Suwandi

Category: Life

  • Sell Your Life

    This guy says:

    Well, my tale is a bit of a sad one, but I am not trying to sell you a sob story. I appreciate that many people have had to cope with much more than I have, and have had much more sadness in their lives. This is just my way of dealing with what has happened to me….

    Yeah, this Ian Usher guy is about to leave his life behind and move on. His wife left him and he decides to sell his life. Listen, everything! Including house and what’s inside, his hobbies, friends, and job! Haha, yeap yeap, he’s selling his life on eBay!

    I read the story here, and then check here. You can bid here also, if you want to. Haha.

    Will you sell yours?

  • Clarke Quay

    Really fun last night. I went out with a friend and his girl-friend. My friend is an Indonesian, who has lived in Singapore for 8 years, while his girl friend is a Nepalese, who has spent 4 years there.

    So, I met them in Modesto’s, a nice italian restaurant. I had a bottle of Stella Artois (love this beer with no specific reason, just nice). And they ordered Tiramisu, which is very very very good. 9/10 in my tongue.

    At 10, we took a bus to Clarke Quay, for a slice of fun fun fun. Waited few minutes in Marrakesh before offered a seat. He recommended Mojito. I dont understand cocktail, luckily these two were graduated from F&B related major (hotel and tourism), so they explained what is mojito, how to make it, etc. Fun! Oh ya, it’s a mix of rum, mint, lime, and sugar. I must say, it’s very very nice! 9/10 again.

    The girl ordered Long Island (i dont like it). My friend ordered Shisha also, peach-flavored. It’s the first time i try shisha. Nice! But, i must say it didn’t make me a shisha fans.

    But, now i love Mojito! 🙂
    Got home at 2, with a crazy taxi charge and surcharge.

  • Lightroomed

    I browsed some old pictures in my hard-drive and i tried to edit the picture using Adobe Lightroom (my friend – a photographer, uses this software). Damn, so easy and the results are very very very okay. I mean, looks like a pro. Yihaa! I can not lie to you, i am amazed (with the software, the pictures, and erhm the editor – me!).

    Some of the pictures

    This one was taken in Alam Kul-Kul, Bali, during my trip 6 months ago. The cafe is nice. I had a complimentary beer and peanuts.


    This one was taken during our trip to Rizal Park (last December). She did some pose, didnt she? hehe. Anyway, Rizal is yeah we can say Pinoy’s Sukarno. One of the most respected persons in Philippines.


    This one was taken in a restaurant, which claimed to be a cafe of Forrest Gump. Don’t exactly know the fact. Food was nice and expensive.


    The last one is a starbucks’ ad-poster. No, i am kidding. It was taken by Ike in a starbucks near Immigration (or sort of).


    See? Looks very nice, right? Doh, my brother rated all of them with 7.0 out of 10.0. Underrated, i guess 😀

     

  • WordPressing

    I decided to move from Blogger to WordPress. Reasons were provided by my web-consultant, so i won’t put it here. Hehe.

    Funny thing is, my first post on this blogger was dated June 15th, 2005! Almost 3 years ago. So, i think i will change the layout and the theme of this suwanditalks.com exactly on June 15th, 2008.

    First thing came up is i would like to do a total “renovation” to suwandiTalks.com, i would like to put more emphasize on my professional side. Yeah yeah, let’s call it personal branding or something.

    But later, after several discussion, probably I will only use tabs, instead of total makeover. I am still deciding whether to use english or bahasa. My earliest post were in bahasa indonesia.

    Don’t know where I am, don’t know where I’ve been
    But I know where I want to go

    (Taken from ‘The First Day of My Life’)

  • Follow Your Dream

    I read about Yip Harburg, he’s the lyricist of the very very famous Somewhere Over The Rainbow. Hmm, i kinda like this one:

    Look, look, look to the rainbow
    Follow it over the hill and stream
    Look, look, look to the rainbow
    Follow the fellow who follows a dream.

    Of course, to me, lyric of Somewhere Over The Rainbow is extremely powerful. Love it:

    Somewhere over the rainbow,
    Way up high
    There’s a land that I heard of
    Once in a lullaby.
    Somewhere over the rainbow
    Skies are blue
    And the dreams that you dare to dream
    Really do come true.

    I guess y’all agree with me, dont you?