The year is ending.
It's so strange to think that in 4 weeks' time I'll be back in school and sloughing my guts out for A levels, and before I know it, I'll be an undergrad at a university. The unbelievable part: I feel like I've barely changed much. I still feel exactly the same I felt when I was 10, a little lost, a little pissed, quite confused and very scared.
Looking back, many things -did- change, but they were more or less on how I had relationships with people, but not nessescarily impacted on my beliefs. I've learnt how to treat people/tolerate them in my own fashion but.......things like yura and system of belief...well....that hasn't really changed has it?
It's like.....a personality change, not a character change.
Thinking about this year, it feels like 2 seperate years which I lived and fairly rocky at that. The dreamy hazyness of working in a studio with aunty Iris seems like a foggy paradise, distant and far when compared to the bad start I had in school. School itself seemed like an totally different world; and I'll admit it, I was being difficult. I was as prickly and irritable as I could possibly be, and as rude and sarcastic as I could without being expelled (though it came really really close when I started skipping Mrs Sng's classes and she wanted to expel me)
It hasn't been an easy year.
I suppose it doesn't really help that most of my frienships were strained at some point, and the tension between audrey and I was draining, and occasionally, undeniably silly. The only good that's come out of it is that well, I know for sure that people will come, people will go and that's the end of it. So it's best to hold a little back of yourself I guess, for safekeeping.
*shrugs*
Pity, but I suppose we all learn.
The truth is I just feel really out of it. The entire year feels like a misstep of a dance, out of sync, out of rhythm. The lack of sociality and most of all, this sudden awareness of being alone. I used to like it very much, but now it's like a secondary -awareness- that I felt in Japan and somehow, kept it. And......I suppose, if I were to put blame for it, that would be it.
Interesting about Japan: I didn't like it.
I haven't really said any of this to anyone. Mostly just thinking over to myself but.......a dream of softly lit lantern lights and warmth shattered under the weight of neon reality. A kind of....Kakusei. Awakening to disillusionment. A sensation of falling, of -losing- something precious.
It's not that I didn't want to go. I wanted to. Badly. I was willing to sacrifice everything to go, to lie, to threaten, to bargain until I went (and I did). Like a dream come true. It seemed so wonderful y'know.....finally seeing Dir en Grey live, walking around shoppings, seeing the sights.....it was everything I imagined it would be like, but not what I really wanted.
I didn't really want to go Japan, I wanted a.....dream? Ideal?
And the sudden, dislocative sense of abandonment....the sheer weight of isolation, a special kind of despair so deeply personal that you can't even get it in proper words, so strange the sensation that you don't even cry. It's not saddening. It's like....twisting inside you in a horror/fear mixture, the sound of an echoing void. A sort of -shattering-......like nothing in the world will [ ]
And at that exact moment
I wasn't a child anymore
In a way, some people never grow up. I didn't realize the innocence I had until later. It's like a slow, sensation that something is lost, and you mourn for it, the sweet innocence that protected you. Because it's true. Innocence protects you - it protects your life, your living, your hope. That's why children recover so quickly from trauma. You don't really grow up, you just lose it. Some people never do, some do, and get over it, other can't. Does it make you mature? A better person? No. Not at all.
So when I look at sakky, audy or my sis or my brother or my mom, I can't help but feel this edgy painfulness because it excludes me as much as it excludes them.
I try.
I really do.
But childlike wonder and childlike joy doesn't replace it
because in the end,
you're still scared.
And I guess....this year's been hard because of it. You know you've changed, but others don't. And......I guess I'm still recovering from it. A special kind of painful fear and loneliness. I wish..............it never happened, but....I have the feeling that perhaps, even if it is so hard for me, I learned something - a knowledge by fire perhaps - and with time, maybe the pain will end too.
love
tsu
+tsu waited for you at 10:03 p.m.+
I'm really really happy because the air smells good. The wind smells good. When I wake up, I feel it like under my skin, a bright fierygreen energy that sings to me and no one else (my sis can't, apparently) And it won't last because it never stays, the lovely rollicking song so deeply beautiful that no matter what is happening now or how important it is, I'll go to it.
So I'm going swimming now, even though it's freezing and 7pm in the night, because I know that today is beautiful.
love
tsu
+tsu waited for you at 07:04 p.m.+
Listening to: Sanagi - xXxholic
*runs off a cliff*
*pyoo!*
*bounces*
MSN is finally not being a silly doofus xD Tis'working!<3 Finished some of my gift tags, haven't started on cards (or the *koff*secret*koff* project) Come to think of it, I really need to send Sakky -Rapanzel- doujin cos it's so gushingly cute and pretty *gushgush!* GO WILD<3<3<3 Sexiest bearer of Darkness everz xD
Getting addicted to xXxholic's artwork. I love the pretty, flat-ish colours of dullpinks/blacks. Ish much love<3 Mom's away in Korea and had the funniest art class yesterday involving me, Mr James and a new student: Liz
I refuse to say anything but *sniggle*
A sniggle = giggle + snigger
I think he really enjoys talking crap to me loool No one else in the right mind would put up with my absolute nonsense.
Mad Class Conversations
tsu: hello, what's your name?
Liz: I'm Liz.
tsu: I'm - ! *smileysmiley* You're doing drawing today?
Mr James: What do you think of the vase?
Liz: Thank you, and yes. It's my second class.
tsu: urgh. Drawing.
Mr James: If it ends up being a component in your exam you know you have to do it.
tsu: URGH >_>
Liz: So where are you studying?
tsu: I'm 17 and studying at JC of Hell
Liz: YOU'RE 17? I THOUGHT YOU WERE 12!
tsu: Hey! *offended* I'm almost 18 y'know
Liz: *stare stare*
Liz: *turns to Mr James* Is that true?
tsu: *offended*
Mr James: *very very amused* Yes *laugh*
Liz: So which school are you in?
tsu: CJC, I'm doing A level art and I hate drawing.
