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Lately, I've been walking away,floating like a song in the air.Lately, I've been trailing away,I've been walking my way.

Travel Light — The Do

ON THE COVERPhotographer : Self Portrait by Michelle KoesnadiWhere : Her Home

This was one of Michelle’s work to night time transition outfit. She kept the blazer, removed her button shirt, added high heels and swab of red lipstick. Red lipstick is one of the most useful makeup tool. Great to freshen up a look, can be used as blush, or even just a tint on your lips when you dab it using your fingers.

spark #3Spark is created by Riyandini Putri.

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CONTENT4. movie LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE ELIZABETHTOWN BEFORE SUNRISE

12. girl crush ELEANOR HARDWICK

16. girl life ALL THAT THINGS ON THE JOURNEY THE JOURNEY OF MY HAIR

36. blogger feature MICHELLE

42. book THE BOOK THIEF

40. obsession I LOVE YOUR GLASSES DETAILS

44. teenage bedroom DETAILS INSPIRATIONS

14. girl talk URBAN AND SUBURBAN

24. taking pictures FLIGHT PATTERN

46. place

47. stuff

48. music

50. mixtape

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Michelle KoesnadiJakarta, Indonesia

Glisters and Blisters was originally a blog to collect all random thoughts and inspirations going on in Michelle’s head. Michelle has been awarded as the Blog-ger of the Year at the ELLE Style Awards 2011 and she currently does freelance styling and photography works.

email : ask@glistersandblisters.com | blog : glistersandblisters.com

Helena NatanaelJakarta, Indonesia

She is an ordinary girl with extraordi-nary thoughts, addicted to everything smells like Paris, France. She loves all colors, but her most favorite is white. She wishes to explore around the world, and interested to discover new places she never come before.

email : i_am_hln@yahoo.co.id | blog : helena-nt.blogspot.com

Lucie SrbovaHoloubkov, Czech Republic

Fashion blogger, fashion lover and eternal dreamer who still believe she will become famous in the world. Her biggest dream is to be a stylist or fashion editor. She owns a few certificates from Association of Stylist and Make-up Artist and she would love to study on London College of Fashion.

email : srbova.lucie@centrum.cz | blog : simplicityischic.blogspot.com

Anh PhamSydney, Australia

She is a book worm, a movie lover, a fashion enthusiast and a photographer. A typical teenager who longs for a good and bright future, she like her books accompanied with green tea, her clothes mismatched yet harmonious, her music playing loudly and her friends and fam-ily by her side.

email : lightmydarkness@gmail.com | blog : exitclosed.blogspot.com.au

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Kerri SullivanPhiladelphia, USA

She is a photographer, writer, and filmmaker. She collects old cameras, squashed pennies, and books with inscriptions in them. She misses being a teenager.

email : kerri.sullivan@comcast.net | blog : kerrisullivan.com

Ane AiartzaBilbao, Spain

She is an art student. Photograph lover and camera collector, dreaming about dedicating her self to designing and photographing everything posible. Huge traveller and animal lover. But most of all, full of character and weirdness.

email : aianamendi@hotmail.com | blog : inkandeyeliner.blogspot.com

Talking about The Journey itself is not only just about our journey to a place. It is also about the journey of our life. Life is a journey. Have heard about it? I guess you have. Don’t you think that is true? I always think that journey is a tricky word (or general word? Since my English doesn’t perfect, I like to pretend it is. I am not being egoist here, but kind of doing-what-i-like). I am obsessed with the journey word. I like to pronounce it, and then think about it. I like the idea that I go to somewhere else (somewhere but not stuck in my room). I like the idea that everything is change (actually I pretty scare about this idea, but I am try-ing to get used to). Journey is about the process. The process you get to be there. To be the way you are. Because every-body is moving. Maybe you even didn’t notice it. But if you think all over again, you’ll know.Thanks to Eishah who help me with my grammar and Book Making Club of LirShop.

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Have you ever felt like you are run-ning very fast just to stay in the same place?Phoebe — Phoebe in Wonderland

LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE

Little Miss Sunshine is a black comedy road movie about a dysfunctional family with a 7 year old

daughter who wants to compete in this bizarre beauty pageant. This movie starts when Olive Hoover quali-fied for the “Little Miss Sunshine” beauty contest that will be held in Redondo Beach, California which made her develop involuntary spasms of shock, disbe-lief, and then tured with pure, unadulterated eupho-ria, “I won, I won! I gotta pack, I gotta go to pack!” Olive along with her parents (Sheryl and Richard Hoover), her uncle (Frank Ginsberg), her grandpa (Edwin Hoover), and her step brother (Dwayne) went to California from Albuquerque, New Mexico with their Volkswagen T2 Microbus to attend the contest. Co-director Jonathan Dayton also commented on the importance of the pageant to the film: “As far as the pageant goes, it was very important to us that the film not be about pageants. It’s about being out of place, it’s about not knowing where you’re going to end up.”During the journey, many things happened: Richard loses an important contract, Frank encounters the ex-boyfriend who precipitated his suicide attempt, Edwin dies from an apparent heroin overdose, Dwayne dis-covers that he is color blind, and therefore can never get a pilot’s license, which prompts him to break his silence. Somehow, these problems make them closer.On their way, while they are on the restaurant, Olive wanted to eat ice cream, but Richard tends to say to Olive that it can make her fat “Well, when you eat ice

cream, the fat in the ice cream becomes fat on your body.” Grandpa interrupts, “Olive, Richard’s an idiot. I like a woman with meat on her bones.” Olive is confused, “I don’t... Mom! Why is everyone so upset?” Sheryl answered, “I’m not upset, honey. I just want you to understand: It’s okay to be skinny, and it’s okay to be fat, if that’s how you want to be. Whatever you want – it’s okay.” Richard rolls his eyes, “Okay, but, Olive, let me ask you: the women in Miss America...? Are they skinny, or are they fat?” Olive answers, “Well... They’re skinny, I guess.” Don’t you think that it makes clear that beauty standards are scary? Why should people be skinny to be able to feel beautiful? This is silly. Plus, Photoshop makes beauty blurry (and unreal). So, beauty is not a real thing anymore.When Olive is about to perform on the contest, Rich-ard talked to Sheryl that he wouldn’t want Olive to perform. He knows that Olive will be lost. Suddenly Dwayne interrupts and say, “Mom, look around! This place is fucked! I don’t want these people judging Olive! Fuck them!” But Sheryl can’t do that, “Listen to me. Olive is who she is. This is what she’s chosen to do. She’s worked hard, she’s poured everything into this. We can’t take it away from her. We just can’t. I know you want to protect her, but... We gotta let Olive be Olive. For better or worse.” This is the greatest ever that I heard from a parent. Almost all the time, parents make us do what they all want us to do, but Sheryl wants to let Olive be Olive for better or worse.

