BITS of Asia

Dear Everyone,

Our most anticipated social BITS OF ASIA a.k.a ASEAN Night, organised together by

Brunei Society, Indonesian Society, Thai Society, and Thai Society

sponsored by ISA and the Indonesian Embassy in London

is approaching soon!

it will be this Saturday week 5, 29 May 2010

Starting of with discussion on The Challenges and Future of ASEAN, the South East Asian regionalism in economics, politics and culture

at 5-6 pm in L/047, presenting 2 Indonesian diplomats:

Landry Subianto, PhD Candidate in Oxford University and Third secretary of Protocol-Consular Affairs in the Indonesian Embassy, London

accompanied by Billy Wibisono, Third secretary of Information and Socio-Cultural Affairs

It should be an interesting discussion as we look at the diversity of the south east asian region and see how they try to cooperate :)

After the discussion, we'll move to courtyard for some casual chat with the diplomats

at 7.30pm door opens at LN028 for the grand social BITS OF ASIA where there will be

a lot of food, photo booth, tourism information and some super performances!~

so bring your friends to this exciting event because

the whole thing is FREE FREE FREE!!!

we will only be admitting a limited number of people so make sure you come early

you especially don't want to miss the performance at 8pm and the quiz to win some SE Asian goodie bags!

do dress up because there will be a goodie bag for the best dressed! ♥

the facebook event link is this: http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=120727727961537&ref=ts

so forward this msg to your friends too so they can enjoy the fun :)

hope to see you soon!

xoxo

Patricia

--
University of York Indonesian Society
http://ppi-york.blogspot.com

@yusu.org

for the committee,
if you want to access the indonesiansociety@yusu.org email account now you have to go to
http://mail.yusu.org/ or http://www.yusu.org/mail.

IndoGames 2010 - Nottingham!

IndoGames 2010 akan diadakan di UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM pada hari

SABTU 12 JUNI 2010 pada pukul 08.00-13.30. 

Yang selanjutnya akan dimeriahkan dengan acara Pesta Rakyat dimana pemenang 

tiap2 cabang olahraga akan diumumkan dan diberikan medali juara.

Jika ada PPI yang ingin mengirim lebih dati satu

team untuk satu cabang olahraga silahkan menambah sendiri daftar pemain di bagian bawah form.

Nama yang didaftar harus sama seperti yang tertera di SIM/KTP/passport. 

Biaya pendaftaran adalah 6 pound per orang, berlaku untuk semua cabang olahraga. 

Untuk cabang olahraga voli masih tergantung jumlah tim yang mendaftar.

Untuk cabang badminton tim yang akan bermain Ganda bisa mendaftarkan antara Ganda Putra, Ganda Putri atau Ganda Campuran dan akan dipertandingkan dalam satu group.

Harap formulir pendaftaran segera di email ke sam_dj2202@hotmail.com setelah selesai diisi.

Sekian dan Terima kasih,

Syamson Simon Djaelangkara

07915568259

Gamelan Sekar Petak @ York Uni

Let's watch this together! ♥

Gamelan Sekar Petak 
with dancers from Northern School of Contemporary Dance

Wednesday 26 May 2010 at 7.30pm 
Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall

The exciting collaboration between the gamelan and the NSCD continues with new work choreographed by their senior students to scores by York composers.  Featuring traditional Javanese and Western music, old and new, the gamelan concert is always a season highlight. Described as 'one instrument played by many people' the spectacular gongs and tuned percussion of the gamelan create a beguiling and enchanting sound world.

Tickets: £8 (concessions £6); students £3

to buy go to this link:

http://www.york.ac.uk/concerts/programme/gamelansekarpetak/

Summer Term!

Hi everyone! Hope you are enjoying your spring holiday and all the sunshine :)
Happening right now is our Saman like usual~
We have our practice every Sunday from 3-5pm

and currently we're organising ASEAN Night for the first time in York
This is organised with Singapore Society, Thai Society and Brunei-York Society
It will be on the 29 May 2010 so make sure you're free for some awesome Southeast Asian Buffet and performances!
It will be a blast :)

Love Love,
Patty

Fiesta Recipe

Hi! Since plenty of people were asking me for recipe of the food in Fiesta (and not all are in the Fiesta cook book) so I decided to just put the official recipe here
note that we kinda sorta improvised in the kitchen so it's not going to be exactly the same :p

here it goes!

Main Dish

Bakso (meat balls) – hot soup

Ingredients: mince chicken, mince garlic, tapioca flour, egg white, salt and pepper;

Soup: chicken stock, mince garlic, mince onion, mince ginger, salt, pepper, spring onion, celery, vegetable oil; egg noodle;

Serving complement (optional): fried onion, sweet soy sauce, bird chilli sauce

How to Prepare: mix all meat ball ingredients together and make balls out of them. Boil water and put all soup ingredients together with the meat balls. After cooked, serve the complements.

