Yopin & Erwin -WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY

I think this is my first entry of "Celebration of Love" a.k.a Wedding. Obviously, these photos are edited since I was in the mood of being an editor. I just uploaded some random photos from  Erwin & Yosephine's wedding and lots more to check and edit, at least retouched. Well more photos will be added in facebook : Aozora Photography 

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IF LIFE is a Movie (A thought)

If your life is a movie, what genre would it be . . . ?

If my life is a movie, my genre would be "Action-Comedy" that talks about passion, patience and power. My life isn't so adventurous, so rocky or so full of obstacles but its more about " the power of happiness" have changed everything. Complicated in terms of emotional problems; full of personality tests where patience heals the wounds.

You know that action comedy movies like Rush Hour, MIB, or Bad boys is quite memorable, positively memorable. Yes, the story itself is predictable but yet you are finding a joy while watching it. You would be spending decent of penny to watch a movie that you know it'll entertain you and the loved ones. A kind movie that is so simple, easy to be digested but so silly, so giggly that make some people as their favorite ones. And this is the kind of movie, I'm facing.

I don't think my life is full of drama although it might do, but I don't feel it in a way. The bad became good when you changed the way you feel about yourself. Of course, no one had a perfect life but shall the past begone. Indeed, the childhood and teenager memories were painful each time I recalled so instead I fixed and rewrite a new story.

History can't be changed (never can) but you can always change the way you bring the story; to either be more heroic, evil or even bringing up the reasons of why the good became bad person and vice-versa. Hating it won't even changed anything neither right? So that's the "action" part of my life story. The past that I had to gone through mentally had became the climax of my past life and history.

BUT now! my life has become more like "comedy". Well drama too but not too dramatic; just a simple drama story - fight and fall in love again. How's that? Yes, that Cinderella story or disney story where life seems so perfect no matter how imperfect its. Cliche as it sounds isn't it? Honestly, no one has a perfect life - money vs love or money & love vs health? Life is fair no matter how we said its unfair. Oh wait, the best way to say is "Life is Balanced" - All must be having happy Endings. I sound like a little kid, am I? but unfortunately, I realized that. Why don't you spend some time to think about the past and present, its balanced isn't it?

why "comedy?" because of love and gratitude. Of course, there are so many things I need to achieve; so many dreams that I hope I can make them true every year or even every month. But most of time it doesn't happen in the way we expected or at the time we have planned. And when its not happened, we'll be sad. And what can cure a sadness and disappointment? in my opinion, nothing but laughter! I read from this book called "The Power" and it said " Love life and life will loved you back", somehow like that. So if you love the failure and lucks in you, a better life will come to you. Crazy thought? why don't you try to feel the magic of happiness!

True, some comedy movie is not funny; they exaggerated the actions with sarcastic jokes but its the spice. Some people would laugh at the jokes and the over-showed actions but some might just be wandering or don't do a thing. But me, personally? most of time I laughed or gave such a "what the F* look". But I guess that's a choice. When you understand what's going on with you, when you clearly able to accept with an open heart, then you might be laughing at yourself, your own life until you dropping tears of happiness.

But, whatever it'll be, just try to cheer yourself more than you let anyone cheer you! You might won't believe me but I must be thankful to ONE REPUBLIC for their encouraging songs. For almost 6-8 months, I've been listening to their song called " GOOD LIFE" through the good or sad moments I'm gone through. I turned the volume up and finally, I found a joy in me. and now, I'm starting to listen to "Marching On", very encouraging and making me want to stand stronger. THANK YOU Ryan Tedder for such an inspiring song! and Also lately, I'm listening to Owl City - To The Sky (it makes me smile ^o^)

Honestly, I don't know how to be rich in term of being so wealthy, how to bring the money or love to you (lover) but one thing I must tell you - BE SELFISH. You must be selfish to yourself and to everyone but everything has its own limit. Selfishness bring disappointment and discouragement but if you are adding a bit of selfishness of you into other people life, it might turns out to bring better outcome for you and that person's life.

What do I mean by Be Selfish? I don't encourage you to overtake people's life or overruled the ones you loved's life but to LOVE YOURSELF A BIT MORE than others. Of course, your family (parents)deserve to have a greater piece of love from you but after that, choose the "other" people wisely. Friendship is about 'take and give'' some are getting more attentions and that because he/she deserves the best from you.

