Balada Si Jara

Weekend kemaren akhirnya (terpaksa) beres-beres rumah, termasuk beresin sepatu-sepatu yg bertumpuk (padahal yang dipake mah itu-itu lagi). Teringat punya satu sepatu yang gw sukaaaa banget tapi udah menyedihkan nasibnya. Pertama kalinya punya sepatu dari merk favorit yg harganya makin sini makin gak make sense (tapi tetep usaha nabung biar bisa beli).

I don't know why, tapi dari dulu gak pernah bisa nemu sepatu yang warnanya item yang terlihat bagus di kaki gw unless gw pake kaos kaki putih kaya jaman sma dulu. Until I met si black shiny Jarah. Ujungnya lancip, tapi nggak lebay kaya yg udah gw liat di toko2 sepatu lainnya, mengkilaaap jadi bersihinnya gak susah, fit on me, flat for sure, lagi diskon, dan pas pula buat ngantor. Dibeli lah itu sepatu three years ago. Setia menemani sampe gw pindah lagi ke Bandung. Tau dong ya, trotoar di Bandung ngga user friendly banget. Ditambah lagi gw kalo jalan ngga indah sama sekali. Look what I've done to si Jara:

(liat ujung2nya.. sediiiih yak)

Padahal bahannya masih bagus loh, diliat dari atas pun masi bagus,

(ya kan? masi terlihat bagus kan?)

Sebenernya, kalo keadaannya nggak kaya foto di bawah ini, si Jara tu masi enak dipake dan pasti masih gw pake sekarang (walopun agak malu makenya kalo ngeliat ujung2 depannya yg menyedihkan itu).

Tapi yah, apa daya. Akhirnya harus berpisah juga sama tu sepatu. Byebye Jara..

It's On!!

Since I've announced that I'm getting married this year. Maybe it's fine to share what I've been dwelling for the last couple months. Google, facebook and weddingku have been my most opened pages lately. Tambah cranky? Gausah nanya, pastinya begitu. Actually preparing all of these perintilan nikahan is lotta fun. Reading others preparation on their wedding on their blogs really is amusing. I'm even unintentionally gasping as I saw friend's wedding pics on my news feed facebook. But when it comes to the cost and the fact semua orang terlibat di dalemnya, not to mention about adat dan tradisi. Those things: SUCK.

Yeah, I know, bride-to-be will always has to deal with many many many problems, then grumble about it. I guess I've to start re-arrange my time to do yoga, it sounds relieving.

Until now, progress yang ada baru wedding ring. Kenapa? Karena ini belinya ga butuh other's opinion, only my preference and nemo's (ng, I mean, my preference then nemo said ok). About D-day and tanggal lamaran resminya pun baru dibahas and baru fix minggu lalu. Time's moving too fast and my family and I are moving too slowly. Double sigh. However, now my weekend agenda is always fully booked. Test food, survey kebaya, ketemu perias, and so on. No more santai-santai on weekend. That also means I've to force myself to move my butt off my bed every Saturday & Sunday morning. Hiks.

Alright, I'll post the rest later, I'm getting sleepy at the moment. Wish me luck on this, please.. :)

2011

(this was actually taken last year)

Happy new year!!!

Hahaaa.. I know.. I know.. It’s been a little to late saying that line. :D

Been a while I didn’t write anything since the last post I made. Sure there’s so much things happened, and so much things to tell you about my silly life. But yeah, my laziness beat my tiny effort to write. Hehee..

Enough with the prelude. A new year for me is nothing but opening a new page on the novel I read. I’m one of those typical persons who don’t make any resolution for the next 365 days. It’s better the way it is. Just like Karina Ratnamurti said on her post, “why set yourself up to disappointment?” That’s exactly what I always have in mind. No resolution for the sake of my own secureness.

About my new year's eve party, it's all boring. No barbeque party, no family gathering, no bloated belly for the too much food, no pictures taken just like the last two years. Just my parents, my sister, and I, in front of television, switching channels for there were many good movies aired. We're not even saying 'happy new year' to each other, and went to bed early. Oh, well, actually my sister and I did watch fireworks over our room's window, and saying happy new year to each other..at the bed. Yeah. Quite a way celebrating new year.

Anywaaay, I still haven't gotten a new job, means I still have to wait to be in the same city with my nemo :( But yes, there's a relieving story, alhamdulillah, my family and nemo's family had met each other, and yes, we're indeed getting married. :)

Oh! Nooo..

Huff. What a day. Hari ter-tidakbersemangat ditambah mood yg udh kaya roller coaster. Plus rasa kantuk yang juga berlebihan. (_ _")

To complete my day, celana bahan yg udh bertahun-tahun menemaniku bekerja, pake acara jahitannya robek sajaah di bagian pahanya sekitar 10cm. Uhuhuhuuu.. Panic attacked. What to do.. What to do.. I didn't bring any safety pin (padahal di rumah ada segudang). Sempet berpikir, cuek aja gitu yah, harusnya kan ga ada yang nyadar. Mmmh, tapi setelah diperhatikan baik-baik. Kalo lagi jalan, terlihaaaaaattt jelaaaaas. Hiks. Tapi berkat teman seperkantoranku yang cantik baik hati dan idenya luar biasa, setidaknya hari ini tidak berakhir mengenaskan. Akuuu selamaaaat!!! ;p

On behalf of my colleague, here's a tip for you, if your pants happened to be like mine today.

