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.

Proses pemberanian diri saya melakukan perjalanan ini dimulai dari akhir tahun 2009, ketika mendapati sebuah informasi dari seorang teman bahwa AirAsia Indonesia sedang mengadakan promosi harga tiket Rp 0,-  ke semua rute yang dilalui. Tak hayal, saya langsung semangat untuk melakukan pemesanan, dengan terlebih dahulu menyiarkannya kepada beberapa teman dekat saya. Saya dapati satu sahabat yang sudah saya kenal sejak bangku Sekolah Menengah Atas yang menyatakan keinginannya untuk ikut saya menjelajah sedikit negara Vietnam, tepatnya kota Ho Chi Minh.

Pemesanan yang tidak terlalu memakan waktu hingga akhirnya kami mendapati e-ticket melalui e-mail sebagai tanda kami telah berhasil melakukan pemesanan.

Kurang lebih sepuluh bulan tersisah waktu sebelum tanggal keberangkatan kami menuju Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, namun rasanya berjuta pertanyaan yang beberapa berupa kekhawatiran dan beberapa lainnya berupa kehebohan tidak seberapa jelas terasa terbagi rata bersemayam sebagian di otak dan sebagian di hati.

Kenyataan bahwa pada saat melakukan pemesanan tiket belum memiliki paspor adalah salah satu masalah utama yang harus kami selesaikan dalam jangka sepuluh bulan tersebut, dan mengingat status kami berdua pada saat itu adalah mahasiswa dengan uang saku yang tidaklah seberapa, mungkin hanya sebesar empat porsi bakso berkuah pada tahun tersebut, jadilah kami memerlukan waktu untuk mengumpulkan uang demi mendapati sebuah paspor, identitas yang memperbolehkan kita untuk berpergian ke luar negeri.

Dua bulan adalah waktu yang ternyata kami butuhkan setelah pemesanan tiket untuk akhirnya dapat mengurus paspor, sendiri tanpa calo, tolong digarisbawahi. Perasaan sangat bangga dan lega bercampur aduk saat pertama kali memegang buku berwarna hijau yang seukuran saku celana tersebut, ya, tampak sedikit berlebihan memang, tapi itulah kenyataan yang saya dan sahabat saya rasakan.

Paspor terselesaikan, proses lain yang tak kalah menguras tenaga dan pikiran kami adalah mengumpulkan uang demi semua kerpeluan perjalanan kami, mulai dari Pajak Bandara, biaya penginapan, makan dan keperluan lainnya selama tiga hari dua malam di Ho Chi Minch, Vietnam. Tapi, memang benar sebuah pepatah yang mengatakan “Selalu ada jalan dimana ada niat”. Perjuangan menyisihkan sebagian uang jajan dan juga penghasilan yang didapat dari bekerja lepas untuk beberapa event tidaklah sia-sia. Sampai tiba waktunya, Agustus 2010, ketika jadwal penerbangan kami sudah di depan mata, tidak ada kekurangan, justru nikmat yang sangat berlebihan dari terpuaskannya rasa penasaran bagaimana perjalanan ke luar negeri itu terjawabkan.

Oh ya, terdengar bodoh mungkin, tapi benar adanya. Saat itu, kurang empat hari dari tanggal perjalanan kami. Sebuah kebiasaan saya yang selalu menggunakan celana pendek dan sandal jepit kemanapun berpergian yang diartikan sebagai liburan sempat membuat saya khawatir. Pertanyaan muncul di kepala, terlebih ketika ada segelintir orang yang mengatakan saya harus menggunakan sepatu dan celana panjang agar tidak tertahan di imigrasi negara tujuan, entah sebuah masukan yang bermaksud menjadi lelucon, tapi secara sadar dan polos saya pun menanyuakan hal tersebut kepada beberapa teman saya yang sudah pernah melancong ke luar negeri sebelumnya. Alhasil, sebuah kepercayaan diri yang sempat terkikis karena lelucon dari beberapa orang terpahat lagi. Hari H, sebuah kaos dari Bali, celana pendek dan sandal jepit menjadi pilihan pakaian yang saya kenakan.


Agustus 2010, menjadi sejarah untuk hidup saya yang pertama kali melakukan perjalanan ke luar negeri, juga menjadi sejarah bagaimana AirAsia Indonesia benar-benar mengubah hidup saya, sebuah promosi yang mungkin untuk sebagian besar orang hal biasa, tapi promosi tersebut sudah membangkitkan keberanian dan jiwa petualan saya. Sebab semenjak itu sampai sekarang, tidak kurang dari lima belas kali saya telah melakukan perjalanan menapaki jejak di beberapa negara di Asia Tenggara, sampai pernah, satu bulan menyusuri Thailand mulai dari selatan sampai utara.


Selasa, Desember 04, 2012

Finding beautiful ‘less-tourists areas’ in Jakarta ? It’s not that really hard.

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Jakarta, 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.


But, is it true that very hard to find beautiful less-tourists areas in Jakarta ? The answer is really a BIG NO. I’ve guide my friends from Czech and Dutchman, and they asked me to guide them to places that less tourists, and guess where I bring them to ?

I take the Czech to animal market on Jatinegara, East Jakarta. Near to Jatinegara train station, the market was quite dirty and crowded. It’s a street market that sells a lot of kind animals, from illegal to legal, from monkey to turtledove bird. After taking pictures couple of animals there, we continued our track to marginal area behind the train station, still in Jatinegara to see another side of this big metropolitan city.  Tourists in this area ? as far my eyes rolling, I didn’t find any other tourists in the area. Not even one (at that time).

A very big canal in Halimun, South Jakarta. You can get a very beautiful sunset here. I know it can’t be compared to those in Venice or Macau, but still it’s worth to see. You can get taxi or transjakarta bus to go to this place. Just stand on it’s bridge, or you can buy some food at the food stall there and eat while waiting for sunset. Don’t forget to captures some pictures !!

What else ? Monas, The National Monument, the most famous landmark in Jakarta, or even in Indonesia. Symbolizing the fight for Indonesia’s independence, you can’t miss this place. As a famous landmark, of course there will be lot of tourists come to this place, but then again, think smart. While most of tourists come to this landmark during the day, why don’t you come the opposite timing ? come at night. That’s what I did for my Dutchman friends. Foreigner tourists ? I don’t even see one, well except my Dutchman friends.

What about food hunting ? Try to avoid Sabang, Jaksa, Blok M, Kemang, Menteng and Kelapa Gading, too many tourists there. How about try delicious food in rawamangun, cempaka putih or the morning market that sells lot of cakes and snacks in Senen Market, I bet you’ll love the place, the food and not to mention the price ‘cos it’s cheap.

I would love to give hundred recommend places to share, but then again it will be such a novel than tips. The most important thing is try to contact with local people, you know, we are know better our place than you guys. LOL.

Senin, Januari 23, 2012

Like Light Life

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"A room is like a stage. If you see it without lighting, it can be the coldest place in the world," Paul Lynde.
A light for human life is like a food, it is really important to our life, as a torch to help our eyes can look around yet help us to be able doing things for our life. Can you imagine how it would be a life without light ? our life could be the coldest thing in the world. 

We can have light from from natural sources such as sunlight or moonlight, yet we still need additional light from lamp and talking about light and lamp, and what the conjunction with energy-efficient. Actually, here in my post, I want to share couple amateur tips for saving energy with lighting. Here are some of those simple ideas :
  • 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.

Those are four ways of things you can do to save energy with lighting. Actually, there are still many ways you can do, like buying energy-efficient lighting equipment, installing energy-saving floodlights outdoor, and many more. 

The most important before you doing all those ways to save energy, make sure yourself that you really want to change. The thing before we change the world, we change the concept of ourselves. So we can like the light of our life.

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Save Water Save Your Life.

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Water, might be the most important thing in our life. Can you imagine if there were no water in this world ? We can have no food for more than five days, but we mostly impossible to live without water for three to five days*. Eighty percents of our body is water, that’s why we do really need water the most in this life. Not just for our body, but to this environment, for watering plants, for washing clothes, and many more things need water.

Many ways you can do to save water in your daily life. These are five of them :
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Do bring your own mineral drink water from home. It will not just save the water, but it save your money too.
  5. 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 ?
After you read post, I wish nothing but when you use water crazily, think it over again, there are millions people in this world still living with water shortages. Be smart, be save, be generous. Save water save your life.

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*  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

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Notebook or common called as laptop, seems like a must have gadget for those who are students or officers. Either we all need this thing for making homework from teacher, doing office report at home, or just upgrading our prestige. No matter what laptop do for us, it is unbeatable we do need it.

Various kind of laptop from different brand sold in malls, electronic shops, or via online internet. We can have it from the cheapest one to the highest price, with different specifications.

Talking about laptop, and talking about efficiency of energy. I want to share what I have know in order we can still use our laptop yet keep doing go-green lifestyle (yes, I called go-green as lifestyle, it’s because I’m proud doing this go-green things, I want make it as a style of my life, and will do as best as I can).

