tag:nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk,2009-11-09:/Phear the sarcasm. Move Zig for great justice.MokoFeed2009-11-09T18:46:41+01:00tag:nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk,2007-03-14:/2007/03/14/spring_of_insanity~1903700/NejinOniwa2007-03-14T16:41:28+01:002007-03-14T16:41:28+01:00 <p>My dad was yelling at me. Again. <em>Sigh, why do all my mornings start like this?</em> I said to myself before dragging my not even semi-awake body out of bed, thinking silently that I'd rather just skip school on days like this (which i HAVE done on some occasions). <em>But there's the maths test today</em>, Neige reminded me, so I sourly got dressed and out of my room, with a 15 minutes or so for breakfast. So after stuffing myself with toast and orange juice, i popped out of my door this, and ran down to the station to catch the train.</p> <p>That's a completely normal morning for me (at least on mondays, wednesdays and fridays because otherwise school starts so late it ought to be illegal), but despite its seemingly normal beginning, it was not, not at all, not even five times with vaseline. Today was probably one of the most abnormal mornings I've ever had (except for the one where I woke up at 4 am), and there were a few things that happened that I <em>definitely</em> hadn't counted with...<br>1: The SUN. Agh, my eyes! When i finally arrived at school i had completely wasted my nightvision and felt a slight sunstroke coming on. Also, since I'd comfortably draped myself in my olde leather jacket i was, due to it being BLACK and thus strongly light-absorbant (not to mention that leather completely lacks the ability of "breathing" that most materials have to some extent), as well as DEAD of perspiration and heat due to my overkill metabolism (and the jacket).<br>2: The completely insane state of mind which took hold of me when i was halfway to school, running the best i could, and still hasn't fully left me.</p> <p>What I am talking about is, of course, the end of end-of-winter depression. Or rather, being high on the spring of insanity.<br>I felt its first effects halfway through the first hour of my Social Studies class, when I just laughed out loud while giving remarks to everyone and pointing out faults that the teacher did, all while wearing an extremely amused smile and being not that very arrogant. And it was even worse during chemistry - I even went as far as comparing the structure of ion enthalpy with football teams! So as I was wandering to my maths class, through the almost impregnable masses of students queuing for lunch, I silently quoted Obi-Wan and went to do my test. It went fair enough, so I guess bit of my bad feeling was totally misdirected (although I admit I hadn't studied a single zig for that test), but still i can feel that feeling of infallible, unexplainable happiness and wittyness filling up every shard of my scattered mind. But I guess I might as well do something with it...I've got my saxophonage this evening and boy, it was long ago, but I might as well score something with this mindset, neh?</p> <p>Tomorrow there's more maths test, though, so troubles aren't over - since we've just got 1-hour lessons in maths, we can't do a serious test on one single lesson, so either it's been to overstress things, or put it on the so-called resource hours, which are after lunch on wednesdays (school ends at lunch for everyone without special assignments, so the whole place is empty), or as we did now - split the test. I find this way the best, since like this I'll still have my overslack daily agenda intact. Kudos to I, myself and me.</p> <p>________________________________________________________________________<br>//Hana </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk/2007/03/14/spring_of_insanity~1903700/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk,2007-03-13:/2007/03/13/deja_vu~1896724/NejinOniwa2007-03-13T14:19:36+01:002007-03-13T14:19:36+01:00 <p>Bloody splendid!<br>Last week i found out that my only lesson was cancelled, due to sick teacher.<br>AND GUESS WHAT HAPPENS TODAY!?<br>My only lesson is cancelled...BECAUSE MY TEACHER IS DOING ENTRY TESTS FOR THE COMING FIRST-YEARS!<br>That's just grand, isn't it?</p> <p>Also, yesterday our chemistry teacher did something to us...that can be called nothing but a prank.  She gave us papers, saying either Na+ or Cl-, making every student represent either a Natrium-ion or Chloride-ion. Then she dragged us out in the corridor, and made us do different formations, TO SHOW HOW A SALT CRYSTAL LOOKS INSIDE!!! That's just madness!<br>It was quite funny though, since we had one odd paper, and I swiftly handed mine to the guy who hadn't got one and ended up standing aside them all playing Neon and laughing 'til I cried. She's damn good, our chemistry teacher...<br>Perhaps I shouldn't be saying so, though. She isn't that pedagogical...so when time calls for it, I have to rush in and take the role of some kind of assistant, or second teacher. It's the second occasion I do so - last time was in 9th grade, when my music teacher didn't really know the physical structure of sound waves and stuff. So I had to go up and do the teaching. It felt pretty odd, and my classmates has since then classed me as an obsessive know-it-all (which I admit I am, to some extent). My new class does this as well, but in a more friendly way - Instead of cold stares and general meanness, I've been promoted to some kind of class scholar. And that feels even more weird - especially when you're asked about things you don't have any idea at all what it is. Guh.</p> <p>________________________________________________________________________<br>//Hana </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk/2007/03/13/deja_vu~1896724/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk,2007-03-10:/2007/03/10/eurovision_i_see_money~1882042/NejinOniwa2007-03-10T21:29:52+01:002007-03-10T21:29:52+01:00 <p>WHAT A BLOODY NUISANCE.</p> <p>I can hear the echoes from the living room from here, from the TV pounding out the jury votes. I mean, come on!? There have been years where there's been good competition and stuff, but this year's not much at all. It's really a shame, since Finland is almost like Sweden's backyard or something (not really ^-^), that we'll have to make fun of ourselves there later on this year. Guh. More on this later on, now I'll go upload some pics to OSTC.