How To Find Happiness Before 2016

Floral Printed Shirt // Pull & Bear

Short Pants // Etienne Aigner

Sneakers // Guess

2015 is almost over! It's time to look back to the weirdest year ever. Why I said the weirdest year ever? Because every good and bad moment on 2015 always came to me like a lightning. Everything went so fast, every single good and bad moment came without knocking, they came like a zig zag hit me like a dart. But I feel grateful of everything that happened in 2015 because this year has taught me a lot of things and you should be grateful too!

By the end of the year, I started to reflect on the things that happened in 2015 and I know that 2016 would be a great year if you let yourself to have a great year. As a person with anxiety disorder, trying to be less over thinking is the hardest thing that I could do, but this year I feel like I need to see everything in a different perspective and I am really surprised with what I've got.

Friendship is everything
Nothing could beat my sorrow on June and that's when I know which one is my very best friend. You could have a lot of friends, but best friend is different. I'm grateful to have them in my life and when you surround yourself with positive people, your life would be so much better. Never let anyone drain your energy out of you by doing anything that makes you feel bad about yourself, your life, or anything. You deserve better!

Detox and Workout
I've been doing this a lot in 2015 and I think it's been a few months since the last time I did a Juice Cleanse, feels like I want to do it again before 2015 is over. The first benefit from detox is your health but I have my own thought with Juice Cleanse and anything like that. I want to clean all the toxic (any kind of toxic, including bad things that happened in my life) and it works really well, because it would make your body feel so much better. Beside Juice Cleanse, Cardio is also my favorite thing.

Spread Your Happiness
I rarely get mad, but when I do..It's gonna be a doomsday because usually I put my anger somewhere and one day I will blow up at the worst time. Being mad is exhausting! I lost my focus, my days are ruined, etc. That's when I start to put this in my mind: Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy. So yes, I start to make sure everything that I do will makes me happy and I kinda ignore what other people think as long as it's a positive things to do. I think everyone deserve to be happy, but are you ready to make yourself happy? Because sometimes you should do things that you never do before to be happy, get out from your comfort zone and find your happiness.

Start With A Blank Space
I read this quote somewhere and I can't remember where is it from but they said Don't get burnt by the same flame twice. New year is the best time to write your life in a blank space. You can't take back everything that happened to you in 2015 and you can choose not to look back and take it as a lesson. You can't forget things that happened to you though, but you can laugh about it one day. I don't hate the bad things that happened to me, because apparently it made me understand that I'm stronger than I thought, I know I have a very amazing best friends and a really great mother, I figured out that a psychopath is real and she might reading this blog right now (what?!? Oh hey.. hello there!), I know how to deal with my anxiety way much better than last year, and so many things that I can't explain one by one. Make a list and you know that you're more than ready for a new year.

Only 4 more days and you will say goodbye with 2015, make the best of it. End this year with happiness so it will leave you with a nice memories. Happy Holiday, everyone!

(Almost) End Of Year Celebration

      Photo by Nikko Purnama

     Photos by Lalisa Doniho

A few days before Christmas, my office held Instagenic Workshop - Christmas Lunch - Snowman Competition - Star Wars Night! We all learn how to take a great photo for Instagram, especially food. The good thing is we have to do so many shots for Instagram and after we finished, we could eat all of it. So, yes.. my tummy is full. On this event, I also had a chance to sing Last Christmas, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, Jingle Bells, and Perfect by One Direction and of course we all had too much laugh in a day, so it's hard to gave a serious performance when everything happened in here is making you laugh.

After all the good times, we are back to office to make a snowman from cups! It's harder than we thought, it tooks -/+ 3 and a half hours I guess to finished it. it was really fun even though my team didn't make it as a winner. Last but not least, we end our day at Blitz Megaplex and watched Star Wars The Force Awakens! I'm not a huge fan of Star Wars but apparently, this movie is really really great. I should mention that my friends and I pretty surprised to see Lupita Nyong'o on the credit title and the three of us didn't realize so we're in the what the hell moment, did we lost our attention? but then... yeah you know what happened, we figured it out.

