Blog...Blog...Blog....

I think everybody is rushing to finish their 12 blog entries. Maybe it sound easy for some people, but for me it is 
really hard. Ineed to find a lot of topics to talk about especially because I miss a lot of daily posts. 

Some people think that writing a blog is boring, but actually I find it ver interesting and fun because we can share something with other people and read their comments about our blog entries. Sometimes they can give you a very useful suggestion to improve our language or we can also read the comments about their different opinion that is contradict with ours.

But all the funs of writing a blog become a very boring thing because sometimes we just lack of interesting topics that 
can attract our stressed out mind and relax it.
From the blog, I sometimes find something that makes me eager to know and it will make me to read and read until i finish it all.
That is kinda cool becaus by one reading we can know more about the things that we don't know.

So, have you guys finished writing your 12 blog entries?
You can find it interesting even tough sometimes it is a boring work to write about something in it.

-Valencia-

Unlimited wants Part II : How far is too far?

I am a big fan of the novel shopaholic series. It was such a fun book to read and i recommend it to you girls who loves fashion and also to you girls who love shopping! Anyways the novel basically tells the story of this one woman who loves to shop, and when i said love i mean she is obsessed. We all know when there is an obsession involved it is no longer healthy. And her passion for shopping ended up ruining her life. She calls herself a shopaholic which as you all know means crazy for shopping.

In the novel, what is described as a shopaholics are those who would do anything to shop, even if they have to borrow other's money. Shopaholic would still shop even though they know they are broke, unemployed, and have very little if not no money at all. They would shop using their credit card and never pay the bills. It is kind of scary, right? In the novel, i is also described that the main character would buy things she does not need, and she would also buy ridiculously useless things that she cannot even remember buying.

The problem with those shopaholics is that they cannot resist temptation. Once they see one thing they like, they would buy it, no matter what situations they are in. Even though they are broke or even if the thing is not for themself, they would not think twice to buy the things. I personaly think it is not some sort of sickness but it is just a bad habbit.

When you buy EVRYTHING you want, not caring about whether you can afford it or not, then you might be a shopaholic. Always keep in mind that you should never go too far in shopping; meaning if all you think about is shopping, beware. If you see yourself similar to the categories mentioned above then you should definitely change your shopping style and improve you mix and matching skills.

-Angelina-

Unlimited wants : Do you really NEED it?

As a girl i think we all understand that shopping is a guilty pleasure and one of the most irresistible things that the world could offer. I , myself is really fond of shopping and i could just spend days shopping (or spending my parents' money) without ever feeling tired or satisfied. I would usually stop shopping when i started to realize that its not my own money that i'm spending and there are other important things to do in life besides shopping. Though, i have to admit that shopping is one enjoyable activity that could relieve me from stress and that could sometimes make me forget about time. i usually love to shop for clothes, handbags, accessories, and even food. One of the things that i don't like to shop for, in the other hand are electronic things.

We all know fashion come and go. According to Heidi Klum (a former model and reality tv presenter), "In fashion, one moment it's in, and the next thing you know it's out!". That explains why most of us are never really satisfied with what we already own. When i want something; a bag for example and i finally have it, i would be very happy about it for a while. But then i'm gonna start reading more fashion magazines and look at new trends from the new season's collection and i would most likely desire another bag. This is a problem i have that i know some of the girls (or guys) also have. But then again, you can't always have what you want and it's not easy to get money and spend it on new handbags every new season. But the desire is still within us and that desire will haunt our every minute, until we decided to buy that certain thing that we wanted.

What i usually do is think twice before i buy a certain thing that i want. I sometimes want something just because it looks pretty, whether it might be useful or not. I always have a question in mind before i buy something; am i buying this because i NEED it, or is it just because i WANT it? Then i would ask other's opinion if the thing suits me or if it is really worth the price i'm gonna have to pay for it. If i ended up not buying the thing, of course i would be upset, but hey, fashion come and go and there will always be another season coming up. There is a big possibility that there will be much better things coming out the next season and all i have to do is wait. Or i could just be thankful for what i already have and use it to the maximum. Because not everyone could be as fortunate as me, considering that there are so many people out there that even struggle just to have a decent place to live and also food to eat.

So think about what you already have. Also before buying something, think twice. Do you really NEED it? Or is it just what you WANT?