WELL, Do I bore you or do I make you think? I don't know, I don't care but I just feel like writing this random thought of mine from yesterday. Okay Then, hope the article is useful somehow. Anyway, It's Friday, so have a beautiful weekend and remember "Love life and life will loved you back" - simply means ' love yourself and your life for a better life =)

Random F&B

I think this is the first time that I tried to combine banana with bread. This is my favorite Toast bread that I brought from nearby my house called "Bethlehem". Its great and I ordered, Toast Bread with Banana, Chocolate, Cheese with extra milk. If you don't like sweet then you shouldn't add more milk with it. But overall, I love their toast beard. One of the best Roti Panggang I ever had around Jakarta.

I was just randomly picked a drink at Excellso Cafe and this "nutty mocha island" is the ones that interest me the most. Its pretty eye-catchy though and well you just have to mix all of them together. Not too sweet but it blends well. Like it but I'm in love more with their Avocado Coffee better ha-ha-ha! 

One of my friends craved for Meatballs and we decided to just have it at this one of the famous meatball restaurants called "Bakso Jawir". I tried theirs a long time ago and didn't like how it taste. But after ate them again, I found it nice though. It tastes good and I know mum would like it. So I think I should bring her there for a try. The soup is nice so does their meatballs. But honestly? I still in love with Bakso Urat at Sunrise, West Jakarta. Oh! Their Urat meatballs is just Unbeatable! ha-ha-ha-ha!

Peach Garden

Mum was insisting me pretty badly to eat at this Chinese Restaurant for Dim-Sum. I think "Peace Garden" have several branches but I ate the ones at PX (St. Morris). My aunty told my mum that their Dim Sum is somehow cheap and not that bad neither; so we gave it a try anyway. Here are the food we and I didn't take a photo of their Prawn Chong Fun had no mood of doing so!

My Review :

I'm so sorry but this looking classy restaurant is just not worth to spend your penny at. For the pork itself, it costs around 48 Rb ($4.80) and it tastes like crap. Their whole Dim Sum is also tastelessly crap. And their service? Oh! You really would be so disappointed especially on how it took around 15 minutes or more to serve Chong Fun!! Its kinda over-priced but as long it tastes great then it shouldn't be a matter. The one that has a better taste if those 3 pieces of skinless small bread with egg yolk. Seriously, HIGHLY NOT RECOMMENDED , crap tastes and slow service. NEXT!

Hongkong Cafe Review

OKAY! I was just a way too lazy to bring my precious camera along with me today. So instead I'm using two of my mobiles - N-97 & BB Onyx to capture the food we had for lunch. Me and mum ate at this chinese - western mixture cafe with old fashion western decoration called " Hong Kong Cafe". We ate at Central Park and I had been wanting to try out their food that looks delicious enough in their menus. I tried to control my tummy for not choosing many food since only two of us. 

PS : I'm sorry for the very bad quality photos, couldn't help it! Can't wait to get myself Blue N-8! \m/

I have been developing a habit of eating desert before the meal. And I was stuck between the looking delicious Mango Fantasy (Mango Pudding with Mango ice-cream) and black-sesame pudding. But since my curiosity overruled my head, so I just have to choose "black-sesame" pudding. If you like sweet like myself and want to try something different then this one is the right desert for you. I love the taste even my mum who don't like sweet like it. The very soft texture of the pudding with sweet corns and coconut milk does make a good combination of taste. 

This is my drink! It called "Perfect Match". It's basically combination of Milk, tea, coffee together and creamer too, I think. I'm not into choosing weird sound of drink. But this one is quite nice; adding grass jelly or some jelly would be great.

This is my Mum's lunch. Its called "Baked Rice Hong Kong Cafe Special". At first she said, she didn't want to eat any rice but after she saw the photo, she ordered them. First impression " It looks big" but right after her first bite, she said "very delicious". It's basically a Baked Rice with Grilled Chicken covered with melted cheese and milk. The taste is a bit spicy but the chili is mainly just to make it tasty, nothing else. And adding with chili sauce makes it nicer! I did give it a try and pretty much like it.

This is mine, mine, and mine!! my menu!! guess, what's that? The yellow sauce thingie? Guess what!! It's Pumpkin sauce and give me a reason for not ordered them right when you see it in the menu!!! I love pumpkin at least I spent almost 4 years eating pumpkin soup at winter time throughout the whole recess time! So YES, I love this one. Its not sweet at all but it's pretty milky. The menu is called "Chicken Chop Pumpkin Sauce". I love how their rice taste, not like usual rice. And added with Pumpkin Sauce, Milk, Grilled Chicken and Pumpkin cubes made this my favorite! But If you eat more than this plate, you'll be getting sick of its taste, trust me :)

My mum ordered their Dim Sum "Sie Mai" < no idea why they called it like that. But anyway, we weren't able to finish it so we had to bring it back home. I tried them and its pretty delicious though. But if you asked me whether they really "made" it themselves, then I must say no. pretty much they ordered through the "frozen" food distributor because it tastes reminds me of Sie Mai at Maystar restaurant! Are they buying at the same place? *wondering*!

