Hmmmm...marah2 di bulan puasa...abis lah pahala gue.
Ceritanya begini....tadi gue dan bokap belanja keperluan lebaran di Hyperm@rt Cibubur Junction. Barang belanjaan gue adalah kueh kering 4o biji buat bingkisan tetangga dan daging plus ayam dalam jumlah tidak banyak.
FYI, gue bukan emak2 comel, tapi tadi keterlaluan banget ampe gue judes dengan sukses ke kasirnya.
Ohya, sebelum itu ada 'insiden' kecil. Gue sengaja berpisah dengan bokap: gue ke tempat biskuit, bokap ke tempat daging. Lalu ketika bokap nunggu gue, keranjang dia letakkan dekat buah terus ke tempat shampoo. Balik2 keranjang sudah hilang!
Terpaksa bokap ngambil daging lagi dan gue ngantri duluan.
Gue liat si kasir tidak cekatan, terbukti dengan dua orang di depan gue cukup lama dilayani padahal belanjaanya gak banyak. Sementara gue nunggu, gue liat ada mas2 yang tampaknya jabatannya lebih tinggi dan gue tanya "mas, bisa pake kardus kan?" dan dia bilang ada, menunjuk ke tempat kardus yang gak gitu jauh dari tempat gue.
Anyway, gue terbiasa dengan sapaan ala Superindo jika belanja kita terlihat banyak:
mau pake kardus bu?
Jadi ketika giliran gue tiba, langsung gue bilang 'mbak pake kardus ya' lalu si mbak dengan leletnya mengambil kardus, lalu sadar blm ada selotipnya...lalu dia jalan ke kassa yang jauuuuuuuuuh banget, dan menyelotip kardus dengan tidak cekatan...dan menghitung belanjaan gue dengan tidak cekatan gue: satu persatu, padahal udah gue tumpuk lima-lima. Pake nanya pula "bu, kardusnya cukup gak?" dan gue dengan judes
"kira2 aja sendiri, segitu cukup gak????"
Ohya, dengan pintarnya dia cuma ambil kardus satu. Jadi ketika ada gelagat dia mau ngambil kardus lagi, langsung gue cut "udah gak usah pake kardus!!! Itung aja langsung!!!"
Untung ketika itu bokap gue udah sampai, jadi gue gak repot2 amat ngurus belanjaan yang tidak dikardusin.
Sembari itu gue ngomel "mbak, kenapa sih, udah tau mau lebaran??! Udah tau semua orang ngeborong! Kenapa sih gak sedia kardus dan selotip???!!"
dan dia jawab 'selotip ada bu, tapi gak di tiap kasir..."
Gubrak.
Ohya, gue udah gak pake aksi lingkungan Say No To Plastic Bag, ntar kelamaan (padahal gue udah bawa kresek), jadi belanjaan daging pun pake plastik baru....dan itu pun masih lambaaattt............Si mbak masukin daging satu2 dengan alon2 asal kelakon lalu gue gak sabar
'lama amat sih!!! Saya aja deh saya yang masukin!!!!!"
Habislah pahala gue hari ini...ugh
Jadi, berikut ini adalah kritik saran terbuka untuk pihak Hyperm@rt:
1. Mohon pilih kasir yang cekatan.. Gue ngerti kalau udah sore, ramai dan puasa, tapi tadi belum jam 10, harusnya si mbak masih gesit dong??!
2. Inikan mau lebaran...banyakin dong kasirnya...tadi emang baru jam 9, tapi kan orang udah rame...ohya, ini tampaknya penyakit tetap kl belanja kepagian, kassa sedikit yang buka. But once again
3. Sediakanlah kardus (plus selotipnya) di tiap kassa...mosok orang beli 40 biskuit dikasih kresek??!
4. Looks like you're not environmentally concerned...you should offer us box instead of plastic bag.
Kasian orang2 udah ngantri di belakang gue (dan nambah excuse untuk judes, hehehee).
Lalu mengenai keranjang bokap yang hilang, tampaknya lagi ada petinggi mereka orang bule yang inspeksi, jadi ada keranjang2 'tanpa pemilik' langsung di-sweeping. Gile deh loe, mosok kita harus nenteng2 keranjang SEPANJANG waktu? Boleh dong ditinggal??! Dan FYI, tadi masih pagi lho, bukan toko udah mau tutup.
Aneh2 aja.
Sekian curhatnya.
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
An Incovenient Bag (by Ellen Gamerman)
This article isn't mine. It's written by Ellen Gamerman. Source: The Wall Street Journal
It's manufactured in China, shipped thousands of miles overseas, made with plastic and could take years to decompose. It's also the hot "green" giveaway of the moment: the reusable shopping bag.
The bags usually are printed with environmental slogans as well as corporate logos and pitched as earth-friendly substitutes for the billions of disposable plastic bags that wind up in landfills every year. Home Depot distributed 500,000 free reusable shopping bags last April on Earth Day, and Wal-Mart gave away one million. One line of bags features tags that read, "Saving the World One Bag at a Time."
But well-meaning companies and consumers are finding that shopping bags, like biofuels, are another area where it's complicated to go green. "If you don't reuse them, you're actually worse off by taking one of them," says Bob Lilienfeld, author of the Use Less Stuff Report, an online newsletter about waste prevention. And because many of the bags are made from heavier material, they're also likely to sit longer in landfills than their thinner, disposable cousins, according to Ned Thomas, who heads the department of material science and engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Used as they were intended, the totes can be an environmental boon, vastly reducing the number of disposable bags that do wind up in landfills. If each bag is used multiple times -- at least once a week -- four or five reusable bags can replace 520 plastic bags a year, says Nick Sterling, research director at Natural Capitalism Solutions, a nonprofit focused on corporate sustainability issues.
