{"id":33326,"date":"2024-04-10T23:41:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T15:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/violinstar.net\/?p=33326"},"modified":"2024-04-13T18:17:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T10:17:54","slug":"blossoming-more-into-a-beautiful-flower-reika-these-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/violinstar.net\/?p=33326","title":{"rendered":"Blossoming more into a beautiful flower (Reika) these days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I feel like recently I am blossoming more into a flower. Especially with my new Pleats Mama cherry blossom bag<\/a>. Sakura is carrying her new sakura bag and dressed in sakura colours today.<\/strong> \ud83d\ude00 Well, I wore my cream pleats blouse from Uniqlo with my pink linen shorts from Muji today. Oh I picked my black merino wool cardigan from Sezane as well. So it definitely matches the bag colours that I got. You can see a photo of the bag in here<\/a>. I matched it with my VCA Sweet Alhambra necklace in rose gold and it is a perfect addition to the entire outfit. \ud83d\ude42 I’m definitely blossoming well and beautifully! I took a selfie of my outfit of the day and all of my friends (probably biased haha) praised my outfit choice. Whee!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Okay, except for Alex who commented that I look like an auntie who is going to wet market to buy vegetables (all in Chinese). Rude!<\/strong> -.-<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I used to be a dehydrated flower but now that I am refocusing everything on myself, I’m definitely blossoming well. A flower needs water to grow well. The same for grass too. I should always focus on myself and direct the water to myself to grow well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That reminded me of something that a friend told me. My real Chinese name can be translated to Japanese name “Reika”. I just checked and whoa, Google translate did translate it accurately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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YJ*: Sakura actually fits you well because hua means flower
Me: yessssssss
Me: not bad, you are smart
Me: your PhD has come in handy hahahahaha<\/em>
YJ: also btw your Chinese name can pass as a Japanese name
Me: eh is it???<\/em>
YJ: yes
YJ: rei ka<\/p>\n* Not going to put the name of my friend because he is listed as a public figure on Google and I don’t want my blog to appear when his students googled for his name…<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It was an old conversation but as I am blogging about blossoming more into a flower, I decided to google about “rei ka”. Apparently it means “beautiful, lovely, flower, petal”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perfecto lah.<\/em> All these glowing up is actually inline with my name. *acts out a pretty pose* I’m vain and I’m not even going to deny it. Hahaha. \ud83d\ude00 If I knew my Chinese name can be translated to such a beautiful Japanese name, I would have called myself Reika instead of Sakura. Lol…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No idea why no one ever told me about “Reika” name… Not even my friends, who knew both Chinese and Japanese. I am not exactly sure how to write it in Japanese characters though and my friend didn’t type it for me. Luckily I got a Japanese mentor and I have my 1-1 meeting with him tomorrow so I will definitely ask him about it. Otherwise, I have to ask my Japanese violin teacher this Sunday during my violin class. If I like how the characters looks like, then I might add it into my online name. Haha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a side note, will I recommend anyone to buy Pleats Mama bag? Probably no. I already see some design and quality issues on my first day of use. To be honest, I haven’t had a bag brand which I do not complain, except Hermes. LOL. I also have complaints about my Hermes bags but Hermes after sales is always able to address every single concern I have. So no complaints about it. No wonder I have the most number of bags from this brand so far. I don’t think I ever bought so many bags from a single brand\/shop before in my life…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I feel like recently I am blossoming more into a flower. Especially with my new Pleats Mama cherry blossom bag. Sakura is carrying her new sakura bag and dressed in sakura colours today. \ud83d\ude00 Well, I wore my cream pleats blouse from Uniqlo with my pink linen shorts from Muji today. Oh I picked my… <\/p>\n

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