S P O R T

 (part1)

Ok I always exiting about sport, sometime it hard to start but after doing it
hmm happy feeling always surround me (u know like those feeling after 'late sport' at nite kind of feeling :-P) . It just simply make me happy :-)

One particular sport i like to do is swimming, you know why? cos i don't have to get sweat afterward and its very refreshing. So started few weeks ago i usually get up in the morning and start to go swim. It took like 30 minutes from my parents house to the city by car, and i usually go with my cousin, he usually do the driving since my driving license is frozen like 5 years ago :-S.

It's been ages since i swim in this city (where i grew up until i was in high school), so my plan was just hunt the best, pleasant, clean and nice swimming pool.

Hotel zamrud (cost like Rp. 8000,-/person ) too bad i didn't took any pics tho :-S.
Comment : well it's for sure very cheap. Its kind of new (at least this place was not exist in 1994-1997 (when i was in school). This is the place where the student go actually (that's what my nephew said to me), hectic and the water also not very clean -since too many people in there-. The changing room also something i cant really say 'nice'. The shower doesn't work and i can't stop thinking to go home fast.

Apita hotel (cost like Rp. 15.000,-/person )
Comment : The nice thing about this place was quite, it seem no body actually going there at 7.30 in the morning! which is nice since i like it when its quite. I can do my round peacefully without sharing with anyone :-P (except my cousins). The swimming pool is getting old, i mean 15 years ago this place was fantastic, clean, very good maintain etc. Apparently people prefer going to Water Boom behind the hotel (they have the same management), definitely should going there to check that place up for sure. The changing room is dirty (not as dirty as the 1st one but still, it could have been better if they maintain it). I can still took a shower there (even tho i still think they should have to clean it more often). They seem also doing some improvement in male changing room.

Santika Hotel (cost Rp. 50.000/person)
comment : Well price do tell actually. I mean with this price we can access their Fitness center, Sauna and swimming pool. All of this is well maintain. After more than 15 years this place hasn't change a lot. What i like the most is that its clean, the swimming pool is clean, the water is nice, the changing room is perfect. I mean compare to all those 2 above this place is amazing. They even also put the liquid shampoo and soap in the shower. Its kind of remind me of my old Fitness center in Jakarta called "Celebrity Fitness", too bad they didn't have it in my city :-S. Well when i swim here i spent like more than 4 hours, and actually i will spend the whole day if i ever visit again :-P.

(PS. This hotel is also where i spent my wedding nite :-P - maybe that's the reason why i like this hotel so much-)

This is the happy me after :-D
with a blue wig :-P hehe Happy, happy, happy....
btw should going to see other place tho, maybe there will be better place to swim.
keep you posted! ;-)

O S L O

(English pronunciation: /ˈɒzloʊ/, oz-loh,[2] Norwegian pronunciation: [²ʊʃlʊ] ( listen) or [²ʊslʊ]) is a municipality, and the capital and most populous city of Norway.

As of 2010 the metropolitan area of Oslo has a population of 1,442,318, of whom 912,046[8] live in the contiguous conurbation. The population currently increases at record rates, making it the fastest growing city in Europe.

I was there in year 2007 - 2008. This City is memorable.
This city allowed me to experienced stuff i never thought i would ever do.
Introduce me to great, fun, inspiring people like Marte & Erik, and their two adorable babies Gina and Thomas (my ex host family), Mirian, Karen, Carla, rakel, debora (my sweetest latino friends who teach me how was it to have fun - even when we were poor :-P-), and monica (my indonesian friend who never gave up to make her dreams come true).

My friend (right to left) me, carla, karen, miriam

Monica & me

In my 27th Birthday (from R->L) Nancy, Debora, carla, karen, miriam, me and monica

Me, Rakel and miriam

I am so Lucky, that only sentence something i could think of when i remember about this city. It was start of one big friendship, cultural exchanged, being loved and adventure.
i really miss u guys my Beloved Latino's Friends. Hope i can meet you again someday, somewhere...

TI AMUUUUUUU!!!!! :-*

Family Gathering

From this 5 siblings (with their spouse)
- ah well there was 8 more siblings that was not there - :

To this :
(not all present sadly)

We have this gathering every 2 months now, to maintain the relationship.
It kind of difficult to maintain the family line when it start to grew.

I mean everybody are busy with their own life, their own family and problems.

This Gathering brought us together, reminded of all good memories and there one of our cousins also give us some religious enlightment which make this gathering more colorful.



I will be missing this gathering for sure, when i already out from Indo.

Today, 3 years ago.

To my husband Simone Pellegrini.

"Danke! :) Hi, thanks for adding me!
so... you speak German... but really don't look German! I mean you look awesome!
Anyway, before you get pissed off... I am here since September and I am going to live here for a while because my PhD study will take hopefully 3 years! I live in Hottinger... and that's it!

What do you do? I see you are an artist.. that sounds cool! Do you paint... play... sing... what?
I hope to listen from u soon... kisses, Simone"

1st message he sent me. We exchanged our phone number and we meet that saturday in Goldenes Dachl (The Golden Roof. The sun shine even tho it was winter.

It was nice, we just talk and known each other.
I guess the chemistry was always there in the 1st beginning.
I was in such a complicated situation which trapped me for few years,
but he was always there to support me.
Until i decided to embrace the future and let go the past.

It was the best decision i have ever made in my life.
Aku cinta Kamu * Ich Liebe dich * I love U * Ti Amo
Simone Pellegrini

People said once we put it in cyberworld, it will be forever.
I hope our love will be also.

