Dawn.

Hello in 2012 whutderrfakqer readers! A new dawn for the new year starts.


Issue 004 is coming out soon for DEW Magazine, check out the preview which I contributed a post for them for BOB!

I have no idea what issue theme will be, so I can't be musing after I stop writing from DEW 002 where I had to just mused with photos and here's my own favorites from 003 (because I am so tired from online writing in that point, meheheh)

There are so much stunning works I can only gape, but one is certainly interesting from the title, direction, and of course, hats off as it is not DIGITALLY MADE - IT'S HANDMADE! (A Personal Favorite).

this illustration is created and proudly said by an Indonesian illustrator, Eko Bintang, which I now nominate him as part of my favorite illustrators!! His drawings reminded me of good ol' days of CosmoGIRL! Horoscopes drawing I used to really like and cut out. I forgot that illustrator name, he's based in the States.

 Someone recalls? Let me know!

(click on image to enlarge)

Dolce & Gabanna's "Boys will be Boys" getup is the closest style I could replicate with a sudden shopping spree of neon colored blazers on ASOS. If not, "Spank It Babe" is the most entertaining DPS ever, don't you agree??


Other than that, the third edition is filled with themes around 'EASTERN ISSUE', but I took some other awesome picks which are not entirely Eastern.

• can you believe this that these frocks are designed and made by an Indonesian designer? Guess who! You'd have to find out by going to the magazine! It's BREATHTAKINGLY PRETTAYYYYY. My style much.•

Anyhow I just realized the new features of Twitter those "Paper.Li" thing. Unless you use an iPhone and other touchy smartphones, you wouldn't know as there is no feature for this on desktop (blame me, I only log into the website, not using Tweetdeck whatsoever), so I've been popping out a couple places... like this one:

Funny thing is its from Padalarang, of all places!

More funny unimportant musings around my article and the comments can be found on my Tumblr.

I know I promised a lot of things to unidentified readers and whoever wants to but I really should get writing on more posts ey.

LOMOxIndonesia!

Dormant for specific reasons - my body lethargic during project week but NOT for college assignments, but for the love of my country!

Hence, with event number one of what has happened during these past two weeks welcoming the new month, here's one that made me crumble to bits that I couldn't visit there myself; it was postponed since the time they introduced the idea where I just had to stop my work and get all hyped with this, thus after almost 3 months extension, the ambassadors and staff of LOMONESIA teams up with the rest of Indonesians to send all their works, theme "AROUND ME", and make it all happen to make a LOMO-photo-mozaic of: ONE INDONESIA.

I'm ecstatic to see my works up with the rest of Lomonesians, my name stated!!! \(^o^)/

•the INDONESIA mozaic!•

•the site at Grand Indonesia!•

Here, my dear funny lame 父さん standing beside my photos. My mom told me on the day she visited the exhibition saying that 

"there are many interesting photos the photographer take, yours also striking from the rest, even dad knows which one is yours"

*SIGH* 

Ya loooooorrrrrrrrr my horrid acne pimple filled face filles Taemin's screen in that dark image close up. Of course it's mine it's my face whoelse would take it... zZzZz...

Lastly, all six photos I've submitted to them are all hung up, courtesy of Odol, eh Odel, report to me (well I was hinting her to go and see it for me in case my parents' can't make it to see). But she didn't take photos! (HELLO YOU HAVE YOUR BB right...)

Oh anyways, make her feel welcome for you Indonesians in her new exasperatingly extremely elongated blog name. :)

The exhibition ended the last day of the month in February 2010.

WHOOOOOOOOOOO

*Now where shall my photos go?* 

Last Christmas...

I went back home early to Jakarta, and immediately wanted to rush back to dear super chill little house in Padalarang. There's also KBS World stuck to my TV so my butt stays still in the couch for pre-ordered shows. Whoo!