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I think that’s what parents should do. They should support their children, not make life seem harder for their children. As a human with brain, actually eve-rybody knows what they really want to do with their lives. So, why almost all the time parents make it dif-ficult for us to live our dreams? Or maybe that is just mine. Prior to writing the script, Arndt read in a newspaper about Arnold Schwarzenegger speaking to a group of high school students and saying “If there’s one thing in this world I hate, it’s losers. I despise them.” As a result, Arndt developed his script lampooning the thought process: “And I thought there’s something so wrong with that attitude ... I wanted to ... attack that idea that in life you’re going up or you’re going down ... So to a degree a child beauty pageant is the epitome of the ultimate stupid meaningless competition peo-ple put themselves through.”Valerie Faris said, “I never even felt so much like we were doing a genre film. I just felt like it was a bunch of characters that I really felt I loved, and wanted to see come to life. I know I never felt, ‘Oh, we’re doing a road movie comedy.’ In fact, we hardly approached this like we were doing a comedy. We weren’t laughing on the set after each take. It was more of approaching it from the kind of comedy we like, which is where the comedy comes from the kind of characters, and the situations where you’re really identifying with them, hopefully more than laughing at their follies.”

Actually, there are some parts in this movie that is dif-ferent from the script (I read the 2003 script). I know that Michael Arndt works so hard for this movie, and I feel it was wasted because they ended up cut-ting some of the parts out. And, for me, the most fatal is the ending. In the movie, it is just the VW on the street. But in the script, it is Richard talking about his dad, “I run back, unplug the light, run to the dump-ster -- he’s lying there, rain is pouring down... And he’s got the ticket! This twelve hundred dollar trifecta ticket! And I’m like, “Dad! Dad, are you okay?” And he looks at me and all he says is: ‘Richard... Don’t ever have children.’ To me, he says that! To me!” And everybody is laughing (really different the some hours before that they were so bored because Richard only talk about the Nine Steps). In the end Richard say, “So... Who wants some ice cream?” But maybe it was the end, since there are four alternate endings at the DVD (I want to see the others for sure!)

PS. If you want to read the plot, I recommend Wiki-pedia (please don’t roll your eyes).

PPS. Abigail Breslin is my favorite actress ever. How can I resist her loveliness? I can’t!

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Dwayne (Paul Dano)

He is Sheryl’s son from a previous marriage, is an angst teen-ager who has taken a vow of silence until he can accomplish his dream of getting into the US Air Force Academy in order to become a test pilot. Frank asked him, “You can talk. You just choose not to? Is that Nietzsche? You don’t speak because of Friedrich Nietzsche? Far out.” “You don’t hang out with anyone? Oh come on. You must have one friend!” Dwayne reaches in his back pocket and pulls out a pad of paper. He shows it to Frank. It reads: “I hate everyone.” (Actually, at my teenager phase, I don’t have this I hate everyone attitudes. I found that it is so difficult to get make a bitch face).Valerie Faris said, “Paul we had found two years prior to starting production, and we were just worried that they’d [Paul and Abby] get too old, but luckily they stunted their growth somehow.”

Frank Ginsberg (Steve Carell)

Frank is Sheryl brother who is homosexual and expert in Proust, and tried to commit suicide when he was rejected by his boyfriend and his great competitor became renowned and recognized as number one in the field of Proust. He has become close to Dwayne (actually they have kind of the same attitudes and they are in the same situation. I think that is why).Jonathan Dayton said, “We always felt that Steve was an incred-ibly smart actor, and even when he took on the silliest of roles. He approached it with such vigor, and intelligence. He was so serious about the role. He’s one of those great performers that’s very funny, but doesn’t need to be funny every moment.”

Sheryl Hoover (Toni Collette)

She is an overworked mother who really loves her children. Let Olive be Olive for better or worse. Don’t you think that this is so hilarious? I think so (okay, sorry to repeat it again, but actu-ally I just want to make sure that you get it). Sheryl really loves her family (but, she shouted each other with Richard a lot. At first, I think they’d be getting a divorce sooner or later. I was wrong). “Dwayne... For better or worse: we’re your family...” Sheryl said to Dwayne after he found that he is color blind (I like to call this situation as family acceptance).Valerie Faris said, “With Toni, we had met a lot of great ac-tresses, and Toni popped up, and we thought, ‘Oh my god, she’s perfect for this’ ”.

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Olive Hoover (Abigail Breslin)

I can’t describe it correctly, but Olive is just so lovely! She is so beautiful at heart, so it makes her also beautiful physically. “Grandpa, am I pretty?” she asked the night before the con-test. “You are the most beautiful girl in this world,” Grandpa cheered her up. “You are just saying that,” Olive still so sad. “No! I’m madly in love with you and it’s not because of your brains or your personality,” Grandpa made Olive believe it (sometimes I just feel this is so silly why everybody is ob-sessed to be beautiful. It also means, why everybody wants to be skinny? What is the point? I think we can blame pop cul-ture movie where the protagonist is always skinny, and pretty. But who cares with pop culture anyway?). Jonathan Dayton said, “As the Abby was the only person that we found that we felt was right. Her gift is that she’s still a child. She’s not like a mini-adult; she’s a child who’s smart.”

Grandpa Edwin Hoover (Alan Arkin)

He is Richard’s foul-mouthed father, recently evicted from a retirement home, Sunset Village, for using and selling heroin, lives with the family. He is close with Olive, even became Olive’s choreographer and coach for the contest. My favorite scene is when they push the van until it reaches 20 miles per hour and then run and jump in for the first time. And Grand-pa asked to Olive, “Was it fun?” and Olive nodded. I think it really gave our view how close they are.Jonathan Dayton said, “We first thought that he was too young for the role, but then we realized, ‘Come on, it’s Alan Arkin. He’ll do it. My god.’ ”

Richard Hoover (Greg Kinnear)

He is striving to build a career as a motivational speaker and life coach. Richard is unsuccessfully trying to sell his self-help and self-improvement technique using Nine Steps to reach success. And he always talks about Nine Steps. And it has bored everyone of course as Sheryl said, “Fuck the Nine Steps, Richard! They’re not working! It’s over!!! Forget it!!! I never want to hear the Nine Steps again!!!” And he wants to com-pete, like he said to the officer, “We’re not asking for an advan-tage! We just want to compete!” (I think that is unhealthy). Valerie Faris said, “Greg we always thought of in the Richard role.”

