Year: 2022
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Seasonal dishes
I just realized Indonesia and Malaysia don’t have seasonal dishes due to fairly constant weather and temperature (either “hot”, “excruciatingly hot”, or “WTH is this rain”)
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On tracking our progress
I used to have an Apple Watch, until I gave it to my son along with my old iPhone. I found myself not suitable for wearing Apple Watch — note the wording and the sentence there. In fact, I don’t think I can wear wristwatch ? My skin will get itchy really fast, and it…
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Drawing practice: Puddle
I’m learning how to draw upside-down, and it’s actually pretty tempting to rotate the canvas (?) I tried to stick with the original canvas orientation and learned how to draw human figure when they are looking up. It’s definitely a difficult task. Also, water reflection and texture (to show it’s, well, “water” as in water…
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Visitors
One of the funniest ironies I ever endured was (or is?) whenever foreign friends (not residing in Indonesia or Malaysia) asked me/told me, “hey! I went to this so-and-so place in your country!” while me, an Indonesian and an Indonesian-in-Malaysia-since-2014, is actually never been to that place. “Hey, Retno! I’m in Indonesia right now! I’m…
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Drawing practice: Bath time
A couple of days ago, I saw a Tiktok video by Yoshi Yoshitani, one of the artists I respect so very much. In the video, Yoshi discussed about values in color, and I got intrigued. So, yeah, here it is ? I started with the outline. Then, I added the layers with B/W/grayscale color to…
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Drawing practice: Rainy Day
While June – August usually means sunny hot weather for Indonesia and Malaysia, recently we have been having rainy days here in KL.
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“Hallelujah”
During the Madrid trip, we went to Plaza Sol area and its surroundings when we saw crowd singing “Hallelujah” with a music busker. I feel the busker enjoyed it as much as we do. It was my first time seeing crowd singing together like that, and I got myself slightly emotional. It’s always beautiful to…
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Madrid, Spain (July 18 – 24, 2022)
Proof that my jetlag is jetlag-ing. I typed “Spain, Madrid” on the title. Rest assured, it has been fixed. I just came back, still freshly exhausted from a team meetup in Langkawi when the leads group went, “LET’S GO FOR TEAM LEADS MEETUP!” I love traveling and meeting my friends. I really do. However, the…
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Taking the time
I’ve been wanting to write about my trip to Madrid, but I have something that has been bugging my head during the long-haul flight back home so here we are. I grow up as an Indonesian with the usual “asian outlook” in life. Work (really) hard, hustle culture, never let them see that you are…