Christmas shopping

Wow... it's been a while since I went christmas shopping DURING the christmas season. I had forgotten just how BAD the traffic and parking is during this time of year o.o"

Anywho, I had gotten my dad a book, my younger bro a book, both my parents Almond Roca (that stuff is GOOD!). Not sure what to get my grandma yet, but I'm sure that a home-made card would do just fine with her ^^~ For myself, I had gotten a nifty little omlette maker. It looks pretty nice, and since I've taken a liking to making omlettes with my pancakes during my weekly breakfast duties, I think it's a good investment ^^~

Anyways, a long-time church friend is back from Taiwan, and tomorrow night we're gonna have dinner with him along with the other peeps from youth group and such. If I remember, I'll take pics and upload them sometime in the future.

Think that's all...

Welp, guess I'll update again later (hopefully :P)

I'll see y'all soon ^^~

so cold!!!!! o.o

omg!!!!!!! It snowed!!!! :D even though yesterday it snowed just a bit, today was a full-blown snow day ^^~ And apparently tomorrow's gonna snow again too ^^

anyways, what else to talk about.... ah right ^^"

Tomorrow I have an exam on... what IS the exam on? o.o;;; and WHEN is it... omg... I am soooooo very underprepared... x.x -quickly runs off to check- okay... it's global change... shouldn't be too hard to BS my way through... ^^" hopefully it won't be too hard to BS the stuff though... maybe I should look through the lecture notes... >.>"

anywho, as much as I like snow, I hope that it doesn't cause SFU to postpone the exams, since that means I'll have to wait for probably another week or so to take my exams... don't like to worry too much over it >.<

Welp, I'm off for now, but to give you an idea of how much snow we got here so far, here's a pic of me and snow (it's kinda hard to see, but yeah, the white stuff in the background is snow)

back from the dead o.o;;;

Hey all~

was just reading over my previous blog entry, and knew I should've kept my mouth shut about when I would update... I'm so accurate with my predictions that it's scary... or maybe it's because I know myself too well about this kind of stuff ^^"

anywho, what to say, what to say.... hrm.................

Welp, first of all, I finished my chem finals.... and I'm pretty sure I got at least one of the right, I'm positive about that ^^" if not, I utterly and completely bombed it :P I have slighty better confidence in bio, calc and global change though. Those I can somewhat BS my way through and get at least some of those right. Chem on the other hand.... -shudder-

Anywho, on a brighter note, Luis and I are still going strong ^^ Has it really been over a year already? o.o;;; wow, how time seems to fly by ^^" However, I think I love him more and more as time goes by, especially since it's hard to keep at a long-distance relationship when everyone around us has a gf/bf nearby -tries not to glare at all the happy couples making out during the christmas season-

Anyways, I just sent out his christmas present... I know that it'll be too late for him to get it by christmas time, but at least it'll get there ^^" (blames my laziness)

hm... what else to talk about... ^^" oh right

GF (Grand Fantasia) is REALLY fun so far ^^ I'm already a lv 33 sage with epic skills :D my mage is currently a little lacking, but that's alright, cuz I'm gonna splurge during christmas break and play LOTS AND LOTS to make up for all the time I've spent studying (which isn't a lot, given how I am ^^") I'd recommend this game to anyone not because it's easy, but because it's fun and easy. The only thing is that they don't really teach you how to play, the sprites (your "slaves"/pets) fail epically, and because it's a translated game, the quest log descriptions sometimes aren't that clear nor accurate ^^" Other than that, it's a very smooth interaction and playing experience.

Think that's about it... anything else, I'll add onto this later when I remember (if I do at all xD)

Jojo signing out~

ARC @ SFU

Okay, so now it's the start of a new school year, 3 weeks in (going onto 4 o.o) So far, I'm doing fairly well, except for chemistry, where I'm just bluffing my way through it right now... which is gonna kill me in the long run, I just know it x.x

Let's see... the most exciting thing that's happened so far (besides the mini-experiments in the chem lectures) is probably me joining ARC: Altered Reality Club. The club so far seems really fun to join, if a bit pricey for some of the stuff... Oh well. I'll go looking around for a job, and hopefully make enough money to get myself another new laptop (since my other one's motherboard's now RIP Q.Q)

