👯 | 30 Day Blogging Challenge | Day 21: My Favorite Movie

So, I got a bit lost in days and change the posts a little... hehe. I noticed I skipped day 19: My favorite movie and shared "what makes me happy" instead. No biggie, right? I'll be doing that one today and we'll continue with the regular schedule tomorrow.

 My favorite movies

OMG I have so many favorite movies, it's hard to choose only one! So I'm gonna share some of my favorites.

📺 Anime: 
Sailor Moon Super S Movie:

"When the Evil Madame Vadiane kidnaps Chibi-Usa, the senshi rush to her rescue with the aid of Chibi-Usa's new friend, Peruru. After trying to find Chibi-Usa and fight off Vadiane's henchmen to no avail, the three outer senshi (Neptune, Uranus, and Pluto) come to their aid. To rescue Chibi-Usa before she falls into a permanent dream filled sleep, Usagi must enter the Black Dream hole and save her. With some luck and a lot of effort, Sailor Moon saves Chibi-Usa, and she transforms to help Usagi."

Cowboy Bebop: Knocking on Heaven's Door:

"The year is 2071. Following a terrorist bombing, a deadly virus is released on the populace of Mars and the government has issued a 300 million woo-long reward, the largest bounty in history, for the capture of whoever is behind it. The bounty hunter crew of the spaceship Bebop; Spike, Faye, Jet and Ed, take the case with hopes of cashing in the bounty. However, the mystery surrounding the man responsible, Vincent, goes deeper than they ever imagined, and they aren't the only ones hunting him. The original creators of the virus have dispatched Electra to deal with Vincent and take out anyone who may stumble on the truth behind him. As the hunt for the man with no past and no future continues to escalate, they begin to question what about the world is reality and what is a dream as the line between sanity and insanity becomes more apparent."

Studio Ghibli Movies: Especially Howl's Moving Castle, Only Yesterday and My Meighbors the Yamadas

Perfect Blue:

"Mima leaves the idol group CHAM, in order to pursue her dream as an actress. Mima climbs up the rocky road to success by performing as rape victims and posing nude for magazines, but is haunted by her reflections of the past."

📺 Horror: 

Creepy Hide and Seek:

"When rumors about students who played at hitori Kakurenbo (sort of hide and seek alone with a ghost) propagate in high school, Shiori can no longer join his older brother Motoya. On his way to the apartment he is supposed to live, she found an empty room. But an internet forum unearthed on the computer of her brother leads her to believe that the disappearance of the latter may well be linked to this sordid game of hide and seek. Despite attempts by her boyfriend Noboru and his best to reassure her friend Yuko, Shiori is beginning to be convinced that something he wants her too and tries to track down. It will then turn to Shiraishi, a former classmate of her brother, trying to understand what is happening and return Motoya."

Coming soon:

"A young projectionist, Chen, decides to illegally record a newly released horror movie. After falling asleep during the screening, he wakes to find that his co-conspirator has disappeared and left his camera behind. Suddenly, the horror movie that they were watching in the cinema starts to happen to them in real life."

A tale of two sisters:

"After being institutionalized in a mental hospital, Korean teen Su-mi (Yeom Jeong-ah) reunites with her beloved sister, Su-yeon (Su-jeong Lim), and they return to live at their country home. The girls' widower father (Mun Geun-yeong) has remarried, and the siblings are immediately resentful of his new wife, Eun-joo (Kap-su Kim). As Su-mi and Su-yeon try to resume their regular lives, strange events plague the house, leading to surprising revelations and a shocking conclusion."

📺 Others: 

Star Wars movies (episode II and III are my favs. Don't judge me!)

Clueless:

"Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher (Alicia Silverstone) is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai (Brittany Murphy) a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother (Paul Rudd) was right about how misguided she was -- and falls for him"

Grease:

"Experience the friendships, romances and adventures of a group of high school kids in the 1950s. Welcome to the singing and dancing world of "Grease," the most successful movie musical of all time. A wholesome exchange student (Olivia Newton-John) and a leather-clad Danny (John Travolta) have a summer romance, but will it cross clique lines?"

