To whom it may concern

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You can play that song because this post will gonna be so boring. And stupid. I warn you. Or maybe you can play Amon Amarth's songs, they are awesome and Amon Amarth itself sounds so cool, haha. Or Death Cube K, I love Death Cube K because it's f--king Death Cube K! Or maybe this delish food.

Remember, I've been warning you. You can skip to the end of this post anyway.

It was just like yesterday when I ordered Hazelnut coffee and asked the barista to write down "Happy birthday!" and a heart symbol in it—but it turned out to be only "HBD" and bird-like heart (I was so mad with the barista back then, but still, I posted it to Instagram). Do you remember? It was 2 years ago, right in this day. When we haven't adopted Bubu and Zooey. When I haven't been able to ride motorbike. When you haven't bought that barely-worn big black boots. But you know, I've loved you back then, since the prior years, up until now and later.

Bird-like heart. Why?
And do you know what the most thing that I love about you? The way way that you make me laugh. To be honest, it's effortless to have a conversation with you and it's always enjoyable. Remember when we talked about giant insects, laughed at Skyline (what's wrong with that movie?), made fun of others or any random stuffs? Oh, even if I was mad at you, I couldn't help it but laughing. You are always funny and hilarious; it's like you can always brighten up my gloomy days. I love your spontaneous jokes and I don't wanna lose that, ever. Sometimes, I wonder whether you've been abducted by alien, traveled through times via wormholes and gotten shot with some exo-galactic serums or such. But who's gonna abduct you anyway.

We've been through a pretty hard times, had been in long distance relationship. And it was pretty awful. Whenever I missed you I could only hear your weird voice, even internet connection was so shitty back then that we couldn't have video call very often, haha. Thank God it's over. Now I am thankful for our little life and journey that we are on, for every happiness and time we've spent together. Thank you for accompanying me, for always be there. Thank you for being care of me, for being my best friend. Thank you for loving me and thank you for always being you.

Us.
Umm, after all, let me say happy 25th birthday to you! Yeay! I wish you get all the happiness in the world. I hope that you'll have a successful life and can make your dreams come true (I'm very sure you do if you are focus on it!). Be kinder and always stay humble. May you and I can always stay together and get the best that life offers. Amen.

I love you.

xo

Wishlist #1

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Once my bff said that if she wished for something and wrote it down, it would be came true in a short period. Hmmm.. I don't really believe it actually, I mean, how come, right? Sometimes, she doesn't write it down but also using the picture of thing she wants as profile picture, lol, and last time I saw her social media account, her profile picture was Guess handbag. Guys, please lend me your help to pray that hopefully she'll get that handbag soon. Okay, let's try her 'method'!

Well, this is my list.
  1. ONE OK ROCK concert ticket. Oh my gosh, I looove this band, Taka is really good at singing and his English pronunciation isn't bad at all. Toru, Tomoya and Ryota are awesome, too. They'll go to Jakarta this month as a part of their "Who are you?? Who are we??" Asian tour. Unfortunately, I can't go to their concert. I have to save my money for more important things.

    C.h.a.o.s.m.y.t.h.; one of my favorite songs
  2. New paid TV subscription. Aora TV sucks! I've been subscribing to Aora TV for like 1,5 years. Suddenly, from 1 November, they changed the package without any confirmation in advance and some of my favorite channels―Fox Crime, Animax, National Geographic Music, SyFy―are missing! I currently watch Dexter, Hunter X Hunter, Twilight Zone, etc. And what I like about NGM is they play non-mainstream music. Justin Bieber, One Direction, The Wanted and some, yeah, artists like that are not my cup of tea. Now, I'm beyond angry to Aora TV! Sigh.
    I've already considered Telkomvision Prime Family, Telkomvision Prime Style, Big TV Sun and Indovision Venus but I still cannot decide which one will I subscribed.

  3. Nail polishes. There's no "too much" for nail polishes. I have like more than 30 of it and I always feel that it's still not enough. When I see #NOTD posts in instagram, I'm like "Oh, look at those beautiful colors, this one looks like candy, this one looks so elegant, this red color is so classic while mine are too dark/too bright/too red/too vibrant/too-whatever-i-just-need-a-new-friggin-nail-polish!"  I always wish I have all shade of nail polish from #000000 to #FFFFFF (hexadecimal color code). Haha! Well, at least I have to have this. Soon. Very soon.

