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Work has been overwhelming(ly tiring), and it doesn't help that I've started having Japanese classes twice a week after work so I've been getting back at around 11pm almost every other day, especially if I meet up with friends for dinner and such. Not that I'm complaining; I'm of the belief that I should do whatever I can without exhausting myself entirely when I have time. Live life fully, yeah? Although it does mean having less time for myself, like catching up with TV shows, reading, manga, blogging... Although I don't have anything interesting happening in my life all the time so there's no point blogging frequently, anyway.

I'm trying to make time for reading by getting ebooks to read on the way to work and back (which was how I finally finished re-reading Harry Potter! In time for the final movie! OMG it's the last movie already...), and I've just changed my mobile phone to a HTC Desire S so I'll be able to watch .avi format shows and read manga from there.

I guess all these are inevitable, this whole growing up, shifting priorities, limited number of hours a day to work with... Of course I can let all those go so I have time to rest, but I don't want to. It's part of me, how I am, all these interests in shows and manga, even know people would probably think I should be growing out of those. There's no way I'll let go of the things that made me the way I am now, which is why I'm finding ways to hold on to them.

What I miss the most, though, is writing. It's so difficult to find the time to write, and for that spare time to coincide with the muse, although the right way to do it is to force myself to write and sooner or later the "groove" will come back.

I miss creating stories, letting words spill from my mind through my fingers, creating people - characters, creating something meaningful from the arrangement of words.

Of all the things I've had to put aside during weekdays and most of the weekends that are spent either with various groups of friends or Y... I JUST REALLY MISS WRITING, OKAY :'(

Right, enough with the angst. Life update! Life-long dream #2 (well, not life-long, but pretty important, anyway) achieved! Well, not "achieved", but in planning stage.

I'M GOING TO JAPAN TO WATCH w-inds.'s 10TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT!!!

I'll be going with Jane, someone I've met in the fan community on LJ (like what, couple of years ago?), to Osaka and Kyoto HOLY SHIZZLES KYOTO!!! :DDD

Anyway, we're beginning to plan our itinerary, but the plane tickets and accommodation were already booked. OMG THE EXCITEMENT. I swear, it's overflowing to the point where every time we talk/text/meet each other and talk about it we spend 25% of the time squeeing. FOR REAL.

OH DEAR LORDS I think it hasn't really sunk in that I'll be seeing the w-inds. boys IN REAL LIFE. I hope I don't cry or faint at the sight of them when we get there!

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以上、Chii です。

So I came home around 9p.m. after a rare weekday dinner date with the bf. Heh. And it's near midnight now so I don't have much time to ramble on so... here's a video for this Monday. Also. I has long weekend! Thank you, company, for giving us half-days on the eve of public holidays so I'm getting a half-day on Thursday (and we get to come into the office in casual wear woot woot!), a public holiday on Friday, and weekends! YAY!

VIDEO MONDAY 26

A fan-made video of w-inds.'s 'Some More'. This video's really well put together and I'm loving this song all over again.

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After what seemed like forever, I've finally watched Toy Story 3 yesterday with Jay, Nat and Y (yes, I sat in between Jay and Y—the two non-believers of Pixar and animated films in general—on purpose). I was doing happy-flaily-dances of excitement even before entering the theatre and was already chair-dancing at Disney's lead-in sequence with Cinderella's (Sleeping Beauty's?) castle and and and :D

The short film before the actual movie, Day and Night, as is Pixar's tradition, was pretty cool with the totally different way of showing a movie and the story. Oh oh oh, the message in it was pretty awesome too. Aah~ So much love XD

( TOY STORY 3! No spoilers; cut for CAPS LOCK abuse and fangirl ramblings )

VIDEO MONDAY 21

It's awesome how he plays so effortlessly what I think is extremely difficult to play right. Aah... I need a new guitar :(

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Right. So I've been lazy and my LJ is on the verge of becoming a wasteland. I'm supposed to do my readings for Journalism because our presentation is in less than a week and we have to email one another the information to put into our Powerpoint slides by Monday, but, as we all know, it doesn't take much for me to give in to procrastination. Especially when there is proper work that needs to be done.

[Random update inserted here!]
Recently Zhenni, thesuperette and I went to Sunshine Plaza because thesuperette wanted to find some photography shop to check out a super small (toy?) digital camera she saw in a magazine, and even though I tried not to, I got attracted to a digital lomography camera.

If I'm not wrong, it's a Harinezumi 2. I was bought over by it having a macro function and being able to do sound recording. But I don't have the money to buy it =(

Ah well. *Adds to neverending wishlist*

Anyway, as I was saying, am bored and am procrastinating. So you get multiple updates from me! Woots!

( Here's something random )

( Musicals are ♥ )

( Small accomplishment during my pathetic trimester “holiday”  )

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Nope, I'm not getting a writer's/blogging block. I'm just trying to ease my way back in after my long blogging hiatus. HAI FLIST DID YOU MISS ME? :D

So. I do have good friends that I've made thanks to LJ and nope we haven't met in person. I wish we could meet in person but I'm not sure whether it'll be possible. It will be super awesome if we could, though.

My first few LJ friends were made through fandom (big surprise), specifically the CSI: Miami fandom, in the order of swift_tales, lausi_gm and spilled_notes. swift_tales was kind of unexpected because I was following her Odd Colour Series on FanFiction.Net and it led to more of her fics on her LJ. Thanks to the power of fangirling over the same OTP and fanfic commenting, there came friendship and the joining of LJ communities, which led me to lausi_gm and spilled_notes, who are awesome people who remind me to think more of myself than I do and who reassure me that I'm not as alone as I always think I am.

It's strange yet awesome how just one common interest can sustain these friendships for these past few years, and it's even more awesome that our common fandoms keep expanding to include Torchwood (oh, Ianto *wibbles*) and Merlin. I love it that we have similar tastes in UK series.

Then there's the fandom for w-inds. and WaT, where I've met lovryu, esined_xoxo, tomosuki, chychaai and gn_chan. The first three don't really count since we're in the same country, but I like them and they deserve a mention, especially lovryu, with whom I've shared lots of late-night-early-morning flaily times with over pretty and hilarious Japanese boys, the Merlin cast (Gaius's eyebrows FTW!), cracky British comedy shows, the similarities of our lives having been through the same education system and having enough similar character traits to be LJ-and-MSN-IM twins, and the EPIC FAIL of our fellow Singaporeans.

Come to think of it, the main reason why I know all these people came down to our love for hot and/or pretty boys/men. I love how superficial us fangirls are XD

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以上、Chii です。