hi everyone,

yes, it's been a while since my last post, but i have to say that i have been working non-stop since then. on school, work, personal life etc etc etc!

but just to catch up for not updating my blog, here's a list of what i did or still doing lately,

1.

finished my bachelor degree on visual communication design (graduated cum laude, praise God! seriously!)

2.

taking the studio thirteen project to another level!

ze boyfie and i rented a place and make it our official office :D

see the pics!

3.

turned 25 last july

4.

working day and night juggling a couple of projects.

5.

learning new things and taking a more challenging projects that are definitely out of my comfort zone! which is a really good thing.

so, that's about it. not much i know, but i have been feeling more than grateful that im standing where i am today. i promise, when i got more free time i'll post more stories and pics and what not.

see you soon :)

xx

i'm not so much of a foodie, but when in comes to good food, good restaurant and good service, i'll stick to the same place for quite sometimes.

around 3 weeks ago after getting my hair permed, rolo, my brothers, santi and i decided to try out this new tiny restaurant my brother told me about in kemang, Pasta Basta. we had no idea what their menus (pasta obviously, but what kind of pasta) and price range were. when we stepped in, the place was really small yet really cozy and comfortable. i fell in love instantly. we sat down and asked for the menu. the owner's girlfriend was serving us and told us that Pasta Basta is a single menu restaurant that only serve spaghetti basta (their family's recipe since 1962) in two size, regular and jumbo. we ordered the regular size each.

the pasta was great! i mean really, my family knows good food especially dutch food and pasta (my dad is dutch and used to work at a french restaurant & really good at cooking), so growing up i'm really picky when it comes to food. we always have our own recipe for everything, you name it. so i am a mean judge when it comes to types of food that im really familiar with, but i have to say Pasta Basta's spaghetti was really good, even beats my dad's recipe. i've always loved home cooking, and Pasta Basta's food is definitely tasted like one.

another thing that made me love this place, is the people in it. everyone there really take good care of their customers, they asked simple question like "how's everything?" or chat with us and made us feel welcomed in their restaurant. they even shared their cigarettes to rolo and i, because we were out of cigs. it felt like we were eating at a cousin's house and everyone is family. isn't that a wonderful thing?

Pasta Basta is definitely a great place and it got my full recommendation. seriously, i've been coming there everyday for the last three days :p i can't stop eating them good pasta! :D

more pics:

to check out my review on the restaurant for deux connection, click here

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ps: rolo and i got a new tattoo done a week ago. here's a glimpse of our new tattoos

impulsivity has been my very dear friends through out the years of my life

doing something so spontaneously can really turn my life downside up :p

just like the recent event when i suddenly feel the massive urge of getting a curly hair!

i act on it that very moment

and voila..

i have curly hair now !!!!

yesterday, my brother's girl, santi asked me whether i want to get my hair perm or not. i thought 'hells yea'! rolo and i first picked up my youngest brother (dado) and went straight to santi's house. her mother is the one that did my hair, she is a pro. whilst twirling my hair with the clipper and the chem, she told me how she first started in the pampering industry. she started in '83, used to have a big salon (trend salon) right across maxie and got a real degree on hairstyling, cosmetics and everything related to it. it was a pleasure hearing her stories while she was doing my hair.

as if the perming wasn't enough trouble for santi's mom, dado managed to say it out loud that he wants to go bald, a second later rolo and i grabbed an old clipper, and shaved dado's hair vigorously. the clipper was really old, so it didnt really work. rolo ended up cutting dado's hair with scissor, acted like he knows what to do and making patches all over dado's head. it was a mess, both in the house and on my brother's head. hahaha. good thing after santi's mom is done dealing with my hair, she shaved dado's hair with a new clipper and saved his day.

it was really really fun getting to know and hanging out with santi's family, my newly extended family. sorry tante for the mess, but thank you for everything :D

anyhoo,

i feel like a new person, a more fun side of me has sprang up!

i love my hair!

what do you think?

:D

p.s :

long, medium, mushroom and boy's haircut

tried it all, but never a curled hair..thats why i love my perm so much..

death is an inevitable cycle of life

unless you want to end up like merryl streep and goldie hawn in the living dead ha ha

yes, when i'm in awkward situations i tend to make a bad joke, sorry

when dealing with deaths, i never know how to react. while normally people have 5 stages of grieves, i only have 2, denial and anger. the passing of my late uncle (brother of my mom) definitely made a big impact in my big family. he was the one who glued our family together (in his own funny ways), especially after the death of my dear grandfather.

i thought i can go into details sharing this story, but turns out i still can't. to picture back to the day he passed makes me feel fragile. i'll tell you how i remember him tho' :D

whenever our family hang out, in a restaurant or in my grandma's house, he would tell the same old story but it still cracks us up, we never grow tired of it. he has a gift of telling a story and making jokes. and he's the kind of 'tell it like it is' guy, so when we have some annoying family members, he always backed us up and made fun of them. aside from his jokes and stories, he had talents for music. he can't play any instruments, but he had an ear for a good sound. sound engineer, producer, song writer he was it. one of my favorite songs that he made is 'gelora asmara', definitely one of his best works.

i also remember how he was really protective of his family. this one time, my unc', auntie (his wife) and i went out to buy a handphone together. while i was looking at some booth my auntie stood behind me and my uncle next to her. out of nowhere this rude guy carrying a big box cut his way through the line, and the box knock into my auntie's face. my unc' asked the guy to apologize, but he blamed my auntie for getting in his way (stupid idiot). without any warning, my unc' landed a jab on his face and told the the guy to apologize. the guy apologized and ran away. people were clapping their hands and i thought 'wow, how cool was that! he just smack that guy to defend his wife!', it was awesome :p

i'm happy that i have good memories of him, some bad ones too, but it just made the good memories even better :D

i hope your flight to the afterlife is pleasant, oom igor.

give my hugs to ompung papa & tante bora.

i will miss your jokes & stories.

requiescat in pace

i'm using my iPhone again..

it's fun, fun, fun!!