This is a title of a Korean series that I currently watch now. Somehow this series can prompt me or perhaps initiate me to write an entry in my long forgotten blog. Before I go on why I want to write about this, let me update about my being in cold Scotland and my marriage life. For first half of year, I was really into cooking stuff. So JH was really happy to eat all my trial cooking which actually came out good. I was really passionate about cooking, so almost every hour I will be browsing the internet to find the inspiration on what to cook for the day. At that time, I only cooked for dinner, and brought JH the leftover dinner for his next-day lunchbox. So enthusiasm was really high.
Then the next half a year, somehow I was really into cosmetic stuff. That's why not many cooking photos I took and uploaded to my facebook account at that time (until now as well). I was doing hours of research on make up brand, which one is good and which one is not. Learning to apply it with various techniques (with brush) as well as learning how to use make up base, foundation, concealer, blush on, highlight, bronze/sculpting, eyeliner (pen, pencil, liquid), mascara. But not yet master the eyeshadow and combine the coloring part on my face. But it has been almost half of year research. Specially my research on perfect pink lipstick for my lips (still have not found one). I was also into hairdo, like braids, buns, pony, etc. It was fun. It looks like reminisce my teenager days, where I used most of it to study. So, it's like trying to get back all my lost time on what teenager does (at least in UK, you can see most of elementary girls wears make up here, surprise surprise!). Once on TV by the famous supernanny Jo Frost, showed a little girl who doesn't want to go out if she doesn't put her make up. Unbelievable!
But I realized that after wearing make up, my skin is not as good or radiance as before. It becomes dull. At first I don't believe all the advice that no make up is the best. And even according to one of the website that I read, a good make up application is not when people said "you have good make up" but when people said "you have good skin, flawless". In conclusion, you wear make up so that people do not realize you wear one, in other words to look natural. Isn't it ridiculous? If you want to look natural, then don't wear make up. Eventually make up is to cover bad skin complexion. So if you have good skin, you do not need to use one. I was referring this for the foundation, then blush on. It is to create a healthy red natural cheek. Then bronzing to create shadow and highlight to create sunlight reflection on the skin . It's so funny that the natural face is treated like an empty canvas that you can paint/decorate on.
One more thing I learnt: the price don't lie! Indeed, the expensive make up having different quality from the cheap one (at least on lipstick). It's better to buy 1 or 2 good quality make up, rather than buy loads of cheap one. You will be disappointed. But then to buy expensive make up, don't be in a rush. Do lots of research online based on people's review, then come and try first at the counter before you buy.
Enough on my bluffing and opinion about make up. Back to the real reason about this series. What I love about it. It is different from others similar themes dramas about how woman juggles between their careers and personal life. I think not many asian drama talk about this. One I find is "Hotaru no Hikari 1 & 2" (btw, the main character is Haruka Ayase, the current spokesperson for SK II from Japan). But Japan series mostly about hardworking. Working really hard, too hard I think. Her personal life? Her boss is her boyfriend!
For western drama, we have lots of it like "Devil Wears Prada" , where in the end Anne Hathaway has to choose between her life or her work. And similar to that is "Ugly Betty". Surprise surprise! But I love Ugly Betty, although it looks like impossible but Betty with her integrity, she changed people around her. Her boss, Daniel, was a coward and no confidence, and Betty (at that time was his assistant) can encourage him to become a better person. Then her opposition, people who bully her: Amanda, Marc and even Wilhelmina, all respect to her and even become her friends, due to Betty good attitude. At first I really inspired by this character, and as well as her struggle and temptation few times to do not the right things. And yes people make mistake, but she stood up, admit her mistake and took the responsibility. But as the show goes on, I felt, why most of her life it is almost around on her workplace. I think more shooting on the workplace rather than on her home. Is this kind of life that I want? Of course not. I do not want a life that every single time I worry about jobs. I have other things to do, and when I do my other things, I do not want to worry about the jobs.
Extreme from that is like "Friends" series, seems all the 6 friends, never have work to worry about. They are happy go lucky about that. Most of the time they will laugh and happily chit chat at the Central Perk coffee shop. I do not know whether it is reality in western life now, where people actually do not really care about work, they actually like to live their dreams and pursue it. Like Chandler who changed his job totally from something relating to accounting to advertisement, Joey who is an actor but has very less job or Phoebe the massage lady.
