Empat tahun lalu, tepatnya Agustus 2010, adalah pertama kali
saya memberanikan diri untuk berpergian ke luar negeri. Sebuah proses yang
cukup panjang untuk akhirnya saya berhasil melakukan perjalanan tersebut,perjalanan
ke sebuah Negara berpenduduk kurang lebih 84 juta jiwa, Vietnam.Minggu, Agustus 31, 2014
Pertama kali
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Empat tahun lalu, tepatnya Agustus 2010, adalah pertama kali
saya memberanikan diri untuk berpergian ke luar negeri. Sebuah proses yang
cukup panjang untuk akhirnya saya berhasil melakukan perjalanan tersebut,perjalanan
ke sebuah Negara berpenduduk kurang lebih 84 juta jiwa, Vietnam.
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Selasa, Desember 04, 2012
Finding beautiful ‘less-tourists areas’ in Jakarta ? It’s not that really hard.
1 commentsJakarta,
the capital city of Indonesia with more than eight millions of people living in
it’s largest city in Indonesia. Make Jakarta, one of the most sought place by
foreign tourists. You can easily find foreigner walking on the main streets in
Jakarta, especially in the tourist areas.
Senin, Januari 23, 2012
Like Light Life
10 comments"A room is like a stage. If you see it without lighting, it can be the coldest place in the world," Paul Lynde.
- Optimize the use of natural lighting during the day, it is not just because the natural light nicer but it does more eficient. You can do this using translucent glass windows that can provide as much light as dozens of light bulbs during the daylight hours., you also can make the transparent translucent roof that radiates sunlight during the daylight hours.
- Turn off all the lights just before you sleep, unless you are a nyctophobia , it would bemore efficient if you turn off the lights before you sleep. More precisely, turn off all the lights when you are not using it.
- Use the TL lamps or CFL (Compact Flourecent Lamp) and avoid incandescentlamps. Because incandescent bulbs are less efficient, a lot of energy convert into heat instead to the light. and the rated life of a CFL ranges from 8 to 15 times that of incandescents. In fact, you can save more than 100K rupiahs on your electric costover the life of the lamp*.
- You can do task lighting** concept which widely used in office buildings, in to your home lighting concept. The basic concepts of task lighting is used to increase illuminance on the reading area. To your home, you can Install track of recessed lights to illuminate your desk or the kitchen table where you do the crossword puzzle, and keep the ceiling lights off.
Save Water Save Your Life.
4 comments- When you turn on the water machine to fill your bath, pay attention on it. Do not ever leave the bath while you filling it, because the water maybe spilled out if you didn’t pay attention on it.
- Test your water meter. Turn off all water in the house and look at your water meter. The meter should not rotate, iIf the opposite occurs, there may be leaks in water pipes. Check all your water bill to ensure there are no major surge in the use of. If those things happen to your water meter, do call.
- Nowadays, there seems like no rainy season or summer, we nearly can’t predict when rain will come nor predict when the summer will come. So, when the rain come, we better absorb the rain water and use it for watering plants instead of complaining and getting mad because of it.
- Do bring your own mineral drink water from home. It will not just save the water, but it save your money too.
- Many people think brushing teeth is an activity that can be resolved quickly, that’s why most people often leave the faucet in open position while brushing their teeth. In fact, a number of 4 gallons wasted**. Is It is not that hard to turn off the faucet for a while, isn’t it ?
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Sources :
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_skills
** http://edition.cnn.com/2011/LIVING/04/16/ed.water.saving.tips/index.html
Jumat, Januari 20, 2012
USE YOUR LAPTOP WISELY
2 comments- First, when you decide to buy a laptop, try to find a low electrical capacity. It will save your house electrical and of course will save your money.
- Always charge your laptop’s battery until it reach 100 % before you want to use it. It’s not just save the electric, it does save your battery’s life, not to mention, it saves your money too.
- Adjust the lighting and contrast of your monitor. Too high lighting and contrast percentage will spend a lot of energy.
- Use a full black color as your wallpaper instead a colorful one also will save a lot of energy (it is believed to save more energy in CRT kind of monitor not the LCD one). Even a website powered by Google, which created by Heap Media fade to black with blackle. Blackle claims saving more than 700 megawatt-hours per year*.
- Turn off other equipment such as speakers, scanner or printer when you finished using them.
- Last but not the least. Add more RAM !! The more amount of RAM you have, the more your laptop will run better and it will surely make your laptop last longer.