Just as digital music downloads were the giveaway of choice last year, reusable shopping bags are the new "it" freebie. Earlier this month, Google handed out 525 nylon bags bearing the company's logo at its "Zeitgeist" conference, a meeting of business and political leaders held at its campus in Mountain View, Calif. The Sundance Institute gave out 12,000 fabric bags at its annual film festival earlier this year. Elisa Camahort Page, cofounder of BlogHer, an online community for women bloggers, says she even gave away 150 reusable bags to guests at her wedding last year.
Fueling the reusable-bag boom is the growing unpopularity of the ubiquitous throwaways known as T-shirt bags, so-called because the handles look like the top of a sleeveless T-shirt. An estimated 100 billion plastic bags are thrown away in the U.S. every year, according to the Worldwatch Institute.
Last year, San Francisco became the first U.S. city to ban the bags from supermarkets and chain drug stores, and this month, the city of Westport, Conn., banned most kinds of plastic bags at retail checkout counters. Boston, Baltimore and Portland, Ore., are also considering bans.
Earlier this year, Whole Foods Market grocery stores stopped using the T-shirt bags, and now offer paper bags or sell reusable totes priced at 99 cents to $29.99. Next month, Ikea will also discontinue their use, forcing customers to carry their purchases to their cars, bring bags from home or buy the chain's 59-cent reusable blue plastic substitute.
Such efforts are helping make reusable totes the nation's fastest-growing fashion accessory, with sales this year up 76% to date over last year, according to Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst at the market researcher NPD Group. At Bags on the Run, an online-based Phoenix company that sells nonwoven polypropylene bags, sales this year are up 1,000% to date over last year, according to Aerin Jacob, senior vice president of business development. Eco-Bags Products, which sells bags made of fabric, recycled materials and plastic, had $2.2 million in sales in 2007, a 300% increase over 2006, says Sharon Rowe, who heads the Ossining, N.Y.-based company. ChicoBag, in Chico, Calif., has tripled sales of its $5 reusable polyester tote this year, says president Andy Keller.
Starting Monday, Target will move displays of its own 99-cent totes to the checkout lanes, to boost the bags' sales. On Wednesday, Rite Aid, which currently sells its branded bags in selected markets, will start stocking them in all of its 4,930 stores. CVS expects to have three million of its own bags in the marketplace within the next year.
Finding a truly green bag is challenging. Plastic totes may be more eco-friendly to manufacture than ones made from cotton or canvas, which can require large amounts of water and energy to produce and may contain harsh chemical dyes. Paper bags, meanwhile, require the destruction of millions of trees and are made in factories that contribute to air and water pollution.
Many of the cheap, reusable bags that retailers favor are produced in Chinese factories and made from nonwoven polypropylene, a form of plastic that requires about 28 times as much energy to produce as the plastic used in standard disposable bags and eight times as much as a paper sack, according to Mr. Sterling, of Natural Capitalism Solutions.
Some, such as the ones sold in Gristedes stores in New York that are printed with the slogan "I used to be a plastic bag," are misleading. Those bags are also made in China from nonwoven polypropylene and have no recycled content. Stanley Joffe, president of Earthwise Bag Co., the Commerce, Calif., company that designed the bags, says the slogan is meant to point out that the bag itself is reusable, taking the place of a disposable plastic bag.
Some plastic bags are, in fact, made with recycled materials. The polypropylene bags at Staples are made from 30% recycled content, according to company spokesman Mike Black. Target sells six types of bags, including a $5.99 variety made from recycled plastic bags, says spokesman Steve Linders.
And yesterday, at the Clinton Global Initiative, a public-policy gathering in New York of business and political leaders, Wal-Mart pledged to reduce plastic bag waste by about 33% in every store world-wide in the next five years. Starting next month, the company will sell a new blue reusable plastic bag with a small amount of recycled material for 50 cents, half the price of its current black bag, which is 85% recycled plastic, says spokeswoman Shannon Frederick.
Getting people to actually use the bags is another matter. Maximizing their benefits requires changing deeply ingrained behavior, like getting used to taking 30-second showers to lower one's energy and water use. At present, many of the bags go unused -- remaining stashed instead in consumers' closets or in the trunks of their cars. Earlier this year, KPIX in San Francisco polled 500 of its television viewers and found that more than half -- 58% -- said they almost never take reusable cloth shopping bags to the grocery store.
Phil Rozenski, director of environmental strategies at the plastic bag maker Hilex Poly Co., believes even fewer people remember to use them. Based on consumer surveys conducted by the company, he says roughly the same number of people reuse their bags as bring disposable bags back to the grocery store for recycling -- a figure he puts at about 10% of consumers, according to industry data.
This month at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, marketing professor Baba Shiv dedicated the first day of a weeklong seminar on green marketing to the "road blocks" facing reusable bags. He says it can take "years and decades" for consumers to change their shopping habits, and only when there's a personal reward or an obvious taboo associated with the change: "Is it taboo yet to be carrying plastic bags? I don't think so." Mr. Shiv also says that according to surveys done by his graduate students, many shoppers say they are less likely to carry a retailer's branded reusable bag into a competing store. "What these bags are doing is increasing loyalty to the store," he says.
Dan Fosse, president of Cambridge, Minn.-based Innovative Packaging, produces a line of bags called SmarTote. Each one comes with a bar code that allows stores to track whether it is being reused. The idea, says Mr. Fosse, whose bags carry the slogan "Saving the World One Bag at a Time," is that companies can offer prizes or other incentives to customers who can prove their bag isn't just collecting dust at home.
Grocery stores are starting to report incremental results, says Mr. Fosse, who added the bar codes last spring. "It's really hard to change customer behavior."
Sarah De Belen, a 35-year-old mother of two from Hoboken, N.J., says she uses about 30 or 40 plastic bags at the grocery store every week. Late last year, she saw a woman at the supermarket with a popular canvas tote by London designer Anya Hindmarch and promptly purchased one online for about $45.