Vintage

vin·tage   [vin-tij]
adjective

1. being of a specified vintage: Vintage wines are usually more expensive than nonvintage wines.
representing the high quality of a past time: vintage cars; vintage movies.
2. old-fashioned or obsolete: vintage jokes.
3. being the best of its kind: They praised the play as vintage O'Neill.

I highlighted the 2nd sentence (not the vintage jokes part :-P) since i LOVE vintage stuff.
Let people think its lame but sometime something classic and old are usually expensive (ex. wine :-P ;-) as the 1st point)

when i made my wedding invitation i want it to be 'Vintage' simple and Romantic feel into it.
After few brainstorming with my friends, i choose this one to be my wedding invitation.

I think it was just different than the common indonesian wedding invitation since i also chose the material with the budget that available (which was very tight :-P).

Inspiration

Let see.
There is plenty blog i have visited to get some inspiration (u know to tickle my mood swing to draw/at least create again) but this few blog really gave me some boost to actually doin it.

better check on this here

this blog belongs to Silke Widjaksono, i dont know her in person but i do know this link make me want to design/draw something :-P.

to get everything in one stop (mostly tutorial, inspiration, daily inspiration etc etc)
i usually go to here

most visited site ever -at least in my case-

and to know (or try) to get project on daily basis
i usually go to here

for exercise usually i go to here


There is a lot debate about using this site. I mean since they give such a low appreciation for designer's creation. I was always be taught in Uni to be Confident, u shouldn't underestimate ur talent, and they (the Client side) also has to give effort on ur thought, ideas and the outcome itself. U cant just sell your logo under $500 for example (especially IF u win the contest) without any assurance that it (ur creation) will not be stolen.

Bandung Makan2 Style

So here is this typical Bandung afternoon with my Solace :-D si mpiet kupit hihih (she is stil available if some nice muslim guys interested ;-) :-P )

Where we will go next time mpiet kupit? :-D

Mad About Shoes

typical woman i guess, but tell me who will say no to this? :-P

its trend last dec/early this year with neon color which i think is very 'interesting' and appealing.

hmm i love this one, leather plus some variation on the bottom

or back to the classic like this one












Ah well like my husband said, i should earn to get stuff that i want :-P hihih i should definitely put it in my dreams book, and working hard (of course) to earn it.

image could find in here

The Red Shoes

Have you ever see this movies? I was into ballet when i was kid. i always get exited to see anything related to ballet and dance. One of them is The Red Shoes. This fairy tale made by Hans Christian Andersen (who didn't know him really?)

There is a dialogue between Lermontov and Vicky, that i like.

Lermontov: Why do you want to dance?
Vicky: Why do you want to live?
Lermontov: Well, I don't know exactly why, but... I must.
Vicky: That's my answer too.



I haven't really find something that make me think like vicky does.
hmm it will be much simple tho, knowing exactly what u love and follow it.

The movie itself is quite tragic (just like i like it :-P hehe),
at the end someone die and no happy ending haha Lol .. Classic!





Wow look what i ve got. While searching for the original movie of The red shoes that was made in 1948, i found a movie with the same tittle but its HORROR movie!! a korean Horror movie inspired by the same story , AWESOME! :-P




Should get this movie for sure! - even i know i kinda late since it was produced in 2005, D**M!!

ART

art    [ahrt]
noun
1. The quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.
2. The class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria; works of art collectively, as paintings, sculptures, or drawings: a museum of art; an art collection.
3. A field, genre, or category of art: Dance is an art.
4. The fine arts collectively, often excluding architecture: art and architecture.
5. Any field using the skills or techniques of art: advertising art; industrial art.

somehow i felt like its my blood. Always exiting to see something 'interesting' while surfing on the net or in the street. Enjoying and creating is totally different form, i mean u can enjoy but u cant really creating it or not everybody could enjoy your 'art'.

I was always love to draw some nude sketches with live model (took some art class when i was in Bamberg and Oslo). I should start to draw again! i miss it but it just somehow difficult to start something again after awhile :-P. SEMANGAT!!

The Marriage Life

So it happened. we got (At last) married after 2 years 9 months 4 days.
It was a simple wedding, yet still beautiful, intimate and sacred (with little extra additional visitor), no complicated tradition since we are into simplicity (thanks god my family quite liberal about this - usually indonesian will spend a lot of time for traditional tradition which is also good but time and money consuming - which we didn't have :-P )

Here is the common ceremony of the wedding in indo.

And Here is the family pics with The Brides.

We might also celebrate it in my husband's family place around summer,
but haven't really planned yet.

there was funny stories that few of my friends from work (Jakarta)- also my ex boss - and college (Bandung) told me in order to get to my wedding (since it held in my home town - like 3,5 hours from Jakarta by train, 5 hours from bandung by car -). They have to catch the train in order to get back home at night, they didn't have chance to enjoy the foods (poor them :-( ).
I really appreciated it. YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST!!

After 2 months and 23 days getting married i was only 'enjoy' it for few days.
The paperwork stuff turned out need more time than we expected, cos he is studying in Austria. All my documents has to legalize 2x in some government office and austrian embassy to prove its validity and translated to german (and also has to go trough the same things as before) and then after it all finished i can start to apply for the visa stuff (which might took like 2 - 3 months).
Sigh ...

Na ja, so if i got asked by my friend's "hey lia, how is the married life?"
i will just said this...