before the summer ends, before the final petal fall

Late post is late, I apologize. By this time I'm wondering what should the proper definition of my blog be hehe, seems like I'm posting everything. Two weeks ago, my host family invited me to visit a sunflower field in Tanashi City. Sadly when I came, most of them are already facing down and is nearing their final moment ;___; regardless, they're still beautiful and since this was my first time seeing sunflowers this, this humongous, and in such big numbers, I was elated. I was told to 'get lost' in there, and so I did. I spent about an hour walking around this humongous sunflower maze with my senior, she's also Indonesian but from different university. We fooled around, took lots of picture, got lost multiple times, ran away from bees, just having fun like we were five years old. No matter how many pictures I took, it didn't seem to be enough. I'm still learning to use DSLR and that day was a perfect chance to practice. Still far away from perfect but I'm getting there...or so I (hope) think. The hat I wore is from Liz Lisa and I've been using this baby the whole summer, it smelled so good when I first bought it but now it just smell of my hair and sun, lol. Btw, I hauled some items this summer and three of them happened to be from Liz Lisa/Tralala. I'm getting addicted to the fragrance you smell when you waltz in Liz Lisa's store, I'm probably getting them when autumn comes and my skin needs to be hydrated (not that it doesn't need to be hydrated now). The cardigan is also my summer staple, I've been wearing it for days every since I purchased her. I'll make summer haul post in separate articles since this one is already full of pictures.

Summer here is about to end but the heat is still as crazy as ever though (it's 35.1 °C right now) God help us, the humidity wasn't as worse as the beginning of August. September is starting, in fact, we're standing at the beginning of it. A year ago, I was on my way to watch Bless4's performance in AFA ID. I couldn't believe how fast the flies, feels like just yesterday I shed my tear after watching their amazing live performance while in fact it had been a year! Only four months to 2014, folks~ have a good year ahead~

Speak to me of a dream still not long overdue

We went to Tokyo Disneyland on the last day of tour. Cannot say it's a good experience since we only, ONLY, enjoyed one attraction which was Mark Twain's ship. But what can you do when you go to a theme park with your mother, grandmother, and aunt? They're much more interested in buying souvenirs ^^;. Since I'm not really fond of theme park (and crowded place) in the beginning, I spent about six hours taking pictures. I really, really wanted to display all of them here but since I guess none of you want to see all 167 pictures in one post, I just posted 17 of my favorite pictures. Alas, when the time of parade starts, my camera ran out of battery so I put it back in its pouch and enjoyed the parade. Disney was, after all, a somewhat huge part of my childhood, so it's no wonder I felt chill while watching the Parade, I thought I was going to cry because I was so overwhelmed. I really want to go here again, alone, and at that time I will get in all attraction to make up for this one.

Can You hear the water calls?

 

We took a ride from Hakone pier to Shin-Hakone by pirate ship before going back to last transit in Odawara station and then back to Tokyo by bus. I immediately went to the dock but it was already crowded, I had to wait for about 6 minutes until I can get a clear shot of my dad^^; . I took much more pictures, mostly of things I saw from the dock but since it was cloudy,  the result was rather poor, or rather; very poor that I didn't even have the heart to edit them presentable. My sis was having fun pointing at random things she saw with our cousins while I snapped lots and lots of pictures. On the ride back home, I found out that one of my headset was dead ;___: I'm still looking for a perfect one to replace this one, currently using cheap one I bought in hyakuen shop but I can't with the poor quality. Wish me luck in finding the one.