.Photography.

I said photography is not a hobby, it's a lifestyle. Once you liked it, your world changed. You don't see your ordinary view as that ordinary, instead you see everything in view finder point-of-view.

Last night, I was browsing through my photos archive, and I just realized, I haven't made any piece of photograph in 2011 that worthy enough, at least for me. I started to love photography on my last year of college, 2007. It started with an introduction to a local photography online community website from a friend of mine. He asked me to commenting on his photos. So long story short, I started to put my photos there. Started with a pocket digicam (borrowed from a friend of mine), then at 2009 I finally bought my first DSLR. I started to encourage myself with several commercial projects, some personal projects, several publications, but now at 2011, I ended with few new gears, but no project at all. I blamed it on my busy work life. Lame excuse, I know.

But now it's time to put some new year's resolutions. I'll put "Photography" on my #1 list. Time to get back on the field. And no, not commercial projects, but personal projects. Yep.

Meanwhile, I would love to share some of my personal works. I am blessed by all of these people around me, without them I would ended up nothing :) Few of them are prepared shots, and lots are lucky shots hehe...Got lucky so much :P

Food

.Boxes. - Do you want to be a big fish in small pond or a small fish in big pond? Now that's a choice.

.Bread Talk.

.Avocado.

.Cinnamon Roll.

.White Peach.

.Strawberry.

.Toast with Anchor Salted Butter and Knott's Bluberry Jam.

.Butter Sugar Bread, Holland Bakery. - did you ever have the best breakfast in your life? I did. It's just a simple roti sisir from Holland Bakery with some frozen fruits from fridge with a cup of tea. I don't remember what happen that day, but that surely was a beautiful day :D

.Edamame.

Travel

.Shadow. - ...when shadow means there's a light beyond.

.Bali. - I love the atmosphere. The people is so relaxed and the island is so beautiful.

.One Evening. - At the rooftop of Imperial Building. It's the first time I went to rooftop that high!

.My Journey. - between Onrust Island and Kelor Island

.Season. - between Onrust Island and Kelor Island; It was a good day!

.Bromo. - one of the longest trip I ever had to watch a sunrise.

.Belitung. - what can I say. That was the best trip I ever had in my life!

Still Life

.Lil Things.

.Rose.

.Valentine's Day.

.About Her Heart.

.Winter.

.The Missing Piece.

.The Follower.

.Family.

.Tomato.

People

.E + R. - It was the first time I shoot a prewedding pictures!

.Jakarta , 2008.
.Little Girl. - it's my nephew! :D

Girls

.Someday Soon.

.Brown.

.City of Light. - Had a photo session with friends from FK...how I miss those days!

Conceptual

.Red.

.Transition.

.Lost.

.Feet.

.Memoirs.

.SFS.

.Unfinished Story.

.A Little Story for Sunday.

.Shell.

.Confession of Emptiness.

.Vein.

.The Forbidden Door.

.Your Presence.

.Swim. - my blog header woohoo! :D

.Walk The Line.

.Soulfinder.

.Fade Away.

.Waiting in Silence.

.About Childhood.

And of course, my favorite subject, barbie.

.30.

.A Stranger Between My Legs.

.Something About You Girl.

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Btw, Sorry for the watermarks.

.Marche.

Mr Chubby and me went to GI on Christmas Eve for one aim : Marche. Since we're just having lunch at my home, we only order lightly. The restaurant interior was really cool, I love the market concept, although it makes harder to choose what to order for someone like me hehe..Too bad we can't take much picture due to the restaurant policy :(

Rosti seems to be the crowdest stall there, and I'm not in the mood for fried potato, but I surely would love to try it on the next visit :)
We started with Cream Parsley Soup (Large, 48K) and Salty Bread (12.5K). There are 3 kinds of soup that time, Cream Mushroom, Cream Parsley and Goulash Soup. All of them were tempting :( The soup, can I say....it was FANTASTIC. The best cream soup I ever had. It's thick, creamy, so potato-y, and the parsley...hmmm The Salty Bread was a good company to the soup.
Have I said, it was also filled with parsley? Totally fully loaded with parsley that day!
We also managed to order Pepperoni Pizza (Large, 59K). I also love the pizza, it's not to hard (like crackers) and it has the perfect thickness :) But still, the soup win my heart more :P
For drinks, we had Sweet Apple Ice Tea and Lemonade (Large, each 26.5K). My only comment would be for the cold drinks, since it's pre-made and each glass sitting on the bar for I-don't -know-how-long. But despite that, the service made up for it, they were happy to give us a glass of ice cubes for extra :D
I love the condiments on each stall. I managed to try the condiments from 2 stalls , the soup and the rosti. And can I say, I love them all? :D The soup stall provided 2 types of butter (the ordinary one and the seeded one --tasted like wasabi), croutons, and 3 kinds of seed I wasn't sure what it is, one of them I think was kuaci --I put them on the soup coz I love it! The rosti stall provided chili and tomato sauce, tabasco, fresh onions,lemon wedges, dijon mustard, sour cream, etc. I was in my happy place hehe!

The dessert section was also tempting, since it was Christmas, I went home with a Log Cake (not pictured, 40K). I was hoping for some spongy texture, but it was more like tiramisu with wet layers of chocolate cake. Not my kind of cake..