Mr James: Your painting is fine, but your drawing is terrible.
tsu: I know, I know
Mr James: It's not that you have no talent, it's simply because you find it boring and end up doodling before you complete it.
tsu: It's not that bad! I came for 1 class of drawing and did the skull and all...
Mr James: If it ends up being a component in your exam you'll have to practice whether you like it or not
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Liz: Do you have a girlfriend?
Mr James: Yes.
tsu: YOU DO? BUT YOU'RE TOO OLD!
Mr James: -(tsu)! I'm offended! You're never too old for love!
tsu: *gapeshock*
Liz: Is she a student?
Mr James: *looks intently at me* Yes. She's in Dubai now.
tsu: *stares back in shock*
Liz: *clueless* What does she do?
Mr James: She's an events planner
tsu: *mutter* Oh my god it's Mae right? e.e!
Liz: So who's she?
Mr James: *laughs* She's new, so....it's still..*waveyhandmotion*
tsu: But you're like....waaaaay old!
Mr James: *with dignity* Love knows no age.
tsu: *continues* And you'll make a horrible boyfriend!
Mr James: -(tsu)!!! *laughs* How so?
Liz: He's a good person......
tsu: He's a good person but a bad boyfriend.
tsu: Those kind that will sulk and think and do only what he thinks is best for both of them which might not always be the best..*rant*
Mr James: *still laughing* How did you know?
tsu: *with dignity* INSTINCT.
tsu: So how did you pick her up?
Mr James: I didn't.
tsu: So you asked for her phone number?
Mr James: I don't pick up girls
tsu: Then how d'you get them?
Mr James: *poker face* They pick me up -
tsu: REALLY?! *faked-awe*
Mr James: Yes, really.
tsu: How do they do that?
Mr James: I'm not going to teach you that -
tsu: *fake-wibble* But it's so cool! It's like I can tell my mom that not only I learn painting from you, I learn how to pick up guys too! :D
*Talk about Liz's ex-boyfriend*
Mr James: All my relationships have been long term.
tsu: That's good.
tsu: *thinks*
tsu: hah! You're cheating! Since you're so old you could have MANY long-term relationships!
Mr James: *laughs*
tsu: I SEE THROUGH YOUR NON-INNOCENCE! hah!
Apparently, he really likes my rubbish.
tsu: Do you like me Mr James? *puppy eyes*
Mr James: Of course I do, if not I'll never put up with you
tsu: Yay! 'Cos I like you too!
Liz: *laugh* you're so funny
tsu: But I'm not funny! *poker face* I'm perfectly serious!
Mr James: *amused* go do your christmas cards -
More about Liz....>_______> yes yes, go snigger at poor me.
Last random convo:
tsu: what'you drawing?
Mr James: *charcoal on potrait* I'm doing drawings for a book on potraiture.
Liz: That sounds wonderful
Mr James: Would you like to be a model? I'm still looking for some
tsu: I'll help!:D
Mr James: Can you sit still? *skeptic*
tsu: Sure!
Mr James: -.-;;;;; sure.
tsu: You know, all you need to do is to tell everyone that you'll draw them without pimples and all the models will come flocking to you!
Liz: I don't mind helping either.
tsu: If you draw me, can you make me prettier?
Mr James: *laugh* I'll draw you exactly the way you are
"-" signifies my English name. He likes saying names I think, even if I don't really like mine. LOL, besides, he always (intentionally) misspells it to "Raquel" Bloody hellfire.
btw,
WILD A.R.M.S III IS MUCHLY MUCHLY LOVE!<3
love
tsu
+tsu waited for you at 07:17 p.m.+
I didn't plan to blog so soon after Mawai. Still a little ditzy from the trip....like...I got lost-ed in Orchard! *gasp* For once! Mostly Christmas shopping now, and almost everyone gets a gift, even my godforsakened classmates. LOL. I don't know why I care, but I suppose....season of giving and all ^^;; I like giving anyway, and I like Christmas. Mostly slacking/planning for Christmas and reading yaoi_daily.
[confession]
I am absolutely addicted to Junjyou Romantica.
[/confession]
It doesn't read like smut, it's interesting with real, believable characters and Hiro just reminds me of me! LOL Problably a bad thing since he's whiny, bossy as hell, grumpy, cranky, sulky, overzealous and angsty when not getting enough attention. But it's seriously turning into one of my favourite series, and I'll be sad when it ends.
Anyway, on to the lists!
Gifts
mom - brooch
kor
Sis - furrybook + star
audy - purple(?) + risuto
sakky - kurorin + pink(?)
neko - black + charm
natz - hitsu + charm
Rosemary - charm
Gloria - charm
Sharon - charm + furry
Rachel Koh - charm
aunty iris - charm (req. last pc)
Mr James - tea
Uncle Marc - something pretty?