Soto – hot soup

Ingredients: chicken stock, mince garlic, mince onion, mince ginger, turmeric, coriander, lemon grass, vegetable oil, galangal, bay leaves, coconut milk, salt and pepper.

Whole chicken (boiled with crushed garlic), then deep fried.

Serving compliment: boiled egg (halved), rice vermicelli (optional), rice cube, bean sprout, sweet soy sauce, bird chilli sauce (optional)

How to Prepare: boil water and put all soto ingredients in. Separately boil whole chicken, then deep fry. Mince the chicken after cooked. Prepare the serving compliments. Serve all; usually separately.

Side Dish

Gado-Gado – ambient; cook book

Ingredients: cabbage, bean sprouts, cucumber, spinach, cauliflower, green beans, carrots, tomatoes, potatoes, deep fried soybean cake, boiled eggs, shallots, prawn/fish crackers

Peanut sauce: 300g peanuts, 1 clove garlic, 4 shallots, 1g terasi (fermented prawn paste), 125g palm sugar, sugar, chilli pepper, lime

How to Prepare: boil and strain each ingredient one by one, except cucumber. Slice them and cucumber to bite size. Arrange them in layers.

Peanut sauce: fry terasi with cooking oil until fragrant. Fry peanuts until golden brown; put to side to drain and cool. Grind to make paste, add the other ingredients. Cook in pan, use water to dissolve. Simmer until thick, then season with lime. Pour on top of salad. Sprinkle deep fried shallots on top and serve with prawn/fish crackers.

Lemper - cold

Ingredients: 500g glutinous rice, 500g coconut milk, bay leaf, lemongrass, salt; minced boiled chicken, orange leaf, 200ml coconut milk, oil, 5 shallot, 3 cloves garlic, 3 candlenut, 1 tbs coriander, 1 tbs sugar; cling film

How to Prepare: grind shallots, garlic, candlenut, coriander, sugar.

Cook glutinous rice and then steam it.

Stir fry coconut milk, chicken, bay leaf, orange leaf until coconut milk evaporates. Leave on side.

Boil coconut milk with bay leaf and lemongrass. Put glutinous rice in. wait until all coconut milk is absorbed by the rice.

Prepare square tray brushed with oil. Put half of glutinous rice. On top, put minced chicken. On top, put the rest of glutinous rice. Steam until cooked. Slice and wrap each slice with cling film. Serve.

Dessert

Sneeuwballen - ambient

Ingredients: 125 g butter, 250 g flour, 5 dl water, 5 eggs, caster sugar, oil

How to Prepare: bring water, butter and salt to cook. Put flour in, constantly stir until even. Let cool for 5 minutes. Add sugar and an egg and mix. Add the next eggs after the previous has been taken by the paste. Turn on deep fryer, bring oil to hot. Make the paste to balls using 2 spoons with oil. Balls will swell, leave at side to cool. Sprinkle a lot of sugar on top.

Kolak – ambient; cook book

Ingredients: sweet potato, can jackfruit, banana, 250 ml light coconut milk, 150 g brown sugar

How to Prepare: slice ingredients to bite size cubes and boil everything one by one. Stir constantly until all ingredients are cooked (soft).

 

Drinks

Es Kopyor – cold

Ingredients: gelatine, coconut milk, sugar, salt, vanilla; cocopandan syrup, big ice block

How to Prepare: boil all ingredients until cooked. Let it cool. Pour slowly on the ice block and let it form. Stir if too big. Let it cool until hard. Serve with syrup and ice.

Wedang Jahe – hot

Ingredients: ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, white sugar, brown sugar

How to Prepare: boil everything together

Thank You!

Dear everyone,

thank you very much for your support at Fiesta!
It was surely enjoyable and we are glad that you enjoyed our dishes
Undoubtedly, our food is top 5 although not top 3; but hey, not so bad for beginners, right? :D

VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU FOR OUR FELLOW INDONESIAN STUDENTS IN LEEDS~

the decoration was superb, especially with the tourism dvd which shows the beautiful colours of Indonesia

while serving i heard people commenting just how cool it is

and seriously, we could not have done it without you all ~>o<~

terima kasih seribuuuu!!!

What's happening next is some more partying if you fancy it~
There's the 5th Integration Party next Friday night at gallery £4 with free drink AND bubbly
It has always been a cool, fun and friendly party where everyone are just being happy
So it's definitely worth going :)

here's the message from the Integration Party organiser:
INTEGRATION PARTY is BACK on the 5th of March in Gallery!!!!!This year it is hosted by Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA), Japanese Society, Singapore Society and York Hong Kong Society (YHKS) and promises a PARTY NIGHT IN ASIAN STYLE where all the societies are VERY WELCOME.

