Niagara : The Journey through Time, Antiquity & Modesty

About two days ago, finally i got the opportunity to go inside the highest building in Asia back to 1890. Very classic, oldies and charming, though it's famous because their reputation as a 'haunted mansion'. The design concept of Niagara Hotel is a blending of Brazil, Netherland, China (yes, their former owner is a chinese named Liem Sian Joe, it was originally functioned as family villa) and Victorian style. With the height around 35 meters, this building was built for about 15 years and completed at the end of 19th century.

 

 

It was an accidental night tour, since my mom is so curious about this place. And we were at Lawang, so yeah, why not? she said. It cost 100.000 rupiah for a tour around this hotel, which means you can go to the restricted area--The 4th, 5th and 6th floor. Why is it restricted? well, the tour guide didn't say anything about it.

Niagara Hotel Room

The room hotel is what i will call it 'dirty and dodgy'. It's actually clean but... well, it looks like they didn't change it until someone lay on it. The lights are dim and gloomy (sorry, but the difference from the photos in their website vs. reality is just a big shame) and i don't think i would spent my night in that room, eventhough i love the architecture.

Part of dining room

Guest Room

Dining Room

 So, what did you got for a 100.000 rupiah tour? You got tea/coffee and... scenery. I'm serious, eventhough it's like it's haunted (well, there are a lot of reports about them) but i think everyone should visit this hotel in the night, because the scenery at the top of the hotel is just awesome. Specially who loves stargazing or night city life photography, the 6th floor is probably the best spot.

You just have to go through the creepy 4th and 5th floor because it's so dark. There's no light in it, so the only light is from our tour guide's flashlight ._. From the 3th floor to 4th floor, there's a metal gate, so eventhough you're staying the night in the hotel, you can't just go to 4th floor without the guide. And that's the start where it gets creepy hahaha, kidding. I didn't experience anything spooky that time :) i'm a skeptic.

The 5th floor and The watch Tower at the top of Niagara Hotel

And not only that, there is actually the watch tower (i called it so, because there's a bench at the top of it) and please wear your jacket because it's so cold and windy in the night :s (and i was wearing short skirts at that time, i have no idea!) You can sit in the top as long as you like, and you can take a photo from the top of it but make sure you tell your tour guide, because you just don't want to make them wait for a long time because it's cold xD

 Well, and that's a brief journey and review through the haunting old ruin called Niagara Hotel in Lawang, East Java. Ciao and see you next journey time~ (sorry, i didn't get much time to write in blog since everything is so busy today :s)

Niagara Hotel

Ukulele Madness

Hi everyone!

So finally, i've one thing that finished on my summer-to-do-list :3 and it's to learn ukulele! So, please meet my new buddy music named Luddy ^3^)/ this wooden ukulele is from Mahalo, it's cheap (only 25 USD) and it's good enough for me :3

Mahalo Ukulele

My first song is, 'you and me' from Zee avi (zee avi is my first inspiration to learn ukulele) i just really love her song style and her singing is sounds so peaceful to me *_* 'You and me' is a very good song for a beginner, and very easy. Here'sa video from zee avi to make it easier to learn for you :

And here's the chord from ukehunt You and me

If you want a recommended link for ukulele chords, for me personally, i like Ukehunts. Since usually they provide you the chord in pdf + strumming pattern + video, but well they didn't have too many songs, so i guess my second recommendation is Ukutabs :)

anddd here's a list of my favourite song in ukulele ^^ 

(it's really easy for a beginner, just try it)

Swell Window

Bitter Heart

A Team

The Only Exception

Long Live

Begin Again

Fifteen

Mary's song (Oh my my my)

Face Drawing

Recently i got an obsession in drawing men's face using pencilcolor. I just couldn't resist to draw that handsome looking face in my sketchbook >-< and here's some of the results :

Vini Uehara

Rafael Gaidzinski

A few of my artworks

What's your obsession recently, folks? ^3^

Fairy Tale Cosplay : Felissimo

 I was surfing the internet when i found an article about a fashion website named felissimo. And it's wrote that they just launching their latest collection of Felissimo's Fairy tale Cosplay. I was sooo ashtonishing with their work just after i saw the whole amazingly-cute-lolita-types of dresses in their latest collection. I just.. *sigh* really wanted all of them!

And here's a pic of them :

As you can see, there are Thumbelina, Pinocchio, Anne of Green Gables, Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood, etc. Okay, so they're just a slight of their collection, there are still a lot of them, since their buying method is a bit weird. It's noted in the web that you can't choose which dress, but you choose their collection and they'll randomly picked one for you (well, that's why there are a lot of dresses in one collection). But if you want 2-3 dresses, make sure you didn't order them in the same month. (Felissimo will decide the actual design delivered to you. If you order more than 1 set in the same month, same designs will be delivered. If you order in another different month, a different design will be sent to you : from the website)
 
Oh, and should i noted, not just that. Felissimo still have another collection of their super cute dresses, The Sailor Seifukus! Seifuku itself means japanese girl uniform. And this is their collection :

Well, for me, i'm in love with them to death!! I'm planning to work on them (since i can't afford it, i'll just make them..) as soon as i can :'D and i can't wait to wear them to my campus! They're just too adorable!
If you wanna buy it, just click here for the blue one, and here for the white-blue :D

Two Thousand and Awesome!

Happy New Year everybody!
It's a little bit too late, but i'm definitely exciting for this new year!

We got so much fun in the New year's eve andddd it's such a moment! For a really long time, finally Ultimate reunited again *eventhough not all of them* and we did so many things :') First of all, i thought no one came (i went home really late, about 6 pm because of exams) and the party started at 7 pm. Tari did come first, then fifi. and.. well, actually we didn't think that anyone will come in time just like the three of us.