Syid - chocolates
dad - 'suppose a book on mining *shrugs*
schoolmates
Angie, Angel, Amanda, Vanessa
Pinkie, Josephine
Eleanor, Joceyln, Marie, Charissa
total = 3 x 10 = 30
+solikin, graham = pencils x2
christmas cards
Mizumi/Christine (1 each)
Judith
Sakky
audy
Mr James
Aunty Iris
Uncle Marc
Aunty Bobbie (maybe MAYBE)
Rosemary
Sharon + bday card
Neko
Natz
Syid
Total:13/14
e-greeting cards = everyone on MSN.
wrapping
5m of wrapping paper - red
2 sheets speciality paper - shimmer
1 roll of grey ribbon w/ silver trim
1 roll of gold ribbon
1 pckt snowcrystals/flakes
1 pckt black pens (ink)
1 pckt solid pastel pens (gel)
Going with sak tomorrow to get my sis's 2nd half and audy's present (as well as whoever's left on the list)^^;;; hopefully I can find it. If not, I'll just order it or find something suitably apporiate. Planning to see EGL clothes with sakky too cos she says that SG sells Metamorphse (sp?) :D Waiii! I want a peasant blouse and another frilly skirt!<3<3<3 Kor (reluctantly) agreed to get me another tartan skirt for christmas~<3 Ish much love no?
love
tsu
+tsu waited for you at 12:41 a.m.+
*falls over*
BACKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
Mawai was......................horrifying. Extreme horror. Begin at the beginning:
Day One of NYAA-hell
Woke at a god-forsaken hour in the morning 6am and hurriedly packed my last-minute stuff before going to school and boarding the bus. I was amazingly awake, and yakking with Graham, Angie and Solikin while most of others were sleeping. Passed through immigration, drove all the way past Kota Tinggi into Mawai Lama which is seriously fooked. We changed buses twice, then put on lifejackets to cross a crocdile infested river via a put-put keyring motorboat. And it was RAINING (God's pissing) most of the time.
MAWAI IS A FRIGGIN' GOD-FORSAKEN -SWAMP-
It's located 20mins off Kota Tinggi, and near Johor Lama. You can get there from Second Link (Tuas acess) from Singapore. Roughly 2hr bus ride to to Mawai Lama, then you have to take a boat to cross the river.
My classmates being so idiotically united, decided to stay at the longhouse which is 500m from the bathroom, 300m from the Dining Area and RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FRIKKIN SWAMP. *shakes head* I don't get it. I really don't get it. They have a girls' section to make your life easier, situated on higher ground and not built on some damned silts over reed-filled water. On the other hand, it's cooler in here and since we're sleeping with the boys, we got them to give way to us most of the time.
The beds were really cool though, it was basically a canvas hammock tied between 2 poles and you sleep in your sleeping bag in it (the nights are freezing) Problem: No one can tie a proper knot except for Solikin & Co., Angie and I. I suppose being in Girl Guides finally paid off. Anyway, none of them can tie a friggin' knot that can hold weight. Set up our goods, and set off for our first activity, Water Obstacles.
It's basically a ropes course over water, which would be pretty fun if the sun was actually shining, but it was RAINING and I couldn't see a darn thing cos I didn't have glasses and so, ended up falling in most of the time. After a while we got so tired of standing in the rain and wind and freezing our asses off that we jumped into the pool to warm up. When you're wet and you go into water you keep warmer faster loool. Then we started splooshing water at each other and kicking up mud and squealing and hell, it was pretty fun! :D Then while doing the tarxan-course I kept on falling in, then Angie yelled: "THINK LIANG BAO" then I shrieked and fell RIGHT IN. All in all, I fell in about 10 over times. And Jo, Van and I were sitting on the balance beam and dangling our feet in the water braiding reeds/rushes and squealing when we saw a frog. Ahahahahaha
Cold, tired, soaked to bone we went to bathe. Then we were seriously seriously F*CKED. The toilets are supersupershitty. There's like COCKROACHES and weird shit inside and no electricity either. Ever tried bathing by candlelight? You can't see what you're doing and Amanda was so pissed because she couldn't get her bra on. And there was a problem with water too cos the one of the pumps were unluckily spolit and zero-g on water pressure. In the end, I just washed my hair in the sink and did my best later in a dark stinky smelly dirty cubicle.
And since it was raining so shittily, there weren't many fireflies or stars. But the fireflies ARE cool. I mean it. Apparently when they're mating the lights start to synchronize and it looks a little like green christmas lights. The males are brighter than the females though. It's pretty na~ Then we passed by the WWII bunkers and one of them freaked the kazoozz out of me cos I saw something - a shadow or whatever that just flickered when the leaves rustled. Anyway, it was freaky. I wasn't the only one though, Eleanor was pretty freaked too.
Day Two of Hell
SWAMP WALK.
Disgusting. Icky. Flooded. *insert EWW-adjectives here*
First Encounter with leeches.
And other various digustingly creepycrawlies
*shudders*
The rain didn't stop the entire day and night so everywhere was super super muddy. Example:
Guy1: "eh so how was the swamp walk har?"
Guy2: " The first part okay lah, just normal walking mud"
Do you know how weird that sounds?
Normal walking MUD
It's like the place was so muddy we had normal mud (which is soft and grassy), squelchy mud (which goes squelch squelch when you walk), concrete mud (which is thick and clingy and sucks your slippers in), smelly farting mud (which smells like shit and goes blop)
Disgusting aye?
Slushy slooshy smushy splush
The Orderline Trail wasn't so bad, it was just really cold. The rain turned into those chillingly cold drizzles with wind and I was slightly feverish. Didn't want to see the bunkers cos it was a little creepy (and confined. and underground. and flooded with water. and dead things)I just don't like mud. Mud sucks. Mud makes your life miserable. *sniffles* It's just so icky!!!
Dinner was pretty good. I don't know...but the food here is pretty nice. It's mostly curry and beans but I LIKE curry. 'specially 2 different kinds of curry at one go. It warms you up and tastes really good when you're cold, wet, hungry and resembling more or less like a drowned rat. And since Malaysia is a Islamic country, most of it was chicken, mutton and beef. My sis would love the food 'cos it's basically organic (yes sis, I agree that free-range tastes better) and the eggs, eggy-er.
