[living as Muslim #04] Praying room in Korea Tourism Organization Seoul office

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Another post about praying room in Seoul~ This time it's located in Korea Tourism Organization Seoul office 2F. It's not far from Gyeongbok Palace or Gwanghwamun Square, and close to Cheonggyecheon Stream. The photos were taken (by me, of course) two weeks ago (January 2017).

The praying room is open from 9 AM to 8 PM, following Tourism Information Center office hours

[living as Muslim #03] Muslim Prayer room in Lotte World

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Another post on praying room in Seoul. This time, it is located in the infamous Korea's biggest indoor theme park, Lotte World. It seems like Lotte World has just recently opened Muslim praying room in late 2016, as when my friend visited Lotte World in January 2016, his family still couldn't pray in Muslim praying room. These photos were taken on my visit to Lotte World last December.

The infamous Lotte World

[memory #01] Batik in Myeongdong

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Hari Minggu pekan lalu saya pergi ke Myeongdong untuk beli sepatu karena sneakers saya kondisinya semakin memprihatinkan. Sebenarnya Myeongdong bukan tempat yang direkomendasikan buat belanja barang-barang murah sih karena harganya jauh lebih mahal dibandingkan tempat-tempat lain. Tapi karena yah sneakers yang bagus (versi saya: solnya empuk alias memory foam) walaupun diskon juga harganya nggak akan murah-murah banget. Di samping itu, sudah lama saya nggak jalan ke Myeongdong, jadilah sore itu saya berangkat ke Myeongdong naik bus 261. Coba-coba rute baru, bosen naik kereta terus transfer ke line-4 di Dongdaemun melulu.

Sampai di Myeongdong, saya disambut dengan lautan manusia. Iyalah, hari kerja aja Myeongdong pasti ramai, apalagi hari Minggu sore, di musim panas yang banyak diskon pula. Penuh banget nget nget di semua toko. Setelah sukses beli sepatu yang cocok di kaki saya (dan ternyata nggak diskon, sedih), saya iseng jalan-jalan ke Uniqlo yang letaknya persis di seberang exit 5 Stasiun Myeongdong. Uniqlo ini besar sekali dan sangat mencolok, jadi sering digunakan sebagai tempat janjian ketemuan oleh orang-orang.

Saya teringat info dari teman di grup KakaoTalk (iya, kalau di Korea nggak pakai grup WA), kalau Hana Tajima for Uniqlo sudah dijual di Korea juga. Buru-buru saya ke lantai 2 tempat baju perempuan, eh taunya malah disambut oleh baju ini.

[living as Muslim #02] Muslim praying room in Kyung Hee University

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Continuing the last post in [living as Muslim] category, this post is still about praying room. The university I go to, Kyung Hee University, is apparently one of the few universities who provide praying room exclusive for Muslim. This praying room has been opened since 2012, but I only knew about its whereabouts earlier this year, sigh.

Unfortunately, it is not opened for everybody, only for students who had their student ID card registered before. But if you are lucky enough, some eligible students often keep the door open after using it so you can use the room. The praying room is located in Neo Renaissance Building, B2 floor, Room B204-4.

Neo Renaissance Building 

[living as Muslim #01] Mushalla at COEX Convention Center

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One of the biggest challenge of being a Muslim in a Muslim-minority country is to find a praying room. Looking for masjid has been proven to be a difficult task; many times we have to be satisfied with a decent space to do our praying. Fortunately, as South Korea has been preparing themselves to attract more Muslim tourists, the government start to pay accommodate Muslim's basic needs such as praying room.

On March 2016, COEX Convention Center, one of the biggest and busiest convention center in Seoul has opened a praying room specially designated for Muslim. I went there few months ago. It doesn't provide you with space to do Wudu, but there's toilet located near the Mushalla so you can do Wudu easily.

The map of COEX Convention Center (3F).
The Mushalla is located on the 3rd floor, right behind Hall E.

If you happen to visit COEX Mall, or SM Atium, make sure you go to COEX Convention Center first. These buildings are connected, but they are not the same building.

Greetings from Daejeon!