Rabu, Januari 18, 2012
I Can Live Without AC
0 commentsThere is a friend of mine, who can't sleep without air-conditioner. She always turn on air-conditioner in her room, whenever she go to bed. I once asked her, why she need air-conditioner everytime she go to bed ? Isn't it enough by using fan only ? She answered, I don't know, I just feel better with air-conditioner, it's cooling the room different with fan. Then I asked again, "so you have tried using fan when you sleep before ?", she said "well, not yet". Soon after hearing her response, I'm like, what ? are you kidding me ? tryin to compare things that you never tried before ?
Well, I still can't get it. I mean, she has no idea exactly how does it feel sleeping with fan, but she confidently said air-conditioner was better than fan. What are you looking for by using air-conditioner ? a cold room to help you get a quality yet comfort sleep, right ? Fan is more than enough, i think, well, okay this is my personal opinion.
Actually there are many points I can show you all, why do I prefer fan than air-conditioner. Air-conditioner, more than 50% electrical energy consumption in homes is for the air conditioner (AC)*. It means that, using air-conditioner suck lot of money from your pocket. Not just for the electricity, but air-conditioner it self, buying air-conditioner is much-much-much more expensive than fan. After you buy it, you do still need routine maintenance services, which need much more money than fan, and all those money being sucked from your bank account. It will eroding your financial slowly but sure.
Okay, we have seen in terms of it's economic aspect. Now let we see it in terms of go green living aspect.The use of air-conditioner will produce chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), an organic compound that contains carbon, chlorine, and fluorine, produced as a volatile derivative of methane and ethane, which contribute to ozone depletion **.
Yes, I prefer to not use air-conditioner, but then again it is your right to use or not to use air-conditioner in your home. Even though you will choose to use air-conditioner, there are still many ways you can do to use it wisely, for example leave the thermostat alone, keep the curtains closed, keep your air-conditioner out of the sun, etc ***. not just for you but sure for the world too.
The point, in my opinion, by not using air-conditioner, you become a hero. You have save your self, yet you save the world too.
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sources :
* http://www.need.org/needpdf/infobook_activities/SecInfo/ConsS.pdf
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorofluorocarbon
*** http://saveenergy.about.com/od/homecooling/tp/ac_usage.htm
Senin, Januari 16, 2012
Don't Bring Too Many Clothes
0 commentsMy heart on traveling continue up till now. For the last three years, I've been traveling to Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and some areas of Indonesia, like Bali, Jogjakarta, Solo, Surabaya, Lombok, The Komodo National Park in NTT, Krakatoa Island, and many others. There was one time when someone asked me, why do I love traveling like very much. Simply I answered, because the world is too beautiful to not be explored.
Since I travel a lot, a lot of my friends asked me, what they should note when traveling. Actually, being a traveler is easy and simple. One of the most important things people should know about traveling is not bring too many clothes. Traveling is not like we're moving our household into a new place, it's about the experience it self.
Why do we have to bring so many clothes ? You don't want to pack and bring a too big bagpack rite ? You don't want waste your travel time just to taking care of your things on your bag, do you ? Get simple. Take a note, what's your trip is all about ? beach, mountain or what ? do adjust to your destination place and of course the weather. Do bring more black clothes than bright color. You don't need to wash your black clothes so often like birght colors, it means you save on your detergent to wash, which means that you save your financial.
Do re-use !! For example, if you traveling about 10 days, five clothes will be enough. You can use your first one in day one and six, your second cloth on day two and day seven, and so on. Instead bring many clothes, why don't you bring perfume, to avoid bad smell of your used clothes, so you'll have a good smell and people will not notice if you wear a cloth that have been used before.
Not only make your traveling more simple and fun, bring enough clothes reduce the excessive use of detergents and also save world water-supplies. Be a smart traveler !!
Minggu, Januari 15, 2012
I'm Proud To Be A Cyclist
0 commentsI remember when I was in elementary school, it's like 16 years ago. I was 8 back then, my first time learned how to ride a bicycle, my friend's bike, not mine. It took me more than three hours, before I finally made it to ride it by my own. I still remember, how happy I was at that time, and everytime I ride my friend's bike.
Now, at my 24 years old. The happy feeling because of riding a bicycle still the same or even more. Finally for the first time in my life, I can have my own bike. It started from last year, after couple times passing through Sudirman street on sunday morning, watching thousand cyclists riding their bike for the Car Free Day annual event (it's once in every two weeks), making it look like a big parade. Many cyclists from all over Jakarta come into Sudirman street with different types of bikes. It makes me think that it would be great if I have one and join this big parade every sunday.
