eat a huge huge breakfast? do you just eat a little bit? i mean what's your strategy? when it comes to this i'm gonna try today, see how it goes, and then i don't know if today will be the only day we'll see and here we have some coconut water that's an interesting flavor okay eat up eat up rise and shine, sunshine he's not looking to spry over there you hungry? me? not really you gonna eat a little bit though? yes of course okay i think i've eaten about as much as i can i mean i've had another helping of rice some more tempeh, Ibnu's is like eat eat eat like i usually don't eat this much this early so but from here got about 10 minutes try to finish my coconut drink and then chug as much water as i can, Ibnu is drinking coffee you can drink up some water too? no no he doesn't need it i think they say coconuts good for the stomach coconut water, i don't hope so i really don't know if i'll be able to do this or not I hope this isn't a failed Ramadan attempt, a failed fasting attempt, I'll give it my all thank you women work hard here cook the food, do the dishes i am full I'm stuffed I'm kinda bloated actually don't drink too much stuff myself full of food getting your last cigarettes in over there because in about eight minutes no more no more cigarettes no more water oh my stomach kind of hurts i ate too much all right breathe oh man don't throw up i'm okay i think i just i think it's all the water i'm drinking it's not from the food okay i think that means it's the end of it so i gotta finish up last water for the day last cigarette? yes i think i drink too much, my stomach hurts all right first update it is 5 20. we are an hour and 20 minutes into the fast and uh we're gonna go see the sunrise should be right up here maybe this is this is your sunrise spot huh that's beautiful look at that, that's your front door you step out and that's your view you stole your dad's whiskey and got drunk over here? yeah, you little rebel. in junior school junior high school, middle school, elementary school young huh yeah they have like a first or 30 years you still remember huh somewhere over there you got drunk yeah oh there it is the sun's saying hello i think this is my first sunrise i've seen in indonesia so far i haven't really seen any sunsets either it's kind of sad you got to come to the countryside to see that huh yeah this ain't a bad spot Ibnu this would be my morning spot too, you come here almost every day? really so all that water i drank this morning i think it's just running right through me i think i've peed four or five times already and we're only two hours into this thing and this is all produced by you? this one? yeah. this is from your friend's farm
just like that huh man that smells so good a medium dark gross so we came back here after the sunrise and i was like man i could use a nap getting pretty tired but i didn't want to miss him roasting the coffee, which Ibnu was saying, he'll ship this anywhere in the world right? yep, you know not just Indonesia so if you're interested I will leave his contact info right here you can contact him on instagram and get a hold of him and he'll mail you some coffee all right but it's time to go lay down it is uh almost seven o'clock three hours in feeling good i feel like if i go lay down though and sleep i'm gonna wake up with dry mouth and i'm not really worried about getting hungry today i'm just worried about getting thirsty and wanting water but it should be all right. what are you going to do? hang out? okay see in a little bit all right time to sleep that clock is not right, so it is eleven, i just woke up from like a four hour nap feeling a little parched, mouth is a little dry, i could definitely use some water hey hot yeah it's hot here so he was just having himself a little nap maybe i'll show you how to take an Indonesian bath today or an Indonesian shower, it looks like a bathtub doesn't it? with all that water in there, no you don't get in there you just use a ladle and just like wash yourself off, actually I might do it now just to wake up good afternoon selling? maybe like an eggplant. do you have it in America? yes, but it's this color... the color is purple corn, it's sweet corn you want? tonight i'm fasting, no water, no food fasting, i'm trying i want to drink something yeah ah this is uh ah this is uh what is this? i had this in a drink, uh cincow? yeah yeah this is cincow yeah it's good for your stomach? tonight, i'll try it some pumpkins or something some squash okay all right i got six more hours six more hours i can do this it's hot it's okay so from here we're going to the beach and dropping off some laundry my laundry quick stop at the atm i noticed this yesterday when we were getting some gas there's a little clothing shop over here but I don't think they have any men's clothes don't look like it, looks like all lady clothes all right so a little fasting update, how am i doing? uh definitely thirsty uh mouth is a little dry a little parched, uh when I was sitting on that bed hanging out with Ibnu's mom in that little center room in their house, that was the first time my stomach was just like okay ready when you are, had that first rumble in the stomach, so uh and when we when i got on the scooter i noticed it was, you know, it started rumbling a little more i was like okay thinks we are somewhere to eat but, nope you know it's it's noon it's 12 o'clock exactly right now so uh we're gonna head to the beach which is uh probably a good idea to not have any water and be out in this hot sun but, that's where we're heading, got five hours and... what time are we eating tonight? five what 5 30, so i have five and a half hours left, I got this thank you all right back here at Bobby's house, yes so we uh bobby his older brother and his mom are joining us but we're going to see their his dad right? his dad is a security officer by the beach i think we're back here down by the beach and this is that area where you have all those street lights that are just uh... street lamps out in the middle of this property way out there
