Portocal Journey

The girls throw off their demure princess next door concept that they had peddled for years as their signature.

What I will write in this post is not something which I saw or listened to directly from the right witnesses or with the concrete proofs. Kak Juli, a woman whose duty is ironing clothes in my family told us this news which maybe she had listened it from others that maybe it had been transferred from mouth to mouth.

Last Sunday on March 16, 2014, found siblings of 2 girls who had been the rape victims in Sukajadi or somewhere which I forgot what it's name but precisely it is only more or less 30 minutes from this house. The younger sister was unconscious while the elder sister run to find helps from the people around. 

People came to help them and by pedicabs they brought the two sisters to Tiara, a clinic behind our house. The rumours spread among people were that they were girls from Samosir Island, Danau Toba. They worked in Medan by renting a room or house there. Maybe last Saturday before the incident, the older girl accompanied her younger sister to stop a public mini bus. Then came a car with 4 men in it starting to greet them by asking some address they didn't know. 

The men then asked where the two girls wanted to go and after knowing their destination, they offered the girls to ride their car. The girls agreed and their nightmare started. Those bastards also stole their cellphones, gold jewelries and money.

I don't know I will believe the story behind it or not because the rumour said that the older girl was accompanying her sister, not willing to go too. But whatever it is, those bastards will never face any peace in their rest of life before the girls forgive them!!!

Khun Nam, a girl with a mediocre look, in her first year in M.1 (first grade in junior high) fell in love with her senior in M.4 (first grade in senior high), Khun Shone, the most popular boy in school. By all means Nam did everything in order to see or speak with Shone. Shone is an animal lover and a very caring person. Nam's father is an assistant chef in New York and when Nam's uncle (Chang) came to their house to deliver the news that if Nam or her sister Pang got the first rank in class, then she would go to America. Nam was very serious to be able to go to America because she realized she was not able to reach first rank.

Nam's best friends Cheer, Gei, and Nim help her to be able to get Shone, by way of using the book "9 Recipes of Love" and "Ways to Make Senior Like You". Nam said, the book does not make sense and choose to learn, but secretly Nam did what the book said.

When the sweltering day, Nam, Cheer, Gei, and Nim were waiting in line to buy drinks, and suddenly two basketball players, Maew and Ping, immediately came and broke through in a way that pushing those girls to fall. Shone saw them and immediately bought four drinks for Nam, Cheer, Gei, and Nim. When Shone was being in school's arena, suddenly those two basketball players had Shone a hit. The news known by Nam as Gei and Nim told her. Four of them straight back to the arena, and realized Shone, Maew, and Ping were gone, and Nam took the button that fell (Nam thought the buttons was Shone's belonging).

Whenever Nam wanted to get close to Shone, there was only a girl named Faye interrupting her. Such as when Nam wanted to give Shone an ice cream which because they forgot Thailand is a tropical country, the ice cream melted, Faye took that chance to give her mango cake to Shone. And when Nam thought she would be able to go home together with Shone, Faye pretended to be sprained so she could grab the chance right in front of Nam's face.

It's time to choose the after-school activities. Because the traditional dance club only opened to the beautiful girls, Nam and her girls joined the drama club where Teacher Inn, their homeroom who always used naff tricks to distract handsome male teacher, as the instructor and the director at once. Her three girls with the help of a senior girl, Pin, who was Shone's close friend, tried to beautify Nam who got the main role as a Snow White. When practising their drama, the student as the Prince role didn't come and Teacher Inn asked Shone to replace him in a part of kissing scene. Nam who thought it was only a hallucination, pushed Shone to almost fall. In the dressing room, Nam found a little bitten apple that she thought it was from Koy, the real prince player.

In one parade, headmaster tasked Teacher Inn to find a girl that would be the drum band majorette or if not, he would ask Teacher Orn (Teacher Inn's rival in love) to do that. Teacher Inn said she had found that girl although the truth was not. That's why she then lured Nam which ended by Teacher Inn begged her to be the drum band major. Willy-nilly Nam agreed and tried her best to be a good majorette. 

With the help of her three best friends, Nam could show a good performance as well as a brand new pretty face looking and whiter skin. Immediately she became popular and got so many valentine gifts included from one transferred male student who was also Shone's best friend since childhood, Top, who fell in love with her. Sadly she got nothing from someone she was waiting for the most.

Finally Shone came with roses in his hands but he said it was from Top. Nam was sad and when she found a letter from someone telling her to meet up in the third floor. Nam followed the letter's instruction and there she met Shone up the stairs. She thought the letter was from him but at that time Top came to her, confessed his heart to Nam.

