Sunday, January 16, 2005


Winter Posted by Hello

Getting Started...oh Not Yet:(

Less sleep, hard thinking and a little party with good food and nice friends exhausted me the day before. Today, waking up at 9.30, with a pile of assignments to be done still couldn't make me get started. So here I am, writing HERE (instead of my term papers or my you-know-what-with-the-first-letterT) again... gosh!

Maybe I will busy myself with my domestic chores instead, that's I guess what most of us do when we don't know what to do but we don't want to relax also. But why wouldn't someone want to relax? I guess relax is a state of mind, not a physical activity. So eventhough you're not doing anything it doesn't mean you are relaxing. But when you're in the middle of something busy, can your mind relax? My GOD...this is nonsense, you deserve doing other things than reading this.


Saturday, January 15, 2005

The Anti-Love

The title doesn't mean I'm now against love, I will never be. I just suddenly think about the other side of being in love, being detached from love. Now, I believe everybody has the experience of this, you, me, my best friends... Well hello (tisha's tone, red), even Brad Pitt is breaking up with Jennifer Aniston, isn't he? or are they getting back together? anyway...

Although usually even before the judgement day (being too exaggerating!) we've been seeing the signs, and probably enduring the pain or the uncomfortable feelings, yet when it finally happens it may still strike you as a samourai (again, too dramatic...;p) . The first 5 hours, or 5 days... or 5 something.. is like the digestion stage. We try to absorb the fact, pick up the pieces that might left unnoticed, which just may explain why it is happening. We think and think as if we do it hard enough we may find the true answer, or the solution, or the way out, or anything...

And then probably some people go through the denial stage. If you were the one who made the decision, you may seek excuses that you didn't mean to hurt anybody, you were just being honest or you may also say he/she deserves better than you. And if you were the one who is affected you may say you were not even sure anyway or that he/she was not worth it, or you would find better one and such and such...

But eventually, I would say we grow stronger from those experiences. Just like Tisha said, in the end you would only remember the good things. That you were once in love, enjoy your life, and even when you see those sad moments it seems beautiful from a different angle. Then you realize that life is so rich and fascinating because it has the colors of all the subtle changes in your feelings, the happiness and also the sadness.

--yr--

Friday, January 14, 2005

Love and Jacket

When I first wrote my posting here, my friend Jo-Ann protested that there were no element of love there in my first writing, considering I have love beside life and rhythm in the title. But you see, I can't write about love, especially my love life, properly... probably not until I settle it down properly hhehe, because my feeling for love is always so romantic and poetic (some people will laugh ;))), but my writing style can never be such.

Yesterday I was walking to school, and the cold winter wind was striking my cheek, leaving it a natural pink (this is what I like about winter, I never have to put any blush-on ;) ). I was wearing my really warm jacket I bought just this winter, and there was I, thinking of writing here about my jacket and love. You see, I lost my favorite jacket last year just in the end of the winter. When I lost it I didn't feel that bad because I thought I can find better or at least a similar one and I was almost bored with it anyway. But when the winter was coming this year I was desperately looking for a jacket out of the fear of not having a proper comfort to protect me from the coldness, but i realized then it was not easy. The thing is actually I have so many jacket already, but none of them I really like as the one I lost. Probably you find it strange (especially for man, you may not understand) that I have such a strong feeling for a piece of cloth. Some people regard clothes just as their function, keeping you warm or cover your supposedly unseen body, but some other people (me included) consider clothes as fashion (or self) statement. Okay, anyway several times I ended up buying jackets that I thought I like (after weighing the price and my fondness toward it) but it turned out I got bored just as soon as I wore it once. And then, one time I found this one, a white thick jacket, with fur, nice material and good cut. First time I saw it I liked it already. Although the price was not cheap compared to other jackets I bought out of desperation, I was thinking that it was really pretty and looked good on me. So there I was thinking of buying or not, because this will be my last winter and I have spent quite amount on the other less charming jackets, but in the end of course I bought it.

First time I wore it, it was gratifying. It has pockets where I can put my palms in, so I don't need to buy thicker gloves, as my favorite gloves are not so sufficiently warm, they are more for fashion hehe... It also indeed looked good, so without looking at my face I look like one of those rich japanese shopping savvies (= who know how and are able to shop). Since then I have never thought of wearing my other jackets anymore (poor them, hanged idly in my dark closet). The secret is that this new jacket has the color that goes right with any color of my clothes, and also the style.

So there when I was walking to my school and thinking may be this is the feeling when you finally meet somebody right. Has everything you need (as the pockets in the jacket for me), goes right with everything you have (the color and style) , and make you (or at least think that you) look good. What a relieving feeling... ;))

--yr--