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| April 5th, 2005 |
| It Hit Me Again~ |
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I met my step dad today. Well, my ex-step dad. The one who was with my mom when I was under 10. My only real father figure ever. Not perfect, far from it, but nice and caring. Still funny. Anyway, he gave me some news of his daughter Alex who is 2 years older than me and recently a mommy. Damn! Already a mother! Aaarh! Of course came the terrible question about me getting ideas of a baby. >_< I should be used to this. Either on my mother's side or my father's side, I'm the next in line. For marriage and babies. Scary! All my 8 cousins are married and parents. Cousins left are my 22 year old cousin David and my three little cousins Laura, Tania and Judith, the older being around 12. Oh and my bro, but I'm still the oldest. Even my granny who's senile didn't forget I'm still single. Meh. I fear the next family reunion (probably a baptism or something). I hate to repeat all the time the same thing over and over again. Especially when these people are staring at you to spot the eventual lack of honesty that can show on your face for a tiny millisecond when you say you are fine being single and not especially looking forward to have a bunch of crying babies. -_- *runs away*
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| Posted by Pouick at 10:46 PM | bla me? |
| April 17th, 2005 |
| Fiding Old Classmates~ |
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Tonight, I went classmates hunting. Well, not really. I wanted to find a newletter or something from one of my schools. I type the name and I got at least 3 sites to help you find old classmates. I registered in 4. I've found few people I knew but no one I really liked... even two I didn't like. On the last site I've visited, I saw one special name. Danm! Some kind of shock it was. He was in the same High School as me and we hanged a lot together. He used to go by the nickname of Droopy. Gee, that was so many years ago! Impressive. I like the Internet! 
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| Posted by Pouick at 11:39 PM | 3 bla bla |
| April 21st, 2005 |
| Grandpa on the Internet~ |
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My grandpa is back on the Internet. I say 'back' cause he used to be. I let him my iMac when I left for the US. It was the very first time he was using a computer. I let him every instructions possible, with really simple schemas and all. But not all my family was on the Internet at the time and I think he got bored with the little news he was getting from us (my mom, my bro, my uncle). So he gave the computer to one of my cousins. [Without telling me so adios all of my files!] During this past year, more and more family members got computers and Internet access. Pretty much all of my cousins, all of my uncles and aunts, even great-uncles and other relatives I don't even really know. So there! My grandpa was facing the less and less phone calls and more and more news of the family coming from other family members. He did not have the priority on news any longer! So he ordered a laptop! My 84 year old grandpa ordered a laptop! He received it last week and I got his first email this afternoon. He's waiting for the DSL now. I'm falling off my chair, really. I thought he was done forever with new technologies and -BAM- here comes the laptop. He will keep on surprising everyone until his 100th birthday, I'm sure.
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| Posted by Pouick at 05:10 PM | 2 bla bla |
| April 26th, 2005 |
| Anthropophobia~ |
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My friend Takako suffers from anthropophobia. I've had heard this word before but I wasn't sure what it meant so googled it to find out more about it. Turned out it's when you fear people or society. I find it difficult to understand. It's not something people can control. I guess unless you suffer from some kind of non physical illness you cannot fully understand. And how do you become anthropophobic when you were born, raised and still live in Japan? This is probably what surprise me the most. Being anthropophobic in a Country which is all about community, society as a whole and group efforts... must make her life miserable. Overall, this explains perfectly few things that happened when we were in Japan back in October-November. One of them: When we were with her and her friend Keiko, she invited us to spend the evening at her house. Then later she told me she wasn't feeling well and that she wanted to cancel the evening. After talking a bit with her, she told me we could come and she would probably feel better later. The evening at her place was fun, there were her two sisters along with us so it was really cool. Takako and her sister Yumi drove us back to the hotel and Takako then told me she would not be able to come the next morning to say goodbye before we leave as she told us she would the day before. I thought she had an unexpected thing that came up so I wasn't alarmed. It was the big goodbye that evening on the sidewalk. She hugged me and she started to cry. Fist it was a shock because Japanese people rarely go for physical contacts. Takako did hug me in few occasions (like our first goodbyes on my first trip to Japan in 2003) but never that hard. I should have felt her despair. I never figured out why she had cried that day. I never understood... before the letter I got in my mailbox this morning, a letter from Takako telling me about anthropophobia. Makes me sad. Really sad. I've known her for about 7~8 years now but I never thought a pen pal would become such a dear friend to me.
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| Posted by Pouick at 09:18 AM | 3 bla bla |