I've been really busy. Seriously - I didn't think it was possible to go back to the same rhythm after leaving the country for a whole month. Though, I'm still sorting out some of my classes. And also sorting some of my stuff in the apartment - since I'll have to change my wardrobe soon, that means one whole new cleaning session is in order.

I found some more pictures of when I was in Brunei.


My parents.


Me and my sibling in front of our house.


Us in front of the boys' car.


The Boys. LoL

I haven't done much of anything except go to class and work - I went out to Osaka once for my Koto lesson but other than that, I haven't even been to Sannomiya. I've only been back about 2 weeks, and already it seems my entire life is limited to the University and the place I work at. Whatever.

I haven't been able to sleep well either - probably will have to find a new pillow. I get these awful cricks in the neck and my shoulders now in class that my friends are starting to think that I'm made of breakable plastic.

Oh, one thing I have done lately is going back to knitting. There's a scarf that I didn't finish knitting last winter and I'm going back to it now. I'm really almost done... I can't wait ^^ hee

Back in Japan...

... and shuffling through pictures.

This is what I have so far.

Sungkai at Empire- Sept 27th.


My parents


Me and my siblings


Us again at the table


Hehe...

That's it for now.

I just arrived yesterday and had to go to class straight after a shower. It wasn't particularly hectic, and the weather was so cool that it wasn't hard to walk up to Uni either. After all that coffee from home and the babies on the airplane and non-sleeping all the way from Brunei to Singapore to Kansai, I was pretty wired and awake for my seminar too.

Of course, after that, I went back to the apartment, waited for my suitcase (which I sent here from the airport), unpacked, took out my computer and started on that picture-video I was so obsessed about making on my last day in Brunei (mostly due to the fact that I hadn't realised that it was so easy to make videos using Windows Movie Maker).

Then I slept. (Sorry Zi!) My computer was hanging because of the WMM so I just left it on the desk for a second and curled up on my futon with my warmest blanket (it's as cold as Aira's room!)... I checked my alarm clock and the time was almost 10pm... and then the world was lost to me. I woke up next at 6.30am today.

Now, here I am, shuffling through pictures and re-obsessing with making videos haha...

2 hours till my next class... maybe I should take a nap again. Hmm...

Cellphone blues...

I just realised, after some painful ransacking of my already empty suitcase(s), that I brought the wrong cable for my phone. I was supposed to bring the usb-extension, but it seems that I brought one usb-extension for some other contraption. That just goes to show how inattentive I can be when it comes to stuff like... cables. Anyway. How ironic, considering I just found out yesterday that I was registered for a class on nano-technology and robots for my kyogen (compulsory, general-knowledge lectures).

We'd been having internet trouble lately, so I haven't managed to fully update myself as yet - except for the urgent stuff of course. Like registering for classes. Like I mentioned above I'd already put in my preferences for kyogen (I was hoping for 3 instead of the 2 classes that I got, but I guess that that's alright). One class on... science-y stuff and the other on Middle Eastern Politics. I know the professor who teaches that class and he's good friends with my current Seminar-professor. I heard that they'll be going somewhere in the Middle East next February. I wonder for what kind of research.

They haven't put up the deadline for round 2 of subject-registrations yet so I'm kind of teetering on my toes, nervous about when I can and until when it's possible because I really really don't want to miss registrations.


Otherwise I've been having a really nice time at home. I'm gaming like there's no tomorrow, which is great. And not so great at the same time, but I enjoy torturing my brain cells on the occasion. When there was finally the right time, Mum took me out shopping for clothes ...! (yay!) I even found these nice, cute-classy white slippers which I probably won't bring with me to Japan since they're not for long-distance walking, plus I don't want to ruin them. So I'm just going to enjoy them here, while I still can. And then there were the jeans we found in Jaya Hypermart - about $20 a piece! I could -almost- never buy another pair in Japan ever again! These jeans are stretchy too - very comfy.

And then there was the twins' birthday. We went to have sungkai at the Empire the next day, so the night before I called the Atrium Cafe to ask about their birthday specials - and what do you know? They give cakes to the birthday -ahem- babies. Hehe. We were a group of 25 (you can just imagine the looooong table we were sitting at, and where Dad occupied the only corner seat, haha) - and there were 5 people, 4 people who's birthdays are in September and one li'l cousin of mine who's birthday was the 1st of October - so I thought, what the heck, and asked them to prepare for him too. It turned out really really nice - they beat this drum while singing 'Happy Birthday' and the look on my brothers' faces! (One of them looked a little disappointed, and then turned crazy happy when the cake headed his way, hahaaa!) Not bad, if I may say so. Need to work on my timing though.

Which brings me to the unbelievable picture-taking sessions we had at the Atrium and then all the way gradually out of the Empire. I took pictures on my cell phone. Which also brings me back to the top of my post - about my cell phone's cable, which I'd forgotten to bring. Oh well. That just means the pictures will be for another time.


Before all that though, I went out for sungkai once with Yani and Fae - which was really great; I hadn't seen them in so long, and just talking to them got be reminiscing. Though I also felt really bad because I realised my memory wasn't really good and I'd forgotten the names and faces of quite a number of people. (... Yes, I'm crawling into my hole now.)

After that I went out with Hasanah and Marlyn - which was another really nice evening too.


I stayed at home for most of the two weeks I was here and then only managed to go out with my school-friends once within a week and Raya is tomorrow so I guess this probably means that I probably won't have much time to go out again.

I'm leaving on Monday next week - which is something really, since my classes officially start tomorrow.