I want my dearest Sailor Moon fans, especially those who have watched Season S, to take the time to watch 'Last Friends'. Its a Japanese drama. Bittorrent at your favourite torrent site, tokyotosho.com.

And then pick out the things that stand out in this drama for you. Seriously. Go and do it. Its awesome.


:D And here we were just talking bout Sailor Moon not that long ago, Lyndz!

Always amazes me. I don't know why.

I was going back down the mountain from my aunt's place (up in Beverly Hills for all those that know HK and are wondering which aunt I'm talking bout) and had just boarded the minibus when this older man came to the driver's window and asked where he was. He was a delivery man who had lost his way and had footed it all the way up to Beverly Hills and was lost.

The driver immediately told him he had walked up waaaaay too far and when the delivery man made to go back down the way he came, the driver offered to drive him down. The delivery man refused and said it was better for him to just walk. The driver immediately repeated his offer and said that he wouldn't accept any payment from the delivery man if he just boarded the bus. The delivery man again refused, but the bus driver insisted. It was kinda really nice that a bus driver would let someone board his bus for free, when usually most people would just keep going. But the bus driver was obviously looking out for the other guy's best interests and not just his own.

Bravo, sir. Bravo. There were only two other people on the bus besides the bus driver and the delivery man, but I think we were both really touched and impressed.

Reading the South China Morning Post today and I gotta say, these protesters are HILARIOUS. Lets look at some of the messages that they've managed to scrawl onto their signs and placards:

"BOYCOTT CARREFOUR!" (Carrefour is a French supermarket. Sorta like... Walmart)
"Tibet is part of China!"

And, of course, all time favourite: "SHUT UP FRANCE!"


My take on all of this? That politics should stay out of the Olympics. Everybody's just being fucking ridiculous and I'm sorry if people disagree with me, but I feel that really, EVERYBODY NEEDS TO SHUT UP.

All this talk of China and its policy, its not about China! China is the HOST country and the Olympics is a celebration of the athletic spirit and prowess. This is about the Olympics, for gods' sake! I wanna see the athletes compete, I don't wanna see all the hard work that the sporting world has put in, ruined.

You wanna protest China's human rights issues? Fine. Go take your banners and your slogans to the Chinese embassies. Cuz don't think you're only protesting China when you're trying to steal the Olympic torch or trying to put out that flame.

I agree that China needs to work on their human rights, but can we not do it during the Olympics? Its purely a selfish thing on my part. I wanna see the games and it pisses me off when people try to stop the games from running smoothly.

it was great to be back home for even a short time. :P It was great seeing my family and friends!

Last night, I had a dream that an animated season of Sailor Moon was out! A new season! With completely reworked and updated characters! They were fighting clowns at an amusement park! How creative is my subconscious, you ask? Not very.

But anyways, Sailor Moon had a new hairstyle. The only way I can explain it is that it sorta looked like Sailor Venus when she pretended to be Sailor Moon that episode that Sailor Moon got her heart crystal taken out in Season S.

I'm a dork, yes.

The rest of the senshi were kinda hazy, but Sailor Neptune was like, this MILF with aqua-green hair. And Sailor Uranus was this young girl who had her hair in huge pigtails. I don't know what kinda crack my brain was on, but goddamn that dream was so amusing. I woke up hoping that there would be another season, hahaha.

Well, I did my part. In Hong Kong on Saturday at 8pm, I was watching the Vagina Monologues at the Fringe Club and all the electricity in my place of dwelling was out. I also car-pooled today to BBQ with people and took public transportation home! Like I do all the time! :D

Plus, I can do Earth Day for Toronto time too, because I'll be sleeping and all electricity will be off! :D

Rock on, Earth! Lets hope we make it another thousand years or so without killing ourselves and the world!

I was on the bus and looked out the window to see this old man eating the leftovers from a Styrofoam container that he had pulled out of the garbage. He was dressed raggedly and the hair on his head was patchy. He was thin and poor, but trying to do some sort of job to support himself. Collecting cans and bottles to return to the recycle center for a little bit of money to get by.

He didn't have enough for food apparently and was eating the lunch someone else had thrown away. As he was scarfing it down, a woman passed by. She took a glance at the old man then stopped to yell at him. She took his container of food and threw it in the garbage and while he stood there, dumbfounded by what had just happened, she pressed one or two bills into his hands, instructed him to buy a better meal and walked away.



Is that kinda act of kindness an international thing? I've never seen that kinda thing happen while I was in Canada, the US or Japan. Is it strange that I'm incredibly touched by this brusque and abrupt kindness? Is it kindness?

