Berlinale : Kebun Binatang

sunny afternoon at anhalten bahnhof

Ps. It's a late post. I went there like 2 weeks a go.

Berlinale 62

Finally, the Berlinale Film Festival is coming again! I hadn't a change to watch for the last two years, but I will definitely watch one of the films this year. There's four films from Indonesia participate this festival. My choices are Postcard from the Zoo and Children of Srikandi.

And too bad the Marley (yes, its documentary film of Bob Marley!) sold out already! So beside Indonesian films, I would like to watch Young Adult and I, Anna. So, I hope I could get all the tickets!

Kebun Binatang (Postcard from the Zoo)

The Mirror Never Lies

7 Deadly Kiss

Anak-anak Srikandi (Children of Srikandi)

You know you've been in Germany too long when ...

I found this post from one of my friend's twitter. And I can't stop saying "yeah that is so me!" when I read it. So true! And here I will tell you which ones are similar to mine! :D

-You’ve sorted your garbage into at least 3 garbage cans and you know the difference between "Gelbe Sacke" and "Restmull" : so true, it's like in my blood now! lol. i hope i still remember to do this when i come back to indonesia!

-You get excited that CNN is in English : not only CNN, but anything that suddenly airing in English! :))

-You've watched the Simpsons in German and hated it : and spongebob, family guy, even HIMYM :((

-You've laughed at a German trying to say "squirrel".

-You know what a "Klo" is and you've gone "auf" one : ich muss auf klo! :p

- You know what DB stands for : yeah now I know it stands for Deutsche Bahn, not Deutsche Bank!

-You know the difference between Milka and Ritter Sport (including all their various varieties) : absolutely! and I like Milka better!

- You know what a WG is, and have lived in one.

- You've ever been totally confused on how to open any and all windows / doors / locks.

- You get irrationally annoyed when the bus / train / tram is over five minutes late : seriously! even i'm sucha last minute person, but i hate when the U-bahn is delayed!

- You've been caught "schwarzfahring" (riding without a ticket) at least once (and pretended not

to speak German to get out of it) : all i can comment is :D

- You've answered the phone with your last name (eg. "Jones!", "Williams!") : sometimes, not too often.

- You know the separate functions of the big button and the small button to flush the toilet.

- When "wir sind immer fϋr Sie da: Mo-Mi 0800-2000" ("We are always here for you - Mon. to

Wed. 8 am - 8 pm) no longer makes you laugh : hell yeah!

- You know that not looking someone in the eye when toasting will give you seven years bad sex : not sex, but it is just a must and sucha culture i might say.

-You have gotten extremely frustrated by the fact that the Z and the Y are switched on German keyboards.

-You ask people how they are with grunts like 'Und?' or 'Na?' : sometimes! :D

- You have paid to use a public restroom : and some of it has to pay 1euro!

- You've completely forgotten a word in English, yet you know what it is in German : sooo truuue, now I am just like a bilingual who isn't good at both languages! :))

-You know that German efficiency is, in fact, a myth.

- You've starved on a Sunday (or every Sunday) because you forgot to get bread / milk / juice /

anything at all to eat on Saturday : SOOO MEEE!

-You get to the end of a sentence, and forget which verb / how many verbs you have to put there. : oh damn grammatics! :s

- Anything with englische Untertiteln excites you.

- You’ve carried your groceries home in a cloth sack.

- You wished you drank beer because it's cheaper than everything else on the menu - including

water and coke!

- You call your cell phone a "handy".

- You heat each room in your house separately.

- Your ones look like sevens and your sevens are a molestation of a 7 and a T.

niki's cakes

Even here in Berlin was like soooo cold and snowing this afternoon, but I can't wait for another culinary trip to this new cake shop. I found it when I was just googling "red velvet berlin". I actually wished that I could finally find a red velvet (whatever it is, cupcakes, cheesecake, whatever!) at that shop. But too bad, I came not in the right time. They have red velvet only on Friday, means yesterday, I was just too late! But I have another choice such as cheesecake. Yea I'm a cheesecake person and I will definitely try cheesecake everywhere. And it was good! Even the vanilla crunchy capuccino was also soo yummy! The seller was reaaalllyy kind and so polite, and he told me every details whatever I asked, I love him really! He also gave me a little cupcake for free just because he maybe saw my 'disappointed' face because there was no red velvet today. So sweet! And not only that, I bought banana cream and blueberry cheese cupcakes for take away, for accompany my saturday night:D

But still, too bad I could not taste the red velvet cupcake and whoopie pies too. Maybe next time. I will definitely come back there!

birthday party at the kita

Well, this is how we (at the kindergarten) usually celebrate the kid who has a birthday. Simply cute.

we don't have a cake, but still there's a candle to blow up :)

this is the birthday girl, she has a 'special seat' with baloons

snowflakes stickers, yeah it is still winter

On that day we usually singing and playing birthday games. And sometimes, we get some stickers or tattoos and put it in our hands, and I got it too :p

happy 5th birthday dear! :)

Duran Duran

Could you believe that I ended the January with watching Duran Duran? It was a crazy and last minute decision! Actually it's an 80's band and only the people who has a teenage life on 80 and 90's could enjoy this band. But I was so familiar with their songs since I was a little because of my cousins (who were at that time have their teenage life) always played their songs at that time. So even I don't remember the title, when I hear one of the songs, I could easily remember that it is Duran Duran. Cool huh?:p I know I kinda a vintage person, my taste of music stucks at the end of 90's and I don't really enjoy the 'nowadays' music honestly.

And watching Duran Duran is like..I don't know..feels like flashback to my childhood playing with my cousins. And FYI, their performance was still AMAZING! And I remember that I used to like Nick Rhodes and he is still awwweessoommmee until now. Can't stop singing when they played Ordinary World. It was one of the best concert ever!