2012

Woohoo it's 2012 already. Do you know what it means to me? That in less than 6 months I'll take a lot of tests, and by a lot of tests I mean never-ending-tests-that-(possibly)-will-drive-me-crazy, and if they go well, then I'm gonna graduate, end enter university. I hope I'm gonna make it to my dream university.

This year I don't really make a resolution list since based on my experience, I've always abandoned my list after the first couple weeks of the new year. But I still have some goals, like of course, get better scores at school and study harder so I can get into ITB (my dream university, at least until now). Other than that, I hope I'm gonna be able to pray harder, getting closer to God, be nicer, and just simply be happier.

Anyway, I've been bored with my blog's look. So since it's my first post this year, I think it's a perfect time to change it. Here's the difference between how my blog looks before and how it looks now

At first I wanted to use brown as the main color of my new layout, but I just love purple so much, what can I do? And I want something that looks more simple than the previous one, so I changed me header font and only used one colors instead of three. I'm also not using the tape strip again that I used as a background of my twitter, Facebook, and tumblr link image. I'm using a simple box now instead. So what do you think of it?

Wednesday Wishes (3)

One. The ultimate package of The Summer Set's Everything's Fine album

If you are a fan of The Summer Set and you still haven't pre-ordered it yet, then I bet you have this on your wish list. This package includes Everything's Fine CD mailed by 7/19, collectible limited edition postcards of the band, Everything's Fine T-Shirt, and Everything's Fine lyric scrapbook. In case you haven't heard about them before, you can check out their music on their myspace profile.

Two. These bags

I'm such a big fan of bags, especially the leather ones (but not the real animal's leather of course). But unfortunately I don't have enough money to buy all of the bags I want. That's why I'd rather go to online stores than to go to their real stores because seeing the bags with my own eyes and touching them will only make me want them even more.

Three. The great escape

1.2.3.4

Yes. By escape I meant a vacation that makes me so happy and feel like I have nothing to worry about.

Four. Read more books

I want to read some classic or phenomenal novels such as Pride and Prejudice, To Kill a Mockingbird, Jane Eyre, and so on.

What are your wishes today? Don't forget to link up with Brooke on Bright Wishes :)

Friday's Fancies #3

Hello everyone!! Finally, no more tests! Woohoo!! I miss blogging so much.

Today let's make another Friday's Fancies post. I need to think about happy thoughts to refresh my brain, which in this case is I can purchase all the things I put on my set. And the theme I choose is SUMMER!! My favorite season. Not like I live in a country that has 4 seasons - Indonesia only has two seasons which are dry season and rainy season - but from what I watch in movies and read in books, it seems like a lot of fun. So here it is



1. This Topshop's Petite Embroidered Scallop Tunic really reminds me of summer. Maybe because of its bright color. I love it!

2. Topshop's Pink Suede Mini Purse Belt. I love the combination of yellow and pink, especially when they're worn together in a summer outfit.

3. What else do I need to say? This Large Flower Garland Headband from Topshop looks so cute.

4. Another thing that makes summer seems so wonderful is because people can show off their big sunglasses. I pick this Hot Pink Oversize Square Sunglasses from Topshop because it matches the belt I picked.

5. Yellow Colour Block Mini Cross Body Bag from Topshop. It matches my dress so yeah, and more importantly, it's a cross body bag. Perfect!

6. Topshop's FRANCINE Tubular Suede Sandals. It matches my dress' color and it's so summer!

7. I took this picture from here (on weheartit). Riding that bicycle on a summer day, especially with the one you love (in my case it means John Gomez from a band called The Summer Set) would make it perfect!

If you haven't realized it already, every items I put on this set are Topshop's (well except the bike picture). I just love that brand! Anyway, what do you think about this? Don't forget to link up with {av} on {long distance loving} this week!

Have a wonderful weekend! :D

Friday's Fancies #2

I'm having days off again! WOOHOO! Good luck for all the 12th graders in Indonesia who are going to have their national final tests on next week, Monday until Thursday. Hope you'll do your very best!

