My favourite thing is to go to, where I've never been before. Also, I take loads of PHOTOS & VIDEOS with my iPhone, 35 mm film camera or boyfriend's dslr.
Contact: niciseoul@googlemail.com
April 15, 2012
Blog improvements! I can’t believe I finally came round to doing all those little improvements. I created a page listing my favourite adventures in South Korea. If you want to see ALL of them, you have to get to the archive, but even my little sister couldn’t find that red little link.
I started to read through some of those old blog posts and I got so nostalgic. Also, I was intimidated by my own openness, because I always thought my blog was rather impersonal with loads of random photos and videos. I thought you wouldn’t be able to figure which one is who ^_^
Those blog posts made me smile so much: Cut & Paste Event and my first date, Absolute Glimmer Party and BARON OH // BARBIE & KEN Awards.
If I would have stayed home instead of going out in a city where I knew nobody, but my family and dearest Paula from the internet, I would have probably not be at this stage of life right now:
Living in London.
A movie star junkie.
Always looking closely at new fashion photographs.
Holding a camera in each and any situation.
Determined to start drawing my own storyboards and excited about making my own fiction movies!
And still together and madly inlove with the first guy I met in Seoul!
Exploring Skulls at NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM of London.
I guess this is one of the top 10 free things you can do in London.
Go to a museum, explore, admire and start to daydream.
The Natural History Museum is a wonderful Victorian building in South Kensington/ London. You find everything from scary bugs, extinct animals like the dodo from Mauritius or the magical narwhals looking like unicorns, huge blue whale skeletons and last but least you find loads of mouth dropping dinosaur skeletons.
After seeing all those extinct animal leftovers from over 65 millions years ago, we went straight home to have a Jurassic Park Night 1 +2 and 3 included ^.^ Quite gay, I know.
In the end after seeing all those things from the past, it triggered emo-thoughts like how is life on earth going to be like in 65 millions years?
What if a volcano breaks out or a large asteroid slams into Earth, sending dust and water into the atmosphere and choke us all to death?! If a natural catastrophe breaks out, like tsunamis, floods, earthquakes, storms, epidemics or famines, we can look pretty helpless. What if we don’t find a plan b anymore?
Questions over questions. Which leads us to the final questions of it all: Whats the point of life in the first point?
To innovate? Become rich? To love? Make babies?
Do you remember those days?
Your first baby steps?
First day of preschool?
Kindergarten?
First bike-riding without those little supportive extra wheels?
First beach vacation?
First Flight?
End of 10th grade trip with crazy teachers?
Final Musical Play at School?
Uniball?
First Rock Festival (during a rainy weekend)?
Beach Volleyball sessions?
Throughout our lives we make so many memories, but now be honest, how much of it do you remember? I mean, of course you remember the good, really bad and special ones.
Old photos may help bring back memories you thought you forgot about.
But for some memories you don’t even need photographs.
Why am I writing down lines of nostalgia?
I’ve been chatting with my best friend. Missy and I went through so many things together, like: forming our first dance group, karaoke contests at home, musical plays, first time skiing, ballett, tennis, A-levels..
After our A-Levels, we had to split up due to different study courses. Miles seperated us. However, it felt like we were still holding hands.
We question similar things in life, for example: How much work is enough?
How much time is left for adventures and discoveries?
We wonder: Is that it? What makes life so special?
Do we need to go through crazy adventures to create awesome memories? Or is it enough to have a special someone by your side who could even make an ordinary moment seem awesome enough?
The only way to figure whats important to you, is to sit back, look through old photos, then close your eyes and think of the moments that come to your mind first.
Who are the ones coming up in those memories? Is it your sister? Your best friend? Your mother? Maybe all you see is your own happy face :P
After all, it’s the moments that take you breath away that counts (with or without your beloved ones), not how many breaths you take…
Live life without any regrets! Olé!
P.S. I realized, I didn’t mention Korea anywhere in this post. Well, in Korea I had the time of my life. I think I made my own best memories there.. ^.^ (packed my bags, and left home, to explore the mega-city on the other side of the world, and find love.)
This was such a gorgeous day, with one of those exotic weathers that London is yet to call back… Rosy feelings aside, I must confess that while letting diem be Carpe’d I couldn’t help but feel a pang of disappointment in myself. Imagine having a sunburn, and all you do is purposedly avoid sun cream and walk around naked for the sake of that sexy beach tan of yours. If you’re more of a Korean following the “let’s-be-freaking-white” trend, then imagine yourself “spying” on people, while asking yourself : Where are they from, who are those people, what do they do? But instead of occupying yourself with thoughts for beautiful strangers, do you know what you can tell about your own dear self?
When you live in big cities like Seoul or London, it’s impossible to not come across one single human-being who sparks your interest. Not in a “I-want-to-date-her/him” manner, just in a genuine “hello,-who-are-you?” manner. In metropolitans, it’s so easy to turn into a silent observer, while sinking into a comfy state of anonymity…
Nevertheless, it’s reflective thinking time on NICISEOUL, how else are you going to figure what you want in life? Let’s look back for some self-improvement, shall we?
Now, the first very obvious thing I said was: “I just want to be happy”.
You too? Come on, be honest with yourself, think deeper, think of how you want to get in that “I am happy” state. Are the things you’re doing now going to be enough to reach that “I am happy” state? You know what I’m implying to, don’t you? If yes, my work is done here. It’s late too, I’ve got a headache and I don’t feel like discussing this topic any further.
I just wrote the perhaps most depressing post for this blog. Oh well, if you’re a scroller, and only here for the photos and videos, then it doesn’t really matter, as everything will dissolve into bytes, c’est la vie, c’est bli bla blub.
I just randomly took some videos on my iPhone, did the editing and created a video called Seoul Fashion Week F/W 2011/2012.
That’s how I remember Seoul Fashion Week.
I had a great time during Seoul Fashion Week.
That was it.
I take photos and videos and upload them all over the internet.
Some love it and others don’t, and question why I’m doing what I’m doing right now.
In short: It’s called social media.
Find the definition on Wikipedia. Read Enterprise 2.0. Google thebrandbuilder. Find out what UGC means. Go for change management. Retire. Or move to a little island without internet connection.
But if you start trying to change your thoughts over months you could save years of unnecessary anxiety.
Social media is here to stay.
I think it’s on the one side a great instrument to stay in touch with your friends and family. I lived in Mauritius and Germany, therefore, my friends and family are spread throughout the world. I do not know how I would be able to keep up-to-date with everyone if Facebook didn’t exist.
On the other side it’s a powerful many-to-many communication instrument. If you have a good idea, you can make a promotional campaign go viral. You can promote yourself and your brand, receive direct feedback from your fans, partners, customers or followers, but you can’t control what they think or say about you on the internet.
You can destroy a person’s or brand’s image completely, by posting one single negative comment anywhere on the internet. Don’t ignore it, deal with it.
Negative stuff?
Thats not what I’m trying to do here. I tweet, I blog, I upload photos and videos of fun moments in South Korea. I spend hours editing so that everyone looks great. I can’t explain why, I just love doing that, AND I love YouTube. I spend way too many hours on YouTube and I’m especially delighted when I find another personal, but fun video.
So, out of nowhere, I found confidence to upload my videos on YouTube for everyone to see, even though they were at first only meant to be shared with my friends and family on my own Facebook wall.
I do not intend to destroy anyones image.
I will continue to take videos and edit it the way I want to. *
It’s my new passion.
I studied digital media and graduated a few months ago. Being a student was awesome and annoying at the same time. What annoyed me the most about it? I just couldn’t do what I wanted to do. For example, I couldn’t do the simplest thing, like read a book I chose to read, and not another marketing book for the upcoming exam (Maybe I could have, but I would have felt really bad about that). Finally, I decided to go on a creative gap year. I chose to live in Seoul. I wanted to experience something new, learn a new language and find out slowly but confidently in which direction I wanted to go.
By coincidence I figured that I have a passion for editing. Not just photos but videos. I don’t know whats going to happen next, but I have a good feeling about this. I love the positive feedback I get, it makes me smile a lot these days :)
Thank-you! As a Buddhist proverb puts it: “If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.”
LOVE IT OR DO NOT LOVE IT.
*From now on, I’ll ask for permission, before I take you on film. Promised!
And I apologize that I didn’t think of doing this earlier.
Living in London. 
A movie star junkie.
Always looking closely at new fashion photographs.
Holding a camera in each and any situation.
Determined to start drawing my own storyboards and excited about making my own fiction movies!
And still together and madly inlove with the first guy I met in Seoul!