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Elizabethtown

Three-quarters of this movie is just about Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) and his father, Mitch

(Tim Devitt), who just died. I thought that it was just like another Hollywood movie. A male and a female, meet up (accidentally or not), hook up, just like that. Then (for me) the movie really began three-quarter

The directions come to a point where he is given two choices—to continue home or to finish the journey Claire laid out for him. Drew chooses to use her route. And you know how it ends. Drew and Claire meet, kiss, and that was the end. Was it happily ever after for them? Who knows? This is not a Disney movie. ♦

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from the beginning. Drew decided to do a road trip which he never does. He does the road trip with his father’s ashes and map from Claire Colburn (Kirsten Dunst), “I have this thing for you. It’s a very unique map. It’s for your road trip home. I want you to get into the deep... beautiful melancholy of every thing that’s happened. It’s a great map.” Claire’s map includes instructions and CDs. There are notes of places along the way he should visit. At each one, he spreads some of his father’s ashes. At one point, Drew said to Mitch ashes, “Look at us. You with your many almost-great projects, me with my fiasco. Oh, God. Both of us working so hard... for what? We should have taken this trip years ago.” (He’s disappointed with the fact that he lost his time with his dad. I really felt sorry for them).

1. Elizabethtown. 2. Drew does the road trip with his father ashes and map from Claire. 3. A river leading to the Mississippi. 4. Drew spread his father ashes. 5. The end.

“Begin your journey and do not skip ahead.”

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Take a look at the greatest map ever

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If it is about journey, I really couldn’t not to talk about Before Sunrise. Maybe you had watched this

movie and liked it so much as I did. Everybody who watched this movie said they totally loved it. On a train, be at another town, and talk. For some people that is totally joyous. Don’t you just love that idea?This movie is about a France girl and an American (“Yeah, yeah, I get it. So I’m the crude, dumb, vul-gar American who doesn’t speak any other language and has no culture, right? But, I tried. I took French for four years in high school.”) boy who met on the train. They had different destination as well. The girl, Celine, wanted to go back to Paris and the boy, Jesse, wanted to go to Vienna to fly the next morning to USA. But somehow Jesse had assured Celine to stop by at Vienna, “So listen, so here’s the deal. This is what we should do. You should get off the train with me here in Vienna, and come check out the town.”In this journey, you can expect their thoughts that really inspiring. They are talking about the media (“I hate that the media, you know, they are trying to control our minds. You know it‘s very subtle, but you know, it‘s a new form of fascism.”), culture (“I hate when I am in foreign countries, especially in Ameri-

ca, they are the worst. Each time I wear black, or like, lose my temper, or say anything about anything, they always go ‘oh, it‘s so French, it‘s so cute.’ I hate that. I can’t stand that, really.”), God (“I was in an old church like this with my grandmother a few days ago in Budapest. Even though I reject most of the religious things, I can’t help but feel for all those people that came here lost or in pain, guilt, looking for some kind of answers. It fascinates me how a single place can join so much pain and happiness for so many genera-tions.”), technology (It‘s all these people talking about how great technology is, and how it saves all this time. But, what good is saved time, if nobody uses it? If it just turns into more busy work. I mean, you never hear somebody say, ‘Well, you know, with uh, the time I’ve saved by using my word processor, I’m gonna go to a Zen monastery and hang out.’ I mean, you never hear that.”), even feminism (“I have this awful paranoid thought, that feminism was mostly in-vented by men, so they could, like, fool around a little more. You know, women, free your minds, free your bodies, sleep with me. We’re all happy and free as long as I can fuck as much as I want.”). Also, of course, their own life and their identity, “I’m so glad because

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no one knows I’m here, and I don’t know anyone that knows you that would tell me all those bad things you’ve done.” as Celine said.Also about love, “Well, I kind of see love as this uh, es-cape for two people who don’t know how to be alone, you know, or uh, I mean, you know it‘s funny. People always talk about how love is this totally unselfish, giving thing, but if you think about it, you know, there’s nothing more selfish.” And couple, “When you talked earlier about after a few years, how a couple be-gin to hate each other by anticipating their reactions or getting tired of their mannerisms. I think it would be the opposite for me. I think I can really fall in love when I know everything about someone. The way he’s gonna part his hair...which shirt he’s gonna wear that day...knowing the exact story he’d tell in a given situ-ation. I’m sure that’s when I know I’m really in love.” I think I would have the same thought like Celine. Maybe I would really fall in love when I know every-thing about someone. But, I don’t know. I am a real static person who would do some things that I did before. I like to repeat things that give me luck. And I’ll avoid things that would give me bad luck. I don’t know with you, but that is what I did for this recent

years. So, things depend on its luck for me.And my favorite thing is gonna be this, “I actually saw this one a few years ago in a museum. I stared, and stared at it. Must have been forty-five minutes. I love it. La voie ferre. Ah. I love the way the people seem to be dissolving into the background. Look at this one. It‘s like the environment, you know, are stronger than the people. His human figures are always so transi-tory. It‘s funny.” Girls, it is true. I always think about this thing. Environments are stronger than the people. This fact is scary. Human always think that they can rule the world. Actually they don’t. Have you heard things like, “Don’t play to be God.” It is so true! Don’t try. Ever.When you decide to watch this movie, in the end you’ll think about things that you never even would recognize about. You’ll start asking so many questions to yourself. You’ll really think about things. Not just about to let things happen. But you also think how it happens. Ah, I start talking about boring things. I am sorry. Am I recommending this movie? Should you ask? I think you already know that you really should watch this movie. ♦

Before Sunrise

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Eleanor Hardwick via eleanorhardwick.com

Eleanor Hardwick

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These days, we see many young talented people. And the trend is famous through the internet.

