How I spend my quarantine days during the pandemic

Before I start, I know it’s been a very long time since my last post (about 4 years?) many things happened in my life that’s why I’d like to make a small update about my recent life, anyways. as we all spend most of our time by staying at home for a few months because of COVID-19, in this post I’m going to list the things that I do at home during this pandemic. The first thing that comes to my mind now is writing a new blog post lol. someday I woke up feeling bored and start thinking about restoring my WordPress account and make a new blog post, so here it is! finally a new content for my blog.

Mostly I stay on the bed I spend my time learning Japanese. FYI, I’ve been interested in Japanese for years but haven’t had a chance to learn it. I started learning Japanese seriously at the beginning of Ramadan. I was planning to learn Korean and Spanish altogether but I decided to go with Japanese first. well, I learn it at home by myself so my progress is not really significant each day. but, thanks to my effort now I can at least read hiragana and katakana and a few kanjis –although I still can’t write kanjis lol. I purchased two books for basic Japanese called Marugoto and they help so much in practicing to write the words, and I’ve been using Duolingo as well which helps me a lot in structuring a sentence.

Enough with the Japanese thing, during this pandemic, I decided to buy some flower seeds (sunflower, dianthus, strawflower, and succulents) and vegetables (mustard greens). its been about more or less 9 days since I planted them. some of them have begun to grow especially the mustard greens. but I’m skeptical about the sunflower seed since I might planted them in a wrong way lol. but I just have to wait and see how it goes.

Other than that, I also try to get myself back at sketching. I remember that I was so into drawing years ago but so less practice and I’m not gifted at all. my drawing is so bad and I don’t think I have progressed at all. that is why I decided to practice sketching once more. thankfully I still have the blank sketchbook that I bought three years ago. haha! I hope it will work out this time.

Actually most of the time I spend my days playing mobile games such as Hay day (always my favorite), Mystic Messenger and Mr love: dream date and sometimes the sims 4 on my pc. I really want to play Animal crossing since people seem to like it so much but unfortunately, I have no Nintendo. I also watch some episodes of Criminal Minds and finished Bungo Stray Dogs and Tokyo Ghoul: re. and sometimes I play with my niece and nephew to get through my days. that’s pretty much what I do during staying at home though.

However, the most important thing that I do nowadays is looking for a job. FYI, I just graduated last month and I’m supposed to get a real job now. working as a freelancer is kinda suck and unstable so I hope this year I will finally get the real job that I would enjoy doing it. this pandemic kinda slows my life down (well my life is already slow anyway) but I won’t complain much since everyone’s lives have also impacted by it. I just hope this pandemic will end soon and we can get back to our normal life. I also pray for all the medical workers that work their as** off in the front-line for us. so stay safe, healthy, and stay at home everyone! I hope you enjoy reading this small post from me.

 

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee [Novel]

Yay finally i’ve finished reading this book~ the oh-so-amazing book and this book made me realize that i lack of vocabularies lol. Talking about this book. this book is well-written of course. i love the way this book started as a flashback and the flashback itself is the main story.

In my opinion, this has many good values. it tells about human behavior, kindness and cruelty, love hatred and also humor and pathos. it is a very good book for children. not only that but also this book has captured the discrimination and racism in America in 1960. This book is regarded as a masterpiece of American Literature. also, it is good for children to learn how to behave from this book. 

Even though this book has southern accent writing style, but i understand it, of course. don’t think i’m too stupid to read such a book hehe :v. well this post is not areal review lol but it just— i just felt like i should post something after i read this book hehehe ;___; 

Well, i just want to recommend this for yall who read this stupid blog post -and i’m sure no one read this -_-

Currently i just so into these songs:
Still I Try – The Honey Trees
Somewhere Only We Know – Keane
Pressure – Milk & Bone
One Moment More – Mindy Smith

Bye! Have a nice day!

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Good Memories in Bali Part I

ya, akhir minggu kemarin, aku dan teman-teman seangkatan jurusan bahasa dan sastra inggris mengadakan trip studi budaya ke Bali (walaupun lebih banyak seneng-senengnya sih hehe). dan itu adalah pengalaman pertamaku pergi ke Bali hehe c:
berangkat dari bus jam 3 sore hari Jumat. walaupun janji ngumpulnya jam 1 siang tetep aja ngaret namanya juga orang Indonesia :D. nah akhirnya kedua bus hijau dan biru kita berangkat menuju Bali dan sampai pasuruan masih ishoma dulu di mesjid, abis itu kita langsung capcus deh lanjut ke Bali.
singkat cerita, setelah sampai di Bali jam 1 pagi (O.O) kita istirahat dulu di rumah makan madina yang berada di negara atau negare (?) dan jam 6 pagi kita mulai petualangan kita di Bali!
kita menuju Denpasar dan lamanya euhh mungkin ada ya 4 jam an lah. nyampe di Tabanan langsung deh ada guide lokal yang naik di bus kita, pertamanya aku kaget (maklum kaga pernah ke Bali) tapi si guide ya jelasin kalo di Bali itu setiap bus pariwisata yang masuk ke sana harus di guide sama guide lokalnya :3 untungnya aja yah kita kena ke guide yang lumayan seru dan kocak juga. udah deh si guide langsung di serbu dengan pertanyaan-pertanyaan seputar kebudayaan yang ada di Bali.
rencananya si guide ini mau langsung bawa kita ke Pantai Sanur walaupun kitanya udah ga kebagian matahari terbit di sana. sampe di Sanur jam 10 dan beuuuh panasnya menn ngebakar banget deh pokoknya. abis ke sanur kita lanjut pergi ke Museum Bajra Sandhi keren juga tuh museum ya :3 abis keliling museum, kita berencana shalat dhuhur di mesjid agung yang ada di nusa dua jadinya kita lewatin jalan tol mandara (?) yang menurut aku baguss jadi kayak lewatin jembatan di laut padahal itu kan jalan tol hehe sampe sampe kita rekam tuh sepanjang perjalanan lol.
abis shalat, oiya di samping mesjidnya itu ada 4 tempat ibadah untuk agama lainnya juga 🙂
nah abis shalat ini kita menuju ke pantai pandawa! dan ini tempat yang kataku wow banget dah ga puas aku pengen kesana lagi. pantai pandawa ini di sebut juga the secret beach yang artinya pantai rahasia, karena pantai ini berada di belakang (?) *pokok teerhalangi* gunung gitu katanya, pastau tau ada pantai yang indah langsung deh gunungnya itu dibelah katanyaa.
setelah main-main air dan poto-poto kita jam set 5 an langsung cabut ke pantai kuta maunya sih liat sunset tapi lagi-lagi ga kesampean 😦 hmm gapapa deh walaupun ga kebagian sunset tetep aja kita poto poto disana dan lucunya lagi kita sambil memburu para bule buat poto bareng (norak banget deh lol).
abis dari kuta kita pergi ke krisna buat beli oleh oleh untuk para keluarga, teman dan tetangga(?) kita. beli oleh-oleh, terus maem dan kita pulang deh ke hotel buat istirahat (kita capeekkk bangeett) karena besok kita harus lanjutin jalan-jalan kita di hari terakhir di Bali. 🙂