In November I visited my hometown in Portugal. Most of the pictures are of me and my family, so I wont post them. Those above are the few I took of the landscape. The sunset was quite breathtaking.
03 January 2012
01 January 2012
NYE
Happy New Year!
2012!!
I had a nice time last night and got tipsy with some rosé champagne!
We went to a pub where a friend was DJing and there was also a band. Unfortunately it started to rain just after we got out of the house so my straight hair style turned into nice waves, as if I had used a hair curler, by the time we arrived to the pub. It was quite a nice result actually, haha. But we forgot all about taking pics :( I only have these ones we took on the way.
Anyways, I'm hoping 2012 will be a better and kinder year for everyone. Have fun!
27 December 2011
Happy Holidays!
Happy holidays everyone!
It's been such a long time since I wrote... I seem to be saying this almost every time I write now. Except for that one post in September, I haven't wrote for 4 months. Well, to be perfectly honest, I almost gave up this blog... So what made me come back? It was Ladybird's comment a couple of days ago, where she wrote "I miss your blog posts! hope you post again soon!". I was so surprised that someone would still check this place and actually miss what I had been doing. It was very sweet of her to leave me a comment. And here I am, posting once more :)
There are a number of reasons why I've been a away for 4 months and I shall explain a little. I'll try not to make it long and boring!
In August my laptop started acting funny, I couldn't use internet at all. As long as I didn't connect the internet the laptop was just fine, but as soon as I connected it, it would stop working. Whatever. So I was basically away from the net world for 2 months or so. During those 2 months, I would just spend hours reading or writing or thinking or watching dramas on my iPhone. And it does sound boring, but it was actually fine. I realized how much time I had spent on the laptop just checking blogs, websites, emails, facebook and all those things everyone does. And I started to hate myself for losing so much time on useless things. I felt like I had been wasting my life. And I also started hating myself for spending so much money on unnecessary things due to easy net shopping. I felt so guilty for all those things. After that, I read a book that's perfectly normal for most people, I guess, but in my case it changed my life. It was Haruki Murakami's Dance Dance Dance. I am a big Murakami fan, but I had never read this one book, and still a couple others left. I loved it so much, I cannot expressed it by words. Anyways, I can't point exactly what, but something in this book touched me deep. And suddenly my life made sense and I didn't feel hate for myself. (Some people say its one of his least enjoyable works though) I made a decision that what I was looking for was just a simple life that didn't make me feel guilty and hate myself all the time. Then came the big discovery that there is such a concept as simple living. You can search it online if you're curious about it. It's not a religious thing or anything, it's just small steps and ways of doing things in your daily life that make it simpler. That's about it.
After those 2 months my laptop was fixed and I didn't feel any desire to use it, not even to check emails, because I could do that on my iPhone.
In October, at a Halloween party, I met some friends I hadn't seen since summer. They were like "are you OK?", I said I was fine, and they went on "oh, you haven't been using facebook at all for such a long time, we were worried about you. We thought maybe something happen". OK... If they were worried then why didn't they pick up the phone and gave me a call? After that encounter, I slowly started using facebook again and internet in general. Very slowly. Nowadays I use the laptop more often than I intended though, but mostly to watch films or dramas, to write and to listen to music. I spend money on net shopping maybe once, twice tops, a month, which is good. I don't buy things from Japan anymore, I will leave that for when I visit the country again. There's still plenty of Japanese stuff we can find in London. And I've been saving a huge amount of my salary every month for something I have planned. I feel healthier than before.
It's been such a long time since I wrote... I seem to be saying this almost every time I write now. Except for that one post in September, I haven't wrote for 4 months. Well, to be perfectly honest, I almost gave up this blog... So what made me come back? It was Ladybird's comment a couple of days ago, where she wrote "I miss your blog posts! hope you post again soon!". I was so surprised that someone would still check this place and actually miss what I had been doing. It was very sweet of her to leave me a comment. And here I am, posting once more :)
There are a number of reasons why I've been a away for 4 months and I shall explain a little. I'll try not to make it long and boring!