Anywho... think I should get going on my pre-lab chem problems... x.x

Hopefully it won't take me over 2 months to update this (again) xD

wow...

haven't posted ANYTHING on here for over 2 months... well, what can I say? Summer was great ^^"

First of all, I went back to Taiwan for a month from July 21st to Aug 21st. Great fun, great food. Not so great on the heat x.x SOOOO damn hot and humid there x.x

I bought so much clothes there XD must've spent like at least $100 worth of amazingly stylish clothes (there, NT$30 = CDN$1), at REALLY SUPER CHEAP prices too~

Oh, and I also went to an amusement park down in the southern part of Taiwan. SOOOO much fun there!!! MUCH MUCH better than the PNE rides here in Vancouver XD

Anywho, I'm getting distracted, so I'ma leave this for now and come back to it later... hopefully xD

Laters~~~~~

Jojo, the goddess of Love, Beauty and Hate

New haircut~

okay, okay. So, today I had a hair appointment, and to tell the truth, I was a bit apprehensive. It took me a while to get my hair up to the length it was at, but the split ends are getting a bit annoying. So, I went with my mom (she goes to the same hairdresser - she introduced me after all), and after about an hour on my mom's perm, it's finally my turn to get a new 'do. She sat me down on the chair, and asked me what I would like. Told her to trim off the split ends and add some layers.

After 30 minutes, I was done and can go. My hair felt so much lighter than before, and the fact that today was so sunny just made it even better. I told my mom that I'm not waiting for her, and walked home in the sun. Felt so good~~~~

Too bad that it's probably gonna be cloudy either tomorrow or Thursday... -sigh-

Pictures that I have used over the years as a roleplayer

Happy (Early) Birthday To Me~~~~

Ello everyone! It's yours truly, Hikari-chan~~

Sorry for not writing in here for over a month. Guess I kinda just forgot to write in here... ^^"

Anyways, in 8 days and counting is my 19th B-Day~~~~~~ Sooooooo so excited!!!! Wonder what I'm gonna get this year? Hopefully something good, like a new Wii that will replace the one my dad accidentally tripped over and broke (think he broke it even more when he tried to fix it himself... >.>)

Oh, and also... what was I gonna say again? -sweatdrop-

Oh right! My friend Sorrocus (whom I affectionately call So-kun) is writing a story based on the FFI story line, starring Hiro, yours truly, and himself~ Although, lately he's been too sick to really work on it, so there's not much progress after ch.2 I think... Hopefully he'll get better soon~

Hm... anything else? Don't think so....

Oh, one more thing. Recently, I've been having a weird dream... I kept dreaming that I'm at an airport (which one, I have no clue. Just that I'm at an airport), and that I'm supposed to meet someone there. However, as soon as I start to see that person, I wake up... wonder what it means...

Hm... oh well...

Think that's all that's been on my mind lately... oh, and the fact that I've ran out of mangas to read is kinda starting to bug me... I used to have so much to catch up on, but now.... ><

Anywho... that's it for now~ Stay tuned for the next installment of "Hii-chan's thoughts of the day"~~~ (I've always wanted to say that xD)

(Almost) 1 month anniversary!

Wow... has it really been almost a month since I had opened up this blog? interesting... seeing as I still remember to come back at least once a week xD

Anyways... lately I've been a bit demotivated about doing my history homework. Although I love learning about all the different opinions, major events and how they happened, the textbooks and homework load are a bit overwhelming at the moment. But, that could be partly my fault, seeing as I had left doing the homework and reading alone until recently... ^^u

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I recently went on a gaming spree, and look at what I found at this nifty little store at Surrey Central Mall: it sells used OLD games from GC, GBA, GBC, etc... it even had N64 game and consoles, which is saying something, considering that the manufacturing had been LONG discontinued and is now incredibly hard to find.

