My birthday was fantastic!!

I recovered from my depression. (I suppose all I needed really was a breath of fresh air). We went to Harborland, had dinner at a seafood buffet, and walked around enjoying the almost-sea air.

Aurelie bought us (me and Nami - it was both our birthdays) a cake and we sang in a whisper because the waitress told us that we could bring in the cake if we did it discretely. LoL - it was hilarious!

Anyway, I have a class soon so I gotta leave, but I'm recovered 100%. I think. LoL.

The big 2 and 2.

My birthday is tomorrow and I am depressed.

Darn the PMS and mood-swings. I really have to say that it doesn't usually hit me this hard but now, here I am, hyper and tired at the same time. I'm on the edge and I feel like I could just bite off the head of anyone who even thinks of looking at me the wrong way. Yep. I feel extremely hostile for no reason at all. The worst thing? is that I'm rational enough to know and understand that I'm feeling extremely hostile for no reason at all.

I'm just tried and frazzled I'm sure. I'm not even particularly busy right now. I just want this hormone thing to be over with before I seriously damage some relationships with my friends.

You'd think that if I were rational enough to know that I'm a little unbalanced right now, that I wouldn't do anything I wouldn't do on a normal rationally balanced day right?


Aaah... the mysteries of life.

'The' Flu

Okay, so I suppose I've left some people out of the loop - but the latest sitch in Japan?


Big to-do because some cases popped up near where I live. It started with one on saturday and now there are 130 people infected at least. Well. They are mostly high school students apparently.

So, classes (even my Uni) are cancelled for this week.

Now I'm just enjoying my free time. I guess. hah.

What do I have in my school bag(s) at this very moment?

Okay, so the first few things I fished out were

1. my electronic dictionary... wish I could start living without this. It's heavier than it looks!

2. my organizer... not something I can leave the house without.

3. my pencil case... again, not something I can leave the house without.

4. two textbooks I'd just borrowed from the library:
Chomsky's New Military Humanism... and my world keeps on spinning. I hope to catch a break soon...

5. Chesterman's Just War or Just Peace? ... how 'bout no? LoL, but yeah. I need this book. And I can't believe the ONE book I really need, by Seybolt (2008), and they DON'T have it available for loan!! I just had to place an order for it through amazon.

6. my phone... like I'd ever be separated from it.

7. mp3 player... same as above.

8. eye drops... I've been wearing my contacts a lot nowadays. Good thing? Yeah, I suppose it is a good thing. Though, I do have trouble catching the bad chicken scrawls on the black board. No offense!! Honestly, the more intelligent people become less the time they spend on handwriting.

9. my card case... What's it doing there?

10. pack of tissues... ah.. ... I should pack another one...

And my other school bag? (YES, I use TWO. This one always weights at least 5 kilos. With reason.)

11. an inch thick worth of papers and files... ahh, couldn't have a fulfilling study-day without this.

12. another textbook, International Law (Jap.)... had that lecture today. It was so nice and warm that I was counting sheep exactly 2-3rds down the lesson.

13. and another textbook, Latin ... lol. As boring and complicated it is, it's actually kinda fun.

14. my latin dictionary... It's fun to see the origins of some words... like insane, virus etc etc.

15. a novel, one of Julia Quinn's translated in Japanese... this has a permanent corner in my bag. I'm always carrying it around. Amazing how much you can read on 15min train rides. Bought the book 2 weeks ago, so multiply that with at least 15 train rides. Almost 4 hours worth of reading!

16. my baby Vaio... going everywhere with it hehe

17. the mouse... wireless mice rock! haha



18. an unfinished pack of lemon candy... a kinda pick-me-up I used to chew on to wake up during the law class.

19. half-finished bottle of water... I drink at least 2 bottles a day now. Not counting how much I drink for break fast and after coming back home.

20. mirror... haha. I never used to carry one around so much until recently.

21. oh, and Japanese kanji practice book. ... taking the JLPT again



So what does that say about what's happened to me today?

Let's see... (^__^) I'll leave that to your powers of deduction.

I was hit by this thing my koto teacher mentioned when I tried to show her some videos of Brunei - modern people live in their bags.
You're connected to anyone through your phone. You have gps to find your way around too so you can go to more places. You've got money, paper AND plastic, and electronic too I suppose - if you have one of those mobilephone-wallet marks and can use it. You can watch TV on your phone too. A book or a pc and you're well entertained.
Where ever you go, you're always surrounded by your own virtual house.

Busy as a Bee

A lot of stuff has happened. I've been rather busy. But I just had to write this down.

This Swine Flu thing that hit? Apparently like all other pandemic-level flus, it's not expected to go away from the global scene in another 6-9 months. Just around the time I need to finish my thesis.

Hear me grumbling?

I don't want to get sick. I don't want to get sick. I don't want to get sick.......... nyaaaah