It's 2022 now. What have happened in the past years that I skipped blogging and suddenly it's 2022. COVID happened, life happened, and mostly work. I was obsessed with working out, but now I have skipped working out for quite some time too. 

Anyway, I just want to make a log about what's dearly to my heart for now. New jam for daily mood booster. Another band which I recently found but apparently has debuted since long time ago. And how I found this band was when I found a random video of fans singing along, super duper beautiful. From then I found out the concert was Day 6's concert which debuted from way back in 2015, this very song 'Congratulations' was their debut album. Instantly hooked, but too bad not all their songs are my jams. 

 Enjoy!

There will always be 1 member of the group that caught my attention. For Day 6, it's Wonpil, very charming & cute 아주 잘생긴 동생 😝

 

credit to those took these pics

- meLLe -

newly found gem

Hi, it's 2020 already. Can't believe how time flies. It's one day past my birthday. Been a long time since my last post *as always. And here we are in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic. Never had I imagined waking up one day and suddenly we are in a world that is completely different because of a mutated virus. This is crazy, suddenly we are prohibited from going outside for the sake of our own lives, wearing mask everywhere like we're some short of Korean celebrities at the airport. Anyway I feel that I am blessed and with the current job I am in now, in this situation, couldn't imagine myself being in another scenario.

And in the midst of this pandemic, where I could not go for shopping spree in shopping mall, I've been browsing everything and I found another gem which makes my heart swells. Now I know why people use the idiom. You just feel like it swells inside your thoracic cage, the feeling only, not the real cardiomegaly.

Why am I always few years late for finding a new fandom? Same thing with EXO, I honestly am the type who get bored easily. So I will always like EXO and their songs, but for now I found a fresh genre of music, NCT ya'll! I think NCT came to Indonesia like last year along with EXO, and their song 'Boom' was just being played all the time I turn my TV on, they were advertising it a lot. It just kinda stuck in my head. And also last Christmas I've been listening to Christmas carol when I stumbled on Jaehyun's cover of Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, but back then I was just enjoying the Christmasy feel. I did not even look at his gorgeous face, damn! Only in April 2020, I started to get hooked with NCT's songs. They have very fresh feeling, and almost all of their songs are perfect for workout. And as usual, I always fell for one or two gorgeous faces, and turned out that they are fluent in English, have lived in the States as well. The ABC aura, or shall I say ABK, always got me hooked. Here is some feast for your eyes *and mine, of course! I'm just gonna forget that I am a noona already for EXO, needless to say for NCT, the age gap is surely huge AF! But I will break my own condition if it's for Jaehyun 😜 어지러위!  

SM is super "crazy", how can they have all superb visuals?! I have been an SM stan since Super Junior & SNSD era, and I have never move to others.

Is he even a human? So flawless! Where can I find one like this?!

fangirling forever

Well.. well.. once a fangirl forever a fangirl at heart..

My newest crush, Rowoon from SF9 😍 (what is even SF9, had I not know Rowoon).

Been crazy about this drama called Extraordinary You which Rowoon acts in. I was totally mesmerized by his handsome face. This drama is very refreshing and the plot is very complex you can't guess where it goes. And I really love the actress who plays Dan-oh, she is the one who plays as Ye-suh in the infamous Sky Castle. Long story short, great acting skills, great faces, great story plot! Very very recommended.

One look at the preview and I'm hooked!
😍😍😍

My old crush, Joo Jihoon 😍 never gets old.

Since Goong, Mask and etc etc.

The one that looks like Joo Jihoon, Wonwoo Seventeen?

The ever so dapper looking baby Chanyeolie 😍😍😍

xmas 2018

Writing this tonight just because I don't feel sleepy yet..

This Christmas feels a little brighter because of EXO. Quite a few variety shows released this December are featuring EXO. The inner fangirl noona of mine is totally excited 😆

It's all started back in April 2018 but I forgot how I began noticing EXO. What I know for sure is that I am completely trapped in the fandom (fan kingdom? anyway, that's how they call themselves) of EXO called EXO-L (EXO-Love I guess?). I've been leaving my teenage idol craze thing way back in the past. The last time I was this crazy was during Westlife and The Moffatts era. But somehow this year I suddenly feeling young again, loving this group of out-of-the-world handsome boys. Yes, boys, you guys reading it correctly, they are waaay much younger than I am. O.M.G. I'm just soo in loove with these talented young lads. Have never I encounter any other group, be it Western or Asian, that all of its member are equally super handsome and super talented. What superior genes pooling over here. I do like Leehom back then but even a Leehom is not that handsome compared to EXO, let aside Westlife. I am soo over Caucasian men. I prefer Asians, hihi.

These guys really are blessed with good genes from their parents. Not even Super Junior makes my heart flutter like EXO does. 

I am quite late to join the fandom. I've just started to like EXO in the Kokobop era but they actually debuted long time ago in 2012. And to be honest, as I dig deeper into their career path and I found out that they used to have more members originated from Mainland China, I think I'd still prefer the EXO now without their Chinese ex-members. There's only one Chinese member left now (whom I'm not very fond of 😝). 

I really hope that I could go to their concerts.

 

Oh, and don't forget to check their MVs! Who knows you'll become their next victim just like me ~

 

 

- meLLe -

everglow

For the last few days I've been listening Everglow sung by Coldplay. It is literally on repeat, I even heard it was played on a department store nearby my house hehe. I've heard it somewhere and it was catchy but I have never payed attention to the lyrics until this song was sung by EXO's Chanyeol on his noona's wedding day. And it was so touching, I mean.. check the song out (I will attached a Youtube link below).. the lyrics is so deep and it makes me miss my mom.

