Became Friends with the Chlorophyll

Every morning I am accustomed to do my chores, helping my mother with the househould. That morning, she said "Forget your morning chores, you're taking pictures of my cactus"

You can say, that we're a cactus family. My mother loves cactus, my sister loves cactus, and so do I. Cactus represents great endurance, delicate strength, and continuous persistence. Thus, this is our family's cactus collection. Hope you enjoy this chloro-pals!

こんにちは Jakarta; Japan Inspired Visual Therapy

A thought of decent Saturday, with a glass of your favourite latte, and calm surrounding are what I need. After these weeks filled with burst of thoughts and burst of colors, I managed to spoil these visions of mine with visual therapy. I normally don't review coffee shops, or popular cafes, but i think Kopi Kotaku is exceptional.

A cafe located in South Jakarta, inspired by Japanese coffee shop, with design-friendly interior. This minimalist aesthetic surely gave me a good time lulling in visual therapeutic situation. So here's what we captured during our visit at Kopi Kotaku.

March Playlist; Reggae Tunes

Well, let's say that I have to manage my emotions these days: like I wouldn't have the time to be down. So I need some tunes to boost my mood. I decided to listen to these reggae tunes because everything feels good when listening to "Three Little Birds" by Bob Marley.

So, here's my March Playlist. I hope it'll cheer you up, too!

Sister Nancy - Bam Bam

Bob Marley - One Loveeeee

Yellowman - Zungguzungguguzungguzeng

Paris Hilton - Stars are blind (go way back to elementary school years!)

Bob Marley - Three Little Birds

The Wailers - I shot the Sherrif

Mr. Vegas - Heads High

Don Carlos - Young Girl

I also have my spotify's reggae playlist embed here for you to enjoy. I'm not a super fan of reggae, nor a super fan of any music genre. But it's nice to listen to different genres time after time!


cheers!

Women's March Bandung 2018: Catcalling and Bossy Husband Petitions

Good morning, everyone! What a productive Sunday I had. On Sunday, March 4 2018, I joined a women's march in Bandung. I've never labeled myself as a feminist, but there are certain issues that threaten me as a woman. Despite all of those gender equality issues which I barely understand, there are little ones that I've experienced before or that some people around me have experienced before: Catcalling and Bossy Husband.

Living in a strictly-censored society sometimes makes people think that women are their objects: for sex, for slavery, for their jerking off session, basically for their dick. Some think that women are "destined" to feel inferior at some point, because they feel like we're not strong enough. That's why, I guess, this is my assumption that we are often being catcalled. Before we get too far, I want to let you know that I am against catcalling towards men and women because it makes us feel uncomfortable, like emotionally harassed. Some people do it out of boredom, some people do it for jokes, some people do it because they did get a positive respond. But I think, some people need to position themselves as the victim.

Moodboard: March 2018

No, I haven't been smoking weed!

Hello everyone! Wow, like, it's March already! It feels as if it was only yesterday when I made my February Moodboard. Time surely is ticking so fast. Anyways, I discovered a lot of novelties lately, or at least re-discovering things. Well, my main focus is always my thesis and my job, but I don't know, I don't think I'm developing myself through my thesis, so I think I have to find new novelties every month to keep me fresh.

March is going to be my reggae month. Reggae songs actually make me happy without smoking any weed lol. I actually discovered this cool band "The Undercover Hippy", they produce real good stuff, and they also made this song called "Coming to the Gambia", it's about empowering people in Gambia, and showing that globalization is a modern colonization: which I think it's true. I mean, living in this poor country with prices raising day by day, I'm pretty sure I'm still being colonized by countries with stronger currency.

And also! I've been learning Hangul. It's quite easy, really. I read Hangul kinda well now, not fluent, but I can read it. It's not as hard as Japanese, I think. Maybe it's because I've been watching Korean drama in the past 2 years, so i'm quite aware of the vocabularies. Talking about Hangul... I think South Korea really did a great job in creating South Korea's nation brand. Like they said, they managed to obtain the economic miracle with their marketing strategies, entertainment business, and hard work, of course. Also, for the very first time in my life, I now have a crush on Korean actors: Lee Jong Suk and Ji Chang Wook. Yes I know they're everywhere to be seen but I just, Lee Jong Suk, he has a very unique face, and Ji Chang Wook has this friendly brother-ish face. 아이고!