Studio Spoon http://studio-spoon.music.coocan.jp/ http://badi5.web.fc2.com/index.html * 8th July 2019 ***** Natural life vol.1 I was an editor for a woman's magazine how to start a natural life in a city in 2002 in Tokyo. But the editor in chief was an alcoholic and also a heavy smoker. He had been having many ideas how to show the woman's natural life on the magazine. He could make many fascinating subtitles and copies continuously every months for the publishing. It's not rare case. A man or a woman can suggest vegan cooking or natural cosmetics for consumers, but he or she doesn't want to change his/her life style. It seemed like he wanted to keep going for his daily test of his endurance of the quantity of alcohol and also cigarettes. The nice natural life style magazines were including good contents of not only organic veggies and natural cooking but also introducing spiritual world and meditation. From my side, in my opinion, a brain can't make a super natural contents without plenty of alcohol and smoking. So he needed alcohol everyday to produce a good contents. * Natural life vol.2 In my opinion, most of people would like to keep a contrast in their lives. They want to enjoy it. He or she would like to make a big contrast in his/her life. The editor in chief was telling me "nobody can imagine the editor in chief of this natural life style magazine for women is edited by an alcoholic" with his laughing. I'm not sure about our brain system. But at least, the stimulus by daily alcohol is needed for him to produce good contents, subtitles and a title how to spend our daily life naturally in cities by good ancient knowledge. He didn't want to change his life. The quantity of his alcohol was gradually increasing step by step. It seemed like he wanted to go to his ending. But he didn't die. I didn't think it was a strange situation. Of course I don't like people who are alcoholics or white sugar addicts. Because they don't love by themselves. They don't love their children. They don't love the earth environment. Because foods make a body. Foods can affect our spirits. Because foods digested in our bowels go into our bloods. Bloods go to our brains. However our brains are our spirits. But if the blood contains white sugar by having a piece of cake after lunch, the spiritual level might go down in a whole day. Our brains have a problem. For example, if you see a nice show case for cakes at a western cake shop, it's hard to stop buying one. After you arrived at home, you could enjoy two tones of the layers. When you started eating the first piece of the cake, your brain would be satisfied by the white sugar power with the soft gentle nice texture of the wheat flours. An attractive piece of cake is a famous trap to reduce the population. But before killing you, hospitals and western medicine companies are waiting for you. I like to make a contrast while playing the piano. Sometime I start to play as piano sound and going gradually to ff. A small happiness in our art activity can be all of our life. It requires great strength to lift a heavy object. But you have the strength of ten women. I had been drinking a glass of red Chile organic wine every nights in west area of Japan since 2008 till 2010. But since 2011, I could stop it in Bali automatically. Because I can't buy the red Chile wine here. On the other hand, I'm helped and supported by coconuts and papaya in Bali. Two weeks ago, I ate over night oats including many raisins without white sugar. But three hours later, my teeth in front started having the toothache and my heart started pounding hardly. I could do nothing for about two hours. Can you stop WiFi? I never use WiFi. Because our seven computers are connected by LAN cables to the router of the optical fiber. I use 4G for 15 seconds to receive whatsapp messages. But before the WiFi topics, you can focus how to choose daily foods. I could imagine that no normal cakes would be in my life in April 1996. So far, it seems like you can't imagine that. But as the first impression is 90% right, you should make the first imagination that no normal cakes would be in your life. For one year, it doesn't need to go to nothing. But you should have an exact direction. You can choose better way with better ideas by a good spirit for saving our children's body, spirit, mind and their future. I can see white sugar in a white cake or in a dark chocolate bar. * Natural life vol.3 A beautiful black woman was walking on the street of the central Ubud three months ago. It was like a movie scene. She was wearing her traditional African clothes with her black shawl. Her neck was a little bit longer than me. The gentle and graceful