Faith, Hope and Love.

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Secret Destination

I think this is so true. 

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JK Wedding Entrance Dance

I hereby stated that I regret not seeing this video before I got married. If I did, I'd do exactly the same and would have asked my bridesmaids and groomsmen to dance like the ones in the video. I shared the video to my brother, Abraham; and then he said, he definitely going to do this on his wedding day. ARRRRGGHHH!!! Oh amazing video, why didn't you show up in 2008? WHY?! Oh well, let's just do this on my 10th Wedding Anniversary. My dear friends, prepare to DANCE!!!

Audrey Hepburn Tulip Dedication Ceremony

A new hybrid tulip was created and named after actress Audrey Hepburn. An official dedication ceremony took place at her family's former mansion Huis Doorn in Doorn, Holland. Watch it if you want to see Audrey speaks Dutch. :)

Hearing her speaking in Dutch, reminds me of my dearest grandmother *sobs*

Books

The BBC believes most people will have read only six of the 100 books listed here.

Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but did not finish or read an excerpt.  

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible  

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 

8 1984 - George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger --- already watch the movie.

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald --- only the movie

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy --- only the movie (starred by Audrey Hepburn hihi)

25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 

 33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis 

34 Emma -Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery  

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan 

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel 

52 Dune - Frank Herbert 

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac 

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Inferno - Dante

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt

 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

 82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 

 84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

 85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

 86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

 87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White

 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

 90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

 92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

 93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

 94 Watership Down - Richard Adams 

 95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

 96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

 98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

 99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 

 100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

I've read only 18 of out these 100. Darn it! 82 books to go!

Best Actress of Golden Globe 2011

is... NATALIE PORTMAN for her role as Nina Sayers in Black Swan!!! Yaaaaaaaaayyy!

Congratulations mommy-to-be and soon-to-be-bride! God knows (and everyone who has been reading this blog since the very beginning) how much I adore her!

Here are Natalie Portman’s Golden Globes photos, including her gorgeous pale satin, rose encrusted VIKTOR & ROLF gown. OMG She looks super stunning...

And here is the video when she  gave speech on stage:

Her lovely speech: 

“Jeff Bridges, I love you.  Thank you.  Thank you to the HFPA, this is such a great honor.  Truly the most wonderful experience of this whole reaction to the movie has been to get to spend time with so many of the people in this room.  It has been the most meaningful thing that I will take away from this post movie experience.”

“I also want to thank you for the opportunity to say hi to my Grandma Bernice in Cincinnati, who’s watching at home.  “I hope you’re having a drink, Grandma, enjoying this.”

“I thank you for bringing my mom into the world, my mom is the most wonderful person; she’s here.  My father, who’s also the most wonderful person, thank you for bringing me into this world, and giving me such a wonderful life. “ 

“Thank you to Benjamin, who is helping me continue this creation of creating more life.  Benjamin choreographed the film, and also you might remember him in the movie as the guy when they ask, 'Would you sleep with that girl?' And he's like, 'Pffsh, no.' He's the best actor. It's not true: He totally wants to sleep with me!" 

“Aleen Keshishian my manager, since I was 12-years-old.  You listened to me when I said to you, I want to do something with dance someday, I admire the arts so much.  Thank you so much.  My agents, Kevin and John, my fellow actors, Mila “Sweet Lips” Kunis, you’re the greatest; Vincent Cassel, Barbara Hershey, everyone at Fox Searchlight, Nancy Utley, thank you so much.”

"Darren, I met you 10 years ago, and we talked about this for the first time, and thank you for continuing to work on this movie and then to give me such a beautiful, beautiful gift with this role.”

"Every time we finished our takes, you would say, 'Now do this one for yourself,' and that gave me such beautiful inspiration as an actor to not just be amused, that I could create on my own as well.  I love you so much and you're the most wonderful and I'm so grateful to you.  Thank you.”

* all photos via Natalie Portman's tumblr fan blogs.

Don't Look Back - She and Him

Prepare for my favorite She & Him music video. Don't get me wrong, I love ALL She & Him music videos, but if I had to pick one, I say: Don't Look Back music video. It's so great!

Everything I love is in it.. Zooey's dresses, so 60s. Zooey looks so adorable and cute.  The decoration so 60s. The dancing 60s. Everything is so 60s!! Nice concept and very aesthetically pleasing. I like.

Without further ado, please welcome She & Him's newest music videos.

Director: Jeremy Konner
DP: Logan Schneider
Editor: Jeremy Konner
Producer: Billy Parks
Executive Producer: Jeff Pantaleo
Production Company: Partizan 

** great job guys!!! 

Just Being Audrey

My ultimate must-have-book in 2011, it's going to be released on January 25th 2011. Beautiful illustrations OMG. OMG. OMG.

via Margaret Cardillo

UPDATE: MARCH 17th 2011 --- I GOT THE BOOK!!!

Take a peek of the book's video trailer... how can I not want this?

Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn in "How To Steal A Million" --- image via tumblr

Love The Ordinary

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Tattoo Inspiration

In Omnia Paratus. 


*Prepared for all things.

