So! Hello there!
I'm in a bit of an excited mood today. I have been thinking about going overseas to like the United Kingdom or Japan or something and I think I have finally decided to do it! I was actually in the process of saving to do it last year, but as we all know things changed and I missed out on a lot of things I wanted to do. (PAX, London, Otafest...ect.)
So now I am committed, I am not going to let anything stop me. I think I am setting my sights on Tokyo. It's not supposed to be easy, especially for people who have never traveled aboard before but I think I can handle it. I am going to be purchasing a Japanese language program from the internet. It's world classed apparently and I have seen it advertised on television a lot. It's called Rosetta Stone. Apparently it teaches you languages like you were taught when first learning your native language. It's guarenteed to get to speaking and writting within the first lesson. It's expensive though, all the tiers cost something like 500 dollars. Oh well.
I'll be going through a program called SWAP, it helps place you in the new country and gives you some temporary accommodations. I need to save up the 2500 for living expenses though. and of course another 500 for the SWAP costs. Plane fare is a lot cheaper then I thought it would be. I looked online and if you book it far enough in advance it's only 500 each way. Part of the requirements are that I have a return ticket purchased before I leave. At the very least I need to have enough money to buy a return ticket aside from my base living expenses.
I'm really excited, I have talked to several people that have traveled to Japan and lived there for awhile. They all say it's a blast and worth all the hardships you might face. Makes me even more excited. If Japan doesn't pan out or I can't find a job then I will go to the UK. Not as exciting but I have always wanted to go.
I wish I was going now. Haha. I'm super impatient about these things. I don't know when I will be leaving. After Christmas I suppose. The family is all coming together this year and I guess it might be the last time I would see everyone for a long time. Who knows if things end up really good, I might apply for citizenship lol. I don't see that happening but it could. Japan is a very awesome place. A lot of it is very attractive to me, the whole culture is intriguing. Plus I would be the only person in the family to live outside of Canada as far as I know. Can't go wrong with that.
Either case, I here by now vow for all to know. I am going to go on this trip and nothing is going to stop me. Not hell or high water, at the very least by this time next year I will be in Japan or England. Making another blog entry perhaps. lol.
Well that's all I have for now. I have a WIP about the 90's and how much I loved them. Should appear sometime before the end of the month. Oh yeah and Happy Birthday to Mister Elric and Myself. Our births happened at the end of this month.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
Till next time. Wander the shadows and find your own escape. Just make sure they aren't figments of your mind.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Beautiful Eyes
Ok so I did end up writing something today, it's just a rough draft, didn't have the will power to go through it over and over again to find all the mistakes. So I will do that tomorrow. Here it is. Have fun, all that jazz.
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I gazed into her eyes, those golden globes of pure brilliance, filled with emotion and thought, a million years of unknown experience twisting and twirling in the strands of her DNA. I held her hand in mine, the touch of her skin sending electric shivers up and down my spine. I shuddered, each muscle felt and coiled and then relaxed over and over again. My breath was shallow, my mind raced and images danced before me, around me, through me. I felt like I was dreaming, a land of emotion and mystery, filled with people and places that I knew and yet could not think of their names. I felt the cold touch of steel against my back as I leaned back onto the bench. My shirt had disappeared, my pants were sliding off, I didn’t know why. My hands were now on my chest, my fingers interlocked with each other, my face contorted and ugly. I could see my reflection in the mirror opposite of me. I was a hideous man, I looked like a monster. I could not look at myself any long and flung the book beside me at the mirror shattering it.
I turned and looked for her but she had disappeared, I tried to stand but found that I was strapped down, lying on the metallic gurney. I tried to scream, escape from my constraints and flee. My mouth was plugged though, filled with something that tasted of cotton and dust. I struggled, throwing all of my strength into the effort. The table jumped and jostled, I increased my ferocity of the attack, the wheels rolled and bounced. I flung myself with one last great burst of energy, the whole apparatus coming off the floor and then tipping to the side crashing to the ground. I fell, crashing to the ground still strapped to the table. Pain exploded through my body, the table rolled landing on me, and I sucked in breath as the table slowly squished me. I tried to scream but my mouth was still filled with the dusty cotton substance. I rocked and rolled but I was unable to turn the gurney off me. I began to weep, I was going to die.