In february 2010, after two months colleting money, buying the spareparts, working on it with my friend, finally my first ever bike was completed. I assemble my own bike with my friend, a fixie, white color, not so that great compare to those millions rupiah bike, but I do feel happy for having it.
Today, having a bike, not just for joining the annual car free day, but being a cyclist has become my lifestyle. This is my green statement. I'm happy doing this, eventhough many friends of mine saying that I'm a victim of trend, I don't care. They have no idea how many positive things that I can get from this, in addition to being happy, there are many benefits for our health by riding bicycle.
By doing a routine cycling, we can control and reduce body weight yet builds muscle and burns body fat. Some research also has shown that women who regular cycling will reduce the risk of breast cancer*. Riding for several miles does promote tension reduction and (usually) a feeling of well-being, in short, riding a bike is healthy, fun and a low-impact from exercise, not to mention it is a perfect energy-saving transportation.
Lot positive things I got from cycling, no matter what people will mocking at me for back in to retro, the thing is I'm proud to be a cyclist and will always be.
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* source from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/2743965.stm
Minggu, Oktober 16, 2011
Sharing Is Caring with FOOD.
1 commentsJumat, Oktober 07, 2011
Jakarta, more than just a traffic-metropolitan-jam city
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Jakarta, as the capital city of Indonesia make this city as the largest. More than 9 million people live in Jakarta, with more than hundred new cars appear in Jakarta’s street each day, making it as one of the worst traffic jams city in the world. What would happen with this fact ? STRESS. Your mind soon or later become stress, and no other way to get relax but briefly escaped from the traffic jam and go for a short holiday trip.
Such as the philosophy of China, we all need yin and yang in our lives, and thank God for that, Jakarta has it’s own yin and yang for us to enjoy or to take. We may hate Jakarta for it’s crowded and traffic jam, but we can also praise this city for it’s nature beauty. There were thousand islands, located on north Jakarta, with it’s beautiful beaches. Two hours (approximately, depend on which island you want to visit) from Marina Ancol harbor or Muara Angke, will definitely make you forget the fatigue, the stress of Jakarta for a moment.
Where do you plan to throw away your stress and fatigue? There are Tidung island, Pramuka island, Untung Jawa island, Semak Daun island, Ayer island, etc. Let say going to Tidung island, many tour packages that offering to go to this island. You only need to spend about 300K – 500K IDR to have your two days-one night holiday, the more people the more cheaper you’ll get. With those amount money, includes return boat’s ticket from muara angke (or marina) to tidung, welcome drink, bicycle, accommodation, meals (once barbecue), snorkeling and boat for hopping-islands. Such a great deal right ? you can find about this package tour all over the internet. Google it !!
Feels not right traveling with tour package? Want to have more adventurous trip and more cheaper? why don’t you try to go backpack, build a tent and bring your own mini-stove? Give it a try. Go to Semak Daun island, an inhabited island, not really inhabited, there is one small family live there and maintain the island. It’s not a big island, you could do walking surround the island within only 10 to 15 minutes. The beach here is really beautiful, with it’s smooth white sand. How much money do we need to go to this island? Less than 300K IDR.
You don’t believe it? Let’s we counting now. Return ticket boat from Muara Angke is 70K IDR, which will bring you to either Pramuka island or Tidung island. From those island you can take ‘ojek’ a small boat to go to Semak Daun island which will cost you about 10K IDR – 20K IDR (depend on your bargain skill), but be sure to rent a snorkeling equipments there if you want do snorkeling, the rent fee about 25K – 35K IDR (there were no snorkeling equipment to be rent in Semak Daun Island). In Semak Daun, you can build a tent there and pay to the guard of the island (it’s up to you how much you want to give to the guard, but please do give a reasonable price, like twenty to fifty thousand would be fine). Doing hopping-island, will cost highly if you do it just by your own. The boat cost is 300K – 350K IDR for each boat, so you better share the boat with other people who do the same thing with you in Semak Daun island (you know, there is always another group or people who also spend the night and build a tent there). If you can get another 5 person with you, it will cost you around 60K IDR, lot cheaper. How about meals? Make sure you have your own mini-stove and food from home to be cooked , so you don’t need to buy anything in the island.
