A Storm of Youth, Summer's Heat, and ALPACAS.

Hi guys I'm back.. ish.? "雲の街" by Artist: 止市行

You step up to the platform and swallow, a gulp of nothing. Really, nothing. And as you wipe your hands over your damp pockets to check that your phone is there, a single thought comes up "How did I overcome this before?" The same event that happened last time, and the time before, just how did it pass? Inhale. You straighten your papers and exhale the breath of nothing.. Open your mouth and---

Every time I write these intro texts I feel cooler than I actually am (;: ´_ゝ` ) hee~. This one describes how I feel about posting these every time, srs yo :c. Here is my 2 month (?) delayed summer post. I hope you guys remember what I did last year with the countdown story posts (my favourite is the 10th day post!!) with my unbelievable "BLOGGIN' EVERY DAY" goal. I was just a kid back then.. didn't even know of the troubles that would hit me this year (;*´Д`)ﾉ. The moment school ended, dragon boat competition, provincials, summer school, defeating the boss. Lol ok maybe one isn't true, but most of that happened! I actually finished summer school last week or so I'm enjoying summer's freedom in this last month of.. my YOUTH AS A 16 YEAR OLDDDDDD....... Yeah. Let's start the pic-fest.

Fuck this weather it was 4AM ;A;

Here's to the Rio Tinto Alcan Dragon Boat Festival in June..... Yay.. This was 4 days before the provincials and this was taken at 4AM ;_;;. We were the first heat(race) of the day at 8AM and had to get there really damn early to register and set up and all that shit; I don't even know.

This is what the train station looks like at 5AM. It's almost eerie how empty it is.

I'm standing at a sea bus dock hahaha it's like I'm on water.

These tents :0000

The event runs for 2 days and the first day had the shittiest weather ever and we had no tent.. We were told that we'd get one but once there we ended up taking a corner of the our coach's team's tent ._. It was a wet and crappy day.

Feel official AS FUCK YO.

Here's day 2 with our tent that we decided to occupy one sad corner of lol.

Setting up for the heat/race. Science world is beautiful.

At the end of it all we landed with a 2nd place in the youth C division! It was fun and we did great ( ´ ▽ ` )~~. Dragon boat activities are being halted until Sept. so I look forward to then!!

Best study method.

Provincials were all that were left until I could relax a bit more now.. It was studying whenever I was awake because the first exam was math and I'm so bad at math i don't even know whyyyyyyyyyy. It's ok I tried hard. Shower studying is the best way if you wanna cram anything btw. Just put the most important notes in clear sheets and put some water on the sheet to keep it on the wall. Studying tips from YOURS TRULY (*´・ｖ・)b.

What part of this isn't stressful omg it's very stressful even the nice coloured paper doesn't make up for it.

The way everyone's lined up is nerve wracking too lol.

The other 2 provincials went like this too and I can't say which was easier because I think all of them were kinda hard ._. I did my best for the marks I got so no regrets there ye.

I visited a cactus house during this provincial time and just wanna share the pics lol hahaha

These little cacti are incredible :0. There were over 1000 of these in the greenhouse.

I also dog-sitted this summer. Hahahaha this dog is only cute when he doesn't wake you up to take him outside at 6AM ;u;.

And I went to Granville Island with my friends.

Daphne: "The seagull really looks human-like"

Corgi puppet <3<3<3

Look at all these beautiful ducks 

SO CLOSE <3

*HEART STOPS*

I don't know what I was doing with my life until I saw these alpacas. August 7th, 2012. The day I went to the alpaca farm and my life was changed FOREVER. Omg omg they were sheared and so beautiful and cute there were 5 omg so wonderful I felt like my heart would stop and I would die.

SO CLOSE I COULD ALMOST TOUCH THEMMMMM.. But I didn't (´・ω・`).

This brown one was the cutest <3.

My whole family went wild and took pictures actually. 

So cute so cute *Q**

(ღ˘⌣˘ღ)

They're all gathered<3~~

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Right one is so handsome <3

ALPACAS IN ACTION:
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SO MAGNIFICENT <3.

After this I don't know what else to say.. Alpacas. My life. IT'S COMPLETE <3!!!! I want to go back to the alpaca farm in winter to see them with fur though (*´・ｖ・). Until then.. My alpaca conquest continues.

