Yuhuuuu....

Apa kabar ya ini blog yang sudah lama sekali terlantar..

Baru ngecek postingan terakhir di blog ini, Yasalam! Terakhir upload post disini ternyata bulan November tahun 2016 aja dong!!! Dan sekarang udah tahun 2019!! Ajegileee... 3 tahun sudah ku telantarkan blog ini. Padahal ini blog pertama ku di dunia maya, my first baby di dunia maya lah ceritanya.. uhuyy! And that's why mau sampai kapan juga gue gak akan apus ini blog hehe..

Namun, karena beberapa tahun lalu gue memutuskan untuk merombak dan me-revamped blog ini jadi sesuatu yang baru dan lebih fokus ke review tempat wisata, tempat makan, hotel, dan lain sebagainya maka beberapa post yang dulu dulu yang sekiranya kurang relevan udah gue "hide". Overall layout dari blog ini juga udah berubah dari yang dulu. Tinggal konsistensi ngeblog nya aja nih yang belum. Semoga mulai dari sekarang gue makin konsisten nulis di sini hehe

Anyway, sebenernya ada banyak cerita yang terlewat dalam 3 tahun nggak update di blog ini. Yang bikin gue nggak aktif ngeblog lagi awalnya itu karena 2 tahun lalu my dear father passed away (hiks😭). I cannot write about it for a very long time because it would just make me sad to remember it again. Baru sekarang akhirnya gue bisa nulis tentang itu. But I won't go into much details now because I'm still sad walaupun udah 2 tahun ditinggal papa tersayang. He passed away in a sudden, fell on the stair. It was so sudden I was actually in shock and then fell close to depression right after he passed away. That’s why I wasn’t very active on social media and even neglected this blog. 

I'm very lucky to have a husband that really understands what I was going through at that time. He took me under his wing and comforted me for months and did things that he knew would make me happy again. He gave extra attention to me and being really understanding and so kind he finally lifted me off the depression edge. I am very lucky to have him as my husband. Thank you hubby if you're reading this. You never know how much you have helped me to stand back up from the pain. I love you (*mewek terharu sendiri*)...

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Aaanyway, sudah dulu yang sedih-sedihnya ah, sekarang saatnya life update :

Hmm...apa aja yang terjadi selama 3 tahun belakangan selain kejadian diatas? Banyakkk!

Selain we lost our dad, we also lost our beloved cat Bleki (just 3 months before dad passed away, huaaa...😭) and also our uncle who passed away just 2 months after my dad left us 😭. There were so many passing aways during 2017 but I guess that were parts of life that we can't avoid no matter how much we wanted to.

Selain berita berita sedih tentunya juga ada berita berita happy, because that’s life, full of ups and downs. Alhamdulillah selama 3 tahun ini masih tetep bisa jalan jalan (banyak review hotel dan tempat yang tertunda nih), dan gue juga sempat hamil 2 tahun lalu (setelah TTC bertahun tahun) walaupun pada akhirnya mengalami keguguran di usia kandungan 7 minggu, hiks.. Sedihnya luar biasa waktu ituu.. But we managed to get through it together, and still hoping for another miracle, Amien (yang baca doain yak 😀).

Cerita lainnya apa ya? Hubby K pindah kerja, Alhamdulillah dapet kantor baru yang masih daerah sini juga, jadi nggak perlu waktu lama abis di jalan untuk sampai ke rumah. Bahkan dia ampe beli motor karena saking deketnya.

Apartemen juga Alhamdulillah udah diurus sertifikatnya, dan salah satu cita cita ku tercapai, yaitu traktir ortu liburan (walaupun cuma ke yang deket2 aja sih hehe). Trus update apalagi yaa? Oiya, dalam 3 tahun terakhir ini after we lost our beloved cat Bleki (the oldest cat we had, 9 years!!) then we have some new cats, and then we lost some cats too (some passed away (bye Kiddo, hiks!), some we believed were being kidnapped 😡 karena tiba tiba ilang gak pulang setelah main diluar. Padahal kucing kucing kita yang lain juga sama pada main diluar juga, tapi yang ilang kenapa cuma yang kucing bule / blasteran cobaa? Kan pasti diculik itu mah, keszell!

