I just realise that I've never been to wonfest before in Tokyo. Considering that it's probably the event more relevant to my interest (aka TOYS)  and I've already been to Anime fests and Comiket , I really should retify that someday.

I'm mentioning wonfest because the winter 2010 wonfest was just over in Tokyo and the internet is flooded with new toys planned by the big toy companies out for the rest of the year there goes my budget out the window fly fly fly. Maybe if they spread it out evenly throughout the year I won't feel the pinch. haha.

( The hamster hoarder finds new 'final frontiers'...  )
ETA 2 : Random youtube link spam because.  

I... think I may be coming down with something. I'm not sure if I'm feverish but right now I'm feeling a little hot and cold in an aircon room all at the same time and my stomach gas is definitely acting up again. I just drank nasty meds of doom and am hoping I can sleep it off because I do not want to fall ill for CNY week. 

Maybe swimming at night was not such a good idea when I've been feeling weird all day.  

Matcha after 7pm... incredibly bad for bedtime.

Buying ebay stuff at 3am in the morning cos you couldn't sleep but your brain is only partially functioning... bad for wallet.

Getting flipped out of bed at 9:30am... okay maybe it's not so bad as opposed to wasting the rest of the morning away, but I am really not a morning person and my sugar level tends to be on the low side in mornings and it makes me rarrrrrrw.  

Just got the ETA from 'MAD': ahahaha guppy dearest how could you drive onto the expressway WITHOUT FUEL you ninny! Your 'MAD' is going to have a field day for sure. XD

Okay awake now. Maybe I'll spring clean. Maybe. Don't wait up. haha.

I suddenly feel compelled to own a Yotsuba summer figure but ah dammit it's now a lot harder to track this toy down (this is why we should buy our toys early folks becuase they are everywhere and thus cheaper then than now)... well... actually it's not completely off the market yet like the toy that got away, but the prices for current want has now shot up to ouch amounts and in USD not counting postage yet so I'm still wavering. I may still try out the toy stores here first before resorting online. Still, if this itch doesn't go away I may seriously consider investing my ang pow money to scratch it, because I'm almost spending just as much buying crap I don't even want that would probably add up anyway. ...

Which is why it may be a blessing that my math have been failing me pretty bad lately, and it's grade school level math at that. Just two days ago I was collecting $$ for a present, and in my head $21.70 divided by 2 rounded down somehow came to $14 in my head until colleague pointed out my math did not tally and it should be around $11.   Then there's the other incident a couple of months back where I confidently declared that 600 + 600 = 1400. And I answered that answer twice. With confidence!!!  Then of course my outsource was very nice about it even though I can hearing him snickering over the phone when he repeated his question until my mind clicked ahahahaha kill me please. I really don't understand why, but based on these two patterns, I can only conclude that I would unconciously +2 (or rather, multiples of 2?) to everything in my head? It's just weird I tell you! Maybe the multiplication button in my head calculator is stuck or something. 
 
( 20 minutes with Gindaico and matcha.  )

ONE MORE WEEK TO HOLIDAYS, YO! :D  What spring cleaning?

I doubt it's a secret aside from lazy procrastination that I have this huge irrational disdain/distrust for Facebook and I think I know why now, judging by the 'references' of email bot on a colleague's invitation to join some page he's setting up for the office to help with promo (um... yeeeeah, no?) and a listing on people whom I may know -- without me even having signed up for an account yet. Though I suppose I may. Eventually. Only because my friends are all assimilated there and I have voyeuristic tendencies. Or I may wait for the next shiny social network to be up by then and ride that wave, maybe. 

Question:  what kind of cross references did FB do to come to this conclusion of list of plausible people/prganisations I know, if by default, I have provided no information to them whatsoever?  The logical assumption would be they based it on my full name and likely email as mentioned by invitee; but it doesn't stop there, because the references came from different circles, so it couldn't have just  originated from this one source. Which leads me again, to infer that Facebook search bot goes around like a stalker  hunting down accounts that ever remotely or obscurely mentioned my name or email in passing. That may add up to a considerable history of my life, which, even if I have nothing to hide online, is not something that is made available with my consent so that bugs me. While I don't mind friends tagging me on photos they post online because they know me and I'm with them, it's a different thing when it's a total stranger (aka Creepy Facebook bot) doing it. It's like leaking my phone number out to strangers without getting my permission, yah? At least when I volunteer TMI, I'm aware of it and permitting it.  

The only reason I haven't been able to verify just how much I am getting around in Facebook without even being on facebook yet is because only members get to view facebook. So, not only does Facebook disrespect, it's also elitist. lol.  Although another colleague of mine did mention you can choose to untag yourself at facebook -- if you have an account. Yeah, everybody's got them here all right.

