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.