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so what have i been up to the past days? i thought i'd be able to finish organizing my files for moving to v's happyclams.net over the weekend, but i couldn't. it turns out there're really just too many files, accumulated over the last 3 years. gosh it's ridiculous. more than 600 journal files, more than 100 images. i've not made up my mind yet how i should move, i originally thought i'd be able to do a complete revamp of the website again, but i guess i lack the motivation, i don't have a new design in mind at all. now the question is how much of this site to move over. probably just the journal. i realize this website serves no other purpose for me, than to write. everything else i've tried to add, has been redundant.

i've also been busy packing. less than a week from today, i will be moving out of this house. though the house really is pretty ghetto and run-down, it's nonetheless been my home here in illinois the past 2 years. it's not easy deciding what to throw away, what to pack into a box to be left here, and what to bring to japan. i'm dragging my feet, because it just seems so impossible, to clear the house of everything. when i moved in 2 years ago, it wasn't completely empty, because we took the house over from a bunch of seniors so their stuff had always been around. clems and sidat have also stayed in the house the whole time since their freshman years, so they had been completely settled by the time i moved in. the house has always had people, that's what i'm trying to say. but now, now chee wai and i have to basically strip the house down to its original empty shell. it's a very strange feeling.

despite my anticipations, my post-exam days haven't been romantically spent reading books and finishing projects like my japanese and batchbook. in fact i've not done much for either. though there's no more school, deadlines still loom - i have to get my japanese notebook done before i leave for japan because i don't want to bring my textbooks there. i also wish to get the batchbook done before i leave, sort of for closure, for the days i've spent here in uiuc. something tells me life will be different, when i come back from japan next spring. maybe it's the fact that half my friends will be gone. or that the house will no longer be home. i anticipate change, in the next six months. it's of course too much of me, to ask for things to remain in standstill while i escape to japan. but before everything really slips out of my memory, i want to finish the batchbook. and i have less than 3 weeks now.

oh, by the way, there's a sequel to my birthday episode. on saturday, my friends and i finally went out for a dinner, after which they indulged me with a karaoke session at evo and their present to me - the tops i wanted from delias.com. i knew it's got to be them who bought the remaining items from my wishlist, so i kinda expected it. but i thought they'd have it delivered to my house, silly me. haha. so somehow, despite smart aleck cindy expecting the present, they still managed to spring a surprise on me. on sunday, i also went to indianapolis with my friends. it really isn't an interesting city at all, we couldn't quite find anything interesting to do. we had fun nonetheless.

i think i'll tell a better story using pictures - lucky i brought my camera around over the weekend. the first time i'm doing picture-intensive pages.

appreciating my digital camera so much more now - 2 days have past since the indianapolis trip, i've been so absorbed in the other things i have to do, i can't say i remember much about it anymore. but while organizing the pictures today, things start coming back to me, and i find myself smiling. a lot like the way i feel towards my vancouver/seattle pictures.

anyway, i will be working on my website still, tonight, i really hope to move to happyclams by tomorrow.