Precious Notes

Mowember

2011-11-07T10:44:00.002+07:00

It's Mowember month!! Hope you are not bored with my moustache from the engagement party.

33B33/28 - go to a casino and gambling

2011-11-04T19:20:00.000+07:00

Yes, I have to admit that I never been in Casino before.. well I did twice, but that just for passing through. So this time I went to Casino in Sentosa Island, Singapore and played $20 on jackpot machine. This is still gambling, right? Because I don't know how to play Poker or Black Jack or any other cards game. Did I win? Of course NOT but I did a sneaky shoot inside. Those hands in the

33B33/4 - cut my hair really short (2nd attempt)

2011-11-04T18:49:00.001+07:00

Hohoho.. been a while, right. Nothing really actually happened all this time, it just I've been addicted with Instagram. A Free application for iPhone where you upload and edit the photos with some awesome filters and of course make friends with people around the globe. My eyesight is getting worse lately (seriously - I'm not lying) because I always check my news feed or people's feed every

Work in Progress

2011-08-15T14:50:00.000+07:00

Currently listening Cassie Davis, painting like a mad person while Draco looking lost with no clue... I'm so happy I could paint something at last. Did half bottom already and doing the top part. The down: This paint is so shitty! Just remember next time not to use this paint. I paint like 4-5 times to get the perfect tone. Usually if I paint with Dulux it only take me 2-3 coats. Anyhooo.. me

33B33/26 - change my mobile phone

2011-08-12T20:58:00.002+07:00

With very sad eyes, I post this news... I know that in one of my 33B33 list mentioned about changing my mobile phone, but I never thought the story will end like this. Just now I found Draco chewing up my dear and favourite mobile phone. No wonder he was so quiet sitting under the dining table, he found a new toy. I bought this sony ericsson s500i end of 2007 with my mom in one of the mall in

My plan for home office

2011-08-07T21:03:00.001+07:00

Been living in LLG for 3 months now but our target to lay the first stone of our house seems still far away. My back and behind are actually hurting because I 'work' (read= browsing internet *sigh) sometime in dining table and recently since our wireless modem teleport itself to NextFutsal office, I have to wire myself and Mr Prostaffelees to a cardboard desk. Like this.. I think it's so hip!

33B33/17 - own a nice computer

2011-07-12T00:38:00.000+07:00

I officially said goodbye to Mr Mac Jr on early May after almost inseparable for four years. He was a good companion, he even sleep next to me on my bed every night and yes, we had our moment(s) too in the bathroom. But I've been thinking to replace him since last year, just because simply he is not that junior anymore. I need to kick him up to get him and all the files back twice - those were

Addicted

2011-07-09T11:56:00.003+07:00

Hi my name is Vena, and I'm a Smurfsaholic... I grow corn or tomatoes before sleep every night and harvest them every morning, and grow strawberry every single hour for the rest of the day.Oh yes, I wear blue t-shirt while posting this...

33B33/9 - be vegetarian for a month

2011-07-08T09:36:00.002+07:00

Alright, the next challenge was a bit easy because once you live with a big-timer vegetarian, you will automatically dragged in to the same bowl. My mom even once cooked my favourite meal - Kulat/Pelawan Mushroom exclusively only grown in my parent's hometown in Bangka - without any trace of meat at all and packed that specially for me. As I mentioned before we don't keep any meat at all in

33B33/4 - cut my hair really short

2011-07-07T00:08:00.000+07:00

I think I cut my hair short every 3 years or something. As far as I remembered this was my 4th short hair cut - since high school. I probably will have another cut soon or as soon as I get the OK from Mr Chai.

