mercoledì 18 novembre 2009

Wanted : CDs

Taking a break from the make-up stuff craziness (tbh I was gonna write a post about that, but this one wins instead haha), these days I really want to buy some CDs. In Indonesia (or any other place in the world) it's very easy to download free copies but for these three, I really want to buy original ones. Let me tell you about them one by one.

First,
1. Cry Me A River
2. All Of Me
3. Georgia On My Mind
4. Crazy Love
5. Haven't Met You Yet
6. All I Do Is Dream Of You
7. Hold On
8. Heartache Tonight
9. You're Nobody Till Somebody Loves You
10. Baby (You've Got What It Takes)
11. At This Moment
12. Stardust
13. Whatever It Takes (bonus track)

You might have heard his first single from this album, Haven't Met You Yet

Well, generally, Bublé's music is easy to enjoy. And tho it may seems easy for him to pick any songs :P I always love his album. Tbh I've listened to the tracks in my iTunes, but I need an original for my car, or simply anywhere. I love the album.

Second,
1. Cowboy Casanova
2. Quitter
3. Mama's Song
4. Change
5. Undo It
6. Someday When I Stop Loving You
7. Songs Like This
8. Temporary Home
9. This Time
10. Look At Me
11. Unapologize
12. What Can I Say (Featuring Sons Of Sylvia)
13. Play On

Oh yes, Carrie Underwood and her beautiful beautiful voice. You might have listened to her single 'Cowboy Cassanova', I love that song, but the single that I recently loved was one from her previous album, Carnival Ride. I cried watching this video (in campus... woot).
This is 'Just a Dream'...

Which add another CD on the list, her previous album, Carnival Ride :)
1. Flat On The Floor
2. All-American Girl
3. So Small
4. Just A Dream
5. Get Out Of This Town
6. Crazy Dreams
7. I Know You Won't
8. Last Name
9. You Won't Find This
10. I Told You So
11. The More Boys I Meet
12. Twisted
13. Wheel Of The World

Third,

Disc: 1
1. Jump Then Fall
2. Untouchable
3. Forever & Always (Piano Version)
4. Come In With The Rain
5. SuperStar
6. The Other Side Of The Door
7. Fearless
8. Fifteen
9. Love Story
10. Hey Stephen
11. White Horse
12. You Belong With Me
13. Breathe
14. Tell Me Why
15. You're Not Sorry
16. The Way I Loved You
17. Forever & Always
18. The Best Day
19. Change

Disc: 2
1. Change Music Video
2. The Best Day Music Video
3. Love Story Music Video
4. White Horse Music Video
5. You Belong With Me Music Video
6. Love Story On The Set Behind the Scenes
7. White Horse On The Set Behind the Scenes
8. You Belong With Me On The Set Behind the Scenes
9. Fearless Tour 2009 Photo Gallery
10. Fearless 2009 Tour Behind the Scenes at the First Show!
11. CMT Awards "Thug Story"

Ahaha it's no secret I really enjoy listening to Taylor Swift (and singin along with them, shhhh... :P) I've listened to the original Fearless copy and I can put it on repeat on and on, all the 13 tracks. For this one, she added 6 new ones (except for Forever and Always) and a video disc. I usually hate when an artist launch another album with 'platinum edition' or 're-packaged' but somehow I think this one's worth it.
Especially with the videos, I love her videos :D
tho my ever-favorite would be the one from the first album, Picture to Burn,

From this album, my favorite would be, like most people do, You Belong With Me, which is the ringtone of my blackberry hahaha

Those are my top CDs for now, I think I'll do a review after I bought any of them :)
*excited*

martedì 10 novembre 2009

Joy to the Small World

How I wish I'm in any Disney parks for Christmas :)
I love this commercial a lot ^___^

How can you resist???

Nine West... the culprit behind my current obsession... Closing to the end of the year, everything became so irresistible... Or is it just me that's not strong enough hahaha...

Well, here's the item Nine West posted in Facebook that made me go head over heels....



I don't care if anyone says it's so simple. But it simply captured my attention and made me go "awh"... I know the heels are kinda high (kinda? yeah right~) but Nine West shoes are very comfortable and durable too... I only have two of them, bought on discount price, one by mom and one with my own money from internship ;) the one i bought myself was the last piece and on 70% discount, that's how I afford it.

