Snatched from suketeru  ❤

Because I simply love New York City ♥
Because Pi is so pretty & かっこいい in this PV, despite his so so voice xD
Because Loveless is the theme of what happened today! *throws the sarcasm at a certain someone*

If you found out you only had six months left to live, what would you do with the rest of your life? Do you have a "bucket list"?


During our community's (called Domus Cordis -- DC for short) internal retreat last August 2009, Fr. Deshi SJ (DC moderator) threw the same question during one of the sessions he gave. He told us to write the top 3 priority things we would do if we only had six months left to live.

So here goes my bucket list (top 3 only):
1. Get married. I really wanna have at least one offspring to create future generations of my bloodline & continue my family tree, but 6 months left to live is not enough to make a child! ○|￣|＿
2. Travel all around the world with my family.
3. Treat my inner circle to good food as often as possible, coz I love culinary and I wanna spread the love Ｏ(≧∇≦)Ｏ

What's with the "... days/months left to live" questions in Writer's Block lately? (O_O；)

More importantly: why do I enjoy answering them? 八(＾□＾*)

ムキャアアアアアアアア～～～～～～！！ Nodame Cantabile The Movie I ♥♥♥

Trailer from Nippon Cinema:



Handsome Chiaki in glasses! ♥
Thin Chiaki with sunken cheek *cries*
But still handsome! GYABOOOO～ ♥_♥

And Nodameeee～ *hugs*

My favorite manga!
My favorite couple!
My first dorama I've ever watched that made me fall in love with the dorama world and its ikemen! xD
My favorite soundtrack!

I SO CANNOT WAIT TO SEE～！
*brb dying*

What band are you dying to see live in concert that you've never seen before? Would you travel to a different city or state just to see them?


Not really dying, but I'd love to see KAT-TUN live in concert. I would travel to Japan just to see them, yup. Especially to see Jin in flesh  and hear his sugoooi voice ♥
But first, I'm gonna need to learn Japanese, which is what I'm lazy to start  ○|￣|＿


It's October 7th, so...

お誕生日おめでとう、 生田斗真～！
Keep being a peacemaker and I hope your acting skill gets better and better! ＼(＾▽＾*)

ヽ（＾０＾）た（＾。＾）だ（＾−＾）い（＾Ｏ＾）ノま

I got back last night (Friday evening, Sep 25th). My body clock still follows Sydney time, so I crashed bed immediately upon finishing unpacking and woke up very early in the morning. Still very tired coz I didn't get enough sleep the night before and from walking too much in Melbourne & Sydney!

I wanted to write about my Australia trip, but I still don't have the energy to edit photos, etc.
So I'm mostly just catching up with LJ and Twitter updates, as well as downloading torrents, because I couldn't do so in Australia for fear of being reported & sued (because there were warnings everywhere).

Let's play a bit with Blogthings & my name! ヾ(｡・ω・｡)`*

My real name is Elysia, I bet only very few of you know that.

Everyone called me Elysia until I graduated from high school. During high school, I changed my nickname to Elyse to shorten it. So from then on, I am called Elyse, and I even introduce myself as Elyse. That explains why my current friends don't know my real name (＿ ＿；)

I thought, perhaps nicknames have their own meanings, too. It might have an impact to your personality.... or not? I don't know. Either way, these are the Blogthings results for both names:




Bottomline is.... no wonder I'm becoming more and more cold-hearted since I changed my nickname. I went from yellow to gray! xD

This is just for fun, obviously~ *lol*

It's 7.30am and I haven't slept at all...
In about 2.5 hours my family and I will be leaving to the airport en route Australia.

Actually, it was a last minute decision. 3 weeks ago, upon my dad's sudden idea that we go to Australia for Lebaran holiday, we started to search for tickets and found that they were all fully booked. We even asked tours (although we don't like going on a tour!), but mostly they were either fully booked or not enough people, thus they might cancel their tour.