With all this said, summer isn't nearly over! And I'm not doing any countdown because I'll be going to Hong Kong NEXT WEEK WOOOOOOOOP! Weird time to go on vacation though, right? lol. My trip goes into the first day of school so I'll probably blog really late.. Like in October ;u;. But you don't care right  (;;´_ゝ`;;).

Actually every time I take a picture with my phone I wonder "what will I do with this" and my guilty conscious redirects me to this blog. So it's good to dump these somewhere so I can entertain myself when I forget MY YOUTH~~~. Btw did u guys see my new chair ;).

Feel so exec yo. (￣ー￣*) That's all for this post for the rest of summer probably. Kinda sad, eh? I'm gonna spend the rest of this time before my trip to marathon anime HaHAA!!! You can always check my twitter... Oh my god I'm becoming one of THOSE PEOPLE. OK. I'M SORRY FOR TAKING YOUR TIME, HAVE A GREAT SUMMER. BYE.

CYU SOOOONNN!

Labour Day Monday

It's looking at me. Is the bird smirking?! WIPE THAT SMILE OFF YOUR FACE COCKY BIRD.

SCHOOL TOMORROW.

How should I feel about this? Excited? Anxious? Sad? Despite all of this I'm feeling very neutral about school tomorrow. No stress on waking up before 1PM. Hahaha I woke up at 11AM TODAY. IMPRESSIVE? OF COURSE! :D
Labour day means labour day so I went to yum cha with my family and we went far out of town to look at mountains and.. Get McDonalds..? (Legit though, we tried to go to this certain habour/port and ended up going to Squamish to get McDonalds and going back home.)

Mountain waterfall.

*Everyone looking at mountain* Mom: A lady lost her job and tried to commit suicide here a few years back. OLOLOLO MOM U SO FUNNY :D! After climbing a giant mountain for 3+ hours I would be really proud of myself and tweet it and take pictures. Then I would blog about it. And I would also forget why I came up there (~world's most easily distracted human~). I don't think committing suicide on a mountain is a good choice :(

I took these from inside a car so there's glare and reflections from the window :p.

Saw these on the road and my brother thought they looked like face. Ahahaha so funny ^O^~

Crazy white people and their boats. Boats everywhere yo.

I got to go to a beach again. Beach sort of? A dock/harbour/port. WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE?! Some place where there is rocks meeting water with some sand. There were picnic-ers and fancy old ladies having evening tea. 

Aww..

Me: Hey Isaac, it's a mermaid! Brother: Oh, WHERE?! Me: THERE,THERE *POINTS AT DUCK*. Brother: She's so pretty. Me: Yeah, she's cute.

Did you know that birds turn their heads sideways (like the one on far left) to see straight? Because their eyes are on the opposite sides of their faces they have to do that. Lololol birds so silly.

Out of focus :c.

Lots of little birds at the dock. They all gathered and gossiped and stuff. Birds must be bitches, eh? :( Or nosy housewives. Or both. Both works too.

Nothing else to say today. No stories or psychological ponderings because I'm busy with lots of distractions..*cough* ex: school tomorrow. I have enough distractions right now than to survive in school. Going to have to drop anime. Damn. Going to get my courses and try to get Japanese 10. PLEASE LORD I NEED THAT CLASS, I'M NOT EVEN RELIGIOUS WHO AM I TALKING TO. I'm speaking to you guys, readers (Daphne and Nicon? ;_;). I didn't mention this before but my Japanese 10 is conflicting with one of my regular subjects so I'll have to do something about it. Japanese is like an oasis during the days when I have nothing but boring-ass subjects lined up. Japanese was the only reason I came to school on Day 2's. I'm not hardcore enough to skip anyways though :<. Good luck, Christa. Thanks, Christa :).

Ah, OCEAN! BOATS! PORTS! BEACH! Kinda. 

My friend with fangirls on youtube reached 100+ subscribers.
I wish I had 100 subscribers. I only did 100 posts. Also thanks Nicon, for advertising my blog and even adding in that it is "humorous" and "interesting" ;_; SO MANY TEARS. Listen to the laugh at the end. Nice pic btw, who drew it? Like Van Gogh or something?Kirsty: "Btw this song is basically @meganenoaki confessing his love for transexuals."WELL PLAYED.
GOODBYE, SUMMER VACATION.