walking movement by her well developed muscle fascinated me for about five seconds. The five seconds could show me her life. We don't understand what her life is by watching her just for five seconds? Is it true? From my side, in my opinion, we can. A man who is 50 years old is in front of you. His face tells you everything. You can see him whether he is honest or not. * You like your tricky balance between your super natural knowledge for example some leaves can heal a disease or a wound, and having a piece of cake sometimes. But keeping the tricky balance can't be a nice attractive life. You are feeling good while keeping the hard contrast. But it has already old fashioned. Eating a piece of cake including white sugar today might not make your cancer. C.f. there was no cancer just 100 years ago on the earth. But if you don't change your diet, it proves you don't love your children. Because the foods affect your spirit. Your good spirit can make a good plan for your children' s future. You are what you eat. You are what you have for dessert in the afternoon tea. Thank you. Osamu * 10th May 2019 ***** Yesterday, my wife (Naoko) and me (Osamu) agreed on that point learning how to play the piano could make a big problem for anybody who would like to learn music. You know piano sounds are beautiful. When you listen to a classical piano play for example Schubert on Spotify or itunes, you could be impressed by his/her emotional play. And it's much better gioing to a good classical concert in a city area to be impressed more. Just only 300 years ago, there is no piano on the earth. But now, by the usual human mass prodiction, some famous piano factories could spread out the pianos anywhere in the world. I don't like "Fur Elise". I like Beethoven but I don't like that piano song. Because too much children and also adults are playing the song on the earth. I could not listen to a piano play unless being stable, unless gentle touch. Even a baby can make a sound by piano. It is the most big problem for us. Why? Parents think playing the piano is easier than playing the soprano saxphone or recorder. I have to say a difference of each instrument's difficulties between playing the piano and the soprano saxphone. But I should say later. Because now I'm writing this paragraph for parents who cannot play any instruments but who are interested in piano lessons for their children. But I can say to make an F sound by soprano saxphone or recorder/flute is harder than making an F sound by piano. Five years later, hopefully you could get what I wanted to say today. But I should explain it simply. If a baby or an adult push an F key of the piano like doing for a computer keyboard, the piano sound made with the less gentle touch might make you uncomfortable as you got as noise. I have an experience to have piano sounds with gentle and soft touch by a small girl who is around three years old. She was pushing one key only for about fifteen seconds by her gentle touch. You know sometime continuous one key sound is better than the sounds by various keys. But it was not music. Because there was no rhythm, no stable tempo. - Music factors - 1. Melody with chords 2. Chords on the bass line 3. Chords with the bass line under the stable tempo cf. Rhythm needs stable tempo. I have an experience to have a stable tempo by djembe by a three years boy. Coincidently he could make a stable tempo however it was real music! It's not necessary to learn how to read notes on music scores. Yes, a drum like a djembe/cajon can make music. Our ancestors were making music by their voice/song with a simple djembe in the past around 20,000 years ago. This is a basic of music. Instead of a human voice, you can start to play the bamboo flute or the recorder. But you should learn by yourself how to make a single tone by recorder by your gentle breathing. Please go back to the music factors. 1. Melody with chords 2. Chords on the bass line 3. Chords with the bass line under the stable tempo However to make a jazz, you need to learn not only three factors above but also three subjects at least as follows. 4. How to improvise without any score 5. How to make an arrangement from a simple jazz song 6. Enjoy your improvisation on blues scale But please go back to the first three music factors. And now please see No.3. 3. Chords with the bass line under the stable tempo For beginners, I can simplify. I can say.. 3b. Playing one or two keys on a good rhythm feeling. Yes now you could get that a piano is brothers/sisters of drums. So I recommend you, or you recommend me as follows. 