Actually, more like Lady Lady. For some reason I’ve been watching old animated series that I used to like when I was a kid. I love it! Even though my sister doesn’t, despite watching and enjoying it as a child. She said it is much too sad for her taste, when normally she’s the one into “all things gloomy” while I’m all about sunshine and cheerful colours. Its sequel Hello! Lady Lynn is what I liked even more due to Lynn’s involvement in her school’s equestrian team. I used to LOVE that as a child. It made me feel glee whenever I saw anything resembling jumps in a riding ring… I am so happy to finally have experienced jumping. Here are the openings and ending of the series for your viewing pleasure!

For a long time…every time I went to the bathroom it sounded like there was someone in my room jumping on my bed. Of course, being me, I took no notice of it and didn’t even try figuring out where the sound came from and what it really was. I just figured “there has to be a more logical explanation” and left it at that. Also, it is quite satisfying when people are like, “What? There are ghosts in your room!?” to which I reply, “Hmm… who knows {mysterious smile}”. This evening, I was in my bathroom attending to my bi-daily facial ritual when I started to hear that noise again. In frustration I thought, “What IS that? It makes no sense!”. Then I figured out that… it was me… my continuously shifting weight between my feet in my bathroom slippers made that noise… LOL!

I have finally come to the conclusion that no watch could ever suit my Juicy Couture jewelery, and that it is so big that it is not meant to be worn with watches anyway. Or that’s just not my style because it feels like too much. I haven’t been able to wear their charms on the bracelet for a very long time anyway… feels like too much.

After years of owning my DS Lite, I finally decided to cute-ify it!

Even though I didn’t enjoy the manga or anime that much (Paradise Kiss), I have it running in the background now while I have some food. I am one of those people that believe you can never get anywhere in life without a university degree. But is that really true? It’s one thing to have a degree to fall back on when something goes wrong, but it is another to go out there and do your own thing and get paid for it. From what I can see… it’s not a lot of people that have the guts to do that, and even less that actually succeed.

It didn’t really bother me at the time, because I thought I’ll probably just be a system analyst or programmer; both of which I was studying for anyway. It’s not that I don’t enjoy organized schooling – because I do. Ever since I came to my college I enjoyed it so much and became really eager to learn. I even think that my school really hands “information” to us on a silver plate and that we should at least struggle a bit more to find it. We should be expected to read more and research more… but I guess I would be doing that on my own. Ever since I started doing ebusiness management (entrepreneurial business management – but really, who talked about entrepreneurs since we started?), I thought it would open up more career options for me. And I want a job that I’ll love. I want a job that will allow me to be creative, one that I will be so engrossed in that I don’t even realize how hard I’m working and how much energy I’m spending to finish what I’m doing.

But I dunno… I always thought I’d be a writer. No, I always thought of myself as a writer. I always said things like, “I’m a writer and this is what we do,” but that’s just it. Maybe I’m not a writer. I don’t even feel creative anymore, when once upon a time I used to. There was once a time when I said I enjoy doing essay questions in exams, but all I’m good at is spewing some random crap in organized sentences that probably keeps the reader entertained so I get graded on it. But actual writing? No, not in years.

I already lost my concentration and don’t really know what I’m trying to say anymore…I need to gather my thoughts and be myself again.

Anyway, I was out with Washi today and we were trying to decide at who’s house we should watch the new So You Think You Can Dance at. She said the disadvantage at her place is that it currently won’t be comfortable for hanging out { and I didn’t ask why } and the disadvantage at my place is that my tv sucks.
Washi: It has been years now, you need to get that HDTV we talked about
Me: Well…
Washi: Haven’t I nagged you enough? They’re cheaper now! They cost less than your purse does!
Me: I… will enjoy a purse more…
Washi: No comment

I was looking at some Juicy Couture charms earlier. Aren’t they just so cheery and summery? I doubt I’ll buy a charm again though…

It has been increasingly difficult to actually write my thoughts here when I’ve been using so many alternatives and replacements. There’s Twitter, TwitPic and The Book of Thoughts.

It’s been pretty nice out even though it’s hot…I am finally riding again since my trainer returned from vacation…our lessons have been pretty low-impact for now which works okay for me since I’m still struggling to get back into the riding shape after a few weeks off.

I am very emotional lately. I dunno if it’s because of my upcoming finals or the other things going on in my life. I have just been told by someone really important to me that I have turned into something I hate. It hurts even more when those loved ones think that you can do no wrong, that they consider you the most important in the world… that to them you are perfect no matter how flawed you are.

I dunno what other people think about this but I’ve always found it kind of rude if you are with a small group of people and keep using your phone to send messages or read messages or whatever. But it seems like everyone else is okay with it, in my culture anyway. Sometimes I am with two people and they are both on their phone texting. Being the third one sitting around doing nothing kind of made me feel uncomfortable…so I turned into one of those people too little by little. Not that it’s a bad thing, in the back of my mind it is still inappropriate, but it doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It used to make me feel like, “is my company that boring?” but now I know that it is not like that at all.

