Had a chance to spend sunday evening with Iga Massardi. With a cup of coffee and tea, we talked about guitar, his music, and kelas gitar gratis. He's one of my favorite person; I mean I like him as a guitarist, and his thought in his twitter and blog, so it's really a good chance to meet him in person. Splendid!

I am not a fashionable person. I wear what I want to wear, not that picky with the clothes. But when I had trip to Singapore last month, I saw this person in Orchard wore ombre denim jacket which I found beautiful. I've searched many stores but it's only my friend Dinda's online shop; We Are All Curious which sells them but too bad the jackets are sold out. Desperately, I finally bought a cheap denim jacket, and tried to make ombre denim jacket by my self!

The jacket turned out to be something I like, thus I want to share with you guys. :-)



The steps are easy. You just need denim jacket (of course!), bayclin, and water.
1. Pour the water and bayclin into bucket. I needed 5 bottle cap of bayclin.
2. The original jacket was too dark for me, so I decided to get kinda tie-dye and lighter the color first. If you just want to let the jacket color as it is, then skip this one :)
3. Make ombre by putting the half jacket first into water. After about two hours, put only 1/4 jacket into the bucket.
4. Don't forget to wash it, because the color might still fade off and I, personally, can't stand the smell of bayclin.



Don't you want to try also? :)

My very first time dad letting me go abroad.. alone. Not to mention I met fella there and stay with them from evening to noon :P

It supposed to be me & my bro trip together but suddenly he got his left ear--somewhat--deaf because blood-frozen (is it true for the words?), so he's hospitalized. The doctor said it caused whether because his cholesterol was too damn high (he was only 21 btw!), or because the virus; ya know--if you borrow your friends' earphone and the shit go through your ear when you use that earphone. Until now he has to have hyperbaric therapy for 10 times. Scary, I know.

But Singapore was good, being alone in MRT and the street was great. The weather was a bit sucks I must say, we got rain & storm when in Sentosa island. But the best part was--stores are on sale! I got buy 1 get 1 Sephora lipstick, a $19 jeans from Forever21, a $17 shirt from H&M for the boyfriend, and even 3 Nuttela & Go for $10. I bought many things I didn't expect before my shoulder hurt so much to bring them--literally!

And the question Valeska asked the last time I met her stuck in my head, "Abis ini mau weekend getaway ke mana lagi, Lak?" #pecahcelengan #cukupbuatkeancol

...
shut your eyes
heal your pain

this very moment you let it go
this very moment you forget it out

because this finally ends
and tomorrow can wait

breath in
breath out

let's sleep
goodnight

.....
Sometimes I'm nervous when I talk
I shake a little
Sometimes i hate the line I walk
I just want to show you what I know
And catch you when the current lets you go

Or should I just get along with myself
I never did get along with everybody else
I've been trying hard to do whats right
But you know I could stay here all night
And watch the clouds fall From the sky

Because this river is wild 
God speed you boy 
This river is wild

:)

Perubahan adalah satu kata yang, tergantung bagaimana situasinya, bisa menjadi makna yang sangat besar dan kompleks. Berubah, atau hanya mengikuti alur yang berubah, ketika yang dilalui tidaklah hal yang sama seperti sebelumnya, menjadi suatu perubahan bagi diri kita.

Saya sejujurnya terkadang sangat takut dengan perubahan. New things always excite me, but to deal with transformation sometimes scared me. Meninggalkan yang lama. Perubahan berarti menyesesuaikan diri lagi. Memiliki lingkungan baru. Mendapati teman baru. Menghadapi masalah baru. Yang mungkin, belum pernah saya alami sebelumnya. Bagaimana nanti kalau begini? Bagaimana kalau nanti begitu? Bagaimana kalau gagal? Berbagai macam pertanyaan yang tidak bisa dijawab karena saya belum menjalaninya.

But, life goes on. If your life stuck at a point, there must be something wrong with it. Dan dalam hidup memang dibutuhkan suatu petualangan yang memang menuntut untuk mampu melalui berbagai perubahan.

You can't just let your fear prevents your dreams and/or what you deserve to have, because you don't know what future brings you into. Hmm, I really have to deal with this. A new thing, a new home. A new soul, a new journey.

hello!

I don't know whether he's getting too old, or we stay young, but the Born and Raised album is supposed to listen in the porch while having a cup of hot tea in your late 40s. You look back at your life, remember what you've done; your failure, your success, your fault, your regret, your disappointment; but at your age--with what you've been through, you know all you can do is just letting it go, and move on.

So after all the brokenheart and galauness songs in Battle Studies album, he wants to tell us to move on and look deep at our life, and, somehow just live it. He might lose his youth soul. The album is so country and folk, he can even have duet with Tantowi Yahya. I'm not saying the album is bad, it's just, I don't listen John Mayer songs the way I used to.

I have to add his first single, Shadow Days, has beautiful lyrics. The most beautiful ever. I love it from the first sentence to the last were amazing. His thought was brilliant, and you can love it at the first time you listen it. But while you listen to the whole album, you might feel like, "was that really you, John?".



remember what he said in Stop This Train song,
So scared of getting older,
I'm only good at being young

He might just too scared,
and force us to be old with him.

But, youth is just a matter of mindset. The youth soul live forever no matter what your age is.
We can be forever young though.

It's just how you choose you want to live your life with.

but then again, who am I to judge?

I don't want to make a resolution for this year.