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Nobody likes feeling drowned. Nobody.<br />
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In life, I have met a lot of unintended feelings. Anger, anxiety, trauma, depression... I see that to some people, it tickles like a drizzle. To some it’s a rainy afternoon. To you, it’s a wide sea revolts, a tsunami. And unlike a rainy September day, saved by a warm cup of chamomile tea and a calming jazz music, it destructs you and scatters you into ruins.<br />
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You start the day with a busy agenda in mind, while secretly hoping nobody you meet today would bring his burdens on to the table. But somebody does... And somehow you feel upset even though you’re not supposed to. You are the saddest in the happy hours. You spend the day thinking about it over again until your curfew kills your thoughts. Then you wake up with all the guilt you are not supposed to carry with you.<br />
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It’s almost invisible at first, to see your blackened eye circles, to hear your rage, though in silence. To know that you are drowning, loosing yourself at sea. Especially when you’re not the type of person who likes to talk about it. Hell, who likes to talk about it? Helpless, puffed, getting defeated by the waves of life repeatedly, while constantly trying to figure out how to swim? It took me quite some time to actually realize that what you need is a life vest, and not an umbrella.<br />
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I’m sorry... that it happens. That the storm is angrier where you sleep. That your morning coffee tastes bitter as nightmares. I’m sorry life makes you feel alienated with your own thoughts sometimes, and the most you can let out are the tangled scratches on your journal book. Life is harder for you today. I’m sorry that today has tricked you into feeling like you’re somebody else...<br />
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But you’re not, as much as you think you are. I know your mind is tired. I know your thoughts make you feel every sore on your muscle like you have been running for miles, even though you’re just waking up. Today rage arrives in front of a broken vehicle and the traffic jam on the street, and I know you’re stretching your smile so hard just to make sure I go by the day clueless about it. I know you are trying. I know you are trying hard. But the truth is... what’s happening is never your fault in the first place. The storm that happened doesn’t make a monster out of you. Out of any of us. See, we’re not changing. We’re never changing, just a little tired. The very same vessel in the ocean. Just a little damaged.<br />
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Don’t worry, you’ll conquer your sea. Some day, somehow. Even better, you’ll make a home out of it! Only for now... let’s slow down, hit the brakes. I want you to know that there’s always time for you to rest for a bit. Always. Let’s cancel plans and take the longer route. Unpack your fears and insecurities, and have a little chit chat, you and I. You know, it’s been awhile since we talk about omelettes, mercury retrogades, or other nonsense. So let’s talk. For as long as we can. Or stay silent for as long as we can, that’s okay, too. We’ll sit next to each other so long until days and months don’t matter anymore. Until the storm passes.<br />
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And the storm will pass... onto cloud nine and brighter skies. Let’s not feel bad for too long.<br />
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In the meantime, I really hope today is bearable for <b><i>you</i></b>.<br />
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It's late and quiet today, unlike the rest of the week. I woke up at 11 still wearing my Friday work attire, which looks a lot like something I can also wear for Saturdays, too—it's just how I dress for work. Possibly I was replacing the sleepless hours from the past week, or saving up enough rest for the upcoming—yes, it's a thing. Either way, December has arrived. It's the glass balls and lamplight season all over again. It's everybody at the malls dressed up in either red or green, or north pole deers, giving promo coupons. It's me no longer have to wait to dine out and seek for Christmas specials.<br />
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The year has kept me pretty occupied, which has to be the reason time feels like it's sprinting... The whole work thing just felt too much all at once it's unbelievable. I encounter new things everyday, and everyday too, people expect me to master it in three seconds. Deadlines, meetings, more deadlines... well, you can relate. And then I have to be present for my family, friends need some catch-ups to do, too. I wanted to read a book, but there are e-mails needed to be prioritized. I wanted to write, too, but sleep sounded like the better idea. I woke up early to outrun time. But on some days, mornings were already too hard.<br />
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One day a colleague slash friend texted me early in the morning, saying something like, <i>I'm still on the bed right now, not wanting to get up. Please, the workload is too much I can't bear with it anymore, please.</i> At that very moment, I felt what she felt. Every truth in me wanted to roam the same. The voices in my head echoed so loud that I was afraid she could listen. And we were just texting. Although, there was this sense of relief. That h<i>ey, turns out it wasn't just me!</i> feeling, because of course this whole time I thought I had turned myself into a total wacko.<br />
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See it was rather upsetting, seeing someone close to you having a hard moment when you are having one, too. Watching them scatter their pieces while being just as fragile. But no, you can't rise up a momentary broken soul with another bad day. Just like you can't calm anger with an even higher voice. Or a sad story with <i>"You know what, what you've been through is nothing compared to what I have been through"</i>. I guess it wasn't merely about the job, or the workload. It was never that. It's every other thing in life I had to face along with. Altogether.<br />
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When we're doing a life with someone else, whoever they are, their lives become part of our lives, too. A lot of times it doesn't come with a choice. My mom was sick last week, I had to cancel work so I could stay home with her. This also happens when you have a cute cat and love it so much it consumes you. And then say, your company is having a crisis, now it becomes your responsibilities too, somehow, to save it from sinking. Though maybe the most you can do is by doing your job correctly. We'll find ourselves smiling for even the little chuckling sounds they make. We carry their happiness with us. Their sorrow, too, however, is ours to carry as well. Ain't that crazy?<br />
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But what makes life crazy... is how time flies crazier. Not necessarily because it flies too fast. Maybe for some of you it flies too slow. Unlike me, maybe you're not that afraid of tomorrow as you can already see it happening more or less the same as today. Sure a couple of bad news, but it's relatively safe and okay. But maybe that was the case for you. Maybe you find yourself extinguished in a safe and lonely shore.<br />
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Life is equally hard, only in my case this year, it was always how about I could sneak off, you know. For a call, for a getaway, for my loved ones. And I managed to do so. Though it did come along with a weird sleeping schedule and lots and lots of works done while commuting. Time has surely shown me how some things are more important than the other: by squeezing them in. No distance is too far, no time is too little. You'll make time for everything that sparks even the slightest fire in you, even when time is impossible. Especially when time is impossible.<br />
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In case you haven't looked at yourself anytime this year, well, take a good look now. Look at that person, going through another round of year once again. Winning, loosing, beaten up, once again. Still breathing, once again. Does life simply gets better? Life doesn't. Even I'm feeling a lot of unintended emotions as I'm writing this. Don't worry, we are adjusting. Through effort. Over time. Whatever it is that's hard now, give it a try. Sometimes a try also means a time. So give it that... the longest it needs. And every time you feel like you're not moving, look at the rearview mirror to see just how far you've made it through. It wouldn't solve your problems, but it will show you how much strength it took to get where you are now.<br />
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Happy new <strike>year</strike> round!<br />
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VVEEKEND 101http://www.blogger.com/profile/12712843599777483819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7352972981486528974.post-43361011066241184982019-08-01T22:01:00.000+07:002019-08-01T22:04:58.127+07:0024/7: 23<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>The state of aloneness.</i><br />
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The idea that I glorify maybe a little too much in my life. I am surrounded by people whom, I think, concern about my life the way I don't want them to be. Most of the times it feels too much. Some of the times it feels like you are owned, and your opinions and decisions don't matter. Hence I really value the time I get to spend alone. It's really hard to explain, especially when there are also times I feel like I need company and attention—though I never so desperately asked for it. But do I have the choice to control the way people act towards me? Of course not.<br />
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A lot has happened in a year. I continued my remaining classes in uni, all by myself, because all of my friends had graduated by then. But long and winding roads later, I made it. It happened not without a struggle, I would say, especially when you're alone and not feeling like yourself most of the time. So I congratulated myself, not only for graduating, but to had gone through them all. I also found a job not long after. Not something I had expected, so there is that. Life has been so so much better in a way.<br />
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This year, I started to live alone again since I have to work outside the city. So that means I have a monthly salary now, and live in a semi-apartment near my office area, afar from my family. But these facts alone apparently haven't made me feel like an adult enough, and independent human being, so I had to book a ticket to Vietnam alone to celebrate this year's <i>twenty four seven</i>. Alone, alone. And without a letter of consent to anybody either, including my parents. Because what screams <i>adulthood</i> more than not telling anybody about your travel abroad plans right?<br />
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But why?<br />
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I'd say, <i>why not? </i>I'm 22, and I have prepared the money, and well, I did survive in some foreign country before, so why can't I make it just fine this time? Until I realized that convincing my parents wasn't really the thing I was trying to achieve, proofing them that I'm capable of my own being was.<br />
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Sometimes I think this was the case of my relationship (of any kind) towards everyone. The idea of being dependent on anyone or anything terrifies me. I try to convince everyone that <i>hey I'm fine, I can do it without your help, so thanks for the offer! </i>Which I can. But even if that's the case then does that necessarily mean that one should be alone just because they can do things independently? I don't ask for attention, so when I'm exposed to it, and especially when it happens so naturally, I become so reluctant that it's such an impossible thing.<br />
