Tuesday, December 22, 2009

So Long, Farewell My Ramen Girl




It was 2.00 am yesterday night, as i was browsing around and shocked by the news from a friend's facebook stats and twitter saying Brittany Murphy had passed away. Try to making sure that the news was a hoax - since so many of 'em lately. But it didn't.

Brittany Murphy, my Ramen Girl actress died of cardiac arrest at her home in Los Angeles. Her death adds another loss to the Hollywood world of star in 2009. Hopefully she will be the last one this year. We had enuff loss already! :'(

May you rest in peace, Brittany.
xxx.

Monday, November 2, 2009

♥ Stefano Pilati ♥


«Fashion could be more relevant. It needs to be understood rather than just consumed.» Interview Magazine, September 2008

«I decided to be my homosexual self,» he said matter-of-factly. «And it helped me understand the male mind. But when I do a fitting with a woman, I think, Would this woman seduce me? Being gay allows me to be objective about women.» NY Times

«A well-dressed man is someone you want to share an evening with, have a conversation,» Pilati continued. «You don't want to see him on the catwalk. Whatever your sexuality, fashion is female.» NY Times

Stefano Pilati on what's sexy:

1. The biggest mistake you can make when dressing is to pretend you're someone else. Proportions are everything. Don't wear jackets with big shoulders if your shoulders are small. Don't dress like a kid if you are old. Clothing should be a representation of a body, not a distortion of it. That said, I love women in men's clothing.

2. Calves are a devastatingly undervalued body part. They are so beautiful. Women, at least, can wear skirts. But we have to wear our pants long, long, long. Why?

3. Men have a need for comfort that will always get in the way of their style. We are not used to suffering. Women will put on makeup in 90-degree weather; they will wear shoes that destroy their feet. We simply won’t do that. If it hurts, we just won't put it on.

4. I find R&B music very sensual. It teaches men and women how to communicate sexually — all of a sudden he's talking about his feelings and she’s talking about her feelings and then, well... it's taught me a lot.

5. I don't want to tell you that money will help you with women. I don't want to tell you that money will help you with anything. I guess I'll just say that it allows for a lot.

6. The sleek nineties aesthetic made sense to a lot of men. The black leather furniture, the fur blankets — it was easy. Now we have to work a little harder. The important thing is just to keep trying.

7. Your hands are a part of your body that you always show people. They are a big part of the first impression that you make. Get a manicure; it's the respectful thing to do.

8. I don't honestly think that there is a man alive who looks good with long hair.

9. Cars are like muscles. Now that I'm 40, I feel like I am ready to buy a vintage Ferrari. It's a good and sporty car, but it's also classy. I know there is ego involved, but it's not like it's totally vain. If I wanted a yellow Lamborghini, that would be different. That would be like having big muscles. I'd feel like a piece of meat.

Source: http://ecstasy-lover.livejournal.com/213251.html#cutid1

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Looking Fab for LESS!!!


Just do this D.I.Y by Vivienne Westwood!





Forever a Vogue Girl







LOOK OF THE DAY







1. 

BLACK SCARF

$8N.Y.L.AJAKARTA, in SCARVES  
2. 

DARK BLUE HEELS

$80ZARA,JAKARTA 
3. 

BLACK JOHDPUR PANTS

$13N.Y.L.A,JAKARTA, in FULL LENGTH PANTS 
4. 

WHITE SHIRT

MARC JACOBS, in BLOUSE




Thursday, October 22, 2009

How To Handle Haters

I quote this one from inspiring designer Melody Ehsani's blog.

