A Handy Review of 2013

To briefly put 2013 in words is just... long.

My review of the year, 2013 gave me a lot to learn.

I met someone amazing that now turned out to be a partner, I realized that I had to let go some people to remove negativities in my life, I learnt to organize things, I learnt to cook, I learnt to live healthier, I learnt to develop my mind and lifestyle into a more positive path, I learnt to be a better person, I learnt to be a better friend, I learnt that I could choose to be happy, I learnt about priorities, I learnt about how to have a good time, I learnt to appreciate the people I met and the events happened...

It was started by meeting someone amazing, that stayed across this country, Malaysia.

I met more and various other people I didnt even know I would be so close to right now.

Then it was closed by a great loss of an ex lover and best friend (lay and rest in peace, B)

I made big jumps in my life. I crashed, I fell, I failed. But I got up, I learnt, I succeed. I tried new things. I travelled. I visited amazing places I thought didnt exist. I had good cups of coffee. I had surprisingly amazing conversations with random people.

Happiness, sadness, glooms, joys, smiles, laughters, disappointment, tears, sweats,failures,  griefs... I had them all this year. I went through them all and I lived. I survived. Actually you know what, I succeed. I’m not just a survivor but I made my way all up to this point of my life and although I’m nowhere near the greatness point yet, I’m proud. I’m proud that I actually lived this year. I wasnt just letting it pass by, I lived in it and I made the best out of it.

2013 was a good year. So many things to remember. So many things to learn. So many things to appreciate. It’s definitely the year I wont ever forget. It’s definitely a turning point of my life. And I hope, as common as this may sound like, I want to live in 2014 again. I want to carve my mark. I want to succeed. I want to beat my old self. I want to deal with negativities better. I want to love better. I want to try harder. I want to focus sharper. I want to be a better friend, lover, sister, and daughter.

I’ll be 20 in 2014. I get goosebumps now just thinking about it. I’m not young anymore and life isnt a joke. A real life is waiting ahead of me and I have to stop playing around. I cant just be standing still, I want to change. For good. I’ll have so many responsibilites to hold next year and I’ll make sure I’ll be ready for it even before it comes.

Thank you, 2013, for giving me so many things in life I that made me who I am now. Thank God, for the chance to live and learn. It’s sad that a year with so many memories is ending, but it’s the time. It’s time for making new remarkable achievements and more big jumps. It’s time for us all. It’s time for us...

Long lunch at Hummingbird Eatery

I had a nice run (jog?) yesterday morning. I got excited to try out some running stuffs I got the days before so I woke up at 5 in the morning and sort of like waited for the morning to get a little bit warmer. Stepped out of house at 6.30 at last and did a 45 minutes of run in my lime green Nike Anodyne Flywire, purple Converse jogging pants and a pair of pink ankle-high Reebok running socks. Oh and Miley (meet Miley, my iPod touch) came along too.

The air was so fresh and there were not that many joggers around probably because it was Friday. I woke up this morning with some delish body sore. You know, that kind of sore after a good workout. It just feels great.

I was actually planning on getting my long list of assignments done yesterday but then I had a lunch with a very nice old friend at 12. So I put some comfy clothes on and drove myself to the place we agreed to try out, Hummingbird Eatery. It's located around Progo street in Bandung which is a famous street for its cafes and restaurants. You can find Rocca, Fat Panda, Kopi Progo, Tokyo Connection, and many more here you just have to choose. The reason why these places are famous and by famous I mean full and by full I mean you can hardly find a parking is probably because these places are so fancy. Not only the food (decoration, it's the decoration, not so much for the taste in several cafes, see what you've done Instagram), but also the buildings. I mean, come on, one place has this western bar-ish theme, one place has an Asian atmosphere, and the one we were going to try has this bird nest concept. Literally, the tables at the smoking area are in a huge white birdnest.

