Awesome Monday: Awesome People Hanging Out Together

I am officially a big fan of this page !

From now on, in a mission to make Monday less unattractive,  I will post one picture from the page and share a brief story about the awesome people. In this picture below, Marlon Brando shares a laugh with Charlie Chaplin during a break in the filming of A Countess from Hong Kong .
Fun fact about Marlon Brando; As he got older, he refused to memorize his lines and found creative ways to keep cue cards in appropriate lines of sight. For example, his lines were written on Kal-El's diaper in Superman (1978). As for Chaplin, I read that Chaplin once entered a "Charlie Chaplin Look Alike" contest and did not make it:)) How crazy is that?

See you later on our next Awesome Monday!

Marlon Brando and Charlie Chaplin

August and Everything After

Counting Crows

On Future

You know how I not so secretly hoping, dreaming, planning to have my own children someday? Two boys and a girl to be precise. Yes, I am a detail freak when it comes to dreams :). Well, when I browse through this page containing heartwarming images of children hanging out, playing, doing chores and what not, this particular image struck me and I just want to post it here. As a little reminder, way to vision my dream better :). My children having a good time at the beach? Sounds very very real.

by John Dolan , uploaded from Momfilter

Dear Savings,

I know... I am sorry, there has been"too much" of a not necessary withdrawal, as well swiping the magnetic strip of the atm card too often for things wanted and not so needed these couple of weeks. You know that is not typical of me. Well, occasionally, I think I have to be this lady who enjoys splurging on new clothes, accessories and make up... Retail therapy? I have to admit, can be a very good mood booster.

Anyhow, I need to let you know that I have had enough. I need, and I want to make you fat. I really do. So please, remind me over and over again that I have more than just enough of stuffs in my closet, flats, heels and wedges in the shoe rack, movie collection by the dvd set and also stacks of new must read on my bookshelf for at least a couple of months from now. 

So here I go; deleting fashion blog from my browsing history, tightening my belt, crossing my fingers!

from Fox in Flats

Thou shall be Smurf'd!

Well yes...Another reminder of almost everybody's smurfy childhood life :) .

The Smurfs

Quick Catch Up

Just sharing one picture from the last little reunion over an enormous buffet lunch with some of my Bandung besties. Bandung is this little city where I was born, and I also went to one of the university there. Joe (the beardy guy) is like a big brother. I am good friends with his family too , means his other big brother and 2 younger brothers, cousins, in laws and relatives. The sweet girl hugging Joe as if he was a bear is Indira, also one of my closest, is a mother of three boys- yes, three boys. As much as she loves being a Mom, the three hour lunch was a well deserved break for her indeed :)). Another girl on the end is Maya, who actually was in senior year when Joe, Indira and I entered the university, but we get along and manage to stay in touch this far. Maya is a mother of one cute son.

Volent , my sister and Joe's cousin Lewi were there too but we did not get the picture together as a group. Too bad.

Not enough time for us to catch up on things, but it was worth the wait. See you guys soon, hopefully with more lovely people in the picture.

Love, Lost and Found: Missed Connections

I think it would be so amazing and profound that a couple could one day be telling their grandchildren the story of how they met and explain that they saw each other on the subway,coffee shop, or a park then connected over a website.
This book will help ; Missed Connections is a collection of illustrated love stories. There’s “We Shared a Bear Suit”,  “If Not for Your Noisy Tambourine” “Hairy Bearded Swimmer” and many interesting other stories. Each is told in the shorthand of a “missed connection,” and then illustrated in Chinese ink and watercolor. Lovely. The cutest fact about it that the stories are originally taken from this blog :)

As for the book- Is it on my must have list ? Oh, Yes!

Missed Connections