Waterleaf @ Bandung

Introducing you all this very beautiful cafe in Bandung especially if you come with someone very special or even with your family. This huge place with place to stay on, small waterfall and even playground to play with your family is located at Jl. Sersan Bajuri No. 102 - Cihideung, Bandung. My friend, Mega told me to come over before the sunset but we couldn't get into it before 6 pm which means we couldn't really watch the waterfall, sad hey! However, here are the views of the cafe itself after 6.30 PM or precisely at dinner time!

Awesome scenery isn't? it's beautiful and the weather is quite chilly so if you can't stand of cold, then bring your jacket along. I think this place going to be beautiful if you come there earlier like around 4.30 PM so you can see the sunset! Don't you agree?

Since it's dinner time, the four of us decided to just have our dinner in here. With that kind of chilly weather, I decided to have their grilled ribs menu and it's so delicious. I love how they present the menu I ordered - fresh vegetable on a small carry-able bamboo place and a bowl of rice with elephant craft.

Since it's dinner time, the four of us decided to just have our dinner in here. With that kind of chilly weather, I decided to have their grilled ribs menu and it's so delicious. I love how they present the menu I ordered - fresh vegetable on a small carry-able bamboo place and a bowl of rice with elephant craft. I'm not quite sure what the girls ordered - it's like fried corn and prawn fritter ( Bakwan Jagung + Udang) and Empal, It's our local ( Java) spiced and fried chunks of beef and these kind of fried stuff is great to be eaten by chillies of course!  And also my other friend ordered The Oxtails Soup!

 The price is quite expensive though but not too expensive as we thought it would be, so should we just say it as reasonable? For the price of my ribs, it's great ( Rp. 47.000 , $4.70) and they really gave me lots of ribs! And I think the oxtail has somewhat the same price. We didn't order any weird drink other than tea! ha-ha-ha! The place is great whether its for hanging out with the very special one (yes great place for valentine), honeymoon even ( I heard the resort is also good), or just with your family! I love the sceneries, the food I had and of course the friends too ^_^

Lisung Cafe Review

This is the book menu of a cafe in Bandung, precisely at Jl. Bukit Pakar Timur No.111 called " Lisung Cafe". My friend, Mega wanted to go to this cafe since her friends give a recommendation. So, there four of us who were totally planning on being a cafe hopper that Friday! Look on how happy we really are after our tummy was full with awesome food :)

I don't know why but I'm always so tempted in trying food or beverage with weird name like this drink I've. I'm not quite sure what it's called anyway since I've problem in remembering name but this one is the house specialist's drink - something with volcano I think! Basically, it's coffee with raisins as their topping, strawberry as the drink's decoration and melted chocolate muddy covering half of the glass. Nothing really special about the taste I mean it's just coffee covered with Chocolate basically but once the chocolate mixed with the coffee it tastes quite good though. A must to try! :)

The 4 of us arrived at Lisung with a very hungry stomach and couldn't barely be wait for the food to be served. The service isn't that slow but since we were just totally starving so it made us think it served long. Anyway, the menu I ordered is basically delicious grilled spicy honey duck served with a fried fermented  soya beans, fried tofu that I gave away to my friend and Kerupung (those two whites). Whether its the taste, the portion, or the price itself; both are just awesome - Rp. 27.000 or $2.70, around that price! Seriously, it's so cheap for a price of cafe's food. The duck is being grilled well enough not too spicy nor sweet, it's just excellent.

Followed with my friend's menu that I have no idea what its called although this is the house's speciality too. Overall, it's just fried chicken with fried tofu, nuts rice, and fried fermented soya beans and it also cost around the price above. She loves the food she had and yeah I also had a bit of it and it's good too.

Whether you are local or not, you should try their Nasi Bakar ( Grilled Rice). It serves with Deep Fried Chicken, Fried Tofu and Fried Fermented Soya Beans. There's just something different about usual Grilled Rice. This one is a bit expensive than the rest of us but it's totally worth for the price (can't even be called as expensive neither) and it looks as good as it tastes, no kidding!

Now, let's see the views you'll be getting from this 4 level cafe. For the cafe's view itself... well you couldn't really see its beauty unless at night time. I heard it's beautiful at night time. However, I decided to just take some photos of the views. So don't worry, each level has a different view but the bottom ones is the nicest one with sofa. Although we went there for lunch but the weather is quite chilly too!

The use of traditional touch makes this cafe is the right place to hang out whether with friends/family. Even, you could actually find a cat inside of this cafe which is weird though ha-ha-ha! This cafe have lots of good spots for photography and you can actually do an old village kind of PRE-WED concept. It's such a shame even through each photo I took, you won't be able to see the whole 4 levels or might be perhaps, I should try to take from different angles with wide-lens! Hmm! Let's see :-) And anyway, each level has different seat and I just forgot to take them!

