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chapter closed, forever.
Thursday, September 29, 2005
i feel at peace. i won't let anything affect me anymore, because it's not worth it. i have always done my best.
i feel a lot better now. a lot better. i am happy, because i am in a situation that's right for me now; i am free, i am independent. i am with people who will always be honest with me... and that's all that matters to me.
i can look at the future, at all the happiness it will bring.
and i feel once again that i need to thank giles. he's been my support through thick and thin in the last month and a half, and he's made me happy. i have nothing to worry about anymore.
this is cryptic, but who is concerned will understand. and that will probably be just me, but you know... this is my life.
Posted by Vanina | 17:53 | Comments (1)
no laziness today!
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
stuff to do today: passport sized pictures, eyebrow waxing, call anna, see anna and pick up a few things, go get jana from the airport. sounds good to me.
and on a last note: he's made a mistake, he's admitted it to me, and that gives me everything i wanted. because, how strange, i've moved on, i'm in a much better situation. i'm doing all the things that i always thought i was gonna do, which i didn't wanna do at the time, because he was never good for me. i'm gonna meet people, see the world, enjoy life with my friends and my knight in shining armour, study what i enjoy studying... i couldn't wish for anything more, and i can say it without shame: i got through the shittiest time of my life, and now i'm stronger than ever, and i'm gonna fucking enjoy everything i've got going for me.
Posted by Vanina | 13:21 | Comments (0)
weird day...
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
i feel beautiful and i feel interesting and i feel intelligent, and maybe i'm big headed, but fuck i'd rather be big headed and confident than insecure like i always am!
and i deserve, only the best, not this shit. i won't take it anymore. i'm sorry, i care about you a lot, but i won't let you ruin every single memory i have of you. you better sort your head out cause next time, it's gonna be you who's fucked over. you've made one mistake already, why do you insist in your behaviour if you know it will just lead you the same way?
from tomorrow, this is a closed chapter. i won't think about it anymore. i have my nice memories, and i'll keep those, but everything that's been said in the last three months, i don't care anymore.
i have... someone else to think about now... someone who treats me the way i deserve to be treated, and it might not be perfect, but it's all i want and it's all i need.
excuse me, i'm gonna go live my life to the full now!
Posted by Vanina | 01:52 | Comments (0)
today ROCKS!
Monday, September 26, 2005
AWESOME things have happened today... in order:
* got up early and didn't feel like i'd wasted the day
* got lots of infos on thailand and indonesia from a friend of my parents', especially very useful things like wear a wedding ring at all times, buy a purifying machine thingy for water, go to moon parties...
* met up with old schoolmates which was so nice, found out what lots of people are doing now, and hopefully meeting a couple more tomorrow!
* went to the hairdresser's and sort of changed hair colour - still brunette, but reddish-brunette now! (look here!)
* got home and found the best email, saying that i have a job with an italian NGO in banda aceh (indonesia) for the christmas period - basically being their PR for the tsunami anniversary and dealing with journalists, etc.! which should be super duper good!
* my dad got infos about colleges at oxford (so i now know which ones i'm applying for, wolfsen and st. antony's which are graduate-only) and found out that apparently getting in isn't too hard!
so yes, awesome awesome awesome. i'm happy.
Posted by Vanina | 21:52 | Comments (2)
to do list!
Monday, September 26, 2005
i feel like crying, it's so weird, i'm gonna see lots of people i used to go to school with years ago! and they've all kept in contact! it's so fucking weird! it's going to be emotional i'm telling ya. :) tomorrow i'm seeing igor and then... lots of other people hopefully!
other things to do in the next few days: call doctors (GP for vaccinations, gynaecologist, doctor for contact lenses), hairdresser, take passport size pictures, go to thai embassy for tourist visa, finish writing statements for uni applications, send reference forms to lecturers at SOAS, go to beauty place to get eyebrows done, and i think that's it??? lol more than enough...
and then jana will be here wednesday and i'll have to show her the sights of paris!
busy week ahead of me... finally! :p
Posted by Vanina | 00:34 | Comments (0)
new version!
