why is it that only fleeting scenes are left?
currently listening to: 70 Years Later [Daniel Chan]

merry christmas!

and the arrival of christmas hints at the closure of the year. hmmm.

this does seem like an awfully long year because i can hardly recall anything that has happened.

this might mean:
a) i have a terribly short memory.
b) the year has been totally boring.
c) both.

but in fact in 2008 i...
finally earned my driving license.
got a car of my own.
survived year 1 and went on to year 2.
sweat it out for music express 14.
had quite a hard time writing for the school newsletter.
sat for two totally 'toroh' semester exams.
bade farewell to hall life.
sat for jlpt level 3.
went for the extremely rare pigs xmas meet 2008.
visited osaka for extremely good food.
managed to survive one year without news of macey.
and stuff like flying a kite, making new friends, surviving com231(heh), conducting a ton of interviews etc.

and curent affairs are a different topic entirely.

but all these seems to have happened aeons ago.
*scratches head*

i guess it's at this point in life that seemingly significant events in your life start to become simply a mark on the diary.
too busy that there's no time to recollect.
too many goals that you only mull over those that you haven't achieved.
too caught up with life that the only thing that's on your mind is which step to take next.

and so in the same tone,
i really think there are so many things i haven't done.
things that should have been done but not yet, unfortunately.
but i'm also quite sure that i'll still have the exact same thoughts at the end of next year.

aiyah, 2009.
let's just try to see how it'll work out.
how much regrets we will have left before another year finally ends.

少一个，是一个吧。
everybody work hard together okay?

記憶は明日のために強さになるものだよ。きっと。