I realize my posts are always so long, except for the short simple ones. And I lack PICTURES!
Unless you are pretty much like me, who could stand reading long blogs of babble, I suppose you're gonna think my blog is boring. All texts and no pictures. I do have actually, but it's just the way uploading and moving pictures here makes me lazy to upload... =___=
It's ten past one now. Over midnight. Holidays really make you want to sleep later, and later and later. Later I gotta clean up the room. Why did I say later? Logically it's already the next day, it's just because I haven't slept so my brain thinks this is still January 23rd. Time difference-- remember that.
Fanfiction.net... I really don't know what I want to write. Maybe I'm forcing myself? I wanted to make a story with my original characters and if possible, make a small manga. Friends always encourage me to make mangas because they think my drawing capabilities are enough to make manga.. though I don't really think so --"
Friday, January 23, 2009
crazed over
This is supposed to be in another of my blog, but somehow I feel like posting it here. Oh well, who cares anyway. I'm still in Taiwan after all. Recent, or maybe not so recent happenings in my life..
HAOU AIREN
OWNED BY MANGAFOX (and whoever scanned and translated it). Original image link: http://www.mangafox.com/page/manga/read/111/haou_airen/chapter.26060/page.13/
I ain't claiming it as mine, since I'm only a reader. Really wish I could buy the book.. if only it's available in my language @__@ (so I can read it any time I want without worrying over computer)
Why did I choose this image? I think the Hakuron on the bottom panel looks especially gorgeous XDDD
Oh yeah. Hakuron Uon. 黑龍
When I read Love Celeb, I thought that Gin was already so handsome (and then changed), and then came Sakuya (changed again), and now... Hakuron! (unchanged) --refrains self from going fangirl mode
He is definitely the most good-looking among all-- well to me. I don't know why. As for personalities, since we're not discussing real men here, let's not talk about that... it sounds like I'm going to go back to my old self crazing over anime guys too much as if they're real.. okay let's move on.
I actually read about this series in Wikipedia. Heard it was popular so I wanted to read, but other than http://www.onemanga.com/ I didn't know many other free online-reading sites. I know there's more than a bunch but I just didn't know. I saw my host sister seeing this free online-reading site but translated to Chinese, and there's this series she's currently reading. My sole purpose of going to the website (http://www.8comic.com/ ) was to search what name was the series she read.
It's just me, to play these little detective games. That web turned out to have an English version, and so I checked. Yay, it has lots and also.. Haou Airen! Sadly, the chapters were unavailable for some kind of reason.
Next resort: google it. And yesh, I did succeed. http://www.mangafox.com/ is mah lifesaver LOL. I became addicted to it, and I became lazy on cleaning my room (I could clean my room with the time I have but I read online manga instead)... I finished reading it in a few days, but not consecutive.
Somehow, listening to songs I listened while reading the manga makes me remember.. I suppose it's normal in a logical way, but sometimes color does too.
The songs I listened while reading Haou Airen were: (I know this is just me, but it's a blog so it's supposed to bear with my babbles no matter what kind it is :p)
It's Amazing - Jem (Sex and The City OST)
Together When... - Ayumi Hamasaki
Prisoner Of Love - Utada Hikaru (Last Friends OST)
Womanizer - Britney Spears
薄荷與指甲(lit. Mint and Nail Scissors) - Rachel Liang (梁文音 Liang Wen-Yin)
Somewhere I Belong - Linkin Park
Perhaps Love (Mandarin version) - Howl & J
Truth - Nobuo Uematsu (FF8 OST - Edea's House background music)
Underlined means like 'reminders'. Maybe more related or something I don't know but my brain just picks it up?
Other examples are like I remember Utada Hikaru's songs for Kingdom Hearts by a certain color; white reminds me of Simple and Clean, and red reminds me of Sanctuary/Passion. I guess that's what you call impression?
RANMA 1/2
Can't say I have just gotten addicted to it. While I'm still in Indonesia me and my little brother love Ranma 1/2 comics and we always look for new volumes :D I love how she makes the comic crazy.
Facebook
Now I check this almost everyday. I open computer, and my email inbox plus facebook is the first I will see. @___@""
Bye bye friendster...
CHINESE
For my holidays I've got personal homework stuffed up. Well I thank my teachers for helping me, giving me a book of Chinese idioms with bopomofo decorating each character so I can read (even though may be very extremely slow), and then old newspapers which also had bopomofo, and two books I borrowed from the library.
I really want to spend my holidays slacking off for some while, since even though my situation is much better than my schoolmates, I miss holidays. Chinese New Year is also close, which means I gotta clean up the room. Darn it... =_= oh well, might as well dig up some lost things. I lost some things, and most probably I forgot where I had put them. Moving to a new house needed a lot of small bags, one heavy sport bag, and very heavy luggage... my host dad even said I still have 6 months to go and it's already this many... woe is me.