OVER AND OUT!

CYU!

Non-rant: Bits and Pieces

Sunset beach setting. So lovely :) Artist: Amemura

4 DAYS UNTIL SCHOOL

We've come to that point in summer where it is nothing but memories and reminiscence. What we lived through all of these past summers will just to disappear into the waves of time, like footprints in sand. Oh, youth, summer.
*clapclapclapclap*

Cheesiness doesn't come out of me right. It feels forced or maybe because I'm not the kind of person who would write monologues for fun ._. . "What's the point of living in the moment," is what I'd like to ask right now. So I googled it and came to Oprah's page.
I don't get the meaning of this from what I originally perceived: being significantly spontaneous about everything.
Reading this kind of stuff makes me feel like life is all bullshit and all these things are made up so we can feel better about ourselves. And that's probably exactly it :(. If living in the moment just means being more attentive and virtuous you might as well become Buddhist. Ahahahahaha. 

Whenever I try to rant it turns into pessimistic self-pity talk. That's why I call it non-rant (tags). Rant's are full of rage, complaints, and world-hate. Non-rants are for wimps like me who get angry at everything first and then end up blaming it on themselves. I can't stay angry too long because I end up feeling bad and blaming it on myself.

Sometimes I see people who are so talented that their existence seems impossible and it's like, "What the fuck dude, didn't anyone tell you to share?!?" But then you realize that all people have their own talents and if we were all that multi-talented we would still feel bad because so-and-so who is equally as talented as you makes $20 million a year and you're stuck at home uploading videos on youtube. Youtube isn't bad at all though!

I do believe everyone is talented (some just more deep-seeded). Some people's personality gets in the way of what they like or what they are good at though. Self-pity is probably as bad as jealousy. It's like you're pitying yourself because you can't be as good at this or that (ETC.) but you aren't doing shit about it besides whining and thinking you have it the worst in the world. In comparison, jealously is maybe better because aside from being infuriatingly angry/envious and cursing the person for what you wish you could have, you could also be working your way towards that goal.

This said, I want to say that the West teaches to be proud and the East teaches modesty. People say that being proud and aggressive is good but being modest is good too. But if you think about it, they are polar opposites and shouldn't really work together in harmony. This is why Asians don't like Bruce Lee's personality.
I wrote this all while listening to a sad romance-piano song. This DID NOT FUEL my non-rant for today.

This song is stuck in my head and the duet is nicely blended with lots of emotion :).The female's voice (Guriri- グリリ) is so nice here~~
CYU.

Quantum Physics, Environmental Care, and Inspiration

Duu du dudupdupu.. Artist: Tsujiki

Lucky number seven, weekend's seven, seven o'clock TV's seven, July's seven. I love the number seven, it just sounds so pleasant, even the letters look balanced nicely. It was just that day that made me think. I was running down the stairs without a care, what was I rushing for again? I don't think it was important enough for me to remember, but the next thing I knew, I awoke to a white ceiling. Clouds? Was I in heaven? Turns out I had tripped down the stairs and miraculously survived with seven fractured bones. Though all I could manage to think about now was whether my luck had doubled or divided.

7 DAY UNTIL SCHOOL

or something....

Uhhhhh.. Where do I start? Writing.. Didn't magically get better.. :( A week until school, haven't gotten my schedule stuff that everyone is talking about. Summer feels like it should go on forever, it's been so long since school and I'm sick of talking about this. Reading about someone nag on about school is ok to read from one person or two but this is just redundant. Filler talk is filler talk ;_;. Watching live streams while I cry over how bad my story idea was today. Read about quantum physics, I think I understand it less than I know that I understand it.
I talked to my mom and dad about this a while ago but: the only people who can afford to think about how a third-world country is doing or how plastic is bad for the environment are the well-off people with time. So basically only people that have lots of time will use that time to give a shit about this and that. The people in the bad situations (omg think about the feral sea-cats) are so absorbed in their shit that they shouldn't be concerned in stuff like which package used of more recycled material than the other.


In more useless news I've slacked on the bass practice this summer and neglected my duties for too long. Summer was the time when I started back in 200..9? Because I had too much time and decided to pick up something new. It was a budding love that continued until grade 9 crashed on me with work*COUGH* and projects*COUGH*. I think playing in a band was a big boost though, playing with others really improves your playing too overall. That and I was able to play while standing for 3 months or so (standing is tough, eh). This summer, gaming took up this empty hole and now I guess I've renewed my love for this beautiful 45-stringed instrument. I will do my best this year (too). Not sure if band is willing to band around this year though. We shall see. 

