A manga-based movie entitled Kimi Ni Todoke (Reaching You) took upon a journey about love at first sights of two contrasting characters on the Ceremony Day of High School. Needless to say, endless struggles had been tackled before the lovebirds could be together.
I love this movie. I feel ashamed of not reading the manga first and just being my lazy ol'self to watch the live action drama instead. I was jerking up with tears during the beginning of the movie. This was absolutely embarrassing but honestly I have a weak spot on stories about someone being bullied or someone being an outcast and then there would be this one hero or several kindhearted characters that would go beyond boundaries of status to be the bullied character's friend. OOps, forgot to say spoiler alert, this was a tiny-bit of what happened in the movie.
I have never cried so much after watching a movie like this. Not even watching A Walk to Remember could lead me to shedding buckets of tears. I would love to re-watch this again in the future and test if my heart would again sink in the touching scenes offered in this sweet movie.
ps (on a totally different notice) : Safe flight to Ci Fen2 on her way back to Surabaya from Sydney!
Been infatuated with Japanese culture these days as a result of reading too many shoujo mangas. I love Greeen too. Check out one of their musics down below.
Today Cim and I had to go to the city to get a Japanese Visa. We got the requirements document packed in our bags before we went there. We have never been there before and we were going around in circles with a gps in hand, and the building that we were looking for was right there all along right before our noses. And at 3, our documents were checked. Guess what, our photos were not qualified enough and were rejected. Not to mention, we printed the wrong period of time of transactions. We still got an hour before the Japanese Consulate closes (at four sharp). About to lose hope, we took the bus home, but then an idea popped up, we should just find the nearest post office and print out the transactions at the bank.
Printing the transactions should be fast but we were so conscious about printing the wrong section. We were waiting for assistance despite the fact that we could do it by ourselves. When that's done, we scurried to the nearest post office but we saw a nearby pharmacy and it could print out passport photos. Without more hesitation, we entered and asked if we could print out a 4.5cm by 4.5cm passport photo. The nice lady said yes but we had to wait a bit longer as she was assisting another man. It really bugged me out waiting. I tried to be as calm as possible. Cim was on the phone trying to persuade the office if we could hand in the documents a bit later. But she was rejected.
Anyway at about 25minutes to 4, we finished everything and we quickly catch a bus and at 5 minutes to 4 we made it. We were burning hot and sweating like a pig. Our efforts were not in vain. It got accepted and we were praying for the visa to finish on time, latest by Friday as we need our passports on Monday because we're leaving back to Indonesia. (They're closed on weekends).
Afterwards, we took a stroll around the city and even visited QVB and the Galleries. This day was exhausting for both of us.
<3
it's beginning to look a lot like christmas
Cim.
I want this so bad!!!
When we got back home, we got some packings to do again.
The last day of holiday! Tomorrow I'll be starting the first week of second semester in my first year of my Medical Science major. I should maximise the end of this fantastic memorable holiday with a sushi buffet at Sushi Tengoku!
The buffet started at 8. It was super exciting. I had never experienced a sushi buffet before. Moreover, it was a while since I ate my last sushi in Sydney.
Ci Fen2 and Ci Lily
first dish
the tofu is nice
this is good. calamari i guess?
sushi!
aaaa! the best one of all!
The dinner was extremely great. It was delicious! However, I couldn't enjoy the dinner optimally. I was worried if I would get another strike after my 6th strike and a final warning has been imposed. I was eating the food really fast. I should eat it in a more slow mode to savour all the juicy flavours inside this piece of art. I was Facebook-messaging my RA to help me out defending me to the other RA that I was going to be late and that I could get away with it. She said she could help me and I was a bit relieved.
At 10, we started moving out, and I arrived at the terraces at 20 minutes pass 10. I saw Grace's text that the RA hadn't knocked on her door yet. So, basically I passed the bed check. And no strike for me. I was really grateful for the RA who was trying to help me though.
Atashin'chi, one of my favorite childhood animes. I have been rewatching this series recently. However, I have only downloaded 7 episodes so far. It is really hard to find the other remaining 200-sth episodes. grr..
Btw, I haven't been blogging much lately. This is because, my laptop has some troubles in opening Blogger, Facebook, Youtube lately. Yes, I haven't been watching youtube videos in weeks! ARGH! On the contrary though, I am obsessed with all the series I downloaded online.
Atashin'chi is a Japanese anime series about a typical family's activities would be like. It's like the Japanese version of The Simpsons.
This series was aired a long time ago at RCTI (Indonesia's tv channel), probably when I was still in preschool. I would wake up really early to be able to watch this. Those good times.
Days ago, I came across this Japanese Girl Band known as Scandal on TV. And honestly, their music video on Shunken Sentimental is awesome! They kinda remind me of K-on for some reason. But, two thumbs up! They are really cool showing off their band skills.
Anyway, I got my English Research Essay assignment today! It is extremely satisfying! Hard work does really pay off. I mean, I have printed 4 times for this essay and I have gone back and forth consulting with my English teacher. Thank God so much for this!
Next, I am in the middle of watching youtube videos on nail tutorial arts. I'm planning to paint my nails again. As the vintage floral nails are chipping out everyday, I should quickly replace them with something else if I could find myself the time. I mean, it is almost final exam. Moreover, I, sometimes, feel distracted every time I have a new nail coats. I would get paranoid or instead of studying I would observe my nails. Such a waste of time right. Speaking of wasting time, I did the most ridiculous thing ever while preparing myself for Math Mock the other day. I was in a lot of stress, and everything around me seems very interesting at the time, especially the torchlight Denny gave me recently.
