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I've been really sick since several days ago, and I'm still feeling nauseous :(. I got this flu from my sister, she got it from my parents, and they got it from my little brother.. He got it from his friends, and the chain goes on ;p . I hope that this is the last day of me feeling unwell, because tomorrow I'm going to Singapore for holiday!!! :D

 

Yeah I know that most of you had finished your holidays, but lucky me, my school starts on 3rd of August. Yosh! Thinking of the great Singapore Sale, Orchard road, Vivo city, Bugis junction and chinese food in China Town brings me some energy. they excite me!!! Ohhh I can't wait to shop!!

P.S: I'll be away for 4 days, so I wont be able to post anything.

Till then,

Janice.

Donna Karan and Me

“Donna Karan is famous for her consistently feminine, wearable clothing that speaks to the great diversity of women.”--Armand Limnander.

Here's a peek of her Resort 2010 womenswear collection.






She's one of my favorite designers. In this collection I love the shocking pink and red colors she combined with the basic black, grey, nude and navy blue colors. She is, indeed, a very feminine designer.

Speaking of Donna Karan, she once came to my dad's office (or showroom, or workshop, or.. I don't really know the exact word for it) in Bali, of course. I was very surprised when he told me this rather old stuff. He said that Donna Karan ordered some wooden furniture from my dad's store for her stores in the United States. So they, Mrs Karan and my dad, discussed the thingie and my dad didn't tell me anything until she went back to her place. He seemed very proud of it and I was like, "you are shitting me, dad. How can you prove that?". Then he showed me photographs of Mrs Karan and him. I'll ask him to show me again those photos....hmm, till now it's still an unsolved mystery for me that Donna Karan knew my dad's furniture store.

... I'm still waiting for her to order more stuff from my dad's store until this day, this minute, this second. Oh.. you don't know how much I wanna meet her...FYI She studied fashion design at Parsons the New School for Design and I really wanna study there. really, really, really want and need to be there in the next several years. *sigh*. Marc Jacobs, Tom Ford, Anna Sui, Narciso Rodriguez, Isaac Mizrahi, Derek Lam, and even Alexander Wang studied there also and they're like great, great worldwide-known designers.

Anyone can dream about their future. and mine is about me, being a famous designer like her (Donna Karan). hahahahaha now you can laugh until it hurts your stomach. But hey, who knows what will be going on tomorrow, or next week, or next year? May be my dream will come true. you know, who knows?

kisses,
Janice

happy birthday dear sista :)

Today is my sister's, Shanandra, birthday. Watched X-men Origins: Wolverine (a must-see movie! so kewl!!) and hung out with my sista and Vina.. found out that Daniel Henney is one of the cast, which made me even love that movie more. He is so hot!!!!!! *sigh* remember my old post about him in a korean drama Spring Waltz? God I love him. his body... the fact that he's half Asian (American-Korean)..his smile..his voice..his moves..his acts..his friendly attitudes towards his fans..aaaa...I love everything in him..I want him!!



anyway..photos...

My lovely sister and moi. :)



my sister wore cotton-on tank tops (white and green), bossini cardi, supre print skirt, custom-made shoes


Vina :


I just love the wall. it has the same color as my dress! :)

wearing: topshop dress, basic intimate, random bangles and necklace, ouval research flip flops, pithecan bag, BCBG MaxAzria glasses.

Ehm...you haven't see myself wearing my glasses, have you?


The Baskin Robin ice cream tart.. yummy....


My family..do I look like my mom or my dad?


anyway, yesterday I went to a thrift market with them..will post about it tomorrow after they're all dry. hihihi I am so happy.. I got many good friends, a family, a boyfriend, wonderful days...What a sweet world,huh?

shitty electricity

went to mangrove center to do a photo session with my uncle this morning, and now, after seeing the pics, I do realize that he is a gifted photographer. ;p.

and then, it was a family day. we ate dimsum and picked wallpapers and curtains for the new house. I thought the color range in my new bedroom will be great. but... let's see after it's finished. I hope I didn't make a wrong decision. :(

Tomorrow is THE chemistry exam. and FYI, this evening when I just came home with an intention of studying, suddenly...the lamp went dead. I think the whole Denpasar was affected. It was so dark and there was only my sister and me in the house. we can't find any lighter but thank God we have an emergency lamp. I was bored and scared to death. Luckily not long after that our dad picked us up and dropped us in a cafe and we ended up studying and chatting and messing around with papers like crazy in the silent cafe for hours, with only iced lemon tea and frozen bubble tea being ordered.

I wish my new house has a generator machine.

I wish all my hard work that I've done for tomorrow's test pays of.

I wish I had have aladdin's magic lamp with me.

Amen.

