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.

Random-Impulsive Korean Week

On the last week of holiday, we started having karaokes everyday and most of the songs that we sung were Korean song. So we decided to call it Korean week. At first it was solely for Korean karaokes, but then we started venturing after shopping at Setiabudi Market.
I asked Poppy and Pajay to accompany me grocery shopping at Setiabudi Market and then after that we decided to go karaoke-ing again. On our way, we spotted this Korean restaurant, coincidentally we were hungry. At first we hesitated to eat there aside from being expensive, the atmosphere was pretty awkward. But then oh well, we ate there anyway. Not regretting it one bit! We ate Dolsot Bibimbap (돌솥 비빔밥) and Samgyetang (삼계탕). It was really delicious!
Karaoke was fun, as usual we sing 2NE1's songs. Pajay was all over Kim Jong Kook's Sarang Surowo. Poppy went crazy when it comes to 2NE1's I'm The Best.
Then we ended our Korean fandom week with an event held the next week. Which was a Korean-Indonesian gathering. We met Su Ji and Phillip there. They were so fun to talk to. Apparently Phillip could speak Indonesian really well considering being here only for 9 months.

I'd love to spend time like this more. I mean, for the whole week, I guess I feel like I burst out of the old routine and finally meet new people. Hoping to do more things like this in 2012. 화이팅!

PS: Because of Pajay, the song Sarang Surowo is stuck in my head now and I'm totally hooked to Running Man. Ah, my life!

New Friend

I got a new friend coming. Everyday he calls me out and wait for me in front of my door. 

Be a friend to me on my lonely nights.

A Meeting of a Weird Set of People

It all started with the application called WhatsApp. Poppy, Dessy, Pajay, and me have it on our phones. So we created a group called "katanya suruh konfrens" (which in English means "you said you wanted a conference") for us to chat with each other in a group, while we all were away for the holidays. Conversations were crazy, especially because the emoticons that WhatsApp have. We all like to use those cute emoticons to express some ideas. Especially Pajay, he really likes to use the emoticons to do magic tricks. Eventually our talks were getting crazier and fun! One day, Pajay asked us to do a gathering for our weird group. He said it'll be like 4 random people who don't know each other except from the WhatsApp finally meet in real life. I thought it would be a great idea. I mean, come on, it doesn't happen everyday. So we set the time, place, and we actually had a dress code which was "scarfs". We had to wear them to the gathering.

The night has come for us to meet up at our favorite place, Magic Pizza. That whole night was really full of scenarios. We even had to go there separately to avoid looking like we know each other. Even my trip to Magic Pizza was a scenario. On my way there, I was riding one of Bandung's renowned public transportation which is the 'angkot'. I was riding the Stasion-Dago angkot. And unlike any other night it was empty all the way. I like empty angkots, at that time I felt as if I can reflect on my self while speeding through the night and the lights outside the window are glimmering through. But then there's this guy who came in a hurry and breaking the sweet silence. He looked really cute, can't deny it. Though it was really dark, I can't tell, but let's just say he was cute. So I started to plot up this scenario in my head, it was like a romantic love story kind of thing. I don't even know why I did that. Maybe that guy was feeling uncomfortable also by my constant glancing (though I was being really discreet with it). In the end, he got off the angkot before me, and I was left alone again to continue my journey.

When I arrived, I saw Dessy and Poppy already there. I slowly approached them and said "Are you Poppy and Dessy?", as if we just met for the first time. It was SUPER awkward. But we had a laugh about it. The whole night was really fun to do actually. Had really tasty foods, a fun talk, and stuff. And the fact that we did this out of random reasons are like a new experience for me. Meeting up with random people isn't easy nowadays. I mean, people are more individual now. But with this, I can say that I want to meet up with new people and get to know them a lot. Maybe another day we could really have a real gathering with random people. Because being random is fun.

Gabriel Garcia

This is a portrait of Gabe Garcia, the vocalist of Black Tide. Acrylic on canvas. 

My hands were itching to touch a canvas, but too lazy to use oil. 

So this is pretty much a spur of the moment. 

My Sweet Tooth

I have a really big sweet tooth. <3

A Little Something For Me

For my birthday last December, my sister gave me several presents that she bought from the event Brightspot Market. I wasn't able to attend Brightspot Market for the second time, due to being so busy with campus assignments and several works, then I got sick (and that also made me cancel my trip to the Yogyakarta Biennale). But she told me that she was buying me a present from there, I never thought that she bought three. Among those three (which are a jacket from Cotton Ink and a dress from Nikicio), she bought me a necklace that's the utmost unique thing I've seen.

The necklace was from Tarita Aurora. The fact that this necklace is like nothing what I've seen before makes it more interesting. I have a great fondness towards feathers and this necklace is perfect to convey how I love it. And also, my sister mentioned that I should keep the packaging safe so that I could store the necklace away without harm to it. The package also looks hand-made; that makes it more special to have this necklace.

I fancy this necklace, A LOT. I can't help but say these kind of accessories portray me in some kind of mysterious ways. I'm so happy that my sister gave me this, I'm especially picky when it comes to necklaces, since I don't wear them a lot. But this one..., this one is just amazing.  I will hold this necklace near and dear to me.

Dear, Ms. Tarita Aurora, congratulations because you've just got a new fan here; I'm in love with your work!

Thanks a bunch sis!