Sunday, September 25, 2005
can you believe it??? it's actually a new version. :p nothing special though, and self-appreciative, that's for sure. me me me. :p i might change the pictures at some point though... mmh.
i realised yesterday that this blog is almost three years old. only a couple of weeks now... so much has happened since i opened it, so much, and i hope a lot more is going to happen throughout its life! one thing's for sure, this blog means a lot to me, and i think i'd like to keep it for as long as i can...
oh, and by the way, happy birthday cat! i didn't know... thank god for msn! ;)
having a super lazy day. i've basically just done the layout and eaten and read a bit. my back really really really hurts. i need a proper computer chair.
meh, being boring, i know. i need to upload loads of pictures from this summer but can't be bothered... maybe later...
Posted by Vanina | 16:09 | Comments (0)
my darling!
Friday, September 23, 2005
happy birthday giles!!! i send lots of kisses your way...
oh, i wish, i wish, i was going to giles' bday party tomorrow night, and dressing up in sexy clothes, and drinking lots, and having oh so much fun! but nope, i'm here, and people have their phones turned off, how annoying.
well, i can't really complain. i'm chilling out (even got a facial today, my skin feels all smooth and pretty!!!) and sorting out my application for oxford & sussex. i can't believe the amount of stuff oxford wants from me! a CV, two pieces of work, transcripts, a personal statement and three references...! it's never ending. i've only got to do the personal statement though, and the transcripts and references should be sorted out soon, so it's all good. i also need advice from some of my dad's friends about which college to apply to... that's the good thing about applying to oxford, i'll have quite a few contacts there!!!
the only thing that's really, really stressed me out is... MONEY. the course i want to do is the mphil in development studies (this one or this one) and it's EXPENSIVE. it costs 10,000 pounds (around 15,000 euros) at sussex and 14,000 pounds (around 21,000 euros) at oxford (that's for the two years, just tuition fees). this might become an issue at some point; but you know what, i've decided i'm going, i don't care what happens, i'll find the money somewhere somehow. considering i have my family backing me it shouldn't be a problem.
other than this, as i said, i've been chilling out. i've downloaded like 35 albums in the last few days, mostly indie pop and indie rock stuff, so i now need to listen to it all!
on the other hand, i haven't been reading much, so i think i'm gonna go do it now... :p
Posted by Vanina | 20:54 | Comments (0)
why...?
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
why does it still upset me, the indifference? do i really want it any other way? i sure don't want to go back, and right now, i don't want anything more... maybe i want even less. it was a mistake on my part in the first place, because i knew i would get upset, whatever the response. i feel so stupid sometimes...
but enough of being cryptic. seriously. i'm becoming too mysterious... :)
i'm having half lazy half busy days; today i replied to lots of emails, finished washing my stuff, irones clothes, put my suitcases away... and watched some more of the o.c. (on my last day in london, on a whim, i bought the first season boxset!)...
i'm a bit bored but well. my mum is coming back tonight so i should have stuff to do tomorrow... plus i should call an old friend of mine who lives here... and jana is coming to visit soon!
meh. uninteresting entry. i'm sorry. i feel boring today. plus i have a headache. damn. :(
Posted by Vanina | 19:06 | Comments (0)
trying to wrap everything up...
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Don't cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me
Don't cha wish your girlfriend was a freak like me
Don't cha, don't cha
Don't cha wish your girlfriend was raw like me
Don't cha wish your girlfriend was fun like me
Don't cha, don't cha...

yes, yes, i love this song, what can i do? it makes me want to shake my bum and show the world just how good i can be... god i've got a big head today. :)
i'm back in paris, for the... 3rd time this summer, well it's not summer anymore... but it's also the last time... sitting here with my cup of nescafe (what a disgrace! but the put-the-milk-in-first trick works!) and a cigarette (which i shouldn't be smoking in my room... ops). i'm not sad. i'm not depressed. i'm happy with i have and what is coming. scared maybe, a bit, but happy. what an achievement... and i can't help but think that the reason i am like this all comes down to this summer, everything's that's happened to me; from breaking up with jay to graduating to spending a crazy time with my friends to, of course, meeting giles. and again i'm going to be big headed and say that i think i've grown up a lot or at least understood a lot of stuff.
but one thing at a time: the last two weeks. i haven't written much, i know, but that's because when you're in the deep of things you can't see them clearly... so what did i do in london?