Wasnt hard at all to find this street, but it was tricky for Hummingbird to be found. The night before, I google mapped the cafe to make sure where it was located and it said it was nearby Gee Eight. So I drove there and I still passed because of the distracting leafs that covered its white sign. And as you could tell, coming there at a lunch hour means A. not getting a table, or B. not getting a parking. Me and my friend got them both. I finally had my car in a parking vallet in a cafe nextdoor, Rocca. While my friend was lucky enough to get her car parked (also vallet) in  the cafe's parking lot.

After the long waiting list, we got a nice table with a cute wallpaper behind and cute table setting and all. We ordered Amazilia pancake (that would be mine), and Rosemary Chicken (that would be my friend's). And mineral water and also some berry tea thing I dont know.

Amazilia pancake had fruits topping on it such as kiwi, peach and strawberry, alongside with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. As a pancake freak, this one was much... thinner, compared to the ones in Le Marly or Nanny's Pavillon, or even Gigglebox and Tree House. But not that it was bad, it was actually delish. The fruits were fresh and tasty, and there was this yellow sause that I liked to swoosh my pancake all over it.

The Rosemary Chicken thing looked pretty nice as well. Since I was a vegan I couldnt try it out but it looked yummy. It was just chicken and some potatoes and side veggies and some sauce. That's it that I can ever describe about the dish. But as I asked my friend, she said it was real yummy. And for your information, on the menu, it was one of the cafe's specials. So... give it a shot.

All in all I'd give it 8 out of 10 but some other things made me change my mind. The staffs and the service (well, which were done by the staffs) were not satisfying. The way they didnt care about us and the other visitors for a table, the way I didnt get much smile but instead cold stressed out faces there, the way we got treated coldly there, those were major dissapointment for me. So in the end, I'd just rate it 5 out of 10. 5 is really just for the nice room. Food was nice but not jaw droppingly great, staffs were terrible and frowny. So... fix it, Hummingbird.

Hummingbird Eatery and Guest House:
JL. Progo, No. 14, Bandung, Indonesia (+62 22 4212582)

Why can't we take a good picture in just one go?

The tittle says it all.  I was so bored at home and having a day off today when I scrolled down on my ipod and phone. I was amused at so many random pictures I found that I didnt even remember taking. Some of them are just pictures of things and stuff, and the rest are just selfies.

Then I noticed something. I noticed that I have this tendency to snap on so many clicks and shoots of just the same object for photos. Got what I mean? Here take a look.

As you can see above, I literally had to take 6 different shoots for just about the same object. Those were pictures of my stay in a hotel on a vacation. I got a pretty nice room with a pretty view in the morning, like what you can see above. As a social network enthusiast that I was, I intended to share what I woke up to that morning to some of my Twitter followers. Which I ended up taking 6 differents photos and only 1 was "good enough for Twitter".

This is actually pretty interesting though. The question is always why. Why do I have to take so many different snaps for the same object (the same goes for selfies)? Do you guys do the same? Cause I feel like some of my friends dont. Some of them can just be okay with a picture they take in one go.

I mean, come on, what if there are more better angles? What if you can snap a pretty picture if you're patient enough to snap for more? Maybe with better pixels? And how do you just know that the picture you snap in one go is good enough? Oh my god, I feel dizzy just writing these down.

I still have no absolute idea on why I do these.

Midterm, Thor: The Dark World, and more updates

So I was done with my last exam yesterday. It was Communication Theory. Well, I wont scratch much on it, but then I went to see something good in the movie just for a post-midterm entertainment. I went to see it with a very good friend that I thought wouldnt want to keep me company to satisfy my inner Marvel-fangirl. He was cool. We talked about literally a lot of things on our way there.

We actually took off from campus at like10AM but unfortunately had to struggle (well, technically he did the driving so thanks to him) with the traffic jams in a lot of points. In a moment, which is an hour, we got there at around 11-somethingAM. Considering that he would have a meeting at 4PM, we rushed for a ticket and we got one for 12PM shift. We walked around a little bit just to waste some minutes and back again with a jumbo caramel popcorn and some cold mineral water.

