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海外の生活

Posted 2009-09-11 (金) 午後9:22 by terra

なんか海外の生活って懐かしいなアと思ってる。もう一度オーストラリアとか、福岡に戻るといいなってそういう気持ちが時々自分の頭に浮かんでくる。

Subjects: Life 生涯

Mood: Philosophical Musings

Tags: Japan, overseas living, Sydney

Twitter as a form of mass protest

Posted 2009-06-18 (木) 午後6:21 by terra

And no I’m not talking about the Iran election.

I’m on vacation today. Woke up early and visited my newest internet guilty pleasure ONTD_Ai because it’s just too fking enjoyable to pass. (Not to mention I’ve been in a bit of a depression the last couple of days and needed an avenue to vent.)

I found myself embroiled in the start of a whole controversy pertaning to homophobia related to a certain “scream on” reality person’s family over a private dinner comprising the cast of our favourite TV show.

Subjects: Life 生涯, Technology 技術

Mood: Gratifications, Philosophical Musings

Tags: #gokeyisadouche, Danny Gokey, homophobia, Twitter

The price of fame: poor Adam...

Posted 2009-06-06 (土) 午後9:06 by terra

What a pack of hyenas these guys are. How the hell did he stay cool and polite when the paparazzi had him surrounded and trapped in a freaking stairwell? I think L.A. needs to have anti-stalking laws applied to paparazzi!! :( This is frankly disturbing.

Subjects: Film, Television & Anime 映像, Life 生涯, Music 音楽

Mood: Raves and Rants

Tags: Adam Lambert, paparazzi

Actions to take

Posted 2009-03-28 (土) 午後10:18 by terra

After yesterday’s depressing post (was feeling morose I guess) I’ve decided that I shall take definitive actions to make my life feel better.

1. Restart on my exercise regime. I used to do yoga/pilates really actively but I’ve stopped for a while. I guess exercise really helps to release endomorphins. I spent 1 hour today doing Ashtanga yoga, and I feel a lot better now.

2. Get out more and hang out with friends.

3. Start spending money on things that make me happy. I reckon spending money will help the economy as well as make me feel better about myself.

Subjects: Life 生涯

Mood: Declarations

Tags: healing, pilates, recovery, shopping, yoga

Introversion, feelings of regression in Singapore

Posted 2009-03-27 (金) 午後11:31 by terra

There’s something about being back in Singapore that’s brought out the worst case of shyness and introversion in me.

I’m naturally introverted and there’s nothing wrong with that. But lately, the hesitation to speak up about how I really feel about things is debilitating and it really sucks.

The funny part of it all is that I felt I was a completely different person in my months overseas. I think being in Australia and Japan nurtured extraversion in me. And as a friend pointed out, it’s perhaps because no one knew me in Oz that I could let out the inhibitions within myself.

Coming back to Singapore it’s like I’m feeling the effects of culture shock, which is strange because I grew up here thus I ought to know better. However, I googled, and apparently there’s such a thing called reverse culture shock where the subject who’s been overseas for a period of time finds it hard to re-adapt to her country of origins.

Subjects: Life 生涯

Mood: Philosophical Musings

Tags: career, culture shock, Fukuoka 福岡, healing, introversion, Japan, Singapore, Sydney

久しぶりの日本語ブログ

Posted 2009-03-26 (木) 午後11:57 by terra

久しぶりに日本語でブログを書くのは確かに微妙です。
日本語能力は段々下手になってしまう気がします。（いや、事実です。）本当に残念。
 （日本語の上手なあなた方が私を許してくれますか？）

先月、時間がいっぱいあるのはわかっていても、勉強せず、うちにごろごろして、怠けた生活を送ってしまいました。
それでも、楽しかった。
貧乏でも、よかった。
 このまま楽な生活が続けられるといいなと思っていました。

でも、現実は厳しいです。
今の世界では、
仕事がないと金がない。
金がないと人は困る。
 気の毒なことに、仕事があると自由はなくなる。

金は自由の天敵です。

先週、やっと新しい仕事を見つけた。
今週の月曜にスタートして、息が付けないくらい忙しい毎日。
この仕事が好きじゃないわけじゃない。
 ていうか、楽しい部分はあることは否定できない。

でもペースはちょっと速すぎるとお思う。もう少しゆっくりできるといいな。

文句はこれまでです。

仕事を受けるのは自分の選択ので、自分の人生に責任を持って生きるべきです。

人生は長い。これを考えるとちょっと怖い…

Subjects: Learning the Japanese Language 日本語勉強, Life 生涯

Mood: Philosophical Musings

Tags: Japanese

Choosing between ambition and ?

Posted 2008-08-24 (日) 午後3:39 by terra

What is the opposite of ambition? Resignation, weakness, happiness, contentment, or…? It’s always at this sort of juncture of choosing between a career and living for the moment that you wonder what’s truly important. Some people say that the two are not mutually exclusive: those are the lucky ones. Perhaps the problem lies in the fact that I’m neither rich nor poor, and I’m not too materialistic, yet I do have certain wants. There’s no major incentive to strive to the top, yet there’s always the nagging feeling that I could perhaps achieve better, and the fear of underperforming is always there. Being alone by myself right now makes it even more agonising. I’ve been brought up to be able to think for myself and make my own decisions, yet to me, having support for my decisions is important. I just hope graduation will make this uneasiness go away. Only three months more to go!

Subjects: Life 生涯

Mood: Philosophical Musings

Tags: ambition

Pseudo blogger

Posted 2007-08-19 (日) 午前8:47 by terra

I guess it’s not hard to figure out that my ‘blogger’ status is more of a semi-hobby than a passion :p The truth is ever since I graduated from university in Singapore the desire to pen my feelings doesn’t come as naturally anymore. Even though I set up this pretty nice-looking (I hope!) blog, frankly I’m more interested in the design and implementation (Drupal) of it rather than the actual content. I could spend hours tweaking this functionality and adding this plugin and that but frankly the actual usage doesn’t justify the effort taken to implement. ^^

Nevertheless, I think the start of my Masters course in Sydney should warrant at least a couple of posts so here I am, more than a month since I reached here. To be fair to myself, I didn’t actually get internet connection till the end of last month (thanks Telstra, geez)..

Subjects: Film, Television & Anime 映像, Life 生涯, School 学校, Sydney シドニー

Mood: Random

Tags: anime, ODEX, Sydney, USyd

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