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3 Reasons Sports Morning Better

2011-07-05T00:10:00.000-07:00

fitness centers are generally filled with office workers who practice cardio or playing instrument since 06.00 am. This is encouraging, because now people are increasingly aware to choose a healthy lifestyle. They are even willing to steal in the midst of his time to practice.

If you are office workers with irregular working hours, there is no harm in trying this new habit. Instead of drinking coffee to make the body fresh, mild exercise in the morning, because the benefits are also much more. It would be better if you choose to exercise outdoors than indoors. Here's the reason why morning exercise more fun:

1. Repair and improve mood
Sleep disorders, stress will load the job at hand, or a fight with a lover, can make you wake up with a grouchy. Mood that was already broken in the morning, will affect your feelings in a day later. Therefore, before the move, you should take the time to exercise. Research shows that exercise can boost endorphins and hormones other feel-good in the body, so as to keep a sense of laziness or upset, and make you smile all day.

2. Helps burn more calories
According to health experts, the morning exercise can increase metabolism, so as to regulate the body to burn more calories throughout the day. In fact, even when you rest the body is still burning calories.

3. Air cleaner
In general, better air quality during the morning, rather than in the afternoon or evening. So when you walk or jog around the neighborhood in the morning, you will breathe cleaner air. You will also be exposed to morning sun. You know, when exposed to morning sun, the body produces vitamin D in large numbers. Vitamin D will help strengthen your bones.

Coaching Boys Managing Emotions

2011-06-16T06:33:00.000-07:00

If since the young, the boys used to manage his emotions well, he will grow into good men later as adults. Both men are strong, independent and responsible not only boast of her family, but also you as parents. As a parent, you scored a man who can be relied upon at a later date.

"Children who can manage his emotions capable of expressing his feelings. This capability begins with how the parents care. If your child is sad and crying, then you are forbidden and considered trivial grief, children learn to hide feelings," says psychologist Christine Nicholson, PhD.

Research shows parents tend to be more concerned with how the feelings of daughters than sons. When girls feel sad, parents will be softer. While the boys forced to always be strong even if they're feeling sad. The boy should not be used to sad. Parenting like this would make the boys are trained to hide his feelings. They feel embarrassed if the show of grief. In the end the boy could not communicate well.

Parents have a role in the generation of men scored strong without fear of showing his feelings. You, as parents, can create a male figure who is able to manage emotions well in a way:

* Draw the child to talk
Boys you also need attention and to talk openly as you talk to girls. Fishing boys to talk openly about your feelings. Nicholson menyontohkan, while home from school, boy you look sad. Immediately open talks with him, "You look sad, what is it? Nothing I can do for you? Looks like she really felt there was something bad happened at school."

Use a speech that would make the child tell you hooked. If the child begins to talk, give support, including respect for his feelings at that time. Give comments that make children feel they are supported by their parents. Although he was sad and stressed with school work piling up, she knew that her parents understand her feelings and there is always at his side. Do not give lectures on children, explained Nicholson.

* Help children find solutions
"Boys tend to focus on the problems facing rather than emotion," said Dan Kindlon, PhD, lecturer at the Harvard School of Public Health who is also the author of Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys.

The task of parents is to teach boys that feelings of disappointment, sadness, anger, fear is reasonable and teach boys to recognize and accept those feelings. Boys need to be aware of these feelings is part of him, which might not be direct removal. By understanding the feelings, the boys will begin to accept themselves, and recognize the problem. That way he would been helped to find solutions of the problem, after he could overcome his emotions.

9 Strategy happy Yourself

2011-06-07T15:39:00.000-07:00

Being happy is your right. No need to wait for this unpleasant feeling brought by other parties. You can create a sense of happiness for yourself. Eliminate negative energy from within themselves by undergoing nine strategies.

You can be happy yourself with the strategies SELF excerpted from the book The Nine Rooms of Happiness: Loving Yourself, Finding Your Purpose and Getting Over Life's imperfections, by Lucy Danziger and Catherine Birndorf, MD.

1. Filter myself
Perhaps childhood or adolescence are you so happy. The warmth of family or any relationship or event in the past makes you miss the past. If you need to go back to those days, because it tends to not like the current situation. These desires arise only natural. Freud called screen memories which is that we tend to do a filter on our lives through the memory of the past. Stop thinking about the past. Live for the present. Your life is now not the past, mark it for you happier.

2. Self-reflection
Berkacalah, see yourself more deeply. Know what you are today. Ask also the opinion of those who trusted in your life, about yourself. What they think and feel, Self-reflection teaches you to follow your intuition, and even mengasahnya. Know yourself honestly. The key, take the positive message from yourself and from others about your opinions.

3. Courage to change
If you do not find happiness with current relationship, or a variety of things about your life, job or whatever. Make changes in yourself or issue you want to change. If the issue involves an unpleasant relationship, looking for the solution of self and relationship. Make adjustments, increase tolerance, fix the relationship or leave the relationship if it is already increasingly unhealthy. All you can do is act to change yourself and the relationship. That means you can not make someone else (in the relationship) changes follow the way and wants. The key, of happiness you'll feel by making changes for yourself rather than to change others.

4. Building relationships, not unite
You would often hear, the presence of you or other people who are loved, are complementary. You actually have complete, intact as an individual. You do not need to be complemented by others. What happens is, you and others who are in a relationship, can be a lover, husband, best friend, in charge of building relationships with each other. The goal is not overlap or merge the differences. Like a circle, you and everyone else is intact circle who meet and form a Venn diagram. You and your husband for example, not unify two different individuals, but to build relationships that are mutually overlapping. Your character and your spouse could have collided with each other, but find happiness from this difference by connecting with each other. The key, you and other people who build relationships need to patch up each other rather than complement each other or merge. Whatever problem you face, by applying this way, you will feel happier because it able to accept and cope with conditions of positive energy from within themselves.

5. Stop or reduce narcissism
Make yourself as the center of attention could be interpreted negatively and positively. Your perception of yourself is not always entirely correct. Too much self-confidence and pride in themselves do not allow you in a relationship, with anyone. Included also if you're too hard on yourself. By feeling sorry for yourself, criticize yourself or just see the flaws in ourselves. Negative emotions are focused on themselves is also not necessarily facilitate relationships with other people. Immediately out of the trap of negative and positive narcissism is excessive, if you really want to feel happiness as individuals.

6. Peace with oneself
Try to understand the differences, conflicts or any other discomfort in a variety of social relationships and environment. Make peace with yourself when faced with the problem, conflict or difficult times. Tolerance is an attitude that can be learned. Practice this attitude and never let any conflicts or disagreements have a bad impact on your self. Make yourself happy by tolerating the problem, accepting it as part of your life journey that must be experienced. Strive so you do not become weak due to various problems.

7. No need to pretend
Be honest without the need to pretend. If you can not attend the wedding invitations your friends, tell me the reason to be honest. No need to make up stories because they feel uncomfortable delivering unpleasant news such. Or you do not need to pretend there is no problem with friends when you save the anger. What finally made you often cancel appointments or designing a fake plan, to escape from it. The play is very likely to occur at anytime and there is always a gap to do in your life. Especially when you are faced with a situation related to the boss, parent, brother or whoever has more power over yourself.

