photo taken by me in Imjingtak, DMZ

I love this colour which represent happiness, cheerful, bright, and sunny day! What's your favourite?

Suddenly feel the urge to write. A kind of question that floating around in your head for a while because you're not sure how to answer it (even how to ask it to another person), and you ignore it at some point you forget about it, until out of sudden you finally have the answer.

Yeah, I had it. I found my answer though, not the perfect answer, but my kind of answer. The question is: why people travel? Or so, why do I travel? What's the point of travelling that becomes so important that people or even my self addicted and can't live without it? 

People already have place called home, and it's like the safest place on earth, the most comfortable one. For me at first, t didn't make sense of people to leave place like that. Oh yeah, I'm one of that group that saying "leave your comfort zone!" and "there's a life outside your comfort zone", but secretly wishing I don't have to goo anywhere everyday (it's dangerous out there you know).

This one also a good reason for traveling, though.
(credit: chicquero.com)

But then I remember, there are some people who still searching that kind of place called home. Or should I say, the place that they are belongs to. Honestly, I haven't found it either. Oh, I know my home is right there, Indonesia, where my mom and dad and my little sister are sleeping right now (probably, I'm not sure what they are doing right now...).

But to find the place that you belong to... I think it's different. The place that suddenly you just can fit in perfectly. Out of sudden you just fit the scenery beautifully. It's not weird to have you there, you're supposed to be there. A place that just makes you know who you are. 

I think that's why people like to travel. Wether they realise it or not, they want to find that kind of place to finally fit in, to finally belong. 

We are all a weirdo, though, don't worry.

If you already found that kind of place, congratulation, lucky you :) 

Nadhila

Currently need to read Sherlock Holmes for her quiz on Tuesday  

and remembering she has another quiz on monday.

A little news, I'm in Seoul now for exchange student (yayy!). I'm currently adapting with this Korean culture and language and the fact that I'm a thousand miles from my supporting system (family and friends). Well, that's life. You'll get the magic outside the comfort zone they say. We'll see what kind of magic I will get ;)

Welcome to Hanok Village! 

A little picture from Jeonju, 3 hours from Seoul by bus, I found very beautiful village, Hanok Village.

The famous jeonju bibimbap

What I cannot get so I take a picture :p

Strange long ice cream but taste good!

Wish me a lot of luck will you?
Nadhila

Currently Skype-ing with my favourite girls <3

Once, I had this tiring trip from Pare to Bali by car with bunch of friends that I met on this trip. It took almost 8 hours I guess, inside the car with 4 people in not so big chair. It was enough. Too enough, we couldn't move freely, scared that other people would feel more uncomfortable than we already were. I remember the uncomfortable almost unbearable at some point we thought that we wouldn't make it to Bali (we even thought that we were going to be sold to some bad people outside the country, yeah it was that scary).

Maybe at that time I put this calm face, trying so hard to keep my temperament under control because I was with stranger and no I couldn't explode and trying not to whine cause it would make me remember how hard it was, and one of my friend asked me, "You look so comfortable with this. Are you use to it?"

I blinked. A couple times. Being a person who always response with the first word that come to her mind, I laughed a little and answered, "Yeah, I guess. I always going for my parents's hometown every year for Eid." And the silence came, for him trying to hold his impatient by sleeping in such uncomfortable pose. For me, I was thinking a lot. The fact is, yeah I guess I didn't get as uncomfortable as he was. As he might be regretting the decision joining the trip, I might be secretly enjoying the uncomfortable that I got.

We finally made it to Bali, though.
Taken by Teh Aulia edited by me

The realisation made me think a lot until today. I don't know if I can categorize my self as a traveler, but well, I do love travel. But not in the level like everyone seems to talk about. My family love to travel to be exact. Every year, or in every chance we got, we have this family trip for holiday. Beaches are our favourite. Sometimes we make it like weekend getaway. Mostly it's because my mother loves adventure but she's home most of the time, so my dad always take her (and us, my sister and I) to other places that far away from our home but reachable by car since my dad is the one who drives.

And I loove those trip. A lot. But does it count?

