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  • Likes & Dislikes: Phone Cases from Head Case Designs

    Hardcases from Head Case Designs for Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 and Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime
    When I was in uni, I had come to realise that I always bought mobile phones of which accessories were not widely available. Remember when you could change your Nokia phone cases to any colour you want? Well, mine was always limited to boring white or boring black. When people could change their cases to transparent cases, I was super jealous. Then I bought a Sony Ericsson. The same thing happened and I was stuck with my boring, factory default case. I gave up, then I put stickers on it then decided to accept it just the way it was.

    When the dawn of smartphones came, I bought my very first Android. It was the tiny Sony Ericsson Xperia X8. While everybody was using Samsung with all their fancy, colourful hard cases, I let my dear phone stay naked. I couldn’t find a case for it. When I changed it with Sony Xperia Miro, the same thing happened again. I was so tired and fed up, and when I almost gave up, I found Head Case Designs on eBay. I didn’t have a Paypal account back then, so I had to pay someone to buy it for me and had them ship it to my address. So for the first time in my life, my phone had a nice, cute hardcase. I was so happy.

    I was so in love with the hardcase. I bought another hardcase for my Samsung Ace 3. Although there were various cases I could find in my local shop, I still went back to Head Case Designs because they have super awesome choices. And when I ordered yet another new phone, I also ordered a new hardcase. So in total, I have bought three cases from them. I’m so obsessed!
    Hardcase from Head Case Designs for Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime

    Likes

    • The designs are so cute. There are various choices and styles, from chevron patterns, floral, animals, to retro. However, I somehow always end up buying hardcases with cats on it (I’m a crazy cat lady!)
    • The material is nice. It gives firm grips for the phone and it makes the phone don’t slip off easily from my sweaty palms.
    • It’s so affordable!
    • They give you free shipping worldwide with no minimum purchase. How cool is that?

    Scratches on hardcase for Samsung Galaxy Ace 3 from Head Case Designs

    Dislikes

    • The picture is not scratch-resistant. The hardcase on my Ace 3 has several scratches, like a long scratch across the cat’s eye and some on its corner. But I’m glad that it’s the hardcase that was scratched and not my phone. This is why putting on hardcase is important for your phone, you guys.
    • Nothing else!

    I’ve only had my new case for a week now, but I’m already thinking about order another one or two for my Grand Prime. I am so obsessed! I mean, look at their new line here. Should I buy another one, like, right now?
    Hardcase from Head Case Designs for Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime
    *Disclaimer: I am not affiliated to Head Case Designs. I didn’t receive any compensation for writing this post. This post is my honest thoughts about their product and not sponsored by them.

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  • Weekend Links


    Whoa, it’s Saturday already? Time flies! I barely remember what I did this week. One thing I remember, though, is that I have been impatiently waiting for the season premiere of Orphan Black which will be airing tomorrow morning (or tonight in US time). Bring it on, BBC!

    In the meantime, let’s enjoy these links I’ve found during the week:

    Now I’m going to prepare some pizza dough to be baked in the morning so I can eat pizzas while watching Orphan Black. Also, look at this good news! Orange Is The New Black is coming back this June!!!

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  • What I Wore: Roadtrip Outfit

    Roadtrip Outfit
    Roadtrip Outfit
    When you go on a roadtrip, you’ll want to wear something as comfortable as possible. But given the fact that I was going to visit a friend who just got married, I thought it would not be okay to wear t-shirt+jeans (a combo I love the most!), so I pair my old blue jeans with my favourite polka dot shirt (which I wore for my picture on the sidebar) and my favourite grey scarf (which I also wore for said picture :p). These jeans made me look fat, but whatev. It was super comfy!

    What I wore:
    – Grey scarf | Unbranded | IDR 20k
    – Polka dot shirt | Esprit | Thrifted
    – Blue jeans | Custome made | IDR 90k
    – Sneakers | Converse | My sister’s

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  • Roadtrip to Bekasi (+ An ONA Bag Giveaway)

    Roadtrip to Bekasi
    Roadtrips are awesome. Remember when Vicky, Irma, and I went on a roadtrip to Jakarta? We had another chance to do another roadtrip, but this time we went to Bekasi to visit a friend. Afief joined us this time. We went to visit May who got married the previous week, but we couldn’t come to her wedding reception. We decided to visit her on Sunday. As always, Vicky was our driver because she’s the only one who can drive. Haha!
    Roadtrip to Bekasi
    We revisited the rest area and took some pictures in front of the very same elephant statue. We took our time during the trip because we were supposed to pick up Arif on our way there, but Arif hadn’t arrived at the spot yet. So we visited some more rest areas, just because :p
    Roadtrip to Bekasi
    We arrived at May’s place in the afternoon (that means we spent, like, six hours on the road, when we actually needed only two hours to get there. Haha!) It had been months since I saw May, so it was nice to catch up with her. We talked about a lot of things, had our late lunch, talked some more, and when the clock struck five, we headed home.

    Roadtrip to Bekasi
    The five of us on our way back home

    This kind of trips are getting hard to conduct because we’re getting busier and busier each day. We had planned it for weeks. At first, there were eight of us who agreed to go, but three bailed out. I now understand why they say that as we grow up, we have less and less friends. It’s inevitable. We’re growing up and getting more responsibilities. We should really cherish the friendships we have in adulthood. Friends are blessings 🙂

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    ONA Bag and Pinhole Press Giveaway
    ONA Bag and Pinhole Press are giving away one ONA Palma Bag and one FUJI X100T camera plus Pinhole Press gift card (worth $1900) to celebrate Mother’s Day! Click on the image to enter this super awesome giveaway. I know you want to win it!

    *Disclaimer: I’m not affiliated with ONA Bag and/or Pinhole Press. I get an additional entry everytime someone enters this giveaway through the link on this page.

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  • Weekend Links


    Weekend links is finally back! This week has been a lot of biting by Jess, thousands of phonecalls from new clients, sneezing + headaches, and many more mischievous. But today Afief and I will join a bunch of friends going on a roadtrip to visit a friend in Bekasi, yay! May got married last week but none of us could come to the reception, so we decided to go there this week instead. Better late than never, we think.

    Well… now links!

    • Jacky has some good points on competition in blogging world.
    • Similarly, jealousy in blogging world exists too! Here’s how we all can benefit from it.
    • Are you following Anna Kendrick on Instagram? She has been posting pictures of people posing the ‘boss pitch’ pose in front of Pitch Perfect 2 poster. Turns out, there is a story behind the pose.
    • I’m not really into fashion, because… well let’s be honest, I’d rather buy food than clothes. Haha! But if I had all the money in the world, I would take my lazy butt and head to the shop to buy all these stuffs from Sara’s latest Inspired By post. The boots. The dresses. Omg!
    • I must admit that I’m a bad book club member. I’m only on page 24 of NovelTea Book Club‘s book of choice this month, Good Omens. But I really recommend the club to you if you love reading. They’re all awesome ladies and most of them are bloggers too. Good place to make new friends 😉

    That’s it for this week. Have a fun weekend! Also, next week is Orphan Black’s season 3 premiere! Who’s as excited as I am? ;D

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