"Do Not Give Up. The Beginning Is Always the Hardest"

Just last week, my CCA (basically my school's dance team) had participated in a International Dance competition. We performed a contemporary piece. The piece was about how people looked perfectly fine, and how it seems that their lives are perfect. However, what we don't actually know is the amount of hardships, struggles and problems that they have to face daily, and how they are slowly dying on the inside, unable to cope with everything anymore. (We actually got Distinction yay)

Sadly, like this piece, I have not been feeling good. 

Emotionally.

I am not depressed, and I do laugh every day. However, I feel really stressed out with school and life in general (this explains my one week absence sorry!). I am not doing well in my academics, nor am I doing well in any other aspect of my life this year. Everything is going downhill, and I feel exhausted. No matter how much hard work I put in, things just don't work out for me. 

Why?

Why do we have so many problems? So many hardships? 

They say that all these things make you stronger. 

But I feel that there are too many of such things in such a short span of time. To the point where I might just crumble one day. I am hardly getting any rest, and I am plain exhausted. Physically and mentally. 

However, on a side note, I am really grateful to my friends. They had really helped me keep my mind off these things for a while, and I know that they will definitely be with me throughout this difficult time of mine and I am really grateful for all of them :) 

I really do believe that there's a light at the end of the tunnel and things will definitely get better for me soon <3 

To everyone else who might be experiencing the same thing as me, be it in academics, work or just life in general, do cheer up and forge ahead!! It may be tough (because I really feel so), but I am sure that things will get resolved eventually and naturally, so don't ever give up! 

Remember to smile! :)

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Album of the Week:

EXO - Exodus 

Genre: K-pop, R&B, Hip Hop, Ballad, Dance

So this album consists of 10 songs, and was recently released (one month ago is considered recent right) and I got really addicted to it after looping the album a few times :D The songs are really catchy and there are a variety of songs, from upbeat and fast-paced songs to slow and soothing songs. I personally like the songs Call Me Baby, Transformer, My Answer, Playboy and Beautiful (half of the album whoops). All those songs are completely different in genres but they are all really nice the more you listen to them :)

There is also a Chinese version of this album (this particular group, EXO, releases both Korean and Chinese versions of their songs) so go check them out if you wish to!

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Pictures of the Week:

 


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Hope to see you guys next week!
ps. I actually do have exams next week so maybe not sigh 
pps. Thanks for the 101 views! :D

~Baethxr

"Follow Your Dreams And Don't Let Anyone Stop You"

That's what they all say.

But did they actually do that?

Are we even able to do that? 

Follow our dreams and do whatever we wish to do?

What if we just wanted to travel the world? Going to many different countries consecutively? Do we need to get a job and earn a huge sum of money just to afford the cost of travelling to many different countries, and experiencing different lifestyles? Yet, when we finally earned enough money to sustain the travel fees, our hair has already turned grey, our forehead covered in wrinkles, bodies too weak to travel the world? Hadn't that effort of following your dreams gone to waste?

People could disagree with me, saying that not all effort would still result in failure. However, I feel that sometimes, life and the society is not allowing us to fully attain whatever that we wish for.

Last week, I had just finished a few examination papers for schools, with more coming up in a few weeks. Although I am still very young, and I have much to learn and experience, I am starting to get tired of school, and all the work that I have to go through. I am getting so many projects and assignments with no breather in between, and I feel very suffocated. School is preventing me from doing whatever that I like, and whatever that I wish to do. Every day, I come home from school at 7 in the evening, and I would be too exhausted at night to do anything. During the weekends, the only thing that I do is homework. Homework, and more homework. I cannot go out and have fun with my friends, or even take a walk and get some fresh air. I am just cooped up at home, doing work. 

But isn't that how life is? The only way of possibly having a good life in the later years is to study and get good grades. After that, we are then able to get a good job with high pay. We would finally be able to live in comfort, and we would have enough money to get anything that we need in order to enjoy whatever activities that we like, or just sustaining ourselves after we retire to enjoy life.

I wished life could be more simple. Being able to live life as you wish to live it. Being able to do whatever you want without difficulty. 

But reality is not like this.

I am not trying to demoralise anyone or trying to tell anyone to not chase after their dreams. I myself am trying to chase after my own dreams, and I am also working hard at doing that. I am just wishing that things could have been different. Not needing to have so many restrictions while trying to attain your dreams and wishes.

I am trying to make my wish come true, and I hope that you are trying too!

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Album of the Week:

Super Junior D&E (Donghae & Eunhyuk) - The Beat Goes On 

Genre: Ballad, Dance

So I had recently decided to check out this album, and I have been listening to it these past few weeks :) There are 6 songs in this album, and the songs are mostly upbeat (with the exception for the last ballad song). 

It is not an album where you would instantly like the moment you first hear it, but it grows onto you as you listen to it more and more :)

Do listen to it if you wish to!

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Pictures of the Week: 

 

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See you next week!

~Baethxr

D-day

Hello fellow bloggers!

Today is a really special day for me, for it is my birthday! -cue confetti and birthday cake- But today is also special because I decided to start up a new blog (yes, I had an old one a few years ago, and let's just say it didn't turn out that great). I hope this blog will turn out nice :)

I have decided to create this blog to post about some things that run through my mind and nice (hopefully) pictures that I have taken :) I would probably post every Friday night as it is the last weekday of the week and I would have (hopefully) enough time to blog. 

Along with the pictures and the topic of the week, I would also share a music album that I had gotten hooked to for that week. As I listen to Korean music more than any other genre, I would be recommending Korean albums. Other than the K-pop songs that everyone has heard of, I would also be recommending Korean underground hip-hop albums that I listen to :)

However, I am still attending school and I am really busy, so I may not be able to blog weekly. I hope that I will have enough motivation to blog and I would really appreciate if you could support me! :) 

So here goes nothing.

D-day.