WIDE AWAKE AND CONTENT

It's 6am in the morning and I've been wide awake since 3am. There's no chance I'm getting back to bed.

As I've literally nothing to do I guess I'll talk about my day. Today I spent the day with my parents as my dad is leaving tomorrow. We went to a restaurant where they serve raw (not entirely) crab in soy sauce. It sounds salty but it's not. It's one of my favorite food in Korea. Uhm. Later I had ice cream, watched some TV, talked to my friends and went to bed. That's it. That's what I call an insignificant day in my life. But it was ok, so bye!

Second set of Hong Kong

The following day was about discovering the diversity of Hong Kong.

Central - Soho - Lan Kwai Fong - Tsim Sha Tsui

I don't remember what it is called but the long ass escalator going through Soho and all the way up is so cool. I was shocked by how fast the escalators here are.

A local man at a coffee shop told us to go to PMQ. It's basically an old police quarter reconstructed into a design and crafts hub. The building is filled with cafes, restaurants, design stores and many small pop up stores. It reminded me of Ssamzigil in Insadong, Seoul a lot. Although in my opinion the PMQ is more original and bigger.

In the evening I met up with friends.

Overwhelming Hong Kong

Hello, I'm in Hong Kong

My journey starts at the Incheon airport. Seoul is incredibly cold! I think I'm reaching a limit where my body won't function anymore if i keep changing my sleep pattern. My inner clock is extremely irritated due to the frequent travelling and staying up all night drinking like with my friends until morning too often. Anyhow, today I arrived in Hong Kong extremely exhausted. The city is awesome but my mind is telling me to go to bed. As I walk through Tsim Sha Tsui I notice how similar Hong Kong is to Seoul. Especially this area reminds me of Myeong Dong a lot. 

Mix of February '15

This is a mix consisting different genres. Songs I listen to these days.

Have a nice day xx

Two but one

Three weeks have past like a year. I came back for finals and don't remember doing anything useful for my life, body nor mind. I really wonder why my lifestyle in Switzerland and in Korea is so different. In fact, I'm a different person. The environments are radically different. In Switzerland, I live with my family and rather on the countryside. In the metropolitan city of South Korea however, my life is very busy and I live alone. It can be disappointing to see myself so alienated. Besides, it's always a back and forth. Eventually, wherever I'm situated I will get used to who I'm currently am but isn't it a sign of being weak?

Time
In Switzerland, time is much slower. Very few times I find myself in a hurry. Appointments are made reasonably and I'm mostly on time. Whereas in Seoul, I'm in a constant hurry and forget about time easily. My day consists of going to at least two different meetings. I every now and then plan an impossible schedule where I end up having to cancel one appointment. Not only minutes or hours pass so quickly. It's days, weeks and months.

Self-unfolding
Did you see when I posted last? It was when I came back from Korea. It's because simply I got no time when I'm there. In my free time I end up doing wasteful stuff like taking a nap, watching TV and scrolling through Facebook for hours. In Switzerland however, I read books, rebuild my room, do research on really interesting things, cook something new and generally think differently. I would even claim the Swiss me is the more intelligent one. Also I noticed that I only search for good music and movies when I'm in Switzerland. Probably because I have more time for myself.

Personal boundaries
The Seoul society (I don't want to generalize but let's say the one I'm in) can be limiting to my person in regard of generalized beauty standards, fads and people having similar mindsets. The Korean society's development is extremely fast. Besides, status is really important. For instance a person will always be introduced to another person by mentioning something special about her/him. I guess this is something I don't like about being in Korea. The social pressure and image making.

In Korea:
I arrive at a bar and except for my friend I only see new faces.
Friend: "Hey Gabi, this is my friend. He's the manager of the club blahblah. And this friend has an own company. He is really rich! Ha ha ha."
Here, whether I'm genuinely impressed or not will have to force an "ooohhhh" "ahhh"

Even I get introduced this way. My quality is probably that I'm Swiss. Apparently, this is the only one I got (lol)
Friend: "Hey guys, this is Gabi. She's from Switzerland and she speaks German."

The Swiss society can be limiting too. However, it's not necessarily a pressure. It's hard to describe but I'd say it's like being judged passively. Therefore, since it's more of an passive feel, I don't really care that much. I personally believe the Swiss are more conservative or let's say afraid of novelty. Especially in my town, people generally like the easy and modest life.

The differences are immense. In 2015, I want to work on finding a inner balance.

시작

I will blog at least once a week! This time, I really will be stricter to myself.

I just came back from Korea to finish my finals and next week I'll be going back again. As I'm a fashion and cosmetics enthusiast, my readers will get updates on those. Also, in my blog, I want to try to be as honest as possible. The blog is supposed to show at least 1/7 of my life.

Thank you for reading.

Is anybody here?

I don't even know if i have any subscribers. All i know is that it has been a long time since I checked in here the last time. What am I doing with this blog? A lot of things happened during the second half of 2014. I went back to Korea to spend my summer there. This is prolly why I haven't been updating. This is a recap of my summer: