~Keyhala~

I don't celebrate Christmas but I wish you all happy holidays (because the academic semester has ended for some students). It hasn't snowed for the last 3 days, I think, but the roads are a little slippery and I slipped on the pavement the day before yesterday on my way home from the library :(. Thank God I wasn't that hurt.
Missing the boy. You'd think the out-of-mind out-of-sight thing would work but nooo. I have to count the days until the next semester begins. Further complications with a man I once wanted to marry make me even more irritated but it oughtn't be my concern. He has made his bed now let him lie in it.
I know it's weird but sometimes I'm kind amazed at how quickly the term ended! It feels like only yesterday that I arrived in England and enrolled at the university, only yesterday that we had our first class, only yesterday our reading week, and so much else... Time sure flies by when you're having fun and before you know it, the whole MA is finished. That is something I'm actually not looking forward to...

MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!!

HOPE EVERYONE HAS AN AMAZING CHRISTMAS !!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Yeah, GOD JUL and all that! X)

I'm now going to spend the rest of it with my family. ♥

Hey guys. I'm not gonna be around over the next two days, as I'm going to be spending Christmas with my family down in Knutsford. Probably won't be using the internet at all.

So before I head off, I must wish you all a very merry Christmas. I wish I'd had time to make a Christmas special this year, but with retail being as busy as it was, I simply couldn't get chance. But next year will definitely have one.

Hope you all have a safe and awesome holiday.

So excited! MPYO's Seasonal Gifts is tonight. I'll be donning my new sleek red halter dress for the event; hitching a ride with a family friend. Going to have to head over to the parents' house at 6 for dinner :D

In other news, my magazine design (all 36 pages, designed by me!) for Taylor's will be out in January. I'm quite nervous, but am really looking forward to it all the same. I mean, eh. I kinda want to see my effort come to fruition. :) When I was cutting out and pasting my mock-up I teared in pride; 2 months of design and my own photography, all sorts of sketching and experimentation with the magazine spreads that took ages to finalize... the little things.

Man, I'm sort of indirectly getting published. It's a great feeling.

I can't divulge any of my mag spreads here as of yet, but when it's published in Taylor's College come 2010 I'll post some samples up. :)

I've earned RM3000 or so over the span of a month - I don't think it's half-bad, considering how I was juggling my fun and outings with my freelancing design work. Had my share of fussy, over-the-top clients and also the most wonderful clients people could ask for (c'est la vie) so am not complaining. :D

I met up with a lot of old, old friends who went overseas. If anything, our separations have actually managed to solidify and strengthen our friendships/relationships further - and I'm glad to have made friends with them. This year, I found out who my real friends really were; made a couple of new ones, became really close to a few, etc.

2009 is a year to reminisce about in the future, but for the most part - I think of how far I've come, how much I've done. How much I've had to leave behind. The people I've had to leave behind because I had to, and the people I've met and whom are absolutely wonderful additions to my otherwise dull and monotonous life.

Laura and Zalifah, thank you for being there, and for being you. Don't ever change. Years have passed and when the three of us get together, it's as though 2006 is forever immortalised - we laugh and talk like college and university ever happened. I love that. It's a firm reminder of who we are, who we were, before we stepped out into the world, all on our own.

Michelle, thank you for always accepting me as I am, and for the countless times we've been rant/rave buddies. I do feel like I can talk about a great deal with you, and I'm glad for that. :D Life is more colourful when your random self is around. Thank you for being there for me, as well.

Aman, third member of the WTF trio, you've been an invaluable and wonderful friend as of late. It's rare to meet someone along the same wavelength let alone someone who shares the same tendency to analyse things the way I do, if not more (due to your structured flowchart mentality and all that). But it's pleasant, and our deeper discussions always leave me feeling satisfied about how there's probably hope for humanity just yet.

Life and love and liberation. It's all good. By truly breaking and going beyond the limits you set for yourself are you only really able to accomplish great things.

I don't mean to sound like one of those pesky optimists, but hey. :D All's well that ends well.