Then I remember a pleasant feeling and I was back on the steel bench, the beautiful eyes staring at me again. I smiled, tears streaming down my face as I tried to reach out to her, to touch her to feel her pleasant touch again. She was out of reach, I tried to stand, to reach her, to feel her. No, I was strapped down still. I tried to call out to her, to beg her to come closer but all that came out of my mouth was long o’s and mumbled b’s. Tears flowed down my face faster now. I was in pain and she wouldn’t come to me. Why? What had I done to anger her? All I wanted was to be comforted. Then I was in darkness, I could see nothing, I could hear voices though, people laughing and moving about. I was at a party; I could hear the voices of my friends. They were calling to me, asking me to join them. I called back to them, told them that I couldn’t see them. I asked them to turn the lights on; if the lights were on I would come to them. They didn’t respond though, they just laughed and continued to call on me. I began to get angry then, I began to yell at them, demanded they turn the lights on. I told them that they were scaring me. I demanded to know why I must stay in the dark. They refused to answer me though. Eventually the voices began to get quieter and quieter and soon there was silence again. I was alone for a time after that. Left to my thoughts and the darkness, to the fear that began to grow in my chest. I sat there in the darkness yelling out, hoping that someone would hear me, find me, and free me. No one came. Then the place where I was began to rumble and shake and move. I was turned upside down, I fell again, hitting the ceiling of the place, I began to see things, people in white coats, huge machines and a blinding bright white light, then it all faded and I was back in the darkness. I called out and I hear nothing but my own echo. Then the world shook again and I was flung against the walls and the floor, my body exploding in pain as the violent shaking happened again and again. I called out again; I asked them to stop, to let me go, to let me die.
Then the eyes appeared before me again, tears falling, filling the dark room with salty water. The eyes were huge; giant globes twice the size of me. I walked towards them, stared into their depths and saw my reflection among the emotion and thoughts. Saw a man who had broken every bone in his body and suffered two dozen or more cuts and bruises. He lay in an operating room, a group of doctors working franticly to try and repair his broken body. I reached up and touched the eye, my hand feeling the pain and suffering of the owner. The surface of the eye was like a liquid barrier, I pushed my hand harder into it, sliding up to my elbow. I took a deep breath and moved completely into the eye. I was surrounded by a feeling of warmth; my pain was slowly evaporating, my memories returning. I took it all in, the love that surrounded me was one of complete understanding, complete caring. I could do no wrong in these eyes. I laughed to myself; I didn’t know what I would do without these eyes. I closed my eyes for a few moments, the world rushed by me and when I opened them again I was lying in a hospital room.
My body ached but the medicine was dulling the pain. I tried to turn my head but my body cast prevented that. I could see flowers all over the place, the many colors of the rainbow locked within a single hospital room. I tried to speak, and then began to gag. The breathing tube finally noticed. Instantly someone was there, they told me to calm down, that I couldn’t breathe on my own yet and that this tube was supplying me with air. I tried to breathe normally, it was hard. I decided to let the machine do the work. Then I saw the eyes, the eyes to my wife, the eyes that I loved. They were crying, tears of joy and happiness. They matched my own. She leaned in and kissed me and spoke softly into my ear. I smiled and tried to nod but didn’t quite make it. She grasped my hand then and we stared into each other’s eyes, just staring, relieved that I was alive and we were together again.
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I gazed into her eyes, those golden globes of pure brilliance, filled with emotion and thought, a million years of unknown experience twisting and twirling in the strands of her DNA. I held her hand in mine, the touch of her skin sending electric shivers up and down my spine. I shuddered, each muscle felt and coiled and then relaxed over and over again. My breath was shallow, my mind raced and images danced before me, around me, through me. I felt like I was dreaming, a land of emotion and mystery, filled with people and places that I knew and yet could not think of their names. I felt the cold touch of steel against my back as I leaned back onto the bench. My shirt had disappeared, my pants were sliding off, I didn’t know why. My hands were now on my chest, my fingers interlocked with each other, my face contorted and ugly. I could see my reflection in the mirror opposite of me. I was a hideous man, I looked like a monster. I could not look at myself any long and flung the book beside me at the mirror shattering it.
