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Sunday, March 6, 2016

Bazaar Bridal Week 2016 : "Silent Poetry" by Imelda Kartini




Last week I attended Indonesia's Annual Bazaar Bridal Week 2016 at Ritz Carlton, Pacific Place. This event last for 3 days, from Friday to Sunday, featuring some of the best Indonesian designers. They showed off their bridal collection. 

One of my favorite designer, Imelda Kartini, closed the event with a spectacular fashion show, themed Silent Poetry, inspired by the poetry from Victorian era. This fashion show was supported by many vendors; Magnificent Decoration by Lotus, Flawless Make Up and Hairdo by Donny Liem, Awesome Accessories by Morphacio Body Art, and Gorgeous Shoes by Rina Thang

Every piece was designed heart fully; the chosen fabric, silhouette, and unique details will took our breath away. Here are some pictures of her collection. I hope you will be amazed like I did!










 











Photos by me

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

My Wedding Journey Part II : Catering and Decoration




Continue from my previous post about my wedding journey and what to prepare for your wedding day, I want to share about how I picking Catering and Decoration vendor.

After picking your venue, of course you have to search for decoration vendor. Just like before, because I'm in charge of my wedding preparation it self (I'm not using wedding planner for this case, but you can if you want), so it's me and Reza's duty to looking around decoration vendor. Actually we're quite overwhelm to search all of this item just two of us. But since we want to make sure every details of them, so we had to continue and keep moving on.

Talking about decoration, it best when you find the vendor who had done wedding decoration in your chosen place before. Why is that? Because they already had an experience with the location and they can offer or suggest you the decoration as it's best.

After strolling around to couple vendors, finally my choice fell on Lily Vicky Decoration. They known Plaza Bapindo so well that gave me confidence to entrust them decor my wedding day.
I decided to use Garden theme for my wedding with combine green, pink, and purple colors.

For wedding gate and standing flower, we using more branches with cherry blossom flowers combining with street lamp standing flower. For the  there's many lightning tree with bird cage, bench, and fence too make garden theme more real.

Tips. Try to using various spotlight colors because it will enliven the atmosphere. Try to cover your front gate or front desk with fabric to create a full hallway dimension.






Receptionist desk (front gate)


  




Photo gallery



Branch with cherry blossom






Wedding gate


















Fence, bench, tree, and bird cage


The other most important things on your wedding day is catering. One of key succeed of your wedding  is determine by the food you choose and how much food you ordered will be enough for all guests. You will served food in two kind of ways, buffet and stall. For most people it's taboo if your buffet is empty or not enough to fed the last guest attended. But if your stall food is empty somehow they think is common. So try to precisely count how many guests you invited before determine how many food you ordered.

A good caterer will know how many food (include cakes and pastry) they have to suggest to you at the moment you told them how many invitation you distributed (including proportion of youth and the older ones). They have their own calculation to make sure your buffet won't get empty until the last guest standing.

First thing you have to do before choosing your Catering vendor is to continuously trying their food in every wedding exhibition. Try to check their consistency of taste and preparation as well. 

After taste couple of Catering vendor in every wedding exhibition, I entrust Chez Ingrid to handle my wedding catering. Chez Ingrid is one of Plaza Bapindo engage catering vendor at that time.

Tips. Just like I told you before, some of venue have their own engage vendor including to catering, so make sure to pick your catering vendor align to your venue list. 






Cookies and cakes



Barbie pudding



Serving table decoration


As because my father is from Makasar, we want to bring our culture to our wedding as well by serving this Makasar traditional cookies that arrange well in circle line.



Makasar cookies


My Wedding Journey Part III : Pre-Wedding Photo will be up on the next upcoming blog post.

Thursday, January 7, 2016

AMBER Chocolate Bar



Senopati always been a great choice to search for good restaurants or cafes. They grew up so fast that every time I passed this area there's always a new store open here. AMBER Chocolate Bar is one of them. Located at Senopati street across Cacaote, they have three different concept for each floor of their store.