I am having a boring weekday, as you can see.

Out of curiosity, how often do you guys facebook? What do you do there most and how long do you spend on it? And how often do someone 'find' / 'poke' you? Is it better or different than Twitter? Because I can see myself twittering more than I can see myself facebooking, if that helps.  Twitter is pretty tempting, really, except for easy access to instant rant postage via phone in 140 words or less that I may or may not start regretting afterwards. I also see excessive capslock abuse like whoa.

 lilaciel , you have to catch it soon because only cathay is left screening it so it's very well nearing its run. D: 

So me and sis and her hubs went to catch Hachiko this morning, and while it may not be emmy award stuff, it is nice and doggie is OHSHOCUTE and its story is of course sob worthy enough. It  totally erased the really bad animal movies like GUGU the cat, and it definitely had its aww moments.  But I think its appeal to me lies on the fact that it has some historical basis where the movie drew inspiration from, to the point that you can kind of (kind of) overlook that the actual Hachiko is of 110% Japanese origins and so not about Richard Gere in a small american suburban town. But hey, producers gotta think of their western audiences and the Japanese LOVE Richard Gere anyway, no? At least they bothered to give Gere a token Japanese colleague and friend (lol deep conversations about 8 and its meaning). But what is with that ex-Sienfield guy always playing the mousey / weasel-like opportunist kind of character even in a heart-warming film like Hachiko? Seems that in every movie he's ever been in (especially when he's paired up with Gere), he never gets to be a total good guy, that's just a little sad. 

Back  to the show, I liked the fact they stuck to the right breed of dog. Added bonus for me is that I did appreciate how the area where this version of Hachiko waited for his master was similiar to the actual location in Shibuya. Not just being in front of a train station (given), but in the area where they errected the statue of Hachiko, it was at a circular area where a willow (?) tree was growing from. That's a nice touch to those who have seen the statue up close considering most of the original things about Hachiko has already been mutilated to an extent.

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Woof.

Post: Tomorrow will be Feburary and I don't really know how I feel about that, but at least there's the holidays coming up and complusory block leave to look forward to. Why am I not making plans to flee this country, self? 

Ahahaha I saw what I accidentally did thar and just  had to take a pic: 

It's not that I'm not trying my best to pack my things away, I just think it's one hell of an impossible conundrum to figure out how to magically create space to shelf your things when you have no shelves to speak of (rather, the only shelf I currently have is smaller than my previous shelf, bookshelf and hidden drawers combined) ...because you have no space because of the boxes, so things keep coming out of boxes and going right back in.

I did manage to decide to throw some of the items out and compact the number of boxes I have, but progress is rather insignificant. 

First let's get this out of the way: It's almost the end of Jan 2010, and  I think escaping on trips for the past two years around birthday time has spoiled me silly.

Thankfully, Room of Lost Cause (hereby now labelled RoLC V2.0 because I blog way too much about it)  still have interest sustaining value... more so because I have not successfully unpacked my stuff yet, haha. -- but I did discover  that from a certain angle at night, my window is able to look past the opposite block of flats and pan a little further to shiny building lights beyond.   Haven't had this kind of pretty view since the old place I stayed at till we moved when I was 9 years old.

( Work thangs!  )

I just had another one of those encounters with bumping into someone who seems to know me but I can't for the life of me remember who or where I've met her before...  Safe to say it's an akward positon to be in, especially even after trading name cards in a hurry you STILL don't know who she is except that you know now she works in the building just opposite yours and you may actually bump into each other again.  Aye, why so blur, self? *beats*

Personally, I've never been on the receving end of such situations before (where I thought I knew this person but the person doesn't remember me), although I think it's more likely because even if I thought I knew this person it's not v.e.r.y likely I'd try calling out to them unless I was 101% sure. Like that time at the library last year, I was almost certain this person could be an ex-colleague because she always dressed in a certain way and was of a certain petite height  and we were THIS close next to each other in the ladies (although she was in front of the queue and didn't see me) but I sort of just brushed it off that I may have been mistaken.  She saw me exiting the library later on and was the one who called out to me instead, haha.

Hmm... I'm not sure if this is why I consider my circle of friends small or almost non-existent. This worries me for some reason.

It's just a little shy after lunch and a huge themo flask of tea and I'm finally awake, methinks.  

I wonder what I missed.... besides the bus this morning and I had to walk all the way to the office, that is.

...made it on time with 2 minutes to spare tho, so still win.