I turned and looked for her but she had disappeared, I tried to stand but found that I was strapped down, lying on the metallic gurney. I tried to scream, escape from my constraints and flee. My mouth was plugged though, filled with something that tasted of cotton and dust. I struggled, throwing all of my strength into the effort. The table jumped and jostled, I increased my ferocity of the attack, the wheels rolled and bounced. I flung myself with one last great burst of energy, the whole apparatus coming off the floor and then tipping to the side crashing to the ground. I fell, crashing to the ground still strapped to the table. Pain exploded through my body, the table rolled landing on me, and I sucked in breath as the table slowly squished me. I tried to scream but my mouth was still filled with the dusty cotton substance. I rocked and rolled but I was unable to turn the gurney off me. I began to weep, I was going to die.
Then I remember a pleasant feeling and I was back on the steel bench, the beautiful eyes staring at me again. I smiled, tears streaming down my face as I tried to reach out to her, to touch her to feel her pleasant touch again. She was out of reach, I tried to stand, to reach her, to feel her. No, I was strapped down still. I tried to call out to her, to beg her to come closer but all that came out of my mouth was long o’s and mumbled b’s. Tears flowed down my face faster now. I was in pain and she wouldn’t come to me. Why? What had I done to anger her? All I wanted was to be comforted. Then I was in darkness, I could see nothing, I could hear voices though, people laughing and moving about. I was at a party; I could hear the voices of my friends. They were calling to me, asking me to join them. I called back to them, told them that I couldn’t see them. I asked them to turn the lights on; if the lights were on I would come to them. They didn’t respond though, they just laughed and continued to call on me. I began to get angry then, I began to yell at them, demanded they turn the lights on. I told them that they were scaring me. I demanded to know why I must stay in the dark. They refused to answer me though. Eventually the voices began to get quieter and quieter and soon there was silence again. I was alone for a time after that. Left to my thoughts and the darkness, to the fear that began to grow in my chest. I sat there in the darkness yelling out, hoping that someone would hear me, find me, and free me. No one came. Then the place where I was began to rumble and shake and move. I was turned upside down, I fell again, hitting the ceiling of the place, I began to see things, people in white coats, huge machines and a blinding bright white light, then it all faded and I was back in the darkness. I called out and I hear nothing but my own echo. Then the world shook again and I was flung against the walls and the floor, my body exploding in pain as the violent shaking happened again and again. I called out again; I asked them to stop, to let me go, to let me die.
Then the eyes appeared before me again, tears falling, filling the dark room with salty water. The eyes were huge; giant globes twice the size of me. I walked towards them, stared into their depths and saw my reflection among the emotion and thoughts. Saw a man who had broken every bone in his body and suffered two dozen or more cuts and bruises. He lay in an operating room, a group of doctors working franticly to try and repair his broken body. I reached up and touched the eye, my hand feeling the pain and suffering of the owner. The surface of the eye was like a liquid barrier, I pushed my hand harder into it, sliding up to my elbow. I took a deep breath and moved completely into the eye. I was surrounded by a feeling of warmth; my pain was slowly evaporating, my memories returning. I took it all in, the love that surrounded me was one of complete understanding, complete caring. I could do no wrong in these eyes. I laughed to myself; I didn’t know what I would do without these eyes. I closed my eyes for a few moments, the world rushed by me and when I opened them again I was lying in a hospital room.
