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spiderpigI'm being really kiasu here in planning my first semester's modules and stuff =A=;;... I suck out all the fun in university a little earlier than most people I guess. Then I remembered, halfway through shortlisting tentative modules, that I'm in the fucking USP and that I have USP requirements too. :D()
This is "being prepared" on overdrive - or overclocked as I'd like to put it - and it gives me a sort of sadistic pleasure from stressing out over minute details. Be prepared! /insert 'pats-pocket' action. There's nothing wrong with being overprepared, but I tend to obsess over the smallest things. The Japan trip comes to mind when I just went slightly overboard with pre-Japan preparations. So it's no surprise that I'm mulling over all this Pre-University stuff. That being said, I haven't done lots of things yet. Namely: PACK MY GODDAMNED ROOM.
Most of my friends think I'm a little loose in the head for being so enthusiastic about certain things, especially when I really get into it. Add this to my usually placid nature where I'm just all "heck care" about everything, I think it slightly disturbs them. Or rather, that's the image that they have.
Stationery shopping has left me totally broke. I actually have spent nearly 90 on notebooks and random school supplies alone? Fuck. I wanted to join a Strap-ya Spree, because the NERV makie stickers are back in stock but looks like that'll have to wait. D: Dude, I need a refund from my mum. I'm not getting ANY cash inflow including allowance. Living on my precluded savings from work has left me with nearly nothing.
Argh, why can't my mum be normal. She insists that it's grievously wrong to wake up any later than 8:30, even on weekends, and dude I need sleep. Lots of it. I forsee many sleepless nights in the future because of my heavy work schedule and I need to stock up on my no-panda-eyes moments now. The dark circles are becoming a part of me now. Zomg. Like a slow-mo henshin sequence.
It's getting more and more annoying how my parents are forcing me to learn how to drive. Dude, I want to, but all this nagging makes me just want to not learn how to do it because it's driving me up the wall!
I have a mole-hill task of clearing the shelves and drawers in my room - there are so many things I can't bear to throw away! D: No doubt about it, I'm a pack-rat. But when sentimentalism takes over practicality, you know you're in hot water. Because no matter who gave these numerous glasses of potpurri, or random bits of cloth stuck together, or even that cute little statue - it's all really totally useless and just takes up space. My drawers I suppose, are a microcosm of my personality. I can't bear to let go of anything just because it's occupied space in my heart. It's a safety net of sorts, where you can look back and go "look here, there was this time when..." and smile to yourself and be at peace with the world.
How childish.
Saint October has one of the most disturbing henshin sequences I've ever seen in my 12 years of magical girl anime. Dude, I mean, WTF? It's just plain WTF-ery.
Gackt x Gundam is love. This is probably one of the main reasons why I'm a Gackt fan. <33 He can really sing decently in Chinese! Hello all you Chinese AO students! He puts all of you to shame!!!
I have an odd penchant for writing - creating - poems that rely heavily on the whole visual aspect of poetry. Having words that pop up, shaping the poem into images itself, abusing the tab key to create sublimnal spaces and odd emphases. The Ferris Wheel poem, created under the Odaiba Ferris Wheel, is probably one of my best examples of that. I'm having trouble trying to fix the typography of it so no samples for now. It was a spur of the moment thing. Under bright neon lights the idea flashed in my mind. An odd, novel thing I suppose.
This blog has a permanent space in my bookmarks list. To be honest, I'm not a big fan of sweet things or amai-mono 甘い物 so deserts or anything resembling that turn me off quite a bit. (Though, I make an exception for delicious cakes!) But this Kyoto blog's focus is largely on wagashi 和菓子 or traditional Japanese sweets/confections/deserts/snacks/niceyummythings, which in turn, coincide with the different seasons of Japan. Currently, it's summer and the time for hydrangeas (ajisai 紫陽花) and irises (I'll have to refresh my memory on what they're called in Japanese.) Hydrangeas are one of my favourite flowers, they're uniquely hardy and the colours are just soothing to look at. Something inherently pleasing about staring at a pot, or a field of hydrangeas when it's drizzling. I have a pot of hydrangeas I bought a few years ago and even when they wither and peter out for a few months, they always suddenly come back bursting into full bloom. To me, hydrangeas represent the unpredictable tenacity of life, something that I respect a lot.
