Do something new every month

I put my baby brother in bed to go to sleep, for the first time.

having Mariam and her family here :D
it was a cute lovely wonderful week we spent with them

Took guests sight-seeing on a river cruise
Had a wonderful time at Madam Tussauds
Bought a really cool & stylish pair of sunglasses
Watched street theatre
Went to my Dad’s work place
Drove to a new place with my mum
Had lunch with Kerry

upgraded my phone online
Learnt how to measure childrens feet at work

Slow month in June but I did do a few new things.

Went to Coldstone Creamery for the first time. Pretty good ice cream and it was cool seeing them mix ice cream and toppings.

Went to the Laughing Skull Comedy Lounge at the Midtown Vortex to see Greg Proops. It’s a pretty cool venue. It’s small, only 78 seats so it’s up close and personal with the comedians.

I WENT TO A PARTY! I can’t believe I didn’t write about this THAT VERY NIGHT! Considering it was kinda life altering for me. (Yeah, yeah, SHUT UP!) YES! A party was life altering. Everyone makes choices everyday, right? And, unless I am the only one, most everyone is on a sort of an autopilot when it comes to decision making. Be it through conventions of culture, practice of politeness, or merely routine, when certain decisions are placed before us, we have a default setting. And, (and I do think that THIS is just a ME thing) most of the time we (ME) say no. No I won’t go there, No I won’t do that, No Thank you, no, no no nonnonono. (And NO, I didn’t see Yes Man and was suddenly moved. =Þ ) Normally when I am asked if I want to go to a party or go out to like bars and the like, my default setting is no. No for any logical reason, I just always feel like I would be imposing in some way. Well, I told that little NO voice inside, and SHUT IT THE HELL UP! A few weeks ago there was this house party for, well a couple reasons, a lot of the Japanese students here were heading home soon, and one Japanese girl who is still here was having a birthday. I decided that, Fuck It! I am not going to see some of these people for a VERY long time, if ever again. Lets hang out one last time. Sooooo, I went to the party. As soon as I got there I had a beer in my hand. (Not exactly by choice. I’m not a beer fan. But it was more a residual acceptance of offers made to me) Though, inexperienced as I am in party settings, I didn’t realize that if you finish one beer and put it down, another will be promptly delivered. =D My friends are so NICE! This one guy, Makoto, seriously, I think his catch phrase that night was “Where’s your beer?” So, in a truly uncharacteristic move, I drank. And drank. ... And I drank some more. This is unusual because, I’m usually the DD. Forever the DD. And I’m okay with that. This night. I wasn’t driving. So I was like, FUUUUUUCK IIIIIT! Give me another! I didn’t drink to the point of vomiting or blackouts, but I was fairly well DRUNK! I think I had like 6-8 beers. And I downed the remains of a bottle of champagne. And I use the word remains very loosely because it was still pretty damn full. And I think I emptied another non-single-serving bottle of something. But that could just be me over doing it. So, now that everyone who is against alcohol is like WTF! Let me explain how a drunken night at a party was life-altering for me. I have an inordinate amount of self-control. I would say too much. I would say inhibited. SEVERELY! This night acted like a giant hammer swung into that antisocial wall. And guess what, There is a crack. I can see the glimmering image of a me that was social and had friends and had fun and LIVED! The guy I was in NYC. The one who would say yes to things. Who was… well just damn better than this me now. So you know what I did with that crack? I took some spackle and… no I’m kidding. I started digging and clawing at it and am currently in the process of getting back to a me I can be happy to be. I stop some of my antisocial behaviors such as facebook cleaning, and treating my phone number like it needs to be a secret. I’m opening myself up. I’m trying to be more social with, well anyone who will have me. =D And of course those people are pretty damn fantastic. I’m making friends! How weird is that? I was beginning to think there was an age that you got to and that ability was just gone. Now, I’m not so sure. I’m also trying to untrain myself to project this “I’m an evil God and you had better not fuck with me” vibe. Cause THAT will be the hard part. I have spent many a years creating that image for myself, and shedding it, isn’t comfortable or easy, but it must be done. I may try to keep a hint of the “evil god” part, but instead of “don’t fuck with me” I think I would rather it be “lets play! =D” Though, I also know that one of the pitfalls of being more social is beginning to care, more and more, what people think. Not necessarily what people think of you, but what people think in general. Their opinions and the like. Which, part of my former persona was like, “Oh how sweet, now piss off. Some of us have real opinions.” I’ve also found myself trying harder to acquire skills to make socializing more, I could say more easy, but I think I like the phrasing of “more lubricated” better. These skills are things I have wanted for a while, as you can see from some of my goals on here, but now I am pursuing them more actively. Like learning piano, guitar, and I have also developed an interest in magic and XCM. I dunno why. I think I clicked a silly banner on facebook one night and I was sucked in. Sue me! Anyway, what was I talking about? Oh yeah, drunken party times. You know what else is funny. I spoke more Japanese that night than I have EVER before in my entire life! And, from what I can remember, I wasn’t that bad. =D I think my Japanese was pretty damn good, even if a bit slurred.

April – Skydived
May – went to Canada, Cuba and the Bahamas
June – ???

My thoughts are: to hang glide, but might be better in warmer weather, but I’m not sure what else there is… I want it to be something ‘good’, bigish, so I can look back and go, wow, what a great year I had…

July – Melbourne to see the Paris Match ballet
August -
September -
October – save $10,000!!
November -
December -

These are just minor things but thinking about them makes me happy! So here goes:

Recommended a book to a woman I met on the train
Went to a new cinema with my brother
Bought ice cream from an ice cream van
Danced with all my first cousins on my Dads’ side of the family
Made a film at a wedding reception
Ate chips and beans at a wedding reception ;)
Did a really cool dance with my aunt that made me super dizzy!
Learnt a new way of getting to work
Started a morning exercise routine
Bought Soma lunch for the first time
Read a book about the Quarter Life Crisis

Got a cat =]
Working in a shoe shop.
Started internet banking.

went on a party on a boat, it was lots of fun even though at first i was afraid it was gonna be dull.
we spent the whole time on deck in spite of it drizzling most of the time, dancing non stop, great music, would have been perfect if the weather had been a tiny bit better (maybe warmer)^^