Semi-Productivity For The Win

Feeling: Awake
Weather: Humid
Listening To: The Beatles- Can’t Buy Me Love

So… how have I been spending my holidays so far:

Wanted to clean up my room a bit since the start of the holidays, but haven’t gotten to it yet. Maybe this Thursday when I change my bedsheets. Not motivated enough and my room really isn’t in a complete mess, just that my compulsion to clean up is materialising >_>

I’ve also switched browsers- from Mozilla FireFox to Google Chrome. It really does load so much faster, which is a great plus with the terrible internet connection here in Malaysia. The only gripes I have with the new browser is that 1. I can’t open a whole folder of bookmarks in tabs in one browser window, meaning that I have to open them one-by-one and 2. the start page when I open a new tab or new window is not Google, which I am used to seeing. Unless I can find a way, I guess I’d need to get used to it :( I also do not appreciate having my “most visited” pages on display when I open a new tab or window. It feels… weird. I might want to give the latest Apple Safari a try, but I’m too lazy to download another browser and I already have three browsers now :x

Finished Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes Of Time on the Wii, although most of it is actually played by lo kong because my awesome 3D spatial skills hates jumping platforms :P It’s pretty nice and straightforward, and “lighter” compared to the “real” Final Fantasy series, in which I’d REALLY need a walkthrough to guide me through because then I’d be missing a lot of things, places and feeling awfully incomplete and insecure because there are a thousand or so paths to take, etc and each seem to have their own story or something >_> The Legend Of Zelda: Twilight Princess has still yet to arrive. Argh. I am bored with no new games :( Thus, I have been playing Vampire Wars and Mafia Wars on Facebook instead. Yes, that’s how bored I am.

This is, however, the bulk of how I spend most of my holidays. Studying and honing my Japanese. Considering I have no actual Chinese language background, writing and learning kanji is a bit hard. The second hardest bit is the grammar rules D: Otherwise, everything’s fine, including hiragana and katakana, although I’ve not completely memorised the latter and still need to refer to the chart a bit for the former. I’ve found a nifty site that satiates and supplements all my Japanese language learning and honing needs as well- Japanese Class XD It’s pretty awesome- you can level up and gain EXP. Books I use for my study (Pictured) are Tuttle Language Library Elementary Japanese Volume One (I have Volume Two too, but it’s not in the picture and let’s start from the beginning), Oxford Pocket Japanese Dictionary and The New Nelson Japanese-English Character Dictionary. I wouldn’t say expect to see me posting snippets or writing in Japanese here anytime soon though, as I have yet to find a satisfactory Japanese character typer program thing :(

On another note, I love notebooks from Daiso (Pun not intended)- they’re Japanese notebooks and I love how they complement my coloured pens and ink pens >_> I use them for my Japanese notes (Pictured as well) and for note-taking in University, and I don’t think I’d use any other notebooks for them now, since at RM 5 each, they’re a steal too :D

Not to mention, I did some shopping with Mum, little brother and lo kong over the weekend :3 Didn’t buy much really, but got a pair of pretty brand-new white leather half-loafers from Hush Puppies :D I swear, they make the most comfortable shoes, but too bad their heels are a bit more “mature”-ish and don’t really suit my tastes. Otherwise, their shoes are great (I have a pair of their slippers/sandals). No photos, I guess, since I wore it out the moment I bought them, so no box too :( At first I wanted grey suede loafers from Rockport, but they’re super pricey at RM 249 D: The Hush Puppies half-loafers are only RM 189, but there’s a RM 50 rebate for purchases above RM 200, so I threw in a few pairs of socks for little brother and only paid about RM 165 XD Might be getting a new pair of trainers/sports shoes too- from Nike obviously, but I don’t know what yet. Most of the current designs in the stores either look similar to the pair I have now, so there wouldn’t be a point if I bought a similar design, or they look like I can get better imitations at Petaling Street for way less >_> Nevertheless, I can wait though, since it’s not very important/urgent XD

Would love to do more window shopping/shopping in general, though.

The heat is really killing me. I rarely sweat, even when I do work out, so if the weather alone is capable of making me sweat that means that the weather is seriously out of control D:

I am secretly thinking that I am nocturnal. It’s an observation I’ve noticed for a few months already. I seem to absorb what I’ve read/studied in the late hours (Defined as being between 10 p.m. to 4 a.m.) better than in the daylight hours >_> Still, sadly, staying up so late is bad for me.

Lo kong will be gone from Wednesday to Sunday. Am missing him already T_T