LLG house - bathroom

2011-06-04T17:50:00.002+07:00

This probably the last room we have at the moment. We used to have a water tub which is a common item here because we life in a tropical country, we usually store some water and keep it cool in this tub before using it for shower. But that have to go together with the terracotta/brownish wall and floor tiles. We change the bathroom with black and white colour scheme. Natural stone (Andesit)

Durian Hunting

2011-06-01T10:00:00.000+07:00

Dry season that stretch from May to October has already started and we can see lots of typical summer fruits sold everywhere. And for Durian, their spikes and smell are everywhere in this town since two weeks ago. An unexpected hunting. We were lucky to get a chance to join a small family group went for Durian hunting last weekend. We were buying lunch at the canteen next to Mr.Chai's monastery

33B33/16 - host a dinner

2011-05-27T22:09:00.003+07:00

We had a little guest tonight. A young lady who live next door to my in law. Her name is Tina, a really chatty 10 YO girl. Her family own a grocery store where I usually get some eggs or small stuff from. Today she had a school day off and her dance class was reschedule to tomorrow. She's been hanging out with me the whole day, from attending the cooking class with Sico at Hotel Royal, helping me

LLG house - bedroom

2011-05-27T10:07:00.001+07:00

Another quick tour, this time to our bedroom. We are keeping a very boring natural colour in here. similar to the dining room. Previously there were some request to specially made all fitted furniture, but since (we think) we might move to new house, we decided to use some old furniture and new loose furniture instead, so that means we could use them again next time. So here the photos... This

33B33/5 - do family portrait with parents and brothers

2011-05-25T10:03:00.000+07:00

My family seldom never dressing up for no reason. That's why when we had my engagement party in JKT - where we all dressed up (especially my mom), we asked the photographer to took our picture together. So, here they are.. (minus baby Andrea) Love them very much till my nails and toes..

33B33/2 - bake at least 1 cake

2011-05-23T20:53:00.001+07:00

First of all, I need to tell you that I never made any cake or cookies or anything that involve beating, mixing and baking. So this is my first attempt to bake - as a housewife, I know it's not a real CAKE but it should do for now. I always wanted to make this type of cookies, especially the chocolate chip cookies! Anyway, I borrowed all the tools from my in laws -make me think maybe this is the

LLG house - kitchen and dining room

2011-05-21T21:53:00.000+07:00

Finally I have time to post this. I think we pretty much settled in our (temporary) new house. Our house is actually a shop house, means the first floor is an open plan for store/shop and the rest of the floor above it are for house. But so far we only life on the second floor, the third and forth are closed - strictly for swallow bird, they keep the floor locked, dark and humid to create ideal

Draco's first birthday

2011-05-20T20:41:00.000+07:00

Draco's having his first bday this week. He grew up so fast, from puppy to crazy big dog! See the full video of him eating the "cake" here...

Proof that I'm no good with pets

2011-05-17T10:47:00.001+07:00

Trying to make him sit.. He never listen to me, but we are bonding.. LOL

Paddy Field

2011-05-17T09:24:00.002+07:00

{photo taken at dawn while walking with Draco} View to my backyard... *hahahahaha I wish. This is why I love living in this small town. Paddy field and wide open sky..

About The Dog

2011-05-15T11:37:00.005+07:00

Let me tell you about a story of a soft toy. His name is The Dog. One night in mid year of 2000 2001, a boy called a girl said he wanted to meet her after lunch break at their uni tomorrow, he wanted to give her something. She reluctantly said yes, because before that day that boy somewhat couldn't be reached for a week and she thought he was just a lame playboy. A day after that she called him

Weekend Photos

2011-05-15T09:05:00.000+07:00

{photo from my kitchen window, neighbour's plant.. oh i'm so envy} It's raining since this morning. Was planning to go out to have a walk and took some pictures, but I guess it has to be canceled. I had a dream last night that I went out with bunch of my old friends having a picnic and then some very bad hiatus happened - involving zombies and hot lava attack. I was busy taking pictures instead

33B33/1 -Getting married

2011-05-08T09:49:00.109+07:00

Pssssttt have I told you that I've been married? After knowing Mr Chai for more than 10 years finally we tied the knot.