1. Songs by your voice with rhythm by your hands 2. How to play the recorder/flute 3. Rhythm and Blues 4. How to improvise without any music score by recorder/ flute 5. How to improvise without any music score by piano Thank you. * My history with an HP200LX (a small computer) * 31st March 2019 ***** We should think about the electromagnetic wave of WiFi, 4G and 5G. But this article is about WiFi radiation ( electromagnetic wave). * Step 1 Before taking some measurements of electromagnetic wave, I switched off a WiFi router, a WiFi repeater and our smartphones. Monitoring between 50MHz～3.5GHz. Electricity density: 0μW/m2 * Step 2 I switched on our WiFi router at home. Then the measuring instrument showed us as the electricity density: 289μW/m2. The value of the 289μW/m2 is higher than a value near a base station of mobile phone (PHS). Do you want to bring a base station of mobile phone in your pocket? * Step 3 I put my smartphone beside the measuring instrument. My smartphone screen is black out as sleep but turning on the WiFi. This value is made from a pure WiFi. Electricity density: 322μW/m2 Because any electromagnetic waves of the normal mobile phones cannot reach into this room. * Step 4 I connected to Facebook by WiFi now. The value of the 717μW/m2 is three times higher than a value near a base station of mobile phone (PHS). * Please switched off your WiFi router, WiFi repeater and your smartphones before sleeping. You can have a good sleep at night. ***** Hi Mr.Masahiro Kondoh. Thank you for your making a good article regarding WiFi that it's harmful. I translated from Japanese into English. For me (Osamu), I never use WiFi by my smartphone ( Android, ASUS). I connect to 4G five times in a day for checking whatsapp messages. For five minutes in a day, it's enough. * With four screen shots as follows. * We should think about the electromagnetic wave of WiFi, 4G and 5G. But this article is about WiFi radiation ( electromagnetic wave). * Step 1 Before taking some measurements of electromagnetic wave, I switched off a WiFi router, a WiFi repeater and our smartphones. Monitoring between 50MHz～3.5GHz. Electricity density: 0μW/m2* Step 2 I switched on our WiFi router at home. Then the measuring instrument showed us as the electricity density: 289μW/m2. The value of the 289μW/m2 is higher than a value near a base station of mobile phone (PHS). Do you want to bring a base station of mobile phone in your pocket? * Step 3 I put my smartphone beside the measuring instrument. My smartphone screen is black out as sleep but turning on the WiFi. This value is made from a pure WiFi. Electricity density: 322μW/m2 Because any electromagnetic waves of the normal mobile phones cannot reach into this room. * Step 4 I connected to Facebook by WiFi now. The value of the 717μW/m2 is three times higher than a value near a base station of mobile phone (PHS). * Please switched off your WiFi router, WiFi repeater and your smartphones before sleeping. You can have a good sleep at night. ***** Hi Mr.Masahiro Kondoh. Thank you for your making a good article regarding WiFi that it's harmful. I translated from Japanese into English. For me (Osamu), I never use WiFi by my smartphone ( Android, ASUS). I connect to 4G five times in a day for checking whatsapp messages. For five minutes in a day, it's enough. * 30 August 2018 ***** How to improvise without any score? Most of all people might think that piano improvisation must be difficult for any classical piano learners. But I could say “No”. Today I will show you a nice approach to improvise by piano freely. Since I had started learning classical piano when I was 10 years old, I imagined if I could play the piano freely without any score, it must be fun. My sister found a jazz piano teacher for me when I was 20 years old. He recommended me to make an arrangement from a jazz song. But it was hard for me to make an arrangement. Especially I had no idea to make a piano solo part on the five lines score. To make a solo part under the chord changes was hard for me. Because you might imagine that there were many chords on an original jazz score like Cmaj7th A7 F G7.. 