No, we're not going to Germany but we enjoyed Oktobeer Feast 2016 in Jakarta. This Pizza E Birra event held in Gandaria City with free flow beer, games, and music. We went to the second day of this event because we want to see one of our favorite band, Barasuara. Before I talk about how great their show, let's start with other fun part. We tried a lot of games, one of it is Giant Beer Pong. It's like a regular beer pong but instead of throw a ping pong ball, we throw a volley ball to some bucket. My team won and we just have to drink 2 glass of beer, yaaay for sport class that we took in high school.
From all the games that we've played, we won dining voucher and 4 International Beer. After we tasted it all, our favorite is Belgian Beer.
Let's move to the music, first band that we saw today is The Trees and The Wild which is remind me of high school memories even though their songs isn't sounds the same anymore, but I enjoyed it anyway. And then on 20.30 pm, it's time for Barasuara! They killed the stage as always and of course Iga Massardi didn't want any barricade between the stage and the audience, so BOOM SAH we move right in front of the stage (as always). Last performance goes to Mocca. Another flashback to my high school moment which I can't even remember how many years ago. Apparently my energy already as low as my phone battery so I watched them while I chill out on a bean bag which is really cozy!
So, this event was really fun! Good beer, great music, and amazing friends of course. The worst part is we have to deal with Monday on the next day. The combination between free flow beer, over excitement, and lack of sleep will definitely haunt us at the office on the next day. Before I leave you all, here's some fun moment that I took from my phone.
I got tons of preparation for We The Fest, Day 2. As we already messed up our first day a little bit, this time my friends and I brought our own raincoat. We made a plan to go there at 2 PM so we could get through to the front row for The 1975. God knows how long until The 1975 set will be start it (They start to play at 9.35 PM).
So, our plan goes like:
1. Get there at 2 PM and buy food for dinner because we're going nowhere until The 1975 show (yes, we put it in our bag.. I order pizza anyway).
2. Save a bottle of water, we should stay hydrate to survive
3. Prepare our raincoat
4. Get Tolak Angin
5. Save energy, don't pass out before The 1975
That's our survival kit. As we approached the main stage area, the gate is about to open and as soon as we could get in, I ran. We've got the second row, not too satisfy but let's hope people in front of us wouldn't stay until The 1975 (Yes, God heard my prayer). Barasuara hit the stage and they are really great, more than I expected because this is my first time to see their live performance. Second band is Naif, yes I love them since I was in middle school so I sang along during their show. The best part is, they asked the audience about which song that they should play next. I was screaming Air dan Api and glad David heard it and played my favorite song. After a few songs, things that we hate the most a.k.a rain is started to pour. We all start to wear our raincoat!
Next band is Sheila On 7, bring back our childhood memories! We all sang along even though the rain started to pour pretty hard. After Sheila On 7, I decided to save my energy for The 1975 because there are 2 bands in a row before their show. And we started to worry that we're not going to survive until The 1975 because even though we wore our raincoat, our hair started to be really wet and our hands is getting colder. The riddiculous thing is we drank Tolak Angin in the middle of the crowd. Who cares what people think, we are survivor!
This time is for Breakbot. It's hard not to dance along their show, they set their stage perfectly. I started to look at the clock because I started to feel tired but no.. this can't be happening! After their set, we decide to eat. And as I said before, God listen to my prayer. A girl in front of me get out from the crowd and we exchange our place, yes! now the front row is mine and I hug the barricade as I ate my pizza. The Temper Trap started to play their songs and they are amazing. I almost forgot that I'm tired.
Finally, the day and the time that I've been waiting for years.. THE 1975! They opened their set with Love Me and guess what? I wave my hand to Matt Healy and he saw me and wave his hand as well to me while gave his gorgeous smile. If I were an ice cream, I would definitely melt by now. I prepare my makeup and all those important thing to make me looks good and when Matty saw me, my eyeliner was smudge, lipstick is gone, hair is wet, and I wore a raincoat. 100% sure that's not my best look but whatever.
Yes, I was that close to Matty and I sang along like crazy. It was one of my favorite concert that I ever saw. It's not enough only saw them in an hour, I want more.. I need to see their concert again ASAP. I feel really emo right now like drowning on my Post Concert Depression (I should've not write about this, sorry not sorry). They are really great, like REALLY great.
After The 1975, it's time for Mark Ronson. But I gave up my front row, I move to the back and dance on the back. I nailed my main goal to see The 1975 that close anyway. And Mark Ronson also gave a great performance! After all, We The Fest 2016 was super amazing. We all beat the rain and we woke up really early on Monday to work like a zombie. Glad we booked a hotel near the venue and FYI, I wore a hotel slipper to the office because my shoes are wet and full of mud after the show.