In August my laptop started acting funny, I couldn't use internet at all. As long as I didn't connect the internet the laptop was just fine, but as soon as I connected it, it would stop working. Whatever. So I was basically away from the net world for 2 months or so. During those 2 months, I would just spend hours reading or writing or thinking or watching dramas on my iPhone. And it does sound boring, but it was actually fine. I realized how much time I had spent on the laptop just checking blogs, websites, emails, facebook and all those things everyone does. And I started to hate myself for losing so much time on useless things. I felt like I had been wasting my life. And I also started hating myself for spending so much money on unnecessary things due to easy net shopping. I felt so guilty for all those things. After that, I read a book that's perfectly normal for most people, I guess, but in my case it changed my life. It was Haruki Murakami's Dance Dance Dance. I am a big Murakami fan, but I had never read this one book, and still a couple others left. I loved it so much, I cannot expressed it by words. Anyways, I can't point exactly what, but something in this book touched me deep. And suddenly my life made sense and I didn't feel hate for myself. (Some people say its one of his least enjoyable works though) I made a decision that what I was looking for was just a simple life that didn't make me feel guilty and hate myself all the time. Then came the big discovery that there is such a concept as simple living. You can search it online if you're curious about it. It's not a religious thing or anything, it's just small steps and ways of doing things in your daily life that make it simpler. That's about it.
After those 2 months my laptop was fixed and I didn't feel any desire to use it, not even to check emails, because I could do that on my iPhone.
In October, at a Halloween party, I met some friends I hadn't seen since summer. They were like "are you OK?", I said I was fine, and they went on "oh, you haven't been using facebook at all for such a long time, we were worried about you. We thought maybe something happen". OK... If they were worried then why didn't they pick up the phone and gave me a call? After that encounter, I slowly started using facebook again and internet in general. Very slowly. Nowadays I use the laptop more often than I intended though, but mostly to watch films or dramas, to write and to listen to music. I spend money on net shopping maybe once, twice tops, a month, which is good. I don't buy things from Japan anymore, I will leave that for when I visit the country again. There's still plenty of Japanese stuff we can find in London. And I've been saving a huge amount of my salary every month for something I have planned. I feel healthier than before.
So that's what has been going on since I left the blog.
Since some people seem to enjoy what I've been doing here, I will continue. There's still plenty to be posted.
Love,
Firipa
Since some people seem to enjoy what I've been doing here, I will continue. There's still plenty to be posted.
Love,
Firipa
12 September 2011
Too long
It's been quite a long hiatus... And totally unintentional. I found myself having so much free time while my laptop is broken that I kind of don't want to fix it anymore, haha. That shows how much time I used to stick in front of that screen... Not healthy, not healthy. But I will fix the laptop eventually, I guess.
But I feel so free for the past weeks, or is it a month already?
I read, I write, I watch tv shows with my bf a lot more often, which is a much better quality time. And I take loads of baths. And I started jogging on Saturday mornings! This is the first time I do any physical exercise since high school!! I feel so healthy suddenly. And I feel like I own it all to my broken laptop, haha :)
Anyways, I don't know if anyone still checks this lil' blog, but I apologise for anyone that I didn't reply comment or me not commenting on your blogs anymore. But I do check them still, just not every week...
The pictures above are from when I DJ at a Japanese bar 2 weeks ago in Soho. It was a really nice experience. I know I have still so many things about me to write about in this blog. I DJ jpop from the 60s, 70s and 80s only. Old school, yeah baby! I buy my vinyls from japan and I already have a massive collection. I DJ mainly at Japanese parties, not on a regular basis, I would say maybe 3 to 4 times a year? Nothing much. And I do it for fun, mostly upon request from friends who organise that type of events. this last time was the first time I got paid for it! It felt so nice to get money for doing my fun :D greatest feeling!
17 August 2011
Back from Wales
We spent a long weekend in Wales, mostly in the peninsula of Gower. We visited Cardiff, Swansea, Mumbles and Rossili. We were quite unlucky weather wise when in Rhossili, it was so cold and raining all the time, but still quite beautiful and peaceful. I never want to return to messy, dirty and busy London after visiting the countryside...
But the reality is that we are on our way home right now. I'm still laptop-less so I won't be able to share any nice pics, just these few I took with the iPhone.
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