Anyway, today, I'm gonna link up with {av} from Long Distance Loving to make my second Friday's Fancies post. Do you know that she's having a giveaway on her blog? And by linking up with her on this week's friday's fancies, you'll get an extra entry. So what are you waiting for? Come on link up with her!

Lately, I've been in love with coral color so I put it on this set.

1. I love this Pleated Dress from Zara. It's simple yet sophisticated. I would love to have it.

2. The first time I saw this beautiful MOTO Coral Jamie Ultimate Skinny Jeans at Topshop store, I was like 'Oh My God that is superb!!' And yes I still think it's superb. I really really love the color.

3. I think this Topshop's Coral Blush Lips in Ohh La La is a great choice of coral lipstick.

4. I always love forever21 accessories, and I think this Rose Multi Chain Bead Necklace from Forever21 will make whoever uses it looks more classy.

5. Actually, I don't like to wear nail polish since my nails are short and not beautiful at all, so I don't want my nails to take an attention. But since it's friday's fancies, where I can dream about anything I'd love to wear, I'm adding this Coral Reef from Picture Polish to this set. And do you know that Sarah Hassan is giving away 3 nail polishes from Picture Polish for free? Just go to her website. Who doesn't want 3 beautiful nail polishes as a gift, right?

6. A Forever21 Gift Card. What else do I need to say? I'd love to shop, but since I'm not rich, gift card is what I need.

7. Do you know that B-Hobo Coral Bag from Kelly Moore is actually a camera bag? Yes you can finally bring your camera with style. But you can wear it as your usual bag as well.

8. Loving that Vovan Wedges from Loeffler Randall. It looks edgy and cool.

So what do you think? Like it or not?

Wednesday Wishes (2)

The 10 days full of studying in the middle of the semester are finally over. Yep, the mid tests are over!! :D So, today I'm gonna link up with Brooke at Bright Wishes to create my second Wednesday Wishes post. Here are my wishes :

One. To get good scores on the tests I just had. Especially on Math and Physics studies. I am a student in science program so four most important subjects for me are math, physics, chemistry, and biology. Since I already got the result of my chemistry and biology tests, math and physics are the only two left.

Two. To get some rest and enough sleep. These 10 days have been making me lose sleep. And I'm the kind of person who loves her sleep as much as she loves shopping.

found the picture here.

Three. To catch my dreams. I hope one day I'm gonna be able to become the interior designer of a famous boutique so when I'm going to a mall and my friend says 'That boutique sure has a great interior designer. I just can't stop myself from looking at it.' I can tell her 'I was the one who design it :)'.

found the picture here.

Four. To help other people reach their dreams. Any kind of good dream (I mean, I'm not gonna try to help people whose dream is to become a killer or stuffs :p). Yes I know I'm not a fairy godmother who can make all the wishes come true. I haven't even make mine comes true yet. But I'll try my best to help. And I'm pretty sure most of you would like to help each others too right? So what about helping Brooke? Do you know that Brooke and Mr. Charming is one of the three couple finalists on the Wedding Photo Giveaway from Caroline Ghetes Photography? They have such a cute and sweet story, and they really want to win this. And we can help them to become the winner just by going to this link and vote for couple #1. Hope you will all do that :)

Five. To win in any of the giveaways I'm participating. To check out those giveaways, just simply go to my previous post. And for all of you who already read it the first time I posted it, I just added some other links in case you want to enter more giveaways. We can never get tired of giveaways right? ;)

Be sure to link up with Brooke at Bright Wishes :)

Gifts

Yoohoo I'm 17 now!!! :D

Yep, I turned 17 yesterday. On Thursday, March 31st 2011. It's so exciting to read all the birthday wishes started from text messages, tweets, on my facebook wall, but it's even better when I hear people sing Happy Birthday to me and congratulate me in person. Yes it should be one of the best days of my life, but since I had a chemistry test the day after (which means today) I spent my day by studying and studying. And it turned out, the test was difficult. Gaah I'm so exhausted by this whole mid term thing.

