THIS CHRISTMAS

Oh well.. It's Christmas already. Time flew so fast. I wasn't ready yet for this season. Everything went.. unplanned, spontaneous. Que sera sera.. Whatever will be, let it be, may it be. I guess i'm not the old me anymore, leaving the too-much-thingking me behind.

As the result, it all went.. quite unexpected. It's not too bad, though i quite don't like the decent Christmas celebration at church. I like the time-well-spent with family and friends. For the first time, i had these pretty girls with me on Christmas day. We exchanged gifts and had these photos as souvenir as usual.











MERRY CHRISTMAS 2013!!
-Above all of the presents i got, Jesus is my one true gift-

Les amateurs d'art

My life is so close to art. Any type. Any form. My whole life has been full of art. Even from young age, art has been infused into my blood. My lecturer once said, "Art cannot be judge as good or bad. It's a matter of personal taste and interpretation". In other words, if you can get the feeling or message that the art has been trying to deliver, then you have no sense of art at all haha.. Below pictures show performance that i recently seen. It's my lecturer's theater project and i fell in love with the lighting effect. I did not take my favorite part of the lighting but it successfully made my feelings mixed up.





Soon, we will have a theater project on our own and i will handle the make up division. Actually i do want to take part as cast but unfortunately my schedule didn't allow me to take one more tight agenda. Hopefully, we will do just fine and the show can run silky smooth with our limited experience. I will post the invitation soon for anyone who'd likely to come and watch our show.

It's our office gathering and it turns out to be a mud play and tanning day.










 
Our office early Christmas gathering. We exchanged gifts and i got two tank tops and a pocket mirror. Sounds like what i needed.












Yeah it held recently at the end of November and i accidentally do (as usual) shop some cute things. I get new shoes that i had to fight with mba Yan first to get it and a pearl ring that twins with her.










Everybody knows that i love tea. Especially when it served with a cute tea sets and decor. Cacaote has it. Here i can enjoy tea time with tantalizing-color-desserts.










 
Similarly to Skye, Awan lounge is decorated the same way, summer beach ambience. Yeah the place kills but the service is extremely bad i could frankly say. The food and the bill took years to arrive at our table.



















The decor got me. It brings me back to the 20's in France. Publico surely has the ability to grab some attention, not only of the decor's fans but also the foodies.

Expect the unexpected [movie reviews]

Carrie (2013)

Ga tau kenapa menurut gue film ini SUPER FAIL. Chloe nya ga ada tampang jahat gitu loh, mau ekspresinya diapain juga ga ngaruh. Jadi nanggung feel nya, horor ga thriller ga drama ga.
















Thor 2 : Dark World (2013)

Sedari dulu, film Thor itu tidak magnificent. Karna karakteristik nya yang kuat itu cuma Loki dan terulang lagi pada seri keduanya.

















When in Rome (2010)

Yang bikin gue betah cuma Josh Duhamel nya haha.. Rome nya sendiri ga di expose banyak which a lil' bit disappoint me. Plot nya pun terlalu mudah ditebak.


Midnight in Paris (2011)

Gokil. Asik. Suka. Pake bangett. Woody Allen keren banget direct nya. Dapet banget feelnya. Apa yang mau disampain lewat film ini tersampaikan banget. Menit awal aja terasa banget kecintaan dia sama Paris. Every inch of the city and yess.. ga nyangka banget sama plotnya yang ternyata sebegitu.. dreamy fantasy. Ngefans deh sama om Woody. So much to love about this movie. Spertinya penikmat seni itu memang punya taste and weird habit yang sama ya, now i realize that i'm not alone hehe..








The Art of Getting By (2011)

Feelnya hampir mirip sama The perks of being a wallflower ya. Bedanya gue lebih suka sama Emma Watson dibanding Emma Roberts, including their role.

