But Ms. De Belen says she soon realized she'd need 12 of them to accommodate an average grocery run. "It can hold, like, a head of lettuce," she says. Besides, she adds, it's too nice to load up with diapers or dripping chicken breasts.
Write to Ellen Gamerman at ellen.gamerman@wsj.com
So, after reading this, what do you think? For me, no matter the price, the design, the materials, reusable bags are always better solution IF you USE them over and over and over again :)
It's manufactured in China, shipped thousands of miles overseas, made with plastic and could take years to decompose. It's also the hot "green" giveaway of the moment: the reusable shopping bag.
The bags usually are printed with environmental slogans as well as corporate logos and pitched as earth-friendly substitutes for the billions of disposable plastic bags that wind up in landfills every year. Home Depot distributed 500,000 free reusable shopping bags last April on Earth Day, and Wal-Mart gave away one million. One line of bags features tags that read, "Saving the World One Bag at a Time."
But well-meaning companies and consumers are finding that shopping bags, like biofuels, are another area where it's complicated to go green. "If you don't reuse them, you're actually worse off by taking one of them," says Bob Lilienfeld, author of the Use Less Stuff Report, an online newsletter about waste prevention. And because many of the bags are made from heavier material, they're also likely to sit longer in landfills than their thinner, disposable cousins, according to Ned Thomas, who heads the department of material science and engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Used as they were intended, the totes can be an environmental boon, vastly reducing the number of disposable bags that do wind up in landfills. If each bag is used multiple times -- at least once a week -- four or five reusable bags can replace 520 plastic bags a year, says Nick Sterling, research director at Natural Capitalism Solutions, a nonprofit focused on corporate sustainability issues.
Just as digital music downloads were the giveaway of choice last year, reusable shopping bags are the new "it" freebie. Earlier this month, Google handed out 525 nylon bags bearing the company's logo at its "Zeitgeist" conference, a meeting of business and political leaders held at its campus in Mountain View, Calif. The Sundance Institute gave out 12,000 fabric bags at its annual film festival earlier this year. Elisa Camahort Page, cofounder of BlogHer, an online community for women bloggers, says she even gave away 150 reusable bags to guests at her wedding last year.
Fueling the reusable-bag boom is the growing unpopularity of the ubiquitous throwaways known as T-shirt bags, so-called because the handles look like the top of a sleeveless T-shirt. An estimated 100 billion plastic bags are thrown away in the U.S. every year, according to the Worldwatch Institute.
Last year, San Francisco became the first U.S. city to ban the bags from supermarkets and chain drug stores, and this month, the city of Westport, Conn., banned most kinds of plastic bags at retail checkout counters. Boston, Baltimore and Portland, Ore., are also considering bans.
Earlier this year, Whole Foods Market grocery stores stopped using the T-shirt bags, and now offer paper bags or sell reusable totes priced at 99 cents to $29.99. Next month, Ikea will also discontinue their use, forcing customers to carry their purchases to their cars, bring bags from home or buy the chain's 59-cent reusable blue plastic substitute.
Such efforts are helping make reusable totes the nation's fastest-growing fashion accessory, with sales this year up 76% to date over last year, according to Marshal Cohen, chief industry analyst at the market researcher NPD Group. At Bags on the Run, an online-based Phoenix company that sells nonwoven polypropylene bags, sales this year are up 1,000% to date over last year, according to Aerin Jacob, senior vice president of business development. Eco-Bags Products, which sells bags made of fabric, recycled materials and plastic, had $2.2 million in sales in 2007, a 300% increase over 2006, says Sharon Rowe, who heads the Ossining, N.Y.-based company. ChicoBag, in Chico, Calif., has tripled sales of its $5 reusable polyester tote this year, says president Andy Keller.
Starting Monday, Target will move displays of its own 99-cent totes to the checkout lanes, to boost the bags' sales. On Wednesday, Rite Aid, which currently sells its branded bags in selected markets, will start stocking them in all of its 4,930 stores. CVS expects to have three million of its own bags in the marketplace within the next year.
Finding a truly green bag is challenging. Plastic totes may be more eco-friendly to manufacture than ones made from cotton or canvas, which can require large amounts of water and energy to produce and may contain harsh chemical dyes. Paper bags, meanwhile, require the destruction of millions of trees and are made in factories that contribute to air and water pollution.
Many of the cheap, reusable bags that retailers favor are produced in Chinese factories and made from nonwoven polypropylene, a form of plastic that requires about 28 times as much energy to produce as the plastic used in standard disposable bags and eight times as much as a paper sack, according to Mr. Sterling, of Natural Capitalism Solutions.
Some, such as the ones sold in Gristedes stores in New York that are printed with the slogan "I used to be a plastic bag," are misleading. Those bags are also made in China from nonwoven polypropylene and have no recycled content. Stanley Joffe, president of Earthwise Bag Co., the Commerce, Calif., company that designed the bags, says the slogan is meant to point out that the bag itself is reusable, taking the place of a disposable plastic bag.
Some plastic bags are, in fact, made with recycled materials. The polypropylene bags at Staples are made from 30% recycled content, according to company spokesman Mike Black. Target sells six types of bags, including a $5.99 variety made from recycled plastic bags, says spokesman Steve Linders.
And yesterday, at the Clinton Global Initiative, a public-policy gathering in New York of business and political leaders, Wal-Mart pledged to reduce plastic bag waste by about 33% in every store world-wide in the next five years. Starting next month, the company will sell a new blue reusable plastic bag with a small amount of recycled material for 50 cents, half the price of its current black bag, which is 85% recycled plastic, says spokeswoman Shannon Frederick.
Getting people to actually use the bags is another matter. Maximizing their benefits requires changing deeply ingrained behavior, like getting used to taking 30-second showers to lower one's energy and water use. At present, many of the bags go unused -- remaining stashed instead in consumers' closets or in the trunks of their cars. Earlier this year, KPIX in San Francisco polled 500 of its television viewers and found that more than half -- 58% -- said they almost never take reusable cloth shopping bags to the grocery store.