So motivational. I made my own picture because I'm also an artist.. :)

Been trying my best for mediocrity since 2010,

See you.

Summer's Tears

Sunset scenery goodness from 108!. Artist: 108

"I don't think it's been going that well for the past while." Oh no, here it comes. "You know, um.. About us dating and all. I'm really sorry, really." If you can make the effort to say sorry why are you breaking up with me? "Sorry. Uh, I..." "It's alright. You don't have to come over and pick up your stuff, I'll drop it off at your house tomorrow." I turned around before I could completely see his face in response to how calmly I took it all. 4 months was the limit for this one.
 At this point, the tears should have started coming down... If I hadn't been through this nine times. If being dumped nine times has taught me anything, it is to just give up by now. But there's nothing wrong about a little hope for the future, right?

9 DAYS UNTIL SCHOOL

Hmm.. Almost at 7 days, aren't we.. Every time I write one of these they get longer and harder to cut off (excuse my awkward writing with minimal planning lol). I want to continue with it but it'll end up being an even higher wall that I won't be able to climb.. I was never a good rock climber anyways ;(.

I think I'll keep writing first person narrations in these story-bit-things because it's more interesting writing from the view of a different person each time. Here's one from a hopeful that falls in love.. very hard. You can make up/guess the rest :9.

What else now.. It is 3:22AM at this moment, I have run dry of live streams to watch, and my brother is next door talking on skype while he has brought a friend over. Why would you bring someone home at 2AM? D;; At least I'm not trying to sleep and it's not in my way.

<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<PEWPEWPEWPEWPEWPEWPEWPEWPEW>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

My last week of summer will be spent silently mourning the death of freedom and youth (youth-freedom) by gaming and doing other unimportant things. I just checked my summer to-do list (this is a physical copy I wrote in my free-time) I wrote back in July here:

-Karaoke [SUMMER ACTIVITIES YAH? LOL]

-Beach [SUCCESSFUL!]

-Fireworks [nothing special about these really ;_;]

-Clean room [will never happen]

-Seriously play music [almost happens]

-Band meet-up [I don't know where the hell half of these guys went]

-Picnic [too much organizing]
-A lot more! [nothing else ;_;]
Pretty hopeful as it was written on July 24th. So far only the beach has been checked off. I don't know about seriously playing music but this whole month has been a joke and even if I did seriously play I don't remember it well enough. Time hasn't really passed in these 3 months as my room still looks like it did when I just got out of school. I'm a magic time traveller. Have I really been this busy? ^o^ hahhahahahahahahahahaha I must be popular then hahahahahahhahaha.

Whatta weak son'ovva bitch.

"Hey Christa! Where'd you go this summer? You didn't go on msn or post on facebook." "Huh? Um.. I... Didn't do anything." "......" "....Yep."

The conclusion to my back to school summer conversation with my honest classmates. WHAT ELSE CAN I SAY??!??! Recently, I've been getting too good/strong in this game, even the hard bosses like naked merman up there are really weak and get killed in like 10 hits. Kinda sad ;<.

More nonsense for tomorrow,

CYU.

Big Adventure

This is the best picture I've ever taken with an 8mpx Fujifilm camera. So many birds *u*.

Story? NO STORY TODAY.. Until tomorrow. Not counting summer-days today.
I woke up at 10AM today with no problem. W-Wait.. Why? Daphne said it was our last chance to go on a trip for summer and do young people stuff, so we headed to the "beach". In truth, we went to Stanley park at 12 to walk 8+km for 4 hours and head back extremely tired. We went on mini-beaches but by the time we reached the big one we gave up, ugh, so many young people, why are they there :(. Going to crawl back in my cave.

BUSINESS MAN WITH BUSINESS BAG.

Many transit dilemmas lol. "Should we get up?" "What if their stop is soon?" "Now we look like douchebag teenagers" "Oh,well it's too late."
Also forgot where our bus stop was. But I'm magical so all was well :)b. Not to mention counting business men with Daphne lol. There were 37 business men in the city today. Why? BECAUSE WE SAW THE WHOLE CITY, OK? Everyone in a suit is a business man. Even the ladies.