Overall, definitely will be back! :D

.Mom's : Chicken Porridge.

Mom's made this today :D Even Mr Chubby whom not a fan of porridge, love it :D I love all the condiments, especially the chicken. The chicken might be looked tasteless, but believe me, it's surely tasty!

.Food Hall.

I had lunch at Food Hall yesterday, I always love their menu selection, plus the price is really worth it, and cheaper than Ranch Market hehe :P My favorite branch is at GI, they have several section at the bar, from salad, rotisserie, pasta, Indonesian, sushi, etc. Although it's a self service, I think the service here was quite good. They were happy to change your pasta selection, or simply heated your food (no extra charge!)
Can you believe this big chunk of roasted chicken only cost 19K? :D
I got myself penne with some tomato sauce (again, forgot the name -__-) and topped with roasted chicken, 32K. Totally loaded with carbs that day heheh...

.Ranch Market.

Tried their new menu few days ago...
Beef Noodle something -I forgot, sorry :( I think it's about 25K. The beef portion was generous but too bad the noodle was to hard to chew and the broth was bland.
Herb Oil Penne, 32K. I love the fact that it was more sauce-y than the ordinary, it taste so good that I would not mind having the second portion hehe... :P

.20111225.

It's completely random. I'm craving for these right now...
Lontong Cap Gomeh, especially from that one stall at Dusit...
Chocolate and Almond cookies from E's mom (thanks E!)
Good Bakmie...
Good Hotdog...

I'm sorry for this random post...totally starving right now ! -___-

.Snacking : Corn.

If you know me in real life, I frequently bring this to office 2-3 times a week, it's good as a breakfast, or just an afternoon snack :D it's sweet and a healthy snack :D hehe!

.Kantin Moko : Revisited.

Another week at Kantin Moko for lunch hehehehe... btw this is the picture of my egg today. beautiful, no? :D

.Snacking : Shilin Chicken XXL.

Bad snack for your health tsk tsk tsk! :P

.Ben's Seafood.

Last Sunday, me, miss F and miss L were craving for some seafood. We were arrived early (around 5) so most of the stall at Dutamas haven't opened yet, included my favorite stall :( Since we were starving, we went to the stall right next to Sinar Bintang, Ben's Seafood. I was hoping to sit on the outside area, but the idea of mosquito bites were not attempting us. So we went to indoor area.
Started with fresh coconut :)
Look at this beautiful jar hehe..
Kerang Bambu saus Tauco, 15K. It was one of the best bamboo clam I ever had, it's big (about 10 cm), succulent and tasty sauce! For 15K I think it's really good :)
Deep Fried Calamari, 20K. The calamari was deep fried in a thin batter, a bit bland though.
Crab in Padang Sauce, 60K. The Crab was fat, too bad the sauce was more like terasi, I was hoping for some egg in the sauce, and it was not as spicy as I hoped :(
Genjer cah Terasi, 10K. It's rare to find genjer nowadays, so when we found it listed on the menu, we order it immediately. It might be not as big as the one I had at Belitung, but it tasted good, a bit minty as always :)
Fried Prawn with Egg Yolk, 20K was disappointing, I barely tasted the salted egg yolk, it's more like oily deep-fried prawn. We even could not finished it.
Actually our aim for a dinner at Dutamas was Steamed Crab we had before. So, we're hoping Ben's version would be as good as it. Too bad, it failed :( This one was fragrant with much ginger on it, but it still can't beat our expectation.

Overall, we managed to agree on one thing. We should be stick to our favorite stall next time :P
Ended the night with orange flavor medanese ice cream. Btw, this was the only medanese ice cream I know who sold orange flavor, he usually riding his bike around Dutamas at night :)

.Chung Gi Wa.

Last week, on my birthday celebration, me and my family went to Chung Gi Wa. Actually I want to go to Sarangche, but since the rain pouring, I think it's better to stay at Jakarta. We went to Kelapa Gading branch, located at level 2 of Lotte Mart.

Upon arrival, we were given a set of banchan.

Sadly, only few of them were remembered by me -__-The vegetable pancake always loveable ! :D
I think it's groundnut, but they seem steamed it with some sweet sauce. I love it nonetheless :)
Fresh cut vegetables in some sauce (vinegar?) was refreshing.
Cute cup heh? :)
Jab Chae, 65K was a most-order dish on my list! The Jab Chae was good as expected :)
And what's better to start the feast than some grilled meat?
burn baby burn~

I don't quite remember what we ordered, some was sweet and some was savory. I think the sweet one please the crowd more.
Fresh vegetable leaf were given of course :)
We also ordered Dolsot Bibimbap, 55K. There were 2 types of bibimbap actually, the raw and the cooked one. I ordered the cooked one since my mom was not fond of raw food. It tasted..hmmm fresh but I prefer the raw one.
The bibimbap came with a bowl of this broth. I forgot the taste, a bit salty I think -__-"
We also ordered Sundubi Chige, 48K. It's basically a vegetable and tofu soup. It looked spicy but actually it tasted bland :(

Btw, more meat pictures :P
Those bone made me want to eat them!

Overall, I think if you are craving for some Korean BBQ, Chung Gi Wa could be your choice, since the meat price was not as high as the other Korean restaurant. But since I am more into Korean dishes than the BBQ, I think I prefer the Sarangche.