Portocal Journey

Hello.. Ahh.. Finally can make a new post. A new short post, actually. And this is the first trial of me using this android app for Blogger, BlogIt! I wonder why this app gets higher good reviews among the users than the official app gets.

And plese, I beg you. Never get sick of seing me for always change my blogskin. Haha. What do you think about my new skin, eh? Firstly I wanna make it simple. Without any widget and I'd tried as hard as I can to eliminate any cute stuff using on my blog. But, oh my! I can't stand when saw that Rilakkuma stamp on my header when searching on google.

And as can you see at my chatbox. I made the background, as usual like how I made for my tagboard's background, I use and always do, with Photoscape. I just imagine like getting short messages from you. Haha..

I like my previous skin. But I get bored easily. I'm not sure there will be a new skin in a close period because start on 12th next month, I'll start my study. I decide to continue my study. I take the major which is in linear with my major in my undergraduate..

Oh, I don't know why but this is the most messy skin I ever had. If you click the labels and monthly archives, the post will be doubled and hurt your eyes. Don'd do it. I warn you. I won't fix the mess because of these two reasons: 1. I don't know how and, 2. Fix in my mind has the meaning of changing to a new one.

No, thanks. Ahh.. It's enough I think. I'll see this app is good enough or what.

Bye, dears..

Yeayy.. I got this my 3rd Liebster Award from another sweet Malaysian girl Kinai. But I'm sorry, Kinai. I won't make my own set of questions neither tag anybody. Because I have a very few blogger friends and most of them had been tagged before by me. But please take a note I LOVE being tagged and answer your (whoever asking) questions. Here we go with Kinai's set of 11 questions:

What is your full name?
I think there won't be any harm doing this. I'll tell you my full name: Lia Agustina Damanik. If you are an English person, please don't spell my first name by saying it like 'liar' without 'r' in English. Imagine it's a Korean name (just to make it easier), read it: Lee Ya.

How old are you?
Oh my God. Don't you ever heard about never ask her age to a girl? Okay, no lah. Just kidding. It's not something humiliated got asked how young I am. Lol. I'm 23 years young. Next month on July 31st, I'll be 24. So don't hesitate to wish me a happy birthday and don't forget about the pressieee... Lol.

Where were you born, and where do you live?
I start to ask myself who this girl actually is. Are you doing an international census? Lol. I was born in a government-owned housing in a big cocoa plantation. It's far, far away from the suburbs. When I was five, we moved into our own home in the suburbs (where I live now). It only needs 1 hour to reach Medan, the capital of this province North Sumatra, Indonesia.

Why did you start this blog?
Honestly it's because I'm a follower. Lol. I read so many cool blogs and thought it would be as cool as them if I build my own one. Turned out it's not that easy to run a blog even though a personal one. If you don't have an attractive life to talk about on your blog, your brain has to be creative enough to make your plain life be much attractive. I have none -,-"

Do you find reading is lame?
Yes, if it's horoscope (sorry if it's rude for some of you).

Do you believe in best friend forever?
I don't think so. First, I don't know what the real meaning of 'forever' is. Lol. I mean, what term can be used to categorise something as 'forever'? But I hope having a chance to own that kind of some people call BFFs. Back when I was in primary school, I had 3 best friends till we entered the senior high school. We continuously be best friends for 6 years in primary school, 3 years in junior high and 3 years in senior high. So it's 12 years in total. But after graduating from senior high, slowly but surely we had been separated by each path of ours. And now, we talk if it's necessary :( like strangers.

The same happened with my good friends in college. I hope they won't read this. Lol. But if it's a friendship which can be counted as 'as long as possible', I have. These three girls of mine I acquainted with in my sophomore in high school ^,^

List 3 or more English novels that you like the most.
1. The White Masai by Corinne Hofmann
It's about a Germany woman who tried her best to struggle her love with a Masai tribesman, Lketinga. If you wanna read the spoiler, I have one. Lol. Click here to go.

2. Notes Left Behind by Brooke & Keith Desserich
This book is the true story of a six-year-old girl named Elena and her battle against paediatric brain cancer. Doctor had diagnosed Elena just had several weeks left in this world, that's the reason behind the decision of her parents to make a journal about their togetherness, the progress from Elena's medication and of course as a memory.

3. Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban
This is the most favourite series of Harry Potter book of mine. The presence of Sirius Black gave more human-being feel from Harry. How he actually was not alone in family case. He had a father. A godfather.

If you were accepted to Hogwarts, which house would you be in? Why?
Of course Gryffindor. If only the three main characters were in Slytherin, I'll follow them into that dorm, too. Lol. Because what? The camera follow the main characters the most. Hahahaha.