Belated Birthday at GoGirl Passion Expo 2015

Ice cream Top // Cotton On

Shorts // Forever 21

Classy Bag // Saint Laurent

Platform Boots // H&M

I know this is a super late post but finally I turned 25. I'm really grateful that I have a crazy, wonderful, weird days on the first month of my new age. Anyway, I was celebrating my birthday with my best friend, Friska at GoGirl Passion Expo 2015. Apparently, we wore a same brand, I wore Ice Cream top from Cotton On and Friska wear legging from Cotton On. You would probably know this as one of Australian Brand and they often give a best deal, who doesn't love that? 

Back to the event, first thing that we are looking for is Green Juice booth. We found a few tenant and we found a booth who could grab our attention. They have a cute toys on the bottle and they blend the juice right away, so it's really fresh and it taste delicious! Well, for me anything green taste good. 

Last but not least, birthday isn't complete without a cake but cake is just too mainstream so let's change it to Sushi Cake. My wishlist is too long and the candle is already burning to the cucumber (fyi, they stick the candle to a cucumber) and after all, this month has been really nice to me even though there's also a bitter sweet days as always but I had a blast.

Halloween 2015: A Witch With Balenciaga

Black Dress // Forever 21

Pentagram Tights //  Topshop

Burgundy Bag // Balenciaga

Sneakers Wedges // H&M

Happy Halloween! This is my favorite time of the year because I love spooky stuff and this is the best time to dress up. This year I become a witch! To be honest, I didn't prepare any costume because I did a last minute preparation but it's no big deal because my daily wardrobe are made for Halloween Parade. Pentagram tights is one of my favorite thing that I've got from Topshop, I think I've got it a year ago. And if traditional witch carrying a broomstick, I'm a witch carrying Balenciaga. 

Beside all of the spooky stuff that I love from Halloween, I have other thing that I really love from Halloween: Halloween Dessert. I couldn't be more exciting with the restaurant who has Halloween menu. This year I tried RIP brownies cupcakes and it taste extremely delicious! I hope you all have a wonderful halloween and enjoy the day as much as I do.

What's your Halloween Costume this year?

Jakarta Fashion Week 2016: Day 1 Summary

It's time for Jakarta Fashion Week again! Always exciting if it comes to Fashion Week. So many great runway on the first day and as always I met a lot of wonderful people right there. Just like the previous year, Jakarta Fashion Week 2016 held at Senayan City, Jakarta. There are 2 venues, Fashion Tent and Fashion Atrium. On day 1, I spent a whole day at Fashion Tent and here's what happened on Day 1.

Black Outter // Body & Soul

Ribbed Halterneck // Topshop

Short Pants // Riotous

Platform Boots // H&M

Classic Bag // Saint Laurent

Decided to wear all black and turns out like a witch, well hey it's October anyway. Fashion Week is the best time to wear my favorite Platform Boots, because even though my platform boots heels is 13 inch, it's really comfortable. I could stand for a whole day and running back and forth with it. Plus, I get a little bit taller of course, so yay!

Sweet treats from The Harvest Cake and Magnum.

Great to see Tex Saverio again! Today he marks the official release of TXID. It's a secondary line by Saverio & Liu Inc. As you might know, the collection are masculine and dark, still with the laser cut materials and futuristic prints plus a lot of leather goods. To be honest, I want all of TXID collection for my birthday!

Sean & Sheila Collection

Lotuz Collection

Jakarta Fashion Week 2016 Day 1 is a wrap! That's the summary of my great weekend at fashion week. Really need to catch up with the following days but I can't get a day off from work, so let's see if I could make it to another day of JFW16.

7 Things To Do When You're Sick Before Fashion Week

Stripe Shirt // H&M

Black Pants // Topshop

Sneakers Wedges // H&M

Bag // Elle

Back to basic and comfy thingy. This stripe shirt is really comfy, I got it from H&M last week. Oh and by the way, that's my new hair, I took some pictures as soon as I leave my hairdresser because I love it. My hair is too straight so I love how my hairdresser could styling it.

It's been a hectic week so comfortable clothes and chopped my hair is definitely a right decision. I was hardly take a rest in the past few weeks and suddenly BOOM, I'm very ill. It's only a week until Jakarta Fashion Week and that means we all need to be as healthy as we could, right? Tonsillitis attack me for a few days, I can't barely talk and my throat feels like burning. And I should take 2 days off from my work which is sucks to stay in bed all day. Have you ever feel that way when you are sick? The only way you could do is to entertained yourself in bed. And here's a few things that you could do when you have to bed rest for a few days.

