Zoned out, mentally exhausted, stressed to the bone. This is the way life at Uni is. I just don't understand it. I'm taking less classes than the previous semester but I feel as tired as I used to be after doing homework...
I've just finished a piece of reading on Civil and Public Religion and I'm seeing letters jumping in front of my eyes as I would imagine how jumping beans could. Basically... I'm tired. Reading about abstract concepts take so much out of me... Then again I'm thankful not to be under Science stream anymore, which would've probably knocked me out cold already.
I have some pretty weird classes tomorrow... and need to be fully awake... so I have to haul myself to bed now... bed... oh my futon. You look so inviting.
2006-10-31
2006-10-26
The topic for tomorrow...
For Irish Studies seminar tomorrow, we'll be discussing... Vikings! Haha...
Also last week, me and Liliana had a 'skirt party' ^_^ where we (plus Aurelie and Mio) would go to class with skirts... hahahahaha (some of our friends were so surprised... it was hard to see any of us foreign students in anything other than jeans and then - that day we were all in skirts! hahaha~
This week's theme is white blouse and blue jeans ^_^ Come to think of it, Liliana and I were even color coded today - she was wearing a khaki jacket and blue jeans. I was wearing khaki coloured jeans and a denim jacket. Hahaha... weird... this proves it. We have nothing else to do for fun around here =_=
Well... I guess it's alright to act like this once in a while.
The weather's been just fantastic lately. Blue skies, warm sun, refreshing breezes. I just love Autumn ^_^
Also last week, me and Liliana had a 'skirt party' ^_^ where we (plus Aurelie and Mio) would go to class with skirts... hahahahaha (some of our friends were so surprised... it was hard to see any of us foreign students in anything other than jeans and then - that day we were all in skirts! hahaha~
This week's theme is white blouse and blue jeans ^_^ Come to think of it, Liliana and I were even color coded today - she was wearing a khaki jacket and blue jeans. I was wearing khaki coloured jeans and a denim jacket. Hahaha... weird... this proves it. We have nothing else to do for fun around here =_=
Well... I guess it's alright to act like this once in a while.
The weather's been just fantastic lately. Blue skies, warm sun, refreshing breezes. I just love Autumn ^_^
2006-10-25
Selamat Hari Raya
I'm haunted with memories of the good food found back home... ... ... ... *tears* Somebody cook for me.................
Anyway, that said, actually, I had first period this morning (=_=) So I was half awake the entire time during Practical InfoTech class. Then after (finally!) the coffee I drank had kicked in, but that was a class about the Earth and the Planets (seriously, that is the name for the subject)... which was utterly boring and I couldn't catch a single thing because the teacher was muttering/mumbling the entiiiiire time.
Then it was lunch time which was nice because we ate outside and it was so nice and cool and breezy and a friend had managed to grab one of the tables in a shaded area. It was great. I saw my French teacher Mr. Delerue (sp?) and half-accidently (?) waved him down since he was looking for a table anyway. There went my listening practise... I couldn't catch a single word thrown between him and Aurelie and Liliana. It was utterly terrifying... but anyway, I know now how far I'll have to work to attain a suitable level to be able to understand conversational French.
So... guess what I spent the rest of my afternoon on? ...French homework. Oh I did 'em alright. Aurelie was not 3 metres away the entire time so there you go, my portable french dictionary. Okay. I'm going to need a portable spell-checker soon too, since I nearly spelt dictionary as "dictionaire". French is making me dyslexic.
After the French homework was... what-ho! French Class which was from 5 to 6.30 ... ... ... what sane person takes classes at those times, really? ...Anyway. It was fun. There was this one episode in class when the teacher was doing roll call and he was calling my name out... only he was calling out "Fairuz-san" so I was completely not paying attention. A friend of mine poked me on the side before I could recognise that he was calling me ... =__= Well! No one's ever tried to call me Fairuz-san before so! (After that he went and asked if he should have called me "Latif-san" instead and I just went "NO!" *o* that was close.....) Everybody calls me Najee/Najee-san nowadays that one somebody starts calling me Naj (or anything else) again, I feel really really weird.
Anyway. That was my day today/yesterday. Anyhows it's one minute past midnight and I need to haul myself to bed. I have American Studies tomorrow... Ya Allah, berikanlah saya kesabaran dan keberanian untuk duduk dalam kelas itu.
I hope y'all had a great day! I need to put my brain to rest a few hours ^__^ Hopefully, I'll be able to spell words without concentrating as much as I am now by tomorrow. Later~ Health, Peace and Love to you all!
