Deb's World

☺ at Yonsei University, Seoul South Korea October 31 ~ November 13, 2018 When I arrived in South Korea it was early in the morning, and so fucking cold. The first three days I stayed there the temperature was around 6~9C. If I remember correctly, the warmest temperature when I was there was 13C, lowest was 5C. Coming from a tropical country, I know I will not be used to the cold weather but I didn’t expect it to be that cold. I prepared warm clothes because my body couldn’t adjust to extreme temperatures but I was still shivering from the cold the whole time I was in South Korea. Kintex area, Gyeonggi-do There will always be good and bad things on every trip I make. I stayed in South Korea for two weeks. I experienced difficulties in communicating with locals (although I fully understand everything they said, it still difficult for me to speak in Korean with them) , insecurity being minority, and of course homesickness. I really want to speak Indonesia. I m...

After Final Presentation Start from February, I had a chance to became a buddy for students who come from other countries, one of them was from Sendai, Japan.  At first, it was kind of difficult for me to communicate with them because I'm not good at English, and then I found out later it is also because Japanese people tend to appear shy (at first) with foreigner. All the UI buddies and Tohoku University students, Teksas bridge, Universitas Indonesia. I have noticed that Japanese people are often anxious to practice foreign languages with native speakers. While they sometimes still spend time with their fellow, they are often very appreciative of foreign people who express an interest in them. So, my first suggestion to anyone looking to make Japanese friends is incredibly simple : share your culture with them. As Japanese culture is very unique, Japanese people are often very excited to try anything related to the foreign culture in which they find themselves. ...

I’m often posed the question of how frequently I “go back home.” I don’t go often. People ask if I miss it, if it’s hard for me, if I feel homesick, if I wish I could go home. I feel like a bad person when I say I don’t. Should I? At first, when I moved to Depok from Jakarta, I was homesick all of the time (well, my new “home” is not really that far from my “real” home).  I knew home, and home was comforting. The new city was scary and new and as a newly eighteen year old kid, I’d never had to budget my money or cook for myself, and now I was suddenly an adult. It seemed childish to curl up and cry for daddy, since I had suddenly been presented with all of the freedom in the world, but that was just what I wanted to do. Every so often, a friend will mention to me that they’re headed back home, because that is what people do when they’ve got breaks from school or simply didn’t move far enough away to validate long absences. But didn’t you just go home last weekend, I’ll...

I know tomorrow is coming But I can’t let go of my phone Sleep just isn’t coming to me, yeah So I’m on Instagram, Instagram again So many hotshots here Some are on vacation I didn’t press like Cuz it feels like I’m the only one like this Inside Instagram, Instagram DEAN - Instagram I wish I could list my feelings over this song and video but I don't have enough words. Dean, thank you for showing us this vulnerable side of yours, I think everybody can relate to this song on some level.  To be honest, I'm shook at the end when see Dean laugh like a freak. I'm probably wrong about this, but I feel like the video was related to the song in the sense that he was showing all this clips and things that looked awesome, and then it comes a distortion, like maybe a distortion of the reality we're seeing and living, or how like something that can look cool doesn't mean it's all that there is to it. Maybe I'm trying to internalise this and i...

Tell me, This is will pass. This may look like something big. When things pass, they are nothing. You won’t believe this, but in the future I’ll talk about things as if they are some jokes. So tell myself to not worry about things too much. I’ll make it difficult choices, and it will be hard for me. At this moment,  tell to myself that all my choices are right. After a year or more, A beautiful day like today’s will come again. Trust those days and survive. Xoxo Deb:)