So yes, it's the season for hydrangeas and Kyoto's wagashi makers have all started creating different wagashi that use hydrangeas as the main motif. It's absolutely exciting to scroll down the page and examine the macro photos of the ajisai wagashi on the blog. Creativity at its best. And the best part about wagashi is that they aren't as sweet as Western confections (or is this confectionaries? haha, my Engrish!) so they're perfect for my unsweet tooth! (Edit: Tsu says that wagashi is sweeter than Western stuff but I don't know, I think my tastebuds are wonky. I find them less so. :D() )
I'm supposed to send my editted draft to one of the judges but I'm having trouble phrasing the e-mail to her. :\ Everything I want to say sounds best in Chinese or Japanese. This is wrong on so many levels.
なに-？！？！？！これが何やてん？！超ゲットだぜ！！！げーらきすたゲームだ！！ This is dangerous. I'm going into my otaku mode for Lucky Star. I thought I'd retired from active otakudom - in terms of merchandise purchases - but looks like this bad and expensive habit is going to kick back into high gear.
Anyway! If there are any Japanese Studies majors reading my LJ right now! I have a question to ask - what's the placement test like? I'm signing up for this semester's placement test so I can get a headstart in my Japanese language modules (if my bids aren't successful, I'll just go back to Bunka) and I need to have a rough gauge on what's being tested.
Gah. I'm terribly rusty. I can read everything with ease, but my written has just gone down the drain. Everything I write now is so stilted and forced. Like student's Japanese. I probably can smoke my way through the Oral part with the colloqualisms but geeeeeeeeeeh. *fishes out all my notes*
This is "being prepared" on overdrive - or overclocked as I'd like to put it - and it gives me a sort of sadistic pleasure from stressing out over minute details. Be prepared! /insert 'pats-pocket' action. There's nothing wrong with being overprepared, but I tend to obsess over the smallest things. The Japan trip comes to mind when I just went slightly overboard with pre-Japan preparations. So it's no surprise that I'm mulling over all this Pre-University stuff. That being said, I haven't done lots of things yet. Namely: PACK MY GODDAMNED ROOM.
Most of my friends think I'm a little loose in the head for being so enthusiastic about certain things, especially when I really get into it. Add this to my usually placid nature where I'm just all "heck care" about everything, I think it slightly disturbs them. Or rather, that's the image that they have.
Stationery shopping has left me totally broke. I actually have spent nearly 90 on notebooks and random school supplies alone? Fuck. I wanted to join a Strap-ya Spree, because the NERV makie stickers are back in stock but looks like that'll have to wait. D: Dude, I need a refund from my mum. I'm not getting ANY cash inflow including allowance. Living on my precluded savings from work has left me with nearly nothing.
Argh, why can't my mum be normal. She insists that it's grievously wrong to wake up any later than 8:30, even on weekends, and dude I need sleep. Lots of it. I forsee many sleepless nights in the future because of my heavy work schedule and I need to stock up on my no-panda-eyes moments now. The dark circles are becoming a part of me now. Zomg. Like a slow-mo henshin sequence.
It's getting more and more annoying how my parents are forcing me to learn how to drive. Dude, I want to, but all this nagging makes me just want to not learn how to do it because it's driving me up the wall!
I have a mole-hill task of clearing the shelves and drawers in my room - there are so many things I can't bear to throw away! D: No doubt about it, I'm a pack-rat. But when sentimentalism takes over practicality, you know you're in hot water. Because no matter who gave these numerous glasses of potpurri, or random bits of cloth stuck together, or even that cute little statue - it's all really totally useless and just takes up space. My drawers I suppose, are a microcosm of my personality. I can't bear to let go of anything just because it's occupied space in my heart. It's a safety net of sorts, where you can look back and go "look here, there was this time when..." and smile to yourself and be at peace with the world.
