Everyday Sam: Me? Skinny?

Before you started reading, I warned you to not putting my way of living as your life example. Even I won't make myself a role model if I got to choose.

Oh, and I wrote a lot down there. You are very much allowed to not read this post.

Everyday Sam: What's on my bag?

I'm guessing that almost every blogger did this, hahahaha. But here is my complimentary what's on my bag post. I'm not the type who change bags all the times. I'm more of the stick-to-one-bag group, but, I do change my bag sometimes. Since not every clothes matched with sling bag, I have my own just-in-case backpack. I guess the content is more or less the same tho, but there's a water bottle and umbrella on my back pack, because, obviously I could put it there. Hahahaa 

Here's the bag that I'm using as of now. It's a cambridge satchel inspired bag from Planet Ocean vintage. I'm in love with cambridge satchel, but since they didn't sell it here in Indonesia, I gotta stick with the look alike. This one cost me about US$20 (sekitar 200ribu) although I forget the exact price.

Here's the inside. Although it looks mediocre on the outside, but the inside is actually pretty small. There's not much I could fit in there, and if I tried to fit in more, the bag ended up looking so bloated and hundred shade of ugly. Hahahaha

Let's break the item from the upper part, kay.

- Foldable mirror and comb

- Oil bloating paper

- Compact powder (or in this case, I brought maybelline powder foundation)

- My phone (complimentary phone case, cause I use my phone to take this pic)

- BB cream

- Burt's bees lip balm

- Eye drops

- Candy (the brands are changing all the time according to my mood)

- Baby lips lip balm

- Color changing lip balm (what I love right now, so obviously I bring it everywhere)

- Tissue

- And, last but not least, my wallet.

Oh, and the thing that I didn't mention there is my bath and body works pocketbac hand sanitizers. I got one in Swinging Vanilla. I bought it cause monkey is my chinese zodiac. Hehehhee. But I do have another variant, maybe I'm gonna talk about it later ;)

Brain Vitamin: Manusia Setengah Salmon

I couldn't find a bigger image, sorry. Hahahaha

Anyway, yesterday I went to te cinema to watch manusia setengah salmon. Late, I know. Out of 3 cinemas on Semarrang (kinda lacking yeah?), only one cinema left that show it, and it's only showing 2 times. Not a weird thing tho, considering it's almost off the cinema already. Hahahaha

Okay, so here's my review. IT'S FUNNY! Much funnier than his other two movies. I should say that this movie is so funny because of the BB mater (not Blackberry, but bau badan. Unpleasant body smell). That's the kick. There are other funny things here and there, but that's the main thing that just keep showed up and never failed on making you laughing every time. 

I should admit that the other two movies seems a lttle lacking. It's funny, but it  left you no impression whatsoever (okay, so maybe Rasty from the first movie is a hit on the heart. And Harianto, you little darling). As a commoner in writing world, I guess I could say that this show you a result of a learning proccess. So Raditya Dika is not as good at writing script at first, but this is his third movie (not the third script, remember malam minggu miko?), so there must be something that he learned from his past script writing. 

Anyway, I'l be waiting for his next movie to come out. Can't wait to see what kind of kick he put in there :D For now, let me wait for the sequel of hunger games first. Hahahaha

Brain Vitamin: Ernest Prakasa's Ngenest

Hello smoochies! Yet another brain vitamin corner, yes. This time, I'll talk about an Indonesian books. And since it's in Indonesia, I'm going to talk about it in Indonesia too. English translation after each paragraph in Italic babe :D

Waktu pertama kali denger kalo Ernest ngeluarin buku, agak kaget juga. Saya mikirnya dia cuma sekedar ikut arus (kemudian saya tahu kalo ini buku keduanya. Yang pertama.... apa?), banyak orang yang kemudian ikutan buat buku komedik, tapi isinya tidak se-booming sinopsisnya. Tapi ternyata yang ini agak berbeda (penjelasan lainya nanti ya). Satu buku dengan judul NGENEST (yang saya masih belum pasti gimana cara bacanya), bisa didapatkan dengan harga 55.000.

The first time I heard that Ernest wrote a book, it comes to me as a surprised. I thought it was just another go-with-the-flow (later I found out that this isn't his first book. What is the first one tho?), a lot of people started to make a comedic book, but the content isn't as spectacular as the synopsis promised it to be. But this one turned out different (more of that later). This 'NGENEST' book (which I'm still not sure how to pronounced it), cost me about 55.000rupiah (about US$5).

Seperti biasa, tidak ada sinopsis. Hampir semua buku dengan genre ini tidak punya sinopsis. Cover belakang cuma berisi cuplikan ceritanya (harus diakui, cuplikannya membuat saya memutuskan buat beli buku ini) dan beberapa komen mengenai isi bukunya. 

Yang membuat saya senang dengan buku ini adalah kenyataan bahwa Ernest membicarakan mengenai banyak hal yang biasanya dihindari oleh banyak orang. Ras, agama, babi sebagai makanan, dan hal-hal lain yang membuat buku ini beda dari buku kebanyakan. 

Like always, no synopsis. Almost all books with this genre didn't have synopsis. The back cover only contain some excerpt from the story (gotta admit it, the excerpt made me decided to bought this book) and a couple of comment about the content. What made me happy about this book is that Ernest actually talked about a lot of things that people usually avoided. Race, religion, pork, and other things that made this book different than other.

Buat yang belom punya bukunya, silahkan dinikmati cuplikan judul dan isi yang begitu menarik hati ini~ :*

For those who didn't have it yet, go on and pleasure yourself with some excerpt that totally tickling your heart.

There's no english translation for the excerpt, I'm sorry D:

WOY, CINA!

(diambil dari cover belakang)

Dibanding bokap, keluarga nyokap gue tuh lebih original cinanya. Gaya ngomongnya masih totok banget. Bagi mereka, gak ada istilah "kami" atau "kalian". Adanya adalah "gue orang" dan "lu orang". Kesannya insecure banget ya? Gue juga tau kalo kita semua ini orang, bukan ubur-ubur.

KOH AHOK JAGOAN KU

(h.19)

Dia disebut-sebut sebagai calon Wakil Gubernur DKI untuk berpasangan sama Jokowi, Walikota Solo yang lagi naik daun. Tetep aja gue mikir, "Orang Cina mau jadi Wakil Gubernur DKI? Yeah rite. Mabok arak kayaknya ni orang."

MENJADI MINORITAS

(h.68)

Coba kita balik. Orang Cina yang jadi mayoritas di Indonesia. Apakah lantas pribumi sebagai minoritas gak bakal kena diskriminasi? Gak mungkin. Sama aja, gue yakin. Bedanya yang akan stand-up comedy dengan bahan balada etnis minoritas bukan gue, tapi Pandji Pragiwaksono.

KONDOM OH KONDOM

(h.121)

Permasalahannya adalah, walaupun gue dan istri udah "sah", entah kenapa setiap kali beli kondom gue tetep malu. Biasanya saat gue beli itu di minimarket dan lagi bayar di kasir, pasti rasanya risih. Seolah-olah sang kasir memandang gue dengan tatapan "Cieee lagi horny cieeeee... Cieeee mau berbuat cabul cieeeeeeee...".

Oh, and by the way, this is Ernest. Yeah. He look so chinese. Even for a Chinese descendant like me. Hahahaha

My little herd of followers, I love you but...

DO NOT follow me to unfollow me.

I am not blogging for followers... not really. So I would appreciate it if you're not following me for my giveaway and then unfollowed me. That's a bitch move smoochies. I hate that. I'm sorry girl, I know who you are. Remember the rafflecopter entry? Yeap. Your name is there. Surprise!

Listen to this my love, I clearly stated on my giveaway that you don't need to follow my blog. You don't. This won't purely be a beauty related blog, or book related, or whatever, and some people don't like that. And I know it. So don't follow me if you're not planning to stay. It's like asking a girl to marry you, and then you left her right before the altar. That suck. You, pemberi harapan palsu. 

I hope this won't happen in the future. I'm not mad if you're leaving on a usual occasion. Like... I'm not updating for a month and then you decided that you got enough me. That's fine, and I'm cool with that. But this happen right after I announced my giveaway winner. So not cool. Next time, just be careful with your timing. Yeah, you're welcome.

Moving In Giveaway WINNER!!

Oh yay! I love winner announcement. After a long wait for my rafflecopter to load (no thanks to you, stupid internet connection), I finally got a winner! And so I hereby announce the winner to be....

a Rafflecopter giveaway

MEYLISA AGUSTINA 

double yay!

I've sent you the email (to the one you gave me on rafflecopter of course), and I'll be waiting for your reply until 5.11.2013

That's enough time, no? I'll be waiting for the reply till then, and if I didn't get it in time, then I'll be drawing another winner. That's too bad, but the show must go on, unfortunately D:

Allright then, I'll see you guys on my other giveaway ;))

Sam Goes Visual: I went back home! (11.10.13 - 16.10.13)

So, I know that you didn't know, hahahaha, but I went back home a few weeks ago. It's been on my to-do list to post this, but my internet connection goes meh at me, and thesis is also meh. Just pray that I could finish it all faster so that I got a lot more free time! :D Now, let's follow me and enjoy tracing back through my short holiday memories ;)

 Started up with the routine airport waiting, of course. Wore my freshly cut ripped jeans and got stared at. Yeah, whatever.

I forgot which day is it, but we ate at sushi tei, finally. I ordered the spicy crispy roll (I think) and my favorite inari. To tell you the truth, I think the taste didn't worth all the waiting list and price I gotta pay. 

We ate baskin after lunch on the way to Sentul. Cookies and cream with a not very crunchy oreos. 

Went to jungle land at Sentul, but none went in. Since half of us couldn't ride the ride, we decided that it's a waste of money. Hahaha

Soo, we decided to go to a more family friendly place, which is Ah Poong at Sentul city. They said there is pasar apung (floating market) there, but there's none. Some of the attraction are not very well maintain, and the so called eco park is still on progress. Basically just a place to eat and take a picture. Kind of boring, I said.

Dude, I don't know if that's a normal size for a guy as big as him. I was thinking that it is kinda small for him. HAHAHAHA

I am not crying, but I'm not smiling either. This was taken on the red bridge, I called it unstable bridge. I'm not that afraid of height, but I hate it when I could see the bottom of a high place, yet I couldn't stand firmly on my legs, since the bridge shakes likes crazy when someone walk through it.

The journey ended up with us eating at a japanese ramen store near my aunty home, it's called Chin Ma Ya. I ordered a small portion of tonkotsu ramen. It's probably the best ramen I ever taste so far.

Watched gravity on my last day. It's an okay movie. I don't know whether I'm gonna watch it or not if the main cast is not George Clooney and Sandra Bullock tho. The long filler is too boring for me.

The last thing I ate before flying back to boarding house. Some boasted that this is the best burger ever. Yeah right. I still like Carl's Jr better.

Last but not least, if you're not entering my giveaway yet, do join! 2 days to go guys. Link is on the right sidebar ;)

For My Own Satisfaction: Lucido-L triple beauty vitamin spray for damaged hair

I want to post this since last week, but stupid internet connection just won't let me open my new post tab. Silly. My internet didn't work well with my old laptop (or Fernando, as I called him. Hahahaha). Anyho, I heard it recently that Lucido-L is finally released on Indonesian market. Surprisingly, it entered a more middle class cosmetic market. Basically something that you could just grab on any drugstore with a reasonable price. Since I was curious, and I was about to do my monthly shopping anyway, I decided to grab some.

Here we go, full bottle shoot. 

Comes in a fairly normal spray bottle. Kind of looks like a plant spray or not? Hahaha. The bottle is made of a thin yet hard plastic material. I guess it won't break with just one fall of the hands accident, tho I won't bother trying it out. The price is fairly cheap for a japan brand. It cost me IDR 30.325 (about US$ 3 I think?), or cheaper cause it was on sale when I bought it.

Of course, I'm buying one for damaged hair. My hair is pretty dry with some split ends too, thanks to my hair coloring routine. I've tried some hair vitamin before this, but they're just so oily, and I hate the oily after effect it left on my hands and hair, so I just stop using it. Hahahaha

Back shoot. Ingredients and all the blah blah explanation. It claimed to be able to make your damaged hair shiny, smooth and moist. I've been using it for almost two weeks now, and I gotta tell you, it worked like magic. My hair used to be so hard to handle when I woke up in the morning, now I rarely got a bad hair after I woke up. There's some difference on how smooth the hair on my top half and the bottom half. Since I only spray it on my bottom half, obviously my bottom half hair is smoother. It's not that much shiny per se, but I guess that's just because of the color that I choose for my hair. Hahaha

This is how the spray looks like. Just a normal spray I guess. Maybe it's just me, but the nozzle reminds me of the spray bottle my mom got for her orchid. If I gotta search for a spray bottle for my cosmetic spray, this is probably the last variant on my list. Hahahaha. Good thing is that the nozzle spray the liquid pretty evenly and just in the right amount. You don't want to spray too much at once, since you'll waste some product that way. Oh, and it comes with a safety lock!

Turn the stopper to the front, and the spray is locked. Don't have to be afraid of leak when you put it on your bag, or when you packed it on your suitcase. Obviously travel friendly although the bottle is a little bit on the big size (200ml).

Turn the stopper to the side (either side works) to unlock.

You would think the liquid color is orange, turned out to be a transparent looking liquid. Very water-like, so it didn't leave any heavy and oily feelings on either your hair and hand. And it smells good too! But since my nose is fairly sensitive to things like perfume and such, I got dizzy after smelling it for a long time. Don't worry, that's just me. I'll get dizzy from smelling the car perfume on a taxi too. Hahahaha

And, that's that. Tell me what you think about it ;)

PS: If you didn't yet enter my giveaway, do visit this post to enter. It's nothing much, but it's better that nothing XD

Moving In Giveaway!

