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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now a few weeks ago, we received an email at the office from an organization called HiddenPark and they were interested to collaborate with the YUM Organic Farm in their upcoming event, which focuses on the hidden potential of parks in Jakarta. Their first event was last year and they did it in Taman Langsat, which is a park near Barito, a park I have passed through but <u style="font-style: italic;">never entered! </u>Can you imagine? And this year, their event takes place in Taman Tebet. The photos below are from the event last Friday when the YUM farm taught 75 school children how to plant seedlings and how to maintain them for the next month, until they're able to be harvested.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Anyway, long story short, I'm really amazed by this program, which will last for a whole month. I think it's awesome; every weekend they have activities for the whole family, from yoga in the morning, to a library in the park, to various different activities. So I think we should all go!! And even when the event has passed, I think we should all make the effort to reduce our visits to the mall and try to visit Jakarta's parks, 'cause yes, Jakarta <u style="font-style: italic;">has</u> parks! :)</span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433867257230701176.post-46494889089902754862013-10-20T19:59:00.001+07:002013-10-20T19:59:49.029+07:00JAKARTA NATIONAL MUSEUM | MUSEUM GAJAH<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Now cut to about 2 weeks ago when I met a friend who told me the museum is currently organizing Weekend Events or what they call "<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Akhir-Pekan-di-Museum/337453476389442" target="_blank">Akhir Pekan di Museum</a>". These activities are targeted at children and usually consists of storytelling and arts & crafts sessions, but I think all ages can enjoy. So I took Amal and my good friend Tarra & her kids last Sunday. We went quite early in the morning, took the TransJakarta since it was car-free day and arrived there around 9am. We were there to hear the storytelling session called "Samurai Bersepeda" performed by actors from Teater Koma, and I can honestly say it was really good! I think we all enjoyed the storytelling session and had a look around the museum after that. Here are just a few of the things I thought were really awesome: </span></span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433867257230701176.post-32122730045480545252013-10-20T19:29:00.001+07:002013-10-20T19:29:28.326+07:00NEWS FROM THE FARM<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433867257230701176.post-46511437713896990672013-09-14T17:05:00.002+07:002013-09-14T17:05:31.756+07:00DIY TOILET TUBE OWLS<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I don't know about you but I like collecting toilet paper tubes because I know there must be something we can create with them, instead of just throwing them away. And one day on <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a>, lo and behold, I found a cute image of owls made from toilet paper tube! So I tried them out with Amal and his cousins and they were a big hit:</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433867257230701176.post-48692290143606653752013-07-13T09:07:00.000+07:002013-07-13T09:07:11.501+07:00MAKING A KALEIDOSCOPE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433867257230701176.post-5654335675409520532013-06-22T17:27:00.002+07:002013-06-22T17:27:47.845+07:00SUMMER HOLIDAY IDEAS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The "summer" holidays have started... Clearly in Indonesia you don't really feel the difference in the weather but if you check some popular blogs, you'll see many many posts about summer inspiration, and I love reading them! I haven't had the chance to browse for a really long time, and I'm so happy I finally got to do it today while helping my dad play host to a family gathering for my uncles and aunts. While they were busy having amongst themselves (and my son was busy with his dad), I found some really great ideas:</span></div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433867257230701176.post-59450687528044430182013-06-22T16:57:00.000+07:002013-06-22T16:57:24.234+07:00GINDO 2013<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">A couple of months ago, YUM was invited to GINDO 2013 conference, a conference organized by students of various schools in Indonesia, to gather fellow students and discuss <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">solutions for global issues occurring both in the local community and throughout the world. YUM was one of the NGOs that took part in the NGO Fair and in the ActionX activity where around 20 students visited our projects and did various activities with YUM sponsored kids here in Jakarta. I found this video of GINDO 2013 recently and thought it was really well done, and worth sharing (and you see a glimpse of YUM's booth at minute 1:38). Working in an NGO myself, it's important for us to know that the future generation does care and that they're aware of the importance of continuing our jobs in the future :)</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm not a huge fan of gardening to be honest. I much prefer baking and cooking. But I do feel that we all need to know how to grow our own food. We're so used to buying our food at the market or the supermarket, that we have no idea what exactly it takes to grow food. This is especially true for people living in cities, like me :)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So when the Jakarta International School (JIS) asked whether the <a href="http://www.yumindonesia.org/organicfarmcipanas/" target="_blank">YUM Organic Farm</a> was interested to conduct a 2-day training on how to make an urban organic garden, I jumped on the occasion. YUM's Organic Farm Coordinator, Oleh, was also excited to do it, and I think he did an excellent job teaching teachers and 7th and 8th grade students at Sekolah Musika.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It's a real pity that not many young Indonesians know about Pak Raden and the puppet show he once created called "Si Unyil".... As I was driving to the exhibition last Sunday portraying 60 years of dedication to art by Pak Raden (or Drs. Suyadi), I realized that my son knows only cartoons and sophisticated animations! It felt nice to introduce to him another type of "cartoon".