And then bam! You’re famous in real life too. I think the internet became the alternative way for people to show up. This time I want to talk about Eleanor Hard-wick, a photographer.Eleanor is only one year younger than me. She was born in 1993 in Oxfordshire, England. Her passion is in photography (absolutely), “I am ambitious, but I am also prepared to work for it. I cannot imagine my future without photography in it.” She lives in a small town where she got so many ideas from there and great locations for photo shoot. I think she is so lucky that she has a sister who can do modeling for her. When you are a beginner, the best thing you can do is playing photo shoot with your family or your friends. That is what my manual said. Work hard include on it. As Eleanor said, “I’ve learnt that the more effort I put into an idea, the more it will pay off.” Eleanor’s career at photography began at 2006 when she liked to collect Japanese fashion dolls. She took photos of her dolls in situations, which included anything from a little set up in the garden to taking them to see the sights in different cities and countries (your dolls also good to be a model on your very very beginning. Oh my gosh, my manual is ahmaziiing).I think I shouldn’t talk about her portfolio. You can google it anyway. Okay I’ll tell you one (that maybe you already know). She is on British Vogue! It is sooo impressive. But I don’t know what is her biggest achieve so far, for herself of course. And I think the answer would be interesting. Talking about interest-ing, “The most cohesive aspect of my work is a play

on the idea of childhood; the idea of an adult in a child’s body and a child in an adult’s body.” See? Very very interesting.Actually I am asking why she wasn’t a photographer for Lula. I think her style of photograph is so Lula. So dreamy and beautiful. Talking about her style of pho-tograph, her favorite photographers are, “Tim Walker, I feel like sometimes we are on the same wavelength with our ideas (however obviously his execution is so much more incredible!). I love his use of oversized props, and the childlike, misty quality to his images. Another photographer I admire is Denise Grünstein, for her quietly beautiful style. I also adore the work of Elene Usdin, a Parisian photographer who shares my passion for the unison of the surreal and fashion.”Don’t you think that Eleanor herself also impres-sive? Her doll face! And her personality of course, “I think I look at the world differently to other teenag-ers; I guess I feel older.” She admits that, “When I’m in maths class or science, my mind wanders and I find myself somewhere else. At school, I like subjects where there is no right or wrong answer.” She is a genius, a prodigy, a demon at math and science (I just like this lyric from the song Act of the Apostle by God Help the Girl. But maybe she is. I totally have no idea). Somehow, through her interview I know that she is a very passionate person. And passionate per-son always work so hard. But I don’t wanna look that I know Eleanor to her heart. Because I don’t absolute-ly. A thing that I know is she is sooo gorgeous that she can make dreamy and beautiful photo shoots.And she is my GRRRL CRUSSSHH. ♦

Behind the scene of Miss World photo shoot for Rookie Magazine. Photographed by Oscar May.

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Urban and SuburbanWe see the different sky there. A conversation between Helena who live at Jakarta, the urban, and me who live at Yogyakarta, the suburban. Maybe we want to switch.

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Spark : What do you think about journey itself?Helena : For me, journey is part of my life where I experience and learn so many things to realize along the journey. I love the moments when I’m being with my best friends. Hanging out with them helps me to escape a while from this crazy life.Where is your favorite town?I love Paris. I love the atmosphere there. Everything seems perfect in Paris. And I think Yogyakarta is the best town I ever went to. I love gudeg very much! At Jakarta, there’s no gudeg as delicious as gudeg that I ate in Yogyakarta! Also I love the homey feeling that I’ve got in Yogyakarta.I live at Yogyakarta, all my life. It is surprising that it is your favorite town. I always think that I’ll go to other town, but Ihaven’t yet. I don’t really know perfectly how it is to be at someone else’s town. Maybe there are only five towns where I had visited long time ago. Somehow, I felt displaced.I don’t travel a lot. I’ve visited just about four towns, but the most often is Yogyakarta, twice. I feel it’s an amazing to know other culture and other lifestyle in another town. When I traveled to other city/town, I feel like “oh yes, this holiday will be so much fun!”Actually I was obsessed by Jakarta, Jakarta Fashion Week especially.Jakarta Fashion Week is not that interesting. Not every people have the opportunity to watch it. Only famous people were invited to come, and be able to watch it. Besides the Jakarta Fashion Week, what maked you obsessed with Jakarta?Maybe the vibe of big city. But I am not sure. A friend told me that big cities gonna change your personality and I am so afraid of this idea.Your friend isn’t wrong. But not everyone change because of the big city’s vibe. I mean, yes, the big city with the fast movement of trends and technos drives us to be kinda selfish and stubborn, but there’s still some people who hasn’t change as extreme as most of us. All we need to live in city like Jakarta is just to “filter” what we see, what we hear, and what we get. As simple as that.It is kind of scary for me. I always think that my life would be at a big city someday. But I am not sure now. I prefer living in my comfort zone. But maybe someday I’ll change my mind. Maybe I’ll be braver to live out of my comfort zone. Actually, I didn’t take much long journey. I always think that journey is fun, but I am too scared to go to somewhere else.

I don’t know, maybe it is just me being so scared of everything. Even at my town, I only go to some places. I call it my cycle places. I don’t feel comfort to go to somewhere new. I am that static. Maybe you never hear that idea and feel so strange about it. But, it really happens to me. Oh my gosh, I even never think about it before.My life is the invert from your life. I love to explore new places, but sometimes my parents are overpro-tective, they always said that Jakarta is not as nice as it seems. I know that, but it never decreases my curios-ity about exploring new places. I think I’ll explore Jakarta alone when I’m 17 years old, after receiving my identity card. It will be so much fun!A friend also told me that for most of people want to get out from their country (Camera Obscura!). They think that the other is better. But actually, they don’t know what really happen at the other country (or town) as they live there. Maybe it would be as boring as their country (or town). Maybe something that makes them interested is the idea of new places. The idea of living a better life.Yes, true. I think other country is better than Indone-sia. I feel displaced. But at last, I accept my destiny, to be born and live here. If you come to Jakarta one day, I’d love to answer your questions about my city.Thank you! But if you ask me about my town, I don’t know it so well. Yeah, I am that pathetic. Actually I don’t know where my favorite town is, but my town comforts me so far. I like being in my comfort zone. I feel save.Don’t worry, it’s okay and it’s normal. I discover some European blogs, and they adore Indonesia. They know about Jakarta much more than me! It is surpris-ing.Have you heard Forget Jakarta by Aditya Sofyan? This song explains many things for me. And some-how, I forget Jakarta.I don’t know the song, but I’ll search it on google.Actually, I have some plans to go somewhere (that I had visited before and never visit, I’ll try) alone or not. But it never happens, even at the nearest place. Talking about journey is always fun. Because noth-ing went wrong about it. If you thought something was wrong, you’ll consider it as fun.Actually I’m not that travel-lovers, but I think what you say is true. It’s really great to meet someone like you.It is so nice to meet you too. ♦

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I just never think of these things before. So, that is how it happens.