Tickets are ONLY £4!!!!! not only does this cover entry costs.... BUT. You get ONE FREE DRINK *****AAAAANNNNNDDDD***** ONE FREE GLASS OF CHAMPAGNE!!!!!!!O.o!!!

We assure you will have a GREAT time as this is the biggest joint societies event of the year!!! Everyone is welcome so BRING ALL YOUR FRIENDS for a fantastic night out!!! For all of you that have attended one of our INTEGRATION PARTIES before, you KNOW how good it's gonna be. For those of you who are new to it.... COME AND PARTY THE NIGHT AWAY ASIAN STYLE!!!

Get your ticket from Vanbrugh Bar on MON, WED & FRI @ 12.30-14.30 week 7 & 8!! This is ALWAYS a SELL OUT event so buy your ticket NOW NOW NOW NOWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can find INTEGRATION on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=174823419119#%21/event.php?eid=317580962988&ref=ss If you have any enquiries please contact: Momo 07575084358 Roy 07786648610

VALID ID IS REQUIRED (PASSPORT, DRIVING LICENSE etc)
R.O.A.R

Sima Zavadckyte
Japanese Society Press&Publicity

That's all for now!
See you soon!

xoxo
Patricia

Oh no! But Yeah!

Hi everyone!

I am sorry to say but apparently the dance group is not ready yet for Thursday so we will not be performing at the Pageant. Therefore there will be no practice this week. But don't be sad because we will be participating in Fiesta! So get your ticket now and let's eat as much as we can on Saturday!

ISA International Week
There will be a lot of exciting events going on
Monday is Cultural Performance 8.30pm Derwent Bar showing performances from India, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latin America, Lithuania, and Thailand
Tuesday is International Movie Night 8 pm V/045 showing Children of Heaven - a 1997 Iranian film by Majid Majidi and Pan's Labyrinth - a 2006 Spanish language fantasy film, written and directed by Mexican film-maker Guillermo del Toro.
Wednesday is International Pub Quiz - at McQs 8-11pm
Thursday is Mr and Miss International (Pageant 2010) 8.30pm Edge
Friday is Dance Classes - James Dining Hall 2-6pm teaching Sirtaki, Salsa and Bollywood dances at different timeslots
Saturday is Fiesta - 7 pm  Roger Kirk Centre: it's a food festival with 18 stalls from 18 different countries including INDONESIA! w00p!!! You have to go to this one for sure!
and Fiesta Afterpart 9.30pm Roger Kirk Centre: Live performances by Peyoti for President! and the 3 winners of Cultural Performance (Age and Uni ID required)

see you around!

xoxo
Patricia

Saman

Dear everyone!
Good news for all of us, Indonesian Society will be performing still in International week.
It was a sad case that some of our dancers were not allowed to perform in Cultural Performance because they do not allow under 18s in bar events
Therefore we have pushed for our child dancers to have a spot in
The ISA Pageant 2010
Thursday week 7 25 February 2010 from 8.30-finish (about 11.30) in Wentworth, Edge
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=321337157640
which is a non-alcoholic event, as well as for charity
The event raises fund for RAG, and it's free entry for everyone!!!
Therefore everyone should come because it'd be really fun!

Since we are performing in a week
we'reholding practice at Sri's House
week 6
Today! (Thursday 18) at 7-9
Friday 19 7-9
week 7
Monday 8-10
Tueseday 8-10
Wednesday 8-10

I have booked for the D-Day
W/307 from 7.30pm until end of show
you can practice and prepare for the rehearsal

in the last practice we have learnt all the moves
in the next practices we're going to learn to sing together and do the moves quickly
next week we'll be drilling the run through
hopefully we can pull off an amazing performance and gather some applause from here and there :)

See you at practice!

xoxo

Updates

Hi everyone!

Thank you for those who came to the Indonesian Film Screening! I'm glad everyone is impressed! [Naturally!]

Just a little update on our activities~

We will continue our Saman practice this week on Saturday and Sunday 5pm at Sri's house
Unfortunately, we won't be performing in ISA Cultural Performance anymore because they do not allow our under 18 performers to enter the event
Nevertheless, we hope we will able to perform next term in Woodstock, as we have been invited by YUSU; and hey, it's for the good cause of charity!
So hopefully it will work out :)

As International Week is approaching~
We will be having a stall in ISA Fiesta, so watch out for the tickets because it will sell out fast~
For those who are cooking, could you please send us a list of what kitchen utensils that you need that you don't have already by Monday 15th
Shopping list will be sent out soon

That's all for now! See you~~

xoxo
Patty