Mango during rainy season

November 27, 2008 by winona · 4 Comments
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In Indonesia, there are some popular types of mango. Indonesian name it with gadung or harum manis, manalagi, and podang ( it’s named with podang because the color is yellowish/reddish like the bird podang :D ).

Fresh Orange Manggo Slice .. hmm...Yummy :D
Fresh Orange Manggo Slice .. hmm…Yummy :D

The mango tree is tall with hard wooden stem and strong root. The leaves are in dark green.

Mango is said to have many kinds of vitamin and other nutrition too. The prominent vitamin that mango has is vitamin A and C as the best anti-oxidant, very good for skins, and mango has a high fiber too.

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World Fashion in Jember

November 13, 2008 by winona · 4 Comments
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Actually this event has been heldthree months ago. In the time when this event celebrated, I haven’t had my own self-hosting blog like now :D . Though it is not a brand new fresh event but it’s very fascinating to get in touch with.

This event is called Jember Fashion Carnival ( JFC ). Jember Fashion Carnaval ( JFC) in an annual fashion carnival held in Jember, east java by August 2008. This year, the JFC has been counted the seventh. Thousands visitors come to see this celebration, from local tourists and foreigners.

Jember Fashion Carnival Wellcome Parade
Jember Fashion Carnival Welcome Parade
Jember Fashion Carnival Welcome Flags
Jember Fashion Carnival Welcome Flags

This event comprising various world cultures, The JFC this year is taken ‘World Evolution’ as title, and performed into nine defiles. The themes are various too, the Papua archipelago until the human robot.

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The Beauty Behind Small Rain Lily

November 5, 2008 by winona · 3 Comments
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In Indonesian, this flower is known as bawang sebrang or bunga coklat (cocoa flower in English) . Though named as bunga coklat or cacao flower, this little flower doesn’t have anything to do with cacao. Due to its beautiful colorful flowers, the cacao flower is often used for decoration

Rain Lily or Bawang Sebrang (Zephyranthes candida Herb.)

In English, this species is called the Rain Lily (Zephyranthes candida Herb.). The Rain Lily originally comes from Chile and Brazil. It has a long and thin leaf that flopping from the corm located in ground.

Rain lily is a small tropics terna, with the height only up to 30 cm.

The leaf is curved and slippery, and the flower has a single handle in single white colour and dice, and formed like funnel that facing upward. Perhaps that is the reason why this flower is called ‘ lily’ :)

Rain lily for healing

1. Epilepsy :

10 gr herbas (Z.candida) + lump sugar, braised together then drink.

2. Spastic at children :

a. 10 - 15 grs fresh leaf + lump sugar, braised, drink.
b. 10 - 15 gr herbas + salt, pulverized, to patch at forehead


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