d is for delightful!

arctic monkeys' FAVOURITE WORST NIGHTMARE
at first listen you will be quite weirded out by these lads, but keep listening, you'll find your beloveds cloaked with new music flavorings. when i hear certain songs, the image in my head is always about cowboys and saloons and duels. ahahaha. but they are very good indeed.
favorites: teddy picker, d is for dangerous, old yellow bricks, 505

the academy is...'s SANTI
i haven't heard this album fully but the tunes didn't stick and i hate it. i like almost here better. maybe my opinion will change if i start to listen more carefully and intently and more often.
favorites: eveything we had

this providence's THIS PROVIDENCE
unexpectedly great. whoa breath-taking. hahaha. i love it. and i love the vocalist (dan young) and the bassist (david blaise). ahaha they're gorgeous. their music is very forgive durden-ish with a tinge of the academy is. suits fueled by ramen very well.
favorites: wolf in sheep's clothing, my beautiful rescue, but what will they say, losing control

i realized that the newer additions to the fbr family is like combinations of some older bands.
the cab: newest member (hello!). a mix of panic of the disco's las vegas taste and october fall's pianos. but october fall dominates.

books!

edith pattou's FIRE ARROW: THE SECOND SONG OF EIRREN
i stumbled across this book when my money was running thin and i want to buy a book, so i scoured the discount shelf at
kinokuniya. how grateful was I to see a book containing the word 'arrow' in its title. and was even happier to see the 30%
savings sticker on the cover. i read the summary on the back cover, and deciding to buy it. my friend sabrina saw the font
and fell in love. sorry dude, mine first. i promised to lend her after i finished. so i read it and was hooked. the story is
about a girl archer, breo-saight, that discovers that she has a magical fire arrow as her birthright. this book is full with
action and the fantasy plot i just LOVE, and a little concealed romance that i thought is VERY cute and made me go 'awww~!!'
FIVE STARS.
published in 1998 so i guess it would be quite hard to track down the first book and the third but i really want to lay my

hands on them.

the autobiography of my dead brother
i forgot who wrote it
nice book, about black people. i didn't know it was so... cruel. great illustrations though.
4 STARS

S.T.O.R.M
e.l young
one word: ASTONISHING. go buy. i'll wait.
witty, smart, amazing inventions, nice plot with surprising twists. just my taste.
secret agents, teenagers that is.
5 STARS

JANGO: THE SECOND BOOK OF THE NOBLE WARRIORS TRILOGY
william nicholson
oh i simply love this book. crazy ending. great story and storytelling. better than the really good first book, SEEKER. still about seeker, morning star, and the wildman, but this book's story is very, VERY unpredictable. very good, excellent. BUY!!
5 STARS

aha yeah, i've read a lot of good books lately

later this august, there will be a design expo that i really want to attend, FGDEXPO2007. KARIM RASHID and STEFAN SAGMEISTER, my heroes, are going to be THERE. OH MY GOD! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT. so i reaaaallly want to go.


BEST NEWS THIS YEAR.
fall out boy confirmed their show in jakarta, 15 DAYS AFTER MY BIRTHDAY YAY! september 23, 2007. sunday. AMAZING!! i just hope that on the following day there are no exams of some sort.


that's all, reporting live from my itunes and bookshelf.
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HELLO WORLD.

hello, my name is tika. people call me tika or the go short by tik or tiks or something. i have some nicknames like... onyo and ganggang. i kn0w they're weird haha. i have another blog which is more like a diary, telling tales about my daily life. this blog is more like reviews and seeing things i like or dislike in MY point of view. "through your myopic eyes?" um yeah. both eyes are myopic. left: -0,75. right: -0.5. yes i wear glasses. plastic framed in black, with green roses. they're pretty trust me.

interests: fashion, music, arts, comics, jake sandvig, tv esp discovery travel and living
non-interests: mainstream
food: thai, japanese, home cookings, exotic stuffs
drinks: ice tea and green tea
cellphone: forever sony ericsson. currently cyber-shot k800i
style: tika. read: my own.
books: teen stuffs like the A-List, gossip girl or the clique. fantasy like artemis fowl. plain good like carl hiaasen's. i don't like the tom clancy stuffs.
comics: mostly DC: meltzer's justice league of america, green arrow, the outsiders, the teen titans. marvel: young avengers
magazines: teenvogue, juxtapoz, concept, gogirl, AP, kerrang!
shoes: sneakers. lots and lots of sneakers. and a particular pair of cute sandals. and flipflops!
pants: my ultimate favorite zara gray skinny and straight dark-washed jeans.
bags: big big totes. backpacks for school. slings are just cool.
safe haven: my bathroom.
music: ultimately fall out boy and mew. also dance punks like shitdisco or photo atlas. any fueled by ramen bands. the forecast and endless hallway are the most recent add. oh and jonezetta.
designers: henry holland, marc jacobs, proenza schouler boys, miuccia prada, and karl lagerfeld
piece of clothing: bags and shoes and necklaces (not those blingy ones)
artist: michael sieben
designers (not fashion): stefan sagmeister and karim rashid
photographer: some locals and isaac mckay-randozzi
others: simply loving myself.


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