That day I’m supposed to study so hard (as hard as I could because my exam was very close). But sud-denly, I open a ‘trash-y’. It is a folder on my ‘college’ disc part. Then I clicked a folder called ‘New folder (2)’ (see, my files are messy). Suddenly, I found three movies there (awww, that means it is illegal!). The first one is a Tom Hanks movie (I really liked it, found my-self laughed so hard). And the second is typical Hol-lywood movie where two people suddenly ‘changed’ to be each other. The third is an Anne Hathaway movie. Actually, I expect nothing from this movie. But then, great things happened. The scene played on a July 15th year to year (BRILLIANT!). Suddenly, I think of The Journey. I think about memories of that exact day, which happened every year on the movie. There are a lot of changes. A lot. We change. I never realize how I change year by year (or even day by day. Maybe. I am older even minute by minute!). I don’t really know how I was two years before. Human brain is very weird. It works with things that sometimes

we can’t figure out how. How can I forget what I just did, but I can remember exactly about some random things what happen years before.I like movies which the main character dies (nooo, I’m not psycho). I always think that it is how the re-ally end should be. Not just about the main character finally marries their soul mate. That is not the end(but maybe you like the idea that the end is the begin-ning. Actually that is a good idea. But I want a real end). Maybe I’ll look way sooo shitty. But that is what I think. This idea came first from my sister, actually. She told me that she prefers the end with the main character dies. And she also told me that she prefers watching Chinese movie rather than Hollywood. In Chinese movie, the female character doesn’t weak. They are there not only to become a victim. They are there be-cause they are great enough, and they have the same ability as the man character, to be on the scene. When the man character is good at kung fu, so does the fe-male character. In some of the Hollywood movie, the female character seems too weak. In real life, females are not at that point of weakness. Somehow, female

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smart and talented and have ability to do kung fu or these kind of things that man also can do.As I am growing old, I have another favorite end. I like it when the main character seems to not change so drastically. In real life, we don’t change so quickly. It needs years to realize that we are changed. We do change but it takes process. Many processes. I like movies that looks like real life. It means things that exist, you can relate it to your life or someone that you know at real life.After I watched that Anne Hathaway movie I re-ally wanted to pick my day, a day of the year that I would photograph for the entire day. Maybe you’ll think that people who photograph their life a lot is the kind of boring people. I don’t think so. I want to photograph my day to make me remember. Help my brain to remember those past days because I really want to know how I change. So, I pick my birthday. I know that it is so predictable, but I don’t care. Since I am very bad at rememberig dates, I prefer to pick my birthdate because I’ll remember it easily. Also, it was the day when I was born (I think I’ll never miss to remember this date). That is when I started being on the earth.Here in my country, April 21st is a special date. Indo-nesian called it ‘Kartini Day’. For those who have no idea about it, ‘Kartini Day’ is an annual day which is celebrated by Indonesian. That date had taken be-cause Raden Adjeng Kartini born at April 21st 1879. She is a feminist icon in Indonesia. Long time ago, female didn’t go to school in Indonesia. Long (super) short story, because of Kartini , now females are able to go to school in Indonesia (I really recommend you google her. She is so inspirational). I am very proud to be born on this date. I always think that I’ll do some-thing big when I grown up. But I don’t know what it is. I still find my destiny and keep moving forward. I keep walking and even running (am I sounding cheesy? Ugh). I am looking for who I really am (dou-ble cheesy? Ugh ugh). I am looking for what is my character in this book, so called earth (super cheesy!).This year I am going to be twenty years old. TWEN-TY! I am not a teenager anymore. I think it is more valuable than seventeen for me. Being twenty, am I considered an adult? Whaaat, I am adult now? Oh my gosh, I feel so old. What do you think about growing up? For me, it means we have changed! When I was child, I really wanted to grow up as soon as possible.

And now, I want to stop. This game called life some-times is really boring me. It scares me. Okay, the fact is I am a coward. This world scares me. I am afraid of violence (I am never raped, but the violence itself gives horror for me) also disaster. Many times, I am panicked because of my mind thinking about what if bad things happen. I am trapped on my own mind. And these days, I know that I developed OCD.There are many kinds of OCD. And mine, I have ritu-als, especially when it really comes close to my exams, or tests. This is freaking me out because I have, at least, a test every week (sometimes it can be three. So very craaazzzyy). I should have the same meal every morning, and then I should wear the same outfits that give me luck before. Every subject is with differ-ent lucky outfits. I had this test, from the same sub-ject, every Wednesday. I always wear my yellow polo shirt (not that tacky yellow, but the pastel one), grey jeans, red shoes, and pink jacket. Also tosca bagpack. Maybe this combination sounds weird for you. But, well, it gave me luck. And I can’t let my luck go away. Too bad sometimes, I failed on some tests (I am still a human who makes mistakes!). And from these cases, I avoid to do things that lead me to have bad luck. I can’t not think about how stuff gives me good/bad luck. And it stresses me out. These things started happening since I was in fresh-men. I started being a perfectionist on my study life. Before I start college, me and my friend talked that we would have perfect grades in college. We’ll try so hard, which means we’ll study so hard. When I was in high school, I really don’t really care about my school. Okay, I care. But not too much. And life seems, I don’t know, better? (Am I a better person when I was in high school? I don’t really know). If you were my dad, you’ll totally love me better now than when I was in high school. I think that college (the grades, actually) is very important. Nooo, I don’t cheat. I am trying so hard not to cheat, because I’m afraid that it’ll lead me to bad luck. Well, I believe in God. And I know a thing called karma. And I’m really afraid of it.After I think about many things all over again, I think I am quite ready for me being twenty. I think I am ready to be adult now. But until now, I don’t have my identity card. Irony. And this time, the end is not because I die. This is the second favorite end. Which is nothing change. ♦

