Nadya Hutagalung

Just things that catch my eye and inspire..
#teacupwisdom beware, double bagging can lead to some serious contemplation on the true nature of “self” (Taken with instagram)

#teacupwisdom beware, double bagging can lead to some serious contemplation on the true nature of “self” (Taken with instagram)

beat-yourheart: Jakarta, 26/3/2011 earthour 60+ Can’t wait for the next Earth Hour! We need more and more people switching off.

beat-yourheart:

Jakarta, 26/3/2011 earthour 60+

Can’t wait for the next Earth Hour! We need more and more people switching off.

(via earthhour)

wearethe99percent: I graduated with a Masters degree from one of the best architecture schools in the world, filled with visionaries with the knowledge, skills and passion to build the kind of world we all dream of, except nobody in this economic system has any incentive to hire them to do anything remotely like that. At our graduation, one professor remarked that we’d be spending the rest of our lives building strip malls. Then the economy collapsed and I did what I was told… putting on a suit and tie every morning and making job searching a full time job. Six months and one interview later, I had produced nothing of value to anyone and was still living off mom and her soul killing job. I was then 35 years old and had a world of work experience. I knew the only thing to do was walk away from the game. I vowed I would do what I love even if it meant starving and doing it for free, so I did just that for three years. I’ve since worked on some of the most innovative treehouses in the world, I’ve designed and built in Haiti (You want to see the real results of our wonderful foreign and economic policies?) I’ve built community gardens, geodesic structures, and I’m engineering water catchment systems, hanging gardens and solar updraft power plants so that we can get free of this system as a whole culture. For the first time in my life I’m using my real gifts even though it’s meant living in vans and tents and on couches often after 14 hour build days. I’m 3 months behind on rent now, and thank god I have my health and youth. And for those of you with student loans, they HAVE to offer this to you if you ask, but they WON’T tell you if you don’t: call your loan officers and ask about Income Based Repayment. Oh… and I’ve also been learning about alternative economic systems. Have a read of Thomas Greco, especially “Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender.” Get behind alternative currencies like Ripple and use them, have a look at Vertecology.com’s response to Tomas Greco’s “End of Money” for an exploration of how to build a just, sustainable and abundant economy. Have a look at City Repair as a successful model for taking back our cities. Get involved, read, build, plant and walk away from their dirty money. Forget the Republibots and the Decepticrats, that game is bought and paid for. We won’t be free until we’re doing food forestry in the cities and legal tender laws have been abolished. I’m not armed, but I am dangerous. Watch out.   I am the 99%. Occupywallst.org Our lives cant just be about ourselves. Look around you..

wearethe99percent:

I graduated with a Masters degree from one of the best architecture schools in the world, filled with visionaries with the knowledge, skills and passion to build the kind of world we all dream of, except nobody in this economic system has any incentive to hire them to do anything remotely like that. At our graduation, one professor remarked that we’d be spending the rest of our lives building strip malls. Then the economy collapsed and I did what I was told… putting on a suit and tie every morning and making job searching a full time job. Six months and one interview later, I had produced nothing of value to anyone and was still living off mom and her soul killing job. I was then 35 years old and had a world of work experience. I knew the only thing to do was walk away from the game.

I vowed I would do what I love even if it meant starving and doing it for free, so I did just that for three years. I’ve since worked on some of the most innovative treehouses in the world, I’ve designed and built in Haiti (You want to see the real results of our wonderful foreign and economic policies?) I’ve built community gardens, geodesic structures, and I’m engineering water catchment systems, hanging gardens and solar updraft power plants so that we can get free of this system as a whole culture.

For the first time in my life I’m using my real gifts even though it’s meant living in vans and tents and on couches often after 14 hour build days. I’m 3 months behind on rent now, and thank god I have my health and youth. And for those of you with student loans, they HAVE to offer this to you if you ask, but they WON’T tell you if you don’t: call your loan officers and ask about Income Based Repayment.

Oh… and I’ve also been learning about alternative economic systems. Have a read of Thomas Greco, especially “Money: Understanding and Creating Alternatives to Legal Tender.” Get behind alternative currencies like Ripple and use them, have a look at Vertecology.com’s response to Tomas Greco’s “End of Money” for an exploration of how to build a just, sustainable and abundant economy. Have a look at City Repair as a successful model for taking back our cities. Get involved, read, build, plant and walk away from their dirty money. Forget the Republibots and the Decepticrats, that game is bought and paid for. We won’t be free until we’re doing food forestry in the cities and legal tender laws have been abolished.

I’m not armed, but I am dangerous. Watch out.  

I am the 99%. Occupywallst.org

Our lives cant just be about ourselves. Look around you..

(via earthhour)

Good Morning Sunday! (Taken with instagram)

Good Morning Sunday! (Taken with instagram)

Sitting down with a few good books.. New investments. I am all for ebooks but in the kitchen it gets a lil messy.. So for cookbooks I am still buying paper… I do feel slightly guilty. (Taken with instagram)

Sitting down with a few good books.. New investments. I am all for ebooks but in the kitchen it gets a lil messy.. So for cookbooks I am still buying paper… I do feel slightly guilty. (Taken with instagram)

I love the signs spotted at Bollywood Veggies run by Ivy and her husband. If you are from Singapore or are planning a visit here, do try to get out to our “countryside” Bollywood Veggies is a learning farm where you can buy some edible plants to start your own fruit/veg/herb garden and they have a cafe and also sell a mean banana bread that you can take home.

I love the signs spotted at Bollywood Veggies run by Ivy and her husband.

If you are from Singapore or are planning a visit here, do try to get out to our “countryside”

Bollywood Veggies is a learning farm where you can buy some edible plants to start your own fruit/veg/herb garden and they have a cafe and also sell a mean banana bread that you can take home.

One of my all time favorite TV series. This docu-series shows how design and architecture is changing lives, cites and communities around the world. Narrated by Brad Pitt too for the extra touch of sexy.

One of my all time favorite TV series. This docu-series shows how design and architecture is changing lives, cites and communities around the world.

Narrated by Brad Pitt too for the extra touch of sexy.