Sing Along [HEY xūyào nǐ de měi HEY需要你的美 by Zhōu Tāngháo 周湯豪]

Another love song, I'm sooo addicted with this song,, aah.. Nick Chou, you're so mesmerizing~~

HEY需要你的美 by Zhōu Tāngháo 周湯豪 a.k.a. Nick "NickTheReal" Chou lyrics and free translations.

HEY需要你的美！

by Zhōu Tāngháo 周湯豪

Mozzarella Cheese Stick

I just love everything about cheese! It's so yummy, and goes well with a lot of food. So, today post is Mozzarella Cheese Stick, it's cheese, and it's fried, what's more to be asked?? In addition this recipe is super easy, no one can messed this up! Except if you over cooked it or messed up with the breadcrumbs coating... so, well, you can still messed up this simple recipe after all..

Here it is, Mozzarella Cheese Stick recipe:

Mozzarella Cheese Stick

Sing Along [yīyèjīngxǐ 一夜惊喜 by Aarif Lee 李治廷 Fan Bing Bing 范冰冰]

It's been a long while, and love is in the air this month.. Somehow there are so many people have a wedding party this month. It's only the beginning of the month, but I already got about 4 wedding invitation, two of which are from my close friends. Yaay, happy wedding!! Wish you all the happiness in the world!!

So, in this post, I want to share with you a love song I just recently listening to, it's a song from a movie with the same name, One Night Surprise. It looks promising, maybe I'll watch it sometimes later..

Here it is, 一夜惊喜 by 李治廷 & 范冰冰 lyrics and free translations.

一夜惊喜

Artist: 李治廷 & 范冰冰

Nutella Chocolate Cupcakes

I feel so drowsy lately, and lazy as well. I want to sleep all the time, I even spend my lunchtime to sleep instead of eating. Really, I should sleep earlier in the night, I know, but I've been so engrossed in reading lately that it's consuming my sleeping time.

Well, forget about that now. Today I want to share with you one of the most easiest dessert recipe I ever found. It's very easy and taste pretty good too. Here it is:

Nutella Chocolate Cupcakes

(Got this recipe from some random BBM channel)

Sing Along [Shíjiān dàozhuǎn 时间倒转 by Magic Power 魔力力量]

Sometimes I wonder, what if we can turn back time? Can we do better than we did before? Would our life be better if we choose different actions? Can we prevent regrets? Would we live happier, knowing we choose the best options? But how can we know that we choose the best options? If we don't experience regrets, how can we cherish what we have now? If we choose different options, would the things we cherish now will still be precious to us?

Everything that happened, every options we choose, every actions we take, it made us who we are today. By experiencing regrets, we know how to do better, we know how to cherish things, we know that every single actions, no matter how small it is, can affect bigger things. Nothing happened is in vain, everything happened for a reason, just believe that God has bigger things planned for us.

时间倒转 by Magic Power 魔力力量 lyrics and free translations..

时间倒转

Artist: Magic Power [魔力力量]

Sing Along [wǒ shì shuí wǒ shì shuí wǒ shì shuí 我是谁,我是谁,我是谁 by Magic Power 魔力力量]

Have you ever doubt yourself and questioning what the purpose of living? This song is a bit sad, but hopefully it can encourage you.

我是谁,我是谁,我是谁 by Magic Power 魔力力量 lyric and free translation..

我是谁,我是谁,我是谁

Artist: Magic Power [魔力力量]

PasJel Cream Care Preview

Now days Korean, Japan, USA and Europe brands dominating beauty product we love and needed. Some of the well-known Korean products is Innisfree, Missha, Etude House, Skin Food, Tony Moly, The Face Shop, etc. As for Japan brands, the most well-known is KOSÉ, SK-II, Shiseido, Shu Uemura, DHC, etc. Some from USA and Europe is The Body Shop, L'Oréal, Estée Lauder, Lush, Maybelline, Neutrogena, Nivea, Pond's, etc.

Today I want to share with you a beauty product from Thailand, PasJel. You may have heard this product before, I just found this brand recently too. This brand is fairly new, the company itself, PasJel International Company Limited is established in August 2013. It is first launched in February 2013 by Natchanan Panitwarocha (Jajaa), an artist from Sony Music.