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Wow. I can't believe it's been six months since my last post! I didn't even update about my graduation, my move to Korea, and many other events :O I promise I'll update about those sometime later ^^

So anyway! It's winter now in Daejeon. It was zero degree this morning. I am proud to say I can tolerate zero degree quite well now! I think my body has adjusted with the coldness of Korea's winter. Below zero is very tough to bear, but I can manage thanks to my thick duck down jacket, scarf, long boots, UNIQLO's heat tech innerwear, layers of clothes, and of course, tons of hot packs.

First snow for this winter in Daejeon fell on December 1st. I managed to recorded a short video of the first snow and posted it on Instagram. That day everyone in my Instagram timeline, ordinary people or celebrities, posted photos and videos of first snow from all over Korea.

First Monday went like this

오늘 아침 4시 반 알람 때문에 일어났다. 기도한 다음 다시 잤지. 그런데 5시 반쯤에 데샤가 우리 방에 왔고 밖에 놀아가자고 했다. 잠깐 걸어다가 외대 전문 앞에 도착했다. 경희대와 외대가 이렇게 가까우면 수진 언니랑 꼭 만나야지~ 방에 돌아서 학교 가기 준비하려고 했는데 넷북을 켜지게 되었다 ㅋㅋㅋ

세화원은 바로 경희대 남 중고등학교 옆에 있다. 그래서 아침에 많은 남학생들이 지나간 건 우리 방에서 보인다. 한국 학생이나 인도네시아 학생이나 할 것 없이 학생이라면 크고 무거운 가방을 메고 학교 다닌다. 그런데 한 지나간 남학생은 학교 짱인 것 같다. 교복을 제대로 안 입고 가방을 한 어깨에 메고 갔다. 웬지 고남순 기억 났다 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

내가 남들에게 나 어디 어느 빌딩에서 공부하는 거 알려주고 싶어서 (자랑하고 싶어서? ㅋㅋㅋ) 아침에 청운관 7층에 도착하자마자 모바일 다타를 켰다. Foursquare에서 체크인하고 WhatsApp과 카톡을 확인했다. 몇 분 후 나 비용이 너무 비싼 거 기억나서 모바일 다타를 껐다. 맞구나. 그것 때문에 Rp11,800 잃었다 힝~


처음 만난 사람과 늘 이야기를 시작하지 못하던 나는 오늘도 변하지 않았구나. 나는 교실이 아직 어두울 때 도착했는데 다음에 온 친구들 눈에 못 만나서 그냥 혼자 앉아 있었다. 선생님 오실 때까지 아무 말도 안 했다. 그래도 오늘 자기소개는 참 재미있었다 히히

역시 한국 선생님은 어디나 마찬가지다. 숙제를 꼭 내야 마음이 편하실 수 있나봐. 그런데 후배들 비해 나는 나앗다.

아, 오늘 한 인도네시아 남학생을 만났다. KGSP 장학금을 받고 부산대에 공부할거래. 그래서 경희대에 한국어를 공부하게 되었다. 니아랑 같은 반 다닌대.


숙제를 다 하고 졸리는데 자고 싶지 않은 안니사

First day

오늘 나 한국에 도착했다. 기억하고 싶지 않은 밤을 지낸 후 경희대 세화원에 도착했다. 방 찾고 짐을 놓고 우리는 정쌤과 류 쌤하고 같이 점심을 먹었다. 계란찜, 순두부 찌개, 된장 찌개, 그리고 어떤 오징어와 반찬들이 있었다. 아주 맛있었는데 너무 뜨거워서 먹기가 힘들었다 ㅜㅜ

그래도 이것들은 4명에게도 너무 많았다 휴~

점심 먹자마자 우리는시험을 봤다. 시험은 토픽과 같았다. 배가 너무 부른 상태에 시원한 방에서 그런 문제들을 봤을 때 누구나 졸리게 되지~~ 시험 본 후 우리는 씼으러 세화원에 돌아왔다. 애들이 사진을 찍고 우산을 사러 밖에 나갔는데 너무 피곤한 나는 그냥 방에서 비디오를 다운받았다 ㅋㅋ

내일 일주일 동안 비가 많이 올거라고 힝 ㅠㅠ

앗 이런 시간에 방에 혼자 있어서 벌써 집 사람들이 그리워 히이잉 ㅠㅠ


내 방은 세화원의 1층 016B호이다.

