ANASTASIA GOENAWAN: November 2014

Party Dresses and Shoes from Dresswe

11:19:00 pm

Hello again, everyone!

Have you been in a situation where you have to go to wedding party and you're lost where do you buy a good dress or party shoes?

I have.

Since maybe 2-3 years ago, I began to receive wedding invitation.

Yes, me. Not my parents.

It's just the time to seriously thinking about life I think.

So, everytime I got invitation from my friends, and sometimes my family,

I often open my wardrobe and think what kind of dress should I wear?

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I ended up buying new dresses or made one at the tailor for this kind of ocassion.

And it's expensive. TT^TT

So, when I found about this website --> Dress We

I was happy. I scrolled down their website and found a lot of pretty dresses.

Not only that, they also provide accessories and SHOES! wohoo~ \(≧∇≦)/

http://www.dresswe.com/

You can also recommend the dresses to your mother or the bride mother (in case it's your bestfriend's wedding)

Check their dress collection HERE.

http://www.dresswe.com/mother-of-the-bride-dresses-73/

http://www.dresswe.com/mother-of-the-bride-dresses-73/4/

http://www.dresswe.com/mother-of-the-bride-dresses-73/5/

http://www.dresswe.com/mother-of-the-bride-dresses-73/8/

And for the shoes collection HERE.

http://www.dresswe.com/wedding-shoes-4365/

http://www.dresswe.com/wedding-shoes-4365/2/

http://www.dresswe.com/wedding-shoes-4365/7/

And, my favorites are:

http://www.dresswe.com/item/11068433.html

http://www.dresswe.com/item/10908560.html

the details :O

http://www.dresswe.com/item/10875688.html

http://www.dresswe.com/item/11068418.html

The details :)

http://www.dresswe.com/item/10520164.html

http://www.dresswe.com/item/10983271.html

http://www.dresswe.com/item/10795353.html

http://www.dresswe.com/item/10531945.html

http://www.dresswe.com/item/10665905.html

They also provide Black Friday offer!

Check them out guys! It's really worth it!

See you guys soon!

xoxo

Anastasia

Autumn2014

How I see life

4:30:00 pm

こんにちは、みんなさん！元気ですか？(ˆ⌣ˆ)

Time flies so fast, at least for me it flies so fast.

In a week, I'll be living in Japan for 2 months.

For a while, I've been thinking a lot about life.

It's because of my friend's facebook status. From his status, I realized that somehow, Japan is not as perfect as I thought before.

There're things I wholeheartedly disagree.

One of them is that their life seems to be driven by the money issue.

I fully realized that we need money in order to survive, to live.

But it's not the only one that made us alive.

There are a lot of things to make us happy even though we don't have enough money.

You know, Coco Chanel once said that the best things in life usually are free. The second best is the extremely expensive one.

So yes! The best things life offers are always free.

Family and friendship are one of the example.

If you let go of your family and friends in order to chase for money,

in the end you will feel empty and alone.

What's the use of piles of money when you don't have anyone to share it with?

To spend it for?

Money will always be money,

but family and friends will always grow and give you happiness.

They fill you up inside.

They will be there for you whenever you need them, caress you when you're down,

support you in your lowest state, and they're happy for you when you achieved your goal.

I know very well how hardworking Japanese people are, but it's too much.

They tend to overwork themselves.

I was surprised to know their working hour is from 9AM to 8PM, and most of them don't go home before 11PM or 12AM.

A real contrast from Indonesian people. We only work from 8-9AM to 5PM,

and most of us go home right after 5PM (if we don't have to work overtime).

Hey! If you spend all your day in the office, when will you spend your time with your spouse and children? When will you have time for yourself?

I think maybe it's one of the reason why the divorce rate is so high here in Japan,

and the needs to be married and have children are getting low and low.

One thing leads to other things. It's the law of our nature. What we are now is a product of what we did in the past.

My family also think that money is important in order to survive,

but luckily, it's not my parents priority in life now. They still have time to spend with us, even though they're super busy everyday. But before we reached what we are now, they were similiar to Japanese people. I barely saw them when I was a kid. That's why I despised working.

They also made me despise money a little. I can't truly hate money since I still need it in order to survive, right? LOL~

But they made me realized, I have so much more in this life than just money.

Once you find that your life purpose is beyond money, you saw things differently.

You can focus to your emotional, spiritual, and psychological growth,

your surroundings, other people's needs, world peace, and many more.

You're more easily became content of what you have, you're grateful of what God gave you,

you don't see your problems as something overly awful (yeah, it's still awful, but you feel stronger to face it), and you know in the end of the day, you will always have something you can say thanks for and feel blessed.

You just don't focus solely on yourself anymore.

What about you? What do you think about life?

Please share it with me!