</p> <p>________________________________________________________________________<br>//Hana </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk/2007/03/10/eurovision_i_see_money~1882042/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk,2007-03-07:/2007/03/07/end_of_winter_depression~1863669/NejinOniwa2007-03-07T17:15:00+01:002007-03-08T09:18:15+01:00 <p>Guh. The weather sucks. It's gotta be that, or something else weird, because I've been feeling really down for no reason at all lately. That's fucked up.<br>Anyways, yesterday was a bit stupid. Since I have hells late start on Tuesdays (first lesson at 13.10), I could spend all of the morning curling up on a sofa like a cat, or, doing stupid things with my computer. Guess what I did, it's <strong><em>really hard.</em><br>...NOT.<br></strong>Anyways, when I came to school one of my classmates informed me that our teacher was sick, so we didn't have anymore lessons. I really felt like I'd wasted an hour of my life at that time - since that's what it takes to get to school for me - but curtly turned and went home again. I spent the rest of the day writing on my book, for the first time in months, and feeling stupid.<br>Gah. Anyways, I'm not in the mood for more meaningful writing today - I just felt like I should write something, to kill some time. I don't know what's come over me, some kind of end-of-winter depression perhaps - but that's just illogical. Then again, who the hell said the world was logical anyways? I've got to look out for traps like that in the future.</p> <p>________________________________________________________________________<br>//Hana </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk/2007/03/07/end_of_winter_depression~1863669/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk,2007-03-05:/2007/03/05/owchies_g_g~1853487/NejinOniwa2007-03-05T22:02:10+01:002007-03-05T22:02:10+01:00 <p>OWCHIES!!!</p> <p>Gah. I don't see myself as particularly clumsy, but still...<br>This morning I did something <em>very</em> clumsy. And stupid. I SLIPPED and FELL on a spot of bloody ice. CURSE YE ALL FOR ETERNITY, TREACHEROUS ROADS OF SUBURBIA! <img src="http://www.blog.co.uk/srv/tinymce/jss/plugins/blogdeemotions/smilies/09evil.gif" border="0" alt=""></p> <p>...Ehm.</p> <p>Anyways. So now I'm slightly impaired and having a hard time walking properly since my stupid hip is being stupid and stuff like that. Egads, I sound like some wasted old geezer who's broken a leg or something...friggin' embarrassing.</p> <p>But anyways!</p> <p>As I've said, I'm just home from a week's worth of skiing. Alpine skiing can be described very easily, like this: <strong><em>Pure, undiluted WIN.</em> </strong>Is there a better way of using snow out there, then someone'd better tell me about it. I'd sure like to see it. Heh.<br>Anyways, what you might also know is that Powder Snow Heaven also, quite often, doubles as Sauna Heaven. So after every day you'll have a room heated up to insanity to jump into after a day in the cold - that is also PURE WIN. A log cabin in the mountains may not have much, but as long as it's got close to skiing and a good sauna - it's paradise. Total win. Ya rly.</p> <p>This space is taken up by a little <strong>kudos to the finnish people</strong>. Not only since they're the ones who largely <strong><em>invented the sauna </em></strong>(i think), but also since they last year kicked the wiggly ass of the collective europe at Eurovision with the absolutely most kick-ass show ever seen in that usually quite bland event - namely <strong>Lordi</strong>. Honestly, the finnish are the only ones who are <strong>bat fuck insane</strong> enough to get the idea of entering the Eurovision with that kind of <strong>weirdo monster metal</strong>. </p> <p>...and that's all for praising Finland. Um. I'm feeling spontaneous today...>_<</p> <p>Also, the hell of school has started once again for me and my fellow mates. Luckily though, since I've skipped my english course (due to skills, of course, not lack of them. Automatic win, A+, 5, or whatever you call it - top grades. Heh. *brag*), and my french course is FINALLY over, I have two blocks less on my daily school agenda - meaning i'll be having hells early quit on mondays, and hells late start on tuesdays and thursdays. In addition, my school has got the whole post-lunch hours dedicated to large tests and stuff, so we usually quit hells early on those days as well. Lucky me, neh?</p> <p>Anyways, now for the continuance of my DIARY NOTES!!! (part 3)</p> <p><em>TUESDAY - 27/2<br></em>It all started quite bad - in difference to the day before my body was quite worn out after a whole day of skiing and thus craving more sleep than usual. Thus I barely woke up, living out the morning and breakfast in my usual sleep-deprived, half-dead state. Quite logically it was a bit hard getting by like that; still, I woke up properly in time to go with the first load to the skiing area. This time, i also remembered bringing with me my cell and iPod - something I'd deeply missed during the monday.<br>When we arrived, it was awfully damn foggy. Not win at all - the whole topside of the mountain was covered in one big cloud, so any serious off-pist or steepslope skiing would have been out of the question, if I wasn't such a <strong>bat fuck insane</strong> bastard when it comes to skiing. So despite the bad weather conditions, me, my little sister and our two cousins made our way nearly all the way to the beginning rift of the Ravine, using (as i call it) ravine way full-east. It was really fun, although it was more tumbling than skiing for two girls - so we decided to try again after lunch, this time with a troupe expanded with two members: my skiing fanatic and psychotherapist dad, and my tall, much-too-witty mouthed big brother. This time though, even though we succeeded better in skiing down the meter-deep layers of powder snow, I got involved in a little accident. As we were taking the route back through the rift, we suddenly stumbled upon a boulder or something, all covered in snow. I, being a bit of a daredevil outside the pist, took a jump off it - and lost my balance in midair, falling down in a rather casual manner. Then, a millisecond later, comes my cousin, whose skis turns loose at the moment he jumps. He crashes straight down - and falls right <strong>on my head</strong>. That was not very much win, and I was seriously dizzy for quite a whiles after that - but it faded away (although it returned the next day) by the time we came home. We had an excellent dinner on grilled salmon, made by my brother and his girlfriend, and rather savvy desserts as well.