Healing Takes Many Stages, And Each Person's Journey Is Different And Definitely Not Linear, But As Long

Healing takes many stages, and each person's journey is different and definitely not linear, but as long as you keep taking steps forward to heal--that is giving it your best and that is really all you can ask for. 💙

 The thing is, you have to want to be well and be free in order to do so. This goes for more than just physical health, it goes for mental and spiritual health as well. 

Some days it may be painful, you may feel the fresh bite of pain, anger, and hurt steal the breath right out of your lungs, but keep going. Other days, you may feel tears of JOY frost your lashes, keep going! 

You are healing, and boy does it feel good. Take your time, breathe, ground yourself in Him. 

Heal at your own pace but don't lose your momentum, no matter what--keep going. ✨

Ijeoma Umebinyuo, “Don’t blame her.”, Questions for Ada

We were so automatic 

It’s funny, not surprised 

It was bound to happen

We were magic. 

Memories psycho

Can’t release you

Holding onto shattered

Fragment pieces of you.

Do you remember?

Remember November?

Lost in a fantasy

Can’t release you

Lost in your eyes

Universes I can’t deny. 

Chasing the memories

Falling fast I swear that 

I can still remember 

The way you felt 

Upon my lips.

Do you remember?

Remember November?

We weren’t A-typical

Stereotypical ain’t our vibe

But honey love can bite

The shard of glass from 

Ceilings cracked cutting deep. 

Unstable a fable

Nobody can deny

Falling through the

Void static burning true

To the kindling of lies that 

Was me and you. 

Do you remember?

Remember November?

It’s funny how it lingers

The scent of your cologne

Too strong for me now. 

How many times have we…

Memorable…

Not you're typical…

The time and place that we…

Don’t you remember? 

Remember November? 

….. 

She is a tornado swiftly whirling 

Stirring up a storm 

Refusing to be labeled

She is a best from out of norm. 

~

She is wild in her love

Peaceful in her nature

And her heart is a garden

Full of uncharted adventure. 

~

She knows no limits to what she can do

She is a free spirit and creative too

For she loves all things glitter and cookies and blue.

She is a tornado swiftly whirling

With diamonds in her eyes

Mind far away lost up in clouds across the sky. 

~ 

Beauty is her hands

Short nails bit down to skin

Anxiety her demon

She carries on above the din.

~

She is a tornado swiftly whirling….

요리하기 어휘 - Cooking Vocabulary

Hi there! I realize I haven’t posted any big vocabulary posts in a while, so I think it’s worth giving you guys a little break from grammar! Enjoy <3

Vocab // 어휘 [mostly korean foods]

음식 - food    ~ 한식 - korean food [한국 + 음식]

고기 - meat    ~ 물고기 - fish [lit. water meat] ** not the same as 해물 - seafood **    ~ 불고기 - korean marinated beef    ~ 닭고기 - chicken    ~ 소고기 - beef

소시지 - sausage

밥 - rice / meal    ~ 볶음밥 - fried rice

국 // 탕 // 갱 - soup    1. 국 - side dish soup [example: 미역국 - seaweed soup! this is very popular at birthday celebrations]    2. 탕 // 갱 - full meal soup [example: 감자탕 - pork bone soup]    ** you might get a side of 국물 [broth] with a main dish **

찌개 // 전골 - stew    1. 찌개 - thicker stew [example: 김치찌개 - kimchi stew]    2. 전골 - hotpot [example: 소고기전골 - vegetable and beef hotpot]

건더기 - ingredients in soup [like vegetables, meat, sauce]    ** to help with understanding the difference between 국 and 찌개, you won’t get much 건더기 in a 국 like soup **

어묵 - fish cake

전 - korean pancake    ~ 파전 - green onion korean pancake (my favourite)

떡볶이 - stir-fried rice cake

순대 - pork blood sausage

만두 - dumplings

김밥 - for lack of better words, korean styled sushi [lit. rice wrapped in seaweed - 김]

Verbs // 동사

요리하다 - to cook

다듬다 - to prepare

썰다 - to chop / cut

섞다 - to mix [not to be confused with 썩다 - to rot]

젓다 - to stir

반죽하다 - to knead dough

붓다 - to pour

까다 [벗기다] - to skin / peel [to peel / skin meat]

데우다 - to heat

태우다 - to burn

볶다 - to stir-fry

굽다 - to roast / grill

찌다 - to steam

식다 - to cool down

낳다 - to add

기름을 두르다 - to oil

간을 보다 - to taste test

끓다 - to boil

More Vocab // 더 어휘

오븐 - oven

칼 - knife

도마 - cutting board

냄비 - pot

프라이팬 - frypan

밥솥 - rice cooker

Example Sentences:

요즘 한식을 요리하고 싶어요 - these days, I want to cook korean food

10분 만두를 쪄요 - steam dumplings for 10 minutes

건더기를 김치찌개에 넣어요* - add the ingredients into the kimchi stew

어묵을 썰고 끓은 물에 넣어요* - slice the fish cake and add into boiling water

*you can pronounce 넣어요 like -> 너요

That’s it for this lesson today! I hope you enjoyed and you learned something! What’s your favourite Korean food?

Happy Learning :)

~ SK101

Chinese is the second language I'm hoping to master so this will be helpful. 💜

Should you learn simplified or traditional Chinese?

Upon deciding to learn Mandarin Chinese, you need to choose whether you’ll learn Simplified or Traditional as a writing system. Fear not - here’s a guide to help you! In terms of writing systems, mainland China, Singapore, Malaysia uses simplified characters. Japanese uses a form of Chinese characters in their writing system, called Kanji. These are mostly written in the traditional way, so perhaps if you’re learning Japanese as well, Traditional may be easier. The same goes for when Chinese characters are used in Korean Hanja. They are, of course, pronounced differently.

Who uses what?

Consider which country’s Chinese speakers you interact with mostly and what your availability of resources would be. Simplified is the most widely studied writing form of Mandarin China as its the standard for Mainland China. Mandarin spoken in Mainland China, Singapore and Malaysia is written using simplified characters. Most resources teaching “Chinese” or “Mandarin” will be written in simplified. It’s arguably easier to learn as it’s less complex than traditional characters. Mandarin Chinese and Chinese dialects from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau use traditional characters. Cantonese, another language mostly spoken in Hong Kong (and some parts of Malaysia and Singapore), also uses traditional characters. So, you can have one sentence written the same way but pronounced completely differently depending on the dialect or language!

简体字 - jiǎntǐzì Simplified: less strokes per character 

Simplified Chinese, as it indicates in the name, simplifies each character, so they are easier to write and memorize. It’s also easier to read in a small font or thick pen writing compared to complex, crowded Traditional characters. Simplified characters were introduced to improve the literacy of everyday Chinese people. The first round of simplifications that the Chinese government implemented started in 1956, with a goal of reducing complexity. Some people say that because of character simplification, Chinese characters lost aesthetic and traditional values, including the meanings the base characters held. However, during the reformation, the everyday peasant needed to learn writing and practice strokes when paper was rare.

繁體字 - fántǐzì Traditional: maintaining original forms

Traditional Chinese, on the contrary, keeps the original forms which have evolved over the course of a thousand years. The base characters that make up a more complex character often contain key information in understanding meaning. For example, in traditional characters, love （愛）is written with the character for “heart” in it, whereas the simplified rendition of love （爱）does not contain a heart!  TL;DR: Choose simplified if you want to go to China, enjoy mainland/Singaporean/Malaysian TV shows etc. Choose traditional if you want to go to Taiwan or if you’re studying Japanese too. Choose Cantonese if you wanna talk to people from Hong Kong and watch cool Cantonese dramas or enjoy awesome cantopop music. Speaking of, here’s my Mando/Canto playlist on Spotify if you’re wondering what I listen to.

Which one do I learn?

This is one of my most-asked questions! Not many people know that I actually started with Cantonese before I did Mandarin Chinese, meaning I started with traditional. I had a friend from Hong Kong who did a homestay with my family and he taught me Cantonese, and therefore my first introduction to Chinese characters was through traditional forms. Only later did I pause Cantonese and decide to pursue Mandarin Chinese (Taiwanese accent). Most of the Chinese resources I could find use simplified Chinese characters.  I switched over to simplified for a while, but then when I realized I have a big love for Taiwan and want to travel there, I chose to move back to Traditional. Most of my language partners are Taiwanese too. So you can say I’m learning both at the same time. The keyboard on my phone is in Traditional Chinese, but I’m comfortable reading Simplified too. Since I’m learning Japanese too, and Kanji often uses traditional style Chinese characters, it’s also a natural choice for me to continue with traditional.

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