ONE thing for sure that this cafe has become our favorite. It takes a little while to get the food served but well, when you are with the right people, time just flies quickly. Their food and beverage is very cheap, the portions is big, the taste is awesome (we love each of our own food), the view isn't that bad, the weather is so chilly with lots of good spots to take photos too. So really, you don't need to think about anything, just bring the special ones to this highly recommended cafe! The cafe's signboard is kind of unnoticed in a way so does the building (too many cafes surround them), but look for this electricity tower and you are there! Hope you enjoy their food & beverage and the environment as much as we really do! ^______^

Anton & Lulu - WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY

The best quote for this couple is the ones from Lao Tzu, "To Love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage". That's how their love story is somehow; accepting each other weakness and made it as the strengths in relationship that make them stronger each time.  Anton and Lulu just had their wedding on the 27th of January 2011 which is a bit unusual day in Indonesia to have a wedding - we usually do over the weekends.

I forgot the name of their church but their holy matrimony is done in catholic ways which I love.  Yeah their session is a lot longer but somehow, I just fall in love with it, apart from not letting us to step into the altars for the shots. 

You know what I love the most from their wedding? Is the parents expressions and the couple happy face throughout the whole session. Their schedules wasn't as hectic as the other couples I used to capture although they did the same thing as the others do. Whether it was in the church or at the reception itself, both of their parents never failed to show awesome expressions, Salute for them

Done with the Holy matrimony's session, they went back to their hotel and I came along with them too. Right after they got into the room at Sheraton Hotel, Jakarta; the groom and his best men changed  their clothes while the bride and her maids right away hunt for the food. ha-ha-ha! funny! See, how easy going the couple really are. Nervous is definitely not in their dictionary. So we only got left with the beautiful girls.

After DONE with around 20 minutes photo-sessions of the girls, we went to the reception place for them to do the retouch. Look at their faces! they really are having fun on this beautiful day of theirs :)

No matter how much Indonesian people loves the western culture, but we are still keeping our marriage traditions as much as we can. For chinese people, we have this tradition of bowing to the elders and other family members and in return, they would be given the couple either a red envelope (ang pao) or gold jewelries. This tradition is called as "Tea Pai" ( if I wrote them correctly, at least that's how we said it). And in return the bride & groom need to given away the red envelopes that they prepared for the kids and those who aren't married too

The bride loves kids so much even at their wedding, there were kids dancing performances too which is cute. These four angels love to be the center of people's attentions! Since their wedding is just fresh from the oven and myself haven't done much, so I only randomly picked these two photos and edited them for a sneak peek =)

And above it all, me and my team is being so thankful for the trust they gave to us even to capture their Sangjit's session too! Their families are so adorable and really having a strong bond between each other. They treated each other with so much respect, love, laughters and even me and my friend as their photographers could felt the warmth of family-hood, thank you so extremely much :)

Just like previously entry, for more photos, please kindly join my Facebook fan page at Aozora Photography . The couple wanted us to post their photos as much as we can through the page of ours and we'll definitely be glad to do so ^_^

Astons Prime Review

ASTONS PRIME is located at the 3rd floor in Central Point, Singapore and this restaurant is recommended with my friend who's living in Singapore. And I thought, why don't we give it a go and had to admit that I'm so much in love with the awesome food they have! For the price itself, it starts with around $ 15 I think but it's worth for every penny you spent! The place itself is quite cozy and it's really a great place to eat, drink, and either for hangout or business meeting.

Since my mom was kind of full so she just decided to have beef lasagna. We thought it would just be average taste or even crap since their main food is actually the steak. Me and my aunties tried it and had to admit, we love it too!! So whether you wan to eat the heaviest food (steak) or the lightest one (the soup), each of them taste good!

 I think this is called New York's strip and my aunty ordered it in medium done. The grilled and the sauce itself is great enough at least I don't taste this kind of tasty steak down here in Jakarta. It's good!

My other aunty ordered this one and I really couldn't remember what this one called but it's the house's speciality. I think this one is Prime Rib eye Extra Cut and once again I've to admit its seriously taste great especially if you eat it with my lamb chop's sauce, it tastes much better ^'^

Mine has the cutest name ever! This is U.S Kookaburra Lamb Chop! The Lamb Chop is kind of tasteless but it tastes great when you eat it with the Kookaburra's sauce they served. I chose mashed potatoes and Broccoli and Cheese as the main dishes which made me extremely full. And wait this is not all my menu, my aunty who ordered the Prime Rib wanted me to finish half of hers so definitely I'm so overloaded with beef and I'm loving it!

And after we had our super duper heavy lunch, Mom desert, Vanilla Ice-cream is out! The ice-cream itself is also so creamy and I'm in love with it too! I asked for another scoop but mom didn't let me! Hard to believe that whether its the appetizer, main course and desert is actually great.

So for those who either live or visit Singapore, make sure you give a shot to eat at this delicious steak restaurant. Never taste steak as good as this one throughout the places I ever ate in Jakarta. Although it's a bit long to serve but whether its the price or the waiting moment, its worth it. Each of us happy with the menu we had especially mine who had to eat super duper lots of food. Great Food ^_^