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Pengalamanku Karantina di Tokyo (2020)

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Pemandangan Tokyo dari jendela kamar hotel      Bulan Desember 2020 lalu aku berkesempatan untuk meninggalkan Tanah Air untuk menempuh pendidikan S2. Alhamdulillah, aku mendapatkan beasiswa MEXT U to U untuk Fall Semester 2020 di Yamagata University. Di semester ini perkuliahan seharusnya sudah dimulai pada bulan Oktober 2020. Namun, dikarenakan kendala COVID-19, keberangkatanku beserta para penerima beasiswa MEXT U to U lainnya pun tertunda. Setelah menunggu sekitar 2 bulan, tibalah hari keberangkatan ke Jepang, yaitu pada tanggal 6 Desember 2020. Saat itu, aku berangkat beserta 2 teman lainnya yang akan berkuliah di Yamagata University juga.      Kami diwajibkan untuk menjalani PCR Swab Test dalam waktu 72 jam sebelum berangkat. Hasil dari PCR Test tersebut kemudian kami tunjukkan pada saat check-in di Bandara Soekarno- Hatta, Jakarta. Saat itu, cukup banyak orang Indonesia yang berangkat ke Jepang bersamaan dengan kami. Kebanyakan dari penumpang saat itu adalah orang yang akan beker
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Review: Little Women (2019)

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     So I just finished Little women 2019. The plot is basically about 4 sisters (Meg, Jo, Amy, and Beth) who struggle to face adulthood and the world in general. I will give this movie 4.5 out of 5 stars because they deserved it. This movie makes me feel the warmth of family and the hardships that the March family felt in the movie. Also, the struggles and (happiness) of having sisters are so relatable to me. Having sisters mean you can mock each other but still love them, and even the thought of them leaving somewhere far makes you feel lost. This movie also depicts the struggles of being a career woman in that era, where a woman doesn't have much choice in their life. Society at the time still insist on the ideal life of a woman is to get married and have a family. Even now in some societies, those standards are still applied.  I love this movie so much! The characters, the acting, the costumes are just 😘👌 (also Timothee Chalamet is in it).  Spoiler alert      I feel somehow r
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Review: E. Lockhart's "We Were Liars"

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      Another day of doing nothing has brought me into a new experience of thrillers and twists when I decided to read this book. "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart tells us about a rich and privileged family, the Sinclairs, enjoying their summer holiday on their private island. Nothing could go wrong, until our protagonist Cady, started to tell us about her accident which she couldn't remember in the summer two years ago. Every summer, she spent with her 2 cousins, Mirren and Johnny, also an outsider Gat. Together, they were The Liars. But something clearly happened between them in the summer two years ago... which Cady couldn't remember. I won't tell you more details about the plot, but I guarantee this is an interesting one :)) Questions and curiosity started to build up, and at the finale, the answer left me feeling heartbroken and devastated for the characters. So far, this book made it into my top 10 list of "books that wrecks me" along with Lisa Jewel
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Review: Lisa Jewell's "The Family Upstairs" (Spoiler Alert)

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    After I finished Lisa Jewell's "Then She Was Gone", I proceed to read her other book called "The Family Upstairs". Published in 2019, by Atria Books, this book is one of the most captivating books I have ever read. When I first read the synopsis, I was thinking "Oh, this is just about a missing child, receiving her inheritance from her unknown birth family blabla". But of course, Lisa Jewell never disappoints. As the plot unravels, it reveals something more scandalous, eerier, and unsettling.      At first, the plot may seem confusing with multiple mysterious narrators. The first is Libby, that narrated some events that happened when she received her inheritance, a big dusty house in Chelsea. The second narrator is a boy named Henry, a mysterious boy who lived in that house 20 years ago that narrates some events that happened at that time. And a woman named Lucy, who struggles financially with her two children in France. The story flows back and fo
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Review: Lisa Jewell's "Then She Was Gone" (Spoiler Alert)

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      I came across this book on Pinterest, I was just looking for a recommendation for a thriller/ mystery/ horror book. And then, this book came along with the tagline 'A missing girl, with her buried secrets' (sort of something like that), which made me a bit curious. " Ten years after her teenage daughter goes missing, a woman connects with a charming single father, but she is still haunted by her child's disappearance"      'Then She Was Gone' was published in 2018, by Atria Books and became one of Lisa Jewell's best-selling books.  When I tell you, this book got me hooked. It was so well-written, and the words just flow right into the story. The question of "What happened to Ellie?" kept haunting me when I read this book, chapter by chapter. The feeling of suspense and curiosity gets bigger as I get closer to the end.  Completely heart-wrenching as the plot revealed, but the end doesn't leave you hanging. The story flow was backward
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