Nam had been accepted in Shone's gang and it made her three best friends thought she had changed. Not to mention when Nam preferred to join Shone and gang's picnic nearby a river instead of coming to celebrate Cheer's birthday. In a birthday party of one of Shone's friend, Top talked about his deal with Shone to not love the same girl which shocked her.

Nam realized her gang had avoided her. She cried and apologized. Cheer, Gei, and Nim then advised Nam to use Thai's way to get a boy's love: just confess it. Nam told the honesty that she never like Top and in the graduation day, Nam confessed her love to Shone. But she found Pin's name in Shone's uniform. Nam asked how long and Shone replied it had been one week for him and Pin. Nam cried but told she was okay.

At home, Shone opened his photo album and the flashback appeared. It turned out things had been going in Nam's mind were very different with the reality. Such as Shone kept the melted ice cream, Shone thought Nam was a very beautiful Snow White though he said there was no different in the before-after of Nam's make-up and the little bitten apple was from Shone. Shone planted the white roses by himself and because of being too nervous, he told the flowers were from his friend. Shone snapped so many pictures when Nam being a majorette and when Top declared his love, Shone got heartbreake. He put the photo album in front of Nam's house, because the next day Shone had to go to Bangkok to snatch his dream to be a football player. While Nam who got the first rank also would go to the States to live with her father.

9 years later, Nam who had been a famous designer met Shone who had been a soccer player and photographer in a talk show. Nam asked if Shone had married and he answered no. Because he had been waiting someone to back from USA.

People said that inspirration could come from everywhere. And other said that active blogging could impact someone to be more sensitive to capture each moment she found, saw and experienced. It happens to me! After getting addictive in reading someone’s blog in English which made me created my own blog, now I got inspirration from someone’s blog which show if even a traditional market had its own story to tell.

So I started to make some snapshots from my home. In the morning, when the air was still so fresh, the birds happily tweeted, and the sun was still shy to show its bright, I never thought before if I could get a relaxing morning from my own home everyday! But unfortunately I had no a professional camera. Just a 3,5 MegaPixels SonyEricsson camera which I had. But it could not obbstruct me to take some nice photos, right? Perfect came from average, tell me if I’m wrong LOL.

This snapshot was taken from my left side door. Those are cocoa trees planted by my mom or if not, by my dad. If the fruits were started to ripe, my dad would reap them and then supressed their flesh to be dried in the sun then. After getting dried perfectly, it was ready to be sold. The buyers would come to our home irregularly and the money? Of course for me LOL. And what you see in the poly bags were rubber tree seeds.

While taking the photo above, coinciding Tee, my beloved cat had its relax seat in an opened window so I just took some snapshots of it. I should do some efforts to make it focused just to my phone. Waving my hand was enough to get its attention LOL.

It is my parents’ favorite spot to have their quality time. They chat every single thing they face in that day and discuss what will they do in the next day. If we want to enjoy? Just take some plastic chairs which are easy to carry or sit on the floor will not reduce our comfortable chatting.

I should throw some rice to get those chickens come to close to me.

Unfortunately my mom should burn her orchid plantings because they had some diseases so it would be planted from like beginning to get them like the current condition. And it would need several months to get them better again (╥_╥)

Shin Chae Gyeong is reckless and kinda stupid girl. Being under standard in her education and is always doomed to get the most answers wrong in almost of her exams. She admires Lee Shin because he is a seja (prince) but they have bad impression in the first time they face to face. Chae Gyeong becomes hating him as he has been being a rude prince for not apologize to her though he had hurt her wrist.

       

One day, Chae Gyeong overheard the seja proposed to a pretty and smart girl who takes the ballet class, Hyo Rin. Shin threats Chae Gyeong to shut up her mouth from spreading the uncertain issues for the sake of Hyo Rin

 

The previous king's friend is Chae Gyeong's grandfather who's still alive and living with her family. And someone will take the inheritance of throne is Lee Shin. If it's not because the current king's older brother passed away, Lee Yul, Shin's cousin, will be the crown seja. Since his father's death, Yul and his mother went to England and now, he's back in South Korea and has decided to settle with his late father's family. He then attends the same school with Shin and coincidentally enters the same class with Chae Gyeong.

      

Chae Gyeong refuses the marriage. She is still young and she knows Shin dislikes her. Moreover Shin had proposed to a girl he likes. But unexpectedly, her grandfather gets a phone call from the palace confirming the seja accepts the proposal. And in their school, Chae Gyeong asks why Shin does not refuse the marriage. He has to marry with a girl he loves. But Shin gives her a bitter answer. He will not allow the girl he loves being forced to live like a doll in the palace. While in the previous day, Shin explained the reason why he accepted the marriage to Yul, that he thought it would be funny to have a weird girl as the sejabin (prince's wife), which of course would distress the old geeks.

