Focus on Where You Are Going

STOP LOOKING AT THE WALL AND FOCUS ON WHERE YOU ARE GOING!!!

This is the quote I got from an email I received on 5th of February 2015 (which I read just now) from Robert Kiyosaki (well, that's the name and the signature I got in that email, but the email address itself is customerservice@richdad.com). I got this email because I signup in his website, www.richdad.com.

Oh. Do you know Robert Kiyosaki? If you don't know, this is him. (This picture is from google images). If you want to know more about him, google him or find him in wikipedia. He's that famous.

To put it simply, he is a very rich guy. This is the most simple and most understandable explanation I can give you, people.

Anyway, about the quote. I am that kind of person. I look at the wall, in this case obstacles of what I want, more than necessary. I tend to think too much, thus causing me to walk on the same place.

I think this is a very motivational quote. At least for me, I am very motivated to change my way of thinking. It will be hard, I admit. But changing to a better person is never easy. (I wonder why changing to a worst person is easy though).

I will look at what I want, at my plan, more than what might obstruct my way. In the worst case scenario, when my way is obstructed, when the obstacle is too hard to overcome, I, at least, have tried. Instead of thinking too much about failure and do nothing to step forward, at least trying and fail is much better.

No, wait. If I didn't try and didn't fail, just stay on my place, it won't hurt. There won't be such thing as failure because I didn't try at all. Hmm....comfort zone seems very....cozy.

So, which one will you choose?
1. Stay there and just dream of what you want?
2. Step forward and either
     a. Success, get what you want
     or
     b. Fail, feel hurt so much and get stronger to try again.

I used to choose no.1, now I wanna choose no.2. What about you?

Jesie S.
Medan, Wed, 9 February 2015.

You Light Up My World

Some time ago, I watched this short movie by Cornetto (yes, that ice cream Cornetto, if you don't know this ice cream brand, then just google it) in YouTube. The title is Cornetto Cupidity, Kismet Diner. Here's the link to the short movie. Such an interesting short movie! A nine minutes video that just take my interest in the first two minutes because of the singing.

What I wanna tell you more is one of the song that Laura, the main character, sang in the short movie. It stuck in my head like crazy. Lol. Seriously stuck! It's the last song she sang, so you need to either watch the video till the end or just skip to 6:25. I'd recommend to watch the whole movie. It's only nine minutes anyway.

It's a wonderful and sweet song. When I wanna download it, I found out that it is a song sang by Lotte Mullan, titled Valentine Song. If you wanna listen to the original song, here's the link. Her voice is really nice and sweet. I like it.

With that song stuck in my head, I thought of these lines (click here to read some lines).

Jesie S.
Medan, Thu, 5 February 2015.

Escape Plan

I'm feeling sick, but I can still manage writing a post for this blog. Anyway, Escape Plan is the name of the game that I went to yesterday (Fri, 6 February 2015). It is located in Palladium Mall, Medan. 

This mall is so lonely. Not much people hanging out here. People just come for watching movie or the supermarket (Hypermart). The store there.....has little attention from me. 

Back to the game. It costed me 50k IDR, which is quite expensive. I went there with my friend, A. We were told to put all of our belongings in a locker, then with a blind fold on, we were guided to a room. This room is so small.....VERY small. Well, apparently after we managed to opened a door, we found another room, which was a lot bigger.

Let me list it down. (refer to the first picture) 

1. We were locked in a room.

2. There were clues on the table (math is involved here)

Then, we need to get out from the room by solving the clues left behind practically everywhere....or no where..

That's basically how the game is. Then there are also other rooms with different difficulty level. Ours was not the easiest. If I have to list it down I would say ours is level 3 of 4 (according to the person in charge and the second picture here). There are five themes we can choose from. So...yea...pretty hard for a two players.

A told me that other people play it with up to eight people! I was so amaze that we still try out that game...with two people. And yeah....we fail to get out from the locked room. 45 minutes inside. Cracking our skull to solve the clue. I won't mind going back if it's free or at discount price for a NOT first timer. 

To conclude my post, I would like to thank A for bringing me to this game and my comment for this game is.........dude, give me more time. Also, you need more props. Seriously....

Here's the picture I took with A. Those quotes are what they gave us (people who fail to get out from the room in time) at the end of the game.

Woah...a lot more pictures this time. Two first pictures are from instragram (@escapeplanmedan). The last one is from my phone.

Jesie S.
Medan, Thu, 5 February 2015.

The Girl with Glass Feet

Have you ever read a book which made you flip open the last page not to read the ending, but just to see how many pages more you need to read before you finish the book?
This book, The Girl with Glass Feet by Ali Shaw, made me do it.

Title : The Girl with Glass Feet
Author : Ali Shaw
Year : 2011

My friend, E, lent me this book. She loves it and told me that she likes Ali Shaw's writing style. I was interested and started reading it... Before the end of chapter 1, I looked at the page I was in, flipped the last page of the book, and counted how many pages I need to read before I finish it.

