Eid holiday is about to end and this year I celebrated Eid with my family. The first day of Eid is traditionally spent with my mother's family and this year is bittersweet because my grandmother is no longer with us. But despite her being gone, we still visited the house she used to live in (my Doctor Aunt's house) and ate the food from recipes she ( Read more... )

Happy May Day! Happy International Workers' Day!

And it falls on a Sunday so I don't get a holiday... Ah, well. I still get to spend the day at home as to avoid labour demonstrations. And I didn't work even though I'm supposed to be finishing my articles. Can anyone blame me? I think not. Because it's SundayI think after a hectic week I also ( Read more... )

Don't be a cynic now. (Speaking to myself here mostly.) Valentine's Day can be more than an over-commercialized holiday to sell chocolates (but if you see a Kinder Bueno anywhere near you, just buy it) and heart-shaped balloons. It can be a reminder that we need more love, and a lot less hate, in the world right now ( Read more... )

So who won Super Bowl 50 ( Read more... )

It's 2 hours and 15 minutes to the New Year and I'm knackered.

I've been blogging all night long and then updating news for the magazine's website and then I had to rush off to The Body Shop for emergency sponge and brush shopping (don't ask) with a detour to the supermarket to get freaking romaine lettuce. Sigh ( Read more... )

As promised, an entry about scented candles. Which I went out to buy yesterday - before noon - because as lazy as I am, I still hate the mall crowd more and I do not want to be stuck in a jam-packed store with obsessive shoppers ( Read more... )

Two things scratched off my to-do list again today: I finished Doctor Who S9 AND the Christmas Special, and I bought scented candles.

But forget about the scented candles. Because I was just confused by Doctor WhoI had no idea what was happening in the last 3 episodes. So I know Clara's dead but not really dead and then the Doctor got tortured for ( Read more... )

Christmas Day began with Luther S4 viewing right at midnight as the clock turned to a new day. It was possibly the scariest way to start spending the day because the sole 2 episodes of this fourth series made me scared. It wasn't gory - I'd expected it to be bloody because of the cannibalism topic - but it was still pretty freaking nail-biting. I ( Read more... )

I successfully completed no. 4 on my before-the-year-ends to-do list. But I did that after sleeping away the morning and afternoon, reading 00Q fics and sleeping some more. I only drank coffee at 5 PM because I was too lazy to make it in the morning. Then again, this is supposedly 'the holidays'. It's that time of the year where I get to be lazier ( Read more... )

The day before Indonesia's 70th Independence Day, my sister and I went to Kemang Village for our next foodie adventure at Market & Museum bazaar, held by the mall to celebrate Independence Day. Stomachs empty since morning (no breakfast!), we set out to get our favorite foods (Mommadon's milk bath cake is one of them) and try on other new things ( Read more... )