my weekend was uber awesome! told you earlier i went to London. and i ate a looootttttt. need double workout tomorrow and the whole week ahead. haha. well, as we walked along carnaby street (i didn’t shop i’m too poor), my eyes apparently caught a cute little shop. i thought it was a toy or cute stationery shop. but as i walked closer, it was actually a cake shop!! oh my goodness you wouldn’t believe how excited i was that time. those little sweets (cupcakes, cakes, ice cream, macaroons, etc) are way too cute, i was really drooling over them. the speciality of this shop is the candy cake, as it is named. so i got one for me! (was about to buy 5 different flavours but fortunately i was still sane enough). enjoy the pictures below!

i wonder if there were a part time vacancy as a ‘food and sweets’ tour guide all around London. i would be very pleased to escort anyone interested in this kind of thing! i will take you to the heaven of sweets and desserts. haha. sweets are my lust and passion. and i know for sure that they are my weakness. haha. and London? undeniably a perfect place to discover new sweets shops. i wish i could afford train ticket to London back and forth every week. haha.

p.s. the candy cake shop has several branches. but i visited the one in carnaby street.

image source paperdolly1

1. pretty, colourful, and clean room (the picture above a little too childish, i know. but i love it!)
2. having a yummy popsicle in a hot sunny day.
3. producing rainy sweat after working out at the gym.
4. the smell of my new shampoo i bought randomly in sainsbury (by charles wathington)
5. munching smarties cookies
6. ripen and sweet bananas
7. a long chat with mom, dad, little sister, little brother. and burst into crazy laugh.
8. put a lot of mayonnaise in all food i’m eating
9. little kids give their sweetest smile at me. oh, blissful.
10. reading pretty and inspiring blogs.

truthfully, i have a lot of things that make me happy. but, let’s just give them another round next time! what’s yours?

me in the Buckingham Palace winter 2009

been really crazy this week all because of the project. but i’m going to London tomorrow! woohoo. i so miss London. couple of plans for London: meet up with some friends from my old university, stroll along carnaby street, stop by macaroon laduree or cupcake shop (or both?). anyway, sale is everywhere. such a torture because i had been broke already, before the sale has even started.

i love London more than words i can ever say. have a joyful weekend!

hello bloggie, i’m so sorry if you feel like a little bit being ignored. i lose my passion of writing these days. there are a lot pop in my mind and i kind of want to share everythingg but still i don’t know how to pour them into words and create beautiful sentences. if you are a human, i guarantee i’m a hardcore story teller. you won’t miss any of my life story. i won’t stop talking. instead, maybe you will find it difficult to stop me from talking. i’ll try in this post to share some of my “life recently”. but believe me, it’s quite boring. i give you a warning in advance. you still have time to run, now. haha.

i’m currently working on a research project titled “mass transfer in the small intestine”. it may not sound interesting. but call me a geek, i found it quite interesting. it’s just amazing how our body and all parts inside work. and according to the timetable, the written report should have been submitted by mid-August, 17 Aug exactly. i hope you notice it’s Indonesia’s Independence day celebration. so if everything goes well, highly hope it’s gonna be my independence day as well. haha. finger crossed! but it means i only have 2 months approximately to do the experiment and to write the report. two months. i’m always struck by headache whenever i remember it’s only two months. well, everybody else in the class have the same timetable as mine, so i think it’s fair enough. it’s just silly if i moan too much while everybody else are actually at the same situation with me. so, everything’s gonna be fine, supposedly.

consequently, my weekdays are devoted to running experiment or doing those stuffs related to research project. Monday to Friday, 10 am to 5 pm. and exercise at the gym thereafter. i joined the sport centre in my university, named Munrow Sport Centre. To tell you the truth, i’ve become member since October last year. haha. and as you know, i didn’t exercise at all october until March. started from April, i’ve exercised regularly. my parents comommented that i’m too skinny right now. haha. and ridiculously, that i wanted to lose some weight was at first driven by their complaints such as “oh dear, you are too fat right now. please do care about yourself. your health and your performance”. hmm, parents. they’ve always been like that, and always will. i exercised everyday, cardio at least 30 minutes. sometimes more than 30 minutes if i feel energised. haha. and i eat only light food after exercising. so i tried really hard to convince my parents that i worked out to manage losing some weight! it didn’t happen spontaneously. and they were like “well ok if it’s all because of sport. but don’t push yourself too hard. your health is above anything.” ok, deal. anyway, i really love them for always reminding me even that i’m not a kid anymore (sometimes i miss being a kid again haha). and about the exercise thingy, it isn’t all about “i want to lose some weight” (although it IS at the first place), but it by time transformed to “i feel healthy doing this everyday”. so now, the motivation changes a little bit.

umm, what else i should tell? oh well, for weekends, i rarely travel to London now. boyfriend got internship in Abingdon, Oxfordshire for 3 months. so instead of going to London, i’m likely to go to Oxford often for the weekends. but for quite a few times, i’ll arrange visits to London. i miss London. haha. with all those crowds, hop on-off the tube, shopping places, restaurants, cupcake shops, markets, everything! haha. in my case, it’s second best city in the world (i was about to say first but then remembered Jakarta as my hometown, haha). and inspired by my amazing boyfriend (haha), i’m after an internship right now anywhere around the UK. but getting a job at this moment, even for part time, is really tough and requires efforts and patience. say it global economic crisis. and everything seems even a lot tougher here in the UK. but me attempted to become optimistic and committed that i won’t stop trying, hoping and praying. those 3 are the only rules I reckon.

ok, i guess i’ve told you some hints about my “life recently”. and a little too much talking, perhaps? sorry, if i bore you. haha. i got to shower and rush to campus, do the experiment agaiinn. i’m off for the day! have a good day! xx

i’m mostly wasting around on internet today. i wonder why i’m not that keen on going to city centre although it’s weekend. so, doing nothing (or maybe doing many random things?) at home sounds like a big deal to me. so yes, i’m wasting around and i don’t feel bored. i’m feeling good staying at home (not likely to happen, honestly, haha). what have i done so far: woke up, did the laundry, went exercising, took a nap, had lunch, then the rest of my time was internet. i also played a little bit with looklet, and it was fun! i suddenly felt so stylish after playing a mix-and-match. haha.

well, speaking of style, i like a simple, casual and cute look. i love cute tops and dresses and i don’t wear too many accesories. sometimes i would love to be more accesorised that i bought some accesories but then ended up they were not worn that often. and i can’t get enough of shoes! most of mine now are flats because they are just comfortable, match any occassion,  and give a cute touch. but lately i’ve been tempted to wear shoes with midi heels or wedges. i just haven’t figured out if i can stand well on those high shoes for several hours. i don’t know. but we’ll never know if we don’t try. haha. in my opinion, polkadot and stripes are my forever favourite, they never fail.

i think it’s important that we feel good about ourselves, how we dress and how we look. i just don’t get why some people think that taking a pretty good care of ourselves is a crime. i’m the other way round. but be ourselves is the most important. have our own style and be comfortable with it.