Tuesday, December 15, 2009

I'll do it before, and I'd do it again...

Parc de la Estació del Nord, Barcelona

Suddenly, weather has changed, it is cold and that makes me a good mood ...

Hi everyone! How was your tuesday? I spent my tuesday with some friends around Barcelona, eating sushi, having a delicious tea in a lovely place called Rosa Blanca (an art-coffee bar) and looking for cds (finally, I've got my "never seen the light of day" by Mando Diao, the Spanish special edition with sings!).

Arch of Triumph, Barcelona
 
 
Rosa Blanca art-cafe Bar

Shirt - Zara
cardigan - Zara
Skirt - Baby, the Stars Shine bright
Tights - Calzedonia
Boots - Aces of London
Yellow ribbon - Offbrand


I keep thinking about men's fashion, and today I can think about three examples from the world of music to illustrate my tastes on the general male aesthetic, and why I don't  feel it's boring at all.

The first one is Paul Banks, guitarist and singer of the band Interpol. The truth is that Paul seems like a fairly attractive man with exquisite style to choosing clothes. Always wears an elegant, sometimes even a little retro and mod style, uses shirts and suits jacket, either formal or casual. Furthermore, he's normally using a style of glasses that I love!
 

Another singer whose style is worth my attention is another Paul, but in this case is Paul Smith, frontman of the wonderful band Maxïmo Park. Besides being a person with a compelling charisma and dazzles you from the first moment in which jumps on stage (something I could live last summer), Paul has a very personal style of dress. For the proceedings is usually dressed in jacket, shirt, bow tie or tie, always very elegant and wearing hats.

However, daily, choose a more casual or sport where you use caps, sneakers, jeans, shirts or polos; always trying to look fun yet formal.



And the third one is, fo course, Björn Dixgard from Mando Diao.


At concerts, he and the band usually choose a complete look black, although in many cases simply chooses shirt and jeans. The truth is that his style is nothing special (although the campaign he did for Ben Sherman makes me think otherwise), but I especially like the way they dress (and also Gustaf, the whole band in general).




I would also like to make a special mention to The Hives, another Swedish band that I love, they have a great styling!
 

So, who's your favourite?




Sigo pensando sobre la moda masculina, y hoy se me ocurren tres grandes ejemplos del mundo de la música para ilustraros mis gustos sobre la estética masculina en general, y el por qué considero que no es aburrida.

El primero de ellos es Paul Banks, guitarrista y cantante de la banda Interpol. La verdad es que Paul me parece un hombre bastante atractivo y con un estilo exquisito a la hora de elegir la ropa. Siempre luce un aire elegante, a veces un poco retro e incluso mod, utilizando camisas y trajes de chaqueta, bien de forma formal o casual. Además, usa un estilo de gafas que me encantan!


Otro cantante cuyo estilismo merece mi atención es otro Paul, pero en este caso se trata de Paul Smith, frontman de la maravillosa banda Maxïmo Park. Además de ser una persona con un carisma irrefutable y que te encandila desde el primer momento en el cual salta a escena (algo que he podido vivir en directo), Paul tiene un estilo muy personal de vestir. Para las actuaciones suele ir en traje de chaqueta, con camisa, pajarita o corbata; siempre muy elegante y utilizando sombreros.

No obstante, de diario, elige un estilo más casual o sport donde utiliza gorras, zapatillas de deporte, vaqueros, camisetas o polos; siempre procurándose un aspecto divertido pero a la vez formal.


Y el tercero es, por supuesto, Björn Dixgard de Mando Diao.


En los conciertos, tanto él como la banda suelen elegir un look completo de negro, aunque en muchas ocasiones sencillamente opta por camisa y vaqueros. La verdad, no es que su estilo sea nada del otro mundo (aunque la campaña que realizó para Ben Sherman me hace pensar lo contrario); pero a mí me gusta especialmente la forma en la que viste (y Gustaf también, toda la banda en general).


Me gustaría también hacer una mención especial a The Hives, otra banda sueca que además de apasionarme, tienen un estilismo fantástico!

 

¿Quién es vuestro favorito?

More than a bandaid for this booboo

I guess I shouldn't doubt my daughter when she's hurting. After an extraction requiring morphine, the peanut was down for the count.


