Tropical Sweet 17

Hi everyone! Many people on my Formspring have requested a blog post on my birthday bash a month ago so I guess ayyy why not :D

Hence, I'll be outlining the events of that day for the people that asked for some ideas for their own parties. Good luck with your party-planning guys - trust me it's very stressful!

1.30 - 3 PM

We start out with hair and makeup... This is me with my hair clipped up in parts so that the curls can be long-lasting. My stylist then added three sets of clip-on hair extensions for more length and volume. Hehe excuse my no-makeup bare face! ><

3 - 5 PM

My photographer for the day, Rus Mulyadi, lives close to where I live, so he decided to give us extra service by taking pre-party shots at my house. He had to wait about fifteen mins for me to get changed though so he just lurked around corners, looking and testing out the lighting. I have to say he's very professional, friendly, and has great taste when it comes to the art of photography. The camera angles, tones of pictures, poses, etc., you can see he thinks very thoroughly! I definitely refer him to you guys :)

 

6 - 10 PM

Party time! I'm honestly too lazy to talk about the party in full so I'll just summarize all the highlights! Your fault for not coming! (Unless... I didn't invite you, in which case, I apologize hehe).

Weetttssss. I look like I'm pregnant here but s'all good.

Dummy cake by CherryBlossom. Go check them out they have super great looking cakes, very yummy too!!!

Dress by Mel Ahyar. It's lace in the front and backless with a long, layered, tulle bottom! Btw I look super fat in that first picture har har har.

My freaking favorite part of the entire decor! The gazebo-like thing that was propped on the bridge connecting the inside restaurant to the outer beachside area. Those are beautiful pastel roses and other flowers draped all around the metal bars and it just reminded me so much of elegant Elizabethan times and oh goodness gracious it's just so pretty :')

Detail of the gazebo. Oh and btw my dress designer referred me to one of her best friends, Deasy, the woman that did all the decor. If you guys have been to Magnum Cafe in Grand Indonesia, awesome interior right? Yep, it was all her! :D 

Ask me personally if you guys are interested to hire her, I'll give you her contact number hehe.

Now on the contrary, this was my LEAST favorite part of the decor :S I really disliked the middle font right there. It kinda looked very cheap to me cos I think it's just cut-out styrofoam?! Sucky thing was that this was kind of the centerpiece of the entire party so the stupid font made a cameo in pretty much every picture haha! Everything else was flawless though.

Wishing Tree! Haven't actually read through these cards yet hehe.

Photobooth area from MomentsToGo - unlimited printing of pictures!

                                    

There were 17 doves(?) in bird cages for all the "candles" and myself! These birds were eventually let to fly free whilst the rest of the guests had helium balloons. Some of these birds were injured though I think... so poor things just soared in the sky for a miniscule second before they SPLAT onto the ground. *holding back laughter*

My candles walking down the aisle with total swag and Danza Kuduro playing in the background.

"Tropical" belly dancers dancing to arabian music -_- no comment!

DEEEEJAAAAAAYYYYYY <3

Jazz/Pop band. Haha they were alright.

I also asked some of my friends to perform! These boys chose to dance (how cool is this shot btw?) and  Pepita&Carol was supposed to sing but couldn't at the end :( boohoo.

RAFFLE! Julian won the Blackberry!!! Then either Will or Don got the Polaroid camera and the iPod shuffle hehe.

There were also some games that mostly revolved around dance, catwalks, and couple-oriented ones. Haha aaaand I'm far too lazy to add pictures for those :p

At about 10 - 12 AM, the remaining guests just stayed for the afterparty and DANCED LIKE THERE WAS NO TOMORROW. The DJ started playing more upbeat music and aaaahhh it was just a great time. Haha to be honest with you this was my most favorite time from the party cos I could just completely let loose and truly celebrate my 17th :D

And that concludes this uber looooong post! Hope you liked all the pwettie pikchas and for those who are planning their own sweet 17, don't hesitate to ask me if you have any other questions :) I know planning can be such a hassle so I'll help if you need it hehe.