Bicycle
Maybe this has been mentioned in the previous entries, but it's because I heard we're going to go cycling in Kaohsiung (高雄). My host mom did say she won't let me go if I can't ride, which would be no fun at all... Of course she's worried about my safety, but not being able to spend with people you're not going to meet for a long time in the future sucks. So, the solution is? Training.
Drawing
I don't know why but today out of boredom I produced some "self-proclaimed"good-looking artworks. I wish I could color them. I want to try submitting colored art in Deviantart, which is one of the reasons why I keep holding back on submitting arts.
MY BOLSTER
I miss it so much. Oh... I remember I named it HAKUTUCHI. When I was little.. oh.
MY OLD BLANKET
The blanket is still in my possession, not broken and all.. however it has changed due to one accident caused by my maid, and many small accidents caused by me.
I wish I could put up a photo here, but I don't take pictures of my belongings often.. maybe it's because I feel okay just by seeing them already. Maybe I've got to change this habit.. though it really isn't a bad one..
HAOU AIREN
OWNED BY MANGAFOX (and whoever scanned and translated it). Original image link: http://www.mangafox.com/page/manga/read/111/haou_airen/chapter.26060/page.13/
I ain't claiming it as mine, since I'm only a reader. Really wish I could buy the book.. if only it's available in my language @__@ (so I can read it any time I want without worrying over computer)
Why did I choose this image? I think the Hakuron on the bottom panel looks especially gorgeous XDDD
Oh yeah. Hakuron Uon. 黑龍
When I read Love Celeb, I thought that Gin was already so handsome (and then changed), and then came Sakuya (changed again), and now... Hakuron! (unchanged) --refrains self from going fangirl mode
He is definitely the most good-looking among all-- well to me. I don't know why. As for personalities, since we're not discussing real men here, let's not talk about that... it sounds like I'm going to go back to my old self crazing over anime guys too much as if they're real.. okay let's move on.
I actually read about this series in Wikipedia. Heard it was popular so I wanted to read, but other than http://www.onemanga.com/ I didn't know many other free online-reading sites. I know there's more than a bunch but I just didn't know. I saw my host sister seeing this free online-reading site but translated to Chinese, and there's this series she's currently reading. My sole purpose of going to the website (http://www.8comic.com/ ) was to search what name was the series she read.
It's just me, to play these little detective games. That web turned out to have an English version, and so I checked. Yay, it has lots and also.. Haou Airen! Sadly, the chapters were unavailable for some kind of reason.
Next resort: google it. And yesh, I did succeed. http://www.mangafox.com/ is mah lifesaver LOL. I became addicted to it, and I became lazy on cleaning my room (I could clean my room with the time I have but I read online manga instead)... I finished reading it in a few days, but not consecutive.
Somehow, listening to songs I listened while reading the manga makes me remember.. I suppose it's normal in a logical way, but sometimes color does too.
The songs I listened while reading Haou Airen were: (I know this is just me, but it's a blog so it's supposed to bear with my babbles no matter what kind it is :p)
It's Amazing - Jem (Sex and The City OST)
Together When... - Ayumi Hamasaki
Prisoner Of Love - Utada Hikaru (Last Friends OST)
Womanizer - Britney Spears
薄荷與指甲(lit. Mint and Nail Scissors) - Rachel Liang (梁文音 Liang Wen-Yin)
Somewhere I Belong - Linkin Park
Perhaps Love (Mandarin version) - Howl & J
Truth - Nobuo Uematsu (FF8 OST - Edea's House background music)
Underlined means like 'reminders'. Maybe more related or something I don't know but my brain just picks it up?
Other examples are like I remember Utada Hikaru's songs for Kingdom Hearts by a certain color; white reminds me of Simple and Clean, and red reminds me of Sanctuary/Passion. I guess that's what you call impression?
RANMA 1/2
Can't say I have just gotten addicted to it. While I'm still in Indonesia me and my little brother love Ranma 1/2 comics and we always look for new volumes :D I love how she makes the comic crazy.
Now I check this almost everyday. I open computer, and my email inbox plus facebook is the first I will see. @___@""
Bye bye friendster...
CHINESE
For my holidays I've got personal homework stuffed up. Well I thank my teachers for helping me, giving me a book of Chinese idioms with bopomofo decorating each character so I can read (even though may be very extremely slow), and then old newspapers which also had bopomofo, and two books I borrowed from the library.
I really want to spend my holidays slacking off for some while, since even though my situation is much better than my schoolmates, I miss holidays. Chinese New Year is also close, which means I gotta clean up the room. Darn it... =_= oh well, might as well dig up some lost things. I lost some things, and most probably I forgot where I had put them. Moving to a new house needed a lot of small bags, one heavy sport bag, and very heavy luggage... my host dad even said I still have 6 months to go and it's already this many... woe is me.
