Manual Hipster Generator

Failure is never a downside when you are able to look at the positives. These pictures are poorly taken by me as an art photography assignment. My lecturer said that these picture are underexposed, so I need to take new ones. Oh well, nothing goes to waste. HIPSTER PICTURE TIME! Thank you Poppy, my lovely studio mate, for lending me your Ricoh XR-15 and modeling in these pictures. I look forward to taking more pictures now.

The Faris Badwan Syndrome

Yesterday I got myself into the hospital for diarrhea. It was midnight when I started to feel the pain, an hour later started vomiting, and then the pain in my stomach worsen. Eventually I couldn't take it anymore and I went to the hospital at 3 in the morning. I got a shot of medicine, and was allowed to rest there for a while until I was a little bit better to go home. The shot was freaky though, I thought to myself that how come the medicine is red colored, turns out my blood leaked into the syringe.

I wasn't allowed to go to campus and had to rest the whole day. Even my parents came all the way from Jakarta to Bandung early in the morning to take care of me. I feel happy and yet at the same time, if it weren't for the sickness I'd be spending my time properly with them. Oh well.

Although, being sick gave me the opportunity to just take a deep breath towards life. I could give my self a halt and rest from all the hustle and bustle that I'm currently going through; to take a break from painting, from all the events I'm currently helping at. And it also gave me time to just clear my mind of anything by drawing. I have been the most productive today than ever. Three sketches is just amazing. I don't know what's going on here, but I feel refreshed and the idea of Faris Badwan haunting in my head is slowly settling. Lately I've been fidgety because of Faris lurking inside my mind. I think I'm catching the Badwan syndrome. First symptom is having a great fetish towards long slender legs. OH NO!

Life's Good, Not Best

This year's Valentine was like no other. I spend it with 2 of my mates and 5 musically talented and good looking men. Those men are famous with the name The Horrors, which consist of Faris Badwan as the vocals, Joshua Hayward on guitar, Rhyss Webb on bass, Tom Cowan on the synths, and Joe Spurgeon on drums.

The idea of The Horrors performing in Indonesia blows my mind and the fact that they did it in Bandung, out of all of the cities in Indonesia, definitely gave me a heart attack. I mean, this is a band that I listened to in my early years of highschool. And not to the content of getting into it everyday. I only listened to them on my leisure time. 

Then BAM! They're here 5 years later. It was definitely a surreal experience. As me, Cungek, and Desu went into the venue, our hearts were beating fast, impatient of those 5 presence. We waited for a reasonable amount of time, finally they came out to the stage. The lights were blinding and I'm pretty sure that I had a slight epileptic attack in my head from looking at the light show, but it didn't stop me from enjoying the men playing instruments in front of me.

Though my mind was battling whether to just enjoy the music or admire the slender legs that Faris has. Oh those Godly legs, how I wish to have them!

Sadly they didn't play the songs from the old days, the Strange House period. That was the first time I encountered The Horrors, it was like wandering off into a new world. Definitely the highlight of this new year.

ITB FAIR 2012

A lot of effort was put into this 3 days and 2 nights event. I knew we could've done better, but considering with all the things that we've done to make that event happen, it was pretty much cool. I had a lot of fun doing a live painting in the day and being an American Native in the night.

PS: The face painting booth was pretty awesome! Even though we only had the chance to try it after the booth was closed for the night, we still had lots of fun taking pictures underneath those UV lights! Cue 2NE1's Ugly!

A Well Spent Day

A few days ago my sister came to visit for 3 days or so. For the first time of the year, we got to spend our days together in Bandung. Though I still had classes in campus, afterwards I try to spend time with her. It's pretty hard these past few days to find time to spend with my sister. Either she's too busy or I'm the one who's busy.
We had time to have a little chit chat, even to have deep conversations. We painted together. We did what we do best when together, shop! We became even more random when together. Definitely my sister is the best to spend my day with.
Luckily we also had time to meet up with Geena, our close childhood friend. We talked about dreams and future, opinion and point of views, campus life, everything. A pleasant talk that we had at our old favorite place, Starbucks.
After the long talk, even though we had to part, we were still glad to have been able to meet up like that. Me and my sister went onwards to PVJ, randomly. We ate sushi, saw some awesome jeans, bought lots of accessories, met a handsome dog, and sang our lungs out. That was definitely a time well spent in a day.