Anyway, that said, actually, I had first period this morning (=_=) So I was half awake the entire time during Practical InfoTech class. Then after (finally!) the coffee I drank had kicked in, but that was a class about the Earth and the Planets (seriously, that is the name for the subject)... which was utterly boring and I couldn't catch a single thing because the teacher was muttering/mumbling the entiiiiire time.
Then it was lunch time which was nice because we ate outside and it was so nice and cool and breezy and a friend had managed to grab one of the tables in a shaded area. It was great. I saw my French teacher Mr. Delerue (sp?) and half-accidently (?) waved him down since he was looking for a table anyway. There went my listening practise... I couldn't catch a single word thrown between him and Aurelie and Liliana. It was utterly terrifying... but anyway, I know now how far I'll have to work to attain a suitable level to be able to understand conversational French.
So... guess what I spent the rest of my afternoon on? ...French homework. Oh I did 'em alright. Aurelie was not 3 metres away the entire time so there you go, my portable french dictionary. Okay. I'm going to need a portable spell-checker soon too, since I nearly spelt dictionary as "dictionaire". French is making me dyslexic.
After the French homework was... what-ho! French Class which was from 5 to 6.30 ... ... ... what sane person takes classes at those times, really? ...Anyway. It was fun. There was this one episode in class when the teacher was doing roll call and he was calling my name out... only he was calling out "Fairuz-san" so I was completely not paying attention. A friend of mine poked me on the side before I could recognise that he was calling me ... =__= Well! No one's ever tried to call me Fairuz-san before so! (After that he went and asked if he should have called me "Latif-san" instead and I just went "NO!" *o* that was close.....) Everybody calls me Najee/Najee-san nowadays that one somebody starts calling me Naj (or anything else) again, I feel really really weird.
Anyway. That was my day today/yesterday. Anyhows it's one minute past midnight and I need to haul myself to bed. I have American Studies tomorrow... Ya Allah, berikanlah saya kesabaran dan keberanian untuk duduk dalam kelas itu.
I hope y'all had a great day! I need to put my brain to rest a few hours ^__^ Hopefully, I'll be able to spell words without concentrating as much as I am now by tomorrow. Later~ Health, Peace and Love to you all!
2006-10-21
Sleepy...
I have only 2 classes conducted in English. Only 2. So exactly how did I manage to flood myself with homework from those classes?
It's been so long since I've sat in a class and am able to stay awake... moreover I was able to understand what the teacher was talking about 100% ... It all began when I started being extremely curious over these weird triangle markings put next to the seminars conducted for my faculty... I thought, well, since those credits aren't required to graduate I could probably just ignore them... BUT it seemed everybody was taking at least one... Until now even I still don't know if they are necessary, but I still don't want to be left behind. So, following what everyone else did, I took 2 of these seminars, with 2 different teachers... only, since I got a pretty good number of credits for my previous semester I decided to treat myself and so took the classes that are in English.
So now here's the sitch. Would one really call it 'treating oneself' when one thinks it is going to be enjoyable however heavy the course work would be? ... And the reading material given is no child's play! Prof. Heimlich's class is like... Sociology+Literature in MD with the combined load of reading material, but in order to accomodate the japanese students in class, it's conducted in half the speed. ... Which in theory should be good for me since then I'd be able to keep up... BUT! ... Well maybe it's because I'm out of practise, I don't know. I personally don't think that I'm keeping up very well. Anyway the class is centred on American Studies. Cool, no?
My other seminar is on Irish Studies. The teacher's name is Mr. Kelly (which is supposed to mean Warrior in Gaelic, also the 3rd most powerful class in the old Celtic society after the Royal Family, and the Druids/Poets) Coolness. I mean seriously, this class is so cool, it's below freezing point. The only bad point about this class is the same as the one I mentioned before: the amount of reading material. I swear, my mind is going to explode soon. Maybe I'm just not reading the material right. I tried note-taking while reading and I did swallow the information better... but anyway.
HomeworkHomeworkHomework... which reminds me I still have some more French homework to do. AAAAAHHHHH!!!!!! I'm so glad I almost never have any plans at all on weekends nowadays except for the occasional sleepover in Gaidai... which I will not be doing this weekend since my friend stayed over last night (in fact she's still here) and tomorrow I'm going to Nara for some walk-a-thon with Aurelie and the whole of an English class (private institution) ...I have yet to figure out exactly how many people will be attending. The whole point IS for them to mingle and try to speak English with foreigners (whom they don't have to fear since we do understand Japanese too). Well, I hope it turned out well.
Banzai! Hehehehe I love today's weather. Clear skies and cool winds with just enough warmth from the sun.