Bahasa Korea masuk SMA?

Berbahagialah, anak-anak SMA dan SMK, karena bahasa Korea akan masuk ke kurikulum kalian.

Beberapa bulan lalu, ketika sedang menjadi interpreter untuk pameran pendidikan, saya mendengar kabar kalau bahasa Korea akan masuk kurikulum SMA dan SMK. Dinas Pendidikan (saat itu) masih sibuk rapat dengan berbagai pihak sana-sini baik pihak Indonesia maupun pihak Korea (dan saya sempat lihat beberapa dosen saya juga). Saya pernah coba kroscek ke salah satu orang IKCS mengenai hal ini, bahkan ternyata beliau termasuk orang yang membuat silabusnya.

Waktu itu yang terlintas di benak saya adalah, "Mengapa bahasa Korea bisa sampai masuk kurikulum? Siapa yang memutuskan? Atas dasar apa? Ada cerita apa di balik keputusan tersebut?" Alasan yang pasti akan pertama kali dikemukakan adalah "Karena Korea sedang booming di Indonesia, baik KPop maupun perusahaan-perusahaan Korea, dan sedang berlangsung banyak sekali kerja sama antara Indonesia dan Korea." Saya setuju dengan alasan tersebut, karena itu juga motivasi utama saya memilih jurusan Bahasa dan Kebudayaan Korea tiga tahun lalu. Akan tetapi, saya yakin pasti masih ada banyak sekali cerita yang seru di balik munculnya keputusan ini, segala macam tarik ulur kepentingan--tapi sudahlah, mari kita tidak berspekulasi mengenai hal tersebut.

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My Korean Bussiness final project, which makes me stayed up late for days T.T

and this is just the beginning of my final tasks serial attack weeks.....
oh my, why can't we skip to the third week of June already.

Some of the memories...

 

Jihyang Onni, Dewi, Me, Sausan, Jeonghyun Oppa

 Byungwoo Oppa, Cheolung Oppa

 Dewi, Me (with Cheolung Oppa as background kkk)

 

Gulmae Ecological Park

Sungsan Ilchulbong. The fateful day I broke fasting ;~~~;

closing ceremony

These are only few of the memories I had last 15 days.

Petang Kreatif @ Festival Budaya 2010

It's for this we worn our bodies out the last three weeks...

 

We went home veeeery late at night the last two days before the D day (Saturday 11 2010). People started to suffer from flu, cold, cough, diarrhea... and their friends. We're lacking of sleep, of course (and money too LOL). And on the D day...

I still practiced to change Diarta's jacket with Golda seonbae. We couldn't do it less than 15 seconds. We practiced over and over and over for almost an hour, and finally, we could do it in 8 seconds *proud*

Introducing.. the main casts and the director :) (Left to right) Riris as Sujin, Kara as Sanghyeok's mother, Raras seonbae the director, and Diarta as Sanghyeok. This was taken after the performance.

All crews of 'A Girl in CD Store' performance. Well, not really all of us, truthfully...

 

Shoot. Me with Arie seonbae's hat. It was supposed to be worn by Diarta in the 4th scene but since we've found it very difficult to change his jacket only, so we decided he's not going to wear the hat. And in order for me to not forgetting where I put the hat, I put it on my head. Then Golda seonbae clicked her camera on me, and... this is the result. FYI, the jacket wasn't mine as well, it's my sister's kkkk.

The result of all our hardwork all this time?

THE BEST SCRIPT OF PETANG KREATIF 2010.

Thank you especially for Alvin seonbae the scriptwriter :)

I really wanted to be the scriptwriter of our performance, but due to some conflicts, I ended up being Diarta's costume coordinator kkk. It felt like turning into Wang Coordi (of A.N.Jell), hahaha :D  

 

Korean Culture Day 2010: After Story

Let the pictures talk :)

Kapan-kapan yang lain diupload lagi dan diceritain beberapa detilnya (kalo sempet hehehe)

Yosh, KCD has over, but there are still many things to do... in the name of Hanguk Hagwa Indonesiadaehakgyo.

Korean Culture Day 2010

Annual event from Bahasa dan Kebudayaan Korea Universitas Indonesia.
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