2012 in Photos

Hi, everyone. Wow, time flies. Feels like 2012 was just yesterday! Hahaha yeah, literally. I feel like I'm a visual person and so I'm obligated to do this such post. So if you're too lazy to read my archive (which is understandable), you can just read this whole post because I'm going to review what happened last year. But I'm not listing them per months because... well, I can't quite remember things unless those that are really interesting for me. That's why I'm keeping a journal, Instagram (as a little photo journal) and a blog, right? Right. So here are some highlights!

Obviously the flora and fauna exhibition was one of the highlights of the year. I really like some pictures I took from that event and I saw a lot of beautiful animals and fell in love with a Husky. It's an unrequited love. Oh well...


I went to the school where my mother teach, taking photos of the graduation and a little show the students put there and also for Idul Adha. Such fun and busy time.


Earlier this year, I went to Bandung with my mother, aunt, uncle, and cousins where I met my nephew and nieces. Then we also went to Trans Studio, an indoor themed park. It was awesome. I just wished we could stay a bit longer and my mother would let me have my camera the whole time. On another time, we also visited my other cousin and met my other niece and nephew. They are cute and they make me feel old.



My uncle got me a dry-box as a birthday present and I've been keeping my camera in there. This year also marked a year I had with my beloved camera. Then at the end of May, I got a new Android phone because I refused to use a BlackBerry even though my mother suggested me to do so for more than ten times (she ends up using one after I courage her because I know she's the one wanting it--duh)


I got really inspired by Charlavail. She's amazing, cute, talented, and just inspiring. One day I bought some clays when visiting a bookstore with the girls and made some sugar skull hair pin and painted them with acrylic paints. I already got two mold and who knows I'm gonna make some more. I also had a lot of self-portraits (oops) and also a couple of photo shoot with Lily.



One Ramadhan night I had Iftar with my best friends and met our teacher--she was on the next table with her family. I took a lot of photos of my college friends during this fun seminar and generally, I took a lot of photos of my friends... hehe. Also, I shot two of my friends' birthday. How exciting. I should sneak out my camera some more. Hopefully my mother don't read this.


I still take photos of the things I eat. And I once experimented with pancakes. Did you see that peace sign pancake? Yeah, I should do it again.


In 2012 I learned a bit more about my camera and also Photoshop. I figured out how to make animated gif on Photoshop and I've been making a lot of them lately but posted them on Tumblr. I got these gif set of The Dark Knight Rises cast that got more than 700 notes, a gif set of Marcus Mumford with over 400 notes and still counting... it's crayzeh. And also very exciting. That's why I'm stuck on Tumblr. But not just because they like my edits. It's because these awesome people on Tumblr. And no, I'm not giving you my URL. HAHAHA.

In 2012, I fell in love got obsessed with Tegan and Sara. And now it's less than a month until their new album is going to be released. Okay, I'm trying not to freak out here. This has been a wonderful year of music and movies, too! Some of the albums that were released and I listened to a lot in 2012 are Torches by Foster The People, Babel by Mumford and Sons (still digging Hopeless Wanderer and Lover of the Light), Barton Hollow by The Civil Wars, Port of Morrow by The Shins,  Lana Del Rey's Born To Die  (the Paradise edition too!), Battle Born by The Killers, aaaaaand... Frankenweenie Unleashed! (Soundtrack) by Various Artist.

In 2012, The Twilight Saga ends but I'm still sooo gonna be seeing my girl on the silver screen. I heard she's Hollywood's highest paid actress, eh? Hehehe. Oh, The Dark Knight trilogy also ends... :( But it ended so beautifully. James Bond franchise is 50 years old and Skyfall is definitely my favorite. I'm also really loving 2012's animated movies. And the last movie I watched in 2012 is probably... The Perks of Being A Wallflower. Looking forward for the movies in 2013!

So another year has passed. I hope 2013 will be kind to me as I'll be on my last semester of college soon and am getting ready for the real world, I hope I will be able to go to more places, with my camera, so I can capture more moments. Amen. Let's start working on our dreams. Let's moving on.

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Yesterday me and Mama went to this fish market, got some fresh fishes and prawns. Basically we intended to grill it traditionally, with wood charcoals and stuff. We were using coconut shells because they say it heat up quickly and the heat stays longer. We didn't know there'll be lots of smoke that it hurts to just open your eyes..... We moved all the half-cook dish to the kitchen and use a double-pan instead. As we discussed it later, we agreed that we should have use those coconut shells with wood charcoals in the same time and maybe there won't be too much smokes... That's really smoke inside of my home on the picture above.


After the clock struck twelve, our house was surrounded by fireworks. They're not that gigantic, but still pretty. I tried to capture them in photos, but these two photos are probably the only ones I got in which you can clearly see the fireworks. I'm loving the smoke on this photos. I gave up and captured them in videos instead so I can make some gifs from them.

Happy new year and hope everyone have a good time. Here, take a look at this little firework.