The Bachelorette (2012)

Koq bukan gue yang merid tapi gue ikutan stress ya?? haha.. Karakter-karakter brides maid nya looks over exaggerated to me ya..

















The Paperboy (2012)

Salah besar gue nonton film ini karna mau liat yayang Efron. Twisted and unpredictable plot. Ya harus gue akuin ini film keren tapi bukan genre film yang gue suka karna terlalu sakit banget otaknya yang bikin buku ini, karena film ini based on Pete Dexter's book. Wajar ini film ga masuk indo. Sumpah acting nya si om Cusack disini gokil+ngeselin+dapet+tai banget haha..













Killer Toon (2013)

Uda tau kan ya kalau film korea itu keren. Ya ini juga oke. Ceritanya ga ketebak, walau terdapat banyak hal-hal yang tidak bisa dijelaskan disana sini. Untuk ukuran film horor, kagetnya ga asik.
















The Hunger Games : Catching Fire (2013)

Sumpah keren!! Lebih dari yang pertama! Ini salah satu film yang berhasil diangkat dari novel berseri. Kasian Cinna nya. I'm so team Peeta! haha

















Snowpiercer (2013)

Ga nyangka ternyata ini film produser dan sutradaranya orang Korea loh. Thumbs up deh buat effort sineas perfilman Korea yang mulai merambah Hollywood dan menurut gue ini not bad, unpredictable story. Kesemsem banget sama Luke Pasqualino disini















Contagion (2011)

Karena yang main orang sakit semua jadi acting nya juga total banget. Nonton ini feelnya digantung kayak mau bersin tapi ga jadi, mau eek uda diujung tanduk tapi ga keluar.

















Battle of The Year (2013)


Gue yakin kalau ga ada Chris Brown pasti nih pelem ga laku haha.. Untuk ukuran dance movie masih jauh dibawah Step Up ya. Tapi ini yang paling realistis, kalau yang lain kesannya maksa harus juara pertama.
















A series of Unfortunate Events (2004)

Ada yang baca bukunya? Well, menurut gue masih asik bukunya daripada filmnya. The movie's so close to illuminati.

Another date on another place

It's my 300th post! Woohoo! I've been littering here for like.. Tons! Haha.. exaggerating me.

I present it for our ladies day out! It's been a long long time since i post about our day out. Well because this time we manage to have a full day out and got a lot of good pictures, so here it is.

I chose all of the places we're going to and i picked The Belly Clan for our first place to have lunch because it's in the same place with my campus. Shiela even willing to empty her stomach for this one. After a bit lost to find U-turn, we finally managed to get there. It's quite deserted at first, probably because it was after lunch time and weekend. They're usually crowded on weekday i bet since it's located on office complex. I managed to taste all of our order which all taste great but still deeply in love with my own Angus Beef Confit. I love its homemade noodle Aglio Olio so much! It tasted just like chinese noodle i used to have and the Angus Beef was served well done! Love it! 

Even the Thai Pesto that my friend ordered was good. I don't usually like pesto but this place able to make me feel the opposite. Good Job! I know they had the remarkable dessert and i ordered it but it quite disappointing because the rainbow was all about cheese cake which i don't like! I'm definitely going back for more desserts tasting here (i got curious with the red velvet brownies) and of course the confit!

Belly Rainbow


Spaghetti Aglio Olion Dendeng Balado

My Glass is Greener

Thai Pesto Spaghetti

Italian Meatball Aglio Olio

Angus Beef Confit

Rainbow in a Jar

Next, we're going to had some drinks for chit chat and because it's afternoon, of course it's tea time! I've always been a fan of tea and TWG Tea has always been my destination in Singapore. I even have this silly wish for them opening a Tea boutique here in Jakarta. Abracadabra it worked and yeah, so far my favorite taste for TWG Tea is creme caramel. But since we're here, why not trying different taste?

