Food

A fresh cut fruit in a bowl, topped with yoghurt and chia. 

This week was my worst food experience, not because I eat bad food or such. But, I finally realise (I know I am really slow admitting it) how food affect my body. So, Rangga is abroad doing some performance, I was all alone. When I am alone I do not feel like cooking something because I have no one to share my food with. I ended up eating a lot of processed food and snack. 

I never test or check my health to the doctor or hospital but I know something is going on every time I eat processed food. It is not only bad for my teeth but also my head. I got a really painful migraine several days ago. I laid all day in my room, doing basically nothing, just rested hoping the pain will go away. 

Then, I figure out, all the food I bought is really bad for my health. It is really hard to start a healthy eating pattern and habit. There are days where I could just cook and prepare all my foods, while also there are days where I get super lazy and decided to buy ready-to-eat food. I want to be healthier this year and getting 5kg more weigh is not an easy task. Year still long but the journey is just started. 

Anyway, I want to make a short entry today. This one is spontaneously come into my mind and I just want to write it out. 

Thank you for reading this random thoughts I have.

Cheers,

M

Studio Ghibli Movies

Kaonashi, watercolor by me

I always wanted to start the series of Studio Ghibli movies that I have watched here in my blog. I thought that it would be fun entries. Who does not love Studio Ghibli anyway? Right?

I am a big fan of every movies produced by this Japanese animation studio. Even though, to be honest, I watch the film for the first time during my last year in high school, and I get more and more attracted to Studio Ghibli during my university year here in Jogja.

So, to begin this series of Studio Ghibli entries, let us start with little story about this studio. Studio Ghibli is founded in 1985 after the success of the Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind in 1984. The three crazy men behind the success of Japanese animation internationally are Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and Toshio Suzuki. Ghibli means in Lybian-Arabic "hot desert wind", they hope that this studio will give new wind in the animation production. Besides Arabic meaning, Ghibli also a name of Italian aircraft which Hayao Miyazaki is really into Italy and war aircraft (as seen in his movies).

Photo from Pinterest

If you are interested on how Ghibli founders works together, you should watch documentary movie about them The Kingdom of Dream and Madness featuring Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and Toshio Suzuki.

Here are Studio Ghibli Movie Lists:

1. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (1984) - before Studio Ghibli founded

2. Castle in the Sky (1986)

3. Grave of Fireflies (1988)

4. My Neighbor Totoro (1988)

5. Kiki's Delivery Service (1989)

6. Only Yesterday (1991)

7. Porco Rosso (1992)

8. Ocean Waves (1993)

9. Pom Poko (1994)

10. Whisper of the Heart (1995)

11. Princess Mononoke (1997)

12. My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999)

13. Spirited Away (2001)

14. The Cat Returns (2002)

15. Howl's Moving Castle (2004)

16. Tale's from Earth Sea (2006)

17. Ponyo (2008)

18. The Secret World of Arrietty (2010)

19. From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)

20. The Wind Rises (2013)

21. The Tales of Princess Kaguya (2013)

22. When Marnie Was There (2014)

23. Red Turtles (2016) ---- This is collaboration of Studio Ghibli and a Netherland director

24. How Do You Live (2020)

The list above is not included commercial, movies specially produced for Ghibli Museum. Yes, you read that. Studio Ghibli build their Museum in 2000 and officially opened on October 1, 2001. It is located in Mitaka, Tokyo. That museum is absolutely on my bucket list.

That's all for now, throughout this 2019. I will try my best to write about each Studio Ghibli movies that I watched. Disclaimer, I am not an expert or whatsoever when it comes to movie or film review, but I just try to give my honest opinion on them.

Anyway, thank you for stopping by!

Cheers,

M

Favorite Coffee shops in Jogjakarta

Hi!

Today I want to share my favorite coffee shop in Jogjakarta. Even that for a moment I would have free coffee day, I would love to have a cup of it with Rangga sometimes and have a deep convo about life (Haha!)

There are some reasons why I like these places to hangout and have a small meeting with my group. The place should not be too crowded, because I do not like to spend time in a place where there are too many people. It is too distracting and energy consuming, you know what I mean? Besides the place, I want to drink a good coffee or snack.

Tbh, I rarely cafe hopping or such, once I found some good place, I would rather keep coming back to the place, unless there is some attractive place worth a visit.