8. Limit yourself
Are you including a typical individual who enjoys helping others selflessly? People closest to you even already very familiar with your character that is too good. If you meet the right person, it did not matter. Precisely those who are able to see the bad side of these images will remind you to limit it. But this will not happen to other people who will take advantage of the genuine goodness in ourselves. So you will have to limit ourselves. There's nothing wrong with auxiliary nature and kind, but try to limit myself to train. You have limits. You do not always able to help others, even though you will working on it. Still, do not ever let anyone take advantage of the good side of this inside.

9. Make a decision
Whatever problem you face, make a decision to end the uncertainty and create happiness. You have the right to delay a decision that also was the choice decision. Or you can make the choice to express the attitude and resume your journey. There are always two choices in life is not it? determine the choice, through what is now expanding this or make decisions that make things different.

9 Signs Marry the Wrong Man

2011-05-30T15:41:00.000-07:00

The decision to select and married couples became important decisions throughout life with your partner because this will then you will live life. Still, a few wrong people choose a spouse and not happy with his marriage.

This error occurs because the decision was made because of the worry. Fear of being alone, fear of not having children, afraid of other things that are assumed would happen if you do not get married. This fear is even defeating logic, until at last she chose the wrong man, and makes life far more lonely than unmarried.

The writer in England who failed with his first marriage, Claire Lindsey, said, "If only I could give advice to prospective brides women or men, who think that they felt made the mistake of getting married, listen to these signs. Do not ever ignore the signs warnings like this, "he told the Daily Mail.

To identify whether you marry the wrong man, following signs:

1. You are not attracted to them
Physical attraction is important. If you are not eager to let go of his shirt, the sign you do not want it.

2. You are superior to him
If your job or your education level is higher than the couple, this is not so big problem. However, when you feel ashamed of yourself mate, you feel uncomfortable and therefore, never married.

3. The he makes you uncomfortable
The attitude of the couple that make you feel uncomfortable is one of the markers. When the he makes you feel unattractive compared with other women around you, think again to marry him.

4. Values and perceptions of the opposite
How can shared values and perceptions about various things affect the couple relationship. If he upholds the value that you, as a woman, not necessarily highly educated, not allowed to move outside the room, think again. Are you able to survive in a marriage relationship with a partner that has a value like this.

5. The he was too powerful
If a couple includes a controller type, think again whether you really want to marry her. You certainly uncomfortable when all you have to top seizinnya activity. Or you are obliged to follow orders to carry out whatever activities and daily routines.

6. Do not want to communicate
Communication is the key to the success of the marriage relationship. Try to recognize, at this time if your spouse was not used to talk, share stories, communicate, maybe someday he will change. However, if you see the he did not want to change and reluctant to communicate with you, you should re-think the wedding plans. Marry a man who likes to communicate, then you'll never regret.

7. Not able to be humorous
When couples get through difficult times and happy together, the marriage will run smoothly, including when couples get married can both laugh despite being difficult. Togetherness is what is needed for lasting married couples. If your partner is too serious and could not break the ice, think again about the wedding plans.

8. The he lied
Habit of lying to signs that the she was not the right partner for you. Couples who lied become one of the signs that he is not the right man to marry.

9. Your family does not like
The relationship you and he is personal. However, the assessment of the family or the people closest to are also important. If your parents or other people see nothing wrong with your partner, try to think twice. Perhaps others more objective assessment.

Boys Want, "Doggy Style" Only!

2011-05-27T15:27:00.000-07:00

For most couples, have a son or daughter may be the same, the important healthy. However, in some other couples, often there is a desire to prefer a boy or a girl. Various efforts were often we do to get it.

If done medically, you might be able to choose the technique Akihito (X and Y chromosome arrangement) or through artificial insemination techniques. However, because it is done specifically, this technique requires considerable expense. To do so without extra expenses, you can actually working on it naturally. Indeed, the results can not be too be expected, considering that this technique is still based on the assumptions of analysis-analysis that developed in the medical world. However, it could not hurt you to try some of the recommended techniques.

Left orgasm. If you want to get the boys, the wife must reach orgasm first because it supports the movement of fluid during orgasm faster Y sperm to the egg cell. Conversely, if you want a daughter, wife or not to delay orgasm first, so that secretion of alkali does not appear, which makes the Y sperm die.

Position copulation. If you want to get the boys, the recommended position is the knee-chest position or doggy style or from behind. The assumption was that this position allows the Y sperm approaching the egg. If you'd like a girl, use position of the face with his wife over the husband's position. This position is believed to make a longer Y sperm reaching the egg so it will die in the middle of the road.

Penetration. If you want to get a boy, deep penetration performed with the egg cell so that the distance is closer to the Y sperm is more easily reach it. Conversely, if you want girls, penetration is more shallow.

The volume of sperm. The higher the volume of the Y sperm, the chance to get a boy bigger. How, with fasting copulations 7-8 days. Instead, more often to copulate to get girls.

Food. If you want girls, husbands have a lot to eat that contain alkali, such as vegetables, fruit, egg whites, and milk. While the wife eating acid foods, like meat or seafood. If you want boys, the opposite applies.

5 Reasons Women Not Financially Independent

2011-05-21T21:43:00.000-07:00

For financial problems, arguably the weaker sex does not have equivalent competence. The survey results Citibank Indonesia in the Citi Fin-Q (Financial Quotient) 2009 that involve women respondents indicated that half of Indonesian women do not have a financial plan. Some who already have a plan for implementing the plan was not necessarily financial.

Why Indonesian woman has not been financially independent? Here are 5 main reasons:

1. Lulled romance
In general, when entering the level of marriage, the woman invited the man to be responsible about money. Many women are taught, and even aspire to rely solely on their partner. Men were more often considered to have the ability to earn money and survive in difficult conditions (survive), while women do not.

In some customs or traditions that followed in Indonesia, women are required to obey only the husband in exchange for protection from the financial aspect. This dependency makes women not ready to lose their jobs if their spouse, have an accident, or causing the death of a wife should care for and raise children alone.

Therefore, in order to survive in this era, women are increasingly required to be independent and support each other in family life.

2. Too young to save
At younger age, women generally do not put priority to saving for the future. Women more interested in spending to improve the appearance and get the things he did not have during childhood. This trend eventually leads to compulsive shopping habits. Over time, total expenditure increased and more difficult to create the habit of saving.

It is best to teach the value of money in the younger generation is to provide opportunities for them to start work after the age of adolescence, and getting used to manage personal finances.

3. Seduced spending and debt
Advertising and promotion for beauty, fashion, and household spending to further improve the taste of women. This makes the women feel that they have control over expenditure, but unfortunately this compulsive spending more and dig deeper into debt.

4. Successfully intimidated
Although women's income levels tend to be lower than men's, women continue to fight in the world of work. However, success in the world of work can bring a rift in the relationship of household. Women who have higher incomes than couples, agile handling expenses, and control the household money is often considered to be aggressive and not feminine, both in the eyes of fellow men and women. To maintain the relationship of household, number of women give up their financial rights for the sake of the family unit.

5. Motivated to help others
Women always put their husbands, children, parents, family members, even those who can not afford. Helping others gives a sense of benefit and pleasure because it has been doing well on others. Sometimes women forget themselves so that the expenditure for other people continue to walk, and this is very dangerous if he and his family were in debt.