At first, I thought it looks similar with "Sex in the City" series. But it's not. It's funny and enchanting me! It's about 3 women on their 30-s, career minded ladies. And here comes the struggle, in Korea, for women in their 30-s and has a good position, it will be difficult to get a boyfriend/husband. Since all the man at their age will look for younger woman and they will feel intimidated by the ladies success. But this series is not all along about their struggle to get a boyfriend or focus on the job problem. But how these ladies can balance their life. Although they don't have boyfriend but they have each other. They work hard and also play hard. That is life! Balance. How fun the girls outing they have to sauna, hot bath, saloon. And the men of their dreams come one by one.
The main character is the middle lady on the picture, called "Lee Shin Young". I admired her persistence and positive attitude in life. She was working in this TV station where she was a reporter. And she is not an ordinary reporter, only to report things, but she struggle to find stories. And lots of times her hardworking findings on good stories were snatched by her wicked 'sunbae' senior, who took the credits. Or even the TV station itself used her to get a story as a bait to get a bigger topic. She said, she already been cheated/bullied for 10 years, but she will hang on, even for another 10 years. She even cried in the toilet and put a mark every time she cried on the wall, and she said, she won't stop even until the wall filled with the mark, and it;s long way to go. And she has to confront his evil 'sunbae' and withstand his mockery not only about the her job but also that she hasn't got married yet at her age.
And how she realize a guy, who10-years younger, dating her just because of betting, she can be positive and move on with her life and decided to go back to her old boyfriend, who actually has been chasing her back.
An interesting line on this old couple reunited back, when the guy tried to kiss the lady's forehead, "You haven't wash your hair". Isn't it hilarious????? Because it's exactly what JH said to me sometimes haha =D. And other hilarious act, like when the lady has her lips distorted because work too hard, so she needs to go to acupuncture to make her lips back to normal position. And when she tried to use home sauna and a guy come over, hahaha!
Basically it's really entertaining and inspiring series. But I only watched until series 8 now. I wouldn't want skip any of it, although I know how it ends, who with who, etc.
I watched Sound of Music musical yesterday with Jiunhorng at the 'His Majesty Theater' in Aberdeen. It was such an experience for me as I have never seen a professional real musical play. The theater is not as big as and not as grand as Esplanade. It is quite old and tiny and very narrow entrance so we have to queue to enter the small door and the seat is so small and packed. And people do eat inside the theatre during the show! They even sold ice cream inside the theatre during the interval. Hmmm....a bit strange...but quite beautiful and old theatre.
For the show itself, I found it very enchanting. I can't believe they really sing beautifully and right on the tune without any wrong on any single note!!! Wow, maybe I am a bit old fashioned but this is my first time seeing life and perfect performance. They sang and dance wonderfully and the background was really gorgeous, I can't believe it!!! Really show a great house, abbey, hills, etc.
This made me thinking, do I want to watch any other musical? You know, I always think that it was such a waste of money, because you know the story anyway and it's just like a kind of repetition. Hmmm.....yeah...I should think so. I prefer watching movie which has new story line to entertain you. And the ticket is so much cheaper. But thinking about it, I need to educate myself for some art stuff, so maybe once every 2-3 months? Will be a great idea too. by the way, Jiun Horng likes this kind of stuff, so I need to support him.
The song that I like, although I like most of everything, the cute one:
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens Brown paper packages tied up with strings These are a few of my favorite things
Cream colored ponies and crisp apple streudels Doorbells and sleigh bells and schnitzel with noodles Wild geese that fly with the moon on their wings These are a few of my favorite things
Girls in white dresses with blue satin sashes Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes Silver white winters that melt into springs These are a few of my favorite things
When the dog bites When the bee stings When I'm feeling sad I simply remember my favorite things And then I don't feel so bad
And another one which inspired me and made me think about myself. When Maria realized that she fell in love with Captain Von Trapp, she ran back to the Abbey and the head nurse advised her not to run away from his problem:
Climb every mountain, search high and low Follow every by way, every path you know Climb every mountain, ford every stream Follow every rainbow, till you find your dream
A dream that will need, all the love you can give Everyday of your life, for as long as you live Climb every mountain, ford every stream Follow every rainbow, till you find your dream
You may be an ambassador to England or France, You may like to gamble, you might like to dance, You may be the heavyweight champion of the world, You may be a socialite with a long string of pearls
You might be a rock ’n’ roll addict prancing on the stage, You might have drugs at your command, women in a cage, You may be a businessman or some high-degree thief, They may call you Doctor or they may call you Chief
You may be a state trooper, you might be a young Turk, You may be the head of some big TV network, You may be rich or poor, you may be blind or lame, You may be living in another country under another name
You may be a construction worker working on a home, You may be living in a mansion or you might live in a dome, You might own guns and you might even own tanks, You might be somebody’s landlord, you might even own banks
You may be a preacher with your spiritual pride, You may be a city councilman taking bribes on the side, You may be workin’ in a barbershop, you may know how to cut hair, You may be somebody’s mistress, may be somebody’s heir
Might like to wear cotton, might like to wear silk, Might like to drink whiskey, might like to drink milk, You might like to eat caviar, you might like to eat bread, You may be sleeping on the floor, sleeping in a king-sized bed
You may call me Terry, you may call me Timmy, You may call me Bobby, you may call me Zimmy, You may call me R.J., you may call me Ray, You may call me anything but no matter what you say
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed You’re gonna have to serve somebody, Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord But you’re gonna have to serve somebody.
