My "Silly" Motivation

Busy, busy and busy day. I had been on my very tired day last week, even right now I trying to force myself to keep on fighting spirit despite my restless week. Nevertheless, I still trying to write this blog and tell a new story. Currently, the weather here, a bit warm, very good to take a walk or just enjoy the day with people we loved, unfortunately, I need to work. But, it's okay, let's back to my story last weekend.

It was a very cold day. And I was very tired, want some rest, but feel so lonely just to spend my time all alone at home, so I met friends with my starved stomach. Went to Hongdae and eat at a sushi buffet restaurant called Sushi O!

I can't tell you about the name of sushi one by one, but it's clearly worth to taste! They have a lot of choices of sushi, started from salmon, tuna, octopus, until eel. Not just sushi you can enjoy some fried food like potatoes, and varieties of 튀김 (Korean fried snack). There are a lot of salad and pasta varieties too, and for dessert, you can pick between jelly or ice cream. And for all of them, you can enjoy "all you can eat." I recommended to you to go there when you starve to sushi because the sushi was very delicious and varieties, for buffet standard, Sushi O is the best sushi house in town! And you can find the branch of Sushi O in every area around South Korea.

Price list :

For weekdays :

- Lunch : 11.00-17.00 13,900₩ / person

- Dinner : 17.00-22.00 16,900₩ / person

For Weekend :

Lunch / Dinner : 16,900₩ / person

How to get there :

Sushi O / 스시오 (Hongdae Branch)

100-6, Eoulmadang-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea 04040 / 서울특별시 마포구 어울마당로 100-6

Seoul subway line 2 to Hongik University station (홍대입구역) exit 9

After lunch, of course time for dessert! After walking around Hongdae area with highly of temptations of shopping, we went to an eye-catching cafe called Cafe 'O Merry. The cafe was very cute still with the Christmas feeling inside. Simple with woods and seems-undone-building interior make you feel warm and comfort in the middle of the winter day. They sell some hand made interior decoration as well. I found one of them is standing beautifully on our table, A deer and pine tree the table decorated with paper cutting technique.

Okay, then we ordered Berry Brownie / 베리 브라우니 and Banana Foster / 바나나 포스터. And when our ordered out, I really love with their plating. For the drinks, I ordered my favorite Ice Caramel Macchiato. How about the taste? Let's talk about that!

The Berry Brownie is consist of 1 piece of Real Brownie, Vanilla Ice cream with Mix Berry syrup on the top. The Brownie itself very tasty with the chocolate taste and soft part in the middle, but feels crunchy on the top complete with cashew nut and sugar powder spreading beautifully like snow. Served together with the Vanilla Ice cream with perfect Mix Berry syrup on top of that. I'll give 5 stars for The Berry Brownie. The price is quite cheap too. :)

Price: 5.900₩

Banana Foster! Seems delicious just by the name. Served beautifully together with Vanilla Ice Cream and varieties of Nuts, like Cashew, Almond, and Raisin. The Grilled Banana was the perfect match with caramelized sugar on the top of that, give a crunchy effect when you eat the banana and never be perfect without the Vanilla Ice cream.

Price: 9,900₩

How to get there:

Cafe O' Merry / 카페오메리

49-3, Wausan-ro 13-gil, Mapo-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea 04049 / 서울 마포구 와우산로13길 49-3

Seoul Subway Line 6 to Sangsu Station (상수역) exit 1.

Recently, the weather getting warmer, which means winter going to be ended. I am really waiting for Spring so I can wear beautiful dresses and coats without looking bulge and cold.

Spring season always been my favorite season, which flower blooming and the weather going to be very good to take a walk.

So, in the middle of this cold day, the waiting for Spring season make me excited and become my silly motivation to continue my life. Everything positive is always good, right? Even that's only a "silly motivation."

How's about your silly motivation?

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Rainbow After the Rain

An another weekend story, along with hard snow, my small step emerged the day. Weekend, time to meet friends and eat some delicious foods and decent dessert. We gathered around 1 o'clock and take a walk together to a famous restaurant called 3 birds. 3 birds is a restaurant by YG entertainment company, one of the biggest entertainment companies in Korea, the created of Bigbang and 2NE1.

With the silver big door, once we step into the restaurant, we can experience a unique atmosphere here. Vintage yet modern and elegant, we can find the colorful bird mural on the wall which gives us the warm and fun feeling. This warm feeling combined with a cold feeling of marble-made tables.

The open counter of food and dessert, make us easier to pick the foods we want to order. No need confused because of food is displayed well and look delicious which made us want to taste everything.

Finally, after a very long discussion (everything looks delicious, we can't easily decide), we ordered Mushroom Sandwich / 머쉬룸 샌드위치, Salmon and Fennel Open Sandwich / 연어 페넬 오픈 샌드위치, and Balt Sandwich / BALT 샌드위치.

My favorite one, Salmon and Fennel Open Sandwich. For personal taste, from the 3 sandwiches I ordered, it was the best sandwich! First, because I really love Salmon! The toasted bread was perfect, on top of the bread they use a very delicious sour cream for the jam, completed with various vegetables which some of them I never eat before (FYI, I'm meat mania-not really fond with vegetables) yet blended well with the salmon and bread. And served with corn and bean salad. Nice! And perfect!

Price: 13,000 won.

The Mushroom Sandwich was... perfect! Served together with fresh salad, on top of the sandwich bread, there is the mushroom, melted cheese, and some vegetables with cheese flakes covered them all. The bread was perfect as well, well done toasted gives the crunchy texture, blend very well with the mushroom and cheese.

Price: 11,500 won.

The last one, Balt sandwich. Avocado! If you are avocado mania, you definitely order this one! Inside of the toasted bread there are veggies, pork meat, fresh avocado and sauces. I don't know what the secret recipe of the sauces, but it's actually great and made everything in blended perfect! And served with crunchy potato chips made everything completed!

Price: 9,500 won.

Actually, we had planned to move another place to get our dessert, but we've got seduced by the 3 bird's desserts. And the result, we ordered 2 kinds of look-very tempting desserts, Seasonal Pumpkin Pie / 시즈널펌킨파이 and Rhubarb & Cranberry Pie / 루바브&크랜베리파이.

Alright, let's talk about the Rhubarb and Cranberry Pie. It was fantastic, with cranberry mixed on top of the perfect baked pie, I don't how they created that very perfect taste. The cranberries feels fresh and the pie was tasty! Served with vanilla ice cream and made two of them match made from heaven!

Price: 9,000 won.

The Seasonal Pumpkin Pie, remind me with Halloween Pie, very sweet, but match well with the (once again) perfect baked pie, and blended well with vanilla ice cream.

Price: 8,500 won.

Overall, everything was perfect here. The restaurant nuances and the food were magnificent. I will give two thumbs for this restaurant. Definitely going to go there again if there is anytime!

How to get there:

3 Birds

10, Gukjegeumyung-ro, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea 07326 / 서울시 영등포구 국제금융로 10 1층(Three IFC)

Seoul subway station Yeoido Station (여의도역) to IFC mall (they have connected way between the station to Mall).

After filling our stomachs, I and friends went to IFC mall for shopping!!!!! There's a lot sale, but I don't why there are no things I want to buy, so I just take a walk and drink my favorite Caramel Macchiato from Starbucks while watching my friend shopping. Ha-ha!

The sun goes down and I need to come back home, say see you again with my lovely friends.

Sometimes for me, Saturday is always being my reset button. Reset from every exhausted day, reset from stressful work and school, reset from lonely long day, reset from every my broken heart, reset from every person whose dismisses me, reset from every pain and hurt. We survive in a very harsh world, there are a lot pains and hurts we are going to accept, not only from the others but maybe from our self esteem.

So whoever you are, wherever you are, this is your life, when you're feeling broken and the world seems not to treat you well, you need to find a reset button. Take a Breath, push that button and give yourself a break because you're deserved to. Just remember, You try to remember that, even in the bad news, there's always a good news. There's always a rainbow after the rain. Cheers!

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