     

The rumor about the seja will get marry with a girl attending the same school with them, has spread so fast among the students. It worries Hyo Rin as she is afraid the girl who overheard her conversation with Shin who spread the rumor. But it kinda breaks her heart when he listens to Shin's answer to calm her down, that the girl being issued to marry with the seja is not her.

Chae Gyeong understands her mother's feeling. It's not true if she sacrifices her own daughter for money. Back when her mother was a child, no one wanted her. Then her grandfather adopted her mother and allowed her to marry her son. That's why in the night before meeting the queen in personal, she has made her mind up. Though her mother advises her to speak up every single thing she has in her mind, before the queen, Chae Gyeong confirms she accepts the marriage and asks helping to solve her family's crisis. 

 

And her life as the sejabin-to-be has been beginning. Chae Gyeong will go to stay in the palace's guest's place to have one month training before the marriage. Shin visits her and throws some sweets by telling Yul says girls like that. Shin adds, he has an agreement if he does marry. It was to move their place to Changduk palace. That way, there will be a distance between the old geeks. So, Chae Gyeong has chance to sneak out the palace or invite her family and friends.

Thus she was raised to be her sister’s shadow, her replacement in case of disaster, and to have nothing of her own. She was taught to be silent and supportive and never to disgrace her family by displaying her own desires.

Prince Oscar of Ocendawyr is a sweet, rumpled, and unruly, a clumsy young man. Ever be helped by Madeleine when they were young, The King of Ocendawyr saw she was someone who could keep up with his youngest son’s mischief and get him out of trouble safely. Thus Madeleine received a royal appointment as the valet of the young Prince Oscar – his companion, his maidservant, his advisor and his agent. She had studied for him, trained and fought for him. If necessary, she was expected to give her life for him. For the first time in her life, she had a place that belonged to her.

Reaching his adulthood, it comes the time for Oscar to find a bride willing to give control of her ancestral lands to him. He received an invitation by Gwellinor Kingdom in where he and other princes will participate in such likely to be fierce competition, to be chosen by Princess Cassidy for being her King.

Princess Cassidy must have only the barest blush of eighteen years, younger even than Oscar. Yet her face holds more maturity than her years would allow. She walks into The Presentation Hall of the Kingdom of Gwellinor with poise, her head held high, then hesitates, looking rapidly back and forth over the assembled personages before continuing to her assigned position. Gwellinor’s heir has been famously kept in a cloistered existence, out of fear for her health. She cannot acknowledge anyone there until they have been formally announced.

The Prince of Bardowen is a golden barrel of a man, his curls as gleaming as the buckles on his shoes ans every conceivable place in-between. So broad are his shoulders that can be imagined, if startled, his mighty arms would tear right through his glittering wardrobe. 

The Prince of Asineth is a slender, sharp-featured man attired in the finest silks, which glide soundlessly along the floor as he walks. His delicacy and refined appetites are well-known, as are the rumours of his less-appealing qualities. His is not a warm face. The narrow eyes, the elegant nose, the thin lips, all seem crafted for expression of cruelty. And then Prince Oscar was the last one announced.

He is Prince Callum, the youngest living son of the King of Gwellinor and still a bachelor. The sour expression on his face does him no favors. All princes are his competition for any other heir he might hope to win.

Instead of considering Madeleine as his maidservant, Oscar loves her more than anything. And it’s not something that she never knows about that. It’s just she pretends to. She was trained in self-control. Her emotions, reactions, even her face – never to flinch, never to cry, never to say what she wanted or to have any wants beyond doing what her parents told her to. But she knows it’s except with Oscar. He makes her smile. He teases her, and forces her to tease him back. He lights up when he smiles. He has been her best friend all the years. She owes him everything, and she won’t let him ruin his life for her. Moreover, he is a son of a king while she is a girl with no land.

When she sneaks to see Oscar and Cassidy are dancing in the Ball Room, Madeleine realizes that she will lose her position in Oscar’s side. She dislike it. But she knows that doesn’t like something will not change it to happen. 

No long after the Ball, there is a massive chaos. Princess Cassidy was lost and Prince Oscar is the main suspect since he seem be the last man being with her. According to the guards, he was discovered lying senseless under a rosebush. And there was no sign of Cassidy. 

