Great Wednesday!

so while my laptop is busy in transferring the photos, I decided to kill the time by no other than WRITING my blog :D! Let's get started ...

Like always, woke up in the morning, turned my laptop, did some work and get ready for a meeting at PIK. Goodness me, there are tons of awesome (new) cafes around and glad the meeting was at T-Lab! We tried to look for the place twice but just like I guessed, it must be on the other side. The place was wow, so unique but since we were there for a meeting so you know, we just have to act cool LOL! But inside of me, I got the urged of wanting to take pictures. We love the way they present themselves although our drinks weren't that awesome. The cafe is just recently opened and their drinks are mainly bubble tea as it's the trends' nowadays. I had Mango Milk Tea and Grumpy had Honey Tea but both of the drink is not as addictive as we expected to be but they made it look cute. Anyway, I recommend the place for hang out with friends and it's awesomely designed and good for photographs! But for the drink and food, just usual, low your expectations, they are just average beverage and food. 

Done with the meeting, we went to the printing place (see so much work), then had quick late lunch. I was so overwhelmed with those new cafes around PIK areas which creatively designed. At the same time, it made me started to realize that both of us are so left behind. It's more like, we are so isolated with our own world and spent numerous extra hours with so much dedication towards our little baby who's growing up now. Laptop, Photoshop and meeting has occupied most of our's 24 hours! We forgot about our social life because we have different schedules - in the weekends we will be out for photo-shoot while in the weekdays, we will also be busy with the post-processing works. It's really great to be totally focused so much into our works, our business but today, I was questioned about my social life. I decided to "NOT" get any work done for few hours, just relaxing and spent the hours with quality friends.

So there was I, sent messages to my girlfriends, Yenny & Tania and asked whether they are ready for being kidnapped in the evening. Glad that they spent their precious time with me for dinner and beers. Wednesday is a girl's night out and yes, It was so hard for me NOT to work but I managed after a while #patting my head - Good Girl LOL!We had no idea where to go, but there's this new cafe nearby our area called 19th Avenue.

We ordered several food and shared them but like always "the environment is good but the food is average". It's really common in here and it became an option - place vs taste but their place is really good for hang out! So there was I telling Yenny, it would be an hour hang out but ended up 3 or 4 hours! We were just talking about random things, catch up some gossips, and not forgetting drinking beer and lychee Ice Tea! Oh heaven.... ! The food of course I've so much to be complained about especially the waitress which lack of knowledge but what matters the most is how we spent the hours, right? The random chit-chat could lasted for 4 hours and if we didn't check the time, we would had been there until midnight I guess. Thanks to San Miguel for being our best companions along with Lychee Ice Teas for me and Tania! Even we also forgot to take picture together ha-ha-ha! 

Great decision it was for me to ignore work and gosh, it was a way too hard but I managed anyway. I do missed hang out with them and the last time I met was like 2 or 3 months back even they live in the same area with me. Talking with them is like having my "few hours of great gateway", it relieved the burden in me - mentally and physically. Thanks so much girls, it meant a lot for me :-)

And YES! After today, I'll start to be more organized and both of us also can spend more time socially too. Life is great when your business runs so well with best people next to you. Indeed, you don't need thousand of people to be your friends because the "few best ones"are better than a lot. Our best friends have been there throughout our career even the numbers are not big but few of them and their sincere prayers have made us where we are today! And silly us, we forget to be thankful and spent more time with them.

Thank you so much LORD for an awesome day today and I made the right decision to forget work and   spent time with them. Thanks girlfriends for the great time and looking forward to spend more either at Christmas or New Year. Or maybe we need to start planning for new year eve ha-ha-ha-ha!!

JAB TAK HAI JAAN

JAB TAK HAI JAAN  is finally out today and was so overjoyed that we watched it on the first day. Amazingly, when we were on the way, mom called me and said "are you going to watch Jab Tak Hai Jaan?". Ha! she still knows my "burning love" for Shahrukh, the King of Bollywood. Funny incident happened - me, grumpy and rini were planning to watch 19.30pm show but when Grumpy checked the cinema's website, they didn't have it instead 17.45 pm show. It was already 5pm ish and both of us were in a rush to get there and the road was smooth until it was only 5 minutes away from the mall. We arrived at 6PM at Grand Indonesia and had to wait for like more than 7 minutes for the lift - reached at 6.15PM at Blitz. 

