"who says everyday has to be so everyday"

Happy lunar new year to all and welcome to the dragon year 2012!

Wish that everyone lives in great fortune, to be immersed in freedom and the warmth of great companies.

Holidays do help inject a different atmosphere but holidays arent the only one to add colours to daily lives.

Chu yi is always to visit the paternal relatives who converse in half teochew and half hokkien. Defining loud laughters and reminiscing olden times in kampong. It's of real fun to understand the life of the previous generation. The generation of the baby boomers. Being part of the rich history of spore. 百听不厌 indeed. Their mannerism, despite 不属于文雅 但有豪放的感觉. They arent usually like that in everyday life but when they gather. This is the scene. N thanks to dear cousin for her great cooking skills n great company, her weird fetish at games n weird thots in determining her moves 让我们强颜欢笑. Her fren quite brave to come over to fill in the empty seat my bro in germany this yr has left behind. Also congrats to cousin-in-law who is due for delivery soon. Hope i dont appear too scaredy cat as i keep askin her not to move so much, jus let pple serve.

Chu er for maternal side, tks to my dear aunt for the great hospitality and food as usual. Joining in any topic under the sun, this bond remains strong. Doing everyday stuff like being dragged to the park but this time all of us in dresses instead of shorts and still have to climb up and down at the playgrd with them. Video conf with bro whose lessons continue in freiburg. Hope that waking up during the wee hours on ur side to bai nian over the internet creates a little fun in the cold winter over there.

Despite dreading going back to work , wishes prompted longer conversations to catch up with old pals. The conversations n the interactions used to be an everyday event, and u know that it is in the past but these old events become a different injection today. Today is no longer so everyday. N also with great company to connect at the intellectual level n the kindness deeply felt with appreciation, or solitude with nature makes every working day not so everyday. Pattern breaking that is. With fun activities and dear companions in the wkends contributed to everyday being not so everyday, and every wk being not so every wk.

To me, this is good fortune.

Open case: Azumino

Japan hour really is my fav tv show. 一番好き。 Thanks to this episode, i recalled the place which i came across in a magazine months ago and where i swear to visit soon, i hope.

Azumino. Yes i better jot it down. In the nagano prefecture, 3 hrs train off tokyo or nagoya. A place where u can bike and hike. And of cos with onsen and tsubakuro-dake to climb. A tip to look out for the dolphin rock. Itinerary is similar for all climbing trips. U must be prepared to wake up at 3-4am to watch the sun rise. But it should be an incentive and enough reasons to motivate myself to watch it in the land of the rising sun.

From the show, seems like all japanese climbers. The lodge, enzanso, is like a camping hut where u'll be forced to mingle. The bunks look like those on an overnight train which i saw in frens' vietnam photos. Not like those in the europe. But if the language is a barrier, i wonder how it works. Shld starting working harder on the lang.

Aug. i shld be determined to make plans. The period when there is fireworks display in azumino as well. Suppose it will be crowded tho. demo, ganbatte ne.

人生と花火は同じ

life and fireworks are analogous. in the blink of an eye and it's over.
and so it's yet another countdown and another beginning of the new calender year. in the late 20th century, 2012 has been portrayed as an era of high technology. and of cos the hyped armageddon.
Supposed the palms and the apps, the laser-lighted 3d models and wireless sensor controllers have fulfilled the past prophecy. and the waves of natural disasters hitting the populated pieces of land, we can only wait and see. and if life ever continues, the next milestone of 2025, how much more of these will we see and we are so soaked up in the midst of the transition that these changes seem so subtle that we hardly notice. and so 4S with Siri, the commencement of a talking robot. reminds me of the japanese drama, something on zeittai kareshi and another anime on how human has a robot buddy, like a personal assistant. paired up, somewhat akin to the plot of the golden compass.

my dear chum, you write well, you play well. an artist indeed. you've managed to skilfully pen down some of the indescribable waves sent out by my "thinking machine". yes that's all i can describe, just waves indicating brain activity. fleeting thoughts, they do not stop by long enough to properly exist and be sorted in an organised manner. Moving on somewhere may lead you to developing your potential fully in the linguistic and musical realms. feel that your talent is hidden, and it wouldnt have been so bad if you are leading your life well. It's baffling to witness a hardheaded kind soul who worries more for others because of the most trivial matters than to focus the care on one's most important asset. i'm crippled by the inability to help relieve your suffering. with different priorities and views, I know the success rate of convincing you to live the way it is best for you is null times the length of chanting. pains me greatly as i do not have the solution to improve your environment for your well-being. feels trashy. these are the times, when i have simply no choice but to turn to silent prayers, hoping that it will reach the recipient. the last resort, hopefully the spiritual beings do not ignore me cos i am no devotee.

hanabi is short, but it's magnificent during its few-seconds life. the pyrotechnics has the amplifying wow effects when each and every one performs perfectly.the dark sky is lit up by one after another and a combination of stars burning brightly. analogous to human life, when one leads a life which burns brightly, to its fullest, it is still beautiful, be it single in the dark sky or together with the others in the finale.