Party dresses

2011-05-01T18:34:00.000+07:00

Just an update.. here is new pict of the girls (and their hubby) in awesome dresses at our engagement party yesterday. I will upload more photos from the party in my other blog.

33B33/8 - finish my reading on The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear

2011-04-18T09:14:00.003+07:00

Ok, I finished reading The book last week. I don’t remember the exact date when I put my hand on this book. But what I remember was I was browsing around Borders at Rundle mall for a monthly book in 2006 . I went to “recommend” section located just behind the customer service desk. You probably well know how usually books are arranged in bookstore or even in you own library. The yellow thick

Engaged

2011-04-17T20:17:00.003+07:00

I'm officially engaged today!! Although we've been arranging the wedding since a year ago but finally I'm engaged for real with Mr Chai, in Chinese custom. Lots of red today, Mr Chai's Family came to my house this morning to hand out the betrothal gifts and the dowry. I will probably explained about the custom - that I know from my experience after preparing this betrothal day- in separate

Weekend photos

2011-04-16T18:55:00.000+07:00

Anyone needs some fresh juice in this hot weather..??

Think Pink

2011-04-16T07:46:00.000+07:00

Lovely video, vintage and lots of pink.. hmmmm just watching at it makes me want to wiggle my bunny tail - yea i was just exaggerating - on the bunny tail it is... But this video absolutely looks cute and poise in the same time.

33B33/6 - do family portrait with mr.chai and draco

2011-04-12T00:09:00.000+07:00

This is actually our first picture together. Not actually a 'proper' family pictures, but it'll do for now. I'll try to get a good one once I moving in to Draco's.

Dinner week?

2011-04-11T21:47:00.002+07:00

I feel really happy could finally meet one of my former colleague from Perth office, Paul Bryant, here in Jakarta. We used to chat via YM discussing about work and sometimes other stuff too. Found out years ago that his wife, Erin, is from Jakarta and her parent's house is near mine. I told Paul to contact me whenever he got a chance to come back to Jakarta to visit Erin's family. So, finally

33B33/22 - hang out with GF (first attempt)

2011-04-10T23:15:00.001+07:00

Finally we actually had The Dinner, after rescheduling three times. This is my first attempt to hang out with the girls. Yes, we are living in the same city but probably we are busy with our own family and jobs so we don't hang out much anymore. So this was a good thing to do, I hope we could do it more often. Went out with the girls and their princesses, met with one of our uni friend -

Frontporch

2011-04-09T14:09:00.001+07:00

With the big day coming soon, mom organized some painters to repaint our house here (thanks God!). The exterior wall used to be in light pink colour (!) and the interior was in light cream colour with combination of light moss green. Now we painted the pink and cream walls with white paint that have hint of green and still keep the old moss green paint. The house looks fresh because of the new

The Surrounding

2011-04-03T22:20:00.000+07:00

Just want to show you around our temporary new house to be - before we actually build the new one which not sure when.. :P Here is the view from our 'hall' - looking at the road and Bukit Sulap on the background. We had big windows with grills. This is view from the roof top. You can see there - the only main road run straight in the middle of the town. Lots of crazy motor cycles. And this is

Ceng Beng Festival

2011-04-03T21:02:00.002+07:00

End of March until early April in every year Chinese people usually celebrate Ceng Beng Festival. This is the time when Chinese people pay respect to their ancestors by remembering them, cleaning their grave or tomb and burning hell money or other "luxurious" stuff. This is also the time when everyone come to their parent's home and do family gathering. Eventho my family is from Chinese line

Owl City

2011-03-19T10:32:00.002+07:00

This post is not about that famous music group who singing Thousand Fireflies (which I personally love too). I've been seeing lots of owl since two years ago, began to realize it when flipping over Shop till You Drop magazines. There were owl everywhere; in fabric printing, accessories, decoration and of course the movie: The Owls of Ga'Hoole; suddenly you are surrounding by thousands huge round