I'm looking forward to a more challenging 2010 - graduation awaits, so I have to think about my graduation project/campaign. I have a fantastic repertoire for my piano diploma, so I really want to finish the pieces asap and learn a lot more new songs. I've improved drastically under the tutelage of my new music teacher (and it's only been three lessons, wouldja believe it), so I'd like to push myself further this year in terms of my piano/violin-playing.

When you truly believe, you can do anything.

And I believe I can do anything I set my mind to.

...

/corny

But I digress. Ahem.

Life is c'est magnifique. Thank you to all of you who made my 2009 possible. ♥ You're always in my heart, and may we rock this next fiscal year!

Cheers and godspeed, my friends.

DISNEY POST RAWR! (December 14 to 18)

Um yeah, beware, may be somewhat image heavy.

( What a wonderful WORLD )

Three days ago, I saw snow for the first time in my life. It was like little pieces of cotton falling from the sky, like a snow globe, one of the prettiest things I've ever seen. The streets were a little slippery the following day when I went to Asda but I thankfully managed to walk on the dry bits :). And it snowed again yesterday afternoon, a lot more than the first time.
Me, I've been busy with my reading and I started writing one of my final papers already (1600 words so far). Our classes ended on Wednesday, signalling the end of the semester for us and that made me sad because I realized how quickly time was flying by. It seems like only yesterday that I came to England and enrolled in the university, attending the induction week and then, the first day of class. And now, one semester is already over and we just have our essays to turn in next month. I guess we'll all be done with the MA before we know it...which reminds me that I better start looking for a part-time job in January...

Artist: me
Fandoms: SGU/GSD
Characters: Nicholas Rush, Everett Young, Destiny Gundam ZGMF-X42S
Rating: G

Destiny by ~Nagisa-Kaworu on deviantART

Look, I found an awesome online edition of Hávamál in Swedish, Icelandic and English. This is why I love Google.

First day of Christmas break = awesome. I promised myself to do nothing today, and I haven't. Just lazed around, taken a long hot bath, watched television and eaten pizza. And sat in front of the computer, translating some more sägner.

This time, there are stories from Sweden's two island provinces, and the western part of Skåneland. The source is as before, Herman Hofberg's Svenska Folksägner from 1882.

And like before, here's a map of the Swedish provinces.

( Gotland )

( Öland )

( Halland )

Grinning ears off. Life has never been better.

<3

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I also thank 4Kids and Kazuki Takahashi. And of course, you guys.

Rush and His Faithful Minion by ~Nagisa-Kaworu on deviantART

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Hmm, probably anyone of my friends irl or lj-friends's, I'd like to see what everyone has in their closets to be honest. I'm curious like that.
...but my self control stops me from ever actually looking trough people's stuff, because, well, it'd be very disrespectful towards them.
Oh but if I COULD look trough everyone's closets and if I DID find any clothes that I'd like, sure, I might've tryed them on in that case. XD
...not sure what sort of clothes I'd find though. I MEAN, YOU MIGHT NOT EVEN HAVE A CLOSET. :D
(Refers from mentioning any more closet-gay jokes here...)

Unrelated but, I need to say this. Drugs. I don't approve of them at all, in fact, I despise drugs. I think that people who uses drugs are stupid. There. Now I've said it.

Also errr, unrelated but, I'd sorta like to wish a happy birthday to people who happens to have a birthday occurring on this said day. Yeah, so... HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

*runs*

Okay, I have a suspicion why it's so hard to write my fic for SGU fic exchange... How am I supposed to write loss and associated angst when the biggest loss in my life was my first cat dying? And the most irritating thing is... I've brought it upon myself, because it's my take on the prompt. I suspect my recipient is hoping for fluff/sap, but I just had to go and challenge myself to write things I'm worst at. Not that I'm any good at fluff/sap (because frankly they irritate the hell out of me) but angsting over someone aside from my own pitiful self... that's a challenge. Maybe I am egocentric. Anyway, going back to raping my characters >]