Phil Rozenski, director of environmental strategies at the plastic bag maker Hilex Poly Co., believes even fewer people remember to use them. Based on consumer surveys conducted by the company, he says roughly the same number of people reuse their bags as bring disposable bags back to the grocery store for recycling -- a figure he puts at about 10% of consumers, according to industry data.
This month at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, marketing professor Baba Shiv dedicated the first day of a weeklong seminar on green marketing to the "road blocks" facing reusable bags. He says it can take "years and decades" for consumers to change their shopping habits, and only when there's a personal reward or an obvious taboo associated with the change: "Is it taboo yet to be carrying plastic bags? I don't think so." Mr. Shiv also says that according to surveys done by his graduate students, many shoppers say they are less likely to carry a retailer's branded reusable bag into a competing store. "What these bags are doing is increasing loyalty to the store," he says.
Dan Fosse, president of Cambridge, Minn.-based Innovative Packaging, produces a line of bags called SmarTote. Each one comes with a bar code that allows stores to track whether it is being reused. The idea, says Mr. Fosse, whose bags carry the slogan "Saving the World One Bag at a Time," is that companies can offer prizes or other incentives to customers who can prove their bag isn't just collecting dust at home.
Grocery stores are starting to report incremental results, says Mr. Fosse, who added the bar codes last spring. "It's really hard to change customer behavior."
Sarah De Belen, a 35-year-old mother of two from Hoboken, N.J., says she uses about 30 or 40 plastic bags at the grocery store every week. Late last year, she saw a woman at the supermarket with a popular canvas tote by London designer Anya Hindmarch and promptly purchased one online for about $45.
But Ms. De Belen says she soon realized she'd need 12 of them to accommodate an average grocery run. "It can hold, like, a head of lettuce," she says. Besides, she adds, it's too nice to load up with diapers or dripping chicken breasts.
Write to Ellen Gamerman at ellen.gamerman@wsj.com
So, after reading this, what do you think? For me, no matter the price, the design, the materials, reusable bags are always better solution IF you USE them over and over and over again :)
Friday, May 14, 2010
Some Surgery Preparation, What You Should Bring
I won't talk about anything medical, just something silly, but I hope, useful during your hospital stay.
I can't talk about other surgery, I just talk about thyroid surgery.
It's very useful to bring plastic hair clip...I forgot mine and ended up using rubberband for my hair during bath!!
I had a kimono 'uniform'. It's not cotton, it's slipping away all the time. I wish I bring a brooch...or a safety pin to avoid wardrobe malfunction :)
With all those pipes and bandage, I wasn't able to wash my hair...so prepare yourself to have dirty bloody hair (literally speaking)
Bring disposable undies. Hospital is not a place to think about 3R :D
Bring a facial cleanser and facial cotton. I didn't have the energy to wash my face, so I cleaned it with facial lotion (mine was Ovale)
I can't talk about other surgery, I just talk about thyroid surgery.
It's very useful to bring plastic hair clip...I forgot mine and ended up using rubberband for my hair during bath!!
I had a kimono 'uniform'. It's not cotton, it's slipping away all the time. I wish I bring a brooch...or a safety pin to avoid wardrobe malfunction :)
With all those pipes and bandage, I wasn't able to wash my hair...so prepare yourself to have dirty bloody hair (literally speaking)
Bring disposable undies. Hospital is not a place to think about 3R :D
Bring a facial cleanser and facial cotton. I didn't have the energy to wash my face, so I cleaned it with facial lotion (mine was Ovale)
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Me vs Moonbow...and Cosmetic Hype
Don't get me wrong. Moonbow pad isn't bad product.
Moonbow received many, many, many good reviews, I guess I'm just an anomaly :(
For me, it's just a matter of taste.
Most people don't mind having stain in their pads, but I do.
Probably others wash their Moonbow with front-loading machine (so they can use heat etc) so it dries quicker..but I handwash and sunning it, it takes ages to dry. => which isn't a problem anymore since I have plenty of pads now.
Then most people don't have holes in their Moonbow :(
(this is just a bad luck. One in a million case. I won't say ALL Moonbow pads have bad quality)
Same thing applies to cosmetics reviews. There's hype about Maybelline Great Lash mascara...and I don't like it.
Same hype with (old version of) Revlon Colorstay Foundation in Allure magazine and MakeupAlley.com...and I hate that foundation.
Allure's Breakthrough beauty about 5 years ago? Estee Lauder So Ingenious Foundation? That's a bad product..at least for me. Totally hard to blend, didn't stay long. Not to mention expensive.
While coverage (light, medium, full) and staying power is about personal preference, humidity and one person's skin, I think texture is universal. That's why I don't understand why I'm different than others.
But I'm not immune to hype. I really, really, really love Diorshow Mascara. It's the price that stopping me from buying it over and over again.
Once again, it's just a matter of taste.
Moonbow received many, many, many good reviews, I guess I'm just an anomaly :(
For me, it's just a matter of taste.
Most people don't mind having stain in their pads, but I do.
Probably others wash their Moonbow with front-loading machine (so they can use heat etc) so it dries quicker..but I handwash and sunning it, it takes ages to dry. => which isn't a problem anymore since I have plenty of pads now.
Then most people don't have holes in their Moonbow :(
(this is just a bad luck. One in a million case. I won't say ALL Moonbow pads have bad quality)
Same thing applies to cosmetics reviews. There's hype about Maybelline Great Lash mascara...and I don't like it.
Same hype with (old version of) Revlon Colorstay Foundation in Allure magazine and MakeupAlley.com...and I hate that foundation.
Allure's Breakthrough beauty about 5 years ago? Estee Lauder So Ingenious Foundation? That's a bad product..at least for me. Totally hard to blend, didn't stay long. Not to mention expensive.
