Fun December :D

Wow, it has been two weeks in December without Friday at work yay!!!! Look forward to this Friday of course to make it three... By the way I spent the last long weekend out of the city, back to the last city I had lived for three years since 2004, it was so much fun to meet some of my old friends, brought back old memories. I also met my boyfriend whom I had not met in around four months or so :D and he accompanied me on a flight back to Jakarta and planned to spend the New Year’s eve here. What a holiday... I bet you guys also have incredible holidays out there with snow and everything in your place :P However, rain keeps pouring on every evening here since last week which prevents me to go out so I have been killing most evenings with watching movies or reading ‘1984’ by George Orwell which is quite the positive side though, keeps me off of my wallet haha.. And I rarely blogging these days although I still got connected to the internet only for the matter of working, yeah updated media job 

Anyway, below is the picture of me wearing a vintage paisley dress that I grabbed from my Grandma’s cupboard few months ago, luckily she allowed me to keep it hehehe I combined it with a Doc Martens boots and a cardigan and a vintage yellow drape.










!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!:D

sweet lace

So here i am back to my blog again after such a long absence period due to the inevitable loads of work...it feels soo good to meet with Friday again after such a busy real-life week.. just a few minutes ago i just sent an email to my manager due to the order of the big boss who wanted to know what his employees would see themselves doing in two years from now on.. Gosh, what a leap.. i couldn't even see myself yet for 2010, which is only several days ahead, so it took me quite long to figure out what i want after 2010.. then i wrote that I'd like to see me finishing my thesis to achieve a master degree which I'd get from scholarship given by an overseas university, but if it's not happening then I'd like to see myself working in an office with better payroll than i do now haha, i hope my boss wouldn't fire me after reading that. :P

how about you guys? what would you like to see yourself doing in two years from now?

Btw, i just saw this picture of Iekeliene Stange on Altamira blog and you know what, i had a deep crush on her lacy top..



actually we have some of that kind of top here in my country, and it's called 'Kebaya', here comes an example of one Kebaya belonging to a roommate:



Below are the colors of my nail some time ago:





The first trial to paint my nails in two different colors

black soul

I finally had Luwak coffee/Civet coffee for the first time in my life last week. A work mate brought a package of the most expensive coffee and she shared with the whole office, how nice of her. The scent of the coffee was undoubtedly delicious and so was the taste. I don’t mind to experience it again in the future. However, here is some info about Luwak coffee: Kopi Luwak (pronounced [ˈkopi 'luak]) or Civet coffee is coffee made from coffee berries which have been eaten by and passed through the digestive tract of the Asian Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus) and other related civets. The civets eat the berries, but the beans inside pass through their system undigested. This process takes place on the islands of Sumatra, Java, Bali and Sulawesi in the Indonesian Archipelago, in the Philippines (where the product is called Motit Coffee in the Cordillera, or Kape Alamid in Tagalog areas) and in East Timor (locally called kafé-laku). Local lore in Vietnam has given the name "weasel coffee" to civet coffee, in what is considered the closest recognizable translation to English. (source: Wikipedia)

And surprise, I just found out that one of the world’s best whiskey brands, Jack Daniels also produced coffee…. I have yet to taste but planning to do so in near future.





And here's what i wore yesterday









small houndstooth check details:








Horrorpops tee: American apparel
flannel shirt: vintage
houndstooth skirt: vintage japanese brand
brogues: Suteki (local handmade shoemaker)

Fire in the Blood

"When older people get together there is something unflappable about them; you can sense they've tasted all the heavy, bitter, spicy food of life, extracted its poisons, and will now spend ten or fifteen years in a state of perfect equilibrium and enviable morality. They are happy with themselves. They have renounced the vain attempts of youth to adapt the world to their desires. They have failed and, now, they can relax.

When you're twenty love is like a fever, it makes you almost delirious. When it's over you can hardly remember how it happened...Fire in the blood, how quickly it burns itself out. Faced with this blaze of dreams and desires, I felt so old, so cold, so wise...

But it's like this: when I go out and mix with other people voluntarily, I agree, more or less, to get involved in their odd lives; but when I've climbed back into my hole, I want to be left in peace, so don't come bothering me with your loves and your regrets."


The above quotation was derived from the latest book that I’ve just finished reading, Fire in the Blood by Irene Nemirovsky,, such an easy-reading book but at the same time I couldn’t wait to turn to the next page… a narrative by Sylvestre who felt he has lost his self following his aging.. He found himself stranded at a French village with secluded characters of its residents who tend to be indifferent about other people’s lives… until a scandal which involved people close to Sylvestre and himself was revealed… the book also depicts the French village setting prior to World War II through its residents characters… I assure you it’s a worth reading piece of art :D

The interesting fact about the book is the uncompleted scripts of the book were found after the author, Irene Nemirovsky, was taken to Nazi's Auschwitz camp and died there in 1942.

vintage worshipper

Hai, guys.. i'm so sorry for lack of updates... i've been very busy working and for this week only i have to arrive at the office at 6 AM since i got the turn for morning news publishing shift.. i have to make sure all latest news be published everyday in this week... lucky me :D
I finally had time yesterday to take outfit pics of my vintage checkered (again *sigh*) dress and i combined it with denim vest and jacket













dress: vintage (some french brand)
vest & jacket: vintage (japanese brands)
wedges: forever 21


NEXT TARGET:



i found this top on rockabilly outfit section of this online store called TOOFASTBRAND i deeply suggest you to check out their cool clothing collection, the shop rocks!!!

I also have a crush on this top, i guess it will be a cool addiction for my checkered thingy collection ;P

draw draw

Can you see the random drawing on my dress? I found it funny which stimulated my hand to grab and brought it home from a boutique two months ago :D and I wore it for the second time last Saturday when I was out and about with an old friend at a mall.



At first, I was only intended to catch up with my friend, watch movie, have chit chats and good foods but I ended up a bit of shopping ;P as I saw a pretty tunic, tried on a partly-sequined top and a number of interesting scarfs, including these two Alexander McQueen-like skull scarf as seen in below pic (in which I eventually picked the red-and-white one though I was still thinking about the purple one until I got up of my sleep on Sunday ;S ).
Luckily last Saturday was a day after my payday so I didn’t really regret of spending budget on such unplanned needs ;D















Oh, and at the moment i'm listening to the latest Weezer's album "Raditude" on my ipod, the tracks are easy listening and if you like Weezer then it's a must check out :D have a nice day everyone..

Hal-lolitaa

A friend in Australia sent me her pictures of Halloween costumes yesterday and I was kind of excited to see her dress and red contact lenses!! I thought they were fierce, not to mention the hot Mary Jane heels, so I’d like to share her pics as follow..









her email kinda inspired me to dig my old wardrobe and i found a lolita dress/suit from around two years ago when I was still at Uni. A Japanese friend sent me the Lolita suit consisted of a ruffled skirt and a long-sleeve lacey shirt along with the skull-printed long socks straight from a Harajuku shop in Tokyo for my birthday gift!! I was soooo excited since I had wanted a piece of lolita dress long long time before i finally have it…I thought I would wear it in a Halloween party but in fact I have never worn them until now….so here goes, oh and i also combined with the Mary Jane Doc Martens and a black-and-white checkered tie :D















I reckon this is much fun, what's your idea for Halloween costume? :D