    Nail Polishes Wishlist
  4. Hoodie I want that hoodie which worn by Bert McCracken in this video. It's really cute!

    You can see the hoodie at 0:11
    5. I don't know where to buy it. But, any hoodie in grey or black will be okay actually. But―again, hahaha― Bert McCracken is so hot that polka-dot hoodie is sooo cute!

  5. Some money to fix my digital rebel. I haven't can't use my DSLR cam for almost 4 months because it was suddenly blank. I couldn't turned it on. I went to Sinar Photo (authorized Datascrip collecting point) and they told me that my cam had to be sent to Jakarta to be checked by Datascrip staff, it costs  ± IDR 400k, for repairing, maybe it would be IDR 1,2mio or more. Ugh! Then I brought my cam to RTC Jln. Diponegoro. And you know what, when a staff trying to turned on my cam, it worked. So, I just buy a spare charger because he said that maybe my charger wasn't work properly, so my battery was like discharge quickly. On the next week, I went to Senggigi, Lombok (will post about it later), after taking few pictures and change the mode from landscape to manual, my cam kept beeping. I tried to force turning it off by replacing the battery and you know what, from then, it can't be turned on again. Frig.
Hope my wishes come true asap. So what's on your wishlist?

Review: Shopping at Zalora Indonesia

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Hello people! It's like about months ago since I wrote my last post. I know that I'm lazy and right now I wouldn't make an excuse. I remember when I made this blog. I said to myself that I will share my experiences, write it down and post it regularly, at least I will write an article per month. But the reality is, my blog is like an empty desert. Yeah, apparently my spirit could fade easily. On the other hand, there are a lot of fellow bloggers who can continue making a good writings/articles and post more than 5 of it per month. It wows me. A lot.
Well, yeah...
No one hates shopping. I think shopping is in the 2nd place of guilty pleasure. Number one is eating that salty fatty juicy delicious Chicken Cordon Bleu when we are on  diet. Hahaha... Well, I, in fact, hate when I pay for something, hehehe, but I love it the process of shopping itself. Do you get it? But no matter how much we spend our money for shopping, please keep our financial in  good condition. My mom once told me, "If you want to buy something, remember 2 things. First, you need it. Second, you can afford it." I always remember what my mom said but couldn't do it anyway, lol. Yeah, sometimes we just can hold that desire for having that new stuff, feel it, smell it and using it for the first time. That's feel so great. Well, is it just me? ; )

I can add Chicken Cordon Bleu pic, can't I? ; )
In here, Indonesia, there's a store called Zalora, which is the biggest online in this country. It is pretty much similar to Zappos (US) or Zalando (UK). Beside Indonesia, Zalora also available in some another countries in Asia; Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Zalora Indonesia offers a broad selection of items, like clothing, bag, purse, shoes, beauty product, perfume and even some sportswear. The targeted market are everyone; women, men and kids. In here, you can find both of international and local brands, like Nine West, Hush Puppies, Aigner, Atypical, Sweet Batik, Nefertiti and hundreds more. I think I will make the longest blog post ever if I write the whole brands down.
Shopping at Zalora is as easy as one two three. Just select the items and its size, add it to cart then checkout the items. After that you'll be asked to log into your account, but if you've never shop at Zalora before, just sign up for a new account. Don't forget to subscribe to the newsletter, because by subscribing it, you'll receive an email contains of coupon code that worth for IDR 75,000. Yay! It's pretty great, isn't it? That coupon code can be used if you spend more than or as much as IDR 300,000
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Zalora Indonesia home page (Zalora.co.id)
Zalora provides 3 kind of payment methods; bank transfer, credit card or COD (cash on delivery). Aha, have I mentioned that they offer free nationwide delivery? That's what I love the most from this store. They state ìt on their website that deliveries will take about 2 - 6 days. Two weeks ago my friend bought a pair of shoes and just need 2 days from Jakarta to Bali for delivery. And last week I bought 2 tops, 1 short and a pair of shoes and the items is received one week later. Well, it's okay for me because it isn't too different with the time frame.
Sometimes, shopping online is like a gambling. We haven't known yet about items' conditions. I mean, there is photo and product description but it doesn't give 100% guarantee that the items look exactly like the picture. Thankfully, Zalora provides free return in 7 days. What a relieve ;-) 