Bicycle
Maybe this has been mentioned in the previous entries, but it's because I heard we're going to go cycling in Kaohsiung (高雄). My host mom did say she won't let me go if I can't ride, which would be no fun at all... Of course she's worried about my safety, but not being able to spend with people you're not going to meet for a long time in the future sucks. So, the solution is? Training.
Drawing
I don't know why but today out of boredom I produced some "self-proclaimed"good-looking artworks. I wish I could color them. I want to try submitting colored art in Deviantart, which is one of the reasons why I keep holding back on submitting arts.
MY BOLSTER
I miss it so much. Oh... I remember I named it HAKUTUCHI. When I was little.. oh.
MY OLD BLANKET
The blanket is still in my possession, not broken and all.. however it has changed due to one accident caused by my maid, and many small accidents caused by me.
I wish I could put up a photo here, but I don't take pictures of my belongings often.. maybe it's because I feel okay just by seeing them already. Maybe I've got to change this habit.. though it really isn't a bad one..
bicycleee
yeay i finally at least able to ride bicycle :D:D:D
but i don't think i'm going to the streets now, gotta practice my balance =_= i still go left and right and chances of tumbling is still kind of big...
but i don't think i'm going to the streets now, gotta practice my balance =_= i still go left and right and chances of tumbling is still kind of big...
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
Sepeda..
Hari ini akan mencoba naek sepeda.. semoga enggak ada yang pake lapangan deh.. ada malu, ada takut nabrak juga.
Taiwan sekolahnya kejam juga ya. Harusnya libur musim dingin malah masuk sekolah lagi.. apa-apaan itu. Untung gw boleh masuk boleh enggak. Ampe harus masuk cemberut deh. Hehehehehe
Taiwan sekolahnya kejam juga ya. Harusnya libur musim dingin malah masuk sekolah lagi.. apa-apaan itu. Untung gw boleh masuk boleh enggak. Ampe harus masuk cemberut deh. Hehehehehe
Friday, January 16, 2009
Goals
Everyone should have goals.
My goals are:
- be able to ride bicycle!
- learn calligraphy
- be more open
- learn chinese macrame
- learn more chinese words
Maybe it sounded like new years' resolutions but well, it's past so it would seem more like personal goals.
BICYCLE.
In Taiwan, many people use them. In Indonesia, people use cars since private drivers are not expensive. With me, I rode bicycle with the two small tires to help, and now I'm facing the two tires bike. I fell down a lot so you might not call that a trauma, because I'm just nervous.
IT REALLY HURT 'DOWN' THERE THANKS TO IMPROPER SEATING.
I suppose my host dad's right, I need a smaller bike first before I can advance to bigger bikes. I am tall, but still..
I think I've written some mental notes in my head. I don't really understand what my host dad told me yesterday, however he did say when the bike is going to fall, I'm not doing anything to prevent it. Maybe that's one of my problems. Braking all the time will hurt me more..
CALLIGRAPHY
A friend's mom taught me and said for a first-time try I'm good. It's fun after all, with my fondness of writing characters and all. Studying chinese painting won't do much with my remaining six months.
OPEN
I do realize I am a quiet person. Not that kind to always stay away from the crowd, however I always feel the need to know more people and all. Teen life...
When you're not invited to a big party, you feel it's unfair. Well it's not exactly a party, but the exchange students gather in that day and you're not invited. Unfair, I know and I missed my outside town exchange friends already. Blaming isn't a solution, no matter how much the devil inside my heart pressured me to @___@"""
It's passed, so I'll just forget about it (though it keeps on haunting me).
In front of my school friends I really feel I could be myself. I don't know why I'm feeling so unfamiliar with the other exchange students that sometimes I cover myself. The real me. Don't ask me why, I don't even know why do I want to do that.
Things happen for a reason, but you don't always know about it.
CHINESE
My first month in Taiwan went off pretty good or maybe so-so, but my Chinese isn't improving well. Big thanks to my host dad. Why? Actually he compared me with last year's Thailand exchange student.
Exchange students in Taiwan would understand that it's unfair. Thailand is like the reigning king or queen in Taiwan's exchange students. Most of them had studied Chinese before coming here, and I suppose that's why they're almost always at the top. Almost always.
But, I did not retaliate. Instead, I thought about it. There are thousands of possibilities what I might do, well maybe yes maybe no. I can just think it's unfair to compare people, and just refrain from studying Chinese any more, since my host family paid for my chinese classes and I could just make them sorry for it.
No thanks, I'm not going to do that. I've read the rules and agreements and what should you do to become a good exchange student. HOST FAMILY DOESN'T OWE YOU ANYTHING.
