Sampling in Balekambang

Few month ago i have asked by Siska to accompany her in Balekambang for sampling. We went there on saturday night by rental car along with our juniors. We also brought some sampling equipment such as chloroform, cooling box, and ziplock plastic. Chloroform used to preserve the sample, cooling box used to store the sample, and ziplock plastic used to separate one sample with another.

Balekambang is an area located 65 km from the central of Malang. The access to reach this area is not easy due to up-and-down road. It requires 3 to 4 hours to reach this area. Along the way we will pass jungle and the sugar cane plantations. Balekambang also has 2 km long of coastline and dominated eith white and light brown sand. Like the other beach on the south coastline of Java, its sea has big waves and swift currents. Hence it's not recommended or even forbidden for the visitor to swim there. In Balekambang, there are 3 small islands nearby: Ismoyo Island,  Anoman Island, and Wisanggeni Island. Above the Ismoyo Island, there is a Hindu shrine named Pura Luhur Amertha Jati that becomes the main attraction/selling point of this area. We could reach it by crossing a bridge from the main beach. The shrine is open for 24 hours and there is no entrance fee for it. Meanwhile the bridge to Pulau Anoman is already broken hence the visitor couldn't get into that island. 

We have several sample that will be used to practicum, research and conservation. The first sample is seaweed or Algae, the second is brittle star or Ophiuroidea, and the third we have sea slug or Mollusca and the last is sea buds or Blastoid. We found so many species during the sampling. However, we only brought several species for our project.

Cooking

When i was young i ever dreaming about cooking together with my mother.
I dreaming about cooking red soup with some pasta inside of it, looks delicious.
After it, i keep imagine if i can cook some dish for my family, especially my mother.
On 14 yo’ i started to play a game named Harvest moon.
Because of its gameplay which reflect real life, so i can learned about cooking.
I know about kitchen utensils such as pot, frying pan, spatula, oven, etc.
I also know how to use them theoritically, based on their function.

When i was in highschool grade, i started to cook my own breakfast.

I remember the first time i made fried rice, it doesn't taste well, seems too sticky or glutinous.
On the next day, i repeated what i've done before.
Almost everyday, every morning before i went to school.
Sometimes it taste so good, sometimes taste like gruel.
Seriously, it's not easy like every chef did on TV.

Currently, after 7 years from my first dish now i can cooked several dishes.

From the simple dish like soup to the hardest one such as beef curry.
In 2014 i also attending cooking school in Thailand.
I don't know why, but i like cooking so much.

Selling Our Product !

Finally we selling our product named Cake in Jar and MyDrink directly for the first time. At first, we expects that selling non branded product is not easy. More over, depends on what we learn about marketing strategy, we should selling what customer want. But on that day we selling what we have which is maybe not necessarily needed by customer. We accept the risk that maybe our product won't sold in large quantities. Therefore, we only brought 3 cooling box, contains 75 bottle of MyDrink and 9 Jar of Cake in Jar.

In the morning we prepared our stuff to vending at Taman Bungkul. We started to attract the customer in one spot but it's not going well. So we decided to split the team and selling the product by traveling around Taman Bungkul.  Eventually, we managed to sold 47 bottle of MyDrink and 5 jar of Cake In Jar, unbelievable. We also managed to sell the rest of the product on the next day. The result is unexpected, we learn many things from it, and surely we are so happy.

Forestry Seminar

In 2005, The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has characterized the deforestation situation over the world. They said that each year, thirteen million hectares of forest disappear from the earth due to human activity. In Indonesia we have lost our forest rapidly because of deforestation and local farmers activity.It makes the earth lost a lot of its carbon storage. Therefore, SIKLUS cooperate with Agency of Living Environment and Forestry held forestry project  named “Seminar Siklus Menghitung Karbon”.

The seminar held in Cangar-Batu for 2 days and followed by 200 participator from different university and instance. It have indoor and outdoor concept which is consist of 4 subject. We learn about forest, TAHURA (Taman Hutan Raya), watershed, etc. But mainly we discuss about forest protection and forest management. Forest protection includes any activities that protect and conserve native forest against pressure from forest clearing, fire and illegal logging. Forest management deals with activities that are designed to change technical forestry principles to manage and maintain a forest for timber production while maintaining the forest’s productive and renewal capacities, so the two activities that are included are reduced impact logging and stop logging. Depends on what we leard during the seminar, i think this seminar is so exciting and it was my first outdoor seminar. There is one thing else, on the second day we planted 200 Casuarina junghuniana at downhill of the mountain.  But unfortunately, our transportation delayed for 4 hours before we head back to Surabaya.

 

50 Random Facts About Me

1. I was born in 1994

2. It’s accidentally the same as Soeharto

3. I like music, especially rock, pop, and emo

4. I was Killjoy (MCR fans)

5. My favorite song is “Anberlin – Feel Good Drag”

6. I don’t like corrector type person

7. I’m addicted with chemistry

8. I have partial colorblind

9. My gaming nick is SEA, which mean “South East Asia”

10. I almost never watching TV now

11. But I like watching news on TV

12. I spent my time mostly in front of my laptop

13. My hobby is travelling, sleeping, and gaming

14. I want to be an entrepreneur

15. Muhammad prophet is my guiding star

16. Vegetarian wanna be

17. But I think its impossible

18. Because I love meal so much

19. I’m food addict and eat six times a day

20. I never want to be scientist

21. But i’m a scientist right now

22. I prefer using my logic to following the recent theory

23. I interested with hijabi and chubby girl

24. I’m not single

25. My favorite color is black

26. My favorite number is 9

27. My clothes size is XL for T-shirt, 32 for trousers, and 42 for shoes

28. I  like cartoon and anime

29. My favorite cartoon is Family Guy, Seikon no Qwaser is my favorite anime

30. I usually overthinking everything around me

31. I rather choose my social live than my money

32. I rate everything with my standard, and its almost perfect

33. I can’t go to sleep before 03.00 AM

34. I sleep 2-4 hours a day

35. I hate motivation letter

36. My bio always up to date

37. I always put my gaming section in my bio

38. I love politics and i don’t like person who hate politics

39. I don’t like to take a photo alone, neither selfie

40. I hate chicken-sound alarm so much, damn wreck it off

41. I don’t mind the brand when choosing product

42. I always let my handphone out of pulse , except for purchasing monthly internet service

43. I don’t have any “workhours”, i work when i want to work, it can be 24 hours work a day

44. I never satisfied on my archievement

45. I love the smell of rainy night

46. I don’t believe on paranormal

47. I like football, adore Barcelona FC but i don't hate Real Madrid

48. I don’t like any seafood which related with fish

49. I love cat and dog

50. I have Katsaridaphobia