The New Year

Yep.
2 minutes 'till 2008 and I'm sitting at my computer.
No, I'm not pathetic, I just don't like to party.
My parents are off to their annual New year's party. My sister is at a house-party somewhere, and I'm home alone.
I watched Monsters Inc.
:)
I hope all my dreams will come true next year. What are those? Well... let's see.
...
I'm pretty satisfied with my life now
:D
Though I'd really like to get this whole PhD thing over me... And a better job 'd be fine too.
But I got a great family, I don't need anything more.

Happy NEW Year!

The new year is almost here.
I have a great idea! I want to make a one-photo-a-day-for-a-whole-year series. I hope I can succeed and take a photo of myself every day next year. And it'd be fine to finally get my PhD degree next year too, but I'm more psyched about the photo-project now.
I was busy doing nothing in the last few days. I beat Guitar Hero III on easy!
I want to upload some Christmas photos too.

Finally a real He_man Christmas. I've been waiting for this since I was 10.
Besides it's a must to own a vintage He-Man figure for the Prince of Eternia!
Thank you Ebay. And thank you Mom!


The dearest mom on Earth!

The drearest grandma on Earth. I feel now that Guitar Hero is going to change my life forever...
And how many guys have a grandma that cool, who buys Guitar Hero for them for Christmas?
Well, I have to admit, Grandma just hands out the money for us before Xmas, to buy anything we want.


My happy family. God I love them so much!
And my sister's boyfriend was really handy, we never had a family portrait on Xmas before.

Best Cristmas

I tried really hard not to be a grinch yesterday...
And I succeeded! I was extra nice to my sister's boyfriend and it wasn't even so hard. I'm such a fool. We had a great time together yesterday with the family. I'm really grateful for having a family like this. I prayed last night and gave thanks for them.
Gotta go now, so many things are happening. Guests are coming today, and I have to beat Tom Morello on easy level in Guitar Hero 3. Man, my fingers hurt.... I played until 1 am yesterday :D

Christmas eve

I'm terrified.
I've just learned that my sister's boyfriend is going to spend Christmas eve with us.
Why?
Why must I be with a complete stranger on the one and only night of the year, when our family is close together? I'm devastated. Why must he be here? If she loves him so much, why don't they celebrate Xmas together? Why must she drag him into my life too? Why can't I be alone with my mom and dad and sister, like we used to?
I hate that grinning idiot so much. I hate him for ruining everything.
Now, I'll try not to hate him. I don't want to hate anybody tonight. But it's so hard. The situation will be so awkward. Him sitting under the Christmas tree with us together. Like his part of the family. I'll never get used to this.
I wish so much that they'd finally move out to that new house my parents built for them. Even losing my sister like that would be easier for me than accepting him here.
I'll try to ignore him like I always do, not talk to him, don't even look at him...
Why doesn't my sister understand how I feel?

We're off to grandma in a few minutes. I'm writing this while pulling my pants...
After that it's church time. And after...

Merry Christmas for everybody!

Nothing special today...
Wrapped my sister's Xmas present.
Didn't go too well. I just suck at present-wrapping.

Busy, busy days...

This moring on the way to the university I actually saw the Coca Cola truck. Two of them!
After that I did nothing the whole day long, and after work we went out to have some hot wine. I went back to check on the trucks, and you could do all kinds of family fun there. For exaple play the PS2 with some Guitar hero... That looked sweet, but I didn't want to stand in line with all the 9 year olds, so I skipped it.
But I took some photos...


Me and my flatmate received a package today from one of our friends from the US. We met her this summer. She's a great girl, and I'm really happy for my gift t shirt.
Thank you Kati!


I think I'm ready for Christmas now. I've got the spirit, I got all the presents, I'll go home saturday, and I really hope we can have a great christmas together with my family.

Oh, and about family fun...

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1623776042

Yesterday we had the annual "company-christmas party" with my co-workers from the university. We went to a place, we visited 2 years ago. We played a little bowling, and then had a huge feast. It wasn't as bad as 2 years before...
This restaurant is located outside the city in a little village. We went out with cars. I hitched a ride in one of my co-workers car. The way back, around 10 pm, it was quite foggy, and cold. It was fascinationg to drive through the foggy plains in winter-moon shine. That was the part of the evening I enjoyed the best.
I thought about how strange these places are for me. Since I don't have a car I rarely leave the city. Only when I go home to my parents, and in that case I take the train. I thought about how it'd not be any different for me in another country. I'd feel the same strangeness...
Don't even get me stared on cars... I overheard my mom and dad talking about buying a new car last time I was home. My dad suggested to give the old car to the "kids". My mom asked him "And what do you give for your other kid?" - My dad obviously ment my sister and her bf before.
After that my dad answered raising his voice something like "Anything he wants", and then mumbled something about me alvays watching cartoons...
:/
no comment on that...

Today Marcie invited us over to her flat for chocolate fondu and baked apples. She's such a great friend...
She shares her flat with another girl, who went to medical school the same year as we did. We met in the Freshman camp, and I had a crush on her back then...
I really hoped I can see her tonight, but she was sleeping in her room the whole time long.
Well, we had a fun evening there anyway... I bought some Xmas music with me, we ate chocolate fondu with grape, baked apple in pancake and drank boiled hot wine.

