"Heaven Help Us All"- Stevie Wonder

Been trying to build my mood so i could read that stupid pdf by listening to motown playlist (listen here). Then, I discover this great song by Stevie Wonder.

"Heaven Help Us All"

Heaven help the child who never had a home,
Heaven help the girl who walks the street alone
Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall,
Heaven help us all.

Heaven help the black man if he struggles one more day,
Heaven help the white man if he turns his back away,
Heaven help the man who kicks the man who has to crawl,
Heaven help us all.

Heaven help us all, heaven help us all, help us all.
Heaven help us, Lord, hear our call when we call
Oh, yeah!

Heaven help the boy who won't reach twenty-one,
Heaven help the man who gave that boy a gun.
Heaven help the people with their backs against the wall,
Lord, Heaven help us all.

Heaven help us all, heaven help us all, heaven help us all, help us all.
Heaven help us, Lord, hear our call when we call.

Now I lay me down before I go to sleep.
In a troubled world, I pray the Lord to keep, keep hatred from the mighty,
And the mighty from the small,
Heaven help us all.
Oh, oh, oh, yeah!
Heaven help us all.

Sometimes.. the quieter the better

Most of people prefer to visit a new restaurant that is crowded by other people. The reason is because a crowded place means they serve great stuffs there. I agree to that statement.

However, personally, I choose to visit a famous newly-opened restaurant/cafe when it's  not that crowded. Okay it doesn't mean it has a few of customer. By a quieter  place, it can be it has not so many customer that day or the ambiance is not too noisy. Based on my experience,the quieter the ambiance is, the better.  My reasons are quiet simple:

1. It's more relaxing to enjoy my meal. I don't feel the pressure to leave the restaurant immediately.  I can eat with a proper speed so that I  won't danger my tummy to be more bloated that it already has.
2. The quality is more controlled. In a crowded place, chefs are rushing to serve as many as possible to meet those piles of order. Because of it, in some restaurant (especially the new opened one because they still catching up to get the right rhythm in kitchen), they intended to serve food that a lil' lack of quality. So the taste isn't as yummy as usual/ it should be.
3. It's faster to get my meal.
4. The service are much better and I get faster response. When the place is more quiet, it's easier to call the waiter. 
5. My mindset hasn't been polluted by any other factor. I'll judge genuinely by how the food taste in my mouth. Here's the thing, the more the crowd, the slower  I got my food, and the more I become impatient. And when that  happen, my mind is automatically set to bad mood. By the time the food come, I will judge it with negative thoughts, no matter how tasty the food really is. I will find the slightest 'mistake' in that food.

Today, I just visited Kyo-dai Ramen. My sis chose to be seated on the 2nd floor. The thing is, I'm used to sit on 1st floor which was not too many people choose to sit there.

Omoo, what I experienced on 2nd floor is way different than the 1st one. It was filled by many people. Because there are so many people in quite small space, the space felt more crowded that it has to be. Not only that, because there are so many people, I had a hunch that my eating experience wouldn't be as good as usual.

And boy, was I right. It took  a longer time than usual for me to get my ramen. Usually, I have no problem to wait because I can enjoy the soothing music they played while I wait. However, because too crowded and rather noisy, I barely can hear the music. Also, I seat with a person who likes to critic when she comes to restaurant. She got annoyed, I got influenced by her because I can't distract my self with music, so I got a lil' bit annoyed, too.

Then after a long wait, our food came. The 2nd thing I'm worried about.. happened. I think the chef are rushing to make orders.  I mean last week, my friend ordered the same ramen and I taste its broth. The taste kinda not as good as I tasted last week.

My main critic would be for its cold noodle. It's not ice cold at all! :'(  It's just a cooled down room temperature ramen. I mean, when people order this, they expect to taste a refreshing ramen, right? At least, the chef should put ice cubes inside the noodle bowl. So that room temperature ramen would be cooler. Or maybe they could refrigerate either its dipping shoyu sauce or ramen first. If they did it, the noodle would taste better and refreshing as it should be when people dipped the ramen into the shoyu sauce.


So, lesson learned: NEVER EVER visited a restaurant(especially a new restaurant) when it's too crowded. Visit it when weekdays or when they have not too many visitors.

My wallpaper for now..

Hal ini terjadi karena pesanan kaos gue, @jesicastephanie, dan @Silphee belum sampai juga. Padahal udah dipesan dari hampir 3 minguu yang lalu.

 

Kaos yang lagi ditunggu kedatangannya

Huff, saya sudah tidak sabar..

Jadi untuk menghibur diri, gue memasang wallpaper ini di Acer. fufufu

I got this wallpaper picture from the Author's tumblr itself. I recognized the picture is a little bit messy. Ada yang masih ada sisa watermarknya dikit.   So, I edited and tidy it up a little bit with Photoshop, then voila~

The modified wallpaper

Fufufufu.....
kaos Harris, cepatlah sampai di rumahnya @Silphee!!! >.<

Institutional White

I love when fashion interrupts things,like daily life, art, even creepy things. This photo editorial for Interview Magazine is one of them. I totally feel the horror, the scared, and dark ambience from it.

Steven Klein brilliantly remakes a creepy scenes between 'mean' assylum nurse and her patient..Karolina Kurkova plays the nurse and look gorgeusly enigmatic mean nurse. And boy, what can I say about Crystall Renn? She definitely succeeds acting like scared mental patient. 

 

 

 

 

It was so close.....

Gomen ne, minna-san...

I.... I.... I...






I  failed to live my life as a vegetarian for a month .....


Huwaaaang....it was so close... I've been living it for almost 3 weeks! It's all because of that  darn Saturday night. I was so hungry that night. Jadi, gue iyakan aja ajakan temen-temen gue makan di Bubur Kamseng selesai latihan kantoria. The porridge was so oishii-mitai,my stupid stomach nagging and I can't help my self not to eat it. I forgot the porridge I shared with my fried ada pork slice-nya. Padahal tadinya gue bermaksud buat ngambil bubur-kacang-cakwe doang... haiiishh... Sekali lagi, saya menyesal _l7o


However... no matter how mad I am to my self for not being able to commit, I'm a little bit proud of my self for trying to be a vegetarian. I'm a die-hard meat lover. And being eating only vegetables without meat for 3 weeks is a BIG achievement for me :')

3 weeks without meat gives me a lesson that you can enjoy your meal with only vegetables. Also, I feel somehow way  lighter during those period.  I think from now on, gue akan memprioritaskan ngebanyakin makan sayuran. Remember what your Mama say: Vegetables are good for you!

Yosh, Ganbarimasu!!!