{ second half of the year already }
※ July already! There goes half the year already. Yikes, time goes fast.
※ So I went on a downloading spree when my bandwidth reset (as usual). I thank fandom for cheering me up when I need it.
→ Kanjani's Daidaman was fun to watch. Not so much the ramen part but I've always loved slow motion shots. Plus the dokkiri on Ryo. What had me highly amused though was You's comment at the end though. "Are these sort of jobs okay for you guys as a group?" The look on Yoko's and Ryo's face. ♥ :D
→ All the groups activities seem to be stuck in a rut. Except Arashi. With Maou and Hanadan Final, all the stuff I seem to be watching lately seems to have Ohno and MatsuJun in it. Out of everything I've watched, I have to recommend Himitsu no Arashi-chan #12: MatsuJun & Ooshima's date and Ohno and Toma on Tokyo Friends Park II. TFPII was the cutest thing ever, and I had such a hard time muffling my giggles when watching Arashi-chan at 4am in the morning. I'm sure both can be found at a_ra_shi.
→ Need to finish up downloading/watching Spring dramas to make space for the Summer dramas starting tomorrow. Fallen behind on Rookies, Puzzle, Zettai Kareshi, Gokusen 3, and Osen. Looking forward to Code Blue, Maou and Yasuko to Kenji. Need to look up what other summer drama's there are.
※ meme stolen from half the flist:
You know how sometimes people on your friend's list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when are they working THERE? Since when are they dating HIM/HER? since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you *should* already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.
Please copy mine below, erase my answers putting yours in their place then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration! One-word answers seldom help anyone out.
1. First Name: Sarah. When I asked why mum chose to give me -the- single most common female name in the world, her answer was that at the time of my birth, she didn’t know a single person named Sarah. xD
2. Age: 22.25 years. I mentioned to maiaki the other day though, that I seriously have doubts about my mental age. My mental age can range anything from 3-43 I think.
3. Location: Currently stuck in the west side of Melbourne, Australia. I lived the first half of my life with my grandparents in the west side of Sydney though. Only started living with my mum when I was 11, when I moved to start high school in Melbourne.
4. Occupation: Poor, lowly, failing uni student. Am currently in desperate need of a job, but lack the motivation to put more needed fervour behind my job search efforts. As a uni student, I’m failing big time, and don’t even know if I’ll be able to finish my BA degree at the moment.
5. Partner: None. Not particularly interested either. I think maintaining a relationship is too much work for me at the moment. Plus it’s too expensive.
6. Kids: For the last year I have been going through a really strong kid phase. Apparently I’m in a clucky stage. Overall, I have absolutely no desire to actually produce kids myself but I get these strong urges to kidnap other people’s gorgeous tots. I adore children, but I think I would make a horrible mother.
7. Brothers/Sisters: None. I’m an only child but I’d always wished that I had siblings. I have 8 cousins of whom I’m really close to though. I think they took the place of siblings for me when growing up. I am the oldest out of all of us; I was the first ‘grandchild’ in the family.
8. Pets: I never had any pets growing up, which comes from living in apartments for the most part. But my stepdad brought home a puppy when I was year 11 and we’ve had it every since. Dobee is a Pomeranian cross some sort of terrier and the biggest scaredy cat dog ever. He loses in fights to the neighbourhood cats. xD I don’t pay him much attention except I bully him sometimes. I think if I had younger siblings, I’d probably treat them the same way.
9. List the 3-5 biggest things going on in your life:
+ I have to decide what I’m really doing with uni. I don’t think I can maintain the pace of failing half my classes every semester. Even if I could take that sort of mental strain, I don’t think the uni would let me. But I don’t know what I would do if I decided to give it up now. *sighs* So basically I have to decide what the hell I want to do with my life.
+ Finding a job. I think if I actually left this house and did something, it would help a little with my mental wellbeing. The thing is actually doing it.
+ I’m trying to lose weight. I really need to. Both grams and gramps both have type 2 diabetes and I know I certainly don’t live the healthiest lifestyle. I’ve increased awareness in what I eat/drink. And since I have this phobia about exercising where the world can see me, mum’s letting me get an exercise bike for the house.
10. Where and for what did you go to school for?: I went through all my compulsory years of schooling with the goal of “getting into uni” because that was what was expected of me from the family. I had no other direction. I didn’t even know -what- I wanted to do at uni until I attended some university open days in my last year of high school. All my interests didn’t feel strong enough for me to follow on with or turn into a career. The only desire that I had that was strong enough for me to do something about was learning Japanese. I was a manga/anime freak and had wanted to learn Japanese since I was a kid but there just wasn’t any teaching available in my area. So I decided to learn it at uni. That is the entire reason I’m in uni-to learn Japanese. The other subjects I have to take are really screwing me over though.
11. Parents: My parents divorced when I was in kindergarten and I was moved in to live with my grandparents. My mum moved interstate to Melbourne, attended hair college and opened her own salon. I grew up with my grandparents, seeing mum about once or twice a year. I didn’t have any contact with my dad except for the occasional sighting on the street which stopped altogether from when I was about 8 or so. We heard that he immigrated to America or something of the sort.