As you can see it on the pic above, you can easily guess what did i use in substitute of safety pin. Yup. It's a stapler. Jahitan yang lepasnya tinggal di-stapler ngikutin jelujur benangnya. Easy dan aman. Beres deh. Selamat sampe pulang ke rumah. Hihihiii.

Penny

Here's a quote, mmh, a poem suits it more, I think. Accidentally found it in a boring book ;p

Never ask of money spent
Where the spender thinks it went
Nobody was ever meant
To remember or invent
What he did with every cent

-Robert Frost, The Hardship of Accounting
via Lyn M. Fraser, Understanding Financial Statements

Korban Iklan Part II

Yuhuuu.. Back to this ice cream. Now with different flavor. Chocolate Truffle. Indeed, this one is so much better than a classic one. You really should try it.

A perfect match for hot sunny day (owh, it's melting!)

Pangandaran dan sekitarnya

About my last vacation to Pangandaran. Here's the review. Due to my laziness, I just finished this review by now, should've wrapped it weeks ago. Lemme start with the accommodation. My family and I were staying at Laut Biru Resort Hotel. It's located at Pantai Barat Pangandaran. For those who have never been there, Pangandaran is a bay -if I may say so-, it has two coasts, East and West. If you wanna see sunrise, then go to the east, and vice versa if you wanna see sunset.

Okay, back to Laut Biru. Since it was a family trip, I didn't know for sure about the hotel's rate per night. All I know was, my Dad told me that if someday I went to Pangandaran, just stay at that place. One room costs approximately IDR 500K per night (it consists of two king size beds, a TV, an AC, a porch outside the room complete with small coffee table and two chair, a bathroom with toilet, hot-cold shower, a bathroom sink and a quite huge mirror). Oh I forget to tell ya, it includes breakfast for 4 (four) persons. You really can share that big room with your buddies! There's also a swimming pool and a jacuzzi (which I forgot to take pics of 'em).

Oh! Here's a suggestion for you, don't choose a room with beach view, cos what you're only gonna see is this:

For food, just go to Pantai Timur. Find Pasar Ikan, in that place, you can find quite many of seafood restaurant. By mean restaurant, please save yourself from expecting it to be fancy, but I can assure you those seafood 'family' are fresh (sure they are, it's next to the sea *rolling my eyes*), its taste quite so-so, a bit far from authentically Balinese seafood yet it successfully made my belly bloated.

I don't think there's much to do at Pantai Pangandaran, but yes, you can ride an ATV, do water sports just like in Bali, watch sunset and sunrise, and eat fresh seafood. Or you can rent a bike, and ride around the coasts. But don't expect some crowd here. My cousins and I went for dinner around 8 pm, and outside our hotel was somehow quiet, not many stores and cafes around there, hmm, I don't think there were any (hotel cafes aren't included). There were lots of hotel and motel vacancies also, which explains the tranquil night. So you better have many traveling buddies to avoid the dullness.

To watch sunrise, you need to make sure your visit wasn't in the rainy season, cos when it's gloomy, there's nothing you could see. Only dramatic clouds above the offshore. Sure it's still a beautiful view, indeed. But watching sunrise is something cannot be replaced, don't you think? That's why I promise myself to chase another sunrise. Soon. *crossingfingers*

gloomy sunrise at Pantai Timur Pangandaran

Alright, back to my suggestions, if you're wandering at both beach, East and West, somebody will offer you a visit to Pasir Putih. Just say yes, it's near from both beach, and will only take few minutes to get there. But don't forget to bargain the trip fee. You're gonna sail by traditional boat, each boat can only consist of five persons plus the driver (or whatever they're supposed to be called). The water is clear, you can actually swim or do snorkling around Taman Laut.

a glimpse of Pasir Putih

If you had quite a lot of spare time, you might wanna do another sightseeing at natural reservation at Pasir Putih beach. I heard there's an interesting cave inside it.

Another destination worth seeing near Pangandaran:

at Sungai Cijulang, way to Green Canyon

-taken from my sister's photo album-

super fun and thrilled, too bad the water run too swiftly, I didn't have that too much guts to swim ;p

-taken from my sister's photo album-

Cukang Taneuh, known as Green Canyon, it's like a river with beautiful green forest view on the left and right side. I sort of felt like I was at somewhere in Kalimantan, wondering when that Anaconda would emerge and eat us all. Okay, kidding, there are only (ONLY??) small snakes and biawak (small crocodiles), according to site's guide.

Batu Karas, here's another beach near Green Canyon, I don't know why many of my friends are falling in love with this place, cos I prefer Pasir Putih to it. Maybe because of its huge wave, I heard it's one of the best place to surf.

Batu Karas, Cijulang

PS: our guide at Green Canyon said there's one hidden beach not far from it. He said a foreigner found it and not many people aware of it (including me and my family). UNFORTUNATELY, I forgot the name of that hidden beach. Shoot. I think it's sort of sounded like BulakBenda. Maybe. Sorry.