While coverage (light, medium, full) and staying power is about personal preference, humidity and one person's skin, I think texture is universal. That's why I don't understand why I'm different than others.
But I'm not immune to hype. I really, really, really love Diorshow Mascara. It's the price that stopping me from buying it over and over again.
Once again, it's just a matter of taste.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Wasabi Mommi
I've tried my Wasabi Mommi pads.
It comes in a set, contain 3 pads: 1 pantyliner; 1 day pad; 1 night pad.
(I forgot the length of each pad. I'll edit later)
Cost: USD 15 a set (excluded shipping and tax)
All have fleece-backing for waterproofing. All very thin. Seriously. Probably just slightly thicker than ultrathin (disposable) pads. And relatively easy to clean. Dry fast. My pads are dark colored, they have no stain.
Pantyliner:
the pantyliner is very very small, about 5"(?). While it looks very adorable and cute, to be honest, it's not too comfortable to wear. I don't know how to say this right, but the stitches just doesn't fall in the right places....
Edited: it depends on underwear I wear
Day pad:
I love the fan-design, so the flow won't go to the sides. I just won't wear it for heavy days, it's not long enough.
Night pad:
Wow, I love this. Thin but (relatively) stays in place --or probably now I'm used with cloth, I'm more careful when taking off my undies hahahha--.
So here's the conclusion.
PROs:
- no leak
- very thin.
- easy to clean
- dark color won't stain
- stays in place well (no flipping)
- relatively affordable
CONs:
- pantyliner is not too comfortable
- day pad is not suitable for heavy days.
It comes in a set, contain 3 pads: 1 pantyliner; 1 day pad; 1 night pad.
(I forgot the length of each pad. I'll edit later)
Cost: USD 15 a set (excluded shipping and tax)
All have fleece-backing for waterproofing. All very thin. Seriously. Probably just slightly thicker than ultrathin (disposable) pads. And relatively easy to clean. Dry fast. My pads are dark colored, they have no stain.
Pantyliner:
the pantyliner is very very small, about 5"(?). While it looks very adorable and cute, to be honest, it's not too comfortable to wear. I don't know how to say this right, but the stitches just doesn't fall in the right places....
Edited: it depends on underwear I wear
Day pad:
I love the fan-design, so the flow won't go to the sides. I just won't wear it for heavy days, it's not long enough.
Night pad:
Wow, I love this. Thin but (relatively) stays in place --or probably now I'm used with cloth, I'm more careful when taking off my undies hahahha--.
So here's the conclusion.
PROs:
- no leak
- very thin.
- easy to clean
- dark color won't stain
- stays in place well (no flipping)
- relatively affordable
CONs:
- pantyliner is not too comfortable
- day pad is not suitable for heavy days.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Sew Green For You
I have the set of 2 pads in different color.
The set is for 9.5" menstrual pad and 6" pantyliner.
The 9.5" menstrual pad is made of 5 layers of flannel; the 6" pantyliner is from 3 layers of flannel. Both with PUL.
You know what's interesting? The set only cost me US$ 5 in Etsy.com
(shipping and tax aren't included).
It was no custom order so I had no 'convo' (conversation) with the seller. Shipping was fast, well.. relatively for international order.
I have the confident to wear the 9" pad in my heaviest day because it has PUL underneath. I only washed it 1 time before using the pad, and the flow went to wings (as usual!).
And no, it doesn't leak.
Then I wash it. Compared with other pads I wear that day, SGFY pad is the easiest one to clean. Dry fast.
And no stain!!!
The only thing I 'hate' about the pad is...it's pretty thick. But the thickness made the pads stays in place (no flip when I take off my undies).
Pros: affordable; no leak; easy to clean; dry fast
Cons: pretty thick
Conclusion: this is THE BEST pad if you're new to cloth. Affordable and no leak. Perfect.
The set is for 9.5" menstrual pad and 6" pantyliner.
The 9.5" menstrual pad is made of 5 layers of flannel; the 6" pantyliner is from 3 layers of flannel. Both with PUL.
You know what's interesting? The set only cost me US$ 5 in Etsy.com
(shipping and tax aren't included).
It was no custom order so I had no 'convo' (conversation) with the seller. Shipping was fast, well.. relatively for international order.
I have the confident to wear the 9" pad in my heaviest day because it has PUL underneath. I only washed it 1 time before using the pad, and the flow went to wings (as usual!).
And no, it doesn't leak.
Then I wash it. Compared with other pads I wear that day, SGFY pad is the easiest one to clean. Dry fast.
And no stain!!!
The only thing I 'hate' about the pad is...it's pretty thick. But the thickness made the pads stays in place (no flip when I take off my undies).
Pros: affordable; no leak; easy to clean; dry fast
Cons: pretty thick
Conclusion: this is THE BEST pad if you're new to cloth. Affordable and no leak. Perfect.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
20 Peritel Akan Stop Gunakan Kantong Plastik
I'm so happy to hear this...because I'll find cute (and cheaper) shopping bags :)
Sumber: VIVAnews
VIVAnews - Sedikitnya 20 peritel di Jakarta telah berkomitmen mendukung program 'Jakarta Bebas Kantong Plastik' pada 2011 mendatang. Mereka akan mulai mengurangi penggunaan kantong plastik untuk setiap kegiatannya.
"Belum bisa disebutkan nama-nama peritel tersebut. Kalau sudah lengkap dan pasti, akan diumumkan,” ujar Gubernur DKI Jakarta, Fauzi Bowo, Sabtu 20 Maret 2010, seperti dikutip dari situs milik Pemerintah DKI Jakarta.
Melihat dukungan yang cukup besar dari peritel, Fauzi optimis pengurangan kantong plastik di Jakarta dapat dilaksanakan pada pertengahan tahun ini dan Jakarta bisa bebas dari kantong plastik pada 2011.
Proses sosialisasi terus dilakukan agar warga Jakarta memahami bahwa kantong plastik merupakan polutan yang sangat merusak sifatnya dalam jangka panjang.