Bob Dylan song was a good iconic remembrance on what Paul said in Romans 6, about us as Christian, being a slave to Christ. My preacher discussed about this last Sunday, and it does really touch and remind me. Either way, we are a slave. To ourselves (the devil and the world) or to the Lord. We can't deny the fact that we have sinful nature since we were bornt in the world, we are a slave. So we have to choose our master: our ownself or the good Lord Jesus.
When we came back home, JH and I continued to discuss this issue. Why did Paul use 'slave' as a term. Isn't it a bad term for us? A person who did not get any freedom of their own, and had to submit all of her/hislife to their master. Slave has always associated to a bad thing. Everytime we heard about the word 'slave' we always think about a suffered, lonely, sicked people. We got the picture in our mind on American slavery to black people. I think because of this imperfect world of us, a world full of sin, which there are no such a good master who treated their slave well. We always have this bad impression.
If we were introduced on a very good master at first place, and if world is avery peaceful and wonderful place, I think we will associate 'slave' with good things. It is merely because we never get a good master before. So actually 'slave' term is not bad at all, just how the world portrays it now in this sinful world, make it a bad one.
On the last Sunday service, we also had baptism, which they used a small pool below the stage, just like Grace Church back in Singapore. I just kept amazed how this church is quite similar with the one we attended in Singapore. By the way, the interest thing is that the person who got baptised, told us their testimonies before getting baptised. And there is this testimony from a youngster, perhaps same age as me, how she became a Christian. And it was a touching story, how she started to know Christ from her colleague friend whom she said she found difference on her friend and how her friend's faith really integrate on her life and how this faith involves in all aspect of the life. And God kept talking to her until she really decided to accept Christ as her saviour, but then she still lived a dual lifestyle. She was still the old her but now she's going to church. But she surrender all to Christ to change her fully.
After she got baptised into the pool, she came out and a friend of her give her the towel and hug her, and when you see her face, it was showing a very happy and a really proud face that she is a Christian now and being baptised. The smile and gladness and joy that I saw in her, really touched me, she is so happy because of Christ is in her. This is amazed me, and remind me on my baptism day. I treated it like a phase that I need to go through as a Christian. And I think I just take for granted everything that I have. I want to have such a joy in my heart.
Wow, I just got this nightmare. That me and my brother went into a big house on an afternoon day. And we went inside deeper and deeper and couldn't find way out. And we found few people who were trapped inside the house for long time, and they became crazy. My brother was trapped with them and I ran and rand, openned lots of doors. And there were lots of secret doors connecting to different places (feels like scream 3 house, I watched it recently, maybe this house idea was coming from there). And I met another guy and tried to talk to him and asked him to find the way out together, and we found it! I could peek from a window for the next room, where I left my bible and my brother's one at the entrance for the guest living room before we went deeper into he house. But we couldn't open the door. I did not want to find other way, we forced open the door and we made it. Then I remembered my bro, where he is and he was still trapped inside. But I was too scared to come back. So I just ran and ran. And ... I woke up, and since then I decided to just wake up and start the day!
If you watch supernanny before, the same Jo Frost is coming out with new reality series on this 'Extreme Parental Guidance'. And she is as genious as ever. Supernanny is more about some naughty kids and how you handle them, and somehow I found it quite boring because the kids is so naughty and the same pattern you will see over and over again. But anyhow another series about nanny is showed as well, the nanny 911. And Jo frost became like a big star and celebrity here in UK.
This new series is genious. It is about how some extreme kids, and when I say extreme, it is really extreme, and it is no longer baby or small kids, but now it is for some teenager (7-13 years old). One of the time it is about a small girl who doesn't like eat anything besides sweets (like ice cream or candy) until she was admited to the hospital for few times because of lacking in nutrition, some other time is about a young boy who is addicted to computer game, he played 12 hour/day and when he slept, he kept talking to himself and writing about the games. Like he can't get out of the game of his mind at all. And there is also a girl who spend thousands of pounds per month for her neccesities, until the mother needs to sell the house to pay the debt, can you believe this? Some interesting survey was also conducted among the kids, how some computer games will affect on your behaviour, the violent and non violent one.