Turquoise Crush

Okay yes, I have many addictions - crazy about stripes, madly love old (vintage) style and now is the perfect time to reveal one other addiction... I love turquoise! I just love the color, it is soothing, calming, pleasing to the eye and très chic (:

Looking back, it is clear to me now that I have been under consciously attracted to this color. When buying jewelry, I always somehow ended up buying turquoise color / gemstone. My wedding theme was "The Great Gatsby" and should had been decorated with black and turquoise (I still keep the sample from my wedding organizer). Took me a while to realize that I love turquoise a lot ((: 

I'm going to decorate my house with some turquoise color, not too much but just for accent color. Bright turquoise is really great as an accent color. Adding some pillows and old aqua shutters to my future den, but don’t think I’ll incorporate a lot more of it in my decor. And more thing, turquoise is so 1959 and so Mad Men-ish (((;

I even found out Pantone's statement when launching turquoise as color of the year 2009. “Turquoise evokes thoughts of soothing, tropical waters and a languorous, effective escape from the everyday troubles of the world, while at the same time restoring our sense of wellbeing.” Such a beautiful description, isn't it? 

So frolic with me through the land of turquoise. And here’s to a home that restores my sense of wellbeing.

P.S. You can’t do a post on turquoise without starting out with the House of Turquoise.

Since I love writing (crap) LoL, I really want to have this old turquoise Typewriter --- pic from mytypewriter.com

Love the white sofa and the turquoise cushion

I LOOOVE IKAT CUSHION!!!

How gorgeous is this photo!

This would look great in my future house

Love this.

Awesome backyard terrace. Looks very homey, warm and comfortable. My dogs would love suntanning there on the deck

Love the long curtain.

Want this!!!

Nice accent color isn't it?

I dream of having a dedicated room for books in my future house, some sort of mini library-ish just like in this picture.

Love the huge mirror and additional independent chair and white chandelier. They are very pretty.

Saving the best for last, I'd love to have these swingbenches, rug and that natural turquoise background!!! I want a beach houuseeeeeeee!!!!!! #screaminghisterically

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Change

Goodness. Going through my old blog, by the way, it feels a lot like going through your old high school yearbook photos, where you had funny hair, bad complexion, braces and the works! I'm cringing yet amused by the way I used to blog last time, I write so differently now! But then again, I may say the same thing in another 4 years time about my current blog, hmm...

I have changed quite a lot since the first time I sign up on this blogger.com but I'm happy where I am now and what I am now. I've passed a lot of good and bad moments to get here yet by passing through them, I've grown. I grew up. I know who I am, I know what I like and I know what I believe in, without a doubt. I have changed.

The word change can conjure up many different feelings. I am both apprehensive or excited to the word "change". The process is not always pretty and sometimes forced people to leave their comfort zones. Some people welcome change with open arms and some fight it with everything they’ve got?. Everyone responds differently, but people are more likely to be accepting of change if they are the creator and they are more likely to oppose it when it is forced upon them. 

Life is full of change and that leads to growth. Change is what keeps us from becoming stagnant, keeps our life moving in the right direction and allows us to achieve the greatness we desire and deserve. Like it or not, we need to be willing to embrace it and work on being agile to go with the flow and change with the tides when something doesn’t go according to plan. Be brave because the road for the greater good is never easy and smooth.

Life is fleeting sometimes the days drag but the weeks and months fly by. Start actively doing things that are pushing you towards truly enjoying your life and if the only requirement is to change sometime, DO IT! Change for the better is good for you. Anyways, we only live once right?!

Elizabeth Kubler Ross

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These people have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”

Marimekko

According to Marimekko's official website:

"Marimekko is a leading Finnish textile and clothing design company that was established in 1951. The company designs, manufactures and markets high-quality clothing, interior decoration textiles, bags and other accessories under the Marimekko brand, both in Finland and abroad."

I've been eye-ing their products for a while now, they're unbelievably cute!! No wonder they have special website for their Japanese customers - ehm, Japanese love cute stuffs, remember?  

Here are some of their products... let's drool over them... uuuuu kawaii!

Sweet Revenge

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New Year's Resolutions

Usually on NYE, people reflect on the changes they want (or need) to make and resolve to follow through on those changes for the coming year. Of course I also have NYR, at first I didn't want to post my NYR (didn't want to jinx them! - but hey they are all realistic ones) but what if I forgot all about them throughout the year? So let's write them down and do them one by one... so at the end of this year, I'll be proud of my own accomplishments. 

1. Find some beautiful place to get lost in.

2. Volunteer to help others (I want to become a full-time humanitarian and philanthropist one day).

3. Saving instead of shopping!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

4. Take a photo with a barn owl on my shoulder. 

5. Cook and bake more often, cook once a week and bake once a month - minimum. 

6. Complete my Audrey Hepburn DVD Collection.

7. Visit Bandung more often. 

8. Buy a pair of Rollerblade and mushing harness for Chewy & Lowy (: Let's mush! 

9. .......................

10. .....................

Last two are secret! And no, having kids is not one of them. The last two are really private, family members only.

So, these are my NYR, I'll do my best to accomplish them and letting God do the rest (:

In Jesus' name, Amen.

Believe.

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Lovely Things in Life

Book, Love, Travel, People, Places, Globe (: --- via tumblr

Couple things I love in one photo. Simply lovely (:

Bible Quote for New Year

This bible quote is perfect for getting into a new year. Gives you hope (: --- image via tumblr