After Nearly 5 Months...

I came back to my personal space to blog.

Although I've done this before but now all of a sudden it feels weird. Like, familiar but weird.

And I kinda like the fact that I don't think anyone follows this blog anymore MWAHAHAA. Which is good because I don't think you guys are going to like it when I reveal what I've been doing for the past 5 months ignoring my blog totally and completely.

Actually there's no reason. Yes, you've read me right. There's not a valid reason for not writing in my blog. It's not because someone I do not like to be reading my blog is reading my blog, it's not because I've had such a traumatic impact that I don't wanna blog anymore, it's not because I've got myself involved in something very attention-consuming that I stopped blogging anymore. No, it's not all that.

It's just that, one fine day, I just decided that I don't feel like blogging for a long time. You can called that "lazy" I guess (hehehehehe) but I bet 75% of the people whom I know will not believe that I am a very lazy person. They all think that I'm hardworking and I seriously don't know why.

Or, you can blame it on my facebook game. To be exact, TWO facebook games. And ACCA. And my college's constant ongoing stream of tests (3 tests in 4 months!!). And now, after the third test, I have a week of short break (supposed to be study leave) and then a month later I will HAVE MY FINALS. YET AGAIN. It's depressing, already.

Anyway, I want to announce something (as if anyone still read the blog anymore) --- I am going to change my blog's website.

So do take note. Why? Because my current blog website name is boring. Lol. Yes, I know "how can my name be boring?" But yes I think it's too boring, for a blog, I want a nice fancy name for my blog now, and I will cook up that website in a few days. And let you all know. But later.

You know, these few months, it's not that I don't have anything that I want to blog, but I have TOO MANY to blog. Especially about Christmas last year, and New Year and Chinese New Year, and the books that I've read, the movies I've watched, the lessons I've learned, the feelings, the TV shows that I've covered, and a lot more. There's just too many things!! If I blogged it all off I won't be living a life. Kidding. Therefore, I don't want to blog ALL the things that I want to blog, just blog when I feel like it and up for a lot of typing, that way I think it is more productive, in a way.

If I can find the time, I will try to complete all the drafts waiting on my blogroll now.

Yvonne..

Merry Christmas!

If there's still any of you left anyway, after I've abandoned my blog for a considerably long period of time XD I'm just gonna drop a short little wish and off to bed soon.

So now, I want to convey my wish for everyone's happiness and well-being for this special and meaningful day.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU!!!

Not just today, but for everyday onwards!! After all, happiness (even the slightest bit) is all we need to get on with all the challenges life presents to us. Isn't that right??

You know before my holiday starts I kept wishing that I wanna go out everyday everyday everyday. And I really went out most of the days. It's uber tiring (although fun and eye-opening) and now I just wanna have one week to myself. But before I know it the next semester of college is here already.

Why in the world time always passes so darn fast? For the good bits I mean?

Sometimes I get the feeling that life's going so fast. There's no time to observe and appreciate what's good and right in front of us. We're always trying to pursue something but the blessings are already here, with us. People say, teenage is a phase where you learn a lot of things. But for me, teenage is, yes, a phase where I learn a lot of things. However, only these 2 or 3 years are the years that I've really learn. About life. About how we treat people and how the world works. About how to accept defeat and learn to climb back up again. About how short life really is and how seemingly important things right now will all be a tiny little past in the future.

From end of 2007 till now, I dare say that I've learned a lot, mentally and philosophically. I've found some answers to some of my own questions, those kind of questions where no one can really answer you but only you yourself will know the answer to it through personal experiences. I've learned to let go and put down certain things in my heart that I'll never forgive myself for. After all, it's the past, why dwell on it? Why not look forward to the future with an open heart and the readiness to accept whatever life will give to us, no matter good or bad, with a smile?

Here I'll quote something from a friend:

"Don't take life so seriously... no one comes out of it alive anyway."