</p> <p>That's it for today's diary notes! Also, I'd like to mention that despite sauna and snow heavens, skiing days tend to have rather one-sided lunches. EVERY SINGLE DAY WE ATE SANDWITCHES FOR LUNCH. Imagine the horror...</p> <p>_____________________________________________________________<br>//Neige </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk/2007/03/05/owchies_g_g~1853487/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk,2007-03-05:/2007/03/05/profile_photos_update~1848124/NejinOniwa2007-03-05T01:03:27+01:002007-03-05T01:03:27+01:00 <p>Right! Before going to bed, I decided I'd better update my prophile photos a bit. Anyways, since they're not all the usual boring glasses-piccy, I'd like to explain them a bit to you.</p> <p>So!</p> <p>PICTURE 1<br>This is the newest picture on me, really. I had to fix it up a bit using GIMP, since the contrast and stuff was unbelievably crappy, but it's still a bit hard to see it all...anyways, I still think it's good. </p> <p>PICTURE 2<br>You know it, it's the shades piccy. I do admit it looks a bit cool, but it's way too anonymous. Could be anyone. Well, at least anyone with a huge, blond mane of hair, extremely fuzzy eyebrows, huge headphones and Armani shades. Ironic that a fatal failure at a close-up pic became my most used picture of myself on the web, isn't it?</p> <p>PICTURE 3<br>It is the copy pic. You see me there at the right - but hold on! There's another one, right beside! WHAT DOES THIS MEAN!!?!?!??!!? O_o<br>Actually it's my cousin, Johan, doing a little cameo here. (And it's my little sister in the other corner) Almost everyone who has seen us both say that we're stunningly alike - I usually protest violently, but when I look at this picture, I understand what they mean. I mean. Honestly. Did I just get a <em>twin brother</em> or something!?</p> <p>PICTURE 4<br>Morning gesture. And YES, I DO wear a yukata when i sleep. And huge earphones. But the yukata is comfy. Really.</p> <p>PICTURE 5<br>The face really says it all - "Blue, ball-shaped helmets is NOT the shit." Ya, rly.</p> <p>For those who aren't satisfied with the small versions here, i bring you the full-sized ones at photobucket, here. <a href="http://s57.photobucket.com/albums/g239/NejinOniwa/Myself/Blog%20Images/">http://s57.photobucket.com/albums/g239/NejinOniwa/Myself/Blog%20Images/</a></p> <p>Enjoy 'em!!!</p> <p>_____________________________________________________________<br>//Neige </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk/2007/03/05/profile_photos_update~1848124/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk,2007-03-04:/2007/03/05/back_again~1848069/NejinOniwa2007-03-05T00:38:30+01:002007-03-05T00:38:30+01:00 <p>Totally, man. DUDE. What kind of super-genius was it that invented alpine skiing anyway? DUDE!</p> <p>After a week up north, the snow down here is starting to melt. Sadly enough, but at least I've got a fair dose of winter injected now, so I'll survive for a while...<br>So anyways! Thinking of you people I decided to take notes on what I did during my vacation - as well as recording a few live-action videos of my voyages out on the powder heavens of the Ravine! Totally kickass. Unfortunately since YouTube hated me my only means of uploading such things were via Photobucket, which has the slowest upload speeds ever (HATE!!!), so it would have taken a while before those appeared here...if it weren't for the fact that i just fixed that little problem and now am able to do the speedy uploading via there. Rocks! But that's for later on.<br>Here's my Diary Notes! (parts 1 and 2)</p> <p><em>SUNDAY - 25/2</em><br>Nationwide chaos of snowfalls. I think it fell some half a meter of snow - and I was on the road! So me and my, so to say, physically older, mentally WAY younger brother got bored - as we were trapped in the aftermath of a car crash and the queue was two miles long and at a complete standstill, it was quite logical - so we wound up doing some crazy shit on that day. It's amazing what ideas you come up with when trapped in a traffic jam, ain't it?<br>When we arrived I got to do the majority of the <strong>shopping of stuff </strong>since the rest of the folks were busy packing up things at our cabin, so my arms got themselves a little beating carrying way too many bags of food and such. Ouch.<br>I ended the day with picking up my cousins at the hotel's bus station, and eating some dinner which i do not remember the contents of. Might have been lasagna, bolognese or some other pasta thing.</p> <p><em>MONDAY - 26/2</em><br>First skiing day - way to go! The weather was considerably improved from the day before, but we still had a lot of snowing going on - but at least, no wind blowing freezing air in our faces, no extreme temperatures and no fog. It was quite a while since last time I was there skiing though, so I took a few checkups to see how my favourite places were doing - and voila! I found lots of funny stuff.<br>First off is my absolute favourite - <em>The Wall</em>. No, not the song, morons. It's called the wall, because it's really friggin steep - averages at 45 degrees, and that's way more than that in the beginning of it, i tell you. <br>Anyways, I took a frenzy on that one for an hour or so, and thus got a quite jolly bit late for lunch. After that I went to the next stop on my checklist - The Ravine, which is a ravine (no shit) in the western part of the mountain, and has the best off-pist in the whole area, according to many (including me). Anyways...ROCKS. I just discovered one of the many Ravine Ways, the much-used half-west (as I call it myself), which is almost like a ski-cross course, but still really cool. I also realized you DO look like a real retard when wearing a ball-shaped helmet, but still, better safe than sorry. And as I was to discover the next day, being safe comes REALLY much easier with than without helmet. Nejin out.