Weird & Wicked

5.10.2013

Mini me, Tidy me

I've been telling myself that I've missed my old self. I know it doesn't make any sense at all, but if you knew me since I was a lil girl like i've known myself, you'll know that I was more mature back then than now. I don't understand why really. I didn't even realize it until a friend of mine who studied psychology told me this questionnaire about doughnuts (ok, it does sounds weird no matter how many times you said it), so basically, you'll be asked what's your previous favorite doughnut (you'll have to explain it in detail like what's the brand, is it a ring or rounded one, what's the flavour etc.) next question will be what's your favorite doughnut at the moment. Interestingly, mine turn out to be I used to be more mature back then than now like I said before.

To be honest, it's partly wrong and partly true. When I was a kid, I used to be really good at managing my money. I remember I used to have this wallet where I put all the big money like 50,000 (there wasn't 100,000 back then) and called the wallet my "big wallet". Haha I was so cute.

The other wallet that I used in day today activity was filled in smaller change like 5,000-20,000.

Now? oh don't bother to ask.

Also, I used to read kind of heavy books (well, at least it was a deep reading for a 12 year old) like yakuza moon, digital fortress, 24 faces of billy. Now, I just started to read something like that again, but my favorite will always be Sophie Kinsella's Shopaholic books that i remember was recommended by Alviana Kalin. and Chuck Palahniuk's series.

Also, when I was 13-14 yo, organising stuff was my therapy. When in doubt, although I was still a tad messy back then (I can't never compete to my mom's OCD, so she always told me that im messy and all that no matter how hard I tried), organising and tidying stuff calm my nerves. Now, i can stand not washing or cleaning stuff in a week or two. Let's say, I'm much more relax now.

But something changed me a bit since I'm in London. Maybe it was the weather, or drinking coffees daily or maybe i'm just generally happy but I feel like my old self again. I start liking to clean stuff even though just a lil bit like vacuuming my bedroom once in 2-3 days, cleaning dishes, organising my homework (i never done this when I was in college!), I started to feel like, organising stuff is my therapy again. I feel calm and relax. Being alone and tidying stuff suddenly become a therapeutic experience.

Phew, it feels good writing what's on your mind wasn't it?

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Recent books I just bought:

Cheers!

5.07.2013

BBQ at Wilesden Junction

It's bank holiday yesterday, not that it makes any different with my schedule but still, it's a holiday.

My flatmates got an invitation from a friend of theirs that they used to hang out with with the girls who used to stay at my room. I got invited and we had such a great time. I invited one of my indonesian friend as well, so it was pretty awesome that I finally got someone to talk to with my mother tongue in a party.

The day was perfect, kind of, it was sunny from 10 until 3-4 ish so it was good. We stayed until 7 ish though.

Outfit:

Top: glamour kills

Bottom: TOPSHOP

cowok pake baju ijo: orang paling najis yang pernah gw temuin, ew ew ew! i just had to say it, nothing can describe it better than the word 'najis'

yummy!

5.04.2013

the perks of being cherry

The good thing about living in english speaking country is that, every time I'm at the bank or restaurant to make an appointment or reservation, and tell them my name is Cherry, they won't 'correcting' your name as 'Sherry' or 'Cheryl' like when I was in my hometown, "Sorry Ms, is it Sherry with S or Cheryl?" ...none of em beyotch.

For people in Jakarta, Cherry doesn't count as a human name back in the day, it's getting better now though, but sometime people still prefer calling me "Sherry" or "Cheryl".

How Annoying.

But here in London, when I tell people what my name is, they won't misspell it as 'Ceri' or 'Cherrie' or many other absurd way to pronounce Cherry on papers, which I usually get when I was in China or Indonesia. But the downside is, even though they are perfect on pronouncing the name, there is always a follow up question, "No, No seriously, what's your real name?" Even the italic and bold can't even express my stress on how many times people have been asking me that question. I don't mind though, really.

