(Not) So Late Night Post

It's been ages I don't write any post. I lost my laptop again, in technical way. My Macbook is broken and I don't think seven millions can save her either. So I am currently looking for new laptop basically. I honestly need something stronger than my Macbook (doesnt mean to be harsh, tho) but I dont know because Macbook can be very attractive despite the fact it's very fragile. Maybe it's because the exclusivity. But in the end, like Ellen DeGeneres said, you need a taco that can contain all the guacamole you want. I am thinking Vaio, tho. God, I will miss her so much. *cry*

Anyway, since I am currently unemployed, I manage to do anything during my 'free' time. I gained 6 kg for God's Sake. It was like a slap on the face. I am trying to lose it now.

I designs again. Generally, it's technical drawing. Oh, and Fitlosophy goes well. I am so thrilled, it's almost a year now. Imagine myself having an almost one year old baby girl. The struggle is real.

It's pretty much it.

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The thing is... Ah, nevermind.

Sentiment Artwork

It's been a little while since my last post. My laptop just died two weeks ago and he is back with me now. For summing up my activities, I would love to start with Brasserie Gabrielle at Grand Palais that happened yesterday.

Surrounded by the loyal and royal Chanel warriors dressed (mostly) in tweed jackets and bringing Chanel signature quilted bags (and mostly in black), Cara Delevigne was the first to present Ready To Wear collection for Autumn/Winter 2015 in puffy quilted jacket. The refine idea came from what Gabrielle used to do during her spare time. Cherish the atmosphere of her favourite diner and winer and admiring the gastronomy by herself or accompanied by her best ones. Karl nicely built the diner for the idea of her as spirit at Grand Palais. I assume we all can catch some sentiments here.

Quoting Style.com where they loved to call Brasserie Gabrielle as the least cynical collection during his duty as Chanel's creative director but for my sanity here I personally say that Karl can be as cynical as he wants to and still pull out such an amazing collection. But yesterday was personal. Yesterday was the way Karl would prefer to find himself sitting down on very comforting sofa next to the window, watching life goes by without squeezed by paparazzi and savouring his favourite wine at his favourite fancy diner. At that time I will wonder, will Karl need to go to sleep to dream of amazing designs for the next collection?

Not only personal and least cynical, Brasserie Gabrielle was also the most 'Chanel' collection since 32 years ago (let me count it for you: from 1983). Tweed dominated the collection as quilted jacket follows. And I bet houndstooth never go anywhere since 2013.

One minor comment, took Kendall as one of the model next to Cara, would be one step that most of designers this year would have taken for business' sake. And I won't say it's not wise, and Karl loves familiar faces on the runway, I respect that. But Chanel is doing great only by the subtle designs and executions.

Sorry for lack of pictures, I have bad internet connection here. For more pictures kindly visit Style.com

Weekend Getaway

Now I know what short getaway feels like. It feels so good to experience it. But then i feel miserable afterwards. I miss the good time I spent and the activities I done during getaway. It's not only about the place but also the companion. Lucky me, I had the best getaway companions. Even we didn't have exact schedules or plan, and this getaway was also planned in such a short time, but I found that it's more exciting. You will find this funny because we four planned to take second flight to Singapore in the morning, but somehow one of us was late to book her flight, so she took another flight 30 minutes after us.

We didn't choose hotel during our stay because beside it's more affordable, we didn't have plan to stay in the room. We chose a very nice loft at River Valley Road next to Tony's Pizza. The loft used sophisticated password door with codes and stuff, we had trouble remembering the password. hehe.

Anyway, I had nice new york style pizza with lemonade for lunch. Then I and a friend went to our first destination: Laneway Festival at The Meadow to watch one and only Goddess we know: Banks. Even there were bunch of artists on the list, I honestly don't know them which is very shameful because back in three days before I went, a friend mentioned his favorite musician that will be performing at Laneway Festival who I didn't know about. 

That was my first time went to The Meadow and after all, that trip was my first trip to SIngapore. I have never been to Singapore before and I finally found that Singapore is a very decent country with smaller size than Jakarta. The people are nice and they have this remarkable habit called 'mind their own business'. 

