Sawasdee Khap, Phuket!

This is some little part of my trip in Thailand. On the first night, me and my travel mates (Firra, Angur, Iqbal) were staying in Phatong Beach, the most expensive place among all of our destinations. Then in the morning, we took some kind of traditional bus (named songthaew) to Phuket town. I love Phuket very much.

The lovely old buildings, nice beaches, and awesome foods treated us very well in Phuket. Many artsy cafe built in the artistic buildings. Beside serving foods and beverages, they sell many unique things and toys. Some of them decorate it with old stuff or posters.

 

The sea? The beaches? Don't ask. It was sooo clean. We went to Phiphi Island. We followed a program from local travel agent that provides us snorkeling (2x), lunch, and also take a trip to the islands using speed boat near Phiphi. It costs 1,350 Baht. Beaches never fail anyone. Or at least me. :D

 

Thailand is also a kingdom of food. They served me many good foods and almost never failed me. I ordered these ducks only in a small stall in front of Phuket bus station. I never got this kind of good-tastes-food in front of any bus station in my country because they usually make some simple, and sometimes, crude foods.

Duck rice + duck soup with noodles. Those all for me because of wrong communication when order it. -_-

Rotee (?)

Fried chicken meatball or something + Thai sauce. Nom nom nom

Phuket gives me so much inspirations. In architecture, in workplace design, in cooking, and also in cleanliness.
Khop khun khap, Phuket! :)

Firra took the photos using my fix lens and voila! Blurrry

ps.: Sawasdee Khap means 'hello' while Khop Khun Khap means 'thank you'

End of January?

Are you kidding me? Is it already the last day of this first month?? Oh man, the time flies too fast even I haven't start to plan for next steps. It's like, it's just yesterday when I came home after my short trip to Kediri on the new year's eve . Then I was getting through the exam weeks. And then felt the euphoria of holiday. And now this is already the end of January tat also means the holiday will end soon!

So, it's cloudy when I write this. An uncommon condition that it's almost 8 o'clock in the morning and the sun still not coming out. Yesterdays, we had sun in the morning, wind in the afternoon, and rain in the evening. Typical and almost everyday. Well, I hope the earlier days of February will come with nice weather especially in South-east Asia region. I'm planning for a vacation with my friends. I do really hope that the flights will be fine and the things we do there will be fun. Hope rain won't ruin everything.

Haha I'm not really good at writing. Even this post has no particular meaning actually. I was just waking up too early in this slow and free day (like about 5 or 5:30 am.) and don't know what to do after writing some notes of to-do list for today. Maybe I'll just cuddling with the cats and make some breakfast after this. Hope you enjoy your day as well. :)

And yeah. I'll upload a special picture of me and my cat. My favorite picture lately. Tadaaa!

Cruela-wanna be. No, he's not dead. I just put him over my shoulder to make it looks like a fur shawl.

Bye! :D

Sketching

Ok, the final exam week has began already. But I don't know why I have no chemistry to study or even doing my final papers. I'm a deadliner and a procrastinator. The brilliant ideas to be written on won't be coming till the deadline is really close. So I just spent this D-1 final exam for blog-walking and tada! I discovered a blog that really inspiring me and put her as my role model right away. Rach from VizBasix.

I like sketching but I can't sketch. Hahaha. I didn't know how to start and who to follow. From her blog I found a link of sketching tutorial. So today, I've already made 2 sketches. First one is the sketch I follow her tutorial. And the second one is the sketch of Clara Devi in her old archive (I really meant to sketch her but I think the result is way to far from the original photo HAHAHA). Well, I don't feel confidence with the result but I think this is a good start. :p

Crudely retouched in photoshop. Somebody please teach meeeeee!!! :O

I remembered my childhood dream when I was sketching. Not engineer or doctor or even president as many kids dreaming. I was dreaming to be a.... *uhuk*... A fashion designer. GAHAHAHAHA the dream that is not reflecting myself now; my lifestyle, my dressing style, and my careless-and-a-bit-boyish attitude. :))

Ok, that's all for today. I'll try to study anything tonight. Ciao!

Two Thousand and Twelve

Well, I hope this is not too late to say but.. Happy new year everyone! :)

Everyone doesn't stop guessing and predicting what will happen in 2012. Instead of that, let's hope for a joyful year with a better life for all of us.

I spent the new year's eve with mom and dad in a small and quite town; the town where I grew up till I was 4 years old: Kediri. It was not bad at all. I found no crowded streets, traffic jams, overwhelming people's yells, and all those rush things that happened in my city because it's one of the most travel destinations people usually go. Went to that small town is a good escape anyway.

The last cloudy twilight on 2011

Raining all over the night

Thank God the rain stopped few minutes before 12 am.