Long story short, the movie was great. Typical Marvel. Or much more likely said that way cause I am a fangirl (which is surprisingly the same with that friend I went with). The plot twists were somehow brilliant and mind provoking but some of them were way too surprising I had to be like "whaaaa..." when I saw it. Kinda absurd, but still great. Loki's character was so much interesting there. OH! And do stay in your seat till the very end of its credits. A spoiler for the next Marvel movie is there and you've got to see it.

All in all, I'll give it 8 out of 10. Very entertaining but lacked some details that left us, the audience, puzzled and hung.

For example, the part where Lady Sif showed Thor her obvious affection that actually kinda told us that she's into him and thatm there should've been something more to be explained about it and not just an offer for a drink in a party or just an intense gaze or scenes like that. The appearance of Jane Foster in this movie felt like a total useless and clingy love interest that made her look like the bad guy for standing between Lady Sif and Thor. Not my favorite. Another example is, so many unnecessary lines and characters being shown there that, again, made those unexplained well and sort of just a one-liner/one-scener thing. They could've developed that more actually but I guess it's about the time limit/duration maybe I dont know. Darcy got way too much lines here? I guess? Well in the first movie, Darcy gave a proper portion of humour during all the serious depressing moments, but in this movie she was just given too much part only to mock or make fun or comment on something. Which wasnt entirely bad, it was just starting to be more like a funny movie instead of a superhero movie. But on another hand, Darcy looked a lot more interesting (and prettier!) than Jane. Seriously, Jane Foster's character needs more development for being so boring.

And the movie was over, we decided to take a stroll a little bit before heading back to the car. Met some friends too there coincidentally. I had a good time. I definitely did.

Jumbo-sized caramel popcorn with a picture of a weird kid
eating a fuckin bowl of popcorn seriously what the hell Blitz

By the way, done with Thor and my midterm. Have I told you guys that I cut my hair short? Well, I did. It's been around 3 weeks and I'm loving it! Take a look.

Anywhooo moving on to another topic, I love taking random pictures in and from my car. I usually have my camera, or my ipod/ipad, and phone at a reachable spots in my car so that it would be easy for me to capture stuff that I think interesting. Although in the end it is most likely my own selfies (let's skip that part for now), I managed to capture this the other day.

it says: real men use three pedals

I was waiting for the traffic light to turn green, and this car happened to be in front of me. As a longtime non-automatic car driver, the sticker speaks to me. Booooyeah.

Quick Reminiscent

Another free blogging in an inappropriate time. I’ll have a Telco Network midterm exam tomorrow but this comes to mind so I decided to write this down first.

I’ll be quick.

Time goes by too fast. Some other day not too long ago some friends of mum and dad said that I’d be soon graduated when they were told about what semester/year I was currently in. Said that my parents would also soon be the parents in law. And all that. And then now, just now, I realized the cold fact that it’s all true (partly, not about the parents in law thing). I reminisced the old days, about friends, the campus building, the cafetarias, the silly crushes talks, the photos, the events, the “what happened in those event”s, the apartment I was once in, the lunches, the late driving because of some late meetings, everything... Hell, I’m in my second year of uni, fifth semester. 3 more semesters and I’ll be supposedly done.

I gradually and clearly remember how I spent my uni orientation. I stayed for a couple of nights in Yusrina’s house. Her mother was really pretty and nice. We were not allowed to drive any kind of vehicles nor bring a single piece of money so we hid it in our socks. I still remember how I made my way through all those freshman year moments, crazy stuffs but  fun. I turnt 17 not so long after the orientation. I had so many good friends coming to my house in a rainy night all the way uphill (yes Setiabudi, my house ladies and gents), just for me. I was... well that was actually one of the good gold times I’ve ever had in my life.

To reminisce that, I get a bit shed of... loss. Those moments, those people... where are they now? No, not literally. I meet them frequently in campus and classes and God, they’re still as nice as they were and they will always be. But I guess... we all just have our own wolrd to revolve around, right? I have mine too. They have theirs. The memories remain. Very clear, up until now.

