a-okay

the whole world knows what's happened to japan and they cried with us and for us. thank you so much. we are fine :)

sorry for lack of update. we, kamatas, are fine and all of us took off from work to help as much we could. so was sasuke. mom shared with us about how amazing sasuke was when she was tending to the children.

翔

happy 29th birthday, baby.

fly high and soar!

NO PHOTOS PLEASE

hello i'm back!
first dinner was with the family, thus no photos.
bahn was amazing. will be back for photos. :D

MORE FAST FORWARD

reached nyc safely, thank god.

my ass was kinda under fire in tokyo so my sabbatical hol fit in just nicely, thank god.

somehow my blog escaped their grasp solely because of english in content. another fit in. thank god.

another week and i will be away from civilisation.

you guys take care. don't worry, i will.

addendum - missing the boyfriend very much.

FAST FORWARD

i had a great birthday this year, celebrated it with my most-loved people.

oli had come and gone i'm missing her so much. my sabbatical holiday is confirmed, leaving by end of next month. Posting is confirmed and i'm hitting south america this time around.

secret's out and they are blurry pictures out there. oh man.

MERRY GO ROUND

major pippen mclarry thinks we are his humble servants.

i'm officially away for the next 1 and a half week cos oli's here and we are having a slumber party. shin took over my walk-in and pippen had a smashing idea, ditching his personal butler, shuuhei and crash with shin. long live major pippen.

i look forward to great adventures. many many things are planned. whoopie!

BUSY BEE

wow. may was unexpected busy for me. time seemed something that i was always short of. one constant situation i kept finding myself in was rushing. i was always in a rush; of finishing a task and of from a place to another. my days off were the same, zooming from a place to another with no time for any photography sessions at all. the so-called free time i had i spent it with the boyfriend, if not, at the gym and the spa.

my hand-me-down car seemed like fighting its last stage of cancer. those three trips to the maintenance centre didn't really help. dad's reckoning it was shuuhei's 2008 crash showing its effects. i thought a mazda sedan would be sexy for me though dad thought otherwise. 'why?' he asked over dinner last night and i lied (e.g. i don't need the space; easier to maneuver a smaller car around blah, blah) but he didn't buy. he egged on getting a new suv. of the same model. the chinese in me sighed 'aiyo'.

btw, oli's eta next week. whoopers.

SUNNY ON MY CLOUDY DAY

somehow pippen is now called major pippen mclarry i don't know what transpired.

pippen's behaving like a human and thinks the couch is his. he swept mom off her feet and mom is contemplating to take him home but shuuhei ain't budging.

my sabbathical plan is pretty much on the way. Papers are submitted, the bosses are encouraging, the parents are too (although you can feel 'that' aura around them). the boyfriend is torn in two while the best friend isn't too happy. but i reckon it's gonna be a short posting; 4 months max.

another good news is another best friend from the west is visiting (on business trip-cum-holiday) next month. whoopers. a very nice arrangement before i leave for fieldwork again.

IT'S ON

WHAT: DINNER & PARTY

WHY: NEW YEAR'S EVE

WHEN: 31.12.2009 1800

WHERE: REI & SHUUHEI'S PAD, WOMB VIP

WHO: GORGEOUS GIRLS & HOT GUYS

HOW: COME WITH AN EMPTY STOMACH & PARTY SPIRIT! WE ARE GOING ALL OUT!

12.03.2009

it's a day to remember. :)

GONE FOR A LITTLE WHILE

ok, i'll be off to work an i will be back in november.

see ya. :)

NEW DIRECTION

after much contemplation and talks with family and friends, i've decided.

tokyo is where i shall be at after sudan.

MOVE FORWARD

carmen and i dreamed of him and he had the similar message for both of us. i guess he knew that both of us needed much comfort to ease the sorrow and of course the strength to let him go. and those words left for us did give us the strength to do so.

so yes, people. i'm ready. :)

DECIDED

i'll be posted to nyc this august for 8 months, instead of the planned deploy to east timor.

BLISS

engaged.

it happened yesternight. :D

HOMEBOUND

good news mates, doug and i will be sydney-bound from May 25th to June 20th! it's definitely not an exaggeration for me to say that we are dying to meet you boys and girls again! we await good times! however i have to give caution that 50% of the time shall be spent with the family. :)
next destination would be phuket for a couple of days after which we'll be off to meet my parents in tokyo until me vacation ends in september and he'll be off to sydney again while ms kamata shall be crashing at oli's place in nyc for a week before being sent off to sudan.

UPDATE

milo. just too cute.

by shuuhei.

good things do happen.

doug. :)

THE DIRT ON THE JOB

itinerary.

destination: new york.

date: march 17, 2005.

etd: 2100

destination: kabul, afghanistan

date: april, 2005.

etd: tba

a party is required before this date, ok!