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Wednesday, January 14, 2004
ohisashiburi...
i think i am starting to get a little tech-weary these days... or maybe it`s just my need to decity-ize...i can`t wait for hawaii, and hopefully i can buy my ticket this week. it`ll be bizarre i think, to be reunited with some of the girls in hawaii of all places, and for tomo`s wedding, an event five years in the making since she`s wanted the married life since she was 18 hahahh. after hearing about julia`s trip to thailand, i had an intense longing to drive along the coast somewhere, anywhere, to follow the sun into night. in a real car, with people that make me happy, falling into that happy-sleepy-warm-fuzzy-state, wanting to be nowhere else except where i am right now. i was thinking of doing a road trip up and down the east coast with liz this summer when i go home, but i dunno how feasible that will be since i probably won`t get my G (curses) and Liz is scared of traffic moving over 70km/h (heeheee...). i love road trips. i don`t mind the driving especially when the sun is streaming through the windshield, and i am sufficiently armed against the glare with sunglasses and the perfect song (reccomended driving music: coldplay, why georgia by jm, rick astley, mich branch). but i love being a passenger. i think it was all of those saturdays as a kid, piling into the car as my family endured a day of neverending errands/obligations, capped off with a drowsy nighttime drive back home to the sticks i.e. Stouffville... for a while if i was in a moving vehicle for more than 10 minutes, i would fall asleep, head forward, dead to the world. i`m not that bad now... i can now endure an entire loop on the TTC yonge/university line without falling asleep *applause*
why am i writing about this?
i have no idea... maybe i just miss home too much. maybe i need to get away... but the past few days have been good for me. i caught up on much needed sleep (and still am hehehhe), cleaned, played with Lucas, and breathed deep sunny wintery breaths. on saturday i walked up to the highest point in chishima park, which offers a 360 view of the park and taisho-ku... the sun was about to set, so everything was coated with that romantic golden sunlight, and for a while, i felt really content about being in Osaka. but at the same time, it was also contentment at having to leave it, which was a first. the clouds were a bit hazy, but i could still make out the outlines of the mountains surrounding the city, and it struck me that i would maybe never be able to live in a city protected by mountains again. mountains. maybe if i moved to vancouver, but i have a feeling the mountains there jut into the sky more raggedly, whereas here, they slope softly, disappearing at night, sometimes reappearing in the clear of day.
points of interest (or a thinly veiled attempt at another list):
1. christmas in japan... was a little samishii for family and snow, but happy with the mellow-KFC-feasting-movie-Matt version
2. new year`s in japan... smoky and crowded for most of it... so basically new year`s with mary at a club (hahahaha, kidding). it was good, i went to sumiyoshitaisha and got some exclamations of "erai na!" from teachers. woohooo japanese culture brownie points! thanks ots
3. my parents are coming in february!!! woohooooooooooooooooooooo... arriving on the 14th, lovelove... but only for a week. booooooooo.
4. i still don`t have a friday school...!!??
5. i bought kimchi. i`m scared... who knows if natto will be next??
6. it`s weird to hear about/feel people drifting...
7. i got really sick on the 6th... i blame Shaun for bringing in some weirdo balinese disease into my midst
8. started reading garcia marquez`s "in the time of cholera"... sooo good
9. i don`t like the book for the book club. poo.
10. i forgot how much i missed shaki when i was hanging out with him during winter break
i think i am starting to get a little tech-weary these days... or maybe it`s just my need to decity-ize...i can`t wait for hawaii, and hopefully i can buy my ticket this week. it`ll be bizarre i think, to be reunited with some of the girls in hawaii of all places, and for tomo`s wedding, an event five years in the making since she`s wanted the married life since she was 18 hahahh. after hearing about julia`s trip to thailand, i had an intense longing to drive along the coast somewhere, anywhere, to follow the sun into night. in a real car, with people that make me happy, falling into that happy-sleepy-warm-fuzzy-state, wanting to be nowhere else except where i am right now. i was thinking of doing a road trip up and down the east coast with liz this summer when i go home, but i dunno how feasible that will be since i probably won`t get my G (curses) and Liz is scared of traffic moving over 70km/h (heeheee...). i love road trips. i don`t mind the driving especially when the sun is streaming through the windshield, and i am sufficiently armed against the glare with sunglasses and the perfect song (reccomended driving music: coldplay, why georgia by jm, rick astley, mich branch). but i love being a passenger. i think it was all of those saturdays as a kid, piling into the car as my family endured a day of neverending errands/obligations, capped off with a drowsy nighttime drive back home to the sticks i.e. Stouffville... for a while if i was in a moving vehicle for more than 10 minutes, i would fall asleep, head forward, dead to the world. i`m not that bad now... i can now endure an entire loop on the TTC yonge/university line without falling asleep *applause*
why am i writing about this?
i have no idea... maybe i just miss home too much. maybe i need to get away... but the past few days have been good for me. i caught up on much needed sleep (and still am hehehhe), cleaned, played with Lucas, and breathed deep sunny wintery breaths. on saturday i walked up to the highest point in chishima park, which offers a 360 view of the park and taisho-ku... the sun was about to set, so everything was coated with that romantic golden sunlight, and for a while, i felt really content about being in Osaka. but at the same time, it was also contentment at having to leave it, which was a first. the clouds were a bit hazy, but i could still make out the outlines of the mountains surrounding the city, and it struck me that i would maybe never be able to live in a city protected by mountains again. mountains. maybe if i moved to vancouver, but i have a feeling the mountains there jut into the sky more raggedly, whereas here, they slope softly, disappearing at night, sometimes reappearing in the clear of day.
points of interest (or a thinly veiled attempt at another list):
1. christmas in japan... was a little samishii for family and snow, but happy with the mellow-KFC-feasting-movie-Matt version
2. new year`s in japan... smoky and crowded for most of it... so basically new year`s with mary at a club (hahahaha, kidding). it was good, i went to sumiyoshitaisha and got some exclamations of "erai na!" from teachers. woohooo japanese culture brownie points! thanks ots
3. my parents are coming in february!!! woohooooooooooooooooooooo... arriving on the 14th, lovelove... but only for a week. booooooooo.
4. i still don`t have a friday school...!!??
5. i bought kimchi. i`m scared... who knows if natto will be next??
6. it`s weird to hear about/feel people drifting...
7. i got really sick on the 6th... i blame Shaun for bringing in some weirdo balinese disease into my midst
8. started reading garcia marquez`s "in the time of cholera"... sooo good
9. i don`t like the book for the book club. poo.
10. i forgot how much i missed shaki when i was hanging out with him during winter break
// posted by naomi @ 1:39 a.m. 