Like last night, we were at Piccadilly circus to get some dinner and in less than 3 hours, I already got asked by 2 people on the street about my name and their reactions are the same, "Haha..nice name, but seriously though, what's your real name?"

You know what? next time someone asked me that, I will say, "Oh shoot, I shouldn't have told you my stripper name!"

Yeah...that would have been fun.

Although, there's still an upside of it. One time I was at the restaurant and about to pay it with my debit card, and when the guy realised my full name from the card, he did say and I quote, "that's a cool name!"
thanks mom.

here's a cute shorts to brighten up your day

#outfitoftheday

TOP: Vintage Denim Jacket

Inner top: ZARA shirt

Bottom: TOPSHOP short shorts

Boots: Vintage (Portobello Market)

Beanie Hat: eBay

Me & Rani

Me & Lala

at the other side of Piccadilly Circus.

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4.29.2013

Guess What? I'm in London!

Yep, you read that right! I'm in London m************ (sorry, i've been trying to reduce my swearing 'cause mom has been really irritated lately, turns out she read this blog sometimes).

It really is a bad habit for me, i mean swearing, not writing blog...i'm pretty sure my graphic design teacher told me that if you write a blog regularly and frequently, you have less chance to get mental illness. Anyway, just for all of you guys who finds my blog has too much swearing in it, that's because sometimes I can explain things better with a lil bit of 'dark humor' in it, hence swearing and the sarcasm. I'm apologising in advance.

So yeah, back to London. I'm here taking a Graphic Design portfolio short course at St. Martins until this summer if any of you curious. Just to let you know this is not just a mindless vacation, but rather a thoughtful one, i've been preparing this since last year such as; taking TOEFL course................and thats it. HAHA ok ok, getting into short course is not as hard as getting into a Master degree, okay? so the preparation is pretty much, easy.

Today is actually marked my 20th day here. So far it has been AWESOME! my flat turns out to be super near to Sherlock Holmes Museum. I live in Marylebone area so I'm close to marylebone station and baker street station. How cool is that? I can go there ANYTIME i want, i just need to figure out if there's an entrance fee there because living in London is waaay more expensive than living in both Jakarta and Shanghai, i'm still trying to adapt with the currency here, hence the stinginess.

I went to visit the landmarks of London last week with my flatmates like Big Ben (turns out is not as big as i thought it would be), Tower Bridge, Buckingham Palace, and London Eye. I didn't get in to London Eye though, we didn't have much preparation so we decided to skip it and just take pictures in front it.

Other than that, I also went to the famous Portobello Market in Notting Hill Gate. I even made a mental preparation by watching Notting Hill movie the night before and I wasn't disappointed! Both the movie and the real place gave me a blast! I bought 3 stuff from Portobello Market; oversized vintage denim jacket (im pretty sure its not oversized, it was made for guys i think), vintage police woman boots for 2 quid (yes! i speak slang british now! quid for pounds! guess theres a lil benefit reading the whole series of Shopaholic), cheongsham shaped t-shirt with vintage chinese print, and Gone girl novel for 4£ (enough bragging, im not gonna use quid anymore 'cause i feel like a douche).

the very first picture i took in London at London Heathrow.

Accidentally found this when I was lost trying to find a way back home to my flat. And that's how I know the place is close to my flat.

King Cross' Station

Central St. Martins

Boo!

my awesome Black Milk Clothing Junkfood leggings

Drop Dead Clothing

Carnaby Street

Oxford Street

Portobello Market

Sketch London's Toilet.

My british friend recommend me this place and I enjoyed it a lot!

The restaurant has lots of rooms and somehow it reminds me of Alice in Wonderland.

But i think my favorite thing about the restaurant is the toilet. Try google Sketch London and the first thing (or second or third thing) you'll see will be the toilet. To me, it looks like as if its made of a big Dinosaur's egg.

The funniest thing is, when we go in there, there will be various sounds the toilet's make like applause or bird chirping. It just made your experience of No.1 / 2 seems delightful.