(kiri : Chibby | kanan : Bapaknya Chibby)

Jadi si Chibby ini sebenernya kita adopsi dari anaknya kucing tetangga sekompleks. Itu yang kanan foto bapaknya si Chibby, kucing punya tetangga. Mirip banget yak ama Chibby (yang kiri), bedanya bapaknya lebih macho aja. Kalo si chibby mah klemer klemer 😜.

(foto Chibby waktu awal awal diadopsi. Umurnya 4 bulanan waktu itu, masih imuut. Eh sekarang dia udah raib digondol maling huhuhuuu... Semoga nasibmu lebih baik ya Chibby di tangan yang baru, Amien).

(kalo ini si Jackie, sekarang dia kucing paling katro di rumah. Tadinya peringkat katro dipegang si chibby tapi semenjak chibby diculik maka peringkat katro jatuh ke tangan Jackie).

(Chibby & Jackie pas lagi Lebaran-an 😝)

(kalo ini si Jollie alias Jojol, satu satunya kucing betina di rumah sekarang. Tadinya ini juga bukan kucing kita tapi dia terus terusan muncul di teras rumah. Selain minta makan ternyata ada benjolan juga di keteknya. Karena kasian akhirnya kita bawa ke dokter walaupun dia bukan kucing peliharaan kita. Ternyata harus dioperasi. Abis dioperasi langsung resmi diangkat anak deh di rumah hehe. Bahkan dia sempet nginep seminggu loh di apartemen pas masa pemulihan abis operasi, karena kalo di rumah nyokap takut digangguin kucing lainnya).

(ini si Kimbil. Kerjaannya tiduuurrr muluuuu sepanjang hariiiii ...)

(kalo ini si Badut. Lucu banget kaaannn. Anaknya Chibby sama Jollie nih. Eh ikut kena diculik orang juga, sebel!!
Padahal lagi lucu lucunya dia tuuuh masih keciill. Sebel banget sama yang nyolong kucing buat dijual lagii,
gue sumpahin sial terus loh sampe tobat sendiri, Amien!)

Truuuss berita lainnya... I have a new little online shop again now, selling preloved and curated thrifted items! Kesibukan gue sekarang antara lain kelola toko online jualan preloved and vintage items. Beberapa dari koleksi sendiri, sisanya gue curate dan hunting sendiri ke berbagai tempat untuk kemudian gue jual lagi. Lumayan banget buat uang jajan bok! hehe

Gue jualannya di IG, Prelo, dan Carousel. Bahkan gue sempet jadi Monthly Ambassador Carousell untuk periode Desember-Januari kemarin. Alhamdulillah..

Buat yang mau ceki ceki bisa download aplikasi / web Carousell, dan search toko gue : Fash.ionisme 😀

Yaudin segitu dulu aja deh yee life update nya, nanti kapan kapan kalo ada yang inget lagi gue tulis lagi disindang. For now bakalan posting random reviews dulu yak, alias bakal sporadic posting, jadi bakal review tempat - tempat dan atau hotel atau restoran / cafe yang pernah disambangi, namun in random order gitu maksudnyaa.. hehe

Oya kalau untuk review cafe gue kebanyakan ripiu nya di IG sik, cuss main ke IG @yurikristia kalo mau liat liat ripiu cafe cafe khususnya cafe di Jakarta, karena kebetulan lagi seneng banget nyobain cafe cafe hehe..

Check out my IG for cafe reviews!

Alright, I'll see you in my next post ya!



Cheers,

Weekly Digest

Here is a glimpse of what happened these last weeks:

I won two giveaways on August and here is one of them, these just arrived a few weeks back on my house. I won a really cute package from Honeycat! It is a package full of beauty products from shower gel to sparkly lip gloss, and i really loooove the packaging! I love black cats ;D - Thank you Honeycats!

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Found this really cute Cookie Monster dough recipe pic one day from the internet (i'm sorry i forgot to take note of the source), and it's really super cute and I couldn't wait to share it with you guys..
Aren't cookie monster is the cutest amongst the Sesame Street bunch? (well except for Elmo & Miss Piggy, of course ;p)

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I am absolutely in love with my new Cinderella ipad case!!

