Gandhi once said something to remind us all, human kind:

The earth provides every man’s needs, but not every man’s greeds.

—Diar

One thing we ALL can learn from Sophie Uliano, author of Gorgeously Green: 8 Small Steps to an Earth-Friendly Life, as what she said:

If I make one tiny positive change today, I consider myself green. It can be as simple as flicking off a light switch or buying an organic apple. My motto is one change makes a difference, and if you can make two, that’s even better!

—Diar

P.S. ‘Green’ merchandises on What’s Gorgeous Store.

Questions?

Suggestions?

Critiques?

Just practically anything?

e-mail GI editor: diar[at]gorgeousinspirations[dot]com

P.S. Can’t wait to receive your e-mails in my (brand new) e-mail address

I notice that most commenters here are from my very own homeland, Indonesia; therefore, let me dedicate a special new blog for those of you Gorgeous Inspirations (GI) readers who feel more comfortable with Indonesian language (Bahasa):

gorgeousinspirations.dagdigdug.com

Enjoy

—Diar

Want this tote bag?

Get it on What’s Gorgeous? Store.

—Diar

A nice, inspiring green ‘campaign’ from Leonardo DiCaprio’s web site (found via Ninit Yunita’s blog):

BYOB - in other words Bring Your Own Bag with you to the grocery store, farmers market, and retail stores. Not only will you be reducing the amount of plastic you are consuming but you will be showing fellow shoppers, and store owners how easy it is to stop using plastic.

Our planet is choking on plastic, but you can make a difference.

[the above picture is MY shopping bag]

—Diar

P.S. check out Gorgeous Inspirations’ store here.

[photo by meloveyou2000]

Indonesia has this so very famous instant noodle brand named Indomie. That famous, most people call every other similar product with the beforementioned brand. Pretty amazing.

No wonder its commercials has this sort of jargon or something that Indomie is loved by all people of Indonesia (from the very east to the very west area of this archipelago).

In my mind, with the above fact, I think there’s no need for the brand to make any kinds of media commercials no more; I mean, all people know the brand so very well.

But people can often see its advertisements, anyway, especially on TV. I myself love the products, and also the brand new TV commercial, in which many people with ‘distinguished faces and accents and languages’ (I mean, you can tell the ethnicities of the models—Balinese, Javanese, Papuanese, etc.)—they all sing the famous ’soundtrack’ of Indomie (this time with the newest lyrics), happily. It’s so nice seeing and listening to all of them, it reminds you specifically to your homeland, Indonesia. Really.

It reminds me of my primary years back in a town named Bekasi, West Java. I happened to study in a private Buddhist school (a primary school established by a Buddhist foundation, actually intended for Buddhist children), even though I come from a muslim family; however, most of the pupils were Christians. The Buddhist students, in fact, were not even more than 20 (from 1st to 6th grades). In one class, the Christians were probably about 89%, the muslims 10%, and the Buddhist 1%, and most of the Christians came from Chinese families.

We were just children, so we didn’t recognize the word ‘discrimination’ at the time, because there were none. That’s what I love about my school (and one of the things I love about being a child). Most of the teachers were Christians, but they treated all students fairly the same.

Unfortunately, grown-ups make differences a big deal. What’s so wrong about being different, actually?

—Diar

P.S. Here comes the brand new Gorgeous Inspirations’ CafePress Store: What’s Gorgeous.

Oh Lord, just seeing the picture makes me drool.

I documented this astonishing orange-chocolate cake several months ago, when I still could afford buying those kinds of treats for myself.

I believe that indulging yourself with sweets is one of the ways in expressing your gratitude to Dear Lord. Isn’t it wonderful that human could discover the cocoa plants? And isn’t it amazing that human are able to produce varied chocolates (not to mention, that are wrapped beautifully, you ‘procrastinate’ a little while since you don’t want to break the gorgeous wrap and shape)?

Staring at the above picture, I guess I can still recall the gorgeous taste. The orange flavour was a bit bitter (yet tasty), but the chocolate cake part and the chocolate cream top were extraordinary!

Are you droolin’ right now?

—Diar

P.S. Do remember to visit Gorgeous Inspirations’ brand new Cafepress store, What’s Gorgeous