My body ached but the medicine was dulling the pain. I tried to turn my head but my body cast prevented that. I could see flowers all over the place, the many colors of the rainbow locked within a single hospital room. I tried to speak, and then began to gag. The breathing tube finally noticed. Instantly someone was there, they told me to calm down, that I couldn’t breathe on my own yet and that this tube was supplying me with air. I tried to breathe normally, it was hard. I decided to let the machine do the work. Then I saw the eyes, the eyes to my wife, the eyes that I loved. They were crying, tears of joy and happiness. They matched my own. She leaned in and kissed me and spoke softly into my ear. I smiled and tried to nod but didn’t quite make it. She grasped my hand then and we stared into each other’s eyes, just staring, relieved that I was alive and we were together again.
Ding! Canada Leveled!
Happy Birthday Canada! I'm glad you made it around for another year! I'm sorry I didn't get you a gift this year, I was way too busy to find that perfect thing, that thing that says "I love you Canada." Maybe next year I will have more time.
Well your 142 years old now. Thats quite a long time to be alive, you don't look older then a hundred. Hope you have an awesome birthday and don't forget to come out next time and party with us. Don't bring Quebec though, last time they drank too much and puked all over Linda, she's still a little upset about it. Actually no, you can bring them, just make sure you watch how much they drink will you? Ok cool, well I am going to let you go for now, keep in touch, you got my cell number.
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So, how is everyone today? Today, the birth of our nation. Most people I know are treating it just like any other day but really it's our day to celebrate our freedom from british rule...wait were still technically ruled by the British. Well damn, maybe it is just another day after all.
So I'm sitting here listening to some music, chilling out, waiting for 10:30 to go to work. I have a long wait ahead of me. I had an urge to write so I'm deciding to write to all of you. Hope you all appreciate it.
I have been having some trouble with my Xbox lately, it keeps freezing during game play. I will restart it, play for a little while and then it does it again. It's not over heating and it has lots of space to breath so I think it might be on it's last legs before it red rings. I don't really look forward to that. I am going to have to buy a MU and back up my Saves. Oh Joy.
I have been listening to a lot of music recently, I went on a download blitz the other day and got a bunch of new stuff, old stuff, strange stuff. I ended up downloading the complete Discography of Theory of a Deadman, Nirvana and Blink 182 as well as a few singles and albums from various other artists. most of it is pretty good though I am always on the look out for more. I particularly like the new Black Eyed Peas album. I am pleasantly surprised by it.
I downloaded the new Fallout 3 DLC, Point Lookout. It's not that great, the rewards were pretty crap and I finished the main storyline really fast, faster then any of the other ones. Took me a night and the others few at least a few days each. Though you can go back to point lookout once you are done there so thats pretty cool, and the area is a welcome change of pace from the wastelands of the Capital Wastes, dark, dank, bog like. So I guess it's worth the 15 bucks. Only if you are done everything else in Fallout 3 though. I also played through prototype and I enjoyed it, it's a lot of fun even though I don't really see a point in playing it a second time. Well, maybe to get all the achievements and fill out the web of intrigue. I actually really like the web of intrigue, it's a cool concept. I only ended up finding half of the people for it but I got the general idea I think.
What else, oh yes I met someone online last week. Her names Amanda and she's pretty cool. Plays N64, favorite series is Zelda, loves musicals. We have a lot in common, though I am taking things slow, no need to be rushing into another relationship right away. However she like me, she just wants to take things one step at a time. Which again I am perfectly happy with. She gave me her number so we have been texting whenever she has the chance, we technically spent two whole days together just texting each other. I guess that's why I like texting, you can spend a lot of time with someone just talking through text and you can still do other things at the same time, talking limits you usually to just talking. Though I have nothing against just talking every once in awhile. So yeah, that's my relationship front right now, out of one and slowly moving into another. Hopefully this one goes better then the last one.
Oh yes, I should tell you all about Kindersley. It's a good small town to be honest, I can bike from one end to the other in about 15 minutes, quicker once I get back into shape. It's a far cry from Calgary and Winnipeg though. I miss the big city, having everything you can think of just a short distance away is something you don't miss till you can't have it anymore. The people here seem to be pretty nice, though some of them seem kind of stuck up, maybe that's just me though.