Gubernur mengimbau warga Jakarta untuk mulai mengurangi pemakaian kantong plastik. Kontrol terhadap masyarakat bersama dengan Yayasan Lembaga Konsumen Indonesia (YLKI) dan LSM pecinta lingkungan akan segera dilakukan. Pengawasan mulai dari sumbernya yakni pabrik hingga departemen store sebagai pengguna kantong plastik kepada konsumennya.
Deputi Gubernur DKI Jakarta Bidang Tata Ruang, Ahmad Haryadi, mengatakan, pelaksanaan program pengurangan kantong plastik dimulai bersamaan dengan hari ulang tahun Jakarta yang jatuh pada Juni mendatang.
"Saat ini sedang disusun rencana aksinya. Diharapkan sudah ada langkah konkret yang dapat diluncurkan pada ulang tahun Jakarta, 22 Juni tahun ini," kata Haryadi.
Kepala Badan Pengelola Lingkungan Hidup Daerah (BPLHD) DKI Jakarta, Peni Susanti, juga mengakui saat ini sudah cukup banyak peritel yang bersedia mengurangi kantong plastik.
Peritel dan pasar-pasar tradisional di Jakarta segera melaksanakan program satu hari tanpa kantong plastik. "Program satu hari tanpa kantong plastik ini merupakan salah satu langkah awal. Kemungkinan akan dilaksanakan bulan depan atau April tahun ini," ujarnya.
Saat ini BPLHD DKI sudah menyiapkan solusi pengganti kantong plastik, yakni berupa kantong baru yang terbuat dari bahan baku yang lebih mudah terurai.
Sumber: VIVAnews
VIVAnews - Sedikitnya 20 peritel di Jakarta telah berkomitmen mendukung program 'Jakarta Bebas Kantong Plastik' pada 2011 mendatang. Mereka akan mulai mengurangi penggunaan kantong plastik untuk setiap kegiatannya.
"Belum bisa disebutkan nama-nama peritel tersebut. Kalau sudah lengkap dan pasti, akan diumumkan,” ujar Gubernur DKI Jakarta, Fauzi Bowo, Sabtu 20 Maret 2010, seperti dikutip dari situs milik Pemerintah DKI Jakarta.
Melihat dukungan yang cukup besar dari peritel, Fauzi optimis pengurangan kantong plastik di Jakarta dapat dilaksanakan pada pertengahan tahun ini dan Jakarta bisa bebas dari kantong plastik pada 2011.
Proses sosialisasi terus dilakukan agar warga Jakarta memahami bahwa kantong plastik merupakan polutan yang sangat merusak sifatnya dalam jangka panjang.
Gubernur mengimbau warga Jakarta untuk mulai mengurangi pemakaian kantong plastik. Kontrol terhadap masyarakat bersama dengan Yayasan Lembaga Konsumen Indonesia (YLKI) dan LSM pecinta lingkungan akan segera dilakukan. Pengawasan mulai dari sumbernya yakni pabrik hingga departemen store sebagai pengguna kantong plastik kepada konsumennya.
Deputi Gubernur DKI Jakarta Bidang Tata Ruang, Ahmad Haryadi, mengatakan, pelaksanaan program pengurangan kantong plastik dimulai bersamaan dengan hari ulang tahun Jakarta yang jatuh pada Juni mendatang.
"Saat ini sedang disusun rencana aksinya. Diharapkan sudah ada langkah konkret yang dapat diluncurkan pada ulang tahun Jakarta, 22 Juni tahun ini," kata Haryadi.
Kepala Badan Pengelola Lingkungan Hidup Daerah (BPLHD) DKI Jakarta, Peni Susanti, juga mengakui saat ini sudah cukup banyak peritel yang bersedia mengurangi kantong plastik.
Peritel dan pasar-pasar tradisional di Jakarta segera melaksanakan program satu hari tanpa kantong plastik. "Program satu hari tanpa kantong plastik ini merupakan salah satu langkah awal. Kemungkinan akan dilaksanakan bulan depan atau April tahun ini," ujarnya.
Saat ini BPLHD DKI sudah menyiapkan solusi pengganti kantong plastik, yakni berupa kantong baru yang terbuat dari bahan baku yang lebih mudah terurai.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Motorola Motozine ZN5
Photo: GSM Arena
I'm not a gadget freak, but I do have gadgets :)
I've had enough with my Nexian dual GSM-CDMA...bad signal, bad voice, the keyboard is not easy to use (to narrow) so I decided to buy a new one. Not the sophisticated one, just a regular cell phone that can be used easily to call and send text!
Then my father offered me something: he needed a CDMA handset, he'd take my Nexian and I got his Motorola ZN5.
To be honest, I didn't know the name of the Motorola until I browsed around!
It has 5MP camera. I'm not stupid and usualy I can master a cell phone without the manual book, but not this time.
I didn't read the manual book, but it took 3 days to reveal the camera 'click'. I didn't know how to take a shot!!!
Luckily I'm smart :D
Saturday, March 13, 2010
New Arrival
Mama Bear cloth pads..These aren't my order. 7" menstrual/pantyliner.
Fussybutt Face Round. I'll use this for facial cotton substitution.
Fussybutt Moonlite (pantiliner) and wipes. Will keep 2 and sell the rest. Yang wipes buat sapu tangan.
Fussybutt Face Round. I'll use this for facial cotton substitution.
Fussybutt Moonlite (pantiliner) and wipes. Will keep 2 and sell the rest. Yang wipes buat sapu tangan.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Little Info..
A friend informed me about this site: http://rumahPopok.com
It's a site about cloth diapering. I don't have kids right now, but the information is very useful.
And the best part? Most of the fabrics are locally-made.
It's a site about cloth diapering. I don't have kids right now, but the information is very useful.
And the best part? Most of the fabrics are locally-made.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Epicerma Review
I reviewed Epicerma panty liner before.
