Anyeonghaseyo. Again.

Greetings,

It has been three years since the last time I posted. I'm such a bad blogger and I guess since I'm not the blogger with many loyal readers, I don't disappoint anyone, right?

The reason I started to write again (hopefully will write often) is because right now, I'm in a brand new place which is Seoul! Yes people, the country of those mellow dramas you've been watching!
I'm here for exchange program and it is such a short program.  I wonder how do I keep all the memories within the limited times. So, why not write a blog? Since I already had one too.

What I love about blogging is,
You can write shit as much as you want
You can post picture as much as you want
You can do what you want here

I've been updating in other social medias like facebook, instagram, and path but in those social medias, I kinda feel that I'm not freely to upload as much as I want. For example in Instagram, I tend to upload 1 picture each day so I won't spam each other timeline. So personally, I think blog is the place where I can post everything I want to without interrupting anyone.

Okay back to topic, so I'll try to post as often as I can (since I also had tons of pictures) about my new life here. I'm studying in Konkuk University and I met other people in the same exchange program too. I'll tell about it later!

                                                  Here's a sneakpeak of my campus view

 So, this is my opening post and I'll try to keep updating here! Wish me luck!

Laura Jacqueline

The Most Wonderful Time of The Year

Greetings,

Time passes really fast, from the first time i flew here until now. In a blink of eyes, we're gonna celebrate the most favorite time of the year! Christmas! Too bad right now, I'm staying in a country where they don't celebrate this event. As the result, there will be NO HOLIDAY (not even a single day) during the Christmas period. In addition, the teacher planned to have a test on December 24th nighttime (christmas eve, duhh). I was frustate to hear that bad news but yeah, life goes on, won't let my christmas spirit gone. I've been really into christmas spirit recently; planning to decorate the home, plan to watch all cute christmas movie, prepare for the gifts' exchange between my friends, and last but not least, been playing all the songs on my Christmas playlist! Yipeee

Moreover, christmas is not about all the presents, songs, and ornaments. It's also the date of Jesus Christ, who I believe is the savior of this world and human being :) So, let's take our time during this countdown to think what we've been wrong at and try to be nice to people. Let's spread love not hatred.  Ask yourself, have you been good all these time?

So I've been re-listening again to my christmas songs, and I think this one suits me the best <3 MY ONLY WISH (THIS YEAR) - Britney Spears

Last night I took a walk in the snow.
Couples holding hands, places to go
Seems like everyone but me is in love.

Santa can you hear me
I signed my letter that I sealed with a kiss
I sent it off
It just said this
I know exactly what I want this year.
Santa can you hear me.
I want my baby (baby, yeah)
I want someone to love me someone to hold me.
Maybe (maybe, maybe maybe.) he'll be all my own in a big red bow

Santa can you hear me?
I have been so good this year and all I want is one thing
Tell me my true love is near
He's all I want, just for me underneath my christmas tree
I'll be waiting here.
Santa thats my only wish this year.
oohhh ohh yeah
Christmas Eve I just can't sleep
Would I be wrong for taking a peek?
Cause I heard that your coming to town

Santa can you hear me? (yea yeah)
Really hope that your on your way
With something special for me in your sleigh
Ohh please make my wish come true
Santa can you hear me
I want my baby (baby)
I want someone to love me someone to hold me
Maybe (maybe maybe) we'll be all the love under the mistletoe

Santa can you hear me
I have been so good this year
And all I want is one thing
Tell me my true love is near
He's all I want just for me
Underneath my christmas tree
I'll be waiting here santa thats my only wish this year
I hope my letter reaches you in time
Bring me love can call all mine
(yeah yeah) cause I have been so good this year.

Can't be alone under the mistletoe
He's all want and a big red bow
Santa can you hear me (hear me?)
I have been so good this year
And all i want is one thing
Tell me my true love is near
He's all I want. just for me
Underneath my christmas tree
I'll be waiting here (ohh yeah) santa thats my only wish this year
Oh santa can u hear me? oh santa
Well hes all I want just for me underneath my Christmas tree
Oh I'll be waiting here
Santa thats my only wish this year.

From, 

A girl who wishes for a miracle this Christmas

Epic

Greetings,

These days, I had few epic dreams consecutively. Nevertheless, I just remember few of them and there's one strage thing I'd figured out: All of my dreams (that I remembered) were about movies.

Dream #1

I had this wild dream about dating with Batman. Yes Batman. Not Christian Bale. I dreamt of dating batman in superhero suit. We went to "Central Park Mall" then because there were fans chasing batman, we tried to escape by Bluebird Taxi to "Puri Indah Mall". Guess what, the driver was... Alfred.

