Thematic Reading List

At early days of our life in Kuala Enok, I want to emphasize the differences between this remote area and our city to my son. I take him to walk around, discuss all experiences, and of course read information that is related with our new home.

Learning From Disaster

The most advantage in learning when we move to other area is geography! New culture, new area. Especially if you move to a very different area like me, from a city to a remote area. From area that is surrounded by land, houses, cars, to the area that surrounded by water.

Today the other part of the area was avalanche. Many wooden houses collapse. Thank God no one died or got hurt, but they lost their houses. The avalanche occurred because the land that they used to built their houses are riverbank. When the tide is low at the lowest point, the marshland so prone to landslides. So, what we can learn from the disaster?

Helping My Child Manage His Friendly Habits (+free printables)

Now we are living in a company housing, where our neighbour stay close to us, so if you open your door, surely you will meet them! This situation is so much different than living in our own house. Our house in a city at Java island have front yard and it’s equipped with fence, we have full privacy there. Furthermore, our neighbourhood at this remote area is different, the people are more friendly than at the city. This bring us to an obligation to respect others more than before to make our neighbourhood a cozy place to live.

Go Frugal: When We Had No Book To Read

I knew from the very first time that we would face hard early days in new place. We live in a so much different place than before. From a big city, to a remote area. I do not want to burden my son and myself in this beginning, but I still want my son to learn.

Far Away From Homeschool Community

Homeschool community is where you can interact frequently with other homeschool family, field trips, learn together, or playdates. By joining a homeschool community you will get homeschool encouragement, and your child will have many homeschool friends. You can get many benefits. But not every homeschool family luckily live in an area where there is homeschool community activities. I myself is a local homeschool community founder, but now I have to leave them, and live in an area that have no homeschool community. Deep down inside I want to build homeschool community here, but as long as I observe, I know that it would be a long term journey, because people in this area doesn’t know about homeschool! They still thinking that there is no education outside the school.

Learning At The River

Observing the river from the ferry's window

My family love to traveling. One week ago was the longest traveling that we ever had. We moved from Java island to Sumatera island. It took two days. We left Java last Friday by airplane, arrived at Batam at the same day, and the next day we used ferry to go from Batam to Kuala Enok - Sumatera, our new place. We spent 2 hours in airplane, and 8 hours in ferry, and arrived at Kuala Enok at Saturday night.

Mondays Memory Photography Linky Party 6/29 - Picsay Pro Tutorial

If you travelling and take a photo from your Android gadget, you'll want to immediately upload your photo showing that you have wonderful adventure to your family and friends. But sometime, your photo didn't look good, the angle perfect but the light so lack! You want to take photo again, but too late, your photo object has passed. Wait wait! Don't delete your photo from your memory card. Here I give you tutorial about editing photo from your Android gadget using Picsay Pro. 

Picsay Pro doen't need you to download editing tools when editing photo, that way you can edit your photo without internet connection. You can download Picsay Pro here (it is not free). Picsay Pro also have free version, called Picsay, but Picsay doen't have powerful tools like Picsay Pro to edit your photo.

Ok, here is the tutorial, please note that I fully editing the photos in this tutorial using Picsay Pro.

This photo below is "before" photo