Anyway, just like any other birthday girls, I'm craving for some birthday presents. So, today I've been browsing and I found these websites offering some giveaways. You might want to check these out too. Well, if you win while I'm not, don't worry, I won't be upset. You just need to give me something that costs at least 20% of the gift you get. Haha I was just kidding. Anyway, here are some lovely giveaways I found :)

3 $100 tobi.com gift cards from Runway Rundown. This giveaway ends on April 8th.

2 winners of Original signed and numbered artwork on handmade cotton paper from Aimee Johnson illustration.

Crystalyn Kae Recycled Leather Handbags and Clutch Giveaway on Momma Told Me. This giveaway will end on April 15th.

Birthday Giveaway on Sunny Days & Starry Night. This will end on April 18th.

Ash 'Camy' Bag from Candid Couture and farfetch.com

$50.00 Anthropologie Gift Card on The Colorful Living Project. Don't forget to say that you know the giveaway from me, that way we can both get an extra entry :)

The little photographer necklace at pastor's girl's pondering. This ends on April 6th.


Modalu London Kiera Bag made out of leather (retailing at £115- £140) from All Swamped in Flowers.

Food, Fashion, Friends. A book by Fleur Wood (an Australian designer) from A Casa da Va

An original abstract painting worth $119 from Carmen Guedez.

Don't forget to enter these giveaways! You might be the winner! :)

Friday's Fancies #1

Happy Indonesian Architect Day!!!!

So, I am here now to fulfill my promise, which is doing a Friday's Fancies post. Friday's fancies is a series made by {av} from {long distance loving} where we can all create a set of our dream outfit and not caring about its price.

So here it is my first ever friday's fancies

White Sheer Sleeve Shift Dress - Topshop
Green Tight - Woldorf
Colorful Bag, Leather Belt, Linen Scarf - Zara
Checo Wedges - Aldo Shoes
Silver Bangle Set and Green Bracelet - Forever21

I made this via Adobe Photoshop. I love the color scheme that {av} made here, so I decided to make the friday's fancies based on that. I think this is a fun outfit you can wear when you hang out with your friends. And yes, as I told you before, I am currently obsessed with white dresses. No wonder I use it here hehe.

You see, I'm the kind of person who loves to wear only two colors in my total outfit. Like, if I wear a black shirt and a blue jeans, I won't wear a brown bag. I'll wear the black or blue one instead. I don't know why but I just don't feel really good if I wear too many colors in one look. And yes, mostly, those two colors I wear include black or white. For example, black and pink, white and brown or black and white. So if you're hoping to see me wearing an outfit based on blue and yellow in one look, you might have to be patient!

Actually in real life, I wear a veil. So I won't wear that scarf since it will make me look... I don't know, just kinda weird. Also, it surely is warm while I live in this tropical country. And I don't really wear wedges to hang out since my friends don't wear it too, we usually wear flats, except if we go to some events where we need to wear heels, such as birthday parties. But hey, the point of friday's fancies is to create your dream outfit, right?

What do you think about this set? Make sure you link up with {av} and don't forget to check out Friday's fancies made bloggers here :)

Wednesday Wishes (1)

Had you ever feel so happy when you were in school and the bell rang telling you that it was time for you to go home? And not just some other go-homes, because you'd have days off for the next eight days. Yes it happened to me just yesterday. My friends and I felt so happy then we went to buy some dvds and grabbed lunch. After that, we went to one of my friends' house and watch two dvds in a row, go 'eew' on the first movie and 'aaw' on the second one (well, the first movie we watched was I Love You, Philip Morris which is a story about a gay couple, while the second movie was Crazy Little Thing Called Love, a sweet romantic comedy Thailand movie) until it was late and we all went home.

Yes, as I mentioned above, I'm having eight days off, starting from this day, because my senior are having their final exams. Best of luck for them. Anyway, what would you do if you were me? Go on a vacation with your friends, hang out at some cool and new places in town, shop like there's no tomorrow? I might as well say that usually, but not this time. I've been spending this day doing some simple stuffs. This morning, I read this book titled Pretties, which is the second book of Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld. Then, after that, I watched How I Met Your Mother. It's only 1 pm when I started writing this, but I've already watched 12 episodes today, isn't that crazy, and you might say, boring?