List 5 movies that everyone should at least, watch once in their lifetime.
1. Django Unchained.
click here if you wanna read the spoiler.
2. A Little Thing Call Love
click here if you wanna read the spoiler.
3. Captain Philips
click here if you wanna read the spoiler.
4. Les Misérables
click here if you wanna read the spoiler.
5. Laskar Pelangi
click here if you wanna find what it is about (not spoiler).

List 5 songs that you like.
Sempurna by Andra & The Backbone
Laskar Pelangi by Nidji
Let It Go by Demi Lovato
Time Machine by SNSD
Love Story by Taylor Swift

What do you think of my blog? 
Dear, Kinai. You ask me an honest answer, right. Honestly, just like other new blogs I found accidentally, I didn't really give any attention to your blog. But, by reading your Liebster post, I read it completely, I found that your English is very good. You talk naturally without any force with your arranging words, to look like a pro. I love the way you write, seriously.I think there is one similarity between us, we are bad in blogging in our own language (but seriously I say the truth: your English is way better than me). haha. Tell me if I'm not mistaken, okay.

And another honest expression from deep of my heart is I dislike your blog skin. So dark :( As you have to know that I'm a kid in my heart. I love pastel colors, pink and any cute stuffs adorn my blog skin. But there won't be any hard feeling, please :D It's not something big, okay. No matter what, your blog posts are mostly cool. And then, I love your photos. I force you to tell me what camera you use and what app which helps you to edit them Lol. Once again, thankies sweetheart.

Suddenly I remember about Meteor Garden (2001). A big questions for teenagers nowadays, do you know this drama? Maybe ever heard about it? Or at least your parents ever told you about its existence. I mean, the drama ever been so booming. You HAVE to know that  There's this one weird Chinese movie which had reminded me to my first Taiwanese drama ever in where my imaginative first love had a role in it  In case you ask what that Chinese movie is, it entitles Million Dollar Crocodile. It's about a big crocodile, a 8 metres sized crocodile, which had swallowed a million yuan from a girl's handbag. And the girl is Barbie Hsu. My expression when saw the movie was "Ehh.. She's San Chai, right? Yes, that she is!!" And then the flashback came.

The flashback how young I was as that time to watch a drama in which MANY kiss scenes were a MUST. How old our TV at that time; a kind of television which we could move to everywhere we wanted to watch it in our house. Like a pushing cart. My sister pushed it to the kitchen when she did clothes washing and we pushed it into our shared bedroom when there was a midnight movie. Our dad would not allow us watching TV at midnight. He and our mom entered their bedroom, 5 minutes later we would push it silently  A midnight movie here is not something which showed some sexual contents or something like that. It's only western movies were aired at 10 PM above. Home Alone was one of them.

Our TV at that time was a television with a manual antenna, like insects' antenna if it's hard enough to imagine how it was like. Antenna which we had to drag it to the right or to the left, or made it stand or if not the screen would be filled with gray ants covered the whole of it. Don't touch the body or you would be electrified It's a TV without remote control, too. Talk about this remote control, ever you watched Sadako The Ring? It's about the typical girl so many guys adore nowadays: long straight hair, white skin with skinny body.

Because we didn't have a remote control to turn the TV off from the certain distance we thought was 'safe enough', I and my sister argued who should press the red button on the TV's body to turn it off. Because what?? We were too worried this would happen in our living room and there was no time to escape:

If you let me recall the older story of mine years back before the Sadako incident, back when I was a kindergarten kid. We lived in a government-owned housing in a big cocoa plantation. It's far away from the suburbs, the current place we live in. TV was a luxury at that time. We had one, but it had a bad signal catcher. That's why the state-owned TV channel which had no any cartoon programme was the best option, other than playing a wooden doll with hair made of banana leaf  So, I and my two siblings: my older brother and sister, would join other kids in our neighbourhood migrate into one of our neighbours who had a TV with a very good signal catcher to watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 


What a random post, I know. The main point I create this entry is to remind myself what a colourful childhood I have.

Ahhh.. Just flashback when I was a senior high school girl, this movie was so booming. Every teenagers felt so proud when they could tell their friends that the movie had been listed into their 'movie lists'. I never watch it in the movie, though. It's far in Medan. But it's okay.. One year later it was aired on TV . And it's aired many times. Over and over again. Till I've finished watching it 1 hour ago on one of our private TV channels.