And below was the video when Chanyeol sang it for his noona. Super touching. I can't imagine if it was me (as his noona), I'd be crying heaps.

And here is the lyrics..

oh they say people come, say people go
this particular diamond was extra special
and though you might be gone, and the world may not know
still I see you, celestial

like a lion you ran,  a goddess you rolled
like an eagle you circled, in perfect purple
so how come things move on, how come cars don’t slow
when it feels like the end of my world
when I should but I can’t let you go?

but when I’m cold, cold
oh when I’m cold, cold
there’s a light that you give me when I’m in shadow
there’s a feeling you give me, an everglow

like brothers in blood, sisters who ride
and we swore on that night we’d be friends til we die
but the changing of winds, and the way waters flow
life as short as the falling of snow
and now I’m gonna miss you I know

but when I’m cold, cold
in water rolled, salt
I know that you’re with me and the way you will show
and you’re with me wherever I go
and you give me this feeling this everglow

oh- I I I I
what I wouldn’t give for just a moment to hold
yeah I live for this feeling this everglow

so if you love someone, you should let them know
oh the light that you left me will everglow

I highlighted some parts that really hit me. Life is indeed as short as the falling of snow. So if you love someone, you should let them know. Don't ever miss the chance or you'll regret your whole life and you can never turn back the time.

Mama, I've been missing you since the day you left. I am missing you now and I will miss you always and forever ~  

being nostalgic

I am being nostalgic at this very moment while writing this entry and listening to Ra.D's song.

I have a good news! I have just found the blogs I had abandoned for ages, yay! I have had few blogs before this one but I just couldn't log in to the blogs I used to own simply because I was too ignorant to update the email changing, the shutting down of hotmail, and so on and so on. And for a moment I just completely forgot even the title of my own blogs hehe.

So before I lost them again.

silverline on a cloud was my very first blog. If you're curious and click on the link you will be directed right to the very first page of my first baby. I wrote about just anything that comes to my mind. The entries were written during my puberty phase so *haha those pondering days trying to be poetic but failed miserably. But well yeah the damage has been done 😝 History is history..

iNdiGo was actually the third blog I own *gosh, I completely forgot my second blog. Dang! I have finally found myself starting to feel quite comfortable to be in my own skin. So it was quite an enjoyable-to-read one. I was supposed to continue writing on this blog but sadly it was on either hotmail or yahoo platform *the point is both died and had to be changed to a google one but the old ignorant self of mine ignored it. Now I couldn't log in to this one. So pardon for the typos there.

Those steps have led me to this blog. I deliberately make the design exactly the same as iNdiGo as it was supposed to be the continuation of it. It is the book number 2 of my rambling.

Cheers 🍻

- meLLe -

the night of Asian Games closing ceremony 2018

The title could be misleading I warn you beforehand..

It is indeed the night of Asian Games closing ceremony 2018, Indonesia happened to be the host. I am writing this while waiting for the closing ceremony. Just because the opening ceremony was a huge success, the closing too should be worth watching. Plus the guests are Korean idols, Super Junior and iKON. Super Junior was my very first exposure to the Kpop addiction *little did I know once you've fallen into the addiction, you can not undo the effect. I have been a victim of Hallyu ever since, until this very second. As for iKON, I didn't know much about the band but they do have a catchy song that I listen to sometimes when I'm driving.

Starting from browsing the internet to look up some EXO reality shows on Youtube, I ended up finding out that they came to Indonesia not only once, they came thrice. OMG I couldn't believe myself. They held 2 concerts and came for a music bank. I missed those, dang! Oh well, I am super baby EXO-L, just recently on 2018. No wonder I didn't care back then. I heard about the euphoria I guess but I was just like who the hell were they.

Brb watching the closing ceremony!

Back! Got too bored watching the nation parade *if you know what I mean

This is just for my archive about those EXO's concerts I've missed. 

Their first concert in Jakarta was on September 2014 "EXO Planet #1 - The Lost Planet". At the time I must've been like "what is EXO?" I was still in China doing my clinical rotation in the hospital. On complete hiatus from Kpop wave because I was about to face my graduation exam.

The second one was on February 2016 "EXO Planet #2 - The EXO'luXion" held in ICE-BSD. Back in Indo for good already. I'm pretty sure it was held the day I went to Aeon BSD with Onik, Intan and Cy. I passed by the venue *tears. I wasn't interested at all because all their fans were teenagers while I thought I won't be a fangirl anymore ever. To be honest, when I was editing this post, as I was uploading the picture, I thought these boys were not my "cup of tea". They only became attractive to me when they're more mature which is in 2018.

The third one was Music Bank held on September 2017 in JIEXPO Kemayoran, I was aware of this one. Umm 그냥...

Tho I felt it is such a pity to miss concerts like EXO's, I prolly not going to watch any of them in Indonesia. I was just too afraid that the fangirls will be too brutal during the concerts. What a conservative side of me, a noona fangirl hehe. But I did missed few concerts back in China tho. There was this Lang Lang concert held in the stadium by my apartment in Suzhou on a December which was the usual exam period for Chinese universities. I care more about my exam. Then there was this Leehom concert in Nanjing but again exam was coming. Heck why it's always near exam time. I guess concerts in China really tested every university student whether they love their idol more or their future more, haha.

Hence I really wish for an ideal job which gives me a good payment and channeling my inner creativity and allowing me to attend hype events.

- meLLe -