Weirdest thing is I still remember all the details.

Dream #2

I dreamt of being filmed in Doomsday movie. Scary thing is, the movie was directed when the REAL Doomsday happened. Strange enough.

Dream #3

The movie included was "The Omen". Nah, it wasn't a scary dream unlike the movie. In my dream, there was a new clinic opened next to my dormitory, it's called "The Omen" and only special person could enter inside. (I think it was influenced by recently famous clinic joke, "Tong Fang")

Dream #4

It just happened 2 days ago, I had a dream about cruising on Titanic. BUT but but, the dream was on Chinese. I remember spoke chinese to a lady on the ship. She complained to me of how the ship didn't provide towels for her family. Until when the ship sinked, she still complained me about those towels.

Because of that random dreams, I often wake up feeling tired, puzzled, extremely happy, etc etc. Maybe it's because of my over-imaginative mind :\

Recently, I'm being a fan of the color that I've never liked before. RED. I realize that red is pretty neutral for mix and match and it could give new and fresher look!

I've just found out a red briefcase in mom's closet. In love with it :)

From,

A girl who just had these hectic dreams at night

Take A Chance

Greetings,

Bored. Nothing to do. So I did this little amateur photo session.

Do you see a small logo beside my photo? I just designed a logo for this blog, here's a zoom of it:

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I've just finished reading a superb book about Merry Riana, a young talented motivator, company owner who received her first 1 million dollar at the age of 26. One word after reading her books. WOW. She has this enormous spirit  of hard-working! Gonna add her as my new favorite motivator!

By her experience, I could say that I learn to : "Get out from your comfort zone and stand out"

That phrase remind me of back then, when I was about to enter college. I planned to take an usual way by entering straight to the college. Somehow, God has his own plan. I took a chance of learning at a place that I've never thought about: China. I must postpone 1 year of my uni because I need to learn the language. At first, I was so scared because none of my friends took this alternative and I thought "I don't want to waste one year of my uni" Eventually, after a year in China, I feel nothing but to be grateful to be placed there. I feel grateful to take different alternative way from my friends. I'd learnt so many new things in various perspectives and my eyes are gradually opened about this world. Well, what could I say, it's better to take a chance :)

From,

A girl who was afraid to be different back then

"Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar"

Greetings, 

Do you know a children's game called "Who Stole The Cookie?" I used to play that. It's basically a song which you include your name and your friends. The song lyric is much more like this:

A: Who stole the cookie from the cookie car?

B: (random kid starts first) C stole the cookie from the cookie jar!

C: Who me?

All the kids: Yes You!

C: Couldn't be!

A: So who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?

And it's repeated again and again but using different kids' name. When I played this game, the one who response late will be kicked out and lose! As a child, I used to find this song hard to remember :)

Speaking of cookies... Recently, me and my mom were having a quality time together on this weekend by baking time! My mom is really good at baking, usually she made all the cookies by herself and I just ate it. But now, since it's holiday and got nothing to do, I tried to help her. Baking is not as hard as I thought (no, I'm not expert at baking), when it comes to measure the dose of sugar, butter,etc I leave it to mom. The part of baking which I love is to make the shape and putting chocolate chip on top! Fun fun fun!

DAY 1

So, on Saturday, we made cookies and nastar. Take a look at these:

left photo: Making the heart shape using a "I don't know the name" tool. It's a cylinder with a cake cutter inside.

 right photo: The cookies with the choco-chip on top are mine! The round shape cookies are made using exceed ingredients

left photo: The shape of the nastar, I thought it was an octopus but it's actually an apple

right photo: "painting" the nastar with egg's yolk to make it glossy

Tadaa, the cookies :) oh I forgot to take picture of the nastar :(

DAY 2

This morning, me and my mom did another experiment on cookies. This time we use choco-crunch! YUM. Here's the picture:

left photo: The "flower" and "mickey mouse" shaped cookies. These cookies are softer than yesterday's

right photo: place where we baked :)

left photo: Cookies attack! The mickey mouse one kind of over burnt

right photo: Few of cookies that we made

WHAT DO I DO WITH THAT LOT OF COOKIES?

Well, I don't eat 'em lot! That's too much fat for me. Few of cookies are placed in a jar and might be given to relatives.

HOW'S THE TASTE?

Taste are relatives. For me, I like themm! It's so crunchy outside yet soft inside. But I Iike the day 2 cookies better than day 1 :)

See ya!

From,

A girl who don't steal the cookie from the cookie jar! 

Nail Art Bestie

I'm always a fan of nail art, but due to my laziness, I tend to enjoy seeing many fabulous nail art rather than doing it. But today, I have no plans to go outside so I'll be staying at home for whole day. Luckily, my best friend, Bebe, paid me a visit! We did "Nail Art Time"!

