Sometimes sincere music comes along that just sucks you right in. We found this retro looking couple Endah N Rhesa performing in Jakarta at Serasi (peacebuilding project) mini concert. Endah wearing big round glasses playing acoustic guitar with an enchanting, cute, clear voice. Her partner Rhesa with a ear to ear smile and jimmy Hendrix hair on bass. A unique sound of folk, jazz, blues, rock ‘n roll, sixties and the now. So hippi and happy. Their lyrics are positive messages, loving and dreamily poetic. In perfect English singing, this couple should be breaking thru outside Indo for sure. They already been praised as Rolling Stone rookies of [Read more →]
You know, we all have dreams of a better life sometimes. How would it be to make good money abroad –sigh- study abroad –sigh-. Can you imagine, there are people in this world taking advantage of girls and boys with hopes and dreams like this, by selling them as human slaves? DAMN. We we’re in shock! We’ve been involved in the MTV EXIT Live in Indonesia campaign. A nationwide concert tour, with Indonesia’s biggest popstars and rockbands. S.I.D., Agnes Monica, Peter Pan, The Changcuters, J-Rock and many more artists. They’ve joined MTV EXIT in the fight against human trafficking. All the concerts are free (funded by USAID and AUSAID) so MTV can reach out to as many people as possible. Working in this project, closely with NGO’s and Indonesian government as well, we learned that in Indonesia only there are around 2.5 million victims each year. Kids sold to beg on the streets (yes, also in Bali), young girls lured under false promises into brothels to work as a sexslave, young men trying to make money for their family and end up locked up in a factory working night and day. All being heavily abused. SNIFF. We not like.
MTV EXIT is not trying to stop human trafficking. But is putting a spotlight on the issue thru the power of music and celebs. A positive campaign! MTV EXIT has been touring in Asia with concerts in the past years, working together with Placebo, The Killers, Radiohead. Making videoclips, documentaries with Angelina Jolie, Lucia Liu, animations and so much more (all on www.mtvexit.org or www.facebook.com/mtvexit). And a new videoclip will be shot this month with a biiiig big artist… ssssh we can’t tell, sorry!
GILI AIR | Remember that song? Soooomewhere over the raaainbow… waaay uup high… wake up where the clouds are far behind me… where trouble melts like lemon drops… what a wonderfull wohoohooorld… oeehoeehoooee -Sigh- Welcome to Gili Air. We say: skip touristic Gili Trawangan and live love local life on Air. An idyllic island. So tiny, we easily strolled around it in one hour. Totally brought out our hippiness. Barefoot walks, rolling thru the white sand, leaning into a palmtree, paddling out, humming “what a wonderfull wohohooorld”. Our friend grew up on this island. He took us to Salabose. A handful of tropical bamboo bungalows on the beach at the [Read more →]
The ultimate chill after work, surf or whatever, is watching a nice movie. Right? If you like: good on that, cause on every streetcorner of Bali you’ll come across a cheap DVD shop. Always well provided with new, newer, newest movies for a hilarious 10k rupiah ($1). However, we found our favorite! Blink on Jalan Benasari it is. If they don’t have the [Read more →]
No name. No sign. Theatrical lights begging us for attention. A lost camel in the window, a cute dress, a cactus in the middle of the store… huh? So random! What would this place be? We hopped inside and found: walhalla for us and our sissa’s! Thumps up for the interior designer. Music posters from the 50’s, little dolls where we girls used to play with in the good old days, miniature pirate ships, the camel and his friend elephant. But of course last but not least [Read more →]
Yesterday we followed our rumbling stomachs and ended up on this little Jalan Drupadi lunch spot. Tipped by our Little Wing friends. A cute open garden terrace, with even more cute vintage chairs and nice little flowers. Where nasi boenkoes does it for us in the morning, this place fulfills our western needs. Austrian sandwiches, cakes, salads and not to miss, [Read more →]
News from overseas! Our favorite art magazine from The Netherlands just got released into the wild. The first international issue is out now. We like! It’s is filled with art, fashion, people and media. Wonder where owner Jurriaan Bakker got inspired to go beyond Belanda with his paper baby… We secretly whisper to you guys: *Baaaali, ssssssh. Picture evidence below this post.* We happily congratulate the Blend team, selamat magazinemaking! Hopefully for sale in Bali and Jakarta soon. [Read more →]
“If Jesus can walk on water, I can walk on you people!” Meet ‘Peaches’ dudes. This dance electro punk babe brought an over the top, extravert, superpower performance to Indonesia. Pris got goosebumbs in Bali at the Anantara rooftop Bar, while Eve was trying to stay standing on a shaking floor at Indochine Jakarta. Wow! Performing like it was her last day alive. She pumped the stage (and audience) with her range of outfits, from a pink spandex alien bodysuit to [Read more →]
Heeeyall. So it has been quiet on we-like for a while, jet still a lot going on in Bali life. Where Pris is getting more addicted to surf, Eve is rocking Jakarta. BUT most important: we are officially back on track with we-like! *clap clap clap* woopwoop! We happy! Almost all content is restored, unfortunately did lose some… Anyways, awesome brand new stuff on the way to this online island world. We got our Peaches review, some newly discovered eat outs, shops, our first Jakarta discoveries and sooooo much more. Big kisses and love and thanks for still following we-like. Peace!
OOOOPS!! | Because we had so much traffic lately we-like crashed BIZARLY!! All content since last summer of Bali love got erased *Sniff* But all good.. we’re full time refilling at the moment and we’ll be back on track in a couple of days. www.we-like.org will be fresh and smooth again with hundreds of new adresses and Bali good times. So far So good, keep in touch and send us some anti-virus-computer-vibes! live love life ++ eve & pris ++
