Well since last I've written, I had taken a month long vacation and returned to work.
My vacation to the Philippines was wonderful. How I've missed the Philippines, not so much for the weather but being able to see people I haven't seen in almost 5 years. Because of my job I had to take it in March unsure of whether or not I would be sent downrange. But luckily I wasn't, but it was still a perfect time to go nonetheless. The weather was good and I wasn't viciously attacked by my worst enemy over there, mosquitoes. They had always loved to eat me up while I stayed over there. I had surely gained some weight over the past few years and from that point I had made it a goal to lose it by the next time I visited. How uncomfortable it was to be surrounded by thinner, younger and prettier females. Made me uneasy hanging out with my friends not to mention the whole language barrier that we still have yet to overcome. At least they had tried. I totally failed on my part. But I find it interesting to see them get excited when you use one word in Tagalog. The Japanese are the same. Since we had a new house down there, I had offered to help out my parents with furnishing the place since I now make some money. And with my mother there, she made sure she used every dollar (or in this case Peso) to its fullest. She might stay there for a while arguing (or what they had called bargaining) for an item even just to save a couple of cents. I don't understand it, but that's how they've always done it. Overall the trip was worthwhile, even if I had spent 75% of it in the house drawing/ watching television or spending it in a car since the nearest town from ours was 30 minutes away. Oh joy.
Then I returned home where I would be hanging out with my friends during spring break. I didn't spend all my time with them, seeing as they have their own lives to attend to and time doesn't stop just because I took leave. It was nice, a little more relaxing except for going to the gym, but it was good for me anyways, so I can't complain. Seen a lot of movies, did lots of nothing, had a car battery die, bought a few things and played old gameboy games. Oh and don't forget drawing. I did tons of that.
Oh and the reason I didn't update in March and April was because my laptop was going through a virus fit. But as you can clearly see, it's fine and running smoothly. This is because I rarely save things onto my actual laptop anymore. It'll now be transfered onto my new lovely external hard drive. I'm just hoping that never dies, for I will be devastated.
This is a picture of me and my friends while I was in the Philippines. I had a really bad camera back then so the picture isn't as clear or nice, but it worked so It doesn't matter.
This was our newly built house. I really like it. It was sorta small but it didn't need to be big anyways. I liked the color of the house but I soon came to realize that all the really nicely built houses around the area were also the same color. XD Taken during our "House Blessing" party.
Well I did return back to Japan. Can't say I was really thrilled. I love Japan, not so much the stress of work. It actually didn't start off too bad. I had even returned just in time for the blooming of the Cherry Blossoms, which I was afraid of missing since this would be my last spring to be able to see them. I had wanted to go with a few friends, but in the last minute my good friend had to go to a mandatory appointment and my other one had wanted to be lazy that day. (Boo on him) But I did get to go with somebody, which is all I wanted. I went with my lazy friend's wife, who was pretty cool. We even bought some flowers together which surprisingly are still alive. And the park we went to was enormous. We walked around for about 2 hours and we still didn't see the whole park. But still pretty awesome anyways.
These are some of the pictures I had taken while I was at Showa Park in Nishi-Tachikawa, Japan around the time the Cherry blossoms were blooming (obviously). As you can see, the pictures are better quality because I finally bought myself a higher quality camera. :D This is the most random collaboration of pictures.
This was actually one of the smaller shrines we went to when a couple of friends and I decided to go to Kamakura/ Enoshima. We had originally planned on going to the beach, but the guys wanted to be difficult and stop at EVERY shrine or temple we saw. And I even forgot to take pictures when we did reach the beach which we probably spent less than an hour at. I was mad. But we did get to throw a couple of people in the ocean even when they didn't have extra clothes. Awesome. :D
This was a fun night. I got to go with some of the Japanese ladies that work with us and at different facilities and had some fun at Karaoke. I thought they'd just sing for 2 hours and it ended up being 4 hours. Man was I tired by the end of it, but it was fun. I wanna do it again sometime.
Here is to prove that even if I don't post online alot that I still do draw stuff. I post little chibi drawings on my door. Some people enjoy looking at them and some people like swiping my dry-erase an hour after I've drawn on it. D: But that will not discourage me because I'll constantly redraw whatever is on there. 'Cause I don't care what they do. But I think they're starting steal my newspaper. Shame on them. The second picture is to prove to D that that really is my room. See! My name is on it! I'm gonna test you to see if you now know my room #!!
But so, nothing new is really happening these days. There was some drama with friends but I wasn't included in it, so it wouldn't be right for me to post it. But overall, I think things will start to look a little better. I'm hoping so for my sanity's sake.
And that's it for now, till next time. I hope you're happy now Diana. Oh and here's a picture of my plant I got from the park.
And you can see outside my window into the parking lot and see my stuffed Pink panther plushie.
PS. This took to long to write and wait for the picture to upload. D:
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