Posts Tagged ‘japan’
days past
i woke up to the nasty realization that i had fallen asleep before the sky had barely darkened last night, and had dreamt my way solidly through 12 hours. 12 hours…! i am a sleep monster. what is wrong with my body?
tokyo had its first real summer day yesterday, with temperatures going as high as [...]
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Tags: heat, japan, mj
pee-na-tsu ku-ree-mu
i woke up just before 11 this morning, and marvelled at my renewed ability to sleep. and sleep. and sleep. i have never slept like i did this past week, yet hardly have the energy to sit through those long class days. i am still barely eating, so it may be that my body is attempting to [...]
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Tags: black sesame spread, japan, peanut butter, weather
flower, blow, snow
sakura season. harbinger of spring; of a time of departures and meetings, farewells and hellos, old things and new, in japan. there is something hauntingly beautiful about these flowers. perhaps it is in their transient beauty. or simply the ghostly white-and-pinkness that speak of things both happy and sad.
unlike most people who rush to see [...]
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what i call mine
it is just beginning to hit me that i have barely 3 weeks to get everything packed and ready to go. that sounded reasonable to me until last night, when i looked around my room and began taking stock of the colossal nature of this move. i exaggerate, i know, but i need to scare [...]
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Tags: home, japan, packing, singapore
blase-ness
the entire scholarship application and pre-departure process is a testament to my growing ability to take things as they come without worrying overmuch. where i would previously have cried in frustration and become severely depressed, i now shrug my shoulders and focus on something more practical (or at least, more interesting), even if i cannot quite laugh about [...]
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Tags: chwee kueh, japan, scholarship, school, translation
the unexpectedness of it all
spam is so convincingly written these days, it’s amazing. have you ever received spam comments that sound really sincere (i like your writing! i added you to my blogroll. will be back!), and you would never really know if it were a real comment or spam… because… hell, mr. make serious income (or whoever) may [...]
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Tags: japan, scholarship, spam
finally!
the wait is over! off to japan in 5 weeks or so! back to school! back to watching japanese tv!
my heart won’t stop thumping. oh dear.
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nostalgia
i thought i really might die when i woke up this morning to an unending coughing fit, as my body worked feverishly to expel all the phlegm blocking up its airways. but the body does not give out quite as easily as i had thought (doesn’t it?). all i had needed was some good medicine and much sleep, so i [...]
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Tags: homesick, japan, nostalgia, sick
not all roads lead to rome
some lead right back to where you started.
i was wandering around the financial district today and getting rather hopelessly lost, as always. that was when this post happened.
you know the movie sliding doors? i think about that sometimes. where i might have ended up if i hadn’t done a certain something in life. let’s say [...]
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when at loose ends…
…blog.
this is turning out into an entire series of entries on when to blog.
it’s a very strange feeling to know that i have no work for the next four days, at least. nothing. absolutely nothing. it’s a situation i have been actively trying to avoid for months… years…? but not this week, at least. it [...]
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Tags: hair, japan, singapore, teeth