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I imagine being on the other side of the boat, where I want to give my feelings to somebody but couldn't. Where I want to help, or at the very least, make sure things are going okay for my loved ones, but doesn't have the power to. How it would kill me when I don't have enough knowledge over that. I think it over and it really doesn't feel so fair...<br />
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Sometimes people loved the wrong way. My mom and her worries, and early morning texts, and sudden afternoon phone calls. My dad with his (also) worries, and corny jokes. And past flames maybe with their hate speeches or unintended feelings, well, who knows?<br />
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During my solo trip last week I felt the most of myself. And it's really the weirdest thing because the feeling always, and only happens when I'm not around anyone who knows me, and moreover in somewhere really, really foreign. No one knows my name. At one point I told some dude my name was Jude. And though he didn't get the reference, it still felt really nice.<br />
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I didn't go to so many touristy places since it really wasn't the whole point. I hopped on one cafe place to another and just sit there writing and drawing, and sometimes maybe having a dead-end conversation with strangers who speaks sufficient English whom I'd never meet again. Things I wouldn't have done if I were to travel with a company. I'm calling it a self-made retreat, this time with the background of Ho Chi Minh city and the smell of warm egg coffee.<br />
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I don't want to feel restrained, ever, so I don't want to make people feel restrained either. Hence I should exist between my own space and the people who cares for me. There should be a place where you could be happy for yourself without having to drive people away. Though having to understand that people do things their very way is still a lot to consume, I believe it's a good start.<br />
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Here's to year 23, and the love that surrounds.<br />
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VVEEKEND 101http://www.blogger.com/profile/12712843599777483819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7352972981486528974.post-68321486093305548272019-06-09T23:42:00.000+07:002019-06-09T23:43:28.617+07:00Office OOTD Recap<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
It has been around two months since I started my first official job. I'm lucky enough to find the opportunity not long after my convocation in February—yay yay!</div>
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During my unofficial working days—as an intern—at a fashion magazine, and a start-up company, I have never really had any established rule on what to wear to the office. Especially when interning as a fashion and beauty editor, where I spent time attending events and conducted shoots, I was expected to look, at the very least, up-to-date. So when I applied for jobs later after university, I thought, maybe this is the time I'll start to dress less <i>fun</i> and more <i>business </i>to the office. Apparently the company I'm now working for doesn't really put too much concern on that matter. Although it might be fun to think of me dressed in fitted blazer and patent heels.</div>
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If you are, or have been, 22, you must have known the feeling of being at this age. You are a student, in some well-known university, and that's great, but if you haven't graduated by now it means you're wasting your time. You are young, in your early twenties, but at the same time you're old enough to find a job, so if you're already graduated but not doing anything then it means something is up with you. You are perfectly single and having so much fun with your circle, yet at the same time you are also expected to have a partner to whom you can share all the complicatedness in life with, because of course your friends are not gonna be there forever—at least that's what they tell you. Or you already have a degree, and a job, and a partner, then what?<br />
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Today I woke up with a classic 22-year-old feeling of <i>what is this? </i>I go to the office and do what I'm good at, but there's an occasional thought of <i>is this what I really wanted?</i> I work at a company I actually admire, but every time the question <i>do I want to be in this field for the long run?</i> pops up, I don't know what to answer. Moreover, today at the meeting every single entity I saw looks like they already have their life all figured out. From which dressing to put on their salad lunch this afternoon, to which car they're buying their kids in 20 years. Meanwhile I literally can't have an absolute view for anything.<br />
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I'm not trying to drag anyone into my deep hole of thoughts. In fact I believe that paranoia is one of the things that makes a human, a human. It's perfectly normal to be concerned about what you're doing, and whether you're happy with it or not. Sure some people grow their own business at such young age, sipping tea breakfast while working comfortably from home. But Emily Dickinson also started to become an influential poet only after her death, when her sister found out stacks of poems she has been keeping her whole life—apologies for the emo reference. Right now I question about life more than I ever question about anything ever. And even though I know the only thing to solve this is to find an answer, I also am not sure if there really is one. I tend to overthink about this matter more than I could put into words and that's what makes it really scary.<br />
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What really puts a plot twist into this is, one time a friend of mine told me that in some ways she admires me because she thinks I know what I'm doing—cheers if you're reading this! And no, I don't want to ruin her notion by telling her that <i><b>HEY, I'M LOST, I'M COLLAPSING TOO!</b> </i>Instead I smiled and say, <i><b>Thank you, appreciations are so rare these days.</b></i><br />
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The closest analogy I could think of people is as if they're travelers; some make plans, some just go impromptu. Some have google maps, some just don't bother buying internet data. Is it wrong to be lost? Is it wrong when things don't go as planned? The journey will still go on no matter what. What carves our path is the choices we make along the way.<br />
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When I travel to a new place, I tend to google everything. What and where is this place I'm traveling to? What makes it special? What should I do there, what food should I try? Is the people nice or do I have to prepare a pepper spray inside my tote bag? I do this so that I don't miss out on anything and moreover, feel safe traveling around. However, even if I have already done a 'research' beforehand, I still have a hard time—given my indecisive personality, too—making a decision to what place I should visit, or things I should do. The more you know, the more you question, therefor the harder it is to make a decision. I want to be an artist, but also want a stable monthly income. I want to be with my own family, but it always makes me believe that I'm better distant. I want to settle without the feeling that I would miss out on whom I haven't already met. I want to do all things at once if I could, or have the chance to, but do I? <b><i>Do we?</i></b><br />
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Imagine you're budget traveler and you have to stay in a really bad and shady hostel for one night before you could continue your trip tomorrow morning at 7. The bedroom smells, the bathroom smells, your roommate is foreign and just won't speak a single word in English,—how does this dude even survive—and the street noise from outside the window is not doing any favor either. The thought of spending one more minute inside the hostel kills you more than the possibility that any criminal in the area will do. But whatever you do, the whole thing will also be over by 7 tomorrow morning. You will leave and take the bus somewhere else, and continue live your life in peace.<br />
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Life is like that, too. You were happy once until you realise you aren't. It will show you how to feel like yourself in ways that you should. And you will—feel like yourself. Eventually things will get better and you'll be finer than ever. Of course things may go downhill again somewhere in the future but by now you should have learned how to not be afraid, not entirely because you have the answer to everything, but because you will get through it. Your right choices and stupid decisions have walked through it together with you too.<br />
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Life will still go on no matter what choices we make. You will be faced with enough, if not too many, choices in life. Sometimes you're right, sometimes you're wrong. Maybe then your wrong choices lead you to the right ones... well, who knows? Whatever you're facing right now, I face it too, other people face it too. You're sad. You're scared. Only remember that this too—just like other things that have happened before in life—shall pass. Your problem, it will come and it will also be over. And you will be okay. It's a lifetime cycle and is inevitable. Same thing goes to your confusion. There will be a time that you finally figure it out. Now you can only make the most of what you have, never let it leave you. So when things get out of the way—and things <b>will </b>get out of the way—you will still have every reason to live, and move on.<br />
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VVEEKEND 101http://www.blogger.com/profile/12712843599777483819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7352972981486528974.post-25666293810105302522019-04-01T21:38:00.001+07:002019-04-01T21:38:06.654+07:00Vintage Shopping in Sydney<br />
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My favorite thing about traveling around beside getting to see places and meeting new people with different cultural backgrounds, is actually going on a shopping! People all over the world dress differently, thus I love to observe what they are wearing. Traveling, obviously, has given me the opportunity to do that, and also to encounter every vintage corners of the city that I visited. Wait, why vintage? Except from the fact that the oldies are my biggest muse in fashion, I feel like vintage stores give me a really broad choice of fashion from different styles and eras. Personally, vintage shopping is not just about finding something unique, or things that most people don't wear, but also shaping up my own style and even adding some spice into it.<br />
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April last year I was in Sydney for my sister's wedding in Hunter Valley. I spent an extra day in Sydney to travel around—although truth is I ran out of ticket home lol—and of course take a look what Sydney vintage has to offer. I visited two areas that I believe are the most famous ones when it comes to vintage here, which were <span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;">Darlinghurst</span> and (I believe it was called) <span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;">Newton</span>. In both areas I found not only vintage but also fashion stores to shop around. In between there were also book stores and coffee shops. Not to mention the areas were also decorated with colorful murals. The neighborhood themselves had caught my attention!<br />
