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きっと いつか逢えるから (I'm sure we'll meet again someday)
I'm totally in love with the new Jaejoong/Yoochun/Junsu song. We don't know the official title but I call it "W" in my head. It's beautiful and makes me want to cry. I truly believe they will reunite as DBSK one day and when they do, I will be at the concert. And because I feel like it, the lyrics ( Read more... ) -
Aaaand a month and a half later
I just realized I never posted on LJ that I was accepted by the JET Program... after all that angsty posting xD But yes, I will be heading for Japan towards the end of July. I know the name of the city I'll be living in but not what schools (ie, shou and chuugakkou vs koukou) or where within the city specifically I'll be. I'm ridiculously excited ( Read more... ) -
This puzzle has far too many missing pieces
Forewarning: This entry was written in Wordpad after I read something about fear of success and stepping outside of our comfort zones. It's long (even for me) and perhaps somewhat disjointed...
I tend to talk myself out of things before I even really try. For some months, I talked myself out of re-applying for JET. Thankfully though, the more I ( Read more... ) -
Questions without answers (aka I don't know)
As early April and notification of my status with the JET Programme draws ever near, I find myself more and more pondering the 'what if I don't get JET?', 'do I want a career, so to speak?', 'is Japan where I want to live?', 'what am I going to study in grad school/am I going to grad school at some point?' , 'what am I doing with my life?' sort of ( Read more... ) -
The internet is very very dangerous... for my bank account
You may laugh but this is a totally true statement *nods* You used to have to leave your home to shop... now I have 20 tabs open and can switch between browsing online stores and looking at pictures of DBSK/reading random things in Japanese/checking my email. It is both wonderful and very bad. Of course, the only reason I say it's very bad is ( Read more... ) -
Random Japan/Japanese related glee
You have been warned: this is a long Japan/Japanese related entry. May cause confusion due to rambling and unwittingly-left-unexplained things. It's 4am... so I really can't be held accountable for this mess XD
So I'm finding I remember more kanji than I thought I did... though I had a great moment today where saw 血液型 and went "blood drop type/model ( Read more... ) -
Living in the future and the past simultaneously
I'm reading a book by Daniel Gilbert called "Stumbling on Happiness" and he makes the argument that humans are unique from other animals in the way we imagine and think about the future. And it's true; we're always thinking about what comes next or where we'll be x-number of months/years down the road and so on. But I wonder, could he also argue we ( Read more... ) -
JET Interview, round 2, clear!
So I had a JET interview, again, this past Friday *nods* I feel much better about this year than the one from last year. I was still nervous. In fact, I think at one point I literally said "sorry, trying to find moisture" because my mouth was dry as sand.. whoops XD It was a mess trying to get to the interview itself though ( Read more... ) -
JET musings
Well, I finished my JET application! So yay for that, though now I just have to wait and wait and wait and... >.<
I think I was somewhat in shock when I found out I was an alternate for last year, despite part of me being like 'yep, I knew it'. But ya know, I've been thinking and generally, I do believe that everything happens for a reason. Last ( Read more... ) -
DBSK
With all the craziness of the Jaejoong, Junsu, and Yoochun vs SME case, I just need to say somewhere that I love them and really wish DBSK group activities to resume. I'm rather doubtful about the Yunho/Changmin-on-SME's-side-letter that has surfaced because it just feels wrong but I hope that if for some reason that is the case, the boys can work ( Read more... )