1. Green Tea, Honey, and Lime.

This is make me feel better! I'm a huge fan of tea so I can drink this for a whole day. It makes my throat a little better and it taste good.

2. Books

When I have to stay in bed, books would be a good company. If you find a good book, time will fly and you don't even realize you spent a whole day in bed just to read a book.

3. TV Series Marathon

This is what I do in the past few days. Thanks God all my favorite tv series are back with their new season just in time I need a movie marathon. So I spent my day to watch American Horror Story, The Walking Dead, The Big Bang Theory, Modern Family, Scream Queens, and My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. 

4. Soup Of The Day

Soup always makes you feel better when you're sick. My mom made me a veggie soup (because I'm a pescetarian) and that's really delicious! It's good to be at home for a while even though I hate that I'm sick.

5. Eat Banana

I heard if tonsillitis attack us, we could fight it with banana. It help a little bit I guess, because it wasn't too hard to eat when you're sick.

6.  Fall Asleep To Your Favorite Song

When you're sick, all you need is take a rest. D'oh..I can't believe I said this because when I still doing my work in bed when I'm sick, but don't do that if it's not that important (in my case, it's really important). Your favorite song could make you relax so you could take a rest. I've been repeating One Direction's new song, Infinity. God knows how much I addicted to that song!

7. A Fever You Can Sweat Out

When you have fever, you need to sweat a lot.. that's what they said. Stay inside your blanket and drink a lot of hot water. Because hot water could calm your soar throat and the steam will make you feel better.

So yeah.. that's what you could try when you feel bored and need to feel better for Fashion Week! I'm not helping you that much, right? LOL. But hopefully at least you have something to read (read: my blog) and get well soon for every person in this earth who feels sick just like me!

5 Fun Things To Do This October

Cats Sweater // Korean Brand

Short // Etienne Aigner

Sneakers // New Look

Purple Bag // Charles & Keith

I know it's the second week of October but it's not too late to make plans for this month! October is one of my favorite month because it's time for Halloween. I'm always a little bit exciting if it comes to spooky stuff and one of my favorite thing is to choose a Halloween costume. But there are tons of things that I want to do this October and maybe you could do it too to spark this month a little bit. Let's start with...........................................

1. Try a new look

You could try a new style for your wardrobe or maybe chop your hair a little bit, This time, I decide to chopped my hair (I'll show you the result on my next post). I love my long hair but it's been too long I haven't change it.

2. Read some new book

Inspire yourself! There are a bunch of books and  it could inspire your career life, love life, and everything. Every month is a good month to make a book list to read. By the end of the month it might surprise you of how all those books could inspired your life.

3. Catch up with TV Series

I know I'm not the only one whose really exciting about this month. The Walking Dead, The Flash and American Horror Story are back! Did you watch those series? Those are my favorite. The second season premiere of The Flash is getting me so emotional. Move to the first episode of American Horror Story: Hotel, it's pretty creepy and Lady Gaga is totally nailed it. And tomorrow is the new season of The Walking Dead, could I be any more exciting? YES!

4. Find a way to enjoy your daily activity

I live with a tight deadline, demanding client, and sometimes with a hectic situation. I love my job but of course daily activity could make you tired and bored sometimes. Try to wake up every morning with a nice breakfast, take a detour to work so you could always find something interesting that you wouldn't expect before, a cup of green tea before you start to work, and good music! That's the key to enjoy everything that you do.

5. Write down your happy moment at the end of the week

On Sunday, you could try to write every happy moment that happened to you from Monday - Sunday. It might surprise you because sometimes we didn't realize how much we felt happy with every little things that happened in our life. Be grateful and maybe next week you will get a better week.

Jakarta Culinary Passport: Asian Adventure

Last weekend my friends and I went to Jakarta Culinary Passport at Grand Indonesia. This time their theme is Asian Adventure. We tried a lot of delicious food and I'm sure my tummy is really happy. The first food that we've tried is a super big crepes!