Random Photos of MrChai

2011-03-17T17:49:00.000+07:00

33B33/25 - pin another country

2011-03-10T22:21:00.001+07:00

I got a chance to join a very special tour to Taiwan last week. Took 5 hours flight from Jakarta to Taoyuan International Airport (CKS). And because this was suppose to be a Pilgrim tour, all served food were vegetarian food started in the plane - not very nice tho, steamed cabbage roll with mushroom and fake meat inside, vermicelli, and some cold salad. Most of the people politely made a small

Song for Today

2011-02-23T08:10:00.000+07:00

Because I love the folded white paper as background in the room and the chair, the awesome kungfu choreography also free throwing ceramics plates!! Great for releasing your tantrum... and YES, great music too...

Theatering

2011-02-14T21:56:00.000+07:00

The redness splashed in Gedung Kesenian Jakarta this early February. To celebrate Imlek, Teater Bejana presented a play based on novel from Kwee Tek Hoay, a famous Chinese-Indonesian journalist in early 1900-ies. A story about a very grumpy bad old Tan Tjo Lat accidentally got in somekind of trouble with the authority because of two boys gave fake id's and address when a couple of polices caught

Year of the Rabbit

2011-02-03T23:03:00.000+07:00

This would be my first Chinese New Year with the family after years living far away and hopefully my last time to receive the red envelope before the wedding this year. Although my family from both my parents side don't have very thick chinese culture, but I could see that this year's celebration was more lively than before. This probably because we have the third generation popping out in the

33B33/29 - Quit my job

2011-01-20T21:14:00.000+07:00

Yay, I just finished writing my resignation letter. Reason: for a personal reason, not really want to talk more about it, because I've never wrote anything related about my job before in this blog and wanted to keep it that way. So, about this letter... Printed on a 100mg A4 bright white paper using black coloured Optima font, and ended with my lovely signature. Look a bit formal and simple,

No Grieve, Just Joy

2011-01-19T21:04:00.003+07:00

Death shouldn’t be treated as sadness. We should accept it as a great joy, knowing that death is a start of new life.

NY eve

2011-01-08T22:24:00.003+07:00

This post is really long overdue. As usual my family went to Puncak to spent the NYE together. Stayed there for two days by doing nothing except BBQ-ing, sleeping and catching up; same things every year, the different was this year one of our aunty couldn't join us because she was in the hospital since xmas, but she is getting better now.Hence there was no fireworks and crazy celebration. We all

33 before 33

2010-12-28T22:45:00.002+07:00

You I know you are I'm getting old when you I can't even complete your my "33 before 33" list. Gosh, I just feel like I'm so old coz the list are getting longer... Ok, here is the list that I'm still trying (noted: very hard) to make. I'm still stuck at number 24 now thanks to my patsy-friend who gave 1 point for me just now. getting married - this should be happened, can not be delayed. I'm 33

Magnum Hunting

2010-12-09T22:42:00.001+07:00

There is something about Magnum. Actually I have to say, there is something about THIS particular magnum advert. - the sound of crunchy chocolate break between her teeth- smooth milky texture melted in her mouth - I can only imagine- so royale, so poise - feeling that everything doesn't matter in those precious minutes until the last lick It's like magic, suddenly my family craving for some

Garden Party

2010-12-07T13:09:00.003+07:00

Some pictures from the party last weekend. Mr Chai's brother had his engagement party, celebrated at his wife-to-be's family residence in Rancamaya, Bogor. Rain was pouring hard but the party was great, with non-stop life music from the wedding singers - 6 of them!