The word, "Gay" or any variation of it and the use of homosexuality as an insult, that is.

examples of "gay" as an insult or even sometimes, as a descriptive word:
"This is gay."
"You are gay."
"gayness."

I would like to say, after reading an article in the paper about "gay" being THE most used insult in schools in the UK, that we need to find another word to replace "gay".

Why? Because not only does it hurt the children in this environment who play exclusively or not exclusively for the 'other team'; and not only does this sort of thing make our future a bleak and sad one for love same-sex style everywhere... but because the word "gay" is over-used and unimaginative.

Ignorant, stupid people use "gay" as an insult.

Lets try to expand our vocabulary a bit, people.

Oh, and try to accept people for who they are.

P.S. Kids, don't bully. Words hurt!

Where are you going? Where are you going to?

I was chilling with Iona today. And sometimes, she says something really profound and deep. She'll never know, of course. Most of us don't realize when we say profound and deep things, but others will notice.

She was gossiping, as usual, and was talking about a friend trying to hook her friends up. And she was a little bit irritated with this. I asked why. And she said "if they were meant to be, they would meet somewhere in the future or bump into them". Of course, we can say, what if your friend hooking the friends up was fate working THROUGH this meddling friend, but I didn't wanna derail her train of thought. And I had a question to ask.

"So you believe in fate?"

"Of course."

So if I believe in it, fate would put me at ease. What will be, will be. What will happen will happen. If it was meant to be, it was meant to be.

But are we just passive passengers in this ride called Life or are we the drivers? Is everything predetermined?

Brings me back to an interesting conversation I had with a classmate back in university, about fate and how God would know everything without predetermining our fate. It was a helluva confusing conversation. And for some reason, whenever I remember that conversation, the picture of a red ball of yarn with threads going EVERYWHERE pops into my head.

Why does one question always bring more questions?

What are we doing here on this small blue gem called Earth?



Fuck all this shit. Its the waiting I can't stand for. What will be will be... so the question is WHEN?!

Date:	2007-12-17 04:56
Subject:	Leaving Japan :(
Security:	Public
Mood:	depressed

I never thought this day would come and that I would be so sad to go. So many people came, and looking at all of them, there's so many people I'm gonna miss.

The party was packed to the max, and the staff probably hated us, but we were alright. Tons of fun even though I ate almost nothing, lol.

Specially gonna miss the Sports Bar people. It fucking broke my heart to leave them and we were all a fucking mess.

After Hana no mae(or whatever the place was called), everybody headed to Roxy's. That was funtimes. Got to see everybody before I left...

Except for one person. Where the fuck was Mr. John Gayed? lol.

There are things that I definitely am not gonna miss about Japan. These things actually put me off Japan and make me wanna leave. But the friends I've made here definitely almost swayed me.

The last week in Japan was a blur of activity. Lunches and dinners to go to(especially the one special one on Thursday, December 13th at 6:30-7ish pm, lol), mahjong parties and Hiroshima trips with swissotel crew... chilling with the girls I've met here who, even though I didn't know them very well, threw a sayonara party for me and Rachel. Wow.

I wanna come back, I do. But things are gonna change again. And if I stay, people are just gonna keep coming and going. I know that happens everywhere... but somehow, I know if I'm in Japan, the bad feelings I get when people leave are just gonna be astronomical. Its the whole, finding treasure in garbage thing. You weed through a whole buncha garbage, and you find a fucking fortune. Garbage being shitty people and the treasure is the good people.
And after you've found this treasure and you gotta let go of it... man, does that suck ass.

If I go back to Japan, will there be anything worth staying for there?

Date:	2007-12-03 16:28
Subject:	Last night at レディキラ
Security:	Public
Mood:	a little bit sad
Music:	Yuki Kimura - Love & Joy

Sad, man. Real sad. Its the last time I'm gonna be seeing those girls dance. Like the fact that its over makes my heart soooo fucking heavy.

Got a picture with the organizer and also with my favourite dancer. I'm going to miss these clubbing events.

But last night I was balling outta control. Just having so much fun cuz this girl from Miami was there and we danced it up like two crazies from a North American background would. And I don't wanna blow my own horn, but after a while of people just coming up to me and talking to me and stuff, Miami(I'm calling this Miami girl this from now on) turned to me and said 'Yo... you're really popular'.

And she was right. I was. LoL. I didn't even know I was. And these people I barely know are organizing a sayonara party for me and Rachel.

Then we karaoke'd the entire night until the first train.

