The MRT manners of Takahina, 2012 Week 26

In this metropolitan society of Singapore, there lives the very big problem of gracefulness and politeness and MRT is one of the best places to show it.

Takahina is not a very graceful person, neither am I really polite either. But I know at least I have manners and I am considerate to a certain degree, I won't be that heartless as to see an elderly in front of me and yet still do not know how to offer my seats. At the same time I won't be so naive as to let my seats to every uncles and aunties requesting it. At the same time I'm not so timid that I do not sit in reserved seats.... And please don't be mistaken. Takahina is not seats grabbing although he seats whenever there's a chance to.

The most recent saga in Singapore going on has been about the most polite Ah Lian scolding this auntie in the MRT. I'm not someone to judge who is right or wrong in this case, because from one video it won't be enough to justify what sparks off the quarrel even though it seems VERY obvious who is the one at fault this time.

So to facilitate my understand and your additional knowledge for the local MRT manners, I'll group people into several groups.


Mistake her for a fat lady and she'll bitch slap you.

Group 1: Real elders mostly after late 60s and pregnant ladies. For those ladies who look like you're pregnant but in actual fact you're just fat. Accept it, you're in this group too to avoid embarrassment for yourself. For those who's also handicapped, injured whatsoever, you fall into here too. Parents with kids who are f**king irritating you fall into this category because I respect your tenacity to deal with such a kid. Generally, people who really needs seats fall here.


I'm getting famous on STOMP!

Group 2: Uncles and Aunties around late 40s to early 60s who think they fall under group 1. You people are those shameless type to think that due to your "age" you deserve to be given a seat in MRT. And so you guys will rush to seats available as if it concerns your CPF money getting swallowed by PAP. And because you think you deserve to get a seat, you tend to be really selfish and competitive to the extent you don't offer seats to Group 1 people.


Do not look at me, I'm pretending to be asleep.

Group 3: These are the group of people who obviously have the strength to stand and support themselves. They are young they are strong BUT they are at the same time, actors. They pretend nothing happen and continue to sleep, do their own stuff etc. Although technically these people are not wrong to do their own stuff, but for some reasons Group 2 people hates them to a core and Group 1 people generally don't have a good impression of them.


I'm a fat man, not pregnant.

Group 4: These are the group of people who irregardless of what happens, they refuse to seat in reserved seats and normally they even have a fear of normal MRT seats. Getting them to sit takes some persuasion. These are Group 2's favourite.


Remember me? I'm the polite ah lian.  ;)

Group 5: These are the cream of the crop bunch because Takahina belongs here. They are not scared of sitting and they are not ashamed or too shy to offer their seats. To them seats are like economical resources, if it's there and no one is being "allocated" the seat, you go and take the seats - Allocative Efficient. If there are no seats available, they don't go around eyeing for seats because they do not need the seats, it's just a luxury to them. If they are already seated and some Group 1 people arrives, Group 5 will offer them seats because they need it. If Group 2 people arrives and starts eyeing for that seat, Group 5 will not offer them any seats because they'll save it for any Group 1 people that arrives. If any Group 2 wants to get the seats off them, they will have to try relatively hard and get risked being on STOMP.


I USED to work in SMRT. Now I'm just an auntie.

Group 6:  They work in MRT.


He lives in the MRT and is furious when others interrupt into his house uninvited.

Group 7: Misc people who simply can't be inserted into any other groups.

Just to let you Group 2 people know 1 thing. GET IT IN YOUR DAMN BRAIN. The seats are not YOUR SEATS. The purpose of putting those seats as "reserved seats" is to say that we Group 3/4/5 will be obliged to give up the seats to you, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE HAVE TO. And indeed, only Group 4 will give you the seats just because they aren't seated at all in the first place.

Just to enlighten you people out there, Takahina is a mix of Group 3 and 5. My criteria of judging people who deserves the seats are strict, so to some people I tend to appear as Group 3, but I judge myself as Group 5.

This is how I do it in the MRT:

1. Enter MRT
2. Take a seat if there is or once there is seats.
3. If there's any Group 1 in the MRT, place bags on seat, leave the seat and offer them the seat.
4. If not, continue sleeping in the seat like a Group 3.
5. Reach station, exit MRT.

Now why did I mention the bag? Simple reason.

