HAUL | First Online Book Shopping Spree

Belanja di bukabuku.com ini banyak dramanya. Lah kok?

Awalnya saya beli 4 buku. Selain 3 buku yang berhasil saya beli di bawah, ada 1 buku lagi judulnya Magic's Child by Justine Larbalestier. Nah, setelah hampir seminggu menanti, ternyata buku bener-bener out of stock. Saya minta uang sisa pembelian yang gagal dibelanjakan lagi sama buku yang saya tunjuk.

Pilih-pilih lagi dan jatuhlah pilihan ke komik Tokyo Angels by Mihona Fujii vol.2 dan vol.3. Sengaja saya pilih buku-buku lama karena buku-buku ini udah susah banget ditemuin di toko buku, kali aja toko buku online punya stoknya atau bisa mesenin ke penerbit. Eh lah kok ternyata nasibnya sama kayak sebelumnya, udah nunggu lama juga dan bukunya out of stock.

Karena udah hampir 2 minggu menanti sejak terakhir saya bayar, udah kelamaan cyiinn! Akhirnya saya minta buku-buku yang udah ready dikirim aja dan uang sisanya di-refund. Hingga kemarin lusa kalo nggak salah buku ini sampai ke tangan saya. Finally! :D

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge | 15 Interesting Things on Blogs (Day-8)

It's not easy to write these 15 things quickly, while the things I really pay attention the most are basically only half of them. In random order.

Since I have to write them fast, no space for deep thinking. My brain is smokin' here! ;) Alright, here we go, I hope I'm not being a snob: (LOL!)

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge | Blogging Quirks (Day-7)

7th day! Wohoooo! :D

Boy it's not easy, as I thought it would be. Today's theme is what kinda habit I possessed during blogging. Well, I've been running this blog around 4 (or maybe 5?) years but yet it gained pageviews not more than a rookie. What a shame. Yeah.

Anywaaaayy, after several years of what-so-called-blogging, I finally now realize my vibe to blog. I blog (kinda) regularly these days since I own a themed blog (it's a beauty blog, FYI), which ease me to find inspiration. Because it's so easy, the topic each day is already set and I just have to be encouraged to write based on the schedule I've already made.

RECIPE | Mashed Potato

Hi everyone,

Long weekend kemarin saya sempetin bikin-bikin makanan karena udah lama banget rasanya saya nyoba-nyobain resep baru yang saya temuin. Karena lagi tanggal tua, jadi nggak bikin resep yang membutuhkan banyak bahan atau menggunakan bahan yang premium alias harganya mahal.

Sebelumnya saya udah pernah bikin mashed potato, dulu banget jaman masih sekolah kayaknya. Tapi rasanya nggak enak dan di luar perkiraan saya, waktu itu make resep dari majalah Gogirl!. Padahal, resep-resep dari Gogirl! nggak satu-dua aja yang pernah saya cobain. Sering banget saya praktekin resepnya dan rasanya pun baik-baik aja. Entah kenapa itu resep mashed potato gagal total waktu saya praktekin -_-* #lackofskill

Karena sekarang sumber informasi lebih canggih dan resep bertebaran di internet, saya googling deh resep mashed potato yang dapat dipercaya. Nemu 1 resep yang nggak memasukkan susu/krim ke dalamnya, saya pakai resep itu deh akhirnya. Dengan pertimbangan, saya eneg aja ngebayangin kalau kentang dikasih susu/krim gitu :/ Tapi ini masalah selera, kalau suka ya monggo ;) Oh ya, resep ini juga nggak pakai biji pala atau nutmeg yang juga sering diikut sertakan dalam resep mashed potato. Karena saya lupa masukkinnya hahaha! #alesangamutu

Baiklah, sekarang kita masuk ke resepnya yuk! ;)

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge | How I Shop For Books (Day-6)

The most favorite part of this challenge! Shopping! :D

Book shopping is even more relaxing than makeup hauling, for me ;) I don't know, I think it's because shopping for books has been an old activity I've learned since I was a little kid and makeup shopping just happened quite recently for the last couple years of being a young-adult.

Going shopping is divided into two kind of way; online and offline. I kinda do both. I just have to consider which way is cheaper LOL! ;)

To make this post more useful (and longer), I'm gonna write where I go shop for books as well. Here comes the list...

OFFLINE

Gramedia

This is the first bookstore I've ever been to. My dad used to take me here when I wanted to do some book haul when I was a little girl. But today, I go to this bookstore everytime I visited a mall with this shop in it :D Gramedia is the place where I can find books which aren't sold in Togamas. This bookstore is so big it sells so many books from so many publishers, even the small ones. You can get any kind of books here. You can find imported books and magazines as well but not many. 

Togamas

Or Petra Togamas  the branch which I often pay a visit, is the bookstore which claimed its self as A Bookstore with Discounts ("Toko Buku Diskon" in Indonesian). It has quite a complete collection of books, almost as many as Gramedia. Too bad I can't find some books from certain publishers in this bookstore. This bookstore is my favorite because it gives you quite a generous discount for all books. No, not that little 5% or 10%. It starts from 15% and the biggest I've got was 50%. For all books you can find in the store. It sells imported books recently but not the popular nor the new ones, but it sells the latest imported magazines. You can get teenVOGUE and TIME in this bookstore.

Periplus

I always wanna buy something from this store since I was a kid. My dad said that this store sells English books which I couldn't read by my self at that time. And even as a teenager (with obviously a poor English understanding) I wanted to buy something from this cozy place, but I couldn't because the price range is still out of my league. Now, things get better (ehem!) and I have my own salary (which I can spend on anything I want #Oops), I finally can buy something from this store :D It held Year-End Book Sale annually and I never miss a chance to pay a visit every year for that special days ;)

ONLINE

bukabuku.com

I don't actually enjoy purchasing books online since the feel of touching and picking up various kind of books (and put them back in :p) is irreplaceable. However, there are times when purchasing books out of physical bookstore get even cheaper and I just can't miss that LOL! :D bukabuku is the first online bookstore I've ever purchased from. It has good service and web system (the tools are easy, user-friendly) and they offer quite a great deal for some books.

periplus.com

I prefer buy books through real physical bookstore, as I said earlier. However, sometimes online bookstore has great better deal when it comes to Sale. Bugger! periplus.com offers more discounted books than the physical stores. Therefore, I often drool over some books with huge amount of sale tag on it :D I've purchased from the web once and what makes me worry is the shipping estimation. It's exaggerating in my opinion. I bought a book (on Sale) and the estimation was around 3 weeks, it's like purchasing from Amazon or overseas. I've asked about this on Periplus' Twitter and he/she said it's because the book needs time to arrive in Jakarta's headquarter. While I thought it's ready stock, here, in our beloved country. And turned out that I've only waited for regular 3-5 days of shipping. What the heck was the 3 weeks for?!

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In the end, wherever the bookstores are, as long as it offers great deal, I'd be happy to spend time wandering around and purchase some ^^

How about you?

Do you have any favorite bookstores?

Do you prefer online or offline bookstores? 

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