- samui -

currently listening to - heat island (rhymester feat. fire ball)
mood - confused

my advisor said i deserve some deduction in marks for the presentation test. coz i didn't print my speech out on time. yeah i understand it's my bad and i should have done everything faster, not on the very last day before the test. but you see, whether or not i have a script for myself, i doubt that it affects the entire presentation. you know i wrote the script by myself and i know exactly what i was supposed to say. if only there's no time limit (that i had to read word by word from the script so that i won' t miss my important points within that 10 minutes).

hai hai..

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so my one-year japanese foundation course has finally come to an end. the finals have ended yesterday. and all we have to do before leaving, is to get the result slips from our advisors and attend the graduation ceremony on 15th march. not to mention we need to wait for tsuuchi from our next university as well.

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interests recently: Ghost Hunt and Nodame Cantabile (both anime and drama).

i realised that i'm immune to horror movies/anime. especially when watching them in a group. i'm pretty sure that some of my friends assigned me the "guy" role - whenever spine-chilling scenes appear, i feel my arms grabbed (by people beside me, of course). there was once when one of my friends hid behind me.

so what happened to the "real" guys? apparently very few of them are "interested" in watching horror movies. .............. yeah in other words, they're scared.

got this anime called Ghost Hunt from my friend. needless to say, it's categorised as "that genre". the 1st volume (?) - episode 1~3 - has got nothing to do with ghosts or spirits (it's about supernatural powers, though). in later episodes there are more "interesting" scenes. for this particular anime, i watch it at night (usually after midnight) in my room. alone. coz it's more thrilling. it's not like the storylines are fantastically superb or what... just for entertainment, you know. and i decided to watch this series because i've watched another series from the same author ONO Fuyumi - the 12 Kingdoms (or Juuni Kokki).

there's this particular episode that's quite "enlightening" to me. once there was a boy who couldn't speak due to mental illness. his father left him at a church and promised to return next Christmas. and never returned.

the boy was very good in hide-and-seek. instead of saying "mou ii yo!", he always tapped with a stick to communicate with his friends who played the game (and hence his version of hide-and-seek is called "stick"). one tap when he's not ready, and multiple taps when he hid himself. later on, the priest gave him a whistle as Christmas present. since then he blew the whistle instead of tapping with a stick.

one day during winter, the kids were playing hide-and-seek around their new church (which was still under construction at that time). the boy joined the game and searched for his hiding place.

and he was never found.

later on in the episode, it was revealed that he missed his father so much that he wanted the father to spot him. so he climbed up to the highest part of the church. obviously the finders, who were young children, wouldn't search for high places like that. even the adults didn't think of searching for places far above the eye-level.

at the end of the episode, the main characters finally found him at the top of the church - or rather, it. the skeleton of a child. 30 years have passed after the disappearance of the boy.

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i can never look at places higher than me the same way again. imagine spotting a skull on a rooftop..

also, i can never use the same tactic in hide-and-seek anymore (that's if i still dare to play the game as an adult..............). i loved hiding at high places...

[to be continued...]

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1) tsuuchi - notification
2) mou ii yo - i'm ready