Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Wedding Ideas..

Have you ever dreamed about your wedding dream? How you want your big day to be? I often browse and check those nice and great ideas for wedding day. I just found another new blog on everything about wedding, starts from the big things until all the small things for the event. The blog is called 100layercake.You'll have so much fun browsing all the nice stuffs you can find there. You will be able to see many wedding idea. You can also see the real wedding of other people. And who knows someday your wedding will be on one of the features there=) Wouldn't it be nice?

Best moments in life..



What are the best moments in life? I;m sure every one of us has different answers and opinions about that. I personally think that the best moment in life is when you can feel the love surrounding you, that's the serious one. The less serious one hmm let me guess...the best moment in life is when you're craving for a dessert and you can find your fave cake=) I hope that one can be included ha ha. Here are some of the moments in life that surely can bring the best moments...

      • To fall in love.
      • To have a child.
      • To laugh until it hurts your stomach.
      • To find mails by the thousands when you return of the vacations.
      • To manage for a vacation at some pretty place.
      • To listen to your favorite song in the radio.
      • To go to bed and to listen while it rains out.
      • To leave the shower and find that the towel is warm.
      • To clear your last exam.
      • To receive a call from someone, you don't see a lot, but you want to.
      • A good conversation.
      • To find money in a pant that you didn't use last year.
      • To laugh at oneself. Calls at the midnight that last for hours.
      • To laugh without reasons. To hear accidentally that somebody says something good of you.
      • To wake up and realize it is still possible to sleep a couple of hours.
      • To hear a song that makes you remember a special reason.
      • To make new friends.
      • To be part of a team.
      • The first kiss.
      • To feel butterflies in the stomach every time that you see that person.
      • To have your back rubbed to sleep by some one you love.
      • To pass a while with your best friends. To see people that you like, feeling happy.
      • To use a sweater of the person that you like. See an old friend again and to feel that the things didn't change.
      • To look at an evening.
      • To have somebody that tells you that he/she loves you

(source from Berro - images via tumblr, flickr and flickr)

Monday, December 14, 2009

What is Bokeh?

Have you ever heard the word "bokeh"? I've heard it and read it lots of time but haven't got the idea of what really is until some time ago. I was so silly that I thought it was some kind of Korean or Japanese food=p But then I was so curious and find the actual meaning of it. It turns out that it has to do with photography...Wow..what a really wrong thought I had earlier. Food and Photography? Doesn't really related ha ha ha.But at least I was close enough that the origin of the word is from Japanese language.

I always love to see those photo with blurry background and such. And now I know that it is called bokeh. Here are some of the examples and here's what Wikipedia describes Bokeh:

In photography, bokeh is the blur,or the aesthetic quality of the blur, in out-of-focus areas of an image, or "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light." Differences in lens aberrations and aperture shape cause some lens designs to blur the image in a way that is pleasing to the eye, while others produce blurring that is unpleasant or distracting— "good" or "bad" bokeh, respectively. Bokeh occurs for parts of the scene that lie outside the depth of field. Photographers sometimes deliberately use a shallow focus technique to create images with prominent out-of-focus regions.

Bokeh is often most visible around small background highlights, such as specular reflections and light sources, which is why it often associated with such areas.However, bokeh is not limited to highlights, as blur occurs in all out-of-focus regions of the image.

The term comes from the Japanese word boke, which means "blur" or "haze", or boke-aji, the "blur quality". The Japanese term boke is also used in the sense of a mental haze or senility.

(image source from top: one, two, three, four, five)

Friday, December 11, 2009

Celebrity in Fashion...

I love it when celebrities are wearing their daily outfits. Less make up, less hair-do, normal clothes but they still can look good. Here are some of the celebrities style that I like lately. Found the images from celebritychic and fashionunder100. You'll see the style of Hillary Duff, Jessica Alba, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lauren Conrad, Kate Hudson and Ashley Tisdale. What do you think? Which one do you like the most?

Be the real you...

December is here, another new year is coming. What will be your next resolution? Have you accomplished your 2009 resolutions? Don't worry if you haven't, you can always re-new you resolutions. I love making resolutions, those things can always keep me on track and do what I have to do. It's like a to-do list for a year ahead. What do you think about happiness? Is it a purpose of life or can be considered as a resolution? I think it's more into a long term life's meaning. In other words, it's the way you live your life. All of us want to be happy, that's for sure, but there are different meaning of happiness for different people. Here is an article from Jonathan Haidt I found from The Happiness-Project. I am aware that happiness might seem to be an abstract terms that often we don't really know how to do it. The article shows us how we can turn those abstract meaning into more concrete action. Here are some of those things that can enrich your soul.

1. Curiosity and Interest in the World
a.Discover new places
b. Eat something new that you never otherwise would have tried

2. Judgment, Critical Thinking and Open-Mindedness
a. Go to a multi-cultural group or event.
b. Play devil's advocate and discuss an issue from the side opposite to your personal views
c. Every day, pick something you believe strongly, and think about how you might be wrong.

3. Creativity, ingenuity and originality
a. Keep a journal, work on a picture or poem
b. Submit a piece to a literary magazine or newspaper
c. Decorate a notebook or your room

4. Social Intelligence
a. Meet one new person each day by approaching them
b. Go into a social situation in which you would normally feel uncomfortable and try to fit in
c. Whenever you talk with someone, try to figure out what his or her motives and concerns are.
d. Encounter someone by themselves and by being friendly, include them in your group
5. Perspective (Wisdom)
a. Get a quote a day online
b. Give advice to an upset friend
c. Think of the wisest person you know. Try to live each day as that person would live.
d. Look up prominent people in history and learn their views on important issues of their day and/or find a significant quotation that they said.

6. Honesty, Authenticity and Genuineness
a. Refrain from telling small, white lies, to friends (including insincere compliments). If you do tell one, admit it and apologize right away.
b. Monitor yourself and make a list of every time you tell a lie, even if it is a small one. Try to make your daily list shorter every day.
c. At the end of each day, identify something you did that was attempting to impress people, or put on a show. Resolve not to do it again.

7. Kindness and generosity
a. Leave a huge tip for a small check.
b. Do a random act of kindness every day (a simple, small favor). Make it anonymous if possible.
c. Be a listening ear to a friend. Ask them how their day was and actually listen to the answer before telling them about your own day.
d. Send an e-card to a different friend each day.
e. Pay the whole tab when you are out with friends.

8. Capacity to Love and be Loved
a. Tell boyfriend/girlfriend/sibling/parent that you love them
b. Send a loved one a card or e-card to say that you were thinking about him/her.
c. Give loved ones a big hug and a kiss
d. Write a nice note where someone you love will find it sometime during the day. Do this in a new place, or for a new person, every day.

(source from huffingtonpost - images from google, flickr and deviantart)

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Purple beauty

I am now in love with the color purple. Especially when buying dresses for formal events like wedding, cocktail party and more. I love dark purple. I can say that dark purple color is the perfect color combination of glamorous, sexy and chic. . I got this brilliant mosaic of purple dresses from inspiredbride. I love all of the dresses especially the dark purple color. And with the nice purse, you can always feel like wearing dark and bright color at the same time...Oh the beauty of purple.(purse images from here, here, here)