Hello 2016

Hello everyone! I know it's kinda late but Happy New Year to all of you. As usual, I will start my annual post about the end of the year.

December is one of the busiest month, at least for me. My mom's birthday, Pat's birthday, and our anniversary. Not forget to mention, workload is increasing like hell too. I was so excited because things are totally different after we moved out (read here for the story about our moving).

The Joyful Christmas with The Body Shop and Mini Giveaway

It's December already! The end of the year, the moment of celebration, and not forget to mention about Christmas. December has been the month I've always waiting for after a long routine in a year, beside there are another personal things to celebrate in December beside Christmas.

Therefore, The Body Shop Indonesia invited me to their Christmas Blogger Gathering.

My 3rd Anniversary on Christmas Day

I was like super busy on December. Besides I was on my final exam, I also have two important events that can't be missed every year. Well, it's Pat's B'Day and our anniversary. Believe it or not, he set our anniversary on 25th December, just in case if he forget he will easily remember because it's right after his birthday wtf!!! So I need to prepare a present!! @_@

Some stupid pose of somebody that turns into 22... 

*Pat, if you read this, shame on youu LOL!!!! I told you to pose nicely already!*

And he said he wanna try once in his lifetime ... to bite the whole cake -_- 

And I decided to cook for him! <3 I made him a chicken steak because we run out of beef T_T .. served with mashed potato and mushroom sauce. It was a big success although it's my first LOL! He asked for more lately ~~

Because it was raining so bad, we spent his birthday by playing games and arrange the plan for tomorrow.

So, the next day was our anniversary! 25th December 2012!! We've been together for 3 years! I almost can't believe it. 

It's us LOL 3 years ago ... holding the holy present that he gave me at 25th December 2009. 

 And now here we are... 3 years afterwards...*touched*

We'd decided from a long time ago that we will go for all you can eat sushi. Because romantic restaurant is too expensive and won't make us satisfied... so we go to Poke Sushi! <3 Pretty good place with super good food. We love sushi very much!! 

Didn't order so many kinds of sushi but we re-order that sashimi for around 8-10 times if I'm not wrong LOL.

And in the end, I'm personally asked him to go back to the first place he took me... 3 years ago. 

Pancious...

Pancious

The story behind it is pretty simple. I was in a super mood for pancake, but there aren't many pancake restos at the moment. So one day, he asked me to go to Pancious. After we order, I cannot stop staring at my beloved pancake and don't even care about anything else LOL!!!! Well the rest is a secret because lately he like to find out everything I wrote about him on my blog xD

Well, so here we are, after 3 years passed, we have never gone to Pancious anymore.  We're not really hungry because we ate enough at Pancious and I just wanna come to remember the old things, that's all! So when I wanna order the original pancake, Pat said there's a new menu there which is the crepe cake. Since we thought it's pretty interesting, we give it a try...

Original Crepe Cake

 Pat loves it but I don't really fancy this. The cakes is so soft and melts in your mouth, but I found out the butter on the cake is weird. When the butter is served with pancakes, it melts. But this cake is served cold and the butter cannot melt. I'm not a big fan of butter though .. Moreover, the cake is filled with butter cream already. So.. yeah :/ Not really suits my taste.

 The second choice goes to this Caramelized Banana Pancake if I'm not wrong. The reason is pretty simple as usual. It's the only fruit at the menu that Pat could eat. For your information, I could count what kind of fruits that he could eat with all my fingers LOL. So little laaa... Since I could eat any fruits, it doesn't really matter for me. T ^ T But I'm super curious with the berries honestly....

This one tasted pretty good. Pat also loves it!! The sweet caramel sauce with a hint of herbs smell and surprisingly the banana isn't sweet but slightly sour. It makes a perfect combination. <3

And here the funny things happened again... When waiting for our second pancakes served, a couple from the other table were ordering Spaghetti Marinara. And when the spaghetti was served, it was hot and smells SUPER DELICIOUS! We sat in the corner, so yeah we're trapped in MARINARA'S smell!!

