Little Mischief's and Friends

Little Mischief feels like going to the woodland and playing with some autumn leaves. I remember my first autumn experience was really fun. I buried my self in the mount of dried leaves. I like maple tree the most. Maple has distinctive leave shape and color. It can go from yellow to bright red.

Little Mischief doesn't know how to swim. Nevertheless, she loves swimming with the fish, especially to meet her friend, mr. whale shark in the Philippines. 
Where as the elephant loves to do sun tanning. The elephant can lie down on top the mr. whale shark's body for the whole noon.

Perfect Campus Town

If you ask me about the coolest campus town I've known, I will definitely say Cambridge without a doubt. It's not that I've been to many campus town, but Cambridge is just mesmerising. There is a river pass through the town with lots of boats. The river is pretty shallow, and therefore the method of passing the canal is through punting. It looks easy and romantic and relaxing... Guess what!! It's not. I tried, and I lost the stick for so many time. 

Beside the river and the punting, the public life in Cambridge is superb. People just sitting out, enjoying the good weather and (mediocre) English food with beer, how can life be better than that :) The ambiance of the town is good, it has enough balance of nice touristy and local feeling. And of course it has this aristocracy atmosphere all the way.

Street Art in Berlin

Does street art consider as a vandalism act? Or does it actually help to voice people's mind and beautify the city? Whatever it is, Berlin is Berlin because of these street arts. Once you are there, you will feel the hipness, the energy, and the fun of Berlin life. 

I can say almost everything in Berlin is very relaxing and casual. People bike everywhere (including me.. yes me), well .. not as much as in The Netherlands.. but it's equally good. The casual life in Berlin is shown through the hot spot for the youngsters. My friends and I visited this bar that looks like the ruin of post WWII. You can probably see holes from the bullet shot. The other thing that amazed me was the bars hopping activity. People just carry their drinks and start walking from one bar to another. 

Little Mischief Strikes.. again...

This time little mischief spends more time with her friends. A quality time in cooking, bathing (the thing that she hates), picnicking... And she also acknowledge that the elephant is her friend, not just a chubby accessory.

I Love You, Papa

Happy 60th birthday, papa.. :)

Today is 22-02-2012 and it's my dad's birthday. If you like the number 2.., then you'll like today. hehehe... You know, number 2 is unique and fun. It's the only prime even number. Anyway.., enough about the number. On my dad's birthday, it happened that my dad is fasting. At the same time, it's on Ash Wednesday too.. so I'm abstaining too. And therefore, there was no big celebration what so ever, even tho it's his big six zero. We were celebrating it in a very simple way but intimate. Just 4 of us- my dad, mom, me, and my cousin Andre. It was good.. we had a lot of things to talk about.


As in for me..., I'm simply thankful for having a father like my dad. Someone that I can looked up as he is wise, liberal, and very patient. Ou not to forget, a good listener too. So.. here's for you, dad.. Cheers for you.. and Happy Birthday.. I wish you all the best in all !!!

Little Miss Mischief

It's all started with a friend's request for her birthday gift. She asked for an artwork (any artwork). To think of that, I haven't really do painting for a lonnnnggg time.. well except a few last year :) .. aniway.., here's the deal. I don't have the confidence to do it. But.. , since it's for a good friend.. and good friend always accept your artwork no matter how ugly it is, I ended up creating this little miss mischief character.

Landscape of Diversity

Alur's Landscape of Diversity is finally arrived in Jakarta !!!

The exhibition is arranged by JERIN (Germany Embassy Cultural Quarter in Indonesia) to celebrate the living heritage of batik. The exhibition is mainly focusing on batik collection of Iwan Tirta Foundation. And the aim is to promote the cultural value of Indonesian batik. Alur, a young architects team, joined the exhibition by contributing the element of batik on architecture. The idea is to implement the concept of batik not just on cloth, but on architectural sculpture. Originally, this sculpture is part of the Indonesian Embassy of UK project for the Architectural Biennale in London (http://www.lfa2010.org/event.php?id=111&name=indonesia_landscape_of_diversity). Although there was a bit of delay of the arrival of the sculpture, we are still happy that it finally landed in National Gallery of Indonesia already. 

And so for the ALUR team; Prama Milyardi, Rizki Nindito, Ardes Perdhana, Olivia Putihrai, Monique Suksmaningsih, dan Kuncara Wicaksana, big cheers to you guys...!!! --harumkan nama Indonesia through architecture and batik culture--

Balinese Sunset

About a week ago I visited Bali with some of my old school friends.. It was for a wedding. I stayed in with 5 girlfriends.. yeah.. that make it sounds like our villa is a girls den, which is true.. It was fun. We've done some girly stuff.., that I haven't done nor enjoy for a very long time. At the beginning, it needs some adjustment. I guess it is because my adrenalin was too high for the activities.. and I just couldn't stay still.. ahhahaha


Bali is very fun .. esp when you can have a lazy afternoon and enjoying sunset with cocktails.. heavenly :)

Faces of Yogyakarta

Other than its artifacts and nature, Yogyakartans fascinated me as well. Yes, I love taking candid photos of people. I love to see their expressions. I think I can create new character for them... and story too... but that will make it fiction. For now, I will just show the pics without wordings. And I know this may not represents  the entire Yogyakartans (as Yogya is a city), but I just like to see humbleness in photos :) And ou I add a pic of a cat too.. ups

Taman Sari, the Hidden Jewel

When I was a child, I have visited Yogyakarta many times. But unfortunately I never come across to the water palace 'Taman Sari'. It's one of the sultan's villas. It was built in the 18th century by a Portuguese architect. The palace is surrounded by water for the sultan and his concubines to bath.

From afar, you can directly recognized the castle by the distinguish feature. It's white in colour with a mix of Mediterranean Europe style and Javanese style. When I got to the ticket counter, I prepared some money, but to my surprise, the ticket costs 3000 rupiah (or 40 cents usd) per person. It's definitely too cheap for an artifact that nice. No wonder they lack of money to maintain the site. But again, if you think about it.. It's Yogyakarta.. a city with lots of interesting artifacts but lacks of marketing for tourism. I can see big potential to make this city to become a tourist destination. The road system is already established with the right ambiance and feeling. It's just need some support from the authority. 

Taman Sari consists of a few parts; the water castle, the mosque with 5 directions of stairs, the ruin of the main palace. In between those sites, we had to walk along the 'kampong' (village houses). This is an interesting view of the humble living in Yogyakarta. Of course this kampong has developed into a tourism focus spaces. We can see most houses on the main street are trying to sell home industry products, such as batik, traditional food, or wayang (shadow puppet). 

Most of the gates and door's size are pretty short, so that whenever somebody wanna pass the gate, they have to bend their body a little bit. This represents respect to others and humble nature.

The sign board consists of 2 languages, French and Dutch, with the circulation direction in English. Diversity yeah.

 The map of the surrounding village aka touristy kampong. As you can see here, the building used to be built on top of a lake. Sadly, there is no water anymore. Conservation anyone???