Shade of Gold for Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year was coming earlier this year and it comes to my surprise that January almost ended already. I have no idea if it's only me but lately I feel like time flies way too fast. Anyway, this year I decided to have a break on collecting cheongsam every Chinese New Year. Not only because I didn't find suitable pieces this year, but I think the collection had grown quite a lot and it would be such a waste if I didn't have a chance to wear them after Chinese New Year.

Personal #1 - What I learned in 2016

Such a very late post but it's still January so please consider the whole month as the proper time to write a New Year's stuff.:9  Earlier this month, an accident happened so it kinda refrain me from writing this mandatory post. I'll talk about it later so let's stick to the title. A not-so-short talk about 2016.

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).

Hello 2015

The old 2014 year has passed and we're currently moving forward into 2015. I can't never believe how time flies so fast. 

Therefore, here are several updates during the holiday. 

First celebration goes for Pat's Birthday and our 5th anniversary. These two things always come together every year considering he set our anniversary date right after his birthday on purposes. 

Pardon for the fierce looking and inappropriate but I can't help for not posting this lol. At least one photo can be forgiven hahaha. I'd secretly prepared a surprise party with his friends. The plan was nearly failed but we finally managed to make it happen.

Birthday Checkpoint #23

This is probably the most interesting of my annual story, my birthday. As you had probably known, my partner is somehow full of unexpected surprise.

He started by waiting until 12.00 AM to be the first guy who say "Happy Birthday" to me. It is supposed to be a good sentence no matter how funny it is. It turned out to be a very short LETTER as...

HBD. (via line messages)

Hello?

Pardon me?

This is not a texting era anymore ._. In the past, shorter text messages will cost you less than a longer text messages. When I asked him about it, he feel there's something wrong then and repeat HBD HBD HBD again. He said,"Okay it is not short anymore, right?"

Your argument is invalid. o_o

Later on, he had planned for my birthday dinner. Well, to be honest I don't really have a high expectation on him considering his plan is getting worse by years, so I will just let anything good happen as a gift and anything bad as common sense in our relationship.

When I was entering the car, he seems quite confident of something that I was unaware of. He started the conversation.
P : I would like to give your gift now.
G : Hee? Can't we wait?
P : No no no.
G : ....

He suddenly grabbed something from his pocket, just like in this incident and continue..

P : You were complaining back then that I should have given you something better.
G : *trying so hard not to be impressed .. but failed*
P : So I give you this... *put something in my hands*

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Random Conversation #1

This is not a beauty-related-post, but you might wanna read this especially for those who loves to hear Mr. Pat's story. Got no pictures but just read, okay?

As usual, it's just an ordinary day just like the other day. I was going to work and Pat will pick me up by the end of the day. I had suddenly an idea to watch a movie today, The Target, which turn out to be better than Maleficent in my opinion LOL. I rarely watch any Korean movies, but when I watch any, it must be freaking awesome :p. Okay back to the main conversation.

I dunno why but I had such a bad mood swings after watching. Then Pat realized there's something wrong with me and asked me so many times. Since we're going home by motorcycle, well we need to put on the jacket and helmet. After he finished put on his helmet, he hold my hands gently and took something from his pocket.

I was kinda surprised that it's unusual for him to prepare a surprise. Not my birthday yet or even our anniversary.

Guess what did he put on my hand...?

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(Get your wildest and unusual imagination by now)

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It's a PARKING TICKET! All crumpled like a trash.... .______________.

This is a surprise you will never expect even from a person who has no common sense of romance!

Let me clarify everything one more time.

So after the-so-romantic-scene-you-might-imagine, he put the crumpled parking ticket on my hand! Act as if he has done nothing and asked me this stupid question,"Eh, what's wrong?"

I feel like time has stopped and stared at him for a while. This is not his first time doing some stupid act but this one totally knocks me down and left me with a big laugh at the end of the day. He told me he felt kinda guilty because I looked so shocked at the moment and I was probably expecting for something else.

Sometimes I think that I might probably fell for the stupid act of him. Hahahahaha. 

Happy New Year 2014 + My 2014 Resolution

Today is the last day of 2013, the day when I usually think about what I've done in a year and make a list about what I'm going to do in the next year.

I recall that many things happened, the good one and the bad one. Even until the very last minute.

My ups and downs in 2013

- Graduated with an A score
One of my biggest dream in my final year. I could finally make my parents proud because I could get an A for my thesis ^_____^ I worked really hard for this and glad that my hardworks are worthed.