The briefing afterwards really freaked me though. Tomorrow we would be climbling Mount Pangi. Group 1 (my group) would be starting from Pine Resort and trekking till we reached a rock wall about 5m high and free-climb (i.e. no harness) up till we reached a swamp plateau then trek again till we reached the summit
From the summit, we would trek down until we reached this HUGE 4-storey high convex cave rock wall and free-climb down. And trek downwards till we reached base camp again. (Group 2 would descend from our side)
tsu's reaction: "NO FRIGGIN' WAY." (especially since I heard it was a non-complusory challenge.
Thinking:
-It's been raining for the past 2 days = LEECHES + slippery.
-It's free-fall climbing = Fall and you kana si liao (die)
-I really hate this kind of thing = already did LTC why give a shit
-It's non-complusory = why should I volunteer to walk among bugs?
Everyone was discussing if they wanted to go or not. I had already decided not to go, while Josephine, Marie, Charissa and Amanda were thinking about it. What really irritated me was that Angel was being so pushy about going. People like me and Jo weren't really keen and she kept on and on, saying stuff like "Go lah, it won't be fun without you." , "I'll missssssssss you.", "We must be as tough as the boys right? Come lar!" It's irritating. It's even more irritating when I saw Angel pushing those people who didn't want to go, and exerting ...what'cha call it? Peer Pressure on them. Most of them decided to think about it overnight.
Day Three (a.k.a NICE DAY! :D)
The sun broke out finally, it was really beautiful. The swamp IS beautiful, but we couldn't really enjoy because of the dirt, the bugs, the mud, the rain. But watching the rainbows (there were 2) arc over the grassy wetlands, with morning mist hanging over and monkeys and birds calling out....it's really beautiful.
And angel was *still* pushing.
My goodness, doesn't she know when to stop?
Anyway, in the end only Josephine and I didn't go :D Even though they said all the stuff about pride and self-respect and all that kind of thing, I still think I made the right decision for myself.
Since everyone else was leaving, I volunteered to wash the breakfast dishes so they had enough time to organize the food packs, water, who's carrying what etc etc So when they left Jo and I collected the plates and cutlery and went behind to wash leisurely. Washing wasn't so bad, but EW! Some people didn't know how to do it properly so it choked the sink and it was really digusting cos it was our group's duty and ended up being us to un-choke it.
We found 2 other girls who didn't go either (Grace and Angeline(?) from ARC.) and 2 female teachers as well. It was pretty wonderful, we sat together in the wooden seats in the 'balcony' outside the longhouse, dangled our feet over the water, prodded at the pretty yellow fungi and watched the dragonflies and birds and the sun glide over the treetops and just.....talking. Aimless stuff like what were our favourite things etc etc....Jo was really homesick. And what she needed wasn't a bloody mountain (filled with god-knows-what) but just random nonsense and cheerful, normal things to make her feel better.
Then the sun got too hot, and we moved in. The other girls went to hang laze on the hammocks so Jo and I decided to make the best out of the sunshine and wash our dirty clothes and shoes. So we carried all our dirty bags to the bridge-area, sat down and did our laundry. It was nice ^^ The sun was hot and the water was cold and it was just absolutely lovely to put your feet in the icy-rain water and wash the mud off your clothes and hang it on wooden railings to dry while looking at the sheer amount of butterflies, birds and dragonflies. We saw yellow butterflies, white ones and this absolutely beautiful one that was black and violet and it sat on Jo's shoe while she washed her clothes.
It was really wonderful. Like.....a real holiday ^^ It just felt so peaceful and serene, and wonderfully quiet. Then we went off to bathe in the clean(!) bathrooms and enjoyed a bath with lots of water, no one bugging you to hurry up or anything but taking your time to slowly scrub down and bathe with shampoo, bath foam and conditioner. *sighs happily* By the time we got out, it was just in time for lunch. Lunch of tomato chicken, beans and rice <3 yummy *drools* Then it started to drizzle a little (but that's normal) so we walked leisurely back, and went for an afternoon nap in the drizzly weather.
Woke up, read Goblet of Fire (nicked it from Angie's bunk) and some newspapers before watching the sunset and waiting for everyone to get back. Because I didn't go, I'm posting one of my classmate's story here:
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The other side of Day 3 [by classmates]
Going up wasn't so bad, it was pretty sunny. The only part was the climbing but the tree was so weird! It was like a spiral staircase of roots so it wasn't too hard to climb. At the summit we had lunch and spent like, 15mins eating fried egg and rice. The view was really good, but honestly? Not worth it. What really scared us was that Group 2 (who were already there) was saying "The LEECHES WILL EAT j00 ALIVE!" and had bloodstained socks and legs bleeding everywhere to prove it.
Getting down was harder. The weird inverted cave (it curves inwards) took really long then it started raining and all the leeches started coming out and attacking us! We even saw this leech-nest which was really gross cos they were crawling and it was really digusting. Marcus was such an ass and he started playing with them and putting it on his hand until it grew really big - about the size of your thumb. Everyone started slipping and falling - especially Joceyln, who fell about 6 times. The mud was really gross and we were practically wading in it most of the time. Soon everyone wasn't only bloody, but muddy as well.
We started out quite late, so by the time we got back it was already almost dark and really cold. We were practically freezing inside the bus."
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By the time they got back it was really dark, and they were all stinky and smelly and had horrible bleeding patches on various body parts. Not only that, some of them didn't realize they had leeches still on, and brought them in(!) >____> Icky. Everyone was either really hyped, or really tired by now so lights out pretty quickly. Charissa and I were talking about shopping while some of them went off to listen to ghost stories. Nicest day so far ~<3<3<3
Day Four of Hell (last day!:D)
Long long long long busride. 2 hrs to get to Johore Lama to visit a pointless un-preserved fort that took only 15 mins to look around but 2 hrs to get to. Some random history bits about Johore (i.e. "lama" means "original" and apparently, this was a main trading port before it moved to JB, then KL)
More busride....1 hr to Kota Tinggi Museum.