Well, back to topic. These are things you guys can do related to electrical energy savings :
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Adjust the lighting and contrast of your monitor. Too high lighting and contrast percentage will  spend a lot of energy.
  4. 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*.
  5. Turn off other equipment such as speakers, scanner or printer when you finished using them.
  6. 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.
Those are six things I have done with my laptop, which you can do the same to yours. Actually there are couple things more, like using energy-saving software program, but I have not tried yet, so I can’t say much.

From now on, let use your laptop go-greenly (greenly ? okay, I just made the word. I mean use your laptop wisely, it must be the proper word in dictionary). So, you can save your laptop’s life and the most important you save the energy. If I can do those things above, why can’t you ?

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Rabu, Januari 18, 2012

I Can Live Without AC

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There 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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*   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

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I love traveling so much. Let say this is my passion. I remember the first time I had feeling for traveling was on my early childhood. I was on my kindergarten back then, my parents took me to their hometown Sigumpar in North Sumatera, near to Lake Toba. I was so happy that time, my first time experience on a plane, my first experience seeing a place other than city I lived.

My 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

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I 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.

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I am proud to be taking part in Blog Action Day OCT 16 2011 www.blogactionday.orgFOOD is any substance consumed to provide nutritional support for the body, according to wikipedia.org. We all know that we can't live without food. It is really mandatory needed for us, humanbeing, to survive. Can you imagine how your life would be if you are live in hunger ? You may be happy now to have what-so-called well-fed parents or family. You might no need to think what you have to eat, how can you provide food for yourself, how can you cook the food, etc because of your rich parents. 

Try to think back, have you ever throw your unfinished food ? when you have food served in front of you, and you just eat half from it and you just throw it away another half of it, while many people go to bed hungry because they have no food at all. 

From now on, please, think before you eat. If you think you are not that so hungry, don't take too much food on your plate, so there will be no food left over and wasted or if you with your friend, it would be better if you ordered one portion food for the two of you. Don't forget starts to concern for those people who still living in hungry. There are many ways you can do, by donating, join as a volunteer for WFP or ONE organization, or you can just starts spreading the campaign, to STOP the POVERTY and HUNGER. Together we can, because Sharing is Caring.


Jumat, 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

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Hello 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.
What was the great things about this trip ? Ahh,, can't tell you, but the TRIP it self was great. For the umpteenth time, I visit Bali (with two my bestfriends Eaz and Dheny), the island of God, the most beautiful island in asia, even in the world (according to DestinAsia magazine in 2009 and Majalah Travel + Leisure in 2009 and 2010). No doubt, bali is a great island with a lot beatiful beaches, beautiful traditional life, the architectures, and many more. Even two books will be not enough to describes how great Bali is, and I was like so damn lucky to have the opportunity to visit the island, again. 

A great view of former kingdom of Karangasem.
For this visit to Bali, I went to several places that I never been before. Exploring former kingdom of Karangasem building, in Karagasem, Bali.  Now known as a beautiful park called 'Taman Ujung'. What I can tell about this place, a two-and-half hours distance soon will get pay off. Right after we reached the place. , the only word I kept saying was wow, wow, and wow. The best view from this place is from the top of it's area. You will have a deep-blue-sea-view right in front of you. I bet that you wouldn't even dare to hold yourself to not take some or lot pictures here. 11 - 3 pm would be the best time if you want to go to this place, with a three thousand IDR only for ticket entrance per person, the place highly recommended.

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. 
Besides the two places above, I also enjoy my time in Bali with friends to Kuta, Uluwatu Temple, BluePoint Beach, Sukawati Art Market, Bedugul Ulun Danu Temple, Tanah Lot Temple Beach, and last  but the best is to my friend's house (not literally, it's belong to her sister actually), Budi in Denpasar. Spent most of the time in Bali there. Me, Eaz and Dheny were like shocked - with a lot amazed 'wow' words not more than 5 minutes after we hit the groundfloor. The house has two POOLS, yes, y'all right. One is a swimming pool, and another one is for billiard game. 

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
- in Uluwatu Sukawati Art Market, you should bargain more harder to get perfect price.
- 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

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I 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

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Setelah 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. 

Selesai. Mudah bukan ? bukan hanya mudah untuk dibuat, hasilnya pun sangat lezat dan benar-benar memanjakan lidah kita. Perpaduan kesegaran es krim, nikmat kedelai rasa buah pada SOYJOY juga saus sirup yang kental. Tidak mungkin ada yang tahan untuk tidak segera menikmati kenikmatan "es krim SOYJOY menyegarkan". Délicieux !



