APPLETASTIC

The whole bunch of us from IMD have been going out very often lately; birthday celebrations, airport-ing, catching movies, having meals together, and of course TRIPPING. 2009 might just be the year we hang out the most often outside of school :) Never had I expected that, after our Bintan trip last month we would be going on yet ANOTHER trip to the beach so soon with all 9 of the Bintan people including myself. The destination this time round will be Tioman, mainly because the guys are going scuba diving (they’ll be going for the advanced open water course after which they will be awarded a certificate), while the girls will snorkel. Booked today, thanks to Justin!

I also wanted to learn diving, but it’s not as though I would state that without any fears. Diving is even more dangerous than being in a plane, or so my dad claimed, and I must agree that any emergency situations that might happen deep under water are indisputably harder to handle alone. In the case of accidental choking on water, whether you surface quickly gasping for air or risk drowning for the fear of the nitrogen in your blood, either way you would have to face consequences. The more I imagine, the more it makes my head spin.. So right now I’m convinced by my dad’s decision of not allowing me to scuba dive. Anyway, I can’t swim for nuts so I won’t want to be the only idiot causing trouble during the trip.

Snorkeling with the rest of the girls sounds like a very good idea after all. I’m thinking of underwater photography :D Here’s a recap of the wonderful Bintan trip from 23rd to 25th June at Angsoka Villa Resort with the most awesome group… ^_^

This, feels more like blogging. :)
Tioman, 17-19 August! Beyond that, maybe even Hong Kong or Taiwan hehe.

A month went by without any updates here, apologies to those who happened to drop by once in a while to find nothing new. My life as a whole is still, so far, the same; stagnant. I would simply like to say that the I spent the last couple of weeks slowing down my pace, enjoying the company whenever possible of the lovely group of friends, dealing with the Children’s Society project which is still in discussion and also bumming around. For the next half of the year, I was thinking that I should spend it seeking new directions.

Today morning I wove in and out of sleep, and then woke up remembering the long dream that I had. I slept some more in the evening. Ade told me that depressed people sleep a lot, mostly because of escapism, how they tend to avoid waking up to reality by sleeping heavily for long hours. Has this characteristic become a part of me? This could be one of the few things that I can admit to you about. But who can be totally honest to oneself, more so to the closest people around you? It’s easy to drift along, but when it comes to the core, I find it impossible to convey what I truly feel and think.

So this is what it means when they say, “I know you, but I don’t know you.. actually.”

Okay, enough of rambling. Well, after living in a huge mess for who knows how long, I finally hate it enough to clean up my room, starting from the clothes and bags all over the bed and the floor. And then just about everything else. When my room returned to its rare, wonderfully neat state (right =_= not even!), I was particularly irked by the ugly tissue box that sat in between my speakers on the shelf above my work table. At the spur of the moment, I created a tissue box cover using a piece of scrapbooking card with floral design, glittery paper for the sides and a piece of string to hold the left side together.

Because the back of the tissue box isn’t entirely covered (the paper wasn’t big enough), the box itself can always be replaced once the string is untied and the side unfolded. The overlapping flaps of paper on one side of it are held together by the string. From the front it looks just like a gift wrapped box of tissue, that’s all :)

Written on the paper is a quote which I really really like, taken from the French novel Le Petit Prince:

The essential things in life are seen not with the eyes, but with the heart.
「心で見ないと、なにも見えない。
いちばん大事なことは、目に見えない。」

For example, love.

We’ve (almost) officially ended our 4-month long FINAL YEAR PROJECT. What’s left for half of us is the presentation this week to the external examiner from overseas, though we already did to a local ee and our course lecturers. Time passed exceptionally slowly, it seems now, that within a 4-month period so many things happened in a flash. Ironic I know. Well it did speed up when submission was near, and there was just not enough time at all. I’m glad – with addition to furrowed brows, clenched teeth, sleepless nights and mornings, depressed thoughts, cramping hands from long hours of holding the mouse and typing, hurting knees due to too much sitting, massive headaches and backaches and all – it is over, and I am certain this is not even exaggerating what we all went through.

We… made it, somehow :)

I’m making my longest to-do list ever (longer than yours WJ haha) and will relish the taste of being absolutely free from school work for a long time to come. Meanwhile, congratulations to everyone – diploma showcase and graduation is near.

You must be wondering why I am taking forever to write this concert report.. but all I can explain to you is, AAA was overwhelming and even words alone can’t describe how fabulous the concert was =) oh yes besides that I was busy to death in school.. Everytime I recall about the concert, there’s always something fresh that sticks out from my memory and I guess this is what you call unforgettable ;)

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

15 November – Concert Day 1

As I was saying, the Satoshi智 and Masa雅(ki)… uchiwas took hours to make from the uchiwa ribs I got from daiso. Having not owned one in my life, they ended up in the wrong size as compared to the official ones which are larger, I realised only afterwards. Despite the silly mistake, I think the Ohno one is still cute hehe, and I had fun lining the silver ribbon for the border and wrapping it around the handle and taping the end with black tape. It was like… a magic wand! XD

Unbelievably I completed this entry, wooo! Sorry if my thoughts on the concert became disconcerted (pun fully intended :D) and my sentences became repetitive and weird. THIS IS THE FANGIRLING SYNDROME, MWAHA. I will describe the concert and set list in a little more detail in my next entry. Keep visiting! XD