More history bits. Stuff like the Dutch tradesman who came before the British, lots of pottery and sharp-deadly looking kris. The cool thing was this 100 years old Koran...and guess what?! It's still legible! (and in Arabic) It's written in goat parchment apparently...waaaay cool. The beaten gold hexagonal coins (with inscriptions) and the "punched" jewellery were surprisingly shiny. What really struck me was this pair of earrings with sapphire (marquis-cut) and it was absolutely gorgeous. It's the deep sea blue - the infinite blue - so pretty. Like Tatsumi's eyes <3~
More busride .....Kota Tinggi town up ahead!
By that time we were super-hungry and Kevin and I were masohistically talking about food, food, food. Like icecream. Chendol. Roti Chanai (basically prata crispier). Pizza. 7-11 Slurpies. Chocolate. Char Kway Teow. etc etc etc By the time we reached the town we were practically starving. We broke off into different groups: Jo, Eleanor, Jocelyn, Pinkie, Graham and I went off to the coffeshop to eat chicken rice, duck noodles, bakuteh ("pork tea" aka pork cooked in herbal stew) and roti chanai with sourplum juice and milo ping (iced milo). The food was fantastic, and we went off to look for chendol and buy stuff back home before we got back in the bus.
Other people not so cool xD Ate Pizza Hut and KFC. Apparently, they didn't ask for directions and ran out of time and ended up headed for the first stop they could see.
Reached Singapore. And all of us started singing the national songs! This is HOME. TRULY! and all that kind of stuff -lool, Mawai has made me more appreciative I guess. I currently am in love with concrete floors (no MUD!), clean bathrooms, hot water, and NO BUGS! *gleeful* no bugs no bugs no bugs NO BUGS! :D
*kisses hallowed ground*
Went home and scrubbed myself *clean*. Used plenty of soap, then watched in horror as my bathwater ran BROWN!. It had soil in it. As in -MUD- *horrified* EW EW EW GROSS!
Scrubbed again just to make sure.
And for record, The MAWAI songs!
Jungle Hell (sing to Jingle Bells)
dashing through the mud
like one retarded group
we walk on ropes and planks
to get to the other end
we can't do monkey bars
ropes are not our friend
but when we jump into the swamp
wet is what we get
hey!
jungle hell, jungle hell
rain and rain all day
what the fook we have to do
a ropes course in the rain
hey!
jungle hell, jungle hell
rain and rain all day
o what it would be to
play and play instead
It Just Rains (sing to Let It Snow)
the weather outside is frightful
our beds are warm and delightful
then when we're dragged to the swamp
it just rains
it just rains
it just rains
Walking in the Muddy Swampy Land(sing to: Walking in Winter Wonderland)
n the rain, there are no birds
no one smiles, only leeches
they cling to our skin, sucking it in
that's walking in the rainy swampy land
In the swampland there are no roads
And we all fall into the mud bath
When we get up our shoe just gets stuck
And no one has the heart to really smile
Later on, as when it's freezing
All are cold, in the raining
To add to our pain
The damned bloody rain
Starts pouring hard all over again
Orderline Trail (sing to: Slient Night)
Ordeline trail
pouring rain
we are wet, ground is soft
bunkers, jetties and dark grey stone
when we go back we are happy
all we can say is yipee
Dreaming of (sing to: Dreaming of White Christmas)
i'm dreaming of my home and family
just like they were four days ago
with my siblings screaming
and father grunting
and mum yelling through her nose
i'm dreaming of a nice bathroom
just like the one i have at home
i hope that i'll be happy and right
and that home will come to me tonight
The MAWAI SONG (sing to: L.O.V.E)
L is for the leeches on my leg
O is oh-my-gosh it's raining, again!
V is very very, extra extra muddy
E is even more than any horror i could ask for
mud, is more than just a game for two
mud can give you really screwed up shoes
but shoes are really cheap here
we sleep with monkeys, dogs and mousedeer
and that is mawai made for you!
love
tsu
+tsu waited for you at 08:36 p.m.+
Hi. Tsu's *coughVERYCOOLcough* sister here. Umm, by order I am suppose to say:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SEISHIROU-SAN<3~!!!!
Yup. Done.
Night. She's gonna miss her TV programmes +tsu waited for you at 09:14 p.m.+
HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOSHIKI-SAN! +tsu waited for you at 10:07 p.m.+
I hate packing. +tsu waited for you at 10:12 p.m.+
Listening to: Live265 - Hardcore J +tsu waited for you at 02:15 a.m.+
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Rundown: +tsu waited for you at 01:08 a.m.+
Fiction update: +tsu waited for you at 02:47 a.m.+
I love my layout *huggles*
Tsu is at Mawai enjoying a firefly cruise according to the itinerary. Hope she doesn't have many leechs on her, it's been rainy all day. She going to be girly when she comes home and hog the toilet to scrub herself with good smelling soap. -_-
*sings birthday song*
I'm kinda sad that I won't be able to blog Seishirou-san's birthday (22nd Nov) because I'll be away at Mawai camp. So. Anyway, I comissioned my sis to tag Seishirou's birthday for me. *sighs* I'll be sleeping at Khota Tinggi then.
