life so far

[spiderpig]

I am currently working on my 10ish-parts of travelogues detailing the 2 week journey into hell and out of it - will probably cross-post it at the other blog, I don't feel entirely like a 100% otaku anymore, maybe just 50% - it's the growing out of it, after nearly 12 years of chaining my soul of Japanese visual culture! I just feel that in your basement should be so much more than just otaku rambles. It needs to be me Side B. Oh well, the travelogue is in progress, am chugging through part 1 (On Temples in Thailand!) and going through the huge log of photos I accumulated - 2000 of them - and processing them.

In anycase, some part of the trip was spent me clamoring to get my hands on internet access and a PC because I needed to edit my FlowTV.org article which is up here!; it's on Twitter and it's relationship with AWARE and it's seen pretty good reviews so far on Facebook! So do take a look. My first, and hopefully not last published work. I supposedly beat out a bumper crop of graduate students and lecturers, so let me feel good about myself for now!

Exam results have been dismal as usual and I'm now caught at this conundrum where my writing is decent enough to get published but my grades are far from scholarship material. There goes my dream of sitting in a slightly dimmed office, surrounded by a growing collection of old musty books, and smiling as students come into my creepy abode. LOL

Other news! My Korean contact has resumed her shopping service again! I am going to stock up on lovely stationery goodies! Taiwan has rekindled my lust for all things eclectic and whimsical and I must get my hands on whatever (useless and useful!) Korean thingamabobs! I like zakka a lot, as you can tell.

Anyway, amongst blogging and photo-taking/processing, I've got my hands full with waiting for the Waseda package (HELLO???? ANYONE GOT THEIRS YET?), taking charge of the notice board design (I am thinking temple-like!), and writing the damned 3,500 essay amongst other for-fun essays I'm thinking of writing about (Graphic Novels and Buddhist icons; Disney Super Heroes...) Am also going out this Wednesday and Saturday for arty farty things, and I'm feeling rather happy? I want to watch Up! and this blog entry is progressively getting very messy now. >__>

Okay, back to workkkkk! I need to get back into my Arashi fandom; very lost at the moment!

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[http://users.livejournal.com/tsu_/]

trust me. you can totally make it into PhD. If you can get into honours, you can go straight into phd right after that so you can get your doctorate in 5 years........with your kind of background, you shouldn't stay in singapore y'know? most universities would kill themselves to have a student like you.

[puchikonyo.livejournal.com]

travelogues!~ post soon hehe.

And yeah I think I'm quite out of the anime fandom as well, have been for a while. == When you've been into something like this for quite a while (since like... secondary school for me I think lol) there's like a certain point in time where you're not that into it anymore.....

And congrats on the article!! (personally I've not read much of it cos I lazy sry >< but it really looks good hehe. I've only read the first para or so I think...)

arghh exams results. trying not to think too much about that. lol I guess with NUS, it's just..... best not to dwell too much on it. The CAP system is pretty screwed and grades don't really indicate how good you are; its probably better to get positive reviews on your writing itself. Just do well enough to be able to pursue your studies overseas, probably better off studying overseas anyway! Don't give up on your phD dreams still!! There's still opportunities for that! (bwahaha I would like to do the same actually.....)

and korean stationery!!! ahhhh xDDD *also has a stationery obsession* What are you watching on Weds and Sat? I'm catching Etiquette on Thursday!

[spiderpig.livejournal.com]

hahaha i really hope so! i definitely don't want to stay in singapore for my graduate studies - they demand at least a second uppers and at the moment I am faaaaar away from that, because I am a university retard D:. i definitely can get into honours, its just that the honours isn't a good one at the moment (according to SG standards, which are almost always skewed!!) LOLOLOL.

[spiderpig.livejournal.com]

hahaha, i cannot believe i am procrastinating from writing my travelogues...

we have matured! it's now just a form of (wonderful!) entertainment but without the stress that fandom puts us through!!

hahaha thank you thank you! dr g pimped it on fb and i am thoroughly embarrasssed >__>

PERMANENT HEAD DAMAGE FTW!!!!

oh oh! i'm going for a writer's event on wed, then a library event on saturday! i am a nerd D:

[puchikonyo.livejournal.com]

Then write them soon..... lolll

Yeah without excessively waiting/obsessing about when the next episode/chapter etc might appear or so perhaps haha.

I bet you're secretly very pleased, more so than being embarrassed :PP

oooh what sort of writer's event is that?

[spiderpig.livejournal.com]

i'm working on part one right now! it's proving to be long and boring haha :<

haha i am, quite! :x:x:x

oh oh, it's like a reading session of sorts though i'm not sure what will happen exactly!