I was told by mum that I would move to Melbourne to live with her after I graduated primary school. So I not only started high school in a new state, I started living with mum (and my new stepdad) for the first time in 7 years. As a teen I resented her a lot. I resented her not being around when I was growing up and living with my grandparents, I resented her not being around even when I -was- living with her. I saw her for about 2 hours a day after she came home from work.
We didn’t really click until I was about 18. With the overseas trip being the main contributing factor, and me being older and less temperamental. My mum has all the personality traits of which I wish I had. She’s a huge people person, makes friends easily, totally comfortable in new situations with new people. She’s really cute and says some of the strangest things sometimes. She learns slang words from us kids and then proceeds to use them in totally the wrong context. She’s also picked up our habit of mangling our spoken languages. (We speak English and then slip in a Chinese word or two and vice-versa.) We look/act more like sisters now, although mum still babies me even though I’m 22, which I hate.
12. Who are some of your closest friends? I think I’m closest to Fiona, my cousin (she’s the 2nd oldest cousin and younger than me by 7 months). We only ever saw each other once a month or every two months in high school but have gotten closer since we started uni. I feel like I can be my truest self with her and not care. Then it would be my close-knit bunch of uni friends which include lveaddkt, maiaki, surealistic_des and mparf. I also feel really unexplainably affectionate towards a lot of you guys on my flist, but I can’t say that we’re close because I’m such a lazy LJ user. I hope that we can all get to know each other a little more.
Addendum (other things you should know about me):
+ I tend to ramble when I can be bothered starting. This can probably be seen all through my journal. xD
+ I’m a very luke warm sort of person. I don’t have very strong opinions on much. Sometimes I don’t have much of an opinion at all. >.< I just take things as they are.
+ I don’t like chocolate as much as the next girl. I have been told that it’s extremely strange. All my friends can finish one block of chocolate in one sitting. I can’t eat chocolate unless I have a drink and then I can only do about 3 cubes before giving up. I -do- like it, just not -that- much.
+ I am the epitome of the phrase ‘jack of all trades, master of none’. I can dabble and do ok in a variety of different things but excel in nothing. Examples: graphic design/web design, jewelry making, arts & crafts, ice-skating, photography, cooking, badminton, computer systems etc.
※ Gonna post pics in my next post, would've done so in this one, but it got so long. maiaki, lveaddkt: One of the photos included is the one I took of you guys at lunch the other day. You realise my journal is public, do you guys need me to f-lock it?
※ ETA: Wow, just realised this is my 101st post. *shock*
※ So I went on a downloading spree when my bandwidth reset (as usual). I thank fandom for cheering me up when I need it.
→ Kanjani's Daidaman was fun to watch. Not so much the ramen part but I've always loved slow motion shots. Plus the dokkiri on Ryo. What had me highly amused though was You's comment at the end though. "Are these sort of jobs okay for you guys as a group?" The look on Yoko's and Ryo's face. ♥ :D
→ All the groups activities seem to be stuck in a rut. Except Arashi. With Maou and Hanadan Final, all the stuff I seem to be watching lately seems to have Ohno and MatsuJun in it. Out of everything I've watched, I have to recommend Himitsu no Arashi-chan #12: MatsuJun & Ooshima's date and Ohno and Toma on Tokyo Friends Park II. TFPII was the cutest thing ever, and I had such a hard time muffling my giggles when watching Arashi-chan at 4am in the morning. I'm sure both can be found at a_ra_shi.
→ Need to finish up downloading/watching Spring dramas to make space for the Summer dramas starting tomorrow. Fallen behind on Rookies, Puzzle, Zettai Kareshi, Gokusen 3, and Osen. Looking forward to Code Blue, Maou and Yasuko to Kenji. Need to look up what other summer drama's there are.
※ meme stolen from half the flist:
You know how sometimes people on your friend's list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when are they working THERE? Since when are they dating HIM/HER? since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you *should* already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.
Please copy mine below, erase my answers putting yours in their place then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration! One-word answers seldom help anyone out.
1. First Name: Sarah. When I asked why mum chose to give me -the- single most common female name in the world, her answer was that at the time of my birth, she didn’t know a single person named Sarah. xD
2. Age: 22.25 years. I mentioned to maiaki the other day though, that I seriously have doubts about my mental age. My mental age can range anything from 3-43 I think.
3. Location: Currently stuck in the west side of Melbourne, Australia. I lived the first half of my life with my grandparents in the west side of Sydney though. Only started living with my mum when I was 11, when I moved to start high school in Melbourne.
4. Occupation: Poor, lowly, failing uni student. Am currently in desperate need of a job, but lack the motivation to put more needed fervour behind my job search efforts. As a uni student, I’m failing big time, and don’t even know if I’ll be able to finish my BA degree at the moment.
5. Partner: None. Not particularly interested either. I think maintaining a relationship is too much work for me at the moment. Plus it’s too expensive.