Lotsa loooveee, T

Chipmunk's Seventeen

Makeup by Anpa Suha. This was 12 hours after he applied it and it was STILL immaculate and perfect! :O and for the record I sweated sooo much from all the wildass dancing and walking around.

Finally 17 you guysss! :) Had a wonderful birthday bash last night regardless of the things that went wrong (my countless times of tripping over, friends that couldn't make it, the several birds that were supposed to fly away dramatically but instead splat on the ground HAHA). I want to thank each and every one of you guys that made my seventeenth, indeed, very sweet!!!

I don't have any pictures from the (pre/after) party just yet but I'll have them up as soon as I get them from my photographer! :) Maybe I'll even post about the party in detail alongside the pics, let's just see how my laziness plays out.

I liked each and every single one of the presents people gave me, though it kinda frazzled me how SO MANY PEOPLE GOT ME BODY SCENTED THINGS. E.g: Lola perfume by Marc, Juicy Couture perfume set, Versace perfume set, Lush products... and lots and lots of body soap -_- what are you guys trying to prove here?!

Hahah I'm only joking. I know I don't stink. I think.

But yeah that's besides the point. I really enjoyed looking through all the prettily wrapped gifts and thoughtful cards :') made me feel so loved! Hehe and let's not forget the videos that my friends made for me - aaahhhh made my night just that much more amazing.

I especially loved the one that somebody very special to me madeee :)) hihi thank you again&again&again for the effort you've put in. You never fail to surprise me. Makes me wish even more you were right here to spend my bday with me :(

..but that's okay, all in good time, right!

Ok that is all for today,

-T

2011 Nutshell && Lessons Learnt

*Warning: long post with swearing ahead! This is how I talk naturally when I'm not trying to be all poetic like in my other posts so if you're a sensitive prick then go check out my PG-13 paraphenalia instead mwah*

Events are in somewhat chronological order!

This year was a precious one. 365 days (okay I know technically not yet since we're only halfway through with December but bear with me here) of maturity miles and big smiles, painful tears accompanied by mascara smears.

I lived this year and am with no regrets. Yeah, it wasn't the best (omg I gotta stop rhyming my words lol), but I'd give myself a gazillion pats on the back to have pulled through like a fucking boss.

In all fairness, 2010 was a tough year to beat. I fell in love and stayed there... and let me just tell you it was a wonderful feeling. Reading through the pages of my diary, it's like I'm reliving those times as they all come to me in an almost tangible rage. But as I flip through and through, I realized that my penmanship began to mutate. I began to discover love really wasn't a gentle bed of roses, they were right. Love may seem like a harmless sea of crimson red roses that you want to sink in but when you do, you sink then you sink then you sink till you're caught by all those throbbing thorns.

Then you want to get out.

So I got out. It was a rash decision but it happened and I thought I would be free from the manacles of those thorns. But was I really? Idk but all I know is I grew, no, fuck that, I freaking metamorphosed from that experience - my first proper heartbreak. Haha, aaaand that's all I'm going to say about that segment of 2011 :)

Let's see, what else? I had my first proper birthday dinner with 30 of my closest friends in what seemed like forever. The last time I celebrated my birthday was when I was wee-little, seven or eight summers old at most. So you can imagine how uneasy I felt. I guess behind my image of comfortable confidence and slight insanity, I'm just a little bird that fell from the oak tree that wounded its little wing. Did I successfully make you hurl there? :D Wonderpul.

