Hello again

Hello! Remember me??

Once again, another month of not posting on this blog.  Inconsistency is my middle name. Actually, I joined the whole Tumblr craze and I regularly blog non-sense there. But this will still be my real blog, but hey if you have Tumblr let me know!

Anyway, I was woken up early this morning by a loud bang and sudden pain on my face. Apparently my bedside lamp decided to wake me up at 7 in the morning by falling onto my face. My fault, since the box that was holding the lamp up wasn’t really the sturdiest of surfaces, it was bound to give up one of these days. So I had no choice but to wake up and get frozen spring roles out of the freezer to sooth my 7am bump in the head. Which actually led to a productive day, so now that I’m done with all that I can blog.

So what have I been up to?

School, school, school. It’s that time of the year again where you cram 3 months worth of classes into a *insert a large number here that seem impossible to finish given the amount of time to do it* page report. To top it all off , next semester we have to intern in a company and country of our choice, and this internship searching was a lot harder than I anticipated. A LOT. I had three choices of countries to intern at:

1. Philippines. For obvious reasons.

2. Australia. I’ve never been there and I don’t know anyone there, so I figured it would be interesting. Plus they speak English!

3. Maldives. Don’t ask, I saw an internship placement there and it looked exciting.

Philippines and Australia are my top choices. I have about 3 months left to secure a placement, so wish me luck!

A quick rant

I have this idea that people are generally good people. I don’t know, maybe I was raised surrounded by loving people that when I witness people being assholes, being disrespectful, or just plain mean it still shocks me. I’m not saying that EVERYONE is evil or that I’m a good person but as much as possible I try not to be an ass to people I know and to the strangers who accidentally bump into me while walking down the street. But lately, I’ve been seeing a lot of errr.. negativity. Sure, they may be having a bad day, but man can you not take it out on me?

Aarhus

Apart from school and ranting, I’ve been visiting my friend Xingy in Aarhus, it’s the second or third?? I’m not sure.. largest city in Denmark and about an hour and a half away. So of course, my post wouldn’t be complete without pictures.

City Centre

When it was still warm enough to sit outside

Cafe Zurich

The best place to heal a hangover, plus they have awesome chilli burgers.

unwanted advice

At some point in your life you have probably gotten unwanted advice from someone, mostly from people who are half a decade older than you, since they’ve lived longer and experienced more things and all and they’re “trying to help” but seriously, one thing I’ve learned is that people don’t want advice unless they ask you for it. I know they’re trying to help and all,but you’re not helping! There’s a big difference between words of wisdom and being a smart ass.

Whenever I get unwanted advice, I do the smile and nodding of the head thing, but deep inside I hate it. I hate that they feel like they have just taught me something that is life changing or enlightening or helpful even when its the total opposite.

I usually don’t care about unwanted advice, smile and nod and that’s it. But lately there’s this person who’s been pushing my buttons and my parents as well. It’s worse for them since they’re being told how they’re “bad” parents. And my parents are anything but bad parents, they showed nothing but love and support even at times when I felt like I disappointed them.

It reached to the point that even my name was advised to be changed. There’s only soo much smiling and nodding I can do. So in the most polite and diplomatic manner I told this person to shut up and leave me alone, I don’t like conflict, I really don’t but it has come to the point where it became hurtful and just plain rude. So, if you were in this situation would you have done the same? Or just smile and nod?

typical…

See, my apartment is right next to a train station, everyday on my way to school and back I take the train. Its convenient, fast, and with 10kg backpack carrying my laptop and my heavy books, this was nice. But today, the weather was sunny and warm, I missed my train, so I opted on taking the bus. From the bus stop to my apartment takes about 15 minutes, carrying my extremely heavy backpack, I decided to take the bus, the walk would do me good anyway and the weather was nice, I thought to myself.

So, I got on the the bus, for my 5 minute bus ride, looked out the window and enjoyed the sunshine.

Drive, drive, drive…

Right when I got out of the bus, the rain starts pouring. And this was not just “light ” rain, it was “get the fuck out of the rain unless you want to get your computer and your brand new school books that cost you a month and a half apartment rent wet“ rain. So there I was standing, dumbfound, in the rain. I look around for a place to shelter myself from this sick joke mother nature is playing on me, I found nothing. I knew there was a shelter about 5 minutes away, so I fast-walked as much as my legs and my thighs would allow me, the faster I walked the more my backpack dug into my shoulders cutting circulation to my arms. Pity was the expression on peoples faces as they drove past me.

As I finally reached the shelter, I wasn’t pissed yet, I was more concerned about my computer, which is my one and only source of entertainment and connection to the outside world. Courtesy of Samsonite, all my things were dry, waterproof laptop bags are awesome.  So now it was time to bitch and moan and be pissed. I did that for about five more minutes until the rain passed.. so I continued my “nice walk”. I walked and walked.. and walked some more. My hair was wet, my shoes made that annoying squeaky noise, and my crotch was wet-and not in a sexy way. So I got home stripped off all my clothes, wrapped myself in my blanky, with a warm cup of tea and Lolcats and had a nice chat with my special someone…

So much for my nice afternoon walk.

Please bear with me,  I needed to rant.