Ninjas STILL can't catch you if you're on fire

Ahh Chiang Mai, the best place to be continuing with my life of leisure chez Maman. Though I am still sending off job applications, seemingly off into the void if the lack of response is anything to go by, things have been pretty relaxed. And awesome.

( The past few days of leiiiiiisure, YAY SPN_J2_BB and gym etc etc )

TODAY:
- Mani/pedi and leg waxing ahhh I feel like a real girly girl again! This is a super relaxing way to spend time, one could positively get used to it :D Though holy crapola, it is HOT AS HELL here every day. Even the sudden onset of STORM and GUSTING WINDS really didn't do much after like the one hour it took for all the water to condensate. You actually start sweating like hell just by standing outside. And this happens at like 5PM, not just during noon like one would expect.

AND NOW I MUST CATCH UP ON SUPERNATURAL, COMMUNITY AND MOAR ♥

PEE ESS It took me ages, but I finally have new swank icons~~ *is proud*

It is amazing how I can suddenly realize that I haven't been online since at least a few days and have not much more than the vague feelings of guilt at not getting back to some people as negative reactions. The last few days have been filled with pretty happening things, so I guess that explains it.

First off: INTERNSHIP: SUCCESS! Hello, nice shiny formulaic confirmation letter that will hopefully be a bit of needed polish to my still quite average CV! All in all, and considering all my bitchery along the way, I remain confident that this internship was the right thing to do. Sure, it would have been nice to have actually been in the ad department like I wanted to in the first place, but I learned a lot in the PR department regardless, and it's not like knowing my stuff in this area will hurt my prospects. It's good to know that it's an area I could be good in, even if it might not be The One Job to rule them all. And the lessons in "Don't fucking underestimate the menial work.... oh you did, did you? Damn, that was stupid" smarted a bit, but ultimately? Were worth gold.

This didn't stop the fact of my last actual day being pretty lamesauce, because THEY FUCKING FORGOT IT WAS MY LAST DAY laaaaaaaaaaaaaawl and here I thought I was being pretty damn obnoxious in mentioning how often I was gonna be gone soon but uh, apparently not! So I ended up eating deliciously lunch all on my lonesome after waiting a bit for the lunch invite that never came ahahaha oh man, the "out of sight, out of mind" adage really was true, wrt to me not being at the PR floor anymore. They all seemed a bit ashamed after they found out though, and I got a chocolate "gold medal" from one of the staff, and multiple invitations for lunch the last week I am back in BKK. The unofficial feedback I got from the P' who supervised my weekly bank advertisement analysis of being "pretty much the best intern we've had so far who was doing this" was a welcome ego-boost, ngl.

AND NOW I AM IN CHIANG MAI, and it is awesomeness concentrated. I love being in Ma's gorgeous and airy house, our days are filled with joy and fun and I feel like a happier, prettier and all-round better person when I spend time here. I mean, I also get an added kick of slight self-loathing when I actually see myself in the nice lighting here, but it is at least the type of ".......jesus christ, I actually look like THIS??" that gets you out and about to do something about it, not the "I will lock myself in my room and binge-eat now :((" unproductive kind. Tomorrow we will be spending the day at the fitness studio, and I will have my first Pilates class! Man, I will be so screwed :D Good thing today was ~*SPA DAY*~ though, Andy bought Ma a hardcore birthday pampering session that we managed to whittle down a bit, because seriously? FIVE HOURS AT THE SPA? Seems a bit too much. We ended up doing a steam session, followed by a herbal scrub (tamarind and some herbal salt), an oil massage (some kind of floral oil.. Ylang-ylang), a Thai massage session AND a hair spa (kaffir lime treatment oh yes).

MMMMMMMMH DECADENCE ♥

Have apparently reached the 'EVERYTHING. I MUST EAT YOUU. NOW' stage of monthly cursing my hormones-ness! At least I did attempt to make it healthy, some tasty iceberg SALAD for dinner and some seedless grapes, buuut I suppose this gets canceled out by the half bar of nougat I had, the packet of salami pralinen and the 500g serving of Dr Oetker's Rote Grütze. God that shit is TASTY.

