The Days of a Silly and Ordinary Girl! :D

It's been a while since I last post a movie review, guess it's time to have another one coming? 

Well, I have just got home after watching Captain America: Civil War and I'm smiling. :)

Means I'm not disappointed at all.

I've been impatient to reach home soon and share my opinion with you guys, cause I gotta say "It's a lot better than Batman vs Superman, guys!!" And I'm glad Batman vs Superman was released first before Captain America. You know, I'm the whole "save-the-best-for-the-last" kinda person. I'm happy that I'm left with better impression about superheroes movies, than just thought of it as "Nah, it's just another superhero movie, they just gonna fight, the superhero wins, and the villain loses, there's no point."

The conflict and the fight are wrapped in a much better way than Batman vs Superman. The movie is fully-packed with special effects and actions (they have a lot of fights, which are way better than The Avengers: Age of Ultron).  Oh, and they have humour too, though not much, especially when Ant-man and Spider-man lend their hands in the big fight. Well, literally, they are the only source of laughter in the movie. Oops, spoiler alert?

Both Captain America and Batman have the same duration, but I kinda felt a little bored halfway thru Batman, and according to me, the conflict in Batman vs Superman was too simple, and it was solved too easily, that the fight became pointless. On top of that, I really feel bad to say this, but I'm more attracted to the appearance of Wonder Woman in the movie instead of the two main leads. (Anyway, I'm excited to see her solo movie in 2017. :) )  Yet, in Captain America, besides the two main roles, the other superheroes share the fairly same importance in the movie. 

And hey, the movie also seems brighter and more colourful than Batman vs Superman, cause the setting of Batman vs Superman was just too gloomy, it's like dim, dark, night, rain, underground, well yeah Batman is the Dark Knight, shouldn't have expected much of the brightness. Well, don't bother. haha

I'm sorry, DC Comics, but I'm gonna say the award for the best "Superhero-vs-Superhero" movie so far  must go to Marvel. (But, don't worry, you still have Suicide Squad in my bucket list, maybe you'll win my heart back? XD )

Truthfully, at first before watching the movie, I couldn't decide which side I'm on. Either it's #TeamCap or #TeamIronMan, (It's more to #TeamCap actually, since Chris Evans is younger and more handsome with all the muscles, but wait! Robert Downey Jr. is seriously attractive too! Errrr, can't I just be on both side?)

But at the end, I'm sure I won't be on either's side, cause
"UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL."

I'm definitely on the Avenger's side. :D

Well, on one fine day, when the weather was super hot, and we finished work early, my colleague and I went to Dokioo again to cool ourselves off. We don't have any air-con in our workplace and the nearest hangout (air-con guaranted) is Dokioo. And, they serve dessert! The best thing you could get to fight off the heat! So there we went. 

Tried this Hanbaga Dragon (basically means Hamburger with Dragon Fruit sauce! Yes, hamburger featuring dragon fruit! How weird could it be?)

Here it goes.

First, we created a group chat thru Line without her(of course, it's without her!) and discussed about how we should celebrate it this year. Well, we have been celebrating birthdays for years now, and it's getting harder and harder each year trying to figure out what's the best surprise that we could come up with this year. There were some ideas mentioned, such as hiding in her house and surprise her when she arrived home from work, another one was appearing suddenly at her gym, or even make some excuses to take her to our basecamp. At first, we struggled a bit looking for the best choice. Some wanted to make a big blast, some wanted to have a simple one. But! 

Something happened in the midst of the confusion, and it led us to an anonymous vote.

I couldn't use the word "fortunately" here as it's not entirely a good thing for us. One of our members, the host of our basecamp, Mr. Daniel Jiang, fell from his motorbike and hurt himself while he's on the way to work one morning. And along with that, came a new idea, "let's pretend we're visiting him, make her think that we forget about her birthday, but we're having her birthday surprise instead." So, it's a surprise beneath another surprise.

We told her that we're going to surprise Daniel by visiting him at his home, buying him some fruits, wishing him get well soon, bla bla bla (Daniel actually knew about our plan). So, we ended up with two different group chat. One entitled "Diana's Birthday Surprise"(with Daniel, without Diana), and the other one for Daniel's surprise(without Daniel, with Diana). The second one was actually a disguise to make her think that we're really serious with our plan.