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Looking through Russian Red blog (russianred.es) titled Diary makes

me really happy. She is very good at keeping moments and keeping memo-ries. Lourdes Hernández, the singer of Russian Red, photographed her jour-ney so well. The sky, the streets, you know, things that I am obsessed about. And it is so impressive (of course!). In her journey, “I wrote many of the songs while I was on the road. For this reason they show different states of mind, as during my concert tour I went through a lot of different experi-ences” as she said. Doesn’t Russian Red itself make you wonder how it can be? “I had a band without a name some time ago. Since then, I was haunted by an obsession: to find the ideal artistic name. One day, I fell in love with this color that a girl was wearing. I pro-nounced its name, and now it is my pseudonym.” Beautiful! ♦

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I think I speak for every girl when I say that perfect haircut and colour are very important when you

want to look good. You can wear the most fashionable clothes but with messy hair you would look anything but glam and beautiful. I can’t imagine myself without visiting hair salon but to be honest it wasn’t always that way. Some of my old pics (well, most of them) should be forgotten. But maybe it is time to look at them again and share with world the fact that you are not the only one who came through bad hair period. So let’s start.How many of you have seen first season of Gossip Girl? Do you remember Serena? The IT girl who is popular and always looks perfect. Every girl wants to be like her and every boy wants her. When I think about my high shool years I was nothing like her. I had only few friends who were pretty much losers like me and my appearance was the last thing I cared about. I had one pair of jeans and my hair of undefined colour was a great example of how not to do it. But in every girl’s life there comes a moments when something’s changed and since that mo-ment you want to look better. I am not quite sure when this happened to me but I know that me wanting better look doesn’t mean looking better. I always love red-haired girls because they were somehow extraordinary and unique. So when I decided that my hair needed a change I knew exactly what colour’s the best. Because of my low budget dyeing my hair at home was the only possible choise. As a total beginner I struggled with it and the final result wasn’t really good. But I didn’t see it then because I was so happy I finally made a differ-ence in my life. I know it was just a new hair colour but it was a big deal for me. Somehow I thought this change could turn me into a cool person which obviously didn’t. Next two years I was a red-haired girl with terrible haircut which looked like it was made by a six-year old girl. I really don’t know where I found those untalented hairdressers. It had to be a gift or a curse. You might be thinking that the older I get the more clever I became. Well, then you are wrong. During some undefined brain injury (I don’t know what else could it be) I had decided to dye my hair dark brown. For a person with ivory skin it wasn’t a great decision. Thankfuly after a short time I came back to my sences and changed it back.

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The last year of high school was a mile stone for me. Unfortunately I can’t say what actually happened but I discovered the beauty of fashion. Jeans and sneakers became unsatisfactory and were switched for dresses and high heels. I also came to a conclusion that work-ing in the supermarket is not my dream job and I started looking for something better and more creative and I accidently found an agency which was looking for models and hostess. I was pretty scared to apply for that job but I faced my fear and did it. My first job was absolutely incredible. All I had to do was to let them do my hair and dress me up. Look pretty and smile were the only orders they gave me. I don’t have to tell you that I fell in love with this job. Not because of the fact that I basically didn’t have to do anything and I was paid for it but because of all that fabulous clothes and people who were somebody. I knew that this is the life I wanted. And from that time I have never stopped believing that I will become a stylist, fashion editor or creative manager. We will see if I will achieve it. But back to my hair journey.The day my hair will never forgive me about has to be the day when a modeling agency send me to some sort of hair show. Famous hairstylists firstly changed the colour of your hair according to newest trends and then cut your hair in front of the audience. The cut-ting part was kinda frightening because everybody was staring at you and you couldn’t run away. But it defi-nitely wasn’t the worst part. When my hairstylist told me that he wants me to be ginger I didn’t know that he meant orange. Yes, I truly looked like an orange! That moment changed my point of view on latest trends. If following them utterly means looking like a piece of fruit then I think I can live without being super trendy. I am sure that being a victiom of fashion is not a good thing. At the time when hot pink is a huge trend you should own one piece in this colour but you really shouldn’t buy everything pink, or even dye your hair like that. Unless you are Katy Perry. After this hor-rible expirience of mine I have never done any hair show again. In few weeks my hair colour came back

to normal (it was normal comparing to that orange thing) and I continued living my boring life. I am not gonna lie to you I am not a very lucky person so at the age of 19 I was so pissed off that I desperately needed a change. I started meeting different people, looking for a proper job and I changed my appearance from day to day. I don’t know if its only me but everytime I want to do a big change in my life I totally changed the way I look. My girly style was no longer an option so I went shopping for more elegant and sophisticated pieces. I was also sick of my red hair so the next day I came to school as a brunette. This look wasn’t bad at all but I always know that it is not perfect. I successfuly gratu-ated and became a student of university of law which I regret so much. After few years I got the job in Zara which was the best job I have ever had. Every day I was surrounded by gorgeous clothes and I could embrace my fantasy by coordinating them and dressing up mannequins. Unfortunately I had to quit that job be-cause of the university whose exams were hard to pass while working. By that time I was desperately in love with fashion, clothes and everything connected with it so I was searching for a perfect hairstylist who will make all my hair dreams come true. And I did find her by a total accident. I was browsing on the internet, not looking for anything special when I found a great offer from one really glam hair salon. The real prices were too high that I was pretty sure there had to be some mistake. On the other hand their newest offer for new clients was truly amazing so I have decided to try it. And it was the best decision ever! My new haistylist is so talented and she knows what suits me the most. When she first saw me she came with many ideas of my new look. Since that time my hair look so natural and I have never been so satisfied after leaving a salon. The prices are truly high but it is totally worth it!The journey of finding a perfect hairstylist wasnt easy at all but I am finally happy with my reflection in the mirror. So if you have a same problem and feel like giv-ing up you should hold on. Your hairdresser is waiting for you. ♦

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Spark : Why did you initially decided to start a blog? Michelle : I used to read a lot of fashion blogs everyday. I’d put them on my RSS feeds so that I stay updated whenever there’s a new post. I made a blog because I wanted to document my own inspirations.

How would you describe your style?My style is sophisticated on the mainline. Then the rest is really up to my mood that changes on a daily basis. I don’t like to look like I’m trying too hard.

How did you first become interested in fashion?I never actually noticed that I liked fashion from a young age. First it was Disney princess dresses obses-sion then came my tomboy period where I tried imi-tating Kim Possible, and then there were a couple of other periods following. After I picked up my first Teen Vogue, I realized that clothes are more than just things you use to cover your body. I noticed that there is a whole interesting side of business to it. That’s how I de-cided I wanted to pursue a career within the fashion field.

