Winter hols

Happy holiday to me **
Happy holiday to meeee...........

Yup I'm finally on holiday - my last class was on the 25th too. I haven't been on holiday long and already I'm sinking back into -my- rhythm of staying indoors, playing games etc etc etc....

I finally got M3 Sakura which is this DS adaptor of a kind that lets one play dled games. And I've fallen hook, line and sinker for my all-time favorite genre... *don't laugh!!* - A slightly rugged version of Harvest Moon, Rune Factory!! You farm AND you kill monsters. LoL. I'm sooo going to waste away the last of my grey matter. In the mean time. I'm going off to take care of that dungeon now.

The video; Part 2!!

Yay!! I finished this faster than I thought.

Then again. The video itself is really really fast-paced so it might not suit many people. But hey - I like it!



Now on to the last part!!

Slow Sunday

In the light of my sudden freedom. I decided to just drop everything for today and watch TV dramas.


In a word?





Yay!!!!!

Although,
No. I did not watch Gossip Girl.
No. I did not watch The OC.
Nor did I watch Dexter.
Not even Heroes.
Or Bones.


I decided to melt my brain matter against Criminal Minds.
I think it might have been a good choice.
Considering I've completed the first season in 3 days.

Criminal Minds is another FBI drama. (Why are there so many dramas about... crime and different ways to solve it??) In CSI you have your forensics. In Bones, you have your anthropologist. Well. You can probably guess what Criminal Minds is about - you got your profilers.

It's pretty cool actually, since I'm always very interested in the psychological aspect of human behaviour. Not criminal behaviour as it is really, but it's a start.

It was a very nice way to pass the day.




No wait. It was THE way to pass a lazy day. Ha.

No more!!!!

I'm freeeeeeeeeeee.

I only have 1 week of classes left and I'm doooooooonnnneeeee for this year!!!!

Last 2 presentations for this year...

I cannot even begin to mention how happy I am that after today, I'm basically freeee! No more reports to hand in. No more presentations. Just. Classes. ...yay!

It has been a tough semester. A tough year really.

I rather do believe this crazy string of busy-ness and un-busy-ness began this February! And now it's almost time to put it to close.

I kicked this year right in the a$$ hahha...


*bursts into song*
I made it~~~
I made it~~~
I made it~~~

I'm so happy~~~ I'm so happy~~~
I'm so happy and delirious and (gay?) hahahaha~~~

The long-awaited video!!

I might have mentioned a while back that I was obsessed with making photoalbum-videos and ever since the semester came to full swing I never really got a chance to finish making my video, but a few days ago I decided to cut the thing into 3 parts and finally finished Part 1 ... Here you are!!!

March 2008 - When Mom and Azzi came over to Japan!

Pictures from Nagoya!

Ice cream!!


Me and Wakki!


Yahagi, Ginga, Chihi and Shino!


Chihi and Shino totally KO'd after our night at karaoke!


Yahagi patting the bear's stomach... hahaha


Girls' pose!


Haha..


Them too tired too LoL


Shino!


Post-shopping for Sakai-sensei's birthday present.


Comparing Yahagi....


and Shino! LoL

Sunny on Sunday

My exam is in 2 hours. Then I'll be heading straight for Nagoya for a nice little sight-seeing trip (seeing as I'll be arriving only for the after-party of the joint seminar my class and I had been working on.)

At the computer lab.

We're in for the Round 2 of the all-nighter!!

We're all still hanging in so far.


I wonder what time I'll get to be able to get home this time around.

Sleepless in Kobe.

I think I'd like to look into and read more about the International Criminal Court.




Alright. That was kind of sudden right?

Thing is, I've been watching The Devil Came on Horseback again. And I kinda understand why, why this guy that tried to do something to stop the genocide in Darfur and it didn't work. At least, not as well as he thought.

There's so much in between what happens at local level and at policy level that it's like they're two different worlds occupying half the space required for each. I'm asking myself 'why?' and yet I think I may actually know the answer. Of course knowing it is far from being able to justify anything.


Things like International Organizations - the UN and Regional Organizations, they're new. When they started out it was okay but there's just a big difference now between policy making and actual policy execution. Maybe there just always was. Which makes me feel very amazed at how 'governments' still manage to exist. Are we addicted to systemization? Or is it just that we can't live sans the current as yet. This thing with the EU, NATO etc. It's like a way we made, systemized, to help filter or ease this vertical traffic jam between the paperwork and the actual tanks.



Okay. I have no idea what I'm going on about anymore because I just read the above paragraph a dozen times and my eyes can't seem to focus. Which means! I should be able to sleep now. Hahaha.... (not that funny really.)

On University life.

I just had to reinsert this amazingly lagging consciousness of mine into the fact that I am in my 20s.
I'm not even 20, I'm 21!!

It's weird not being a teenager anymore.

It's weird not being able to last as well in an all-nighter. We, and by we I mean at least a dozen of my classmates from my seminar, pulled another all-nighter in order to finish this presentation of ours. Well. To be realistic, I could only help them with the powerpoint and animations - at which point, my work was done around 5am today. So I left early.

Yes. I left the Uni at 5am, and my friends were all still working in the computer lab.

Some of my friends say, that what we're living through right now is the University life. People stay over at the University all the time. (Our 24hr convenience store near the Engineering Faculty proves that - the Engineering student thrive on it. Some of the lights in their Faculty barely ever go off!)

And now I'm off. I need to wake up. Like really.

It's December!!

My marathon of meetings and late-night library study session start today.
Good-bye world! Hello, musty old books.


Haha. Kidding. The library closes at 9.30pm anyway and I never sleep before midnight.

I'll be back home early, for some quality R&R to de-stress myself for the next day.