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Anyway, akhirnya saya setuju tapi waktunya baru bisa 2 bulan kemudian, hehe. Bingung juga ya interview fashion gini, soalnya saya ngerasa style saya ya kaya gitu-gitu aja. It's all jeans and simple top which mostly black. 60% of my clothes are solid black, sisanya hitam and everything in between. Baru-baru ini saya beli jaket tweed warna merah demi memenuhi dress code suatu acara. That jacket looks so out of place in my closet :D.

I used to wear a lot of dresses and skirts. Sekarang enggak. Kenapa? Karena sekarang sering banget kemana-mana harus ngojek karena traffic yang udah semakin menggila. Jadi sepatu juga pilih yang nyaman aja karena pernah pake heels dan ngojek, abis itu kakinya macam keseleo dan harus ke physiotherapy. I would wear sneakers everyday if I could, sayang saya terlalu pendek :P.

Untuk baju saya juga aktif banget beres-beres closet. Baru-baru ini ngirim hampir 100 baju ke Tinkerlust, silakan dilihat koleksinya di sini. Saya juga rajin kok ngegelar garage sale di kantor. Niatnya mau punya baju as minimum as possible karena untuk apa baju banyak-banyak, yang dipake juga itu-itu aja jadi cuma menuh-menuhin lemari aja kan, bikin bingung juga kalo mau pake baju. Mana setiap mau pake baju pasti bajunya udah lecek. Jadi maunya bajunya nggak usah banyak-banyak tapi semuanya kepake. Sepatu juga begitu, berkurang banget jumlahnya. Aksesori apalagi, saya cuma 6 cincin yaitu cincin kawin, 2 dari nyokap, 1 dari nenek, 1 yang dibeli sendiri dan 1 dari seserahan.  Anting juga sebenernya cuma yang dipake setiap hari aja, dan yang ada juga nggak banyak. Sekarang kalo pake anting yang macem-macem modelnya berasa aneh banget. Gelang ada sih, tapi nggak sampe 10 juga. See...I'm very minimalistic actually. Jadi bingung yang mau di explore apa..haha. Apalagi kan memang udah hampir nggak pernah belanja fast fashion.

I do have weakness for outerwear though. I have more outerwears than I have pants + skirts + dresses. Menurut saya, outerwear can easily elevate one look. Dari yang tadinya santai pake jeans dan t-shirt, bisa langsung terlihat rapi dan keren dengan tambahan outerwear. Ditambah saya emang orangnya gampang kedinginan, yang paling sering matiin AC di kantor nih :D, jadi setiap hari memang ngerasa perlu bawa jaket atau blazer atau cardigan.

Anyway, if you want to know more, just grab a copy of the latest Pesona magazine :).

''Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want".

Ini lanjutan dari postingan tentang The True Cost of Fashion.  Jadi setelah nonton filmnya dan mikirin terus quote di atas, yang juga ada di postingan sebelumnya, saya jadi tertohok banget sih. Dan nggak berhenti mikir apakah saya selama ini, secara tidak langsung, supporting hal-hal yang sebenarnya saya juga nggak setuju dan nggak mau support? Do I want to support company who doesn't care about the planet that we are living in? Do I want to support company whose workers are very lowly paid and work in horrible condition despite the high-rise profits the company is making? Do I want to wear something that I know have left an awful footprints in each stage of the production? This makes me cringe. I feel really terrible and so irresponsible.

Sebenernya, saya nggak sesering itu sih belanja high street brands karena menurut saya harganya juga nggak murah-murah banget, especially for the quality that they are offering. I have quite a mix wardrobe. Tapi memang ya, shopping high-street brands itu convenient banget. All you need to do is just go to the nearest mall and one store will have everything you need from office wear to cocktail dress to casual outfits. If I need something quick, the high-street brands will come to the rescue :(.

So where do I shop?

• I buy local brand a lot dari mulai Cotton Ink, Nikicio, Picnic, (X)SML, Dian Pelangi, Ria Miranda dan merek-merek yang ada di Goods Dept. These local brands are getting better and more mature, design-wise. Udah keliatan signature stylenya and you know you are not getting the same thing somewhere else. Jumlah produksi juga nggak banyak-banyak banget jadi risiko untuk samaan dengan orang lain lebih sedikit lah. Lagipula bagus kan untuk support local brands dan entrepreneurship. 

