Weekly update
I am not even sure why I bother to blog, seeing that sheer inertia at the end of each day seems to stop me dead in my tracks, so to speak. But somehow I feel the need to justify (or maybe just document) my continued existence with SOME sort of records.
Last Monday, I finally succeeded in meeting up with Chikako-sensei for lunch (and passed her the dried banana thingies), and other than ranting to her about certain unpleasant things (which I must have repeated so often that even I am getting slightly sick of ranting about them), I also told her about my more-or-less confirmed departure and return (or as it would seem to me, RETURN, THEN departure) dates, and she has in her kind and generous nature extended to me an offer to lodge me for a week or so (and to arrange for possible ‘homestays’ with her successful bachelor friends). I’m supposed to write to Mr. Otsuka (her father) and detail to him my plans, but owing to inevitable procrastination (exacerbated by my inability to write in Japanese without excruciating effort) I haven’t exactly gotten round to it.
Friday was the day of the release of A level results, and since I was (by some accounts) silly enough to take the Chinese exam, I had results to collect. To cut things short, I managed to get an A somehow. That aside, since I didn’t get A1 for O level HCL I’ll be retaking the exam again. I’m not really enthusiastic about it, to be honest. But that’s for another time.
I don’t really want to talk about the Singapore Polytechnic Shoot, since it was pretty screwed up and our team got conclusively owned by our opponents. However the training I had been doing last week seems to have injured my shoulder considerably and even now I am still feel some pain around.
I had meant this to be much longer, but due to certain circumstances I’m leaving it at this. No doubt this period is the worst for me so far this year. I can only hope it doesn’t last.