My parents are renovating the house so the past few weeks have been about cleaning up the house and throwing away twenty years’ worth of junk.

I usually hate spring cleaning but no choice cos if don’t clear out the house, cannot renovate.  But this time I found so many small things from the past that brought up so many memories!

I took pictures of them to blog about it but as luck would have it most of them came out blurry Never trust an iPod camera I tell you.

Whatevs posting anyway!

Namecard from a young dude who wore a very nice suit and carried a briefcase, who approached me on the street in Kyoto and asked me if I had a アルバイト (part time job). I’m always broke and desperate for money (T_T) so I said I have one already but what jobs do you have?  Then he asked me to be a キャバ嬢 or a club hostess FMLLLLL.

I got scared and said no I can’t cos I’m an exchange student.  Then he said it’s ok don’t need to talk at all your look is enough WTF.

Then when I got home and told my お母さん she said luckily I didn’t take it or I would have been deported WTF scare me even more T_____T  Didn’t realize I kept his card until now!  Good times wtf.  Or maybe I secretly wanna be a hostess wtf.

The last journal I had before writing on paper and time flew out of the window and I devoted all energy to my blog.

Kinda miss writing in a private space though 🙁 There’s so many things I don’t say in my blog cos there’s too many people reading.  The other day someone scolded me for writing about my past some more wtf.

Me at age 18.  My ID card for Taylor’s College. *grimace

Bu two years before I looked like this wtf.

Baby photo I found stashed away at the back of my bookshelf.  I remember why it was there!  Cos my friends came over and they were looking at my baby photos and I realized this picture of me can see my pepet WTF.

So I faster snatched it out before they could see it and tossed it into my bookshelf behind my books hahahaah I think this was at least ten years ago only found it today now you know how often I clean my room -_-

My childhood love Lee Brennan!  I found stacks and stacks of folders filled with magazine cutouts and posters of 911 and Lee Brennan who was the love of my life wtf.

I still think he’s damn cute though!  When I flipped through my posters, my heart skipped a beat WTF.  He has a very nice nose ok and my weakness until now is still nice noses on guys wtf.

Used to doodle a lot back when I thought I had talent.  Until I took Drawing 101 in college and got a  B+ and realized I actually suck at art #shattereddreams

My 携帯 from Japan!  I think the cellphone was one of the major factors in improving my Japanese cos the whole phone was configured in Japanese so everytime I wanted to do something on it I had to read all the kanji.

Goldfish I won from some goldfish scooping game at a festival in Japan.

Every navel stud I have bought in my life is pink, heartshaped and glittery -____- Didn’t realize my very obvious taste and my waste of money until I tidied up my accessories.

Love letter from Fatty / Kitty chan!  Blogged about it before here.

Dance fan from my 日本舞踊 class (traditional Japanese dance) also when I was in Kyoto.  God how I hated that class.  We joined it cos we thought it would be really cool to dress up in yukata every week and learn how to dance with fans like a geisha wtf.

But every week we had to take a train to the outskirts of the city, then walk like fifteen minutes to the dance studio (which also looks like the teacher’s house wtf) and then tie on the yukata then dance for like an hour.

Yukata part cool.  Wearing the tabi (traditional Japanese socks) cool.  Dancing for hours a week for a few months and still not being able to remember the steps not cool.

Hate every physical class I take.  Every class also I’d be the worst most incompetent one and the teacher will have to pay special attention to me and offer me extra coaching FTS.  And after all her efforts, I’d still be unable to do a single thing with my body.

The only cool part.

I actually taught English for a short while as a part time job.  I went to a kindergarten’s Christmas party too like a guest of honor and all the kids made me a huge Christmas booklet <3 <3

Submitted a paper with a missing conclusion and still got an A minus #likeaboss

Stupid art folio that I had to do in high school.  The topic was painting so we had to pick some famous painting to copy -_-

I randomly chose this painting from the back of a Reader’s Digest. Now only I look back and realize it was van Gogh WTF.

Stupid wan ask us to recreate the picture 4 times to show step by step. Who does that!?!

Homework sheet.

Comics for art class again.

My best friend in school was way more talented!  This was a comic she drew for me cos apparently I dragged her to school on a Saturday morning hahahaha.

Old fashion magazines back when super layered orange hair and platform boots were in.

My favorite magazine when I was a kid.  I had unusual tastes wtf.

Old organizers!  God I was so organized.  And cute wtf.

My birthday must write bigger!  Period that time must draw a sanitary pad HAHAHAAH.  For Chinese New Year, I was sour cos I couldn’t be home to spend it with the Oois.

Trey made sure I would never ever forget his birthday wtf.

Marked a date to go Christmas shopping!  But then apparently I fell sick wtf.

HAHAHAH this one damn funny!  I told David once that I had never gotten any flowers from anyone before.  So for my birthday he very sweetly got me flowers!

But to save money (cos he’s frugal like that) he bought me a flowerpot with some flowering plant inside instead of a bouquet WTF.  And he secretly left it in my college mailbox to surprise me.

But unbeknownst to him, I never check my mailbox.  So when I opened it three months later I found a flowerpot with a dead plant in it WTF.  Thought someone was trying to put a curse on me wtf.

Ok memories over babai wtf.