Bird-day

2010-12-04T22:24:00.002+07:00

Bwaaaaaa... another birthday. Had dinner with family and friend at a small steak house, very very cheap one, while watching soccer match between Indonesia and Laos in AFF Cup. Surprisingly they did very well, 6-0 score! Even better than the last match against Malaysia with score 5-1 for Indonesia. It's a fantastic achievement, knowing that we never won anything for the past-forever. Oh and

Local Wedding

2010-12-04T21:35:00.000+07:00

If you married, you marry the whole village. I think this is the perfect sentence to describe what happening in my house right now. No, it's not my wedding. But this is the second time for my family to get involve in a local wedding. As you know we live in a suburb area where most of the neighbourhood are Betawi. One of our neighbour have a wedding reception tomorrow, that means Sunday. Because

Tanah Abang

2010-11-20T22:01:00.002+07:00

These are some shots from today. Was walking around at one of the most hectic place in Jakarta: Tanah Abang Market. Morning time was great but wait until around lunch time - the traffic just totally crazy! Sitting in a full AC cab was like drinking cold avian in a desert. Directly did facial treatment once reached home!

Song for Today

2010-11-15T18:31:00.002+07:00

Because my friend recommended this.. and suddenly ♪somewhere I'll go sailing....♪

Long Weekend

2010-11-14T22:17:00.003+07:00

There's a reason why I haven't updating my blog. Blame it to the crazy Flu. It's been 2 weeks but I still can feel those viruses stick inside my nostril and throat probably busy socializing and producing tapioca dessert.Anyway, I had a chance to spent the whole Saturday with (again) a bunch of twenties.. with of course water bottle in hand at all time - for my coughing.Italian, movie, huge steak

Song for Today

2010-11-04T07:13:00.000+07:00

Because miss Janelle Monáe has those Oxford shoes I long for and isn't she James Brown or what?

The Naming of Vena

2010-11-03T18:32:00.011+07:00

My parents've been calling me Vena since baby. When I asked how they come up with that name, my dad just shrugged his shoulder and said "I don't know. I thought instead of calling you with a common name like Devi, I should call you Vena. It's unique" Then around 11YO, I sneaked in to my brother's room and opened his Biology book. It was just natural because the book had lots of pictures. There

I wish I could have PSD

2010-10-22T22:34:00.001+07:00

I Have PSD from Hyperakt on Vimeo. Awesome video from Hyperakt about PSD power in stop motion style (and with handsome green eye lad). I wish I have this PSD power! I'll definitely smart blur all my pimples and pores every morning.

Weekend Photo

2010-10-22T19:26:00.000+07:00

Wish ya'll have a buoyant weekend...

Another Gathering

2010-10-18T11:35:00.001+07:00

Oh.. How time flies so fast! I met my baby cousins and nephews-nieces last night in (again) one of my mom's family wedding. Two of them flew from BBL to Jakarta last Friday with their mom. Those tiny sprouts now grew so tall like bamboo grass! Of course I occasionally meet with most of them, but when they started to put some make up on, curl their hair and stand on high heels... you just feel

Family Gathering

2010-10-17T08:01:00.002+07:00

We had the first (junior) family gathering last night!! Although there were only from three families - out of 8 from my dad's side - I think it went well. Japanese food, Pizzas and lots of talking. We promised to have another gathering next month - cross my finger, traffic in Jakarta is just impossible. *officially envy with my youngest couz's wavy hair! Her hair is just to die for...

Driving Mad

2010-10-17T00:22:00.004+07:00

My brother trying to climb the social ladder by start learning to drive. We spent sometime to watch Golf Tutorial for Dummies before driving to the golf club. I think we're doing fine for a first timer. But definitely keeping some distance from kid's driving class. Seriously those kids could hit like a pro. 10 years old! At that age I was playing with tadpoles and trying to cook grass in a can.

Weekend Photo

2010-10-15T19:24:00.002+07:00

Bunny bunny love.. Hope your weekend full with love.

