Thankful for You

Just a little note to show appreciation to my family and friends.

I was just feeling kind of lonely and lost today ... well, I've been feeling like that for a little while now anyway ... and I remembered that I have people who love and care about me, who would feel pain for me when I am being taken advantage of or when I'm down, who would guide me when I'm lost, who long for me to come home, who want me to be happy, who appreciate me for who I am to them, ... and each and every one of them I can count on to be there for me.

Thank you all.

I'm here for you, too.

Crossroads

I'm already booked during the last week of April for a road trip to Santa Barbara to go surfing. I think I am gonna like going home.

I also have a roommate pending if I decide to go back to Oregon and stay for a while. But that's a huge decision to be making, coz if I want to stay in Oregon and work for a couple of years, why not just go to another country (like Japan) and work for a couple of years there instead? There, I will be able to learn another language, experience life there, and have bragging rights of saying that I have been to Japan.

Would Peace Corp be too wild of a dream?

But staying in Oregon and living with one of my best friends is just a tempting idea. At least some stability for a while.

Hmm. I really need to think about this. Any thoughts I can use?

Telling a Boy How Boys Are

grahamhr00: now you have time to find a boyfriend!
Skycrystal2005: Speaking of having a long time left in HK, .... hmmm. Oh, I'm not in a hurry. they're a lot of work, you see.
grahamhr00: haha, i can imagine
Skycrystal2005: You have to walk them (they sometimes prefer to be walked on the beach at sunset), feed them (they like homemade food, sometimes dine out), bathe them (well, some like bubble baths), dress them (go shopping with them, or else they'll buy something completely out of fashion or ridiculous looking), etc..
Skycrystal2005: Hmm, at least they know how to go to the bathroom themselves. I heard they come potty trained.
grahamhr00: yes, that sounds seriously miserable
Skycrystal2005: I wonder if a "good" boyfriend really is just one who can take care of a few of those things I listed above. Of course, an "excellent" ... A grade ... boyfriend is one who's more than that, one that I'm shooting for.
grahamhr00: sounds like you've only experienced very needy ones!
Skycrystal2005: Yeah, ones that I would compare to golden retrievers.

How Do You See?

How do you see your past? Your memories?

I see mine in short clips of moments. Kinda like a really good preview of a movie, or a music video to a song written especially for a movie, thus its music video is consisted only of scenes from the movie (don't know what I'm saying? Try watching the Vindicated music video by Dashboard Confessional, written only for Spiderman 2, or try watching the previews for RENT, the movie).

I think I categorize periods of my life with songs or something. The songs that I had listened to at a certain stage of my life become the theme songs of that stage. That's why when I listen to songs like Fast Car (Tracy Chapman) or Burn One Down (Ben Harper) or L.A. Song (Beth Hart), I remember freshman year of college (2001-2) because Emily, my roommate, used to listen to those a lot. Or anything by Vertical Horizon and Goo Goo Dolls are from high school.

Kinda strange how things work in my head.

Hmmm, and I have no idea why I just wrote this. Maybe it's bcause it's 2:30 in the morning in Hong Kong.