It's about a love triangle story among three teens Rachel, Farrel and Luna. Rachel was a boyish girl. She always put casual look on; T-shirt or sweater and army style long pants as its match. She had been best friend with Farrel, a handsome charming boy. Farrel had a good sense of humour though kinda childish; seemed from his hobby of reading comics. Since kids, they had played together even they two had their private basketball court with a tree house nearby. One day, Rachel carve something secretly on the tree where their tree house attached on which she wouldn't ever allow Farrel to see it. Just wait till everything could be revealed thoroughly.

One day, when Farrell was about to buy his favorite comic books, Shinchan, the bookstore owner offered him a book that he said it was funny, entitled Heart. Farrell initially refused, but when he saw a glimpse of the author of the comic was a beautiful girl, he immediately bought the comic book and then pursuit the author and became acquainted with her. The author named Luna. Luna was a very beautiful and feminine girl. With a black long hair and a pair of beautiful earrings adorned her face. Farrell did not forget to ask for an autograph, phone number and home address.


At that moment, Farrell realized that he had fallen in love at first sight with Luna and then told his best best friend, Rachel. Farrell asked Rachel to help him to make Luna to be his girlfriend. Initially it was fine for Rachel , but Rachel began to feel a feeling she had never feel before. Jealousy. Rachel was jealous of the closeness between Farrel and Luna, then began to change her appearance little by little, As a starter, she started wearing earrings. It was not only that, she also lied to Farrell by saying that she already had a boyfriend, the type of her dream.

Soon, Farrell expressed his love for Luna by bringing something in a big heart shaped to confess his feeling to her. But it had been a deal between him and Rachel. If Luna kept the heart, then that means Luna received his love, but if Luna broke it, it meant she refused Farrel. And if Farrell was rejected by Luna, Rachel was allowed to hit Farrel to death with her car. There was something made Luna hesitated to accept Farrel's confession. Luna then gave a heartbreaking to Farrel. In a flash Rachel chased Farrell , trying to hit him, but Farrell had escaped .


Farrell came out on the lake with Luna. Luna began to tell him the reason why she refused Farrel. Luna was fighting with Cirrhosis,a disease hardening of the liver. For Luna, she realized that her life would not be much longer, that's what made ​​her hesitate to accept Farrel's love, when in fact Luna also loved him. Farrell then entertained her, trying to convince Luna that his love for her was sincere, till forever. Farrell instead of giving up but even more motivated to get love of Luna.


Rachel began to notice her difference with Luna, Luna was feminine and love wearing skirts and dresses , while she was always wearing casual clothes. She thought that the differences which make Farrel interested in Luna. Farrell then began to realize and see the changes when Rachel wore a dress that should be given to Luna and dressed up like a woman should be, Farrel just laugh at her. Rachel then leave him raced toward their tree house, where they usually playing basketball together. Rachel got greater jealousy when she learnt that Farrel had prepared a ring for Luna . That's when Rachel began to show his tears to Farrel. Adding to the story that she had just lost the person she loved because he went away with another girl . Farrel calmed her down telling that they would still be best friends forever .


On another day, Farrell was with Luna in a park. Rachel saw them from a far and found Farrel kissing Luna, destroying her heart completely and make her run aimlessly. Which Rachel did not know was, that when kissing, Luna spewed blood from her mouth, and had to be hospitalized immediately. Rachel ran aimlessly around the mountain slopes and falling towards the ravine. She also sent to the same hospital as Luna. Rachel had to find the bitter truth that her legs had to be amputated because it could endanger her life.

Everyday Farrel came to see Luna and Rachel at hospital, but Rachel realized that he only gave her some visit occasionally and more often visited Luna. Rachel became increasingly angry at Farrell, but Farrell and Rachel realized that Luna was seriously ill and really need a heart donor in order to survive. Luna's father, Adam and Farrel were trying to find a donor but not manage to get it. While Luna's time was getting thinner and Luna was approaching death.

Turned out Rachel donated her heart to Luna, not to save her live whom she hated for stealing her Farrell, but she hoped she could continue to live in Luna's body to keep be able to think about and love Farrell to death. Rachel also left a message for Farrell to see their tree house, the place where young Rachel ever carved something in the beginning of the film.

Farrell, who had been married to Luna and has a son, go to where they used to play basketball and climb up the tree. Therein Farrell realized that Rachel ever carved "Rachel and Farrel" in a heart shaped frame, and he also realized how Rachel loved him since they were kids.

Yeayyy.. Another pretty hidden object game. Everything in this game is attractive. The characters are beautiful, handsome and cool. The sceneries presented are served with perfectly hand-drawn graphic and the lovely musics as the background. The characters are really act. They show real gestures, movements and conversations. It's like a movie. I Love it ~ ~!!

