Babbling Bubbles: love

I don’t think A and I really share the same interests.

He has a broader knowledge on Indonesian's 2000 pop songs, while I have.. none. Not exactly something to be proud of, I know. The only songs I vaguely remember are the ones that used to play as soundtracks for the soap operas mum watched at night—and even then, I couldn’t tell a single title. My only real exposure to music back then was MTV. I still remember (at that time) how it kept replaying Marie, Marie, Marie by Solveig Sandnes (the scene where the girl is in the bath and the real homeowner suddenly arrived is insane 😂), Coffee and TV by Blur, video game-like Californication or Windows-Media-Player-animation-on-Windows XP-like Zephyr Song by RHCP (I used to hate it visually but once I grew up I get why these songs are big hit back then), and blonde Dolores with daisy bandana on Animal Instinct music video. My cousin who was way older than me also introduced me to BoA, a Korean singer who sung Japanese songs at that time, whom her face I hardly recognize these days.

Even our youtube feeds could not be more different either. Like most guys his age, he loves watching gadget review, politics, and football related content. Meanwhile mine is a mix of cooking videos, travel in eastern Asia, and alternative rock musics. He tried to convince me many times to binge Game of Thrones but I just can't with all the blood and explicit contents.

One day, he said, "let's watch anime in where the male lead piggy backs his little sister everywhere."

To be honest, I'm more of a shoujo, rom-com, slice of life kinda girl. For instance, I binge watch Horimiya for more than 5 times. I was familiar with Rurouni Kenshin (my favorite of all time), One Piece, HxH, or Shaman King but those came out decades ago—and apparently kids these days weren't familiar with them either. One of my classmate told me that it was her mum's favorite—you know what, kid, I know I'm old but I don't know I was that old 😞

Still, we ended up watching Demon Slayer all the way to Hashira Training Arc Season and even watched the Infinity Castle movie as well.

Aside from the amazing graphics, I felt like something is missing but I couldn't point it out. Was it the character's depth? I know the movie relies a lot on flashback and backside story but I think it was kinda rushed.

Or is it lack of character's development? I am used to read shounen manga where the main lead and his parties grow gradually through the struggles. Or maybe because it is animated so they have to chop the story here and there? I have no idea either since I don't read the manga.

But overall, I love the fact that we enjoy something new and be excited about. We found ourselves talking about Demon Slayers non stop in a Cafe while waiting our order to arrive. Apparently A's favorite characters are all villain: Akaza (for being a hopeless romantic) and Douma (due to his realistic, bluntly speaking behavior). While I were fond of Tokito and Giyu, simply because their fine and calm appearance 💘. Now I can't stop myself from watching reels unboxing pop mart merch where the price is basically the same as import books in my wish list.

**this post is written on 9/15/2025. At fisrt I decided to post this after checking out one of the pop mart merch at marketplace, but in the end I still hesitate to buy one HAHA

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Quick updates about what's happening in my life right now.
It is my new addiction of shoes. These brand of shoes, specifically. A local brand named Ittaherl.

Maurice pointy--the very first shoes I got from jastip, and the one that I wear most of the time

It is not love at the first sight. I mean, the first time my best friend showed me this brand and told me how much effort* I should take to get one of these, I didn't buy that. The design is uber cute, comes with lacey, princess-y and too feminine style. Looks fragile at the first glance, did not match with my whole profile.

For the record they do not open a fixed gallery. Meanwhile, there are only two ways to get the pairs.
The first is called bazaarhunt. Usually they open a booth inside a mall. This is the most torturing way if I could tell because we have to line up for the bazaarhunt, started from 4 a.m. early in the morning because there will be a long long line on the booth. You will get the queue number first or else we are not allowed to buy it. Not to mention, you have to compete with jastip—and there are plenty of them. In short, jastip is the one who buy the shoes (they could bring more than 100 parties to line up) and later sell it to the real customer with a higher price. I don’t know the whole rule applied because different bazaar has different rules. Nonetheless, I never join bazaarhunt and choose to buy some pairs from jastip instead. Ain’t got time to do that.

Ittaherl curated x The Widiras Love Dream. Dreamy!!

But no worries, sometimes when I am lucky enough, I could get my pairs from web hunt. So far this webhunt is the craziest among other brand (let say online shop yang suka rebutan macam vanilla hijab, heaven lights etc). When the web is open at 8 p.m., it means that you have to standby in front of your browser at least 1 hour (the longer the better) before because once the time hit 8 p.m., the shoes could be sold out in a split seconds. Literally.

Ittaherl curated x Kiki Coco in Marocco Edition - Limoni Sapphire; another pairs I nailed from web hunt

Alright then, what makes me so fond of ittaherl?