We were in lining in the queue and Grumpy decided not to watch. Both of us were frown and I was just so pissed off (my face shows it all) .  I was just looking at the TV screen and I saw " 19.30pm" show was playing, so we were just overjoyed and right away queue. Thank GOD I saw and finally we watched the movie so eagerly.

It was just freaking so long (3 hours) and at some part, it got into really super boring. This is how the movie sequences in my eyes from the beginning - the end : wow, joyful, boring, sad, fun loving, boring, boring and oh dear! See, what a complex feeling this movie gave from wow - happy, from sad - boring! Honestly, I'm not sure how do I rank the movie, it's crap but not too crapy, awesome but that's because I'm head-over-heels toward him. I guess, it's more like "alright, not too bad, but don't expect something"- 6/10.

I think I feel more of "disappointment" rather than loving it. I like but not those kind of "strong like"  some parts of the movie is really boring, too exaggerated & its just "doh". And after I rethink again now, i found the movie as really messy. See, it doesn't create any "strong feeling" as we know that most of SRK movies will either put smile on your face or dropped tears that last quite long. JAB TAK HAI JAAN gives none, at least it has no impression in me except how dashing he is when he became the mayor!

From Acting points-of-view : Shahrukh of being Samar is too ordinary and whether the way he laugh, the way he talks or the rest of body gestures, those are being made-up too much. His acting is rather crap in this one except when he becomes Mayor, that's when we admired him the most. Overall, i love the poetic conversation in between. As the story is good but it isnt made beautifully.

I know I gave such a crap review to this last movie from Yash Chopra but this is my honest opinion :)

Honest Confession

hmm, this is the honest confession from both of us - we felt bad to each of our client as we kept pending their work. YES! we know it's horrible not to keep the promise but there is just thing we can't controlled and that's being sick. We never intended to do so as previously we managed to get things on time but this time all just happened like that. We understand how much we need an extra man power but until now we haven't just found the right person to fill the position though. We have been seeking for almost a month and trust us, it is not as easy as it sounds.

Many we didn't interested in; it's like amongst 40 people, only 2 who grabbed our attentions. See, the truth, most of them got this "attitude problems" or asked for high salary when their portfolio is just horrible. We hate the "disrespectful" attitudes they showed in the mail  - no introduction, just a CV. I already mentioned in every part to write down a paragraph about who they are informally but out of those numbers of applicants, only less than 5 who are apparently understand the main thing they shall do! 

I also understand Grumpy's feeling which is also killing me most of time. Not that I don't want to work but knowing each of us has limited energy, things have to be on pending for quite long. With the sickness I'm having nowadays ( it's getting better now), I had wasted for almost a week sitting idle and did nothing but resting  - it was actually sleeping and was hoping to be better after had my nap but i was wrong - i was still as powerless as I was when I slept for hours and hours too. My body is really exhausted and I understand that even nowadays I'm also still not yet well - thanks to cough and flu. Fever had gone although this blocked nose is truly annoying.

I don't know what else to do to give everything right on time because time is surely flying so quick. Often, we spent so many hours and hours in the traffic and it killed for us! Especially with the upcoming exhibition where we are going to decorate on our own, we wasted lots of hours roaming around here & there. Traffic in Jakarta is just too horrible! Just like Grumpy's said "you guys spend most of your time in a day by stuck in the traffic" which is remarkably so true. I hope this new governor can make the traffic a lot lesser with better infrastructure management. 

I guess until the time we get the right people to fill the position, we gotta managed every little thing in better way! But what;s most important amongst all actually to be healthy! Not just me but also him whose health wasn't in full condition too.

Oh dear, better go to sleep again! and being sick sucks LOL! 

Being Kidnapped w/ Love!

This is the place where I was kidnapped by Mr. Grumpy and it wasn't planned neither. But lately, both of us have been crazily craving for Indian food. We missed those awesome Indian food we had at Banana Leaf, Singapore - oh awesomeness! See, I was seriously still sick, fever kicks in with an additional of flu and their friends teamed up destroying my good cells :'( So yeah, basically eating good food wasn't what I expected. I love food and it's like without food, I'm dying LOL. Oh yeah, this is also our first time eating at Kinara knowing we were roaming around at Kemang area, so let's give it a try. 

Unfortunately, we didn't take a proper picture but we know we will be coming back here so next time I'm going to bring my camera. and after roaming around here and there, he brought me to this place, we randomly picked again in the area. I was craving for cake lately, so let's try this red velvet cupcake at Sourly Butter Kitchen (not that bad). Their place is quite squeezy, a bit pricy for the drink but it's alright!