They don't have too many product yet, but the few they have is pretty well-received. Some of their best seller is:

English Idioms 01

Language is very interesting, I especially love how we can use a sentences to represent something that doesn't have anything to do with the word itself, like an idiom.

What is idiom? Wiki says that:

An idiom (Latin: idioma, "special property", f. Greek: ἰδίωμα – idiōma, "special feature, special phrasing", f. Greek: ἴδιος – idios, "one’s own") is a combination of words that have a figurative meaning owing to its common usage. An idiom's figurative meaning is separate from the literal meaning. There are thousands of idioms and they occur frequently in all languages. There are estimated to be at least twenty-five thousand idiomatic expressions in the English language.

Just like how I love chéngyǔ 成语 in Mandarin language, I also love idiom in English language.

Let's see some English idioms, their definition, and how to use it in our daily life..

Sing Along [I Believe by Fàn Yì Chén 范逸臣]

Sometimes even though we don't understand the meaning of the song, they still touch our heart. The first time I hear this song, I don't understand the meaning, but this mellow song somehow makes me feel a bit sad, but it still a good song nonetheless.
This song is actually the Chinese version from Korean film, My Sassy Girl.

I Believe by Van Fan lyric and free translation..

I Believe

Artist: Van Fan [Fàn Yì Chén 范逸臣]

Myth or Fact [Friday the 13th]

Last night I get to sleep late because of reading. I think I'm going to sleep at one past thirty in the morning. I'm used to sleep in the dark, so I turn off my lamp and go to my bed. When I'm looking at my bed, I see a shape of something, because it's dark, I can't be sure if my eyes are fooling me or there's something in my bed, or whatever. On top of that the book I read before going to sleep is a bit psychology-horror, so imagine my feeling when I see that lumpy dark shape in my bed.. *shiver*

So I just close my eyes, get up to my bed and use a blanket to cover my body up to my neck. In my minds eye I keep seeing scary thing looking down at me from beside my bed, and I'm trying my best to fall asleep. It's hard with this scary thought running around my head, and somehow it sprang to my head that today is Friday the 13th! Not that I believe superstition thing, and Friday the 13th is available at every month that start with Sunday. But scary thing is scary, and our mind is the scariest place to be when we think of scary things. I don't make any sense am I? Well, you know how it is, I'm sure.. :D

Chinese Can Be Fun [Beautiful Chinese Character 01]

Have I mention before that Chinese people are brilliant? They really are, where else can you find such a beautiful writing character (mighty difficult do learn though) that can also be used to draw something that represent that very character? Japan maybe, but Japanese character is originated from China, so I rest my case. I'm sure I already mentioned to you that I'm not a big fan of Chinese language, seriously, why do they talk like they're mad or something? Can't their language be cuter like Japanese are? And the character, oh my Goddess, there's a lot of it, with different meaning and different way to read, and different way to use! I give up! Thankfully I still have my Pleco dictionary, my lifesaver in case of Chinese character.

Anyway, I want to share with you something I love about Chinese language, their beautiful Chinese character. So, the way the Chinese people writing now has changed from how it used to be. In fact, their writing used to be a drawing, that evolve into Chinese character. Here some example:

Do you notice the resemblance of the modern Chinese character with their respective drawing? Very cool isn't it?

Making Pizza Is Easy!

Whew, it's been a long week, time sure does flies when we wished it last doesn't it?

Anyway my mom been nagging me to make a pizza, because recently she bought a package of frozen pizza crust. And let me tell you, even though it's very convenient to use a ready-made pizza crust, it's doesn't look appetizing (for me) and making your own dough is not hard anyway, so why don't we just make our own pizza dough??

Let's get on to the recipe!

Broccoli Chicken Casserole

I need more time to sleep! I wish the night is just a little bit longer, so I can sleep longer.. How much sleep do you think we need? According to National Sleep Foundation, (gosh, I just found out that someone is dedicating their time to such a thing, not that I consider sleep is not important, but, wow..)  sleep needs vary across ages and impacted by lifestyle and health. Basically the older we get, the less time we need to sleep, but we need at least 7 hours of sleep. I myself would be happy enough if I can get at least 8 hours of sleep, better if I can get 9 hours of sleep. The problem is, since I spend the day working, I spend the night reading, or playing. The mistake I repeatedly do, again and again is, start reading a book when I'm getting ready for sleep, and being a bookworm that I am, I just can't put down the book long enough to get some sleep! I know, I know this is my own fault, but even when I'm reminding myself not to do it again, I keep repeating my mistake again and again. *sigh* If only the night is longer..