To continue to create self-reliance spirit of Kartini Indonesian women, then women should pay attention to financial management. It should be made priorities in managing the day-to-day spending so that as much as possible importance functions than just prestige. Women need to plant the habit of saving and investing, setting up emergency funds and life balanced with concern personal and family needs.

Positive Self Portrait Prevent Depression

2011-05-16T18:53:00.000-07:00

Individuals who have a negative self-portrait has a bad perception of him. Conversely, by having a positive self-portrait, a person has a strong foundation for the award himself. He is better able to respect ourselves. Self-portrait has a strong influence on the relation of someone in your personal life, relationships in pairs, even with the social relations in a broader scope. Person with negative self-portraits tend to have problems in social relations and easily depressed.

Although self-portraits influenced family, friends, environment, and even the media, each person can improve self-portrait. There is always a way to get a positive self-portraits for the individual is better able to appreciate him.

1. Combat negative thoughts
Negative thoughts tend to lead someone to talk bad about herself. So, Missed opportunities to challenge yourself by always against negative thoughts. For example, when you get a bad rating from the office, do not necessarily blame themselves and weaken ourselves with negative thoughts. Conversely, opponents of negative thoughts with more respect for myself because after all the results, you have been working hard to provide the best.

2. Creating a positive self journals
Write down three different things you like about yourself every day. Focus on writing characters and behaviors that demonstrate a positive self-portrait, something you appreciate about yourself. You do not need to explain these characters, simply write a clear and unequivocal about the positive value of ourselves.

3. Do activities that favor
Upgrade yourself by doing activities you enjoy. For example, do a hobby that you like, Voluntarism activities, or sporting events, anything that makes more pleasant mood. Doing fun activities that make individuals more respect for him.

4. Stop comparing yourself with other people
Accept yourself what it is. Understand that every person has a unique characteristic, different body shape, character and physical appearance which could never be the same as anyone else. Do not be influenced by the physical picture perfect like a model or celebrity. To empower you, write the excess self, including physical that have supported themselves achieve success to the point now. Avoid the perfect figure in television or other media, which makes you feel incomplete.

5. Be realistic
Reevaluate your goals and dreams, make sure everything is realistic, do the adjustments yourself. Avoid self-demanding attitude is too high. Be kinder to yourself. That way, you can be more calm about everything, not easily stressed when the goal is not reached. Because, by being realistic, you have a more positive self-portraits.

Creating Personal Printing, Not Buying

2011-05-10T16:13:00.000-07:00

The soul of entrepreneurship need to be instilled in children from a young age. The goal is not to trigger the child to do business or sell something. But more to the formation of strong personal character and high resilient. Simple ways that can be familiarized parents with whom the child is created, create something, not buy the desired goods.

Education experts, Arief Rachman, said parents used to take children to the mall to buy something when, for example. Parents feel the need to please his son because it was too busy working. The trend is that children exposed to various kinds of pleasures or goods.

"Parents used to offer a child to be free to buy whatever they like, as a form of reimbursement of his guilt because of busy everyday life. In fact, children need to be encouraged to think creatively, take the initiative, by asking them questions like, 'Come on, we want to make what? '"said Arief told Compass Female, some time ago.

Habit of creating something is what underlies the way children think. This mindset can be trained, and took the role of parents as supporters. In the spirit of creation, children do not grow into a person who relies on others to feed herself. Orientation child does not like most people, school, and then find a job to feed themselves. But that will happen is the opposite, the child will think creatively to open jobs for himself and others.

Well, to foster this entrepreneurial spirit, Ariel mentions a number of conditions. He explained that the child needs to understand that life has rules and etiquette. "Rules need to be coupled with encouragement from parents," he continued. Inviting children to make something rather than buying is also a form of etiquette and rules. The message, to get something, everyone should try, do not take it for granted so easily.

Another requirement is also important, said Arief, is in their life, someone must have a positive attitude. A positive attitude needs to be invested in the child since young. With this positive personality entrepreneurial spirit embedded in the child.

Entrepreneurship can also be implanted through customs. Habits that you want can be a way to create a habit since childhood. Terms embed other entrepreneurial spirit is also the knowledge and skills. "Knowledge is also needed but did not need much. A lot of knowledge but have no etiquette also no use," said Arief.

Entrepreneurial spirit that is embedded within this had a major impact in people's lives. He will grow into a person who has a purpose, resilient through the process, never give up. "If any failure in life he did not give up easily," lid Arief.

3 Attitude If Want Lean

2011-05-01T05:51:00.000-07:00

According to Jillian Michaels, trainer on The Biggest Loser competition, in order to successfully lose weight we need not only must understand how to choose healthy foods and exercise properly, but also need a mental eraser body fat. This mentality will shape our perception into a belief to arrive at an ideal body that we want.

Michaels is one person who managed to beat obesity. When he was 13 years old, had reached 77 kg weight. This experience is at least a realistic picture for him to understand what kind of mentality we should have when struggling to lose weight. And mental health are:

Do not ever look back. For Michaels, how old his peers ridicule and name calling to him is evil stuff that is not worth remembering. Do not be tricked by those negative perceptions. Things we should do is change and looking far ahead. That the clearing of fat that accumulates in the body must be done for the sake of a good quality of life. Not for others but for ourselves.

Create a realistic target, do not be too much pressure on yourself. Once we decide which one to health status we enjoy, it is our realistic goal. Focus on that goal and Reach in accordance with the body's ability to achieve it. By trying to relax but stay on target, we can further enjoy the process of being addressed. Thus, self-denial need not linger thwart our diet program.

When failed, do not punish yourself too much. Not always easy to arrive at a "place of destination". Because there was no guarantee we will always be a straight path because the determination has been burning in the chest. That's why when we have a failure or feeling very depressed, do not just make this as a sign we have failed, or being fat is a fate that can not be deleted. What should we do, according to Michaels, got up and tried to beat the challenge with a stronger again. "Surrender is not owned by a warrior spirit," he said.

Because it all for ourselves, do your best! Everything is a choice and when we as adults choosing to consciously assume the answer to that choice. This sense of responsibility will make us confident and diligent in stages beyond the struggle to reach the target. So do not ever give an imperfect in ourselves.

In order for us always remember with this motivation, try to print this article, and place it in places that are easy to see. If you want to add some points, do, and try to remember it as a torch of victory. So we will always know where to look every time began to feel listless or not successfully reach the target. Good luck!

Code, vomit bags Illustrated Souvenir William-Kate

2011-04-27T07:37:00.000-07:00

Hysteria royal wedding Prince William and Kate Middleton getting into. Preaching about the royal wedding, various things related to William and Kate, to her family, tereksplotasi extraordinary. Moreover, if later, the industry, take advantage of this moment to sell various merchandise.

For some people, the great event which became a worldwide phenomenon it might be the start revolting. Not necessarily some people are hating this grand event. However, it is reasonable when they consider excessive coverage began, thus making the stomach feel queasy.

Coverage that make nausea a light conversation at the dinner table. At least this is what experienced graphic designer Lydia Leith. Light chatter at the dinner table, about how the public is becoming nauseous reading or watching news about the marriage William-Kate, eventually gave birth to creative ideas.

Leith took the initiative to print a barf bag with a photo of William-Kate when the couple is officially engaged. Under the photo added a warning inscription, "make sure this is useful on 29 April 2011".