7 pm.. 7.30 pm and counting.. and finally after we prepared some of the foods (pepper-salted chicken for the win!) the boys finally came! They're way too late, but well, at least the party is finally started! From chicken to popcorn, from popcorn to strawberry cookies, from strawberry cookies to cornflakes, from cornflakes to choco cookies... well, i have no idea how hungry they are, but we did have an interesting subject to talk about! It was like the old-time, when it's only the twenty of us in the class, and everybody is participating in the story. Some of them are the story-teller, some of them are laugh, some of them are just smiling and some of them are just silent because they're too serious..

and suddenly everything becomes blur and.. it took a second for me that..
this moment is magical.

I feel like playing the same track, but in a different time and different place.

And just think about it, how wonderful is that?

We play games. We play cards. We make some punishment for the loser. We laugh a lot. We take photos. We make wishes. We did a lot of things!

And this is the project #Ultimate2014wish :

1. Beti - something related to her law school *didn't understand most of them*
2. Hafizh - something related to physics *he has an unhealthy obsession with physics, idk why* and can you see his hair? It's a bit reddish on the middle because he lose in a card game!
3. Dani - i have no idea, but well, he should make sure his drawing is seen as people reading qur'an, not people handling a gun

4. Fikri - survived and good scores, well it's everybody wishes, fik -_-)/ anyway, he sleep through   the night and didn't participate in any games at all! *went for food, then fall asleep through the night in my carpet* -_-

5. Bintang - more like random wishes, but i love the spirit! *specially the 'stay awesome' term* :3 he's such a cute boy~

6. Fifi - creative as always, i really love how she picturized her character in one paper! Definitely fifi's!

7. Afan - seriously, astral projection? he's absolutely still the same 

8. Nina - most of them are related to games *she's just too obsessed with them!* and her crazy-wild-ideas of farming snakes

9. Ekek - still the same obsession, i thought. Oh, and why did he didn't include the wish 'my hair grow back to normal'? lololol definitely feel sorry for him! *because using beanie too much is just not good for your scalp, kek!

 

10. Dharma - related to business is just so dharma! Oh, and just like hafizh, dharma did lose at the card game too! Just look at the big 2014 letter on his face!

11. MEH ! - i have sooooooooo many wishes but i can't describe it one by one!

After photoshoot session, we wait for the peak of new year's eve : 

COUNTING DOWN THE CLOCK UNTIL THE BRAND NEW YEAR!

most of them are already went home, so it just.. the five of us, afan, nina, dharma, ekek, fifi and me. It's 30 minutes again, and suddenly somebody said : how about we play truth or dare? and the game started, using tomate sauce bottle, we decided who will got his/her chance, and the first is fifi! she said yes to truth, and the second is nina, and she said yes to dare!

anddddd 1 minute to the brand new year, everybody prepared and make a circle around the dim-lighted-candle. and just about the clock tickin' to 12, everybody is blew the candle off and something happen... ekek grab the candle and started to shake it! It was definitely the most ridiculous thing to do because the hot liquid is spilled to his hand! i just can't believe that he made a daymn idiocy in the first minute of the new year!

and, TICK. The electricity is out! Just before i want to grab my camera, suddenly everything is dark! everybody went to outside the house and we started wandering around outside the house. five of us, watching the skyline, watching how the smoke from the firework filled the air and created something magically wonderful, and behind all of that is the green-red-yellow firework filling the sky!

 

 and that was THE MOST EPIC NEW YEAR EVER!

Muskerwil XIII

I'm now officially part of the major team of Muskerwil XIII!
It's actually not that exciting but well.. i'm a bit proud, since it's kind of 'big' event for me :3

so, what's muskerwil actually? The term is from 'Musyawarah Kerja Wilayah' and it's part of ISMKI (Ikatan Senat Mahasiswa Kedokteran Indonesia) agenda. So, basically, the head of the council from each medical faculty are combine in one place to decide things and.. i dunno, decide somekind of rules (still didn't get a lot about it, sorry. Maybe later)

Whatever it's, i'm still beyond excited!

Muskerwil XIII

And oh, here's also a sneak peek of the logo i designed for Muskerwil XIII !

you must be wondered what's the meaning of ex unitae vires, right?

EX UNITAE VIRES

Unity is Strength

*thanks for wikipedia for that*

I'm soo happy they use my logo eventhough it's way too simple (considering looking back to the previous muskerwil the logos are soo merry & colourful) and right after that, i got a lot of 'A REALLY LOT OF' task to finish just in one day!
and what i mean a lot of is, making x banner, banner, brochure, poster, stamp, template for proposal, and cover.. and yeah, that's hell of a task! (my senior is just.. *sigh* but he's so kind and really helpful in the making of everything! )

Muskerwil XIII

above is my design for the backdrop. Everything i created was super simple considering i only have 1 hour to finish this (and so i finished it in only 15 minutes using corel draw)

Woman in WWII

Git excited recently because finally i met reenactors in my city. It was such a nice meeting we have (eventhough i didn't wear anything related to wwii) but it's such a honor to meet them! So yeah, after that, i decided myself to pick which one i'll fit into for the next reenactor meeting :3

Deutsches Rotes Kreuz

DRK Schwester

DRK Haupthelferin

I've a big interest in wwii nurse since i was child. probably because i watch so many stories about florence nightingale and i adore renee lemaire from band of brothers (plus, she'll make such a cute couple with eugene roe) so yeah, DRK definitely my first choice in the list. 

But anyway, there's also a lot of choices in DRK uniforms. Many people said that DRK's uniform is dark blue, but in fact, the right one is charcoal grey.