Pink cast for baby girl


"Send me get well soon vibes, bloggies. My mommy can hardly stand seeing me this way!"
Love, Lily

Playing nurse tonight, be back tomorrow.

those unplanned days




14th december 2009

slept at 10pm - 11pm, woke up, and stayed up til almost 7am.
7am - almost 2pm = sleep bout an hour. woke up again, on9, study, bath, went to college.
2pm - almost 5pm = exam VG2. the paper was ok-ok. not so good. not so bad.
5pm - almost 7pm = 6th sem DIB meeting. headache. grrr~ no holidays 4 this sem.
7pm - almost 8pm = dinner at wngsa melawati.
830pm - almost 10pm = rushed to su's house @ melawati and fetched asma with aisyah.
1030pm - 11pm = bath, rest. tried to sleep
12am = away to paris. ZzZzZz~~~

**it was a very messy day + tiring + fmly does matter. doesn't it?
**and i was thinking of waking up late, the next day.








15th december 2009

my day begun at 7am! dang. angan - angan bgn lmbt musnah! tensi hey. baru nak rest.
i woke up to face a day with a lot of unexpected things to happened.

7am - 9am
we realized kma's car has been sabotage. tayar pancit, both depan + belakang. kanan. abah was informed bout that, and we waited for a group of army came to help us.


suddenly, another things happened. i opened up my kembara's boot to check the water level etc. and, i accidentally dropped the radiator's cap into the car's engine. and, to make things worse, i didn't find it with my 2nd hand grade eyes. i've no torch light with me and i tried my best to search for that radiator cap with my baju kelawar!



armies arrived, they brought both 2 tyres to workshop. and still, i didn't manage to find my radiator's cap. while i was trying so hard, a good-looking + kind hearted neighbor of mine helped and, finally, with kma's hand, we got it! thee. thanks to kma + mr neighbor.


9am - 1115am
armies back. but the tires were still not ok. we changes our cloth (without bath), and went straight to the workshop slowly. we've no choice, we changed the tires and it cost RM240.

** kma cried. of course she did. myvi die xsampai 1 week lg taw.

aisyah was hungry. went to giant, bought some kitchen stuff and, arrived home at almost 1130am.


1130 am - 1230pm
on9, bath, out.


1230pm - 5pm
fetched both naiya + yamin. went to JJ wngsa maju. lunch. window shopping, and a lil shopping. thee. LITTLE ok. great time with both 2 gfs. and all 3 of us are missing all the other d12 members. =]]

** babe. naiya has been reading our blog all these time. haha.


530pm - 8pm
home sweet home. raining, so, i can't bring aisyah to any park or playground. bath.


8pm - almost 10pm
dinner with nora at wngsa melawati. damnnn sleepy. so, i need coffee.


10pm - almost 1130pm
both went to sri rampai oldtown with afiq, unplanned. thee. as usual, my favo - hazelnut ice blended.


1130pm - 12am
drove back to setiawngsa.


12am - 2am
tried to sleep. effect coffee tu lambat lah! T___T


2am - 4am
SLEEP


4am - now
awake. T______________T

** the beginning of d day, was stressful enough.
** the end of d day, was good enough.
** had a simple, quality time with my gf.
** and a fun, shame shy look photo shoot.
** i need more SLEEPPPP.


and this is, just for fun.
i mean, obviously, it is.
me & cigar? NO NO NO.




Postscript


Toffee is all packaged up and ready to go to the VA with me tomorrow.  I doubled the recipe and ended up with enough candy to fill nine 6-inch round tins (if we had eaten a litle less, I probably could have cobbled together one more but hey, you try making it and not eating any). 

Just wanted to give you the count so you know what to expect if you make it.

And isn't it amazing how you can transform something with just a little gold and white iridescent ribbon?  I probably could have put chocolate covered dog food in there and no one would notice......

Happy Holiday baking, y'all!

P. S.  Oh no!  Henry just showed up with the CSA bounty for the week and guess what's in it?  Another dinosaur egg.  Damn!







Sous Vide Christmas Lamb

I've been playing with my immersion circulator again and came up with this festively coloured lamb dish.



The cut is rump and it was vacuum sealed along with some rosemary before being cooked to the magic 64 degrees and then quickly seared in a smoking hot pan.



Served with a sweet tomato passata, pepped up with a little chilli, spiced cous cous and baby leaf spinach it was darn near perfect.

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Hello guys and gals! Happy Tuesday! :)
How was your day?
Tuesday... Tuesday for me... huh.
*sedang menimbang-nimbang... tulis. enggak. tulis. enggak. tulis....*
Okay, pagi ini gue bangun dengan malas-malasan.
Gue memaksa diri untuk masuk sekolah. Berhubung ini classmeeting, gue nyampe sekolah jam 8 pagi, dan hanya bertahan 34 menit disekolah gue sudah menyeret Roro kerumah Adya.
Yak, Adya baru saja banguuuun, saudara-saudara!
Dan awalnya niat menyeret Adya Respati ikut main kerumah Idon berbuah kemalasan tingkat tinggi dan akhirnya menetap dirumah Adya hingga siang, lalu dilanjutkan melancong kerumah Adryan (pacarnya Adya yang juga classmate dan rumahnya hanya beda 200 meter) hingga larut sore. Yap, numpang nonton tv doangan gitu!