Mom's best angle

2010-10-12T23:00:00.004+07:00

With mom in a wedding of her friend's daughter. If you notice from previous posts she always turns her face somewhere else whenever I click the camera. I think she realizes her best angle is not to 'model-pose' but more kinda like 'paparazzi-pose' - I pretend to be busy but phulease take my pictures - style. Anyway, I love her although lately she's been trying to adopt my style. From Cardigan

Song for Today

2010-10-10T18:14:00.003+07:00

Stop motion-like effect, black brush, great hair bangs and all white furniture. Love it!

CengBoyz

2010-10-10T12:03:00.004+07:00

How to spend a weekend with a bunch of 20-ies: - Life music - Smoke - Beer - Nibbles - BB *Please pay attention to the BB part. I assume because of the music was too loud so it's a common policy here to interact through thumbs and screens. My brothers and me have been living in this tiny street in a rural area away from the city central. It was a really quite area, where 20 years ago you could

Weekend photo

2010-10-09T17:30:00.000+07:00

I'm working on my tummy and hoping could kick those flip flop and wear the bikini anytime soon. Have a great weekend everyone....

Ode to a friend

2010-10-09T10:07:00.001+07:00

Me: You'll have my ears and I'll have your tears I can give you my hands .... Marie: errr, but I actually want your brain (??) *too funny LOL

Illustrated bag

2010-10-09T02:10:00.002+07:00

I've got this awesome bag from pianofuzz Projects as a gift from my friend. The bag it self is one of the first series of three prints of the collection "Artist in Residence" in F/W 2010. The Illustration printed on this NY brand bag, LeSportspac, is called Way of Experience which represent the natural and organic evolution of creation and all the way necessary to

Fiery Friday

2010-10-08T07:47:00.001+07:00

Friday is here... time to be creative.

Duple Blast

2010-10-03T20:36:00.002+07:00

My Family love coming to this small Bangka cuisine restaurant to celebrate (almost about) everything, from we-don't-have-food-tonight-but-we-don't-want-to-eat-fried-rice, birthday, the new pregnancy and like today: We were celebrating two wedding anniversaries on late September; my parents' and my Uncle's. Everyone had lots of fun, catching up and enjoying their hometown cuisine. So if you

IVU Congress

2010-10-03T00:06:00.004+07:00

Mr Chai came to Jakarta! Mainly was for participating in the 39th IVU World Vegetarian Congress 2010, but he still have time going around Jakarta with me during the weekend. Ok, now you probably amaze how on earth that our beloved city could host this World class type of congress?? Apparently she could! Thanks to the Vegan Society of Indonesia and specially the lovely and charming Drs.Susianto,

Toilet Love

2010-10-02T21:29:00.001+07:00

Have a great weekend, everyone...

Drying Rengginang

2010-09-30T18:09:00.001+07:00

We got this raw Rengginang from a family's friend and we were drying them out before they swim in the hot oil.

Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad

2010-09-26T21:59:00.001+07:00

Dad was telling us over a quick dinner just now that today was 'someone's' birthday. I raised my eyebrows "no, your birthday was in May" and I was worried somehow he caught some Alzheimer syndrome. And then he gave a 'meaningful' look to my mom. She looked back at him having question marks all over her face. He continued, today is our anniversary. Awww... that's cute, right? but how come they

Sunny Sunday

2010-09-26T11:38:00.002+07:00

Have a great weekend, everyone....

Satchel in Sketch

2010-09-24T17:26:00.001+07:00

My new red Satchel. Special price from Zara.

Song for Today

2010-09-24T08:00:00.000+07:00

Just because there is an intax-mini-7s in this videoclip and my BFF met Hayley Williams in D-land last week. luv the song - I'm so subjective and you cant be mad about it.

Tiptoeing at Toko Tiga

2010-09-22T22:54:00.004+07:00

It was a perfect weather in Jakarta - this means cloudy sky with temperature not more than 30C degree, and there wasn't a lot traffic yet since people are still in holiday mood. Here are some pictures from today just before I run out of battery. Mom need some material and supply for the coming project, and I was just her private chauffeur.