Leith artificial vomit bags are not made to be mass marketed. Leith spontaneous idea, originally, only want a division to relatives or friends. However, who would have thought, this vomit bag into one product William-Kate wedding souvenirs favored people. Leith also set their prices, three pounds for a bag of vomit. Apparently, this vomit bag demand exceeds the forecast Leith, because in the end demand is booming souvenir bag of vomit and best-selling in a short time.

William pictorial souvenir bag of vomit-Kate is available in red and blue. Leith sells through his website. The demand for this gift came from abroad. Leith even promised he would meet all the requests before the wedding day the remaining few days.

"This bag is made just for fun, a sort of antidote for the hysteria of this marriage. I am not anti-monarchy. I own royal memorabilia enthusiast. But I thought it would be easier if there was something more affordable to enliven this grand wedding day," he admitted to Huffington Post.

Ability To Provide Child Learning Optimal

2011-04-22T06:38:00.000-07:00

Parents, however, are policy makers in the home, including children's education problems. Welcome the era of global competition, human resources are required to have various skills to be a superior individual. Children were also required to have this multitalented. This means your child may have a heavier duty, or even a higher demand for personal growth to be superior to face the challenge of the decades ahead. A variety of learning activities and then charged to the child. So, whether they are ready to perform all tasks at the same time? Do not forget, children also need time to themselves, to play and physical activity, a healthy body and mind.

This condition inspired the BrainFit to be present in Indonesia. Brain fitness studio for children from Singapore is targeting children aged 4-18 years. There are only three studio BrainFit in Jakarta, which is in Darmawangsa Square, Kelapa Gading, and Pantai Indah Kapok. Most students BrainFit are children from international schools in Jakarta. BrainFit Studio Darmawangsa for example, 80 percent of his students are children of expatriates, and only 20 percent of Indonesian children.

"Parents want children to do things, they were able to finance the various needs of children to enhance their ability to undergo a variety of tutoring. Children must be highly motivated in carrying out these activities, but no less than those who do not have the power to compensate for various activities. In This is where the role BrainFit present for anyone. The goal is that children enjoy their learning activities without difficulty. In the end, children have the opportunity to develop themselves, "explained Louise Chan, director BrainFit Darmawangsa branch, told Compass Female.

Children who enter level four and five in school, generally begin to deal with learning difficulties. In the early stages, said Louise, the children are still undergoing minor lessons. But once they begin to enter level four are faced with a difficult lesson. In some children, difficulty receiving lessons become obstacles to undergo activity accumulate. Children increasingly stress the variety of activities outside school were charged to him. If a child's brain is not trained to undergo this multitasking, as a result of children having difficulty receiving a lesson with the maximum.

"The brain can be trained to perform their functions more sharply and more leverage. Therefore, the five pillars of brain fitness programs in BrainFit accommodate this need. The goal is to help children overcome learning difficulties," explained Louise.

Five brain fitness programs for children

Guided six brain fitness instructor educational background of psychology, the children underwent five courses are interlinked with each other. Programs in BrainFit consists of Smart Moves, Smart Vision, Smart Listening, Smart Focus, and Smart Emotion.

Louise explains, Smart Moves is designed to strengthen motor and sensory children through the concept of gym activities such as using a stability ball, and others. Then, Smart Vision to improve the visual abilities of children. Smart Listening is a program to help children improve auditory skills so that children can develop the ability to hear and speak well. While the Smart Focus targeting the needs of children who have low concentration and memory capability.

"Children use a helmet that uses a sensor. Censorship is what will give feedback when children play computer games. The information from these sensors will be processed to help children overcome the problem," continued the mother of one child.

Last is the Emotion Smart program, which helps children train the brain to be more able to cope with stress, sharpening empathy, social skills, to overcome mistrust myself.

Within a week the child underwent two sessions for each program. One time served for an hour session with a class limited to five children. According to Louise, the final result obtained after the children participated in various programs in which children become more confident through various activities, happier, and get good grades in school. Children are also more focus and concentration through a variety of daily activities.

"There was a significant change in the child after attending the 20th session of brain gym," said Louise.

Although parents are demanding much from them, unfortunately the school who instead refer students for assistance in BrainFit. In this case, international schools which have more attention on the child's development. Even so, BrainFit establish regular communication with parents once a week.

"Parents need to be involved to monitor changes in child behavior at home. Usually we communicate via email to provide updates of children. Parents are also entitled to know the child's development," said a woman from Singapore who wish to contribute to education in Indonesia.

Leading the Future of Work

2011-04-04T08:04:00.000-07:00

Control absenteeism a warm conversation in an office. Many employees protest because of rate regulation is already stale, especially when attendance is associated with performance appraisal. "I just close the laptop at nine tonight and was re-open the laptop to work from 4 o'clock in the morning. All the way to the office I also kept thinking I was working on proposals to clients. Why am I being reprimanded and assessed is not performing as fifteen minutes late from 8 am? "

Yes, when in times past work analogous to "be in the office", when we now see it's been a gradual change. First of all traffic, especially in big cities, who have no sense it hamper mobility and routines we go to work. On the other hand, supported the progress of electronics, then it might work in any places even greater. "Your mobile device will of changed from your office, your classroom, and your concierge," the two management experts and Karie Willyerd Jeanne Meister said.

Not only is workplace becomes increasingly blurred, and life was already getting limitless. Some companies restrict access to the internet and various social networking sites for employees. But, of course, no company can monitor employees accessing social networking through advanced gadgets in their hands. Sometimes, through this social networking service, products, and instead promoted the company's business.

If the company itself has been believed "on-line recruitment" not only through specific sites for recruitment, but also slang sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter, and even Second Life, is still possible that we prohibit employees do social networking? What will be done by the Human Capital department with job descriptions, which each can grow, change, even disappear? Given the company already has a vision for a regional, even global, how the company conducted training on the employees that can not be withdrawn from their duties, are in remote locations or even in other countries ? How do companies accommodate the needs of professionals with a change in the working world that serbacepat? How do we tie up the hearts of the "knowledge workers" had a backpack that currently work in public places, like cafes and shopping malls?

"Work-Life Flexibility"
If in the past we often harassed by the knowledge gap and also maturity intergenerational experience, then ten years from now, we will see that the senior generation is still strong and younger will be dealing with a generation under 30 years old who are ready to work and has been globalized through virtual journeys. Not again we question the wrong time or wrong perceptions of intergenerational communication, because knowledge is so easy to access and skills to achieve it is open to everyone. Reputation is no longer rely on hours of flying, but rather to "what is your work" and "what have you proved in the community."

If at times we are now proud of the state can not gaptek (stuttering technology), the company's future increasingly need to seek "uber connectedness." There is no place for rigid attitude and over-focus. Companies already have to be able to seek medium of socialization in which to work, play, learn, and communicate occurs in the same time. Multitasking has become imperative, even the management of household needs to be done all at once with the task of managing the office. In order to be heard and understood his way of thinking, it would not hurt a leader manages his own blog, where his leadership can even be evaluated and criticized all the time.

If we are now busying themselves to achieve work-life balance in the future work-life flexibility would be the answer to the needs of the family, learning, and work the workers. So, in addition to receiving transaction that as employees we need to bring in profits for the company, employees will also be happy if he had the opportunity to do things that philanthropic and given the widest opportunity for socializing.

