Work In Progress

Masih dalam proses sketsa dan pewarnaan kasar. Detail dan highlight belum sama sekali. Nyabar ya... nikahnya masih beberapa bulan lagi kok. :D

Mobile Jeans Repairman

Went for lunch at Acoy's today. Saw this jeans repair guy, he basically is an expert and mending ripped jeans, or making them longer, or shorter. You might say he's a mobile tailor, has a sewing machine mounted on his three wheeled bicycle, made another seat and a pedal just inside the white box / workstation.

Queen of the Sky: Fired

It's official, the Queen of the Sky has been fired. I saw it on NBC and Fox this morning.

Ellen Simonetti is known in the blog community as the Dysfunctional Stewardess with the self titled: Queen of the sky. Her blog has been about her travels, work and stories about the airline business. She was fired for posting several photos of herself that the company (Delta Airlines) claims to be provocative and not becoming of an Airline Stewardess.

Well yes, those pictures do make you wish you joined the Mile High Club, but its actually not that racy nor offensive. Her website is actually funny and sarcastic about the airline industry, oh well, I guess we wont be seeing much of those writings again.

Lamaran Day

Ok, I've proposed marriage to Rika like a few months ago, its time to make it official. This is the Lamaran day or engagement day. Its meet the parents in a not Ben Stiller kinda way. It is custom that when you get engaged, you let the world know, or at least your closest friends and relatives. And today was it.

With a posse of my closest friends and family, we arrived at Rika's home this morning, bearing gifts for the family. We sat around the living room and then the reception started.

I was represented by my father's brother: Pak'De Wadji, in explaining our means by coming there, and was accepted by Rika's family Qur'an teacher (an Ustad). After reaching an aggrement on the engagement, Rika stepped into the room and joined us. She never looked so beautiful.
I placed an engagement ring on her finger, and after that was a small feast in honor of our engagement. A simple procedure, but it actually made me nervous for the past 3 days. We had fun that day, and I got engaged...


wow, I'm actually engaged.

Setting Up for Toyota

I've been working on an Interactive game for Toyota since last month with the help of a few friends including Acho. We worked together with an event organizer for this project. Its a hush-hush project that involves launching Toyota's latest Kijang installment, the Innova. Right now I'm setting up the projectors and checking the software's compability with it. Cross your fingers.

Prepare for battle!!

Right then.

Despite working late last night doing the final work on the Gramedia TV commercial, I'm off to the clients.

Ready as ever, laptop on my right, documents on my left, have my tie ready, suit in hand and a camera to pose and look good on the mirror... Oh man I'm soooo tired, I'm gonna fuck this presentation up aren't I ???

Her Confirmation

After many months of wooing and liplocking, Rika finally said yes to my plan to propose to her on November this year. (You can't see me, but I'm doing the dance of Joy, Balky style)I've proposed mariage to her since last month, but it's not that simple. A proposal of marriage must be witnessed by the two families, meaning she's already accepted my proposal, but havent decided on the time to make it public. I was proposing for a September date, she wanted March next year, we settled on November. All we need to do now is introduce our parents at a dinner we plan to have on July, and hopefully by September next year I'll be sending you guys invitations. It's a bit long between November 2004 and September 2005, but I am paying for the wedding my self, so I do need time to save money. I need roughly US$20.000 for the wedding. Any donations is welcomed*. :D*please make your donations in the form of cash, cars or house. hehehe...

Match made in...

See that smile... Rika bought me a new shirt yesterday. I bought her a surprise present the other day (ok... I admit, I'm a sappy guy), basically just things she ran out of that I hear now and then. I bought her a compact, lipstick and that spray at the body shop (she was complaining that she was running out of them the last time she had to perform a dance). The thing is, when I surprised her, she surprised me back. She got me 2 shirts, one long sleeve and one short. The surprise turned to a present exchange moment, we were thinking the same thing... yeah, I love that girl.

Strike a pose!

Arief striking his patented "METAL" pose at the new office building we just moved into... actually, most of his pictures contains that hand gesture... even the pictures I took of him with Riska for his wedding invitation (yup, the most annoying photo session of my life). Dude, get a new pose.

Will you marry me?

Yeah, I actually popped the question lest night.
She said Yes immediately.

Now comes the hard part: When?

Keep on swimming

Gotta keep in shape. While the other grunts work coding the software, me and Aher took a swim at the apartment's pool. It's the benefit of having an office at an apartment complex. Aher's looking a bit confused, I think he lost his pants in the pool...


Bwahahahaha

Dude, get a phone

This is my friend Wendy, currently in charge of Musica Plus. Wendy now is also the head of IndoWerks, you know, that company that went boom and then went sour in just under a year (multimedia factory my ass). Well, now Wendy is incharge of the company, basicly he just maintain the rest of the "werks" family's sites and data farm. Anyway, nowadays his baby is Musica Plus, a place where you can download your favorite musica artist songs for your mobile ring tone...

Wendy might be in the Mobile Ringtone business, but he doesn't own a cell phone. He claims that the phone's radiation messes with his brain function... WHaaaaaaaaat? Are you like serious?

So so tired

Through the whole fiasco, I didn't go to work today. Actually I haven't slept either last night.

You see, although Riska was in the accident, Arief was the one who went to the hospital. That stubborn headed mule kept saying "NO" when I wanted to take him to the hospital, and today after I got Riska's car to the garage, he collapsed. We took him to OMC, seems his blood pressure was way below and he's got Vertigo...(soo Hitchcock). anyway, I ended up taking care of Riska's insurance claims, and driving her to pick up his things (she's still in shock from the crash). Look at the bags on my eyes... so tired. Nevertheless, I promissed that I would take over my friend's class at IKJ for a day, and I did that. After this I'm going home and taking a nap for a week.

Picture shot during Maghrib prayer at IKJ Mosque.

Car Crash... domino style

After subuh prayer and reading the Qur'an (not perfect reading, but I try), I received a phone call from Arief; Riska is in a car accident.

I put on some clean pants and shirt and rushed out to get Arief from his apartment. The guy's been feeling under the wheather lately. Once I got him into the car, we set off to pick up Riska.

It seems a taxi cab suddenly stopped causing a domino collision to 7 cars, Riska's car was the fourth on the line. Arief drove Riska home while I took Riska's car to the garage. Took pictures of the car, including Riska's grief over the car.

Poor kid, well at least she's getting her car back in a week.

She said Yes

I'm still speechless, all I know is that this is a very happy day for me. I love you all!