Chasing After Rainbows

Almost two weeks has passed since then. Kyousuke, one of my classmates, entered the class with a big smile on his face. He seems to be talking about something happy with his friends. When Haruna entered the the class, however, his happiness turned into depression when she said that she doesn't remember what happened two days earlier. She also seem to be unfamiliar with most of the classmates. When she saw me, she suddenly had a smile on the face and sat at an empty seat nearest to me (which is actually hers, but she thinks it's someone else's) and talked to me. What does she want? She normally doesn't even talk to me since she was released from hospital. Haruna talked to me about how she was in February 4 and now it's suddenly June 6. She also added that she had also seem to have suddenly gain knowledge that only her overseas childhood friend would know. I don't know if I should tell her the truth, but there things about myself in this dimension that I mysel

Please be reminded that this year's Japanese Language Prophecy Test (日本語能力試験) will be taking place on Sunday, 7 December 2008 (first sunday of december). A letter notifying on the venue of the examination should be delivered by the end of November. On the day of exam, please bring along a pencil and registration card. Registration is held every August.

The first lesson after lunch was English, so I was kind of looking forward to it with excitement until I saw the teacher walking in with a stack of papers. The teacher had planned a surprise test for today's lesson. Knowing that Haruna (sitting somewhere in front of me) just transferred in earlier today and had been hospitalized for 3 months earlier, he wants to exempt her from the test but Haruna insisted on taking it somehow. We received the test paper. Even though I can still do this, it is quite a challenge to do so. Let's see, the answer to question 3 is " I went for a holiday in Germany last month. It was great. ". Well, I had been taught that ドイツ (Doitsu) is Germany, but when I saw ジャーマニ instead, I didn't recognize it at first. Sheez, this paper is difficult to do. I completed the paper with 5 minutes remaining. Everyone else seem to be struggling to complete, but Haruna looked as though she completed it a long time ago. Did she give up? I can't tell.

Congratulations to Barack Obama on being elected the president of the United States. It may have been a long (political) fight, but one has finally made it through. Not only that, it has made history for a non-white person to be elected there with many people, from all over the world supporting him. What remains to be seen is if his party would do things as promised within the next 4 years. "Yes, we can!" Just to sidetrack a bit, he was in an Indonesian primary school, his late father was from an African country, and there's even a place in Japan called Obama (小浜). At about 7pm a while ago, I managed to watch a show on TBS following a guy who (tries to) look like him and watch his attempts to meet him in places like Chicago and New York. I managed to get some screenshots of the show.

With the end of my final year of my current school less than half a year away from now, before (hopefully) entering into a college of a course I want to take up, my schedule to do non-school-related stuff has somewhat eaten into my free time. I could not really follow what was being taught, even when revising them later on. I want to stay up late at night, but have to wake up early for school later on. Since school is quite some distance away, getting there and back home can range from 15 minutes to 2 hours, depending on the route I take and traffic conditions. If my sleep were to be uninterrupted, I would wake up at either 9am or 11am, which is quite late in the morning. It's been like that since I started primary/elementary school more than 10 years ago, but I can't stand it any longer. Combining school revision, long traveling times, crowded places, noisy environment, and lack of sleep would be a nice recipe to drive me crazy. May be worse if I were to take up a part-tim

As mentioned about 22 hours ago , I have completed two vectors today (2 Nov 2008). One of which I had been doing since 30 October, and another right after the previous one which took me less than 5 hours. These have yet to be posted on the drawings blog , but here they are anyways. (If you have a slow connection, this may take a while to load) v0029 (997 kilobytes) I used the blurring effect for the clouds. Do note that the outlines are not in the usual black. v0030 (368 kilobytes) If you find this image familiar, that's because the source image was used in the previous post here.

I had in that hospital room for quite some time now. I don't know how long exactly I had been here or what day is today, because each day seems to be the same as the day before, apart from the people who visited me. There don't seem to be any progress with my frozen body since that hit-and-run incident on 23 May. Come to think of it, am I facing the same condition as Haruna back in February? But I don't recall seeing any doll or bright green light. The television in front of me is turned on to some random channel 24-7. There are times where I don't want to watch it, but I can't do anything about it since I can't switch it off or even close my eyes. All of a sudden, I saw myself on the TV, but this me is in casual wear instead of the hospital clothing and is able move around normally with my own will, like controlling a character in a video game. Previously, it only showed what I'm seeing. I tried to shout "Yay!" with my hands up in the air: well,