Tuesday 14 August 2012

“ You don’t take a photograph, you make it. - Ansel Adams


Hello people! How’s life? Mine pretty went well, so I hope yours too.  Is it just me or July really went by so fast?  and August too! We already in the middle of the month! Crazy time is crazy. Huff so I’ve been busy the whole week, there’s some project who need my full attention and of course school too. Oh how I miss holiday!
Ohh talking about holiday, my last holiday is superb! No, I’m not going anywhere, just stay home, but I manage to practiced some of my skills ( and yes singing definitely not one of it, hahaha I fully accept my fate that singing isn’t for me hahaha ) so in that long free time,  one of the skills I’ve been brushing is my photography skill. It’s been dusty the whole time, it’s quite sad because I have so much fun when I’m taking pictures, because photos are like magic! It kept one moment and freezes it, with one snap, just like that! *snapping my fingers and you can memorize it forever. Magical! That’s why I love taking good pictures, so one day when I become a grandma I can show all photos I took to my grandchild (Showing it off actually.. hehehe) and show them all those priceless moment back days.
I’ve been reading some books about photography too, and trust me the more you read the more you realize that you know nothing, it’s frustrating but in some way it pumps you adrenaline to learn more and more. Ah my hands itchy already to grab my camera and start clicking.
I’m so lucky, everyone in my family loves photography and they pretty good at it so I got my sisters and my dad to asked, because trust me whoever think that photography is all about fancy camera and no need for skill is fully wrong and bullshit, oh yes I’m not saying it’s not affected the photos, it does, but no matter how expensive your camera is and how great your lenses are if you know nothing about it, it will be flat pictures, no emotion, no nothing. Not to mention about technics, aperture, shutter speed and all those crazy things cannot be learned overnight.

“You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.”
― Ansel Adams

Another things that make me think that I’m crazy lucky is that as a very newbie I often got the chance to be assistant photographers, imagine that!  Get pay, got more knowledge and more practices, what can be more awesome than that right? However until now I do not dare call myself a photographer… well not yet maybe… because well I’m amateur, a very green one, so now I just thinking myself as a person who loves and crazy in love with photography and that was it.

“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
Susan Sontag

And oh as a assistant photographer it’s been several times my client recognize me as fashion blogger, hehehe that is so sweet and funny, they keep asking me to teach them how to pose ( which I’m really crappy at….) Well because of that as a  dedicated fashion blogger I think I got reputation to keep hahaha, so I always taking pictures with style hehehe. So here’s some of my style. Like I said, I have reputation to keep.
By the way I’ve been obsessed with this two outer from PICNIC SHOP, it really goes well with everything! Well I’ve been obsessed with their whole collection, I just went to their new store in Gandaria city last weekend and I spent like hours there, I truly madly deeply want it all! Seriously I’m in my candy land there. All the cool pattern, blazer! All cool blazers! Androgyny, edgy, girly, they got it all in one store! Super new love! And the best part is, they got webstore! So there’s no need to fuzz about traffic jam and everything, well with my crazy schedule I can barely going anywhere, so their picnic webstore is heaven for me! You can check their online store in this link, but trust me you will want all the stuff! Don’t tell me I don’t warn you. hahahaa











like I told you this outerwear can go well with anything, so when my job is done and I need to go somewhere else all I need to do is change with simple dress an put my picnic outer wear and I'm set to go. 


turquoise long outerwear, brown shirt, two tone jacket all PICNIC SHOP

So here's some of my pictures, back then I always got to be model for my sister when she's practicing, now its time to flip the table around, hehehe, here's some pictures of my sister that I took. As you can see I'm really inspired by game of thrones tv show. My sister said I act more look like a film director rather than a photographer because I keep telling her  about a character that I'm trying to make, and I keep asking her to think and pose as the character I want her to be. Crazy photo shoot I keep telling her innocent...innocenntt think innocent... sadd imagine all your family is gone you are mad and sad! don't smile.... hahahaha yes it was intense, but I like the result! I hope she does too, but for now she's kindda give up on become my model hahahaha. So here's the result, I'm trying a different story and character, and I think she nailed it....

“ I always thought good photos were like good jokes. If you have to explain it, it just isn’t that good".
 – Anonymous











Ernest Hemingway: "You take great photos, what camera do you use?"
Irving Penn: "You write great books, what typewriter do you use?"

adios amigos! see you on my next post! kisses!


Sunday 24 June 2012

“My two favorite colors of the rainbow are gold and leprechaun -- Jarod Kintz


Remember my last post about how I've been hunt  eye-ing Toshiba M840? Well oh well ladies and gentlemen, it seems that I've been a very good girl lately and in result.... tadddaaaaa look what's in my hand now! yeaaah your eyes certainly don't lie, it is the one!

As a person who loves to blog, browse and doing pretty much anything with her laptop, I really believe I need a good one for laptop. For me is just like when you in a trip or something, the thing that will determine whether it will be a fun trip or not is whom you go with. If your mate is one cranky, boring person then I can assure you, your trip will be like hell on earth, vice versa if you go with a fun and easy going person it will be one happy trip. And I consider this new Toshiba M840 is just like a very good mate, a person who makes you think there's no one else you rather go with. Hmm, I'm still thinking the right words to describe it, probably hmmm... probably dependable yes definitely dependable. If I have to go for a trip I would like someone who unshakeable and can deal with pretty much anything, and not easy to break, and that exactly my new Toshiba is, yes I won't mind to have Toshiba M840 as my mate. 

