2013 deshita

wah only 1 day left in 2013! ever since uni started, i kinda lost sense of the concept of a Year, since my curriculum overlaps the turning of a year and i'm obviously more concerned about the fact that i'll be having yet another make-up lesson on a Sunday this week, than the fact that we're starting 2014 in 1 day. anyway, i'm still excited for 2014 to come! can't wait for Jan to be over, partly because that means it'll be Feb and cny will be over in 2 days (yay) and i'll be going to Japan on the 8th! (yay!). but partly also because my wallet can take a break. 4 birthdays coming up in Jan so ... yeah. and of course i have to take out quite a sum for Japan so .... and i'm not working at the moment so .... money woes.

anyway.
looking back on 2013, i think this year i watched a lot of movies in the cinemas?? counted and there were 18? is that quite a lot? i think so leh that's like one movie every 3 weeks hahaha. i'm so happy the japanese movies i wanted to watch all came here and i could watch it on the big screen heh heh. the two docu-movies, 'captain phillips' and '12 years a slave' were both tremendously moving and i got so emotional for both hahahaha well they made me realised how much of a sentimental person i actually am which i don't really think that is a v good thing. but on the other side, it got me to appreciate the movies a lot a lot more, which made sense, because you definitely want to feel that you've watched a great movie and your time wasn't wasted and you feel like you've learnt something new. it always feels good to add something into your knowledge bank; and you know why it's phrased, 'knowledge bank', because nobody can be born 'knowledgeable', knowledge is something that you gotta earn, absorb it; it doesn't stop and it shouldn't stop. it puzzles me a lot why people don't like the idea of reading, or refuse to read. do you know that knowledge is power?

i've come to realise that you can't just be doing stuff you like and think you can get away with it, because the world does not revolve around you and you should know very well that time's not gonna stop even if you stop. the world's gonna keep moving you'll be replaced in just a second. so don't ever see yourself as the most important shit and be all self-deluded; so you can keep improving, keep learning and keep being better, but never full.

my mum told me those. lately she keeps telling me such 'ways of life' in between her work rantings and colleagues bitching. ha

and also, some of us need to stop acting like we deserve everything.



2014年，よろしくお願いします。がんばりますー。

on a very light note, i am so excited for japan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!