After a day full of frantic phone calls, the following day we luckily got a positive answer from Best Tour. They got spare group tickets for their tour (which is confirmed to go because they've reached their minimum of 15 people) and sold us only the international tickets, so we could arrange our own itinerary as we wish. Awesome! Just what I love to do: researching on accommodations & domestic plane tickets on my own!

Oh, thankfully my dad and I already got our Australian visas from last year, so we didn't have to reapply. Good thing the visas for my mom & bro only took a week to process.

Here's the itinerary (for me & mom):
18: Jakarta - Melbourne
19: Arrive Melbourne
20: Melbourne
21: Melbourne - Sydney
22: Sydney
23: Sydney
24: Sydney
25: Sydney - Jakarta

And here's the itinerary (for bro & dad):
18: Jakarta - Melbourne
19: Arrive Melbourne
20: Melbourne
21: Melbourne - Gold Coast
22: Gold Coast - Sydney
23: Sydney
24: Sydney
25: Sydney - Jakarta

Yup, my mom and I will skip Gold Coast (coz there's not much to see there... and I'm not a big fan of beach) and decide to stay longer in Sydney so I can have culinary trips! Ｏ(≧∇≦)Ｏ

I actually wanted to extend a couple more days, because 6 full days is not enough! But since it's a group ticket, we can't prolong the stay & must travel to Melbourne on Sep 18 & from Sydney on Sep 25 together with the group.

We will stay at Quest on Collins Street in Melbourne and Hyde Park Inn in Sydney. I wanted to book Holiday Inn Surfers Paradise in Gold Coast, but they're fully booked! *sobs* So I booked Watermark Hotel & Spa instead and might cancel it if I get a better hotel.

One more exciting news: we will see Chicago The Musical that's playing at Her Majesty's Theatre in Melbourne! YAAAYYY~~! ＼(*＾▽＾*)／

じゃ～～　いってきまつ！！  ☆ﾐ(o*･ω･)ﾉ

HAPPY 09-09-09!

Today is also mom & dad's 31st wedding anniversary, so we celebrated with dinner at No Signboard Seafood, Pacific Place. White pepper Sri Lankan crab, deep-fried butter lobster, double boiled superior shark's fin soup with whole abalone, drunken prawn, ... OMNOMNOMNOM~~

And now... a meme to celebrate~ ♪(*^ ・^)ノ⌒☆

Snatched from hemisofia ( I seem to take a lot from her, coz she loves meme, too! *lol*)

( 09-09-09 meme xD )

I hate flu! >_<;
Because of my bad immune system since I was born, I need the power of antibiotics to help me recover. Even with antibiotics, the flu still takes daaayyysss~! *sobs*

Here's my upcoming dorama watchlist download list this autumn!
(from Jdrama Weblog & DramaWiki at D-Addicts)

Dorama:

• Tokyo DOGS (Shun Oguri, Hiro Mizushima, Yuriko Yoshitaka)
• Real Clothes (Karina, Hitomi Kuroki)
• LIAR GAME 2 (Shota Matsuda, Erika Toda)
• ROMES (Tadayoshi Okura, Shota Yasuda)
• Koshonin 2 (Ryoko Yonekura, Sousuke Takaoka, Yu Shirota)
• Untouchable (Yukie Nakama)
• My Girl (Masaki Aiba, Yuka, Shingo Murakami)
• Gaiji Keisatsu (Atsuro Watabe, Yuriko Ishida)
• Bocho Mania 09 (Osamu Mukai)
• 0-go Shitsu no Kyaku (Yu Yokoyama, Satoshi Ohno, Shigeaki Kato, Keichiro Koyama, Shingo Murakami)

Tanpatsu:

• Hataraku Gon! (Ryoko Shinohara, Karina, Yuta Hiraoka)
• Dareka ga Uso wo Tsuiteiru (Yutaka Mizutani, Yuya Tegoshi)

Nothing really interests me much, actually.

This is the first time I felt a big earthquake, after years~!