Before that I received my first christmas gift from my flatmate. He leaves for home tomorrow. I'll go home saturday.
He's always joking around about me liking those penguin movies, like The march of the emperors, Happy feet, and Surfs up... He hated those movies.
So he bought me a Cody figure from Surfs up! I was really surprised.
He's a great guy, and I have to appreciate having a friend like him a little more in the future...
/I bought him a photo frame for christmas, so he can finally pace a decent photo with his gf on the shelf./

I love this city

I just love this city at Christmas time.
The best city in the country. Yesterday it finally snowed. Big time! I don't even remember when was the last time we had a white Chrsitmas here... Maybe this year we will! I went for a walk, and took some photos while I was waiting for my sister and her firends. After that we went for a pizza, and ended up in the mall.
I'll let my photos do the talking now...

That creepy old house. It's actually in the middle of downtown.
My fantasy always runs wild whenever I see it.
It'd be so cool to live up there in the tower... :)


I used to run here a lot, when I still lived in the dormitory.
I really like this place. Sometimes I miss those days...
Now I do all my running in the gym.


These stencil arts are popping up in the city everywhere...
I kinda like them. Pooh is especially cute there...


The Dom. Always a great sight. There's a big square here,
filled with people now. We have a small theatre made of straw.
A guy played some kind of a flute inside yesterday.
There's an open fire, and you can buy special christmas food, and hot wine too.
Every year the same, and I love it!


Well, I haven't posted any pics of my self for a long time.
So here's an emo one. I never wear my hair like this.
It was just an experiment in front of the mirror.
It's the 3rd year that I've been wearing my hair long...

I'm really tired. It's 10 past midnight. Dunno why am I still awake...
It snowed today. There was a quick snow storm, but it stopped just as sudden as it started. And all the snow melted. I don't think we'll have a white Christmas this year.
Funny... I don't feel anything about christmas...
I'm not in "the christmas mood"...
I haven't bought any presents yet, and it's starting to frustrate me.
I found someone, I really like, and I can never meet, and it's starting to frustrate me. Why do I have to have teenage crushes in my twenties? The best thing in not beeing a teen anymore is getting rid of the crushes... I swear I have more crushes now, in my twenties, than I had in my teenage years...
oh boy...
:(

Well this is it.
My sister's engagement party is today. I'm not really psyched about that...

I spend this weekend home, and I drew some stuff... I'm getting back into drawing, and I really enjoy it. I found out that I'm nearly half as good as I imagined... but that's okay.
Someday I'll draw my own comic book! I just need to figure out a good story. That's the hardest part. I have story ideas in my head constantly but none of them are any good...

Last week I went ice skating. With a girl. But it wasn't a date or anything. I hope she doesn't think it was a date. I'm really afraid of dating. I can't imagine what's so good about it... Maybe it's because I've never went to a date with a girl I actually like.... Oh wait, I did, but I was nervous as hell, so it didn't really help.
I found out that I'm better at ice skating as I thought. I really want to study how to skate properly. All I know about skating I learned from myself. It'd be cool to play hockey! That's like the coolest sport in the world. After pro wrestling of course ;)

Censorship beats my X-mas spirit... :(

What kind of a sick country am I living in?
I live in an ex-communist country. I was 9 years old when the country's russian occupation ended. I was thinking I'm living in a free country ever since.
Today my internet provider censored my favorite bittorrent site. Nobody can access that site if they have the same provider as me. That's just BULLSHIT!
That makes me so mad. What's next? Porn sites? If I pay the internet fee I have the right to see whatever I want on the net!

I took some photos of the christmas decoration in the city. But I'm so P.O.-d right now, that I'm not really in the mood to post them. But I'll do it anyway...

The promenade:


The Christmas tree of the city:

The exam is over

Well, the exam...
It wasn't so hard... I kinda regret that I didn't took level 3. I'll try it next year for sure!
The exam was a bit long, and I was pretty tired at the end. I went to a comic festival after that, and bought some sweek comix, and met my online firends there. It was fun, but nothing special. Oh, and I received a comic tpb for free, because I'm writing articles for this online comic portal. How cool is that? :)
I'm writing about action figures.

And talking about action figures... I've been hunting for an 80's He-Man figure for months. Yesterday I bid on a figure, which was on 20 bucks. I bid 22, and it was still 4 hours left of the bidding, when I went to sleep. I never thought I'd win.
And I did. o_O
Wow :D

The last day before the exam

Well this is it.
Tomorrow is the big day. The JLPT.
I think I'm prepared. I'm a little confused, and it really didn't help, that my teacher had to fly home to Japan this week in a hurry. I wanted to ask her so many questions before the exam. Well, I'm my own now, and I will do my best!

Watashi wa ganbarimasu!

I'm home at my parents house now. I haven't been home for 4 weeks. Nothing changed I guess.
I spent my day studying (and I watched Smackdown -Edge's return stirred things up a bit - FINALLY!) I've been alone the whole day long. Mom and my sis were out buying stuff and shopping, my dad was out to bring home my sis' new couch she bought for her new house. I'm always alone. Sometimes I feel that everybody around me has a life, and I don't fit into any of them.
Last week I went to the mall to check out this new Guitar hero game, I want for Xmas (my mom bought that for me since then - boy Xmas will be FUN!). In the mall I was wondering why am I so different than anybody around me. Why don't I care for things they do? It's like I'm not even part of their world. Or they aren't part of mine.