I think the color is really nice (they have other colors too, but I love this one best), and you know, nude colors make your legs appear longer. It doesn't have too much detail but that's so me hehehehehe...

For these bonfires, they are originally USD 89, then got to USD 69, and now they're 48.99 USD. Tsk, Nine West sure knows how to play with me. Hix.

And as if these are not enough, they posted other pics earlier today about their new collection by Fred Allard in Paris.... Which ALSO caught my eye... Lookie here...


I don't know its name and can't even find it in Nine West website..! They look very nice! I've always wanted platform sandals but haven't found one for me til now... Now they have to show me this?? +____+;; Tho tbh I'm not thinking about it too much cuz I don't know the price and I prefer pretty heels than edgy platform sandals, so Bonfire wins over this one. But still, beautiesss~...

I think I have to stop talking about shoes for now, cuz there are also some things on bargain price occupying my mind :D

After confessing that I browsed Sephora.com regularly, best to just say what I've found there hehehe.... Sooo... Sephora is now holding the 'Holiday Magic' with special offers and gifts. One of the product that I think is really on bargain price right now are BeneFit Lust Dusters Trio. They're supposed to cost 18 USD each, but now they are 10 USD for THREE! That's like 44 USD off... Owh... And they look so sweettttt... I've seen the original price on other websites (such as macy's) and they do cost 18 USD each... Look, look...~



The lust duster box...
Originally they have 10 colors
From the top, Snow Bunny, Goldilocks, Cloud 9, Nugget, Jelly Roll, Big Daddy, Gogo Girl, Boom Boom, Punk Royalty and Moon Doggie

The lust dusters trio from Sephora has two sets.

One is the paler one, contains Nugget, Goldilocks and Snow Bunny


The second one contains Gogo Girl, Big Daddy and Moon Doggie

I think they look very sweet (and very cheap, for now, too)... Owh love to simply look at them (weirddddd :D) I wanna be somewhere I can online shop with free shipping hahaha...

Well I guess that's it for now... Two kinds of items I'm currently lusting over. Crossing my fingers this holiday wahahah...

xoxo! :*





sabato 7 novembre 2009

Cookies




I spent my Friday baking some cookies with a recipe from Kocchimuite, Miiko! 20 :)
In the book, Miiko was about to give Christmas gifts to her family and friends, so she made some cookies which can also be used as Christmas tree decoration. As for me, it's still a trial before making it for Christmas so I didn't put a hole for ribbon in the cake.


The recipe is very simple, you need;
100 gr unsalted butter
60 gr sugar
1 egg
1 tsp water
200 gr flour
decopen for decoration
some more flour to help with the kneading

First, divide the white and the yolk of the egg,
Mix the butter with sugar,
add egg white, mix
add flour, mix
Put it in the fridge for 30 to 60 mins
Knead and shape it, put the batch on the pan, then brush the top of the cookies with yolk
Bake it til it gets brown and ready to be decorated :)

So very easy! :)
And i love eating them too..!

Aside from the ingredients that I already have, I bought some cookie cutter and red cookie icing. I chose red cuz I know it will be really contrast with the cookies :)

Cookie cutting... Heheheh somehow I like this pic
Some of the cookies before decorated. I bought the teddy bear shaped same like Miiko's

Getting them lined after coolin down, ready to decorate


Decorating with such big decopen is not so easy. Sometimes the line got too big, gotta control the pressure and length...

But don't you think they look cute? :D
They taste a tad salty but sweet around the icing. Makes a perfect pair for tea or coffee time :)
I think I might make some more later just for myself hehehe



Weekend Refill :)

This Saturday started as any other Saturday, the ones where I plan nothing or plan to sleep through. But concerning the damage that's been done to my hair. I think my hair is kinda sick :P and i need a treatment soon. That's why I'm entitled for a creambath at Roger's. Hohohoho....It went quite well and way better than my last creambath in Anata Riau Junction (which was a hair mask treatment, but well, quite the same). The last time my hair ended up lookin kinda hangin', which I hate. And that made me have to fix it myself afterwards.

But today was so nice... I picked the vanilla scent and tbh I can quite enjoy the massage tho I still have to bite my lips a bit when it feels so ticklin'.