Some people, especially the Group 2, due to their competitive nature, they tend to grab any seats once you get up. There were times I saw some Group 5 standing up and going over to the Group 1 to offer their seats, at that exact moment, like some Speedy Gonzales the Group 2 snatched up the seats. Right at this moment, the Group 5 and Group 1 turned around ready to get their seats when BHAM, your freaking seat is GONE!!!!

Imagine the embarrassment on Group 5, the bewilderment on Group 1 and the don't care attitude on Group 2. Of course once Group 2 realizes the situation they will say, "Ohhhhh ohhh, sorry... lai lai take the seat." But of course the Group 1 won't dare to take the seats, Group 1 paiseh to take the seat how do you expect them to take it??

That's why Takahina came up with the CHOPE MRT seats method. You freaking put something there as you get up to offer your seat. This is what happened once when I did it.

1. I placed my bag on the seat, got up to offer this old uncle my seat.
2. Some aunty carrying freaking NTUC bags scattered to my "seat" only to find a bag there. Machiam got terrorist bomb inside. She immediately have the ???? Face.


Daf*q?

3. I noticed the aunty looking around wondering what's going on, but I didn't care much. I asked the Uncle if he wants the seat. He replied...

"No need boy, next stop I getting off le."

I felt an instant "facepalm". Then I walked to my seat, ignoring the Aunty who's now looking at me, with her eyes transmitting the evil intent...

"Give me your seat.... give me your seat.... give me your seat...."

I took my bag, and sat down. Aunty looks at me like the "WTF" face. I just gave her a sian look.


This is my baby face. I'm borned Sian.

The reason for the bag as you see is simple, to act like a stun in MRT, to reserve your seat for either the person you intended to offer, or for yourself back. Because in the MRT, no one likes a Group 2. Even Group 2 hate other Group 2, reason being they will compete for seats like Amazing Race. So to them, every journal is like an Amazing Race; Amazing MRT, Amazing Bus, Amazing Taxi etc.

Someone asked me, what if I'm faced with the situation like the MPAL (Most Polite Ah Lian)? Let's just assume MPAL is Group 5, like me!

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EA (Evil Aunty): *stares with evil intent*

Takahina: *leans onto the glass beside the seat with eyes closed to avoid stare, earphone plugs in with music blasting.* (Takahina is an ATS aka All Terrain Sleeper, so in MRT I'm perpetually asleep or at least pretending to be asleep)

EA: Aiyo some man here pretend asleep don't know how to have courtesy and give seats to elderly.

Takahina: *Continues sleeping*

EA: *Keeps hurling shitty and sarcastic words at Takahina*

Takahina: *Sleeps or pretend to be asleep in MRT.*

*MRT reaches stop

Takahina: *Auto-wakes up, walk to exit.* 

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Due to Takahina's nature of being an ATS, I seldom or rather, never got faced with such situations before. However Takahina knows not all people are ATS, so this is what I recommend.

- Say, "Aunty, I don't know you so old leh. Ok la nvm I give you this seat. PS ah, old people must take care ok?" Then walk away immediately. Most likely she'll take the seat and attempt to scold you, but since you have already walked away far far, you won't hear it so you're not affected, and she'll be regarded as mad since she'll be going on with her rumblings to herself.

- Say, "PS ah Aunty, I didn't know you talking to me. I thought you mumbling to yourself wor." It will make the Aunty look like a full fledged retard. Most Aunty will attempt to scold you back, but just keep trolling her. Importantly you need to keep your cool. She wanna take your pic, you just smile as if you camwhoring. Best.

- Chat with her. Take off your earphones, look at the aunty with a smile and act like a customer service receptionist and talk/reason with her on why she shouldn't get your seat. Be careful not to lose your cool cause customer service CANNOT lose their cool. Explain it nicely like, "I understand your anguish for not being able to get my seat, but sorry this seat is not entitled to you..." If STOMP gets you, you can use that for landing a job in any customer service related positions.

- Push her and make her fall, then post up on facebook, twitter and every social media you can find explaining how mentally ill you are and you're suffering with depression. You will probably get more limelight than you had wanted.

- Say god will forgive her ignorance and say Hallelujah at her face. She will instant diam diam one.

- Say, "Anything, we complain to PAP. Ai mai?? Can submit a letter to MP with us explaining our situation. Until they say I MUST let you have my seat, I'm not letting you sit. I'm innocent until proven guilty. Get your lawyer if you want.

- Take your phone and record her scolding you. Say, "Aunty, please keep scolding. I posting this on STOMP.... No wait I posted liao." She will stunned. Don't let go of your phone and keep filming for SOCIAL MEDIA ROCKS.