But after I watched this series, somehow I realize, the main root cause is actually the parents. How they spoiled the kids or how they treat the kids and give them example that makes them what they are. So eventually with a change in parents attitude, the kids behaviour will as well changed.
Realized this, I am a bit startled. How parents really gives a big impact for the kids, and whether I will be ready to be a parent someday. I will need to make my life a good example first. I need to build a good tradition in my family first. Doing sport each and every day, washing and cleaning the dishes right after eating, reading bible and pray each day, eating vegetable (I have to create a healthy recipe for each meal), and so on. Hope I will be ready by then, but definately not now =p
This picture is a flower called snowdrop (if I am not mistaken), it is in front of my flat. And you know what, this is a sign that spring has come! The first flower that grows.
Weather has been quite friendly recently, with sun shines brightly, although it is still quite cold, but it is getting better. I love it.
Some interesting fact that I observed here, but this is solely based on my observation and conclusion, so I am not sure whether it is a fact here or not.
Weather. The weather here is so bad, in the sense of very cold and grey and cloudy most of the time. (Now I regret to take for granted summer lifeI had in Singapore and Jakarta back then). So this weather thingy will be the main conversation topic for everyone. Sometimes, when you say 'Hello' you might as well say 'good day' or 'cloudy day' automatically. And I think everyone will check the internet or news about the weather today to decide what to wear or how they will go to work. I really miss my shorts, summer dress, short sleeve t-shirt, and sandals! Summer here might be not as hot as Singapore or Jakarta, but I presume it will still like Puncak or Genting temperature.
Culture. Aberdeen has a very diverse people from all over the world. It is almost like Singapore. But interestingly, what I observed is Indian influence is very dominant here. I mean Indian India, like Bollywood and curry and chicken tikka. When you say about china and how you can chinese people everywhere in the world and we can find 'chinatown' in every city or country in all over the world. But India as well. If I found in US, chinese is more dominant with their chinese food everywhere, and it was even a chinese fast food called 'Panda Express'. But in here at UK, Indian is dominant. Although you can find chinese food as well here, but the influence is bigger for Indian culture here.You can find curry everywhere, and it is one of the favorite food here. Even a curry can food or frozen food. And if you go to a local restaurant or pub, they will have 'curry' night. Whereas they do not have 'chinese' night and chinese food only can be found in the chinese restaurant. And .... they have bollywood movie on the screen here in Aberdeen. If you check the cineworld theatre website, you will find some india movie and not chinese movie. And you know what, Astroboy is just on the screen now and Ponyo is still waiting to be screened next month.
Public transport. Because Aberdeen is small city, there is no tube/subway here, we have bus as the main public transport. And interestingly, it only has 1 door for enter and exit. Not like singapore which is quite busy and people rushed to go in and out. Here people is relax and friendly. So you queue to go in, in orderly manner at the bustop, and waited for the people to go out before you go in. And when you go in you will buy ticket from the busdriver and people is not in a hurry although it is cold outside. And when you come out, you will say 'cheers' or 'thank you' to the bus driver. And you need to walk to the door before you board out, because people waiting to go in, so you need to stand by the door to go out. JH said they only have 1 door because of the cold weather. If you have 2 doors to open and close, the bus will be cold. Interesting right. That's why, Singapore weather is good compare to here.
So far, it was my little observation here, will update again later on, if I found other interesting fact, o ya, the doctor and hospital is free here! But you have to make appointment to see a doctor and it will make you wait for at least month. Yeah, it's free anyway, what can you expect for the service.
Description: Delicious and nice sauce, it is basically almost the same way with the sti fried squid, but with added some more of ingridients.
Ingredients: (refer to stir fried squid with chilli) 1 tbs oyster sauce 1 tbs chilli sauce 3 tbs tomato sauce salt-sugar to taste corn flour to thicken the sauce
Directions: (refer to the stir fry squid with chilli) Eventually we need to blend all the original ingridients from the stir fry squid (garlic, shallot, chilli), but i did not do it and it works as well. If you have big red chilli, it will be good to blend it, since it will make a thick sauce of chilli, since i do not have it at home, so I just ignored it and just use 1 chilli padi
2. heat the pan and oil, and add garlic, shallot, and chilli (or the mixture blend) 3. Add the squid and stir until it's cooked 4. Add the oyster sauce, chilli sauce, and tomato sauce and stir 5. Add salt-sugar to taste 6. Add the corn flour solution to thicken the sauce And SERVE ...