Wonder if I should invest in a skate scooter. Bicycles, while probably the sanest option, sucks in Singapore because they have no place on the roads, and now pedestrain pathways are kind of off limits unless you want to take your chances with a fine.  Not to mention the roads in question are ones that either lead in or out of the freeways, and we know how crazy the fourwheels are there during rush hours. Blades are what I used to dream of doing in my previous company (where I was also living nearby) but realise they are out of the question, since I don't own protective gear, and seriously doubt my skating skillz are pro enough to survive on real roads, by that I mean breaking at will without needing to do a half turn, haha.

...Or I could just. y'know, walk.  Gawd I am getting boring with age.

Anime:
Durarara!!
Nodame Cantabile Finale
Baka to Test to Shokanju 
 
Manga:
Afterschool Charisma
Pokemon Adventrues

Toys:


Game
None ( cuz I dunno where I buried my DS or PSP). D:

Stories:
A Riot of Goldfish

Music :
"Always on your side" Sheryl Crow + Sting
"Trust Me" by Yuya Matsushita (MTV is a little lulzy, but it's J-pop, so.) 

Contemplations:
...am thinking of signing up for Taiko classes which begins in March and ends in May. It'll be a good new shiny activity that I haven't tried before. Plus, it's actually near my office and on a weekday night. It's only Jan, so am still thinking.

...may actually make target for Feburary 2010. Wants mah pay cos am feeling spendy.

...it would be nice to win another free trip. 

...wants to write/scribble something in new shiny purple book but finding it difficult to because I always have a fear of ruining pretty books.  Even bought two new shiny pens to go with it.

...that I need more sleep and calcium because I've been feeling funky lately and not in the nice way. Also, I get this nasty backache when I wake up it's not funny.

...I read in a horoscope 2010 that health of snakes will be on the bad side this year, what and ouch much.  I will resist being a statistic if it kills me, ppft.

...room of lost cause V2 is still in a state of losslessness because of boxes, but it appears to have gone on the offensive and is recruting new members. Translation, my desk has just joined the dark side, and so has a pile of stuff that has started to accumulate on the floor. Gulp.

...I checked out mei's current workplace at this Japanese bookstore yesterday because I didn't know it existed all this time (and it's really hard to find if you weren't exactly looking for it?), and I must say I rather liked it's quiantness. Not to mention the prices are WAY cheaper than Kino by almost 30 - 40% because they're second-hand, I suspect. That definitely works for me... say is there membership there? Better yet... is there further staff discounts?  >D 

...need lunch.

... and it's playing to the tune of *dongdongdongqiang*.

Dear colleague on the far end of where I sit. 
 
Can you not play your CHINESE NEW YEAR SONGS in the bloody office? Or at least, not at the volume where I can hear it OVER my internet radio? That old wife's tale about loud clanging music driving out evil spirits is a sham, as you can see, the 'music' irriates me nearly if not more than Christmas Carols dring the Christmas season, and I am currently harbouring vicious, vindictive evil thoughts of  101 ways to permanently mutilate your sound system and/or scratch your CDs when you leave for home, just so I can quell this uncontrollable urge of committng a crime against humanity like drowning goldfish or killing kittens while my ears internally bleed to death.  

This is why I can't have nice things. 

*twitch*

So there I was randomly looking up random books in some art section of the library when I saw this thick book popping out from the corner of a shelf. For obvious reasons, it caught my eye.

:::GOLDFISH!:::: So I really had no idea what I borrowed out I just did it based solely on its cover (thinking it may be some soci/history read thingy) , but as it turned out, it's a book full of goldfish pictures (but not in the encycopedia listing way, more like ... a coffee table book of artistic shots of goldfish/ art of goldfish, aka Goldfish p0rnz), and there's a mini novel in the middle of the book somewhere that's called 'A riot of Goldfish'  which is of course going to be a riot lol, so I'm going to read that after I'm done oggling at fish.

I wonder if such kind of books will ever get e-booked, cos I would totally save a few pages for a kindle wallpaper or something.

If any one of you drinks Absolute Vodka, please donate the empty glass bottle my way when you next finish one.  I'd like to use it for my office waterflask.  / Random.


 

...to post a picture of a bunny in a bowl. :D


Also, a sleepy bunny falling over on its back while trying to stand can kill you with its cute (I used to think only hamsters did that!)  

I'm shoving this pic in my face tomorrow morning.

Dear Journal that is mine.
I shall be a good girl today , stay home, crank up my internet music to full,  unpack a box or two, and maybe clear some work off till dinner.

Unless I change my mind again. Or something on the internet catches my attention.

Goldfishly yours,
Moi.

p.s: My room is smaller than this. It doesn't have space for a coffee table :(