"Baked Broccoli Cheese" is the name of this ugly looking food. Phew, I feel sorry how crap it looks like and I blamed my mobile camera for that. Anyway, this is just like normal Baked Broccoli with cheese that you usually eat; nothing different. When I ate it at the restaurant, the taste is kinda different. I mean the cheese didn't really absorbed into the broccoli. So the taste is like you eating steam broccoli with half baked cheese sauce. BUT! then we brought it back home and after we heated again, it tastes pretty nice though. The cheese sauce and Broccoli mixed together but somehow it tastes like Chinese food rather than western. But Overall its good :) 

Er, honestly, its looking pretty when you see it in real. Once again, I'm so apologized for the bad looking photo that make this yummy "Fried Chicken Orange Sauce" looks weird. Like the above menu, this one also the same. Tried them in the restaurant and it tastes just okay but after pre-heated again at home, you can ensure this food is yummy! Fried Chicken Slices with Sesame Seeds and since its orange sauce so you'll be expecting some sour tastes.

OVERALL,  their food is delicious. The price is well around 30 Rb - 40 Rb ($3.00-$4.00) but for the Baked rice, I found it normal. But for the other menus like broccoli and Fried Chicken, its a bit pricy. Their place is very cozy and highly recommended for hang-out or even meeting or party. Like usual Chinese Restaurant, NEVER drink water/tea, their prices are above normal. Their food is basically a mixture of Chinese and Western food so there'll be a lot of cheese sauce here and there. But then, I guess their speciality is the "baked rice". Honestly, if you ever taste "Kim Gary's" baked rice then you'll find Hong Kong Cafe's is standard. Kim Gary's baked rice is tastier and more delicious. 8/10 for the food, its ambience though a bit pricy and the service is a bit slow!

TOP10 FUNNY Animal Portraits

Last weekend, I went to the local zoo with the twins & Mega and somehow well *coughing* it made me feel like I need to make my TOP 10 FUNNY Animal Portraits for fun. My favorite is definitely the adorable, huggable and lovable little white tiggie. I forgot his name but I found him at the Baby Zoo in Taman Safari Indonesia. Most of the animal photos are taken at Taman Safari Indonesia with markie and these photos are naturally unedited. My animal photos are rather entertaining since I'm lucky enough to be able to capture the candid photo of each of them. And the photo titles aren't impressive rather a bit weird but whatever! Well, VOTE which one do you like the most ^_^!

Saya Laper.. r.. r... (I'm hungry...)

I'm Hungry! This hippo opened his/her mouth so widely when I lowered down my car's window. We know how hungry he/she was, so we threw carrots to him/ her. I had a better version of this one but unfortunately it was blurry but this one would do as well, right? The photo composition looks good enough right? One Eye, Sharp Teeth, and Wide mouth Open! what else do you want? =p

Saya Lagi Bergaya Loh! (I'm Posing)

I heck no idea why that Orang Utan Pose like that. I opened my car's window and I zoomed my lens at this Orang Utan. Suddenly he walked nearer to that brick and posed like that! ha-ha-ha! FUNNY hey! While his/her friend was just being a good orang Utan, calm and looking decent. Damn poser! ha-ha-ha!

Si Cantik Yuci (The Pretty Yuci)

I'm not making up her name, I asked what is her name to her guard. She is the most friendly little tiger in the baby zoo (Taman Safari Indonesia) and she loves to be photographed. She always smile, loves playing and never bored of cheering those who wants to take a photo shoot with her. This is me and my friends favorite tiger and that scar of her, well see carefully.. it's a sign of L O V E and WE LOVE YUCI ^____^

Inilah Pose Andalanku (My best pose)

This jamaican looking Orang Utan always pose like this and he could actually pose like that for I don't know how many minutes. I went somewhere and he still posing like that. So I guess this is his favorite pose. Shockingly, I didn't realize that He was posing until I saw this photo on my laptop. I knew his eyes are looking at my camera but I just didn't realize he was just a damn poser Orang Utan! ha-ha-ha-ha! Old but still funny and trying his best to look "handsome" in the photo =P So Do you love or hate him? =P

Kami Cinta di Foto (We love to be photographed)

Wouldn't you be agreed with my funny title? Look at both of them. One is posing by closing his eyes and the other one is smiling. Their actions ( you should had seen it) made me write that title; they really love to be photographed; I caught a photo of them while pretending to fight, talk, kiss too! Wait was them kissing? Not sure! but it was kinda blur in a way so have to choose this photo as my favorite of this lovely dovey birdies! Don't know I think this photo look better rather than have both of the birds looking at my camera! 