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Although the shops here are not as beautifully decorated as the ones in Tokyo—I mean, I can never compare anything to Tokyo, really—the items were such treasures! Some of the stores curate pieces; visitors can easily pick a denim jacket that suit them the most from the vintage Levi's rack. There's even this one store that put their items according to colors. Other stores just put their things randomly, giving me all the treasure-hunting feelings!<br />
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So what were my finds exactly?<br />
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<b>Peacock Kaftan Dress (AUD 90-100-ish?)</b><br />
Got this dress from probably the most interesting thrift shop all over Darlinghurst, called <a href="https://www.instagram.com/zooemporiumvintage/">Zoo Emporium</a>. If you fancy vintage blings and sequin like me, I don't see any reason you shouldn't visit this place. They have very wide range of dresses, and I even eyed some of the platform boots, but too bad none of them matched my size. The shopkeeper was nice too that she recommended a few of other stores I should check out. Among all the colors inside the shop I stumbled upon this oddly looking kaftan with some overwhelming peacock sequin embellishment on it—guess who owned this dress before me! It was initially too long for me so I had to cut the length off a bit and added a little slit on both sides so it's more comfortable for everyday wear. Also, by the time this photo was taken I was still crazy in love with my rattan basket bag.<br />
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<b>Levi's Denim Jacket (AUD 50-60-ish...? Maybe)</b><br />
I think <a href="https://www.creamonvintage.com/">Cream On Vintage</a> is one of the top stores for thrifting since it has a few branches over Sydney. The very iconic monkey logo gave me an image of this space monkey thing from Fight Club lol how is this related to anything I'm about to write here? Anywho, Cream On Vintage is <i>the</i> typical Tokyo thrift stores where you can easily find vintage levis denim jacket and corduroy shirts in every color possible. They even upcycled some vintage polo shirts into halter tops too, talking about vintage summer perfection! But of course I don't have enough money to buy the whole store so I ended up with this Levi's jacket. It has the perfect light blue color which I think very 1990s and we all know how much I wish I lived through that era.<br />
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I also got this from Cream On Vintage, they have a lot of vintage-looking glasses (which was new-ly produced but has this oldies vibe) and actual vintage glasses. These ones I got was from their vintage collection and truth to be told, I don't think I have worn my other sunglasses ever since I got this—which was a year ago! It has this round frames that's the right size for my face—since some of the round glasses are too small that they make your face looks weird, or too big that they loose the vintage vibe to it. Also the handles have very unique engraving! I don't find vintage sunglasses very easily, should have bought more pairs!<br />
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Malaysia is not a stranger to me anymore. I traveled here when I was a kid, even did a summer exchange in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur back in 2016. It's safe to say that I'm already pretty familiar with the surroundings and how to get around. Although, I was still stoked to spend the week here, giving there are still plenty of places that I haven't yet visited.<br />
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Coming here for the third time now I feel like going to a new destination. Living alone for quite some time, it makes me more interested in exploring new places. Traveling around has been pretty easy nowadays, thanks to the invention of google maps and online transportation services. Still, walking around in a city without no one guiding you where to go is both challenging and fun. This time that city happens to be Georgetown, Penang.<br />
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Named as one of the UNESCO world heritage sites, Georgetown is the capital city of Penang and located in the Penang island. So expect to find inexplicable art scenes along the streets, from murals to other types of installation. Since every corner is a photo-worthy spot, I didn't really bother walking around, although the weather was a little too warm by the time I was visiting.<br />
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A couple of days before I visited, I was in Malacca city, which was also inscribed as one of UNESCO world heritage sites as well. Similarities between both cities of course can be found through their architectural style. Old, worn-out shophouses and colonial buildings with a touch of cultural diversity. An exquisite view of ancient architecture.<br />
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I came here with no expectations at all. I even put another town on the list, just in case I changed my mind. But arriving here and knowing that I'm only a walking distance away to the sound of waves and the most fresh seafood in town, my heart is so in awe. Spending an evening in the city sipping coffee or talking a walk along the jetty, is never too much.<br />
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I found plenty of art and antique shops along the streets. Some stuffs I just don't find back home. It's actually an eclectic heaven for me, even to just window shop around. And of course the art just doesn't stop there. Themed cafes and coffee shops in Georgetown are worth-visiting—not that I already am a sucker for these kind of places—and I wish I had visited more. I didn't know any city could actually draw my interest again after Tokyo, but this one surely is a catch.<br />
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Society today has given us a perspective on how to define anything in everything. Someone's success is measured by what type of car they are using, or how much money they earn in a year. There really isn't one fixed measurement to define success. Truth is, everyone has their own ideas of success. Some of them find success in achievements and people's applauses, while for some it's as simple as having peace of mind. But we have this mindset shaped by the society and informations we are surrounded by. It limits our ability to think, sometimes even blocks our way of seeing things from a different point of view.</div>
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This reminds me of my Mother. She is in different in a way. Her obsession towards orderliness is such a pain, to the point I think it might be a disease? When we go to some store then, say, she wants to buy a patterned blouse, she needs to check whether the sleeves are in the same length. Then the neckline, whether it is symmetrical. The motives, whether it is symmetrical. She would hang two to three identical blouses (or if the store has a dozen, then she would hang them all) on the rack, look at them carefully, then pick the best one. Almost like a pageant contest. Like oh my god, who would've noticed if one of your sleeve have more flower patterns than the other sleeve? Why are we spending an extra 30 minute on this matter? </div>
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My mother might have chosen to see the perfect blouse in symmetrical motives, while I chose to see perfection in time efficiency. But does perfection really exist or is it just one of the many concepts created by the society we're living in? If it really does exist then it should've applied to all members of the society, instead of just to some people. This then reminds me of a phrase I know: <i>wabi sabi.</i> Not to confuse you with that spicy green paste, wabi sabi is one of the Japanese philosophy of life-that has no equivalent word in English-that could translate to this: the beauty in imperfection.<br />
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Autumn is the one season I can relate the concept to. The time of the year when the leaves start to dry out then fall from the branch. Slowly the ground will start to be covered up in yellow and fiery red, a beautiful scenery for a sandwich date at the park. Little that we realize that this whole picture perfect comes from the imperfection the nature itself creates: decaying matters.<br />
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So as this dead butterfly I found in front of my house in Nerima, Tokyo. She welcomed me even before my doorbells. Clear as I remember, I had never seen the creature even before the temperature started to fall. Now that it has gotten a lot colder, she was lying gracefully before me. Though lifeless she was beautiful. With its perfect wings in the color of autumn leaves, my best guess was it died out of cold, or starvation. Even the leave knew how much of a beauty she is, that it lied right beside her, paying tributes in honor for her life as a part of the cycle of nature.<br />
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I found precious in age. In my worn out and obsolete paperbacks. I re-read my books through folded pages to find my favorite passages. I write some, both for actually taking notes and personal amusement. However, technology never cease to amaze us with its new inventions. Writings, visuals, sounds, nothing of what we hear, or see, or sense, that couldn't fit into a form of digital file. Things that does not age. None of our .docs and .pdfs and ebooks will get moist or moldy just because we keep them inside a folder for the longest time. Thus it's a good thing because it makes life easier-isn't it what it's all about?<br />
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One day in Koenji I found this little shop inside a desolated alley. It has a deer (if not a horse, completely forgot) head sculpture greeting my excitement as I enter the shop. Broken lamps and dislodged teeth toy, it had me at hello, or earlier than that if possible. I browse through the room in awe. That's when I found stacks of papers in the corner. Some are old photographs and postcards, real ones. It ages, you can tell by the rustic colors and peeled off edges. Unfortunately the postcards are not in any language I understand, and keeping pictures of old people (that most likely is in peace right now) inside my room didn't sound to me like a very nice idea. So I took one of this playing card, that says, "Piatnik nándor és fiai". It sounded beautiful even when I was not saying it out loud. Turned out it was Hungarian and possibly was made in 1950s. It has aged so beautifully as it is now at least three times my age.<br />
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Not everything in life suppose to become something beautiful and long-lasting. But to ignore them is to waste what life has granted. As we age we don't only get more powerful by experience, but also more vulnerable by time. What we have been through makes up who we are today. Life grants us gifts in the smiles engraved on our loved ones. In misery, in grief. In mourns. It will only take a while until we realize that these too, were gifts.<br />
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Months have gone by since my birthday this year. But the idea to skip it and just move on with my life without writing a story about how my twenty one went, is just nonsense. If you want to assume this whole thing as a total bullcrap then why not. So much has happened for the past year, which adds to the most memorable so far.<br />
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July 24th 2017. I remember it was a sleepless night in Bali. Good music, and oh, how people are so much fun when they're wasted. I slept, though it was more of <i>lack of</i> rather than <i>enough</i>. But I woke up to the most refreshing air. The sun felt a lot warmer and the day couldn't get any better.</div>