Have just found this receipe that sounds like a simple and vaguely healthy thing to make in May, when more cash is here though! Thank god for Spar supermarkets now letting you pay with credit cards, my budget is otherwise verrah strapped due to ultimate FAIL!!1 orz

And to continue on the ULTIMATE FAIL!!1 note, my Sprechstunde with Gouma about my STEP3 Arbeit was... illuminating, to say the least. Turns out that even if I did make a 2 on the final grade due to previous good homework assignments and my in-class participation, the final essay itself was merely a 3. Which, even if I now know what the flaws and bits and bobs were that she didn't like or that I did a bit shoddily, kind of is another stab in the heart of 'WHY AM I APPARENTLY SO DAMN DUMB IN UNI'. Gah. Must learn from this, must pass the three exams in store for me this week and I FUCKING MUST get at least a 2 in the subsequent STEP5 incarnation of this essay. This is starting to become a bit humiliating, the extent of my constant uni average-ishness. If only I could be lazy AND not give a damn about my grades, but nope, am lazy AND get disappointed when the obviously inadequate fruits of my near to non-existent labor are borne.

GAH.

Taekwondo was awesome as usual today though! Sidekick actionnn and we had to do these weird stretching exercises with our partners, and mine was this short and kinda prickly guy. Never really knew if what he was saying was meant in a joking manner or if he was subtly dissing me or something. AH WELL~ But this POURING RAIN on the way back that IS STILL HAPPENING was kinda shittastic, I must add!

No matter how much I bitch around, am lazy or try to deny it, the fact remains that once I'm really into it, Taekwondo is the ~*♥sport of my heart♥*~. You're active! You punch things! YOU CAN KICK THINGS AND YELL LOUDLY! Release pent-up aggression whilst doing something for your general physical condition and endurance! (Learning Katas sucks but ahh well lololol)

So basically, this session earlier this evening was really just awesomeness spread out on a cake of FUCK YEAH. And it wasn't even the real instructor! The warm-up itself was intense already, and thankfully I wasn't the only one wheezing my way through simulating jumpkicks whilst hopping in a clockwise direction (amongst other such exercises XD). The actual lesson today was just an intro on how to punch correctly and a walk-through on how to do a front kick(or whatever the Korean title for it is that I can never remember anyway-- Teacher in school always taught us the simple english version I guess :P), which is actually MORE tricky when you break the move up into these tiny little steps but okay. The REAL fun came where we had to partner up and practice the front kicks by hitting the targets our partner was holding, always KI-YAHing, and then we moved up to JUMP front kicks. GOD IT WAS SO AWESOME ♥
And I think I kind of freaked my partner out by really getting into it and kicking as hard as I could. AH WELL. She asked what the hell I was doing in the beginner's course after I let slip how long I actually used to do Taekwondo, but honestly I would rather be in a beginner's course and redo the fun fun kicks than have to just work on katas and what not and do hardcore training or whatever happens in the advance course. Also, I KNOW I'd suck in any advanced course, my memory of katas that I should remember for being brown 1 is nonexistent and quite embarrassing and I am not really in the mood to try the jump front kick with BOTH legs I remember being a requirement for the test to brown 2. My tailbone already shudders in pain thinking about that, lol~

IT'S STILL SUPER FUN THOUGH and I am looking forward to next week already (even Clemens is hunky dory with it, even though he seemed reserved in the face of my immediate 'WASN'T THIS AWESOME? HUH???' reaction XD)

AND SPEAKING OF AWESOME: KAT I GOT YOUR MAIL!! EEEEE THANK YOUUUU SO MANY AWESOME SERIES TO WATCH NOW I DO NOT KNOW WHERE TO START!!! And ahahahaha the cover! DUDE I actually didn't recognize Tamaki Hiroshi at first... My mind was still filled with those stubble!Kame and Jin pics that I thought it was one of them and was really confused as to why the facial features were so different rofl faiiiiiiiiil Shaz, faiiiil XDD And to think I was actually complaining to Clemens this morning about my lack of mail~ HACH DAS LEBEN IST SCHÖN ♥

URGH is this just my dorm net connection fucking around or is LJ also loading sluggish as hell for anybody else? TRES frustrating, that's for sure. Another thing frustrating is my utter lack of motivation to pack for my 8 day stay at my grandparent's place (wake-up time tomorrow @8.40AM arrgh) and the JOY for the 6+ hours travel that await... Because picking me up from Zell am See apparently ranks below my oma getting an appointment at the hairdressers, for her 'to look her best when the guests come later'. Lolllll I feel so treasured >_>;;. But ah well, after 5 hours on a train, 1 1/2 on a bus won't exactly kill me.

So, uh, I hereby declare another mini-hiatus, since I can never actually predict the frequency of my getting to feed my net addiction :( Shall attempt to finally type up the BKK posts and some other srs bizness RL posts that have been floating around in my head (I can haz uni ppl gossip?!), BUT who knows what'll happen.