A little warning beforehand, it'll be image heavy, long post with outbursts and unnecessary tidbits. Didn't say I warned ya'll ;)

I have these holiday crafty plans to do in preparation for the trip to Japan, hopefully to do power dressing Japanese style and be like one! So here were were the inspiration and the results hence...

The pictures are seriously huge in resolution so as soon as you click it more details can be seen. So click away and enjoy!

•Full on embellishments, inspired by and courtesy of Miu Miu Fall 2009 lookbook. However actually Doo.Ri had first made embellished stockings•

 ++ the We Love Tights colorful stockings previously image posted ++

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And the beautiful results...!

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The processes are long-hard driven takes time but worth it for the fun and trials.

The DIY socks and hand covers were plain white polyester, a stocking kind of feel, and with basic tie-dye method of using rubber bands and all...

I had used blue, pink, and yellow for the dyes. Adding a spoonful of salt so the color would last longer to each mix, I first boiled the water with the color then dipped the socks area color desired.

Cooling it off with plain water, to check if the color would fade away and to re-dip into the color mix if so.

With the rubber band effect, here's one of the monochrome color product which is stunningly pretty!

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        The grey embellished (in Indonesian, payet) tights are originally boring grey makes me look fat tights from Topshop (sale by the way since early summer) was painstakingly sewed by hand one by one... Scurrilous not to fret, my sewing skills and patience have dramatically increase (partly because it is the holiday and deadlines were not demanded (but definitely before 17th of Dec.) and it made me wonder again is Design or Communication the one I want...

(topshop sparklies)

         The two vests were out of a want to make my own extra clothing; I daily wear T-shirts and having a vest with patterns just add extra color. The vests were made out of Japanese fabrics which are absolutely appealing and totemo kawaii prints, one flowers mixed with hearts and the other has postage stamps pattern with a soft color, such prints are rare!

         My grandmother the used to be dressmaker teacher was my pattern drafter and maker. She taught me the basics, jotted down in a notebook, I did once on my own with some confusion and still do not know out of my head, however unnecessary because all I did was cut and sew parts together, the final side, since my grandma sews coarsely so I only let her do the inner parts until the vest looks tangible by shape. Pugnacious was the little drama, "Aaaah why did you sew so rough, ma! Let me do it unpick, unpick!" and I finished the sewing whilst watching KBS or Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail a number of times.

 

       My auntie's old pair of black jeans are also heaven-sent. She gave it to me the previous summer and I wore them for formal slacks but now, thanks to the trend of making yourself looking like a beggar, I sacrificed my cheese grater and cutter to rip it off!! Plus studs on the side and added zipper on each side, so it's easier to wear them as the holes always stops my toes from wearing.

And gave holes to my vest as well. Now it looks ultra hip - swell!

 

 •the completed look

wearing pink Ouval tee, People of Asia vest, DIY ripped studded jeans•

I wanted to do some decorations like this Zara handmade detailed bag which costs your whole wallet life just for a small sling bag. Yes it's handmade so that is why I want to make. The body isn't hard, the details of how to sew to hide the stitches is what I question.

A few days before saying bye-bye to Indonesia to go to Tokyo, I stayed in Jakarta to prepare and pack my luggage, making a list on outfit mix plans which I keep loosing the papers and changing the items of the mix for 3-4 papers. Tsk tsk tsk. And my mom's wardrobe is actually full of things that are now in trend; things that she has for over a decade (so fashion IS going backwards...)...

AAAAANNND I FOUND TREASURES.

Yes they're now MiNE officially, my treasures I 'window shopping' at to my mom's wardrobe. I found a white blazer with navy blue polka-dot patterns for the inner collar, and if my mom recalls it, it's from Japan. Plus, my auntie's old black pair of supertightonthetummy jeans and look what I've did above, no cost. And I saw what Jejung wore in this editorial, the feel is the same!

Datte sa, if you want to see my journey in Kyushu of day one wearing the blazer, move onto this post!