But seriously, there will be f**ked up situations in MRT and in fact virtually all locations in the world. Sometimes you're lucky, sometimes you're unlucky. Just keep your cool and do as you believe in, ignore what the whole world says. Most of the time the saga will pass with time.

As long as you're right, or Takahina says you're right. You are right.

PS: You may notice a lot of pics are from STOMP. Yup I pirated them off and I don't give them credit for it. 

The Graduating Takahina, 2012 Week 25

Takahina is sure most of you guys know, but let him post it up here nice and clear for all of you guys to see!


The specs add to his already very high intelligence level.

Yup, Takahina graduated with a god-damn distinction. Hell yeah! But then what does that mean? Takahina already has a job, so does getting a distinction certificate mean anything to Takahina? Well it does.

Takahina knows himself well. Takahina knows that he's never one to strive too hard for anything unless its something that he wants desperately or knows he has to achieve it desperately. So for some things, Takahina can be super slack or relaxed about it, for some other things however, he will be rushing and pushing for it. Be it materialistic gains, principles issues, commitments and stuff. If Takahina really wants it he'll strive for it. Kinda like a directly proportionate relationship; the more Takahina wants something, the harder he'll strive for it. But of course not everything in this world is achievable or due to some reasons you missed it. Never mind, try harder next time. This is Takahina's very basic basis of the world.

How does this relate to this certificate? Simple, Takahina wanted to graduate with a degree, simple as that.

It goes back all the way to Takahina's mum actually. Since young Takahina's mum has been infusing him with the thought that Takahina must graduate as a university student, then her life goal is achieved.


Takamama will stare you down. 

This created a lifelong goal to Takahina, "I MUST FREAKING GRADUATE AS A UNIVERSITY STUDENT!"

So to Takahina, his academic goal since young has been quite focused. Graduate with a freaking degree. Thus he strive on, from Tampines Primary School to East View Secondary School to Tampines Junior College to SIM-RMIT.


Takahina was once a fat f**k


Takahina was once a class monitor.


Takahina has and will always be good looking.


Another of his more suave moments.

Takahina recalls once, when one of his primary 6 school teacher asked him, "W*** H**, where do you want to study in the future?" Takahina thought that his teacher is asking him where he wants to study when he grows up when in actual fact his teacher is asking which secondary school he wants to go to. So the fat and innocent Takahina just answered, "NUS."


Stunned they are.

Similarly in secondary school, teacher asked a similar question. But being more cautious of being a class joke now, Takahina simply replied JC. In TPJC however, the teachers forgo asking such questions because it's a given when you enter JC, you die die must enter university. Now that Takahina is eligible for graduation, all that remains is for the graduation committee in SIM to send him some info so he will then know when he's gonna graduate and his mother will finally achieve her life goal. At the same time, it represents a goal in life that Takahina has achieved. Sure it may not be the best degree, but it's nonetheless still a hard-earned degree.

These 3 years in university could not have been completed so smoothly if not for the help of Huntsman, Desmond, Serene, Kasumi and Manluo. Takahina has mentioned them tons of time in his blog and that is because of how important this people are to him, that's why they're in this blog. If Takahina writes about you in his blog, it's because you guys have impacted him, that's why you're in it.


The standard color scheme for every graduation, black and white. 

Along the way, there have been tons of other friends that he has met and known in university. Casual friends, Hi-bye friends, fellow project mates, OG mates, some people whom faces he knows but names he doesn't etc. There are so much to mention that Takahina is unable to fully describe them all. Don't really, slowly but surely Takahina will make sure to include everyone in.


Imma had a few drinks then.

Takahina has to say, these few years in university is probably one of the best times of his 24 years life. Takahina remembers his uncle once said, "W*** H** ah, University is a very fun and is probably one of the most enjoyable time of your life, you have to cherish it." Now that he recalls, it's very true. Compared to his primary school, secondary school, JC, University was simply the most outstanding 3 years of his education period. With tons of maturing and growing up, knowing more people and bitching about them, realizing exactly what is life and how to go about with it, all the related BGR involved, all the dirty sex jokes with Desmond, all the racist things that we have done, all the drinking and all the studying and accusing that they have done, it's all now part of a very fond memory in Takahina's heart.


Sorry Des, Takahina can't resist himself.

Now that Takahina is already in the working phrase of his life, he can't help but reminisce on the fond memories he has of the past 3 years that doesn't seem so long ago.

