Audit and more dresses

Just finished my ISO audit, and am saved, no non-conformities found and a lot of revision to do.

On other topic, this weekend I had more time to browse on for dresses and found few nice one that I like to own (at least in similar shape and designt).

Manoush, Nancy frill hem dress, very 20ish style if you wear it with side wavy bang. Or very now with waisted belt, I can picture myself in this.

Manoush, Lantern sleeve dress. I like the lantern sleeve trend, it makes my arm look slim. Plus it's in yellow.

Rebecca Taylor, Cactus flower dress. Patterned dress with lantern sleeve? My two favourite in one package.

Tomas Maier, Frill Hem Dress. On a more formal side, with a tube/tank top in different color peeking through the plunging v-neck.

Zac Posen, Polka dot wrap dress. The polka dot print and the draping collar, the waist bow tie and the style in wrap - it all fits together nicely.

Coffee makes me happy

There’s no other better way to start you Monday morning than a perfect cup of coffee.

I leave home earlier than the usual cause my Dad need to be in his office before 8, therefore I had spare time before I need to clock-in to the office. So I decided to go to Starbucks Melawai, I wasn’t sure they were already open at 8 – this is Jakarta, mind you! Surprisingly, they started brewing as early as 7, if you’re being nice they might let you have your coffee couple of minutes before 7!

By 8.15 I was already in my desk at the office spooning the foam from my dry non-fat cappuccino with extra caramel sauce and eating my chocolate croissant. This is good. Life is good from this point of view. Why do I stop taking coffee in the morning? It makes me happy and helps my brain connect all it wires together. During my Uni years, I could not passed the HQ coffee stall on the Melb Central train platform without even parted with my $3.50 for a cup of Hazelnut Latte. I even made friends with the Barista (which makes delicious coffee), turned out he was doing engineering in my university! And I collect all those little swirl stamps so that by the 10th stamps I will get my Tall Latte for free.

Oh rite I just remembered now why I stop buying coffee in the morning, there’s hardly any decent coffee shop that serve coffee early in the morning (except for Starbucks) and conveniently placed within walk distance of my office. Besides, the price a cup of coffee in Starbucks is a killer, with the price of 30k+ a cup, if I keep it up daily, I could be a millionaire by the time I was 50 (okay I’m exaggerating!).

Nevertheless, I started this week in a good foamy way

The dresses that I love

Bottega Venetta, the one ultimate must have dress. It flow so beautifully but, the length, I could have been burried under it. The colour, its soft but yet not a mute.

I forgot from who this one is, but you can find a very similar one from a Bandung designer called Ciel in Debenhams cost at around 500K. I wonder who's behind Ciel?

Floral print shift dress from 3.1 Phillip Lim. Girly flower pattern which fall v flowy bet yet in a loud black and white. Love it! Yet you can found a copy at Ciel. Makes you wonder whether Indonesian designer ever come up with an original that are truly theirs?

Monday Voile dress from Anglomania by Vivienne Westwood. Simple white with a nice cut. Just what I need.

Azzaro, Volume Chiffon Mini dress. I love chiffon, it really flatter my figure!

Two times in a day

Met Mei" twice today for lunch and dinner. We had lunch in Wendy's at Senayan City, its been quite a while since my last junk food meal so I thought Wendy's is appropriate. Still in the hype of italian food, I ordered Spaghetti with extra cheese sauce, love the sauce! Of course, to end the perfect lunch would be a cup of coffee at Starbucks.

After the office hour I met with Mei" again and ate in Bakmi GM, didn't really enjoy my seafood fried rice though. Had Caramel Machiatto in Starbucks afterward (again!). My second cup of coffee for the day, to make it right, I ordered decaf.

Since Mei" and Adi came a bit late I had quite alot of time in my hand to stroll around the beauty dept in Sogo and decided to get a makeover in MAC. My fave MA from PIM is not in PS anymore so I decided to go along with the petit chinese MA and she's quite nice. She shows me all sort of stuff and teach me hot to put on Sable on me. It turned out really good, so decided to buy it. Ok, I felt guilty, I shouldnt have stopped by the MAC counter in the beginning! I even tried the concealer at Shu, and it's really good, creating a major lemming, darn!