<br> </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk/2007/03/05/back_again~1848069/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk,2007-02-24:/2007/02/24/title~1799154/NejinOniwa2007-02-24T21:20:40+01:002007-02-24T21:21:58+01:00 <p>Oh right, I forgot to mention this in my last post. This means I'll be gone for a week. Away from civilization. Trapped in a world of nothing but SNOW and ICE and OTHER AWESOMENESS but still COMPLETELY WITHOUT COMPUTERS. How the hell am I going to survive THAT!? Give me an answer, someone. Freaking PLEASE.</p> <p>Oh also, I just decided to put up some random statistics of what's hot and stuff. Here's what:</p> <p>Music: <strong>Sonata Arctica</strong> and <strong>Ayreon</strong> (in particular the songs Shamandalie and Day Two: Isolation, respectively)</p> <p>Funny Pictures: SIGNS with STRANGE THINGS on them. Like this one.<br><img src="http://ostan-collections.net/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=20" alt="Edgy." title="Also there is a sharp cliff ahead"><br></p> <p>Misc stuff: SNOW. And that's impossible, since snow is really cold. Which only proves that it's even more awesome since it's able to create a damn paradox by just being there.</p> <p>Totally Random Stuff: ALIENS. LOLI ALIENS. WITH GUNS.</p> <p>...Oh and also, I'm still a blonde, arrogant, overconfident mad scientist writer who is also a master of extreme sarcasm. And a Ninja Pirate. In case you wondered.<br>And also I did a doublepost today cuz' i won't be able to post anything in a whole week. Bastards. </p> <p><u><strong>Anyone who comments will win a free internets.</strong></u><br>(Validity of coupons not guaranteed.)</p> <p>_____________________________________________________________<br>//Neige </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk/2007/02/24/title~1799154/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk,2007-02-24:/2007/02/24/going_north_to_spank_the_brains_out_o_th~1799072/NejinOniwa2007-02-24T21:03:16+01:002007-02-24T21:03:16+01:00 <p>So here we go again. It's the ninth week of the year and the whole region gets a frigging holiday, for no particular reason at all. I mean, what the!? Things like that make me think what they actually put it there for. Considering the situation of this country, I think it all went somehow like this:</p> <p><em>During a regular dinner at the house of the prime minister for no particular reason, an argument about an important topic bursts up.</em></p> <p>Minister o' education: "Could you pass me the salt, Peter? Thanks. Oh and by the way, the school kids are complaining about the quality of the education again, and we've got some school in the south on strike. What are we going to do?"<br>Prime minister dude: "I dunno, you're the guy in charge of that stuff! Do something!"<br>"PETER": "How about we give them a week off? Like, a regulated one-week holiday for students?"<br>Prime minister dude: "What, for no reason at all? That's just stupid."<br>Prime minister dude's dad with weird snobby accent: "Hmm...In fact, my dear son, I think that may not be the case at all, considering how much you whined about that kind of stuff when you were a young lad."<br>Prime minister dude: "Oh come on, dad..."<br>Minister o' education: "Actually it does not seem like that a bad idea. But won't it be a bit of a problem? I mean, it's probably going to cause a sudden, massive outbursts of people wanting to go on vacation, bringing massive traffic jams and overbooking and snakes on a plane and stuff?"<br>"PETER": "No problem! We'll just make it a different week depending on where you live!"<br>Minister o' education: "Make it so! And by the way, where's that coffee?"</p> <p>Maybe something like that. It also proves that government guys are nothing but a bunch of totally useless jerks, and the people who come up with all the brilliant ideas are always censored out of the records, to make sure that they won't come back and take credit for it later. It also ensures the actuality of the much-disputed <strong>Newton's Sixty-eighth and Highly Unlikely Law</strong>, which states that you come up with all the really good ideas where you absolutely don't need them. For example, <strong>how to save the world from certain doom</strong> (in the restroom at a very rough party), <strong>how to build a functioning fusion reactor worth its price</strong> (in the middle of a Lord Of The Rings-marathon, just at the scene where Boromir tries to kidnap/abuse Frodo, according to many fan-fiction writers), or, to use a popular example, <strong>what the bloody hell that damn gravity thing is anyway</strong> (precisely after being whacked in the head by a random, red and not so vile-tasting roughly spherical carbon-based pseudo-intelligent life form). Life is really ironic, actually - I feel like I'm starting to believe some of the theories written down by the sceptically viewed scholar Douglas Adams in his only great work "The Hitchhikers' Guide To The Galaxy" for some reason.</p> <p>Likewise, while I'm sitting here writing a blarg of random sarcasm and fake theories of physics and the rest of the family is glued to the TV watching the national intakes to the Eurovision Song Contest, I naturally have in my mind (as well as in my maths notebook, which by the way also contains a periodic table, a lot of mystical symbols and a drawing of a seal, but almost no actual maths at all) several important theories that are most likely to save the bloody world from certain bloody doom. Of course they're confidential and stuff so I can't write them here, since that would be very stupid - but you might see them if you, for some reason, become a student in some scientific circle in some ten years or so.</p> <p>All right, enough randomness, lies and bragging now. Let's move on to the actual topic of today's post...</p> <p>As I stated in the beginning, we've got a one-week holiday next week. Therefore I'm going to take this opportunity of good weather and go north to do some serious alpine skiing. Sounds nice, eh?