LUCKY BASTARD

One day, i got lucky to win the first prize at the quiz "RANKING 1" that held on Trans TV. Hem, this is not the first time im winning something. Before this, i have won lotte bubble gum quiz and got a red lunch bag when i was kid. When me at the second grade of senior high school, i won a photo hunting competition (i was selected for the 1st winner) that held by Labschool Kebayoran and got 1 million rupiahs. I dont think that was a very big deal, i just feel that i somehow get lucky, effortlessly. I survived from a car accident twice. I got back my cool green crocodile skin wallet that had been stolen at the deborah bus. I got a job without me giving any cv. I know im a lucky bastard. I feel so very thankful and grateful of what happened to me, whether its good or bad. I think everyone has its own lucky version on his/her life. I know God design and make our life balance. When you lack on something, you have another thing to cover those and we gotta be proud of it. Oui, c'est la vie (yes, it is life) if i have to take one of the song title from laruku :p Wow, writing this makes me look and think at the bright side that i always used to be before. That's good.

Back to the ranking 1 quiz, I have to admit that my look on the television was far away from the word 'a natural beauty' and it has been broadcasting nationally at April the 6th!! haha WTF. But anyway, i won 5 million rupiahs. Yeay to that. Here are some snapshots i took.

p.s: well, i wish you all a nice luck.. im hoping for mine now to do the thesis, fukc -__-

BEAT FEST 2011

Thank God i could see the band that i really like to be performed on March 26th!!!!!! (although it cost me money)

MGMT

and there was another one

The Whitest Boy Alive

alhamdulillah~

COMING SOON: Sunday Coffee Ride Goes to Kopitiam Oey (KTO) Tebet

Sunday Coffee Ride Event Poster

Have you ever been to Kopitiam Oey? Have you ever been taste the food and beverages in KTO? Well, i’ve been there and i’ve tasted some of them and so far sooooo heavenly great. Believe me, i ain’t joking around. What’s the best word for KTO’s f&b? Delicious? Yummy? Delightful? Heemm, think it's Maknyuss, since the owner is Bondan Winarno, the famous host from “Wisata Kuliner” at one of tv station in Indonesia :D

Bike to Work (B2W) Community collaborated with Kopi Tiam Oey, Tebet branch planning to hold an event called "Sunday Coffee Ride" on March 27th, 2011. If you wanna try some of the menus that Kopitiam can offer you to like Roti Taloea Bukittinggi or Sego Ireng (pick one menu) and singkong sambal Roa as a complimentary. For the drink, there are hot/cold djahe merah/beras kentjoer/ koenjit or ijs kopi soesoe indotjina (pick one drink). Beside that, you can get a free mentari (indosat) t-shirt and a pack of starter kit from Indosat that contain one pin, 4 small stickers/ 2 big stickers, and a bike tag.
Here the sneak peek menus :)

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roti taloea boekittinggi

sego ireng

singkong sambal roa

hey, i also try this.

risol kedjoe (with smoked beef inside)

ijs tjingtjao djahe tjikini

GO GET BICYCLE PRIVILEGE CARD NOW!!!

Bicycle Privilege Card ad design (half page) at SWA magazine, March 2011 edition

Hello cyclist people in Indonesia,
As a program officer to the card, I shall introduce you to this Bicycle Privilege Card (BPC). It's a membership card from Bike to Work Community collaborated with Sodexo Motivation Solutions and Avrist Insurance which aims to give more benefits to its card holder, especially for you cyclist people on national scale. The benefits that we can get are:

1. Insurance protection from cycling accident with a total sum assured Rp. 5.000.000,- (five millions rupiahs) which cause death or permanent disability, and reimbursement for hospital care because of accident while riding a bike with total amount Rp. 500.000,- (five hundred thousands rupiahs) accumulated in a year or the validity of Bicycle Privilege Card. The insurance coverage that mentioned before is BASIC and you can top up after registering your self to it.

2. Special discounts at selected merchants like bicycle stores and reparation stores, cafe and restaurants, hotels, etc whose numbers will continue to increase.

3. Point rewards program that can exchange into prizes, and there's so much more benefit that this card can offer you.

The fee to grab this Bicycle Privilege Card is only Rp 75.000,- (Seventy five thousands rupiahs) per member for a year. It's an affordable price for a beneficial product like BPC. For more info in Indonesian language, click here. If you wanna registering to this card, click here. If you have questions that pop up in your mind about this card, please kindly send an email to bpc@b2w-indonesia.or.id.