Satisfying various requirements
An employee at a company that has implemented flexible work style, came home from work at 15.00. He was cooking and housekeeping, and then start work again at 21.00 after the kids to bed and wash dishes. These employees have an equivalent level of concern among healthy living, healthy eating, and working. Challenges to show productivity could still be achieved while taking into account the social environment, family and personal life.

We have and will increasingly enter the era of Rowe (Results Oriented Work Environment), in which every employee, young or old needs to offer "Rx" (result / outcome) it in a concrete and measurable. The youngest generation is already very concerned about social responsibility, family responsibility, and the environment, need to exchange it for an interesting enterprise productivity as well. The men also feel obliged to think of domestic activity in the household, and feel entitled to get permission to stay home when sick children. Conversely guarantee of success, business growth, productivity and timeliness should also be provided.

If we today can relate our disciplined attitude to things that are very routine, such as absenteeism and overtime, then later discipline would need to be directed at such things as discovery, innovation, group formation, lead, selling, and learning. The things we need to automate routine and did not need supervision and dispose of human energy. For example, we can replace the socialization sessions with the building site as a venue for communication.

When the sales process can not be replaced by any machine, then we build the capacity of human beings who make the sales process. When solving a problem often takes a long time especially with the bureaucracy, the adhocracy-habit forming temporary teams for specific projects-need to be a trend. This is the mentality that we need to wake up and pioneered the way we need to work towards the future.

How Sih Rates Financial Planner?

2011-03-08T02:21:00.000-08:00

professional help is sometimes needed someone to solve personal problems, including to improve the financial condition of an increasingly tangled. For example, by following the various financial seminars, learn to change the habit by themselves, or others. If in the end you need the help of financial planners do not have to hesitate to undergo this phase. Whatever you need experts in their fields to help examine the problems that are no longer able to resolve themselves.

Cost to be one consideration when deciding to go to financial planners. Removing certain costs to improve financial conditions seemed commensurate with the outcome. How much should you spend will depend on the needs, abilities, and level of difficulty of cases.

Aidil Akbar Madjid financial planner, owner of Akbar's Financial Check Up said, everyone is able to obtain financial planning services. Start employees with salaries of Rp 2 million per month until the executive with a wealth of tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars. Financial planner Ligwina Poerwo-Hananto also explained that the rates vary depending on the financial planning needs of clients. Can only with consultations per hour or financial plan within a period of one year, for example.

As an illustration, the rate per hour consultation with a financial planner from Rp 300,000 to Rp 750,000.

Financial planning as needed
After consultation, you can more accurately identify the financial needs, including financial planning. If you need a practical and comprehensive financial plan within one year, for example, property QMFinansial Ligwina have a solution. It costs start from U.S. $ 7.5 million - USD 50 million, said Ligwina.

If you want to check your financial health, the concept of audit through five indicators ala Akbar's Financial Check Up may be an option. To get a financial health check is to prepare cost from USD 1.5 million to $ 3.5 million.

There are also financial planning undertaken by case basis. For example, you want to prepare the child's education fund, or retirement funds alone. The range of financial planning tariff per case from USD 500,000 - USD 1.5 million, said Akbar told Compass Female. Meanwhile, if you want a more comprehensive financial planning, prepare budgets above USD 7 million, he added. Another with miniplan concept called Financial Check Up, with two or three who want planned financial goals. It costs start from U.S. $ 3.5 million to $ 7 million.

The cost of financial planning can be varied and flexible to follow the needs and abilities, with the same end result: namely healthy return on your financial condition. Decision back to you: if you are willing to set aside some money to fix its financial mess?

5 Reasons Not Happy at Work

2011-02-26T18:17:00.000-08:00

Based on national research and his book, Breakdown, Breakthrough, Kathy Caprino trying to find keywords on women's work and formulate the problem. More than 90 women of this class. They do not hesitate to express his thoughts out loud, "I feel unhappy at work. But, I do not find the reason and how to solve it!"

Although we are a reliable professional, business owner, or still in the stage of transition to greatness, there will be only the problem that surrounds. In fact we need a new way to enjoy the work. Kathy describes the five most popular reasons why we feel dissatisfied and do not fit the job. Not only recognize the problem, she also gave some tips to improve the situation and change our careers right now.

After conducting various surveys and research, trainer, speaker, and author of the book summarizes the five most popular reasons why women are unhappy at work, namely:

1. Feeling not be able to adjust the balance between work and family
The solution: Find a personal life-work balance
This balance will not come just like that. We have to want it and try my best to get it. How, first, determine the three most important priorities that can make us strong through it, in our personal and professional. Three things that have the most impact on our lives. Formulate this into a declaration sentence with the word "want to be" in it. For example, "want to be a mother who cares", or "want to be a successful entrepreneur."

Explore the meaning of these achievements in the third person and the world of work. Promise not to compromise. Then, find an attitude that is too much in life, family and workplace. Then, remove the feeling to always be perfect, which in fact does not give much effect.

We also can try the tips from Diamond Katoppo, corporate secretary of Bank BNI 46, who said, "Women do not have to choose between career and family. But, we must learn to accept that We can not get it all. In this way, we will not always haunted by feelings of guilt or a sense of failure. " For Diamond the most important is at work or spending time with family, we have to focus 100 percent. Automatic, all we do would be more qualified.

2. Suffering from severe financial problems
The solution: Living healthy with our money
To exit from chronic financial problems, we should be able to become friends for our own money and began to set priorities in life. First, create a solid fund with a strong financial objectives. Try to check expenditure, whether we buy things just for personal satisfaction? If so, learn to hold it. Browse back to childhood, how we are learning about finances in the family, whether positive or negative? Growing or shrinking? In conclusion, if you want to overcome the financial bondage, we must build good relations with our money, through faith, action and positive choice.

3. Not really live talent and expertise with your heart
The solution: Understand the talent and potential
To better understand exactly what we like and easy to do, try to follow the Career Path Assessment tests are also written by Kathy Caprino more.com site. Find the things we want to live, reduce, even avoid.

Through the tests, she invites us to find what things are enjoyed as a child. Through this test-maybe-we'll find the facts: successfully perform the task well, it does not mean we like to do it. The key to happiness in the world of work is when we do these things with no compulsion or in accordance with your own potential. When all this happened, every day will feel like a blessing, not a struggle.

4. Feeling worthless and respected
The solution: Respect for self
We feel unhappy, because it has been ruled out and unappreciated in the workplace. If you want to change that view, then we must begin by respecting yourself. How to increase appreciation of yourself? Make a bold action. This will inspire respect. Come on, bersuaralah! Show the boss and co-workers who we really are, and what are the things that we consider important in life. Treat us with care. If you feel there is something that needs to be communicated, then do it. Meet people who can become mentors and help us speak, so that our opinions will be heard and appreciated. Start also make limits on ourselves, so we know what can be tolerated, accepted, and avoided.

5. Just get a few positive things and pleasure in work
The solution: Find a job that makes you happy
Doing what we love, can not provide abundant wealth. It's a myth that danced in our culture.

But we must remember: success requires grit, determination, and courage to pursue what we love and making major financial footing. If we want a sense of happiness and success come together, first determine whether it could make life more meaningful.