Let's assume that you'll in group of five persons. The cost will be 70K IDR + 20K IDR + 10K IDR + 35K IDR + 60K IDR = 195K IDR per person. See ?? you still can have a great time in this traffic-metropolitan-jam city even with low budget. Don’t you should feel like grateful instead complaining for being a resident of Jakarta?
Minggu, Juli 10, 2011
Just had the longest backpack-trip (so far) - BALI
16 commentsHello WORLD.
What's up y'all ? Hope you all are better than before, coz that's what I had during the last two weeks. Yup, it was my traveling, my longest backpack-trip I ever had (well, so far). Thank God and the universe who've helped me makin this trip came true.
| Me in Legian Beach. |
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| A great view of former kingdom of Karangasem. |
Little bit to the south, finally for the first time in my life I reached Padang-Padang beach. Well, actually during my trip two years ago when visiting Bali, me and friends stop by on the bridge right above this beach, but this time was really my first time to finally make my footprint on it's white sand. The beach is very close to Uluwatu temple and I'm telling you, the waves here are crazy. Highly recommended to those who loves to surf with their surfboards. A little note for those who love beatuy beache and calmness, the beach is not for you. The place is too crowded, the beach it self not that really great actually (well, even I admit it's better than Kuta). But hey, a recommendation is still a recommendation rite ? if you reach Bali, sure you have to visit this place. What's not to visit in Bali, anyway ? they are all worthy to get visited.
| See that little building in the pic ? yes, that is an Uluwatu Temple. |
Me, as personal, like envy in envious with the kitchen. It has a big refrigerator, a complete kitchen set, not only a complete kitchen set but also the food, and guess what ? it has a mini bar with a lot of beers and vodka (my favourite). The best moment that time was when we (me, eaz, dheny , budi and ivhan - sometimes budi's girlfriend also come to the house to join with us) had a dinner at the poolside. Really, at that time, I felt like I was in hotel. LOL, what a lucky rite ? I got a free meal + free accomodation.
So, total I spent 6 days in Bali from my total 15 days trip. Where were I the rest of those days ? Will tell you later. See ya.
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fyi :
- ticket entrance to Uluwatu is 3K IDR/person
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- ticket entrance to Ulun Danu Bratan, Bedugul is 10K IDR/person (domestic)
- You need to pay 5K IDR to get into Taman Ujung, former Karangasem's kingdom
- Domestic got to pay 7,500 IDR/person and foreigner 10K IDR/person to get into Uluwatu Temple Beach
Selasa, Mei 31, 2011
More about the culture
6 commentsI do love TRAVELING so badly, like frickin bad. That is the fact. I know traveling were my passion and will always be, I want to live by traveling more and more. No fucking way important where and which places. BUT - yeah there is always a 'but' word, shame on me. The more I travel, the more I know that what I want from traveling is not only looking for best scenery, not the beautiful beaches, not the great mountain or so-what-ever other beautiful places. It's more about culture. I want to deeply gettin into the culture when I traveled. Either to learn it, either for just to know it, anything, but I do really want get deeper into the culture.
I remembered that I always want to learn about tourism, due I love my country's scenery, so like superhero-wannabe, I always think that by majoring tourism I could explore yet promoting my country's tourism. Then again I ain't enroll the major, but now I do travel more and more a lot than before. Taking magnificence pictures of place that I visited, having fun here and there, now I realize that what I missed a lot is it's culture. I realized that I lack of involved to the people, their culture and even their daily activities. Specially an old culture, not the modern one. I believe every places have their own uniqueness about their culture, and I promise to myself to getting know about that on my next travel days. Doing what local community did, it's history, and so on, I want do those things from now on. I hope I can do it.
For what reason ? I don't know, well, it's not really that I have no reason at all. Actually, I think by doing those things will make myself to give more respect to this life, to give more respect to people who are came from different situation/culture from us and to give more respect to myself.
I wanna taste different experiences of traveling from now on, and I hope I can do it *crossed fingered*.
Kamis, Mei 05, 2011
Cara lain menikmati SOYJOY
9 commentsSetelah beberapa hari yang lalu saya menulis tentang manfaat apa saja yang ada dalam kedelai dan SOYJOY, bagaimana saya bisa menjadi penggemar, dan bagaimana saya menjelaskan bahwa kemasan yang bentuknya kecil membuat SOYJOY menjadi cemilan yang sangat cocok buat orang-orang dengan mobilitias tinggi, yang membutuhkan kepraktisan namun tetap perlu menjaga kesehatan badan.