Packed my bags, got fairly annoyed at the lack of proper clothes and my mom's overly protective behaviour. She's crazy! My god, she wanted me to pack 3 jackets, dozens of pants and what nots and medication and whatevers and -food- *dies* It's not exactly a tough camp, if you get my drift. Sleep in nice little commando straw huts/raised platforms, go for river cruises, watch fireflies etc etc .....Definetely not as bad as OBS or LTC, so no worries on that score. The only thing that vaguely annoys is that I'll be missing all my TV programmes and Seishirou's birthday as well.
Was up reading my whole Anne of Green Gables series yesterday, and had a lovely time with me, the wooden floor and the glowing moon. It's so wonderful to be able to re-read the books you read as a child, to sink into the spell of words and stories of apple-cheeked rosy girls and tumbly boys. *sighs dreamily* It's always interesting when people say "sparkling eyes" because I've never seen my eyes sparkle before. I think to sparkle, your eyes need to be a lighter colour besides black-brown. Under white light, my eyes are black, very un-sparkly (I checked in the bathroom) while incandescent makes it brownyer. LOOOL
The night is so quiet and peaceful today
So beautifully cool and still
I hate packing.
*disgruntled*
Anyway, love to all~ I'll be away from 20th to 24th Nov, and when I get back the first thing I'll do is scrub myself silly with nice smelling soap. LOOOL~ So girly of me
love <3<3<3 x 4
tsu
mmmmnschhrfffffff *pout*
Packing for expedition, is not not not fun. :( No TV, no computer, no soft sheets *sighs* worst of all, my earphones are spoilt and broken so I have no music either.
See, I was running for the bus on last Wednesday and then my earphones dropped on the road and just when I was just about to pick it up a bloody bus ran over it! As in CRACK! PIANGZ! BROKEN! ;_________; *sobs* noooooooo.....So anyway. Music-less. And y'know, I thought this only happened to unlucky anime sods. Which goes to show that even though I'm not anime, I'm still an unlucky sod. *sighs*
Episode 58 of Bleach is muchly muchly love<3
Almost tempted to be like Sakky and buy OTP keychains
AHHHH! Byakuya x Renji 4EVAZ!
Ichigo on the other hand
Screams: "I'M STRAIGHT KTHNXBAI"
Honestly I'm only waiting for 3 things: Urahara to bankai. Jyuu-chan~ to bankai and Kyouraku to bankai
Am I the only one who thinks Aizen's bankai is just waaaay too convient?
Btw, seeing Byakuya insult the size of Ichi's bankai is teh lurve<3
"chiisai" - HAH!
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Today's Student Reporter competition bordered on silly and absymally boring. Silly is good. Silly I like. So whenever I didn't know the answer, I just dumped in whatever I could think of. Like one of the qns: "what was today's headlines on the newspaper?" tsu's answer: God Loves Everyone but Bush. I don't know okay? I hate reading papers unless absolutely nessescary. The things I read everyday: yaoi_daily (my n00spaper) and LJ Friends page. Everything else? Maybesss.
Damnit I was planning to watch Kyou Kara Maou this week ;___; and the last few epis of Sousei no Aquarion(!) The transforming part never fails me make me giggle. LOOOL...GO! AQUARION! It's almost like Power Rangers meets Eva. And Eva pwnzzz your soul. *gets PWNZ* I watched it at 10, and I'm still thinking of Kaworu Nagisa *dies* And since Erementar Gerald is also complete, I should watch it too. Then go to Toa Payoh and rent Sister Princess cos I'm ghey like that.
Talking about completed stuff
Ayawase no Diamond Life complete!!!!!!!!!!!!<3
YAY GO NATSU! GO SHIN!
Now if only Rapunzel will hurry up finish
As well as the ubergaysch-U Koie no Sou (or sth like that)
Rapunzel r0xx0rs.
Okay. Tomorrow pack stuff, shop with mom and try not to feel too sad about missing my fave TV programmes (Jamie's school dinners, Dr. House, Made to Order, Surreal Gourmet, American Casinos, Hana Yori Dango, Pimp My Ride, Non-stop hits, Nigella Bites, While You Were Out, No Reservations, A Cook's Tour...etc etc)
do you get the feeling I watch a lot of TV?
love and ciao~
tsu
I've discovered a new hobby....listening to what other people listen! xD xD..... And then I found a channel dedicated to the weirdest/most hardcore J-POP ever invented, with 5 rounds of Rip Slyme, Morning Musume, Aya Matsura, Puffyami, Orange Range, SMAP...etc etc You name it, they have it. It's so fablulously kitschy they even have the Hello Kitty theme song! (cute enough to drop your teeth to) I have this weird fondness for Fukuyama Masaharu and no, I really don't have any idea who he is. (except that he really really reminds me of a school band, especially with the grandiosely out of place trumpets)
Kawaguchi Kyougo sounds like a girl
But a REALLY GOOD sounding girl
My gods, his falsetto beats Gacky's any day
Watching lighting flashing outside my balcony is pretty~
And I miscalculated it seems...Apparently, it's TODAY with the winter moon. Very shiny, very glowy, very pretty. It's lovely and windy today too~ Slept lots <3 Sleeping is good and so is staring at beautiful things especially with your headphones playing cheesy music yea yea YEA! Come to think of it, I've never really heard anything as wonderfully plasticky manufactured as Jpop (which is good)
Like right now, I have Ayumi Hamasaki wailing her vocals
Cool huh? All this technology.
Watched Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
SPOILERS BELOW:
Good things:
-Voldemort is COOLNESS COOLNESS COOLNESS. Ralph Finnes is the sexiest robe-swirliest Voldie everz. (and he PWNZ j00 too)
-The schools are really well-done, I couldn't help giggle at how "manly" the Drumstrung folks were though.