What I wore:

Denim Top - G.U | Pink Coat - Thrifted Store | Black Pants - Guess

Shoes - Payless | Hello Kitty Bag - Sanrio Japan

Bracelets - @chatefortu (my own onlineshop in instagram)

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See you again, soon!

xoxo

Anastasia

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Anas Life in Japan

[Recipe] Minced Chicken with Veggies

11:54:00 pm

Hi! As I promised on my instagram, I update my blog again!

This time is for my own food recipe! \(≧∇≦)/ Yeay!

Okay. You have to know that all the food I made were the product of my curiousity.

I don't see the recipe book since I was too lazy to buy and read one.

I just try it out, but so far they tasted good.

This time I made a minced chicken with veggies.

Enjoy~ (◦ˆ⌣ˆ◦)•.♥.•

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What you need:

• Oyster sauce

• Garlic (mine is the one in yellow bottle)

• Mixed veggies

• Minced chicken

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How to make:

1. Put the minced chicken and minced garlic into the frying pan.

Add a tea spoon of oyster sauce.

Don't add any oil.

Set the temperature into medium, and mix them together.

2. While waiting for the meat to be cooked, wash your mixed veggies.

3. Put the mixed vegetables into the frying pan and mixed them together.

Don't forget to taste your own cooking.

If it's not perfect, you can add a little bit of oyster sauce.

Mix them and close the frying pan for a minute.

4. Aaaannnnddd~ It's done!

いただきます! (ˆڡˆ)

Simple, isn't it? (•ˆ_ˆ•)

This time I didn't add any dressing, just pour myself a veggies-fruits juice to accompany the lonely food.

Try it yourself and don't forget to share your result with me!

I'll be waiting! :D

See you again soon!

xoxo

Anastasia

Black Friday

Shoespie, the heaven for shoes lover!

8:45:00 pm

Hi guys! (^o^)/) How are you?

My life just started to become busier here. The lesson become more complicated and difficult, and I have to study (or in my case, only read the textbook once or twice) for everyday's test and homework. Well, not that I'm a model student type, but I have to survive this if I want to pursue my dream to become designer.

Anyway! If you're my loyal reader, you must notice that I've some obsession with shoes, specially with boots! (≧⌣≦ ) Well, since my country was not a 4 season country, the boots choices was a little bit limited. But since now I'm living at Tokyo (and it's going to be winter soon), my craving for a suitable boots became so high. (Oh, forgive me mom!)

So, when I checked this website, Shoespie, I totally fall in love!

You know, I've been craving for knee high boots for ages (honestly!),

and when I check their knee high boots HERE,

I couldn't stop browsing. *__*

Specially since they also have the Black Friday deals! Ho-ho!

As a normal girl, I can't ever resist the SALE or OFFER or BEST DEALS that's going on!

I have to peek into their Black Friday Cheap Boots collection!

After taking my time checking their lovely shoes (o ³ )o ~♡,

I decided to share with you guys about my choices for their BEST DEALS!

You guys checked them out too! Get your shoes with best price they offered now!

Knee-high Boots:

http://www.shoespie.com/product/10796197.html

http://www.shoespie.com/product/10774450.html

Ankle boots:

http://shoespie.com/product/10646254.html

http://www.shoespie.com/product/10644481.html

http://www.shoespie.com/product/10699952.html

http://www.shoespie.com/product/10976283.html

http://www.shoespie.com/product/10699957.html

http://www.shoespie.com/product/10974030.html

http://www.shoespie.com/product/10990560.html

And these two are my favorite.

http://www.shoespie.com/product/10982860.html

http://www.shoespie.com/product/10976298.html

Both of my favorite are the simple one, yes. I do like a simple and comfy shoes more than one with a lot of accessories. So, what's your favorite?

Share with me!

xoxo

Anastasia

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Black Friday

Black Friday Crazy Offers from Eric Dress

9:46:00 pm

Hey guys! \(≧∇≦)/

This time I want to share a little bit of Black Friday.

Do you know about Black Friday? (* O *)

I never knew about this event before. Well, Indonesia doesn't have Black Friday. So, if you're just as clueless as me about this special event, I will tell you a little bit. ;)

Basically Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving and usually celebrated at U.S.

It's called Black Friday because of the traffic jam caused by oh-so-many shoppers, and sometimes it comes along with the violance.

It's also an unofficial time to begin shopping for holiday (read: Christmas)! Since it's a month before Christmas, a lot of store give tempting and crazy offer, like discount (yeah, discount!). No wonder there're traffic jam and violence (duh!).

But we don't have to worry about the violance and the traffic jam because these days we can shop online (yeay! Thanks to internet! \(^o^)/ )!

If you're wondering which shops are giving out Black Friday offer,

here I gave you one store that has amazing offer!

*drums roll*

It's EricDress!

They divided the offer into 4 parts. Moreover, they provide clothes, prom dresses, evening dresses, wedding dresses, shoes, and bags! So complete!

They even offer up to 85% off! \(≧∇≦)/

heaven!

You should check it before you miss it!