Who inspires your style and why?I get inspired mostly from street style photos and blogs, and runway shows. However, above all, I am usually inspired by the clothing piece itself. That’s how I brain-storm what to wear.

What are your personal favorite blogs and magazines?Garance Dore, Fashion Toast, Peony Lim, Park&Cube, Style Scrapbook, and Style by Kling are some of my MANY favorite blogs. I don’t have a particular favorite magazine as I like a good variety from different maga-zine houses. Plus with the internet, it’s always easy to have access to the latest editorial content.

What do you do when you’re not blogging?I flip through my bloglovin’ feed, browse for hours on the internet, edit photos, satisfy my taste buds, or sim-ply just catch up with some sleep.

Describe your typical day.I wake up then I make my own breakfast and coffee. Twice a week, I have Muay Thai classes in the morn-

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ing but when I don’t, I shower and prepare myself to check off my daily to do list. I don’t really have a ‘typi-cal day’ as it’s always different. Sometimes it can be a series of meetings, sometimes it’s a whole day of styling and photographing on set, and sometimes it’s a stay-at-home-in-front-of-the-computer day.

Do you like travelling?Yes of course!

What is your favorite journey so far?My trip to Europe last spring was my favorite in my whole life! I’ve been to Europe a couple times but last year’s was very special. I visited London, Paris, Mona-co, Milan, Venice and Dubai (along with other small cities as I drove around).

Where is your most favorite city?My favorite would be Melbourne, Australia. I can’t re-ally describe why but you know that feeling you get when you love something? That’s the feeling I get at Melbourne.

I know from your blog that you travelling a lot. What things that you always pack?Actually I don’t travel as much as you think lol... But anyway, I pack a pair of Repetto flats because they’re the most comfy walking shoes ever made. Then I also pack a white shirt, denim shorts/jeans depending on the destination’s weather, oversized sunglasses, and a silk scarf that can function as many things. I think the key to packing is to bring as much multi-function items as possible.For beauty products, I take tinted moisturizer with SPF, SKII’s sunscreen, some eyeliner and Stila’s Con-vertible Color in Peony ! Same principal here, I take multi function beauty products to save luggage weight/space.

Is there anything you’ve learned that you’ll like to pass on?Nothing comes for free. Have big dreams, work hard, enjoy the process, and enjoy the rewards. ♦

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DETAILSIf we’re talking about details, Jane Aldridge style with all the details are very impressive. I like that she wear un-casual clothes (okay, sometimes she wear casual clothes). It is good to know that there is somebody (but I know there are a lot out there, except at my college) really have fun and play with her clothes (also shoes!). Dress up is very fun! (Layering is good).

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The Book Thiefreview by Anh Pham

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Before I start, I should just mention that the book is told from the first person narration of Death.

That’s right, the Grim Reaper, though as far as the book goes, he doesn’t hold a sickle. It’s not as all as doom and gloom as it may seem; Death has a very healthy, if ironic sense of humour that is constantly reiterated throughout the book. We start with Death inviting us to go on a journey with him, and dumps us at the be-ginning scene: a snowy railroad track, with our pro-tagonist, Liesel, standing next to her mother who has the body of her son in her arms. It is here that Liesel steals her first book- The Grave Digger’s Handbook, and earns her namesake. We find out that we are in Nazi Germany, what his-tory portrays as a time of great terror and chaos, a time where death was just around the corner (no pun intended). However, The Book Thief over turns these notions. Before I read this book, I myself believed that it would be tragic story, probably bringing me to tears more than once. I was right about the latter, though The Book Thief really isn’t at all a tragic story. It re-volves around a forlorn child searching for a sense of normalcy and understanding. Liesel, even after the death of her brother and her disownment from her

mother, is welcomed into a new family (her foster mother is a very interesting) and becomes best friends with her neighbour Rudy Steiner, your typical kid next door. Though Liesel does feel more and more loved as each day passes in this turbulent time, the one thing that makes her happiest are books of the German lan-guage. In fact, probably the most heart warming parts of The Book Thief is when her foster father, Hans Hu-bermann, stays up late at night to teach Liesel how to read and write. However, when all seems happy and normal for Liesel and the Hubermanns (well, as normal as normal can be during WWII), a new member enters the family. I won’t give away too much, but it involves the sheltering of a Jew called Max in a society where Jews were hated. Needless to say, the Hubermanns are in great danger of being caught, though their bravery and courage shows through when they agree to shelter their friend.I won’t give the book away, though I want to share what I liked most about this book. First, Markus Zu-sak’s unconventional narration is by far what makes this novel so good to read. You can see just from the first few pages of the book that facts, announcements and general clarifications are made by the narrator in

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bold typed font. HERE IS A FACT: THE BOOK THIEF WAS GREAT TO READ. This achieves more than just telling the story in a most simple yet effective way; the reader feels like they are being told a story one step at a time, a little like how a teacher reads excerpts of a book to a class of youngsters. The second thing I would like to point out is the narration through Death’s point of view. As said before, Death has a very dark sense of humour, though the heavy irony in his words did make me chuckle a few times. My favourite line in the book has to be one of Death’s more memorable lines: “It kills me sometimes, how people die”. Finally, the main reason why I enjoyed The Book Thief so much was because of the importance it places on books and language. Liesel’s own affinity for learning the German language strengthened her relationship with Max, her relationship with her foster father, as well as grant her a place where she feels she’s accepted. The motif of the language achieves a higher purpose of course; it reflects how Hitler’s own words, how his book ‘Mein Kampf ’ could affect so many. Words that turned a whole nation against a race of people, words that made Death carry away countless souls to some-place else. However, we do find out in The Book Thief

that while words have the capacity to make people turn on each other, it also has the ability to forge strong bonds within a family and friends. Learning titbits of the German language was fun for the reader as well; I now know how to say asshole (arschloch) and female pig (saumensch).I would not hesitate is recommending anybody this book. I’ll probably shove it into their hands and yell at them to read it right in front of me. If not entertain-ing for its twists, its heart warming moments and its humour, then The Book Thief is definitely worth a read for its own unique way of thinking towards a dark time in man’s history. While it is often found on the Young Adult section of bookstores, it goes past just a ‘book that you can read when you’re bored’; it illustrates both the wonderful and desolate things people are capable of. Though I will add one qualifier before sending you on your way: Get your tissues ready.