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A couple of months later I got a text to leave for Tokyo, less than two-week notice. Up to this day I couldn't remember what had driven me to deliver those papers to my university office and apply for an exchange semester abroad. After my trip in 2016, Japan has always been something, but to actually fill in those forms, and write an essay about how <i>I, </i>and not somebody else, is the most suitable candidate for the opportunity, wasn't exactly the kind of thing I would do. But I did, despite the occasional eye-rolls of people around. </div>
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I told the news. My friends were all tears and blues, not to mention my parents and families. At that very moment I realised, how lucky I am to be surrounded by people who actually think my absence matters, and how I was very unaware of that. And that's what it was all about. It hit me: why am I not in doubts? At all?</div>
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Living in a city for so long, surrounded by the same people, doing the same thing, going to the same place to buy lunch or simply taking the exact same route to reach home. Jakarta has always been a home where I was born and raised. You have that special bond with the city you live in your whole entire life. It's your home. Until you long for somewhere else.<br />
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And it's like the universe play tricks on me that I had to get my visa and house fixed just a couple of days before my departure. Not to mention I had no basic language skill to even ask for a simple help, or directions. But over time I was thinking, I was lucky enough because turns out the Japanese<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 12px;">—</span>though they look like they don't give a single care about your being<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 12px;">—</span>are the nicest people you can be stuck in translation with. I lost my way to school my first month in Tokyo and found myself contemplating too much at the platform while waiting for the next train.<br />
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I started to open up and get to know more people. I was one of those people who have this intense anxiety getting to know someone new, which was why I tend to avoid people and unnecessary conversations. But the thing about being somewhere foreign is the freedom to be someone else. One day someone greeted with me over lunch, we talked and to our surprises we shared the same interests. We became good friends afterwards. Then it occurred to me as for why hadn't I started getting to know more people while in here? So I did. I met a lot of new people from all over the world. I made friends in a month more than I could ever have in a year of being in my hometown. Diversity only make our friendship even more dense, and our talks even more broad. Conversation grows like branches in a tree.<br />
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I got asked a lot about my name and my hometown, which makes me repeat the answers for just about a million times. I love it. Even when they pronounced it wrong. Even when they made me repeat every two second because God-knows-how-many new people they have encountered in this city. Even when they laughed at me because apparently they have my name in their own language<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 12px;">—</span>Alita is for 'little wing' in Spanish. Then they started to ask me about my hobbies and interests, the kind of music I like, the kind of whatever I like. I didn't know what to respond, initially. '<i>Do I like pop music? Have I always been into sweet or savory food? Photography or fashion? Is it writing? Or do I just love to chatter about my life in order to make myself feel better?'</i></div>
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I live alone in a house in Tokyo. The thought of living by yourself in a foreign city which language you don't speak, with very minimal preliminaries beforehand might sound like a nightmare to you. Can't say it was hard at first, but saying it was easy was an overstatement, either. Of course I needed time to adjust with the environment. Without having anybody around telling you what to do, you got to know yourself better. You start choosing for yourselves, and accept all the consequences of your own decisions. You stopped needing that one person to consult everything with. Therefore living alone is like constantly having a conversation with yourself. And it's up to you whether to agree or not with your own statement like, <i>'Oh, what do I want for breakfast today? Do I have enough time to make a toast? Nah, I should rush for the train. Gotta stop at the groceries before going home since eating out is expensive. Also I think I should cut off coffee for the week because it has been breaking into my bank account'. </i>That kind of thing.<br />
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One of my favorite thing was the poetry class I took in my exchange semester. It has been showering my autumn and winter days with the most beautiful words. I sat on my train reading poems, walked through parks with my poems, drank my coffee at kissaten (Japanese for coffee shops) also with my poems. People might have thought about how much art I have in me for having TS Eliot or Walt Whitman copies in my hands, and on my notes, the whole time. Truth is their language is next-level English and my vocabularies don't compare to anything, really. So every time the class finally discussed the poem, it came like a huge revelation to me<span style="color: #454545; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 12px;">—</span>not even exaggerating. I'm in love with words, and so the their writings have inspired me to write even more.<br />
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The opportunity for me to visit places also adds to my photography obsession. Going to different cities you start noticing how differently people walk, or talk, or dress. Capturing it through my lens has been one of my favorite thing to do. Most of the time I was with my Agnija, of course. But in early Tokyo days I also bought a vintage polaroid camera, impulsively, when walking around Loft Shibuya. I have never had an instant camera before so I thought why not buy something unlike the ones people have. I sticked the results inside a book, along with photobooths pictures, and tickets etc. I started making...a scrapbook. Because why not. Also since polaroid films are hella expensive, I started to capture things that really matters. Or really cute. Hahah!<br />
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When I come to think about it, the year of 21 was also very special because I visited a lot of cities this year; some I have been, some I have never been, even some I have never even heard before my whole life. Starting from Bali. Then Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Miyagi, Yamagata, back to Tokyo for farewell, then off to hometown Jakarta, then Bandung for short, Melbourne, Sydney, Jogja for short, Kyoto and Osaka once again, Nara and Kanazawa (the two parts of Japan I've been dreaming to visit!), then end the trip in my beloved hustle bustle Tokyo (where I celebrated 24/7 this year!) before going back home and finish my last semester of study.<br />
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Oh yes, I have just one more semester to end my study before being a free bird then continue to see places and write stories.<br />
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After finishing my study this semester in Tokyo, I extended my stay to travel around before going back. And it's not that Tokyo was not cold enough for me by that time, I decided to travel up to Tohoku region, northern part of Honshu island of Japan. This is not the part of the country that I have heard as a famous tourist destination. But after doing a little reading about the area and what it has to offer for the winter season, it actually seemed like an interesting place to visit. The region is made of six prefectures; Aomori, Akita, Fukushima, Iwate, Miyagi and Yamagata. However I only got to visit only two, which were Miyagi and Yamagata.</div>
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Living in Tokyo, I find Tohoku a little bit inconvenient to travel around, given their limited transportation, its time table to be precise. The area was a little hard to access, including the tourist attractions. Not all of the places were accessible with just public transportation (e.g: trains and buses). A lot of times I had to take a taxi because it's the only way to reach the place, or because it was already too late (it was 5 PM, for God's sake) that the buses were no longer operating. But the inconvenience was nothing compared to the places I got to visit<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">—</span>pictures below. A hundred percent will go back here again as I still have list of places I'd visit for the winter holiday.</div>
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VVEEKEND 101http://www.blogger.com/profile/12712843599777483819noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7352972981486528974.post-5461997345813702782018-03-05T16:39:00.001+07:002018-03-06T16:44:59.906+07:00Vintage Shopping in Tokyo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As a fashion enthusiast, all my life I've been reading blogs and watching videos on youtube about people and style, and how they got some of their finest items from a second-hand shop. A couple of years ago I tried to go to the ones in Jakarta, even planned to check some in Bandung. I've heard some famous places for thrift shopping like Pasar Senen and Pasar baru. But after my initial visit, I don't think I'd go there again. I bought some pieces that I never worn up until this day. Sure they are super cheap<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">—</span>you can get anything less than a dollar. I shouldn't expect so much from used clothing but there's something about it that is just not right for me. I mean you can always wash the clothes and all but I've decided thrift shopping in Indonesia is just not for me.<br />
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Living in Tokyo for roughly 5 months, I've had the best shopping, if not thrift-shopping experience. Unlike Jakarta, vintage shops in Tokyo are always well-decorated. They'd hang a deer head above the rack beside a wooden clock, or have their shop name written in neon lights. It gets better. The clothes are all curated. Meaning, they don't just throw away all clothes on the racks. They curate things that they think would fill your vintage needs. One rack is filled with vintage Levi's jacket available in all sizes, while the other rack gives you all the pattern you need on your midi skirts. Moreover, the shopkeepers are always well-dressed in vintage outfit as well, giving you an idea on what to buy in the store, if you haven't had one. The price, well, is most of the time more expensive than buying a piece of clothing from stores like H&M or Zara. Tokyo fashion appreciates vintage items so much that they put such high prices on them, sometimes unreasonably expensive. But it will never stop you from finding a nice tweed jacket or even vintage Versace briefcase.<br />
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I think the most famous area for these kind of shops is <span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;">Harajuku</span>. After all the area itself is famous for Tokyo street fashion, having not only the used-clothing shops, but also the Japanese local brands, as well as high-fashion brands. It would definitely take you more than just a day trip to conquer the area. Another well known place is <span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;">Shimo-kitazawa</span>, which I first visited because a friend lived around the area. It's a lot quieter and less crowded than Harajuku, which gave me a more convenient shopping experience. Plus, there are a lot of cafes and coffee shops around to chill. The last one, which is by far my favorite, is actually an under-rated area for tourist. The name is <span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;">Koenji</span>. It's more like Shimo-kitazawa rather than Harajuku. I found a lot of smaller shops here which gave different vibes and styles of vintage.<br />
