Siapa sih yang tidak kenal Uniqlo? Merk dagang pakaian dari Jepang yang sudah berdiri sejak 1949 ini pertama kali masuk ke Indonesia ditahun 2013. Hingga saat ini ada sekitar 30 lebih toko Uniqlo yang tersebar di seluruh Indonesia. Pertama kali belanja di Uniqlo sekitar tahun 2008/09 waktu masih sekolah di Jepang. Waktu itu beli jaket untuk sehari-hari dipakai ngampus. Karena kualitasnya yang bagus, jaket itu setia menemani sampai lulus di 2012. 

Terus, kapan pertama kali belanja di Uniqlo Indonesia? Hmm... Kayaknya tahun 2018/19. Sejujurnya diriku jarang berbelanja di Uniqlo Indonesia karena harganya terkadang tidak masuk budget belanja pakaian versiku. Hingga saat ini kayaknya baru 3-4 kali belanja di sana. 

Bulan ini, bulan yang penting karena ada orang terkasih yang berulang tahun. Karena dia lagi senang berolahraga (lagi), terpikir untuk memberikan kaos yang nyaman untuk dipakai berolahraga tapi masih bisa juga dipakai untuk berpergian. Setelah mencari-cari, akhirnya ku putuskan untuk beli di Uniqlo yang memang kualitasnya sudah ketahuan bagus. Karena tidak bisa kekuar rumah untuk sementara waktu, akhirnya mencoba belanja dari rumah. Dan ternyata, caranya sangat mudah! 

Berikut 3 langkah mudah berbelanja Uniqlo dari rumah: 

1. Pilih produk yang mau dibeli dan catat kode produknya, kode warna, dan ukurannya. Karena nantinya itu akan dibutuhkan ketika mengisi formulir pemesanan. 

2. Pilih toko terdekat dengan dirimu. Di website resmi Uniqlo, kamu bisa memilih toko mana yang terdekat untuk pengiriman instant. Kalau tidak ada cabang Uniqlo di sekitarmu, bisa pilih cabang Grand Indonesia atau Pondok Indah Mall untuk pengiriman ke seluruh Indonesia. 

3. Setelah memilih cabang terdekat, kamu akan disambungkan dengan akun Line Cabang tersebut. Misalnya, pilih cabang Mall Taman Anggrek, maka akan disambungkan ke akun 'Uniqlo MTA'. Nantinya kamu bisa mengisi formulir pemesanan yang ada di sana. Setelah mengisi, kamu akan dikontak lebih lanjut mengenai pembayaran. Tinggal ikuti langkah dari mereka dan barang akan tiba di rumah kamu dengan selamat. 

Mudah bukan? Selamat mencoba dan jangan lupa untuk mengikuti langkah-langkah yang diberikan oleh akun Line Uniqlo ya. 

Growing up playing the Sims almost every weekend and holiday makes me dreaming to have my own home. I even apllied for an architecture major back in college. Thankfully, soon my dream will come true. I will have my own home. It takes longer time than what I plan, but it's okay. 

Me and my husband don't have any experience in designing nor building anything (house in this case), so we decided to hire an architect to take care of it. We looked for an architect who also can build the house, not only drawing it. Most of the time the architect only draw the design of the house. Then the client will have to look for the contractor, who will make the house based on the drawing. We think it will be less hustle for us if we look for an architect who has their own contractor. We also think that the contractor can interpret the design very well if both of the architect and the contractor are often working together.  

Who tought looking for an architect will be difficult. It is like finding 'the right person' for marriage. Finding someone who will commit for the long term relation, building the house. However, based on my experience, I conclude some important points while looking for it. 

• Use the social media for peeking up their portofolio. Nowadays everything is getting easier. We can get anything from the social media. For me, I used instagram for browsing the architect. Firstly, I randomly searched #arsitekjakarta and #rumahminimalis on Instagram. If I found some interesting house that I like, I shared with my husband. We checked the portofolio, whether it's matched with what we want or not. If it's matched, we contact the architect. 
• Ask people for the recommendation. We also asked our friends who works in the same industry. We thought maybe they have some reccomendation who is good on it. After we got some names, we checked their portofolio. Most of them are using Instagram to show their works. 
• Contact more than one architect in the same time. After having some names, we contacted them. Asking some questions: how much is their cost? Do they have their own contractor? Is there any recent work that we can see and it is not on Instagram yet? etc. While contacting them, it is better to contact 2-3 different architects to save some time. So you have other options if the first one doesn't work. 
• Meet them in person and see their recent work. It is important to talk in person. We can see whether we can work together or not after meeting in person. Well, today meeting in person might be impossible but we can use the technology, video call. Furthermore, ask to see their recent work, the real house. So you can see the quality of their work. We contacted bunch of architect but only met 3 of them. Then we went to 5 houses. All the houses are made by different architect. We even met the owner of the house and had chit chat regarding the process of their house. 

 

Don't you think 2020 gone in a blink? I think so. It was really fine in January, Februar, and March. But then, boom! It is suddenly December. A lot of things happens in this year. Good and bad things happen. Honestly speaking, this year is rough. Yet, I found that overall this year is an excellent year. 

It's excellent because....

we (me and my husband) have been dreaming to have our own house. And earlier this year we started to build our own. It was not easy to get the permit to build the house from the developer. Yet we could manage to get it in no time. However, we got some problem with the budget and the contractor after. It took couple months to deal with it. After long discussion, we decided to change the contractor and boom! The pandemic hit. We had to get another permit from the developer. Thankfully, we got it less than a month and we began the project in the middle of this year. Hopefully it can finish soon. 

It's excellent because....

I got new online friends. As I mentioned in this post, that I am doing small business, selling online, I am happy to say this year I joined online course about selling online and I got some new online friends from there. It feels nice eventhough I was at home but I still able to get new knowledge plus new friends. 

It's excellent because...

I joined Jafra. Why Jafra? It's a skincare product and honestly I have been want to know more about how to care with our skin. It is a good decision to join the hype. I get training product and knowledge about skincare for free, and I get cheaper price for their product because of member benefit. Plus side, I can sell the product and get the profit. It is still not that much but I am happy with it. 

It's excellent because...

I am having another baby. Yes, our second child just born earlier this month. It was not easy journey, being pregnant and giving a birth during pandemic. But I am so happy that now I am having 2 kids in the house. 

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Thats summary of my 2020. It was not always smooth but thankfully I survived. I learned the lesson and I am looking forward to 2021. Another new 365 to fill out. Bismillah, we can do it.