Anyways, I bought the following games there - (GC)Harvest Moon: Magical Melody/A Wonderful Life/Another Wonderful Life, (GBA)Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced, (GBA)Harvest Moon: More Friends of Mineral Town. You have no clue as to how happy I was to fine all these, especially FFTA, especially since I couldn't find them ANYWHERE in the video game stores that I had went to - and believe me, I had found some interesting places to go to *plans the next time to go to look for Pikmin 2* xD

And I had rediscovered the joy of playing Pikmin for GC! I had forgotten how much fun and addicting the game was for me, and still am! And now that it's been out for such a long time, there are MANY walkthroughs and strategy guides for me to contemplate and use. Right now, there seems to be one that will let me finish the game within half the amount of time. I've yet to read to the end of that, so we'll see how it goes~

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I would be playing right now, but my parents are almost awake, and I'm almost fast asleep, so I'm gonna stop here and go to bed before I get scolded for staying up at unnatural times (and yes, because I live at home, I still get scolded for "keeping unnatural sleeping schedules/habits") >.>

-goes to sleep with the song "Nine in the afternoon" by Panic! at the Disco-

My life so far....

As I looked at my picture from 5-6 years ago, I thought about how far I have come along in my life, yet not at all. As a matter of fact, I have probably came further than I have in the 4 years I spent in high school.

If I think about it, I went to university, lived by myself, skipped classes for the first time, ate LOTS of cafeteria food (more than all my high school years combined!), stayed up REALLY late into the night playing on RO (Ragnarok Online) and DOMO (Dreams of Mirrors Online) (Hiro can testify to that xD), and was humbled more than the time I almost failed French 8.

I won't go into any details, but I will say this - I am so very blessed to have parents such as mine. They've supported me all this time, even if they are a bit controlling (in my view) and lazy. I have disappointed them more than I can possibly imagine, yet they continue to support and believe in me (even though I haven't been the best daughter to them for the past couple of years...)

I act all helpful, calm and the perfect obedient daughter, but in reality - I'm far from it. I'm lazy to a fault, pushy to my brother, and I'm constantly pushing the boundaries of my parents' patience.

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I feel like as if I need to get away from all this - to a place where no one gives a damn about where I came from, who I was or what I've done.

I want to start over - an entirely new life with no history. Yet... I can't bear to leave my parents and, surprisingly, my annoying little brother Young.

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Lately, I've been thinking about going to visit Hiro, or him visit me, or us meeting somewhere int he middle. But seriously... who am I kidding? Like hell he'll let me come to Puerto Rico from what I hear from him, like hell will my parents let me meet someone from online, and like hell any of us will be able to afford the plane tickets anyway...

As much fun as we imagine what could happen should we ever meet in real life, we both know that it's almost impossible considering a) we live on opposite sides of the continent, b) personally we're both dirt poor, and c) we don't even call each other by our real names.

Funny thing is... I've always though and refered to him as Hiro, and hardly (if ever) as Luis. Yet, somehow HIro fits him better... or maybe that's just me...

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You know, I never really thought about this, but... over the 3 years that I've known him, I've only thought of him as my best friend until the past December... which was when we had that HUGE fight... okay, I exaggerate. It was a stupid fight... in which most of the fault was with me for being a stubborn idiot...

Hiro and our guildies were chatting and joking while I had went to get food, and when I came back, our guildies went into match-making mode, and tried to pair us together. Since I already had similar experience from my friend and I's parents, I immediately balked at the idea. To my relief, the others soon gave up.

Hiro, however, wouldn't let up.

He kept teasing me about it, then when I said no, he told everyone that I avoided him "like the plague", which was totally not true. Nonetheless, (in my view) he kept pushing the wrong buttons, and finally I blew up at him, saying (I'll remember this no matter what) "if you keep doing that, I'll stop healing you" or something to that extent... (in other words, I just told him to go die ><) Totally ruined everything, and for the next 3 days...

I may have seem to be like my usual self, but in reality, I was miserable - I couldn't talk to Hiro much, and if we did, it was just polite chit-chat, or things to do with the party that we were in, or in guild chat. Then when he got Rhen to be his "lover" on DOMO on the 2nd day after our fight, that really killed me inside. I felt like as if I got rejected, like as if he was just pushing me aside. We talked even less after that, and even though I tried my best to not let it bother me, and I wanted him to be happy, but I still couldn't live it down...