1st floor was about pastry boutique with luxury interior. 2nd floor was a restaurant that design as a library where more casual for dining. 3rd floor was a rooftop that design like lounge and bar to chillin' out with your best friends while DJ playing the music. It will boost your mood like once!













Because it still early in the afternoon and we're quite full, so we decided to try their pastry at 1st floor. There's many variety of pastry there. There's 13 flavor of macaroons, each was IDR 15k. They also have about 9 flavors of chocolate pralines each IDR 20k. You can also find cakes, pastry and another sweet stuff.

After seeing their menu, we decided to order their Signature High Tea and Chocolate Overflow.


Chocolate Overflow IDR 70k
Like a classic lava cake, this soft baked with melted chocolate in the center served with vanilla ice cream. They also add small macaroons and fresh fruits like strawberry and blueberry. I love the balance of sweetness and sourness combination.





Signature High Tea IDR 210k
Consist of all sweet treat in two-tier plate consist many variety of chocolate, macaroons, cakes, etc. This set also allow you to choose two kind of drinks (classic twinning tea or variety of coffee). 









Signature Twinning Tea (Unparalleled Interlude) IDR 50k
A great combination of sencha green tea and fresh juicy taste of honeydew, sweet pineapple, kiwi, and zingly lemon balm




Premium Twinning Tea (Jasmine Pheonix Pearl) IDR 70k
A premium and one of the finest Chinese jasmine green tea which gives a sweet alluring fragrant of jasmine blossom and sublime, sweet flavor





I love the whole place ambiance, it feels so homey yet luxury. I'm not yet try their 2nd and 3rd floor this time, but surely I will go there again and try another menu in another thematic floor of their store. This was a fun experience having tea time at AMBER.

















Photos by me



Amber Chocolate Bar
Jl. Senopati Raya No. 61, Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta Selatan
Phone: (+6221) 29044412
Instagram: @amberchocolatebar
Opening Hours: Pastry Boutique 07:00 – 22:00, Library 10:00 – 23:00, Sky Lounge 17:00 – 01:00

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Dreaming is a freedom, so free your dreams

Today I open my email and found an interesting mail from one of my friend. After I read that I think it's a nice email that I want to share to all of you.. You can see the title upthere, so you know this post is talking about Life and Dreams..I know everybody had two of them and I hope this post can help you realize your dreams in every single of your life..


"
Ada satu keluarga yang mengontrak rumah dan akhirnya membeli sebuah apartemen di lantai 60, apartemen itu memakan waktu sangat lama dalam pembuatannya, kemudian, tibalah hari yang dinanti, apartemen dambaan telah jadi dan selesai dengan baik, dengan semangat dan antusias mereka membawa banyak barang-barang untuk mengisi apartemen mereka.

Mereka membawa surat kabar, pakaian, mainan, makanan, kompor, lemari pakaian, tempat tidur, peralatan makan, televisi, alat musik, sabun, teropong, dan banyak sekali barang lain, “ nanti di atas, kita bisa nonton tv, main video game, masak terus makan masakan  buatan sendiri, bisa bersantai sambil mendengarkan musik  , bisa meneropong jauh, bersantai, mandi dulu, pokoknya enak deh... " demikian pikir mereka.

Sesampainya mereka di sana, mereka menemui developer, ternyata apartemen itu baru setengah jadi dan lift belum terpasang, mereka sangat kecewa dibuatnya  , mereka ingin pulang ke rumah lama mereka, tapi kontrak mereka sudah habis, dengan sangat terpaksa, mereka harus tetap naik ke atas sana dan tinggal di dalamnya menggunakan tangga darurat, mereka naik membawa semua barang mereka menggunakan tangga darurat. tangga demi tangga dilalui, mereka terus maju dengan semangat membara.

