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Red Herby

nobody@vox.com(b4nch4) — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:40:18 +0700

i never really wanted a car before, but when i saw this cute litlle red car, my heart just moves....i can picture myself driving it.

Allright, so it's not new, and probably the machine is a thousand years old and not so fit for decent car speed, but something makes me love this car. it looks like it has history & a unique character! it reminds me of Herby (remember herby fully loaded??) only this one is in red.

Notice the font lamp, looks like eyelashes...so cute!

ughh i wannnaaaaaa!!!!

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chic logo

nobody@vox.com(b4nch4) — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:47:11 +0700

Some chic logo i'm working on

Joie 1

Le fleur2

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vintage purchase

nobody@vox.com(b4nch4) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:41:27 +0700

I bought a vintage mickey tshirt and just got the package today. This is my first attempt buying vintage stuff from the internet and is kinda fun hehehhe

I found this shirt from http://sherley26.multiply.com/

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Hidden Paradise: Belitung, Lengkuas island

nobody@vox.com(b4nch4) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:55:19 +0700

So i'm back from paradise, thrown back to this reality called life. Our Belitung / Lengkuas island / Pulau Burung trip is truly amazing, it's like we discover the hidden paradise on earth. We sighed and sighed, greedily captured the naked beauty on our surrounding, but words, photos, even poem doesn't seem to be good enough to describe it.
On our next trip, we will try to discover more local hidden paradise. So, till' our next trip ladies!

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New Blog, Friendster & Facebook Pose Book Competition

nobody@vox.com(b4nch4) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:06:04 +0700

Kutu new blog

We launched kutukutubuku new blog yesterday. We actually hired a illustrator for this and we totally love the the cute result.

since we are so much into community stuff right now, we also decided to put more attention to out social site such as friendster and facebook. Please add Kutukutubuku.com as friend in Friendster and also join our Pose Book Competition in facebook. It is basically inspired from "Doing The Karen Cheng Way" photo group where people pose up with their stylish clothes. But because this is Pose Book Competition, naturallly you need to pose with the book you currently read. The winners get kutukutubuku shopping voucher. Well it's totally pointless but it's fun heheheh

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Lengkuas Tomorrow

nobody@vox.com(b4nch4) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:24:28 +0700

Lengkuas island

This time tomorrow, i'll be exactly where the picture is: Lengkuas Island in Belitung. I'm in such a good modd today =).

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Watched Sex n the City...

nobody@vox.com(b4nch4) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:53:38 +0700

Watched Sex n the City with C yesterday and i kinda love the imperfect yet perfect ending. I mean...if i ever get married, i wouldn't want to have it another way. A spontaneous decision between 2 people in love who realizes they live but not living without each other, get merried in city hall, the label less gown, and they way they look at each other eye like nothing else matter. It was about her and him alone, not about the guest list, not the party, not the dress...and no anxious planning. Hell Yeah!
Sigh, it was hopelessly romantic.

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Online Image Editing Applications

nobody@vox.com(b4nch4) — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:50:05 +0700

Robot

I have been researching for online image editing and i'm quite surprise to find some really nice applications that is so enjoyable to play with! It's easy breezy to use, it's free, it's online, it's FUN!

Anyway, here is my list of free online image editing that is worth to look at:

1. Picnik.com
Dead easy to use, great layout, user-friendly navigation, cute adds on, great selection of texts, nice image effects, reasonable loading time. I could play with this all day long which make picnik my no.1 favorite. Ideal for lightweight editing, especially for social sites. The image above is made in picnik.

2. Splashup.com
Splashup offers an amazing range of features for an online editor, and has a “Photoshop-like” feeling to it. You can play with layers, brushes, etc. It could be a little complicated to use

3. Photoshop.com/express
Photoshop Express is designed to be used essentially by anyone who uses a point and click digital camera.
People can organize photos by dragging them into albums or create a gallery to share images. You would need Adobe Flash Player 9 to operate this application

4. Flauntr.com
Offers lots of effects separated in to different sections to make it jump to just want you want to do, such as photo editing in editR, or adding text in textR. It doesn't load very quickly

5. Lunapic.com

Cube me

Lunapic offers uncommon effect such ad this cube effect which is great, however i'm not sure why it has to load every time i did something. The interface is also simpler than the others.

6. fotoflexer.com
Fun and super easy to use, can add things like sticker and gif animated icons to the image. But the best thing about fotoflexer is that you can add another image (layers) of your choice on to the your original image (i'm not sure you can do this in picnik). Definitely has more features than picnik.

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On Media

nobody@vox.com(b4nch4) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:05:20 +0700

kutukutubuku.com, featuring me, ollie & kitin are on tabloid nova and prodo magazine on this month edition (july 2008). The content are basically about how to start own business, what to prepare, what it takes to be an online business owner in Indonesia, etc.

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Tea gallery - La Piazza

nobody@vox.com(b4nch4) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:21:24 +0700

Teagallery

Tea has always been my favorite of all drinks in the world. So when we found tea gallery at la piazza, kelapa gading, we decided to give it a go.
The interior of the cafe looks a bit like 'sinshe' chamber (chinese alternative doctor) with a large varieties of tea herbs on the wall as the part of the cafe's decorative element, which i think is really smart idea because it looks great and considerably a good use of space. Too bad i forget to take a picture of the 'herbs wall'. All the seats look very comfy and we took a small sofa in the corner.
Deciding what to drink is really a challenge because the have many many kind of tea which can be serve hot, cold, in smoothies, etc. Catrin finally settled with 'Arabian Night' smoothies tea (tea mixed with many kind of fruits) which taste a bit sour but very yummy and I decided to try 'Bancha', which apparently a kind of Japaneses tea that taste a lot like green tea but not as strong.
From inside the cafe, we still can hear/enjoy the live band from outside but not as loud so we still can have relaxing conversation without having to yell at each other ear. Tea gallery it is a great alternative place to hang out with your friend when your are sick with starbucks. Very zen & soothing place and it's open until 1 a.m on saturday night.

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