</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Pak Raden is a character created by an artist called Suyadi, who I just recently found out, spent 3 years studying animation in Paris! I knew him as the creator of a televised puppet show in the 1980s that was watched by almost all children in Indonesia. What I didn't know was that he was also a visual artist and animator... The exhibition I saw last Sunday was a real joy, especially for someone having lived in Paris, because he stereotypes french people and indonesians seeing France for the first time :)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Not many people know about dayak culture and it was very refreshing when a "Dayak Culture Festival" was announced in Jakarta a few weeks ago. Since YUM has a working area in Central Kalimantan, we deal with dayak people every day, and some of our projects actually involves the preservation of the dayak culture. Unfortunately since it's still quite a remote area, not many people know about it, and the preservation projects are not as many as say in Bali or Java. As you'll see below, dayak art and handicrafts are actually quite beautiful:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">One huge project that YUM is currently trying to find funding for is the construction of a Vocational Training Center not far from Palangka Raya. More than 90% of the population where our project area is situated lives below the poverty line, mainly because they lack the education and skills needed to find a decent job to feed their family and improve their lives. One of the skills we are hoping to teach involves dayak culture and handicrafts because a) there is hardly any dayak handicrafts sold in the area and b) to keep the dayak culture alive. If you want to know more about this project, you can see a video that we made: <a href="http://vimeo.com/40845388">http://vimeo.com/40845388</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433867257230701176.post-91161604785612272952013-04-26T14:07:00.000+07:002013-04-26T14:07:10.033+07:00HEC PARIS VISITS YUM CIPANAS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433867257230701176.post-26846801411205531012013-04-18T20:32:00.000+07:002013-04-18T20:32:29.582+07:00INSPIRING FOOD PREPS<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I'm so happy because I found a new great blog while browsing on my Flipboard. It's called <a href="http://backtoherroots.com/" target="_blank">Back To Her Roots</a> and it's well designed and has really inspiring posts on cooking and organizing your cooking.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Best of all, it has tips on <a href="http://backtoherroots.com/2013/03/21/how-i-prep-food-for-the-week/" target="_blank">Weekly Food Preps</a>, which I've been thinking of doing but never got to it. Basically it means that during the weekend, you spend a few hours cooking and prepping so that you have food ready for the weekdays and you don't have any excuse to eat junk food or leftovers (which is my huge problem!).</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Check out 2 food prep options that were made by <a href="http://backtoherroots.com/" target="_blank">Back To Her Roots</a>:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">- <a href="http://backtoherroots.com/2011/02/17/my-favorite-snacks-packable-fruit-and-yogurt-parfait/" target="_blank">Fruit and yoghurt parfait</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">This time around it was way better because there's a new exhibition with Kai Kai and Jia Jia, the giant pandas and also red pandas! Absolutely the highlight of the visit of course :)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The pandas were only on preview at the Singapore Zoo until March 30th, but will be part of the <a href="http://pandas.riversafari.com.sg/index.html" target="_blank">River Safari</a>, which will be opening on April 3rd.</span><br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/59956490">To This Day</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/tothisday">To This Day</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">so we grew up believing no one</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Read the full spoken word poem <a href="http://tothisdayproject.com/listen" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433867257230701176.post-38840588573240062692013-02-17T17:13:00.000+07:002013-02-17T17:13:20.189+07:00RIMBA BACA LIBRARY<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So as I was explaining in <a href="http://amalimil.blogspot.com/2013/01/martha-stewart-chocolate-chip-cookies.html" target="_blank">an earlier post</a>, Amal and I now go regularly to a library that's situated close to our home. I had heard of this library a while ago, but never really found the time to go until a few weeks ago when we went with a few friends of Amal's. That's when I realized just how great their collection was and I thought this would be a good weekend activity with Amal. And I think the stars aligned cause on that day, Amal borrowed his first book and devoured it in one day only (it was a 200-page book!).</span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I highly recommend this library if you live in Jakarta Selatan. It's called RIMBA BACA and is situated on Jl. RSPP (Jl. Intan) no. 21B, Cilandak. It's behind Rumah Sakit Fatmawati, and you enter through a small street right across from Citos.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">They have a facebook page with lots of photos so check it out: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/groups/342088269168965/?fref=ts" target="_blank">Rimba Baca</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The way it works is that you pay a one-time annual fee of I think Rp. 350,000 and you're entitled to borrow 5 books per week. I honestly think you really get your money's worth with the extensive collection of books they have, instead of having to buy all these books you might want to read :)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So when I saw the Martha Stewart "Cookies" book at my local library, I picked it up and promised to try the recipe, which I did this weekend and lo and behold: the perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe!</span><br />
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<li style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Arial; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">In a small bowl, whisk together the flour and baking soda; set aside. In the bowl of an electric mixer, combine the butter with both sugars; beat on medium speed until light and fluffy. Reduce speed to low; add the salt, vanilla, and eggs. Beat until well mixed, about 1 minute. Add flour mixture; mix until just combined. Stir in the chocolate chips.</span></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433867257230701176.post-51984267861868879972013-01-12T16:14:00.003+07:002013-02-05T14:48:39.881+07:00GIVING BACK: INSPIRE KIDS WITH BOOKS<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">If you want to help this project, YUM is working with GlobalGiving, a philanthropic site, to receive donations from all over the world. Here's the link: <a href="http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/help-promote-good-reading-habits-in-kalimantan/" target="_blank">Help Promote Good Reading Habits in Kalimantan</a> </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Last night, I had the privilege to meet 2 young french people who are on a trip (almost) around the world. Their goal was to go from France to Indonesia, but along their way, they managed to spend more than a year visiting countries like: Germany, Austria, Hungaria, Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, China, Vietnam, Laos, just to name a few... Oh and by the way, they've been doing the whole trip by bicycle!! :)) </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">You always hear about people who do these kinds of extraordinary voyages, but to actually meet them and hear their stories is something pretty special. They seemed like very open-minded, energetic people and one of their aims is to share their stories and the sounds and music of their travels to people back home. So they've created a blog, in French but you can certainly Google Translate it. I can imagine them looking back 20-30 years from now and have a huge smile on their face thinking about this wonderful journey :)</span><br />
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