PS. The Book Thief is written by Markus Zusak. ♦

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My bedroom is my personal space. This is where I find peace and solace. There, I have time to dream and meditate. I designed this room by myself but my dad helped me in the process. Bedroom decor reminds

of a store but this adds to its charm. You can see that I like minimalist.

Here is my dressing room. I am doing my clumsy make-up here.

Sent by JULIA KOWALSKA.You can contact her via her email at fashoin.whoknow@gmail.com or her blog fashion-whoknow@blogspot.com

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These areas give the store vibe. Here are some of my clothes and some of my shoes. I like to hang up my clothes like this. I also like to arrange my clothes depend on its colors. I really loves my shoes. For me, basic color for shoes are nude and black. Shop from your closet. Major smart!

On the left picture is my bed. it is soooo comfy there. The right picture is enlargement of my desk. ♦

Heeyyyy, nice people. Please send Spark your bedroom picture. Send it to sparkzine@rocketmail.com with subject ‘TEENAGE BEDROOM’. Thank you!

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Favorite Places on the Town

It is a double exposure of the Philadelphia skyline and train yard, taken from my sophomore year dormitory I loved seeing the whole city from my window. —Kerri

Since I live in Sydney, the harbour bridge and the opera house and no doubt one of the city’s most beautiful structures. that photo I took on New Year’s Eve while waiting for the fireworks. —Anh

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Piano Miniature This piano miniature is a music box, a very special and unpredictable birthday gift from my best friend. I love this stuff so much, it shows her love as a best friend for me.

My DSLR Without my camera, my life would be so boring. I love to photograph stuffs and share it on my blog. It’s kind of an escape from my exhausting daily life.

Teddy BearThis Paddington bear is my newest teddy, hahaha.. I love to have lots of toys since I was a kid.. I think it’s cute and adorable.

My comicsThese are some of my comics, I love to read comics and my favorite comic is Doraemon. I think it’s full of imagination and the creator is so creative! Yes, I’m a dreamer. I wish I had one doraemon!

Leopard heart necklaceThis necklace has a very special meaning for me, be-cause I buy it with my first income from blogging! At first I blog to share my feelings and photograph, and now I get my income from it? Whoa,.. this necklace boosts my mood everytime I see it. —Helena

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my favorite albums

Drawing Down the MoonAzure Ray2010, Saddle Creek Records

Youth NovelLykke Li2008, Atlantic Records

FuerteventuraRussian Red2011

Wake the EarthThe Honey Trees2009

(I really can’t say anything except sooooo grreeeaaaaaat).

The Lion’s RoarFirst Aid Kit2012, Wichita Recordings

When the Pawn...Fiona Apple1999, Epic Records

My Bestfriend is YouKate Nash2010, Fiction Records

Le TigreLe Tigre1999, Mr. Lady Records

The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop DreamingClub 82007

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Do you know that feeling when you really like a singer, or band? I think you would know that

because I know, at least you are obsessing to at least a band or singer. Maybe he is Justin Bieber. Am I right? One dollar, please. Noooo, just kidding. But too bad I am not gonna talk about Justin right now. Sorry, team Bieber. For real now, I want to tell you about what kind of music that gets me really loved. That makes me cry. Uh oh. (So, that’s why I am not going to talk about Justin).When I was in high school, I have two phases of growing up. The first is I-just-graduate-from-junior-high-school-and-i-want-to-have-more-fun and holy-shit-i-am-gonna-be-on-college-next-year. To make it short, I’ll call it the first phase and second phase. At my first phase, I was really in love with a boy from a band who is very funny. He is Desta from Club 80s, a local band from Jakarta. I was damn in love with him that I found through my freshman I listened to his show on the radio every Monday to Friday from 7-11am. Yes, you’re right. I listened to him instead of my teachers while on school. It is kind of (both) cool and stupid. Ha! But I never regret this thing really.

Suddenly, on a very very bad day, Desta was replaced by someone new. That is not good news. I totally hate it. Then I stopped listening to the radio. So, here you know that I listen to radio on my first phase. Which means I am so into pop culture. I knew the new song. I knew what was on the trend.The second phase began after I stopped listening to the radio, but I still watch TV of course. At my very late second phase, I also stopped watching TV. I prefer study for my heart breaking test (I am lying if I said I like that. The fact is I hate it. Except for the good news that went on this period). So, from this phase you recognize that I stopped being so into pop culture. So how can I stand it? The important here is that I started listening music from Winamp on my laptop. And I got my music from my friends. So that was how I know about dream pop, also indie pop. I am really into it now. All by my heart.Most of dream pop band/singer is girl which makes it way more special for me. I think DREAM=GIRL LOVE. So, I want to spread girl love now. Prepare yourself for the dreamy effect. ♦

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Those Dancing Days Are Over sCarla BrunilLet’s Get Out of This Country sCamera ObscuralPlease, Please, Please sThe WholI’ll Try Anything Once sThe StrokeslAct of The Apostle sGod Help The Girll Go DosJonsilBut How? sBobby BabylThe Way to There sAu Revoir SimonelFlyin’ sRegina Spektorl Fly Again sNikki Williamsl Flying CloudsDinosaur Jr.lThe Way I Feel InsidesThe ZombieslUnder The Beautiful Monet SkysBallads of The Cli-chelNorthern LightssSt. VincentlRainy Poppy Fields800 Cher-rieslRise & ShinesThe CardiganslUp The MorningsBabysham-bleslSong for SunshinesBelle & SebastianlIn The SunsShe & HimlHere Comes The SunsThe RunawayslBlister in The Sun-sViolent FemmeslEverything goessClub 8lTravel LightsThe DolThrough Your EyessThe Honey TreeslNicest ThingsKate Nash-lIf We're Still AlivesSlow ClublFor BeginnerssM.WardlThese DayssNicolCoolsGwen StefanilIntermissionsCoeur de PiratelD-isplacedsAzure RaylOut of TimesBossa & StoneslCigarretssRus-sian RedlNowhere FastsThe SmithslThe Golden Road (To Unlim-ited Devotion)sThe Grateful DeadlHeard It On The RadiosThe Bird and The BeelBoys on The RadiosHolelSo Nice So SmartsKimya DawsonlCalgarysBon IverlSometimes The WheelssNeil Hald-steadlLet GosFrou FroelHard BelieversFirst Aid KitlBlue Spotted TailsFleet FoxeslIntensity IntimatelysFraulNow At LastsFeist-lOnly in DreamssWeezerlThe MemorysThe Ronettesl

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