I like the panty liner, but I don't like the menstrual pad that much.
The menstrual pad is thicker than the panty liner, the serge (obras-an) little bit bothering me...friction with my legs :(
I used it on my lighter days..I just don't think a 7.5" would give enough protection.
And I was right.
My flow went to the center of the pads..and the wings :( But it was a light day so I don't mind.
Used it in light days, I didn't notice any leakage.
Now the hardest part: washing.
Compared with Honeybee Hill pad I used that day, Epicerma was much much easier to clean.
And no stain!!!! Yippieeee!!!
Overall: this expensive pad is good on your lighter days...and it cleans well...no stain.
I like the panty liner, but I don't like the menstrual pad that much.
The menstrual pad is thicker than the panty liner, the serge (obras-an) little bit bothering me...friction with my legs :(
I used it on my lighter days..I just don't think a 7.5" would give enough protection.
And I was right.
My flow went to the center of the pads..and the wings :( But it was a light day so I don't mind.
Used it in light days, I didn't notice any leakage.
Now the hardest part: washing.
Compared with Honeybee Hill pad I used that day, Epicerma was much much easier to clean.
And no stain!!!! Yippieeee!!!
Overall: this expensive pad is good on your lighter days...and it cleans well...no stain.
Monday, February 15, 2010
Ngegas Berlebihan, Toyota Camry Nyungsep di Pancoran
Sumber: ArsipBerita.com
Jakarta – Sebuah Toyota Camry berwarna hitam nyungsep di trotoar di kawasan Pancoran Jakarta. Pintu depan mobil bagian pengemudi pun rusak karena tertahan pohon.
Insiden ini terjadi sekitar pukul 16.00 WIB di parkiran Gedung Korindo di dekat perempatan Pancoran, Jakarta Selatan, Sabtu (13/2/2010).
Menurut seorang saksi mata, pengendara mobil mewah bertransmisi matik ini diduga terlalu banyak menekan gas ketika mobil tengah mundur. Akibatnya mobil menerjang tembok pembatas dan langsung nyungsep di trotoar.
Laju mobil sendiri tertahan oleh pagar di sepanjang trotoar, sehingga mobil tidak mundur ke arah jalan. Pagar trotoar sendiri agak miring karena ditabrak Camry tersebut.
Karena tertahan di pagar trotoar itulah, Camry ini tidak menyebabkan kemacetan lalu lintas di kawasan Pancoran. Namun kejadian ini cukup menyita perhatian orang yang berlalu lalang di sekitar Pancoran.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Steal vs Splurge...in 3R Context
When it comes to price, most of the time you get what you pay for.
And if you don't, it's your bad luck :)
I splurge on shoes and leather handbag. They'll last long so I don't toss them away in 1 year.
That means I generate less waste.
Same thing when it comes to beauty. My makeup aplicators (powder puff, makeup sponge) are MAC. They last more than 2 years, compare that to IDR 5000 makeup sponges that degrade on 10th application.
I have a cheap Tammia blush brush and now they shed (they suffer hair loss hehehe) and I have to toss it away. This is when I say
"more is less...More (cost but) less (waste)"
How about my cheap -but supercute-- folding shopping bags?
Hmm..who knows how long they'd last. This is why I don't use them on heavy stuffs. For that purpose I use stronger --and uglier-- shopping bags.
Cheap top (clothes) is another story. I can give it away to my neigbour when I'm bored with them.
But there are 2 things that I don't spend my money much:
Hair elastic and cigarette lighter! Simply because I lost them everywhere..
And if you don't, it's your bad luck :)
I splurge on shoes and leather handbag. They'll last long so I don't toss them away in 1 year.
That means I generate less waste.
Same thing when it comes to beauty. My makeup aplicators (powder puff, makeup sponge) are MAC. They last more than 2 years, compare that to IDR 5000 makeup sponges that degrade on 10th application.
I have a cheap Tammia blush brush and now they shed (they suffer hair loss hehehe) and I have to toss it away. This is when I say
"more is less...More (cost but) less (waste)"
How about my cheap -but supercute-- folding shopping bags?
Hmm..who knows how long they'd last. This is why I don't use them on heavy stuffs. For that purpose I use stronger --and uglier-- shopping bags.
Cheap top (clothes) is another story. I can give it away to my neigbour when I'm bored with them.
But there are 2 things that I don't spend my money much:
Hair elastic and cigarette lighter! Simply because I lost them everywhere..
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
If You're Interested in Cloth...
then you should read this if you're confused with fabrics:
http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~obsidian/clothpads/fabric.html
http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~obsidian/clothpads/fabric.html
Ladies, Please Don't Leave Your Handbag
Tadi pagi gue baca di milis, temen gue istrinya kehilangan tas gara2 ada motor yang bilang ada sesuatu di ban, jadi dia minggir...lengah dan tasnya diambil.
Hmm..gue pernah ngalamin yang kayak gini nih. Motor mepet2 gue dari kanan, nunjuk2 ban blakang. Untung gue cuek. Alhamdulillah masih dilindungi Allah.
Lalu beberapa minggu lalu temen kantor gue kehilangan dompet pas di salon..dia mau ke lantai 2 ninggalin tasnya, pikir ada temennya eh temennya lagi dikramas, hilanglah dompetnya.
Alhamdulillah gue belum pernah ngalamin kehilangan dompet dan tas. Jika di tempat umum, gue agak paranoid. No, I don't bring lots of cash, but I can't loose my ID and license!!
Ketika di salon, tas gue taro di meja depan gue, resleting tertutup dan HP dipegang. Ketika keramas pun tas gue bawa, gue pangku.
Emang sih repot, tapi gue menghilangkan resiko dompet gue diambil.
Demikian juga ketika isi bensin. Bukan cuma dompet yang gue bawa, sama tas2nya pun gue bawa.