What else do I have to report on, well I have been contemplating saving again. My beard is back to it's Amish strength but I'm not sure if I want to keep it or not. My current look I like but I am thinking of bringing it down to nothing or maybe just the chin. I haven't decided. I will keep you updated.
Ok, I think thats all I really have to talk about. Nothing super exciting is happening right now so it's a small post. Hope you all had an awesome Canada day and for you Americans Happy Fourth of July. Make it a good one.
Well your 142 years old now. Thats quite a long time to be alive, you don't look older then a hundred. Hope you have an awesome birthday and don't forget to come out next time and party with us. Don't bring Quebec though, last time they drank too much and puked all over Linda, she's still a little upset about it. Actually no, you can bring them, just make sure you watch how much they drink will you? Ok cool, well I am going to let you go for now, keep in touch, you got my cell number.
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So, how is everyone today? Today, the birth of our nation. Most people I know are treating it just like any other day but really it's our day to celebrate our freedom from british rule...wait were still technically ruled by the British. Well damn, maybe it is just another day after all.
So I'm sitting here listening to some music, chilling out, waiting for 10:30 to go to work. I have a long wait ahead of me. I had an urge to write so I'm deciding to write to all of you. Hope you all appreciate it.
I have been having some trouble with my Xbox lately, it keeps freezing during game play. I will restart it, play for a little while and then it does it again. It's not over heating and it has lots of space to breath so I think it might be on it's last legs before it red rings. I don't really look forward to that. I am going to have to buy a MU and back up my Saves. Oh Joy.
I have been listening to a lot of music recently, I went on a download blitz the other day and got a bunch of new stuff, old stuff, strange stuff. I ended up downloading the complete Discography of Theory of a Deadman, Nirvana and Blink 182 as well as a few singles and albums from various other artists. most of it is pretty good though I am always on the look out for more. I particularly like the new Black Eyed Peas album. I am pleasantly surprised by it.
I downloaded the new Fallout 3 DLC, Point Lookout. It's not that great, the rewards were pretty crap and I finished the main storyline really fast, faster then any of the other ones. Took me a night and the others few at least a few days each. Though you can go back to point lookout once you are done there so thats pretty cool, and the area is a welcome change of pace from the wastelands of the Capital Wastes, dark, dank, bog like. So I guess it's worth the 15 bucks. Only if you are done everything else in Fallout 3 though. I also played through prototype and I enjoyed it, it's a lot of fun even though I don't really see a point in playing it a second time. Well, maybe to get all the achievements and fill out the web of intrigue. I actually really like the web of intrigue, it's a cool concept. I only ended up finding half of the people for it but I got the general idea I think.
What else, oh yes I met someone online last week. Her names Amanda and she's pretty cool. Plays N64, favorite series is Zelda, loves musicals. We have a lot in common, though I am taking things slow, no need to be rushing into another relationship right away. However she like me, she just wants to take things one step at a time. Which again I am perfectly happy with. She gave me her number so we have been texting whenever she has the chance, we technically spent two whole days together just texting each other. I guess that's why I like texting, you can spend a lot of time with someone just talking through text and you can still do other things at the same time, talking limits you usually to just talking. Though I have nothing against just talking every once in awhile. So yeah, that's my relationship front right now, out of one and slowly moving into another. Hopefully this one goes better then the last one.
Oh yes, I should tell you all about Kindersley. It's a good small town to be honest, I can bike from one end to the other in about 15 minutes, quicker once I get back into shape. It's a far cry from Calgary and Winnipeg though. I miss the big city, having everything you can think of just a short distance away is something you don't miss till you can't have it anymore. The people here seem to be pretty nice, though some of them seem kind of stuck up, maybe that's just me though.
What else do I have to report on, well I have been contemplating saving again. My beard is back to it's Amish strength but I'm not sure if I want to keep it or not. My current look I like but I am thinking of bringing it down to nothing or maybe just the chin. I haven't decided. I will keep you updated.
Ok, I think thats all I really have to talk about. Nothing super exciting is happening right now so it's a small post. Hope you all had an awesome Canada day and for you Americans Happy Fourth of July. Make it a good one.
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