After such an awesome romantic day, both of us ended up in Hospital ha-ha-ha-ha! His kidney is paining and I just hate my flu. So we went to hospital and I grabbed my medicines. Hope it kills the flue asap! I went to the same hospital and met the same doctor (this time). And this time, she gives me a sleepy medicine so I can recover asap!

Overall, I love this day, what a lovely kidnapped. Love you Mr. Grumpy and do get well soon. It's always been like this, when I'm sick, he is also sick and vice-versa. I guess we really are attached a lot ha-ha-ha-ha "soulmate, right? :p!"

Sick, Working and Powerful.

I think today is quite memorable day for me but first of all, EID-AL-ADHA for my Muslim friends and families which also means Mr. Grumpy too! There were so much we wanted to do in this Kurbaan day like apparently buying one but i guess this year we had to skip. I quoted from Wikipedia " also called as Feast of the Sacrifice, the Major Festival,^[1] the Greater Eid, Kurban Bayram and Bakrid,^[2] is an important religious holiday celebrated by Muslims worldwide to honour the willingness of the prophet ʾIbrāhīm (Abraham) to sacrifice his young first-born son Ismā'īl (Ishmael)^a as an act of submission to God's command and his son's acceptance to being sacrificed, before God intervened to provide Abraham with a ram to sacrifice instead "   And I just knew now, thanks to Wikipedia. Hopefully, next year, both of us can have proper celebration in each of our religion's important event. As for this year, so much things were happened in last minutes, so unprepared but next year, we have too. I'm not sure about this Christmas, but I really hope, in this upcoming christmas eve, I can go to church, have wonderful christmas eve with family and Mr. Grumpy and the most important thing : traveling the next day or well maybe few days before the new year, we'll be stealing some "holiday" =D! But let's just hope for the best, and let's see as december is still 2 months away!

The past few days (2 days specially), I've been down with fever which I'm pretty sure it's the para-typhus symptoms. I thought it was because of my liver function is decreasing (lack of exercise, had too much fats in the food I took + working a way too hard). But after I had that "yucky but so powerful" herbal medicine, I realize this is so Para-Typhus! I was just exhausted all the time, couldn't even had this power to move - so powerless but had to go to work!

At night i felt a lot better but i was wrong, woke up in the morning and gosh, totally powerless but today I had two photo-shoots continuously. Amazingly, (praised the LORD), one of my clients canceled the photo-shoot and i knew and so knew if it wasn't because the LORD, it wouldn't happened. HE knew, we wouldn't able to take 2 photo-shoots (me especially since I had to drive too). So left with one!

I wasn't planning to capture and even when I was waiting for them, I was too sick. I was just lay my head in Grumpy's shoulder, listening to him, chuckles a bit and nothing much to say. I was planning to give up, just to sit and watch but when they came, slowly, my energy was being filled. Then I held my hubby and I was just forget the world. This is the joy I feel when I hold my camera. You can see from my face, how sick I'm, but I turned into this "wonder woman" in a matter of second after I do some setting for my camera.

Where did that power come from? I acted like the healthy me, although I knew, my body is struggling! And just as I expected, right after the photo-session, I'm back to the "sick me" ha-ha-ha-ha! funny on how I can be someone else and so powerful. With the usual sickness, I know I'll be able to capture but today was something different. I couldn't even concentrate on anything, body was in high fever (up and down), eyes are paining a lot and couldn't even walk! 

Thank YOU so much LORD for making me realize that being photographer is what I'm meant to be and  be a kids' photographer is my specialization. Took forever to realize on who I'm supposed to be but now I know ( i guess I have always known just ignored), more confident that this is what HE wants me to be at this moment. And btw, after the photo-shoot, we met Mr. Grumpy's new friend and once again we gave out tips and ideas LOL! Perhaps sooner/later, I can be an enlightenment to those who were lost like mine before since we do a lot of free advices why don't we start doing a seminar and charge a bit LOL! #business minded!

This is just a really quick photo-shoot, done in an hour more or less. I only did two retouch at the moment since I'm sick already so time to go to sleep and hope you enjoy the photos! what an effort :D!

Lesson I learnt : If you know what you're meant to be and love what you do, no matter how powerless are you, there's this hidden power arise once you start doing what you are passionated about. Neither did I know where the "extra" power came from and if you only knew how powerless I was then you would understand. If I was too tired to pick up a phone or talk then how could I Had this power to shoot? 