Before I go, I recorded The 1975 performance at WTF 2016. Unfortunately I can't record Love Me and Ugh because it was raining so hard and I couldn't get my phone out of my bag. But here's one of my favorite performance from them: If I Believe You. Check it out!
Summer Festival that we've been waiting for is here! To be honest I saved my energy on day 1 because my only goal for this festival is to see The 1975 on the second day. Anyway, it was a lot of fun. We saw Rich Chigga and he's kinda dope! It was raining so hard on the evening and we missed a lot of show.
While we are waiting for Macklemore, we watched CL and I didn't expect to enjoy it because I rarely listen to K-Pop but her show was amazing. And after all, the greatest performance of the day goes to Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. I have a goosebump during his performance, it was great and his stage act was unique. He's also really attractive with the fans and told about how he love Jakarta. The funniest thing is he throw us some donuts. If somebody successfully catch it, he will stay in Jakarta. Well, nobody could catch it.. The donuts land successfully to the ground, I guess.
Last week, I had a chance to witness Tex Saverio launch first couture show: AbsoluTEX at Raffles Hotel, Jakarta. I could say that this is one of the best fashion show that I have ever seen. Thing I love the most from this fashion show that it's not just about clothes, it was the combination between fashion, art, and everything in between. It was a theatrical fashion show and I have a goosebumps during the show.
Tex Saverio presents his collection called Trism. The collection was divided into three segments: Purity (White with amazing details, perfect for bride), Passion (with complex embroidery in black), and Evolution (Futuristic design with white and gold palette). He close his show with sculpted metal gown that he meant to be wear by invisible Goddess and of course, standing ovation from 1.500 people who witness this amazing moment.
I was really amazed and almost cried when they started their second segements, Passion because the first segments, Purity feels like they brought us to heaven and Passion brought us to hell. It was extremely wonderful.
Unfortunately, the photos I took doesn't come out with a great quality because I was busy to recorded the whole show. Yes, the whole show because I need to capture every second of it. Last but not least, congratulations for Tex Saverio! He successfully turned fantasy into reality.
I'm always excited for H&M and Coachella collaboration because Coachella is one of the biggest music festival and it's always interesting to see the fashion festival looks. This is the time when you could combine between fashion and music!
There a lot of things that you could pick from this collection. For girls, you could find fringed tops, crop top, print jumpsuits, and many more. For boys, you could find shirts and denim shorts. It's hard to pick my favorite but I end up bought the printed jumpsuit and crop top!
The printed jumpsuit is really comfortable, I rarely wear this kind of things but I want to try something new and I think I could mix the jumpsuit with a nice outer. It's easier to wear the crop top, I even wore it to my office. I combine it with a long outer and black Topshop pants. And if you want to wear it to a music festival, short pants will be a nice combination for the crop top. I'm glad I could bought H&M x Coachella collection right away because the collection sold out really fast. Not surprise at all because those are such a great collection.
Which one is your favorite piece from H&M x Coachella collection?
I just realize, I have a same green plaid shirt like Michael Clifford from 5 Seconds Of Summer. I decided to make this post and a little bit weird photos of my mirror selfie which I did at my office and Michael selfie which looks good. I bought this plaid shirt at H&M like 2 years ago, I guess. This is one of my favorite shirt because it's really comfy and it's so easy to style your plaid shirt. You could wear it as an outer or just wear it like Michael did. I wore size S and it's a little bit oversize on my body, sometimes I like to to bundle it just to get a different kind of style when I wear this shirt.
After all, who wore it better? Michael Clifford or me? Obviously Michael, you're the winner!
A few weeks ago, my friend and I went to Del'immo Patisserie. We're curious about their Japanese Pancake because as we browsed on the internet, it seems different than any other pancakes. Another thing which could make us drooling is chocolate with ice cream .Yes..I still speak about the pancake.
It was a casual kind of day, so I chose a simple grey long sleeve and high waist pants for our culinary trip. Actually, this top has a lace on the back, unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of it. Well, maybe next time.
Anyway, we love that place, it's cozy. We spent a few hours as our tummy is extremely full. We love the pancakes, it full of chocolate and it doesn't taste like pancake, it taste more like a cake but we do really love the chocolate sauce along side with cafe mocha that I also order.
When it rains.. it's time to wear our favorite coat! I think that's my only reason to love the rainy season. I love to combine my coat with my black skinny jeans and of course a pair of boots. This is what I wore to work when the weather in Jakarta is a little bit too cold which is rarely happen anyway.