Confused?
Hopefully not. :)
Cause it's far more confusing for us.
Trust me, when you're in our positions (the remaining members), it was really hard to stay focus. We had to multitask, being active in both groups to keep her guard off and also discussing what to prepare for the surprise, and seriously, it's extremely puzzling. There were times when we made mistakes, though, like mentioning about cake in the wrong group. Fortunately, she didn't realize anything. XD

To make everything more real, I even pretended that I wouldn't be able to join because I wasn't feeling well,(this is just an excuse to let me have more time to buy the birthday cake) and she trusted me. *I'm so sorry for lying. T.T

For all those times, she really did believe that everything was for Daniel.

Our initial plan was for me to arrive first at Daniel's house with the cake, and for the others to gather at her house and go together to the basecamp. So both Daniel and I would surprise her when they arrived. BUT, it didn't go as planned. It was getting dark when only Winda and Erick arrived at Diana's house (Wesley took some time to finish his bath, and Putra was stuck at his house waiting for him). Three of them didn't want to set off late, because they had to ride public bus, and it's dangerous if it's dark, so they decided to leave first, without the other two.

Daniel and I had waited for quite a while, then suddenly Winda told us thru Line that they're coming. Daniel realized that I hadn't hidden my shoes yet, and I realized that Diana would recognize my shoes, because we bought it together. I rushed to the door to remove my shoes, but right at the moment when I almost opened the door, I saw two people standing in front of the gate, and they saw me too!!! They directly ducked down, and I was panicked. "She saw me, she saw me!", I told Daniel.
His reaction was LOL.
We carried the cake to Daniel's room(on the second floor) hurriedly, and waited patiently for them. Daniel's mom let them in, and let them sit in the dining room as they're impatiently waiting for the other two to arrive. We kept track on what's happening downstairs thru live update in our group chat cause Winda and Erick were signalling us every second.
Putra and Wesley took quite some time to come, especially you, Wesley!!
Both Daniel and I even lit the candles every time they said, "Get ready!", and then blew them again when they said, "Wait! Cancel!" a second later for several times. =.=


And here's the video of what happened next.
I was hiding beside the wardrobe, and Daniel was holding the cakes with his back facing the door.
Enjoy :)

Can you spot a vespa there? Right next to the window?

The view from my seat

Well, everything is great except for the menu. They have a short list of menu with not much options to choose, but the good thing is the prices are quite affordable for a cafe. 

Love the cups!! And the color combination! Eye-catching!

*don't mind me :p

 Pasta with Pesto Sauce (38k)

(It was too salty according to my colleague, sorry!)

Monte Cristo Sandwich (28k)

Overall, this is a great place to stay, chit chat and relax. We stayed for quite long, almost four hours, talking about lots of things, and since we're getting refill for our green tea, which we did for like 5-6 times, we didn't feel thirsty at all after all the talk. :P

For the food, I'm sorry to say but the taste was just so so. I really do hope they'll improve the taste, so when I get a chance to come back one day, hopefully it will be a great place to eat, drink, and also to stay. :) 

Oh, one more thing, I'm not a coffee lover, so I didn't try their coffee but since it is called as "Downtown COFFEE", maybe their specialty is their coffee. If you are looking for a good coffee, maybe this place worth a try. :)

Downtown Coffee can be found at Jln. Putri Merak Jingga No 15A - 17 across Nelayan Sari Laut. :)

Well, last Thursday was Indonesian's father's day. I didn't know about it, and then I saw lots of celebrities and also instagram friends posted about their fathers in the social medias, and I was like, "Didn't we just have our father's day? Why do we have another father's day in the same year?" Then, I googled it, and found out that the international father's day is on the third Sunday in June, while 

our national father's day is in 12th November. 

Truthfully, I was about to let it pass by, without doing anything, and not even congratulating my dad, "Happee Father's Day!" 

But then, after long thought, we never know what future may hold for us. I never know I was gonna get sick, we never know what might happen to us tomorrow, or there might be no more tomorrow, we would never know. (Not that I'm wishing for bad things to happen, no!) and I realized that I didn't want to have any regrets. If I can do it now, then I should. 

So, when my brother and I were on the way home from work, I came up with a crazy idea, since I didn't have time to prepare for cake or a gift, and my daddy doesn't really like sweets, I thought of asking him to take a selfie with me, with a duck face! Haha

You might think that, "What's so hard about that? I can ask my daddy to do it anytime." But not for me. Daddy, for me, is a very strict guy. Whatever he said will become law for us. Truthfully, there are times, when my brothers and I were very afraid of him. We're afraid that we wouldn't be able to reach his expectations, or that he'll find our mistakes and we'd be scolded really hard. During those times, we would directly run to our bedrooms whenever he came home. We never really talked much to him.