So I was in front of the computer at home, then suddenly I felt everything shaking & the bookcase doors above me were all opened (thankfully the books didn't fall down on me!). For a while I kept sitting while updating to Twitter: "Earthquake, earthquake, earthquakeeeeee!" before I fled out of the computer room *lol*

I didn't go out of the house, coz it stopped when I was about to exit the house. It lasted for 2-3 minutes and was magnitude 7.4 SR. It originated at Tasikmalaya, and reportedly 25+ people died (according to CNN). Glad the tsunami warning was cancelled!

Above all, I'm glad everyone I know is OK.

As always, Twitter has been the first one to break the news. Here's my Twitter timeline at the time of the quake:

• redevilica EARTHQUAKEEEEEEEE
• elyse Earthquake, earthquake, earthquakeeee!
• aulia EARTHQUAAAAAAAAAAAKKEEEEE!!!!!!
• nefretiriii EARTHQUAKE!!!!!!!!!!!
• chaerani Gempa di bandung, baru saja! Earthquake in Bandung, just now!
• kapkap Earthquake at Jakarta?
• thejakartaglobe OK who felt that? any damage?
• redevilica Has it stop? #earthquake
• turniptopia wait, earthquake all over? so, jakarta, bandung, jogja? where else?
• elyse Phew~! How big was that? It felt pretty big to me! o_O;
• kawaiicelia Earthquake! Gila berasa banget di PP! (lagi meeting di lantai 16). Meetingnya lgs direschedule, skrg nunggu perintah turun ke bawah.
• BrettMcGuire Wow! Big earthquake!!!
• turniptopia Sesar selatan Jawa gempa, Jakarta, Jogja, Bali, Menurut Metro pusat gempa di Tasikmalaya Jawa Barat (via @primantoro)
• sleydesu http://twitpic.com/g6jcv - This is more 'LIVE' than detik ^^;; all my friends in Jakarta, be careful ~
• aulia DAMN THAT WAS A BIG QUAKE.
• LeonnieFM Evacute the building with all tenants. #earthquakeJakarta
• aulia Going downstairs from 16th fl was a bloody trip! City still shaking.
• turniptopia Indonesia earthquake. mag 7,3 SR - Sept 2, '09 at 02.55pm (GMT+7) 142km from Tasikmalaya. (via @NajwaShihab)
• redevilica It was 7.4 magnitude earthquake 0_0  - http://bit.ly/gEEMx - Is there a tsunami warning?

Like @aulia said: "First thing to do in a quake: TWEET ABOUT IT. Then get the hell out." Ｏ(≧∇≦)Ｏ

Like ichabunni said here:

Blogging just isn't what it used to be anymore.

That's also what I've felt for a long while!

I don't feel comfortable sharing about my life openly anymore, like I used to do 5+ years ago. And laziness got the best of me. I've wanted to write about vacation trips and post photos as a way to preserve the memory, but as always... I'm such a bad bad procrastinator! So obviously that never happens.

Nowadays I'm getting lazier... mostly because of Twitter. The 140-character microblogging service is so much more practical to share whatever crosses my mind at any given moment... and whatever I experience / feel at any given time. In short, Twitter spoils me.

Perhaps I should start resurrecting my old passion & desires once again.
Or not *shrugs*

Interests have shifted, passion & desires have shifted... So many things that mattered before, don't matter anymore now.
I guess it's all due to us getting old? *lol*

This time I'm stealing from the one Jin did in 2003.10 KAT-TUN 1st in New York Photobook.


( I love meme too much! )

BOSS is probably the only Spring dorama (along with The Quiz Show 2 & Majo Saiban) that I really enjoy to the max! Not only the cast is great, the story is also very entertaining.

