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Disamperin aliran di Korea

Salah satu pengalaman yang gw dapatkan selama trip sebulan lamanya di Korea selama musim gugur ini adalah disamperin cult atau aliran tertentu. Jadi memang di Korea itu seperti jadi surga buat aliran-aliran agama baru tumbuh, mungkin udah pada pernah juga nonton dokumenter salah satu aliran gereja di Korea yang lumayan terkenal sesatnya. Gw gak tau kenapa pastinya banyak aliran-aliran baru atau aliran sesat muncul di Korea, ada beberapa hipotesis tapi ya masih hasil pemikiran gw aja. Dari jaman dulu sampe sekarang kayak masih gak berubah aja. Sebagai catatan, dulu salah satu aliran sesat sempat masuk ke lingkungan kampus tempat gw pertukaran pelajar di Korea. Di situ mereka emang nargetin mahasiswa asing. Modusnya adalah sebagai mahasiswa asing kita diajak volunteer, ada kelas bahasa, ada kunjungan ke panti jompo, dll. Nanti selama kegiatan itu kita akan pakai atribut tertentu, dan mengucapkan yel-yel terselubung yang dianggap bagian dari dokumentasi saja. Hasil dokumentasi berupa foto...

I read too many books, now what am I

I read too many books lately.  That is a huge problem, cause now I have so many overflowing feels that need to be let out. Most of the books were essays about life (and now you know why the feels are overflowing) that I read to expand my Korean vocabulary. Besides that I personally like that book genre, I think that the expressions used in those books would be more relevant to use daily. I never really measured the risks of reading those books before. Now I'm floating with lots of feelings in my body.  When I listen to the radio or read books and get to know other people's perspectives, a lot of time I will think about my perspective and how it is the same or different from them. But then, I feel like I know myself but I don't consciously know about myself. In my daily life and conversations, I will have a strong opinion, the direction of thinking that suits me based on my life experience, but I never really really think about those thoughts and opinions in more depth that ...

Bullet Train

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October... for many reasons, I didn't want it to come! but time is something that I can't control, so it is eventually October already. 2021 feels like a bullet train that pasts really fast, while I feel that I don't move an inch inside of it. Many things happened in 2021 but it didn't seem important, it was just like particles of dust that you see through the sunlight that comes through the window. It was a lot, but it never felt significant, cause we are eager to see what's outside the window. Spending day by day wondering whether the outside world will come back as it was.  I guess it is right what someone said,  "The speed of time is always different. I hope the good things feel like a long time, and sad things for a short time." That is probably why 2021 feels so fast.  Sure a lot of good things happened, but the overall mood is just..yeah...ha..ha..ha My heart suddenly feels heavy while writing this. ha..... I think it's because I spent my days i...