I also grabbed a black suit blazer which is very useful for presentations, and old metal belts which I forgot to bring it back here. My mom also sneak peeked a Chanel-something she has but my dad hated it so she never wore it from the first time she wore, which was probably almost two decades!

 Awesomenesssssssssssss I can't wait I hope my body copes if I would decide I'll go to Bali and I'll finally meet my dear dear items I will love!

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More speciarrr online shopping for graphic tees which I finally have gotten aroundwas buying these limited, non-conformist with high quality controls and all...

Did I tell you I'm a package junkie as well, packaging is everything for me, so the saying goes of "the cover of the book" is a tad important, it's the emphasis, golden ratio for me. If the outside doesn't excites me, how can we know the inside would be a journey to embark on? The feeling of wanting to rip off the plastic and carefully using paper knife so the package won't tear to see the inside... nothing beats that!

 

It's none other than The Balletcats!

             Now the question is, what to do with these tees. My hands are itchy but I don't want to cut them out... especially the soft cotton and the teeny extrude level of the print (handmade, how neat can that be) and the blue and red color is just nice (or, alright, let's put last week's lesson into practice! Nice is just too general. It should be more like exceptional, jaw-dropping...) But yes, these kinds of things that excites you from the start should be the things that are penchant, always looking forward to get it out from your closet after a hiatus cycle and love it even more.

In His Words, We Follow

R I P  

Abduraman Wahid, former 4th president of Indonesia who passed away yesterday, 18:45.

He was 69 years old.

(How it sounds ridiculously ironic with Tiger JK's 8:45, his in memoriam time)

And today,

it is his last presence in flesh before returning back to dust, just buried, and just like Easter was and always is, it rained, it still is raining outside my window.

When he was reported (well, my mom was watching the full report downstairs since early dawn) 1PM they would have the final prayers and all and would be buried, around an hour later the skies were dark and it poured with gushes of cold wind.

I do think it was from him, from above, also giving a sign that his soul has returned home safely in heaven and giving his last blessing to his family and the land of Indonesia (or West Java).

How he was our hero in Indonesia for us Chinese, now some of us pay back a tribute.

How he has become our Democratic Father

No matter where he is or who we are, we would always remember him, the person who has embraced us all regardless of our race decendants and a great leader who soughts for the best with critical thoughts and a down-to-earth person, a politician who truly wants peace than position, like most other Indonesian politicians are to get easy money.

It is said that Indonesia has approx. 220 million people, and 140 million follows him. How reckless his comments sounds, it has always had been a guidance for half of the population in the nation.

Also another prayer goes to Frans Seda, former deputy (somewhere I've forgotten) as he also RIP this morning.

Last thoughts and wishes for this year to close this chapter, and a new one awaits tonight...

I would just catch KBS World, enjoy the chilly weather and sleep afterwards.

Sacred?

OMG Indonesians, whut derr fakq are you thinking in a sacred place you guys worship and taking over (as in the major religion) and doing it in a Mosque's toilet, and caught red-handed with the cleaner at night?

And I thought our country's having another dilemma due to the recent natural disasters and its prognostications that might damage our archipelago's surfaces...

Only in Indonesia... (I hope! Speechless.)

On SCTV, October 11, 2009.

über skeptical.

Taken from my car... On a tollroad entrance.
No more comment after the bomb incident.

DREAM ON, (sorry) SUCKERS!
(read: bombers and whoever dreamt of it to be held in 2022, it's more like 2222 if the Earth still exists)

Only in the city of ungranted dreams, Jakarta.

Going Bananas.

I don't think developed countries would ever see this happen in a highway/tollroad. Only in Jakarta, Indonesia.

HELLO?!

Sorry, Sir, I don't think you're doing your job very well. Breaking your own set of rules, not being cautious in the street?
Only in Outer Ring Road Jakarta, Indonesia.

Going Crackers.

Another wondrous (hard) work of the Indonesians to tie them all up, transport them with a plain motorbike.
Next photo hunt: 5+ people on a motor bike, kids without helmets but their parents.
Only in Indonesia.