Confession of a Shopaholic!

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Why oh why today I feel like blogging again and again and again! I’m so in a mood ;) Well, I’m going to make a confession, I’ve been back to Jakarta for 3 weeks and you know what, I’ve spent too much on buying things! I’ve just checked my bank account through internet banking and goodness! I can’t even write down the number I’ve spent within these 3 weeks! Shopping was really burned a hole on my pocket, I need to do a serious saving, or else, I’ll be broke to the bones! *sobsob*

But HOW? I don’t have any idea, at all. Moreover, see, tomorrow I’m going out, for a date-a movie, lunch and maybe I’ll join my housemate for a dinner, well, I don’t know, we’ll see tomorrow. I just couldn’t believe, how easy I spent on something way too much, while couple months ago, I could resisted the temptation of buying this and that, for iPhone’s sake!

Let’s blame the Jakarta Great Sale event, you know, three days after I back in town, I went out with my Medan’s friend, Ellen to TA and Central Park, new mall, located right next to TA. It’s opened for quite a long time, but I never had a chance to pay a visit, so yeah, we went there. Starting with looked around for every corner of this new mall, then had lunch, then *small voice* we decided to do window-shopping, but hey! Zara’s off up to 50% what a great deal!

How could you resist that temptation? You tell me! I know if I didn’t decide to go out on the first place, I can avoid of me buying so many things that actually I don’t really need, but yeah, I’ll be stuck 24/7 stuck in boredom, and stuck in my room just like what is happening to me now! I need a fresh air, so it’s not a crime if I decided to go out, once in a while, right or right? :p

here's the Zara dress that I bought :) 

Well, then we tried this and that. I ended up bought a dress and long-sleeve blouse. Here’s an excuse, I gave my Zara sweater to mum, because it’s oversized to me, so, I need a replacement, make sense, to you? :p That’s why I bought that long-sleeve blouse, with an extra-gift to myself, a dress. It’s lovely, and actually it’s quite big to me it’s “S” size already, they don’t have the “XS” anymore, but I love the dress so I took it. :p

I came home with stuffed belly and two pieces of clothes but my total spending that day costs me more than half of my monthly allowance! Then the weekend came. I went out with my housemate, two days in a row, Saturday and Sunday. To satisfy our desire in culinary hunting, we had our lunch at “Kopi Tiam Oe”. The place is small, designed with oldie theme. The interior design didn’t impress me much, but the food is superb! Everything that we ordered tasted so good. I might want to come back here to taste another menu. Sadly, if you visit it by lunch time, you can only ordered foods on “lunch” section on the menu, so does if you come at brunch time or dinner or even supper time.

The prices are very reasonable, quite cheap, I think, because the portion is big and food tasted delicious, but looks less appetizing. Anyway, right after that, we went to PI, EX and GI. We had an issue while finding cab that’d took us there. It’s quite hard to find a cab and the taxi driver was very rude! Okay, forget about it! I’m not going to discuss it here. It gives me tense!

Here we go again, shop till drop!! I don’t know, for what I can remembered, I only bought this little things and another little things, but in the end, it costs too much on me. SIGH!! We also went to Casablanca to buy some DVDs and some more things and oh yeah! I finally got my portable cutlery set with reasonable price. On Sunday, we ate at Sushi Tei, to satisfy our sushi-craving! Oh yeah, I also did a macaron-hunting while I visited these malls. Thanked God, this little cutie French biscuit is hard to find, or else, I’ll ended up broke to the bones just to buy this little stuff! The price is killing! It’s damn expensive! SIGH!! But I just can’t stop buying them, every time I went to somewhere and I see these macs! :D

Well, the story of “Claustrawberry the shopaholic” is not ending here. Two days ago, I went to GI, PI, EX again. You know why! To buy my Harry Potter movie tickets and black shoes. I was trying to find a black heels or Zara pumps, but I couldn’t find something that makes my heart fall for them. So I decided to buy it at Charles & Keith. No more sale and discount! HIKS!! So, I bought it with normal price which is quite expensive! Well, okay, I’ve told mum about this! This shoes is for work, so it’s okay, moreover, dearie with his kind heart pay it for me. FYI, I’m not kind of girl who loves to ask something from my boyfriend, or ask him buying this and that for me, and he said take it as a gift from his first salary and because he said he never buying me anything, I have to accept it! Are you kidding me, honey? I don’t need that, dear! And who said so? You already gave so many things to me, the precious one, which are your caring and love to me ;) but I guess, for this time, I do really really need it, so I’ll take it. Oh darling, thank you so so much for this! I’ll pay you once I have an extra money, next month, it’s few days away! Won’t take too long, besides, his birthday is near, so I’ll prepare something special just for you. ;)

Hmmm… enough for my confession! Please forgive me, for being such a shopaholic.. LOL :p Btw, one of my besties, Steffi is in town! We’re both are alike, or maybe she’s worst *sorry dear, if you read this* :p We’re going to rock the malls next week, thanked God it’s new month. I don’t know what is going to happen! As we already planned to go out for shopping, food and macarons hunting, movies and a lot of meet up to chat and take bunch of pics etc. :p I do really really need to find job! So, I can do all these stuffs with no regrets! :p

Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase. ---Erma Bombeck.

