sydney is illuminated

2012 vivid sydney @ customs house hot igloo harbour bridge sydney the building that needs no introduction jedi spotty museum of contemporary arts

bali lovelies

seeing my friends' blogs (that they update regularly) always reminds me that i should update mine. so here's another attempt at it.

i just came back from a trip to bali. bali has always been my favourite places to go to, but this time it was even more special and memorable because i was there with 3 lovelies that i truly adore. so here's one snapshot of one of the many, many happy moments there.... <3
me and two of the lovelies (the one more lovely took the picture)
@nammos beach club, karma kandara, ungasan, bali
photo taken by sz

watch this space for more pictures, or you can also go to my flickr

some stuff i made on a sunday ;)

i make jewelry on sundays. i post some pictures of the pieces that i made on my jewelry website made on a sunday. please stop by when you get a chance, your comments and inputs are greatly appreciated as i am trying to find out which types of jewelry i can do better and which styles are more appealing to people.

i want to share with you here the pictures of some earrings i designed and created recently. they are commissioned by a friend of mine to be made for the girls in her wedding party.

a walk in the park #2

i guess i have said this one too many times, that one of the things i miss the most about living in europe is the chance to take afternoon walks in the park...

...seeing the park benches and the afternoon shadow on the ground...


...blowing dandelions...


...lying on the grass, watching people passing by...


...waiting for the sun to set behind the skyline...


can't wait till my next walk in the park. will you take a walk with me?:)

*pictures are from kralingse plas, kralingen, rotterdam, the netherlands. click here for more of my pictures of rotterdam.

made on a sunday says "hello, world!"

made on a sunday blog is officially launched. before i can make (or pay someone to make) a proper website for my line of accessories, i will use this space to show you my pieces, all designed and made on a sunday. please stop by (or follow!) so you can see my newest pieces if you are interested. enjoy and have a lovely sunday!

notting hill

enjoy!

พระบรมมหาราชวัง, Phra Borom Maha Ratcha Wang

my friend laura and i went for our annual trip and this time we chose to go to thailand. below are some pictures of the details of the grand palace in bangkok and you can find more pictures here

a wedding in bali

went to bali to take pictures for a wedding. it was the perfect place and weather for bas & helsa. congratulations you two! may you live happily ever after :)

more pictures and the album

a walk in the park

i treasure simple things in life such as having a picnic with friends, reading a book or just having a walk in a park.

i wish there were more public parks in jakarta....

photo by chare, hyde park, london, uk, 2008

destination: london, united kingdom

i really need to catch up on my blogging, just like i need to catch up with everything else that i have been putting off because of work.

well, i am starting with a few shots from my winter vacation to london. needless to say, i instantly fell in love with the city

destination: the gilis, nusa tenggara barat, indonesia

my friend laura came to visit from sydney and we went on a 4-day trip to the gilis, a group of islands on the northwest coast of lombok (the island east of bali).

we flew from jakarta to mataram (or sometimes listed as ampenan) which took about one and a half hours. we then took a taxi from mataram to bangsal to catch our boat to the gilis. i must say that being at the bangsal harbor is a little uncomfortable as there were people agressively offering us boat tickets as soon as we entered the premises. not to mention luggage porters that will snatch your bags and overcharge you for bringing it on to the boat. but anyway, if you are ever in bangsal, make sure you 1. buy your ticket the counter and 2. hang on to your own bag, and if your luggage is too heavy, you need to agree on the fee first, before you give your luggage to the porter to carry. no need to worry, the people in the harbor are harmless, they are just desperate for some work (and money). you can also catch a private boat from another harbor, but that will cost up to $35. considering our budget, laura and i settled with going by the public boat and we only had to pay less than US$ 1 per person. we got to gili trawangan, safe and in one piece =).

the gilis (gili means island) consist of 3 little islands, gili trawangan, gili meno, and gili air. gili trawangan is the biggest of the 3 and that's where we stayed. there are no motor vehicles in this island, so you either walk, cycle or take the horse carriage (or rickshaws?). how's that? clean air, soft sand, blue sky and crystal clear water. days in the sun do not get much better than this =)

my full set of pictures is here

i have created a new site for a selection of my photographs. please come by and visit chare takes pictures =)

adele's chasing pavements

i love, love, love this song right now...

the beginning of the year of the rat

photo: "hear my prayer" - by chare

my brother and i went to petak sembilan in old jakarta ("kota") to take pictures at the temple.

chinese (lunar) new year
petak sembilan, jakarta kota, indonesia

more pictures here

bali

bali dec 2007-jan 2008.

see more pictures here

lawang sewu, semarang, central java

photo: my sister in front of lawang sewu building, by chare

The name Lawang sewu means Thousand Doors, but among the local Javanese the name conotates an eerie haunted house with a tragic history. This Dutch colonial building was built in 1863 by C. Citroen. It was the branch office for the Dutch Indonesian train company but when the Japanese invaded in 1942, they used it as a gruesome interrogation headquarter where they jailed and killed a lot of Indonesians. Long standing reports of multiple ghost sightings in this building has turned it into a local destination for young students & tourists who would make their visit on weekend nights to experience this legendary haunted house.
source: www.tripadvisor.com

see more pictures here

snowkiting

i have to do this someday!

in my bag... today

playing along with lola to display the things in our bags. so... these are the things i carried around today in one of my two bags (the other one being my laptop bag):

cellphone, hand lotion, ipod, wallet, coin pouch, make-up bag, TIME magazine - style &design edition(something i can read in a cab), notebook (to jot down things i don't want to forget), access card (to get into my hotel room), panadol (for midday migrane), business card case, antibacterial moist tissues, more access cards (to get into the building and the office).

ok... i think i carry too many things around....

musicovery

david introduced me to musicovery it's the coolest webradio i've seen so far as you can slide the cursor over to pick the genre, the mood and the time period. visually enchanting, too! give it a try, see if you like it as much as i do.

meulaboh, aceh, indonesia

picture: "after it's all gone" by chare

more pictures
i went on assignment to meulaboh.

Meulaboh (or Moulabouh) is the capital of West Aceh Regency, Indonesia and located about 245 km southeast of Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province.
Meulaboh is among the hardest hit areas by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. Being just 150 km from the epicenter of the earthquake, Meulaboh was hit by tsunami, leaving the estimated deaths of 40,000 people out of 120,000.

source: wikipedia