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Looking at all the things below, I just realised that the time I had spent walking around the area was far longer than the actual things I bought. But let me say this briefly, even if you're not buying anything, or not even a fan of trendy vintage outfit, it's still a worth-it place to visit! As I've been talking so much about the experience, let me share some of the things I bought.<br />
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<b>This hat...which I don't know the name of (JPY 2000 or USD18.70ish)</b><br />
The first thing ever I bought because I was way too excited seeing vintage shops in Tokyo, I just have to grab something. I think I got it from Flamingo in Harajuku, but this kind of hat can be found easily in any shop, really, I even found one in an actual store with the same price... LOL. But nothing beats the feeling of having something *VINTAGE* right? Right. I've only worn this hat once or twice, I think. Or three times tops. Which is why this is the only picture I have wearing it. Does it look good on me though?<br />
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Ever since I discovered vintage shops in Tokyo I've been dying to get me a colorful granny sweater/cardigan. And although they always have a whole section for these, it wasn't easy to find the one I want... oh my gosh I sound like a hopeless romantic only not for a guy, but a damn cardigan. I found this in a stack of clothes in a store called "Big Time" in Shimo-kitazawa. They also have another branch in Koenji. It's probably my favorite here, as it's beautifully decorated, and always playing <i>The Chordettes</i> everytime I came visit. It felt like I'm going shopping in the 50s, everything was just right to set the mood! Anyway, the cardigan was perfectly folded and I could only see a small part of it. I pulled it out and saw that the prettiest colors and pattern ever, so even when I checked the price and found out it was way unreasonable for an old knitwear, I still bought it. I have worn this countless times for the past few months that I swear my friends were already tired of seeing me in this hahah!</div>
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When I was walking around Koenji, I stumbled upon a shop that sells a bunch of antiques. They sells vintage old lamps, teeth and eyeballs replica, and a lot of other things I wish I could bring home to add a little creepiness to my bedroom. I was interested in buying one of the vintage photographs, but on a second thought, I didn't think I want to keep a picture of a dead person who lived more than 50 years ago. So I picked this card because I like the pattern, and it happens to be my lucky number seven. Later when I got home I googled about the card. That's when I found out it was made by one of the most successful card company in Hungary back in the 40s-50s era. I couldn't believe I own something that is at least three times older than my age. Something about me and old stuffs.</div>
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Big vintage shops in Tokyo (e.g: flamingo, big time, etc) always have this one big section of mid skirt, and most of them were tartan. The thing is they put such a high price on this kind of skirts. The cheaper could be around JPY5000. I was right about to give up and just planning to get one from an actual store. But then I found this one from <i>New York Joe</i> and the price was just right (for Tokyo, of course). It's in the perfect length and thickness for Tokyo winter. But I was never appropriately dressed for the weather anyway so nothing mattered really haha.</div>
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I never wear rings at all. But since Tokyo fashion has so many nice silvers to offer, and I happened to stumble upon a hippie store that sells a lot of nice rings, I thought I just have to buy one. These three rings are the ones I always wear. I bought the one with the stone from a random hippie shop in Koenji. I remember it was only a hundred yen, which is equal to a dollar I think. I don't wanna buy anything too expensive since I still wasn't sure with how it would look on me. Then the big round ring, which my friend said kinda look like a time machine at some point, is from my favorite store Big Time. Silver rings are usually above JPY5000, or around that price. I got this one half price on winter sale, and was the happiest kid for the whole day. And the other one silver one<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">—</span>which I know you cannot tell because the picture is not clear, but it has a really beautiful carving on it<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">—</span>I got it from this one store (the one with the deer head on pictures above) on the street in Shimo-kitazawa. I bought it because I passed the store a lot and just fell in love every time, I just had to get something. Since the used cameras in that store were pretty expensive, I thought I'd add a ring to the collection to remember this very shop. Oh how I miss it already!</div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">I have never been so off from writing. Thanks to Tokyo for keeping me busy and amused for the past months. I have officially finished my exchange semester and now am as jobless as I could be. So expect a ton of posts as I'll be reminiscing about my experience in (by far) my favorite city in the world!</span></div>
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After roughly five months of living in Tokyo, I could say my general knowledge about Japanese dishes have increased, big time. From my experience, I mostly just walk around the streets and go into places that interest me. I love how restaurants here always have fake food dummy/replica (Japanese: shokuhin sampuru (食品サンプル), so I know exactly how my dish would look like before ordering it. How convenient! Speaking of, sushi is probably the most famous Japanese dish that could easily be found in every part of the world, so let's take that one off the plate. Today I will talk about several dishes that I have tried (and love!), including the price and where to get them in Tokyo-<i>if</i> I still remember hahaha!</div>
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The first time I tried tsukemen, I fell in love. It is basically a type of ramen dish where the noodles and the soup are served separately. The noodles are served in room temperature, whilst the soup is served hot. You have to dip the noodles inside the soup in order to eat it, unless it will be tasteless since the soup holds all the flavors. What I love about tsukemen is that the soup is usually thicker, if not, have more flavors than the usual ramen dish-and we all know just how tasty the normal Japanese ramen soup is. I could recommend this tsukemen place in Shinjuku called "AFURI" which later I found out as a pretty famous place. Here, you can choose between chicken or pork for the topping. Also, they put sesame seeds on the soup so it will give you the crunchy sound when eating.</div>
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If Indonesia has "martabak" as pancakes, Japan has okonomiyaki. The dish actually comes from Osaka, which was also the city where I first tried it. Best topping for okonomiyaki is of course squid-believe me when I say the BEST. This place in Harajuku called Sakura Tei lets you pick your own toppings and, wait for it... cook your own okonomiyaki! They will give you a bowl of the mixture with the toppings you have chosen. Next step is, you mix all the ingredients in your bowl then grill it in the <i>teppan</i> (Japanese hot plate) on your table. Careful, because it's hot, and if your eyes are sensitive to smoke like mine, it's better to put on your glasses. Wait, there's more... here you can try Tokyo version of okonomiyaki called monjayaki. The mixture is a little bit more liquidy, which allows you to have an even thinner pancake. They have all the instructions on how to cook both dishes on the table. Also, I noticed some of the staffs were foreigners who spoke perfect English, so no need to worry about anything!</div>
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<i>Where: some random place in Shinjuku</i></div>
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<i>How Much: JPY700ish or USD6.50ish</i></div>
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I thought the Japanese only have one type of soup for ramen, in fact, they have four. Shio (literal meaning: salt), which is the oldest flavor of ramen soup, is based on salt. The soup tends to be clear and light-coloured. Shoyu ramen on the other hand, which is based on soy sauce, also has a clear soup but a little darker in color. And there's Miso ramen and Tonkotsu ramen, which are opaque in color. Miso is based on soybean paste, whereas Tonkotsu is based on pork bones which is boiled for hours until they dissolve into a cloudy white broth. I can tell it has a thicker and even creamier texture than the other types of ramen, super rich in flavor! I don't need to recommend a specific restaurant to try this since I've tried random tonkotsu places in the streets and they always taste amazing.</div>
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<b>Yakitori (Japanese: 焼き鳥)</b></div>
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<i>How much: JPY500 or USD4.70-ish for table charge, plus you have to order a minimum of 1 drink and 1 plate of yakitori. Drinks starting from JPY300 or USD2.80-ish and a plate of yakitori starting from JPY200 or USD 1.90-ish.</i></div>
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Yakitori comes from the word 'yaki' which means grilled, and 'tori' which means chicken. The meat is cut into small pieces then skewed into sticks before being grilled. This is so similar to Indonesian 'satai' only without the peanut sauce. But obviously you can get more than just grilled chicken; I ordered pork tongues and chicken wings as well. You can eat this dish for cheaper price but if you want to splurge just to eat on the streets, you can go to Omoide Yokocho as they have dozens of yakitori place. This place is both filled with the Japanese as well as international tourists, which makes it a little hard to find a seat sometimes. They'd require you a table charge, a minimum order, and time limit, so much for a street food experience, huh? But who would miss watching the skewers you have ordered being grilled over a charcoal fire and eat them while they're still hot!</div>
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This definitely doesn't look like normal beef bowls you get in Matsuya or Yoshinoya. The beef is thinly sliced and red in color, served on top of rice with yellow egg yolk and (what I think is) mayonnaise. I'm not sure what type of beef is this, but it has a very juicy texture, tastes super good, and very reasonably priced! Although, the place is quite small and chairs and tables are so close to each other. I don't think I spent more than an hour there since the place was a little crowded. But don't question the beef bowl as it is <i>totemo oishii!</i></div>
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<b>Cold Soba</b></div>
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<i>Where: Gonpachi Nishi-Azabu</i></div>
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I've heard of cold-served soba before but the first time I tried it was at Gonpachi, a Kill Bill-themed restaurant. Yes, Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, and I happen to have watched the movie so I thought i gotta come visit. It's a pretty famous place for tourists. In fact, a lot of international celebrities, also Tarantino himself, have visited the place. So I wasn't mainly there to try some specific dish hahah! The soba was served on a thin plate made from bamboo called zaru. Like tsukemen, you have to dip the soba noodles inside the soup before eating it. It was served with several types of tempura, was super good! I also ordered sake to complete my Japanese dinner experience.</div>