18 years later. When I was 38 years old, one day when I was playing an improvisation in C major, while Dm7, coincidentally I recognized a nice harmonized sound at that moment when I played F as a base by my left hand for Dm7 improvisation by my right hand. Of course, most of all jazz theory advanced player know diatonic. From this familer theory, of course Dm7 and F are brothers and sisters as sub-dominant. However I felt F bass was beautiful after C13. Most of all beginners start to learn C Dm7 G7 C. (Or C Am7 Dm7 G7 and C) (Or C A7 Dm7 G7 and C) But for an improvisation, you don't need G7 this time. And instead of Dm7, you can play F as root. So one of the most simplest bass pattern to improvise on the earth is C F. For the ending, you need C by your left hand, by your right hand, please give me 9th(re) of the C and C as a double notes for example. It's beautiful. All right, let's get to start. Please count 1, 2, 3, 4 slowly by your voice in four beat. Please give me a C as single bass note on 1 by your left hand. By your right hand, Please give me “mi” on 2. (mi = E) Please give me “re” on 3. (re = D) Please give me “do” on 4th. (do = C) Please give me a F as single bass note on 1 by your left hand. By your right hand, it's the same as the above for 2, 3, 4. Next, I will give you some patterns for your right hand for 2, 3, 4. mi, re, do. (C as single base note) fa, mi, re. (F as single base note) so, fa, mi. (C as single base note) fa, mi, re. (F as single base note) Please repeat four times. And make an ending by your right hand including 9th ( means re) on C as root sound by your left hand. Was it fun? * 29 August 2018 ***** - A small! computer - Dear a friend of Marco I recommend you Raspberry instead of Windows PC. Hi, I'm Osamu. Naoko's husband. And Marco's friend. We are living in Nyuh Kuning. I was working for a German computer company. And I am a professional for Windows OS and data rescue. But I am a user of MAC Air. And I have been learning about Linux Mint and also Linux of Raspberry for three years. Also I was a professional to solve the problem of Windows caught by a virus or a malware. And I could solve some problems of network(LAN) or internet. Sometime I'm using Windows7 with a good firewall. Without a firewall, anybody can't use any Windows. Any Windows can be caught by malware in 30 minutes from internet from the starting time to switch it on. So I recommend you a Raspberry and 20 inch display of non glare. You can find them at Tokopedia. Totally the cost would be around 2.4 juta. To prevent malware, you should not use Windows7, 8 and Windows10. To prevent malware, you should choose Linux like Raspberry (Rp.750.000)! Please give me your email address. Let me know whether it's a web mail or not. Kind regards, Osamu Fujikawa * 7th January 2020 ***** Let me share my ideas about natural cleaning. I purchased a bag of borax from Turkey in October 2019. It works to eliminate odours from our clothes. Before that, I bought 5kg of citric acid. I use the citric acid not only for to wash the clothes but also to clean floors and showers. * How to machine-wash clothes. You can buy baking soda at Bali Buda in Ubud. Heat up 300ml of water to around 43 degrees. Then dissolve a teaspoon of baking soda in the warm water. It is for three shirts and three short pants. Add a teaspoon of citric acid into the warm water. Enjoy seeing the bubbles. Add a teaspoon of borax. Enjoy seeing the bubbles again this time they are a little. Soak your shirts in plenty of water in the washing machine for 30 minutes to 8 hours. Wash, rinse twice, dry in the sun. Your clothes will no longer smell. * - My recommendation. K. Briody - This is great. I loved reading it!! Thank you for the tips you shared, really great!! * 11 July 2018 We love “citric acid”. I don't want to say “natural food”. I don't want to say “natural cooking”. I don't want to say “natural cleaning”. I don't want to say “Save the earth ”. I don't want to say “Think about the rivers and the oceans before you buy a box of detergent”. Just we want to save our lungs from the harmful smell that including the synthetic surface active agent of the synthetic detergent. - One of the best combination - 1. Citric acid 2. Baking soda First of all, I recommend you buy 500g of citric acid from tokopedia on internet if you are living in Indonesia. 1. How to wash by hands 2. How to wash by a washing machine You need two nice sized buckets for your hand washing. ( Actually I have three buckets (:- at least. 1. Soak your socks for one night, into a bucket with half of tea spoon of the citric acid and plenty of water before you sleep. (You don't have to use a spoon) 8 hours later, in the morning, you would be surprised at the less smelling because of the citric acid. Washing by hands three times, means changing the water of the bucket three times, then hang the socks in the morning gentle sun light. * How to wash by a washing machine with the citric acid and the baking soda. I bought a blue long sleeved shirts three months ago. But it's not thick. You know it takes time to dry completely if the material of the shirts is thick. Especially in such a humid climate in Bali, we could choose not thick cloths. I have chosen not only my long sleeved shirts as it's not thick, but also pants and towels. * I prefer the citric