We planned this day since yesterday night, so Bebe brought her nail polish and I got mine, too. Here's a preview of the result! For us beginner, it's quite satisfying.

Bebe's Nail Art

My nail Art

Things we used are:

• Etude baby pink
• Etude light purple
• Revlon plum Seduction (It's more darker purple)
• Etude top coat
• Toothpick
• Make-up sponge
• Last but not least, Nail polish remover

From the list of nail polishes I mentioned above, you should've known what color combination we could used. Me and bb decided to check out view tutorials. Check out: http://chelseasgetnailed.com/. The blog contained a lot of tutorials and displays from a young talented nail art artist, Chelsea. I found her at instagram and I think that her works are super cool!

In this nail art session, we used 2 techniques which are "marble nail art" and gradient. The steps are not as easy as shown on the tutorials. I had to redo over and over again because it was so messy :( Finally, when it finished, we are so glad with the result. Doing nail art could turn out to be my new hobby!

From,

A girl who must practice her patience at doing nail arts

Fears are Friends

Greetings,

How's your holiday going? So far I've seen, all the school's students already finished their holiday since  july beginning, and now university students are also going to start their new semester!

I'm also going to start my new semester soon which is on September 6th. But I must go back to China on this August 24th :( I still have 2 weeks of holiday to enjoy with.

One of my holiday activity is doing a part time job as teacher assistant. Well, even tho I worked with my mom but still I really glad to have that experience. I'm teaching at my beloved former school, Santa Laurensia on the primary school. Here's a preview of my former primary school:

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Enough with my school intro, here goes the point. I have one student, who's always crying at school, begging her teacher to send her home, and asking everyone how to get to her mother. At first, I thought "Ah, maybe it's the first day school panic" but week by week I saw her still crying at school. Once, she cried by herself in front of me and yelled "I want my mommy" so I asked her why does she always cry at school. She said "I don't like here, school is scary I just want to go home or at least call my mom now" Then I know the main problem : FEAR

Everyone has fears. Children, teenagers, adults, and elders. Fears are part of our life that we have to deal with. God gave us life with its own goods and bads. As an ordinary person, I also face fears all the time. Remembering my childhood, I remember that I wasn't the bravest kid at all, not even close to brave. I'm a scaredy cat. One of my biggest fear that time was to meet other people. I tend to hide behing my parents back whenever I saw people. I could get cry easily when another people except my family touched me. So, I was labeled like that. 

As I grew into teenagers, I thought I could change that easy, but I was wrong. Fears come and go. Since I was labeled as a "shy scaredy cat", I gradually really attach to that label. I was so shy that time. I remember how hard could I start a conversation with other people, I was scared to do something different and speak my mind. The worst of that, there was one time I was afraid to look myself in the mirror :) But people, GOD IS GREAT. He knew what I've been through and one day I felt that he said, "Laura, it's time for a new life". But it's not as easy as it said. I once felt that everything is unfair and keep striking on me. I was weak and didn't have a clue why a scaredy cat like me faced this kind of problems. Fortunately, that didn't last long, I realized that every obstacles I've been through made me stronger, made me realize that I have a hero inside me that will protect me from fears (inspired by Mariah Carey-Hero).

Step by step, I began to feel that the burden I carried all along back then, wasn't so heavy right now. As a result, I really got a new life. I became a different type of person from who I was. No, It's not the "who I'm not" type. I began to show other people a different side of me which had exist from long time a go but never had a chance to show up. And then I finished my senior high school, and when I started college I also had this biggest fear of seeing a new world. But thanks to God, family, and friends I could overcome that. It wasn't easy, but it worth to struggle.

So right now, if you people known me personally, you should've known how I change from "old me" into "new me". I could say that I'm a damn hyper, shameless but a bit sensitive person. I wasn't say that I become the bravest girl with no fears. I still in the process to become a better person, but at least now I know fear is not to be feared but is to be friended. Fear is not the only thing that dominate our live. We still have courage, faith, loyalty, happiness that shine inside ourselves.

Sorry for the long annoying post, but yeah I never thought I will look back and talk about how "funny" I was back then, stuck in my little grey world never realize that the other color tries to get me :) Back to the student I told at the beginning. I believe her fear is only the beginning of her struggling. I'm sure that day by day she will overcome her fears and one day will look back and think "how could I be silly like that". For other people who still face their fears, remember fears are friends that make us stronger and become a great person. Don't hate 'em, understand 'em.

From,

A girl who once being called as "scaredy cat"

*excuse my bad grammar or uncommunicative style of writing, I just wrote everything based on my thoughts