I love the interactions between the character.. and how each story is pretty realistic. utaoutao said that it's easy to guess who the culprit is in each episode, because the one playing it is (almost) always a famous actor/actress =P Although she's right, I always find myself surprised in the end, by the motive & all that. Sometimes I'm pretty scared of watching it at night, but whenever I'm scared, I turn the volume down. It works! *lol*

I initially decided to watch BOSS because of the storyline and the great cast: Yuki Amami, Yutaka Takenouchi, Erika Toda... But then I fell in love with TamaTetsu and Junpei Mizobata there xD




Character observations:

• Yuki Amami did a great job portraying Eriko. I think this type of character really suits her! (Note to self: search hard for Rikon Bengoshi!)
• I loooooove Nodate! This is the first time I see Yutaka being such a womanizer o(>▽<o)(o>▽<)o He never fails to make me laugh! And his Nodate-Kon is waaay too funny! Ｏ(≧∇≦)Ｏ
• Although a few have said otherwise, I actually like TamaTetsu in here. Dunno, he looks pretty cool although his character is a bit gloomy (at first). His hairstyle, however, is a bit weird (>_<)○  Ooh, my favorite scene of him is episode 8 where he holds a gun & (finally) shoots. 格好いいいい！！
• Junpei turns out to be a good actor! I really like him portraying the fidgety & enthusiastic Hanagata. I wanna see more of him～
• Erika Toda always does a great job in her actings. She can totally transform into her character. In BOSS, she convinced me that she was the sleepyhead & lazy Mami Kimoto, and she successfully conveyed Kimoto's feelings and thoughts to the audience. Great job, as always, from Erika.

Each guest in every episode is also doing a great job with their character: Mirai Shida, Takashi Sorimachi, Manami Konishi, Takayuki Yamada, etc.

2 days ago I finished the last episode, so I wrote my thoughts below: (BEWARE SPOILERS!)

( here spoilers of the ending xD )

Bottomline: truly one of the best dorama ever made! ♥♥♥
It's actually on my top 3 list, along with Nodame Cantabile & Maou.

Updated:

• darkeyedwolf wrote a great summary of BOSS with screencaps. It's a wonderful summary, go read it! xD
• Dorama World wrote a review of BOSS, complete with episode summary (BEWARE SPOILERS!).

Because I'm bored...
And because meme is fun :3

( Yet another meme! )

Lazy Monday...

My first meal of the day is dinner... OTZ
Good thing my stomach didn't protest ^^;

This week's schedule is also pretty flexible, I have a lot of time I can use for catching up with things.... if I happen to remember what they are *lol* I'm such a procrastinator xD


( Meme is neverending! :3 )

Are you friends with your parents?


Oh YES, very much so! Well, I'm bestfriends with my mom and close friends with my dad ^^ 

In my community cell group (a total of 10 people), I'm the only one who is friends with the parents. The other 9 members can't be friends with their own parents. Perhaps because of the Asian culture (Chinese, in our case), parents and children have a line that can't be crossed. And all the unwritten rules of Asian parents & children are here, just like in other Asian countries, for instance:

• Parents know best about their children's life.
• Never talk back to your parents.
• ... etc

Thank God my parents aren't like that! *phew* They're so liberal & practice democracy at home, while still emphasizing the Asian values of "respect your parents". I feel lucky to have been born in a non-conservative family! :3

If you could only eat one kind of cuisine—Mexican, Thai, French, Italian, Indian, Chinese, etc.—for the rest of your life, which one would you choose?


First choice: Indonesian cuisine!

Quoted from Wikipedia:

Indonesian cuisine reflects the vast variety of people that live on the 6,000 populated islands that make up Indonesia. There is probably not a single "Indonesian" cuisine, but rather, a diversity of regional cuisines influenced by local Indonesian culture and foreign influences.

So, I will never run out of choices in Indonesian cuisine for there are sooooo many kinds of food! I will never get bored either. In my opinion, the variety of Indonesian cuisine is THE BEST in the world! ♥


Second choice: Japanese cuisine ^^

However, I might get bored if I eat too much Japanese food. The variety is not that many either, especially compared to Indonesian food.