GENERAL MANAGER MESSAGE

Dear Residents,

The coming of Spring and Easter gives the sense of new life and the opportunity to start over, a new beginning. To our friends celebrating Easter, I wish you, your families and loved ones, blessings and a joyful time together. May your celebration be full of beauty and vibrant colors as the beautifully painted Easter eggs and full of sweetness as the chocolates and candies enjoyed during the Easter festivities!

I take this time too to wish you all goodbye as I finish my tenure here at The Pakubuwono Residence. It has been a great honor to have been entrusted with setting up and laying the solid foundation for property management services that has earned The Pakubuwono Residence its No. 1 reputation as the residence of choice in luxury living in the city. I am deeply grateful to all of you and the dedicated men and women I worked with who have helped along the way to bring The Pakubuwono Residence to the prominence it has achieved. We are almost 100% occupied, unheard of in a new and sizeable development of 5 exclusive towers which only opened its doors 2 years ago. I remember welcoming our first residents then in January 2006 and the frenzied days when we moved in a steady stream of owners and tenants excitedly furnishing and decorating their new home to begin enjoying life here. I will always remember the wonderful times and the fulfilling moments of interacting with you all thank you kindly for your support, your trust and your friendship. These I will treasure.

This month's Inside brings you the Golden Torch Heliconia which can be found in our gardens. It is oftentimes mistaken as the bird-of-paradise because of its close similarity. The gold hue of the flower and dark green leaves are great for a classical tropical look. May these blooms bring you a bit of brightness and glow during the rainy season. On some housekeeping notes, may we remind you to please stress to your household staff to place rubbish and waste in a plastic bag, fastening it securely and placing this inside the bin (and not leaving the bag on the floor) in the garbage room at each level.

On safety matters, please remind your drivers to turn off the vehicle's engine when the vehicle is parked in the garage. This simple practice contributes greatly in maintaining and improving our air quality and helps prevent adverse health effects on the respiratory and circulation system that may cause heart and cancer problems. Be concerned and prevent pollution to our environment.

Although this will be my final message, I bid you fare well for now with the hope that we meet again someday. In parting, I would like to leave you with these thoughts from a famous Irish blessing….
May flowers always line your path and sunshine light your day.May songbirds serenade you every step along the way. May a rainbow run beside you in a sky that's always blue. And may happiness fill your heart each day your whole life through.

For after all, these are what we wish you to have at The Pakubuwono Residence. Enjoy!

With my best personal wishes,

Detlef Skrobanek
General Manager

 

HEALTHY HABITS

Eat Breakfast Every Morning Breakfast eaters are champions of good health. Research shows people who have a morning meal tend to take in more vitamins and minerals, and less fat and cholesterol. The result is often a leaner body, lower cholesterol count, and less chance of overeating.

"That one act [of eating breakfast] seems to make a difference in people's overall weight, "says Melinda Johnson, RD, a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association (ADA). She says breakfast can hold off hunger pangs until lunchtime and make high-calorie vending machine options less enticing.
Not only that, researchers at the 2003 American Heart Association conference reported that breakfast eaters are significantly less likely to be obese and get diabetes compared with non breakfast eaters. Another study in the International Journal of Food Science and Nutrition showed that people who consumed breakfast cereal every day reported feeling better both physically and mentally than those who rarely ate cereal in the morning. For kids, breakfast appears to enhance alertness, attention, and performance on standardized achievement tests, reports the ADA.

To get the full benefits of breakfast, the Mayo Clinic recommends a meal with carbohydrates, protein, and a small amount of fat. They say that because no single food gives you all of the nutrients you need, eating a variety of foods is essential to good health. Yet, even with so much scientific support that breakfast does the body good; many people still make excuses not to eat in the morning. They include not having enough time and not feeling hungry. For these people, Johnson suggests tailoring breakfast to the day.

GOLDEN TORCH HELICONIA

Description: This has the classic look - a gold upright spike above dark green leaves. Great for the tropical look, and it brings almost instant colour and height to the gardens.

Common names for the genus include lobster-claw and false bird-of-paradise, the latter from their close similarity to the bird-of-paradise flowers. Heliconia flowers are mostly hidden by the large, colourful specialised leaves called bracts. Thriving in full sun to semi-shade, the bracts may be produced most of the year but more particularly in the warmest months. Individual inflorescences last for many weeks, even when cut. Heliconias are related to bananas, cannas and gingers and traditionally have been included in the Banana Family.

WASTE DISPOSAL To respect your neighbors, please note the following house rules and regulation, as stipulated in The Pakubowono Residence House Rules and Regulations handbook apply : 4.2. WASTE DISPOSAL 4.2.2 Residents must place rubbish/waste in a plastic bag. These plastic bags must be tied up/fastened securely and placed into the bins in the garbage room at each level.

CAR EXHAUST Air pollution is mixing and releasing hazardous particles into the atmosphere which impacts on your health and the environment. Health effects of vehicle emissions causing you Respiratory & Circulation system problems, and may causes Heart and Cancer problems. To protect The Pakubuwono Residence Environment, We need All Residents and their Drivers contribution to maintain and improve our AIR QUALITY TURN OFF THE VEHICLES ENGINE WHEN YOUR VEHICLE IS PARKED!

PAPRIKA LIBRARY CAFÉ
Italian Food Promotion
Catering services are available to your apartmtn
Price start from Rp. 79,000++/person
Cocktail of the Month
BLUE PAPZ – buy 1 get 1 free
Mocktail of the Month
BLUE HURRICANE
Entertaintment
Live Keyboard Music every Friday and Saturday Night
(19.00 – 22.00)