The Mayo Experience

Mayo diet is perhaps one of the most happening subject since last year. Thanks to social media, the exposure on the issue has been very intense that everybody’s trying it. Everyone’s also buzzing about how it can help you to lose weight in only 13 days. At the same time, people praise it as an effective way to do detoxification, as the diet minimizes carbo and salt intake, whereas requires the person who does it to drink lots of water.

In the past months I’ve seen friends posted their healthy lunch and dinner menu on social media and put #mayodiet hashtag on it. I’ve also noticed specially that there’s been exponential growth of caterers that specialized in healthy meals, including serving the mayo diet. Being a curious person, I have to admit that all those things got me. Besides, I’ve got one fundamental thing that eventually made me give the diet a go: my snacking habit.

Clean Eating Diet

I'm committing myself to a ten-day clean eating program starting a week from now.

Currently, I'm reading an email about the menu details my purveyor just sent me and I gotta  tell ya that I'm drooling already! I'm feeling very excited too, that I really cannot wait to start the diet!

Frankly speaking, I don't expect to lose weight. However, I hope the diet will help me to better manage my meal consumption in the future.

I will keep you posted on how my body and mood react to the dramatic change :)

All for now.

Nine Things I love About Makassar

 

Desember ini genap sudah 26 bulan saya menetap di Makassar. 

Buat saya, Makassar itu spesial, karena selain merupakan tempat ibu saya dibesarkan, di sinilah saya pertama kalinya tinggal sendiri selama lebih dari setahun dan merasa ‘kerasan’.

Makassar memang bukan kota perantauan saya yang pertama. Tahun 2011 saya pindah dari Jakarta ke Jayapura, Papua untuk bekerja di sebuah NGO di sana. Di Jayapura, saya merasa betah, karena walau fasilitas kotanya sederhana, tapi di sana saya di kelilingi teman-teman yang seperti saudara sendiri. Sayangnya, saya hanya berkesempatan tinggal di Jayapura selama 9 bulan dikarenakan daur project yang telah usai.

Happy CNY

 

Celebrating the Chinese New Year in Makassar by visiting a colleague's house and had a bowl of delicious mie panjang umur with a touch of pink-colored egg.

And yes, I received my first ever angpao!

So without further ado, let me wish you a very happy Chinese new year!

Let's ride, thrive and be prosper in the year of the horse!

Documenting a Project: An Experience in Sulawesi

The pretty landscape of Bantaeng

 Something I wrote for the project's blog. 

The project that I'm currently involved in, operates  in South and Southeast Sulawesi provinces in Indonesia. A few months ago, I was given the chance to revisit the project areas in both provinces. The objective of my trip was to document the accomplishments the project have made. In order to fulfill the task, I was accompanied by two videographers from Jakarta. Together, we drove from Makassar, the capital of South Sulawesi for three hours to  Bantaeng, passing through the flat lands of Gowa and Jeneponto districts, traditional stilt houses, shrimp farmings and hectares of paddy fields. The plan was simple: to go to districts and interview first-hand sources such as farmers, representative of government agency and partner organization. Yet apparently, the simple mission may not be as simple as it seemed in the first place.

Makassar part 2 (Photos)

Oh the sun, it's so beautiful

Makassar part 1 (Photos)

Got a pretty postcard and earings from miss Saras Juwono. Thank you thank you thank you

Makassar, Palu, and Things in Between

October commemorates my first month in Makassar.

As I once mentioned before, I currently work for a project that focuses on improving farmers' livelihood in Sulawesi. The main project areas are Bantaeng, Bulukumba (both is South Sulawesi, Konawe, Kolaka (in Southeast Sulawesi), and soon Gorontalo. In each province, there’s a project office that coordinates all activity. What’s more, there’s also a representative in Makassar (which is me), that serves as the hub for the areas.

An Announcement (And Invitation Too!)

I’m going to be in Makassar by the end of August, and will stay there until mid next year. 

I would love to have a company, so if you happen to visit the city, please drop me a message and perhaps we can hang out together! 



See you :)