HATER

By: Maya Angelou


A hater is someone who is jealous and envious and spends all their time trying to make you look small so they can look tall.
They are very negative people to say the least. Nothing is ever good enough!
When you make your mark, you will always attract some haters…
That’s why you have to be careful with whom you share your blessings and your dreams, because some folk can’t handle seeing you blessed…
It’s dangerous to be like somebody else… If God wanted you to be like somebody else, He would have given you what He gave them! Right?
You never know what people have gone through to get what they have…
The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don’t know my story…
If the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, you can rest assured that the water bill is higher there too!
We’ve all got some haters among us!
Some people envy you because you can:
a) Have a relationship with God
b) Light up a room when you walk in
c) Start your own business
d) Tell a man / woman to hit the curb (if he / she isn’t about the right thing)
e) Raise your children without both parents being in the home

Haters can’t stand to see you happy.
Haters will never want to see you succeed.
Most of our haters are people who are supposed to be on our side.
How do you handle your undercover haters?

You can handle these haters by:
1. Knowing who you are & who your true friends are *(VERY IMPORTANT!!)

2. Having a purpose to your life: Purpose does not mean having a job. You can have a job and still be unfulfilled. A purpose is having a clear sense of what God has called you to be. Your purpose is not defined by what others think about you.

3. By remembering what you have is by divine prerogative and not human manipulation.

Fulfill your dreams! You only have one life to live…when its your time to leave this earth, you ‘want’ to be able to say, ‘I’ve lived my life and fulfilled ‘my’ dreams,… Now I’m ready to go HOME!

When God gives you favor, you can tell your haters, ‘Don’t look at me…Look at Who is in charge of me…’

Monday, October 19, 2009

New York, I Love You!

For me, New York is like a yummy cheese sticks that once you pop, you can not stop eating it.
New York is so addictive, i just can't get over with since my last trip this summer.
I'm so in love with the city, that we (me&husband) almost decided to move there. LOL!
But no, we didn't move instead we're planning to go back next year.

From the producer of "Paris, J'taime" (also my fav movie of all time), comes a collaboration of love stories from all over NY with many different faces.

Together they create a kaleidoscope of the spontaneous, surprising, electrifying human connections that pump the citys heartbeat. Sexy, funny, haunting and revealing encounters unfold beneath the Manhattan skyline. From Tribeca to Central Park to Brooklyn the story weaves a tale of love as diverse as the very fabric of New York itself.

Starring: Bradley Cooper, Shia LaBeouf, Orlando Bloom, Justin Bartha, Andy Garcia, Hayden Christensen, Rachel Bilson, Natalie Portman, Irrfan Khan, Christina Ricci, John Hurt, Robin Wright Penn, Ethan Hawke, Maggie Q, James Caan, Cloris Leachman, Qi Shu, Emilie Ohana, Blake Lively.

So I bet this movie gonna make me miss every lovely-quirky-dirty inch of New York City. ♥


SHIMA is SPICIN' IT UP!


YAY!
SHIMA has made it to the 1st cover ever!
Check out SPICE Magazine Oct. 2009 issue

Photography by Bona Soetirto
Stylist: Dita Saryuf
Model: Mariana Renata
Dress & Vest: SHIMA by Shinta Handamari

Thank youuu Spice!

Thursday, September 10, 2009

She & Him

Instant Love!

500 Days of Summer


Summer has always been my favourite time of the year,
I love summer and Zooey! It such a perfect combination!
Have any of you watch the movie? I've been waiting for it quite sometime now,
so everyday me and my sister-in-law would sit in front the computer and watch for the trailer together over and over!
We're such a geek! So sad it hasn't been playing in Indonesia yet.
But i'm gonna anxiously wait for the movie,
coz "500 Days of Summer" will complete my perfect summer this year. :)


Thursday, September 3, 2009

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Lonesome Dove





Dress: SHIMA by Shinta Handamari

 



Dress: SHIMA by Shinta Handamari






Jumpsuit: SHIMA by Shinta Handamari



Tops: Katie Perry for H&M Fashion for AIDS
Vest & Skirt: SHIMA by Shinta Handamari



Dress: SHIMA by Shinta Handamari
Coat: H&M
Shoes: Diane Von Furstenberg


Swank Glossy Magazine 08/09
Photography: Jacky Suharto
Model: Jenn Kosinski
MUA: Brandon Ward (MAC)
Stylist: Shinta Handamari
Photography Assistant: Anjosmoro Maroef
Retouch: Tody.p


Tuesday, August 25, 2009

WATER

This is too important and not to be missed! 
So I copied this one out from John Masters Organic blog (http://www.johnmasters.com/blog.htm)
Read and learn, fellas!