Shoulda met Miami sooner.

I wanna leave Japan with absolutely no regret. But we'll see if that happens, right?

Saigo no レディキラ. I am fucking so sad about that.

Yuki Kimura - Love & Joy. This song was my last song and will prolly always remind me of my time in Japan.

This is all so fucking... strange.

Date:	2007-12-01 15:21
Subject:	16 more days in Japan!
Security:	Public
Mood:	a little bit sad

So Moe's gone. She was gone since last Monday. And now its only me. Well, of course, there are other people. Like Cecilia and Paul and Vince and the Japanese people...

I sorta don't wanna leave cuz I've invested in Japan, made friends here that I will really miss when I go home. But seriously, who stays for the long haul? Who teaches English forever here? I don't want to. Once again, socially, Japan is not quite as advanced as other nations. Gender issues-wise, women are still seen as second-class citizens. Foreigners, well... we're all criminals here or tourists and are to be ignored or to be treated as very interesting alien things that are going to leave soon. Japan is a xenophobic nation.

But all in all, all the bad points and I can't bring myself to leave. I love the weirdness that is Japan and I wanna continue learning Japanese so I can converse with people that seem so drastically different from me but are probably not.

The ability to communicate, goddamn, that's something people take for granted everyday.

I still sound just like a retarded child, but I'm gonna try my best, dessho?

baby steps.

I got 16 days to make it happen.

Date:	2007-11-05 02:21
Subject:	MOUNTAIN VS. FATIMA and then... KIR!!!
Security:	Public
Mood:	ecstatic
Music:	Alicia Keys - No One

Results? Mountain KICKED MY ASS. But what a workout. I've never climbed outdoors before and Kelley and his wife took me to a place like two stops on the train from my city. It was awesome. And so fucking scary. I have scrapes and bruises I didn't find out until the adrenaline had worn off. It hurts to laugh.

There were times on that mountain when I just held on and refused to move from a spot for several minutes. I WANNA DO IT AGAIN!!!

Then what did I do?

Got so fresh and so clean.

Then went to Osaka and danced. Got my courage together and got KIR. YES!!!

...that sounded like I just got an STD...

...

And now I'm sleeping in an internet cafe in Osaka cuz I missed my last train. Well you know what? IT WAS WORTH IT. WORTH ITTTT!!!!

Date:	2007-10-24 15:19
Subject:	About the future
Security:	Public
Mood:	weird

what am i doing?

I feel like I don't have enough time to do all that I want, become what I want to be. I feel like I started late, but I don't even know what I'm supposed to become. I am in parts disappointed with myself but yet proud and at peace with who I am. I know that I'm doing alright but I know that I could do so much better. I constantly want to climb but I don't know where I'm supposed to be climbing to.

I care, but I don't care. Selflessness wars with selfishness, the obsession with the one and the illusion that the whole world revolves around me. Tempered with the knowledge that my pain and happiness does not fuel the world around me. Knowing that the world gives to me but wondering what in the hell am I giving back?

I have this inkling, this little worm of a thought in the back of my brain. That there's a price you pay for everything and I'm not doing enough to pay it back though I don't know how I'm supposed to pay it back.


huh.

must be something I ate.

Paul's parties are always awesome. Its always salad, wine, cheese and bread. Good cheese is hard to find in Japan, and I'm always surprised when he manages to find some.




but yeah, the big news is this: Dumbledore's gay?! Its cool and all... but woah. A character in a monumentally popular children's fiction series is gay.

http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/269045

Date:	2007-09-29 02:28
Subject:	A wonderful month back in Canada...
Security:	Public
Mood:	depressed

...now I'm heading back to the J to the A-P-A-N. Damn.

Its nice to be back home and I really did miss my family a lot. Just seeing how ridiculously fat and cute my nephew is is heart-warming. And the fact that my dad remembered that I love fresh coconut and bought me some is great. My mom bought me a nice jacket and my grandparents nagged me.

I'm going to miss them. :(

I'm gonna miss my friends too.

I dun wanna leave.

:(

Is a REALLY scary experience.

[yellow light changes to red light]
mom: CHARGE!
me: Nononononononono!!!

[driving past a horse farm]
mom: Hey, how many horses are there? Lets count!
me: THE ROAD! MOM, THE ROAD!

mom: SPEED UP!
me: POLICE! POLICE!

The whole trip was kinda like that. I wonder if that's how she drives when I'm not in the car or if she just does it to shorten my lifespan...

The three F's of Canada that I miss: Family, Friends, Food.

:D

Its good to be back in Canada.