JAKARTA OUR HOME

Thank You's

2012-05-12T06:56:00.000+07:00

It’s not where you are in life, it’s who you have by your side that matters.

I am happy to say that the t-shirts are finally here, so everyone will receive theirs very soon. And we have @ipexs_die to thank for that; for going to Bandung to the manufacturer and placing the order and for all his efforts thank you @ipexs_die. Thank you all for your support which is just as important.

The first step has been made, now we have started to convert the words into facts. Please, send a picture of you with the t-shirt to www.facebook.com/ourhomejakarta or @jakartaourhome or jakartaourhome@gmail.com as i would like to post them pictures on this blog and on our Facebook page Jakarta our home, to let people know that they are not alone, there's someone out there who shares the same thoughts.

More importantly this is a first step made towards normality; a clean and healthy home that is what i call normality. Nevertheless we have embarked on a journey here, so i have to tell the people that expect miracles - let’s do something for that miracle. To the people that think this is a dream - it’s time to wake up and make it happen. To the people that don’t believe in anything anymore – you need professional help.

So let’s focus on our common goal – a clean and healthy home, and let’s forget about the what if’s, the buts, the why should i, why aren’t they and so on so forth...let’s get back to basics here, where we the people make a difference.

Off Topic: I would like to apologize for my harsh words to the people working for winalite Indonesia, I understand that they were not expecting this much interest in such short time so they were caught off guard; but that’s why good food is not the only thing that makes a restaurant successful, I waited for 6 hours.

Back to Topic: these are the new t-shirts as the old ones will not be manufactured again. For orders simply ask the friend that sent this link to you. The price is the same rp. 75.000 and the order will close on the 25.05.2012.

We are taking it step by step, until we reach our goal.

I need some assistance.

2012-04-20T17:41:00.000+07:00

"If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them."

by Dalai lama

Hello there, how are you?

I am talking to you today because i need some help with the campaign WE'RE DOING SOMETHING , and I was wondering if you would want to help me.

I am trying to find a company that sells recycled quality garbage bins at a lower price.

Lower price is good as it allows us to buy more garbage bins, which is one of the things needed by Jakarta. More garbage bins on the streets also means less garbage on the streets.

Quality…well we always need a little bit of quality, but in this case, we need quality to ensure that the garbage bins don’t get damaged very easy. Good quality products last longer, so instead of replacing damaged garbage bins every month or every three months which is a money consuming process, we would be replacing damaged bins maybe, every one year, three or five years. So…a bit of quality is a good long term measure.

Recycled garbage bin would be good because when a bin gets damaged and needs to be replaced, instead of throwing the bin and thus generating more garbage, we could trade the damaged bin for a new recycled garbage bin at a discount.Hence the name, recyclable garbage bins. I hope it's clear.

So…the benefits of using recyclable garbage bins are:

- - Saves money.

- - Long term measure

- - Helps to reduce the amount of garbage that is on the streets of the city that we call “home”.

(By the way, the amount of garbage generated by people on a daily basis is quite high and worrying, as I am sure you know. Please document yourself, we cannot be ignorant now when we have so many means of getting information, like internet, TV, books, studies etc., read a little bit about it so that you know how it can affect your life.)

So this is what I would want you to help me with.

I would really appreciate your help as it would make my life easier. Thank you for your support.

PS: kindly forward this post to your friends as it would also be a way to help me, who knows, maybe one of your friends might know a company that does that.

You can leave a comment.

E-mail me:

jakartaourhome@yahoo.com, jakartaourhome@gmail.com or jakartaourhome@hotmail.com, whichever one you prefer.

You can send me a text message me to this number: 081.78.947.67.

Or you can add my BB pin number which is 261A370E. Thank you.

2012-04-16T20:50:00.002+07:00

"The choice to do something is in our hands"

Alright! Here is the important part… Why am I saying that this is the important part?... OK, I will explain my reasons.

Looking for people that call Jakarta home!

2012-04-10T14:58:00.001+07:00

Hello everyone! My name is Silviu, I come from Romania and I am very pleased to meet you all. But enough about me, I am sure that you are much more interested in finding out what this post is all about.... OK, pay very close attention and read these lines, slowly and carefully, I am looking for people that call Jakarta home!!!....I am very serious about it!...Here is what I want you to do.