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It has been 3 months already since I (temporarily, of course) moved here. I arrived when the season was still transitioning, it could be really sunny for one day, then the next day it could be cold, or even raining. By the time these pictures were taken, some streets were already fully covered by yellow autumn leaves. The trees looks so cachectic now, almost like they understand my melancholy. This is my first autumn experience, and everyday is just a perfect day to sit on a cloak of dry leaves, reading a book, or just soaking up the sun on my face. Tokyo has a lot of parks where people can spend their free time for an hour or five. I have seen people practice dancing, or just sit alone doing nothing, embracing the nature. But on top of that, visitors are always respectful to the park, they don't litter, or harm the facilities, something I don't see in Jakarta.</div>
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Days are definitely a lot colder right now. But it's always fascinating to go outside in the morning and see the sunlight, even though the cold still jabs into my skin after all the layers I have put on. I see everyone wearing padded/puff jacket, so I guess it does the job,<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">—</span>warm you up<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">—</span>but my conscience told me not to get one because it doesn't suit me... Should I sacrifice my style authenticity or should I not LOL. I love how the jacket I'm wearing right now have a faux fur detail on its collar, so I don't need to throw on a giant scarf to save my neck from the cold. </div>
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<i>At this exact spot, a year ago, I photographed this man (<a href="http://vveekend101.blogspot.jp/2017/06/japan-2016.html">x</a>)</i></div>
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It was almost 10 in the evening, the streets were busy with hundreds, if not, thousands of people shuffling by<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">—</span>still<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">—</span>and the wind was blowing pretty heavily just as predicted. Signs of stores and restaurants, they shine the brightest at night, forming such a intriguing aggregate. I kept my hands clenched inside the pockets of my jacket. I refused to go home just yet trying to read all the signs in hiragana or katakana with my basic Japanese skill. For my very own personal amusement, of course. Tall buildings and crowds streets makes me feel so little, in a world so big. Being in such place with no one who knows me, or whom I know, practically makes me an alien.<br />
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Life has been pretty tough for me this year<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">—</span>not that it's not for everyone, too. I have been busy distracting my self with a lot of thing such as writings, business, internship, and I even joined a competition related to my studies,<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">—</span>something I've always wanted to do for the sake of good resume, of course<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">—</span>which
I didn't win, by the way, but still a thing to be experienced. The
outset of this Tokyo vista was also one of them. Clueless, uncharted,
things are happening too fast. I was looking at my laptop screen for
days, hopping from one coffee shop to another, doing my final project
before graduating uni. Until one day I was notified that I got accepted
for an exchange semester to Japan. I was surprised because by that time,
I had thrown my hopes away and was gonna face my fate to finish uni
early January next year. But not only fate gives you the thing you
deserved, it also has the right timing for it. I didn't know anyone
before coming to Tokyo<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">—</span>no families, relatives, friends<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">—</span>I
don't look like locals, and most people just don't speak English. I was
always kept busy with my own errands that when I actually went out, the
city just made me feel like a tourist. I felt like living abroad<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">—</span>to be
more precise, living abroad alone<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">—</span>could be the retreat I needed.<br />
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It's been roughly a month since I stepped foot in Tokyo, and sometimes I still feel like Charlotte in the set of <i>Lost in Translation</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">—</span>both for the language limitation and existential crisis. The first time I walk myself in to the train station, I could barely see my way, because it was filled by people walking towards every direction. I have to take 3 different trains everyday just to go to school, and complicated as it sounds, I lost my way home a couple of times on my first week. Everyone here walks at a remarkably fast pace, completely unaware of anyone else's existence. Somehow to me, it shows that they value time so much. Coming from Jakarta, a city that is just almost as crowded, Tokyo, however, gives me a complete different view. People queues behind lines and give ways for others to get off the train before they get on. Bags are kept on laps to allow other passengers to sit, and phone conversations are absolutely forbidden, something I had never experienced back home. It was strange at first, but since I'm the alien in this country so I'm the one who has to blend in. And guess what, it actually feels good to follow the rules<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">—</span>to live in orderliness.<br />
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To start with, the city is not that much of a stranger to me. I went to Japan exactly a year ago for a summer holiday. But although it looks like I took pictures in every corner of every famous touristy spot there is, it was only a 5-day trip<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">—</span>even then I knew it was way too short. I've always wanted to come back but never would've thought I was gonna spend months here<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">—</span>jackpot, eh? I have only visited few places so far. Everyday I just have this tendency to wander around instead of going straight home. It raised me to wonder, how does it manage to always has something new to be discovered? It's just crazy how it never gives me the fulfillment I needed<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">—</span>at least for now.<br />
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Eyes are closed and hands are linked together in clenches. A little girl's scream is her utter candidness towards flying. The wheels starts moving and there's a very loud silence heard from the engine machine until the plane takes off. Buildings and houses gets smaller as we fly higher. The ground rushes so fast in the air as if we're motionless, and I think, I am never so close to floating clouds, to the purple evening sky, something I always gaze at on my way home everyday. Everything is just as beautiful as any other day yesterday, only today I'm only a glass window away from it.<br />
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From my window seat I see the sky gets older by night. Then I started to question whether stars really exist because all I can see are plane lights. Are we at the highest point of stratosphere yet? Half-buried in my own thoughts I confide to sad songs on my playlist. Jason Mraz - Plane. About how <i>I can't see any house from here</i>. Or how to <i>hand a square of the airport. </i>How I think human sadness are somewhat self-taught because all babies cry when they were born. How in a few hours I will yet again commemorate another anniversary of blankness and prodigy; getting older.<br />
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<i>24/7 </i>to me i<i>s July twenty fourth, 1996. </i>I was born on a Wednesday, and I picture it to be a quiet summer day with a chance of wonderment. My parents decided to name me after their names, featuring the blonde supermodel Schiffer, and the bountiful Mrs. Gorbachev. I am only a day old and a fist small but they have put such a glorious devotion to me. But who I am now is not who I am a thousand years from now. Bodies will be decayed and names will be forgotten. Like footsteps on the sand, all will be vanished in a wave roll. Even these words I have been trying to pull for the past hours will somehow be eaten up by time. And unless I'm someone's Bella Luna, no one will ever sing an ode of me or reread my writings every night just to put themselves to sleep. Even if someone did write my name in calligraphies, it will only be a placeholder between oblivions. <i>C'est la vie.</i><br />
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Throughout the years I experience the things that have brought such a turning point on the way I see life. Being left alone in an empty street, somewhere between running away and coming back home. Sadness is time-consuming. Mourned, I look over the choices I unconsciously made. How things would have ended differently if I had used little less logic. Heart was broken into shatters but no apologies were ever offered. Those morning yawns and evening glees, where did they go? People carved paths only to go separate ways and I wish friendship lasted but sometimes bonds are only flukes. Life happens 24 hours a day, 7 days a week but it never promised to be exactly like yesterday. All I'm trying to do is keep up.<br />
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24/7 to me is <i>a matter of perspective</i>; all those time I've lost or all the time I have to start over. I choose to see <i>it </i>as a chance to start again, making peace with fate. I reassure myself that things happen for a reason. Replacing beliefs with scenarios, preparing for consequences. The sun is warmer today and my heart is lured away by the scent of late summer days. Dancing to new tunes never felt so good. Old flame flung and I'm getting to know love even better from a distant way. Life blossoms and blooms again.<br />
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24/7 to me is <i>chasing dreams</i>. To do the impossible. To complete all the checks on my bucketlist. To travel India for months and dance in the streets of Rio like the scene in Twilight. To be a friend to someone over their 5-minute-long crying sound through voice note, or through silly videos we recorded when we were drunk. We will laugh at every weird shape of avocado until our faces hurt. I'll love. Every little insect, and every giant tree. Both myself and the people around me, including actors and singers and writers that don't have any idea that I exist. I'll meet the one and we'll fall hopelessly in love. We'll buy Balinese hippie buddha statues in every color to put on our living room tables. Our children will be named after our muses and we'll grow old together riding bikes and chasing sunsets.<br />
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24/7 is... <i>what goes without saying...</i><br />
I just hope your heart is as calm and serene as the skies above me as I'm writing this...<br />
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<i>July 23rd,</i><br />
<i>somewhere between Jakarta and Bali,</i><br />
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This might be a super duper late post but yeah almost a year ago I went to Japan for a short getaway. I went on September, so don't expect to see any sakura flower on this post. Overview, I visited a few cities, tried a lot of Japanese food, and most importantly, had a lot of fun! So let's go back to my Japan trip because who would wanna miss such an exciting story? - more like, me, in the office, running out of tasks to do.<br />
