Dong Xuan Center and Weihnachtsmarkt am Alexanderplatz.

I take a break from my Deutsch Sprachkurs since November. I now focus on sketching, painting, illustrating and photo. I started with these food I cook or the cake...

I learned until B2 but then I found the intensive course is too much for me. During my last days, I couldn't digest em all well enough.

In the second week of this pause, I contacted people for language exchange. After several people I don't really like, I meet this cool Russian girl. So after 3 meetings, we're like almost good friend now :D Today she took me to Dong Xuan centre, a large Vietnamese Center with real SE Asia mood! :P And on Saturday I'll visit her house (she has two cute boys).

In December, I try to be back in the photography business in here. I e-mail so many make-up artists, models and stylists, and designers. I also introduce my self to agencies. When I was e-mailing, little did I know that more than half of them will reply to it! People are so open with new names and collaborations here. I love this city even more now :)

I love how my immersion is so accelerated during this two months break. My first beauty shoot will be on Friday (I CAN'T WAIT ALREADY!) followed by some other test shoot and a baby assignment on Sunday. BF is coming on the 18th (yeay!) so I won't be shooting til 2nd of January. I'm crazy recording footage lately. I regretted it that I didn't record AT ALL at the beginning of the autumn because it was so fine and beautiful *cries in Spanish*

I want to paint his skin and esoteric green eyes when he's here with me... <3 (it become a little more bluish when he's in love).

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I like Berlin.

I like mellow complaining stupid sarcastic rock songs.

I like to feel free, from within.

In Berlin I know what it is to be alive.

I like Berlin.

I like the city.

I like Berlin in May.

But I will not stay here in Berlin forever.

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I moved in to Berlin on the 13th of January this year.

Berlin is the fourth city in which I have lived in for more than 6 months. I have lived in Jakarta, Sydney and Kuala Lumpur. Of all these place, I love Sydney the most. But I have to admit it, Indonesia and Malaysia have more unique culinary and cultural identity and offers better travel opportunity for a person like me (kinda poor twenty-something).

I feel like I have a new family, have made so many new friends and met a guy name Román.

I am so far away from my family, but this is the place where I feel pretty, appreciated and feel good about myself. Oh, I can be myself again like I used to in Sydney.

A place where I can sit on the green grass, under the blue (lol, kidding, yeah, its grey) sky and reflect about myself while the wind blow my now-long hair.

Usually I smile, gulping down my beer and think, "Hey, finally, life isn't that bad."

The food are OK. There are Asian food... and kebab. I like donner box (is that with one 'n' or double? Arrrhh). There are bubble tea too (the root of all fat evil).

The language is hard.

The wind is kalt.

The tomato ketchup explode,

and fucked my keyboard up...

But I've never fell in love this deep with life.

Like how I feel in Berlin.