PRICELIST WEDDING VENUE - OUTDOOR JAKARTA

Hallo para brides and groom to be!

Pasti yah dalam persiapan pernikahan, salah satu hal yang mesti banget dicari dan pertama kali di-booking itu adalah : GEDUNG PERNIKAHAN atau wedding venue. Tanpa booking tempat, kita mandek aka ga bisa booking vendor-vendor lain. Yah gmana bisa maju, wong kadang harga vendor lain itu bergantung tempat yang kita sewa. Semakin bagus atau prestis tempat, semakin mahal-lah harga chargenya. Ya kan?

Nah aku sendiri juga setelah dilamar sama Mirko, aku langsung gerilya mencari tempat pernikahan atau gedung pernikahan. Kita berdua setuju pengen ngelakuin di tempat semi outdoor. Soalnya si Mirko kan kebiasa di Eropa wedding outdoor somehow dan aku pengen juga yang indoor buat pelaminan. Jadi semi outdoor kayanya cocok lah buat kita berdua. Terus juga insya Allah aman kalau seandainya hujan ada. Jadi tamu bisa neduh di area indoornya (meski Bismillah cuaca cerah pas aku nikah. AMIN). So mulailah aku mencari tempat semi outdoor untuk undangan 350 (700 orang) di daerah Jakarta Selatan.

I AM ENGAGED! Tapi nikah itu mahal yaaah...

Hello everybodyyy!!

It has been such a long time aku nge-blog. Sedih si dan sejujurnya pengen banget rajin ngeblog biar kaya blogger-blogger kece gitu. Tapi apa daya, kemalesan selalu menang dan akhirnya aku ngehabisin hari aku ga penting gitu.

BUT!

In this new year, aku pengen banget ngerealisasiin kalo aku sering ngeblog rutin dan uplot video yutub! Januari udah hampir abis tapi so far aku baru belom uplot samsek. Hhahahahahah *ketawa miris* Nevertheless, yang penting niatnya adaaaaa..

So GREAT NEWS!

*jeng jeng jeng*

AKU DILAMAR SAMA MIRKOOO!

Korean in Berlin: ARIRANG

I am pretty familiar with Korean culture since I was a little kid. I remember I used to watch Winter Sonata – undoubtedly one of the famous Korean Dramas ever followed by Endless Love. I recalled I watched it with my mother and somehow after it, I imagined myself as the leading girl in the drama and pretending that there was a rich handsome young Korean guy wanted me to be their gf (lolz). I was a huge Korean Drama for sure but my highest peak when there was a famous drama called Boys Over Flower. The main female character, Geum Jan Di, had bob hairstyle (please google her) and Jan Di’s love interest was rich handsome man named Gu Jun Pyo. No doubt and of course I liked him. And because I liked the series so much and somehow I hoped I had a life like Jan Di, I decided to have my hair cut like Jan Di. Result? Disaster.

A day in Brussels

First of all, I do apologize for not posting last week. It is merely because I was hella busy preparing stuff for my visa appontment. For some information (this post will be full of information, can you believe that?), if you are a NON-EU foreigner living Germany, you must have a date with Immigration Office or what they call Ausländerbehörde in german at least once every two year, if you lucky. Some of us can go there once a year or once every 6 months to take care of our permit. Long story short, Ausländerbehörde (ABH) is just a nightmare.

But, If I tell you truth, I was very busy only from Monday till Thursday. The rest? I was just lazy as hell. I mean, after exhausting preparation and appointment in ABH in Thursday, I just wanted to chill and do nothing (like every other day). So as a result there is no post for last week and I try to compensate it this week.

So let’s move on and forget last week!

Unless you are my friend in Path (another social media platform which is very popular among Indonesian), you must not know that I was in Brussels around two weeks ago. The reason why I went there was just because round trip ticket Berlin-Brussels-Berlin cost 10 euro with RyanAir. So without even thinking, I bought it and went there of course with my lovely boyfriend. Another info that I must share, I was just having day trip to Brussels without staying overnight. So basically, we went there Saturday Morning and came back Saturday night. Reaction from people? They went nuts.

HAMBURG PART 2: quan do

Finding good Asian restaurant is quite hard in Germany. For me, except for Berlin, other cities that I have ever been to don’t have many good Asian restaurant (ah yes I have been only to 4 cities so far #clearthroat). So that is why, when I was in Hamburg and and I found good Asian restaurant, I feel like I wanna move there and live like a Kanye West and Kim K riding some boat in Alster river (ignore this sentence, please).

The Asian restaurant that I was visiting in Hamburg is called quan do. It was like Vietnamese street kitchen that reminds me a loooot of District Mot in Berlin Mitte or Monsieur Vuong. They don’t offer much varieties of food but they indeed served very fresh of food. And the reason why I visited the restaurant was simply I wasn’t full enough eating Krabbenbrötchen from Brücke 10 (read my review here) and I need RICE and Asian can't live without rice! Like what my mother said, you haven’t had any lunch/dinner yet if you haven’t had any rice on your plate. Hamburger, pizza, döner? All of them are snack! #asianlife #asianthuglife

Hamburg Part 1: Brücke 10

My list of cities in Germany that I have visited is not that long. Well actually pretty short. So far I have been only to Berlin, Cottbus, Düsseldorf, Dresden,… and that’s it ( the list is pretty sad, quite honest). And, the reason why I didn’t visit other cities is quite unknown. Why? Because I said so.

But, there is a city that fascinates me for so long. This city is actually quite popular back in Indonesia and somehow I have always wanted to go there. However, the timing wasn’t never right and the budget was never there (remember, I was a budget student, okay?). And after almost 4 years waiting, dreaming, and imagining going there, I finally visit that city named: HAMBURG!


This Hamburg trip was pretty much spontaneous. Me and my bf decided to not to stay overnight because one day trip Berlin- Hamburg-Berlin is pretty much doable. So without further discussion between us, we bought the ticket to go to Hamburg for 10 euro (for round trip we paid 20 euro) at 6 am in the morning and back to Berlin at 21:45 in the night. Result: super tiring but it was an amazing trip.

I am not gonna tell you how much I spent in this trip since I have some unhealthy obsession to food. I am literally that type of girl who will think twice to spend 15 euro on bus ticket but never complain to spend 20 euro on food. So despite the ticket to Hamburg was pretty cheap, I splurged on the cuisine because YOLO!

Days before my visit to Hamburg, instead of looking spots that I have to visit, my search engine history was populated by: top 10 restaurant in Hamburg,  food that you must to try in Hamburg, cheap food in Hamburg, best restaurant in Hamburg, specialities in Hamburg, how to act in Reeperbahn and so on (the last is pretty much a joke, I guess). And believe it or not, most of the list will lead you to a restaurant where they serve a Fischbröthcen or fish sandwich called “Brücke 10”. As an amateur foodie and a-girl-who-never-say-no-to-good-food, I decided to go there.

Saturday, September 3^rd 2016

It was raining in Hamburg. Somehow I wasn’t that surprised to have rain in September because I was living in Germany where Summer practically doesn’t exist (kidding). I arrived in Landungsbrücken, a place that somehow a promenade next to the Elbe where you can find so many little shops and restaurants. Here, you can see as well huge containers across the river and somehow it felt romantic and stark at the same time. In addition, Landungsbrücken is the area where Brücke 10 was located. That's probably the reason why I was there. The end.

To be honest I was pretty much cranky when I went to Brücke 10 since I was soooo hungry. I didn’t have time to have breakfast since I woke up at 4 am in the morning and ain't nobody got that time for breakfast at 4am (but if you do, you are a champion). With rain pouring Hamburg, I was just in a rush to be in Brücke 10 ASAP. And after walking 10-15 min walking in the rain (luckily Adele didn’t set the rain to fire, bad joke), we arrived there. Without hesitation, we ordered the best seller of the restaurant and one Brötchen that looked that good, Krabbenbrötchen and Stremellachs. Verdict? See below:

Stremellachs

One thing that I can tell, it looked better than it tasted. The smoked salmon with pepper in the Brötchen was pretty much ordinary. I mean I can't lie that the salmon tasted fresh but that’s it. The Brötchen was pretty much dry and I am not sure how to explain it more. It's basically a fish in a bread. That’s it. Overall: 5/10

Modesty in Berlin: Thanh Long

When the first time I came to Germany 4 years ago, I felt like "OMG NOW I AM IN EUROPE LET'S EAT ALL THOSE EUROPEAN FOODS!". Aaand I did it. However, what I meant by european foods weren’t Escargot, Rinderbraten or Salmon en Croute. It was merely pasta all the way (with sauce from the jar), pizza, brötchen with all the fillings, schokocroissant, and everything with mayonnaise. So, as a result, I successfully gained 7 kgs in the first year of my life in Germany and I was sooooo good at it!

My mother or what I call her “Ibu” wasn’t pleased at all when she found out that her only daughter became fat pig. I still remember in 2013, I came back for summer break with my very long hair, dark skin (it was summer), additional 7kgs of fat and wearing some weird pattern pants and red snapback ( I seriously tried to look like a hipster but in the end people thought that I was an Indonesian domestic worker who worked in Qatar). In the airport, instead of showing happy feeling or saying nice things, Ibu was like “OMG, you are so dark and please try to lose weight and OMG your hair, go cut it ASAP!”. My mother, everyone.

So starting from 2013, I kinda broke up with European food and stick to my roots: Asian food. I began to say no to pasta, milk, butter (oh my, butter), cheese (!) and bread. Result: I lost weight and my skin’s getting better (I also found out that I had low tolerance to dairy, so that means if I eat mozzarella cheese, I will have an acne the next day, yeay!)

The habit from 2013 somehow continues until now, 2016.  I pretty much avoid European food and well I declare myself as an Asian lover oops sorry Asian food lover! Wherever there is a good Asian food, I will be there!

Sooo, my love to Asian food eventually brought me to a small restaurant near Schönhauser Allee, P-Berg called Thanh Long. Thanh Long is indeed a modest resto without anything fancy. But, what I like about this resto is they serve pretty decent food in very good price. I mean come on, you can get a huge portion of big reisnudeln with chicken with 5 euro, only! That’s what I call bargain, my friend.