I want you to remember a day in your life….A day when you felt so tired that all you wanted was to get home fast, and rest in your comfortable bed; you remember that day don’t you. On the way home, the first thing you had to go through was the traffic, and the traffic in Jakarta is scary, to say the least… but somehow, someway you made it home.

Now I want you to imagine this…imagine that you are there now, opening the door to the house ready to hit the bed and rest. As you open the door you start seeing many cigarette buds on the floor, plastic cups and tissues thrown everywhere, plates with leftover food on the table, and when you take a closer look you also see cockroaches and ants and worms feasting in the food…aaghh…that’s just disgusting… isn’t it?!...

You start to ask yourself - Is this where i live?...it can't be?! i mean who would live in a place like this...With a frightened look on your face you start looking around for familiar things, at the same time hoping and praying - Please god don't let this to be my home! But through all the garbage and filth that surrounds you, you spot your furniture, scratched, dirty, but still your furniture...- What happened? You ask, in a desperate need of an answer, but suddenly, a horrible smell hits you, so horrible that it almost makes you vomit. As you see the bathroom door open you think about the sewerage system as the source of the smell.

You start going crazy flushing and throwing water down the drainage system hoping that the smell will go away, but it doesn't, it keeps on coming back and is so disgusting that you can barely hold yourself from vomiting, so you rush out of the bathroom and you shut the door hoping that the smell won’t spread everywhere… But there is still a smell that you feel, you start shouting - What is is now?, hoping again for an answer from somewhere, from anywhere…with a crazy look on your face you rush to the kitchen, on the way to the kitchen you also notice that the walls don’t look the same, they are filthy and scratched now, some walls have writings on them as well…oh wait…sorry, the writings on the wall are from kids, cause that’s what kids do!, they write on walls, right?

But there’s no time to think about that now, you are determined to find the source of this smell. You make it to the kitchen and you look for the garbage bin, but you can’t see it because of the garbage that covered it, and the stench that it generates it’s horrible - So that's where this smell is coming from... you say to yourself. All of a sudden the garbage starts moving - Is is alive...?... As you get closer a couple of rats start running around, trying to hide from you, scared just like you are, you grab the first thing that's next to you and the chase is on…but after a while you give up.

Exhausted and angry you sit down on a chair, and with your head in your hands you start to think about a solution because you can't live, sleep, eat or raise a child in that kind of home - So what can I do?....let me answer that for you…You Clean It! That’s what you do. Why should You clean it? Because you don’t want to live and sleep and eat or raise a child in filth…do you…? Of course not, no one does.

We all want a Clean and Healthy Home for us and our family, right...? And you don’t expect someone else to come and clean your home for you; You Do It Yourself, because it’s Your Home.

The reason why I am telling You this is because that’s exactly How Jakarta Looks Like Right Now! And Jakarta Is OUR HOME. I mean…I understand that you may be living in an apartment or in a house, we are in the 21^st century now and we no longer sleep outside, now we need a roof over our heads to keep us safe from the rain, walls for a little privacy, windows for the light and the air to come in, and so on so forth, the point is… that apartment and that house are in Jakarta! So Here, In Jakarta is where You Live, you may be going away for a holiday, or for work or in the week-ends but you always come back to Your Home, Jakarta, right. Because Here is where You eat, Here is where You sleep, Here is where You laugh and cry, Here is where You succeed or fail, Here is where You enjoy your time with Your friends and family, Here is where You play with Your children and Here is where You raise Your children, because Here… IS Your Home! Jakarta… Is Your Home!

Now Stop for just 5 minutes from whatever it is that you’re doing, and take a good look outside, take a good look around you and be honest with me, but more importantly, be honest with Yourself, and tell me, are You Happy with what You See? Are You Happy with Your Home? Is THIS the environment that You want yOUR Children to play in, to grow up in...?...… if the answer to all of these questions is No! Then it’s Time To Do Something About It! It's Time To Clean Our Home!

i am very interested to hear your thoughts on this so please leave a comment