Dan mungkin kalau pas gue bawa laptop, mobil gue kunci. namun saat ini barang2 di mobil gue --selain handbag-- tidak ada yang berharga....
Cuma tas fitnes dan peralatan 3R :P
Hmm..gue pernah ngalamin yang kayak gini nih. Motor mepet2 gue dari kanan, nunjuk2 ban blakang. Untung gue cuek. Alhamdulillah masih dilindungi Allah.
Lalu beberapa minggu lalu temen kantor gue kehilangan dompet pas di salon..dia mau ke lantai 2 ninggalin tasnya, pikir ada temennya eh temennya lagi dikramas, hilanglah dompetnya.
Alhamdulillah gue belum pernah ngalamin kehilangan dompet dan tas. Jika di tempat umum, gue agak paranoid. No, I don't bring lots of cash, but I can't loose my ID and license!!
Ketika di salon, tas gue taro di meja depan gue, resleting tertutup dan HP dipegang. Ketika keramas pun tas gue bawa, gue pangku.
Emang sih repot, tapi gue menghilangkan resiko dompet gue diambil.
Demikian juga ketika isi bensin. Bukan cuma dompet yang gue bawa, sama tas2nya pun gue bawa.
Dan mungkin kalau pas gue bawa laptop, mobil gue kunci. namun saat ini barang2 di mobil gue --selain handbag-- tidak ada yang berharga....
Cuma tas fitnes dan peralatan 3R :P
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Simple Calculation of Cloth Pantyliner
oh, this is odd.
I switch to cloth for environment, not for savings.
But I think I should make simple calculation on how much I can save on using cloth.
This is based on my needs so probably it won't suit you :)
I'm moslem so I change pantyliner 2-3 times a day because I have to be clean for praying. Yes, even a tiniest spot is considered dirty, so I have to change it.
Here's the assumption I use:
Having period of 6 days; the cost of disposable is constant all year long; 1 month = 30 days.
So I'll begin the calculation. Using disposable pantyliner will be:
24 days/month x 3 pads/day x 12 months = 864 pads/year.
Wow!!! You'll throw 864 pads per year!!!
And now I feel terribly guilty of generating such waste before I switched to cloth..
And if the cost of 20 pieces of C*refree is IDR 5000, you'll spend IDR 216,000 per year.
Now compare it to the cheapest cloth pantyliner I know, made by 4 layers of flannels. It costs RM 10 each in Tiny Tapir site. With shipping cost USD 7.5 , let's just say it costs IDR 37,500 in Indonesia.
With my needs, I'll need about 6 liners. So I'll spend
6 pads x 37,500 = IDR 225,000
It's slightly more expensive than the disposable, but the pads will last you 3-5 years!
--even if you had bad-quality pantyliner, you'll reduce 864 reusables per year--
And if you can sew, you can make it on your own...and cut more expenses.
I switch to cloth for environment, not for savings.
But I think I should make simple calculation on how much I can save on using cloth.
This is based on my needs so probably it won't suit you :)
I'm moslem so I change pantyliner 2-3 times a day because I have to be clean for praying. Yes, even a tiniest spot is considered dirty, so I have to change it.
Here's the assumption I use:
Having period of 6 days; the cost of disposable is constant all year long; 1 month = 30 days.
So I'll begin the calculation. Using disposable pantyliner will be:
24 days/month x 3 pads/day x 12 months = 864 pads/year.
Wow!!! You'll throw 864 pads per year!!!
And now I feel terribly guilty of generating such waste before I switched to cloth..
And if the cost of 20 pieces of C*refree is IDR 5000, you'll spend IDR 216,000 per year.
Now compare it to the cheapest cloth pantyliner I know, made by 4 layers of flannels. It costs RM 10 each in Tiny Tapir site. With shipping cost USD 7.5 , let's just say it costs IDR 37,500 in Indonesia.
With my needs, I'll need about 6 liners. So I'll spend
6 pads x 37,500 = IDR 225,000
It's slightly more expensive than the disposable, but the pads will last you 3-5 years!
--even if you had bad-quality pantyliner, you'll reduce 864 reusables per year--
And if you can sew, you can make it on your own...and cut more expenses.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Crown Royal Saloon vs Volvo
Mosok sih mobil 1,3 M dikalahin ama Volvo? Hehehe
FYI: RI 37 itu big boss gue :)
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Still Searching for The One....
I'm talking about cloth pad!!!
I posted in Tinytapir FB wall about holes in my Moonbow(s). She asked me to email the picture of the hole and I did it. I also put a link to my review about Moonbow and Freshmoon.
She replied, said she can't open the pic :(
But she did read my review and said I should try Cyclez. Here's her email:
Thanks for the links to your reviews. It's true, the moonbows and fresh moon will become much more absorbent the more you use it. Please note for the moonbow, because the water resistent layer is wool (more breathable and natural), it may still show a stain coming through on a heavy day, but it should not leak onto your panty unless you've really left it a long long time.
I would actually recommend you try the Cyclez pad, i think you will like it better than the natural fabrics as your primary concern is absorbency, no leaking through the wings and very easy to clean. The cyclez pad is much more absorbent than the moonbows and fresh moon, you definitely will not get a leak from it as it uses a PUL backing and it will not flip up when you pull down your underwear (due to the wide wing design, it's not like the moonbow). Also, as it is all man made fiber, it's super easy to clean - just soak it for about 6 hours and the blood washes straight out.
Thanks for the advice! I'll order it next time...
...when I have the budget :P
Thanks for the advice! I'll order it next time...
...when I have the budget :P
Extra Carry-on
This is what I bring everyday to office. One towel, 1 plastic bag and some pads (above)
I also bring a lunch box, it's a Tupperware.Sorry, I forgot to rotate the pic!
Together, they look like this.While it's true that I do more effort to bring this everyday, actually I could just leave the Tupperware in office. But hey, they're Tupperware, it'd get lost if I leave them!!!
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