Yet we could walk peacefully. Peacefully without bothered by motorcycles that most of the time will take half of pedestrian road because they simply didn't want to experience the traffic. Oh, and I miss how SIngapore almost never had problem with traffic jam. 

We sit on the grass eating hot dogs. I also had salt caramel ice cream which I slightly regret. But it tasted good so yah..

Anyway, we finally watched Banks and Gaby wore the same outfit as Banks which is very funny because she has major girl crush on Banks. Well, we all do. 

She sang our favoritie and most played songs on my playlist. Started with This Is What It Feels Like, then Brain (!!!!), Warm Water, You Drove Me Crazy, Before I Even Met You, Change, Waiting Game, and Beggin' For Thread. I believe there are some songs I forgot. But she definitely missed Goddess and Under The Table and Alibi (hiks). There were two performances left after Banks and we decided to go home.

The next day started at 12.00p.m. We were very exhausted and woke up hungry. Since it was more proper to call it lunch, but we insisted to called it brunch. We had (tasty) gourmet burgers for brunch on Haji Lane street (if i was not mistaken). The burger was real. It worth every dollar I spent (I am not gonna lie). If you by chance go to SIngapore, just don't forget I tell you that the burger is worth it. The street had paintings on the wall and we could not miss it. 

Then we went to Bugis Junction where I bought sweets as souvenirs. No one could resist Kinder chocolate and Kitkat Green tea, I dare you. Then we went to Sentosa by Sentosa Express. We took one ride called Skyline Luge Sentosa. We screamed all the way up and down. Hahahaha. I just realised I have that height phobia. But I am telling you the ride down was very fun!! The ride was called Luge, I suppose. Originally invented in New Zealand years ago. It was like mini 'go cart' and fit for only one people. 

Then we took beach tram to go to Palawan Beach. But before that, I order Old Chang Kee nuggets. They were so good! We spent time watching sunset. 

When we starved at 11 p.m. we decided to go to Newton Food Centre and had seafood! Yeay-ness! 

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And I have my good vibes battery charged for the next whole week.

  

 

Honest Thought

Tomorrow is my birthday, and I can't be thankful enough to express how blessed I am to have such a wonderful life, surrounded by caring and great people, had my chance to meet thoughtful person and most of them teach me many life lessons. I told you that I am a very awkward person and (honestly) not a people person, but I always love birthday party. The small and intimate ones with my best people. I don't think I will celebrate it this year, but one birthday dinner won't hurt, yes?

Anyway, I just came back from....Umrah. And I have to face the (apparently) very common question from people: "How does it feel?"

The very honest answer is that despite the fact that I no longer can wear my not-very-short pants, I am generally blessed, but I also can't say I am willing to wear hijab soon. And I also can't say that I am not sad to give them (my beloved short pants) to others, but that's okay. It's okay now.

And despite that some people expect me to change drastically and wear those long clothes as my daily outfits, I'm sorry I have to say no. Since I haven't 'called' yet and I am not feeling very comfortable wearing those, I just don't want to be a basic hypocrite. To people and especially to myself.

I see Umrah as one of my duties as Moslems, tho. So when people told me that there will be many blessings I get for doing Umrah, I don't think that it will affect me too much. It won't do me any favour if I can't be a better person after.

That's the reason I don't post any of my looks, outfits, or face on my instagram during Umrah to avoid high expectations from others. That, and I honestly don't look nice wearing hijab *tehe*. Oh, and I still love my pinkish hair, so yeah..

Happy New Year 2015 Everyone!

No resolution this year, only solid solutions.

