Another Victoria's Secrets

"a song that you hear often on the radio"

is between Andien's Pulang and Selena Gomez' Who Says. I love Pulang so much I found it calms me down and feel like I wanna go home... only I hadn't found the 'home' she was singing about. Soon, I hope. Lol.

"a song you used to love but now hate"

is anything becoming too major, liked by too many people, played too often in the radio. Perhaps like Bruno Mars' Just The Way You Are. It's just so overwhelming. Lol.

"a song that describes you"


is actually my Day 01's song, God Help The Girl. But if I need to find another song, I think Five For Fighting's Superman suits me most. I feel like I'm no ordinary girl here and it's just not easy to be me in my neighborhood. I also love TLC's Unpretty and Aguilera's Beautiful. They helped me being strong as I am today during my adolescent years.

"a song that no one would expect you to love"

I forgot to blog about this, but my aunt is making super delicious cakes, with klappertaart as the specialty. Klappertaart is a Manadonese cake based with coconut (kelapa, in Indonesian), wheat flour, milk, butter and egg. They usually add rum, walnuts, raisins and cinnamons on top of the cake. Manadonese klappertaart usually has a very soft texture like custard for it is not being baked. Makassar's is more solid, and this one's what my aunt's offering.

Price (until the day I posted this) is IDR 120,000 for a recipe with different size options:

• 1 x (24 x 24 cm)
• 2 x (16 x 21 cm)
• 11 x ( 7 x 8 cm)
• 20 x ø 6 cm

Besides the klappertaart, my aunt also bake Ontbijtkoek, Cake Tapé, African Gateau, and many others by order. Contact her on +6281 8824 388 or follow her twitter for info and details at @Auntie_Agnes. But for now, delivery is only served around Pondok Indah, South Jakarta. Smakelijk eten, mijn vrienden!

"a song that is a guilty pleasure"

This is my and my sister's favorite. Dunno why, but we love to sing and hop and dance on the bed to this Culture Club's Karma Chameleon. This, and Roxette's Dressed for Success, are our songs!

"a song from a band you hate"

I so dislike this famous Indonesian band, but I like this one song, tho I believe that it's being great mostly because of Andien. All and all, good song must be respected well, so I acclaimed this as the only song I love from Ungu. Sorry, no hard feeling. At least, there is one, right?

"a song from your favorite band"

My favorite band is definitely The Cranberries. Despite their most famous hits, I love Saving Grace, Analyse, In The Ghetto, and this You and Me.

"a song that makes you fall asleep"

It was all began when I broke up with one of my ex. We used to talk on the phone before sleep during our time together and when we broke up, I felt terribly lonely and I needed to find the replacement to our random discussions. This song came just in the right time, with its 4 mins duration and very blissful music, it's just the most perfect lullaby for me.

As I got my salary and honorarium paid, I found myself shopped quite a lot lately. I've been vacuumed from shopping for months and now the need increased. Don't blame me for being such a shopaholic now. I do really need all those things I've purchased! (No, I exaggerated it. What I really needed were just the make ups. I bought the rest just because they're nice and offered me great deal of price in this summer sale season. Lol.)

"a song that you can dance to"

Yea, I definitely can always dance to this! I love dancing and I know how to jive and this is just the perfect rhythm for dancing mood. That Thing You Do! from The Wonders.

"a song that you know all the words to"

Tho there are more than just a few, this one is my favorite. It's because Bon Jovi's Cross Road was the first cassette I've ever bought on my own (I was on 6th grade). Always had always been my favorite.

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"a song that reminds you of a certain event"

There was an event that I remember each time I hear Bryan Adams' I'll Always Be Right There. I forgot the date but it was at Neo Calista that I first time heard this song, played and sang beautifully by a café-to-café singer the night I had a date with an ex.

We were already broke up by then, and he asked me out that night and the song just made the moment felt perfect: marvelous Bandung city view at night from the hill, great Western food, romantic acoustic music, and the right person. It was very beautiful, actually, but the memories about this guy just fade away as I'm moving on with my life.

Still, this song brings me back to that sweet moment of ours, tho it's now long broken and forgotten.

"a song that reminds you of somewhere"

... would be Float's Pulang. I heard this first from a guy (whose name I won't mention in this blog ever again) who took me up on the mountain far above my hillside house in Bandung. Moko Daweung was the place, October 2007 was the date. I think that was the most intimate moment I had with him, remembering that he's never my boyfriend (yep, this is the "Blink 182 Guy" on Day 05).

So every time I listen to this song, my mind floats back to that super chilly night I spent with super special people in my life back then. I really miss that moment, but I feel like I'm in a much better place now. Let the memories just be then..

I was collapsed once I got home yesterday. The wedding thing drained most of our energies and the high heels made my feet ached. But after 2-3 hours nap, my body was refreshed and I was ready to hit the town. So I revved my car's engine and wheeled down to Pondok Indah to meet Cheryl and Kireina.

We met at De Hooi, a very cozy bar in the neighborhood, and the girls were coming with Rei, Cheryl's friend. And as the night was getting longer, more people joined us, such as Boy (Ara's friend), and more of Rei's friends: Isdu, Aris, and a couple whose names I forgot. It was another fun night with more new faces to me.


Today I woke up a little too late but made it to the church by 10.30 a.m. with Aunt Dewi. After that I met my aunt's friends for a while, then sped up to Setiabudi One to meet Benedict (Andri's friend) and watched Catatan Harian Si Boy at 2 p.m., a thread to the old movies package by bringing up new casts and fresher ideas.

