Dear skin,
don't worry, I'll settle in a place where it doesn't get too hot to wear sunscreen. I admit that this morning is not especially warm, perhaps (only) in the 20s, but my room was warm enough for the cream to have melted before I stepped outside..

Please do not wait until the night before the dinner party to tell the host that the two friends you will bring can not eat two thirds of the dishes that will be prepared. My gosh. The dishes were decided two weeks ago, two weeks prior to the party and were listed in the invitation for all to read. Also, I'd sent out a message last week asking for everyone to let us know if there's anything they can't eat. The problem isn't just that I wish we'd known sooner so that we'd have time to modify the menu, especially before buying the ingredients, but also I am uncomfortable with having put so much effort into organising the preparation of food for 30 people and 2 of them will bring food from outside. Almost feels like my hosting is being put to shame, especially as I'd hoped for a party where we would all share food as well as conversation..

This is where you'll find me

This entry comes after watching Charlie McDonnell's vlog to his future self and I thought it's a neat a idea, an idea I often have, and while I will not consider putting together a vlog for my future self - with my very limited filming/editing capabilities, it is feasible that I might post an entry specificlly for my future self and carry a note in my wallet to remind me to read said post on a certain birthday.. But, actually, I feel that all my posts are for my future self since, well, I'm the only audience I have. Oh I didn't mean for that to come of as a sad "will you follow me" plea, but to remind anyone that stumbles upon this that I am writing to turn my inward garble into prose amusingly documenting my inane thoughts..

Also for both my present and future self, a list of my various internet profiles:

• Last.fm -  to learn about some of my music taste, according to what gets scrobbled from Spotify or we7 (thus it doesn't include the songs I choose at karaoke, the songs I sing along to playing in shops, or what I hear on the radio)
• Twitter - when I have something I want to say to a general mas
• Youtube - it's very likely that I won't upload videos (actually, that could depend on the quality of the HTC Wildfire), so it'll merely be a collection of videos I like and a permission slip to comment on videos
• StumbleUpon - I spend hours strolling through the internet and here's one of the reasons why, plus a way of keeping track of some of the better places I might want to visit again
• We Heart It - I only use this when I am actively procrastinating, as opposed to "oh, I wonder..." then find that all the quick little things I've clicked on have taken up a large part of the house
• Daily Booth - very new to me, I signed up to it as soon as I'd learnt about it (as that's the only way you get to actually experience it) and it could potentially become a big favourite of mine. I don't like how it seems that some 90% of the photos uploaded are of the users themselves and I don't intend to follow it, so here's to hoping my (wishfully) lovely photos will cause a stir and provoke a revolution!

oh, nothing particularly life-changing happened in the missing blog post weeks, btw.

Except for deciding to have a party "to celebrate this wonderful year [as a Waseda student, in Tokyo] with the people that have made it so". Marion is my co-organiser, we've set it as our duty to buy all the supplies for the party. It will be held at the dorm and to make it cheap (and comfortable?) we plan to make the food ourselves, with the help of an army of friends. Menu: okonomiyaki, curry (two kinds: vegetables only and with chicken), potato salad, gyoza, crisps and other such snacks, and perhaps some dozens of cream puffs if we have enough money leftover (we're charging just 1000yen per person).

There will be alcoholic and soft drinks. The base group of invites is comprised of 13 exchange students and each can bring/invite up to 3 people each, so we expected around 50 people but very few have invited people to this party and numbers stand at around 30.

New Blog Chapter!

Evidently, my post-a-day thing failed.. I overestimated my determination/motivation and underestimated my lazy. Good grief. To fight against these horrendous, everlasting characterisitcs of mine, I will keep this post brief, so that I will carry out what I plan to do this afternoon. After finishing this post and posting it, I will turn off the computer and haul what I need to the top floor kitchen and finally T_T start on my sociology paper due Friday.

Actually, I'm going to put here the notes I have for it thus far, because it would amuse my future self (who I hope will have improved her memory and recollection, analysis and connection-making, and general smarty explanation skills - ganbatte).
- self-recognition and realisation of individual self
- social field: ontological knowledge, waves (amplification of emotion/reaction/opinion etc), identity reassurance
- Apollonian vs Dionysian
- blogging and social networks


Now on to the purpose of this blog post [I am actually yelling this title - in my head - but since I haven't the patience to dabble with fonts and such (not so complicated but still fiddly) technical things and won't let myself hand write, colour-code and generally artify my posts.. ¬_¬ this note is longer than the phrase itself = rambling (sorry)].
To further encourage myself to practise writing, for the sake of writing, for the sake of improvement, for the sake of finding something I can be proud of (this is just one of several things I'm "dabbling" with, mostly mentally dabbling with..), I present the following list:

• because I spend hours flitting about the computer, in my posts, I could include links and my reactions to what I've found (also look for 'purrrrrple' on StumbleUpon.com)
• stop talking about the boy, whichever boy it happens to be at the time - it doesn't help with your impression (the impression you're putting forward of yourself), your situation, your frustration (very much), so just do some starjumps and have a chai latte, or make some brownies (with chopped strawberries)
• describe a dress you'd recently designed/thought up
• [bah, I keep switching between first and second person. I think I speak in first person when I'm anywhere between ecstatically happy and mildly content, but anything negatively beyond that becomes second person nagging]
• write that entry on fireflies at Chinsan-zo
• Make a plan to love me [it's a song reference, don't take it too seriously]
• what's happening elsewhere in the world?
• are you eating properly? if not, what would you like to eat and where?

Thank you.