You know that I'm really happy when my food is bigger than my face. It's Ovomaltine with Banana and Cheese Crepes. It taste delicious and we're really afraid that we will break the crepes apart when we took a lot of pictures with this crepes.

It's a plant with a larva? Nope, it's mocha ice cream with oreo crumble. It's really cute and I wish all the dirt in this earth is so tasty like this ice cream.

Mushroom is my favorite food ever! Everything with mushroom would be so much better. And this is fried mushroom with mushroom sauce and cheese. Love the sauce, it makes the menu even stand out.

My friends also joined Sushi and Chicken Wings Eating Competition. It was fun to see and they aren't win the competition but they brought us the rest of the food from the competition so yay for free sushi. And that's a wrap, our tummy can't handle anymore food so we just spent the rest of the day for laughing like crazy. It was a very fun weekend when it comes to great food and great friends. Hope you all have a wonderful weekend too!

Burgundy Weekend

Crop Top // H&M

Maxi Skirt // Something Borrowed

Burgundy Bag // Balenciaga

Blue Belt // Salvatore Ferragamo

Fedora // H&M

Sneakers Wedges // H&M

Dress up for fall it's fun but unfortunately my country only have 2 seasons: summer and those kind of rainy day. But it's a different story when it comes to fashion and I'm stoked to styling my burgundy collection from my closet. I'm stoked to reppin' a maxi skirt from Something Borrowed that I've got from Zalora. And as always Sneakers Wedges is a must have item, especially when it comes in black and a little bit of studded. Anyway.. are you a fan of Balenciaga bag collection? If you're a fan, you might notice that this is a vintage Balenciaga bag. I'm so psyched when I got this bag because it's a vintage collection and it's Balenciaga!

Bring Me The Horizon That's The Spirit Review

Today is the day, Bring Me The Horizon release day for That's The Spirit. They already gave us a chance to listen to 5 amazing track from this album and for us who already pre-order the album, today is a pretty good day! 

I still remember the first time I listened to BMTH. I was in high school, it was 10 years ago (ugh, I feel old). I was in a metal band and my friend told me your hair looks like the lead singer from Bring Me The Horizon. I was like, really?? And then he asked me to listen to Pray For Plagues and he bet I would love it. Well, he's right! I love it and I become a huge fan since that day. I grew up listened to their songs and everytime they released a new album, I always thought that they always make their songs sounds even better and better. I'm so proud of their achievement and I'm also glad I had a chance to saw their concert in Jakarta back on 2011. I wish one day I could meet them in person because they all amazing! Anyway, on 2011 I also launched my blog for BMTH: indoheartbmth and thank you Oliver Sykes for following me (his blog turned to be a drop dead blog right now) and he reblogged my song cover of The Masterplan - Oasis  and I'm still stoked everytime I remember that day.

Now they released their new album, I'm so amaze of what they've done. Oliver Sykes could make his dark times to a wonderful masterpiece, Jordan Fish make the band sounds interesting, Lee Malia still gave me a good vibe with his guitar, Matt Kean bass gave me chills on every songs, and Matt Nicholls whoa he's totally nailed it. So here's my review for Bring Me The Horizon new album, That's The Spirit:

1. Doomed
Is it a right track? That's my first thought. It doesn't sound like BMTH at all but I love it. I mean I never expect them to write a song like this and it turns out that it's really good. Oliver Sykes voice is wonderful, where did he hide his beautiful voice in the past few years? I already have a goosebump on the first track. It's like I ate apple everyday and finally I eat blueberry, do you know what I mean? Like I listen to great stuff and then I listen they're surprise me with the best stuff.


2. Happy Song
This song makes me happy, no wonder because it's a Happy Song. Can't help myself not to join to shout S.P.I.R.I.T SPIRIT! LET'S HEAR IT!


3. Throne
Standing applause for this song. Could I be any more agree with the lyrics? This song is totally lift up my spirit. Thanks to BMTH for writing amazing song like this. Love the sounds of every instruments that they've played because if you listen carefully, you could hear all of it and it sounds great. Jordan Fish and Matt Nicholls make it more interesting. Try to hear every instrument, you could also heard Matt Kean and Lee Malia killed it. Fyi, my mom also love this song.