I love the way Putrama Tuta brought up the movie. The combination of action and drama, about cars, man-to-man rivalry, friendship and love. It's like watching Indonesian movie of Fast & Furious (to mention the drifts and the workshop), and the satisfaction was more or less equal (to be compared with other Indonesian movies).

The story is good, the action looked real, the casts are combination of old faces of original characters and totally new ones (which is very much a plus point, remembering the recent Indonesian movies are usually crowded by few particular actors that made them boring!) and it's far far away from being corny.

5 whys I love this movie:

1. They combined friendship, love, hope, trust and commitment/responsibility theme in a nicely wrapped package.
2. This contains action with car drifting and muscle fight, and it all felt real with maximum effort (the Porsche being smashed, the man-on-man fights..).
3. The actors are not the usual ones such as Tora Sudiro or Lukman Sardi (seemed like they existed in all other high-quality Indonesian movies). The casts here acted naturally and totally.
4. Many great lines we can quote in such perfect moments and many life lesson we can learn from the movie ("to finish what they have started", for example).
5. The movie is delivered lightly with enough drama and wit, and nothing was exaggerated. Just perfect.

I highly praise this one, and gonna watch this over and over again as often as I can. Lol. But before watching this, I suggest you to read this first, for a reminder of the old movie series. Enjoy the movie then!

Yesterday, my cousin, Robert Iwan, got married. He's the closest cousin to me and we share same friends in Jakarta and Bandung. So when he got married, it's something special to me, too. What made it more special is the presence of Kak Grace's family. She and Kung--her Cambodian husband--brought their kids Lance, 11, and Alicia, 2.5, to share the joy and happiness with us.



We gathered for family dinner (or what's called as widodareni for Javanese or rehearsal dinner for Western people) at Somerset Hotel on Friday night and got along with Cassy's family. It was nice, of course, meeting new people, new ambience, new stuff for me. There was one person who made the night much more fun for all of us: Alicia.



The next day, we gathered at St. Theresia Lisieux Chapel at MBK Church for the holy matrimony. Clemy and I got the ushering thing to do, while our other cousins brought fruits, candles, etc to the altar in a procession. Too bad I didn't really follow the whole thing because I sat in the outside of the chapel. By 9 a.m. it was all done and we moved to Seribu Rasa Restaurant at Menteng.


The mass started by 12 p.m. and some of the people I know came too: Mario (Iwan's best man), Lita and Oscar, Rian and Angely, and also from Mom's family. I was having fun with Alicia most of the time there I almost forgot to have lunch. But when they called the singles for the flower throwing, they had a couple teddy bears before the flower bouquet and it happened that Ben and I got both of them. Then we gave them to Alicia who was so glad having new toys to play with.


This was the quickest wedding I've ever been at. Normally for a family it would take a whole day, but this one ended by around 2.30-3.00 p.m. It took less effort too, remembering the reception was at a restaurant, not in a hotel's ballroom. But for me, this was enough for it was packaged nicely and the place was wonderful and the food was great. All of the guests were entertained, and we really wish happiness for the newlywed!

Last night, when I just reached home after a tiring long day on the road, a junior high schoolmate BBM-ed me and we had a little catch up. I knew it'd be something I dislike, because for the last few years he's been annoying me for his shallow talks.

My prediction came true when he started expressing his feelings--poor him--and he asked me for a date. I told him that I don't do dates. My dating life was over years ago and now I just don't have time for such thing (especially with someone not worth it at all).

He started giving arguments on how would I get married if I don't date, so I told him that I don't get married, to cut some chats. Then he said the exclaimed this "what's wrong with you" that made me laughing cynically at him. Truly, I pitied him despite of being offended.

He then lecturing me with some stuff, about "I know your life is now harder that your father had died. But you don't have to be that frustrated, too" thing. Geez, now he knows everything about me? Maybe he did thought so. Oh, I so pitied him!

Finally I said, "You know nothing about me, so don't judge. I don't need it." He said sorry, but then he deleted me from his contact. Weird. But I completely understand his position. I'm just way further too far from him, there are no way for him to get near me.

I'm not being proud here, but our "life-lesson understanding" level are just way too different, and it's really hard for me to find a guy on the same 'level' who can balance me, especially here in Indonesia. How can I be with people who think there's something wrong with how I choose my path of life? *sigh*

"a song that reminds you of someone"

Actually I'm not in a mood to remembering anyone in particular recently, so this should be quite hard (the case: a song that reminds you of someone). I don't even have any special someone on my mind!

Well maybe--of all of the guys that had been entered and exited my life--I'd pick this Blink 182's The Rock Show for one guy that has been wandering around my world for the past 10 years. We liked each other for the first time on summer 2001 and we both loved Blink 182 so much, each and every song of theirs!

So, maybe this one is for that guy who was never my boyfriend nor will ever be--for someone so special I can't get myself off too far from his circle. Weird love story between me and this guy tho, but this is sadly true T__T

"a song that makes you sad"

... would be Celine Dion's Dance With My Father. We sang this on 40 days' prayer for Daddy, and every time I listen to this, I just feel like crying. I also like Ada Band ft. Gita Gutawa's Ayah due to the occasion, also Luther Vandross' version of Dance With My Father. I miss my Daddy so much! :(