Takahina has often thought and spoke of this thought, "When we are studying, we want to go to work. When we start working we want to go back studying." Well, Takahina isn't really feeling like that right now, Takahina feels that it's more of the friendship and things that happen when we're studying that makes us want to go back to studying life, not STUDYING itself.

Nevertheless, until the day when Takahina officially graduates and comes out with tons of pics, you guys are guaranteed a full size in full glamor testimony specially done by Takahina... WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT! HAR HAR HAR.

The Musically Rejected Takahina, 2012 Week 24

Don't worry, it's not like I get rejected in love life or work whatsoever. This time it involves around, MUSIC!

As most people know, (well you know now if you didn't) Takahina is in 2 Jpop/rock band, namely Resonance and Marukyu. I know my fellow bandmates will see this but then again there's nothing offensive, nor am I comparing anything here.


1st D'J Party I think?

Every year, Singapore has a handful amount of Japanese related gigs. Among them, the oldest and so called "most prestigious" would be Singapore Street Festival's D'J Party. It has first started since 10 years ago and is one of the first, if not the first Japanese Gig in Singapore. For Singapore, there are tons of English/Mandarin gig going on but for Japanese, D'j Party would be one of the first. Eventually it will establish itself (at least in my heart) as one of the "Top Jpop Bands in Singapore" Gig whereby only the top bands who applied to play, get to play in it. So it means that it may not always feature the best Jpop/rock bands in SG as some bands may not be able or willing to apply for it.

Takahina first listened to Jpop since year 2000. I still remembered very clearly when I heard the commercial of Countdown Jpop 2000 playing on TV, showing previews of Vogue by Ayumi Hamasaki, Treasure by Hiro and April by Speed. They got me hooked and I bought my first CD ever since.


The CD to start it all

From then on I began a sacred relationship with Jpop (har har har). Ever since I got caught on with certain artist/musicians and currently I still regularly listen to them, buying their full discography of albums.

I began drumming, well technically when I was 12, I started playing Drummania in the Arcade. It was then still called Percussion Freaks. It was one of the most in-thing in arcade at that time and my bro Tian Wei and me will spend hours lining up just to play the game. Throughout the years we progress from being pure beginners to playing master levels at 16. There's when we decide, it's time we got serious.


Yeah serious we are.


His drum skills are L33T

For a year plus, we started going to drum lessons under the tutelage of Mr Jimmy Lee in Music Clef. What we learned in the arcade helped out in letting us getting more readily comfortable with the whole hands legs eyes coordination thing. So for those who just started out drums, you think it's easy? Think again, I took a whole 4 years just to get proficient in it.

One fine day, my bro Benjamin Seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet wanted to form a Jpop band playing Every Little Thing. I'm cool with it and I joined his band to try out. He managed to get this pro-bassist called Jun (now named Emerson), pro-Keyboardist Jane and a very indifferent Vocalist named Zeith. Then what turns out is that the band failed. Why? Cause I can't remember the combination changes and transition progression when playing the song out. I assume I can remember but obviously I can't. And having a lack of experience I failed in getting the song going on. The whole jam ended in a deplorable mood. We had dinner after jamming where Jun guided me on how the Bassist and Drums are part of groove and it's their job to be consistent while the lead section which most of the time consist of lead guitarist, vox and keys will be the one producing the magic in the song.


Mr SEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeettttt


Emerson AKA Jun. I dun even know how to call him now.

*Can't find Jane's pic, I dun even have her FB.*

I've learnt a lot that day. I think Jane totally forgot who I am now but Emerson should still have at least a bit of memory on this...

I guess?

Then another fine day, my bro Mr Seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet's friend Nika, needed a drummer to complete her Jrock band lineup. Knowing I need experience to level up Mr Seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet recommended me to the band. And thus came out Le Foret.


Nub band

This band called Le Foret, with members Jude, Nika, Moses and Hyde (not the Japan, androgynous one) began to participate in D'J Party. At that time the D'J party was still not as popular and the musicians in it was of rather low level. Believe it or not Le Foret at that time was one of the lousiest band out there. Playing loud and inaudible music which if Takahina listened to now, would scold at.

But still being in Le Foret had got me with an ambition; to play in D'J Party every year. And even though Le Foret was a lousy band, I had fun in that band, so in a sense the band built up a form of camaraderie. That got me to like being in a band as I realized that form of camaraderie can't really be easily obtained elsewhere.