It will be Madeleine’s highest duty. To protect his prince and prove that it’s mistaken to get Oscar be framed. In her observation, Madeleine hears the King’s voice. The king and his Wisdom are talking about Grandessa Marie, sister to the King’s Wisdom. Her daughter would be Duchess Sophia, Princess Cassidy’s cousin, and the next in line to inherit the Wisdom – except that she’s now the wife of Duke Pherod, with an infant daughter. If Cassidy is dead, that baby is the new princess.

Madeleine also hears about Prince Caspian who died when he was little more than a toddler, and Cassidy a babe-in-arms. That ill-mannered page suggested there have been rumours that the princess succumbed to the same fever that took her brother, and was then replaced by an impostor. Certainly, Princess Cassidy bears a resemblance to her illuminated mother. That in itself means little, though. Similarities between people are common, particularly within the noble classes where so many relatives are shared. However, if the blood heiress had been replaced at such a tender age, it would have been impossible to predict who the impostor might grow to resemble.

Back to their room from her observations, Madeleine did not see Oscar there but suddenly a shadow attack her. He is Prince Callum. He orders Madeleine to do exactly as he tells her, for two reasons. One, because he needs her help to rescue his sister, Cassady. And two, he pulls open the inner door, revealing he has Oscar with tied hands. And a sharp sword over his neck.

Does Prince Callum knows something about Cassidy’s kidnapping? Why he need to hostage Oscar who has been the main suspect for his sister’s case as well as the most favorite prince of hers.What step will Madeleine take to save Oscar from danger as well as prove he is in the right route?

On one evening, they were walking together, hand in hand, watching as the sun descend beneath the horizon. It was a wearing on evening. The warm colours of twilight were starting to fade from the sky. Amy conveyed what she felt about Aaron’s fatther’s disapproval of her. Aaron calmed her down and explained that it had no relation between her par-time job with Osher’s disapproval. He made sure that’s only his father’s stubborn.

They reached the staircase that lead back to the boardwalk and parking lot where Aaron’s motorcycle was parked. They rode the motorbike and the sun disappeared beneath the horizon. Then the darkness of night began to overtake the sky. On to the nearly empty road that lead back into town, came a strange feeling of foreboding settled over Amy. She shivered involuntarily, despite the warm temperature, and squeezed Aaron tightly, watching as it got darker and darker on the one-way road. 

They waited patiently for the light to change colour, and when the green circle let them off its artificial glow, Aaron resumed driving. They just entered one intersection when, very suddenly, another car barrelling down the road, swerving back and forth as it approached them. Aaron tried to steer away from the oncoming vehicle, but there was no hope of evasion. The car made no attempt to brake as it passed through the red light and collided with them. 

All she remembered before the hellacious sound of the crash and losing consciousness was Aaron turning the motorcycle to try and protect Amy from being directly hit. When she opened her eyes, the brightness of the lights above her were almost blinding. Amy was hospitalized. Then a young doctor entered her room. He was Eddy. He assured Amy that Aaron was fine and his life was in no danger. Eddy continued that Aaron had sustained a head injury though it would recover, but he had lost some of his memories.

Eddy extended his explanation. Aaron is suffering from amnesia, he still retains long term memories, but recent ones from the past few years were hazy or nonexistent. Eddy also added that when his team asked if Aaron was having a girlfriend, he didn’t seem to remember anyone by the name of ‘Amy’.

Said there was no something wrong with her, Amy started to work in the ice cream parlor in the next morning. There’s a guy, a partner of hers named Lawrence. He was a bit shy. Instead of talking directly, he felt more comfort to convey what he wanted to via text message. But he was such a kind hearted guy. So patient. So understanding.

But her mind was overloaded of Aaron’s amnesia. She started googling about that suffer. That amnesia is a condition in which memory is disturbed or lost completely. People can forget about things they did, or they will simply fail to remember the things they are currently doing in the near future...

Eddy told Amy that although Aaron still didn’t remember anything about who she was, but she was still be able to take a part in helping him to rebuild his memories. Since they were close to each other, precisely Amy knew something Aaron liked or places he loved. However, a wrong girl entered in the wrong time. Abigail, Aaron’s ex-girlfriend. She was a manipulative girl who never really loved him. With her fake smile, approached Aaron pretending she was his girlfriend. No matter what, Abigail was excluded in the forgotten memories. 

Some ways Amy did to distract her grief were going to the park to relax or did jogging, to the library to borrow some books to read for Aaron, writing course or update her blog, and to mall to have window shopping or meet Hugh. A guy friend of hers. He was an immature boy that often hangs around some of Amy’s friends. He was always around Amy, but she was not really sure what he wanted from her.

With Aaron’s memories which had deleted her partially, and some guys around her who looked like inadvertently could be Aaron’s replacement, would Amy keep faith with their love without giving up? Or would she find another love?