I guess I just love being on the road. For being constantly moving and seeing fast changing scenery from the window. The feeling of being dynamic. I love my effort for trying hard to endure the pain by reminding the prize that waiting in the end of the road, the destination.

Sometimes in my boring routines, I turn my head to the window, hoping it were moving and I were in the car, listening my dad's kind of music (difficult jazz and old songs), being uncomfortable yet comfortable in the same time. Well, I will have those in less from 24 hours! Excited, excited. Weird, huh? :)

Let's meet in the long boring journey one day ;)

Nadhila

Currently unwilling to pack her things because of the laziness,

despite how cute her pink suitcase is.

She's finally here! Kiku The Clumsy One, keke. My first character and through her, a lot of stories (hopefully) will come! So yes, she's the character based on my own obvious yet annoying trait; clumsy. I dropped my own glass of lemon tea in my car this evening :''. My younger sister keeping all her stuff, avoiding me so I can't touch it and finally drop it TT And yeah, a little secret is sometimes I left stain on my clothes after eating :'' Don't ask me for lunch/dinner date seriously. And don't ask me why her name is like this one character of children magazine, Bobo, will you? This is not coincidence and well maybe I like Paman Kikuk a little bit, so yeah, haha, Kiku maybe his own late-to-reveal child.

So, tomorrow I have a LOT things to do, seriously a lot, and I have to finish it tomorrow because the due date is tomorrow. In my defense, I'm not procrastinate it (well maybe a little bit). I'm just lack of this ability, how do I say it? The point is I always set the wrong timeline, so my timing is not right most of the time sometimes.

Will you give me a good luck for tomorrow?  

Nadhila

Currently realising that pink is every girl's colour,

like every girl will absolutely looks gorgeous in pink!

Halo, saya menulis dengan bahasa ibu. Keputusan ini diambil dengan pertimbangan: what's best describe my feeling? Bagi saya bahasa itu bukan hanya sebuah alat berkomunikasi, namun juga sebuah sarana untuk berekspresi. Kadang, ada beberapa ekspresi lebih tepat jika dikatakan dalam bahasa Inggris, Korea, Jepang, atau Indonesia. Sebuah eskpresi yang datangnya dari hati harus dapat disampaikan dengan medium yang tepat agar sesuai pesan yang dimaksudkan si penulis.

Sayang, dengan jujur saya masih nggak tau arah blog ini kemana :'') Mungkin hanya catatan personal dari pikiran-pikiran random yang disusun agak lebih rapih. Mungkin dengan motto go with the flow saya bisa menemukan apa yang ingin saya tulis, apa yang ingin saya lakukan. Kedengeran labil banget yah? Hahahahaha. I tend to have opinion about everything actually :p (who doesn't? Duh). Meski serandom apa pun pengen aja di-share, keke. Hmp, apa sih nad malem-malem gini.

Her name is Kiku, I'll introduce her in the next post, heheh.
Teaser of the day! 

Anywayyy, I've been really observant to blog who has this magical feeling that makes you crave more and more only because of the writing. It's just pure beauty. Art. Their words are powerful enough to make you stay for hours in their blog (which is rare for me because I'm easily bored without pict at all). Do I adore them? Of course. Do I wanna be like them? Not so sure, heheh. Look all these messy writing! And I don't know if that kind of writing is the right medium for me to express my self. I don't know, let's see :)

Good luck for you people who has this skill of writing, you'll be big someday, 

I know. I hope the best for you, I even will buy your book!

Nadhila

Currently has complicated feeling, 

finishing her intern but still has something to do at work

Came home at late night and everybody's sleeping already. So I decided to wait my dad who hadn't come yet even though my body was tired and dying to sleep. Just to have a single hug from my dad. I guess it gave me the proof that I'm really at home. I'm home :)

This post was actually written by someone who hadn't come home in 1 week (5 days to be exact). Can't imagine how homesick I'll be in 6 months journey of Korea later TT--TT But yeah, I will survive, I guess (I have to) :') But seriously, I am this homey type of girl, doesn't really enjoy going out, but happy only by staying at home with books or nice movies :))