Mom in Action

2010-09-21T15:55:00.002+07:00

Mom; before the meeting yesterday. And she is getting busy very soon as she got the tender just now

Cousin's wedding

2010-09-20T14:31:00.001+07:00

This is long overdue. I just got a chance to upload photos from my camera and here are some photos from my cousin's wedding last month. During small drama, finally my lovely cousin tied the knot in a nice church. There were lots of tears in the guest seats while she read her vow. A nice simple intimate dinner reception followed after that.

The Newlyweds

2010-09-13T15:23:00.000+07:00

Cuppa with the Newlyweds.

Pano-O-rama

2010-09-05T22:58:00.001+07:00

I have bunch of photo series taken before which suppose to be panorama photos; but somehow I was too lazy to stitch them together. So earlier today I opened my Canon PhotoStitch 3.2 for the first time after a year been sitting there at my Dock. and... It's not working! After lots of minutes browsing I just found out that Canon PhotoStitch 3.2 is not compatible for OS X 10.6 and I'm not the only

HellowYellow

2010-08-19T15:52:00.000+07:00

This corner used to be red, then green and this time yellow. I made these tissue paper pompoms earlier today, very easy and definitely bring instant radiance. Click here for step-by-step instruction.

Shoes for the rainy season

2010-08-17T18:22:00.003+07:00

This is one of the big problems I have when living in Jakarta, the impossibility of walking and wearing nice shoes in the rain. Not just because the extremely heavy rain - we never have the romantic shower rain here, but also uneven roads - there are muds everywhere. I remember once occasion required me to move from one mall to another mall. I have to give up my favorite nautical inspired flat

LLG second visit - The boy and a dobbie

2010-08-14T08:54:00.000+07:00

Another visit to LLG.. but this time I had friend to come with. Draco, our 'tall' dobbie puppy flew with me from Jakarta to Bengkulu, He will live in LLG with Mr Chai now.The trip was quite tiring because we have to make a couple of stop for Draco to stretch his legs and paws. Mr Chai strict order was not to give him any food, except some biscuits and lots of water, during the trip to avoid any

Birdcage Lamp

2010-08-11T22:17:00.002+07:00

Finally, after a small spray paint and Dad helping me with the cable, here it is... my birdcage lamp. I use 15w light bulb, but because of small twigs the light come out quite subtle. Good for my eyes generally but not bright enough for working. Here is photo of the shop owner helped me to take out the bottom part after a small fix here and there. I need to went back twice to birdcage shop

Song for Today

2010-08-10T08:59:00.001+07:00

Mysterious Fruit

2010-08-08T07:29:00.007+07:00

I was walking around Sunday Market in KK with Marie last week, I looked around and see typical Market similar in Jakarta. I thought there wouldn't be anything different. But my eyes suddenly caught a very funny looking fruit. The skin kind a cross between Durian with Rambutan and look like thousand toothpicks sticking out. Marie's mom bought one for me, but because it hasn't ripe on my last day

Violet invitation (update)

2010-08-07T23:58:00.006+07:00

My Couz' wedding invitation. Flat print and hand made... 200 of them!

KK trip

2010-08-05T17:09:00.011+07:00

Sometime back in July I chatted with Marie and found out that she was planning to fly back for Holiday to KK then continue with small trip to Melaka and Singapore. After a short chat I decided to make a short trip to her hometown, KK. So.. end of July I packed my brother's backpack and left Mr Chai behind just for four days. I finally saw Marie's curly hair after around three hours flight with

Mr Chai in my bedroom

2010-07-31T13:41:00.005+07:00

The famous Mr Chai, testing the new stair...

Old Newspaper

2010-07-24T20:49:00.006+07:00

Look what I found when we cleaned my dad's cabinet. It feels like you were traveling back in time with Dr Who to some random road junction in Jakarta (preferably around Grogol) sitting in a non AC minivan seeing lots of peddlers when you still can buy the famous local criminal newspaper only with 200 rupiahs, whilst currently it is 2,000 rupiahs.