Well it's not for me. You see, I go to this school which is the best public school in town, even in my country, and it drives me crazy. It makes me busy all the time with all of the things inside it. I barely have enough time to just have a lazy day, watch tons of dvds in a day, and relax like I don't have any problem at all. So when it comes to holiday, one thing I really want to do is just relax, watch dvds, read some magazines, and sleep. Well of course doing some crazy and fun things all teenagers do will be fun too. I'm actually thinking about doing it tomorrow or the day after tomorrow or...

Okay, I think it's best if we just move on to another topic. You might be bored about that whole relaxing at home thing. You might as well skipped some parts. So, to stop you from leaving this page, I will share with you one of my newest obsession right now that's becoming the point of my Wednesday Wishes post (which is a series created by Brooke at Bright Wishes), which is.....

White Dresses

Well I know it's not a new trend or something, but isn't that a good thing? It's not new but many people still wear it. It means, white dress has never been out of date. It's so simple yet so sweet and lovely. You can wear it anytime, anywhere, with anything, in every occasion, and it will still look good. Here are some of the lovely white dresses I found on the internet

White Sheer Sleeve Shift Dress at Topshop



Retro Swing Dress at Forever21



Studio Tunic at Zara

Single Dazzle and Threesome at Tendencies

And that is how I do my first Wednesday Wishes post. :)

PS : I was thinking about doing a mix and match post, but I'm saving it for a Friday's Fancies post I will do this Friday. Yes it's a series that {av} from (long distance loving) has done and i want to participate in it.

PPS : Yes, that's a little spoiler about what I'll have on the next post. Just make sure you all will come back that time and see :)

BTB (Behind The Blog)

Heeey this is another blog of mine (the other one is Wishy Whoosy. On that blog, gue cuma ngetweet hal-hal ga penting dan ga mengumbar-ngumbar kehidupan gue sama sekali, ya palingan cuma wish list gue. That's why I call it 'Wishy Whoosy'. Tapi terus beberapa minggu lalu gue kepikir, biasanya kan orang bikin blog buat cerita-cerita tentang kehidupannya, jadi akhirnya gue memutuskan untuk bikin satu blog lagi. Nah, saat itu juga gue bikin another blog, tapi gue bingung mau nulis apa dan akhirnya baru nulis sekarang deh hehe. Gue cuma mau mengingatkan, this blog is not important at all, mungkin cuma akan berisi kumpulan-kumpulan hal ga jelas yang terjadi di sekitar gue.

Nah soal judul blognya, kenapa 'The Daydreamer'? Well karena gue emang suka banget berkhayal. According to wikipedia, daydream is..

"a visionary fantasy experienced while awake, especially one of happy, pleasant thoughts, hopes or ambitions."

Di wikipedia juga ditulis "While daydreams may include fantasies about future scenarios or plans, reminiscences about past experiences, or vivid dream-like images, they are often connected with some type of emotion."

Ya daydreaming is one thing that I never forget to do walaupun gue lagi bad mood. Words like 'What if...' and 'If only...' tuh sering banget lewat di pikiran gue. Maybe it seems like a waste of time, but actually it's not. Itu bisa membuat gue bahagia walaupun emang itu ga terjadi, tapi at least gue jadi ada semangat. Eric Klinger's research in the 1980s showed that over 75% of workers in "boring jobs", such as lifeguards and truck drivers, use vivid daydreams to "ease the boredom" of their routine tasks. Mungkin itu sebabnya kali ya gue suka mengkhayal, karena gue masih menjadi pelajar di salah satu SMA terkemuka di Jakarta yang tugasnya super banyak dan membuat jadwal jadi super sibuk (sook) haha ya gitu lah pokoknya. Ya udah segitu aja dulu, thank you bagi yang lagi baca ini (walaupun ternyata yang baca ini cuma lalat yang tiba-tiba muncul di layar komputer gue) hehe byee!

P.S : Ini ada sebuah foto berjudul "Daydream' di deviantart yang gue suka banget karena cahayanya <3