Over the Edge

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Hola! How's life recently? I hope you all had a very great time, unlike mine. Life’s currently flat and I’m stuck in boredom. Thanked God it’s Friday now-I thought yesterday was Friday, you know! How silly!-I always love weekend, since my dearie and all my friends are working now, so they’ll be free during weekends. And that’s the only time, I can really enjoy my day. And here’s the good news, for all movie junkies or let’s say potter freak, today’s a historical day for Hollywood’s film industry in Indonesia! You should remember this day. After banned-Hollywood-movies policy in Indonesia, finally today, you can watch a good movie in Indonesia. Yeah, and you as a potter freak should be proud! It's simply because they are finally screening “Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows” movie as a warm welcome to Hollywood movies! I doubt if it's not because of "Harry Potter" they'll still postpone showing us a good movie. Anyway, how are you, Kung-fu Panda, Pirates of Caribbean, Fast Five, etc etc? Welcome back dudes! After this Harry Potter movie, they've scheduled for these dudes and friends to be screening soon! Geez!! I’ve been waiting for this like foreverrrrrrr!-yea, with lots of "rrrrr"!-

So, the question that you should ask to me is, am I going to watch it today, on prime time? Sadly, no. My dearie is working, so like it or not we have to watch it on weekend. Did you still remember my sayings about this final harry potter movie? Well yeah, I’m going to watch it on premiere studio. You have my word. Stayed in Jakarta for more than five years, I never watched movies in premiere studio! Never ever! Imagine! Anyway, tickets’ on hands, and this is my first time so, mind my “kampungan” behaviour :p

I’m more excited to know that I’m going to watch it on premiere studio, rather than the fact that I’m gonna watch the last chapter of Harry Potter Series or the movie itself. I already read the book, I already watched it, so there’s nothing could surprise me anymore, so all I hope is the studio will be beyond my expectation. Or well, just don’t expect too much, since, we didn’t managed to get “the best seat” which is in the middle of the screen, but on left corner, thankfully, it’s on top, the very first row, which known as row “A”.

color edited :)

Every single person in this country is thirst for good/read:Hollywood/movies, no wonder the theatre(s) in couple weeks ahead will be flooded by thousands of people. It’s like you found an oasis in the middle of desert! I can imagine. Therefore, I should thanked God, that we could get the tickets, on second day, good seated, I can say with only queued for 20 mins or so.

Catch up with you guys later on, gotta go now, as a bad news for me, my vesca acted weirdly these few days. Safari browser, which is my favourite browser, is not working until now. I’ve uninstalled it! iTunes also doesn’t work properly. It can’t backup my iPhone’s data. My CPU performance is also reach 100% in fact there’s no any program running, well, I have like 6-7 programs running in background, exclude my anti-virus and other supporting programs. Usually it worked nicely, and I’ve turned them off for good, but still... And worst, my lappie fan’s sound is very noisy everytime I opened skype or iTunes or more than two tabs on my browser. OMG!! I really really don’t know what to do with this laptop. I’ve tried to uninstalled unused programs and other unimportant things, but it stays the same. I’m giving up! SIGH!!

Maybe it’s the time for Macbook Pro :p I don’t know... We’ll see...

Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. ---Vincent Van Gogh, 1889.

One Step Closer

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Can't tell how nervous I was within these few days. I nervous and worried at the same time thinking whether am I going to pass my verbal and numerical reasoning test or not. You know how I-am-so-not-into-accounting, right? But this is the very first time in my life, I feel like I can deal with it, and I'm going to find a job based on my background education, which is accounting, and the only job that I love is working in a banking industries. I’ve just received an email said that I passed the test. What a relieved! Thank you so so so much, Jesus, My Lord. I couldn’t be happier than this. I want this badly, and this means so much to me. Means a lot to me, umm no, it means everything to me. You know, by the time I visited the building for the test, I was in love with the atmosphere already and I know, I’ll be fine and I’ll be doing great things in there. And voila, thanked God I passed.

Okay, this does not a 100% guarantee that I could joined the team, the whole process is still a long way to go, but this is big. This is the first step, if you failed on your first step, you have to say goodbye for the rest, so yeah, this is big and important. At least, I’m one step closer to it and I’m thankful for that. I am so grateful for this great news and hopefully, everything that’s good will follow smoothly. You know, I almost lose all my hope, but this brings my confidence back and raises my hope again.

You don’t know how excited and grateful I am at the moment. Thank you so much for all the good wishes and prayers from all of you, my all-time beloved people in my life, especially my dear Lord, Jesus. I’m still waiting for the next great news, but all I know is, I’m not going to waiting in vain and I won’t be disappointed in the end. Finger crossed.

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope. ---Edgar Howe