Sesampainya mereka di lantai 25 mereka kelelahan, mereka makan dan minum dengan lahapnya, lalu mereka melihat barang-barang mereka, semuanya utuh, timbul sebuah pikiran untuk mengurangi barang bawaan mereka, lalu mereka memutuskan untuk meninggalkan meja telepon dengan teleponnya, " toh di atas kita tidak perlu telepon atau pesan apa-apa, " demikian menurut mereka.

Di lantai 30 mereka tinggalkan baju, mainan dan lemari pakaian mereka, " toh kita masih memakai baju. " lalu mereka terus melaju ke lantai 35, mereka masih mengeluh dan memutuskan untuk meninggalkan barang mereka lagi yaitu televisi dan radio serta compo. " soalnya kita tidak perlu nonton tv, toh acara dan lagu-lagu  yang kita punya itu-itu saja. "

Teruslah mereka melaju sampai lantai 45, rasanya masih berat dan tidak menyenangkan, maka mereka tinggalkan kompor dan bahan makanan yang mereka bawa, " toh tadi masih kenyang makan banyak. "

Di lantai 55 teropong dengan tripod yang sangat besar  mereka tinggalkan begitu saja, " toh di atas mau lihat apa, belum jadi semua tower yang lain. "

Sesampainya di lantai 60, mereka masuk dan menyadari yang mereka miliki hanya sebuah kasur, tidak ada jalan lain, mereka hanya ingin tidur karena tidak ada pilihan lain.


And so.... what's the point ?

Mungkin anda bingung kenapa perumpamaan ini sangat panjang, perjalanan itu melambangkan kehidupan, tiap lantai yang ada, melambangkan umur dan anda adalah keluarga tersebut, barang-barang tersebut adalah mimpi anda, barang-barang tersebut adalah perlambang tindakan anda.

Di umur 25 anda mulai bekerja dan memutuskan untuk fokus pada pekerjaan anda, tanpa sadar anda telah mengeliminasi banyak sahabat potensial.

Di umur 30 anda sudah tidak memperhatikan penampilan dan melupakan hobi anda akibat sulitnya bersaing.

Di umur 35 anda mulai melupakan kesenangan yang anda dambakan di hari tua akibat kenyataan bahwa tabungan Anda tidak mencukupi.

Di umur 45 anda berhenti makan makanan yang anda sukai akibat terlalu banyak mengkonsumsi makanan di usia 25 yang mulai berdampak buruk di usia ini.

Di umur 55 anda benar-benar melupakan keinginan menikmati hari tua dengan memandang indahnya hidup dengan menikmati apa yang anda lewati, anda mulai kuatir dengan masa depan anak anda.

Di umur 60, anda menyesal tidak banyak yang anda dapat akibat tidak ada mimpi yang direalisasikan. anda hanya ingin cepat tidur selamanya, karena anda sudah tidak bisa lagi makan makanan enak, anda tidak memiliki achievement yang bisa dibanggakan, anda tidak punya siapapun yang menjadi sahabat anda, anda tidak bisa menikmati hobi anda di masa muda, kesehatan badan mengkuatirkan.

Hidup cuma datang sekali, jadi pastikan anda akan berjuang  untuk mencapai mimpi-mimpi anda ! Jangan lepaskan, tapi usahakan, jangan sampai kita kehabisan pilihan dalam menjalani hidup. "

Dreaming is a freedom, so free your dreams. 

Saturday, November 21, 2015

Burgundy Love





As it begins to Fall / Winter season, all store is now full stocked with fall colors like burgundy, khaki, mustard, and brown, So here's my new love, burgundy. It has a deep and rich color, as well as black.

For today's look, I choose Stradivarius's Fall / Winter Collection 2015, burgundy long high neck top with split at both side. I match it with black leather mini skirt and black suede ankle boots. Not forget to mention my black classic flap bag to complete whole looks.

What's your favorite color's outfit for this season?


















Burgundy Long High Neck Top - Stradivarius
Black Leather Mini Skirt - Cotton On
Black Suede Ankle Boots - Linea
Black Classic Flap Bag - Charles and Keith


Photos by Reza Sunggiardi

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