Can't hold it any longer... so we order it immediately LOL!!!

Tasted super good! All the ingredients were fresh! We never eat any tomatoes before ... but we ate them all that night LOL! 

Pancious, I will come back for your pasta and pancake now!

Enough for the food thingy...Now I'm about to reveal about what did I do lately and keep me away from my blog... still remember this???

Well, I got a pretty weird habbit since I was a kid. I love to create a presents for someone special with my own hand. For my family, best-friends, and also for my boy <3

An illustration book inspired from HJ Love Story. Everybody who knows about my idea said it's so lovely and romantic. But since I know every book that I gave him will end up as a loner on the shelves or even worse than that (probable he will use it as a place mat for his laptop wtf), I must think about something else. 

And here the inspiration comes! I placed the book on a frame! So there are no reason to put it in the shelves or even use it as a mat LOL.

*what a super nice girlfriend I am... proud of myself*

He was amazed about how far did I think already because he admitted that he'll probably keep it in the drawer or bookshelves until it's gone -_-a

TONS of photos ahead. But please continue if you're interested :)

A LITTLE STORY ABOUT US

It is a story that started 3 years ago..

 Love is two people rowing a boat, where if you want to reach a destination bot people have to work together, if two people work against each other, the boat will go no where. If only one person does all the work, eventually they will be exhausted.  ~HJ Love Story

 Do you remember that we were once like this?

The first fireworks that we saw together and you said,"Let's go through another year together..."

 How much I love you can be said with a piece of chocolate cake :)

 No matter how hard it is, you're always there beside me.

 And I will never forget the first time you fooled me on April Fool. D:<

 You always said," It will be much more faster with motorbike laaa..." So we got our first red jacket matched :P

 Both of us could never really wake up early in the morning.. 

 We spent all day playing games and even forget to eat for the first time :D

I'm pretty impressed that you never forget about my birthday :)

 But still, we always fight for the last meat left LOL

 And I wonder how many times I told you to get ready...

 The moments of love that I will never understand 

But I'm glad I could pass another year with you again <3

 We fight like a married couple,

talk like best friends,

flirt like first loves,

protect each other like siblings

Face it! We're meant to be

Quoted from someone on Twitter. 

Tutorial : Easy Christmas Snow Gradation Nail

Christmas is in the air but  I haven't blogged anything about it!!! I was so busy with final exam and thesis. D: So tired and barely have enough sleep. But I'd passed everything and now I got a bunch drafts to be finished!!! December is also a special month because my BF birthday and my anniversary with him is on December!! :D I'm so excited preparing something this year. Will reveal it soon.. *pinky promise*

So I was coming with an idea to bring a little winter theme on my nail. I'm so excited because I was really into nail art mood lately, but always have no time to do it. It takes so much patience to paint them one by one and let them dried. Well I always end up with messy polishes because hardly could wait the polishes dried.

Enough with random rambles. So here we come!

You can pick any color that you like :) I choose white-blue gradation because I want to achieve cool winter effect.

What do you need?

1. Base Coat

2. Any nail polishes that you like

3. Glittery nail polishes

4.Top Coat

 First of all, put on the base coat on your nail to give them more protection :)

Put on the base color. I'm using pearly white. You can add more layers to achieve a bolder color.

Start to paint some color on the edge of your nails. At this part, your nail might be a little bit messy but never mind. The next step will 'amazingly' conceal them.

Put the glittery nail polishes and top coat. And you're done!

So easy and simple, right?

I think the most difficult think at doing this is for having patience. I ruined the nice gradient many times because my hand cannot be a good girl and keep moving LOL. So yeah, make sure you are not in hurry when you wanna try them. 

Another useful tips. A sheer polishes could help to create the gradient easily ;)

It's suitbale for ocassional party or special events too. So easy la so you don't need to go to nail salon hahahaha. You also can add rhinestones, snowflake stamp or nail stickers to make it more beautiful. :) If you'd succeed make one, please let me know because I really wanna see your creation too :D

Will catch up with another post later. ;) If you have any question or request, feel free to ask on my formspring :)