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It's All Paid Off

Hi guys, long time no see. Just read my previous short story, and it was so sad, wondering why i wrote such a story. It's devastating. Today I finished my study at Lasalle. Doesn't feel too much, you know what i mean. Not even relief. It's just weird. But 2 years went so fast, man! It was like yesterday i came to my college orientation day with dorky glasses and very very very ordinary white shirt and jeans. I was sooo nervous and I prayed the night before my orientation to had friends during my study. I usually feel anxious and awkward before attending schools. College didn't make it any different. And chose fashion school like Lasalle didn't make me less anxious and nervous and shy and awkward. Wasn't so excited attending the orientation day, i came anyway. It wasn't as hard as I thought before, but i was very awkward and friend-less. Lol. As you all know i chose Fashion Business as my major and got 1.1 among 3 classes. Tried to blend in awkwardly i kept telling myself that i was so lucky, because we didn't experience massive college drama I always avoid. So, we spent two years together with birthday tradition which i always look for, since everyone (most of everyone) would be there and there were also many sleepless nights to finish our assignments. Got cranky sometimes because i couldn't control myself, and found myself crying because it was just too much. Experienced my first fashion show by winning the tickets from kak Dian Aisyah (Founder of Nine12). Instead of getting two tickets, I got 4 instead. Thank you, kak! hehe.

Lost our assignments during Store Layout subject made me so sad, because I personally didn't enjoy that subject. I wonder how those interior design students could survive without attempting suicide. And I did thank God for letting me pass that subject. And i just can't forget i said yes to be finance manager in Enterprise project since I passed the subjects (Accounting, Budget Planning, and Finance) with very average scores. I wonder ever since. Enterprise project was our mountain of subjects from the first semester. We apparently needed them all to pass Enterprise project. And i couldn't ask for better partners. We were maybe not perfect and but we nailed it. We nailed enterprise project. Working on Fitlosophy was like taking care of our own flesh, you know. One-cute-yet-demanding baby. And i am telling you, it's paid off. Those sleepless nights, those cranky days, those nightmares, those anxious feelings i had, those doubtful thoughts, it's paid off.

To sum everything up, and for awkward girls out there (hoho) shit happens and life never wait for you, oh, and if you think you want to quit and get a husband, just wait a second because there is always pot full of golds at the end of the rainbow. For some people who try to lie to herself and not following her dreams, that's sad because you always have choices to do so. The last, you can never please the whole society. Choose the ones who matter, your life will be so much easier.

Pardon my not camera-able faces, everyone.

FITLOSOPHY BAES 

Press kit for Communication Mix Subject <3

Kucel :(

Let my simple designed skirt worn ;p

Ranee's birthday

Me awkwardly smile at Segarra for my 20th birthday

I found this pic so cute

Kak Diana :D

Photo-shoot for Fitlosophy

Fitlosophy being demanding

Camera Hoggers

Pre-JFW Moment

Christmas dinner with the girls <3

Amen. 

Sama The Label Photo shoot with Kak Putri! :D

At Indonesia Fashion Week 2013

Whole New Level of Protest

It seems impossible for most of everyone to be as creative as Monsieur Karl. I refuse to call him Herr which means 'Mister' in German because all he wants all these years is to be french. I am giving him that, right now. Sometimes I wonder, if beloved Gabrielle Chanel had her chance to experience some people call it 'rebirth' or reincarnation, i bet it would be Monsieur Karl. Too bad Karl was born when Gabrielle went through difficult time for fashion during World War II. For short trivia, her name was never been Coco. Coco was her stage name when she regularly sang a song titled Coco on friday nights long before Chanel empire. Back to 2014, when Karl did make Gabrielle proud. Have you seen Boulevard Chanel? Do you still remember what Karl made for us in Spring/Summer 2013 that took place at Grand Palais with gigantic windmills, two enormous solar panels at the entrance that really support its eco-technological theme? That was huge.

And i found myself wondering what is really going on in Karl's mind? Can he sleep at night? Because if i were him, i won't have time for shower or picking my daily outfit. And now, groundbreaking-ly (is that even a word?) start new season in 2015 by carrying modest idea that somehow suits current circumstance around the world but he aced it anyway. Chanel's Spring/Summer 2015 RTW fashion show brings feminist protest into a whole another level. The protest was led by Cara Delevingne wearing suits and holding quilted megaphone, and followed by Kendall Jenner, Joan Smalls, Eddie Campbell, Gigi Hadid, Charlotte Free Georgia May Jagger, Caroline de Maugret, Toni Gran, and Gisele Bundchen. Who need an army if Karl can get them?