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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.

Sebelum berprasangka negatif bahwa saya adalah sales promotion boy yang disewa oleh SOYJOY dengan bayaran tinggi melebihi tinggi badan saya untuk mengiklankan, mengkampanyekan, mempromosikan produk berupa cemilan sehat berbahan dasar kedelai dengan aneka rasa tersebut. Mari langsung saya klarifikasi, saya bukan pekerja atau pegawai dari SOYJOY, yang sebenarnya saya adalah penggemar berat (bukan dalam artian berat sebenarnya. Berat badan saya normal kok, kan saya selalu makan cemilan sehat dari SOYJOY) cemilan sehat satu ini. Baiklah, mari tinggalkan jauh kebelakang bayangan bahwa saya adalah seorang sales promotion boy. Sekarang saya mau mengajak kalian semua untuk tahu apa itu SOYJOY, kenapa saya bisa jatuh cinta dan apa keuntungan dari SOYJOY.

Apa itu SOYJOY ? SOYJOY merupakan konsep baru cemilan sehat yang terbuat sepenuhnya dari tepung kedelai dan buah-buahan asli yang dikeringkan. Kedelai dan buah sebagai bahan dasar SOYJOY mengandung nutrisi penting seperti protein, serat, vitamin dan mineral. Banyak manfaat atau keuntungan yang bisa dijabarkan dari sepotong SOYJOY apapun rasa yang kalian pilih.

SOYJOY yang terbuat dari kedelai dan buah asli memiliki nilai Glikemik Indeks yang rendah (Low GI) untuk membantu mengendalikan kadar gula darah, sehingga dapat mempertahankan berat badan kita. SOYJOY juga mengandung Isoflavon** kedelai. Bukan hanya dari segi kesehatan manfaat yang ada dalam SOYJOY (ya, dari segi kesehatan, segala kebaikan kedelai seperti membuat jantung lebih sehat, mencegah resiko kanker payudara, membantu kesehatan tulang, dan banyak lagi lainnya sudah pasti merupakan manfaat yang kita dapat dari mengkonsumsi SOYJOY). Kepraktisan, ukurannya yang kecil dan mudah dibawa kemana-mana membuatnya semakin cocok untuk orang-orang yang bermobilitas tinggi namun hanya punya sedikit waktu untuk bersusah payah membuat cemilan sendiri. Bayangkan dengan SOYJOY, yang bisa ditaruh dalam tas ataupun kantong, semudah meletakkan kedua tangan untuk merobek bungkusnya dan memasukkan kedalam mulut. Jangan pernah berpikir kalau segala yang praktis tidak sehat. Teliti dan pelajari dulu apa yang terkandung dalam hal praktis tersebut, bahkan dalam era zaman seperti saat ini, kepraktisan yang membuat sehat adalah yang sangat dicari, terlebih kepada mereka penghuni kota besar seperti Jakarta, yang notabene adalah orang-orang dengan mobilitas cukup tinggi atau bahkan sangat tinggi. Terkadang diri sering bertanya bagaimana dapat terus terjun mengikuti mobilitas yang seakan tidak pernah berhenti tanpa harus menelantarkan kesehatan diri sendiri. SOYJOY merupakan jawabannya.

Tidak perlu bertanya lagi bukan, kenapa saya bisa jatuh cinta dan menjadi penggemar setia SOYJOY ? Jawabannya mudah, karena SOYJOY menyehatkan, dan mempraktiskan hidup saya yang bisa tergolong manusia dengan mobilitas tinggi. Masih tidak percaya saya bahwa kedelai itu baik untuk tubuh dan segala manfaat kedelai ada pada SOYJOY ? Baiklah, tidak selayaknya saya menyalahkan kalian, tapi saya yakin kalau apa yang dikatakan Nadya Hutagalung sangat bisa meyakinkan kalian bahwa terdapat sejuta manfaat kedelai dengan rasa yang lebih nikmat didalam SOYJOY. Mari silahkan dilihat video dibawah ini :



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p.s
* Kedelai (kadang-kadang ditambah "kacang" di depan namanya) adalah salah satu tanaman polong-polongan yang menjadi bahan dasar banyak makanan dari Asia Timur seperti kecap, tahu dan tempe.                                               
**  zat yang umumnya terdapat dalam kacang kacangan tetapi paling banyak kandungannya dalam kacang kedelai. Konsumsi Isoflavon yang rutin dapat meningkatkan elastisitas kulit sehingga mengurangi timbulnya kerutan dan menunda efek penuaan.


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