A lot of things happened from then on and I could not manage to join D'J Party every year. Either it's due to band issues, commitment issues, time clashes, lack of bands. But still if I could push for it and there's potential, I would. In the end I only managed to join it with a few other bands at separate years, namely Le Foret in 04, The Unknown in 2007, Child's Play in 2009, Resonance in 2011.


Nub Band acting emo. Yeah I used my JC pic in the band pic, got a prob??


This is like the only pic of The Unknown I could find and it features AHhhhhhh Rong!? WTF?


Huiming was bored in this pic.


Resonance with Jinn being anti-social

In a weird sense though, whenever I applied to join D'J Party, I would be able to enter. So you could say either I'm lucky that I'm in a good band, or not that year's competition is relatively easy.

This year was the same, I had 2 bands pushing to join in D'J Party namely Marukyu and Resonance. Due to D'J Party being 10 years old this year, the organizers were very stringent in letting bands entering the gig. There was firstly a recording application, followed by an audition, which to me is a first.


You look at them and you'll never think "band". 

The recording application's ending date was very close to the end date of my examinations, so I literally had to scramble to produce a recording for application for Resonance and Marukyu.

Resonance was still somewhat smooth moving as we have been jamming somewhat regularly. Despite having a change of lineup to the band members and songlist, the song that we prepared for the recording we had played before, so it wasn't too much of a problem.

However for Marukyu, the band hadn't even jammed once! Although some of us such as Robbin and Ting Zhi and me played together before, Vox Rika is jamming for the first time and Adelene is playing with all of us except for Ting Zhi for the first time. For us to produce a decent recording for a song is almost impossible for an amateur band. Amazingly we pulled through and within 2 hours of jamming, we sent our recording to D'J Party.

Both Resonance and Marukyu got through the recording stages. Next up was the audition phrase at Shiin Studio on the 2nd June. There were hick-ups for both bands but still in a sense our performance is satisfactory.

I received news on 11th June that both Resonance and Marukyu were rejected for D'J Party. :/

At that point of time I can feel some sort of dejection for both bands. Resonance was a band then had struggled and trained hard for the audition while Marukyu was a very promising band with a very good set of line up. For us to get out of the gig now, could be said as a great disappointment. Hence 11th June, is one of the worse Mondays of 2012.

I understand though it simply comes as the band being a weaker band... but then I can't help but feeling, "so lousier bands shouldn't be allowed a place to perform, then how we improve?"



and secondly who decides what band is good or not? This is very similar to many talent shows out there, simply put its like asking,


You suck, as always.

"What makes Simon Cowell worthy to judge whether a singer is good or not?"

or


F-king Smart.

"What makes Epic Meal Time worthy to judge that whether a Bacon Flip is well done or not?"

A lot of gigs in recent times requires the band to go through a series of audition before we can actually be allowed to perform. So it's equal to saying that as long as your band sucks, you can't perform... which can work in both ways:

1. You will strive hard to make the band work harder with a new founded sense of purpose coming from nowhere.
2.  Your band sucks, just accept it and quit the band.

Well of course if your band can enter scenario 1, good for you. But it takes an already founded sense of commitment and friendship in the band for them to be able to go through the transition period that easily. Also the truth has already hit you that "hey you suck...",  it's not that easy for any musicians, no matter how prideful or prideless aka NO PRIDE to get through that kinda period easily.

When the news kicked in, I immediately responded by putting in those encouraging kind of messages in for both bands in Whatsapp. Of course it can only help for just a bit and it's obvious the morale for both Resonance and Marukyu is low now. 

Then again, you look at the organizer's point of view. It's not that they purposely want to cause this kind of dejection, but they can only allow a limited amount of performers into for a performance and no one would want a lousy band up there, so they have to hold auditions to see who's good enough to go. Then seriously who's the better judge? For such a low budget event it can only be done by a committee of fellow musicians who are considered one of the top few in the circle; after all they are the ones putting in money and effort in it! If you are not happy, you hold your own D'J party event!


Flip ah flip!

Ultimately it's understandable, not everyone would be happy with the decisions made by a person, especially when it involves disappointment after much effort and time. Therefore there should be no finger pointing or outlandish insulting comments done to anyone. Don't blame PAP for everything also, they never do anything wrong.

Anyways, there's another gig for Japanese bands coming up if I'm not wrong; Jam Fest by AMG.