<br>What's even more good, though, is that my state-of-the-art Atomics have been fixed now, and thus I will be able to do some seriously evil rampaging in the slopes, but ALSO that the place we're going to has a special slope for SPEEDSKI. Which is, SERIOUSLY DAMN COOL.<br>Speedski is pretty simple - you place yourself at the top of a well-prepared, quite long, but most importantly, REALLY DAMN STEEP slope, and lean forward a bit. Then you just go on and on and on until you stop, preferably hitting a speed mark well over the highway limits. The world record is somewhere around 350km/h, I think. And that's just downright fucking scary, since that's about the same speed that those über-high-tech maglev trains in the tech-savvy JAPAN do at their best. Therefore the sport is officially classed as Seriously Fucking Insane, as well as Not Safe For Mankind, but that doesn't mean you can't go ahead and race as freaking fast as you can anyways. I'll try and see how fast I can go as max - not that I'll be having any accurate measurements (most likely), but I hope I'll be able to hit somewhere above the 200k-mark. Last time I went for skiing really fast and measured it (albeit not extremely accurately), I hit well over 110k. Which also is damn fast, although not NSFM like the world records of speedski. Worth to note is also that I did this some well four-three years ago when i was but a little tot (TWELVE YEARS OLD! O.o), and also didn't exactly use the steepest slope in the place for the act, and despite this got a pretty nifty 'n high speedmark done. If my equations are correct, this means I might be able to do some serious badassing up there. Watch out for the blue phantom in streaking down the wall, people - That's me, laughing at death and racing for joy.<br></p> <p>_____________________________________________________________<br>//Neige </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk/2007/02/24/going_north_to_spank_the_brains_out_o_th~1799072/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk,2007-02-21:/2007/02/21/thermal_paradox_revisited~1782892/NejinOniwa2007-02-21T23:47:19+01:002007-02-22T00:02:51+01:00 <p>Egads. We're back on track again.<br>Just as i thought everything was over (that being last sunday), that nightmare was swept away at monday afternoon. Basically it ended up with another half a meter or so of snow, and by tuesday it was deep freaking frozen - as i write this it's gone down below -15 degrees. Jolly awesome, mate!</p> <p>What's not so very jolly awesome, though, is the fact that this week is NATIONAL TEST WEEK.<br>In double context.<br>Meaningly everyone is loaded crap down with unnecessary tests in everything. Tuesday was french, today was a big fucking maths test that took so long i even missed my jazz sessions. Luckily I'm not the most overloaded i know - other people have already had 4-5 tests this week already and are still bound for more. I guess i shouldn't complain so much.</p> <p>Anyways, next week is vacation time. I'll be enjoying one whole week with a random selection of my ski-crazed relatives up north, and this time i'll make sure to take it all out to the fullest. Also i've got some brand new skis to wicker out with - a pair of shiny, yellow, über-carved Atomics. Now that's state of the art skis, i tell you.</p> <p>I've also done a huge update on my music library lately, as well as resumed work on EW. Winter time is really the best time, for everything - except sunbathing, but who cares about that anyway? I'd rather race down shining white slopes in 120k on a pair of shiny skis, thank you very much.</p> <p>_____________________________________________________________<br>//Neige </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk/2007/02/21/thermal_paradox_revisited~1782892/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk,2007-02-18:/2007/02/18/i_m_back_and_worse_than_before~1760782/NejinOniwa2007-02-18T13:04:04+01:002007-02-18T13:04:04+01:00 <p>Yesterday or something, one of my friends (read not-yet-mortal-enemy) asked me if i still had my blog left. And i said yes, although it was damn awhile since i wrote anything on it. And then she said, "Oh well then, then that sucks," and left. So after giving her a bit of a chugging for her obnoxious-brat attitude, I decided to go back here for the first time since this side of valentine. Eh...whatever.</p> <p>So what's happened since i stopped contributing to this place regularly, then? Well let's take a look...at...<br><strong>NEJIN'S LIST OF INSANITY PART TWO</strong></p> <p>Yesterday, i became a Haruhiist. Those of you who don't know what it means, think of yourselves as lucky enough to have missed that part of common knowledge, and stop wondering - you're better off not having a single idea of what it means. Those of you who DO know what it means probably are in the ranks yourselves, so, i don't care.</p> <p>I have, after a long period of Lurking, become a member at the OSTC forums. What that is - none of your business. I just needed to say it, that's all.</p> <p>I missed some french tests. Yeah, really...too bad i don't have anyone else to blame.</p> <p>On the other hand i DID spank the hell out of my chemistry test, so i guess it kind of evens up in the end.</p> <p>After reading <strong>Rain</strong> by Barry Eisler, i ended up getting myself a shitload of Thelonious Monk music. 60's jazz party?</p> <p>I've done some miscellaneous plotting for various stuff.</p> <p>And also i had actual <em>work</em> to do. Very rare...</p> <p>Anyways, i'll probably do another update here by tonight or so, but right now i'm tired of my keyboard, so i'll go out for a bit...</p> <p>Oh right. THE SNOW IS MELTING!!! WE'RE GONNA DIE!!! *sob*</p> <p>________________________________________________________________________<br>//Hana </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk/2007/02/18/i_m_back_and_worse_than_before~1760782/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk,2007-01-29:/2007/01/30/thermal_paradox~1647543/NejinOniwa2007-01-30T00:11:38+01:002007-01-30T00:11:38+01:00 <p>This morning when I went down to catch the train to school, a thought crossed through my mind. <em>It's awfully cold.