About the Author

Hello, my name Intan Rastini and I can say that I am half Balinese half Javanese. Both of my parents are Balinese but they live in Java island.

I was born and raised in a city called Surabaya, and I love it. Then when I was a toddler my family and I moved to a town named Sidoarjo. Sometimes me and my family had holidays in Bali, Bandung and Jakarta because we have families there.

I spent my study stages in primary schools at Sidoarjo, then I chose a university in Surabaya, ITS, and then I dropped it out. Later on, I continued studying in a college, Surabaya Hotel School without an official graduation. I got jobs at a few hotels or catering services in either Surabaya or Sidoarjo as a daily worker.

There was a time before I entered the university, I stayed in Jakarta for a while. And as I predicted, I always love big cities.

In my twenties, I moved to Bali for fulfilling a job offer. A few months later I quit my job and went back to my home in Java. In the next year afterward, I was purposed and got married. Ever since I live in Bali now with my new family.

We live in a quite remote village in Tabanan, Bali. It’s Banjar Dinas Angkah Gede. Way very different from big cities I ever live or visit, it is approximately 8 km to reach the nearest traditional market and shop complex.

In this blog is archived my posts from 2011 to 2013. But there’s missing, no post in 2012 at all! Why? Because I did blogging in my tumblr blog instead. Really I lack of consistency! asgarden.tumblr.com contains my after-wedding life and about my first pregnancy. I think Tumblr is a more fun blog rather that WordPress and Blogspot, so I used to fill my tumblr blog with fun stuff and it is delivered in fun version.

When I was in junior high school, I also write blogs in 2005 and 2006:

cruxbox.blogspot.com and inblock.blogspot.com

they contains not much. Only a few posts of my old thoughts and all about my interests at that age 😀

And then in 2008 when I was in senior hi:

irasti.wordpress.com

Well, it was created for the IT lesson requisitions although I also wrote ‘something’ there, it was something interesting to me, yo! However, I always feel it is funny when I reread my old blogs of my teenage age! Oh my God, my mind at that time was kind of %$@#*!? Haha :D. Lunatic! But it’s amazing, what I had written before could blow my mind now when I read it again. In senior hi, I was asked to represent my school in a blog competition together with my IT teacher and two boys as a team, but we didn’t win it 😛

The man who first introduced me to IT: email, forum and blog is my father.

where I live now with my new family….

It is like in the jungle surrounded with many hills.

This time I work at a learning center in my village, called “Yayasan Eka Chita Pradnyan” I teach English there as a lead teacher. I also have international volunteers as my co-teachers. If you want to know my full story about me related to my job, please click these links below:

I write a short autobiography and my experience working at Yayasan Eka Chita Pradnyan here:
https://wins.foundation/en/2018/02/10/local-english-teacher-intan-rastini/

Daniel Kirk Patrick and Lisa K. Beck as teacher trainers and my mentors from USA featured me on the article of Educational Design Associates:

1. http://educationaldesign.associates/getting-to-know-bali/
2. http://educationaldesign.associates/478-2

You can see me on this video teaching English with Matti Aho a volunteer from Finland.
A video about Yayasan Eka Chita Pradnyan made by Tamara Rijnenberg:

Sometimes I also write to another websites, such as…
Book review of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens for Emak2Blogger (in Indonesian):
https://emak2blogger.com/2014/05/12/the-7-habits-of-highly-effective-teens-7-kebiasaan-remaja-yang-sangat-efektif/

Tips and Trick to keep learning English on your own in fun ways! for The Urban Mama (in Indonesian):
http://theurbanmama.com/articles/mengasah-kemampuan-bahasa-inggris-dengan-menyenangkan-B09163.html

My activity during Nyepi Day 2018, Caka New Year 1940 for The Urban Mama (in Indonesian):
http://theurbanmama.com/articles/kegiatan-saya-bersama-keluarga-saat-nyepi-2018-D62039.html

My Tonsillectomy Surgery Experience for The Urban Mama (in Indonesian):
http://theurbanmama.com/articles/pengalaman-operasi-amandel-y92680.html

“Mind Your Plastic Trash when Visiting Bali!” for Yeah Foundation (in English)
https://www.yeahindonesia.com/single-post/2018/07/24/Mind-your-plastic-trash-when-visiting

“Act to Care of the Environment at Our Learning Center” for Yeah Foundation (in English)
https://www.yeahindonesia.com/single-post/2018/07/30/Act-to-Care-of-the-environment-at-our-learning-center

Building a less waste home “Mewujudkan Rumah Miskin Sampah dengan 10 Hal ini” for Bale Bengong, a web for citizen journalism (in Indonesian)

https://balebengong.id/banjir-air-dan-banjir-sampah-selamat-datang-2021/

https://balebengong.id/kesadaran-lingkungan-di-hulu/

https://balebengong.id/mewujudkan-rumah-miskin-sampah-dengan-10-hal-ini/

https://balebengong.id/nyepi-dan-wabah-covid19/

https://balebengong.id/dampak-pandemi-covid-19-di-desa-angkah/

I also got featured on EcoBali’s blog about what I do regarding the environment and about my less waste journey (in English)
http://eco-bali.com/ecotalk-intan-ambara/

Warm regards,

Intan Rastini.