Yes, I dislike the author's writing style. The story is so slow and the too-much-information-detailed description of literally everything annoy me so much! Then...something hit me! I suddenly remembered that this book is originally written in english. In case you're wondering, I read the Indonesian translation. So..well...maybe the english one is not so bad...I thought.

Then, I tried to find at least the preview of this book. I found it at amazon.com here. Oh...bubbles...I still dislike it. It's true that his choice of words are interesting and beautiful and very...fairy-tale-like, also need less page the the translated one, but the slow pace and the detailed description does not change. Though, I might enjoy reading it in english more......nawhh..I think I need at least 6 months to finish this kind of slow-pace-plus-too-detailed kind of book when it's in my second language.

The story itself is not bad, but in my opinion, the ending is too rushed. I feel like the author try to close the curtains too fast. The ending was out of place because of it. Well, the main characters, Midas and Ida, has a nicely placed ending (compared to the other characters, though I still dislike the ending, but at least these two has an ending which was built up by the stories). However, other characters, Henry, Evaline, Carl, Emiliana, Hector, Denver and Gustav (did I mention everyone? Well, at least these are the characters I notice, other than Midas and Ida, of course), has a very very rushed ending. It felt like the ending is suddenly THERE, out of nowhere.

Another character is Midas Crook, the main character's father, who has the same name as the main character, Midas. What a confusing way to name someone. Anyway, Midas (Jr.) has a father, Midas (Sr.), who he hates (and attached to) so much. At first, I didn't pay attention to him. I mean, seriously, the main character having a daddy's issue and that concerning daddy is already dead even before the story started. So yeah, I didn't pay attention to this daddy thingy. UNTIL, page 375-378. Merely FOUR PAGES, and he suddenly become so important in my life! Okay, not in my life, just in this book when I read it. He suddenly took away all of my attention. JUST FOUR PAGES.

I will conclude my post this time with my strongest impression of this book. I wonder which one impress me more, Midas Crook (Sr.) or the fact that I need to count how many pages left before I finish the whole book. COUNT THE PAGE WIN!! I was still counting the pages on the last a hundred pages, last fifty pages, and even last twenty pages! How is that not a strong impression?? Bubbles...the font size is so small, the space is not much, and the description is too much.

Jesie S.
Medan, Thu, 5 February 2015.

p.s. I thought Ali Shaw was a woman, well, apparently, after I googled this book for the sake of writing this post, I found out that Ali Shaw is a guy (from goodreads.com in this link). 

Haw-A, White Sparkling Grape Juice (and its side dish)

    Imagine a cold beverage with a compatible side dish to complement it. Maannn, I love it! Just home from work and this is what welcome me.

    FYI, the glass in the picture is my favourite glass. It's cute. :')

Now then, I would like to tell you more about the beverage and the side dish in the picture.

Firstly, let me tell you about the beverage....which is non alcohol. Well, It's a grape juice with a bit of soda (hence, the 'sparkling' of sparkling grape juice). It tastes sweet (like champagne, minus alcohol) and refreshing (when served cold). However, I cannot really taste the soda. I can see bubbles at the bottom of my glass caused by soda, but I really can't taste any soda.

When I tried to open the bottle for the first time, I don't have enough power, thus my dad opened it for me. If you notice, we don't use corkscrew to open it, hence the perfect cork. Yup. No hole. He opened it by brute sheer strength.

When I tried to open the bottle for the second time, I don't have anyone who can help me. (I was home alone). I struggles for around half an hour and finally manage to open the bottle with my not-worth-mentioning strength.

That quite long struggle was not for naught! I savour the sweetness of this beverage from my favourite glass. Oh! The feeling of fulfillment!

Secondly, the side dish. It was a side dish. Not much can be described after that word. Side dish. It's not a must to be there, but being there is okay too. That kind of feeling. I think it complement my beverage, but then again, it can be substituted by some other side dish, and I will still enjoy my sweet sparkling grape juice.

Roasted cashew nuts. That's the name of my side dish in the picture. It taste great, but still cannot be my main dish. Yea....side dish is where you belong, nuts. In regards to side dish, I must admit that this, roasted cashew nuts, makes wonderful snacks. Aside from  its great taste, particularly the roasted one, cashew nuts also has many nutritional value. One of its benefits, which perks my interest, is the fact that these nuts can helps women suffering from sleep disturbances caused by their menopause.

Nope...I'm not gonna discuss all of its benefits here. If you want to know more, just search it using google. Or you can try the World's Healthiest Food in this link for quite a broad elaboration, or stylecraze in this link for a much simpler explanation.

      This is the end of my post. I think the most interesting thing is.......the fact that the name is WHITE sparkling grape juice, but when I poured it, it was reddish brown, kinda like the colour of tea. I was disappointed! I expect at least a transparent coloured grape juice!

Jesie S.
Medan, Thu, 5 February 2015.

Why BUBBLES BULB?

The question is not why use BUBBLES BULB as the name of this blog, but why not use BUBBLES BULB?
LOL. You know what? People who say "the question is not why, but why not", most of the time don't know why either. So there you go. I don't know why I use it as the name of this blog. I just sort of found these two words and put them together. I will tell you how I found those two words.