I'm thinking of selling these (Indonesia only) so if you live here and wants to buy this (it also available in other princesses such as Snow White, etc - and also comes in other series) just drop me an email: yuri.kristi at gmail dotcom ;p

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Last but not least, I want to show you a design I made using one of the decorating game on iPad, but too bad it's not a free app so I only have the lite version and it only came with one room. So here's what I did to the room:

Before:

I made some changes, more like a make-over (;p)
and here's the new design that I came up with:

After:

I changed the whole look and added some new furnitures but I kept the same window treatment and chandelier. I also kept the same credenzas (tables) and the christmas tree.
What do you think? Do you like what I did to the room? ;)

My Week Through Instagram

All pics were taken with my phone camera and uploaded to my Instagram.

Clicking the photo below will lead you to the instagram page.

• 1st pic: Me and Kiddo the cat playing around, he is the most paranoid cat amongst all the cats I've owned! He is so paranoid he would jump over a little sound, he would got alerted when someone makes a sudden move such as when I stand up from the bed suddenly. Every little movements scares him, he is such a chicken, he is scared of everything and we like to tease him about that, LOL. Just look at his paranoid eyes when I made a click sound from my phone camera above ^o^
• 2nd pic: Eggs Benedict at TRS Diner, Citos. I've been wanting to go to this diner-style restaurant for so long and I have been dreaming of trying "eggs benedict" too, so when we find this in the menu we ordered it right away, and boy do we want it more and more. Maybe we should go to TRS Diner again this weekend ;)

• 1st pic: The souvenir bag that I got home from the Givenchy Product Launching Event that I attended at SOGO Mall Kelapa Gading. (jarang-jarang banget ke Kelapa Gading, pas dateng kesana agak-agak lost in directions, even when we're inside the mall hahaha)
• 2nd pic: Durian! a.k.a the Stinky Fruit ;p Hubby K's family loves Durian so when my dad in law saw these Thailand's Durian stall we made a short stop and bought one. Me myself is not really a Durian eater. I mean, sure I'll eat it but I'm just not too crazy over durian, usually I would only eat a few of it if we're having a durian feast. Maybe because my own family is not too crazy about durian so I'm just not used to eat durian so often. Foreigners would usually turned their head off because of the faulty smell, but the truth is... they are a sweet fruit. If you're one of my non Asian readers and haven't tried durian yet, you should try it at least once in your life ;p

If you want to add me on Instagram, here's my instagram id: yurikristia.
I'll see you there! :)

A Week in Photos

Here are some snapshot collages to see a glimpse of what i did last week:

From left to right: 

1. We stayed in a hotel and had lunch at a Japanese Korean fusion restaurant nearby (sayangnya I was really disappointed with the taste -atau mungkin saya yang memang gak suka fusion food ya?). Dear chef...maaf ya sebelumnya, tapi bagi saya semua makanannya rasanya gak jelas dan cenderung labil, mendingan pilih either mau konsen ke Japanese atau Korean aja gitu hehehe (*SokTauNgajarinChef*), (*DikemplangPakePenggorenganPanas*)
2. Hari berikutnya kita makan di tempat lain, and this is the view from our window ^o^
3. Malem-malem ga ada kerjaan mendingan nge-review Talika Eye Decompress saja ;)
4. Diundang sama SK II untuk free spa di Ritz Carlton. Dresscode nya: "nude dress". Malemnya udah nyiapin outfit yang mau dipakai eh besoknya pas hari H malah tepar dan gak enak badan huaaaa..... jadi batal spa gratis di Ritz Carlton huhuhuuu... 

 From left to right: 

• Finally received my eBay package, yay! But the seller actually sent me the wrong color of the lace top, it was supposed to be black not white, but I think I'll take it as it is aja lah daripada ribet ngurusin retur ke Hongkong ;p
• Picked up K's new shirt from the tailor. Nyobain tukang jahit blakang rumah yang jago jahit baju cowok, ternyata hasilnya bagus. Kata bapak nya "nanti saya bikinin model junkies" - ahaayy ;p
• Belanja bulanan! Numpang narsis di depan rak olesan roti ;0
• Abis beli piyama pink baru sama Silver Queen Chunky Bar edisi Pink! Hohoho :D

What did you do last week? ^___^

To see my previous "A Week in Photos" post, click here.

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Weekly Digest

Here are some things I would love to highlight this week:

I was interviewed by Smashion website regarding my fashion blog "Two Thousand Things" !