Some cute stuffs at Zalora Indonesia:
- Surfer Girl Apparel S/S Romper Green
- Palomino Chelsea Handbag
- Tucked In Stingray Octagonal Bracelet
-Nine West Wispy Flats Sandals
So here's my conclusion about this store:
Pros:
- broad selection of items
- free delivery
- free return
- easy to search some particular items

Cons:
- shipping is kinda slow
- dispatch time is also slow (based on my latest experience; I make payment at June 26 and they send my items at June 29)

Repurchase from this store again? Yes! Especially on the sale season ; )

Location: Bali, Republic of Indonesia

What's up, february!

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Hello people! : )

Happy Chinese new year! Well, okay I'm late about a week, but still, welcome to the year of the snake. My shio (also called Chinese Zodiac) is snake too and some says when the year and your shio is matched, you're gonna have a bad luck on that year. I've read a prophecy from Suhu Yo--a famous Fengshui expert in my country--that on this year, people whose snake shio will financially down and because of it they'll often get headache -_- Well, I don't believe on prophecy anyway.

Since I moved to Bali, Chinese new year isn't a wow anymore. In my hometown, where a lot of Chinese live there, Chinese new year is like a big day. There are festival, barong-sai dance, and also the yummy kue keranjang. Even though, I'm not a Chinese--and none of my relatives are--every Chinese new year we always have kue keranjang at home. My mom's friend said that there's a philosophy behind the sweet taste and shape of this food, Chinese believe that it is a symbol of happiness, confidence and harmony for a year ahead. Fyi, celebrating Chinese new year in my country is prohibited and against the law until ex-president Abdurrachman Wahid allowed it on 2000.

Kue Keranjang
Barongsai Dance
Barongsai dance above the water

Ouh, I almost forget that 3 days ago is also Valentine's day! Happy Valentine's day for you guys! And happy Halloween for some of you, hahaha. In my country, which most of the citizen are Muslim, Valentine's day always be a controversy; some peoples think that celebrating Valentine's day is deviated because it's like we commemorate St. Valentine's death and celebrating Valentine's day is originally a Christians culture. Moreover, they think that Valentine's day will be an excuse for teenager doing forbidden sex. Others think that Valentine's day is fine, it's just a special day when we express love to our lover, family or someone else. Pros and cons are normal in every situation. Just hoping nobody gets hurt because of its.

Well, for me, Valentine's day is just another average day because love can be expressed anytime, explicitly or just by some implicit action. The special things about Valentine's day are free chocolate! I got some chocolate snack from my besties at lunch time. I also got a venti cafe mocha and a NY cheese cake--which I prefer better than chocolate bar--from my bf. Holy sweet feline's God!

So, what's up, February? February is FUN!!

New Year, New Hopes

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Happy new year, guys! I know I'm late for 10 days :D

My new year celebration is not special, I went to bed early and didn't even do the countdown and see fireworks party. I got a lot invitation from my friends to go to some parties at some club or bars but, well, I'm just too damn tired at that moment. And, yeah, I had a tummy-ache because I ate too much at the evening. My boyfriend's dad made a ton of sate lilit, which is one of super mega ultra delicious foods in this universe, so yeah I couldn't control my greedy animalistic tummy. Hahaha..


Sate lilit
Sate lilit, whoaa, so damn sexy..!
But even my new year celebration sucks, but yes, I do make a lot of wishes for this years. Some of them is just upgrades or renewal of my resolution at 2012. Well, 2012 itself is such a huge year for me. My health condition is pretty well, thank God for it. Oh, and I got a promotion also, learned a lot of subject from the experts, pet 2 kitties, met so many new friends and hanging out with them. I'm not such a homey girl with an awkward social life but since I moved to Bali, I rarely hung out with my friends. I love them!

