Movie Review : Taken 2

We sneaked out from our hectic schedule and decided to just "pamper ourself" - movie, saloon and hanging out. Goodness me, it's such a relief on taking one day off to just be lazy bees. The movie, we kept wanting to watch : TAKEN 2 - Hello Liam Neeson!

I remember the first time i watched Taken 1 where the movie wasn't really be favorites until it got released at DVD and people adored this low-budget movie even i did too. At least it wasn't that "happening" back in the cinema, more like, people wasn't bother to watch. Just like other, I brought the dvd and couldn't kept my eyes away from this awesome, simple that full of actions but made in low-budget. I knew there would be a sequel but I didn't know what would the story be, just got a feeling it would have a sequel.

My rate for this movie is 8,5/10 - or maybe should I give it 9,5? It's really entertaining, didn't make you bored even for a second and make you want to watch it again for the 2nd time. At least, that's the feeling got into me after I finished the movie. The simplicity, the emotions and very simple actions in that movie make me rated that high. Okay! everyone knows how this movie going to end, at the first time you see - a happy ending but who ever thought the way they bring up this movie would be that wow.  IMDB gives 6,8 for the rating but the movie was in the top line for few weeks even at its first opening day.  Basically it's a story about a daughter whose parents got kidnapped and now it's her turn to find them. But you know its just no comment, loving this :-)

There are bunch of movies I want to watch but time isn't at our side at the moment : Premium Rush, looper, Heroine, English Vinglish and a lot more of upcoming movies. So yeah, we were having such a relaxing day and it's great though and btw, my BB is officially died on me, which gosh, finally I can take my hands off from BB for almost a month ha-ha-ha-ha =D!

Tuesday Happiness & Sadness

" Hold on, to me as we go

As we roll down this unfamiliar road
And although this wave is stringing us along
Just know you’re not alone
Cause I’m going to make this place your home

Settle down, it'll all be clear
Don't pay no mind to the demons
They fill you with fear
The trouble it might drag you down
If you get lost, you can always be found
Just know you’re not alone
Cause I’m going to make this place your home "

Now, it Grumpy's turn to get so much addicted with this song called Home by Philip Philips. I was kept listening to this song for the past few days (continuously in a day) when I was doing exhibition and felt strong. I love the simple lyric, beautiful tunes and strong voice he has! the way he brings out this song is just going to melt your heart, encourage you that all will be alright, don't be afraid to lose. And even the simplicity of its official video-clip makes you feel the joy of the song!

Btw, I'm writing this blog at 4.16 am since i had an early sleep. There are things i wish to share, but often in time, we just have to make it in secret in order to happen. I'm not sure whether i'm doing the right thing because the one (we) are planning to do is really unique that you can only found few in the world , I guess but none in indonesia. So yes, I've this crazy idea in my head that is being considered a lot nowadays! I can't show my gratitude to those who have supported me and see its potentials. I can't tell but hope, it can be released and all goes well :-)

Nothing much to do in this tuesday neither I touched any work. Grumpy and Ferdinand roamed around Jakarta and met one of the client and also designer too. Basically, tuesday full of meeting, researching and ended with boredom knowing well, shouldn't be mentioned LOL! And oh the best thing about tuesday is that we spent most of our time, eating, eating and my tummy is overloaded and overjoyed! Btw, We love this grilled corns with Chocolate, Cheese and Milk! Oh Goodness me, what a heaven for us! Can't wait to go to Grand Indonesia as they have this Jakarta Culinary Festival and I guess I need to go them later when we do exhibition this month ha-ha-ha-ha! 

It was actually fun-loving-tuesday as me, grumpy and Ferdinand were laughing the whole time with stupid bunch of ideas. Quite relaxing since we are having hectic works and I'm not sure when I can watch Taken 2! One client is finally done after a month doing their and now, there are like another 4 clients which are near to dateline. So, i guess, it's an official that today, I have to spend my time again sitting in front of the computer and well, i do love doing it but just not at my house (like in cafe :p)

Movie Review : Ted

Since Mr. Grumpy doesn't want to watch Ted, I decided to just buy the DVD version although it is not yet that good but whatever, I watched it! Supposedly, monday is my (our) holiday doing nothing but being lazy. But this time, it's another working day since there are lots of pending works anyway!

i thought the movie would be "awesome" since i heard great respond even IMDB gives 7.6 ratings.  It's good but not that awesome ; very entertaining but you know one-time-watch movie! I love the jokes but the whole entire movie is a dull. Even I understood how John Bennet's feeling as I'm living in a world like him too but mine is not alive!