4. True Friends
Dear BMTH, are you read my mind? This is what I felt and it was messing with my head in the past few months and they made this song, a perfect song and a coincidence. I feel like I wanna give this song for my frenemy.


5. Follow you
When I heard the intro, I was trying to guess what would they do to this song? As Oliver start to sing, they amaze me more. Once again, I never expect them to write a song like this and yes, I still love it. I could chillin' somewhere while listen to this song.

6. What you need
 When they hit the chorus, I could imagine being in the crowd at their concert, singing out loud together with the crowd and I could imagine the situation. This song makes me want to sing along.

7. Avalanche
The sounds of Lee's guitar is the winner in this song. This is some kind of song that makes you want to sing along. It's gonna be my jam! Probably will sing it on the bathroom, ssshh let's keep it a secret.

8. Run
My heart can't take it, this song is so beautiful. It's my favorite! The chorus is stuck in my head from the very first time I heard this song. The lyrics and the melody is suit perfectly and pretty dramatic. I replied this song a thousand times for a whole day.

9. Drown
I still remember the first time they released this song, I was like whoa.. they start to change their sound in a very good way. They are getting better and better and better! I wish they also add the acoustic version that they played on BBC radio to the album because that's extremely beautiful.

10. Blasphemy
Boom! This song is really catchy for my ears, another favorite song? I guess I could never pick my favorite song because I love all of it. But seriously, I bet everyone will love this song.

11. Oh no
Oh no, I feel like dancing for this song! And I'm not even a good dancer but I don't care, this song makes me want to move. Wait a minute, is that a sound of saxophone? Well done BMTH well done.

That's my thought, congratulations for Bring Me The Horizon. I thought you create a masterpiece with Sempiternal and now That's The Spirit won my heart again. Let me know your thoughts and your favorite song from That's The Spirit. And if you haven't but their CD, go buy it. It's a must have album on 2015, trust me.

Now That's The Spirit: How to nailed it on September

Purple Outer // Custom Made

Crossbone Tank // H&M

Skirt // Forever 21

Sneakers Wedges // H&M

Salem Bag // Elle

I can't believe it's already September! So many event this month from Runway Show, Jakarta Comic Con and the day that I've been waiting for: Bring Me The Horizon new album, That's The Spirit. September is getting me so exciting. Speaking about That's The Spirit, apart from the album title, I was impress that BMTH new songs could explain what I am feeling in the past few weeks. You know that kind of feeling when you found some songs and the lyrics are so related to you, it's like the song represent your mind. One of their song called "Throne" for the example:

"So you can throw me to the wolves, tomorrow I will come back, leader of the whole pack. Beat me back and blue, every wound will shape me, every scar will build my throne. The sticks and the stones that you used to throw have built me an empire".

The worst thing in my life, the people who secretly try to drag you down with them, and all those things who could possibly be the bad things in your life could be your weapon to have a better life and to make your dreams come true. I'm so glad some people throw me to the wolves and I already come back as a leader of the whole pack. I'm grateful that I could make the worst thing in my life as a trigger to change my life, it works! Every pain has a reason, that's your choice for you to turn it around. If you think your life is sucks or you need a better month, give September a chance. Here's a few ways for you to nailed it on September.

1. Leave your comfort zone.
This is the hardest part but it's the only way to change your life. Of course it's hard to leave your comfort zone because your life would be find but it won't help you to climb to a better place. Challenge yourself and you will surprise with everything that you've got after you leave your comfort zone.

2. Think outside the box.
If you want to leave your comfort zone, you have to think outside the box. Make a list of something that you want to achieve and how to get there in so many possible ways.

3. Excercise more.
Excercise every morning could help you to get a spirit for a whole day. I love doing cardio and 8 minute abs every morning. It's pretty fun!

4. Surround yourself with inspiring people.
I read somewhere (I'm sure it's Pinterest but I forgot the source) that the 5 closest person to you could reflect yourself. So if you surrounded with the lazy people, there's a chance for you to be as lazy as they are. Being surround by people who wants to achieve their big dreams could inspire you to work even harder and you could even support each others. But don't worry, if your friends isn't have a huge ambition to reach their dreams, you could put it as an example that you don't wanna be like them, you have to be better. Get inspired with every little things around you.