6. Kids: For the last year I have been going through a really strong kid phase. Apparently I’m in a clucky stage. Overall, I have absolutely no desire to actually produce kids myself but I get these strong urges to kidnap other people’s gorgeous tots. I adore children, but I think I would make a horrible mother.
7. Brothers/Sisters: None. I’m an only child but I’d always wished that I had siblings. I have 8 cousins of whom I’m really close to though. I think they took the place of siblings for me when growing up. I am the oldest out of all of us; I was the first ‘grandchild’ in the family.
8. Pets: I never had any pets growing up, which comes from living in apartments for the most part. But my stepdad brought home a puppy when I was year 11 and we’ve had it every since. Dobee is a Pomeranian cross some sort of terrier and the biggest scaredy cat dog ever. He loses in fights to the neighbourhood cats. xD I don’t pay him much attention except I bully him sometimes. I think if I had younger siblings, I’d probably treat them the same way.
9. List the 3-5 biggest things going on in your life:
+ I have to decide what I’m really doing with uni. I don’t think I can maintain the pace of failing half my classes every semester. Even if I could take that sort of mental strain, I don’t think the uni would let me. But I don’t know what I would do if I decided to give it up now. *sighs* So basically I have to decide what the hell I want to do with my life.
+ Finding a job. I think if I actually left this house and did something, it would help a little with my mental wellbeing. The thing is actually doing it.
+ I’m trying to lose weight. I really need to. Both grams and gramps both have type 2 diabetes and I know I certainly don’t live the healthiest lifestyle. I’ve increased awareness in what I eat/drink. And since I have this phobia about exercising where the world can see me, mum’s letting me get an exercise bike for the house.
10. Where and for what did you go to school for?: I went through all my compulsory years of schooling with the goal of “getting into uni” because that was what was expected of me from the family. I had no other direction. I didn’t even know -what- I wanted to do at uni until I attended some university open days in my last year of high school. All my interests didn’t feel strong enough for me to follow on with or turn into a career. The only desire that I had that was strong enough for me to do something about was learning Japanese. I was a manga/anime freak and had wanted to learn Japanese since I was a kid but there just wasn’t any teaching available in my area. So I decided to learn it at uni. That is the entire reason I’m in uni-to learn Japanese. The other subjects I have to take are really screwing me over though.
11. Parents: My parents divorced when I was in kindergarten and I was moved in to live with my grandparents. My mum moved interstate to Melbourne, attended hair college and opened her own salon. I grew up with my grandparents, seeing mum about once or twice a year. I didn’t have any contact with my dad except for the occasional sighting on the street which stopped altogether from when I was about 8 or so. We heard that he immigrated to America or something of the sort.
I was told by mum that I would move to Melbourne to live with her after I graduated primary school. So I not only started high school in a new state, I started living with mum (and my new stepdad) for the first time in 7 years. As a teen I resented her a lot. I resented her not being around when I was growing up and living with my grandparents, I resented her not being around even when I -was- living with her. I saw her for about 2 hours a day after she came home from work.
We didn’t really click until I was about 18. With the overseas trip being the main contributing factor, and me being older and less temperamental. My mum has all the personality traits of which I wish I had. She’s a huge people person, makes friends easily, totally comfortable in new situations with new people. She’s really cute and says some of the strangest things sometimes. She learns slang words from us kids and then proceeds to use them in totally the wrong context. She’s also picked up our habit of mangling our spoken languages. (We speak English and then slip in a Chinese word or two and vice-versa.) We look/act more like sisters now, although mum still babies me even though I’m 22, which I hate.
12. Who are some of your closest friends? I think I’m closest to Fiona, my cousin (she’s the 2nd oldest cousin and younger than me by 7 months). We only ever saw each other once a month or every two months in high school but have gotten closer since we started uni. I feel like I can be my truest self with her and not care. Then it would be my close-knit bunch of uni friends which include lveaddkt, maiaki, surealistic_des and mparf. I also feel really unexplainably affectionate towards a lot of you guys on my flist, but I can’t say that we’re close because I’m such a lazy LJ user. I hope that we can all get to know each other a little more.
Addendum (other things you should know about me):
+ I tend to ramble when I can be bothered starting. This can probably be seen all through my journal. xD
+ I’m a very luke warm sort of person. I don’t have very strong opinions on much. Sometimes I don’t have much of an opinion at all. >.< I just take things as they are.
+ I don’t like chocolate as much as the next girl. I have been told that it’s extremely strange. All my friends can finish one block of chocolate in one sitting. I can’t eat chocolate unless I have a drink and then I can only do about 3 cubes before giving up. I -do- like it, just not -that- much.
+ I am the epitome of the phrase ‘jack of all trades, master of none’. I can dabble and do ok in a variety of different things but excel in nothing. Examples: graphic design/web design, jewelry making, arts & crafts, ice-skating, photography, cooking, badminton, computer systems etc.
※ Gonna post pics in my next post, would've done so in this one, but it got so long. maiaki, lveaddkt: One of the photos included is the one I took of you guys at lunch the other day. You realise my journal is public, do you guys need me to f-lock it?
※ ETA: Wow, just realised this is my 101st post. *shock*