The key to achieve this is: (1) understand what we desire, then, (2) find ways to make it happen. If it turns out we want a different area than previous work, make a mature plan that could pave the way to achieve this dream. Try to do research and reflection about what we want to do. Feel free to directly realize the dream: becoming a volunteer or part-time employees. If this is indeed the desired job, convince ourselves to lead the field with all my heart. Embrace this commitment by creating an integrated financial plan, support from family, and step by step career plan Reinvention appropriate. Thus, we can surely undergo a dream job with more leverage.

Concept Home in the Boutique

2011-02-20T14:32:00.000-08:00

Entering a boutique feel is in the house. Atmosphere like that that created some boutiques, of course, to make consumers feel at home for long be in it.

Go to Biyan boutique, located in Plaza Senayan and Pacific Place, Jakarta, even as they entered a room. We'll see rows of clothes hanging in the closet. Biyan Wanaatmadja, boutique owner who is also a famous designer in the country, said he wanted the consumer when choosing clothes in the store such as selecting from his own cabinet, in a large dressing room.

Although the same concept, there is a difference when entering the boutique at Plaza Senayan Biyan and Pacific Place. At Plaza Senayan, we entered the room with minimalist impression. Cabinets that are placed in a few lines are open cabinets, without doors.

In the middle row of cabinets have seats arranged like in a living room. A mannequin in a sitting position is placed on one chair.

At Pacific Place, consumers are treated to the feel of a classic, one of them because the dark gray color that dominates the room with high ceilings. Wardrobe whose height is adjusted to the height of the room, this time, placed against the wall on the side that extends to the door, which can be opened or closed with a folded manner.

Classical
In addition to clothing, inside closet also placed various types of ethnic-style necklace, some of which become a source of inspiration in designing clothes Biyan.

Although the classic, boutique design involves the creation of an interior designer from Gita Barrel has a simple layout. "I do not want to design sounds a bit complicated," said Biyan.

As an accessory, Biyan put a black horse statue that according to its original size because it also functions as a lamp at the head of the horse statue there lampshade. Biyan said, with positions in key areas of the mall, he has a responsibility to make boutique with a strong concept.

Designers who specialize in wedding clothes, Anne Avantie, also has a strong concept for its boutique, Roemah bride. Anne makes the atmosphere of the house by bringing in the shape of the actual house into a boutique located in the mall west of Grand Indonesia.

"I move Ghost to a boutique house," said Anne of wooden houses we will see upon entering the room.

The materials for the home imported directly from Jepara and Kudus, to then be assembled on site. "For me, the Holy house is the house that has a strong character. This can represent myself in a career, "said Anne, who also decorate the shop with cabinets, tables and chairs from wood, sculpture, and painting the traditional breathing, especially of Javanese culture.

"At first it is rather difficult to bring such a concept into a mall because the mall has its own rules of design shops in it. But I stick to the principle that the boutique I have to really describe myself, "said Anne, who design their own shop.

By adding the impression of a home, Anne, who was in the store in Jakarta every weekend is always entertaining clients with snacks and traditional drinks. This is done designers from Semarang in order to meet the clients feel at home Anne came to Roemah bride.

As Anne said, the mall does have regulations related to the design of every store. However, Corporate, Marketing, and Communication Manager of Plaza Senayan Natalia Anita Hatmarini say, rules made by the mall management is more focused on the safety of visitors, rather than the form design.

International Boutique
"For that, we will advise if there is a certain body size which is too large or too heavy. The same thing applies to the boutique with an international brand. We did not interfere in its design. Moreover, the design for international stores should follow their respective headquarters and global force, "said Natalia.

One example is the design boutique of Louis Vuitton (LV), which always presents the concept in luxury shopping experience in every shop. In LV Global Store in Plaza Indonesia, for example, consumers can enjoy shopping here in a VIP room.

Space where VIP guests relax on the couch was given a touch of Indonesia through a variety of furniture, including a typical LV-patterned walls are made of teak wood. This concept shows a balance between traditional and modern designs.

Floors in other rooms made of limestone. Impression of modern and contemporary art are shown through the racks, tables, and window dressing that combines elements of wood, stainless steel, and leather.

Not only on the inside, LV Global Store which was inaugurated in 2009 was given the artistic touch. The front of the building designed by the design department in Paris LV Malletier stand out from the Jalan MH Thamrin, the Plaza Indonesia is, of course to include LV logo.

Life Without TV, possible?

2011-02-11T14:58:00.000-08:00

Many parents worry about bad influences on kids TV. To the point, there is no supply TV sets at home. In fact, the TV can also be a means of education, you know. So, maybe not, hell, kids live without TV?

'Why not? "Said M. Elisabeth Arman, SPSI, lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology, Atma Jaya Catholic University, Jakarta. In fact, according to Lisa, greeting familiar, very ideal conditions with no TV for children ages toddler because TV does not give benefits to them.

Children ages toddler, he explained, is still very dependent on her mother's figure. "He absolutely can not choose, assess, let alone digest the programs aired. He merely passive viewers, just accept and absorb as much information as possible." In other words, TV is not a need for toddler age children. So, if eliminated, will not cause any problems.

Conversely, it could be trouble if there is TV. He could "avid" movie, until now wants to eat anything in front of the TV. Not because of the mother or guardian watching hobby. "Adults this is definitely forcing children come to watch so that he need not bother to follow and supervise the toddler who moves here and there." Or, to watch a baseball preoccupation disturbed, at least, for not missing her favorite soap opera.

No wonder when the end-after take-toddler-age children, so have a habit of watching TV, even for hours not depart from the front of the TV. If it were so, the TV was to blame; instead of the mother realized her son would have a habit of watching TV because of her too.

Needs socialization
So, the key lies in ourselves, whether TV will adversely affect or not the child. Even if we wanted to exclude "the magic box" that, it is questionable to what age the child would "dibebashamakan" from the influence of TV and we prepared to deal with particular implications because there was no TV.

You see, said Lisa, for children who are bigger, the TV may be one needs socialization. "Remember, children are social beings." In fact, since the age of one year he had actually already started to socialize, just still in the environment is very limited and will expand as you age. Until toddlers loose, more incentive to do this activity. In fact, he learned much from his friends or form a peer group. Well, with this fellow, he usually chatting. What more could be discussed if not on TV? Especially certain figures in the series which holds so high ratings alias lips.

So you can imagine if he'd never watch TV. He did not know who Ben Tennyson, for example, or do not know ingenuity Upin and Ipin. Of course he would say tacky or out of date by his friends. And for kids, say it will dwarf such very hit her self-esteem. "Similarly, if we do not follow fashion trends. Painful was not spelled out if we look tacky? While in every person there is a tendency to always follow what other people wear."

Another implication which must also be taken into account, the fact that there are TVs everywhere, from the slum on the banks of times or the edge of the railroad to luxury homes. Well, are we ready to be considered "weird" by the people around? This is not an impact on your child, you know. "He will grow into a child who feels different from other children to feel strange myself." So, the advice Lisa, do not it is necessary we act too much like that.

Watching the neighbor's house
Indeed, says Lisa understood, well-meaning parents, namely that the child is not affected by "pollution" in the form of scenes of violence and so forth. Unfortunately, good intentions that actually makes children become victims. "He felt alienated in the crowd and the joy of a child's world. Poor thing, right?"