Beetlejuice:

"A childless couple, Barbara and Adam (Geena Davis & Alec Baldwin), move to the country only to be killed in a car accident while passing over a quaint covered bridge. Their ghosts return to their beloved Victorian home, and find the handbook for the recently deceased, which not only lets them know they're dead, but comes in handy when they learn that they can continue to live in their house, even though a new family--from the land of the living--is moving in. The new owners, fresh from the city, are quite a strange group themselves, and include the overpowering hipster mom Delia (Catherine O'Hara), her pompous SoHo interior designer Otho (Glenn Shadix), her meek husband Charles (Jeffrey Jones), and their morose teenage daughter Lydia (Winona Ryder), who befriends the ghostly couple. Though the threesome attempt to scare Delia from ruining the house with redecoration and her unpleasant personality, their attempts fail. As a last resort, they call upon the services of the demented, terrifying, but hilarious "bioexorcist," "Beetlejuice" (Michael Keaton)"

The Amazing Spiderman 1 & 2

my love

Ben 10 Alien Swarm (yeah~):

"Our world is threatened with an imminent invasion from a swarming alien menace. And there is only one hero brave enough, smart enough and tough enough to fight back - Ben Tennyson!"

Rurouni Kenshin Live Action movies:

"A Meiji era assassin leaves his life behind to protect the common man."

There are some of my favorite movies. I'm sure I'm missing a lot in here but, it's Tuesday and I'm tired, hehe.

Share one of your favs with me!!

👯 | 30 Day Blogging Challenge | Day 20: What Makes Me Sad

Hiii!
Yesterday I mentioned some of the things that make me happy and today we're gonna talk about the ones that make me sad.
Let's get into this...

 What makes me sad

I think one of the things that make me sad is when I don't feel heard by the people I care about. I always try to take into consideration others' feelings and opinions so, it kinda hurts when they don't do the same with me. I know, you shouldn't expect anything from people but it can't be helped sometimes.

Another thing is seeing how my life is nothing like I "planned it/ dreamed it/ or /wanted it" to be at this point. I sometimes feel like I keep failing myself by not getting and doing the things I really want. 

Losing loved ones would be another one. And lastly, this may be a weird one but, looking back to a certain time in my life when I was really happy and seeing how much things changed since then makes me both, happy and sad. Happy because after that, many wonderful people and great things came but sad because of what I feel I've lost. (does it make any sense?) 

Wanna share with me something that makes you sad?

👯 | 30 Day Blogging Challenge | Day 19: What Makes Me Happy

Hey!
I'm gonna list some of the things that make me happy. Don't know how long this post is gonna be but, let's do this!

 What makes me happy

My Friends: My friends are such an important part of my life. I literally don't know what I'd do without them. And I know some people just say that but, I mean it. Yes, we have fun together, we like to go out and stuff but, they've been there for me when I feel poorly, always cheering me up and giving me advice. They are all so talented on what they do and they always inspire me. They really are like true sisters to me.

My Family (pets included): I've always been a family person and, to this day, I try to spend as much time with them as possible. I'm lucky to still have my grandpa with me and it makes me happy to get the chance to see him and enjoy his company. 

My Students: I admit it, some of them drive me crazy but, no day is the same when I'm around them. they have the most funny and random conversations with me and knowing I get to be a part of their lives and actually teach them something makes me really happy.

Spending time with people I love and making memories together.

Desserts: I love anything sweet so a good dessert can always brighten up my day.

Coffee: Since I can't function without it, coffee is the frist thing I look forward to in the morning and yeah, it makes me happy.

When I inspire someone through this blog or in life in general.

Knowing the people I love and care about are happy.

There you go, some of the things that make me happy. What makes you happy?

👯 | 30 Day Blogging Challenge | Day 18: A Photograph of Myself

 A photograph of myself

Ok, a picture of me. Here it is. There's not much to say about it~
It was taken yesterday before the Teacher's Day celebration dinner with my coworkers. My friend and fellow teacher Su took the pic while we were walking around the place where the event was happening. It was a former ranch thingy and it was beautiful.

Now that we have a full body pic, let's do a quick OOTD:
Dress: Mustard and black houndstooth dress from MANGO
Shoes: I'm not sure where this are from, all I know is they are from Spain.

Super short post but, I'll see you tomorrow with more! xx

👯 | 30 Day Blogging Challenge | Day 17: My Favorite Blogs

When I saw I had to share some of my favorite blogs, I realized I don't follow those many and the ones I do, are not that active so, I'll add some YouTube channels I love too.

 My favorite blogs and Youtube channels

Im gonna start with SMOONSTYLE because this was the first blog I followed and part of what made me want to start a blog. It belongs to Simone Simons from Epica who's not only gorgeous and talented, she's also a good cook! Here you'll find a bit of traveling, recipes, fashion and a lot of beauty related stuff.

Beautifymeeh is another blog I like. Angel is a young mom of 2 cute boys and is also a youtuber. Her blog is mostly fashion based. You can find more about K-beauty and makeup on her Youtube channel and Korea vlogs on her vlog channel. 

