K-On! Monday! 46

Alright, I don't quite know how to word this one, let me explain. 

Last Friday my friend set me up with one of her friends, very nice of her. We meet a local cafe for dinner, its more of a chain restaurant, and while it was awkward at first, I think it went quite well. I got to know her and shes a really nice person, very smart too. The tree of us talked about a whole host different things, school, university, anime, our social lives. I also found out she took Japanese in high school! But I couldn't shake the feeling that I was just being a nuisance to her though. It wasn't anything she said, it was definitely me overthinking the whole thing. 

Well the following day the three of us went to a Halloween party at some club in the city, and I still couldn't shake that feeling. For some extra context, I really don't like clubs they're too loud and I don't drink and hate dancing. So I end standing in the mosh pit trying to focus on one thing, and get my mind off of the drunk people all around me. Just a me thing, I promise. Anyway my friend doesn't like them either, thank god, so we mostly sat outside and talked. And again we got to talk more, and it was great. Plus my friend told me that I was just overthinking the being a nuisance thing. And that I needed to talk to her more, to get to know her. Anyway after we left the party, we walked into the party area of the city and got some food, and I knew I had to take that advice. So while we we're walking back to the station I decided to shoot my shot, and ask her out. And you know what? She accepted! 

This might sound pathetic to some, or a bit weird/creepy. But I don't care, it was a big thing for me and I'm looking forward to it. I won't talk about it anymore I think, this is dependently enough. But I just wanted it in written word that's all. 

Some more good news I got my Japanese speaking test results back, and I got to say I did really well. For me at least. 37/50 is fucking awesome, especially when I thought I bombed the whole thing haha. This gives me the momentum into next week with my exams. I'm not worried about my math one, but terrified about the Japanese one. But with that score, I think if I work hard, I'll be alright. 

Anyway that should be it for this K-On! Monday, I didn't forget, have a good week.

See ya

 

See! I didn't forget!

K-On! Monday! 45

 Evening, welcome back to K-On! Monday! 

 

Another K-On! Manga 

 

Today we're going talk about the English translation of the K-On! Manga. Well to be honest, its just a very standard translation. 

 

This is from volume one

 

Its got everything the Japanese ones do, but its in English. I think it does include some bonus pages, but I really couldn't give a damn about those. I might post some of them later on,

 

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Last Day Of My First Year At University

You know it's weird, it felt like just yesterday that I was starting uni for the second time. I remember worrying about it and writing blog posts about it. And now here we are, already at the end of year one. What's weird about it is the flatness of it all, it's probably because exams are still on the way. But today, I had a different feeling than at the end of a high school year. That's probably to be expected. It's like I said back in March, University isn't high school. It's more like adult life, where you don't get to celebrate these things, you're just supposed to get on with life. Well, not just that I think. Something I've come to realise this past year is that you have as much control over your life as you want. For instance, you don't have to study what you choose in high school, you don't have to take the same path to graduation as everyone else. What I've realised is that no one is going to tell you what to do, or what to study. You're supposed to figure all that out yourself. Kinda like real life, I guess. If school is like the tutorial to life, then university is life with training wheels. You still have to push yourself and make decisions that will impact your life, but it won't be the end of the world. 

Honestly, it's exciting. The opportunities I have, the places I can go, the things I can do. I'm a very lucky person to have been given this chance at life. To that point, I think it's time that I take this seriously. To be honest, I didn't have the best time last semester, and the first few weeks of the is one. I still felt like I was stuck. But after working that out I need to put the work in. I need to be the one to push myself out of the box that I put myself in. I've been a lot happier. And I think I've grown too, a lot too. I think I'm beginning to see things clearer now. 

While I might be growing up, there are fewer things to celebrate. But I think I've grown grown a lot this year, and I think that's worth celebrating,

See ya

I've been needing glasses more often recently,

I think I'm going blind.

K-On! Monday 44!

Evening all, welcome back to K-On! Monday.

I'm going to keep today short, I've got a lot on my mind. I think it was last week, I got some cool stuff in the mail. well, its cool enough for this place.

I got them from red bubble

I got these stickers to put on my computer, well the bigger ones the on the left. The dreamcast sticker I got in Japan ages ago, I think last November. And the sticker sheet I got a few months ago, I think I might have shown it off here. 

