REVEREI

( Well, not perfectly per se,
but at least without having to look at the Japanese lyrics. )

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There’s scenes in books (as well as my own imagination) that I’ve always wanted to draw/paint. So, *dusts off the tablet* here goes nothing.

1. Finish the manuscript I’m working on by the end of January *** TOP PRIORITY!***
2. Throw away junk in the apartment that we haven’t used for the past two years (alas, if only our mini car could even fit such a load)
3. Conduct a short video/photographic apartment tour?
4. READ (preferably on Kindle)
1. The rest of A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin (haven’t started the 1,200-paged book 3 yet)
2. Every single Vampire Chronicle/Mayfair books by Anne Rice (shame I haven’t already done this already)
3. The entire Harry Potter collection (whenever the hell they decide to release the digital editions! grr)
4. Ursula Le Guin’s Tales of Earthsea? (still debating)
5. Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan (I had a hard time getting into the first chapter for this one, heh)
6. First books of Anita Blake series by Laurell K. Hamilton? (I hear the series gets really bad after a while)
7. More Dark and Urban Fantasy and Steampunk novels!!!
5. Get back to studying Japanese on a daily or at least weekly basis.
6. Take more photos! Especially with honeybee.

1. On New Year’s last year, I met two of Ken’s relatives (his late grandmother’s sisters).  Suffice to say it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. 
2. We finally moved to a bigger apartment thanks to the kindness and generosity of Ken’s grand-aunt, Setsuko. (She’s one of the two I met.)
   
3. Ken found a job that he more-or-less loves.  (It’s always been his dream to work in Tokyo)
4. We experienced and survived through a horrific earthquake that brought the country of Japan to its knees.
5. I got into a (minor) car accident.
6. I went to the ER for the first time in my life.
7. I got to work as an Art Director with a small film crew in Shibuya
8. I made up with a friend.
9. I read and finished roughly 30+ books.

This is a major reason why I am, essentially, a homebody. Kindle-chan, where have you been all my life? I wasted 2007 and 2008 moping around without you.

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Saturday night on Christmas Eve, Ken and I ate dinner at a bakery restaurant inside the newly opened (11.11.11) Terrace Mall.

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Concrete Catwalk and Recycle by China Glaze. I want to slowly build up my color collection of grays, blacks, purples, taupes, and dark reds.