Rehearsal For Gloriamus's Junior Ensamble Music

I had a rehearsal last Sunday for a concert with Gloriamus's Chamber Music this Saturday. I play the flute with 2 others. It's like a small orchestra. We play the song "Jolly St. Nicholas with variation" by Frida Nathaniel.

 

The brochure. 

This is the brochure for the event.

Mummies

I recently read this book about Mummies (which has been in my book shelf for ages :D). Not only the Egyptian ones, but about many types of mummies, like the "accidently" made mummies, the Incan mummies, and the "not-meant-to-be" mummies. I'll tell you about them later. This book has been on my

You know the Egyptian mummies, it's from their religion.

The "accidently" made mummies are the people who died in very cold places, such as Antartica and the Artic. They died possibly of lead, which was found on the seal of the food tin cans they brought, causing them to be unable to think or unable to move. Such as this:

That is John Harnell, an explorer who froze to death in the Arctic.

The "not-meant-to-be" mummies are the deceased people who were buried in caves by their relatives, who didn't mean to make them into mummies. They became mummies due to the very cold or very dry climate which stops bacteria from growing on it and rotting it (bacterias need air and water to grow) by either drying the body up or making an air tight space. 

But some deceased people were filled, injected, etc, with chemicals which makes their bodies look real and "alive". One such famous mummy is Rosalia Lombardo, who died at age 2 more than 96 years ago, but still looked like as if she's taking a nap. Her father was so heartbroken over her death until he asked a doctor named Alfredo Salafia to mummify her (in this case make her body look real). We don't know how is the procedure of "chemicaling" her, as Mr. Alfredo no longer lives today.

She's often nicknamed "the sleeping beauty"

https://thechirurgeonsapprentice.com/2014/04/18/deaths-doll-the-worlds-most-beautiful-mummy/

The Big Bad Wolf Bookfair

Last Saturday I went to a bookfair called Big Bad Wolf. It's held in ICE, BSD, and is open everyday starting from April 30th - May 8th. Here's the schedule:

The books there are really cheap! The cheapest book that I saw costs Rp.10000. These are the books that I bought:

I also bought World War II books, as I'm interested in them currently:

And this is a sneak peak to the book "D-Day Remembered". They're really interesting and inviting:

They have some copies of the real documents (letters, passports, etc.) 

In total, these are the books that I bought:

I think it is a worthy place to go to. If they held it in Indonesia again, I'd surely go there! Hopefully next time they will come with more books from my list.