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Thank you for remembering my blog!

Well, it's been half a year.
........wow !!!!

I really don't know why I didn't come here for so long.
Let's believe that it was because Hitomi's life has been going pretty good.
 

At this moment, I am

 -located myself in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

 -I'm here since April 2006

 -Most of things are okay and life is good.
 -in fact it's been great, thanks mate!

 -but, no need to say,
 -cannot be better than life in IH 2004-2005 !!!

 -Now I am a Master course student, first year.
 -who study areas over international law, diplomacy, political history.

 -doing Internship at Think Tank, researching International Affairs area.
 -going to start job hunting soon, if everything goes well get a job before next summer. (i wish so)

 -My life here is full of intellectual stimulation

 -not only of the university but also of all the society, nature and the world.
 -as well as silly fun with friends.
 -Thank you.

 -I'm quite happy with those environment!

 -But maybe there are few things i regret
 -if I'm allowed to say, one is that
 -I cannot play the piano everyday
 -because my room doesn't have it here

 -and don't often play the drums neither.

 -but, oh well, am finding favorite music every day.

 -and I singing everywhere :-)

 -Also I still enjoy taking photos
 -writing what I think freely
 -and missing Australian Wine.

 -People say I lost weight in a good way

 -I'm happy if it's because I care about diet after coming back from Sydney.
 -and not because of stress or irregular sleeping time.
 -Anyway I'm caring about my health and appearance
 -at least more than I did in Sydney... (This is Tokyo, you know)

 -Then I learn cooking everyday by myself at kitchen
 -(I believe it's improving)

 -making friends outside the school too

 -meeting up with new people every day
 -especially business person who knows what's practical

 -This is really a great advantage to live in Tokyo
 -to be able to meet NEW people. new ideas everyday.
 -Living in such a happening city,
 -I feel like becoming an "inbetween"
 -of Academic world and Practical world,
 -or the literate univerity and the business society.

 -I'm always trying to get a better sight of the world
 -with my two feet on ground, and with a good balance.

 -By the way, not speaking so much English everyday

 -My life now is 90% in Japanese
 -but often remembering friends who are away

 -who are of Sydney and other places I flied to.
 -Those are always in my mind
 -You are always in my mind.

 -yes you !

 -Job hunting season is around the corner
 -I'm excited about it.
 -kind of designing my future.

 -this coming Winter/Spring is gonna be a tough season.
 -but, I am happy. =-)

 

i'll see you again in a week!

 

Ah Ah, do you hear me? This is the first messege of mine, posting from Tokyo! As you may know or may not know (but now you know mate, no worris!), I moved to Tokyo just few days ago and now is a postgrad student, wow... just finished the university's opening celemony yesterday. It was fun, unexpectedly!

 

Being relativly busy, and, friends, excuse me plz if my email responces are delayed... (as always :-p )

 

Instead of writing a lot, here are several fotos I took since came here. Hope u enjoy them!

 

*hitomi*

guys thanks for comments. some of you guys, i really really miss you.

 

1. how to keep in touch 

i'm not good at maintaining unstable strings tied between people and me, even the strong one between dear friends. i'm not careful, i'm haven't get to be a good manager yet of myself. i'm often very bad at quick responce, and keeping in touch. I know there's no excuse. I just said that my friends are very unlucky that they have to be patient or very much optimist :-p

 

2. slow life?

i'm very slow. still can't adjust myself to the speedie updating IT world, i guess. Some people do catch up with friends or people around the world everyday, no matter how far they are. But I can't do that and I prefer not updating friends at all for long time, and meet at one time and talk a lot to catch up. The best is to make us meet up once a year twice... right, friends??? that would be great way to remember each other's face :-6 anyway,

 

3. slow blog?

this blog of mine is tiny tiny space on the web-web, and not perfect or sometimes not interesting at all, but i like it. I don't know who's reading this. Friends from Sydney? Any Japanese? Any people I haven't met in real life? thinking how to do with this blog from now on... any idea? :-)

 

4. hit on me this week

been raining and cold these two days

goin to Hong Kong from 26th to 29th for a short trip with friends. who said that hitomi will stay inside japan for good...?

 

5. photos

taken on my uni campus in japan. beautiful campus of mountainside.

long time since my birthday entry...

 

but still alive here i am, thank you! 

thanks you didn't abandon me! hehehe...

 

I GRADUATE MY UNI!!!

 

I'm the final year student of my current uni in Japan. I have been a bit worried about graduation, because of the one year exahcnge program I took part in last year. I couldn't acquire as much credit points as other students usually do in Kobe. When they transfer those points from Sydney to Kobe, because of several difference between universities' systems, what they worth in Sydney became almost half here... as here in my original uni we study more "hours" in classes than in Sydney. But you know, how much we actually work is the same (or more, in case you are internatilnal student) anyway. that's the way it is.

 

today I went to the uni faculty office and got my mark. i was relieved very much to see that... ok, now I graduate.

 

It's already great for me that I'm able to graduate this year, as I was out of the original uni for one whole year. It looked very difficult for me for the first time to set everything in good way and do graduate in four years, but anyhow it went well and I did it.

 

 

 

smile * hitomi

 

 

PS/ today - 3rd March is the day we annualy celebrate girls' spring celemony"Hi Na Ma Tsu Ri" in Japan. The most impressive part of this celemony is Japanese traditional dolls, which we place and decolate in our houses usually about one month in advance, when we have female children in houses, not male. This is the celemony for Spring, and Young Girls.. We eat "Hi Na A Ra Re" the japanese rice cracker, enjoy veiwing "Mo Mo"the peach flower, and pray for female children's blessed future including happy marridge. Two dolls on the top is something like Prince and Princess in Heian Era... about 1000year ago? I actually don't know so well, I should learn more about my mother land's culture. :-)