The truth when I was a kid and once-in-bluemoon , i do wish my teddy bear comes alive! I've this teddy bear who's growing old with me (she' 27 now) and we've been together for 27 years so imagine how damaged she must look now. She was a gift from my aunty from America and look how I've made her look now (sorry!) Whenever I'm happy/sad, I shared with her and even a lot in times I cried in her skinny and tiny feet knowing I feel safe. Being the only child is hard and what make it harder is when your parents are supposed to be your grandma & grandpa instead. The big gaps in between + lack of time spent together as a family made me just wish my teddy bear, nyen2" her name, to come alive.

She looks scary now and I had no idea what I did but I do still carry her around here and there whenever I'm traveling. No Kidding! I used to shy as lot of people made fun of me, but what to do when I hold her hands, I feel as safe as when I'm holding Mr. Grumpy's hand! I don't know how he felt at first when he found out (curious to know :p), because i also wonder how am I going to let her go after marriage? C'mon! every parents barely think that their childhood's stuff would stay with their kids until they are mature or even old. Nor my mom ever think, we would be this attached and too many times, she encouraged me to throw my precious away. At certain age, I was afraid to put her away from me , scared mom would steal and throw her away! It's either mom has that tendency to do so, or the fear of losing her scared me ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

Thank GOD, Mr. Grumpy can bare with it! I guess, despite of him feeling "wtf" (maybe), he sees how much we attached to each other just like how John's girlfriend realizes. So this is my story, my love towards my 27-years-old-teddy-bear who is looking ugly now with so much memory and love towards her. Yes, i'm still holding her when I'm sleeping and no matter how many times I tried to put her far away from me, I know I'll look for her or even can't sleep at night! Even when I dropped her, I could woke up suddenly with half-awake eyes and brain only to look for her then sleep again ha-ha-ha-ha!

This is my story, my love towards her and I'm happy to have her next to me. I bring her whenever I go out for traveling too (even my friend knows) especially to places I never been too. Even I do put her on my hand-carry-back a lot so when I'm scared in the place or thinking about bunch of things, I put my hand in my bag and hold her knowing "all will be just okay" :-)

I'm not COOL anymore!

Random thought came in my mind when I'm working (now):

HOW COOL ARE YOU NOW compared to those years back in high school / university or even before marriage's life? Seriously, reflect those oldies memory and are you becoming more like a nerd or still keeping up with today's hype? because without I'm realizing it, I'm getting far away left behind with today's new things. It is not just all about vast growing of technology that all of us are always updated with (thanks to massive marketing from each company) but it;s more like you, the inside you!

Okay, let me start ... 

While I'm doing my work right now while blogging, I realized how unmodernized I've become. It took me quite long time to know about One Direction and their famous songs that are keep repeating being played at the Radios / everywhere. As a crazy movie lover who can do Marathon movies up to 6 in a day, nowadays, I'm so much left behind - so much movies I wanted to watch but no time to catch up or the worst, sometimes I'm not even know which movies are playing. Whether it's music or movie, I'm quite left behind which describe how 'not' cool I'm anymore. Apart from that, I've no idea which hang out places are in trends nowadays but after like 1/2 years or 1 year I was like "oh, that's the one". Basically, I'm like living in my own rural areas, without knowing what's happening in outer world.

Is it a bad thing from not being cool anymore? In other way of saying, I'm a nerd who grounded herself at home with lack of socialize and only do a monotone thing : work - eat - sleep - work - and lucky me, an additional of "dating and working together" adds a color to my monotone daily line. ha-ha-ha-ha! 

Now, the truth, how do i feel? amazingly, I feel great! seriously, not just for me, i also believe Grumpy feels the same way as i do, It feels awesome to just be a nerdy. I do miss those kinda of life where you can have so much fun, where time and money is not a big deal but I enjoy the moment of being more responsible and doing things more reasonably. I mean, you know, often you buy things only because "everyone is using it or it's today's trend", but nowadays, I'm more like thinking of "why am I buying it?" rather than "let's buy and make it junk later on " LOL! 

I'm not being stingy and I can still enjoy life in a lot better way. Often, you'll amazed on how much you can compromised with things you thought you needed but it wasn't much useful once you own it. The same like food even as food lover, I become more rational in choosing food. How easy for me to be tempted, to just pick more than just one food for my own (usually there are varieties of food in my table) and the hardest to say No to desert. But all is good, all is great at the end even its started with pains. I understood how much money I spent for the food I wasted( apparently, I only had 1/2 of it and throw the rest LOL) and becoming more grateful.

