OCF Welcome night this time round felt somewhat different even though it wasn't a lot of people. But it is still good because there were a lot of new people and for the first time in quite some time, it felt like there were more new people than older ones (of course quite a number of the older ones are still now back here yet). That is a good thing and it seems like majority of them seem to enjoy our company (not to mention our lame behaviour and stupid things we say and do). The real test will the weeks leading up to and just after the Easter holiday on whether most of them will stay in OCF or not. Even better if they stay for church as well but that would be optional.
I finally decided to restring my bass but it has caused more trouble than it actually is. But I guess it is my fault for not restringing often enough. I bought 2 sets of strings ages ago because they were on sale. About 4-5 years later I decided use the other set. Barely 1 round and the string snapped indicating that the strings have gone past its "use by" date. I'm going to try again tonight but I hope I don't make any mistakes otherwise it is going to cost me about $45 and that is quite painful.
Thanks to the recent events, I've gone back to listening to some of the old anime music I had and it makes me feel like I was 18-20 again when I was studying Japanese and just immersing myself into some of their likings. I really really want to go back to studying Japanese again. After 7 years in Melbourne (and not practicing Japanese), I still remember a lot of what I had been taught albeit rusty of the vocabulary and grammar. Thankfully I had really good teachers back then and not to mention fairly intensive courses on Japanese. The fiercest one was a 4 hour class once a week for a whole year. It didn't feel so bad but there were a lot of sacrifices that I had to make. One was that the class was on Sunday morning and afternoon so I had to skip church for a whole year. There were Saturday services as well but at that time I was also working in a bookshop and quite a number of those Saturdays I had to work. But I think it was worth it. I feel like I should see to it that I am fluent in Japanese some time in the near future since that I've already come this far and still not falter.
And now, for the news:
Nature is beautiful and strange at the same time. Here's a look a (completely) asexual species of lizards and how they still can have enough genetic material to not wipe out its species.
Even the president of the most powerful country in the world (debatable, I know) still need normal friends to hang out.
To say that my parents were a generation ahead of its time in light of the following is quite funny.
I should probably try to jump on the toy camera bandwagon. Why not.
A highly interesting article on settling written by a self-proclaimed feminist. Highly interesting because it actually answers a lot of questions about other people in relationships that don't seem to make much sense. And highly interesting because it paints a slightly different perspective on marriage. Kudos to Bing for this article. Not the search engine. Warning: This is a pretty long article so this is not one for light or quick reading
Drain + various sources of light = Art
For those who remember the post I wrote on Tissue Hime, I finally found the bass tabs for ALL of the covers (s)he has done. Awesome! Note that the site is in Japanese but it shouldn't take to much brain cells to work out how to get the tabs.
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