- Explore more in creative fields 
I don't know where it starts but soon after I graduate, I feel that I was given so many opportunities to explore more in a fields that I'm working on. I'm interested in creating videos and animation as you can see that I'd upload some of my works recently on my youtube channel :D

-I lost my camera
Probably the most shocking moment in my life. T_T I know that I am so careless. I'm really really sad that I lost my partner, it's been accompanying me since the first time I wrote this blog :(

Last year fireworks that I capture with my beloved Canon 500 D... :(

This year, I'm spending my new year at Pat's villa. I'm writing this post under tons of fireworks :D And I feel that next year will be a great one. I will work hard to achieve all my dream ^o^

2014 Resolution

- Go get a new camera

LOL no matter what happened I think I need to find myself a new camera. I was thinking to get myself a mirrorless camera, but still comparing each other. Any recommendations will be highly appreciated :D

-Work hard and learn more.

 I'm currently in my probation now. Hopefully everything goes well. I enjoyed my new office environment and also my new job. I'm going to start another business with my mom too. :D

- Starting our future plan

This year is a busy year for us because both of us need to pass our thesis. After graduation, we did realize that we need to do something before going into a further step in our relationship. Therefore, we promised to work hard to fulfill our dream :) About the work itself, it's still a secret hehehe. 

- Be a good blogger

I also understand that my blog is lacked of update in this year, hahahaha still the same reason.. it's all because I need to pay attention to my thesis. I will try my best to blog again regularly. Please tell me what kind of post that you like the most from my blog :D I will try to do more videos and my first giveaway in the future too. I supposed to post about it before New Year T ^ T

- Go travelling to an interesting place
I rarely gone travelling because my family doesn't like travelling but I love travelling so much LOL! I think that I wanna go travelling next year hehehe :D

Well I think that's all. I wanna work more and enjoy my life more in the same time. :) Many things happened. The good one and the bad one. But I believe that we could always learn something from all the past events. :)

Happy New Year everyone! Let's work hard and go through another year together :D

Nightmare Before Christmas

To be honest, I am not joking but yeah it does really happen. :(

Right before Christmas Eve, I'm going to Puncak with Pat by a travel car. And we brought so many things, let's say aroung 7-8 big bags. I remember exactly that I had all my gadget such as my laptop, camera, and so on. We're the first passengers who get in and the first one who get out. So I think it is impossible for someone to steal our stuff. When we arrived, I'm sure that I'd checked all of my belongings. I even tell Pat to check under the seat in case we missed something.

The day after, I realized that I cannot find my camera ANYWHERE..........

I was in panic and then tried all our best to get the camera back. But yeah... you know when you lost something in Indonesia, it's almost impossible to get it back.

I'm screwed up, missed an important collaboration with my friends and all post that I wanna work on delayed.

But then, I tried to calm myself that I don't want a single bad thing ruin my whole holiday. I'm intended to replace my old camera with the new one but still waiting for the right time. So I take it as a warning to be careful on my next trip and hopefully could afford a new camera really soon.

As I always said that good thing happened after the bad one. The next day I celebrate our 4th anniversary and surprisingly Pat gave me this. For the first time in my life, I didn't get any weird and unusual gift LOL. Hahahaha I couldn't say any single words then.

Behind the scene story (like always).

Few days before our trip, he asked what do I want for our anniversary gift and I said 'a new necklace' immediately. Simple, it's because he promised me 4 years ago that he would love to replace me a new necklace because he thought the one he gave me aren't really good (lol first-timer who didn't know where to buy girl's gift :P). Then I just wanna tease him a little bit to see if he remember about it or not. When we're going out for my Christmas shopping, he asked me which kind of necklace that I like. I remember that I choose the random cross design because the other design were not into my type. We were in rush and didn't have much time to shop. So I think, there won't be any chance for him to buy me some gifts. I didn't expect much because I was super busy and even couldn't finish my gifts for him.

Old Necklace :3

Later after we arrived, he gave me a little blue box that kinda surprise me. Judging from his type, I still didn't expect any good thing LOL (seriously too many bad experience in the past). I even still asked him why he didn't get me a red box because I didn't like blue hahahaha!

When I opened it, I was surprised that he could bought a necklace LOL.

Then I asked him,"How did you choose the necklace?"

He replied me," I pick the one you choose back then."

LOL... Okay la,I forgive you this time because you show some worthy effort xD

For the first time in our 4 years, he did give me something unexpected in the right time hahahaha. <3

So until I got my new camera, you will no longer see any updates from me. I guess I need a long holiday for now on because I was too busy lately, I even didn't have a single time to chill and relax. :) I believe that all the good thing will come next year and of course will bring more post on my blog ^_^ I really appreciate it if you guys wanna wait until I get my new camera. I can't wait to share about many things with all of you. I will go for a camera hunt right after I came back to Jakarta.

Happy holiday everyone! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year ! ^o^