If you want to talk about human rights, let's start with pure, safe drinking water for all humans.

In 1995 Ismail Serageldin, vice president of the World Bank (an agency in itself problematic in my opinion), wrote "If the wars of this century were fought over oil, the wars of the next century will be fought over water unless we change our approach to managing this precious and vital resource".

Fourteen years later this couldn't be more true. Between 1 and 2 billion people living in the developing world lack access to clean water and that number is expected to rise to 2.5 billion in 2010 with increased pollution and privatization of this natural resource. Not only is it a problem in the developing world, but a major problem we face right here in the USA & globally.

The public drinking water in the USA is loaded with a mix of toxic chemicals including sodium flouride (a by product of nuclear waste & the aluminum industry, the main ingredient in rat poison), chlorine, chloramine (chlorine with ammonia), alumuinium chlorohydrate, along with an array of pharmacueticals recently detected in major city water supplies which are not filtered out. Over 20 prescription drugs were found in NYC drinking water last year after testing and this rang true in other communities as well. I recommend no one drink the water from the tap unless you have a water purification system to take out what our gov't has put in the water claiming to make it safer.

Equally as disturbing is that water has now become a commodity, this would have been unthinkable just 20 years ago. Then, bottled water was certainly not an accepted part of everyday life. It is now normal to spend a few dollars a day on bottled water. Municipalities now charge for your water as well, something that was once free. Big corporations now promote their water as better and safer which is not always true. Huge profits are being made on something that for sure should be FREE & SAFE TO EVERY HUMAN ON THE PLANET! Talk about a human right, how about water to start with? Will water be the next oil? Let's hope not but we must speak out loudly now. Earlier this year to illustrate this point I was paying more for a gallon of water than for a gallon of gas in the country.

Maude Barlow (pictured left), chairperson of the Council of Canadians (Canada's largest advocacy organization), said to Mother Jones in 2005 "People don't understand how fast the world is becoming a desert." She stated "We need to declare water a public trust. Water belongs to the Earth and all species. It belongs to future generations. We need to challenge the world bank and trade agreements. We have to take back the power to this thing that is essential to life".

Carbon emmisions from homes, cars & power plants are changing the chemical composition of the oceans by increasing the water acidity, which leads to a breakdown in the ocean's food chain. Riverkeeper found that 10 out of 13 leading species in the Hudson River have been on the decline since the 1980's. This is another serious issue that must be addressed concerning water.

We must not only demand that our water supply be cleaned and toxic cocktails of chemicals be removed from our municipal drinking water supplies, but we must also conserve water and stop wasting it.

Here are a few easy tips on water conservation and less carbon emmisions:

Decrease your shower time by two minutes and you can save approximately 250 gallons of water a month.

Upgrade your shower head to a slow-flow, water-efficient model and save up to 17,000 gallons a year. Several on the market can save up to 40% of water used by older shower heads.

Every home that turns the thermostat down by 2 degrees in the winter & up 4 degrees in the summer can cut 2,000 lbs of carbon emmision a year.

A gallon of gas produces 25 lbs of carbon so walking, bicycling, carpooling or public transportation can make a difference.

Collect rainwater & use it to water plants & vegetables. This practice is actually outlawed in a few parts of the country. I guess the corporate-controlled gov't wants to own rain now, very scary. Imagine, it is illegal to collect rainwater on your own property.

Don't leave water running the entire time when washing & rinsing dishes.

Run your washing machine only when full.You can save up to 100 gallons a month.

Spread a layer of organic mulch around plants and gardens to help retain moisture.

Check your faucets, toilet and outdoor hose for leaks.

Turn off the water while brushing your teeth or while shaving. This can save 25-50 gallons a month.

