Sekaten Night Market

Sekaten is an event held annually in Yogyakarta to celebrate the birth of Prophet Muhammad. However, in the present it is not so much a religious festival for it has becoming a typical night market. The Gamelan Sekaten still goes on show for a week, from 6-12 Maulud (the third month of Javanese calendar).

For this year, I had made 2 visits to the Sekaten. First with my brother, watching dolphin show. Yeah, it was quite embarrassing for us. Most of the adults watching the shows were parents escorting their babies.

The next visit, I went with my 2006-community-service friends. It was like a reunion, just like the old days, although only 4 people showed up. We tried the 'Haunted Kingdom'. It was disappointing. The 'ghosts' were not scary at all. We had fun though. I wish we could go there again next year.

Snoopy's Summit

From left to right: delegate from USA, Peru, Holland, Finland, Yugoslavia, Indonesia, New Zealand.

I found this dust-covered Snoopy toys this morning while cleaning the book rack. It's been years since the last time I touched them. They're 1999 McDonald's toys--Snoopy World Tour 2. I collected them when I was a secondary school student in Singapore. Nine years ago, and I still remember the queue to get these Snoopys (although the queue was not as long as the Hello Kitty craze). Being away from home & family, my homesickness was somehow cured by the Javanese Snoopy.
Too bad I only managed to get 7 out of 28. See this blog for the full collection.

The Procraftination Dresses

I just made this dress quite recently, about 2 weeks ago, although I bought the material years ago. I used my OWN pattern.. Yeay!! The material is slippery so it was more difficult to sew.


This was made around November. I just followed the pattern from an old Kartini magazine. Turned out I picked the wrong size so it's too big for me. Adding a belt doesn't help much.. :(


I got the batik print material from my best friend Itha when she returned from Papua. The material is cotton, so it was easier to sew. I love the Cendrawasih birds motif too. I also used pattern from Kartini magazine. I made this wrap dress in early 2007. My favorite among the three dresses. :)

I'm Back!

It's been two and a half months since my last post. I've been busy doing my lab work & final paper. And finally, I'll be graduated next Tuesday. Yeah!!
Mom gave me a sewing machine as graduation present.

I already made a dress. I'll post it soon, along with the other dresses I made with the old machine (the result of my procraftination).
Write to you soon.. ^_^

The 'F' Letter

Read the sentence below and count the F letters. Count them ONLY ONCE. Do not go back and count them again!


FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULT
OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC
STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF MANY YEARS.









What is your answer?

Is it THREE?


Well..

There are six F in the sentence. There is no catch. Most people forget the "of"s. The human brain tends to see them as V instead of F. Furthermore, the word "of" is a very difficult thing to visualize. You know what a "file" is, you can imagine something "scientific", you can picture something that is "finished", but you just can't picture an "of".
So if you spotted four, five, or six, you beat the average..