Mengurus Visa Travel Korea di Jepang - Tokyo

Baru saja beberapa jam lalu saya menyelesaikan proses pembuatan ijin visa travel Korea saya di Jepang. Di luar dugaan, sangat mudah sekali. Malahan lebih capai di jalan ketimbang mempersiapkan prosesnya. tsk tsk.

Ini merupakan proses yang saya lakukan sendiri (berdasarkan riset-riset yang saya kumpulkan sendiri di internet) sehingga apabila ada kesalahan informasi, mohon dimaafkan. Dianjurkan juga bagi para pembaca sekalian untuk melakukan riset sendiri mengenai dokumen-dokumen dan syarat-syarat yang diperlukan sebelum melakukan aplikasi, karena mungkin dokumen yang diperlukan berbeda-beda sesuai dengan tujuan kepergian.

Saya sendiri mengajukan aplikasi dengan tujuan travel, dan kondisi saya sekarang adalah WNI yang tinggal di Jepang dengan visa bekerja 5 tahun.

DOKUMEN

Berikut dokumen yang saya ajukan ketika saya mengajukan aplikasi:

1. Formulir pengajuan visa + foto - isi selengkap-lengkapnya dan berikan dokumen yang diperlukan apabila dipersyaratkan di poin pertanyaan. Googling saja "korea visa application form" dan biasanya langsung keluar di option pertama, link dari MOFA Korea lengkap dengan huruf bulat2 mereka hehe.
2. Paspor asli
3. Fotokopi paspor (entah kenapa malahan tidak diambil oleh petugasnya..tidak diperlukan?)
4. Fotokopi visa kerja (dikembalikan juga..)
5. Fotokopi KTP Indonesia dan Zairyuu Card Jepang depan belakang
6. Print out flight itinerary hari H

Dokumen yang saya pikir diperlukan (berdasarkan riset internet) malah dikembalikan, dokumen yang saya pikir tidak diperlukan (seperti tiket ke korea) malah diambil.. Memang cukup membingungkan.

LOKASI

Kedubes Korea untuk aplikasi visa sendiri berlokasi di Azabujuban. Dari stasiun Azabujuban, keluar exit 2, jalan lurus terus sekitar 500-600 meter. Patokannya adalah Olympic Inn. Jalan sedikit lagi dari Olympic Inn langsung bisa terlihat 1 gedung dengan lambang bendera Korea; untuk aplikasi visa bisa langsung ke lantai 3.

PROSES 

Setelah sampai bisa langsung berikan dokumen aplikasi visa di meja resepsi, mungkin akan ditanya2 sedikit mengenai travel plan (walaupun saya tidak ditanya-tanya sama sekali sih), kemudian diinstruksikan untuk membeli tiket pembayaran pembuatan visa di mesin yang ditunjukkan. Saya membayar 4800 yen, berdasarkan riset, ada juga yang membayar hanya 2400 yen. Terus teraang saya tidak tahu basisnya yang penting lolos dulu.. pikir saya. Tiket yang keluar dari mesin tersebut ditempelkan ke formulir pengajuan visa, dan ambil nomor urut untuk membawa semua dokumen yang ada ke petugasnya. Selesai.

Saya mengajukan aplikasi tanggal 28 Juni, selesai 30 Juni 2016. Aplikasi dibuka dari jam 09.00 - 12.00, pengambilan adalah dari jam 14.00 - 16.00.

HASIL

Pemakaian sekali pulang pergi dalam jangka waktu 3 bulan.

Tidak ada gunanya juga sih, pasang foto di sini.. toh semua disensor hehehe..Kepingin pamer saja, akhirnya selesai juga prosesnya. Lega deh jalan-jalannya ntar Agustus.

Terus terang dari awal sedikit pusing tentang persyaratan dokumen yang harus diajukan, informasi di internet mengenai WNI yang bekerja di Jepang dan yang mengajukan visa korea di Jepang pun bisa dihitung jari. Ternyata aplikasinya sendiri kurang dari 1 minggu.. Lebih pusing mencari informasinya dibanding pengajuan real-nya. Karena itu semoga sedikit informasi yang saya tuliskan di sini cukup bermanfaat bagi para teman2 seposisi dan sependeritaan di Jepang sini.

Kadang-kadang cukup kesal sih lahir sebagai WNI, khususnya di bidang traveling. Teman-teman saya orang Jepang, Singapur dan lainnya rata-rata tidak memerlukan visa untuk pergi ke mana-mana. Hanya saya saja yang kadang suka terbirit2 mengejar travel plan demi mendapatkan tanggal berangkat, alamat hotel dan lain-lain untuk keperluan visa...Impulsive overseas travel is really out of the option for us, sadly.

Doa sederhana saya, semoga di masa yang akan datang visa waiver untuk WNI bisa lebih diperbanyak.

See you on my next post!! 

Sailor Moon Exhibition in Roppongi - Tokyo 2016

On this June 17^th I had the chance to go back in time and had a severe nostalgia time in the Sailor Moon Exhibition located in Roppongi Hills, Tokyo. This event was only celebrated for such a short time (for only 2 months I guess) so the hype was quite big.

To be honest I was ONCE a big fan of Sailor Moon however I grow up and blah blah so many things happened and suddenly it disappeared from my childhood without me knowing it. But then I went here.... The moment I saw all of the things shown on the exhibition there, it literally KICK MY HEAD OFF back to my childhood memories, damn, damn, hard.

“DAMN Yolanda, such a stupid of you for growing up...”

Said me to myself for the whole 3 hours there...

It was located on the 52^th floor of Mori Tower where they usually have art exhibition there. The entrance fee itself was not that cheap, 1800 yen for one adult.

I remember there are several sections for the exhibition:

• The main hall where they show the main artwork created by Naoko Takeuchi, the mangaka (“comic artist”) for the exhibition included several displayed knick-knacks from the past, and photo spot on the center for those who interested.
• The area that shows chronological story of Sailor Moon from the first publicity, short movie area.
• The display area for several manga sketches, toys and merchandise from the past and present, such as dolls, wands, action figures.
• Main Photo Spot.
• Artwork display plus a monitor that plays Sailor Moon songs from the past anime again and again (and I stunned there for more than 15 minutes just to hear the song and chill as in having goosebumps all over again)
• Another artwork display area that shows mostly the real artwork for this exhibition which is AWESOME.
• Shop area.

Unfortunately most of the area here were “no-photos area”, except the main hall and the photo spot area. Well, privilege for those who paid to get in!

However will keep to try my best to show you all what I see and what I managed to take.

The first thing were the main hall. The main hall was huge and the first thing I saw was all of the artwork hanged with Tokyo View seen from 52th floor as the background.

Even Usagi was like summoning the Tokyo Tower here.

Right in the middle of the main hall was the first photo spot,

and next to it was this SUUUPER BIG and PRETTY main artwork for this exhibition.

OMG. I want to take it home. Kill me.

Circling the main figures of the room were these glass-sealed knicks-knacks, several old comic books and everything else here.  

Really want the Luna and Artemis cushion so bad..

And what made me go super ga-ga was these several display of Sailor Moon merchandise scattered around the room such as this Cosmic Heart Brooch,

And this Spiral Heart Rod,

And this bad-ass Rainbow Moon Chalice.

And guess what??? I have those at my home back there in Jakarta!!! Directly contact my mom to not throw all my toys away back home as maybe someday I can auction it big on Yahoo and make a fortune out of it hehehe.

Continued from the main hall were the "no-photo" spots that I have mentioned above. It was amazing to see all the incredible sketches and artworks shown; how can one person can make such  pretty artwork by herself. Admire Naoko Takeuchi to the top. The only photo that I can take was this:

With Takeuchi's real autograph there. 

Besides the sketches and artwork (that I can never make even if I practice til I die) section, what excites me the most was the display of several toys and collectibles from the past. The funny thing is that on each every section of the exhibition I always found my toys here and there, literally everywhere! I’m going crazy as like “OMG I have this before wtf!” or “Oh gosh where did I put this card?!?! I used to have it I’m sure” or “OMG OMG I die I die I have this one played like crazy before” and so on and so on..

Such a tiring but exciting but sad but satisfying whole 3 hours of my life.

And the most satisfying photo spot was this 2 real-size figure of Usagi and Mamoru or known too as Princess Serenity and Prince Endymion here (full geek mode completely on here).

Gotta take selfies.

Scream. 

Too bad that my selfie was the last photo that I can post here as I don’t have any more photos to be posted related to the exhibition contents. Yes, the exhibition was quite strict about photo taking as they place several officers here and there to guard the visitor from recording or taking photos. 

Since I went there 2 days before the last day of the exhibition, most of the limited items that can be brought from the shop were completely sold out, I managed to buy only several post cards with the exhibition original artwork for quite a price. Japanese really know how to make me go bankrupt.

They have the Chibiusa Café too with super cute menus displayed however since the queue was very long, I didn’t went there. It was quite tempting you know. Who's not tempted with pink burgers wtf. Can see it slightly here.

Well, overall, it was such an enjoyable and memorable visit for me as all of the images and things displayed there still sit firmly on my head even until now.

I’m glad I went there as actually on the day before this visit, had quite a lot of overtime and kind of have to push myself to go here that day, but I’m so happy I can drag my ass off here and have a fantastic nostalgia time for a moment; reminding me of how blessed and happy I am as a kid years ago (and glad too that my mom bought me so much toys at that time.. seriously.)

Sailor Moon, thank you for making my childhood awesome and I promise I will make my adulthood even better. It’s time to take those moon power back to reality, and continuing my present life, more hopeful and powerful than before.

See you on my next post!

KUKUKU by Yolanda Inge

What is KUKUKU, if you're wondering?

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As you guys know that I have this OCD on nail arts and after these several years of thoughts after thoughts, I've decided to take my hobby to the next level: making it a well-paid job, hopefully, by opening my own home base salon in Jakarta next October!

For those who knows me well, yes I'm now still working in Japan but will be BACK HOME for good to Jakarta soon for this. (for those who wanted to know more in detail can contact me personally too of course!)

Still so much to more to be prepared though, from pricing, places, promotion and so forth (the list will never ends) INCLUDING perfecting my skills. However if one step were never taken I won't go better anyway.

So, why not make it (half) official?

under the name KUKUKU, means "my nails" in Indonesian Language, I want to introduce you guys to several of my portfolios before the real work begins in October.

I hope with a routine uploads and everything's going on, I can discipline myself to keep working and working on my nail skills.

KUKUKU main account right now is Instagram, can follow it @__kukuku__ (with double dash each there!) or Facebook which still using my personal account to post. 

From now on I will post my work here on my personal blog too and will try to do it on weekly basis so I hope I can update my blog even more often!

So as a starter here's my first 3 post from instagram to catch up all the missing updates!

The first one was the showcase of my 2 years plus of practice result in nail chips.. Some messed up, some were quite (accidentally) nice, some were made with tears (literally!).  I guess this will be my first little step from what I will be doing from here and on.

The second one was this! Practicing my basic skills such as gradation glitter art, half-french art and sugar-coated style art. Playing with gradation sucks as it was very hard but playing with giltters will be always forever fun! It sticks a lot on my brush though..

The third one is below, which I'm trying to showcase how my works on textured art progressed. Some need more works, definitely. Marble will always be everybody's favorite, but have to admit creating marble effects were quite difficult as I realize every individual have their own "perfect marble" image on their own.

So far my favorite was the white marble, second favorite was that knitted matte design! Perfect for winter.

By the way, please note that not every design posted here were originally mine; I mostly see other artist's design first and I imitate to practice. I have (and hate) to admit that my original designs is not so much at this point as I still need to learn a lot more. That's why I kindly need your support here.

I will try to catch up on my instagram posts and definitely will  post the other soon so please stay tuned!

See you on the next one!