Nobody really knows about this little private party of mine because the only cameras at that time were mine and Enriko's and I strictly forbade him against posting any pictures on Facebook. Here's one polaroid shot of the night though cos I'm one narcissistic bitch and I liked my cake so there:

To be brutally honest although the dinner was special and all, it was no game compared to our aaafftteerrrparty! :D My girlfriends and I went out to this underage club - which is horrid btw - but had the best time anyways. We went wild and had one of the best nights of our lives just ignoring the rest of this bullshit world and its bullshit components. We didn't even consume that much booze hahaha! Whenever some loser boy tried to hit on any one of us I'd literally yell right at their faces, telling them to pissssssss ooofffffffff. I was in a dark, man-hating phase at that time so pardon me k? :D

Ok another substantial event of 2011 would most probably be my drastic change of appearance! See, I've never been comfortable with my looks. I was always too something. Too chubby here, too small there, too big there, too short there, and too fugly overall. I wouldn't say I'm the worst of all cases in relation to self-esteem, for there are some pretty fucked up mental girls out there. But yes I'm a girl and that's what girls do. They pick at themselves and live everyday trying to refine themselves and polish parts that have already been polished multiple times. I fell into society's ideal. Large eyes with hypnotizing irises, sculpted bone structure, neat nose, defined lips and the list goes on.

I noticed some girls at my school would have swollen eyes for about three weeks which eventually turned into pretty, deep-lined, eyelids. Trust me they were pretty before, but my being shallow and all, I thought whatever procedure they did, it made them even prettier. I have always liked how high brow bones and a visible set of deep eyelids gave the eyes more life and 'sparkle'. So I decided I'd ask them what it is exactly that they did to their eyes.

Turns out it wasn't plastic surgery. I'm not too sure what it's called in English but when directly translated from Bahasa Indonesia, it's "eye clipping" aka "jepit mata". It isn't permanent and does not involve surgical knives of any kind but shit that pain felt pretty surgical to me! I'm no expert but what I think she did was FREAKING SEW A LINE OF THREAD ON EACH OF MY EYELIDS. I felt nothing when she did the actual sewing, but when she injected about six shots of anesthesia(?) on the flap of my eyelids, it was like holy mother of God sweet baby Jesus save me. But anyways I endured the pain - three months of bruised, swollen, uglyass, bloody eyelids. Good times, good times.

Before eye clipping:

After four months and completely not swollen anymore!:

No makeup in this picture whatsoever so you can see the eyes clearly.

Ok, I know the change isn't that evident in these pictures but people that have seen me in real life will definitely notice it. Definitely. Everybody says I look like a different person from year to year regardless but I gotta agree, I did change a lot this year specifically!

You can see the line on my eyelid very clearly here.

I also learned how immensely I believe in the natural law of CHICKS BEFORE DICKS. A few months ago, I was put at a crossroad with an indirect ultimatum from my bestfriend. It was my call, she would have supported me nonetheless, whatever that call turned out to be. At first, I was fazed and being the pathetic weakling that I was during summer break, I actually hesitated for a bit. In the end, I chose them, of course. I know nothing must break the bond of trust I have with my friends. I know they're the ones who don't lie about loyalty and will actually go through with their promises. Unlike 99% of the men on the face of this planet, my girlfriends are, ironically, men of their words. They don't whisper sweet nothings like men do, I mean, they are called nothings for a reason.

<34evah for Muhammed :*

Hi reader, are you still reading up to this point? Haha you must be really interested in my unorthodox life or just freakishly "kepo", huh? The more I flip through my memory bank of 2011, the more I realized how inappropriate it'd be for me to continue writing in this post! Oh and not to mention, some events just deserve a blog post of its own ;) #cliffhanger #sparkcuriousity #advertisingtechnique #nowyouwillcomebackformore

I think I've both embarassed and exposed myself enough for a night, one can only reveal so much hehehe. In retrospect, I'm glad to say that I can look back onto this year and wear a smile on my face.

I've freaking lived this year to its ultimate fullest potential sonnn, any more and I'm dead :)

CHEERS TO ANOTHER GREAT YEAR!

Nothing does Forever better than this

'Ohana means family - no one gets left behind, and no one is ever forgotten. ~Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, Lilo & Stitch

So blessed to have been born into the family I have been born into. We share and care, partake in every laugh and cry together - no exceptions. Love you, mi familiaaa :')