I hope that 2013 will be more fantastic. Just like any other people, I hope that what have been going well on 2012 will be better and what I messed up last year will be solved this year. In particular points, these are my resolution on 2013.
  1. Educate myself. I want to continue my study actually, I want to study Physics and Math again, playing with numbers, solve some puzzles, I think it'll be fun. Or maybe I can take a foreign language course, or photography or drum or whatever as long as I can learn a new thing.
  2. Spend less, save more, invest more and more. This needs a lot and big effort of course, because I just can't say no to sale, hahaha :D Sometimes, I buy any stuffs that I actually do not need it because it's on sale. And after it, I just like 'Oh God why did I buy this crap? I should save it for my future for bla bla bla because bla bla...'
  3. Live healthily. More fruits, complex carbos, vegetables, proteins, and any other good things. Less caffeine, sugar, salty snacks, junk food and fried thingy. And yeah, I have to exercise more!
  4. Behave nicer to other people : ) 
  5. Read more books! Oh I have a lot of book list that I want to read on Goodreads. I wish I read more than 50 books (fiction and non-fiction) this year.
  6. Giving more to the community
  7. Buy a new stove because my old one is destroyed by my kitties.
  8. TBA
I hope I can make my wishes come true. Wish me luck! : )

Bring Your Own Coffee Cup !

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Hola people! : )

First, a very merry Christmas to you all! May joy and peace light our path to our better upcoming days. May us be wiser and smarter to react & solve any problems at the future. May Santa aware of his obesity. May all bad peoples get their karma soon.

Speaking about bad peoples & Christmas, there were some dumbf*cks in my country, Indonesia, named themselves as FPI (Front Pembela Islam; en: Islam Defenders Front), who'd like to ruin Christmas mass in Ungaran—a city in Central Java province. The worst thing is they accused Christians degrading Islam because Christmas mass were held not so far from a mosque. Insane, right? I'm not insulting any Moslems by write about it, I just think that this organization is TOO arrogant and intolerant.  >:-\

Ummm, now let's talk about the main reason why I write this post.Well, we all must know visual.ly. This website provides like a ton of infographics. Yeah, they shared a lot of useful information in an interesting poster, so there's no reason to not read it. And today I found this. It shows us how much we pollute our environment by using a disposable plastic/paper coffee cup. Check it out!

Bring your own coffee cup
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 So, what do you wait for? Bring your own coffee cup! : )

Late Night Talks

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A few months ago there's a song that played over and over again on every radio station and TV channel in my country. It's pretty much lovey dovey, very easy listening and typical Top 40 song. I could hear this song like 20 times a day! No kidding. A couple lives next door also seems like this song so much and they played this song repeatedly. And guess what, it gives me a very long & strong effect that the last line is still stuck in my head until now. Gosh...

Rumor - Butiran Debu

The original last line is 'aku tanpamu butiran debu' which literally means 'i am just a dust without you'. Well, I have a better line... 

Yeah, I instagram it...

"I am just flour without you..." said the Cupcake to the Egg. Romantically absurd! -___-

Aye Earth!

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Aye! I'm not a pirate. Don't get me wrong with my words.
This is like my tenth or maybe eleventh blog--well, I don't know exactly. My other blogs is stranded away far from any updates. Some of them contain cheesy things that I, myself, feel so stupid when open it up. I also have a tumblr here but I'm not really into tumblr because of that reblogs and *.gif stuffs.
Should I describe myself in this first post?
Okay, just let's do that. I'm twenty-something female who has a high enthusiasm of doing nothing. No joking! I mean, I'm doing pretty good when I work, I sometimes also take some pictures, travel, read some thriller novels, learn how to play guitar (I don't have any talent in it..), do aerobics or HIIT workouts, etc but I love to waste my time watching crime serial and take a nap with my 2 kitties--Blu and Zooey.
I love rock music, any kind of it. Buckethead and Queen are my favorite!
Well, that's a short description about me. You'll know me more for sure because I'll write my blog as what-so-called diary.
Here, I give you 3 potatoes : )