From Home to Back Home

Well it is finally the second last day staying at home, until I go back home. Gosh, that sounds so weird..... Anyway, these 7 weeks had really gone quite fast! I mean during it it was so slow, but now that the time is up, it feels like it had just gone by. I only just got 実感 when my friend hugged me good bye and said she hopes I have a nice flight back that I really realised that I was leaving. And then my cousin hugs me last night saying she wishes I could live with them forever..... awww it was sooo cute!
Since this time back, I was here for much longer and I worked and did things, I felt like I was just back living in Sydney and the fact that my friends expected me to have another farewell thing, I really did feel like I just belong here.

Anyway, I realised that I appreciate this city even more now that I had been away from it and I have come back. I am gonna miss it so much!! Man,I really don't wanna go back to freezing cold weather!! (>_<)

Growing Up

Love is like a hundred butterflies fluttering in your heart.

It seems like everywhere I turn, there is love everywhere. So many of my friends are getting married, already married and having children. As I look at my little cousins, I get reminded of myself and my childhood. Man, it feels like it was ages ago. I mean, I had forgotten a lot of things, but after living with people so young and so small and living with a thousand toys in your room (and sometimes finding some buried in your bed or waking up to a beeping tamagotchi), it's hard not to remember things and think back.

I remember feeling really small and tiny when I was in kindergarten, and looked upto the 'big kids' in Year 6 and thought we had ages to go until being one of them. When the time came and we were in Year 6, we all thought we were 'adults' and knew everything then. Then we started high school, and then we became the babies of the school again and reality kicked in that we still didn't know anything and had many more years till we were the 'big kids' again. It had seemed like agaes. Now that I've finished uni and am working, I still think there's so much to learn and know. I still feel like a baby at times. Then I see my friends who I went to school with, starting families and doing these grown up things, and I think to myself, "When did we grow up so fast?" It seemed like it was still ages to go till we were in high school, and university and getting married.....

As one of my friends wrote on her blog, it seems like there is a boom in marriage. Everyone seems to be getting married and having babies. I guess this is a good thing though.

YES!!

I woke up today to see the sun just rising. As I walked out, I saw that the sky was a beautiful sky blue. A cloudless sky~, I knew it was going to be a good day :)

And it was!! I passed my L's exam!! Yay!!!!!

Now, I just have to do 50 hours of drving and get my P's......

Ha? I won what??

I was sooo exhausted today during the day, so I went to sleep when I was awoken by a sudden call. It was a private number so I thought of not taking the call, but it kept ringing so I picked up. I answered 「もしもし？」 Then no answer, so I was like "Hello?" and then no answer again. I was about to get pissed off for being awoken by this call, when the other person on the line answered in the most cheerfullest voice ever.

It was a call of sales from Telstra. *groan* I despise sales calls. The guy just kept going on and on about how I was picked from a random of not Telstra numbers and had won a deal of $550 p/m of calls for only $79 if I switched to Telstra, and I could keep my Vodafone number. So this guy's like asking me all these questions like how much I spend on my mobile every month and where I live and stuff, and I'm still halfway in dreamland, so I'm not replying properly, so I tell the guy I'm not interested.

Then, he starts getting into personal questions like what am I doing? And why am I still asleep at 1pm? I didn't wanna tell the guy I was from overseas (I'm not really, but you know what I mean) so I told the guy what I did was a 'secret'. By that time, I was fully awake now and realised that we were much far away from sales talks and very much into about you and me talks.
By the time we had chatted for an hour, I found out that he was from India, 24 y.o, just finished his accounting course and was working at Telstra whilst applying for jobs. By this time, all he found out about me was that I was Japanese lol. Anyway, he still didn't wanna get back to work, so we ended up chatting for another half hour (omg how bored must I have been??!) And then (here we go) he asked me whether I had any photos of me on the internet. So, I checked out his hi5 first, and scanned him. He actually looked quite decent. So, only to be fair, I told him my myspace and got him to tell me what he thinks of me. I mean, it's interesting to find out what strangers think of you. Anyway, he said I was everything a girl wants to hear about herself~. So, after I had received some self confidence from a stranger, I said I had to go and it was nice talking to him and hung up.

