By taking advantage of self-quarantine experience, learning new soft skills in your pocket might be useful for the future as one can speak a new language or come handy for homemade crafts. Unsplash.com/NOW!JAKARTA On a daily basis, before the coronavirus crisis forced everyone to stay at home, one might have no time to learn a

Photos courtesy of unsplash.com For many people who are staying at home today, listen to music can be enough for entertainment to fill ourselves with emotion and have a therapeutic moment with our favourite playlist. And dancing is another fun activity that we might need during the self-quarantine by filling up the atmosphere of our house

Since one spends more time at home, gardening can be an environmental relief for communities by having to foster the microhabitat in their home. unsplash.com/NOW!JAKARTA One might be familiar with urban gardening as the way of people living in the city to establish green space at home or buildings. Over the years, urban gardening has

Alistair Speirs believes that there are ten specific things that money can’t buy, no matter how much money you have. Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash/NOWJAKARTA Alistair Speirs shares ten—well, actually, eleven—things that money can’t buy, no matter how much money you have. Do we have them, care for them, teach them, live them, or do we just not

Pan-Seared Scallop and a Light-Cream, Black Truffle Risotto with Rocket Salad and Shaved Parmesan. NOW!JAKARTA AMUZ Gourmet’s very own Chef Gilles Marx shares his best recipe to cook Pan-Seared Scallop and a Light-Cream, Black Truffle Risotto with Rocket Salad and Shaved Parmesan. Here’s what you need to prepare.  Ingredients: Scallops 120gr/portion Risotto: Arborio rice 125gr

Club Med have a wide range of activities for you to spend a quality time with your kids. Photo courtesy of Club Med/NOWJAKARTA Every parent dream of having more time with their children. This current situation due to the Covid-19 pandemic gives us all the time we have ever dreamed of. This is the perfect

Club Med at Home provides ideas for fun activities during self-quarantine. Photo courtesy of Club Med/NOWJAKARTA This home quarantine period gets harder every day for everyone. We all feel bored, stressed or maybe even depressed (please consult the experts if you feel so) staying at home for an unusual long period. We miss taking a walk in

  Let us take a selected tour of the great philosophers words of wisdom which apply, amazingly, to our age of corona twitterdom. Photo by Alex Block on Unsplash/NOWJAKARTA I know it's all necessary and it's for our good, but aren’t you just getting a little tired of social distancing, constant hand washing, sanitizing, isolation and masking up?

Indonesian renowned chef and culinary expert, William W. Wongso at his office. Photo by Raditya Fadilla/NOW!JAKARTA As we all try to deal with the current coronavirus crisis, we find our regular routines completely altered and disrupted. Quarantines, office and mall closures and social distancing are keeping people at home to slow the spread of the disease. One

While many people consider meditation as a way to reduce stress, depression and anxiety, it has, in fact, offers many more. Unsplash/NOW!JAKARTA Meditation is about getting a healthy sense of perspective, a process of training your mind in awareness. Oftentimes, many people benefit the practice of meditation as a psychotherapeutic technique for depression, anxiety, stress

The joys of Friday happy hours and Sunday brunches seem to exist as mere memories. The buzz of beach clubs, whirring motorcycles, and other every day soundtracks are lost and replaced by the humdrum of social distancing. Whilst the world is sitting in collective – seismologically-recorded! – silence, we invite you fill in the void with

Aromatic Rice with Griddled Chicken Strips. Photo courtesy of Chef Petty Elliott/NOWJAKARTA Aromatic Rice with Griddled Chicken Strips This is a great recipe for introducing spices and new flavours to kids. Living in Jakarta provides an opportunity to learn about different fresh root spices. These are available in all supermarkets. This recipe is very easy