I took the torchlight and started directing it to my eyes to dilate my pupils. I spent 5 solid minutes watching my pupils dilate in front of the mirror with the torchlight.
Okay, back to nail polish topic, I found this cute youtube channel, Cutepolish
I think I'm going to paint my nails with a leopard print.. I have been craving it since yesterday. But this just have to wait until I have finished my semester exam.
This brings me to a closing, I have to go now and hit the books. Bye..
As I have mentioned in my previous post, I am going to blog about my last lab day today! As usual, we have Chemistry lab first which is followed by Physics Lab. What's different about today's last lab is that our Physics Lab was conducted by Mr Arnold, the new physics teacher.
After doing our Chemistry practicals, we still got half an hour more before entering Physics Lab. We ate our breakfast downstairs. I think I'm going to miss the shop's gorengan. Especially the bala-bala. They taste wonderful.
eating2..
Subsequently, there are still some more time to kill, so we went upstairs again to take pictures with our chemistry teacher, Stephen Fletcher. Alas, Delvin was too busy to join us, so we did the photos without him.
Nicho, Denny, Citra, Felix, Mr Stephen Fletcher, me, Sharon
with Miss Fitri. She's the lab assistant
Regrettably, we didn't take photos in the physics lab because we were too busy doing two practicals at once. Moreover, we were about to hang out after lab session, so we were in a rush.
Later on, Citra, Nicho, Felix and I together headed to Plaza Indonesia and EX. We were not in the same car though. There was heavy traffic on the way to the mall. Traffic is such a major problem in Jakarta. It should be overcome as soon as possible.
Upon arriving PI/EX, we decided to eat lunch at Fat Burger. Chatted there too. Apparently, there was this cool jukebox inside the fastfood restaurant. I should have taken a photo of it.
my lunch
Citra and Nicholas
me and Felix
After lunch, the four of us started to stroll around the mall again while waiting for Fenny to arrive. Then we took these photos at an apple store at EX. Felix even set our photo as the wallpaper desktop.. -_-
We proceeded to J.CO for a yoghurt and more chit-chats.
Citra and me
Felix and Nicho
Moving on, Bakerzin here we come! We were actually a bit confused on which shop we should stop by next. We were thinking of stopping by Lamoda but then we have all decided to just come by to Bakerzin.
BAKERZIN
My greentea and red velvet macaroon @ Rp.8,5k each
Citra's millefeuille
citra, me, felix and nicho
nicho and felix
tasted really good! my macaroon craving has been fulfilled.
unaware of using other people's property
I forgot what I was doing then..
mirror, mirror on the wall
At about 4, Fenny came after submitting her research essay to Uniprep. It was time for Citra, Nicho and Felix to leave for PIK too. They had another outing which they had to attend. So we bid goodbye, and I started going around the mall with Fenny. But first, we bought movie tickets. It has been quite a while since I watch movies at the cinemas. We bought movie tickets to watch Looper at 5 in the evening.
In order to kill time, we went to pancious, Fenny was craving for waffles, so there we went. We talked there too :)
Fenny covering herself
Ice Green Apple Tea, really refreshing! *must-try
Fenny's waffles
We talked for quite some time. Thank you Fenny for the drink :)
At 5, we went back to the theater for Looper.. Looper sounds so cute. Doesn't sound that intimidating at all perhaps.
The movie for today would be Loopers, starring
Joseph-Gordon Levitt, Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt. A story about a
futuristic city with the presence of time machine and the power of
telekinesis that connects the past and the future of everybody.
Basically, 'loopers' is a term used a lot in the film which means a
person who is in charge of killing future people sent by the time
machine at a specific time. Obviously, loopers were quite the trendy job
in the film. They were rich because after killing the "loop" (the
person delivered by the time machine), they would get silver bars and
golden bars which were the currency in this movie. Apparently, loopers
were bad people and in 30 years time, there was the so-called Rainmaker
who had taken control of the 5 (or maybe 6, I forgot) major parts of the
world to wipe out these loopers. A guy named Joe decided to demolish
the Rainmaker when it was his turn to be killed by the looper who turned
out to be himself from the past. Not to mention during the process of
him being taken as captive, his beloved wife was shot dead. To seek
vengeance, he decided to track down young Rainmaker and kill him before
he had control over the world. To make a long story short, past Joe
decided to sacrifice himself in order to save young Rainmaker from
having to have an evil future.
You might want to check
out the thriller-action movie yourself to see more details in the film.
Honestly, Fenny and I had some shocked moments. It's a good thing, we
have covered ourselves with a blanket.
watch the trailer
ps: I feel Joseph-Gordon Levitt looked a bit different than he usually looks, which bothers me a lot
After the movie, we bought some bubble teas before crossing for Grand Indonesia. Oh yeah we met Diana too at EX. What a coincidence. At GI, we strolled around, window-shopping @ Forever 21, then we went to this cute Japanese shop called "Scoop" . It is incredibly adorable. You have got to visit it.
Scoop
scoop
ps: I took the risk of taking these photos, there were people looking. --"
All in all, awesome day and no more waking up early to Subud for lab session. Yippee