Yeah, that's a fact. Without them, I wouldn't be able to survive my one year. Maybe it's hard to make negatives become positives, but during my orientation a great person (HAHA) taught us exchange student candidates that if someone did something bad to you, take all the positives it might give; short-term or long-term.
I'm proud that I could make a negative to positive. Not being able to speak Chinese means you won't be able to communicate very well, knowing that in Taiwan not that many people can speak English. You might say I'm considerate, but maybe that's the way I am. I'm not forcing people to speak English to me, instead I think it's me who should improve. I am not in an English-speaking country. If you think logically, it shouldn't me them who makes all the effort (for exchange student's cases)
My four month is 27th December 2008. My mom said that three months would let you be able to speak Chinese already, minus the complicated or harder parts. Three months I'm ok, but of course I have improved more now. My second host family's English is far worse than my first, so I'm glad that I could communicate with them well.
I still need body languages sometimes, but I shall remember words too.
I'm of Indonesian nationality, yet I use English all the time in my blogs. Maybe it's just my habit to type English here.. =__="" but that doesn't mean my Indonesian is poor :p
My goals are:
- be able to ride bicycle!
- learn calligraphy
- be more open
- learn chinese macrame
- learn more chinese words
Maybe it sounded like new years' resolutions but well, it's past so it would seem more like personal goals.
BICYCLE.
In Taiwan, many people use them. In Indonesia, people use cars since private drivers are not expensive. With me, I rode bicycle with the two small tires to help, and now I'm facing the two tires bike. I fell down a lot so you might not call that a trauma, because I'm just nervous.
IT REALLY HURT 'DOWN' THERE THANKS TO IMPROPER SEATING.
I suppose my host dad's right, I need a smaller bike first before I can advance to bigger bikes. I am tall, but still..
I think I've written some mental notes in my head. I don't really understand what my host dad told me yesterday, however he did say when the bike is going to fall, I'm not doing anything to prevent it. Maybe that's one of my problems. Braking all the time will hurt me more..
CALLIGRAPHY
A friend's mom taught me and said for a first-time try I'm good. It's fun after all, with my fondness of writing characters and all. Studying chinese painting won't do much with my remaining six months.
OPEN
I do realize I am a quiet person. Not that kind to always stay away from the crowd, however I always feel the need to know more people and all. Teen life...
When you're not invited to a big party, you feel it's unfair. Well it's not exactly a party, but the exchange students gather in that day and you're not invited. Unfair, I know and I missed my outside town exchange friends already. Blaming isn't a solution, no matter how much the devil inside my heart pressured me to @___@"""
It's passed, so I'll just forget about it (though it keeps on haunting me).
In front of my school friends I really feel I could be myself. I don't know why I'm feeling so unfamiliar with the other exchange students that sometimes I cover myself. The real me. Don't ask me why, I don't even know why do I want to do that.
Things happen for a reason, but you don't always know about it.
CHINESE
My first month in Taiwan went off pretty good or maybe so-so, but my Chinese isn't improving well. Big thanks to my host dad. Why? Actually he compared me with last year's Thailand exchange student.
Exchange students in Taiwan would understand that it's unfair. Thailand is like the reigning king or queen in Taiwan's exchange students. Most of them had studied Chinese before coming here, and I suppose that's why they're almost always at the top. Almost always.
But, I did not retaliate. Instead, I thought about it. There are thousands of possibilities what I might do, well maybe yes maybe no. I can just think it's unfair to compare people, and just refrain from studying Chinese any more, since my host family paid for my chinese classes and I could just make them sorry for it.
No thanks, I'm not going to do that. I've read the rules and agreements and what should you do to become a good exchange student. HOST FAMILY DOESN'T OWE YOU ANYTHING.
Yeah, that's a fact. Without them, I wouldn't be able to survive my one year. Maybe it's hard to make negatives become positives, but during my orientation a great person (HAHA) taught us exchange student candidates that if someone did something bad to you, take all the positives it might give; short-term or long-term.
I'm proud that I could make a negative to positive. Not being able to speak Chinese means you won't be able to communicate very well, knowing that in Taiwan not that many people can speak English. You might say I'm considerate, but maybe that's the way I am. I'm not forcing people to speak English to me, instead I think it's me who should improve. I am not in an English-speaking country. If you think logically, it shouldn't me them who makes all the effort (for exchange student's cases)
My four month is 27th December 2008. My mom said that three months would let you be able to speak Chinese already, minus the complicated or harder parts. Three months I'm ok, but of course I have improved more now. My second host family's English is far worse than my first, so I'm glad that I could communicate with them well.
I still need body languages sometimes, but I shall remember words too.
I'm of Indonesian nationality, yet I use English all the time in my blogs. Maybe it's just my habit to type English here.. =__="" but that doesn't mean my Indonesian is poor :p
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