Yay! I've been wanting to do this for a while, but the time didn't let me. Now that I finally get a free time, I'll held it anyway :D This is gonna be the first giveaway on my new blog, celebrating me moving to this blog. I prepared this in a rush, so I hope you don't mind there's not a lot of prize here.

One winner will win

1. Maybelline [Lip] Smooth Color Bloom, Color Changing Lip Balm in shade #Pink Blossom.

2. Maybelline Clear Smooth Extra Shine Free Powder Foundation in shade #03 Natural

3. Maybelline Clear Smooth Aqua Gel Foundation in shade #22 Natural Beige

4. Maybelline Clear Smooth Minerals Healthy Natural Concealer in shade #Medium-Sand

I tried to choose everything in a more neutral color, and I'm hoping it fitted to the general skin shade. Maybelline tend to have their real product shade a little darker than what's shown on the package, so I hope the shade is just perfect (or so I hope). Although I do think the concealer is a little too dark. Hmmm... Anyway, moving on!

HOW TO ENTER

1. Make sure you're an Indonesian residence (or one with Indonesian address) and of legal age. If you're underage, ask for your parents permission first before entering.

2. The only mandatory thing to do to enter is to leave your name and e-mail address on the rafflecopter widget. I realized making too much things for you to do means I got too much things to check, so that is that. Hahahaha

3. Following me via Google Friend Connect is not mandatory. I'm guessing a lot of you didn't read any blog post that is not related to beauty, but my post gonna consist of a lot of things that is not beauty related. So you may or may not following me, that's your own free choice. But if you do follow me, do leave your GFC name on the rafflecopter to get a free point. Afterall, I gotta appreciate your effort, right? ;)

Now if you're okay with all that, here's the rafflecopter widget.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Giveaway ended on 29th October. Winner will be announced approximately a week after the giveaway ended. Thank you so much for your participation :*

Brain Vitamin: John Green's An Abundance of Katherines

Hello humphreys! On today's BRAIN VITAMIN corner, I'm gonna talk about one of my favorite author book, which is, the infamous An Abundance Of Katherines. Not too long ago, I accidentally walked through periplus bookstore. If you're not living in Indonesia, periplus bookstore is a bookstore that sell a lot of imported books. So if you're looking at book on this store, chances are they are all in english. 

I bought the paperback version of it, and this one is published by Dutton Books USA. It was sold for US$9.99 in USA, but I bought it somewhere around $15 here or $18, I don't know. You know, taxes and all that shit. I don't know about ordering directly from USA, but I guess that would cost me quite a number too, considering I need to pay the shipping.

Summary

When it comes to relationship, Colin Singleton's type is girls named Katherine. And when it comes to girls named Katherine, Colin is always getting dumped. Nineteen times, to be exact. On a road trip miles from home, this anagram-happy, washed-up child prodigy has ten thousand dollars in his pocket, a bloodthirsty feral hog on his trail, and an over-weight, Judge Judy-loving best friend riding shotgun--but no Katherines. Colin is on a mission to prove The Theorem of Underlying Katherine Predictability, which he hopes will predict the future of any relationship and avenge Dumpees everywhere, and may finally win him the girl.

Basically, a book about this Colin trying to predict his love relationship by using some kind of math formulas. That's crazy. I won't even think about math outside from class. Not a strange things though. Considering he's or used to be according to him, a child prodigy. I don't know why he's always looking for a girl named Katherine, I mean, Samantha sounds good right? Hahahaha. I want to write some spoiler, but I hate spoiler so much, so I guess I won't write anything more about the content, in case you didn't read it yet.

Anyway, I found Green's vocabulary explaining about the dumping phenomenon funny.

Dumper = This annoying person who dump someone.

Dumpee = Pitiful person who is dumped.

And there is math. Lots of it. LOTS. So if you're a math dummy like me, I've warned you.

One of the fact that I like from the story is that finally, finally, finally, I found a main characters that loves reading so much. Not just, yeah I read books. But YEAH I READ BOOKS!! 

"He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head."

I'm so in love with that sentence I ended up highlighting it. Never. I mean, never in my entire life, I used a highlighter on my books aside from my college books. I love them too much to ruin them with the highlighter. This one is my first exception.

In case you're wondering what's that annoying red ribbons on top of my book, here it is.

It's just my lazy-made bookmark. With quotes from the book, topped with some random vector. 

That's that. I hope it's not too boring. I'll talk about another book I love on my next vitamin corner! If you have any books suggestion though, don't be afraid to comment. Bye humphreys!