You know what else I got to do last month? I visited the GE Garages Indonesia!

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It is a surprise that Indonesia became the first ASEAN country which got the opportunity to host one of the GE Garages. Partnered up with MakeDoNia Makerspace, GE held one week exhibition and hands on workshop for free. Although it was rather a small exhibition and kind of way below my expectation, there were some interesting things there. Especially the 3D printing machine!

They showcased MakerBot machine, which you can get here at klix3D (Indonesia authorized reseller), the price range for small sized machine is about IDR 42 million :)) They also showcased local 3D printing machine, Replix, that you can get for about IDR 13 million. The representative said the difference between US made and local made are only the production time and durability.

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3D printing has been a hot item in tech industry lately, with company like Hershey’s introduced 3D Chocolate Printer called CocoJet 3D, only God knows what else will come next.

The workshops were all interesting in my opinion, from making drone to Hour of Code for Kids. Too bad that all the workshop were held on office hour so I couldn’t make it to any of it. But I managed to come to one of their Meet Up called Social Enterprise and Networking #2: Tinkering – Women and Technology. I recently got interest in this field so I skipped half office hour to come to this meet up :P The talk itself was interesting. It was great to see many women communities that empowers each other in many ways.

Read more about GE Garages Indonesia report here and here.

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Other thing that I found interesting about GE Garages Indonesia activity is there were some session involving kids. Like Maker Kids and Hour of Code activity. Not so long ago, I also found Engineering for Kids, which recently opened their Indonesia chapter. EFK is basically like activities center for kids. The programs are packed up with topics ranging from Aerospace Engineering to Robotics that designed for a certain age period. I think finding programs that made S.T.E.M (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) topics become fun activity is quite cool. We should encouraged more of these programs to be run here in Indonesia, rather than making more tutoring center for exam preparation. More of Engineering for Kids Indonesia activity can be found in their Facebook page and Instagram.

Since September is a sign for the last quarter of 2015, let’s welcome it with a nice and happy hug. But first, let’s recap what we made on last month :P August was a great month from me, because I got to do many things, going on a short getaway, attending friend’s engagement, snapped my first Polaroid and learning many new things.

One of it, happened to be in a form called IdeaFest.

IdeaFest is a bi-yearly event that aims to empower creative movement in Indonesia. This year, IdeaFest hits its third conference. I know about this event after reading one of the newsletter from GEPI. After running Kawung Living for about a year, I’ve been intensively seeking and learning deeper about it, so I subscribed to GEPI newsletter. GEPI is an incubator and angel investment network for young startup and entrepreneur made by Ciputra. Located in Lotte Shopping Avenue (which just happen to be few steps from my office), GEPI offers co-working space and held several free events to empower many rising startups. GEPI also famously known by its angel investment program called ANGIN, which already helped many startup grow their business even more. ANGIN previously invested on startup company founded by women like Wangsa Jelita, Berry Kitchen, and Kakoa Chocolate.

After many doubt, I bought the 2 days ticket conference anyway. One of my reason was because the theme called Creativity with Purpose, the second reason was I really badly want to meet Melissa Sunjaya.

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After entering the so called ‘smartphone’ era, we slowly left the beauty of pen and paper. Tough, I still use pen and paper on daily basis, I admit having cloud services that connect and sync data with other devices has improved my productivity. One of the apps I’ve frequently used is Evernote. The idea of having notes online is good, but Evernote asked you to pay for having notes offline (which completely ridiculous to me). Since the data transferred is not that big and Telkomsel has been a reliable (as well as expensive) provider, I don’t have problem using Evernote Basic until now. It’s still my most used apps after Whatsapp. I often write ramblings at my Evernote, especially on the bus or when I get random ideas and stuffs. So it is a surprised when my Notebook hit the number 60, that means I already wrote a lot but never really finish it. They are mostly unfinished posts, short notes, random words or ideas, even playlist.

Since my birthday is coming up next month and I realized that I still have things to do at 2015, which is ‘write more and worry less’. I want to make a promise to write #28postsfor28. I might not write everyday, but I will schedule to post everyday. The idea to write more and post it everyday is something I always admire from Pak Budi Rahardjo. I have failed in the past to accomplish this kind of promise, but there is no point of promise if you know you will someday betray it. So in spirit of high optimism, let’s say I will finish it :)) I will start tomorrow on September 16 and if I really finished it, the 28th post will be at October 13, 2015, a few days before my birthday.

Cheers :3