When we're young, when most of our classmates had mobile phones (at that time, mobile phones were luxurious items), we never dared to ask him to buy ones for us. He had ever said to us, "If you want something, then you should save up yourself." And indeed, until now, he has never bought any luxurious items for us, including mobile phones. 

Therefore, he won't pose a duck face.

But, with times, I grew up to understand that he's doing all of these for us. He doesn't want us to be spoiled kids, he wants us to independent, he wants us to be better humans. Maybe he knows the risk, that by doing so, he won't be able to get close to his kids. But as a daughter, I, too, was at fault.

I used to keep thinking about the bad times I spent with him, which made me choose to be far apart from him. I never really thought about the good times; the times when I bragged around telling people that "I'm daddy's little girl!, the times when he would carry me on his back, when my tiny feet were too tired to walk, the times when he would let me sit on his shoulder, since I was too short to watch a show on stage, the times when every weekend, when he was supposed to have a rest after full week working, he took us to malls and different restaurants to eat, the times when he and mom let me slept with them when I couldn't sleep, until the times when he suddenly turned up at my graduation and wouldn't stop telling others that,"That's my girl!" :)

Those memories built up my courage to come to him and ask him to take a picture with me. I have nothing to fear. Again, I don't want to have any regret. Surprisingly, when I proposed the idea to him, he laughed and agreed. :D

It's the last weekend of the month already, are you ready for next month? :)

See, time really flies in turbo-speed. Somehow, i get a feeling that the end of the year will come real soon. *sigh

Well, I got bad news this week. Not real "bad"news, since I can still cope with it, but I think I need help, in a form of advice or suggestion.

Several days ago, I slipped and fell down right after shower in front of the bathroom, you know the floor got kinda slippery with all the water, and I guessed I just had bad luck that day, sooo I kinda sprained my wrist in the process. It feels painful when I tried to move it, or twist it, carry things, or bend it forward or backward. 

There're lots of people having their birthdays these several days, and among them, is my mom :D

She's having her birthday todaaay. 

And my journey of looking for her birthday cake was started by a brief conversation several days ago that goes like this: (I don't really remember exactly what we're doing while we're having this conversation, it's either we're watching drama or browsing thru instagram feed, or anything else, but somehow we ended up talking about birthday cakes.)

Mom: What kind of cakes will I get for my birthday later?

Me: Emm. As usual, Clover cake. (Clover is a name of a best-selling cake shop in town) 

Mom: Why Clover? (with a disappointed tone)

Me: So, what else?

Mom: Anything else. 

You know, when girls and women said they want just anything, it means deep in their heart, they want you to understand what they really want, and they want you to look for something special, something you put effort in, something you put a lot of thought on, something which can show that you care about them, that you pay attention about what they like. It can be small, trivial, but afterall, it's not about the thing, the gift, the cake, the price etc, it is about the thought that counts. :)

So, I embarked on a small quest looking for the special birthday cake for my Mom. 

I tried to search online and went to some cake shops to have a little survey of which one would be suitable for several days before D-day. Well, our family members do not like sweet things, or cakes that are just beautiful but not tasteful, So, cakes with icing is a big NO, and cakes with sweetness over the limit is also NO. Therefore, I ended up buying Gateau Opera from Marriot Gourmet at JW Marriot Hotel Medan. 

It is a twist of coffee, tiramisu, peanuts and chocolate :d so it goes well with our palate. Cakes in our house usually will be finished off by 2-3 days, because again, we don't really like sweet things, but this time, it's gone in a day. :p

Happee Birthday, Mom!

You are the SuperMOM!

You are the best person I've ever known in the universe! 

Thankyou for being there for me all the time. 

Thankyou for being my forever best friend.

Thankyou for always tidying my things for me (sorry that you have an "unorganized" daughter like me :p)

Thankyou for always 

listening to my random thoughts, my babbling, my problems, and giving me advice everytime i'm stuck.

Thankyou for always saying "There's no mother in this world who doesn't wish the best for her child(ren)".

Thankyou for worrying about us each and every second of your life. We know you love us that much. And we love you to the moon, back to the earth and back to the moon again. :D

Thankyou again and again for gazillion of things. Really really thankyou :*

On top of all, Thank You for being my Mom. 

Love, 

Lasmarya :)

(They said, "Once you're full, a smile will come out naturally." It is indeed. :) Wefie with full members after 7 months. Looking forward to another full members gathering!)  

This is how I spent most of my Eid Mubarak's holiday, hanging out with these guys! 

How was yours? I hope it's as exciting as mine. :D

See you again soon, 

xoxo