It's been so long since I've sat in a class and am able to stay awake... moreover I was able to understand what the teacher was talking about 100% ... It all began when I started being extremely curious over these weird triangle markings put next to the seminars conducted for my faculty... I thought, well, since those credits aren't required to graduate I could probably just ignore them... BUT it seemed everybody was taking at least one... Until now even I still don't know if they are necessary, but I still don't want to be left behind. So, following what everyone else did, I took 2 of these seminars, with 2 different teachers... only, since I got a pretty good number of credits for my previous semester I decided to treat myself and so took the classes that are in English.
So now here's the sitch. Would one really call it 'treating oneself' when one thinks it is going to be enjoyable however heavy the course work would be? ... And the reading material given is no child's play! Prof. Heimlich's class is like... Sociology+Literature in MD with the combined load of reading material, but in order to accomodate the japanese students in class, it's conducted in half the speed. ... Which in theory should be good for me since then I'd be able to keep up... BUT! ... Well maybe it's because I'm out of practise, I don't know. I personally don't think that I'm keeping up very well. Anyway the class is centred on American Studies. Cool, no?
My other seminar is on Irish Studies. The teacher's name is Mr. Kelly (which is supposed to mean Warrior in Gaelic, also the 3rd most powerful class in the old Celtic society after the Royal Family, and the Druids/Poets) Coolness. I mean seriously, this class is so cool, it's below freezing point. The only bad point about this class is the same as the one I mentioned before: the amount of reading material. I swear, my mind is going to explode soon. Maybe I'm just not reading the material right. I tried note-taking while reading and I did swallow the information better... but anyway.
HomeworkHomeworkHomework... which reminds me I still have some more French homework to do. AAAAAHHHHH!!!!!! I'm so glad I almost never have any plans at all on weekends nowadays except for the occasional sleepover in Gaidai... which I will not be doing this weekend since my friend stayed over last night (in fact she's still here) and tomorrow I'm going to Nara for some walk-a-thon with Aurelie and the whole of an English class (private institution) ...I have yet to figure out exactly how many people will be attending. The whole point IS for them to mingle and try to speak English with foreigners (whom they don't have to fear since we do understand Japanese too). Well, I hope it turned out well.
Banzai! Hehehehe I love today's weather. Clear skies and cool winds with just enough warmth from the sun.
2006-10-14
Cloudy skies today, but the sun's still shining bright
Oh wow I believe today is the first day since Summer Hols ended that I can spend with relative ease since the only plans I have today are to go to the eye clinic and pick up a bunch more of new contacts! (Wow... usually my days are packed to midnight =_= I can't say I'm not happy)
It's a weekend I can really relax!! And y'know what peeps? I don't have classes on Mondays, ergo my weekends for this semester are 3 days long HEEEEEEEEE *happyhappyhappy*
There's something weird going on with the tagboard so I'll be removing it temporarily~
It's a weekend I can really relax!! And y'know what peeps? I don't have classes on Mondays, ergo my weekends for this semester are 3 days long HEEEEEEEEE *happyhappyhappy*
There's something weird going on with the tagboard so I'll be removing it temporarily~
2006-10-09
Roughing it up
Today is a national holiday in Japan -called Taiku-no-hi (Exercise Day? Sports Day?) And again last weekend I found myself staying over at Adeline's place. (I swear I should've just rented out an apartment near there instead). Her mom just plopped over here for a 10-day visit too. And somehow on Sunday... I found myself in Nara with Adeline+mom, Ruo Lin, Yun Jung, Chris, Pei, Casey (sp?) and Kaja (sp?) (mostly the UA students of this year). Not only did I find myself in Nara, I found myself in Nara harvesting padi. (The land owners is the family of one of the UA class' teacher.)
Seriously, all the students put on mid-leg high boots, walked over the little fields, took a hand-sickle each and basically ripped all the stalks of padi available to us in sight. We didn't exactly walk through the process even, I mean considering the grounds were so soft, I imagine that it might be exactly like what quicksand feels like... haha We sloshed and sank and sloshed and sank some more.
So there I was, almost two-thirds way my patch of padi when I realised I couldn't pull up my feet anymore. I was completely stuck. So what I tried to do was, after putting down my sickle on the side 'bank', I leaned over to the dry part and pulled like my life depended on it. Still my boots wouldn't budge. Then these two ladies (who were actually workers maybe) who saw me struggling came and tried to help me out. Alas, only one boot came out. And so there we were, the three of us pulling really really hard when - ...only my other foot got lose. x_X The other boot was just there... I swear it even sunk in a little more. Then one of the ladies went to pull out the boot. Oh she pulled it out alright - but then what happened... she got stuck. Luckily we managed to pull her (and her boots) out. (Of course that's not the end of it, when I finally managed to get my guts back out and stepped back into the muddy mess, I nearly fell in surprise as a frog jumped out of nowhere, which got me deeper in the mud... which got me stuck again... ... ... What a day.