How childish.
Saint October has one of the most disturbing henshin sequences I've ever seen in my 12 years of magical girl anime. Dude, I mean, WTF? It's just plain WTF-ery.
Gackt x Gundam is love. This is probably one of the main reasons why I'm a Gackt fan. <33 He can really sing decently in Chinese! Hello all you Chinese AO students! He puts all of you to shame!!!
I have an odd penchant for writing - creating - poems that rely heavily on the whole visual aspect of poetry. Having words that pop up, shaping the poem into images itself, abusing the tab key to create sublimnal spaces and odd emphases. The Ferris Wheel poem, created under the Odaiba Ferris Wheel, is probably one of my best examples of that. I'm having trouble trying to fix the typography of it so no samples for now. It was a spur of the moment thing. Under bright neon lights the idea flashed in my mind. An odd, novel thing I suppose.
This blog has a permanent space in my bookmarks list. To be honest, I'm not a big fan of sweet things or amai-mono 甘い物 so deserts or anything resembling that turn me off quite a bit. (Though, I make an exception for delicious cakes!) But this Kyoto blog's focus is largely on wagashi 和菓子 or traditional Japanese sweets/confections/deserts/snacks/niceyummythings, which in turn, coincide with the different seasons of Japan. Currently, it's summer and the time for hydrangeas (ajisai 紫陽花) and irises (I'll have to refresh my memory on what they're called in Japanese.) Hydrangeas are one of my favourite flowers, they're uniquely hardy and the colours are just soothing to look at. Something inherently pleasing about staring at a pot, or a field of hydrangeas when it's drizzling. I have a pot of hydrangeas I bought a few years ago and even when they wither and peter out for a few months, they always suddenly come back bursting into full bloom. To me, hydrangeas represent the unpredictable tenacity of life, something that I respect a lot.
So yes, it's the season for hydrangeas and Kyoto's wagashi makers have all started creating different wagashi that use hydrangeas as the main motif. It's absolutely exciting to scroll down the page and examine the macro photos of the ajisai wagashi on the blog. Creativity at its best. And the best part about wagashi is that they aren't as sweet as Western confections (or is this confectionaries? haha, my Engrish!) so they're perfect for my unsweet tooth! (Edit: Tsu says that wagashi is sweeter than Western stuff but I don't know, I think my tastebuds are wonky. I find them less so. :D() )
I'm supposed to send my editted draft to one of the judges but I'm having trouble phrasing the e-mail to her. :\ Everything I want to say sounds best in Chinese or Japanese. This is wrong on so many levels.
なに-？！？！？！これが何やてん？！超ゲットだぜ！！！げーらきすたゲームだ！！ This is dangerous. I'm going into my otaku mode for Lucky Star. I thought I'd retired from active otakudom - in terms of merchandise purchases - but looks like this bad and expensive habit is going to kick back into high gear.
Anyway! If there are any Japanese Studies majors reading my LJ right now! I have a question to ask - what's the placement test like? I'm signing up for this semester's placement test so I can get a headstart in my Japanese language modules (if my bids aren't successful, I'll just go back to Bunka) and I need to have a rough gauge on what's being tested.
Gah. I'm terribly rusty. I can read everything with ease, but my written has just gone down the drain. Everything I write now is so stilted and forced. Like student's Japanese. I probably can smoke my way through the Oral part with the colloqualisms but geeeeeeeeeeh. *fishes out all my notes*
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Date: 2007-07-05 01:58 pm (UTC)Actually I like the autumn wagashi better ^^ it's less sweet, and really really richly favoured. The best best item is the persimmon yokan with kuromitsu and the amaguri pie with kurogoma seeds<3<3<3
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Date: 2007-07-05 02:00 pm (UTC)