-The CG is pretty fantastic. Loved the dragons and the merpeople, wonderful shot at the underwater weeds part (topshot, with bubbles)
-Action scenes were terrific, the fighting extremely cool.
-SNAPE WAS SO SEXY AND COOL!<3<3<3 (bash harry!bash ron! together! :D)
The bad:
-the Non-Plotlness. Cutting out major plot explainations for flying scenes is NOT cool.
-Victor Krum was manly and UGLY.
-Fleur wasn't pretty enough. But still ok.
-I absolutely HATE HATE HATE HATE Dumbledore. He's not old, he's not cool, he's not awe-inspiring and sometimes I wish he'll just shut the fook up.
-The pacing suxxors.
-Cho Chang can't speak ENG-LI-SH. She's got this weird singsong accent that sounds like she's got something up her nose.
-Where's Lupin? And Black?
-Rita Skeeter was more annoying than actually a meance to society. Where's my paparazzi?
-The music wasn't as well done.
The Ugly
THEY MADE THE PREFECTS' BATHROOM LOOK LIKE $#@! *pissed*
Overall rating: 6.5/10
Passable job, but could be better.
Still hungry....>___>
Junk food doesn't fill you properly methinks.
Damnit, I really want normal food
*plans to run to supermarket tomorrow*
Can you imagine?
I'm dying for a vegetable.
love
tsu
The night smells beautiful tonight. It smells of woodsmoke and cologne, of crushed violets and the clean clean rain. Rain that washes this city clean, the roads are softer, the lights more distant and fairylike - baubles of neon yellow and red that change with the quickening of traffic. It's quiet now, too late for evening, too early to be truly night. The winter moon hovers like a papercut in the sky, a brilliant pale ghost that flood silvery light in halos, a glowing aura sinking into a sea of shadowy, soft clouds. It'll be cold tonight, for sure. The very air seems chilly with wind, carrying hints of November frost which slices through my thin cardigan like a knife. Sharp. Cold. I wrap my arms around myself, wishing I had the sense to put on another jacket. But it doesn't matter, the night is beautiful all the same.
November is a bleak season, but beautiful.
Distantly, I hear my neighbour's radio...songs that carry past windows and walls, scraps of music I vaguely remember who do you need? who do you love? Wistfully, I think of warm summer days filled with languid afternoons and alcoholic lemonade, days of sunshine-soaked rain and heat so warm, so hot, so enveloping as it wrapped around me in a heated embrace. And most of all...laughter. It passed like a opium dream The familar conversations that sank, then disappeared as each memory grew distant and distances grew larger until a sense of fondness was all that we had left.
Blown away like the leaves of autumn, we left and forgotten. Life that takes our breath away with the sheer busyness of it all, so caught up we can never remember ourselves, much less others.
November is beautiful, but pitiless.
The night grows colder by minute, and the traffic moved with muted sounds of skidding tires slush slush over still wet roads. As I walk back into my empty apartment, the loneliness seems to open before me, void and grey and clean. Life like an endless montony of broken songs and broken dreams, filled with the bleak greyness of a non-existing life.......a never-ending winter of cold cold nights. I saw all this, and remembered the warmth of summer, the memories that warm me now.
Even then, no matter how bleak, November is always beautiful.
who do you love?
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The weather is very inspiring. Been raining the last couple of hours (wah! I want the laundry to be dry!) Collected my cheques, I've got about $150 to spend now~ :D Money is gooood~ Still wondering wether to cosplay or not. *sighs* It's just so.....bothersome to cut stuff up and sew and pay expensive exhorbitant fees ($10 entrance fee) to see people I don't really know if I want to see, watch poor anime parody skits. The only factor in all of this is a chance to dress up, but then...I could just simply do it on a free weekend. Not to mention Expo centre is so frikkin far.
Dinner was really fun! Watched TV + Zatoichi, ate frozen pizza and potato chips and icecream~ LOL, problably the most junk food we had in a long long long time. Wrote a book review (Fitzgerald's This side of Paradise) for the school, checked my mail, read magazines, helped Natz with homework, surfed Wiki, tried to read fics but got bored....etc usual things.
I'm going to be 18 soon and I'm looking at gothic and lolita outfits. *kills self*
It's like those deep dark deadly secrets you don't want anyone to know. That YES! you really want to dress up like an oversized, overruffled, overlaced, overpowdered, overaged doll complete with prerequisite wide-eyed innocence and the "turnout" feet that Japanese girls seem to have. Not only that, you want to clothe yourself in mounds and mounds of itchy, stratchy lace and too many ribbons to count.
On the other hand, you never seem to get over yourself unless you...y'know....DO IT.
So okay!
On my 18th birthday, everyone is invited for an alcoholic teaparty. More former than the latter. Where you can dress in embarassing outfits that you always wanted to wear but never got the guts to. Like I'll go and see what I can get to pass off as "gothiclolita" and other people can dress as banannas with yellow stems or wtv. And then we get drunk. And eat my sister's cake. And giggle. And then shove someone into the swimming pool. ^________________^ how does that sound?
Oh yeah.
Everyone's invited for Christmas~
Yes yes, that includes YOU
Please leave a note at my sister's blog if you're coming. She's cooking so she wants to make enough dessert. (trust me, it's good) Blog addy: aya_tsukiko.pitas.com
Going to the bank tomorrow to cash my cheques, then I'll be watching Harry Potter and the Sex Machine Goblet of Fire with sis and whoever's free tmr cos we have free tickets to it. I think audy is busy, so I shouldn't bother. I'll bet she'll say no even if I ask anyway. Most likely she'll want to go out with her friends.
.........
I'm always amazed when I actually predict right.
Next time, I just won't bother asking.
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It's scary.
I don't like it.