Resonance and Marukyu interested? ;)

The Re-Blogging Takahina - 2012 Week 23

Here I am sitting at the office table of my 1 week old new job, re-starting my blog. Now that I think of it, it's quite amazing how someone like me who used to blog weekly can all of a sudden stopped blogging altogether.

It's amazingly.... easy. And that scares me, outright.

I had a little ambition in the past and that is to have my blog achieve high viewership standards, so as to enable possible advertisements and earning meager income from it. The financial course I attended at Adam Khoo mentioned before, by doing something that you enjoy regularly and being able to earn income from it, it makes being financially secure so much more easy.

True enough. I enjoy blogging and if every blogpost I write earns me as little as even 10 cents, I'll be continuously spending time and writing all the way till now. Now I know why there are gamers who endlessly play MMORPG grinding their way to financial freedom. Even right now I last heard from one of my brothers, Stacey that people are starting to sell items in Diablo 3. Diablo 3 just got released a few weeks ago and people are starting to earn their $70 back. The best thing is? They enjoy it!

How about me? Sitting at my desk writing a blog after almost a year because I have nothing to do. Well at least for now I have nothing to do because my system isn't exactly ready for me to use. If it's up, who knows how busy I can get.

So, what does blogging mean to me?

A means of earning money? I had thought of coming up with a food review blog, hence you see me taking so many pictures of food now and then. But then it hasn't really come up anyways after several oppositions from several friends (I'm referring to you Serene har har har).

A means of expressing myself? Maybe, I seem to be able to express myself explicitly about many issues for the past few years such as the GE 2011. But then I found it quite risky to let everyone know what I think about issues openly, imagine if I say I support PAP, the next thing I know I may be on hardwarezone.com's forum. You can ask me and I'll answer truthfully, but I'm starting to see there's no point in advertising what I feel about things.

So what is it exactly? I'm not too sure myself too now since I can so easily forgo it for the past year.

Lazy Takahina... Lazy.

To say that I haven't blogged because school is busy is an excuse. To say that it's due to my commitments it an excuse. It's impossible I can't find few hours in a whole week to come out with a proper post. I guess the only way to say is that I'm losing my inspiration to write.

In the past when I'm not happy about stuff, I have the inspiration to comment and blog about it. This makes me happy and the attention that comes to my blog lets me bask in happiness. Especially when my blogpost can hit comments of up to like 20+ in the past, I become hyperventilating.

~~*_* '~~

And yet again, I don't dare to let everyone in the world know about how I feel, so I don't dare to put it up on Facebook Notes. It's far too public for my liking. So it's kind of like a dilemma within me. This dilemma eventually caused me to lose motivation and inspiration. Slowly I let go of blogging, to the extent I forgot what my password is.

To be frank, I'm blogging again right now because I don't want to totally lose my writing skills, plus encouragement from Serene who is part of the MAS's Unemployment Statistics and Desmond the Celebrity Dog Groomer endorsed by the Dog Whisperer Cesar Milan. But who am I kidding, partly it's also cause I'm bored. How long will this drive inside me continue I have no idea, how long will I be so "free" in the office I have no idea (BTW, it's not that I want to be restless at work, but it's cause I simply don't have access to relevant systems I need to work!) I'll try to blog as often as possible such as once a week. If not maybe after some big event and I have things that I want to express.

Regardless please bare with me as I restart myself. Especially now since I have officially graduated and that now I'm in a new phrase of life, let the blogging begin!

The Once Again Returning Takahina?

It's taking me about almost a year since my previous post which was made on the 30th July 2011.

yeah, freaking 2011.

Wat happened to someone like me who used to love blogging so much? I used to like to speak trash all the time, and then now I actually stopped trash talking for almost a year? Woah. That simply just doesn't seem Takahinistic at all. But then again, writing has been one of my favourite hobbies ever and I doubt I can ever put it away for life. So I'm risking my life now writing this during work, of course I only do it when I'm free, which is for this current period of time when I'm still under "training".

I doubt I'll be posting very often either, since time is not really on my side now.

It's been a year and what has changed? Quite a lot essentially. A whole big bunch of my life has changed since last time I wrote... well not entirely. But I'm proud to say that I'm now in my next phrase of life. The Working Phrase.

Before I get to that though, a shoutout to WHOEVER still reads this. Post a comment below to let me know k? So I know at least who still reads and I will write stuff that I can may entertain you if possible (or if I feel like it). For now, that's all. Lunch Break now :D