It is 1.52am now and I ought to be asleep but I wasn't feeling sleepy. And then again if I wasn't feeling sleepy, I should instead be studying or doing something productive like er... doing math etc instead of updating this space which probably only 1 person (excluding myself) reads (HI SK!!!!).

Okay so I actually got out of bed to read about winter photography (to overexpose or underexpose? etc). And ended up reading TFLN as well (been a while since I read that hahaha).


And then I started thinking about Japan because of all the stuff that's happened there (and the 3 news reports I've watched today repeating the same stuff in chinese and english). Kinda scary because I was only there 3 months ago and now ): They even shut down Tokyo Tower's lighting and Shibuya crossing's billboards to save electricity , plus all the blackout rotations around different areas.
I still remembered when Elle told me that Chiba went up in flames I went like cause I immediately thought of Aiba (or more like his family restaurant), but the restaurant was fine. And luckily Maiko was kept in school so she's safe. Technically I would have been denied the chance to go to Japan this year, so I was lucky to have gone last year
But at the same time, my parents are now reconsidering Japan because they say it's not safe given all the stuff that's happened there (I remain adamant that nothing major - i think- happened in Nagoya so it's like er okay? But I know my logic is flawed because it doesn't mean that if this occurs again that things will be different).
Which then leads me to think that I probably should have taken SATs and aimed for Brown too But then again it's not like I really wanted to go there. Too much of this lies with me not being able to make up my mind. Same being for which course I want to study in uni

Well that was a long paragraph about japan. Probably should learn to work on my summary skills more. At the same time, I have never felt so strongly about a national disaster before (to me, Haiti was like ...........), so yeah.

Okay on to less depressing stuff. Point form again for easy reading.

• Brought 3 new books and stationary (paper/highlighters) on Friday because Kino had a sale.
  
• Realised that Popolo was.... strangely enough, missing from Kino's shelves
• In the middle of my second book, The Elegance of the Hedgehog. Slow pace because of the excess of flowery language (by excess I mean a lot, to the point where it gets annoying) in it but it's because of the scattering of witty humour inside (or perhaps I just haven't come across much books with humour).
• GTL is officially my favourite drink
• My week is going to be hell because if this is what I have to put myself through to get my 7d, I. WILL. DO. IT.

2.42am now. Gastric's acting up which means i should probably sleep, but since I'm (still) not sleepy, I'll treat myself to an episode of Himitsu.