Another Victoria's Secrets

How cute do you think they are?? These cute orange orangutans are made by my friend Dessy, and they are adoptable! If you really like them, you can purchase one of them here and 15% of your transaction will be donated to OrangUtan at the conservatory.

It's so nice to have found a rare gift like this, especially when it's around you. I just know about this hobby (crocheting or amigurumi) from my elementary schoolmate, Dessy TAB--who is also a designer and animator--and I just know that she has this talented skill of even making the pattern herself! If you want to see Dessy's other crochet artworks, you can find them here. Let's take a look at my favorites:

Oh my, I think my brain is gonna explode sooner or later. Because I still can't be too far from my writing hobby--that poured on my dearest blogs--and going to see friends! Ehm, no, I guess seeing friends are once-in-a-week activity because thankfully I can be in touch with my BlackBerry.. what took most of my time is going here and there for surveying and buying things for the projects while I need to make the shop drawings and perspectives too!! Argh!

I'm above the sky now with my projects going on but also being stressed with all of the loads. But strangely, I feel fun!! Because I love designing and drawing perspectives and imagining an empty room being filled and picking the right materials and shopping for the project and doing all that with being paid.

Maybe this is what people say about "doing what you love and loving what you do" cuz I love my job very very much tho it consumes my energy to go back and forth Jakarta-Bandung and touring around each city. Thank God, for all the projects that come to me.. but please help me get through it all!! :) I believe God will lead my way..

I've been listening to this funny song (funny since it's mixed language Malay and English) in the radio and found it in the internet. At first I thought the singer was a Holland or other caucasian, but she is indeed a Malaysian singer. "Kantoi" is Malay term for "Busted". I think the song is really funny and fun to sing-along with. But don't copy it for your Indonesian language course!!

I went to so many shops lately, to find things I need for my interior project and this one is the most interesting one I have ever been in since the rest of the shops were in markets and trade centers. Lol. But check this out! They displayed three containers for center point and made Transformers robot dummies here and there to make it even more attractive. I love how they do about this void space that enhanced the futuristic atmosphere... it makes people tend to buy the stuff they sell here than the other stores around.


Look at what they do with the video game area above; it really makes game-freaks and soccer-manias excited. All of these stuff aren't really new ideas, but how they treat their store as an expo is really something different than lines of boring old stores in Jl. ABC, Bandung. It's very refreshing!

Impressed or amazed by the super luxurious house above? It is indeed such a high-classed lifestyle the owner must live in. Too bad, this mansion is located in Naypyidaw, the new capital of Burma and belongs to the Senior General of Myanmar (Burma.) While his people starve and die because of no medical help, he and his family live in luxurious like this. How contrast a social difference can happen in a country!
by courtesy of KSTB mailing list.

I just got back from Jakarta for the last week and had some surveys for my projects. Thank God, I have two projects progressing now, hopefully they will be finished in two-three months. Mom had been my greatest partner since we share the same taste and work rhythm (only she is a bit faster than me.)


But overall, the business trip went well. We'd found some stuff we needed for our projects and met our family still. We watched Karate Kid with Aunt Magda's family on Monday and even went to Jakarta Fair (Pekan Raya Jakarta) at Kemayoran on Wednesday. We had kerak telor (the must-eaten food at PRJ) and had fun shopping for discounted items we needed there.



We also went to some restaurants with great food and I'll show you some of them here. You gotta try them if you come to Jakarta!!

I made more often trips to Jakarta lately and I am so fully recharged every time I did it. I love the metropolitan so much and all of its content: all my family and friends and skyscraper buildings and gigantic malls and of course, the traffic jam and hot steamy weather!

So during my short stay of 2 nights I had my first interior project deal on Saturday night, went for surveys on the next two days and got incredibly excited to start designing again. I had lost interest about designing since 2008--perhaps I hadn't enough tools and skills and facilities back then--but the deal last weekend just put some fire in my fighting spirit.

So here I go: an interior designer again, and above here is my company logo I made recently. Please check out my portfolio and try me for any interior/landscape project of yours. Thank you for all the support :)

~K'naan



My sister told me to search this music on YouTube and there, I found it and put it here to add some fightin' spirit for you my readers. Let's wave the flag, fellas!!

I just got home from PVJ, watching movie Sex and the City 2 at Blitz Megaplex with Cheryl, Rachelle, Hanum, Livia, Kent, Sherly, Marina and Breh. After the movie we had dinner at Sushi Groove till 11 p.m. and I went to see Ara for a glimpse at his hang out spot. But now I'm gonna talk about how I love the movie!!

First, of course, because of the wardrobe, then because of the scene--they're on vacation in Abu Dhabi--but what I love the most (for present time) is the story about Carrie there. They're talking no longer about mere sex but more about marriage. And that's exactly what I need to know now. That one scene when Carrie meeting Aidan made me think a lot about my own life story at the present time.

I had people who played huge roles during my 'fun time', adolescent years. I had friends and stories and my own seasons in the sun back then. But now that I'm getting serious with my guy I have to change and adapt. Not that I'm changing myself, but my purpose, habit, and priorities. Getting married isn't just about the wedding party but it's about two different people--no matter how similar or match they are--being together as one.

It used to sound so simple for me, but now I know how complicated it really is. About understanding, not just tolerating. About loving and not judging. About forgiveness and trust. About commitment. And the last is the hardest for me to do. But I'm dealing with it and trying to make it happen. Cuz my life isn't gonna be in 20s all the time. I'm gonna turn 30, 40.. and if I'm lucky, 80. And those years are talking about more responsibilities and growing up and wisdom. And I need to get all of them starting now.

So I'm deciding now; to take more responsibilities in my actions and to think twice before satisfying my own youth desire that now I have someone to think about. My life will be us, not me anymore. And that's a hard work I have to maintain, because somewhere along the way, one have to decide this huge destination and decision and mine starts now. And I'm glad it is.

I went to a half-day seminar at Kantor Pos Jl. Banda yesterday, held by Prudential. The speaker was Australian first paraplegic sky-diver who was a pilot before a motorbike crash in 2002 ripped the ability to feel his lower body and took away his career and most of his dreams. But instead of weeping and whining he chose to take an action, then he built this foundation to help people to overcome their sadness in www.imthinkingofyou.co.au and currently is raising money for disabled children in Africa by riding his hand-operated bike 5000 km away from Melbourne to Darwin at www.extremerolling.com.



After the lunch at seminar, I went to my best friend's future house in Maleer, meeting her mom and soon-mom-in-law there and had a chat till around 3 p.m. It was the first time I came there after the house was finished. The last time I checked on, it was still an unfinished building, but now that it is done, I had a lot of critic and complaint about the interior I think she was a little pissed. Lol. Then Irma and I went to Riau Junction to meet Ester who was there with Hayden her son, and also Livia who came the last. We had a fun chat at Magic Oven coffee shop, then by around 6 p.m. I moved to BIP to meet Cheryl and Dimas.


Together with Ara who came 10 minutes after my arrival, we bought large packs of pop corns then we watched the Prince of Persia movie by 7 p.m. About two hours later, I drove to The Kedai with Cheryl while the boys rode on their bikes to the same destination. We hang there for another hour, then Cheryl and I picked Gabby up to hang out in Oh La La Bistro at Jl. Setiabudi. I think it was a pretty tiring day that I went home at 1 a.m. with a super-exhausted body, but I was happy that I met a lot of people and friends and get new experiences. Thank You, Lord!