Well, one of the best way to get some decent sleep, is to eat nice food. I don't know if it's the same for everyone, but for me good food makes me sleepy, especially comfort food like this amazingly delicious Broccoli Chicken Casserole! Yum~

Here is how you make it:

Sing Along [Māmā 妈妈 by Wú Jiàn Háo 吴建豪 / Vanness Wu]

Good song is pleasant to hear, great song can move our heart. This song is one of my most favorite Mandarin Song, Mama by Vanness Wu. I cried when I first hear (and understand the meaning) this song. This song has touched my heart, and it remains as one of the best song I've ever had the pleasure to hear.

Here is the lyric and the free translation of this song..

Māmā妈妈

Artist: Vaness Wu [Wú Jiàn Háo吴建豪]

Album: In Between

Composer: Jae Chong [Kǒng Lìng Qí 孔令奇]

Manga I Read 01

I love good book, almost every kind of books, be it a novel, comic book, manga, manhua, manhwa, dictionary, encyclopedia, etc. Some may think I'm strange for liking dictionary, but I do, I found dictionary interesting. I have various dictionary in my collection, mostly it's English-Indonesian or English-English, I also have Japanese-Indonesian and Mandarin-Indonesian. It's natural, since I like vocabulary better than grammar. Actually I don't like grammar. My Indonesian language exam is the worst when I'm in high school. I'm Indonesian, but I only got 76 points (if I remember correctly) for my Indonesian language national exam, and 98 points for the English language exam, strange eh? But I believe most of us won't get a high score for our own mother language exam, my reason is because we usually use our language informally that when we have to use it formally, we have some difficulties. At last I think that's why for me.

Anyway, Here is some manga that I read and a bit of their story.

Etude House Wonder Pore Freshner

A big, visible pore is a big problem for me. It's unpleasant to look at and I keep wanting to submerge my face in cold water to close the pore, unfortunately even if I do that, it's only a temporary solution. I need something to help me counter this visible pore on my face. Maybe this Etude House Wonder Pore Freshner can help me solve this problem?

Night World series by L.J. Smith [Book 07-09]

Here is another summary or Night World series. The last 4 book is focused on Wild Powers, the power to save the world -- or destroy it.

Prologue:

The Night World.. Love was never so scary.
The Night World isn't a place. It's all around us. It's a secret society of vampires, werewolves, witches, and other creatures of darkness that live among us. They're beautiful and deadly and irresistible to humans. Your high school teacher could be one, and so could your boyfriend.The Night World laws say it's okay to hunt humans. It's okay to toy with their hearts, it's even okay to kill them.
There are only two things you can't do with them.

1. Never let them find out the Night World exists.
2. Never fall in love with one of them.

These are stories about what happens when the rules get broken.

Prophecy:

In blue fire, the final darkness is banished.
In blood, the final price is paid.
Four to stand between the light and the shadow,
Four of blue fire, power in their blood.
Born in the year of the blind Maiden's vision;
Four less one and darkness triumphs.
One from the land of kings long forgotten;
One from the hearth which still hold the spark;
One from the Day World where two eyes are watching;
One from the twilight to be one with dark.

Missha All-Around Safe Block Mild Essence Sun Milk SPF 45/PA+++

I hate sun block. I don't hate what it do, I just hate the texture, the smell, and how gross it feels when I applied the thick, greasy, unpleasant smelling cream to my skin, and I hate how it makes my skin looks ghostly, unhealthy white. I know, I know that sun block is very important, especially in the place I live now. The sun is merciless and my skin in badly needs to be protected from all those nasty UVA and UVB. Both UVA and UVB cause damage, increase risk of cancer and aging to our skin, and overexposure to UVB causes sunburn. This is where SPF (Sun Protection Factor) play an important part, to shield our skin from overexposure of UVA and UVB.
Normally SPF only measure protection against the UVB rays, this is where PA comes in.

PA+ provides UVA protection against low to medium UV radiation.
PA++ provides moderate UVA protection against medium UV radiation.
PA+++ provides good UVA protection against strong and direct UV radiation.

Missha All-Around Safe Block Mild Essence Sun Milk SPF 45/PA+++ might just change my mind about sun block. Let's see the review, shall we?