Besides, bad stimulus not only coming from the TV alone. No less important, whether the parents will really be running the controlling function of the rules rather out of habit. "Well, ready parents constantly monitor and intensive accompany the child? If the control function able to walk, hell, anything because baseball will not cause new problems. But what if the child turned out to steal the neighbor's house to watch? This that parents should be anticipated in advance. "

You see, if children ride to watch, he would be unobservable; how long he was watching, watching whatever impressions, and how likely he is to digest the spectacle was when there was no guidance from their parents. Even more fatal, is not, as a result?

Lisa asked the parents if the child's self-introspection to steal the neighbor's house to watch, whether he did not include an authoritarian parent? You see, when the decision to remove culture watch TV in the family is absolutely in the hands of parents, without compromise, especially considering the opinions and needs of children, parents may be classified as the type who will enforce. "Parents like this model usually have a strong tendency controlling alias too want to set other people, including children."

While the child's reaction can vary. There is a quiet and simply accept that the prohibition of all forms of his parents, although he was actually very depressing. "But there are also a rebel so feel the need and being ignored, even more so if he is not among those who like to set-set." Now, steal a neighbor's house to watch on is a form of rebellion.

Do not forget, children who are fed up banned this and that without explanation, usually the greater levels of satisfaction when he does what just banned from his parents. The urge to explore coupled miserable conditions that the longer a child feel more confined and limited, this is what finally sticking in the form of rebellion earlier.

Whatever the reasons behind your decision, remember, over time, your child will develop into independent individuals who should be able to function as a filtering; sift the good from bad, and which ones should not. Well, this is precisely the function of filtering must be turned on or grown since childhood. Aged under five is an opportunity to inculcate attitudes and moral values in children. So, why do not we take advantage?

5 Reasons Not Happy at Work

2011-02-05T22:09:00.000-08:00

Based on national research and his book, Breakdown, Breakthrough, Kathy Caprino trying to find keywords on women's work and formulate the problem. More than 90 women of this class. They do not hesitate to express his thoughts out loud, "I feel unhappy at work. But, I do not find the reason and how to solve it!"

Although we are a reliable professional, business owner, or still in the stage of transition to greatness, there will be only the problem that surrounds. In fact we need a new way to enjoy the work. Kathy describes the five most popular reasons why we feel dissatisfied and do not fit the job. Not only recognize the problem, she also gave some tips to improve the situation and change our careers right now.

After conducting various surveys and research, trainer, speaker, and author of the book summarizes the five most popular reasons why women are unhappy at work, namely:

1. Feeling not be able to adjust the balance between work and family
The solution: Find a personal life-work balance
This balance will not come just like that. We have to want it and try my best to get it. How, first, determine the three most important priorities that can make us strong through it, in our personal and professional. Three things that have the most impact on our lives. Formulate this into a declaration sentence with the word "want to be" in it. For example, "want to be a mother who cares", or "want to be a successful entrepreneur."

Explore the meaning of these achievements in the third person and the world of work. Promise not to compromise. Then, find an attitude that is too much in life, family and workplace. Then, remove the feeling to always be perfect, which in fact does not give much effect.

We also can try the tips from Diamond Katoppo, corporate secretary of Bank BNI 46, who said, "Women do not have to choose between career and family. But, we must learn to accept that We can not get it all. In this way, we will not always haunted by feelings of guilt or a sense of failure. " For Diamond the most important is at work or spending time with family, we have to focus 100 percent. Automatic, all we do would be more qualified.

2. Suffering from severe financial problems
The solution: Living healthy with our money
To exit from chronic financial problems, we should be able to become friends for our own money and began to set priorities in life. First, create a solid fund with a strong financial objectives. Try to check expenditure, whether we buy things just for personal satisfaction? If so, learn to hold it. Browse back to childhood, how we are learning about finances in the family, whether positive or negative? Growing or shrinking? In conclusion, if you want to overcome the financial bondage, we must build good relations with our money, through faith, action and positive choice.

3. Not really talent and expertise to undergoing liver
The solution: Understand the talent and potential
To better understand exactly what we like and easy to do, try to follow the Career Path Assessment tests are also written by Kathy Caprino more.com site. Find the things we want to live, reduce, even avoid.

Through the tests, she invites us to find what things are enjoyed as a child. Through this test-maybe-we'll find the facts: successfully perform the task well, it does not mean we like to do it. The key to happiness in the world of work is when we do these things with no compulsion or in accordance with your own potential. When all this happened, every day will feel like a blessing, not a struggle.

4. Feeling worthless and respected
The solution: Respect for self
We feel unhappy, because it has been ruled out and unappreciated in the workplace. If you want to change that view, then we must begin by respecting yourself. How to increase appreciation of yourself? Make a bold action. This will inspire respect. Come on, bersuaralah! Show the boss and co-workers who we really are, and what are the things that we consider important in life. Treat us with care. If you feel there is something that needs to be communicated, then do it. Meet people who can become mentors and help us speak, so that our opinions will be heard and appreciated. Start also make limits on ourselves, so we know what can be tolerated, accepted, and avoided.

5. Just get a few positive things and pleasure in work
The solution: Find a job that makes you happy
Doing what we love, can not provide abundant wealth. It's a myth that danced in our culture.

But we must remember: success requires grit, determination, and courage to pursue what we love and making major financial footing. If we want a sense of happiness and success come together, first determine whether it could make life more meaningful.

The key to achieve this is: (1) understand what we desire, then, (2) find ways to make it happen. If it turns out we want a different area than previous work, make a mature plan that could pave the way to achieve this dream. Try to do research and reflection about what we want to do. Feel free to directly realize the dream: becoming a volunteer or part-time employees. If this is indeed the desired job, convince ourselves to lead the field with all my heart. Embrace this commitment by creating an integrated financial plan, support from family, and step by step career plan Reinvention appropriate. Thus, we can surely undergo a dream job with more leverage.

Inspiration from China

2011-01-31T18:38:00.000-08:00

ahead of Lunar New Year 2561 on February 14, later, the shopping center already disemarakkan nuances of Chinese trinkets. Various events held within the framework of the Chinese Lunar New Year also lists look as a dress code.

Cheongsam, kebaya encim, and red and gold is the translation of Indonesian people towards Chinese culture, especially in the field of fashion. "It's traditional colors of China," says designer Robby Tumewu.

Robby told me about the experience when I had to be a presenter at the event organized by the Chinese official. "For formal occasions, the traditional side is still very thick, as in the case that there must be elements of color red, because red is the color of luck," he said.

This is different from contemporary Chinese culture that has been wearing other colors besides red. "I once received a wedding invitation of Chinese people in Shanghai. The color is black and silver. If the people of Indonesia to accept invitation wedding with color like that, might be considered a death, "the story of designer Harry Darsono.

Translating Chinese nuance in contemporary culture not only by changing the color, but it could also change the models, motifs, and materials. Sebastian Gunawan's latest collection for Chinese New Year this year's edition, for example, make a cheongsam is not only seen as a skirt short overalls with standing collar (mandarin collar) that fits in the body.

In one design, Sebastian make a long black dress with big flower pattern. This shirt is made from pashmina.

