Archive for August, 2009
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
you’re all know that bali are tourism resort located in indonesia. bali known as a paradise island with many sunrise all day long and have a long beach and beatiful places like diving place, surfing, and many others. but bali also well known with their beautiful cultures, one of it are “tari pendet” or pendet dances. but recently malaysia (country without creatuity) claimed pendet as their culture, they’re show the pendet dance on the malaysian tourism advertisement.
balinese pendet dances
image courtesy of pipinpramudia
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Friday, August 21st, 2009
indonesia are the country in south east asia which have a lot of cultures, for example are the design of the house in every tribe, there aer more than 20 tribe in indonesia and each tribe have their beautiful traditional house. javanese tribe have “rumah joglo”, padang have “rumah gadang”. first i will tell you that “rumah” means house.
rumah joglo
90 % of rumah joglo are made from wood especially from teak wood. the general shape are complete with 4 pillars, in java, rumah joglo usually use at discussion forum beside as a normal house.
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Friday, August 21st, 2009
many of us know that green building means environmentally friendly building, in another words we can say it as natural building. Natural building is an umbrella term than connotes any sort of building that is accomplished with the use of natural materials primarily, as opposed to the use of man-made or industrial materials. There is, of course, a blurring of this distinction when any specific material or building technique is examined, because the influence of technology is all-pervasive in today’s world. Still, it is worthwhile to focus on those ways of building that minimize the use of products that require considerable embodied energy for their manufacture or transportation. The objective is to build with simple techniques that don’t further pollute the environment, consume more fossil fuel, or unnecessarily extract the resources of Mother Earth. Such techniques, by their very nature, have an aesthetic value that tends to blend in with the environment and feel more natural. (more…)
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Friday, August 21st, 2009
i browsing trough google and find this list of 7 unique house,
shoe house
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Thursday, August 20th, 2009
maize cornstarch apparently can be used for cleaning our kitchen set
Microwave Cleaning
Make a mixture of baking soda and water for about 45-60 ml. Use a sponge to clean the interior and around the microwave door and then vroom it with clean cloth.
Cleaning the oven
Among the most toxic materials that are frequently found in the cleaning oven called LYE, who can enter and damage the skin if left out and the ammonia can iritate your eyes and lungs. The form of aerosols is also dangerous because Lye and ammonia can be spread through the air and can be swalowed or go to the eyes and the skin accidentally.
Cleaning Oven Recipes
make a mixture of 250 ml Baking soda and 60 ml Washing soda
Ways:
1. splash the water on the bottom of the oven, then cover it with a mixture of baking and washing soda.
2. splash more water oer the powder and leave it overnight.
3. clean it at the next day with a rough sponge.
4. Give a little liquid soap on the sponge in the drabble water, and clean-hand side in the outside and top of the oven door. Lap with a wet cloth around the inside and outside the oven.
Ceiling Cleaning
For cupboards and wooden tables and floors:
Use Murphy’s Oil Soap (sold in Canada are free) for all wood cupboards, baseboards, table and floor
For cupboards and countertops from Formica:
Material:
- 2 ml of soap made from vegetable fat
- 45 ml vinegar
- 2 ml olive oil (olive oil)
- 125 ml hot water.
Ways:
mix the first to third material in the 125 ml of warm water, and fill it to spray bottle and shake evenly. After used, wash the part clean with a wet sponge clean lap.
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Thursday, August 20th, 2009
if we’re urban people who live in crowded city and on the narrow land, we should think of simple design that would fit with small room but still could fulfill our daily need. below you can see the sample of some simple kitchen design.
the design are looks so country and not too simple anyway, but if you missing the country looks design, you can apply that design to your own kitchen. (more…)
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Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
we know that livingroom are the most important room on our house because we usually doing many activity with our family here. i will try to give you the sample of nice living room.
on the sample living room above we could see that the living room are so simple, we can see two chair, table, sofa and set of small home teathre. but, the living room looks so warm because there are white carpet on it and we can sit there watching television or movie with our husband and kids. but bearefull, white carpet are tend to get dirty.
this is another sample of living room design, its looks like the previous livingroom but its more lux, and we can saw the balcon there. the differences with the previous living room are the carpet, the designer use more dark carpet so it will more resist to the dirt. the tv are more wide than before, but overall, both the design are simple, we can apply it to our own livingroom.
happy designing 
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
on the urban city it is very difficult to find or to make a green garden, but if we creative person, we can make a little garden on every place we want, for example are the design below :
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
in this modern era, we now that difficult to find a large field to built a home, so the alternative are we should get creative idea to make a simple house design that suit in narrow condition land such as in urban city. here i brought you some alternative of simple house design. (more…)
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Monday, August 17th, 2009
Islam teaches us to always do shubuh pray, shubuh pray means pray in the early morning about at 4.00 am, it teaches that we should always wake up the morning that will cause our body to be fresh.
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