Like I said, I want to put them on my computer. But part of me doesn't, for well you know. I kinda don't want people looking at me like some sort of freak in uni. And I do want to get a girlfriend at some point in my life, and this shit is a massive red flag. Well, so is the rest of my anime stuff.

Speaking of which, in the next few weeks I should be getting more stuff from Japan, so I'll be showing them off here when the stuff gets here. 

Thats it for tonight, I'll post what stickers I end up using here. Have a great week,

See ya 

Me rn

Time

I worked something out the other day. I won't finish University until 2029 at the earliest. Let me explain, the earliest I'll start engineering is mid-next year (2025),  and then the degree lasts at least four years after that. That's assuming that I stick it out, which I probably will, or if I decide to take a year studying overseas and it pushes back that date i.e. Japan. So I'll still be in school until the end of the decade and will be in my mid-20s. Which to be honest is fine. I think there are loads of people who are in the same boat as me, but it's still scary. 

I remember when I was younger, 2022 and finishing high school felt like a lifetime away. But when it came time to say goodbye, I could hardly believe it. It's been two years next week since I finished high school but it felt like yesterday, at the same time it also felt like another life I had. It might be because so much has happened to me in these last two years, that it's been so much that I haven't had the time to stop and take in what's happening. I've already come to the end of my first year of university, and I've only felt like I've just gotten into it. If these last two years mean anything, then the run into 2029 will be quick, right?

But that's what I'm scared about, even though it feels like ages away, I did the same with high school. But life is only getting quicker. I'm getting busy as I get older and starting to understand why adults always complain about time. And it's only going to get worse. I'm worried that my life will just flash before my eyes, and it will be over. As time goes on it speeds up and passes me by, and I begin to lose parts of myself to the past. For instance, the reason I love K-On! so much because it reminded me of how the end of high school felt, and I helped through that tough period of my life last year. But what if I lose those memories, those initial feelings that led me to love K-On! so much? 

Now being able to connect with a high school anime isn't the problem, but it still shows my issue. I'm worried about time eroding away who I am, that time passes so fast that I lose myself to it. That while 2029 looks far away, in fact it's just around the corner. That I'll spend all my time worrying about the future, that I'll miss what going on right now. I'll miss out on my early 20s in the same way I missed out on my teens. That I keep worrying about time, that I'll run out of it. 

Alright, I've said a lot of things, let's clean things up. As I've gotten older, I've come to realise that time isn't on my side, that I'll be in university for the next five-ish years, but it'll go by in the blink of an eye. I'm worried that I'll miss out on today, because I'm worried about tomorrow, wasting the last few years of my youth as I did in my teens. That time will erode who I am, and I'll lose what made me, me. 

Well, I know one way to sum this problem up. I'm afraid of growing up. And it's finally hitting me that it's happening to me. This problem I have with the future, and missing out on the present is a grown-up problem, not some petty high school crap. The problem with this is that I don't have the answer, to be honest, I don't think anyone has the answer to this problem. It's the same with finding a purpose, it's something we all have to figure out on our own. For now, all I can do is make the most of right now. It's all I can do. Save and go on stupid trips to Japan, study hard and learn as much as I can, spend time and make as many friends as I can, try and find love, buy as much stupid K-On! stuff as I can afford, and yes continue to post here. Because this is my ultimate answer to my time problem. This place. Here I always have somewhere to talk, somewhere to show off dumb stuff and talk about what happens in my life. But most importantly, when this period of my life is over. I'll always have a place to look back at it. To look back upon the most important time in my life, the time when I grew up. 

See ya

I've always loved how fast K-On! season one is, in the blink of 

an eye the girls have already gone through two years of school 

and didn't realise it. This moment at the start of the show just

becomes a distant memory.

K-On! Monday! 43

Hello all, welcome back. 

I'm not messing around today

Today let's take a look at another CD. This time the theme to the K-On! movie. 

A look inside.

It's actually a pretty good song and fits the film very well. Fits the nature of the series as well.

The cards inside

I need to write a review for the movie one day and post it here. Would be fun, eh? Anway that should do it, have a great week

See ya