Meejmuse is one of my favorite beauty bloggers ever. She used to have a blog but I couldn't get the link to it so, I'll leave the links to her other SNS and YouTube.
I find her so kind, beautiful and inspirational! She's an Aussie-korean blogger, currently living in Korea. (you know, love me some Korean content)
If you're into Korean beauty and lifestyle, defo check her out. And even tho she doesn't share much about fashion, you can find super cute outfits on her IG account.
She used to upload some Vlogs too about her life in Korea.

And now that I have to Korean based bloggers, I have to include one from Japan. LoveLyzKelly, she may not be Japanese but she's been living there for a while now and she shares very interesting things about Japan, food, places and just how life as a foreigner is like over there. She has a blog too but... couldn't link it. (don't know what's wrong with those blogs...)

Before I end this post, I want to mention these 2 other blogs. They may not be super active but I always enjoy reading their posts when they update and... I adore the girls behing them.
Life as a Hafu and All things Dee

👯 | 30 Day Blogging Challenge | Day 16: Thoughts on Education

Would it be weird if I say that, as a teacher, I do agree that education is important but, I disagree with the way schools do things most of the time?

NOTE: The way education works in my country may be different to the way it works in other countries. So keep in mind my opinion is based on what I see everyday as a private school teacher.

 Thoughts on Education

When I was in school I was't a good student, I sucked at everything (including P.E. and music) but languages. I hated math (and still do) and I always thought I would never use those in the future. 
Guess what? I was right!

That's a random way to start, my point is, I feel like sometimes we forget to encourage students with more useful and important things such as: confidence, values, how to solve everyday problems, be independent, become more aware of what's currently happening in their environments and their own community instad of focusing on things that happened a million years ago or things they won't ever use in their lifes. And even have them taking tests on that.
Don't get me wrong, I think it is important to learn about history, grammar, other countries and numbers but, things these days are way different than when I was a student. 

Kids (and I mean elementary school kids) have lost respect for others. Call it teachers, parents, classmates, etc. And at the same time they depend on us adults to solve everything. (believe me I've seen 4th graders who don't know how to react when they drop a glass of water)
I know these are just kids and they are not the ones to blame. That's why I believe education shouldn't only be a school thing. It should start at home and go hand in hand with what we do at school. Should we start with the parents? Maybe. And that's the hard part. Cuz, most of them are always too busy to look after their own kids, it's sad to see how some parents don't even know what their children like or dislike. And whenever you mention something to them, you're the one who's wrong. Because it's easier to blame others instead of fixing the problem.

I don't remember things being like that when I was in school. I was lazy, yes. but I used to respect my teachers and, I was terrified when my parents were to called in to school to talk about my grades and stuff. And that was because they cared. 

Schools are slowly changing in my country, we're starting to work on those values, self love, emotions and actual events a little more, without leaving the other subjects behind. Memorizing things is not really that common now, it's more about researching, going to places, having the experience and that is something I wish I had when I was a student. It'd have made it a lot more attractive to me and maybe easier for me to learn. We keep in mind not every kid learns the same way and that we always have to plan activities that are attractive and interesting. We help and motivate them to solve everyday situations, analyze and question.

But none of this works if us teachers don't get the support we need from the parents and authorities. We need to change in order to educate young lives. 
And, I feel lile I'm rambling a lot and making no sense now, haha.

To end this post: I think Academic Education is important but, there are many more things that should come with it that are as (if not more) important to become a good human being and function in real life and as a part of a community(?). And that, should start at home. 

👯 | 30 Day Blogging Challenge | Day 15: Where Will I Be in 5 Years?

This is a hard one because as much as I always like to daydream about what my life will be in certain years, things never go that way but, let's try!

 Where will I be in 5 years?

In 5 years... I will be a lot more independent, with a job that makes me happy but also gives me enough money to live comfortably. Also, I will be with the love of my life, starting a life together and probably our little family. I want to have kids so, I'm hoping I will have at least a kid by then. 
In 5 years I will be happy, and my family will be happy. My friends and I will still celebrate each others' success and make more memories together.
I know I will still be around here, sharing with you bits and pieces of my life and what I like.

And if things don't go that way, I will have my own place and I'll be doing something I love. I will have enough money to live they way I like and I'll be happy with the way things are~

Idk, it's weird to think how things will be in the future when my present is still a bit uncertain. Hehe.

We are halfway through this challenge! I've been trying my best not to miss a day, hopefully it'll be like that until the end. 
Thanks for sticking with me so far and, I'll see you tomorrow!