My chicken coops

2010-07-22T09:42:00.010+07:00

I've been between paint peeler, plamur, sealer, paint and timber for the past one week. At the beginning of my moving back to Jakarta, I was planning to build a small unit above my parent's garage, but long story short I finally reside back in my first early childhood room - since I didn't have heart to claim my attic room and kick my younger brother out from there. It took quite a while to

Mom's mirror

2010-07-15T13:14:00.005+07:00

After two days painting the walls, mom's bedroom finally done, but we still need to buy some accessories for bathroom such as shower curtain and towel rack. And of course she is planing to make the bedsheets herself tho I don't know when she will have the time to do that with all the stuff going on at her workshop right now. So I wont post the before-after photos yet. Well, at least one corner

Plastergurl

2010-07-07T21:04:00.006+07:00

Remember that my mom was doing renovation for her bedroom and ensuite? There was one old yucky very ugly old window - imagine: holes, ants, wood termites, spider webs - need to be removed. That was the same window that my red panel attached to. So.. the window was gone, my red panel has been moved to Mom's studio. Now, I end up with a naked wall at the corner of my room. Anyway, I decided to

Rain rain

2010-07-03T20:27:00.008+07:00

I actually love rain, especially the smell of wet ground and grass. But I hate rain IF it definitely have great potential to ruin my shoes <-- this mean outdoor and require me to walk on uneven surface, sorry I have to correct that: walk on thousands small ponds just to get to the car. Uugghhh, that would only make me look like a frog wearing tutu! Here are some shots from the car when my

Violet Invitation

2010-07-02T20:06:00.007+07:00

Some drafts for my cuz' wedding invitation. She wants to have a simple affordable DIY invitations which wont give big problem for me. ME? yes.. because I'm the one who's going to make them. Thank God, there will only be 200. Her colour palette is violet with light pink, I hope these are not too cheesy. They all are folded card, flat printed on white matte photo paper with some material

Understanding the Male Bodies

2010-07-02T09:20:00.004+07:00

This is just because, purely, I'm learning candid photographies. One of my favorite blog, JACK & JILL BLOG yesterday posted some snapshots from exit door of D&G show in Milan - and thought I just need to preserve this in my blog... Please don't judge me, I am Louise Lane now...

Mom's bathroom tiles

2010-07-01T11:54:00.012+07:00

Colour scheme for Mom's bathroom. Previously, she wanted to have an olive green bathroom, but the local store run out of one particular green tiles (the important one!). So she I choose this colour palette for her. This should be alright, I guess.. I wanted to bring some maturity in her life - NOT because the pattern tiles reminded me with my old journal book.. hahahahaha... ps: I let mom

Baby Brother Bday Bash

2010-07-01T00:29:00.014+07:00

My Baby Brother turned 28 this month, as usual we had dinner together like any other normal good family will do, but this one would be in a hawker stall and minus sweet prayer. Food was great -I had extra portion of fried flat rice noodle with gravy, me hungry! Cake was cute - we had about 3 minutes looking and poked at it before he actually blew the candle and cut it. It was too cute. You should

My twitter-bird

2010-06-29T17:52:00.010+07:00

Ha ha.. my first attempt making a handmade stuffed toy. Mom was doing minor clean up on her workshop and has a lot of over-left fabrics. I picked some nice pattern fabrics and made a twitter bird. Ok this is prototype, I think it's not so bad at all. Sewing machine will be handy, will post them here next time.

(dark) beach party

2010-06-26T21:34:00.008+07:00

Mom asked me to come with her to a wedding reception of her friend's son. It was suppose to be an outdoor beach party, but I personally think all the guest were really quiet. Probably not happy because have to skip one world cup game tonight. Anyway, a nice reason for us to dress up and fill our shoes with sand. *forgot to bring my pocket camera.

My Favorite TV ad this month

2010-06-19T21:16:00.004+07:00