Night World series by L.J. Smith [Book 04-06]

So as I promise before, this is the continuation of the Night World series summary.

Prologue:

The Night World.. Love was never so scary.

The Night World isn't a place. It's all around us. It's a secret society of vampires, werewolves, witches, and other creatures of darkness that live among us. They're beautiful and deadly and irresistible to humans. Your high school teacher could be one, and so could your boyfriend.

The Night World laws say it's okay to hunt humans. It's okay to toy with their hearts, it's even okay to kill them. There are only two things you can't do with them.

1. Never let them find out the Night World exists.

2. Never fall in love with one of them.

These are stories about what happens when the rules get broken.

Night World series by L.J. Smith [Book 01-03]

People capabilities may be limited, but our minds is free to roam. One of my most favorite things to do is reading, especially reading nice novel books. I may be a bit influenced by my mother, who loves reading, she's been giving me various books since I'm able to read. Speaking of learning to read, I used to hate learning how to read. I remember when I'm in first grade of elementary school, my mom used to shut me in my room with a book she want's me to read. And if I don't read the book she gave me, she will scold me, really bad. No wonder I hate reading back then.

But, turns out her teaching method (spartan may it be) is effective. I don't know when, but I'm starting to enjoy reading. She give me lots of books of various genre. Some is fairy tale, folklore, encyclopedia, etc. One of the first book my mom gave me is Childcraft Encyclopedia books set which I found to be very interesting.

And so my quest to collect various interesting books begin..

Chocolate Mascarpone Brownies

Have I told you before that work can be really tedious?

To distract me from work, I started to try and cook something delicious. Even though I used to live apart with my parent for more than 8 years, I don't cook much, not because I'm bad at it, I just can't muster the will to cook. I do like cooking, what I don't like is cleaning the mess! You know student life, all play and little to no work. I'm guilty of it. So when I'm a student, I rather spend my time with friends, reading, or strolling somewhere. I do cook once in a while, and sometimes I also invite my friend to try my cooking. But it's not very often, only once in a blue moon..

Anyway, since I started working, I often found myself bored, because I don't have as much time to play as when I'm still a student. So when I'm bored, I'm searching application in my smartphone. And for you who love to cook, you may find All The Cooks and All Recipes to be your best friend. They are for me. Most of the recipe is easy to make, and it's delicious too! Just make sure you read the comment first before trying some of the recipe.

Chinese Can Be Fun [chéngyǔ 成语 01]

I've told you before that I used to learn Chinese language in China, while I don't particularly like Chinese language, I do like to learn various language. Oh, and for you smartphone user, you may find Pleco Dictionary to be very useful in learning Chinese, I use this application myself, and it help me a lot!

After I learn Chinese for a while, I found out that Chinese people is very brilliant! How awesome is it to be able to draw using one or more character? Look at this exaple:

Can you see the word Měilì de gūniáng 美丽的姑娘 there? It means beautiful girl in English. and the picture represent the word itself! How cool is that?

Yummy Homemade Face Mask Recipe

My friend, ShanPing and I talk about the importance of skin care recently. While usually I don't do much skin care other than washing my face using a proper face wash (I'm using SK-II Facial Treatment Gentle Cleanser for a while now) I realize the importance of taking care of our skin, it won't look young and healthy forever you know.

A few years ago ShanPing and I study Mandarin language together in China. That's when we meet for the first time and we get along really well, we even discussed about rooming together, but we don't go through with it since we'd feel bad for our respective roommate at the time. But we still hang outs together everyday even though she's in a more advanced class than me (she's younger, but she's been in China for about a year already) and I'm still in the beginner class.

There's A First for Everything

Hello!

This is my first post and my first time ever (trying) to make a blog. Hope this will continue smoothly~

So here we are, anything goes, and I mean anything, from hobby, tips, recommendation, review, recipe, lesson, etc.

Let's start from introduction. My pen name is Haruka, I'm Indonesian and the reason why I use English for this first post is because I feel awkward writing using Indonesian (dunno why) and I wish to keep practicing my English so I don't forget it. My long-time hobby is reading -- I have no less than 5 bookshelf in my own bedroom -- and recently I love to cook which I will share with you in my next post. I also started to take interest in skin care and I will share my beauty regimen with you too sometimes later.