Enough about the past, now... the future. I cant say much. The clock is ticking and I’ll be forced to get back on my books again. But future, fuck knows what’s gonna happen. As thats what I threw out many many years ago in highschool. Exactly the same sentence, or word arrangement. I said it. I dont know. I dont wanna mess with the future, or what’s been called as the thing humans will never ever figure out. Nothing makes sense now, but it will when you see it backwards.

Future... my life. To be very honest, I was one of those people who would wear her worn out knit sweater in her room in a rainy Sunday with a warm cup of bitter coffee asking herself “what am I gonna do with my life?”. Everything about growing up, being old, being anything-independent, being wiser, tempt me. Yet also scare me to the point of depression. The uncertainties, the rough wake-up calls, rejections... they scare me. I am scared, of the future. Like any other teens in that phase. I am with you. And I feel you.

Alexander Ferguson Al-Patek

This happens on Twitter a while ago. Came to mind randomly.

Me  : My sister bought us a kitten! And it's a male! So friggin excited! Give me a good name!
A     : Alexander Ferguson Al-Patek
Me  : .....


I have some very interesting friends.

Me on Being A Vegan

I dont see why people would fuss around vegetarians (or vegans). It's not just once or twice for me to face people who see me going vegetarian straight up weirdly. It's sort of sad to see people judging us, vegans, as silly hippie hipster-ish entities.

Here are some highlights for you:

• No, I dont kill animals by eating their food. I dont eat grass.
• No, I am not an animal or PETA activist nor a freak about it.
• No, I am so not on a diet. I'm not even skinny.

I'm going vegan because I just want to live healthier. Aside of avoiding meaty intake for my body, I also stop drinking soda, consuming carbo (rice or bread), and bottled sweet drinks. I do yoga or pilates or just swimming or jogging on the weekend.

I believe that when you treat your body right, it will love you back and give you so much benefit in return. It's your body that you're gonna live in for the rest of your life on earth. It's your vessel. So why not treat it well?

Crazy Monday

Just a crazy mentally draining and exhausting one today. I had fun meeting some friends I havent seen/talked for a long time though. But I was so drained, and just tired. Passionless, precisely.

Thought about A all the time. He's been recovering, just thought that I couldnt let him feel lonely but also I was so tired I couldnt even crack a single joke and I went boring instead. Well, what could get more stressing?

Sister sleepover, phone's new dress and a book

My sister had a sleepover in my place for about 2 nights yesterday.
She was done with her exams and rather than being at home, she decided to come with me.

she was surprisingly cool and obedient (lol). she was being all nice and quiet and we did fun girls-talks before bed and we did tickle each other and laugh at random things. maybe she was scared that I'd kick her out of my room and sleep outside since it wasnt at home and no one would stand up for her like mum and dad heheh. but she was really cute though. ate a lot. a lot of snacks.
It was fun having her in my place. till it was time to get her back home. we called a cab and we went to shop a bit somewhere cause she requested it. and again, she was being real nice. she used to be that annoying little sister though.

It was reaally fun to have her around. I wonder when will she come to visit and stay again. She was quite helping though. It's good to have a little sister who got your back anytime. Sister bond power!

PS: let me do a haul of what I got today. My favourite will be these new Blackberry Onyx 2 soft cases from Spotlite (coincidentally relevant enough to the owner, spotlite betch). 

Hot pink and light blue

Oh and I was wandering around a bookstore that I usually go to and I found this book called Nice Is Just a Place in France. I couldnt take a picture of it (cause I didnt think it was allowed there), so here it is from the internet

Betches love this

At the first glance I was like oh cute cover. And then I walked back and actually read the entire cover and I just felt like I had to have it! I have never seen something so relevant to my whole fuckin life. I ended up leaving the store with nothing in hand though, cause I was rushed to go home but hell.. I have my eyes on that book and I am fucking getting it. Soon.