acid because it can dissolve easily in water. However the combination of the citric acid and baking soda is powerful for a washing machine. To dissolve the baking soda, we need warm water. (We don't need hot water) Make 250g of warm water by gas. Dissolve 3 tea spoons of the baking soda in the warm water. Put it into your washing machine. And then put in a tea spoon of the citric acid also. Soak your cloths for 30 minutes at least. Then start the washing machine. * The detergent smell is not only the smell but also that it's including chemical substances for example the synthetic surface active agent of the synthetic detergent as I mentioned on the top of this article. TV or internet can brainwash you it seemes like that the smell of the synthetic detergent would be good. But for me, as I know the real natural smell of the essential oil of for example tea tree, after I smelled a detergent smell, I get hard heart pounding and my breathing starts unnaturally. Even I was hungry, I could eat little bit on that day. * However we can't think we use a washing machine in Bali. Because the cost of the laundry is very cheap here in Bali. If we use a laundry, we can save our time. If we don't use a laundry, we have to wash our cloths by ourselves by hands or by a washing machine at home. OK. I recommend you one of the best laundry in Ubud. They are using soap nuts! The soap nuts laundry is located on Jl.Sukma. From Sayuri Healing Food, please go to the south by scooter for one minutes, pass Warung Little India, next two shops, you can find “Nine Heaven Eco Laundry” on the right side. Four websites regarding soap nuts https://www.kitchenstewardship.com/my-favorite-non- toxic-laundry-option-soap-nuts-review/ http://www.naturallivingideas.com/soap-nuts/ https://myplasticfreelife.com/2017/07/how-to-make- liquid-soap-nuts-laundry-soap-plus-other-plastic-free- laundry-ideas/ https://www.humoroushomemaking.com/soap-nuts-a-natural- frugal-laundry-detergent * But still if you are interested in how to use citric acid, I can show you that it's like a magic to clean the bath room and the palce of washing hands. Yes, now we don't need any chemical detergent for cleaning something, for cloths, in shower room and for dishes. Please note today. 1. Citric acid 2. Baking soda Thank you. ***** However I see this world is still nice. And you also see this world is still good. People in this world are gentle and kind for you. Please go out to a city you like. Any young people need learning mathematics and EFL(It's not ESL). But if you got both of them (or it's no problem while you are still learning them), you can see Opera, classical music, jazz and blues, arts in museums (after you have read a book for Romanesque. Not only Renaissance). And you can have a time at a beauiful and historical cafe in Prague. For example it's cost just only 8 EUR for watching an Opera in Prague (But please use Uber. Please don't use taxi in Prague). Let me give these information for a child or a student at a great timing for each persons at our learning place. On the other hand, Balinese people and papaya, banana and coconut have been supporting me for seven years. You know Balinese ceremony (upacara) are running continuously through one year by Balinese people. It takes a plenty of time from all Balinese. It is actually one third of 365 days. To prepare a ceremony, to do a ceremony on the day and to clean up after the ceremony are always hard works for Balinese people. But by keeping hard works, they can keep their relationship as “face to face” to each others. So that the reason why the security situation in Bali is much better than the other places compared in the world (For example, compared to south America. However I like people from south America). One of Japanese woman who is 19 years old tweeted about German university information after she had been living there for one year as follws in June 2018. It was free of charge for learning anything at the Leipzig university. The expense for living in a room near the university, it was EUR 250 including electricity fee, heating fee and internet. And potato / 1 kg is much cheaper than Japan. It was around EUR 2. On the other hand, it costs EUR 4,153 / year for learning at the top of the art college supported by Japan government. The expense for living in a room near the college, it is EUR 538 excluding electricity fee, heating fee and internet. And potato / 1 kg is much expensive than Germany. * 10 July 2017 Most of my friends in Bali told me “Instead of Gili Trawangan, please visit at Gili Air.” From 30th June till 2nd July, Naoko, Osamu and Shohei have visited at both of islands. Now I could say after my snorkeling