If you are in the point of doing something that you "think" you love, then you will know your answer once it's being tested (not once but many times). If you are being hitting by the storms many of times and yet still keep doing, then it is not just passion but also love, so keep on moving.  If you are being too confident that you are great then it may not your passions. I tell you why because when you are so passionate and loving it genuinely, you will be tested many times until you decided to give up but always regained back. When you love something, you will have this willingness to learn, to fight, to compromise, to accept criticism, and to understand. But if you are already too confident and feeling you're so smart, then how can you learn, understand and compromise? Well, I'm just saying =)

Kids Photography : Premraj's Family Portrait

New family portrait photo-session is up but this one is my version only. When the first time, Faith, the beautiful mom told me the photos should be done just at home and natural, i was like "hmmm,okay". Not that I have something against home, I just knew the photos will ended up looking like studio photography. It took a while for all of us to actually get the chemistry but Hannah, the sweetest and youngest baby girl melt the ice. The way she laughs, the funny things she did ease everyone including Gerald and Marie, her brother and sister. 

It's such an awesome experience for the first time to really capture family portrait at their home and now, I understood why! She really wants us to retell the story of what they do as a family at home - watching movie and eating together. It's really beyond the words when I saw mom and her grown up kids enjoying their snacks. Her husband came late from the office but since everyone felt comfortable already with us, so we just did the photo-sessions really quick.

These are my (random) favorite photos taken yesterday and gosh, most of their photos look so good in B&W. The ones I really love the most is "mom and son" session and gosh, Gerald could made those cubic stuff in less than 5 minutes OMG! I was so amazed! 

More of their photos can be seen at our Page : www.facebook.com/lilsunshinephotography

Corporate Event : Mensa Carnivalue

An awesome weekend it had been for both of us, its more than just a blessing but it would had never happened without HIM. No! I'm not talking about married or anything, but this weekend was just wow. I'm still amazed, still go ga-ga-ga when I recalled. The exhibition was a total blessing, the experienced I had today also was amazing and we were exhausted too. Spent the rest of the day after the photo-shoot complaining how paining our head is!

Today's event was totally private, was so glad to be part from the event and I love how humble the big bosses are! It's basically corporate event with (expecting) 4,000 workers (with family) and had bunch of fun at the party they threw. Basically, people who came there were using the tags and there were just something that made you felt the "love" from the workers to the highest managerial levels even the owners speeches were just really simple but somehow it just sounded really good and touchy. There were also some (very) last minute changes due to our freelancer couldn't made it, so we were so stress in finding someone to take care of the booth but we did at the end.  This is the first time for me (us) to experience in capturing 4,000 people and seriously, i think I was getting too much worried at first! How on earth can two of us handle this much of people but we did anyway! Thank GOD it didn't ruin my mood when we came really late and had to get things done before the gate is opened. We came by the place at 8 something and the traffic outside Gelora Bung Karno was just phew!

It was an outdoor event and we are confirmed to have skin burnt and become officially a lot darker. The event was from 9am - 2pm so you can imagine with the heat, how dark we are!

We knew, we would be in big minus by doing the photo-booth and to be honest, it was kind of you know "bothers us" a lot. However, right after we saw those families and their happy faces at our booth, we knew, we have made the right decision and at the end we got quite good profits! But it wasn't all about how much money we got at the end, but seriously, you should had seen with your own eyes on how these people were willing to pay that much for the sake of having "picture together" - PRICELESS! Yes, we are very proud of what we did because priceless moment can't be bought with anything not even be rewinded. Thank you ladies for helping us in handling the booth too, GOD bless both of you abundantly.

The lesson we learnt from today's exhibition at Senayan is that " treasure your employees because without each of them, your company wouldn't be as growing further as today's". I don't have big companies yet not even my photography company has employes yet (except great freelancers) but this is what I know - my marketing man is very awesome, my freelance photographers are great, my driver is very useful. And without each of them, our company won't be this growing too. It is not all about the "money we spent for them" but it is how they utilize what we have and give their best to help us achieve our aims. These people treasured us, spent their precious time for us and we are very thankful to have them!

Both of us were too exhausted from the event + had to do loading out at Miniapolis, so a tough Sunday it was! The tougher for me is to drive with such kinds of headache (felt like there were just needles hitting inside of my brain cells :'( ). So, here I uploaded totally random photos from today's event and enjoy, for more photos will be uploaded at the page : Lil Sunshine Kids Photography

Congratulation for Mensa Carnivalue committee as they did excellent and both of us wish for more blessed and brighter future for the company, GOD bless Mensa's big family =)