We'll play as a detective who had been called to Paris by a bride-to-be names Veronica. Just days before their wedding, the ancient werewolf Mephistus has appeared in town seeking revenge on Veronica and her fiancé. You are asked to help the couple as Mephistus bites Veronica's fiancé and it has changed him to be a werewolf attacking his own darling.

Explore Paris to find man who knows what gun can be used to kill Mephistus and secret ingredients to create concoctions which will help Veronica's fiancé back to his true nature.

Woohoo. Finally I can steal the time away to finish this game. Oh my~~ This game is so creepy. Without needing to give us horrific graphic- the graphic is so poor in my sight, the storyline itself had been success to scare me. Too many paths to go through.

In Phantasmat we will play as ourselves. There's no clear character in solid appearance like most hidden object games I ever played. We'll give a role just the way we position ourselves in that game, as the main role. Oh, without conversation also. The conversation is the one-way one.


You are on your holiday. Feeling your car are getting to stray, you decide to consult with your map. But an accident happens which will lead you something terrible. A nightmare. Your car crashed and the rainy night make everything to be worst. Nobody will take any risk to approach a broken car under the heavy rain. Water is one of the best materials of electric discharges.

So you decide to enter the forest. You see an old shack and suddenly a girl come from nowhere in the dark. You tell your car is broken and you need if she can help you. She offers you to use a phone in a hotel nearby. But, besides giving you an advise, she also warn you to leave the hotel as soon as you finish with your stuff.

You walk to the hotel panorama and step into its gate. The hotel has a quite unique name. Drowned Hotel. You are welcomed by its owner. An old man. He says it's kinda surprising to see stranger visit their hotel. You utter that you need to use the hotel's phone to ask help. He allows. But a blackout comes. While the phone can't be used without the electricity. You need to fix the generator.


Your feet lead you to enter the basement through its corridor which ends in the generator room. Before you can finish your steps to your aim, the previous girl scolds you why you are still in the hotel. She has warned you to go away as soon as you finish your call. Knowing what really happen, she points her finger out to where you have to go to fix the generator. The generator is fixed and the hotel lobby is filled with lights. It means you can use the phone.

You dial the numbers and someone speaks in its end. Out of your expectation, he tells that your location is out of detection. Nolens volens, you have to rent one of the hotel's room to wait for morning to come. Your room is next to an old lady's room. She is funny, friendly and creepy at once. She tells you about what a glamorous town the hotel is located at used to be. But everything turned 180 degree because something she still conceals.

The girl actually is working in the hotel. She waits to have some time to speak with you. To tell you something you need- you have to, know. She tells that there's something terrible with the hotel, its owner, the old lady and town nearby it. She asks you to find a way to escape from there. She begs. You agree and because you need to get out of that place, too. A long search you will go through. To a cliff in the right side of the hotel which will show you a cemetery panorama and your search takes you to a diving suit. You dive to the drowned town then. Finally you find the answer. The truth that nobody except you is human.


This girl is naive. She has a romantic heart. Came to the town just to work. Not even to settle in there. Her fault for falling in love with a bastard married man. She believed when he told her that he would leave his family to marry her. But suddenly the bad news spread. The dam would collapse and people had to relocate. The girl thought the relocation was the best chance to sneak into the church to marry secretly. Wearing the bride's gown, she ran to the church with a bouquet in her hand. But her man never come. He precisely run with his family out of the town. And the girl died of drowning in her waiting.


This old man is the owner of The Drowned Hotel. His past was dark. He was a gangster member with so many success bank robberies. Found his partners got caught by police, he realised sooner or later he would get caught too. So he decided to run into a small town in nowhere to settle and build a brand new life. He tried his best to hide his true nature to give a good impression toward people there. Then he stayed in a hotel, showed the best attitude so people accept him easily. But habits which had been built for years couldn't be eliminated in months. He desired to own the hotel. Then the news about the dam which would collapse came to his ears. He worried his money would be stolen if he left the hotel. Thinking the hotel was located safely on a hill, he buried his money before running. But unexpectedly the dam collapse faster than expected. The man died of drowning with his money.


This old lady had the most sinister past among them. She was just a common young lady. With her beauty, she seduced the innocent Mayor then she became his wife. She enter the high class community and everybody knew who she was. The Mayor's wife. But she was not satisfied for always being her husband's shadow. She then killed her husband by poisoning his drink. She was sorry. Really, really big sorry in her heart. Then she rent a room in a hotel to move into because the house she and her husband ever lived just reminded her about her husband and what she had done to him. The dam was collapsed when she was in her husband's cemetery begged for forgiveness.