Saturday, December 30, 2017
Saturday, December 23, 2017
Reaching the End
It's 2 days before Christmas! Can you believe that I make it so far, in term of surviving December?
The office has officially off starting from today and I feel like I can finally breath. Even though, I still have some pending notes to finish over the weekend before actually going to a winter hibernation. I want to spend the holiday lounging at my bed, writing or catching up on new TV series (The Crown and This is Us! And maybe Stranger Things). I'm not planning to go anywhere, my adventure will be on the bed through the screen of my laptop. Please don't knock on my door.
Another happy news is, I have a promotion at work! Holly Molly Guacamoleyyy! What have I done to achieve this? This feels so exciting and worrisome at the same time. I'm pretty nervous of being a leader and I'm worried if I can't achieve my goals. I'm scared of failing. But on the brighter side, I'm so happy that my work got notice by the boss. I guess, I just need to work twice harder and smarter and read more serious news like financial report on CNN, skipping my fave section: Entertainment news for while. January surely will be another roller coaster, I better buckle up!
Talk about January, I already have some plans in mind. I decide that I may start to live on my own. I think, it's about time. I actually haven't looked for a place yet, but it's definitely on my new year agenda. Following the decision above, I also think that I need to learn to manage my financial better. By living on my own, there will be a lot more expenses and needs that I have to fulfil. I want to make sure that I understand how to distribute my earning so I can still shop for my fave skin care and have proper 3 meals a day. I hope I don't put my self on too much pressure with the new position at work and moving out of my parents house. I'm sacred as hell. But I have to do this. I've been thinking long and deep about this. 2018 will be the year of levelling up my career and my personal life. 2018 will be a freakin horror house, rather than a roller coaster hahaha. Ooooh lord. How am I gonna do this? Again, I need to work twice harder and smarter and believe more in my self. Let's say the magic word: I can do it!
Yours trully in front of Joglo stage during the last day of UWRF. It's the golden hour and it's hard for me to leave Ubud. It's always been a home for me, a place to rest the tired soul.
Thursday, December 07, 2017
Wednesday, December 06, 2017
Ubud Archive: Reconnecting
Oct 28th 2017
I was taken by surprise. Ubud was hot, humid-hot kind of weather. I was dozing off as the heat stinged my skin. But the smell stayed the same. I remembered it clearly. A distant smell of fresh flowers from the market and mango sorbet in the air. The wall is still the same: close, intimate. They are not meant to separate, they're just a reminder that even in a city so multicultured, we still have our own space.
It's nice to be home for the weekend.
Monday, December 04, 2017
Ubud Archieve: Gourmet
Naturally, the first thing I did when I reached Ubud was my all time favorite Mexican treat, Taco Casa. It's easily becoming a tradition, like nothing feels more "Zen" than a big plate of chicken nachos and that goddam guacamole combine with Ubud breeze as my welcome drink in the hood. My spot is the table by the window. Best seat at the house.
I don't know why, I always feel like I'm eating better at Ubud, in terms of quality. Probably because it's so easy to find healthy food in the hood. Every time I come home to Ubud, food adventure is always on the list. And every time I come home, there's always interesting places to try. The hip place, the artistic place, the hot spot, the stay-all-night-place. I always find fascinating things that I want to explore. The people, I adore their commitment in crafting the food, the ambiance. It's not always about business, sometime I feel it's more about your passion, something you do over and over again because you can't help but wanting to make the best out of it. That's probably why the food tastes so good there.
Tuna Roll at Bali Buda made me rollin in the 7th sky.
I'd done my complete in-depth review about some of my favorite spots at Ubud and the list hasn't changed much. But there is a place I recently found that I love love love so much. Both for the food and the ambiance. I had a lunch there with Fifi, my UWRF mate for the last 2 years and Acid, a new friend I made on The Poet Club at UWRF 2017. It was an exceptionally hot day at Ubud, not to mention it's super humid too. We were looking for shelter from the heat until later in the afternoon when the last session started. So we decided to brave the heat, drove 7 km to Habitat.
Habitat is a well known resto in Ubud, specially because it shares roof with the most talked about co-working place there, Hubud. I was underestimated it at first. I thought, it's probably an overpriced place with so so tasted foods. I was wrong. The foods are delicious. So delicious. So delicious. And I repeat it 3 times because they are that good. I ordered Orange Fried Chicken with steamed rice, Fifi ordered Signature Burger and Acid ordered Chicken and Chips. All of them are so good. We did try out each other menus and we agreed that place would be officially on the list of "Must-Visit".
Actually, the menu they serve is kind of the same with most of the restos/cafes at Ubud. I think what makes them so good is there's no bullshit taste on the food. Do you ever experience reading a menu and the food sounds amazing but when they come it's just, meh? The Orange Fried Chicken exactly tastes like a very good fried chicken with orange glaze, served hot and crispy. There's no secret ingredients or special technique or magic. Habitat serves exactly what they write in the menu and more. That's also implied on the Signature Burger and Chicken and Chips my friends ordered. No bullshit food. What's lacking from the food was just, we didn't take pictures of them. Not even one picture. We went full savage when they served the food hahaha.
PS: as always, I link the instagram/google maps at the picture so you can find them easier. Just click click ;)
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