A black and white Sunday

On a one fine Sunday morning, I found myself scrolling up and down my phone. And there they were, a bunch of  quickie snapshots A had ever taken for me, mostly based in Malaysiasince he lived there.

Then the imagination call rolled in, I turned some into these..

Boyfriend shirt

Last weekend I did a bit of an experiment. I wanted to see how A's shirt would look like on me. Did it turn out good? did it turn out cool? or did it turn out lame? I'll let you decide

oh and check this out. tiny haul of my a couple-of-weeks-ago hunt

Adorable tiny little motherfuckers by House of Bakpao, Bandung

Zara knit sweater, Paa purse/organizer, Michelle leopard purse, and Revlon Raven Red 721

10 things

So, after a while leaving this page alone with no new post coming up, I'm back.
Yes, I am back here.

I just blogwalked on the internet realm after my massage done before taking my hot shower lazily this afternoon. Stumbled upon a lot of great, unique and catchy blogs to read. And that made me second quess my own decision to close this page permanently (yeah, blame my current addiction).

So, what to write now?

Okay, let's start:

1. I just put on some Aqua Lily lotion from The Body Shop and it smells really great.
   
2. I have so many assignments due to next week and I wanna hug a pillow then cry in it.
3. I did my nails in mauve and raven red, they are gorgeousssss. Hey girls, Revlon Nail Enamel wasnt really bad.
   
   
   
   
    
4. A and me have been together for about 3 months going to 4. Quite happy.
   
5. I tried a new chapstick from Nivea and it smells like my favorite candy, I love it!
   
6. Rejected the request and offer to be a host for a quite big event today cause I was a sick little puppy with a massive headache and I feel sorry for myself all day long.
   
7. Got caught up in a marathon of my fav tv shows. Supernatural, Gossip Girl, Greys Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, Adventure Time, and Futurama. Devil loophole.
   
8. Supernatural is currently on a hiatus aaaand if I'm not mistaken, its about 19 more weeks for season 9. I couldnt even LIVE TO WAIT. Love that show so much I grew up with it (plus, the fandom is really awesome)
   
   
9. I'm thinking about upgrading my iPod 4 but I love it too much I cant let it go. Oldie goodie. What to do?
   
10. Thinking to do something really new and fun, like finding a fun community of the things that I'm interested in.
    

So far, these are what I could come up with. I'm sure there are still a lot more posts to come here. See ya soon!

Bad Blogger

Hi!

Oh I'm such a bad bad bad person when it comes to blogging. Blogging here especially.

Remember my last post about my Thailand trip? Yeah the second part never happened/happens/will happen. Yes, yes, I am so sorry to the extent for that and my lack of writing stuff here. But I guess I've finally come to the conclusion where I decide to officially move out. No, not literally in life, I've done that. But about all this blogging thing. I think I've ever mentioned here before that I was moving to tumblr? Yes, those are tumblr peeps out there and with no offense at all, I think I prefer myself to  be there.
Here, lemme break it down to you:

Why I'm being on Tumblr:
Pros:

1. It has pretty eyes-friendly layout/system
2. It's shiny omfg idk why
3. There are people there
4. There are people there from a 12 year old or 30-somethings
5. There are people there from some depressed bipolars to pop culture geeks.
6. There are actual people there
7. For real though, the existence of people there is prob the biggest pro
8. They're all my homies. Yea.. uhuh. Uhuh.. Yea
9. It's basically so much more fun
10. They have sloths, hamsters, cats, and lame jokes which are my fav
11. Easy-to-use interface
12. You can write a single line and still looks deadly funny and gets 100.230 people liking or reblogging it
13. And by the point number 12, I mean, unlike here *scoffs*
14. It has my soul

Cons:

1. It has my soul

Sooo, if you're there too, meet me! Look it up, mine is Frankenrev. Or you can click on this link (Frankenrev)

I'm so sorry. This is not a farewell though. Just a... what is it.. How to say. I might write again here if I need to write a freakin long post.
I love you, says me to nobody ever.