After queuing to be seated for about half an hour, we finally ordered tea in random since we got no clue about the taste of 'em all. For me, i ordered just because of its unique name, First Kiss tea haha.. I love its soft pink color and its normal taste compared to my friends' bitter tea. For the macaroon, i love the Napoleon Tea + Caramel taste. Yeah, you know me. I chose it just because i love caramel. The grand wedding tea macaroon tastes like you're in a grand wedding and having a macaroon haha. The scones were okay. They really should make this place bigger for more people can be seated. Love the place for sure. If they were in an outdoor place, i think it would be more perfect.


I got amazed with so many choices of Darjeeling


Apple Tea

Eternal Summer Tea

Jasmine Queen Tea

My First Kiss Tea

Grand wedding macaroon is the purple one & Napoleon Caramel Tea is the black one and two scones.

Cheers!



My girls haven't try Union which located in the same place with TWG Tea, so we headed there. We got no reservation so of course we've got in the waiting list. For y'all that haven't try this piece of heaven, probably you should. They had the famous and tastes good Red Velvet cake. They not only offer the good place but also the good food. So no wonder if the price were a bit high but believe me it's worth it.




Even the calamari is the best starter from all places i've ever taste!


Hope all of the pictures can make you drool.
Happy fulfilling your stomach with happiness!

Bandung.. The end of short stupid game of life lesson.

Haha.. don't concern about the title. Well.. if this blog were not read by anyone, i could probably tell about the meaning of it. Unfortunately it's the opposite. So um.. let's move to the main story.

Here we come finally again at Bandung since my last post on April 2012. It was quite sudden. Hell yeah, only sudden plan that worked out. Luckily this time we didn't go to Kawah putih and Tangkuban Perahu which i already went for about hundred times. Actually this trip was close enough to the type of trip that i want. We're only move from a resto to another resto, just to experience the food and place.

Some new place (i've never been) that we went were Kampung Sampireun. Hail God! It has a lot of tempting food stall (just like floating market) to try! But i uh.. still full for the Naripan noodle i just ate so maybe next time i'll review about it ya! Besides of the food, they also offered some rides for the kids and views for the camwhore haha..


Can figure out which one is mine?




And yeah, next we went for.. i don't know whether it's called lunch or not anymore since it was on 2 or 3pm, Sapu Lidi it was. They had the typical sundanese resto food and place. Mostly we're only playing cards and joking around about pokcoi (it's a plant character in Plant vs Zombie game) after eating just to kill the time. We're so in idleness time! One thing i love about Lembang is the air that we won't had in Jakarta!

The Gado - gado was fine

Tempting but too small

The fried rice combination tastes good.


Prewed caught in the act

Can you believe that the huts across the river were for rent? and usually for honeymooners? I wouldn't want that for mine.

Still don't wanna go home so early, we forced the trip to continued to The Peak because it's just not too far from Sapu Lidi. They offered good food, good ambience and good view (the sekoteng here is very recommended!). But we decided to go back not long after that since most of us were tired already and we lost on our way back for about.. i don't know how many times anymore we got lost in this trip T.T

It's more like Genderuwo's feet to me.

My oh my


Guess what?! We got suprised by our place to stay the night which it was our first time visited the villa. It was heavenly heaven. The place is hugeee! It had its own swimming pool! Woohoo! They also had free wifi and towel, each room has its own LCD TV, AC and bathroom, and it's TV cable! On breakfast, we were served breads and jams, chicken balado and capcay! with rice of course. Free drinks too. Not to mention its strategical location, it's at Setiabudi, across Hoka hoka bento and near the famous factory outlet in Bandung, Rumah Mode. Fyi, this place ever been used by Coboy Junior (we took a peek on its guest's comment book) means the place were great right! (i sounded like promoting it a lot)

One of five rooms

See how tacky we were checking out the place

Dining room below and two more rooms upstairs

The master bathroom

The external appearance

I love to experience places i've never been. So yeah this trip concludes to be okay.
I would surely back to this Daily Home again!
Ciao!