Entrance-ish stuff-yeah.

Got in the park and oh god we did not know that we were going to walk for 4 hours with basically no stopping and not much to drink or eat and stuff. I think I exercised more today that I have all this summer. Hah.

Tiny beach.

"OMG GUYS IT'S THE BEACH LET'S SHOUT OUR TROUBLES AT THE SEA!" It's embarrassing and not really possible to do in a heavily populated area.. And we're not in some Asian movie either. 

I think anything with sand that meets water is a beach. We saw lots of beaches and I tried to ask birds for a way back to my home-- The mermaid kingdom. Collected a few shells before I got bored of it, I don't remember what my hometown's currency looks like anymore :(.

Hey this looks cool-- Someone photoshop Daphne's shoe out hahahaha

Alex and Kirsty: *looking out to the sea.

Daphne: There's sand in my shoe..

I told everyone to turn the other way so I got a cooler shot. Good enough right? ._.

Pictures are not in chronological order.

Lion's gate bridge. Yeah.

Alien's umbilical cord. Or maybe mermaid's? Mermaid babies nearby?

Sea water is really funny. It's like we're wading in a big bowl of miso soup. The water's sorta brownish and cloudy and there's seaweed everywhere. HAHAHah Don't eat it though, you'll die.

I took a lot of duck pictures. There are too many ducks.

There are flocks of ducks geese? Bird things. There are these geese flocks(?) left and right fighting over the heron on the big middle rock. It was like the west geese clan vs east geese clan and no one won. Recluse ducks sticking their heads under their wings in the middle, I can sympathize.

Looking up these walls made you feel like you were going to fall/die: either way you die

Pretty view. This is the kind of picture I was looking for :DD

"LONELY ISLAND". I saw this and it reminded me of Planet of the Apes..
But now that I think about it, the title I was looking for was probably "King Kong".

BIRD THINGS.

Today is also the day I became a full-fledged goose whisperer. I was talking to this duck and I got close enough to touch it's butt. IT WAS SO FLUFFY *O*. I named it the fluffy goose. But I'm pretty sure it's like the others because they're all just duck things. Psyduck.

Didn't take a picture of the next duck I tried to approach because it wanted to fight. It was all hermit defense mode and then switched to offense :(. The duck looked me straight in the eyes and said, "ROUND 1".Then the duck tried to bite me. They're evil creatures :<. I pulled back in time and I punched it IN THE FACE. The duck swam back in the pond and shook it's fist at me. YAH THAT'S RIGHT, DUCK! This is pretty good btw should I send to Hollywood???

Aww, they're so cute. Too bad they have rabies and can kill medium to large sized dogs.

We kept walking (mind you, this was near the end, so.. already 3PM or so) and found these crazy Australians feeding the raccoons peanuts (CRAIKEY!). There was a whole family of them; (NOT AUSTRALIANS, I MEAN RACCOONS) around six. They look so cute and docile when they eat out of the Australian strangers' Steve Irwin's friends' hands (otherwise they are vicious and scarier than geese). So much adventure.

No zoom used! This duck was legit like 5 inches away from me and I even used macro.. Aww duck is cute. GNAP-GNAP.

Sum steps, I thought it looked nice so yeah.

Look at these silly dogs, they're leashed onto each other lol. Pugs are so dumb and vulnerable <3.

YAY CIVILIZATION! BUS LOOP!

So our laid-back plan for today's trip actually ended up being very tiring. But it was fun! Walking got tiring after 5km or so but we saw the sea and the beach and all that shit that was important for our SUMMER. I can check it off my last-minute list now hahaha! Playing word disassociation (let's just name it that) while we walked was fun . And I got to hang with my friends so it was nice. Yeah.

More walking.

After everyone left I was reminded of my normal dejected self and put my loner headphones on. Blasted some music and went back on the train for MORE DAMN WALKING.

TL;DR: I WENT SOMEWHERE TO DO WALKING AND WENT BACK HOME TO DO WALKING.

*It's 6AM right now and I've spent 2 hours working on this damn post, took a nap when I came home and am very awake.. Running on 5 hours right now so I should go.. My mermaid kingdom is calling for me.

Clouds are cute~



See you tomorrow~