Marathon Grill changed my perception

There was someone who I thought was harder to approach.
But that person happened to be one of the sweetest people.
For instance, I felt a weird sense of intimacy, when I saw him constantly mumbling, his hand cupping around his ear to hear better, his eyes quickly blinking behind his thick glasses.
Most of all, the share of marathon grill, that we might have a common taste in food.
At marathon grill, I saw him pulling out a chair and taking care for the old lady, who looked like his mother.
Conclusion: Marathon grill provide me not only some fiiiiiine mashed potatoes and hurb rubbed chicken breast and shockingly good chocolate milkshake, but also changed my perception.

Fake Nails

I purchased the kiss brand's nail stickers.
My fake nails lasted a day or even less than that.
It had a warning sign: minimize your contact with water, but how can I not wash my hands in ladies room?
But I won't deny, my nails were pretty.

It looked like most of stickers were designed for thumb nail.

I don't usually consider myself as artsy person, but I was good at cutting those stickers that can fit to my nail and stick to them.

Only Child

Yesterday I bought one of Haruki Murakami's book and at one point, I read this part, something like, those parents who have only child don't like each other and don't have good relationship.
Last week, while the student I tutor and I were studying, he told me that he has four siblings, so five total.
As soon as I heard that, I could immediately take myself to my imagination department.
The picture where my student's parents lived in a rural farm, taking care of their crops.
When the hard labor was done, even before the sun went down, they dropped their shovels, and returned to their sweet, country-style home.
They've got so much relaxing time and that was how or why he has that many siblings, not in the year of 1960, but in 2013, I suspected.
However, I was wrong. He told me that his parents lived in a rich, city area.

Things that I've realized lately

1. Excitement travels from a person to person

2. Once excitement is gone, it's irreversible

3. Nothing lasts forever, except God and His love

4. Becoming an adult can mean, becoming cynical, indifferent and learning to accept (rather than adopt) things

5. The only thing that doesn't change is change

6. Life is always equally hard, whether when I was young or now (sort of not that young age..) 

7. I can never force my will to other people and that's against the rule

8. New is always fresh and good feeling

9. Happiness is a decision

10. Life is full of unexpected surprises and that's what makes life, beautiful 

11. I still love this. Writing...  

12. Writing.. is my ultimate hope  

13. You never know.. human-being's mind... 

14. People can always choose what to focus on

15. Despite of all, God is always good.

The Drama of the Year

1. May Queen

2. A Gentleman's Dignity

3. A Man from Equator

The Paris Wife

Ernest Hemingway is a well-known writer, but I didn't realize The Paris Wife is a fiction based on the research of his true story by Paula McLain. Of course I knew the story was about him, but I thought it was utterly based on the author's imagination!!, since I was never with the state of wonder about Ernest Hemingway.

Now, I'm thinking like,
'Are those characters in the book all real? Hemingway, his wife Hadely, Pauline, who had affair with him, editors, Picasso and even Scott Fitzgerald, All those name of publications mentioned in the book. Those famous authors and artists that all lived in a same era. Shockingly enough, they all knew and converse with each other.'

In my opinion, the book showed pretty much below things.

1. The glamor life - No doubt, it's Paris! It's funny how, the writer, as a job, can be portrayed as glamorous as it can be- the sip of the glass of wine, the l hang outs with friends who dress and talk and act chicly, some occasional parties and skies. To add to their fun, the bullfighting and horse race. I was particularly enticed by these scenes. + the suffrage writers in any eras face, financially and emotionally.

2. Travel  - As the title of the book already tells, the main stage was Paris. But the Hemingway couple or Hemingway himself frequently traveled to foreign countries to get him inspired and write and revise. 

3. Hemingway's endless and tireless, but the passionate writing - It was literally all about writing.

4. Hadley's love and support for him - When she was pervaded by the loneliness and emptiness caused by Hemingway's frequent absence, she persevered hard to make her husband succeed as a writer. Even though she had her own dream, to be professional in piano, she only pursued and cheered for Ernest's vision, as if that was her only hope. Wouldn't it be awesome to keep someone like Hadley all the time? Someone who's constantly telling you, 'you're going to make it through hard times no matter what' 

5. Lastly, the divorce part -This context was kind of a disproportionate part of the book.
The story just wrapped up with the divorce. It's like wrapping up the unfinished burger with aluminum foil, because you're running out of your lunch time.
It was very similar to what we have often seen or heard - the once poor/incompetent man has made a career and become famous. Now what? The man abandons his sacrificial wife and welcomes another woman with his open arms? 


I loved the charm of the setting. I was taken into the several exotic places and countries that the author invited me to. McLain did an awesome job.

What Alice Forgot

 What has occurred to you in the last 10 years?
For me, I came to U.S, went to high school, college, then my family moved into a new home that we bought. And I also did a horrendous job search. 
How much do you think, a person can change over a decade?
And where do you see yourself 10 years from now? (sounds very much like a job interview -.-;;;)

Here's Alice, who has gone from a sweet, innocent 29-years-old woman to a peevish, anxious 39-years-old married woman who has three children.
She just filed a divorce on her husband, Nick.

After Alice fell and hit her head in a spin class at gym, she lost 10 years of her memory.
Will lost of her memory affect on her life positively? or.. negatively?
Viewing her 39-years-old life stage in 29-years old's perspective seemed very personal and touching.
Alice wants to neglect the type of person she has become, which she had admired 10 years ago.  
Alice's normal everyday life isn't that normal anymore. 

Even though the sentences were flawlessly smooth, the only thing I have to criticize about this novel is that Elizabeth and Frannie's letters to somebody were a little space-consuming contents.
But other than that, I loved the human in What Alice Forgot. I adored Dr. George Clooney and Alice with lost memory at the beginning lol So cute.

What Alice Forgot makes me to connect the bridges of my "past-present-future" and that it also makes me want to live harder.

I can't wait to see Liane Moriarty's another imagination.