The first time I wear it, it feels so-damn-comfortable. I could walk five times circling Grand Indonesia without getting my feet hurt.
What makes them unique is they only produce a certain type only for one batch. So if you missed to buy one, there is unlikely for the brand to release the same type in the future. If you really want a certain type, you should check jastip’s Instagram instead.
They develop the design beyond lace. And its alluring. And classy. And dior-ish. And I freaking love it.
Even though it looks pretty, its durable. Way durable enough compared to those middle class shoes like Nine W*st or Charl*s and Ke*th.
It is washable and yeah, you can do it by yourself.
This is some kind of investment. Once you get bored of your pairs, you can sell it for a higher price too 😉

Pssst, I want to keep this low-key because I do not want someone to be my web hunt rival ever again 😊

XX,
One of the loyal #ittaherlfriends

*All pic taken from @ittaherl

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It was a gloomy evening on the last day of weekend, which could be a perfect time to bingewatch pretty little liars on the bed. The house was all clean so there's still plenty of time to get lazy. All of sudden, my husband asked me whether I want to go out or not. It was cloudy outside and started to rain. But it did not stop him to take me to the nearest mall after all.

Contrast from what we usually did; instead of going back and forth between ace hardware and informa and a visit to gramedia, we just strolled around purposelessly. I remember that there is soft opening of hokkaido ice cream puff in there so we managed to get one:

Hokkaido vanilla ice cream puff

If I am not mistaken, I ever watched Paolo from Tokyo reviewed this street food on one of his videos. And he is right, it tasted heaven.
Like, really.
Definitely we will come back to get this again next time to try another flavor. I am a bit curious about the matcha ice cream one actually.
As we just walked through the memory lane, we bumped into this street food that we used to have when we dated back then.

Spicy honey korean chicken

Like, if they have a membership card surely we reach the gold membership :p because we purchase this bowl loaded of goodness everytime we got into the mall.

Yes, we always have a date at the mall before because hello this is Jakarta. We happened to get some sweat at Taman Suropati or try out the hypest coffee shop in town at times, but the food sometimes is not that decent. We just love the food in the mall :p
That is how we gain some weight in a short period of time :p

These are some meals that we never miss everytime we hang out: (meal that match our tastebud)

There's discount offered for bca credit and debit card holders

Coco Ichiban-ya Curry

Ikkudo Ichi - Tori Kara Miso Ramen

The last two pictures are the food that I really miss so much because I moved in to another place that is so so faraway from the restaurants. I hope that they manage to open their branch near to our house soon.

Xx

PS: On our way home he told me the reason behind he took me at the mall. He felt sorry for keeping me with the housework during weekend instead of 'doing our thing' like we used to do. Actually that thought never crossed my mind before, I mean I prefer to be in front of PC at my leisure time, spending no cash but time. But anyway it was just kinda sweet knowing that he put an effort to entertain me in a way <3

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Long story short, my friend introduced me to her friend and it didn't take a long time to figure out that things do work out between the two of us.
Not like any other couple that have 'I love you, do you wanna be my girlfriend?' confession part or a date to remember---that kind of date that the couple is officially being a 'couple', you know what I mean, right?---We decided to just loose it up and do it in our own way.

So, after few months has passed, I found that there are pretty much differences between us.
I mean, people were all born with different character to each other, but I never felt there are SO MUCH *bold italic underline* differences with someone I met before now, just like yin yang.
I decided to make the list below:
1. He doesn't get my fashion style.
Once in a while I went date with him and I wore some kind of clothes--that I think it's a hit recently like ripped jeans or pleated pants despite that its soooo comfy to wear--and it ended up he's saying that 'you know what? don't wear it again when we're out next time'. Eerr, OK.
2. I'm a big fan of martabak telur while he loves to eat martabak manis.
3. He likes to have his steak medium rare but I like it well done. Correction. I don't like eating steak in any circumstances.
4. I drink milk, eat seeds and all of their derivatives but he doesn't. Not even a bite.
5. I looove watching drama or tv series but action is really his thing.
6. He is crazy about certain football club and collect almost every uniform of it. Me? Never once in my life I've ever watched football match. Not even world cup.
7. Its always my turn to buy some snacks everytime we have vacation and it seem like he didn't enjoy it.
....aaand the list goes on.

Sometimes here come frictions between us everytime we argue about these-not-so-important-things. Even it gets confusing when there's a time for me buying something for him (food, cloth, etc) because deep down I'm afraid that he wouldn't like it. I've tried to put myself in his point of view and picked something that he might liked and of course, later I found out that he still didn't like it haha.
I know now that being in love doesn't take two people who have the same taste in everything, right? ;)

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