If you would like to check out the interview please go here :)

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I've been into Pinterest lately, and I found this dreamy place called Giethoorn, which is basically a village with no streets. It is the Venice of the Netherlands! Very gorgeous, I would love to come visit this magical and right-out-of-storybook-houses (or maybe even stay in one of the houses!) someday - Amen.

Click here to read more about the place.

It was founded around 1230 when fugitives coming from the Mediterranian regions settled there.

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Aanndd..... I also found this one below via Pinterest!

Isn't he the cutest cat in tux everrr??
Haha I couldn't help but smile everytime I look at this photo. It is now on my computer screen as background pic ^o^ I also own a black cat, well 2 black cats actually, and I would looove to buy this faux tux collar and put it on them and take group photos! It would be too funny :D

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I used NewsRack on my iPhone as RSS reader and I found it quite practical. I also love the alternative view of the reader that looks just like a real news rack! Below is what my 2 blogs looked on the Newsrack reader :)

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And here are a couple of photographs I took and edited with instagram:

Colorful group of funny looking chairs at Informa

My youngest cat, Kiddo. We took him in because we assumed he is Blacky's son ^o^

And yep, he is just like his father. In attitude, that is!

So, what are your weeks like? Any stories to tell?
Oh and I would like to thank everyone who kindly commented on all my previous posts, it means so much to me that you guys actually read this blog. And I will surely come visit your blog too and leave some love there ;)

A Week In Photos

Jadwal ku minggu lalu itu lumayan padat:
Selasa: Anter mertua laser mata di Eye Clinic RSPI.
Rabu: Janjian sama K di Citos untuk cari kado Mirna sekalian liat2 baju buat K ngantor ;)
Jumat pagi: (harusnya) ke event USDA - Council of Chefs di Four Seasons Hotel :(
Jumat malam: Pengajian di rumah sodara (untung malemnya udah sembuh).
Sabtu siang: Arisan keluarga besar K di rumah mertua.
Sabtu malam: Traktiran karaoke ultah sepupu di Nav Fatmawati.
Minggu: Janjian makan siang sama temen2nya K di Pancious Pancake PIM2, dilanjut dengan mampir ke Poins dan lanjut lagi ketemuan dinner di Solaria Carrefour Lebak Bulus sama K's family.

Pfiuhh... semoga minggu depan rada lowong (sepertinya akan lowong hehe).. karena ogut pengen tidur yang puass dan pulass hahaha biar ga cepet gempor nih badan hehe

By the way, berhubung eyke lagi seneng digital scrapbooking, maka jadilah kompilasi berikut ini yang menggambarkan kejadian traktiran Karaoke nya Ita sepupu ogut, kejadian gagal ke event-nya USDA, dan kejadian ketemuan sama temen2 K yang notabene temen2 ogut juga ^__^ :

Ini yang ikutan karaoke sebenernya banyak tapi yang fotonya rada jelas cuma yang 4 orang nyempil di foto bawah itu hehe. Sisanya rada blur dan gelap, maklum cuma foto pake hp di ruangan ber-pencahayaan rendah ^o^

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Gak jadi ke Four Seasons huhu (click gambar untuk perbesar)

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Sunday lunch meet-up:

(The Boys)

(click gambar untuk perbesar)

The Girls:

(click gambar untuk perbesar)

Do you like my digi-scrapbooking? ^o^

To see my previous "A Week in Photos" post, click here and here.

A Week In Photos

Another short post today, just want to post a few pics so you know where i've been these past few weeks haha..

About two weeks ago I went to my niece's wedding party (yes, niece!). Oh my God I feel so old, my niece is already getting married! Do I look like a grumpy old auntie already?

Me and my cousins wore the same pink top that were custom-made by my neighbor (!), but we each wore them differently ;) -- and Yes, I'm the smallest one in my family ^o^

(Evi, the bride)

Me and one of my cousin Wina (or Kak Ewin as I call her)

And then around last week I went to a dinner meet-up with my old college-friends. We usually meet up every once or two months, and this time we went to Pizza e Birra at Plaza Indonesia.
As usual, we have too much laughs and jokes around until it was closing time for the mall haha

Many of us stays in different cities so these are not the full team ;)

(All college friends pics are courtesy of my friends Martha & Epot)

To see my previous "A Week In Photos" post, click here.