No offense but we are living in society where "following trends and becoming the trend's slave" is the coolest things to do whether its from fashion - food, from car - traveling  and many other sub-categories. But for me, for grumpy, for us, trend never ends but money will. being cool is great, has its benefit like wider networking but living with trends make your social life goes up too.

If you are the cool person or trying to be cool and doing the best you can to fit into society where your pocket is drained, do ask again, does it worth it? Being trendy has its own consequences and it's true , you fit the society and living in the society you have been looking for (even getting people you wanted to have) but do not push too hard when deep inside of you know that you are not yet capable to be in the level you wish to be.

Being cool make you feel awesome, make you feel like "Mr/Ms. know-it-all / Mr/Mrs -everyone-role-model- but don't forget you also have to maintain that image for as long as you can, as high as you can. 

As for us, we love the life we are living at the moment where both of us had lived in those life where money and time was never matter but ended up "crap, we could had saved so much money when we were young". We love being nerd, keep learning, improving ourself doing things we love even we are left behind in today's trend. But i guess, both of us just workaholic :D!

And my tips : do not push your self off the limit for the sake of being cool or following the trends. remember history repeats itself ;-)

LOL Thursday!

Yeah I had no idea what on earth am I doing but I saw there's this writing competition from Shangri-La hotel in Jakarta. I guess I was just that bored or not too excited in doing the same work. so the writing is about describe your "perfect weekend gateway" with no less than 100 words which is just too hard for me! I love to write, I can write bunch of crappy stuff too so being limited with words, it's just kinda turned off for me! The truth, seriously, i wanted to get the free buffet as their restaurant, Satoo, is the top buffet restaurant, you know getting it for free would just be awesome!  I'm not sure whether I'm gonna win or not, but this is what i wrote of "perfect weekend gateway" 

"Nothing beats the happiness of doing an art of nothing in the weekend - eating, laughing, swimming and sleeping. For us, as kids' photographer, by being able to just relax with no work for a day is a gift. We believe, no matter how overloaded our work is, we must have time to spend together. Basically, it means we are totally ignoring our work on when are on quick date on the 3rd of the month to celebrate our anniversary. see, the precious time and memory we shared can't be bought by money. so YES! we need this perfect gateway "

The truth? there are so much i wanted to write, to elaborate in precise ways but gosh, even i ended the sentence with 99 words LOL! Hope they get what I'm trying to say and am I gonna win? I don't know but I want and wish too. Anyway, you can see how bored I'm in entering this kind of thing for i don't know why and what for lol.

Nothing much to talk about thursday except being busy with work and went to hospital for medicine. Thanks to the acid inside of my tummy that went up since yesterday and made me felt like vomiting! I felt better after the medicine and yes, often i ignored my tummy until it hurts when I'm hungry which I guess now, I had enough. This gastric problem is quite killing as you can't do anything much except sitting and sleeping straight. Hope tomorrow, I'll be just awesome :-)

Glad the misunderstanding between me and the client is crystal clear now. I had a quick nap and when I saw the message i was like "what? omg, misunderstood, what to do" well, i was in total panic - my brain wasn't yet in full-loading and had a quick panic attack but praised HIM, all is well. The LORD is just wow, amazing :)

Another two hectic months we'll be having with so much exhibitions and extremely lots of things needed to be done. We had a serious quality talk today about the business on what to do next. I also had talk with my mom too and it make me even more confuse and over excited. So much things needed to buy, to set up and we need human resources as well. although both of us is very confident, but you know, there are just moments, when you are just NOT mentally ready for a wrong calculation. That's the situation both of us at - we want to make sure we chose the right way with the right people and at the right timing too. I guess, this is why until now, we are not yet taking an action to our believe - still waiting for an obvious green signal from the LORD. 

Anyway, I don't know why i felt like updating my blog after so long! so much I wanted to share but each time I wanted to write, photoshop calls me already. I really want to just focus on writing but oh dear, I'm crap in focusing. That's it, my quick blog for today as i need to continue harassing my photoshop and laptop doing repetitious command ha-ha-ha-ha! 

what a date!