• Second-hand! Dari dulu waktu tinggal di Perth tahun 98 saya senang belanja di thrift store di Hay Street. Dan ini dilanjutkan waktu tinggal di Amerika. Hobi banget lah liat-liat thrift store dan garage sale. Makanya waktu pulang ke Indonesia juga sempet buka second hand shop dengan konsep buy, sell, swap di Bangka. Tapi hanya bertahan satu tahun karena nggak bisa bagi waktu antara Closet Quickies dan Female Daily. Waktu awal-awal pulang pun saya beberapa kali ke Pasar Senen atau Pasar Baru untuk liat baju-baju second dan vintage. Seru loh belanja baju yang harganya 10ribuan aja..haha, bisa beli sekoper! Belanja di Female Daily Market Plaza juga sering banget pastinyaaa, beberapa kali kami bikin bazaar dan garage sale juga. Pas ke LA kemaren nyempetin mampir ke Wasteland di Melrose Avenue sama Sari. Lumayan dapat jaketnya Stella McCartney dan atasan kulit J Brand. Di Jakarta sering banget kok sekarang garage sale, jadi kalo mau selalu ada pilihan. Nggak perlu gengsi lah, you are doing something good for the environment and for your wallet :D

• I buy designer clothes at specialty stores with a very discounted price, harganya jadi lebih murah kok dibanding baju-baju new arrival high-street labels. Kalo lagi jalan-jalan ke luar negri banyak banget sih outlet-outlet atau toko-toko kaya Marshall, Neiman Marcus Last Call, Nordstrom Rack, Off 5th Avenue, TJ Maxx, eBay dan lain sebagainya. Kalau rajin mau ngaduk-ngaduk pasti dapat banyak good deals deh. Designer clothes, especially when it's at a discount, worth to buy lah karena memang craftmanshipnya bagus. Dan mereka kan nggak setiap 2 minggu ada model baru, paling 2-3 kali setahun so they are not compromising process and quality in the production dan footprints nya juga nggak banyak.

• TOMS Traveler Sunglasses that I got on my last trip to LA. By buying the eyewear, you help restore someone eyesight :). By the way, visiting TOMS HQ at Abbot Kinney Boulevard is a must when you're in LA. I love the coffee, the people and the atmosphere.

In case you're wondering, nope,  my bag is not this neat most of the time. It only happens when I changed bag, or after I clean up the mess on Sunday night.

Anyway, featured here is my Chanel GST that I got 4 years ago. For work bags, I’m always looking for something that fits my daily essential. I don’t want it to be oversized, just enough to fit my laptop to avoid bringing two bags to meetings. Other than the size, leather is a must! Non leather bags can look too casual sometimes, especially when it’s slouchy. Oh speaking of slouchyness, I like my work bag structured to lend a more professional look. It also has to be solid and neutral color so I don’t have to change bag when I wear prints.

So, what’s inside it?

• My Dell Inspiron 11 series 3000 laptop. Thank God for this light and thin laptop I have no problem carrying it in my bag. It weighs in at 1.4 kg. Sometimes, my makeup bag is heavier than this laptop :D. Just like I can be picky with bag, I’m also very particular with my laptop. Specs and features are important but design is ultra important for me. The thinner and the lighter it is, the better! Second requirement is it has to look sleek and modern, techy but feminine. In this Dell laptop, I also like the fact that the body is actually plastic but it’s made to look and feel like aluminium. Plastic doesn’t scratch easily, which is of course a plus especially since I carry it in my bag without a laptop case sometimes. So design wise it’s perfect for me. 
• Louis Vuitton Sarah Wallet. It has more receipt than it has cash..*sigh*
• Michael Kors business card case
• Eyeglasses case that I got from Scoop
• Female Daily Makeup pouch. The makeup pouch and the inside deserves a separate post. 

If you like to see what others carry in their bag, you can see the What's Inside Her Bag column in Female Daily. 

Got a new haircut last week. I'm planning to let it grow so I just had it trimmed and layered a little bit. So I went to Sugai at One Piece, he is the only one who has cut my hair for the last 3 times I get it cut. I've never been this loyal to a hairdresser before :D. I like how it turned out. It's really a low maintenance kind of cut and made me look, ehm, a bit fresher. Just a bit :p.

