My "Me" Time

Last Friday was probably one of the busiest day at work. The day started with an early meeting at the project and followed by a series of speed drawing, revising and printing some technical drawings, consulting with co-workers, and everything else. I've been working on some interior designing lately and one of my projects was about making a children playhouse, which is quite a lot of fun.

I decided to make some stops on my way home later that day, visiting Senayan City and Plaza Indonesia to survey some interior items at some interior supplier branches while trying to get some things useful for myself. And ended up buying some of these things.

I stopped by at Aksara Bookstore at Plaza Indonesia to get some books and accessories. And I finally bought a book written by Avianti Armand, a young female architect who also is a very talented writer. It's really unfortunate of me that I missed her earlier book, Negeri Para Peri, but I did get her latest release, Perempuan Yang Dihapus Namanya. Her writings are amazing.

I've been needing a mouse-pad for quite sometime, since the surface of my worktable is not really smooth enough for my mouse to work well. I got this really cute mouse-pad at Senayan City. And it's really cheap also. The bunny is adorable haha.

I always adore IKEA for any home and office products and have been recommending them a lot for any interior projects. And when my boss told me about MUJI, a branch of similar concept originally from Japan, opened their store at Plaza Indonesia, quite made some interest of me that I always wanting to have a visit. 

Visiting MUJI was addictive, everything they have in the store was so lovable and affordable that I actually made some of my own choses of furniture pieces to buy for myself. I didn't shop at all that night since I haven't find my own place, but they are totally recommended.

I always love reading books. Any kind of them. But hardly ever find any spare time to do so lately. So I've been trying to squeeze in some of "my" time at the middle of work or any time that I can manage. Here are some of the books that I'm currently reading. The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton and Night and Day by Virgina Woolf. I haven't really finished reading them so I can't tell you much about them, but they really are helping me to relax a bit each time in the middle of a hectic day. Both of these books are actually belong to my boyfriend. I kind of find them in the middle of some of his belongings that he left in my bedroom.

Tempo

A very late post. Last week. Saturday date. The man of my life. Pizza date. Bekasi Square. Used books.

 

 

Just realized that we hardly could ever spend time together just like we did before. We've been too busy and now you are further from home. It has been awhile since our last coffee-date at our favorite small coffee corner or going to the movies together. Time passes really fast and it felt like we are losing our pace of time. But you're still there.

Last Saturday was fun. We finally had a comfy and relaxing date that day. Had pizza and found some very cheap used books that we never got to look for before though have been planning to. I wish time would go slower. Or maybe just speed itself to take us to that point faster, when I could be with you always. On every single moment of our lives.

Camera: my boyfriend's android phone

daydream

"Everything starts as somebody's daydream."

 Larry Niven

05.04.10

The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

[Chuck P]

Travel Log. Solo Euphoria #Part2

Sunday Morning. The second day of our trip started quite early. We planned to have street photo hunting along the streets of Solo City. We gathered on that cloudy morning at Pasar Gedhe, where we then parked our motorcycles and left them there while we walked to the main streets together. We stayed awhile to have our breakfast at the local wedangan and had some chats before we started the day. After the morning meal and chats we took some photos around Pasar Gedhe, but just as we started the day's hunting the rain started to fall. We then ran inside the Pasar Gedhe market to shelter in.

As the rain started to fall harder we got deepeer into the market and finally started our photo hunting inside. It was kinda hard for me and my boyfriend to do so since all we had with us was our vintage analogue cameras and a plastic pocket camera which needed more light than any other cameras. But we did managed to get good shoots.

After the rain had stopped we finally left the market and headed out to the actual street photo hunting, taking a lot of photos of the objects we met along our way towards Solo City Walk, Slamet Riyadi.

The photo hunting went really well and so much fun, despite the fact that our friend Ade sort of broke his Fisheye camera and my stockings were ripped for being caught in my own shoes (I know, I'm a clutz). And the rest of the long walk at the City Walk was full of not only photo takings, but we also stopped at almost on every corner we got to for sitting down and joke around, to fill up the morningpaper's crosswords that Kesit took with him, or to buy some local snacks and light meal, like Srabi Solo, Lekker cake, and even Baso (I think we ate more than taking pictures).

We made a final stop at the street of Ngarsopuro and visited the Triwindu market (we also went here last holiday). I tried to find some antiques to buy and bring home with, like an antique jewelry box or traditional games or anything interesting things that I can put in my room but couldn't find any that I really like and have a good price for. Even if I did find anything it would be too big for us to bring home with us by train. One of our junior at campus, Agra, came to joined us at this point and also Iin, who came to joined Kenthus (who is, although they never really published the case, her boyfriend).

It was already really late at the afternoon when we finished taking pics at the Triwindu Market that we continued our walk to Jalan Raden Saleh, the smaller street near Mangkunegaran Palace, that would brought us back to Pasar Gedhe through a different route and made another stop. We had our late lunch together at local traditional diner (which I couldn't remember what the name was). Just when we started our meal the rain started to fall again (whatta day, huh?). When we finished the meal and the whole joking around and silly conversations started again, some other of our juniors from campus who are also members of the Photography Club joined us and made the afternoon became much more crowded.

Just as the rain slowly stopped we continued our way back to Pasar Gedhe and then went on to our separate ways. The others went back to the boarding house while my boyfriend and I went back to our house in Sambeng. We waited until nighttime when my boyfriend took me along to Kopi Saung near campus for his meetings with his mates to talk about his long-postponed business. I left early just about past midnight, made a stop to Prau for a late supper and went home with my boyfriend. He later went back to the meeting right after. The next day we went to hangout at our campus. We all sort of agreed to take a special day off on that Monday to visit our campus, and we did. Not many pictures were taken then, but we had so much fun meeting a lot of old friends and the nice canteen lady that also took care of us all back then. My boyfriend  and I went back to Jakarta that night with Senja Utama and we immediately went back to work only a few hours after our arrival at the big city. Can't wait to be back to Solo again.

*Update : well, it turns out that we do have some photos of being on campus, but they are so blurry and dark. We were taking pictures with our analogue cameras only so this is all we got :p

(more photos of our trip see here)

What I wear: Velvet dress, Stripes Chelsea Cardigan by CottonInk, unbranded tights and flats, my mom's old vintage bag.

Cameras: my boyfriend's Android phone camera, Olympus Pen ees-2, Yashica GSN Electro