 Weks, Weks!!! Weks!!!  =P

DON'T laugh at the title! I can't help it. "Teasing You" doesn't seem a funny name! so the way this king of the jungle showed how funny he's. I mean not that he's nice or made this kind of emotion on purpose but hey, my camera was in continuos mode so I managed to capture this "weks" expression of the roar master! PS : no! I captured this lion from the glass room with my Zoom Lens at Singapore Zoo last year.

 Lagi Makan kok Di Foto?(Taking my photo while eating)

Candid photo of a parrot while eating peanut (yes, I just describe things that you see in a photo) at Taman Mini, Indonesia. Old stock photo that I love too! I love the Bokeh, the 3/4 photo of the beautiful red parrot with colorful feathers. It made this photo became a "portrait" photo of him or her? I forgot! Him I think! or her? *not sure*! But whatever, His/her face looks so decent and it seemed that I caught him/her candid while eating. Since I love taking Candid photos, then there's no reason for not making this as my favorite! Is it your favorite too?

 Awww... Lucu Na Aku! (Awww, I'm so adorable) 

Well, I've this weird attitude that I like (mostly) naming my photo title (whatever photos) based on the first impression or words when I see it. This "Baby Orang Utan" was taken last year with my Canon 40D and 18-300 MM zoom lens (damn heavy) at Singapore Zoo. I love the "shiny" baby's eyes and the expression when he/she looked at my lens. It's just like a rare moment at least for taking a photo of an active orang utan. So I gave myself a pat in the head for able to capture the right moment with the right expression. *Congratulation Mz.g!e". 

Masih Ngantuk (Still Sleepy)

Okay! I'm sorry to be so picky but this white little tiger is definitely my favorite amongst others. The composition is alright, nothing wow. But when you see this photo of his (It's a boy, I'm sure), it looks rather like a stuff doll than a tiger itself. I had no idea why I only focused on the left side of his face only but I guess that's what make him look different and adorable. Honestly, after seeing this photo, I feel like coming back again to Taman Safari and bring him home. Oh! I so adore him! My favorite, lovable, huggable and sleepy lil' white tiggie!

Mata Si Hitam Putih (The Black & White's eye)

There's something about this photo that make me fall in love with it. Originally its color but since its zebra then I thought of just made it Black and White. I love how focused I was toward his/her eye and the eye lashes too. Should it need to be cropped? In a way yes but somehow the composition isn't bad neither, right? The zebra's lines make, focused eye, and sharp eye lashes made me adore this photo of mine. Yes sometimes, we need to love our photos so we can be more creative and inspired for the weakness.

The Poser Parrot

Additional parrot photo *giggles*. I remembered I gave this photo for my photography assignment and the teacher just happened to reject it for I don't know why. I'm not sure what "part" of the parrot should we really need to show to make a good parrot photo. But, then we know that photography is subjective so though he didn't like it but I do. The parrot's face told us "hey, I'm posing right now, take a photo of me please while eating", What do you say? he-he-he!

Twinnie Last Food

First of all, I apologized for the non-focus and blurry photos. I was just too exhausted after finished my work as a first photographer for my friend's friend wedding. So yes, being the only photographer held the camera for hours and hours made my hands unsteady. I was starving but anyway, the photos isn't that crap, can still be seen and looking nice. We were looking very hungry, weren't we?

Anyway, these are the last food that the twins ate before they headed back to Singapore. We ate at Java Kitchen, Central Park. The traditional food is totally pricy but the price isn't that bad; pretty rational and oh, I love their Ice Cendol, LOVELY!

This is my so not delicious Nasi Gudeng. Well theirs is different than the usual Nasi Gudeng but definitely regretted on eating them. And I hate fried unions and since I was so hungry, I didn't complain much. Just finished it and drank Ice Cendol =D

 I'm not sure what this one is called. but it's fried fish with fried tofu and soya bean. Karin's food and enjoyed eating it. It looks delicious but I was just fully concentrated on my food only LOL

Their unique way of presenting the Fried Rice. This one is Devi's menu and she said the tastes is just alright.  I guess the street fried rice nearby my house tastier than this expensive looking fried rice =P

Okay! That's all. The satay photo is blur so I didn't upload, did it on purpose for deleting it too from my laptop's memory. Personally, I don't like their Indonesian Vegetable's Salad with Peanut Sauce! It doesn't taste like Gado-Gado (that's how they called it). But Overall, it's just average food but some of their food is quite good though but I just happened to forget which ones!