This is a good website for some indonesia recipe. It showed step by step cooking by pictures.
Btw, I do not use any vegie for this, because it's difficult to find the chinese vegie here like 'bak choi' or 'chai sim'
Ingredients: 2 egg noodle small cut chicken breast mushroom 1 ltr chicken stock 3 pcs garlic 2 tbs soy sauce 3 tbs sweet soy sauce 3 tbs water salt-pepper vegie spring onion to garnish
Directions: 1. Make and boil up the chicken stock 2. In the mean time, on the other pan, heat up the pan with 3 tbs oil 3. Add the garlic and stir until it's fragrant 4. Add the 2 tbs soy sauce and 3 tbs water 5. stir and put into a bowl 6. heat the pan again with oil, add the chicken and fry until it's cooked 7. Add the mushroom and stir together 8. Take 2 big scoop from the chicken stock pan and add to the chicken-mushroom stir fry 9. Add salt-pepper to taste and 3 tbs sweet soy sauce 10. Prepare the egg noodle and put into the boiled chiken stock and cooked according to the instruction for the noodle 11. Take out the noodle and serve into a bowl 12. If you have any vegie, boil the vegie for a short time into the chicken stock and take out and put on top of the noodle 13. Add the garlic-oil into the noodle 14. Add the chicken-mushroom as well with some sauce 15. Add the spring onion chopped as garnish 16. prepare another smaller bowl for the chicken stock soup And ENJOY!!!
Description: This is my childhood favorite dish that I always remembered so much. The strong taste that I really love. And surprisingly I can cook exactly the same one and with impromptu and quick sms to my mom for advise hehe =)
I add some pepper just to add a vegie to prevent 2 dish cooking
Ingredients: 200 gr squid 1 big shallot 2 pcs garlic 1 pc chilli padi red/green pepper as vegie
Directions: 1. heat the pan and add oil 2. Add garlic, shallot and the chilli until it is fragrant 3. Add the squid and stir until it's cooked 4. Add the red/green pepper and some salt 5. And serve! delicious ....
This is consider an easy cook to do, but I think I put too much wine and corn flour solution, so it ended with too many sauce and it's not thick. And dominated by wine taste. But anyway JH loves it.
Ingredients: 250 gr chicken breast cut into cubed Rosemary 250 ml White wine 3 pcs garlic 1 pc chilli lemon juice chicken stock butter and oil to fry corn flour
Directions: 1. Add oil and butter to a hot pan and fry the chicken until the color is chocolate or cooked. 2. Add salt and pepper 3. Add garlic, chilli, rosemary, lemon juice, white wine and close the pan 4. Add chicken stock and close again 5. Add the corn flour solution to thicken the sauce and serve
If you were following my updates in facebook, you'll find out that I am MARRIED!! Exactly 2 months ago back in Singapore. Then have a whole round Indonesia and Malaysia for the next 2 weeks and have a great celebration. Meeting old friends, families ... Honestly I can't stop smiling. Not because of I have too, but I was smiling widely on each and every occasion. A quote from one of my friend who attended my church wedding in Singapore, "Kenapa si Jeko nyengir2 mulu", translated as, why is Jeko a.k.a Jesica is smiling too much. Haha... Of course I am smiling, it was the happiest day of my life, haha. And the detail of married prep can be read on my wedding blog haha, although I did not follow it up near to my wedding.
Let me recap a bit, it was totally hectic time for me and JH of course, for the bulletin, jacket, manicure, pedicure, haha, rehearsing, making our own montage, etc. And I got some nightmare about the wedding that it didn't work, I am not prepared, etc.
And now, I am at Aberdeen, Scotland, safe and sound. Enjoying every moment of my life now. I finished my job contract at NTU at the last of December (and yes I was still working after the wedding), and we flew to London on the 31 December, just right after I got my visa approved on 30 December. We shipped our stuff on 28 December and found out that they haven't delivered it, and just shipped it on 28 January. Just great, we need to wait another month before getting our stuff. But I am a smart girl. We can survive here, and the owner of the flat that we rent, provided us with a complete cooking utensil. Great. They have oven, grilling pan, and even a steamer! So I can cook whatever I want now. And just need to buy some chinese condiment such as fish sauce, chinese cooking wine, sesame oil, soy sauce, etc.
One of my friend is getting married, and not just one actually, 3 of them! And I became like an advisor now haha, long distance one. And you know what, I am still got nightmare of a wedding. Isn't it crazy or what. But this time is my friend wedding and I was the wedding organizer haha....