Seakan tidak ada habisnya kekaguman dan kecintaan saya terhadap kedelai dan SOYJOY, kali ini saya kembali akan menulis tentang cemilan favorit saya tersebut. Kemasan yang kecil dan tinggal dilahap kedalam mulut, membuat nilai kepraktisan dalam mengkonsumsi cemilan yang mengandung tidak hanya protein, tapi juga vitamin dan serat - serat sendiri berguna tidak hanya sebatas sebagai pencegah sembelit dan memperlancar buang air besar, lebih besar dari iu manfaat dari serat dapat menurunkan kadar kolesterol dalam darah (hiperchlolesterolemia), bahkan dalam studi penelitian yang diterbitkan Archives of Internal Medicine pada Februari 2011 menyatakan bahwa dalam 388.000 ribu orang yang diteliti dengan umur 50 - 71 membuktikan bahwa 22% orang dengan mengkonsumsi serat lebih banyak hidup lebih lama dibandingkan mereka yang mengkonsumsi serat lebih sedikit juga mengurangi resiko kematian karena kanker sebesar 17% pada pria - menjadi begitu besar. Tapi bukan berarti tidak ada cara lain yang lebih memanjakan mata dan rasa di lidah dalam menyantap kelezatan dari SOYJOY. Setelah lima hari kerja mengkonsumsi SOYJOY dengan cara yang praktis dan cepat, tidaklah salah kalau pada saat weekend kita memanjakan diri dengan menyantap SOYJOY dengan cara yang beda dari biasanya. Merasakan bagaimana kenikmatan SOYJOY menyatu padu dengan lelehan es krim pada saat menyentuh pangkal lidah terluar dan semakin menjadi ketika masuk dan melewati tenggorokan. Rasa yang sungguh luar biasa.
Oke, oke, oke. Baiklah langsung saya membeberkan resep rahasia saya saat menikmati SOYJOY dengan cara yang sungguh berbeda, sungguh brillian dan sungguh tak terlupakan.
Apa yang harus di siapkan ? tentu saja SOYJOY varian rasa apa saja (tergantung selera anda masing - masing, saya sendiri lebih suka rasa strawberry), es krim, biskuit coklat batang, kacang coklat warna, sirup kental dan jangan sampai lupa piring atau cangkir sebagai wadah.Seperti terihat pada gambar disamping, beberapa bahan yang perlu disiapkan dalam membuat resep "es krim SOYJOY menyegarkan". Setelah semua bahan sudah siap. Silahkan ikuti beberapa langkah berikut :
- Ambil piring. Lumuri piring dengan sirup (bisa dihias sesuka hati). Kemudian letakkan beberapa sendok es krim diatasnya
- Letakkan SOYJOY yang sebelumnya sudah dipotong dadu tepat diatas es krim
- Kemudian taburi es krim dengan kacang coklat warna serta biskuit coklat batang. Tata peletakkan dapat disesuaikan keinginan hati. Terakhir, lumurilah "es krim SOYJOY menyegarkan" dengan sirup kental.
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sumber :
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ygreen/20110412/sc_ygreen/dietaryfiberhassomesurprisingbenefits_1
http://www.ebookpangan.com/ARTIKEL/SERAT%20MAKANAN,%20MEMBUAT%20USUS%20NYAMAN.pdf
Senin, Mei 02, 2011
SOYJOY, sejuta manfaat kedelai dengan rasa yang lebih nikmat
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Jujur, saya adalah pecinta (kacang) kedelai *. Mulai dari yang diolah menjadi tempe, kecap, atau susu. Saya paling suka tempet sebagai lauk keseharian saya (disamping telor tentunya), saya bahkan bisa makan satu porsi nasi yang hanya ditemani dengan lumuran kecap hitam pekat. Susu kedelai ? jangan tanya, saya sangat suka susu apapun itu rasanya. Tahun berganti zaman berganti, gaya hidup pun ikut berubah. Tapi sekarang produk hasil olahan dari kedelai tidak lagi hanya terbatas tempe, kecap atau susu kedelai. Gaya hidup modern saat ini yang mulai menerapkan gaya hidup sehat dan praktis. Sulit ? ternyata tidak sama sekali. Pola hidup sehat sangat mungkin untuk bisa diiringi dengan gaya hidup yang praktis. Saya menyebutnya SOYJOY.sumber :