</em> And true enough, I remember checking the temperature before leaving, and I think it was around -10 degrees somewhere. And still lots of snow, ladies and gentlemen - as I said anticipated time, that "snow's gonna melt" thing was all a bluff. Hah.<br>But here's the odd thing. When I went out skiing with my sis and dad this evening, it was lots warmer. When we came home we checked, and the thermometer showed just -5 degrees - and I was all like, wtf!? I mean, isn't the temperature supposed to <em>rise</em> in the day and <em>fall</em> during the night? Thermal paradox, man!<br>Alright, that sounds a bit stupid I guess, since the temperature can go where the hell it wants these days. But anyway. Tomorrow we'll be getting the results from the french test we had last thursday, which was - for me at least - a complete ambush, since I hadn't prepared at all. I don't expect any greatness or so, but I'm still pretty sure I'll get an acceptable grade, despite me being totally unprepared. Also today we had our first real chemistry test for the year - I whipped clean right through it, except for a couple of formulas where I forgot to write in some things at first and thus had to rewrite them a lot, which took an excessive amount of time. Sad as that may be though, I'm pretty sure of my skills as a chemist - I mean, you have to be if you like chemicals and using them to do funny stuff, like blowing things up. Mwahaha.<br>Lucky me another thing, I'm free on friday, for some obscure reason. Tomorrow I'm taking an extra individual saxophone lesson, to improve my technique and stuff, and on thursday I'll first finish planning my trip to the USA this summer, and then go downtown and take my first lesson in Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu. I've got some serious expectations on that, so I hope I'm not let down...</p> <p>Today's poem:</p> <p><em>When the walls go down and our shield is shattered,<br>when our minds are blown and our hearts are scattered;<br>As the leaves that blow in the wind of the fall,<br>the snow in the northwind cold;<br>And flowers that breathe to take to the stars<br>before their petals grow old.</p> <p></em>________________________________________________________________________<br>//Hana<br> </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk/2007/01/30/thermal_paradox~1647543/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk,2007-01-27:/2007/01/27/houston_we_ve_got_snow~1632999/NejinOniwa2007-01-27T17:34:37+01:002007-01-27T17:34:37+01:00 <p>As it turned out my precious snow remained snow. Temperature didn't even ONCE rise over 0. Pfeh, those meteorologists can't do anything right. Some snow melt downtown, but that's just because of all the cars and stuff. Honestly!</p> <p>Since Puto is slightly down for the moment, I've turned to other things to regain my love of life. Like <em>skiing...</em> Wonderful.<br>I, Gur, Liz and Jon went out this afternoon around five. It was quite dark and we had some equipment problems, but despite Liz not being the most talented or skilled of skiers, everything was, in a way, quite good. Although it doesn't stand a chance against <em>alpine</em> skiing, this wasn't bad at all. I think we might do the same thing some other day...as long as the snow remains, that is. They say it might melt away tomorrow again...but after yesterday I doubt it. The serial killers of happiness ain't getting here.</p> <p>Later this evening we're out to some sledding, and later on some pizza eatin' over at Gur's place. Sledding is always chaos, though, and with nobody except us anywhere, that means nothing but trouble...And also, VERY entertaining. Although it is, as a lot of other things, kind of stupid. I suspect, when I come home this evening I'll be seriously drowned...and stuffed with Calzone.</p> <p>_____________________________________________________________<br>//Neige<br> </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk/2007/01/27/houston_we_ve_got_snow~1632999/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk,2007-01-25:/2007/01/25/winter_for_dummies~1617831/NejinOniwa2007-01-25T08:24:28+01:002007-01-25T08:24:28+01:00 <p>They say temperature's gonna rise over 0 tomorrow. Over my dead body, I say, you bastard meteorologists, you ain't touching my snow. Bitches.</p> <p>Right now it's really friggin cold outside, around -10 degrees, but it's been colder. But anyway...<br>I figured there are lots of people who live in wussy countries like Spain, Brazil or other weirdo places without knowledge of the winter concept. So since the winter's definitely one of the best seasons, I figured I should write some things that <em>are</em> winter.</p> <p><strong>Nejin's list on winter stuff! YAY!</strong></p> <p>1: It's dark. Very dark. That means you can sneak up on ANYONE after 4 o'clock, and/or ambush them and pummel them with...</p> <p>2: Snowballs. Yes, the very essence of winter spirit, or at least partly, is the act of picking up a fair amount of white stuff from the ground and shoving it into someone else's face. Everyone appreciates it! Well, almost everyone, that is. But those who do, usually are nice enough to do the same favor for you.</p> <p>3: Lots of snacks. Since winter's dark and darkness is depressive to most people, some weirdos decided to make up a bunch of winter-special treats to give to everyone...yum.</p> <p>4: Skiing. No shit, dude - rushing downhill at 110 k is one of the best adrenaline rushes you'll ever get.</p> <p>5: Being slightly more than normally emo. Yup, that's it - since winter's such a depressive season for everyone, you don't have to make up excuses to wear excessive amounts of make-up and wear nothing but chains and black, and claim nobody understands you. The others around you won't make fool of you - they know what's going on. Winter depressions...</p> <p>6: Being sick. Unfortunately winter also seems to be the favorite season for weirdo sicknesses like the flu and stuff...that's kind of stupid.</p> <p>7: Doing military service. That's kind of stupid - in the winter you're sent a hundred miles north to freeze your ass off in some wilderness to "harden your body and spirit", or something, while shooting at snowflakes with that gun you just learned to handle. Now that's just BAD. UNCYCLOPEDIA BAD.</p> <p>So there you have it - Winter For Dummies. Could have been better though, but this is too early in the morning to do serious work for me. Ah well.