Here comes the fall though… now this is the trait about me that my loved ones dislike. They say that I am on my phone more than I realize. I always thought that I am keeping myself in check. When I was in AD last week all the girls I met had BlackBerries and they were commenting on how their families were complaining about how much they used their phones {all the time}. One girl even said that she had her BlackBerry in her pocket all the time even when she went riding, and whenever she heard her BBM beep she took it out and responded…and that was all the time…like even at the dentist. It baffled me and made me think, “I’m glad I’m not like that; it must be extremely tiring” but I guess it served me right… for that slight moment where I was maybe kind of judgmental I got served and it turns out that I am really no different. I mean I dunno. I never take my phone with me riding or to the gym. I am guilty of using it in school sometimes but it’s only in that one boring class that I don’t like. Am I really a bad person? Am I rude?

In preparation for my finals I did some cleaning and put some stuff on my computer desk { as shown on the picture below } to make working a bit more interesting… but it didn’t work…

Since I overslept and missed gym this morning, I decided that I finally have some free time to attend to my Spring Cleaning. I must be in a group of the strangest people in the world since I enjoy this…

I’ve been using my La Mer lip balm to the very last drop as it is the best I’ve ever owned, but I already have some replacements from the body shop and the tinted lip balms from MAC. I am wondering if I should slowly switch back to La Mer… I only have the lip balm, refining facial and toner now, and recall their products to be the very best I’ve ever used, although they are more costly than the norm … I’ve been a bit unhappy with my current stuff. However, the latest facial moisturizer that I’ve used (from La Prairie) has been exceptionally good, too. Maybe I should go to a store that sells both and get whichever costs less? Except I’m not too sure whether both brands exist under the same roof here. Then again, the organic products that my spa sells seem good too… I know it seems like such a ridiculous dilemma, but sometimes the facial products you use are the ones that make it look like a mess. And it is extremely hot here, it isn’t that much of an issue except I ride outdoors on weekends and will be doing so until the end of May.

This is another of the things that somehow gets twisted out of proportion in my head… my body image. If I used to weight less (a lot less) before I started exercising vigorously again, then it must mean that the weight I’ve gained is muscle weight, and I need that considering the issue with my joints. What I should be more concerned with is eating right rather than constantly guilt tripping myself for “gaining weight”.

To those of you that don’t know, I am known for having an extremely loud sneeze. Yesterday during my lesson it was kinda windy and it made me sneeze a lot. During the ride it was fine but then we went to graze our horses in a nearby grassy field…and when I sneezed (while on C’s back) he got scared and started to run away. It was SO hilarious, poor C! When I tell people that they say, “then how come you don’t get scared if he sneezes or coughs?!”

These are the magazines that I’ve been reading lately…

So tomorrow morning I have an important interview, so I decided it was probably a good time to spend relaxing rather than just doing the things that would get me frustrated; like going to a 3.30 class and having to wait an hour and 15 minutes for it to start. I had a lot of activities today, I was barely home. It was a lot of fun and I guess going dancing is really how I relax, even though it is getting somewhat redundant lately. Gonna have to try something new next time. I love Hawaiian the most but the music hasn’t really been supporting that style of dance. For further relaxation, I took a long bath and spent some time thinking about absolutely nothing… just taking in the scents of my scrub, shower gel and shower oil.

Before lunch I browsed some stores in search of my pair of pants and found nothing… I walked into Promod and they have a lot of lovely summer clothes but for some reason I didn’t want anything. I feel I have too much clothes that I never wear anymore, it makes shopping feel like such a waste. I need to start with my Spring cleaning but somehow I don’t know if this would happen any time soon…. I barely spend any time on my own anymore, and when I do, it is because of studying for exams or researching or writing reports. But I know I won’t rest till I’m done with Spring cleaning!

Before I go wash off my facial mask, I’ll leave you with my picture of the day. Well. It was a picture of a few months ago. Don’t you think these cards must be stimulating the economy somehow?

Today I am feeling kind of sad because I feel haunted by the past… and because of the people in my life now that know the past. I wish I could go back to ignoring it and just saying that “I don’t care what those people thought,” that “those people had so much chaos in their lives and were so self-centered that they thought a lot of things revolved around them,” – that they did not know me like they thought they did. I used to struggle with that thought so much; so much that I didn’t want to blog anymore, that I was afraid to write. Why did people assume they knew things about you that you didn’t know yourself from just reading your blog? Sure I write down any random things that come to mind, but really, do you expect me to to really get into the specific details of my daily activities, my deeper and more private thoughts? How can some random stranger on the internet presume to know something, and even claim that “everyone knows it – just because they don’t tell it to you doesn’t mean that they don’t know it,”. Moreover, why do these strangers even care? Do they have that much time on their hands?

Enough about that… I want to think about other stuff now.

This morning I went to a branch of L’Occitane and picked up a couple of stuff. For some reason these days when I buy lotions or shower gels or whatever, I always opt for the small sizes… maybe because I keep trying to convince myself that I like variety… but when I look in my bathroom and check my bath supplies, how many rose scented items have I owned over the past year? Although variety is good.. I guess it is also good to know what you like.

I actually needed to shop some more (from other places – I need a pair of sweat pants) but I didn’t really have the time. Since M’s classes for tomorrow morning were canceled…it was decided that there might be a person that would want to take me shopping! Well, the main event would be a meal but since there is a Zara, Promod, etc etc just a few floors under… why not!

Before I go off and start my night-time rituals, I just thought I’d express how overjoyed I am at how our rooms look now on poupeegirl! Even though it won’t last a very long time, I think I love it the most; along with the room from the 2009 Valentines Day event, and the items are just as cute. I am just waiting for some market releases right now…I hope the items I want for my poupee get released soon…