Happy belated whatever I missed!
Hey everyone,
Hope you got into the new year okay! Did you celebrate? Do you have any resolutions?
I never make resolutions, because they only serve to make you feel guilty when you don#t keep them, and a year is a long time to make resolutions for.
It's been a while! First I went off to Nagoya and Ise, when I came back a friend from Tokyo came to visit for a couple of days, then there was an essay to finish, then I didn't have internet and then it was... now.
So yeah, I am still working on my little travel report on the Christmas trip, but I am guessing you are not dying for that, even though the photos are quite nice, so maybe after this weekend :D
Recently I have become a little obsessed with the thought of writing a book. The subject itself is not new, my mum has actually suggested I turn serious about this pretty much since I started uni - I am sure books like this exist, which was always my excuse for not doing something about it, then I thought about turning it into a blog and now I think that there is always more than one book on each subject imaginable, so why not add one more...
I would just... like to see it it written is all.
What is is about?
I am reading Alex Kerr's Dogs and Demons right now, a book from 2001 about how Japan apparently turned into the ugliest country imaginable, and it really made me think.
All of us now live in a highly globalised world, some more so than others, and we know more and see more and have more friends but in many regards the complete opposite. I have a sack of friends who are reachable at any time from anywhere, yet are two busy to give me two minutes of the time of their lives to answer my texts, and I simply refuse to believe it is because my friends are actually all arses, and I have learned and seen so much but with everyone I see and learn I seem to understand less, and I don't need to be a sociology professor to make sense of that feeling of being screwed because I am somehow German, Britisha nd Japanese at the same time, yet none of them, how I now belong to everyone and no one at the same time.
How facebook makes me feel the need to share everything, to be constantly funny, how it tells me that I have 193 friends when in reality 3 of those would spend time with me when it came down to it.
It#s not negativity, it is... an assessment. It is the need to go somewhere with these feelings, to feel like I am not alone with it, because I know I can't be.. The tale of a globalised person who isn't so sure about it all anymore.
I just booked my trip to Tokyo on February 6th!
Going there on the night bus.
After endless calls to my friends in Tokyo asking them when they would be free and if I could stay with them, or if they had any time to meet up, and answer ranging from no replies to tentative to negative replies, I decided to screw them and just go. If anyone finds time to spend with me great, if not then not. One of my British friends is nice enough to let me stay at her dorm for 3 nights, and 2 nights I am going to spend at the hostel I stayed at back in 2009 with penmi. It feels like... fucking finally XD
Everyone else in Kansai that I know went over Christmas already.
I have to contain all my fandom glee about Sherlock and recently watched films for another post...
Now I shall be a happy globalised person and go have dinner at a British pub in a Japanese city with my German friends.
See you <3~
Hope you got into the new year okay! Did you celebrate? Do you have any resolutions?
I never make resolutions, because they only serve to make you feel guilty when you don#t keep them, and a year is a long time to make resolutions for.
It's been a while! First I went off to Nagoya and Ise, when I came back a friend from Tokyo came to visit for a couple of days, then there was an essay to finish, then I didn't have internet and then it was... now.
So yeah, I am still working on my little travel report on the Christmas trip, but I am guessing you are not dying for that, even though the photos are quite nice, so maybe after this weekend :D
Recently I have become a little obsessed with the thought of writing a book. The subject itself is not new, my mum has actually suggested I turn serious about this pretty much since I started uni - I am sure books like this exist, which was always my excuse for not doing something about it, then I thought about turning it into a blog and now I think that there is always more than one book on each subject imaginable, so why not add one more...
I would just... like to see it it written is all.
What is is about?
I am reading Alex Kerr's Dogs and Demons right now, a book from 2001 about how Japan apparently turned into the ugliest country imaginable, and it really made me think.
All of us now live in a highly globalised world, some more so than others, and we know more and see more and have more friends but in many regards the complete opposite. I have a sack of friends who are reachable at any time from anywhere, yet are two busy to give me two minutes of the time of their lives to answer my texts, and I simply refuse to believe it is because my friends are actually all arses, and I have learned and seen so much but with everyone I see and learn I seem to understand less, and I don't need to be a sociology professor to make sense of that feeling of being screwed because I am somehow German, Britisha nd Japanese at the same time, yet none of them, how I now belong to everyone and no one at the same time.
How facebook makes me feel the need to share everything, to be constantly funny, how it tells me that I have 193 friends when in reality 3 of those would spend time with me when it came down to it.
It#s not negativity, it is... an assessment. It is the need to go somewhere with these feelings, to feel like I am not alone with it, because I know I can't be.. The tale of a globalised person who isn't so sure about it all anymore.
I just booked my trip to Tokyo on February 6th!
Going there on the night bus.
After endless calls to my friends in Tokyo asking them when they would be free and if I could stay with them, or if they had any time to meet up, and answer ranging from no replies to tentative to negative replies, I decided to screw them and just go. If anyone finds time to spend with me great, if not then not. One of my British friends is nice enough to let me stay at her dorm for 3 nights, and 2 nights I am going to spend at the hostel I stayed at back in 2009 with penmi. It feels like... fucking finally XD
Everyone else in Kansai that I know went over Christmas already.
I have to contain all my fandom glee about Sherlock and recently watched films for another post...
Now I shall be a happy globalised person and go have dinner at a British pub in a Japanese city with my German friends.
See you <3~