Short-lived Sunday

Short-lived Sunday
Sunday, February 19, 2006

Today began with me getting up from the bed exactly 12 o'clock noon. I still felt sleepy but I really needed to wake up as I would be hearing mass at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. I checked my e-mail, played Neopets a bit and read my Complex Analysis book when I noticed that it was already past 1 o'clock. I let water boil so that I could eat soba (そば, soba-Japanese buckwheat noodle) for lunch but as I was still waiting for the water to boil, I watched a Japanese drama (ブラザー☆ビ－ト, "Brother Beat"). I enjoyed watching it so I didn't notice the time. I immediately took a shower and gave up the option of eating noodles before going to the church. Hearing mass with a still empty stomach is a form of sacrifice anyway.

I reached the church just in time for the entrance song. The mass ended and I stayed a couple of minutes more to join the choir practice. We sang "Our Father" and "If We Hold on Together". I suggested that "Lead Me Lord" would be a nice communion song. So I will look for its sheet music and guitar chords so that we can practice it next time. After the practice, my friend Elmer (my junior or 後輩, "kouhai"), invited me to have some food in his dorm. Then, we took the free Jusco bus to Jusco department store having in mind that I would be doing some shopping for food.

We first checked out the second hand book and DVD shop near Jusco but found no quite interesting movies there. Next, we passed by Uniqlo (ユニクロ, pronounced "Yu-ni-klo") to check some winter clearance sale items. I found a pretty nice coat but told myself that I'd just come back to buy it. After leaving Uniqlo, I checked my phone (phone's clock as I had no watch today) and realized that I have no more time to shop for food. Instead, upon reaching the station (on our way back from Jusco), we just checked out the nearby Jujiya (十字屋) for some food stuffs. Luckily, some items there were cheap so I got some vegetables and decided to cook "sinigang na hipon" for dinner. I invited Elmer for dinner and he agreed. While watching "TV Patrol" web cast, I prepared our dinner. TV Patrol only lasted for about an hour so I ｌet him watch Brother Beat's first episode. He told me that he was interested in the drama. I liked it personally too as it is a family-oriented comedy/light drama featuring an unconventional Japanese family. It somehow reminds me of our local family-oriented sitcoms.

Now it is already 1:52 in the morning yet I still don't feel sleepy at all. These past few days, my sleeping time had reversed to around 4:00 am to 12:00 noon. But since I will be having my seminar next Tuesday, I have no choice but to force myself to sleep anytime soon so that I can return my sleeping time back to normal and to eventually prepare for my upcoming seminar.