There is also a cheongsam from white brocade and woven Bali. "So, not all the clothes that affected the culture of China should be colored red with floral or butterfly and made of silk. Cultural richness of the Indonesian state can create more attractive cheongsam that will not exist in their home country, "said Sebastian.

Harry also translate the typical Chinese clothing is not only with standing collar. "Collar can be formed all sorts. I can also make clothes feel of China with different forms of arms on one shirt. There is no set if you want to combine the feel of China with other cultures should be like, "said Harry.

For the designer who has specialized haute couture, one of the essences of Chinese culture is a work of subtlety, as in the stitching or embroidery.

Master the world
The entry of China into the Indonesian culture is influenced by the arrival of the commander of Cheng Ho to some coastal areas of Indonesia in the 15th century. Cheng Ho with around 27,000 men not only brought supplies to eat, drink, and equipment to attack and defend itself. He also brings a variety of goods to be exchanged in a disinggahinya, like silk.

Slowly, Chinese culture assimilated with the culture of Indonesia, one of the famous in batik Lasem. Not only in the fashion world stage, Chinese culture is also embedded in everyday life. "Look at how the Betawi pangsi wearing pants and a white shirt. Then, call Engkong, Encang, and encing. That, right, from the Chinese culture, "said Robby.

China also actively promote their culture, including in the event state. As host of APEC 2001 meeting in Shanghai, for example, world leaders in attendance wearing tangzhuang, namely the typical Chinese jacket of silk material, in one session.

This year, with the opening of the ASEAN-China free trade, Indonesia should be prepared with the flood of cheap Chinese products. For some designers, this is considered as a challenge for Indonesian products could compete with Chinese products.

Sebastian, Harry, and Robbie are both stressed the importance of Indonesia to lift culture popularized in the general population. "The more free products from China to Indonesia to be a challenge for designers to further promote Indonesian culture, naturally with a quality product. If the problem of China's products cheaper, natural selection will determine, "said Sebastian.

Egg white face to tighten skin

2011-01-27T19:03:00.000-08:00

Areas under your eyes look down, leather striped face look like wrinkles, or brown blotches on the skin. Damage to the skin seems to occur, regardless of your actual age. Then how to make your skin look tight face again?

One sign of aging on the human body is the loosening of the skin. This is due to the skin elastin fiber content has decreased. Though fiber that serves to preserve the elasticity and flexibility of the skin. To overcome this, there are several ways you can do:

* Keep your skin moist by drinking at least 8 glasses of water a day.

* Use a moisturizer according to skin type, so the face is not dry. Apply moisturizer while face massage with circular movements upwards.

* Protect your skin from the sun which became one of the factors causing premature aging. Always use sunscreen when outdoors activities.

* Avoid smoking and smoke that can accelerate aging and cause skin sagging and wrinkling.

* Always keep the skin clean. One of them diligently clean the face of makeup before bed. Make up is stuck to the skin when we go to bed can cause skin stress, and closes the pores that cause infection.

* You can also use a mask of egg white. Apply egg white on your face after cleansing. Wait until dry and stiff, then wash with warm water. Masks can also be picked up dirt in the face.

* Please note that lack of sleep and often stayed up late cause eye bags quickly arise. To prevent the formation of eye bags, get used to sleeping on time. Compress eyelid with cold water every morning and evening for 5 minutes before dressing. Swelling will be slightly reduced in a way that is easy and cheap.

Terpincut Bag Hanger

2011-01-19T08:47:00.000-08:00

The woman and her handbag as if inseparable. Wherever she went, handbag is a mandatory item. Not infrequently, the bag used as a complementary appearance, so that was worth millions of dollars purchased. Later, instead there is news that Indonesia is a potential market for the famous handbag maker, call it Louis Vuitton, Coach, or Hermes.

Not wanting to stay away from his bag, many women who were in the cafe was forced to ask for additional bench just to put her handbag. This makes the road at a restaurant or cafe so narrow. Perhaps you had never experienced anything like this. Should be left on the bench handbag additional unseen behind us? Wow, must be vigilant. Want to put on the dining table? Not polite. If you put it behind our backs, not comfortable. Placed on the floor? Besides dirty, some are saying pamali. Then, how?

One of Europe's cultural year since the 1912's are still suitable for today is a bag hanger. It is popular at that time to prevent inconvenience to keep the bag when it was in public places, like restaurants. Function bag hanger, also known as the bag hook used to hold the bag close to the owner, ie, on the outskirts of the table. Simply place the dots on the table edges, let the hook hanging below it, then hook the handle of the bag on a hook. In this way, the owner of the bag could easily watch her purse, and easy access to the bag if anything needs to be taken, plus cleaner because not to be put on the floor.

Bag hanger quite widely used in Europe, then moved to America, but has not been widely circulated in Asia. Usually, the shape of spheres, then there is an iron hook in the form of straight and curved at the ends. In Indonesia, there is a special outlets that sell the bag hanger, named Jacquelink. Although only a month to open an exhibition at Plaza Indonesia, began Jacquelink many women ogled Jakarta. Jacquelink trying to introduce bag hanger to fashionable women in Jakarta who do like the bag and always up to date. Jacquelink has a variety of designs to represent the women of various ages.

Jacquelink is impressive from its design that looks exclusive. Jaquelink have four different designs. The first, is the design drawings, suitable for young women. Because of the minimalist design, perfect to wear everyday, even for women executives. The second, Design Swarovski plain. This collection uses crystal from Swarovski, the crystal with high quality dots decorate the top. For this collection, Jacquelink only about 100 single-color Swarovski crystals. While the third, also using Swarovski crystals, but more than 2 colors to form a picture or initials. The fourth, is a collection of premium, iron hook made of golden-colored alloy, making it suitable for mature women who love luxury. Of the four designs, you can choose another type that can be decorated in the bag or not. There can be buttoned in the bag as an accessory bag, there is the usual. Surely there will be additional costs for which could be converted into an accessory bag.

The difference, if ancient hanger bag has a rigid hook, so that not infrequently caught here and there, Jacquelink has a hook that can be bent or folded around bulatannya. The price offered ranges from Rp 189,000, - (normal design) up to Rp 600,000, - for those who want to customize the form of Swarovski. Every purchase 3-month warranty for replacement if damaged or Swarovski stones apart, is also a pouch to protect the bag hanger when not in use, as well as cleaning.

Budianto, parties from Jacquelink stated, "Regarding the market in Indonesia, it must be notified and diedukasi about this thing, therefore, we also attach a condition of use in the packaging box bag hanger if it was awarded to someone else. Even the children were there to buy. Recently there is a book with a special shape, such as Mickey Mouse or a pig. "

Until today, many enthusiasts bag hanger, not infrequently also the buyers came from neighboring countries. When visiting the booth Jacquelink Kompas.com the opening exhibition at Plaza Indonesia, 3rd floor (open until August), there is one buyer who bought several items to be gifts. "If you are one of the collector bag, hanger bag is certainly an investment. Suppose you buy a bag with an expensive price, certainly do not want to quickly broken, right? Well, this hanger bag is one way to take care of him when the bag is being carried about, "added Budianto.

No need to bother, because the bag can be folded hanger Jacquelink is thin, lightweight, and about 5cm in diameter when in the folded state. Typically, bag purse hanger can hold up to 3.5 kg weight.