Waterfall & Wings Version 1

Yea, i guess now is about the time to tell all the people who cares about me enough to check on my blog regularly that come 7 Oct 2006... ... I AM MOVING HOME!! As in like "Home". Like "TakkiLand". (I really want to say 'T&TLand' but somehow, it doesn't look right. XD) In case you are still blur and wondering...

I *am* talking about the country whose PM just became an Abe. XDDD

YES!! I am going to share about... ehh.. one-fifth of an address with my dear Takki!!!!!! LMAO!
Wheeee~~~~~~~~~ *flies around enbujo style*

Contrary to popular belief, no, i am not going there for a prolonged Takki-stalking trip (well, maybe a little). I am actually going for a very RL reason. I am going there get married to Takki to work. Muahahah~~~ It's crazy how things turned out really. Some of you should remember how I used to whine and grumble about being overworked and underpaid in my previous company?? Yet erm... i am actually going back to work for them (but the HQ in Japan this time), even though i found another job which pays (i should say 'paid', cos i already quitted) me waaaaay better and has world-class employee welfare (Digress: Everyone should go work in an American MNC!!!). And yappari, whenever i get associated with my this ex and future employer, the word "kecchi" never fails to come up. =__= The pay is not high at all, and living in one of the world's most expensive cities, if not THE most expensive... i will be going into chou-binbo mode in another 2 weeks. T-T But somehow, i still managed to convince myself to give up the good-paying job and take up this Japan offer cos... it's in Japan!! LOL~ Ok, and i dun mean it just cos Takki is there. It's just something that I've been wanting to do. Kinda regret not going for a long-term exchange program when I was in university. Hence never got the chance to live (should i say survive?) alone. Then of course, I am hoping this job will give me good exposure and experience to *cough* demand for a better pay next time. Hahahah, see? VERY RL. Then of course, it IS Japan. I mean hello, there can't be a better way to justify my 4 years in school spent learning the language!! And i do want to eventually become native-level proficient. (so that the Japanese will STOP thinking that their language is really THAT difficult and unique.. TRY CHINESE!! Or Sanskrit!! LMAO~ But no offence.)

Anyway, it was a pretty hard decision to make. There was the giving up "current" well-paying job thingy, the parents' barrier (who are still not very onz about me going), the not-very-attractive pay package, the bimyou-sa of the job and responsibilities, the anxieties of living alone in a foreign land (with that teeny weeny bit of dough called PAY), the fear of being stopped by hentai ojisans, earthquakes, incomprehensible English, incomprehensible Japanese, freaking COLD winters, super FORMAL office-wear culture, lack of Chinese KTV (lol), onigiri day after day kinda diet, panties burglars etc.

IF... i had never quitted my ex-ex-job, i would be JUMPING at this offer to 'upgrade' to the HQ. Who wouldn't right??? But because i already left, AND found a better paying job (though the work was really MUNDANE), it was a tough decision. But despite so many so many SO MANY 'cons' factors, i finally asked myself ONE question. No, this question did not appear in ano recital. LOL~

Which job will I regret giving up?

And I made up my mind. I remember this tee i bought from Uniqlo when i was in Japan in 2004 for my very first T&T concert and Dreamboy Osaka cum self-organised graduation trip. Let me go find it...

Please excuse my hair over there but the tee says...
"I don't regret a thing I've done. I only regret the things I didn't do."

Although it isn't a 100% perfect match, the point made is still VERY CLOSE. I have regretted doing certain things, but I still think it is WORSE to spend your entire life thinking about "what would have happen if I did it?". Getting a bit confusing here? But I hope you guys get my point. An anecdote about this tee though, i wore it after i went for DB Osaka's senshuuraku alone. I had to buy the ticket from a scalper which was SO FREAKING EXPENSIVE (and for a 3rd floor seat!!!!). But, i felt i just couldn't leave Japan NOT going for the senshuuraku. After watching DB the previous nights and seeing how BLOODY HARD Takki worked to put up the performance for us, it was really emotional but I just couldn't BE in Japan Osaka and NOT go. I needed a closure of sorts as well. It was a loooong 3 week trip to mark the end of my life as a student too. And so, i bought the ticket and went. Yappari, itte yokatta. I woke up the next morning feeling GREAT and TOTALLY NO REGRETS. I was SO GLAD that i wasn't regretting NOT going. SO APT to wear the tee then. LOL~ I can go on and on and on about this Japan 2004 trip but I shall stop here. (By the way, i came home ABSOLUTELY broke and HOPELESSLY lovesick. XD)

Oh dear, my digression is getting too long. So what was i saying? Oh well.. anyway, as opposed to what many people think about me, i am not THAT obsessed with Japan and all things Japanese. I do dislike certain things about them. And i remembered telling myself before that i don't like to live in Japan, cos it's just sooooo crowded!!!! It gives me a headache. And much as i like Japanese food, 2 weeks of ramen and sticky rice later, give me my Hokkien mee!!

But life is short. What the heck. I am going to do it. Yatte mimasuKU!!!

So Shuduck, this is the reason why i've been MIA (blogpost-wise) because i've been busy preparing and packing (which, by the way, is getting nowhere... *coughs*).

To Dithers, thank you for your encouraging words!! *muack*

And thank you to Loracyn too, for accompanying me on my many shopping trips and giving me pragmatic advice. And offering to help bring some of my stuff over. Teehee~

Oh by the way! When i should be busy packing my stuff, i lost concentration (as usual) and went hunting for my new apartment in TakkiLand in Google Earth.

I wonder if i got the place right. Anyway, it's one of the buildings in that cluster.
I just don't know which one... ... yet. ^^
But i think it is white.

So hopefully, i can.. actually no, i *WILL* continue to update this blog as often as i can. So maybe it will not just be a Takki/T&T blog (it isn't meant to be anyway.. but aha, i guess i failed), but can also become some sorta survival reference to people who are moving to Tokyo with minimal dough. That is *IF* i survived myself ne... But hmm, i think it's quite cool to record my life in Japan here. Haha~

So yea, that's it for now. I better go back to packing.

不安ばっかけど、行きま～すっ！！
タッキー、待っててね！！！！