-Angelina-

Weekend blast : Sleepover, reunion, and so much more.

Last week is rather refreshing and for the first time in a month period i finally remember what its like to be free. After long days and nights of studying and reading boring textbooks and such, last week i got the chance to let out all frustrations and boredom. What made last week even better is that my parents, my sister, her husband and my baby niece were away for the whole weekend! it was absolutely peaceful and quiet in the house.

One word to describe my last weekend would be : PERFECT
What made my fabulous peaceful weekend perfect? I would have to say my friends. So two of my friends actually came later on Friday night and they decided to sleepover my house. They came around 11-ish at night, just after they attended the Friday night concert ( They told me it was awsome! it's such a shame i couldn't go with them). Of course, they didn't come with empty hands; because they brought along a box of hot fried chicken from McD. It was guilty pleasure of course but its okay to have junk food once in a while on special occasions like this, right?
When girls get together and have sleepover together, i think then the greatest guilty pleasures would be doing each other a makeover and gossip. We didn't really do the first one, but we sure did some gossiping. Me and my friends ended up staying up until l around 2 am, gossiping through our whole night until we got sleepy and all of us fell a sleep.

Okay the next morning i had a math lesson but let's just not talk about that. After math lesson, i went to see a hilarious new indonesian movie called quickie express. I also had lunch at sushi tei. But i would have to say that the highlight of the day was meeting my friend who moved to england earlier this year. She is here in Indonesia for Christmas break and i am excited! Also we had dinner with some other friends and we chat and we also shared experiences. It was a fun night because i missed her so much and after about 4 months of not seeing her we finally got to catch up with her and everything.

All in all i had a very awsome weekend and i know this would probably only happen a couple times a year. But my friends are the one who made this weekend wonderful for without them it there would not be any kind of fun going on in my weekend.

-Angelina-

Christmas lalala...

ALOHAAA.....

The school is almost over and christmas is coming, have you plan your vacation trip?
I saw an advertisement in Disney Channel says that there will be a big party in Hong Kong Dineyland. There will be many spectacular shows and parade. Last year they held the party in Tokyo and this year will be in Hong Kong.

We can already feel the Christmas in school. People are buying candy grams for their friends and start decorating the coridors
(I hope grade 11 will win the competition with the Pink Christmas)

But why is the holiday only 3 weeks? I need moree holidays!!!
I think it will be hard to come back to school after the holiday. Honestly, I have spent this las two weeks of school just with watching DVDs and doing nothing at home, I have already felt the holiday sindrome that makes people feel lazy and don't want to do any work. And you know, I just ignore my homeworks and just do it at last minute (just likr this blogs)

I am just wondering what present i will get at the christmas day. In my old school, we usually take a draw and exchange gift with our partner from that draw. But we must not find out who is the partner until the Christmas day and it become a big surprise for us. Usually, our partner is a guy and we are shy to give the gift to him bacause people will talk about the exchange gift and we don't want people to make gossip from it.

Do we have such exchange gift in SPH? I hope there will be one someday because it is realy fun.

So guys, have you decided where you're going and what will you do during this Cristmas break?


-Valencia-

Elvis Presley

Ni Hao!!!

About 3 days ago I wrote about a legendary band, and today i want to talk about Elvis Presley, "The King of Rock 'n' Roll"!!!

Elvis is one of my favorite singer, even though his songs are oldish but I think his songs are great and really fun. We can feel sad, happy, joyfull and other feelings by listening to his songs. When I listen to his songs, suddenly i can sing with the song or dance that is unusual forme because i don't like singing or dancing.

Elvis Presley was an American singer with the rock and roll style, but he also sang many mello songs, one of them is Can't Help Falling in Love. I'm not sure if it it was a mello song but at least it was a slow beat song. Many of his songs are used as soundtracks in many modern movies, for example is Lilo and Stitch. Or we can hear is song in the new film, Game Plane, when the Rock sings one of Elvis songs.

Not only a singer, Elvis was an actor too. He plays some films in Hollywood but unfortunately his films were not as famous as his songs. Nowadays, people start to reproduce Elvis's films but I think the reproduced films will not as successful as his reproduce albums.