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DAY 1: Arriving in Japan, I'm amazed by all the crazy technology they have in here. Starting from automatic buttons on the toilets and even hotel rooms. Which function I figure by guessing its illustration, since I don't understand japanese. Vending machine is also everywhere around Japan. Believe me when I say everywhere. One thing I already learned few hours after I stepped foot on Japan, is that I should've learned Japanese. Guys, do it while you can.</div>
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So most exciting thing to do today is I get to visit Universal Studios Japan, which by the way, is very big and super crowded. Note that it wasn't even the holiday season. It wasn't even the weekends! I'm only given a few hours to explore the place - F tour! - so I don't manage to get on a single ride or watch any of the shows (beside the show on the street obviously), simply because the queue is freaking long! Same goes to the restaurants. I figure that most visitors are actually the Japanese themselves rather than international tourists. After that I stroll around Dotonburi and get dinner.</div>
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DAY 2: Visiting the Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto, where I find women walking in Kimono. Or Yukata. Can hardly differentiate between the two. Anyway I find there are many souvenir and snack shops here. Enjoying the shopping and walking around more than the temples heheheh. Among all the delicious snacks to feast on, I have my favorite that I...forgot the name. BUT, I remember it is some kind of a triangle made from a thin pancake... well it's more like Indonesian dadar gulung rather than pancake. It has red bean fillings (available with other fillings too)... Anyone knows the cake I'm talking about? I really love it! And it has reasonable price, too (considering most things in Japan are pretty expensive). But it's such a shame that I only buy a box, and they are only available in Kiyomizu...</div>
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Things get pretty exciting at the Fushimi Inari when I find a shop where I can rent Yukata! After seeing women walk around the temple, I just can't help it. Then I search the perfect one for myself to wear around the Fushimi Inari. It was this soft pink Yukata with floral pattern with big red obi belt. Along with the Yukata, they rent me a pair wood sandals and a clutch to put my things into. I feel like locals already!</div>
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DAY 3: On the fastest train ride in the world, the bullet train, or I should say, <i>Shinkansen</i>. The train is really fast (obviously) and unbelievably comfortable. Another amazed-by-Japanese-technology moment. I visit the Gotemba Premium Outlets, where things are so... not Japan likely, a.k.a expensive hahaha. Here you can get clothes, and bags, and shoes at below their retail price. Although you won't find any new collection, but everything still look as good as new arrivals. What a catch!</div>
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Then I'm off to the famous Mount Fuji. The fifth station to be exact. This is the gateway to climbing the mountain and can easily reached by car/bus. It's a really foggy day so I can't really see Fuji-San clearly. However, I take tons of touristy pictures there, just because. I also eat some roasted corn and buy some souvenirs for God-knows-who, but apart from that, it's also a really windy day + it's a higher ground, and I don't bring my jacket. I hop from shop to shop to warm myself hahaha! Looking at my utterly happy faces on the pictures now you know what I actually feel at that moment: COLD!</div>
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After all this coldness drama I finally arrive at the hotel, where there is also this hot water bathing facility, Onsen, the one a friend has been talking about ever since I get to Japan. Which I'm excited about, until I read the instruction. I have to be naked. Butt-naked naked. No-single-string-allowed naked. Since it's considered as dirtying the bath. But I'm on my period - #THANKFUL #EXCUSE - and decide not to go.<br />
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DAY 4: Another day I've been waiting for! Today I'm visiting Tokyo Disneysea. Dreamy is such an understatement for this place. Mermaid lagoon is too pretty to be real. Favorite little thing about this place - beside the cute character hats and popcorn buckets - is the visitors who wear costumes! They usually come in a group of people with the same character costumes. They dress from Hogwarts students, to Mister Potato Head gang members.<br />
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DAY 5: My last day here :( I go to Tokyo Tower that surprisingly looks identical to...Eiffel Tower??? Although unlike Eiffel, Tokyo Tower is red in color. Here -beside taking mandatory touristy pictures-I buy so many Tokyo bananas for me to bring home yay! Which by the way, still can't replace the red bean pancake I found in Kiyomizu. Then before I go shopping around Ginza, I have my one last Japanese lunch in... some area... I forget the name, sorry. It was one year ago-and I'm a grandma-so don't blame my memory!</div>
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Passer Baroe is one of the oldest shopping districts in Jakarta. Although its given name means "The New Market", Pasar Baru was established in 1820. I have been going to this place since I was a little. And what can I say, both as a little girl and a fashion enthusiast, this place always gives me some kind of excitement every time I came visit. My eyes are very pleased with all kinds of fabrics at the shops. Then, there are always antics sold by some old men on the table along the streets. I love buying postcards with pictures of Jakarta and I never leave before I set foot and have a bowl of Bakmi Gang Kelinci. This place holds my childhood memory.<br />
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And there I was, last week, at the busiest street in Central Jakarta. I wasn't looking for anything in particular. It's just been a while since I wander around alone with my camera. Not that I'm a professional, but I find taking pictures, of streets and strangers, is very self-soothing.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>Taken in my bathroom because the lighting is pretty good here and just in case you're wondering that poison bottle is my face wash. Also didn't realise how much I like to do several things at once, including capturing myself in the webcam. If you like (or don't, idrc) my screen wallpaper you should click <a href="http://vveekend101.blogspot.co.id/search/label/comme%20des%20kitsch">this</a>.</i></span></div>
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Lately, I feel like I have exposed my life too much. Thanks to the existence of the social media, anyone can easily have access to my life from decades ago through my facebook wall. People "know" what I think of something from what I tweet, or the captions on pictures I posted. The cool snapchat filters make me want to take a selfie every two second. And my inner narcissus posted those selfies on instagram, too. As well as boomerangs of the places I went, the meals I had, sometimes the recordings of the music I listen to before sleep. Like anyone would care. Like it would benefit someone's life by just looking at it.<br />
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I don't always think this way. Just, lately, you know.<br />
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And I have been ditching so many other things, for example, my actual social life, off the so-called "social" medias. I don't feel like it's necessary anymore to ask <i>what's up </i>when all I need to know is up on their profiles. Or to tell stories about my funny teacher at class, when I have uploaded videos of him singing on my snapchat. I don't see anyone blows their birthday candles anymore without every member of the gang pointing their phones towards the birthday person, recording the very "special" moment. Which is true, it is special. It's just that I have forgotten what it feels like to see something beautiful and not directly point my phone towards it.<br />
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I have been putting my goals and hobbies aside. I used to spend so much time trying to create interesting content for this blog<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">—</span>both writings and visuals<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">—</span>which I hope could inspire others in some ways. It's somewhat sad that there were days when I had to google for inspirations on what to write. I begged my own self to write because my lazy head refused to see the world out of this 13-inches screen.<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">“Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It's all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self portrait. Everything is a diary.” </span></i></div>
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I forget what it feels like to actually spoil myself. Like buying an expensive dessert, with such pretty plating, without having the urge to share what I see and taste to the people who don't even care to know. That's when I knew I need to keep it low a little, narrowing my circle. I'm keeping my personal life to a minimum exposure for a little while, switching off some of my virtual selves. Although, I'll still be around on this blog and other accounts associated with it. I just need some time off from virtual life complexities and learn more about how to appreciate what I experience in life. Because everything is a story written on a diary. Everything is a self-portrait. Your self-portrait is a self-portrait. The thing you chose to do this morning is a self-portrait. The thing you chose not to, is also a self-portrait. As long as you do it to fulfill yourself. But the things you do for the sake of sharing it to other people, that's what makes your self-portrait, anyone else's. You become their reflections. Their self-portraits. Theirs. Not mine. Not yours.<br />
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I don't really know how long is a while. It's probably really short, or really long. Probably tomorrow I wake up realising that this whole thing is a complete nonsense, and I want to take just a hundred selfies with every filter snapchat ever created, and decorate them with colorful stickers. But I do hope that <i>a while</i> is a long enough time. For me to value and appreciate the stories I experience in life. For me to become more gloriously human than before.<br />
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As much as we say we don't live up to expectations, we always do. Happy or sad, satisfied or disappointed, these are all the consequences of having expectations. Happiness is when we chose to have a picnic at the park, on a Sunday in December, and the sun decided to shine the brightest that day. And disappointment feels like homesickness to love's longing eyes, knowing what love should have said a long time ago that it didn't. Regardless, we should be grateful, because having expectations makes us <i>feel</i>.<br />
