Recently Tiger has been disappearing, often for hours, off to god-knows-where. Nobody let him (her?) out, but he will just disappear. Like he's somewhere in the house, but nobody knows where. My housemates and I looked for him everywhere, then he would suddenly show up and no one'll know where he has been.
I like to think he's been to Narnia, where he's probably better fed than he is here. By better fed I mean more rats to catch. Of course, there are no rats for him to catch here, so he's probably happier there.
Then he has to come back to this really boring place where the weather is bipolar and no rats run around in swarms. He meow at me, probably missing the place. So I put my iPod on speaker, and he went off to dreamland on my duvet.
Terms starts tomorrow. I'm just really bored right now.
My friend got me figured out. He said that I would usually post twice on my blog each month, and last month's only post left him worried. He thought I might have gone and off myself, a theory that is funny to me. Anyway, this post is to assure I have no intention to cut off my breath before my time on this planet is up.
I haven't been posting much personal things because, to be frank, I was a mess. I would have wrote some really embarassing things, which I will come to regret later, so I stay away from blogging for a while. Now that I have picked myself up properly, let's discuss how messy I was and hopefully you will laugh along with me.
13th December 2011. Cardiff was exceptionally cold that day. I nearly forgot my umbrella, but got it and went to campus. I had an open book test that day: it wasn't difficult, but it wasn't easy either. There was another lecture after the test, and coming out from my campus building at last we found out it has been hailing.
Of course, it was a tiring day and a particularly bad one. I had no idea it was about to get a lot worse. On the way back home I sent a photo of Cardiff after rain to my then boyfriend. We hadn't talk for a few days before that, because I was busy studying for the test and we had a fight and I thought it would be best we cool down for a bit. I got back home, sent another two photos, then he confronted me and...I was suddenly single. It was frightening.
I make no secret about this, but for a while after that, if I was left completely on my own, I broke down. I wasn't proud of it. I tried hanging out as much as possible with my friends to keep myself sane. I spent two weeks in London, then a week in South Korea. It was great but something felt missing. Then I got back to Cardiff, and I broke down again. I absolutely did not adore the state I was in. I phoned him and...nothing was left. I called mom afterwards. She was sympathetic, but she also annoyingly implied "I told you so". She does like him tho, she thinks he is honest.
I fell asleep after ending the call. It was dreamless, the first time in weeks. Upon waking, I clean my room for a bit, ate breakfast and did a bit of work. It was strangely calm, peaceful, something I haven't felt for quite a while.
I was happy with him, that I cannot deny. For a while, I couldn't fanthom the idea of letting him go, because he was so much a part of my life. It was frightening, scary and it just hurts really badly. It still does hurt, but I can deal with it now. I'm not bitter anymore.
This post is, to sum it up comically, about a socially awkward penguin watching a koala float away from Antartica on an ice. Away...and never looking back.
Hello! If you haven't already know this, I went to South Korea for vacation! I was only there for a week, but I think I manage to cram a lot of things in! I didn't visit any of the historical places because that will take another week. I went with Liz, whose motto is, admirably, One chance! She thinks that given the opportunity, we should go if we can because, what if that is the only chance?
The main theme for the vacation is shopping and K-Pop, and we mostly wander around in the 서울 [Seoul] area.
The first evening I was there, we stay at a nice hotel in 운서 [Unseo]. As there was supposed to be the three of us (including Adri), we had a room with three single beds. Liz and I took a bed and the third was taken up by our luggage bags. I didn't pack much, somehow I manage to fit 13kg in? Liz took 15kg. After settling in the room, we went out to explore! We noted the way to the subway station, wander around for a bit, got food for the evening as well as cutleries at Lotte Mart, T-money card (for the subway) and went back. Unfortunately Liz had a stomachache - probably because her stomach haven't adjust to the spicy food? Or was it because of plane food? Liz said she has never seen so much neon lights! I think if she goes to Tokyo she'll be dazzled. While eating we watch TV. Korean TV shows are weird, and the ads even weirder!
Me in 운서!!
The next day we got up at 11AM, then after checking out we took the subway to 검암 [Geomam], where we will stay for the remainder of the trip. Our hostel owner is Jin, he is about 28 and rather good-looking! He's tall too and he claims he works out. As for why he told us that nobody knows. He thinks BIGBANG is tiny, like smurfs, and G-Dragon is very mouse-like, forever spoil our idols for us lol. He gave us both Korean names - Liz is 쓰지 (Su-ji) and I am 은해 (Eun-hae). I'm bad at remembering names so I kept asking Liz what mine was.
We met up with Fanny, who took us to see the infamous YG Building. I don't have a good photo of it so here is one stolen from somewher else:
Very impressive building! Unfortunately this photo is deceiving because it makes it look like it's situated in the middle of nowhere. That is not true! It is surrounded by many buildings. There is even a GS25 (convenience store) across the road. Nevertheless it is still the most unique building in the area.
This is how the front of a typical GS25 looks like, Liz and I regard them as best friends because they sell ramen, our dinner!
Fanny took us to 홍대앞 [Hongdae] (short for 홍익대학교 [Hongik University]) for lunch at SE7EN's chicken stew restaurant, 열봉찜닭 [Yeolbong Jjimdak]. When ordering the waitress warned us it will be hot, but what she doesn't know is we expect hot. We ordered a medium-sized chicken stew:
It was delicious and wasn't hot at all! I had the hard-boiled egg seen in the photo because for some reason both Fanny and Liz didn't want it. It was cheap too. Everything in South Korea is cheap, like seriously.
We went back to the YG Building again. While there Fanny received a tip-off from Korean Blackjacks. 2NE1 was coming back from Japan that day and the Korean Blackjacks told us to go to Gimpo Airport - their flight was landing at 10.20PM. After some discussion, we decide to try our luck, so we went to Gimpo Airport. The Korean Blackjacks were already there and they have DSLRs o.o We waited, then at about 10.45PM, 2NE1 emerge from the Arrivals!
Shaky photo of 2NE1 by Liz.
I took a fancam but what I said in it was really embarassing, so I won't post it up here. I was really, really close to Park Bom and Minzy OMG. I notice a lot of people ignored Dara. CL was too quick for us so we didn't manage to see her much. Fanny got Bom's autograph.
Only the second day but we'd already met 2NE1! Wheee. After they left in their van, we thanked the Korean Blackjacks for the tip-off, then catch the subway back to 검암. We didn't sleep much that night because we were too excited!
