- your house -

currently listening to - red fraction (MELL)
mood - tired

just finished translating an epic for my mom and here i am, trying to print out materials that i found from the internet regarding my next ronbun (japanese term for "essay/thesis/report".....). for almost 4 hours.

FOR ALMOST 4 HOURS, i've been sitting in this stuffy computer lab (doubt that i can use the wireless service for some time since my friend's sony vaio decided to start a cold war with the wireless connection for some yet-to-be-known reasons), attempting to read through my materials (dont ask me why, but this week i feel like writing about OTAKU. the theme of our ronbun is "strange japanese culture" and the like) so that i can collect the points which i want and print them out nicely in A4 papers for my draft. copy and paste from here and there and tadaa!! there you go. i've created an 80-page long..... epic.

not again...

fine. let's print them out. when i have time at night, i'll start reading through the epic. well, as a not-so-avid reader (in fact i dont really read), last time i spent approximately 3 weeks to finish the harry potter series in one go (including the long-winded, boring parts), i guess scanning through 80 pages shoudlnt take me too long (i have about a week more to finish up the ronbun)........

then i came to another conclusion. maybe i shouldnt be printing everything in one go. it's not the problem of printing how many pages (each student is allowed to print a maximum of 1000 pages per year. and i've only printed about 20 pages ever since i came here).. but i guess i dont wanna be stared at, because printing out 80 pages in one go would make people think that i'm declaring domination towards the school printer, no?

so i printed 20 pages at a time. and still, i got stared at.

for once i realised that i could really write an epic about otaku, if i hadnt omitted the english materials. yeah. the 80-page long thing was entirely in japanese. if i had included the english and chinese ones..... no i dont think i wanna imagine. dude, you've gone too far. it's just a bloody (hmm not really, but now that you've collected 80 pages worth of data) essay!! you're not even gonna use a third of the materials... what are you planning to do with the papers after writing your ronbun? use them for maths excercises??

yeah, that'll be a good idea.

one more month to doomsday.................s. i'll definitely be needing a lot of paper for calculations and essay drafts. and then............... CHRISTMAS!!!! GONG XI FA CAI!!!!!!!

too far ahead.

but then, this IS another problem to be considered. where am i supposed to go during winter? most of the foreign students here are returning to their home countries, and others... many will be touring around japan. as for me, i'm an expert in saving money (like i said.. stingy), and i decided not to go back this winter. what say i tour around japan, just like my friends? quote from cousin: yeah right. you're gonna end up spending a lot of money and visit nowhere but your hotel's toilet. none of the department stores and hospitals will be open unless you're staying in some big city, which will cost you a bomb.

alright alright. so it's either hibernating through the winter or stay with my cousin. hope my 1st long winter in 15 (?) years wont be too..... harsh on me. *iyaaa..* starting to envy those who are currently studying in the tropical countries.. like THAT RED DOT SOMEWHERE NEAR THE EQUATOR (and that big*ger* patch of distorted potato on top of it). how are you people who are living in the temperate zones????? ( / _ \ );;;;;

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tip of the day: another meaning of "otaku" is "your house". actually that's one of the original meanings.

rainbow!! spot the rainbow!!!!!!!!!!

fine, if you so want my pictures...

kinkakuji, kyoto.