in the sea of Gili Air, it was good, but we liked both of islands. Only horses and bicycles were going on the streets in Gili islands. It was totally free from exhaust emission from cars. And you can also see electrical scooters in Gili islands. We found some nice vegan restaurants and also raw cafes in both of islands. I recommend you taking Eka Jaya 23 from Padang bai to Gili islands. It's more comfortable and not bumping on the waves while cruising than Eka Jaya 20 or 19 as old models. Have a nice trip! * 28 June 2017 Above the Clouds A nice couple have been living in Bali for years. So they know the usual strong humidity in Bali. This is a key of this shop. For our Christmas day with my wife in 2016, I bought a pink shirt of Supima cotton 100% from Egypt. With the pink shirt, I bought fisher men's pants colored by navy. The pink Supima cotton shirt is made by very light and thin material. It's suitable for the Ubud weather being sometimes very hot. And long sleeved shirt could protect from the sun shine. When I was living in Tokyo Japan, I didn't know my pleasure washing cloths by my hands. But now here in Bali, for this pink shirt, I could wash it by myself. I could squeeze the shirt easily.(not wring out and not twisting either). And it had dried easily even in this humid weather. On the other hand, the design of the fisher men's pants is also perfect. My comfortable S sized pink shirt is fitting me tightly, but the fisher men's pants are very loose. But the nice thick string is very helpful to tie it. This might be the only one men's cloth shop in Ubud in Bali. The designing ability and the quality are one of the best. * 22 June 2017 To make palm oil, they are burning forest in Indonesia to make plantation of palm oil tree. After getting palm oil, they would like to generate electricity from palm oil. It's unbelievable! On the other hand, the decision of Norway government is always brilliant. Palm oil is including in approximately 75% of instant food products, shampoo and detergent. Please go to local or organic market instead of super market. Please use soap nut as shampoo and for cleaning the floors. * 21 June 2017 Vegan Banana Bread Ingredients: wheat flour, banana, coconut oil, palm sugar, cashew nuts, cinnamon powder, rice vinegar, baking soda, rock salt * 16 June 2017 While two Italian husbands and the two Indonesian wives, and a couple of Italian were having a barbecue party last Saturday, one of a couple invited us Naoko and Osamu. So Naoko sang Mul mantra with my djembe in the beginning of the party. In the middle of the party, I expressed how I like Italy and Italian culture. For example, only Germany and Italy have Opera. French cuisine is originally come from Italian cooking way. Only Germany and Italy have sport cars. However with their boring faces, all of them didn't like my talk. They like French culture and also Indonesian. Because the reason why they are living in Indonesia now is that they don't like Italy somehow. My children, Naoko and Osamu liked sausage bought from Locavore in Ubud. The pigs are raised up by not chemical feed. The pigs are growing up with grass in north of Ubud. Usual pigs for “babi gulig!” are so bad. Because they are raised up by chemical feed for growing up as soon as possible to make money. It's not only Indonesia but also any places in the world, people think about only how to make money as soon as possible. So no body can take care how to save trees and forest in Indonesia. They also cooked paku vegetable from Bali, sticky corn, potato and Juroku cowpea. And thank you for a glass of wine, Cotes du Rhone. We had very good time on Saturday afternoon. See you again. Oh no, after the party, one of them has come to Studio Spoon for her piano and song trial lesson. Thanks for coming! * 27 April 27 2017 An Indonesian family, four people had been visiting at Osaka in Japan for 6 days in April 2017. She bought some pieces of chocolate made in Japan as souvenir for a Balinese friend family. The Balinese family is one of the nice friends of me. This morning I was aware of her eyes wet. Her nose has been running since she ate the chocolate made in Japan for two days. Not only her but also her husband and her daughter. Their health conditions are not so good now. I told her in bahasa Indonesia “Please never eat Japanese sweets and Japanese foodstuff are including radiation from Fukushima nuclear power plants. But she told me “It was delicious.” However I told her again “Please please never eat foods from Japan again.” * 8 April 2017 Avocado Chocolate Mousse Ginger Muffin with Coconut Cashew Cream Vegan dessert by Naoko of Studio Spoon At Movement Matters Bali of Sook Fun Chen