Move to another topic, a few days ago I posted a new acoustic cover of Castaway by 5 Seconds Of Summer! If you followed my social media, you might hear me talk about 5SOS over and over again in the past few weeks. I guess I'm in the mood because they just came to Jakarta and beside, in the past few years I've been really grateful for their existence because they are one of the reason that my fashion business grew pretty fast. So check out my new acoustic cover and let me know what you think.
I'm sure music save most of people's life. It would make you happy, it would cheer you up when you're sad, and even make you stronger when you're feeling down. Sometimes when you listen to your favorite song, it feels like the song was written for you. Have you ever feel like that? Because I did. The lyrics is describe your situation and that's when you realize you're not alone with your life situation, no matter how sad or happy you are. Some people also been there or maybe experience their worst day or best day as well. So here's 5 songs that sounds like it was written for my life.
1. Hey Everybody - 5 Seconds Of Summer
"we can't afford to give up, we gotta make our own luck..."
There was a moment that I thought my job isn't good enough for me or I want to give up with my dreams, etc or a moment when I'm really broke and don't know what to do. This song describe all of those days a lot and when I almost give up, I remember this song. 2. Ain't It Fun - Paramore
"Ain't it fun..living in the real world."
It's not as fun as I imagine, but it's pretty fun anyway! This is when I start to provide my own life, not depending on my parents anymore. This song describe my journey on my 20s.
3. Throne - Bring Me The Horizon
"So you can throw me to the wolves, tomorrow I will come back leader of the whole pack."
Betray, humiliate, and hurt..yes, I've been there. The funny thing is all of those crap that I've been through didn't make me fall down. I become a better person, even I have my whole squad on my side! Every lyrics on this song is 100% true!
4. Voodoo Doll - 5 Seconds Of Summer
"I don't even like you, why'd you want to go and make me feel this way? And I don't understand what's happened, I keep saying things I never say."
Another song by 5 Seconds Of Summer! This one is funny because this is how I felt last year and it's so true. Did they see my future when they wrote this song? I don't have to explain which part of my life that could relate with this song because every lyrics from this song is really describe my thoughts. Yes, that's exactly what happened in my life last year.
5. So Far Away - Avenged Sevenfold
"How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the pages of the book it's burned. Place and time always on my mind..I have so much to say but you're so far away."
When my grandma passed away, this song is stuck in my mind. It's hard for me not to think about her when I hear this song. This song always make me emotional from the very first time and as my grandma is gone as well, this song also have a special place on my mind.
That's my top 5 of the songs that was written for me (based on my thoughts of course, not the song writer). What about you? I would love to know, so feel free to write it on the comment box!
You could hardly see what happened on somebody's outfit when they photograph it in black and white. That's not entirely true because I only wear 2 colors for this outfit: Black and white. I love wearing those colors so much, is that even a color? I'm telling you that you could never go wrong with black and white. I choose a black crop top and black short pants with white sneakers. If you think your outfit is too simple, put on a statement necklace. It will make you stand out!
Demelza Snape, Romilda, Wilhelmina Prince, and Edgar Cresswell.
Earlier this month, I've got an invitation to attend Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone Illustrated book launching at Kinokuniya, Plaza Senayan. This month you could start to order the illustrated book by Jim Kay in Bahasa. We took a peak and this book have a really good illustration. It makes the book even more interesting and I know if one day I become a mother, this could be a great story book to tell to my children before they go to bed.
Anyway, we had a good time on this event. When we first got in, they pick us a wizard name for us. See our wizard names above! Also, we had to pick a random paper to decide which house is the best for us and I've got Gryffindor. Nope, that could be a wrong choice. In Pottermore, I've got Slytherin and I know deep down in my heart that I'm a true Slytherin (Sorry not sorry, I guess). After we've got our name and house, we could enjoy some treat that you've seen on the movie such as Bertje Bott's every flavor beans, Weasley's Dragon Roasted Nuts, and many more. We could also find a potion corner, this one is really cool because I found Polyjuice, Bat's Eye, Gillyweed, and many more. I wish I could use it for a sweet revenge! If you could pick one, what kind of potion will you choose to steal from Snape?
Since the weather in Jakarta is unpredictable, all we need is a very comfortable outfit but keep it in style. That's why I choose a cozy cardigan in case it will rain or a little bit cold. But I combine it with short jeans because you will never know if the weather will be as hot as hell though. So why not to prepare for both of the weather that we could expect. I love to add a belt because it makes a simple looks more stylish.
