August 26, 2006

• Maybe Memories!

  Another week at an end. I haven’t been given any work this week so I’ve had time to chill ( ) but made no money! ( ) I’ve been gettin’ pretty nostalgic over NUFS and everyone, which is nothing new for any of us, but its different now! Its not painful, its not sad, its good! Its happy! It’s still a bitter-sweetness to being so far away from my international family, but I still have them! I actually feel pretty hopeful for the future! I realised, whilst chatting on g-mail and doin’ the Xanga rounds how our relationships haven’t changed, infact, they continue to grow and I really look forward to everytime we chat, everytime we e-mail, everytime I log into my Xanga and find new comments! I have awesome friends, and this distance between us, whilst not ideal, will make our reunions somethin’ really special! I live in hope of the adventures we have ahead of us. “Hope remains, whilst the company is true.” Wasn’t that in Lord Of The Rings…?

  
  

  Dunno what brought this on…! Maybe it was the eventual realisation that I’ve not lost what I feared I might. Maybe its the combined results of the chatroom-based conversations (and Cass on the phone) that I’ve had over the past month. Maybe its the fact I watched The Phantom Menace with my bro last night, as the start of a nightly “watch the entire Star Wars saga” type thing, and that seemed to put me in a good mood, remembering how Star Wars became such a huge part of the NUFS culture-scape! Every endlessly quoted line, every annoying Jar-Jar moment, every awesome moment of that kick-ass lightsaber duel with Qui Gonn, Obi Wan and Darth Maul, I felt the kinship of NUFS, imagining everyone sat beside me laughing, cheering (groaning at Jar-Jar and Anakin) and quoting away! It just made me smile, feel happy inside, deep down! It also made me think how a Star Wars movie (if not a marathon) is vital for our reunions! Hows about we relax after our Fuji climb with Star Wars, including the Clone Wars cartoon, in chronological order!? Its something I woulda liked to have got in before leaving NUFS! Come to think of it, I think I’ll set about a new “To Do List”! One for reunion activities. I’ll be wanting contributions and suggestions from everyone!!! 

  
  

  
  
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    Climb Mount Fuji                                                           
  
  
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    Watch Star Wars (all of ‘em!)
  
  
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    Karaoke at least once every Japan-based trip
  
  
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    Inuyama Castle
  
  
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    Snowboarding (with lightsabers!?)
  
  
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    Christmas together
  
  
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    New Years together
  
  
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    Go see a band together

  
  

   

  
  

  I shall be expecting peeps to add to this list with further suggestions and ideas! “Come! Join me and we shall rule the Galaxy as NUFS Alumni!!!”

  
  

   

  
  

  Its weird! When I look at pics and videos now I just feel happy that I experienced those things! And its all the better cos that stuff will last forever! I seem to have found that by looking to the future and setting those reunions up as goals I must work to attain in the present, I have been imbued with a sense of optimism and hope! So long as we remain mindful of this goal, of its importance, we can get through anything! We may be on different parts of the world but so long as we hold true to the bonds we forged at NUFS, and keep in mind we are all still together, still the NUFS Kids together, we can do it! Togetheeeeeerrrr!!! Foreveeeeeeerrrrr!!! Man… this has to be my corniest entry ever! And all this positivity is not like me…. maybe this’ll be like an episode of The Simpsons and I’ll be back to sad and brooding next update! Talking of sad and brooding, I’ve set me up an “alternate” Xanga! I was gonna have a bit of fun with leaving mystery comments and stuff but thought “screw it!”, cos I intend to post my drawings up there, along with a bit of poetry (which is often depressing, hence the “sad and brooding” link…, see? Seee!?) Its www.xanga.com/ill_made_knight   At present there’s just a bit of stoo-pid self-pitying poetry up. I’m just gonna update everytime I dig up an old poem, write a new one or draw a picture, so it will be pretty irregular!

  
  

  No real need for a Matt and Dani update, as Matt grabbed some internet time earlier this week, enough to update himself! Hopefully that’ll happen again sometime(s) soon! And I have received, at long last, my enrolment orders for my final year at UCLan! Looks like my first date of attendance is September 25th, so I at least know when I’m stating school now! Guess I should get revisin’ an’ stuff!

  
  

  Peace and Love! And try spinning! Thats a good trick!

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