</p> <p>____________________________________________________________<br>//Neige<br> </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk/2007/01/25/winter_for_dummies~1617831/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk,2007-01-24:/2007/01/24/emo_poetry_imports_from_puto_pt~1617029/NejinOniwa2007-01-24T23:45:26+01:002007-01-24T23:55:36+01:00 <p>It's exactly 23 minutes 'til midnight when I'm starting to write this...school's tomorrow and that's just the normal hell of life, which kind of sucks, but that's what you've got to take, I guess. Lacking in things to do for the moment, I decided to put up some of the stuff I've been writing in my "downtime" these last few weeks. Enjoy...or rather don't as this is supposed to be depressive stuff.</p> <p>---IMPORT STARTS HERE---</p> <p><em>Emotic Randomness, Part 1<br></em><span class="postbody">Sitting on my chair. The pain in my head <br> is worse than ever before. <br> How did I come to this place, anyway? <br> Crossroads of society, bypassing me forever. <br> I've seen so much come and go, <br> seen friends live and die. <br> Will worlds be dying too one day? <br> I wonder, I wonder, does not man's greed <br> seem to drive him to borders never before thought of? <br> This way, I say to myself, this lonely road that man now walks, <br> I cannot see it ending in any different way, <br> than that of a slow decline and death. </p> <p> Gazing out of the tinted windows, <br> the streets are rushing by as were they alive. <br> Yet they are as still as the head of a swimming swan, <br> but are they moving their legs? Do I, can I, will I know? <br> Jealousy, gruesome deaths and wars for love; <br> The world today is nothing but endless paradox. <br> So typically human, we've made it to; <br> the simplest thing becomes a complex maze of sins. <br> And there's no such thing as a saint or god - <br> we're alone and left without a savior. <br> Then again perhaps that's for the best - <br> considering what humans do to them; <br> When we're given truth, salvation and freedom in our hands, <br> we only throw it away in the dust, and leave its bringer for the gallows. <br> And thus forever man is doomed <br> to live in lies, in melancholic pain - <br> for we wish no change, least to ourselves, <br> yet it is we who must be changed.</p> <p>I wrote this last Tuesday, besides being in quite a good mood at the time. Quite odd - but I guess that is in the nature of man - a turncloak and traitor by nature and allegiance. Either that, or I'm just adaptive.</p> <p>And three posts as big as these on just one day? I'm an addict, and this is just my first day...this ain't ending well, and I know it.<br>______________________________________________________<br>//Hana<br></span> </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk/2007/01/24/emo_poetry_imports_from_puto_pt~1617029/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk,2007-01-24:/2007/01/24/saxophonage_and_insomnia_unleashed~1615857/NejinOniwa2007-01-24T20:57:20+01:002007-01-24T21:05:42+01:00 <p>Pa-pam-pam-pam-pam...</p> <p>(First serious blog post! Yay! Or maybe more like, wtf mate? Oh whatever.)<br><strong><br></strong><img src="http://www.blog.co.uk/srv/tinymce/jss/plugins/blogdeemotions/smilies/animesweat.gif" border="0" alt=""><br><strong><br>Oh man. </strong><strong>What a day.</strong><br>I was thinking of skipping on the saxophonage - I was honestly dead tired after today's essay writing. Maybe not though, since my body tends to get le lazy after 7 o' clock...and then, for some unknown and very irritating reason, get hyped up again around friggin <em>midnight</em>. I guess I AM a man suited for night-time, but it's honestly a REAL bother when you have to get up at seven the next morning...And my insomnia doesn't really make it better. Lately its range of effects has extended from just making it impossible to fall asleep - nowadays its hard to <em>stay</em> asleep, and some days after new year's eve I had serious trouble since I woke up between 4 and 6 o'clock in the morning, without any kind of help at all. That was pretty stupid, yet at the same time the wednesday morning when I went up at 4 and had like 3 hours before I even had to <em>think</em> of getting ready for school was quite soft. Still though, the morning some days after that was even more creepy - I went to bed around midnight after talking to my second cousin in Dallas, and since it's like 7 hours differing from mine to Texas' timezone it must have been around five there when I fell asleep. And then I woke up at 6 - and continued my chat with her. When I logged off from my computer to eat breakfast and get ready for school, some words lightly drifted through my mind.<br><strong>Dude! TIME PARADOX!!!</strong><br>I had some serious problems calming down after that - my mind just kept screaming things about "Time paradox" all the time, so I was caught dazing off a couple of times during class. Not that I normally refrain from doing that - I mean how the bloody hell are you supposed to stay awake when you've slept less than 5 hours any night the last 2 weeks anyway? - but that day it was worse. UNCYCLOPEDIA worse.</p> <p>But still, I'm quite glad I <em>didn't</em> skip on the saxophonage. No, not just quite glad - really damn sparkingly happy, I am. Be it jazz, rock or blues - a saxophone is a really cool instrument if you can handle it (which I - O RLY! - can. Pretty damn well.), and put that together with a band of three more saxophones, a bass, two keyboards and guitars and some drums, and you're in jazz paradise; but what's almost even better is what you get afterwards. As I said earlier I've got 5 k to walk from the place we're playing, and that's where it happens. 'Cuz you just can't get the feeling out of you - that jazz spirit thing - and thus I walked half a mile on bouncy legs and singing to the songs on my iPod. Luckily the streets were quite deserted, so I could do so without being completely embarrassed to the public. Those are the times when you say things like: "Gone to my happy place, back in five." Unfortunately I don't have all that much jazzy-ish music on my pod, so I was stuck with mostly metal and other things that are (to most people) le strange et mysterieux, but fortunately I discovered a hidden cache (not really.) of Jamie Cullum music while desperately browsing its enormous library for things to listen to. When I found that I was - as I said - gone to my happy place. Although it took a bit more than five minutes to get home...