Get rid of your garbage disposal and start a compost instead. Saves up to 150 gallons a month.

Adjust your lawn mower to a higher setting. Taller lawns shade roots and holds moisture better.

JUST A 10% REDUCTION IN OUR WATER USAGE WOULD MAKE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON IMPROVING THE BLEAK OUTLOOK POTENTIALLY FACING US.


-John


Phoenix Diary Day 3 - Lunch plus Midnite Juggernauts and Goodbye



Phoenix Diary Day 2 - After Party





With my homegirl, Tatis. Rockin' it like it's 1999 !!

Umayya with the crews

BFF!

Mench + Jojo

Too many cameras, don't know where to look!


Cut Loose & Stand Still





http://lookbook.nu/user/37952-Shinta-H

Monday, August 24, 2009

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Organic Skincare


Okay, so. Now i'm all about the organic skincare. I'm crazy about it.

Organic (adj.): 1.relating to or employing agricultural practices that avoid the use of synthetic chemicals in favor of naturally occurring pesticides, fertilizer, and other growing aids.

Though i've been trying to live my daily life as 'green' as possible, but it's hard for me to keep it going when everything surrounds you doesn't seem to go with the same green-friendly directions as moi!
Sadly i must say, that mostly everything here in Jakarta is (currently) still using plastic for everything.

So this is my top 5 organic skincare at the moment:

1. Kou Organic Soap



is made from Bali, Indonesia. I found this cute little shop down at Jl.Dewi Sita, Ubud, 2 years ago. Made of very yummy scents of organic flavours and flowery, with lovely packagings.
My heart is set on Kou Organic Soaps instantly.

Besides variety of flavoury soaps - KOU Premium Tuberose & Premium Rose White, Kou also came in different sizes and weight of Jasmine White/ Rose White/ Sweet Orange/
Vanilla Heaven/ Minty Green/ Lemon Tea Tree.

Kou's range of products also consist of bath salts, jams (yes, as in bread & jams), and sleepingwardrobes & sheep baby pillows. It's too bad they haven't got the website yet, but i still can get my hands on it by special order.

Photos courtesy of : http://knumnimmark.multiply.com/photos/album/49/Salamat_Datang_Bali_1 and
and https://tabidachi.ana.co.jp/card/282202/print


2. Burt's Bees Shea Butter Hand Creme




This creme had amazingly worked out for my dry, chapped hands!! I'm completely surprised how Burt's Bees Shea Butter Creme also made my nails doesn't easily ripped/peeled. You can get it from www.burtsbees.com or if you reside in the USA, just go to your nearest Duane Reade at the price $13.

3. John Masters Organics Lip Calm


Love this. Yummy lips with nice organic scent. I bought it from Whole Foods, in NY. But you can also get it at http://www.johnmasters.com/lip.htm for $6.


4. Burt's Bees Coconut Foot Creme




I actually haven't test this one out, because this product is still on it's way to my house being sent from Singapore yesterday. I shall give you the update about it but i'm pretty sure that it's gonna cure my crazy-dry foot since the hand creme worked out perfectly! Oh yes, and the nearest Burt's Bees is actually in Sephora Singapore! That's a shame. Again, for those of you live in the U.S. (darn, lucky you!) get it at the nearest Duane Reade or just visit www.burtsbees.com.


5. Burt's Bees Naturally Ageless Skin Firming Night Creme


'Nuff said about Burt's Bees, this agless skin firming is not gonna take overnight to firm my eye-lines. Although this product doesn't make the cut to Vogue UK's top 10 eye-creme chart, i'll try this one out! :P

Saturday, August 22, 2009

Favourite Summer Ending



Still crazy about this song, also my fav mash-up video version of Lisztomania.
Reminds me so much of summer days in Brooklyn, which i heart!
Summer breeze, dirty dancing, and sunkissed skin is the best part of summer.

Friday, August 21, 2009

Phoenix Diary Day 2 - Showtime!!

Brotherly love at the soundcheck