Elvis was a great singer and always give great performance but behind those great work he had done, his family was broken. He suspected that his wife had affair with another man. He became really depressed and he paid a murderer to kill that man. Fortunately, he cancel it and he just divorced with his wife. After his divorce he became overweight and he used drugs that really affected his health.

He died in age 42 because of too much health proplem and some of them chronic. He was reburied at Graceland. Now, it become the museum of Elvis presley with all af his old stuff, including his costumes that worth a very high price.

-Valencia-

"QUESTION OF MY THOUGHTS":

Why is it hard to forget somebody?

It looks like that not even the most advance computer have beaten the memory of a person. I admit that I'm a very forgetful person. Just check the school's office, some of the ladies there know that I lost many things so it's normal if go to the office quite often. I hate the most if I lost my handphone because I did lost a couple and more. Everytime it happen, I felt I want to cry because all of the memory that I kept inside there is gone forever.

But it's different with a person. I don't forget a person that easily. Actually, I'm really good at recognizing people's faces but I'm totally bad at remembering names. I have to interact directly with that new person in order for me to remember their names completely. However, I would always remember their faces especially when I took a good look for only once.

One of the reasons for why it is hard to forget somebody meaningful in my life is that the memories that had been spent through. For instance, my family and my closest friends, they are part of my life and I would never forget them even if they would leave me forever. It's too hard to forget because the time that we spent together are both irreplaceable and irreversible. The time spent could only be live inside my memory which held strong the memory of that person for as long as I live.

Memory is the strongest force that prevents me from forgetting someone.

It really hurts when you know that the person would never come back but everything that you do always reminds you about the same person. I bet that everyone would go through that phase in life even though it stings the heart. Therefore, I recommend that we have to always have good relationships with other people to minimize the regrets you'll be burdened with when that person is totally gone forever.

But always keep the people you love to be living in your mind, be happy for it and let the memory accompany you for the rest of your life.

BRATZ

Ok people! let's talk about BRATZ the movie!

I think Bratz movie is quite simple, you don't have to think much when you watch it. You can directly know the ending of the movie and the storyline is similar with My Super Sweet 16 the movie. It starts with very different best friends, they go to new school and meet new people, suddenly their friendship is broken, each of them goes with in their own way, but at the end they realize thati they have done something wrong and become best friends again.
Both movie also use fashionable dresses and glamorous parties. and the amazing thing is that MTV Super Sweet 16 is involved in the film too.

In Bratz, there are sweet things that make the movie different fom others. I like their hardwork to help their friend and even though they are different, they can out their differences together to create a new unique thing with their own specialities. It also shows that a fashionable girl can be also good in math, soccer, and other things. And also I like the deaf guy (I forgot his name), I think he is quite cute and I love the way he listen to musics by feeling its vibration and hear it with his heart. It shows that nothing can stop people to express their feelings and what they like, especialy art or music.

Btw, don't you realize that the girls in Bratz really look like the real Bratz doll, especially their eyes!?

I like the Bratz's costumes. They are very unique and have their own style. I like the Clown costumes the most. Even though it just clown costumes but they can modify it and change a silly clown costume to a fashionable costume plus the cool make up. Unfortunately, the cast don't really sing their song beacause it is obvious that they just do lip sings. But anyways, over all is good and you may want to watch it again and again.

-Valencia-

YURAKU Restaurant

Hello everybody!

I want to share something with you. I know that most people like to eat so i want to share this.

Yesterday, I had a dinner with my family in Kelapa Gading Mall. We found an "all you can eat" restaurant, Yuraku. It serves yakiniku, shabu-shabu and other food. you can eat as much as you can but you have to eat them all or els they will charge it as 1 portion and you have to pay more. The price is not really expensive, for adult: monday-friday is Rp 69,000/person and saturday-sunday is 71,900/person.

They serve the foods in raw material, so we have to cook it by ourselves. We can boil it or bake it. There are beef, pork, fishes, squid, shrimp, siomay and other kind of dim sum, salad, ice cream, many kind of drinks, many kinds of soup,  puddings, sausage , meat ball, fish ball, and many more.

If you want to go there, you have to prepare your stomach. Do not eat any thing first, so you can eat much there.

I don't know if you can find it in other place besides Kelapa Gading because I never saw it before. The place is cozy and it quite like Hanamasa but I think Yuraku is cheaper and you can eat a lot there.

So, enjoy the food guys!

-Valencia-