My 2012 Review

31 December 2012: A Time to Look Back December 31st, 2012. Sydney. On my comfy bed. Fingers dancing on Mac's keyboard. Writing a blog post. Waiting for the date in the calendar to change. To a new year: 2013. JANUARY 2012 My first Australia trip. Meeting my soon-to-be husband. FEBERUARY 2012 Start of the Nielsen DA Young Talent project. More going home late. But becoming closer to one of my colleague...

Panda Bread

I finally made a panda bread!!! I feel so bad to my former roomate in Japan, Risi, because I promised her a loooongg time ago that I would make a panda bread for her birthday. It never happened. But, I do really really want to try making one though. Bunbun got me a new mixer and I had to try it out so I chose this panda bread recipe for the try-out. Before making this panda bread, I've seen a...

Crispy Chicken Fingers

After scrambling around the internet for good breaded fried chicken recipe, I was able to come up with my own by mixing and making adjustments to the recipes I found. As a good family friend taught me, "If you find different recipes for a food, make a side-by-side comparison. Find the ingredients that makes the recipes different with one another and then use them all. Those different ingredients...

My Traditional Wedding

As much as I would love to have a modern-muslim wedding, I also wanted a traditional one. Not only the decoration that is fully traditional (by mom's request) which we called gebyok, me and the moms wanted to me to wear the Solo traditional headpiece (kembang goyang) as well. Marriage is only once in a lifetime (aamiin) and when else would you wear this extravagant inherited culture...