5. If all fails, hang on and try again.
If you still have a bad day after you tried a lot of things, hang on.. don't stop trying. You're not the one who has a bad day. Try harder to make yourself happy, there's always a way and sometimes you don't realize what it is, you just have to figure it out with a clear mind.

Now that's the spirit and go beat your September!

Down But Not Out: Things You Need To Do If You Have Frenemy

Cross Keys T-Shirt // DBNO

Shorts // Etcetera

Vans Era Leopard Black True White // Vans

Reppin' my favorite DBNO T-shirt and I go really casual today, back to basic! I'm sure you all knew this clothing line owned by Josh Franceschi from You Me At Six I love his band and I love how he named his clothing line, Down But Not Out. That's some kind of feelings that remind me of my frenemy. Do you ever have a frenemy? Someone who really is a friend but also a rival. Well, I have a frenemy. The question is: Should we keep them as a friend? The best answer would be leave them because it's really exhausting to have a frenemy. It's like we have to pretend we like each others while actually we really don't like each others, heard them say a lot of mean things when you're with your friends and your frenemy also happened to be there. But sometimes, there's a reason why you still keep them. Most reason of why we still keep our frenemy is both of you have a mutual friends. This is a very uncomfortable situation. And if you can't get rid of your frenemy, it's not the end of the world. You could set your goal to be a better person, better life, and don't you ever waste your energy to hate on them. 

When my frenemy hurt my feelings, I'm down but not out. (Now you could see my point of wearing my DBNO t-shirt on this post). It hurts but I don't wanna waste my time to hate her or make a secret poison for her, I promise to myself that I will be way much better than her. I will be twice successful as her and I will be a person that I really want to be. When I was thinking about this.. it makes me focus to chase my dreams, not to make her jealous but to make myself better. Anybody could bring you down but you're the one who could step up your game. I'm glad because after a few months I have 3 jobs that I love, I have a lot of friends, I put bandage on every part of my life that I need to fix. And that's how you won the awkward war with your frenemy! You will laugh back to the day when she hurt your feelings and now you have a good life and she's no better than you. No need to fight with them, be fabulous and say sorry to your frenemy if your back hurt their knife.

If you have a frenemy, share your story with me! It would be great to hear what you all dealing with it.

Tropical Runway

Blue Kimono // Made by Order

Belt // Salvatore Ferragamo

Short Pants // Forever 21

Sneakers Wedges // New Look

Salem Bag // Elle

It's been a busy week and I'm glad I have a long weekend because today is Indonesia Independence Day! So yesterday, my friends and I went to Market & Museum at Lippo Mall Kemang, Jakarta. It's a fashion and food event with a lot of local brands, food truck, and so many delicious food. This time, their theme is Tropical Runway. And the sun in Jakarta isn't playing it cool, it was extremely hot and I know that's the best time for hair bun. 

The first booth that I chose is Pooki Bbang, Korean Poop Bread. That poop isn't belong in the toilet, the poop bread is belong for my tummy (well okay, why this sounds disguisting). It taste like waffle though, in a shape of poop with Nutella filling and it taste so delicious. Second stop is ice cream with bumblebee nests as the topping. Unfortunately I didn't take a picture because the ice cream is melt so fast (as I mention earlier, the crazy hot weather). Our third stop is Fried Mushroom with BBQ sauce and once again I didn't take the picture, this time because it seems so tempting and I can't wait to eat it. 

We didn't end our journey right there! I feel like I really need to write this down because this situation is the winner of the day. On the evening we're looking for a good place to drink and we drive around without knowing where we heading. We decide to go around Senopati and we drive in a wrong way which is one way! We feels like we re-creating a scene from Ant-Man movie where Luis and the crew back it up their van and was like "Back it up bro, back it up. Back it slooow...back it up." If you seen the movie, you should've know what I mean. And yes, in the car we're like back it up broo back it up slooow. I know it's funnier when you see it by yourself but trust me it was hilarious.

So finally we're stopped by at Pong Me to have a drink and pizza. And they also have a ping pong table so we all play there. I was thinking maybe this post makes you wonder that we ate a lot of food for a whole day and why our tummy is never full. I never know the answer, maybe because we just love to eat and try new food in town.