Pitutur Coffee

Taken from Pitutur Instagram

This small coffee shop located in Bausasran No. 60. If you go here from Geronimo or Jambuluwuk, this place will locate in the left side of the street not too far from the traffic light. The first time I came here is with Rangga. I forgot when, but since then we keep visiting this place. Turns out the owner of this place was in the same school with Rangga.

Taken from Pitutur Instagram

So, how is the place? The place has a really nice ambience. The wall painted white and everything is clean and tidy. I really love a simple decoration here and there, not much, but it gives a better unity of the place. Rangga really love Vietnam Drip in Pitutur, he will just follow what the barista will serve him. He never feels disappointed by the coffee so far.

Personal photo with Rangga in it

They once do not have WiFi and I feel great with how they run the shop. But lately, they have it there. You know they should consider it since many coffee shops out there always have WiFi in their shop. At first, there is no snack serve in the coffee shop, but there is some selection of cakes that you can choose to accompany your drinks. One thing that I do not really fond with the place is its location. Right next to busy street, so it will be a bit noisy if we stay outside. Sometimes, I will pause our conversation until the vehicle pass by. But, still, Pitutur is our favorite place in Jogja for having a coffee.

Tirana Art House and Kitchen

Personal Photo

This one is my new favorite place. The location is in Suryodiningratan street, it is quite near from my place. This place is used to be a clothing store, but in the last two years or one year ago it is transform into an art space and cafe. The place is not that big but the table setup is quite comfortable. There is a small section in the front that sell crafts from local artist. There are several spots where you can sit in this place, a little area in the front, a main area with 5 or 6 table settings, and outdoor area near toilet.

The place is amiable and of course there is not many people every time I come here. Even though the sitting is full, but it does not feel too crowded which I love so much. I really enjoy working here or only discuss about random things with Arta. Besides that, when you need WiFi, the speed is quite good.

I usually hang out here with Arta, our usual spots will be near front door. We usually come here in the noon and will go home at 7 or 8 pm. I like the Vietnam drip in this place as well, but I usually order Ice lemon tea, eat some cookies, or crispy banana to help get through the day.

Those two places are my favorite place so far in Jogjakarta, to work or meet up with friends or colleague. Not only it is easy to reach from my place, the place is good, the food and drink also. So, if you have time to spend while you visiting Jogja, you need to check out this place.

Cheers,

M

February Bullet Journal

A little quote from my favorite Japanese designer, Yohji Yamamoto

Welcome February!

From now on, I will try to share my bullet journal spreads in the beginning of every month. This is my second year doing bullet journal. I really enjoy the moment when I need to prepare a new month ahead. I know what I want each month, and what kind of spreads who will help through the month.

So, these are my spreads for February.

I try to combine texture and a little bit of grey in this spreads. Again, for weekly log, I keep it simple as I do not want to track every single things each week.

This is a spread of my monthly goals, tasks, and also projects. I want to see what I should completed this month. I am not going to put details in each one. The next page is my habit and health tracker.  You will see better in this image below. 

Habit and health tracker, I missed spell the words, but anyway.

In January 2019, I would like to record and plan ahead my blog as well as social media of Flying Balloons Puppet. Even though in real life, I still miss some of them. But, I know that at least I need to try to do it. The next page of this spreads is a poem by Rumi. 

I always makes mistakes in my bullet journal, whether wrong days, or wrong spelled. But, I do not want it to be something I need to think about a lot. So, every time I make some mistake, I just lined it up or simply put other paper on top of it. Nothing is perfect, that is why I try to embrace that imperfection. Yes, you see on the next page is to-do list for moving out. Me and my partner will move out in the end of February after he comeback for his tour. I make this spread to remind me what I need to do before moving out and what projects I want to do with the new house.

Again, this weekly spreads is so simple, nothing fancy about it. But, I like it so much. For now, I will stick with this layout until I want to explore more on this spreads.

This month, I give my friend a spreads of February for her graduation gifts. I forgot to take a picture of the spreads. I try to put her style and mood into the bullet journal. It takes me couple of hours to finish the spreads, but before jump into writing and scribble stuff on it, I made a list of spreads that I want to include in the bullet journal. It is quite a time consuming works, but I enjoy giving something like that. Her face is priceless when she open our presents. Maybe, I could make it into business, -- preparing bullet journal spreads with love --. Hahaha. I will post the picture later, if I could ask her to take some picture of it.

Thank you for stopping by!

Cheers,
M

*all photos are my personal photo