Why you no have my size??

it's B by Brian Atwood, by the way..;(.

Since today is the last day, I'm just going to write down the most important information from first!. Mommies Daily and Bodrexin is throwing a blogging competition. The Prize? Three Kate Spade goodies!. If you don't have enough time to write down a full entry today, you can still participate in sending your kids' fingerprints into Bodrexin Facebook page and they will turn it into a batik motif. How cool is that?



Above is pictures of Jehan with her favorite batik skirt, lined with a white tutu that makes her feel like a ballerina. Ballerina in a batik skirt, why not, right? :D. Batik now is no longer associated with the boring brownish color that is worn to formal events. Wherever we turn now, we always see people with colorful and stylish batik clothes that make us even more proud of our traditional heritage.  The people in the industry is getting more and more creative in producing different kind and style of batik. Kids clothing are not an exception, proven by the skirt that Jehan wears in the picture. It's indeed a good and easy way to introduce batik to kids and to make them proudly wear it on a daily basis. They look much better in colorful batik than they do in Spongebob or Dora t-shirt, don't you think?

What a rare way to spend Thursday night (that feels like a Friday night). I am now sitting in the corner of Starbucks Senayan City, sipping its signature hot chocolate drink while reading The Hermes Temptation book (obviously I'm taking a break from the book for a few minutes to write this post). I had dinner with Oki at Brew House. It was a pizza, onion rings, philly cheese steak and coke kind of dinner. Very healthy. Now he has a meeting and I'm here waiting.

Last week I said to myself that I thought all the craziness would end once Women Wired Weekend was over. But now here I am, working at the office until 11 PM and continued the work at home until 3 in the morning. Oh well. Jehan showed me this drawing of her before I left for work. I was pretty shocked when I saw that because to me, in that first second, the drawing kind of resemble man's private part!. When I asked her what it was, she proudy said that it’s a NAIL POLISH bottle. Phewww!. Us adults, (or maybe it was just me) do see things from different point of view than kids. Our mind has been contaminated by many things, and some times, our worries and fears skewed how we see the world. Some times we see the negatives first instead of the positives. I’ve created a pretty comprehensive family financial plan last year. Fast forward to a year later, I’m kind of lost track with the investment. I don’t know which one performs well, which one needs to be closed and move to other Reksadana that is more promising. I’ve also had a few change of plans that I haven’t implemented and then we’re planning to apply for KPR, so there are quite a lot of changes in our financial situation, so it needs a more serious analysis and planning. We decided to be QM Financial client and last week was our first meeting and already am feeling more relieved. At least that's one less thing to worry about. I can be a perfectionist some times, that I think I can do everything and want to do everything by myself, because I feel that the part where I can learn more and use my brain. Now I learn that some times, I just have to delegate. We should have another meeting tomorrow. We had a big presentation last week and since Vanya was on leave, Syita was the one who had to deliver the presentation. It was the first time for her to present for a new project (usually a report-kind of presentation), and it's for a multinational companya It was amazing she could pull off such a promising presentation on a last minute notice. In fact, she only saw the final powerpoint presentation 2 hours before the appointed time. But she looked very comfortable in that cold meeting room. She explained everything thoroughly. Transition between points and slides were done very smoothly. Very proud of her!. I was especially moved when she explained about Female Daily Network and can actually feel her emotion there :') When I came home last Thursday, I was surprised to see identical suitcases lining up. They are from the travel agent who is arranging our Umrah trip. The lady said it's not fix yet that we can go on the date we want, but I don’t understand why she's already sent us the suitcase, along with the book and the uniform? Anyway, when I looked that, it just registered in me how I long to have this trip. I was almost in tears. Mudah-mudahan diizinkan dan dimudahkan untuk pergi ke sana ya Allah. Jibran loves to play Congklak. He is so excited that in school, the teacher just introduced the game to everyone. He is so proud that (according to him), he is one of the rare who already know about the game and that he, along with other friend, is the best at it :D. We lost the Congklak shells so we used the smaller Lego instead. The kid is pretty good, he understands the strategy and tactical aspects of it :D. But don't worry, I beat him 3-2. Speaking of investment, I was all smiles when I took my latest investment out for a spin last weekend :)))