Finally, it all came out when Hiro suddenly said that he would leave the guild to help Vie create hers. For some reason, to me it seemed like as if he was severing our last ties and leaving me. It was a stupid reason for me to blow up at him about, but at the time, it served my purpose to let all my anguish out (sorry, Vie, for using your guild as a stepping stone in our relationship xP). Needless to say, everything finally worked out in the end - got my gaming/anime/manga/msn-ing buddy back, and... well... "the rest is history" ^^~

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Looking back, my heart still hurts from when I had thought he had left me behind, and even more when I realized that I had also hurt him when I continuously pushed him away. Yet we both came away from that closer than ever, and our relationship deepened and grew.

Now, he enjoys tormenting me with his pervertedness and watching my face turn into a tomato... I've yet to do the same to him though... -racks my brain for a way-

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And how this turn from my personal growth in life to my love life, I have no clue.

But I'm glad it did, because I finally got it all off my chest.

And if you're reading this...

I love you, Hiro~

Brr... it's freezing up here in the Fraser Valley... there's still snow in much of the suburbs around the Valley... here at my house, the road's still one-lane... and VERY very icy. I fear for those that have to drive around. Heck, even when I'm walking, I feel like as if I'd be better off ice-skating to the bus stop...

Anyways, some of the birds that hang around this area is back. I'm sure they're wondering why it's still so cold too xD

You know, I had the weirdest dream a couple of days ago... I dreamed that all the people that I met online (and is still in contact with) somehow all came to my door to wish me a happy birthday... even though it's, like, almost 3 months away (so happy! I'm FINALLY turning 19!)

Which reminds me... I really should ask for a credit card... just the one would be good. I won't be doing much with it anyhow (besides buying books and possibly piano music online xD)

Oh, and on Monday, it's the Chinese New Year of the Ox (or cow, whichever one you prefer to call it), so just in case I forget...

恭喜發財, EVERYONE!!!!!!!
(that roughly means "good luck with your wealth")

Apprehensive....

Hm... you know, I've been thinking, that I should go somewhere out of the country during the summer by myself.... just to see some sights, and possibly meet new people (and maybe meet some people that I knew from the past). Now, I know that it's near impossible, since a) I'm extremely laid-back, b) I'm extremely gullible, and c) I'm somewhat broke and have no jobs xP

But you know the old saying - "Where there's a will, there's a way." I really do want to go touring the world one day, just not sure when ^^"

Anywho, I've finished the first unit of my Math 12 course, and is supposed to have finished my first History 12 homework... ^^"

Oh, and believe it or not, but I remembered to come back! xD Guess having it on my msn name helps me remember~

What should I talk about...?

Hm... as you can see from the title, I have no clue what to say xD Well, how about just saying that I'm glad that I remembered to come back on here at all ^^"'

Um, let's see... what else to talk about...

How about... how much I don't like job hunting? Yes, that's a boring topic, let's talk about job hunting! (Or NOT!!!!)

Yeah, I'm SUPER bored right now... the slow time before lunch... x.x

Anywho, after lunch I am going job hunting (again xP), and then after that, I get to go meet my new teacher, Mr. McArthur... not quite sure how to say this, but I'm actually quite nervous about meeting the guy... I mean, what should I say? I'm supposed to be in university right now, yet here I am, re-taking Math 12 (so embaressing... x.x) and possibly taking History 12 along side it. Two supposedly courses that demand almost TOTAL commitment...

What have I gotten myself into... @.@

Happy (belated) New Year!!!

lol... here I told myself that I probably won't be able to keep a blog updated regularly... yet here I am, trying it out xD

anyways, I think a little introduction is in order.

Name: Hikari Yamato (those who know me will know otherwise~)
Likes: Reading (novels and mangas), writing (god knows that I need a release once in a while), chatting/IMing (I really do talk too much on msn at times), playing online games (unfortunately, due to the fact that my parents don't like me playing them *coughparanoidcough*, I will not be able to play for who-knows-how-long), watching movies, hanging out with friends, sleeping, eating (I am like a pig when I'm bored, because I will search out food, and it may or may not be junk food - depends on what I had on hand)
Dislikes: spicy foods (just kill me now if you want me to try anything spicy), people who bad-mouth my friends (I am the only one who's allowed to do that)

Anywho, it's time for me to get off of the computer before my parents wake up... (not supposed to be on at this time of night, it is almost 5am on a weekday afterall~)

Happy (belated) New Year, everyone! Hopefully I will remember to update this at least once a month xD