The place where Broadway and musicals are located.
The place where I will begin the next chapter of my nomadic life.
The place where I turn into an eccentric academic out of sync with normality.
NEW YORK.
Welcome.
The place where Broadway and musicals are located.
The place where I will begin the next chapter of my nomadic life.
The place where I turn into an eccentric academic out of sync with normality.
New York.
An aspiring hikikomori/ gomiyashiki owner who will get 3 dogs, 1 cat and a herb
garden when she is in her 40s.
Currently a second year Phd student in East Asian Studies, NYU; a self-proclaimed OTAKU; a
clumsy but avid snowboarder; and absent oneechama of Variel.
8 Sept 2010: West Side Story, WICKED
19 Sept 2010: Chicago
8 Oct 2010: Promises Promises
29 Oct 2010: Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake
14 Nov 2010: American Idiot
18 Jan 2011: Billy Elliot
8 Feb 2011: La Cage Aux Folles
6 Mar 2011: Paul Taylor Dance Group
5 Apr 2011: Catch Me If You Can (Broadway preview)
2 Dec 2011: La Boheme
9 Jan 2012: Rent
22 Mar 2012: Phantom of the Opera
23 May 2012: Avenue Q
26 Sep 2012: Newsies
2 Oct 2012: Turandot
4 Oct 2012: Once
15 Oct 2012: Sleep No More
28 Nov 2012: Lion King
7 Feb 2013: Book of Mormons
14 Mar 2013: Jersey Boys
25 Mar 2013: Sleep No More
21 May 2013: Kinky Boots
26 Sep 2013: Big Fish
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
11:13 AM
My dream
Woke up at 5:30am today, wondering if I really should go Kokusai. Wondered for more than half hour in bed, while my two handphones consecutively rang many times to the tune of various anime songs. Do I really wanna risk the neighbours complains? Then, thought of how I don't have a lunchbox ready, and how I will need to bring Variel for a morning walk so that she might be too tired to bark... and I changed my mind, went back to sleep...
And got into the most exasperating dream that is a parody of my real life. I was back in JC and somehow, had a school outing to a ski resort. then, it skipped to how my family were in the resort too, including my dead grandfather and the evil, theiving aunt-by-marriage (wife of my uncle). Then there were some kind of school activities I had to do in the morning. I distinctly remembered me wearing the deep green PE shirt.
After 'bullying' some juniors about some crazy info of my JC, I was done with the morning activities and I thought to myself, YES, I HAVE TIME FOR SNOWBOARD!! My brain actively moved from how do I buy lift tics, to what should I bring along. I changed, went back to my family's place, and found out, to my absolute horror, that I changed into my OLD orange wear. So I changed into the new pink one. Then found out that I brought the wrong bag!! In the midst of it all, I managed to talk to my grandfather and asked him for money, as usual. Finally, everything was ready and I was sooooo excited at the prospect of riding down the slopes when...
My phone rang!!!!! Damn!! It was ISC, calling me to go sign some stuff. And I can't go back into my dream after that. What a parody of my real life... tryiing so hard to snowboard but not managing to.
And what an intrusion of reality. I am reminded, once again, that I really need to decide on my next step. What to do, what to do....
Since I was resting my overtaxed brains, I thought I should tweak my blog a bit. And voila!! I have tags, comments and my blog profile link! HTML is powerful!! Next agenda is to put a list of my labels on my sidebar...
Several stuff I wanna say here, so just putting it all into a post.
1) My anti-climatic meeting with my supervisor yesterday. He flipped through the thesis that I spent more than a month and loss of much sleep agonizing over and simply said 'いいんじゃない' which means, 'it's ok' or 'not bad'. The whole exercise took a maximum of three minutes. I am definitely not happy with him. But to be fair, he does not possess the necessary knowledge and background to help me, cos he is from the positivist sciences (totally outdated!) while I am more of the constructionist, post-modern bent.
2) God's 'evil' plans. I can surely feel his diabolical mind working to make sure the weather is not sooo cold that my fingers freeze while typing and that the snow on the top of the mountains will not turn into powder snow so I cannot go and snowboard. Haiz... But He doesn't need to resort to such measures to further global warming what. And put all the snow-workers' out of jobs too. Can you believe that it is raining now? In Hokkaido, mid-december?!?!! Sigh!! All these for little o' me. I would rather He just make a well-written, insightful Masters Thesis pop into being by clicking His holy fingers. Still, He is good and I thank him!
3) My state of mind. Not so stressed now, especially after the totally anti-cliimatic experience with my supervisor. But I am even more resolved to write a good thesis. Cos I am not writing for the positivist sciences academics in the soci department here but for my possible future in the field of anthropology that actually admits post-colonial thoughts and ideas of relativity, agency etc. And honestly, I had been blessed with my research cos I got to know lots of people through it and also to travel and play while doing my fieldwork. One must always be thankful.
4)I know most of my friends who kept in constant contact with me know this. But I guess I should announce this to the world.
I DO NOT KNOW WHAT I AM GOING TO DO AFTER I GRADUATE!!
Luckily, I have never been the kind that worries incessantly about the future. Just try to complete whatever job is placed in front of me. So right now, I just want to think about my thesis and not make any concrete plans for the future.
Even though I have no definite answer right now, I am considering various options and factors that will influence my choice. Thankfully, I have no boyfriend (and probably will never have in the future) and so, do not need to worry about another human being. And my mum has so many kids that she won't notice the lack of one. I only worry about Variel and my future plans will be quite dependant on where I want her future, and her death, to be. In a way, it is better or worse than a boyfriend. Cos I can't ignore her or she'll die, I can't easily move her around different countries cos of quarantine regulations, I have to consider whether she wants to see Spencer and Lexus again or go direct to another country of my choice. But the easy part is that I get to choose for her cos she's not a human being! hehe!
5) This blog. Am seriously thinking of changing the layout. I have been using the html codes taken from http://www.blogskins.com/ but maybe it's time to use Blogger's layout format cos at least, I can have comments instead of relying on a chatbox. FYI, I will not 'murder' my blog even after this chapter of my life closes.
