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ahhh, finally an update.

Well lately I've been pretty busy, leaving me with little time to update this blog of mine. What have I been doing? I've been kept busy by the amount of homework I'm being given, and seeing how lazy I am, it's always unfinished. When I'm procrastinating I have been playing my guitar a lot, and I actually haven't been spending as much time as I used to in front of the computer, which is a good thing. I've also been catching up on anime which is always good :D

I've also spent quite a bit of money lately, buying SCANDAL CDs. In fact, I just ordered a SCANDAL poster yesterday! That shows my dedication to this band. I'm not downloading their music, I'm showing my support by buying their stuff, so that they can rise in the music industry and be known to everyone who doesn't know them already! 

Other than all that, there isn't much else going on in my life.
But I did see this really cute waitress the other day at this jap restaurant, who first caught my attention because she looked like Haruna, the lead guitarist from SCANDAL. (they have the same mouth LOL) I thought that was pretty interesting, but then she looked at me and smiled and she was so cute that its almost indescribable. I panicked almost everytime she came close or smiled at me LOL. Too bad I'm never going to see her again. haha. My mum said she looked like Rina though, the drummer from SCANDAL...so maybe she was a cross between Haruna and Rina? Maybe that's why I thought she was so cute ahahaha.

Well there you go, an update of how boring my life is, except for the unexpected events every now and then. I wonder how long it will be until my next update? 

新世界

This year is going to be good, I have a good feeling about it. From what everyone has told me, year 12 will be one of the best years ever, and that I will have tonnes of fun. 
With good time management, I should be able to juggle everything that I've decided to take on board. I don't think it'll be easy, but I do think it will be worth it. Hopefully getting into medicine, and building up the next generation, I'm gonna have my work cut out for me this year. 

It's like venturing into a new world, into unexplored areas. I don't know where I'm going, I only have a dream to guide me, stepping carefully so I don't stumble, holding onto my pride to be able to do my best and searching for something I don't even know will be there.

This will be a good year. A year with absolutely no regrets, what happens will happen. 

Hope brings misery. When I hope for something, and don't get it or am unsuccessful, then I become miserable. If I don't hope then I won't be sad. I can live this year, or even my entire life, as happy as I can be, doing everything I can to my very best and then leaving the rest up to God.

By the end of the year, I want to be able to go to Japan without leaving things the way they are now. I want to settle things this year, so that even if it doesn't work out, I can still enjoy my holidays and not worry about those things...[sorry this is one of those generic vague bits of text that not many people would understand. To be honest this bit is just a record for myself so I don't forget lol.]

And to finish off, some things I want to have done by the end of the year: 
 - Go to Japan
 - Meet SCANDAL
 - Meet Rina
 - Become good friends with her
 - Get a Fender Telecaster
 - Get a high enter score
 - Get a good umat score

Too bad most of these things require hard work or money >____> 

in case people have forgotten...

Still waiting.

jpop vs kpop

So jpop vs kpop is an ongoing battle for me. There are heaps of people in my generation that is just obsessed with kpop, and then there's me and eric, and some other people from school who love our jap music. I don't actually know why people love korean music so much, since in my opinion jap is just so much better, but I can't force my opinion on other people.

But now I've found conclusive evidence that jpop is more popular than kpop.
I was on this forum about my favourite band SCANDAL right, and one of the topics was about jpop vs kpop. Turns out channel[V] (the music channel) held a competition called battle of the pop (Japan vs. Korea) which is pretty much jpop vs kpop. People would vote online for who they think is better, out of a certain pairing.

The results were:

That's right. Out of the 8 pairings, only one Korean group came out on top, and that was DBSK. In every other pairing, the Jap band/group/artist won.
That means, all the popular groups in my generation lost to the Jap counterparts.
The popular Big Bang lost to Kat-Tun by 4000 votes, and I bet no-one from my generation has even heard of Kat-Tun before.
The group I know a lot of girls like, SHINee lost to W-inds by 1000 votes.
Rain lost to Mika Nakashima by 4000 votes as well.
DBSK did well though, they beat Koda Kumi by 4000 votes, the only kpop group to win their pairing.
Super Junior lost to Arashi by  4000 votes. Bad luck to all the Super Junior fans out there :P
Yui completely owned Wonder Girls by beating them by 5000 votes, I was actually suprised at how much Yui's popularity has grown.
BoA lost to Ayumi Hamasaki by 3000 votes.
And they obviously saved the best till last, SCANDAL beat SNSD by 2000 points! That's right! To everyone who disliked my taste in jap bands, you couldn't have been more wrong. SCANDAL easily beat SNSD which just makes SCANDAL so much better. How many people are in SNSD? Like 9? So it was pretty much 4 vs 9 and SCANDAL still won. No-one can bag me about my music now if they listen to Korean music.

This ranking shows just how awesome and popular Jap music is, and everyone should be listening to Jap not Korean >_> but ohwell, I'm happy Jap music is more popular, now I can brag :D

2011 in Mansfield!

So last year, I went to Mansfield to do a missions trip, and I also spent new years there if you didn't know.
To be honest, at first I was nervous about going, but when I was actually there, it was absolutely awesome. Meeting so many people from all over Melbourne, and all going together to help the people from Mansfield get to know Jesus is something I'm glad I got to be a part of.

The Blue Moose Mansfield team were the best, there was never a dull moment, and they pretty much became my second family.  As a team, there was so much we did together. I had my daily potassium time with a guy called Mike, and it was just us eating a banana everyday. There was also Mr.Uke and Mr.Ukimara, our two beloved ukuleles. As well as what I think was the quote of the trip, "would you rather cut your own leg off, or stomp on a bag of kittens?" really made the experience all the more fun.

As for the actual stuff we went up there to do, we ran a cafe/drop in centre for the locals of Mansfield. It ran from 8pm to around midnight and people could just come in whenever they wanted to. Of course, we would have liked it to be packed from 8pm, but it is a small town after all. We all met so many people, and made heaps of friends there. The guy that I was closest to was a guy named James, and he was almost a copy of me. We had the same way of thinking and the same humour. When people like Joash and Chau asked us to play doubles pool with them, we both said that we're too awesome for them and don't want to make them feel bad :D The locals were all really cool, and they even told us to come back up sometime in the year to go skiing with them up at Mt.Buller. (Mansfield is pretty much next to it)

We saw so many people come in, and most of them said they love it mostly because of the stories that we tell, which were our testimonies. That was really awesome to see, and seeing them open up to our team because of it was just mind-blowing. There was even one guy who came in every night just to read and study the bible with our main leader! How awesome is that?!

I don't want to make this post too long, but to finish up I guess I would just like to say that Blue Moose is an experience that really changes a person. The intimacy with God that you can get out of it, the amazing testimonies of the people on your team, the wonders that God does at the shop, all of the answered prayers, as well as the amount of fun that you can have, is really amazing. I never would have thought in 10 days so much could happen and for it to go by that fast. One of the best transition between years I've ever had.

I can't wait for the re-union on wednesday! :D