I really miss Raysa though, she was asleep when I got home. But when I move her to my bed she's wide awake and happy to see me (am happy to see you too pretty baby!).

Chocolate Melt

Tues - Had a nice lunch with Mei" at Izzi Pizza Mahakam. A bowl of minestrone soup, prawn linguine and a very nice warm chocolate melt with ice cream. Though I still think the chocolate melt in Gran Mahakam/Harvest are much better but I enjoyed lunch. Came home and felt really sick so I decided to pay the doctor a visit. Turned out I had low blood pressure (90/60) and a swollen tonsil.

Wed – Skip work and must stay in bed the whole day. Kind of not a v nice day, inclining towards a mild depression. Of course I cannot kiss kiss Baby R which I cannot help every time I’m around her cause she’s just too cute so I have to restrained myself from her so the virus will not be transferred to her. But I did enjoy the Ugly Betty marathon on DVD, Betty Suarez was hilarious and Daniel Maede is oh so cute! Can't wait for the new episode!

Thurs (today) – Another lunch with Mei” cause somehow I’m 35K short on my CC payment. Bakerzin is great as usual, had oxtail pizza and warm chocolate melt for dessert. Compared to the one in Izzi, I prefer the Izzi one cause this one is too bitter. BTW YouTube is down! Cannot download the Heroes preview (Sobh!)

Is she goin to die?

Seriously! Is mer goin to die? Honestly, I dont think she will. Not that I know this for certain but because ... come on ... the show is called Grey's Anatomy for a reason rite? I dont think they will kill the main character (whose name are used for the show title), it will be ridiculous if they do that.

I certainly cannot do anything to feed my curiousity at the moment, cause sadly Star TV still aired the 2nd Season and not even close to the superbowl 3 episode yet. The (pirated) DVD is not out yet. In the meantime, my daily obsession is to check out the official site and YouTube for any interesting previews and footages.

While searching for the next episode preview of Grey's Anatomy (Titled Some Kind of Miracle), I came across this clip depicting Mer/Der relationship accompanied by an excellent song.

Monthly visit

Its time for Baby R monthly visit to the doctor. I have to pushed back the appointment couple of days cause Jakarta has been in chaos due to the flood which started in the beginning of the months. I was kind of reluctant to take her to the hospital cause there's so many virus in the air because of the flood (of course!). Unfortunately the doctor was late and there were many sick children today in the hospital which give me the paranoia. So me and mom was having a turn to take Baby R for a walk away from the sick kids. The last thing that she need at the moment is cathing one of the virus.

She seemed to enjoyed the visit to the doctor though, cause there's a lot of kids that she can played with. She was being really friendly and keep smilling to everyone, even to the doctor, although she did cried a bit when the doctor give her the prevnar shot. But that was only for a couple of seconds, and after that she was smilling to the doctor and being all nice to him.

Afterwards we take her to Senayan City, cause we need to buy her bath soap and shampoo. She's so happy, she cannot stop turning her head around. Maybe she's kind of bored being locked up in the house for the past couple of weeks (once again due to the flood). The only problem is that she doesnt want to stop, she will cried out loud if we stop pushing her pram. That baby ...

Pink and Green

Gemma Ward is the face for the new line from Beaute de Kose called Esprique Precious. She looked extra stunning, espescially on the third look. Love the green eyeshadow and pink liner combination.

5 Months

Happy 5th months birthday to my pretty baby girl Raysa.

She's a pro in sucking her thumb now, in fact, she will just put anyone's hand that is availble freely in front of her into her mouth. She love to put her toys into her mouth, I guess it's because she's going to grow some tooth soon.

Raysa also love touching her feet, that, I believe is hereditary.

Quarter life

Today, the 4th of February is my 25th birthday celebrated by the arrival of the flooding season. Does this means when people ask how old I am I will have to start to be misterious and answer it with mid 20s instead of the number 25? Does that means when the 25th year of my life ended and move to the 26th I will have to start to used the late 20s? And does it also means when I'm having problems and gone through a rough time in my life I could have just blame it on the quarter life crisis?

Maybe I'm exaggerating a bit (only a tad bit, nothing more!).

Happy birthday mommy