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NORMCORE ATTITUDE

اَلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَبَرَكَا تُهُ

Hi, how's 2015 going so far? Hope you are doing good.

I've been searching for the right style for me from a long long time ago. Been change my personal style several times since junior high school. From Avril Lavigne look a like, I mean boyish style, vintage style, until trying to put more colours onto my daily outfits. Unfortunately, there is always something that makes me trying to digging more and more kind of style that really suits my soul.

Until I found this normcore trend.

I draw an illustration of myself showing my normcore manner

Normcore is an attitude to fit in rather than to stand out. Being special normal or being perfectly boring. Dangerously regular. Wearing timeless wardrobe pieces, white tees, basic jumper, white shirt, sneakers, you name it and combined it with something unique and personal.

Yes, it is on trend right now, but I don't adopt the style because it is on trend right now. I love it because I know that this kind of attitude is what am I searching for years. Wearing timeless pieces of clothes and accessories and personalized it with the touch of something that really "me". I call my normcore attitude with "ugly pretty effortless style".

My ugly pretty effortless style

Now I realized that looking effortless is the key that I'm searching for years. Lately I feel way tooooo comfortable wearing t-shirt and jeans, and then throw a long granny vintage dress and wore it as a long coat on me, then complete them with sneakers. Oh, love love love the feeling of it. This kind of style save minutes every morning since I already now what I wanna wear and I will wear what I wanna wear. This normcore manner also help me not to buy cute useless clothes with reason "who knows I need it someday" at the shop. From now on I already decided that I just investing on timeless and or unique items that suits my personality.

Go normcore!

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NORMCORE ATTITUDE

Follow your heart,
Salaam

Yulia Rahmawati

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DIY Projects

TO DO THIS WEEKEND: MAKING RAW SMOOTHIE - STARRING BANANA AND RED SPINACH

اَلسَّلَامُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَبَرَكَا تُهُ

Hello,

tell me what is your planning for weekend? This time I wanna share a raw smoothie recipe with you. Raw smoothies are made by blending raw vegetables with fruits to soften the texture and to sweeten the taste. Why not? A new year, get healthier resolution, who knows you wanna give this green smoothie recipe a try.

So, I named it BLUSHING BANANA. Since my banana turned into red after met red spinach. Oh, whatever!

First I doubted about mixing banana with red spinach because it is red spinach, the green spinach is more common to be mixed with banana each time I saw people's instagram feed. Then I googled it and so happy that I found that actually many people mix banana with red spinach. And surprisingly this smoothie does taste good and fresh. Try it on, people :)

I drew an illustration about how to make my Banana Blushing smoothie

ALL YOU NEEDS:

- 1 bowl of raw red spinach / chinese spinach (washed properly)

- 1 banana, peeled

- 5 mint leaves (washed properly)

- 1/2 squeezed lime water.

- Ice Cubes

- Water

Those are ingredients for 1 person, I'm still single, you know. (~~That was a code~~). haha. You can adjust the ingredients or add more water and ice cube to get more.

HOW TO MAKE IT:

Oh, look at those tempting ingredients.

Mixed all those beautiful ingredients into blender with layers. Put ice cube first, red spinach, banana, mint leaves, lime water, and an inch water inside the blender. I'm using Philips HR 2115 blender, gift from my mom last year. After that push that "on" button on your blender, wait until everything blended perfectly and looks smooth. And you are done.

This Banana Blushing smoothie I amde for breakfast

Voila, now you have a heathy raw Blushing Banana smoothie in cute pink color. Feel so fresh, isn't? In addition, don't rush to waste the lime after you squeeze the water. Rub it softly to your skin face and wash it with water 10 minutes after that. Happy tummy and happy face. How can you not love it ;)

Happy trying, fellas.

Have a nice weekend.

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TO DO THIS WEEKEND:
MAKING RAW SMOOTHIE - STARRING BANANA
AND RED SPINACH

Follow your heart,
Salaam

Yulia Rahmawati

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HAPPY ISLAMIC NEW YEAR

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MORNING FLIGHT

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CACTI LADY

!!!!!
This is a super special blog post,
I prefer to write it in Bahasa Indonesia,
but the English version still written
at the end of this blog post.
Don't worry :)

(Int.)

Sepertinya yulia harus berhenti memelihara kaktus, dalam waktu dua bulan 2 kaktus mati sudah di kamar kosnya.

Kaktus pertama. Kaktus pertama mati dalam waktu seminggu saja setelah kebersamaan mereka dan meninggalkan luka menganga lebar tersodok pegangan kuas pemerah pipinya ketika mbak Nem, sebut saja begitu, membantunya merapikan kamar. Menyedihkan memang karena kaktusnya mati di tangan orang lain, tapi toh itu kuas pemerah pipinya, oh la la apa mau dikata.

Kaktus kedua. Seminggu kemudian Yulia bertemu kaktus baru namun sayang seribu sayang kaktus kedua mati sendiri beberapa hari setelah yulia tak sengaja menjatuhkannya dari atas meja. Kebersamaan mereka lumayan lama, lebih dari sebulan tapi mungkin memang belum berjodoh, yulia harus rela menyaksikan kaktusnya sekarat dari hari ke hari semenjak terjatuh dari meja.

Tapi kesempatan akan selalu ada kalau Yulia mau, meskipun bukan lagi kaktus-kaktus yang sama. Yulia harus percaya kesempatan untuknya masih ada asalkan Yulia lebih berhati-hati dan berjanji tidak akan berhenti mencintai kaktus, semoga kaktus berikutnya bisa bertahan hingga berbunga untuk Yulia.

Dan ....

ya, kemarin yulia bertemu kaktus yang lain di sebuah pasar ketika ia hendak membeli mawar. Yang membuat yulia senang bukan kepalang adalah kaktusnya akan segera berbunga. Yes, berbunga! Karena yang yulia tahu, kaktus biasanya baru bisa berbunga dalam hitungan tahun, dan kaktus yang berdiri di hadapannya akan segera berbunga, tentu saja kaktus itu super mega berhasil membuat yulia merogoh kantong uangnya. Meskipun sebenarnya ia masih takut, takut kalau-kalau tidak bisa menjaga kaktus barunya. Yah, semacam semacam orang yang belum move on tapi sudah pacaran lagi. ehm.

Benar saja beberapa hari kemudian si kaktus berbunga, warnanya pink keunguan, cantik sekali, yulia membayangkan bunga kaktus itu seperti pita di kepala anak perempuan. Cantik. Imajinya tidak berhenti sampai di sana, kemudian yulia menaruh kepala seorang wanita cantik di atas kaktusnya (lihat foto di bagian bawah setelah menyelesaikan membaca paragraf ini), whooaaah, sekarang kaktusnya terlihat seperti a super mega fashionable haute couture yang dikenakan oleh seorang beautiful lady, a cacti lady :D

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Ohhhh, klimaks!

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(The End)

English description:

I killed two cacti during 2 months of our togetherness. The first one died right after someone hit my cactus with my blush on brush, while my second cactus which I bought a week after dying day by day after I dropped them from the table. Actually I would like to stop taking care of cacti because I am affraid I am going to do something wrong and killed another cactus but oh I just I can't help myself to have another one if I find the right one later :D

And yesterday I found a new cactus, I was so lucky that the cactus has flowers on it and about to bloom. And then not waiting for so long my new cactus bloomed. Alhamdulillah. Really love to see the super mini pink mixed purple flower on my cactus since I ever read that usually cactus can produce a flower after years. Gotta take care of my new cactus more carefully.

And look at the last picture, my cactus looks like a super mega awesome haute couture wore by a beautiful lady, a cacti lady :)

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