Clemens keeps bugging me about my 'blog' but I am strong in my refusal to show him this LJ and since I think he doesn't even know my username I can breath a sigh of relief for now. Especially if you search for 'kaiserkuchen' on google you are inundated by cake recipes and such :Db. Have convinced him to join me for beginners Taekwondo after the Easter Hols so that is at least another yay thing, though~

The last session of Karate before the winter hols was today, and I must say that I was happy I did end up dragging my ass to there in the end-- Carmen opted out as she wasn't feeling too peachy-keen and I was shortly overcome by an intense bout of laziness BUT. Oh maaan it felt so good to get to spar!! Was up against Doro(who is totally more pleasant to spar with now), Tall Dude X(soo gawky in the typical I am too tall and can't really control my limbs way hee), Markus(I keep having to tell him to wipe his arms off before we start, it is vaguely disgusting how much he can sweat XDD), the Teacher's Pet(STUPID BITCH bla bla 'owww you hit my breast' yeah boo fricking hoo well I wasn't complaining when you stepped on my feet multiple times or punched me in the damn throat DID I :|) and to cool down there was anorexic looking Dreadlocks chick(whom I probably outweigh by about 30kgs she is sooo tiny whaa). I can already feel the bruises blossoming on both my arms this time and it actually kind of twinges when I type on the laptop. In a GOOD PAIN AAAH kind of way ahaha XDDD. Am quite curious to the colour and extent of the bruising tomorrow though~~ 8Db

AND keeping in the vein of fantastic happenings, this time in academia, I

a) AM APPARENTLY ON AN 1-er/A+ GPA IN STEP3?? WHAT THE FUCK this is too awesome I nearly couldn't believe it. I still am vaguely shocked. FRAU GOUMA, WHERE WERE YOU MY FIRST SEMESTER?? Oh man~~

and

b) FUCKING PASSED KSOZ. JUST BARELY AND WITH A 4, BUT JEEBUS CHRIST I DON'T HAVE TO RETAKE IT YESSSSS one more subject down that I don't have to do next semester BOOYAH, bitches! (Carmen is already complaining that I now have three more exams done than her ahahaha XDD)

Life is currently quite fantastic ♥ and tomorrow I am meeting Carmen in town before KPOL to go buy fuzzy handcuffs in a sex shop(Spartacus @Mariahilfer). Because we are invited to another one of Lucas' themed parties and the motto for this one is, waiiiit for it.... AMATEUR PORNO. Y-yeah. >_>;; WHAT HAPPENED TO GOOD OL' 'LETS JUST CHILL AND GET WASTED' PARTIES HUH?

Numero uno:

BOOYAH MOTHERFUCKERS :DDD

Numero dos:

GOKUDERA IS SO ADORABLE ajsffjsnkj ♥ And I am reading my way through assorted Reborn! fic and I am slowly groking the number/pairings thing yaaay~~

Numero tres:

KYAAAAA~ I can't wait to see the special eps next January!! Eeee this pic is super cute, too :DD


...and I would post a picture of my newest fascinating bruise from Karate sparring training, but I guess it's not something that should be inflicted on the internets. Or maybe later. Suffice to say that it is at least 15-20 cms long and about 5-8 cms in length and in varying red to purplish colours. Georg and co. were very suprised to see it when we were in Lecture and group consensus is that I look like a victim of domestic abuse. O-okaaay XDD. I am rather amused by it though, and I never did figure I'd bruise easily. And hey, as long the hurts from Karate restrict themselves to NOT IN THE FUCKING FACE I am totally a-okay with it. Wonder if the dude I was sparring against(who asked me later if I had done martial arts before, as I was more 'offensively active than all the other girls'...sounded like he was looking for a polite way to say 'why are you such a crazy violent chick' heh) has some bruises too?

So! Yesterday was Carmen and mines first ever Karate lesson! First impression? Kind of fuuuuun~~ It was almost soothing, getting back to the patterns of martial arts training again. We just started with some basic punches and the footwork, which already is kind of challenging because the footwork is different(duuuh) from the Taekwondo one and of course 8 years of muscle memory in me are still firmly wired to Taekwondo Taekwondo Taekwondo XDD. Our teacher Kurt really does look like one of these hippy guys, with hair all down to his ass, but is a surprisingly good, badass and funny teacher. Who uh, is using a stick as a teaching aid, too ^^;; Am curious about how the others in class will turn out to be, there is a good balance between guys and girls in this beginners class and we didn't really have much time to do any group get-to-know-you exercises. Or maybe it's just me who like those things, haah. It's a bit odd changing in the USI's locker rooms though, I keep getting suprised by the random people who are bucknaked-ly walking around... Must be the locker room prude in me, I remember back when we had PE in school and still had the communal shower in the girl's locker room none of us would take a shower because, noooo.