Aside from the creambath, today I went out to refill some of my stuff. Like shower gel, lotion, facial cleanser and conditioner. Not only refilling, I decided to purchase Makarizo hair energy creambath cuz it was on bargain price... from 10000 idr to 6600 idr! hahaha decided to buy four of em :D Dunno when I'd try it but I hope anytime soon and hope it helps my hair too :)

Another highlight; I just knew that NYX cosmetics has opened in SOGO Paris Van Java. I went to Sogo to look for my Revlon Beyond Natural foundation, my shade number 220.
I've look for it in Riau Junction, BIP and also PVJ but they're all out of stock :( the lady in the Revlon counter keeps trying to convince me to purchase the 210 shade but I wasn't sure about it so I kept saying no.

Feelin' kinda desperate with the foundation, I bumped to the NYX counter and tried on some lip glosssss hehehehe... Not that I'm impulsive but... See, I usually wear Make Up Forever Glossy Full Couleur which originally belong to my Mom and I can't afford to re-purchase it if I ran out of it.
So I need something else in replacement. My sister has been using NYX glosses and I think it looks nice so I wanted to purchase one, keeping in mind that it's not really expensive (especially compared to the MUFE one :'( ) I wanted to buy the Mega Shine line but after some trying and chat with the NYX lady, I bought the sheer tube lipgloss instead.
Like the website said "has a soft brush applicator for perfect contouring", I found the brush applicator really convenient and I love the color too :) But I still wonder if it's okay to wear this to campus... I usually wear maybelline fruity jelly but some of them looks too glossy, like oily.
So so far I really love this NYX sheer gloss and thinking of purchasing another color! :)

Oh and I'm really glad to appear decent today (or every day) with such light make-up. I woreBody Shop Seaweed Mattifying Day Cream,
Maybelline Angel Fit two way cake in natural beige ochre,

Banana Boat Aloe Vera sunscreen lip balm

Well, I'm not so confident to post any pics... But here's a smile for you :) natural look lips with a touch of healthy rosey shade of NYX :) looks better in person hahahaha *i wish*











mercoledì 4 novembre 2009

Philosophy: Unconditional Love



Philosophy

Recently I browsed through the Sephora website quite often (Yes, that's a confession :P) and it becomes one of the 'most viewed' in my google chrome, maybe that's why I clicked randomly at it at times (ahahaha excusessss)

Closing in to the holiday season, the products that caught my eye are the ones from Philosophy. Although they also have make-up stuff but I found myself over-interested to their skin care products. Cuz they have the cutest line of them. So many different flavors! Lookie here

Vanilla Birthday Cake!
It has the scent and you can use it for shampoo, shower gel and bubble bath. I think it's really perfect for travelling needs.. :) But of course that's not my main reason... It's cuz they also have so many other flavorssss... Here here


Bubble Gum Blow Out!
Candy Cane for the Holidays
They also have some sets for special occasions...
Winter escape with peppermint hot cocoa and marshmallows
Bridal party with wedding cake, bubbly and bridal bouquet
(I think it's soooo cute!)
Classic cookbook with various flavors
The cookie set with oatmeal, lemon cookie, coconut macaroon and chocolate chip cookie

Just because set with three kinds of chocolates

These stuff sent me head over heels. I'm so curious and I've read the reviews that they smell so good but don't leave your skin smells so food-ish. So I think it's safe to give them to boys...? In replacement of giving the real food hahaha. Are boys allowed to use chocolate-scented shower gels? I guess there's no rules against that! :D

Apart from that, the name of the brand, philosophy also has some philosophy behind it which is quite a long explanation and I'm not really interested in reading last time I went to their website. But they use children pics in their ads to remind people of the simple happiness when you're a kid. How cute is that? And, maybe, just maybe, it fits me so well hahaha...

In addition to the philosophy title, each bottle, if you haven't already realized, has some writings on it. I found it special too, cuz this is what they have on their bottles...
On Vanilla creme brulee bottle, they have the recipe of the real vanilla creme brulee. You can make one if the smell is not enough for you :)That goes for every food-named products but for some of them with real philosophies, like the 'be somebody' bottles...

I found this really interesting and good for thoughts. Yes there is no such thing as being too good. Be somebody, we become greater good when we become humble in our own deeds. Sometimes we forgot about the simple things, I think having something like that written in our everyday shower gel bottles is a great idea. Like having a waterproof hallmark card! :D

I think these products are some of my favorite things in one. I love it!
Ehm, aside from the price... But it's so cute how can you resist? ^_^