Thank you. * 19 March 2017 One of my friend Lee was giving me a lecture of how to see the paintings by Frida Kahlo of Mexico in a book titled “FRIDA” on Sunday morning at Kafe Topi in Ubud. When Frida was 18 years old, it happened. A bus crushed into a train when she was in the bus while going to the school. At that moment, she was got out from the bus by a big impact from the accident between the bus and the train. Five years later she has miscarriage, totally three times in her life. However, rather than before, she could have keeping her passion to draw with enduring her pain patiently. Thank you for your enduring and also telling us one good thing loving a man for a long time could continue to give you a big power and concentration to draw. * 16 March 2017 Paulo Coelho who is the writer of The Alchemist told us “Anyone who loves must learn to lose themselves and then find themselves again. * 25 January 2017 This is my best soap for my hair washing in the shower room, washing dishes in the kitchen and also for cleaning floors up everyday. This is super natural thing, so please keep in your refrigerator. Ancient Balinese people were using this soap nut for washing anything. But now they have forgotten. Because TV commercial of the chemical soap is so strong and also being visually exciting! Please turn your TV switch off to prevent from chemical things in our world, and also for saving our family life. Thank you everybody! * 25 January 2015 I love Soapnut Liquid. This is 100% natural soap for our body and hair. And also for washing dishes and for your washing machine. This is a fruit; a nut; like a berry; ripen fruit. (The Liquid comes from the nut.) Please visit at Pizza Bagus - Organic market around 10:00am every Saturday! I think it's reasonable price. Just 5cc is enough for washing my hair. And it's not harmful for underground water. ***** 31 October 2014 Vegan Chocolate Cake (wheat-free) ***** 30 October 2014 Apple pie (whole wheat 50%) ***** 5 October 2014 Environment Day! at Fivelements in Bali Bamboo pavilion Some lectures in the Bamboo pavilion "Slow, Small, Simple" by Keibo Oiwa (Tsuji Shinichi) From "efficiently" to "sufficiently". Stop our never ending competition. "Slow" is subtraction. Scale down and downsizing. Taoism The relationship between Little prince and fox. Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear." Mahatma Gandhi - Happy Birthday Gandhi! Shine on! * Slow food - by Mary Jane Edleson She has been living in Indonesia for 34 years! Good food in Bali * Let Elephants Be Elephants - by Nadya Hutagalung * GMO corn in Bali, Indonesia ***** 4 October 2014 http://www.ubudwritersfestival.com/ THE ART OF FERMENTATION: HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN SAUERKRAUT & KIMCHEE! Enter the magical world of fermentation with Mary- Jane Edleson, who for decades has researched and been inspired by its transformative power, unique tastes and extraordinary health properties. Mary- Jane will share scientific, historical and practical information that will lead you to Kimchee heaven! At Toko Toko Restaurant (The Kitchen) * Mary Jane Edleson - culinary educator, organic gardener, author and artist has lived and worked in numerous countries throughout Asia, including some 30 years resident in Indonesia. She is a Founding Member of BISA (Bali Institute for Sustainable Agriculture), Director of Amertha Studios, and Convivium Leader of Slow Food Bali. She was Founder and President (for 20 years) of Pacific Century Associates, a regional marketing and communications company based in Indonesia. She is the author and editor of numerous articles and books on many aspects of Indonesia. She did post- graduate Asian studies, and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree, and is a certified chef and instructor in 'living food.' She has studied at several international culinary institutes in the US and Asia, and has a special interest in food fermentation. Her Bali food gardens are noteworthy for abundance and variety. Her main life passion is the study of world food and its relationship to culture. Naoko, Osamu, Yuya and Shohei joined in this Fermentation class. How to make KIMCHEE? - chop, salt, pack and wait. Mary Jane Edleson ***** 3 October 2014 http://www.ubudwritersfestival.com/ DRIVEN BY SIMPLICITY Locavore has taken Ubud by storm with its focus on the finest local produce, preferable organic, and modern cooking techniques. Meet Chef Eelke who will unclutter your culinary mind by bringing his magnificent simplicity to the table while revealing Locavore sought-after secrets. At Toko Toko Restaurant (The Kitchen) Naoko and Osamu joined in this class. * Eelke Plasmeijer Top Page