The pics I posted here was taken on the window of our flat looking out at the snow. Yup, it is very cold here, I am almost cry on the first night I came to our flat. It is so cold, because the house is not heated for nearly a month, so the temp inside is almost the same as outside. Crazy....
Now? I am hibernating at home every single day, waiting for the winter to finish, and perfected on my cooking skill. Will post another story about my cooking experience and self learning with exchange of cooking methods with a friend haha...
Yeah....my bday was last Friday. And I spent it by having 40 mins back massage at JP which resulted in very painful back and a lonely bakso or beefball with beehoon dinner for 6.90 SGD plus 1 SGD mineral water plus another 17% tax, phew what an expensive bowl of beefball, I could get that at 7,000 IDR (around 1 SGD) in Indo.
Then bought a slimming face cream to make my face in to "V" shape (sharp jaw) and remove all the double chin haha....surprisingly I got 20% off from John Little and registered for free for their membership haha. So happy.
Then when I was home, felt so restless and took some shower and then suddenly there was a boquet of roses, with big baloon with "I Love you" writings and small plush with dinner voucher from my fiance! Wow that's really a sweet surprise and wonderful, although I know it was expensive and I could scold him to buy me something like that without my consent. But still can't lie that I love it so much and can't stop smiling after that.
Then today was taking a gift from my friend in France. So thoughtful of her to ask our friend to buy me a gift and even send it to my place. And surprisingly my friend said that I slim alot. Huahaha. He said that I looked like lost so many kgs from the last time he saw me, which the day exactly before the cabbage soup diet experiments. Wow, is this the unseen force of cabbage soup diet? I do not lose weight much but look slim? Huahahahaha.....And you know what, I tried to follow an article in Shape magazine about how to motivate yourself to keep slim. And it said that you have to get rid of the big size clothes that you have and get rid of the thing that make you think that you will get fatter. So I went ahead to Giordano and wanted to buy new jeans. And was really surprised that my size has been reduced by 3 sizes from my Levis jeans. But after I brought back home my jeans, actually the size is almost the same but maybe Giordano has bigger size number. Sigh...my joy dissapeared at that moment. Haha, anyway I had bought it so no regret.
Since we subscribed to this starhub cable TV, we have the KBS world, Korean channel. And since then, I watch most of Korean drama and show there. Another drama that catches my attention is this one 'Man in the Vineyard'. At first, I am so curious, what is so good about the main lead actrees, because she is so famous, think she played as well at the Coffee Prince (I watched that, funny but ended a bit weird), Goong or Princess Hours (hmm...did not finish watch it last time) and she plays a new series now, called 'My Fair Lady'. Honestly, I do not like this type of face, because so baby face and she will play cute and naive role. I prefer mature and soft lady-like role. But guess what, this kind of lead actrees role will end up sobby drama and sad. Of course I do not like that kind of drama. I watch drama to be entertained and not to be stressed up by other problems haha... So the kiddy type lead role will give you funny and interesting drama, remember Full House (the best drama ever so far, because the cute guy in the end, end with the lead actrees). Current trend is, the handsome guy will end up nothing, rejected by the girl in the end, because she realized that personality is more charmind than only look (although the handsome guy usually is having good personality as well). Haha....but Man in the Vineyard is really entertaining and really, I imagining myself as a city girl, has to live in the country with no toilet! Really, the lead actrees struggle of taking shower and go to the toilet for like half od the episodes, until the man decided to build a toilet for her. Haha...that's the funny part. Really love it.....it's a non sense drama, can't be a reality, but entertaining and have a good ending, although the guy is not handsome, haha...but the story is cute enough.
Another interesting series, but this one is Korean one. I like their videography, the color and the pace of the story is quite fast and not slow. It is about a metal retarded boy who is willing to be operated as a 'mouse trial' of a neurologist. He is willing to be operated because he likes a lady who looks like his mom and just came to his village. The neurologist pursue the boy for the operation with a reason that the lady likes smart boy. This is a ery touching story, how a mental retarded boy started to become smart and mature after the operation. But the trully love for the lady is not change after he became smart. The lady slowly start to like him due to his love, and kindness. He's dying because of the surgery as well and counting his days to make the lady happy.
JH has been so crazy about this japanese series. He just watched it one time in the middle of the night in channel U when he was in MC. And he was so excited and watched it through the internet. And I love it too!
The story is about a simple girl named Riiko who just moved to Tokyo to pursue her dream as a patteiseire. She worked at a famous pastry company in Japan called Asakamoto and actually fell in love with her boss. In the same time, another company tried to create a robot prototype for a perfect boyfriend. And the creator met Riiko and decided to use Riiko to test his robot.