Anyway....
Gue mau menceritakan hal lain. Yang sudah menenggelamkan gue pada kesintingan tingkat tinggi. Gue sedang terobsesi. (kata orang-orang)
Tentang seseorang...
Seseorang yang sejujur-jujurnya baru gue temui dua kali, dengan kualitas yang makin buruk. No action. Sejujur-jujurnya lagi, gue baru satu kali ngomong sama dia. Buruk. Sangat buruk menurut gue.
Inisial namanya "T.I.M" tiga kata.
Gue bertemu gue dia awal bulan september.
Harinya persis hari Rabu. Dan sekolah belum libur.
Tepat sekali saat itu, bertepatan dengan berlangsungnya bulan puasa.
Gue puasa, dia puasa.
Dia salah satu murid sekolah terkenal di Jakarta Selatan.
Sekolah swasta yang gue pikir, mayoritas non-muslim.


Diaaaa...
Sewaktu teman gue memanggilnya, dan dia menoleh, jleeep! Gue terbius.
Honestly gue gugup dan makin nervous dibuatnya.
Dia punya sorot mata yang membuat penasaran bagi gue, dengan kata-katanya yang enggak konyol kedengarannya, dan dia enggak se-pecicilan teman-temannya. Love at the first sight.
Ini bukan yang pertama, tapi ini yang terlama dan terparah.
Sepulangnya dari tempat kejadian, gue searching fb-nya.
Ketemu! Thanks GOD.
Gue enggak mikir panjang, langsung aja ngeadd dia.
Itu awal, agak ketengah dikit, di bulan SEPTEMBER.
Dan, guess what, di bulan Desember ceria ini, di penghujung tahun ini, dia belum ngeconfirm friend request gue aja gituuuu. dududududu.
Yup yyup yup, empat bulan! Good job!


Gue, jadi gila. Ya serius, gue gila!
Karena dia open profile, gue bisa liat aktivitasnya.
Dia ngeconfirm yang lain-lain, selain gue, mia, ditha. Ya, team film dokumenter bodyshop.
Hmmm hmmm hmmm. Naas ya?
Gue menyimpulkan, dia tau gue bertiga, dan dia enggak ngeconfirm karena ada alasannya. Dan so far, hanya dia yang tahu.


Gue makin gila gila gila gila dan gila.
Waktu gue lagi liat foto2 di album temennya yang juga sudah menjadi friend gue di fb, gue nemuin beberapa foto dia.
Tau apa yang gue lakuin? Gue ngesave aja gituh foto-fotonya.
Silly!!
Gue memperhatikan dari waktu ke waktu, enggak juga ada perubahan.


Sampai hari Minggu kemaren, gue mampir ke profilnya  dan baru menyadari bahwa gue bisa melihat foto2nya.
gue seperti atau bahkan menjadi seorang stalker.
Gue mensave semua foto dia yang gue anggap jelas atau berekspresi lucu.
Hingga malam tadi.
Akhirnya gue gerah. gue langsung mengsms temen gue yang kebetulan seniornya di sekolah.
Gue tanya-tanya dan gue cukup dapat informasi.


Informasi yang gue dapet :
  • rumah dia jauh (dipinggir kota jakarta, deket depok kayaknya)
  • dia rajin soalt *oh iya, dia islam loh*
  • dia anak IPA, meskipun tampangnya binal dan sundal
  • dia (katanya) tajir
  • dia orang jawa :)
  • dia cinta olahraga, gue taksir, dia suka banget futsal dan sepak bola
Lumayan kaaaan?


Seriously, gue mulai gila.
Karena gue mulai ngetweet namanya dia doang. Mengomentari foto-fotonya aja di twitter. Bahkan, teman-teman sekolah gue pun jadi pada tahu, siapa gebetan gue itu. hahaha.
bahkan ketika gue membolak balik huruf-huruf namanya, mereka bisa menebak dengan mudah.


Ya ya ya, gue terobsesi dengannya.
Gue gila karenyanya.
Najis ya? gue sendiri jijik jadinya. hahahaha.
Do you have tips for help me?


ah anyway...
sudah menjelang tengah malam, segini saja dulu yaa.
Besok gue mesti sekolah, dan pak soleh mau ngabsen.
Semoga dengan ini, gue berharap akan ada pencerahan. ahahaha.


Oh ya, fellas, gue berharap nanti, tingkat kenekatan gue lebih dari ini.
Gue berharap bisa membuka blak-blakan siapa namanya dan fotonya.
Tapi yang join twitter gue pasti sudah melihat-lihat namanya. hahaha.


goodnite fellas, bye!