AAK

  So, this time it's K. So what about K? 

  Well, K could mean many things; but there is one K in my mind right now.

Long live the king

  Movie's too good man. Can't keep it out of my mind.

  Well, the story kinda sucks, but... I'm gonna quote a very short conversation I had with an old friend:

Me: "Hey, have you seen the new Godzilla movie yet?"

Him: "Not yet, critics said it sucks because there's too many monster fights, so that means I have to see it."

  K, k, enough bout Godzilla. On with the show.

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  Well, I guess I have rambled on enough about the negatives in the previous post. I'll try to focus on the positives now. It wouldn't be all 100% positive, I don't think the previous post was 100% negative either but heyyy

Never a 100%!

  So, let's start with some thing that is annoying me mildly. I have not bought a razor since "A Plastic Epiphany", so I've been kinda letting my facial grow. Right now, my moustache sometimes touch my lips, and it feels so weird. It's super wispy and constantly feels like an insect or something around it. Not just that, I'm super conscious about food chunks or dust getting stuck in the hair, or worse... oil stuck in the facial hair. Now I know why moustache/beard shampoo is a thing. You either shampoo those hair of yours or get pimples cause it has the potential to harbours nasty stuff yo.

  The other thing is that I restarted Dragon Age Origins. The shitty thing is that I like to play as the guy who talks his way out of stuff, but that playstyle really only complements the rogue, because why would you dump stats into cunning if you were a warrior or a mage? So I started my new playthrough as a city elf stabby stabby rogue (my previous was kinda just quarter way through the game as a royal dwarven archer rogue). I would say, the origin story for the city elf seems to be the least sad amongst all of it so far. The royal dwarves and the noble men origin all involved family member dying. Anyway, there's this guy in the city elf origin called Vaughan. Dude's the son of an Arl, and treats elves like shit. It all starts with him barging into your wedding (yeah), and kidnapping your bride and your cousin (you and your cousin if you start out as female) with the intention of raping them (or you). He's so comically evil that he does an evil laugh at the end of all his sentences. He's basically rapey Draco Malfoy (my father, the Arl, will hear about this!).

  So yeah, I actually spoiled myself by looking him up online, cause I can tell I will have the option to spare him rather than killing him outright. Turns out by sparing him, his life kinda got sucky, but he's still a dick, so off with his head then. Feels good y'kno~

Such a ponce.

  The other thing is, I'm not sure if I said this but I'm trying out the violin. The past violins that I have touched, at the very least, have the tape, or remnants of the tape on the neck of the violin so I could see what note I'm playing. Well, the violin I borrowed from the library has no such thing. It's already hard enough to play the violin, but not knowing what notes to play is even harder! What I did was that I attached a tuner at the end of the violin and constantly look at what note I'm playing. The other thing is, I thought the violin would be easier to pick up because it uses the same open strings as the bass (E-A-D-G), but... the position is opposite! >:0 It feels like an orthodox trying to learn southpaw.

  So yeah, violin is hard. 

  Oh yeah, I also recently attended a friend's graduation party, he finally finished his PhD, so the entire party was like, "Oh congratulations... doctor... *smirk smirk*" (me included). Ah you see, me being invited to this party was a understandable but at the same time strange choice. You see, I met this guy when I first arrived in St John's, we were all international students, and where do we meet other international students? At parties of course! We saw each other drunk and he knows pretty much the person I dated at the time (met at the same party) and all of those much more personal things. As time passes, all of us kinda got further and further (it's not just 2 of us, there's these other people too), until all we do is acknowledge each other with a hi in campus. I think part of it is cause we all were trying to leave that life behind us, that we associate these friends with the party life, so we kind of avoided each other. Now that he's finished with his doctorate, he invited all his new friends (lots of people I don't recognize) and the old buddies (me included). Man, it was great to see everyone again. Everyone matured up for sure; gone were the days of party-warty, now its just dinner parties and eating homemade guacamole (the man's Mexican, and he makes a mean guac). 

  Being in the doctorate program, most of his friends are also in the same level. If you recalled back then, I got close to this Danish fella who's doing his PhD too. We play boardgames and talk about anime, statistics, and life and whatever. Then, his wife got pregnant so they decided to move back to Denmark, because "welfare is better back home than here being an international student", and him being of Danish nationality, definitely. So yeah, there's this hole in my soul when he left, and it almost got replaced by this another guy I met at the party. Or I guess... a couple? 

  It was an Italian couple. The lady is doing the PhD while the man is here to not be in a long distance relationship. Me and the guy geek out about all the geek stuff while me and the lady (his girlfriend) talks about statistics and more of the nuance stuff. Apparently they both knew the Danish guy so that's a great starting conversation. The guy likes to show me stuff on his phone but its very awkward to do so because his wallpaper is his girlfriend (who was sitting next to me at the time, looks like she doesn't mind) in bed... mmmmh...

  I guess the main difference the Danish couple and this Italian couple is that the Italian couple has the more... uhhh... macho-man feminine-woman dynamic? Like y'kno, only women does this, men doesn't do this! kind of mindset going on. I guess that's the difference between northern and southern Europe.

  I've also been telling you guys I wanna move out of Newfoundland. So I was having this conversation with Paolo (the owner of my favourite vegetarian place, Peaceful Loft).

  Me: So I've graduated and I'm planning to move away.

  Pao: You know... Jerry... I've lived in many places, and I've been to every place in Canada too, and I can tell you that... St John's is the best place to live...

  Me: Mmmm...

  Pao: So what did you graduate in again? Civil Engineering?

  Me: No, that's Simon. I did statistics.

  Pao: Ah, well then, you should move to somewhere else.

  Nice. 

  My current manager is trying to make me stay in St John's. She told me if I were to stay longer I'd be promoted and stuff. Also, I think she's also trying to set me up with someone else because "if I were to have a girlfriend I wouldn't move away". I mean, based on my previous experiences, I think I can challenge that statement :p   

 

  But that statement rings true for my other friend though. Lots of us graduated at the same time, and my other friend has been constantly telling me "Man I hate this place, I want to move to somewhere else better" for pretty much the entire she's here doing her degree. Her original plan is to move to Calgary but then suddenly she said "you know what, maybe I'll stay a bit longer, feel it out first". She also recently got a boyfriend. I wonder if those two events are correlated, :hmmm_emoji: