I was feeling slightly depressed after posting that last post, so I called up what I thought would be the one sure way to get a pick-me-up - a talk with my dear junior, Adeline in Osaka UFS. We talked over an hour but it was so much worth it since I was feeling up and about as per usual again right after. Of course, this was after having invited her over to stay the night so she could have access to the internet (since she forgot the day and OUFS's computer is never usually open in weekends).
It was so funny that she came here with a headache, and had asked for panadol too, but once she'd arrived, she'd plopped over to the computer and started using the internet, and ho- the headache was gone *laughs* Though I can't lie and say I don't know how it feels. Addiction to the internet is rather difficult to cure haha-
We had a grand time, even though Aurelie was mostly reading in her room, and Adeline was chattering up a storm while BTing her precious One Piece anime and doing some of her holiday homework. I confess to be a fan of One Piece now, I'm not 100% up-to-date but very close. Me and Adeline stayed up till the wee hours of the morning talking about this and that... it was such a fun and pleasant change for once.
The same day I'd found out that De We was in Osaka! I managed to squeeze a promise to meet together in Kobe the next day (today), where we did and had a grand time going around. First it was Donkihotei to get blank cds/dvds and then to the imported foods shop. Adeline had to go back to OUFS early so I was left with De We around 4pm wondering what to do. *smiles* Of all things, we ended up hunting for perfume! Once we got that, we went back to the appartment, met up with Aurelie, rested a little, called Cesar out for dinner, walked down to JR to pick Cesar up and then marched straight down with our appetites to Saizeriya.
Dinner was fantabulous! We had so much fun dying and Feeling Alive from De We's After Death hot sauce. I swear I could not even take a single drop in a bite. It was half-drops or even quarter drops at a time- but my tongue, lips, throat, every single place where the hot sauce had touched me burned. De We went and had so much he was sweating like mad even towards the end (and the restaurant was bloody cool/cold for me then too!) Cesar was there so of course there was a lot of the sexual innuendo in our conversations (not that you really need to know but it was so hilarious!)... but never fear Adeline! I don't think anybody could ever win at putting sexual innuendo so easily and effectively in conversations as you ahahaha~
Then Cesar had this brilliant idea of creatin a new club which includes my male friends from CJLC to become hosts and me and Aurelie becoming their pimps. HAHAHHAHAHAHA Capital idea. Might even make some profit. Can't wait to start recruiting!
2006-08-27
2006-08-26
Reminiscing... I do that a lot lately
I've been doing some blog-hopping. Some thinking. And I can't help but feel this swell near my heart. This swell that's just... me forlorn and me proud, so very proud of all my friends. To you my classmates, acquaintances and dear friends, new and old; to those whose relations with me and me with theirs having been weathered and stretched over so many years. I'm so proud of all of you and so sad at the same time because I really want to see you guys again.
I believe I've mentioned before that I'm just swamped with time right now and it's allowed me to go over and reminisce all the times we had in SYHU, SMJA... and most of all MD. We all knew it, I knew it, but the existence of those two short years in MD never ceases to amaze me by having allowed so many bittersweet memories within a short period of transition and when we graduated, I don't know if you noticed it, but everyone went through an alarmingly quick growth spurt. It was inevitable that we all went our own directions, some holding firm to their beliefs, some searching for one, others still being lost but already have set aims in life. It was inevitable that some of us would lost contact with each other over extended periods of time. It is not for want of effort, perhaps. But this stuff happens. And I've never seen a group of people who accept that fact more than the people I used to mingle with. Dreamers but realists, the lot of you. I don't know how you guys do it *laughs*
But I am so happy to have met you guys- even if we barely say two words to each other now over spans of half-years. My bestfriend who'd been with me right from when I started SMJA. My dear half-soulmate (dare I call her that, and half for mutual reasons unexplainable) whom I'd sadly only gotten to know well towards the last year we could stay together as schoolmates. My closest confidant whom I'd met during my most petulant year in SYHU. And everyone else... it hurts me even to categorise even as 'everyone else' since each and every person had been unique and their existences precious to my memories.
Your growths give me confidence that I'll someday find something that I truly want to do... dare I hope, even, to lead me to create a purpose.
yeck This has been the most personal post I've written I think, but I don't feel like backing down from publishing it. And since I hope to relay to the people who are now in the position I used to be, oh-so-safe, happy and a dependant, to cherish all the moments you have with your friend, and the people who are around you NOW. Because people never stay permanently. There's a Japanese saying that goes, the beginning of meeting/acquaintance/a friendship is the beginning of separation. It might be a draining experience, but it's better than being friend-less and alone. Besides, if you make the best of it, you'd be left with the best memories ever. Be it a decade or two decades from now. I want to see you guys again one day. So if you change addresses or methods of communication, make sure you tell me please. We have a great friendship, I'm kind of ticked off that distance really does seem to be a horrible adversary when it comes to trying to keep acquaintances.
Goodness I hope I won't have to make you suffer reading through such a sappy post ever again. I don't know why but I've been listening to all sap songs lately... it's the mood. What's up with the moooood....!?
I believe I've mentioned before that I'm just swamped with time right now and it's allowed me to go over and reminisce all the times we had in SYHU, SMJA... and most of all MD. We all knew it, I knew it, but the existence of those two short years in MD never ceases to amaze me by having allowed so many bittersweet memories within a short period of transition and when we graduated, I don't know if you noticed it, but everyone went through an alarmingly quick growth spurt. It was inevitable that we all went our own directions, some holding firm to their beliefs, some searching for one, others still being lost but already have set aims in life. It was inevitable that some of us would lost contact with each other over extended periods of time. It is not for want of effort, perhaps. But this stuff happens. And I've never seen a group of people who accept that fact more than the people I used to mingle with. Dreamers but realists, the lot of you. I don't know how you guys do it *laughs*
But I am so happy to have met you guys- even if we barely say two words to each other now over spans of half-years. My bestfriend who'd been with me right from when I started SMJA. My dear half-soulmate (dare I call her that, and half for mutual reasons unexplainable) whom I'd sadly only gotten to know well towards the last year we could stay together as schoolmates. My closest confidant whom I'd met during my most petulant year in SYHU. And everyone else... it hurts me even to categorise even as 'everyone else' since each and every person had been unique and their existences precious to my memories.
Your growths give me confidence that I'll someday find something that I truly want to do... dare I hope, even, to lead me to create a purpose.
yeck This has been the most personal post I've written I think, but I don't feel like backing down from publishing it. And since I hope to relay to the people who are now in the position I used to be, oh-so-safe, happy and a dependant, to cherish all the moments you have with your friend, and the people who are around you NOW. Because people never stay permanently. There's a Japanese saying that goes, the beginning of meeting/acquaintance/a friendship is the beginning of separation. It might be a draining experience, but it's better than being friend-less and alone. Besides, if you make the best of it, you'd be left with the best memories ever. Be it a decade or two decades from now. I want to see you guys again one day. So if you change addresses or methods of communication, make sure you tell me please. We have a great friendship, I'm kind of ticked off that distance really does seem to be a horrible adversary when it comes to trying to keep acquaintances.
Goodness I hope I won't have to make you suffer reading through such a sappy post ever again. I don't know why but I've been listening to all sap songs lately... it's the mood. What's up with the moooood....!?
2006-08-24
Fourth week of holidays...
Last week, right after I mentioned that it was high time for me to act like a tourist and go around snapping pictures again, my dear friend Mihaela called us to ask if we could go together to Kyoto to witness the final ceremony of Obon- called Daimonji. It's when they make huge kanji characters with fire by burning a designated part in a clearing in a forest. It was quite fantastic - but all my pictures are on film so I have to go find a scanner somewhere before I can post it up here.
Oh... and here... as a result of someone who has too much free time...
... of course one ends up taking endless pictures of one's self (of course if one is as vain as I o.O) Of course it does help, I think, to satisfy sOme people's curiosity of what I'm like now. Haven't changed much though, have I? Hehe~
I want to grow my hair long again... I don't regret cutting it so short a few months back, but I would dearly like for it to be long again... and it's the perfect time anyway, it's going to be Autumn soon and then Winter... I don't have to trouble myself putting it up all the time either.
Anyway. I really have run out of things to talk about.
Oh... and here... as a result of someone who has too much free time...
... of course one ends up taking endless pictures of one's self (of course if one is as vain as I o.O) Of course it does help, I think, to satisfy sOme people's curiosity of what I'm like now. Haven't changed much though, have I? Hehe~
I want to grow my hair long again... I don't regret cutting it so short a few months back, but I would dearly like for it to be long again... and it's the perfect time anyway, it's going to be Autumn soon and then Winter... I don't have to trouble myself putting it up all the time either.
Anyway. I really have run out of things to talk about.
2006-08-16
It's just a little past two weeks
Since Summer hols began and I'm already bored out of my mind. Last weekend was one of Japan's biggest err... basically it was Obon which is when the dead anscestors come back for a little while and the Japanese take off holiday from work and um... pray? I'm not entirely clear but yeah- 14-16th was it I think (for this year at least).
I keep telling myself to go and fnish my french homework but it's driving me out of my mind since the teachers had given a really big pile of it. Lucky though, that it's the only homework I have this hol, last year's homework in comparison... nah. Ya just can't compare anything with last year's pile of homework for the Summer hols. That was THE ton of tonnes of homework.
It's a relatively nice day today and I'd been wondering if I should go out and do some sightseeing... I haven't done any sightseeing here in ages. Of course, the sightseeing spot would naturally be Kyoto. Then again it might do me well to go to Kyoto in Autumn instead since there are so many pretty pretty greens there that's sure to change into really nice colours.
Another would be to go exploring here in Kobe... but... I think, besides Himeji Castle, I've already covered a lot of ground here. Even Osaka seems a little dull... but I haven't taken any pictures recently and this blog has been perishing. Come to think of it I haven't really taken pictures of the city life here have I? Well that's an idea. I'll let it simmer for a couple of weeks until my next allowance comes (hehe) and the temperature to cool down a little bit more and off I go.
At the rate I'm going, I'll have nothing else to talk about in a couple of weeks anyway (-_-); Summer vacation: another month and a half to go~
I keep telling myself to go and fnish my french homework but it's driving me out of my mind since the teachers had given a really big pile of it. Lucky though, that it's the only homework I have this hol, last year's homework in comparison... nah. Ya just can't compare anything with last year's pile of homework for the Summer hols. That was THE ton of tonnes of homework.
It's a relatively nice day today and I'd been wondering if I should go out and do some sightseeing... I haven't done any sightseeing here in ages. Of course, the sightseeing spot would naturally be Kyoto. Then again it might do me well to go to Kyoto in Autumn instead since there are so many pretty pretty greens there that's sure to change into really nice colours.
Another would be to go exploring here in Kobe... but... I think, besides Himeji Castle, I've already covered a lot of ground here. Even Osaka seems a little dull... but I haven't taken any pictures recently and this blog has been perishing. Come to think of it I haven't really taken pictures of the city life here have I? Well that's an idea. I'll let it simmer for a couple of weeks until my next allowance comes (hehe) and the temperature to cool down a little bit more and off I go.
At the rate I'm going, I'll have nothing else to talk about in a couple of weeks anyway (-_-); Summer vacation: another month and a half to go~
2006-08-13
Never thought I'd be wishing so badly for a...
Thunderstorm. I want one. I heard a little thunder over this afternoon and it just sort of clicked in just how much I wish want need there to be a thunderstorm. It rained, a little. Pitter patter-like rain, but it was so unsatisfying. I want it to rain like it does in Brunei....
With the thunder rumbling almost as if it was pulling up tree roots just above your head. I want the rain to fall like it's going to flood the area in mere seconds. I want the wind to blow like it could topple your car over like a sheet of cardboard. I want real rain.
But~ ya just can't get everything you want in life can ya. So for now, I'll be happy listening to the soft pitter patter of the rain - slash that, drizzle outside and when I get back to Brunei... well I hope to see a real thunderstorm again ^_^
With the thunder rumbling almost as if it was pulling up tree roots just above your head. I want the rain to fall like it's going to flood the area in mere seconds. I want the wind to blow like it could topple your car over like a sheet of cardboard. I want real rain.
But~ ya just can't get everything you want in life can ya. So for now, I'll be happy listening to the soft pitter patter of the rain - slash that, drizzle outside and when I get back to Brunei... well I hope to see a real thunderstorm again ^_^
2006-08-12
Serendipity
Hahaha~ look up the word on wikipedia. Apparently a lot of people have made that word one of their favorites. The movie 'Serendipity' is really nice too...
Hey! Make sure to watch Pride and Prejudice, the Colin Firth version ^_^ It's rocks solid.
Wonder what everyone's up to this hols~ A lot of people have gone back to their countries... Some of my buddies in Tokyo (the science stream) apparently have exams in September even (right in the middle of summer hols). Poor guys. Oh well.
Kobe looks like it's about to be in for rain. I'm kind of hoping it might turn out to be a thunderstorm. I miss heavy rain.
Hey! Make sure to watch Pride and Prejudice, the Colin Firth version ^_^ It's rocks solid.
Wonder what everyone's up to this hols~ A lot of people have gone back to their countries... Some of my buddies in Tokyo (the science stream) apparently have exams in September even (right in the middle of summer hols). Poor guys. Oh well.
Kobe looks like it's about to be in for rain. I'm kind of hoping it might turn out to be a thunderstorm. I miss heavy rain.
2006-08-08
2006-08-01
There's a breeze...
coming in through my window. The light is gentle as it's a cloudy day, but the air is still wet and humid with all this summer heat. But guess what! It's the most beautiful day I've had in months~~ It's SUMMER HOLS!! I'm so happyhappyhappyhappyhappyhappy~ 2 entire months of bliss~ I've got some plans done but mostly I'm just going to take my time, relax, do homework a little here and there... and then relax some more, maybe do some reading up at the Uni. library or take some of the books back to the apartment so I can enjoy my futon better~~ hehehe and since I'm stocked up to the hilt with manga, anime and movies- I'm going to turn into a couch potato *squeals* (what kind of person looks forward to turning to a lazy bum anyway -_-;)
And everyone should start watching Ouran High School Host Club/桜蘭高校ホスト部!! (anime) It's so cute and all the characters are insanely funny. 17 episodes as of yesterday (I think, well basically it's really new) and the original, manga, has reached up to 7 volumes already I think. But it's all so so so cute and fresh and funny and romantic and touching and just so insane! Pack a (an overly) passionate president, a cool manipulative vice-president, a pair of demonic twins, a kid, a hunk of a guy and an almost disinterested heroine together, well, I don't need to say but it does sound like it has potential, no? I'm signing off now... headed to school for lunch up with a friend maybe and at the same time sign for the scholarship~ later guys.
And everyone should start watching Ouran High School Host Club/桜蘭高校ホスト部!! (anime) It's so cute and all the characters are insanely funny. 17 episodes as of yesterday (I think, well basically it's really new) and the original, manga, has reached up to 7 volumes already I think. But it's all so so so cute and fresh and funny and romantic and touching and just so insane! Pack a (an overly) passionate president, a cool manipulative vice-president, a pair of demonic twins, a kid, a hunk of a guy and an almost disinterested heroine together, well, I don't need to say but it does sound like it has potential, no? I'm signing off now... headed to school for lunch up with a friend maybe and at the same time sign for the scholarship~ later guys.
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