Everybody went through this sinking in the mud episode... and that would have been the worst part of this adventure if it hadn't been for these things that had been jumping about and appearing out of nowhere. These things meaning... spiders... frogs... crickets... centipedes... praying mantis... grasshoppers... you name it, it was there. I mean, for me, it's not so bad seeing these insects if I could run away immediately... but as you might defer from the boot-stuck-in-mud episode... all we could do was stay still and scream our heads off as the spiders crawled around us... the frogs jump around us... and... and... OMG It took so much patience to try and stay still while these things would go out of our paths since running away was not an option. In fact, attempting to run meant sinking even deeper... so... well... Seriously, what a day. My left wrist cramped up right at the end too. =_=
I woke up today and I was aching positively everywhere. (But more like oh-hey-I-did-something-good-yesterday-thus-the-ache kind of good ache ^_^) I still can't believe I went harvesting!
What a weekend. As always... interesting things always happen when I go visit Gaidai.
Seriously, all the students put on mid-leg high boots, walked over the little fields, took a hand-sickle each and basically ripped all the stalks of padi available to us in sight. We didn't exactly walk through the process even, I mean considering the grounds were so soft, I imagine that it might be exactly like what quicksand feels like... haha We sloshed and sank and sloshed and sank some more.
So there I was, almost two-thirds way my patch of padi when I realised I couldn't pull up my feet anymore. I was completely stuck. So what I tried to do was, after putting down my sickle on the side 'bank', I leaned over to the dry part and pulled like my life depended on it. Still my boots wouldn't budge. Then these two ladies (who were actually workers maybe) who saw me struggling came and tried to help me out. Alas, only one boot came out. And so there we were, the three of us pulling really really hard when - ...only my other foot got lose. x_X The other boot was just there... I swear it even sunk in a little more. Then one of the ladies went to pull out the boot. Oh she pulled it out alright - but then what happened... she got stuck. Luckily we managed to pull her (and her boots) out. (Of course that's not the end of it, when I finally managed to get my guts back out and stepped back into the muddy mess, I nearly fell in surprise as a frog jumped out of nowhere, which got me deeper in the mud... which got me stuck again... ... ... What a day.
Everybody went through this sinking in the mud episode... and that would have been the worst part of this adventure if it hadn't been for these things that had been jumping about and appearing out of nowhere. These things meaning... spiders... frogs... crickets... centipedes... praying mantis... grasshoppers... you name it, it was there. I mean, for me, it's not so bad seeing these insects if I could run away immediately... but as you might defer from the boot-stuck-in-mud episode... all we could do was stay still and scream our heads off as the spiders crawled around us... the frogs jump around us... and... and... OMG It took so much patience to try and stay still while these things would go out of our paths since running away was not an option. In fact, attempting to run meant sinking even deeper... so... well... Seriously, what a day. My left wrist cramped up right at the end too. =_=
I woke up today and I was aching positively everywhere. (But more like oh-hey-I-did-something-good-yesterday-thus-the-ache kind of good ache ^_^) I still can't believe I went harvesting!
What a weekend. As always... interesting things always happen when I go visit Gaidai.
2006-10-07
It's a cold night
The Autumn wind seems to nibble at my skin. It's so cool to the point that it's almost cold. In fact, right now where I am (which is sitting on a bench inside Saty, Kita-Senri) I can feel the lingering cold air which blasts in each time the exit doors open.
It really is Autumn.
Sometimes I wonder why seasons fly past so fast when each day is spent in achingly slow speeds.
It's already my second semester in Uni. (1 Japanese University year has 2 semesters) And we've only just begun classes and I already feel as if we're right in the thick of it.
2006-10-05
October's come...
Uni's back in full swing... It started again on Monday (but I hadn't actually felt it since technically I only attended one class) And then there was Tuesday (but I didn't feel it much either since I only attended first period and fifth - I actually have second period too but there was no lecture for this week) But then came Wednesday and I really felt it. Second, third and fourth periods, like... an hour and a half, lunch break and then 3 hours solid lessons... I was so zombied out in the end. Yeah it's been a while. Tomorrow (or shall I say today?) I have first period again of all things... I'm so bushed. But I get to go home right after lunch~~ (which is really really good).
My schedule for this semester seems a little messed up with classes either too far apart or too spaced together. At least I think I don't have classes on Monday heehee... (but on Friday I have only one class and it starts at 5pm and ends at 6.30pm. ... Doesn't that just make you go "..........huh?" =_=)
My schedule for this semester seems a little messed up with classes either too far apart or too spaced together. At least I think I don't have classes on Monday heehee... (but on Friday I have only one class and it starts at 5pm and ends at 6.30pm. ... Doesn't that just make you go "..........huh?" =_=)
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