Why, so true indeed. Although yes it's coated heavily with sarcasm but yes it's the truth nonetheless. I agree with it all-heartedly :D Although that's not to tell you all to commit suicide. Please don't get me wrong that way lol. But I can always see people (myself included) making such a big deal out of a simple little things sometimes. Yet when we're in the heat of the moment it's the only thing we focus on and worry soooo much about it. Funny ain't it? Oh well oh well. I should probably stop babbling about that now.

I've just finished watching Code Geass and migod it's WOW. Seriously. WOW. ESPECIALLY Season 2. It's wow-inducing. No take that back. It's a WOW itself. Okay I don't know what I'm talking about now but the point is that it's fantabuloso. In fact now I've listed it into my Top 5 faves. It's worthy of Top 5 but No. 1 is still Honey and Clover for me :D Anyway I'll not say more about it as I plan to do a full post only about Code Geass later (I keep saying that a lot lately huh? I'll post that, I'll post this...when oh when will I post xD).

And now I'm watching Natsume Yuujincho. It's been on my To Watch list for about one (or was it two?) years already and finally now I get to watch it. All because of Rurouni Kenshin *ahem* nothing. It's a very relaxing anime and I NEED more animes like this to calm my soul (LOL as if I've been in the war or something for the past 20 years XD).

OH DAMN I JUST ANN-ED* UP NATSUME'S SEIYUU TO FIND OUT IF MY SUSPICION IS CORRECT AND I'M RIGHT!!!!! NO WONDER I KNEW THERE'S SOMETHING FAMILIAR ABOUT THAT VOICE!! HE'S ALSO THE SEIYUU FOR TAKEMOTO IN HONEY AND CLOVER!!! I CAN ACTUALLY RECOGNIZE THAT VOICE WHILE WATCHING THE ANIME!! OMG I LOVE THAT VOICE.

*ANN-ED - Anime News Network-ed (also see: Googled)

Ahem. Sorry for the sudden outburst. Where was I just now? Oh. Yeah. Natsume and seiyuu. MAN I CAN'T BELIEVE I ACTUALLY RECOGNIZE THAT VOICE. Okay, Hiroshi Kamiya is so on my favourite seiyuu list now.

Okay, done with my otaku talk. I'm pretty sure every reader skip that part anyway :D

ANYWAY, so much for my "short little wish". I ended up talking about nearly everything =.= So, have a BLASTING MERI KURISMASU!!! Oyasuminasai!



Yvonne..

ありがとう 心から...

Been listening to this song non-stop recently. Yes I know it's mellow and not something I usually would listen to but hey it's nice and I like how ORANGE RANGE sing it - with a very kind, grateful, and soft voice. I heard of the indie band ORANGE RANGE since few years back, due to their extensive works covering dramas (Hanazakarino Kimitachi e - Ikenai Taiyou), movies (the record-breaking song "Hana"), and animes (Code Geass). Majoring in alternative rock, in my honest opinion, they produce surprising good songs occassionally. And the unique part of it is that sometimes they're not in the rock genre. And this song is one of those.

シアワセネイロ (Shiawase Neiro)
by ORANGE RANGE

胸の中いつか拾った　幸せのかけら　集めてみよう
I'll try gathering up the pieces of happiness
that I picked up some other time in my chest
忘れかけていた　メロディー　色あせず僕の真ん中に
A melody that I started to forget about is
right in the middle of me, unfading


借りたままの漫画捜索中　たまたま見つけた色あせた文集
While I was searching through borrowed comic books,
from time to time I found faded anthologies
「天下を掴む」なんて我ながらアホらしくて笑いが出た
It was me who laughed out loud like an idiot
at stuff like "seize the world"
天下じゃなくて電車の吊革を掴む日々
During the days when I seized not the world
but the hanging strap on the train
あの頃のボクに「ごめんなさいね」と微笑みながら頭を下げた
While smiling and saying, "I'm sorry,"
to me back then, you lowered your head


