Jakarta in Riot

He he well not riot actually, but Jakarta is drowned!

SOOOOO many places are drown by flood. Many refugees too. Some people in my office didn't come to office, including my boss. I read in the online news site, so many people didn't come their office too.

Their reasons are:
1. Their home are flooded
2. Exit from their house is flooded
3. On their way to office, they stuck and could't reach to office
4. They're afraid to get stuck on the road, so choose to stay at home

I don't know whether my boarding is flooded or not. This few days, I stay at my sister. I planned to see it after works.

BTW, water in my boarding house has bad smell :( I dont know where it is came from,whether the well or other cause. Is it possible because of the flood?


update:

Yesterday, on the meeting between the leaders of the country, somebody (sorry I forgot who said that) report that the cause of the flood are:
1. 95% of area for water absorbing has gone. 95% is a very big number, no wonder if we got so big flood.

Who can we blame now? Before we start to blame others. let's ask ourselves, did we contributing of the losing the water absorbtion area? maybe we cover the soil in our home with cement? or your company did? in my office they covered some bare soil with paving block :( yes it is better than cement, but still its worse than bare soil.


2. Because on friday (CMIIW) it was full moon, so the gravitation of the moon is big, so the water wont flow to ocean.

Reduce Reuse Recycle I: Plastic

This will be the 1st edition of a series post about saving our planet.

Come on we must save our planet, in this case from garbage.

Few months ago, in Bandung there are massive garbage "ignored" for weeks that create unclean environment. You can read it here and here

We don't want it happen to our neighbourhood right? So I guess we should do something about it.

Hmm plastic must have big part of those garbage, lets reduce the using. My way to reduce is when I shop, always try not to ask for plastik and tas kresek, always prepare a bag to carry it. This wil reduce a lot. Especially for those who shops a lot, like me who shops for food everyday in food stall. At least I will reduce one plastic bag everyday if I do that always.
For moms who shop at market can also use this way, always bring other bag to put things they buy.

Hmmm off course sometime we cannot avoid of taking plastic bag. So, if you bring plastic bag home, sort it to 2 categories, the almost dirty and the clean one. We can use the almost dirty for bag for garbage or others. For the clean one, we can reuse it, use to shop again, to wrap things etc. And we can also give is to some shop.

My aunt usually collect plastic bag in her house and give it to my other aunt who run a small shop for daily supplies. So did my mom, she give it to some sellers in market near my house. And me, I give it to the owner of my boarding house, they run a fruit kiosk. We will help them for sure. And at the same time we help our planet with just a little effort :D