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 "I HATE MY VOICE". This idea has only come to my mind since I started learning English.  I am a girl with a high voice so I have acknowledged that my voice does not sound pleasant at all but still, luckily, it is not sour. However, as an English learner, I die to have a low voice with attractive intonation. Whenever I listen to someone with a beautiful voice, I feel so jealous. Therefore, unless changing my voice is biologically impossible, I will try every single way to make myself sound good and this challenge is for me and those wishing to sound better. Shadowing is so famous among English learners as it is a way to practice speaking in general and intonation in specific. This challenge lasts 3 months from February and May so I hope that there are some changes in my voice, even just a slight one.  Honestly speaking, shadowing is quite a daunting task since you have to listen to one sentence a thousand times and imitate it, and the tedious process is repeated a few tim...

This is actually a recommendation from my not-really-close friend. She is the top student of K19 at USSH - my university, and I have to restrain my jealousy whenever meeting her.  Long story short, the book I share today is "The Cruel Prince" - the first book of The Folk of Air. The story is about a human girl named Jude, who was unwillingly dragged to Faerie - a fairyland with immortal creatures.  For me, Jude is paradoxical in many ways. + She is emotionally strong as she continues to survive and fight for her life in a strange and cruel land despite her sorrow from the death of her blood parents and the unexpected betrayal from her dearest and closest twin. However, she is strangely weak toward love, for example, she blindly loves her bully - Locke, and soon starts to establish an inexplicit rapport with Cardan who literally spends half of his childhood torturing and mocking her.  + She is undoubtedly smart since she even surpasses her stepfather Madoc in her wicked st...

Recently, I have been immersed in a rom-com book called "Better than the Movies" It is so relatable that I see a part of myself in Liz - the main character and also the narrator. Liz is self-described as a beautiful yet weird girl and like most girls, she displays a yearning for being desirable and popular during her high school days. Despite her effort to hang out with everyone-likes-them girls, she still finds it hard to be a part of this circle. At the end of the day, she has no choice but accepts how she is and she feels comfortable with her own "stranger" friends. In Liz, I see my innocent and naive version as I used to be the one who endeavors to satisfy people's expectations and desperately asks for a sense of belonging in a popular girl group.  The haunting imaginative feel of being deserted captures me in a bleak and desolate jungle where everyone has their shelters while I - a hopeless and daydreaming girl exhaustedly embrace my loneliness. Grown-up is...

One of my favorite things about myself was how carefree I was but it is “was" For a 22-year-old girl, graduation is genuinely a crisis that has shattered my confidence, made me doubt everything that I once held dear, and caused a small earthquake in my pride. Even if it appears to be as terrible as it is, I do earn a painful but valuable lesson about my limitations. As we begin a new year, I want to remind myself in the same way that my father has always whispered to me, "Live in the now but strive for the future. Put the past in the back." A book recommended to me is definitely "Little Women". I devote this to myself with a longing for a better version of myself.  It is not easy to stare in the mirror and see my dark and embarrassing sides. Little Women is a book that reflects some of my scary aspects. Meg: the eldest girl → I see my yearning for self-proving and emptiness for the next step. In my twenties, the period of graduating traumatizes and makes me que...