So please register your self to get this card, like now :D

WHEN MOM IS OUTTA TOWN

fettucini carbonara with tarik ice tea, the tastiest food so far by me :9

My mom visited her sister (which also is my aunt) at Tembilahan, Riau for more than a week. Pretty lame, cause i knew my sisters will depends on me when it come to tummy problems. So when mom is outta town, I cooked. Well, it was really not a real cooking i have to say. I made my own meal, the very easy ones and the instant way to feed this rubber belly. I should be ashamed, at this age I just gotta make this kinda stuff :(

I think as a human being, we gotta appreciate our self with delightful food so we could thank to God that we’re living such a graceful life. Food is a heaven sent from God, i assure that to you ehehehe. Sooo, can you tell me guys, what's your favorite food to make? Have you ever fail making it? Fyi, i failed to make the fettucini alio oglio, the pasta was under cook. I also once failed to make pancakes that the final result was just like a slight bread haha. Failure is always the best way to learn, like KOC lyric said hihi. And I think nothing can really stop us as long as we try our best, rite? I promise my self to learn tastiest yum yum recipes so that I can fulfill my prime needs of food. I don't mind if you'd like to share your experience in food to me. Must have been a pleasure to know it.

cornflakes cereal with caramel topping

smoked beef and cheese toast

french fries with mix of mayonnaise and chili

chicken siomay dimsum from fiesta, i just steam it :p

fettucini alio oglio, a bit disappointing :(

LET’S GO KNITTING

freda, karin, me, ocha, and ella (left to right) with our knitting work

i forgot the two men's name behind me, pardon me :(

This idea firstly came out when Rossa told me that there’s gonna be a knitting workshop class in Tupperware Home at Tirtayasa. Then I arranged it, asked a bunch of friends to participate, and finally it was just Rossa, Alfreda, Ella, and Karina (Ocha’s college buddy) who attending to the knitting class. The free of charge thingy is the coolest part that i can offer to them, lol. Oh i forgot to introduce you to Alfreda and Ella. Freda is my big mouthed-highschool friend with a big heart :p meanwhile Ella is my old buddy from elementary and juniorhigh school.

We showed up to the Tupperware Home with no clue at all. I was told by Mbak Lini who gave us this opportunity that the lecturer is from Tobucil. What’s Tobucil then? After we played some warm up game with tooth paste as a tool and listened but with not paying attention too much to the sales mam from Tupperware, and finally we found out what on earth Tobucil is (not quite clear actually).

Tobucil is a club hobby who support literacy movement in a local level based on some kind of daily activities like reading, writing, appreciation, and hobby development. Literacy for Tobucil not only means reading and writing skills, but also includes the ability to read the environment critically, and the courage to understand ourselves as an independent people who got the potential to grow and to contribute for changes. And, this knitting workshop class is one of those activities from Tobucil also with The Man Who Knit. If you wanna know the details about Tobucil, click here. And if you wanna shop via online, click here to see the goods from the catalogue. And wow, a talented young lecturer lady posted this workshop event to her blog. Check here if you’d like to.

So, the five of us and other fellas have been taught how to knit the very simple technique, just using our hands for a beginner like us. I might say that I enjoooooooy knitting, it was fun!! We even had a race who could knit the longest until they (Tobucil and The Man Who Knit) said stop. One of the lecturer said that when you’re knitting while talking, then you’re getting better. He said again, “It only took 10 minutes to finish this simple knitting.” It was nearly impossible since this is the first time for me knitting.

I knew what I and my mates learnt at the workshop was just easy as abc, but there are a lot of techniques that we gotta learn more for making shawl, beanie hat, sweater, cardigan, dress (what I really intend to make), and so on. I’m planning to learn knitting again. I hope there’s gonna be another workshop or maybe the knitting course in Jakarta (Tobucil is from Bandung), so we can seize our time and day with beneficial activity, and not wasting it. AMEN.

Heeey, here are some pics I got. And if you eagerly wanna learn what I knew from this class, ask me too. Or perhaps we could take this knitting course together, why not?? :D

Tobucil's mission and commitment

ella won the race of "who can knit the longest?" yeay

it's my knitting work i formed like a lollipop

i got this two rolls of knitting yarn for free :)

we got goody bag each that contains 1 tabloid, 1 magazine, and 1 mini tupperware

Happy New Year 2011!!

"I'd choose to be a half full glass rather than a half empty glass."

That's gonna be my motto for 2011, no more sadness but happiness, and I made awesome resolutions to reach this year. Hope for the luck to all of it. Horraaayyyy....

HAPPY NEW YEAR OF 2011 FELLAS!!!