A lot of fun and some touching moment. Riiko just treated this robot (named Tenjo Night) as like a machine who helped her to clean and cook at her house. But slowly she realized that she liked Night. And as a robot, Night showed some weird anomalies and started to behave like human to have feelings as well for Riiko. A very touching story and funny one, to see how Night worked so hard to please Riiko and how cold is Riiko treated him.
Few days back, I was tagged from a photo in facebook by my third year high school teacher. And from there I started to add in my old high school friends whom I haven't had contact before. Then recently thanks to facebook, I found out there was a junior highschool reunion done, but this is not my junior high. But because during primary school I went to the primary school nearby there, so most of them are my primary school as well and at the same time my senior highschool friend as well ( I joinned the nearby senior highschool as well ). Then I found lots of my childhood friends whom I lost contact with. And now is becoming a trend to upload our old school photos (kindergarden or primary school photos) in the facebook and tag them all. This is really interesting. Bring back my old memories. Then I started to dream about my highschool days, and my highschool friends.
And this morning I flipped to my memory book from highschool, when friends wrote their comments about me and said not to forget them with their own hand writing. Wow! Felt like go back in time. And during my last year on highschool, I was close with this few friends and we wrote each other a letter for our good byes. Yeah...although in our letter we said not to forget to keep in touch with one another, but as time goes by and our business with school and others, we indeed lost contact. One of my friends already predicted that this will happen, that is why he did not expect so much ( I think he was so realistic back then, he himself doesn't like to online or having internet I think ).
But when I read those sweet words and comments about me, I just wondered, how all this things have changed in me. They were saying that I am a cheerful girl, friendly, busy body in a good way, contagious on my laugh, stingy (until they nickname stingy after my name, at that time I hate that, but thinking about it, it's funny, hey I create new vocabulary haha). We like to talk through phones for hours at those time when house phone was cheap.
But now, I have changed, perhaps they changed too. I am not the same cheerful girl like I used to be. Now, I am more like quiet girl, shy and lack of confidence and really depend on my fiance. I think this is partly my fault when I started having a serious relationship, I closed myself from outside friends and became exclusive to each other. Thank God I have one special friend who kept in tact with me until now, but she's leaving soon to Europe, I hope that our friendship will stay together. I do not know if people grow up, their circle of friends will it be smaller? Specially when you are getting married.
It is funny to remember old school days, I love that moments, when I can talk with friends for hours through phone and studied late for the next day tests. The moment which can't be turned back. But honestly, now I will feel really nervous if we are having reunion. Whom should I talk too, will they think I am strange, will they still group for popular guys and gals, will they belittle on me. I am scare of the prejudice and scared of got no topic to talk to for my old friends whom have different life now. But anyway, it will be fun too to catch up with one another, and I think their prejudice last time will change as well.
Happy easter everyone. This year I have not felt the spirit of easter. I tried to, but somehow it did not come out. I have moved to my new house in bukit batok since good friday and lived alone since then. It has been around 4 days.
My aircon was broken. I do not know why, we had tried that last time after the we got the key and it did work last time. I remembered we stayed at one room because it was too hot on the living room. But out of sudden when I want to move in, the air con broke. So for few days, until yesterday, I was sleeping with no aircon and used fan. And last night I got tummy ache, I think I got bloated due to many milk and wind from the fan. On the first night (Friday night), I can't sleep at all. I dreamt that there was this old man starring at me in fron of window and watched me while I was sleeping. Eventually that one is my fan. And can't sleep well for the next few days until yesterday, after the air con is fixed. It costed me 285dlr. And thanks to my bro, I can't manage to watch the hospital which I hope will bring some revival in my heart. He asked me to buy a fan from JP (just because he got the voucher from fairprice and he and his friend will stay overnight at the house to attend the early morning service on church). In the end? He cancelled it and he left me alone in the house, I think because our air con broken. I was so heart broken. It is somehow like he used me but in the end he just went away. I don't feel like helping him anymore but he will keep threatened me by saying he's the one buying the house, furniture, etc. Really annoying, I feel there will be a lot of difficulties in the future when we stay together.
My attitude on work had been not good. I was so lazy on working. I wonder why it is. I kept searching for the answer on this feeling and tried to find the solution. I wanted to have the joy every morning when you woke up to go to work. This job is not as difficult as my old one and my boss is nice, but still I can't find satisfaction at all and joy.