</p> <p>Now I'm home again, sitting glued to my computer seat after stuffing down some slightly shoppai stuff down my throat for dinner, thinking about all the tests I don't want to have. Chemistry is fine, but I quite honestly don't really like maths, especially not now since my and some other classes read three times as much math as everyone else on the school, so the test is going to take up things we covered in like october. Simply put - that's kind of stupid...</p> <p>Also, please excuse me if I use words that clearly do not belong in the english dictionary. Most likely they'll be slightly incomprehensible stuff like le Francais or DEUTSCH, but if there's stuff that's not any of those either, they're either just random words that I just made up -  or in worst case, some other weirdo language like Japanese or Swedish. That's another reason I don't like studies in so-called "Modern Languages" - they mess up my vocabulary and make me mix languages to complete random rubbish. If any of you were to speak to me I'd most likely start speaking Oxford - and then work my way through all the accents of anglais and end up somewhere in Ennis Del Mar-style texas american. To cite some Green Day - <em><br>Sometimes I give myself the creeps - sometimes my mind plays tricks on me...<br></em>Oh that's common too - just starting to sing out of the blue. Man, this shit is pretty stupid...</p> <p>To finish things off multilingually:<br><strong>Ich bin un petit but still tottemou kawaii, lagom tjock bloggare. Peace out, foo.</p> <p>_________________________________________________<br></strong>//Neige<br> </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk/2007/01/24/saxophonage_and_insomnia_unleashed~1615857/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>tag:nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk,2007-01-24:/2007/01/24/well_that_was_quite_stupid~1614039/NejinOniwa2007-01-24T16:36:07+01:002007-01-24T16:36:07+01:00 <p>Well this kind of sucks.<br>Life, that is. I mean, honestly; What kind of idiot gets the idea of taking a bunch of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen and some other random atoms, put them together in a join-the-dots game that takes a few million years to complete and then just <em>leave it</em>!?<br>.....<br>Sorry about that. I'm just a bit of an emotional wreck right now.<br>Weeeeell.....<br>Not that I'm usually not, but anyway...<br>...<br>.............<br>Alright, I guess I should stop whining and make something constructive out of this. But honestly, doesn't life suck quite much? Unless you're rich and stuff. And even then it kind of sucks. Oh man. If there was some idiot out there who was responsible for all of this I'd give him some serious whacking.</p> <p>Whatever. Here's a little list of some random stuff that's happened lately...</p> <p>Yesterday I realized I haven't cleaned up in my room for like 3 weeks. That's kind of gross...but I'm too lazy to do anything about it.</p> <p>Also yesterday, I overslept and missed my french lesson. That kind of sucked, but then again, I got one hell of a long morning...since I didn't have any other lessons 'til 13:10. So it wasn't too bad...plus, french is le suck.</p> <p>Today there were national essay tests. Of course, my school's a weirdo school since we have 3 terms and not just 2 like normal people (although that's kind of good), so it wasn't really a national test. But whatever.</p> <p>Yesterday I wrote another emo poem and posted it on Puto. Yes, that's what I do when I'm down - write emo poems. And post them on Puto. So...there you have it. I'm an emo poet. Happy?</p> <p>Yesterday I had no lunch. That kind of sucks.</p> <p>Yesterday I spent ten minutes meditating on the fact that Puto is NOT my life. Or backyard.</p> <p>Regardless of this completely random meditation streak, I yesterday spent more than 50% of the time I was awake logged in on Puto. I guess I need to work a bit on my self-discipline.</p> <p>Yesterday (DOES IT EVER END!?) my dad went to a meeting with some of my teachers. And since I'm such a smart ass, I ended up in the kitchen, preparing some sort of dessert, while my dad showered me with compliments from them. THE EMBARRASSMENT!!!</p> <p>Two seconds ago I looked out of the window and saw it was awfully dark outside. But then again it's bloody winter, so that's just to be expected...</p> <p>This morning when I ran to catch my train to school, I slipped on the road. Yes. I SLIPPED. ON THE DAMN ROAD. It was covered with ice, as it appeared, but how the damn hell was I to know that? I ought to sue the bastard. So road covered in ice kind of sucks.</p> <p>Today I finished my first math problem since christmas. On paper. No, it's not that I'm no good at maths - truth be told I've always been really good at it - it's just that it's so freaking boring so you can't bother doing shit. And...that kind of sucks. (Voila, cliché!)</p> <p>Right now I realized I've run out of things to write about. And I've got about an hour before I have to take my lazy ass and my overweight saxophone on my back and WALK half a mile (Note to all you idiots reading this: 5 KILOMETERS. Not that kind of stupid american wussy-mile. That's a no-no.). So that kind of sucks. So does everything else, if you just think about it for a while, but let's not - that'd be a spoiler.</p> <p>Ten seconds ago my speakers decided to start spewing out some weird, irish folk music. I think I need to murder someone - how the hell did that happen? And irish folk music...REALLY sucks. Mostly.</p> <p>Now I've REALLY run out of things to write about. More extreme sarcasm is expected to come soon, though.</p> <p>Oh yeah...as a side note, I can tell you that the irish folk song is over now. Don't panic.</p> <p>_______________________________________________________</p> <p>//Neige<br> </p> <p> <small> <a href="http://nejinoniwa.blog.co.uk/2007/01/24/well_that_was_quite_stupid~1614039/#comments">Comments</a> </small> </p>