Post exams! =D

*Slight emo-faggotry. Sorry =(*

Sigh.

Exams are finally over. 2 weeks of crazy study-until-5-am marathons.

3 hours of sleep (if I'm lucky) per day.

Drinking one whole pot full of coffee just to stay awake (literally. Not an exaggeration. As in whole pot)

It's as if a big load has been lifted. 2 weeks under intense pressure was breaking me up, and I was constantly angry and frustrated. Thank god it's over. Well, "how's the holidays going Jon?" you may ask (Yes, admit it, you did. I understand, it's natural for lesser beings to be interested in the lives of the ones higher up).

Sigh. I was expecting a whole week of nice quiet relaxation on my bike and my books.
Wrong. Here's a quick summary of my week (and my upcoming schedule)

Thursday : Went out to MV with about 20 people. Lots of fun, specially the whole "Eh, bullet proof glass ar?" thing with Kah Kiat. Went for Murni later at night. Food was ok, but I still prefer Williams. ROTI HAWAII FTW btw.

Friday : Went out for CC with Ahzim. Had fun geek-ing out, talking about games and Honey and Clover (I will come back to this late in the post. The rabid HnC fanboy within me has warned you). Sparked my interest back in CoH.

Saturday : Awesome day. Woke up late, cooked myself some French Onion Soup (salty piece of shit. phail =( ) Spent the day at the park, reading Kafka on the Shore. Excellent excellent day. Haven't felt so relaxed and happy in a long long while. Happy Birthday Sai Cau Fu!

Sunday : Father's Day! Going out for some Brazilian steamboat thing with family. Cooked spaghetti for me and my uncle. Off to a good start on cooking =D. Supposed to go out with Yong Xin and Vincent. Probably postpone it to next week.

Monday : Going out with Piriya and the rest. Apparently we're going to Lookout point, which has the most awesome view in KL.

Tuesday : Eric invited to go watch Transformer, but bleh. I'm not the type who goes out 3 days in a fckin row. Declined. Looking forward to finishing Kafka on the Shore.

Wednesday : Sigh. Sunway Lagoon. Girls in swimsuits. Pranav in speedos. Nuff said.

Now that we're done with the daily "Oh, I ate corn and had yellow shit today. MY LIFE IS SO FUCKING INTERESTING" diary part, let's move on =D

I think I'm a pretty hard person to please. My phone's been ringing a lot during the past few days (Sigh. Calls (1 hour talks. wtf) and sms-es) and I find it so fucking annoying.

I mean, when my phone is silent for a day or two, I start feeling insecure. Now that I'm being barraged by calls and msn and sms-es, good grief. I want to break my fucking phone already. I mean, seriously, who the fuck goes out 3 out 5 days in a fucking row. I just want to stay at home, relax, read a book, play my PS2 , watch HnC. But no, if I start declining, "JON WHY ARE YOU SO ANTI-SOCIAL". Fuck.

And that brings me to another issue. I realized, I've finished college. Thus, I can decide whether I want to continue my friendship with my college friends or not, without any awkwardness on my part (seeing that I don't have to see them everyday). I'm ashamed to admit it, but I hesitated. I haven't decided whether I really give enough of a fuck to actually want to keep the friendship going, so I'll just go along with them on the trips.

Oh. Yeah. Honey and Clover. So anyway, Ahzim was sarcastically saying "Eh Jon, why don't you go on a bicycle trip to *exaggerated voice* find yourself?"

Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck. Why is it that everybody thinks touring on a bike is such a fucking joke? Sigh. Oh, I'm rewatching HnC again. I just love the way it's done. I think I'm starting to understand a bit of what Harada meant when he was referring to Rika and Shuu.

And that's the thing about this anime. The more I experience, the more I can relate to some of the things the characters go through. It feels as if I'm maturing, and rewatching this anime helps me to understand just what it is I'm going through. I'll give you some quotes (non-Hnc) to end the post.

"Normally, those people would never wake up from their fantasy worlds. They live meaningless lives. They waste their precious days over nothing. No matter how old they get, they'll continue to say, "My real life hasn't started yet. The real me is still asleep, so that's why my life is such garbage." They continue to tell themselves that. They continue. And they age. Then die. And on their deathbeds, they will finally realize: the life they lived was the real thing. People don't live provisional lives, nor do they die provisional deaths. That's a simple fact! The problem... is whether they realize that simple fact."

What a Wonderful World Chapter 12 is out, and it is excellent. Thank you to Illuminati Manga for scanlating!

"You smile like that, even on the phone eh?"
"I practiced so much in front of the mirror that it's a habit now" - Ex-loner girl who became popular even though her only friend (when she was a loner) knew she was faking the smiles.

"What's so bad about trying to be popular, it's not like we're given a lot of time. Let's not debate 'why',let's just do it"

Sigh. Asano Inio is a genius.

Kafka on the shore has some extremely excellent choice quotes as well. I think I'm really getting to appreciate Murakami as a writer. Sure, he's stories don't make sense sometimes and are surrealistic, but when I stop caring about them, and let myself be pulled along for the ride, I start to enjoy it immensely. His way of writing is superb, and some of the things the characters say are profound, making me put down the book for a while to digest it all in.

"Irony deepens a person, helps them to mature. It's the entrance to salvation on a higher plane, to a place where you can find a more universal kind of hope. Everything in life is a metaphor. In other words , we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings"

Last quote. It's a pretty long one, but one of my favourite passages in the book.

"After cooking and eating a simple meal, I go out on th porch and gaze up at the stars twinkling above, the random scattering of millions of stars. The whole thing is breathtaking.

Not just beautiful though - the stars are like the trees in thee forest, alive and breathing. And they're watching me. What I've done up till now, what I'm going to do - they know it all. Nothing gets past their watchful eyes. My heart's pounding a mile a minute, and I can barely breathe. All these stars looking down on me, and I've never given them more than a passing thought before. Not only the stars - how many other things haven't I noticed in the world, things I know nothing about? I suddenly feel helpless, completely powerless. And I know I'll never outrun that awful feeling"

Sigh. The whole book is so beautiful.

Ciao