My dad is also very into laptop and technology thingies (well, now you know where I got my enthusiasm for technology from, I believe is running in my blood) so he is very happy seeing me pay a full attention to every detail and specification before I choose anything and not just that, I also learn about plus and minus of every product before I choose one. The one thing that very crucial for me a very impatient person who always get cranky if there's a moment I think just wasting my time when choosing a laptop is from the start moment, I just can't stand laptop that takes a life time that seems like forever in eternity to start (yesss drama queen mode switch ON hahaha but it really feels that looooong) so I'm in love when I found out that this sweet pie of my (read. Toshiba M840) is running like a wild horse, its start so fast! It’s about 30% faster than the others, cool aight? For me it's love at the first sight.

Another thing is, I just started to learn more about photography and can't stop gathering information and collected many pictures from various photographer as my inspiration and to do justice for they work, I really need laptop with high resolution, I love how sharp and clear this Toshiba is, they promise me a high definition from this sweet pie and they keep their promise, again I'm sold! 

And my friend, I've been back and forth about which color do I have to choose, actually I think pink or blue? Blue or pink? But then I saw the gold one! And BAM! Mi amor! I lOVE IT! It's so chic don't ya think?  I guess it’s right what Gerald M Loeb said that the desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race, hahaha so it’s more like basic instinct right? They told me it's called gold blaze, the color somehow reminds me of Sahara or Safari! Feels very adventury (yes, I just made a new word) but chic at the same time! You agree with me right? 

Well if you in love as much as I do, you can do your research just by go to Toshiba  Satellite M840 website, from there you can choose which one is more you. 




hat : from France
blazer : EVITANUH (yes my newest design! :) ) 
Bag : steve madden
watch : marc jacobs
pants : Zara 
shoes : MUJI 


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Thursday 21 June 2012

Lend me your ear will you...

This post was made just to show you guys that, well.... yes I'm pretty much still alive and no I'm not trying to win award for the worst blogger ever, ( but if that award really exist I'm quite sure that I'll be nominated, hehehe).  Well, first thing to say after my long ( okay, super long...) gone, please don't get mad at me, I'm really sorry  and I'll take the blame this time, my bad, (yes you are right I don't have any excuses left to give you all...but is abducted by aliens for the second time works for you? No? ok, my bad again for trying...) Hehehe. Well I hope you don't mind lend me your ear, I got something to tell you...

For you who follow my twitter and wondering where my hijab post is, well it's still in the process, been known to have all the things perfect all my live, yes you can say it I'm a bit perfectionist, for me if it's not perfect then better not to do it at all. My tailor probably the best person who can tell you how is not easy to please me. I keep coming back and forth to fix many things and of course there also other things,  you see fabric hunting, making the designs, decide which fabric to choose (and use), calculate how many fabric that I need, looking for neat and hard working tailor and so many little things (yet frustrating) to do, isn't easy task. I repeat it isn't easy at all. Working all this out is one of reason I've been away this whole time plus I've got some project that I'm not able to share yet, but soon! I promise I will share it as soon as possible, trust me I've been work all the hours that God sends.

Since I'm kinda in a one man show now which means I'm doing it all by myself is also frustrating, but weirdly frustrating in a fun way, you might found it weird, but I like being under pressure. Yes I am weird that way hehehe.  But there's also times when everything is seems like out of my hand and everything seems goes wrong if it's not one thing it's another...   I sometimes feel I'm running out of steam. This kind of moment makes me realized how I'm still just a little kid after all, but I have a dream and I believe action speak louder than words. I don't believe you can get what you want just by dreaming and mumbo jumbo about it. I just say to myself the higher the mountain the more beautiful the view is. Giving up word is not in my book. 

"When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal,
 you do not change your decision to get there"
- Zig Ziglar


"Hard work doesn't guarantee success, but improves its chances" 
- B.J. Gupta

My dad thought me since I'm very little that in life there's so many obstacles that I must face and he also told me Rome wasn't build in a day, everything needs process and hard work. If anything I'm proud about myself is that I'm a hard worker, a really good one. I'm willing to take the extra mile, even bend over backward if I have to for everything to be perfect. I hate when someone say everything that I achieved is because I'm lucky, well in my humble opinion we make our own luck. What make it more difficult is that everything that I do is because I want to, no one asked me and no told me what to do, why is difficult? Because that means I'm my own boss and I'm also the workers so everything is up to me, that means I have to be able to control myself which is not easy. But hell yeah, I'll try my best, come hell or high water. 


"Have regulars hours for works and play, make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become beautiful success."
- Louisa May Alcott


Crazy schedules is crazy! Disregard how I enjoy the process and the work is, sometimes I scream for a day of! Like several days ago when the weather is just perfect (and I think I need to make outfit post too) I decided to take a pictures that allow me to have fun at the same time, and what can be more fun than take a day off and have a picnic? And picnic all by yourself is won't as fun as with your friend right? well since it's a sudden plan and I have no friends available, I make my own friends. I always try to make a post with a story, let's just say these two are twin with different personality. One is so girly and calm while the other is more boyish and funny. Who do you like the most?

Like always a picture worth thousand words. I challenge you to make a story from this pictures hehehe... and oh by the way you will find so many of my smiling face that showing my super huge big teeth, because probably you will miss it for quite long time, because I will wear braces soon :)




Girly one
Hat : a gift :)
watch : Rolex (my sister's )
polkadot dress : EVITANUH
shoes : argyle and oxford

Boyish one
Polkadot shirt : EVITANUH
Vest : Lanvin
knitted shawl worn as turban : Nikicio
knitted pants : Nikicio