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Relationship, in general, is full of complexities. Just like in a conversation, we expect something from our interlocutor. We don't always expect for a reply, maybe just as simple as a response. Even if it's not always in a form of a sentence. Maybe it's in a form of a knotted smile, or wrinkles on the forehead. This is because as individuals, we have different ways to express ourselves. <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All kinds of relationships we have. Family, lovers, friends. We expect from them. Question is, how much?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I have been through kinds of relationship</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;">—</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">we all have</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;">—</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">where I am completely aware of my expectations towards people. Putting my expectation up too high is an inevitable mistake. But when I am expecting something from someone, there really is nothing wrong with whatever they do. If it's going below my expectation then probably we just don't start at the same point from the beginning. Even if we do, probably I have a lot more energy to run further when they decide not to continue. Or simply because we are just running towards different directions after all. Maybe they are there and I'm here. Maybe it's not always a running field. Maybe it's a busy highway, sometimes it's a labyrinth. Maybe it's a lot better to walk than run.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A</span>t times, we feel like some people should have treated us in a certain way. You expect the best friend to pick up your call at three in the morning. And the boyfriend to know that chocolate is no longer your favorite ice cream flavor without you having to tell him. And when it's not going the way you have expected it, you blame them, for not being good enough. Who is to be blame, really.<br />
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But often we didn't see it right away<span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;">—</span>that we aim too high. We are busy minding our own businesses, fulfilling ourselves up. Does it ever occur that they, too, have expectations towards us? We expect things to happen in a certain way when all we do is anything but understand. Understand that maybe, at some point, we don't mean as much as they mean to us. Understand that maybe what they have given us, was their all.<br />
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We create our own heartbreaks and disappointments through expectations. Sometimes, we even let ourselves to force the *expected* to happen. Having expectation is like drawing a scene from a novel. You use your own imagination to interpret every little detail you read. And it may still look different than what the writer actually wanted to deliver. We don't live to fulfill one's expectation towards us and it goes the other way around. It's not their job to fulfill any of it. Expectation only exists in our heads. So what when it's not going the way it is inside you, the world is not going to fall apart. Don't let your thoughts undermine your happiness. Having expectations is one thing, but understanding is something else. Consider you're doing a little work to save yourself from every little heartbreak and disappointment.<br />
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Hello guys this is my first post in 2017 and I am so excited to finally have the courage to update this blog again. I'm currently working on a new project, but I can't share it now with you just yet. Let's just say something exciting is coming on its way. Anyway, to catch up with me, here's a little update from the hair department: I have bangs now, guys... Yes. I feel like I have had the same hairstyle for such a long time, so I thought, why not cut my bangs? It was the first days of January, when I had absolutely nothing to do at home. I went out to buy coffee and ended up going home with new bangs. And not that I am obsessed with the way Zooey Deschanel styled her hair (okay maybe kinda), I decided to messy-curl it everyday for an effortless look. Voila. Tell me what you think!</div>
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Second update comes from the photography department. Some of you may know that last year I bought myself a new camera, a fujifilm XT-10 I named Agnija. Few weeks ago was the day A turned one so I thought, why not buy a new lens...HEHEHEH #excuse. I've always wanted a fixed lens with a small f-stop number to create that bokeh slash dramatic effect on my pictures. Not to mention I'm a fan of street photography too. So after doing a little research (and a lot of saving up), I made my decision to buy the Fujinon 35mm f1.4 lens. So far it's been doing fine I cant wait to capture more! Pictures will be up on this blog fer sure. Cheers to more pro-looking visuals on this blog!</div>
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This is what I would wear on weekends. I like these jeans because of the flower embroidery patches on and the cut off fronts. I'm pairing it with my blue striped top which I think a very weekender essential-it's cotton, it's sleeveless, and it has a complicated knot details. Although it has been raining in Jakarta for the past few weeks, it made me bring my jacket everywhere I went. I brought my pashli because I need a bag that can fit all my personal belongings + my camera. I'm a blogger after all :') For shoes I'm wearing my new favorite pair, it's these black leather espadrilles with crossover velvet straps. I mean, how could I not fall in love with those flowers details on the instep? Wow just realised I may have had too many flower details in just one outfit. Imma go now. Anyways pictures were taken by <a href="http://instagram.com/astridavanda">A</a> at Shophaus Menteng.</div>
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VVEEKEND 101http://www.blogger.com/profile/12712843599777483819noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7352972981486528974.post-90786958655890950962016-12-31T02:07:00.003+07:002016-12-31T02:07:12.621+07:002016 highlights<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>JANUARY</b> | I've always loved Bubu (my former life partner a.k.a a Canon 500D) but it has gotten old. Bubu had been with me since I was in junior high, so it had been like 6 years...wow. So I thought it's time for me to get a new one. And it seemed like everyone was so into mirrorless cameras (tell me about it). After saving up (like a lot) I got myself a brand new camera that is Fujifilm XT-10. She's Agnija (named after one of my favorite bloggers) and all the pictures this year are pretty much taken by her. This is one of the first shots I took in January back when I first got her home. Yes I watched youtube tutorials because the manuals are boring and I'm a lazy ass.</div>
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<b>FEBRUARY</b> | I was so THRILLED to have gotten a chance to study in University of Malaya, even if it was only for three weeks (thankyou UI!). It was my first study abroad experience, and it was really nice to make a lot of new friends. Not only that, I learned a lot about their cultures and went to a lot of places and tried so many kinds of food. Hope to have a bigger opportunity in 2017. Let's see what it has for me :)</div>
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<b>MARCH</b> | Definitely the month of fashion. Watched several fashion shows this month on Indonesia Fashion Week (IFW) and Plaza Indonesia Fashion Week (PIFW). Indonesian designers are inspiring beyond words, and I'm really looking forward to what they have already prepared for next year's collection!</div>
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<b>APRIL</b> | Although she is the loudest and most annoying person on earth, she's the woman I love the most (and definitely the woman who loves me the most). Her birthday was the chance to make her happy that I never want to miss. I arranged a little birthday lunch to celebrate her 60th birthday. Here's to many more years to travel and shop and pretty much spoiling ourselves. :P</div>
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<b>MAY</b> | The concert was actually at the end of April, but this just has to go on my list. Yes, it was #TameImpalaJakarta. I wasn't (and am not) a die-hard fan of them but I love their music (probably the only psychedelic band I ever listen to)! They got pretty visuals on screen. It was surely one dreamy night.</div>
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<b>JUNE</b> | Applied for internships. No one called. Seriously, your loss not mine. Spent the whole month pretty much just mall-hopping, and restaurant-hopping, also, art gallery-hopping. Because I need to fulfill my thirst of art, and my instagram page has to be aesthetic as fuck! For God's sake.</div>
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<b>JULY</b> | Hello again, #TwentyFourSeven :) I am t w e n t y. This sacred date is my turning point-this and the new years. It is when I measure how much I have achieved throughout my life. I am never so close to satisfaction. It's probably good because that way I always have things on the run, goals I have to achieved. But at the same time, it's hard to feel grateful when you're not fulfilled. I remind myself to be humble, for both the good and the bad things that have happened. Only gratitude changes what we have into enough. Be thankful. :)</div>
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<b>AUGUST</b> | This month I celebrated 2 of my friends birthdays. Cheers to my #Leo! Also since I was still on my long-ass holiday, I pretty much just hopping around places in Jakarta trying to find something interesting to do before uni starts.</div>
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<b>SEPTEMBER</b> | MY JAPAN TRIP! Sorry I just had to type that in caps. After a long-ass holiday at home, it was just what I need. Although I had to miss uni for a week hehe. I thought Japan was okay, and the only reason I wanted to go there was because everyone had gone there for their holidays whatsoever. But ever since I got back I have been obsessed to this country. Japan is different with Indonesia in so many ways (in most ways, I think). I don't know about you but the only japanese resto I eat in Indo was only Hoka-hoka bento. But after I got back, it was like, I want to try all the japanese resto because I miss being there so much. I took a gazillion pics of Japan streets. Not to mention I was very inspired by the japanese fashion. Such a memorable country!</div>
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<b>OCTOBER</b> | So...as you know I was part of UI Fashion Week 2016 as Creative Director. Which means I am in charge for anything creative-related to this event. In October I directed two different theme of photoshoots for the model search pre event. It was really fun, to see what I have projected in mind become something real. Thankyou to everyone who has been very cooperative during the pre-event. Results are up on my <a href="http://issuu.com/alitaclaudia">ISSUU</a>.</div>
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<b>NOVEMBER</b> | The UI Fashion Week 2016 main event is here. It was a four-day event and we worked our ass of to present this to you. Thankyou for the support, and to everyone who had come. It was an honor to be part of an event this big, and as a creative director I'm proud of UIFW 2016 as a whole. ;)</div>
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<b>DECEMBER</b> | It's December already. I was glad I survived finals pretty well, hope my hard work goes somewhere. Happy Christmas to you who celebrate and happy holidays too. I celebrated Christmas too, and as for me, Christmas is that time of the year I commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ. I am because He is. And even though I haven't been a very religious person, I believe in him thoroughly and without a doubt. On Christmas day after the morning service I pretty much just lay in my bed watching some movie about drug addicts (it was Requiem for Love). And then I eat. And then I sleep. Most wonderful time of the year.</div>
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Tomorrow is the first day of the new year 2017. I'm not one of those people who have a list of resolutions to check. But that doesn't mean I don't have goals on my own. I don't need something specific list to limit or push me for what I will do. I think as life goes by, I'm going to learn what I'll have to do, and it's not always something I have listed before, or even something I need. It could be something interesting along the way. Something completely new. Cheers to the new things we will do, love, and cherish in 2017! </div>
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I will see you next year. :)</div>
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