Showing posts with label Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Life. Show all posts

Monday, 30 December 2013

Guess what it is??!! :)

Can you guess what it is when just looking at the two pics?

Personally, i think it looks like a place for rabbit :). Actually, it's a small-scale compost bin that i, with the support from a dear colleague, had made in my new rent house's backyard.

Materials: bricks, metal slips (we can use whatever the materials instead such as: recycled/ unused mental/plastic bins, pots, etc. To me, i want to find the sustainable materials, so brick is the most appropriate one (TO ME only ).

Measurement: 0.8m height; 0.6 width

Building time: half hour

Satisfied degree: 100% ;) :) :D

Expected outcomes: compost will be made after 4 weeks and enough for trees of the house and neighbors' gardens in the diameter of 10 m :P

For making compost, simply you just need a bin with some small holes, a cover lid and YEP materials for compost including brown and green materials.

Why do we need some holes? for oxygen, the process of composting need oxygen.
Why we need a cover lid? Composting  just takes place in dark environment.
What are brown and green materials?
      BROWN materials are some things coming in...BROWN :) : falling leaves, straw, dead branches, soil,....all brown DECAYing things.
      GREEN materials are things coming from "our kitchen"" : leftover, rot fruits, rice, bread, cheese, peel, egg shells, vegetables, etc

Note: decomposing process need oxygen and humidity, so leave some holes, weekly mixing and add a little bit of waste water if the materials look dry.

If there is a question of what is the easiest thing to do in this world? The answer will be compost!! :)

For me, these are some advantages when we make compost:

 + Automatically separating and classifying rubbish, which helps protect environment from not discharge plastic and toxic waste into env. (usually we use plastic bags to wrap waste and some will discharge into env.), and helps recycled work become easier.

+ Having free, organic "fertilizer" for the house' garden and there is a reason to knock on the handsome neighbor's house "I have some self-made compost for your beautiful orchid pots":D => Improving both health and mind :))

+ Having something to show guests whenever celebrate party at home :P
A corner of the backyard helps save the building materials (bricks) for the compost bin.
 A so called "dog door" was made to gradually withdraw compost out from the lowest layer of materials.


Processing, view from the top

Sunday, 10 February 2013

Happy Tet 2013!


We wish you and your family a year of good Health, Happiness, Success and Prosperities!

GIZ Hanoi

Sunday, 16 October 2011

Karaoke vs. "Good music" ;)


Farewell karaoke to Ms. Thao and Vinh at Hương Cát

Hahaha, could not stop laughing when remembering our boss' "shock" ;)
 "You can frighten people to death!"


Jazz and Casablanca

After two day - karaoke (at Bui Vien karaoke village on Thursday and Huong Cat on Saturday), we  were invited at our boss' home for "Good music" as compensation ;) on Sunday afternoon. The first two CDs were a little bit weird for me as they were somehow like sounds of broken glass, metal instruments, acting in ghost movie, i would say... Then, we had some jazz, even some jazz version of Trịnh Công Sơn's music, performed by the famous saxophonist Trần Mạnh Tuấn. One of the later song was from the classic movie Casablanca. Thus, we had a chance to watch it again.

Note from his recommendation: Trần Mạnh Tuấn - Saxophone, jazz show everyday, 28 Lê Lợi, HCMC.

Casablanca - As Time Goes By



Casablanca (Bertie Higgins)






Tuesday, 4 October 2011

Children and animal friendly neighborhood

Sunday afternoon, 02.10.2011

Ken  (Heneiken) and Gơ (Tiger)
It is funny that the dogs were named after the beer's trademarks
. :D








Ken is very smart and emotional.