ありがとう　心から
Thank you, from my heart
僕に今があるのは皆のおかげさ
I owe it to everyone for now to exist in me
ありがとう　心から
Thank you, from my heart
次は僕が皆にHAPPY贈るよoh oh oh
Next it'll be me who delivers happiness to everyone oh oh oh


何もかも忘れないよ　あの日のボクモボクだから
I won't forget just about everything since me back then was also me
大好きだよっていつも言ってあげなきゃダメだね
It was useless that I didn't always say 'I love you'
辛ければ逃げてもいいよ　またここに帰ってくるのなら
When it's tough, it's okay even if you run away,
if you return here again
いろいろ寄り道もして行こうオリジナルな日々を
Let's go make various stops on the way in the original days


止まらない町の真ん中で　いつかからか君はうつむき加減
Right in the middle of an unstopping city,
since when have you been looking down?
抱える「気持ち」が多すぎて　一人きりでパンクしちゃってる
You hold too many "feelings" and blow out like a tire all alone
だから僕の言葉を聞いて　幸せをくれた君のため
So listen to my words, for you who gave me happiness
力を送るよday by day
I'll give you strength day by day


胸の中あふれそうな　幸せのかけら　つなげてみよう
I'll try connecting the pieces of happiness
that seem to overflow in my chest
力強くなる　メロディー　繰り返されてくメッセージ
A message makes the strengthening melody repeat
涙がこぼれそうな　長い夜は　ふっとふり返って
On a long night when my tears seem to spill, I suddenly turn back
足跡をたどるんだ　あの日を忘れないように
And follow my footprints, so that I won't forget about that day


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ORANGE RANGE, with this song, I change my perspective and thoughts about you guys. Good work :)

Yvonne..

Okay

Long time no post, don't worry, I'm not dead (yet). As usual finals slaughtered me and dragged me across a bed of sharp long nails. Well, that's clearly no surprise.

But anyway, I'M DONE WITH FINALS NOW!!! (And another 6 months I'll be dragged across that bed of nails again anyway =.=)

I have so many things to do, I feel like listing them down:

• Go to Comic Fiesta 2009.
  
• Watch at least 5 animes before the next semester (I'm watching Code Geass now :D).
  
• UPDATE THIS BLOG (I have like, 30 posts to update and I'm lazy but I have so many things to write!! A lot of anime reviews, food reviews, shits and stuff :D).
  
• Scour through all the malls for Christmas decorations. God I love Christmas decorations.
• Restaurant City unlock 3 dishes for each course, reach 800000 GP before semester starts (I really hate the game now yet I'm still playing it wtf).
  
• Update photos on FB.
  
• Find new recipes to bake :D
• Go out, go out, go out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay, there're more on my list, but those are personal stuffs :D

So this is a post to tell you guys that I'm still alive, and be prepared to see major spamming of blog posts within this month (I hope I won't drag this till next year :D).

By the way, please note that my latest obsession is:

♥KURURUGI SUZAKU♥
(Omg, I wanna marry him.)

from Code Geass (Jeez I really hope one day I can stop loving fictional or anime characters, did you guys know that in Japan a guy married a game character in a virtual dating game?? Like wtfffffff, I wish I could do that to Shinichi *cough ahem* Kidding. :) )

And yes Does that mean I'm *FINALLY* done with Rurouni Kenshin? Why yes that's RIGHT, after 95 excruciating-but-in-the-end-it's-nice episodes, I'M FREED FROM RK. Actually, I finished watching that like before the finals :X Himura Kenshin is so hot ♥ XD.

Alright I really gotta gather my thoughts now and erm post some more later, now I'm busy. LOL.

Yvonne..

So true, so true.

We make those who care for us cry,
we cry for those who never care for us,
and we care for those who will never cry for us.

Yvonne..

