Take's Apartment and Mansion. Jakarta

Tourists are classified into many types: Backpackers, budget travellers, Family outing, corporate travellers and perhaps the last one is the group of people to whom comfort comes first.
Well, My wife and me falls in the second group. We planned the trip to Indonesia,namely Jakarta and bandung on shoestring budget. We took Air Asia flight from Penang on the 19th of June and landed in Jakarta International Airport some four hours later. After persuading a private car for some Rp170000, we left the airport in an F1 car. In just twenty over minutes we were already infront of Take's mansion. Well, it looked more like a hotel to me rather than apartment. However apartment or hotel was immaterial since we badly needed a bed to sleep that night . It was already 2.30 in morning. The receptionest or rather the night clerk was a pleasant young man. He made the job easier for us, and by 3.00 we were fast aslept. We could not remember what studio or rather room we bedded since we were very tired indeed. Woke up early in order to catch the early train from Gambier station to Bandung. Taman Kebun Sirih was quite near the gambir railway station. We took our breakfast at the many stalls flanking the station, and one hour later boarded the train to Bandung. Had a nice time in Bandung. We returned to Malaysia on the 22nd of June and landed in Penang International Airport around 9.30pm. Reached home in Baling nearly midnight. The next morning my wife discovered that her longpants was missing and couldn't think of any other place except Take's apartment. Sure enough when I phoned the office, the clerk on duty confirmed that they were keeping the pants. They immediately sent the pant by mail and a few days later we received the parcel, inside the missing pant, well pressed by the room service maid.
So through this medium I would like again to convey my utmost thanks and gratidue for the excellent gesture by the Management of take's mansion and apartment.
I would not hesitate to recommend tourists, especially budget tourist like me to put up at Take's apartment.

Turmeric/Kunyit

Kunyit adalah sejenis tumbuhan yang mudah hidup di kawasan tropika. Di Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, India ia adalah makanan dan ubat. Dalam perubatan ayuverdik ia dinamakan sebagai 'emas hidup dari bumi'Begitulah hebatnya kunyit di kalangan masyarakat India. Kunyit amat berkesan untuk merawat atau mengurangkan kesan kesakitan serta bengkak yang disebabkan oleh arthritis. bagi masyrakat Asia yang menggemari kari, maka serbuk kunyit merupakan bahan utama untuk menyedapkan rasa kari yang tulin.
Minyak yang dihasilkan dari kunyit mengandungi sejenis bahan kimia yang dikenali sebagai curcumin; bahan ini yang bersifat anti- radang membantu dipercayai bertanggungjawab mengurangkan kesan kesakitan pesakit arthhritis. Selain dari tiu curcumin juga bersifat antioxidants_ sebagai antioxidant ia dipercayai mampu menutralkan radikal bebas yang bertanggungjawab merosakkan sel-sel sihat serta 'sel membranes'. Maka dengan sebab sifat curcumin yang anti_radang serta antioxidantlah maka ramai pesakit arthritis yang kerap menggunakan tumbuhan ini sebagai perubatan alternatif mendapati ia membantu mengurangkan kesakitan serta serentak merawat penyakit ini.
Pengambilan kunyit mentah sebagai makanan serta ubat perlu dilakukan secara konsisten kerana kadar penyerapan kunyit dalam badan hanyalah satu peratus sahaja.