Other than that... OEKO was kind of SHITTY, the end. God I hope I passed... And my WU-Mitbeleger sache is fraught with OBSTACLES and DOOOM and THIS SHIT IS PISSING ME OFF. And shit, I better start getting myself ready if I am supposed to be at uni at 13.30 ahhhhhhhh D:

Oh, and KAT you better not be rewatching those eps of Kamen Rider again!! What happened to 'having free time' now eh?? *bother bother*

Have been spending a large part of the day poring over digicam catalogues and reading consumer reviews on amazon and anguishing some more. The Sony center called back and said that my trusty ol' DSC-T7's hardboard was fritzed and only 7000 baht would be able to repair it... which is a pretty steep sum, considering that the camera cost 15'000 baht when I bought it 2 years ago. So a new one it is! And the other thing that is a sure bet is that I will be sticking to Sony, first and foremost due to easy sync up with my VAIO, then my admittedly shallow LOVE for the Sony designs and the slight weight that my old cam(sniff) so endeared to me. I admit to being a shameless Sony ho and Dad enables this and shares this trait with me, I might add ;D (my only 'infidelities' have been re: iPod and the Nintendo DS I intend to own someday... sorry lah the PSP and the Sony digital music players just don't do much for me XDD).

My two end contestants:
SONY DSC-T100
OBV. PROS:
_ hot design, sleek, simple, LARGE screen, HOT DESIGN
_ lightweight!!
_ most 'newest' specs, not likely to be obsolete for a while at least
_ fancy shit that looks fun like ZOOOMING in when making vid clips
_ LOOKS LIKE A SEXIER OLDER BROTHER OF MY OLD CAMERA

CONS:
_ EXPENSIVE. 17'990 baht! D: (then again, an investment! But then I might have to kiss the DS goodbye or have limited allowance due to this...)
_ apparently the interface is a bit fiddly and annoying to access? Why the hell would they rescind the delete button anyway? And the toggle-switch from the T7?? That shit was perfect :/
_ unnecessary options like 'slideshows with MUSIC' and 'HD TV plug-ins' for me
_ FUCKING EXPENSIVE AHHH SHIT DDD:

SONY DSC-W90
OBV. PROS:
_ has its appeal design-wise(ONLY IN BLACK though ahh)
_ slightly cheaper than the T100 at 12'990 baht with most of the same specs
_ seems to be lightweight, too?
_ has a kind of busy and cluttered menu/display, but that also has its own appeal because you can see what is responsible for what function

CONS:
_ I HATE lenses that extend out. Hate hate hate. And they can get broken or jammed real I heard?
_ ...it's kind of ehh :(
_ IT'S NOT THE T100
_ ...if I am already spending more than 10'000 baht, why not just spring 5'000 baht more? Okay, 5'000 baht is a lot of money, though. But not seen in the big picture. Yet... *ARGH*

...one can see my stellar decision making skills here! Ahh.

In other news I was barred from the gym today, as Ma's freebie visitor's pass that I was using ran out and you can't use a bunch in a row? Or something. Which marks the end of my shortlived fitness career then, I guess? Was actually kind of looking forward to it today, as I could actually WALK again >_>;;
Grooved out to a Guitar Hero machine that hat buttons instead of a guitar though whilst waiting for Ma and watched Ratatouille! SO CUTE AHHHHHH ♥ And heartwarming and hunger-inducing and EEEE-WILL BE IN PARIS SOON-reminding :Db

Still sore as hell from gym two days ago. What this says about my physical condition as a whole I really do not want to know XDD. And I'll be going again tomorrow. Haaah. Sadly there isn't a body combat course tomorrow but I suppose I shall putter around the various machines again ^^

Met with my Godfather and his family with Ma for lunch, and hot damn Renate has grown since February... And is taller than me now. AND half my size, aaand since she's 15 is likely to keep on growing. *ENVIES* >:!!

But on behest of Moooone and because I uploaded some randomly the other day anyways, here be some ( PICS OF BKK and CHIANG MAI so faaar )
ENJOY