just a bunch of them littered out there it's kind of eerie like they planned on building a huge neighborhood, built the street lamps and then just walked away nick, do you want to climb the lighthouse?sure maybe not the best thing to do without any water but, five hours i can do this you working hard? okay we going over here get some permission let us in okay so we're getting special permission to go on to this property what is this place right here? okay there's a lighthouse but then this way it goes down to the beach so maybe we're going to go up, i'm sure it's super hot in there it's gotta be smoking hot in there so people living here? yeah last time yeah someone jumped off from the top, suicide. somebody jumped off the top last time? that's terrible, somebody jump from the top? no not here from somewhere else someone jumped from the top and now they aren't allowing people up one person has to screw it up for everybody that's how it always is all right sounds like it's a no-go on the lighthouse that's all right though it probably would have been extremely hot in there and it would have just made me really thirsty i imagine, so so it's probably a good thing we didn't get to go up there thank you thank how much was it fifty thirty so this is where the river empties out into the ocean huh? yes okay so this is the same beach we came to last time but we are way down there, and uh now we've just come to the riverside part of the beach, kind of curious to see if it's any cleaner than it was last time and by the first look of it, it doesn't look... it looks worse honestly looks a lot worse i'll let you be the judge hello yeah don't want to get in the way of that dang, got a nice toss on him where are you from? america, what are you all fishing for? what kind of fish? i'm speaking english, a little, so when you uh you come into this little beach part area if you pass by all these little like stalls set up and selling stuff i was like first thing that came to my mind like oh a coconut sounds good, like oh don't even think about it don't even think about it did he get this from here? you're going to throw that away? he's gonna go use it to play in the sand or whatever I thought he was being a good samaritan and you know every little bit helps but yeah you need a lot of people out here cleaning these beaches up okay now it's starting to make more sense Ibnu was like we're gonna go over there we're gonna go over there like okay how we're gonna leave this place we just got here we're gonna drive all the way around no we're gonna get this guy who has a boat to take us across man but have you ever seen so much trash on a beach and if there's this much trash up here just imagine how much shit is out there i might want to sit down for that we've made it to the other side let's see why this side is so special that's what it looks like over here we got some monkeys we got a little swimming pool slash bath down here you got three people over here shampooing each other up, bobby just jumps right in monkey see monkey do huh stop on shit i know step on [ __ ] all right so we're looking at 1:57 still got about three and a half hours of the fast how am i feeling? thirsty not really hungry anymore uh just really thirsty that's it got a slight headache a little bit i mean it's kind of you can feel it creeping in a little bit but i think that might be just because i didn't have any coffee this morning and there sometimes when i go without drinking coffee in the morning i get a headache in the afternoon and in the evenings but or it could just be because i'm really thirsty, but i think from here we're gonna go check out a fish market, so let's do it, you ready? let's do it let's do it let's do it looks like we made it to the fish market get off smells like a fish market that's for sure wow look at the teeth, you see that bobby? hello looks like a lot of places are closed down are they busier in the morning or in the evenings in the morning the stench in the air it is strong here oh man squid? and shrimp i don't know if you can see it but there's a bunch of goats over there eating that trash you're gonna need a lot more goats than that, that's for sure, this place is filthy you got some nice colorful boats out here though let's go look at that, let's go focus on the boats don't look in the water hello how are you? good huh I'm so great i'm doing pretty good, pretty good, came to look at these beautiful boats yes of course this is a traditional boat, a traditional fishing boat? yeah