The title says it clearly, what a date! I don't say it's a bad date, it's quite funny in a way somehow but memorable enough. Today is our 16th month anniversary and I didn't realize until yesterday late at night when i saw the date "2". Even Gwumpieh , Mr- Always- remember-everything forgot! ha, how am I not amazed LOL. Not that we start to forget but we were just too overjoyed, too occupied with the bunch of works we have and the most, we just got back to Jakarta! Obviously, 5 clients folders in the row that we have to check, select and retouch. The bitter truth is that the due date is next week whereas one client folder is around 1,000 photos from both camera; So see how tough our job is as photographer when we select the photos ha-ha-ha-ha ( but we love what we do a lot )

We are too busy racing-against-time, replying emails, this and that even I'm fully occupied while we were waiting for our food. Since our mind kept telling us to continue working, we ditched the "movie date" and just had quick lunch date at Sam & Jolly again. Gwumpieh ordered the same food as always, the Mumbai Curry while this time I decided to have this Lebanese rice with kebab. Sad, that they have changed the recipe for the Curry and seriously, we miss the old taste! - the new one sucks big time, it taste like Indonesian soup called Soto (harsh comment but true). While my food is good but not awesome.

oh! yeah we look like twinnie since we had the same T-Shirt color accidentally LOL. Not sure who copied who but we do this matching color a lot. Since I was married with my laptop, I forgot to actually take pictures of my food. I had my food just like a girl who haven't eat for a week right after I sent emails and replied some inquires!

Btw, you know what's the best thing about celebrating our anniversary? it must be "desert time" for me. Our anniversary is the time where I can order whatever desert/cake I wanted without being restricted. Well , it's fair enough and it have become our habit to do since the first. Another peek-a-boo- desert - Strawberry Yoghurt with Bananas on top of Banana cakes with Maple syrup and gosh, its yummy! 

We were torn between this and another one which I forgot the name but knowing He loves bananas, so banana desert it's! At least I took quick picture of the yummy desert even it doesn't look good. We were actually eating them very slowly until the yoghurt melted :'(

What a date, today has been for me and us. Where we were more excited in getting our works done and our mind couldn't stop on telling us to continue working even we skipped dinner too. Actually, honestly and personally ( i think Grumpy also agrees) that this is what we love to do everyday - being fully occupied with work, working together, and spare bit of time for you & i moment even it's just a quick lunch/dinner date. Both of us really are workaholic and thank GOD, we are running the same business with the same professions but different (extra) skills in post-processings. 

We know we will be very busy even busier than nowadays in near future but both of us also understand the importance of spending time together no matter how hectic our work is. One thing I know, one day if we have our own career lines, we know, we will steal some time from work to just being together :")

And as the rest of the day, we sat in front of our laptop, continue what we are meant to do and ignoring our dinner.  Thank GOD for this awesome day and for sent me a man who cover my weaknesses with his strengths, who believe in my capabilities more than I think I'm capable of doing, who believe in me more than I believe myself, who remind me of the LORD's powerful power, and who can adapt with my short-temper even my anger hurts him a lot. All i want is to redeem my anger and let ME control my anger not my anger controls me. I don't know how am I going to do that, but I know I can and all it takes is just an extra effort =)

FYI, today, the acid in my tummy goes up very badly and felt like vomiting a lot after I spent 4 hours non-stop editing photos. Maybe it's because of the screen brightness but not after I tried to sleep and I couldn't move here and there (have to be in straight position or else, i felt like vomiting & felt the acid went up in my throat *ewww*) 

Kids Photography : Vintage Family Portrait

These images are totally too fresh from the oven and not yet being published at Lil' Sunshine Photography's page, so you know how fresh this is. Just got back from Puncak today and right away turned on my laptop when I got back home and decided to do random check and edit the photos! 

These family portrait was taken on Monday but I decided to just fully ignored my work after the photo-shoot by just being lazy. Anyway, Thank GOD the traffic was smooth & we arrived back in Jakarta just less than 1,5 hours which was just awesome. We were just a way too tired, felt like just sleeping the whole day in our comfortable bed but right when I saw these photos, i forgot of being tired and sleepy! I guess this is how much I love my job.

Don't be shock with different editing I do for this family because she requested for "vintage and soft" editing while, the truth, it is not my kind. I'm more into sharp and rich color, so most of their photos are edited by Mr. Grumpy since he have those vintage sense. But, it doesn't stop me from trying to edit like how the vintage editing is. I'm pretty much curious, but I doubt my editing as good as Grumpy does. Here are my attempts in trying to make the photo becomes " vintage ". Hard to believe how could I done this kind of editing but somehow I'm proud of myself even I've to admit, this is not my style nor I enjoyed on doing it. Uh, there's nothing wrong by trying something new right =D