I really don't like it.
I really *really* don't like it.
it just reminds me of those dem twats who managed to piss me off beautifully because they tried to be funny around my sister. after which i gave her every right to be rude to them.
It's problably just me though
Mis Grounchy-Sulky
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I really need to clean my bookshelves...*sighs* Don't really want to......Oh! I found more Ray Bardbury books to buy at Borders. Nearly settled on my Christmas list for people. It always amazes me that people who say they don't need anything are the easiest to buy for, and those who enjoy things are the hardest to buy. Like my brother is so terribly difficult while my sis is pretty easy. It's like I just walk around and BAM! I see -IT-. Which is kinda cool, don't ya think?
I need to unpack my boxes too.
Stanford essay pics + hitsu keychain
As well as the knicknacks I've managed to earn over the years......Like the piles of neatly tied written letters I have from my brother, penpals and other sundries. Like my bookmark/stickers collection, and my most precious possesion: notebooks + journals filled with miscellenous junk such as astrology codes, runic alphabets which I learnt while being a mythology-geek, book titles, song titles, fanfiction (CCS! *dies*), melodramatic family happenings etc etc I've had a notebook since 7, so you can imagine the amount I have now (considering I have 2 notebooks a year). I resisted having one in JC though, mainly because the school pisses me off too much to write coherently.
I'm kinda blah over everything now
*stones*
*gathers moss*
*crickets chirp*
*stones some more*
My mind feels like a befuddled foghorn echoing at a pointless bay at yet another meaningless destination. Someone kill me pls kthnxbai.
love
tsu
Watching lots of movies with sis. I've discovered something know as *drumroll* DVD RENTALS!. Within a week, I've rented Waterboys, Taxi2, Taxi3 and Zatoichi. The lady is so nice na! Next week I'm renting Kill Bill, Sideways and other wonderfully M-18 movies (I pray they get Lan Yu or I'll cry)
Found another place that has anime vcds too
Anyone up for Sister Princess??
Life's been okay, I'll be away soon though. I made it into the NYAA-expidition list and I'll problably have to write a report after the expidition. National Youth Achiever... *shrugs* I never really wanted/expected to be one, totally kills my badass image. It's just kinda weird to be so...so good. Anyway, I'm going to Mawai on the 21st to 24th Nov~ (waii! I'm missing Sei-chan's birthday! ;_;) The usual suspects of trekking, trekking and trekking. *sighs* WHY? The only thing that sounds vaguely cool is the firefly river and stargazing. Yes yes...I'll be alone and dateless BUT! BUT! everyone will be muddy, dirty and sweaty anyway. Besides, no matter how romantic fireflies are, you need a touch of angst to make it more poetic.
Who am I bullshitting? loool
romantikuuu hajimemashou~
Living with sis, while not perfect, is live-able. Food is slack, cleaning is well : you clean what you dirty. Mostly living on sandwhiches, sandwhiches, sandwhiches and sandwhiches. I'm not a big fan of washing, so a sandwhich is really my thing. Even more weird is that my cooking skillz seem to surface at night, so I'm thinking maybe I'll cook in the night, chuck it in the fridge and eat it the next day. I don't need complicated food anyway (and by the time I actually wake up, the last thing I want to do is cook. I just want to eat)
Watched Jamie's school dinners...
I feel for him kz? No wonder he's so pissed.
Funny thing is after this, I like him more.
Okay I think I'll have spaghetti tomorrow, so I should cook it now huh?
love
tsu
Blankets ch. 4 (NC-17)
Of Lightsabers and Other Phallic Objects
Tactics, HaruKan (R)
Sautéed
G'night people.
I feel uber-bloopered and in need of sleep.
6+ hours of Namie Amuro does that to you.
love
tsu
It's not spectacular, or even particularly colourful
But I like it. It's tsu-ish~ :D which makes me happy
And it's Seishirou-san! What's there not to love?
Did some work today (amazing! tsu can work!) started on the illustration for library poster. I'm going for the art-noveau, moulin-rouge kind of Greenfairy poster. Like those late 19th century absinite posters. I like those fake french-inspired (american-made) trinket things. LOOOL I'm no francophile, I just like that look. The kind of borderline decadance, superunderstated, trashypop look that was really popular in the late 19th. It's pretty!
And it's also terribly uncool.
Actually, I'm beginning to see a trend. Like, anything with buckles, sex toys, pistols-inspired Born Dead or I LOVE ROCK is popular while everything else is not. (tsu will be terribly uncool and say that she doesn't really like punk-wear) I suppose auddy's influence made me favour it, but truthfully? I like my weirdo boho-meets-trashcan look better. No belts, no buckles, no zips.
So now you know, I don't actively like rock.
Beatnik + New Wave!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<3
This is where I'll say something like
I wish I was born in the 80's
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Mom's home again, thank goodness. Now she can help out with the housework too (and stop complaining as well). I need to get paid too, because people owe me money and I'm broke. And I like cash. And Christmas is coming up.
I'm still iffy over audy. I think I can't really be bothered anymore. If she doesn't want anything to do with me, it's fine. Why should I go and bother people unnessescarily when I have my comp, my illust. books and music? The only thing that I get vaguely irritated is that this whole mess hasn't even closed/finished properly.
Anyway. Did the test everyone seems to be doing.
The only flaw I can imagine in it is that it's a matter of persepctive.
Life may be good, even great to you. But if you're a self-pitying fool then....well, you're bound to have a lousy score.
This Is My Life, Rated Life:
5.3Mind:
5.8Body:
5.9Spirit:
7.3Friends/Family:
2.7Love:
0.8Finance:
5.5Take the Rate My Life Quiz
love
tsu
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