Whenever I found some encouragement, feel that it won't last long before I feel lazy again. I have to keep searching for the answer. I was reading a book by John Piper, titled 'Don't waste your life'. JH said that by doing nothing and lazy I have wasted my life, am I ? But I am enjoying myself doing nothing, is it a mistake? I think. I kept trying to see life from different side of life, but somehow it was more and more difficult everytime I tried to imagine it. I have this discontentment in life and I do not know when it will be end. I hope my wedding will end it, but the more I think about it the more impossible it will be. I think life will be more even complicated after marriage. Somehow I can't see any hope in life and the meaning of it. I know I have the salvation and the true life. But somehow I can't feel the joy and feel so dull. Everyday doing the same thing for something that I do not feel it is worth to do. I really do not know.
I am not in the good term with God as well. On the sense that I was so lazy to come to my cell group, prayer and even to church. I felt that every single of that activities were such a formality. I do not know it is because of the church that I do not feel comfortable such as I can't find friends at the same age as me to share with. All of them are married couple with kids. But JH insisted to be in the fellowship since we can learn more from the grown up and mature ones. But inside my heart, I was crying for friends and fellowship where I can share freely about my struggle and feelings. But then, in contrary I was too lazy to interact with other people, I felt content to have only JH at my side. I want to spend as much time with him, since he needed to work during weekend and night shift now. I felt both of us was going further from the Lord. Is it part of my fault? I can't encourage JH? This will come to another argument that I hate to be the 'leader' on our relationship, but it will come to another thoughts. JH needs to do this thing now, working on weekends until he can't go to church anymore, or going to church with very physically tired. It was part of his work now due to the difficulties on his company. Anyone who read this, pls help to pray for us. I felt we are going further and further away (at least I felt it).
For a while, I stopped for my wedding preps business. If you follow my other wedding blog, I was going back to Jakarta 2 weeks back and since then my fiance had diarrohea for a week. We tried Makassar food with 3 different types of sambal! And it tasted spicy and nice. Perhaps JH can't take it.
My father came last week since our new hdb flat is ready now. So we prepared the new house, painting, polishing, cleaning and furnishing. Furnishing is tough, we had gone around to find the best value furniture. Too many bad review for furniture shop in renotalk forum. So we ended up confuse which one is good, seems everything looks bad. But in the end we managed to buy. And as well as electronics stuff, we found out that Mustafa is the cheapest on whole Singapore (except of course the limited set offer by Best Denki or other store --> we had really bad experience with Best Denki, they are such a liar, I think they lied when they put the ad on newspaper, few times we went there to ask about the offer but they always ended up offer something else way more expensive, I think the ad is just a way to attract people to their shop, but in reality they do not have the stock at all !!!)
Besides the excitement, some bad things also happened in my workplace. As you know I was working in NTU, EEE. Luckily, when the incident happenned I did not realize it since I was so busy in the clean room and rushed out to lunch. A friend of mine sms me about it and I was very shocked. Lucky i did not see blood or anything left over. Only flowers people put on the place and some police line. But this incident really distracts my concentration. My work station was on the same floor and it is very near. Everyday when I walk to my work place, this thing bothered me, the mix feeling, and somehow it is really made me do not want to go there. And before the shocked really end, another coming. It is really somehow made my felling mixed and troubled. I also do not know what to do. I am seeking for a peace inside my mind. I know this will impact to the Indonesian student there (my AKTB). Hope that we can continue to encourage each other through this difficult situation.
Since I am in the mood of bride things, I decided to watch Bride Wars. Lots of wedding movie recently, going to watch Wedding Game soon. The movie is quite ok, but I like the wedding stationery they have. They got Tiffany ring as the engagement ring and Vera Wang gown. I love the flowers, how they arrange the settings and you know what, Anne Hathaway is so skinny as compare to chubbier her on Princess Diaries. On the movie, she always carries a bag which looks like the bag that I gave to Yoli for her bday present. Overall it is an enjoyable movie, fun and easy to watch. Btw, I saw the ad for another movie 'Slum Dog Millionare', Indian movie, think I am going to watch it.
Go to the ant, you lazybones! Consider its ways, and be wise. It has no chief, overseer or ruler; yet it provides its food in summer and gathers its supplies at harvest-time.
Lazybones! How long will you lie there in bed? When will you get up from your sleep?
“I’ll just lie here a bit, rest a little longer, just fold my hands for a little more sleep” and poverty comes marching in on you, scarcity hits you like an invading soldier.
Yeah... I was struggling with laziness, specially in my workplace. I dunno why, it is very hard to concentrate in reading journals or even go to clean room. This morning I was reading my devotion and flipped on the back of my bible, the few last pages. And found that there are few encouragement verses written down. It's like where to find if you feeling what. And I decided to read for laziness part and got this verse. Interesting, that ants can work without any commandent/boss.
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