Marooned.

Quick update.. that will be filled up with details soon:

1. Michelle Ong is here! Whoohoo. Living in my little space. She’s one crazy, unpredictable girl. ♥
2. She brought goodies from home: CURRY. BAK KUT TEH. PANDAN FLAVOURING. TOMYAM. CHICKENRICE FLAVOURING. KAYA. She can live here forever, if she keeps bringing these for me. Heehee.
3. Oyasumi (Holidays) in 2 days !
4. Guns N Roses are FREAKING CRAZY AWESOME. Although they were about 5 cm tall from our seats – it was a greaaaaaattttt, LEGENDARY NIGHT!! (: LIVE & LET DIEEEEEE!!!
5. I am loving my GNR Tshirt. I’m going to wear it SOON.
6. There was a crazy long line to get souveniers after the concert – it was crazy long. Japanese do love their souveniers.
7. We met the craziest dude in the whole of Tokyo after GNR. I laughed so hard it hurt. Oh yeah, and he’s a metal rock singer in Japan, from Australia.
8. I love Harajuku. Went there with Nancy & Susan today. Love. It. & bumped into Perttu & Elina too. How random. And I took 30mins to find Nancy, but I spotted Pertty & Elina not once, but twice. How crazy is that?
9. Its insanely cold. I don’t do cold! Freaking hell. And, and, and, the sun is out so nice and bright, it makes me feel all paradoxical. Cos I do not feel the heat!!!! Although I am glad I am not feeling the humidity and melting away, like back home.
10. Ayaka is an awesome singer! I love that girl. She’s so cute & pretty and has an amazingggggggg voice!
11. We went to Ruby Room, it was an open mic bar night. It was awesome. Very cool.
12. Nights out with Ann, is always crazy. She’s been good (ie. mostly sober) for the last 3 nights we’ve been out. Very proud of her. (:
13. I cannot survive on 2 hours sleep, if the night before was spent partying. Although I did do really well in Japanese class. I got a “Subarashi!”. HAHAHA. I fell asleep 3 times on the train when I finally headed home… and I think I was standing up for 2 times out of those 3.
14. I finish my ceramics course on Tuesday. And I’ve seen most of the pieces I’ve finished – and I LOVE THEM. (: Its so Japanese. The way I learnt it here is soo different from what I did back home, and I can’t decide which I prefer. Although I think I learnt more skills from this sensei than I did the last time when I learnt it a few years ago.
15. I miss Mayjean Lim. WHY must you be in Australia?
16. I love Ann Soelberg.
17. I love Tokyo. I love Japan. I never want to leave.

Night world.

Oyasuminasai.

The Atomic Bomb Dome
5/12/2009
Hiroshima

A stark and melancholic reminder of the horror of the atomic bomb dropped directly above this building. It serves as a reminder of the atrocities of war and the innocent deaths that were taken away.

A poignant remnant of a city devastated by just a drop of a bomb. That mushroom cloud. An experimental bombing.

A nice hot mug of tea on a cold, wet night. Tis nice.

I wish I had a huge huge mug. Not this cup I have now, which is an excuse of a mug. So I had to make tea two times, and I still want more. Mugs to me are huge, minimally a Starbucks Grande, but I love the Ventis.

The weather has taken a turn for the cold. Its incredibly cold. I’m not used to this, not for a Singaporean girl who has only gone to temperate countries in the summer. Seoul was cold too, but there was no rain. Although it meant that I could wear my boots for a proper reason.

Many days I wish. I wish that I could do something about everything. Like write a novel, take a spectacular photograph, make an cute stop motion film, mold something beautiful out of clay, create an interesting painting, redecorate my whole room, start up my dream cafe, open a bed & breakfast, open a backpacker’s inn, design my own clothes, relearn piano-playing for the sake of music and not taking grade exams. And then, I’ll just imagine it, and I’ll think it, and then I’ll slowly forget, and everything’s back to the same old.

Tomorrow, I’m going to sign myself up for ceramic classes. Which was the plan since before I came to Tokyo. My pottery tools are sitting at the corner of my room, waiting to be used.

Its interesting how you never feel lonely, until you want to be with someone. And the person is not around.

Ann and I visited Seoul, South Korea, last week, and before I forget some thoughts I have in my head, I’ve got to write some down. Photos are still in my camera, so that’ll have to wait.

Here is a soundtrack of our days in Seoul.

If you’ve been to Seoul, or seen ads from there, this gets stuck in your head. Ann and I had it stuck in our brains for a long time.
Chick Habit by April March

Ann’s song:
All Star by Smash Mouth

For the Oasis-love in all of us. Where the lyrics speak to me.

“The things that you’ve seen, slowly fade away.”
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“My soul slides away, don’t look back in anger I heard you say.”

Don’t Look Back in Anger by Oasis

My most favourite song, ever. Sing it to me, and I will melt. (I’ve probably quoted this song twenty thousand times).

“I know you know we’ve had some good times
Now they have their own hiding place
I can promise you tomorrow
But I can’t buy back yesterday”

I’ll Be There For You by Bon Jovi
(And I chose an awesome vid. Old school!)

I love it, Ann hates it. Its awesome. And I got 100% on it, with a certain someone. How am I to deny this song?
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen

Frank Sinatra leaves me speechless. And a simple promised serenade?
Under my Skin by Frank Sinatra

Back at One by Brian McKnight

Someone dance with me?

There’s so much that can be said, and yet so little that gets taken to heart. Its not that we don’t see the logic in those words, but they are just purely cold, hard words, that have very little impact on the emotions toiling in our breasts. The different layers of our consciousness doesn’t always meld.

And no matter how much I don’t want to care, to think of, to worry, to believe. I do. Even if it all comes back as a joke, blowing up in my face. So be it.