And the funny thing is, this mobile isn't even mine, and if I hadn't quit work yesterday I couldn't have picked up this call. Wow, what an interesting afternoon indeed.

★~Nite Nite Dreams~★

Have you ever had a dream and it came true? I mean, not like a goal type of dream, but the kind of dream you see when you are sleeping. I believe the dreams that we see while we are sleeping mean something. For example, when I was really stressed out during exam time or when I just wanted to get away during a rough time, I would dream of flying away, as I really physically wanted to do that in real life. Or there was the time when I was really physically tired and I dreamt that I was falling off a cliff, and I was clinging on for dear life. Well yesterday, I dreamt that myself and this particular person was on LOST and I was running away and trying to escape the island. Only my island was much prettier than the one on the show, and my island actually looked like a resort with those little white planes that travel through the water before taking off into the air. Anyway, my alarm woke me up, so I didn't get to finish my dream. And just then, this guy asks me if I'm alright. I mean, wtf?? He's overseas now, and I hadn't known him that long, but he apparently had a dream about me walking through a forest, in the rain, with my foot bleeding. And he kept on calling out my name, but I wouldn't answer and just kept on walking... He also said that I was wearing a white dress and it looked good on me. Oh well, hurt and crying in the rain in the forest, but at least I still looked good lol. To interpret this dream (even though I wasn't the one who dreamt it) I think I take it as that in real life, a couple of days ago, I wanted to change my flight tickets, so I can go back to Japan earlier, but I found that I couldn't. When I found that I couldn't, it messed up all my plans and I felt lost and lonely. So since I physically couldn't get myself to Japan, that was shown by my foot being hurt and bleeding in the dream. Crying and still walking through the forest, I guess I'm still doing that in real life today. The white dress? Hey, a girl always wants to look pretty.
Anyway, in the past I have had weird stuff happen to me before (well at least I think so). Like, I'd dream of places I've never been to, but then a couple of years later, I would visit them. Or something that happened in my dream would actually happen, like deja vu みたいな～。 Tis strange...

But overall, I think I over analyse things way too much anyway. lol.

-Battle With the Young-

So, I was talking to my little cousin yesterday, and I asked her how her boyfriend Jacob from Preschool was.

Me: "How's Jacob?"
Meimei: "Gooooood!"
Me: "What do you like about him?"
Meimei: "He has a sexy bum!!"

Man, I was so shocked to hear that coming from a 3 year old. Kids these days~, they grow up too quick.

I got so mad at her on Sunday night when we were in the car, she didn't get her way, so she started hitting me. Really hard. She screamed out "Meimei don't like Jiejie anymore!!".
And me, being childish and totally pissed off, screamed back at her "Well, I don't like you even more!!". My uncle was horrified lol.
And now, I know why she is awake till like 1am in the morning. She eats lollies after she gets up at like 8pm. So she is on a sugar high and she napped way too much during the day, so she is wide awake. She turned me into a frog today. She made this wand thingy today at Preschool and she cast a spell on me. How mean. I mean, a frog. Out of all the things she could have turned me, she turns me into a frog. Then I told her I wanted to be something prettier, so then she turns me into a king. From an animal to a male. She just wouldn't let me be something pretty and girly. I repeat, how mean. Anyway, I had her sister turn me into a princess, so it's all good now :)

Just Over A Decade

Yesterday was a really fun and special night. It was our primary school reunion and I had not seen my classmates for over a decade! (OMG I sound and feel so old..........). Anyway, it all started when a few weeks ago, I coincidentally bumped into a couple of my primary school friends at my high school friend's farewell. We got chatting about how we were and what we were upto, and then got to chatting who we still kept in contact with from good old Chatswood Primary. Then we decided to have this reunion. It was good timing and we thought that 10 years was long enough to do it. We got over 30 people to come and it was great!! I could still recognise people and see the resemblance of when they were much younger. Everyone was still pretty much the same. We just look older. Even though I had not seen everyone for about 12 years, and there were some people whom I never really spoke to back in Primary school, there was no awkward feeling and it was just fun and comfortable being with everyone and having a good time. I guess it's because we've grown up together and seen each other's embarassing and bad moments. Reunions are so much fun!! I hope to do more soon!!