Have I told you before how proud I am being as an Indonesian? Apart from the terrible political systems and the poverty in Indonesia, I do still love my country! I'm concerned with the countryside life and the traditional things related. Having 33 provinces, we have lots of traditional things we can brag of  ;)
In this post, I wanna show you the  traditional costumes from few of provinces.




Now this is the last costume I can show you... there are actually still many of them, I know I didn't put any image with Balinese costume, but maybe next time I will come up with a post of Bali Cultures with their dancing and costumes :)

Another fave dishes of mine, Dim Sum. I fell in love to these dumplings since i tasted them for the first time!
There are so many varieties of flavor but the most popular one is seafood mixed with vegetables flavor.
In here, there a lot of restaurants offering their best Dim Sum, but these portion that i bought this evening were sold on a bicycle vendor. Yes of course the price was cheaper than those sold in the restaurants, but the taste is not even close to bad!

Hi everyone, here i've got another photoshop actions for you. This actions will boost the color and sharpen your photo. Just like before, you gotta follow the rules to get this actions, and then i will email you the file.

Using actions is a cool way to edit a photo on photoshop, but maybe some of you are still confused on how to use it, so here's i'm gonna show you how step by step.

Open your photoshop, choose the image you want to edit. If you got the actions by downloading from internet, you need to load it first into your photoshop application.

Click Alt + F9 or you can find it by clicking the window dropdown on top, then hit the Actions menu. The actions will pop up on the right side bar.

There's a tiny arrow on the actions box and if you click the dropdown menu, you will find some options, choose LOAD!

 Ok now the actions is loaded into your photoshop, you are ready to use it! Just hit play and the actions will do the rest for you.

If you are a photographer or those who are used in editing photos, you must be familiar with 'actions'.
This girl on the bike is my young cousin, i love her expression here, definitely so cheers and happy, but not with the mood of the photo itself! it looks a bit dark and the colors of the trees are so gloomy.

Living in a modern life like today with the trend of having a beautiful designed house, makes people racing to improve their houses' designs, outside and inside looks. I've seen so many great architectural houses on TV, magazines, internet, and in real life. Elegant minimalist is the most faved design by so many people. There are so many designs and decor inspirations on the web, so people would easily inspired with the power of modernity. The women usually concern with the living room and .... kitchen.
While some people living in modern style, there are still some who don't want to change their old fashion design of houses. In a countryside like in central java, few people have changed their style of houses a bit more modern than before. Even the bathroom in my grandma's house that was to be so simple with not even cements on the floor has been changed into shiny ceramics modern floor just like in the city. Not saying that it's bad, but it's not a better idea either... maybe coz i'm just afraid of losing the heritage style of houses in the village.
In general, the families have got gas stoves in their kitchen which sounds normal for most of people, but the traditional kitchen in some particular places don't. They use what we call as "Tungku", so simple, and conservative as well, but that's the beautiful things i love about traditional stuffs.

This is a kitchen in a house of a family in west java. No electrical use such a lamp but dragging aside the tiles of the roof  to get the natural light lighting down inside the kitchen. How beautiful! Look at those ray of lights!

Here's my uncle had a log on his shoulder... yes, we need it so we can use the Tungku and do the cooking activiy in the kitchen. And as the weather in my grandma's hometown is so cold, we usually burn the woods and sit together near the Tungku to get ourselves warmer....don't you think that it's one of the best ways in gathering with family? Aaww yeah :D


This is my grandma, blowing the fire through a bamboo to get the fire kept burning. Hope she will keep this traditional kitchen just like it is, i never expect to visit her again with the kitchen changed and renovated...
No Please!

These photos were taken when i was in Central java, last month. This man names Bapak ( Most respectful used when the addressee is above 25 ) Muhammad, i don't know exactly how old he is, but he's known as the oldest man in the village. He lives in a small shack with his wife and daughter. Lives in poverty, and he's been in a condition where he's not able to get up from the bed. 


This is Bapak Muhammad's wife... she was so friendly and i believe she's become such a lovely loyal woman to his husband this far. May they live in happiness.