in Indonesia okay do you have a friend maybe? yeah yeah that's my friend over there, yeah so i'm staying with him nice to meet you this uh fasting's gotta hurt his business all these people aren't eating or drinking right now you gotta wait three more hours low tide low tide what do you see down there? bottles and cups and trash trash just bags of trash out here let's see what she got two fish two fish all right all right i think we're gonna have a feast tonight like Ibnu was saying earlier, this place is not for tourism yeah I'm sure a lot of a lot of people in Indonesia don't want outsiders to see this, that's for sure oh and we're back we're back it's 2:52. okay so we got some vegetables for tonight okay, stinky fish smell, so just to get rid of the fish smell? yeah yeah oh yeah much better, so this is your packaging? yes kopinoe nice. and he'll send this to you just let him know how much you want do you have an online shop yet? not yet no yeah I'm just including my coffe on Facebook okay so facebook and instagram naturally gas last step in the process? yep now it's ready to go exhale in three two one let it go that your breathing return to normal as you finish up the round fried bananas? casava? it's 4:30, one hour how do you feel?you look tired, oh you slept okay yeah i never wanted to drink something so bad it's only been one day too watermelon oh my gosh, that looks so good why are they out here this early? later, after one hour they're ready i'm going to get one of those watermelon drinks though, that looks so good so we're looking at about 25 minutes, how am i feeling? kind of the worst part about it is just i have a headache, you know i'm not really hungry i'm thirsty but i'm not like dying to drink something i think the headache is actually what's killing me the most right now i mean i can't wait to drink this, i got some water, i'm gonna try not to overdo it like i did this morning just drank a whole bunch and ate a whole bunch and i was just bloated and i didn't feel good but it might be hard it might be hard, you know haven't drink in anything in the past 15 hours now i might be chugging it but i'm going to walk over there in a second and buy some of those watermelon drinks because that sounds freaking 12,000 (85¢) watermelon... all right so i got four drinks for less than a dollar that's a win right there, all right already feeling better okay got about 10 minutes i don't know if these are the best things to drink right away but they sound delicious watermelon ah over there wow look at that you've been busy i can't wait yeah okay the time has come they've given me the green light and i'm gonna go with the watermelon juice oh man that's the best thing i've ever tasted in my life that's good dont't drink too much i know and it's cigarette time no idea what it is but Ibnu's mom just made me a bowl of it so i got to eat it let's try it so it's kind of sweet it's made from rice flour and brown sugar coconut milk, hopefully easy on the stomach fingers crossed all right so after just a quick bite to eat at Ibnu's house just a little something something just to break the fast, uh we're heading over to uh back to Bobby's house back where we were last night and I think they're gonna make us some dinner uh the same group that went to the beach with us and went to the fish market the same lady that bought some fish from earlier i think they're cooking it up to be honest, I'm really not feeling that great, still got a headache I'm not really that hungry but just going with the flow going with the flow, we got lots of food over here that looks really spicy, yeah for the locals, it's spicy can you have that? yeah why not i'm not gonna be trying that i'm gonna try the curry though some fish curry? yep that has some heat to it too though that's really good fish, that's good yeah very good, mix it all together, no, no just wait okay eat this first and then i'll try it hi that wasn't my idea that wasn't my idea hello sorry about that Ibnu told me to wake her up i don't think she's very happy about that okay okay that's her husband nice to meet you so we just had dinner at Ibnu's friend's place, unfortunately, i wasn't feeling too good i feel bad because i didn't eat a whole lot even though she made so much but i, you know had Ibnu explain like, you know i just wasn't feeling that good i had a headache and so it just wasn't happening but, I had some coffee I took some ibuprofen actually at the house so that's finally kicking in, coffee, uh she fed me some grapes. I hate the whole bunch of grapes, and so I feel good now i feel much better
i'm sorry to wake you it's a pleasure to meet you that's what saved me tonight, all the fruit thank you for having me thank you thank you all right well, I need to in today's video it's been a long day from 2:55 a.m until now, which is 11:47. p.m so we did a lot today, I don't think I'm fasting tomorrow i want to wake up early though and have breakfast, I'm glad i got my uh my second wind or i was able to bounce back because at dinner time i wasn't feeling too good but like i said i ate those grapes had that coffee had the ibuprofen you know that got me that got me feeling better and i'll see you guys tomorrow thanks for watching and i'll see you in the next video good night
2022-05-06 12:43
