Gojane.com, affordable source for heavenly shoes!

Just like what I mentioned in my previous post, Surabayans are thirsty for heavenly affordable shoes store. We have like only, err.., NO decent shoes seller here. That is why we drool a lot every time we see cool shoes in fashion magz or lookbook. We envy those of you who live in Jakarta or even Bandung!

Thanks God, Bebe from http://bebethepetite.blogspot.com introduced me to Gojane.com. I've already had three shoes from them: one ugg, one doc mart-wannabe, and one zipper heels. I love them all to the bone and I'm still waiting for my other two babies that will be arrived this week. Yay-ness!!

Actually this site also sells bags, apparels, and other fashion stuffs but I find their shoes are remarkably cheap and nice! They have like hundreds shoes from sandals, flats, stacked heels to boots to choose from.

Here are some that I like!



leatherette zipper flat for $15.40



buckled brown heels for $19.30



velvet studded heels for $28.40



red patent cross strap for $29.40



caged platform for $23.10




cut out open to heel for ONLY $9.99!!




I want this!!
croco print stacked platform for $30.
Fabs height for my shorty legs. PERFECT. :)

Rain falls down in early December

Today is supposed to be a happy day for my biggest supporter in everything. Yes,it is his 26th anniversary. I was ready to congratulating him, when suddenly he called to inform me that his dad has just passed away. I was shocked and said nothing until he broke the silence and said that he got a lot of things to do.

Later that night we talked, he said "this is the birthday gift for me" with smile on his lips and tears on his eyes. He wasn't crying. He's got to be strong for the family."My dad has never gone, he just moved on", he added. He still didn't cry but my heart did.

So I said a prayer for him, May God grant his family strength and serenity, to accept the things human can't change. Just as Lord declared before that His plans for us are the plans to proper us and not to harm us, plans to give us hope and a future (Jeremiah 29:11).

Those we love remain with us
For love itself lives on,
And cherished memories never fade
Because a loved one's gone.
Those we love can never be
More than a thought apart,
For as long as there is memory,
They'll live on in the heart.

Rejoicing shoulder pad revival

When I was a child and my daily uniform were t-shirt and underpants, I used to shudder in averse everytime I saw my mom wore her shoulder padded blouse or blazer. I thought it looked super ugly and ultra weird. Well, I guess I changed my mind. Apparently, the shoulder pad's revival is my favorite part of all fashion revolutions in 2009.








Marc Jacobs S/S 2009





Donna Karan S/S 2009

And this is my favorite part of shoulder pad transformation



Balmain's blazer to die for


Beside all of those awesomeness, I didn't see many people hit the malls in Surabaya wearing this pad. I think it's not that Surabayans don't like it, it's just a matter of their availability here. Oh God, we really need good supplies for our fashion starvation, so we don't need to fly to Jakarta or even invading Singapore just for shopping. Amen.

An Angel's Heart

Today, accidentally, I crashed in to someone's blog, an Indonesian who lives in Singapore. I have no idea who she is but as someone whose mother tongue is Bahasa, she wrote awesome English. That was the first reason I continued to read her blog.

As I read through from one post to another, I realized that she really has something; very wise, smart, yet kind hearted. At one post, she wrote something about the best birthday gift she got from her family in Indonesia. The gift was an edited -with her in it- picture of her little sis graduation day, a thoughtful handmade card, a love letter from her mom, and a silly heart warming birthday greeting video from the entire family. It's not the gifts that touched me but they way she appreciated it and how she illustrated about how grateful she is to has such a wonderful family. I was drifted and almost fell to tears, realizing that I haven't had those feelings for a long long time and I miss them.

And as I ran my pointer to another posts, I was coming to conclusion that this girl has an angelic heart: cheerful, grateful, and loving.

I always wondering how could someone has such a beautiful heart? Didn't they ever hurt before? I use to think that hurt people speak hurting words, battered people batter others, deceived people deceive their own friends, cheated boy/girlfriends cheat on their couple, and so on. Based on this assumption, I always think that the only pure is child, thus only child has sincerity. Because as we grow older, we hurt, battered, bruised and cheated and we decided to protect ourselves by doing the same pain we got to the others. It is sad but true.

Well, I'm not saying that everyone is evil.I believe it's very human that people make mistakes, speak wrong words, and cheat. As long as they know that they have done wrong and feel bad about it, they are good already. At the end, nobody is perfect and we don't aim to be a perfect person in life. In fact, we fall and we resurrect, we slip and we get up, we break and we make up. That's life.