P.S: will upload the photos soon. I know you can't wait to see them.. :D

Love,
Janice

my brother

he's just 4 years old. fat, chubby and a bit hyper, but he's so smart. and cute. i'm not going to write much. i love him.


oh and his name is Kea.

yesterday

it was pretty tiring yesterday. in the evening, mu uncle, my boyfriend, my sister and I went to Four Seasons Resort in Jimbaran to see a painting exhibition. it's not exactly a painting. the artist paints the negative of the painting on an acrylic glass and before the oil dries, he stamps it onto a piece of paper or canvas. so it's really impossible to reproduce the same painting. it seems hard although the ideas and objects painted are really simple. he is actually a balinese, called I Made Arya Dwita Dedok. he's my uncle's friend FYI. his exhibition's theme was Love, Peace and Understanding. really general, i think. but it's no surprise if the prices of his paintings are expensive. i can understand that.

after that we went to a nearby fish market by the sea to take a few photographs. my uncle, who is a pro in photography, taught me several things. but yeah my photos are still not that good. haha

okay please excuse my non-special photo-taking ability.

here are some pics i took:

is he my uncle or my boyfriend?

then we stopped in Simpang siur near patung dewa ruci. my uncle taught me how to take photos of cars' light. i also learned to take good pictures of glowing objects in the dark. it's amazing! but my boyfiend's camera amazed me the most. it's brilliant. but i'm not that serious in photography, so... it doesn't bother me much.hehe

feeling hungry, my mom called and we met at sanur, in a small japanese 'warung' i don't know what it's called. we ate takoyaki and sushi. so delicioussss and made my stomach really full. now i'm drooling TT

today i'm not going to school. too lazy to go. moreover there's nothing important at school today, so i just stay at my mom's comfy room. oh last night i slept with her, replacing my dad. he's out of town.

long-sleeve shirt,dad's--silver legging,forever21--mickey sneakers,MCKY--bangles,just jeans

till then,
XOXO
janice

Love her !

i got the inspiration about this posting from a korean movie i watched yesterday.

it was about a mother who did everything for his beloved children, especially to her youngest son. since he was a kid, he always said that he loved his mom so much. btw they're a lower-middle class family. that boy always slept with her mom everynight, even until he became a writer. his mom was very proud of him at that time. he was her favourite kid since all her other kids had left her because of marriage. not that she didn't love the other two.

in their small house there were only the two of'em. until one day, the kid said to his mother that he needed to live on his own so that he could do better pieces of writings. his mom let him go. and live by her own, alone. without letters or phone calls from her son. she wrote letters, but all of them are returned since the addresses were not specified.

...

his eyes were full of tears, finding his mother with other old women living and controlled together. she was crazy before. but not until she recognized her son. after 30 years since he left her.

...

he searched for clues in that old house. that nostalgic house where he lived before with her mom.he found the returned letters wrote by her mom.

and regreted that he left her. his mom always wished that he'd come back.


"I'm blind when I can see, I'm deaf when I can hear.."

yeah, i did.
i couldn't see how hard my mom struggled to make me happy, even if she has to sacrifice herself.
because of that movie i realized that my mother keeps doin the best for me.
and i'm sure, it's not just my mom, but your mom, his mom, her mom, their mom..
all of our mother.

all that i wanna say to you is,
don't be blind and deaf when you can see and hear.

see how much she has done for you.

what makes me happyyyyy

i enjoy my life so far. do you?
are you really happy? cuz, may be you're saying that you're so happy your mom bought you a blackberry or a new pair of jimmy choo's. but, think about it. is this kind of happiness likely to last for the rest of your life?

i don't think so,cuz i have experienced this type of feeling many, many times. and for me, being loved and supported by my family and friends bring me to a much more delightful life.

here's a story i want to share to all of ya:

you know, since i was a cute little girl, i always wanted to buy everything that i think is beauutiifulll. a limited edition barbie doll, a pair of exclusive nike shoes, a full collection of harajuku lovers perfume, a second-generation ipod touch, a macbook, a comfortable king koil bed to sleep on, et cetera. i thought having all of those things would make me cool and admired.

i finally got most of them, btw.
the moment i touched them, i felt really, really proud of myself that i succeeded persuading my parents to buy me those things. but.. let's say, 1 day? 1 week? 1 month later i even forgot that those stuff existed. not that i totally forgot them, but, i don't appreciate them as much as i did when they first belonged to me.

1 year later...

i forgot them completely.
entirely.

but however, i learned something.
that you may be longing for a thing that you really want. but what happens after you got them, you forget about them.

it's the reverse for the love of family and friends.
may be you don't realize how deep is their love to you. like i did before.
but when i start sharing my problems with them, especially my mom, i learned that i couldn't live without my family. i keep wondering why didn't i value my family before.
and when i recall those moments when we laughed, played, even when we were mad to each other, i thank God that he gave me an imperfect family and caring friends. they're the ones that make my life happy. i mean, really happy.

what's more...

i can't really rely on my favourite and expensive thing like i rely on my friends and fam rite?



so, start loving them even more than they love you!!