Anthony

Too damn good. Second one really reminds me a bit of Eason Chan.

Yvonne..

Winter

November often strikes me as a more wintery month than December. I don't know why, probably the spelling of the month which involves "v", and that somehow expressed the coldness of a month in the name.

Therefore, I've decided to take up a new theme, for winter, for Christmas, cheers :) [Also, probably because with pink I'll only put off blogging as long as possible as I really couldn't stand it XD.]

I've thought of changing the song to something like "I've never had a dream come true", a song which, I'm sure a number of you had heard and became fans of it just like me about 8 years ago. But, since I've said the new theme's also for Christmas so I have Sakura Kiss on string and piano which I think is quite festive and... happy.

To me, no doubt November is a cold, winter month. But, it's never a month of sorrow or sadness to me. In fact, winter never gives me that kinda feeling. I'm the kind who had, or maybe have, the amount of hope in me that I think winter is a warming, comfortable season.

Yvonne..

Memories

Went to my primary school's 80th anniversary.. Walking along the corridors of a place I'd once so familiar with, it's almost sad to feel so grown up. Good memories or bad memories, I still regard them as treasured, priceless memories.

I find it weird that our school never have a class like 6A. We have strange letters like B, K, H, and so on. There's no name, but I couldn't help wondering why those letters were picked instead of A, Y, and so on?

So many years had passed since graduation, and yet my good old school's still there, strong like never before. But I'm quite surprised to find out that it's going to move to "a more suitable location" in a few years. I bet most of us, especially those who have graduated, must be against it. Unless they move the whole building over. Because it's really special to us.

It's sad to know that one of our classmates had passed away just weeks ago. At such a young age, I wonder what he felt at the moments of his last breath. Regrets? Reluctance? or Anger? But it doesn't matter, because in the end, we must all let go. RIP my friend.

Yvonne..

Regal

I hate cats, but sometimes there are exceptional cases. Especially for cats who know how to behave and look almost adorable.

This one looks serene and almost regal.

Yvonne..

Weird Combination

I've seen yoghurts in many many different flavours: mango, tropical fruits, strawberry, raspberry, whatever-kind-of-berry, orange, aloe vera and so on.

But CAPPUCCINO?

Interesting.

Somehow cappuccino's flavour matched quite well with the yoghurt, although I dislike the addition of Nata de Coco in there. But then again, i always dislike Nata de Coco XD

Yvonne..

A Quick Update

Haven't blog in a long time, mostly, due to I haven't been online that frequently anymore. But still, I do keep a little list of what I'm planning to blog, so when I have the time, like these two days, I just post as many as I can. XD

I had mock test recently, which was a complete horror to me. I went into a blank panic in one of the papers, and I think this time round I'm definitely going to flunk it. Sigh. Who else to blame except me. Great.

After the mock I went and cleaned up my room, which was a very very tremendously satisfying experience for me XDXD. You couldn't imagine the amount of dust that I "discovered", which was very scary, because the kind of dust I'm talking about here is not like what you imagine, like a sheet of dust on something right? Wrong. Some places in my room, the dust had accumulated to a point where they ROLLED INTO A CYLINDRICAL SHAPE. Rolls with about 1cm diameter. So you get rolls and rolls of dust which look a bit like insects. Interesting eh? :)

Then I read some books which I intend to read for a long time but haven't got round to do it, I'll blog about it soon :) Rewatched a Korean drama, definitely not the type Nigahiga's talking about, and finally finished watching Heroes up to Season 4. I'll definitely continue to watch Heroes. I couldn't resist watching how evil Sylar is. It's scary to say that I find it utterly interesting :D

AND I JUST DISCOVERED THAT UGLY BETTY SEASON 4 IS OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG. I CAN'T WAIIIIIITTTT. :D:D:D:D:D

Yvonne..

Two in One

Twin-yolked egg!


But sadly it's not me, but dad who discovered it =(

Yvonne..