the highlight has to be my birthday surprise; which wasn't entirely a surprise ('we should go to the h... FUCK!' lol baby, don't worry, i'm just taking the piss) but was amazing nonetheless. i wish giles had taken a picture of me as the cab pulled up to the hotel because i'd like to see the expression on my face; in my head i was thinking, i can't believe someone would do this for me! and then i dressed up for probably only the second time in my life (the first one being my graduation!), a pretty skirt and white heels and a white top, and as we were walking around piccadilly holding hands, i felt... sexy and chic and whatever you want to call it, and i felt like we must have looked fucking good together. then we went to this posh old gentlemen's club (i need to put pictures up! damn!) and had cocktails and a magnum of champagne (!!!). one of giles' friends, nick, came along, and there was much talking of women and men and god knows what else. we then moved to another bar on shaftesbury avenue, proceded to have more cocktails and after nick left we talked for hours, just the two of us, about anything and everything, and i realised how fucking lucky i am in the way i meet people... and then we went back to the hotel... in the morning i was so hungover i wore sunglasses to the breakfast room, lol. the whole thing made me feel so damn special, you have no idea. and i didn't feel out of place at all, like i used to when i went to posh clubs in my first year, i felt like i was where i was supposed to, and i also... wait for the cheesiness... felt very glamorous. :)
so the beginning of my stay in london with giles couldn't have been any more perfect. :) after that... we spent almost every second of every day together; we went to the cinema (do see crash but avoid cinderella man), watched films at home (i'm almost into martial arts films now... lol), went out and got drunk a couple of times (and i dressed up every time, i can wear heels! i can wear heels! what a discovery), stayed in a got drunk a couple of times (with giles' housemate and his australian fiance, which was hilarious), had A LOT of thai food, and i had coffee and food constantly prepared for me. there wasn't a moment i was bored, i just had such a great time.
see, if this had been a year ago, i would have got so carried away. i still could have done, and i make no secret of the fact that, god, i could fall for giles, i even want to, to a certain extent. but i'm happy with this - meeting someone i really get along with, someone i can talk to so much and spend so much time with, have a great time and great sex (:p) and now... i feel ready for the next step, the next big thing. i know he's out there and i can talk to him, i know he'll be there when i get back, whatever the situation will be. how weird, to realise that i can be attached to someone and still be free. it's not just something i need but something i wanted without knowing it. i'm not going to lie, i have my own issues with the whole thing (damn jealousy!) but i can cope with them, and i will do. i won't let my head fuck up anything.
when i left yesterday, i thought i was going to be incredibly sad, i thought i was going to cry.
i didn't. as the train left london, i thought about how i'm not going to be back for a long time, six months or more, and then i realised, but i will be back. so i left with a smile on my face (and everybody else on the train must have thought i was crazy! lol), happy in the knowledge that my life is out there, and i won't disappear even if i leave for a bit. london is my home and always will be...
and my last comment for today will be: fuck insecurity. i am young, i am free, i am sexy, i am intelligent, i'm not scared of anything. this is it. this is my life and you know what? i fucking love it.
merci mon cheri. know that i can't wait for the day i'll see you again and hear you calling me sweetie again and give you the biggest hug, but i won't let that stop me from enjoying what is going to happen to me in the next six months; you're special to me, so incredibly special, and i want you to know that. you have made me so happy.
Posted by Vanina | 11:22 | Comments (0)
am i...?
Monday, September 12, 2005
am i alive?
yes.
am i well?
yes.
i'm here for another week. mmmh.
another week of... so many things...
being cryptic, i know. but i feel like it. :)
Posted by Vanina | 22:53 | Comments (2)
london, oh london!
Wednesday, September 7, 2005
i'm here. have been here for a while. have been lazy for a while... but most of all have been very, extremely happy.
i had the best birthday surprise last saturday; a magnum of champagne, nice bars in central london and one crazy night in the green park hilton... and i was amazed, who ever thought of doing something like that for me? apparently, as the cab pulled up to the hotel, the expression on my face was priceless... i'm not surprised. :)
and apart from that, we have just spent... a lot of time together, we have talked, we have kissed, we have... dotted, we have watched films, we have eaten thai and indian food, we have drunk coffee. i have enjoyed every second of these days, it's so amazing. i go through my periods of doubts and feeling down for some reason, but i still wake up with a smile on my face everyday.
and now, giles is next to me sleeping, and i'm going to go over there and kiss him. and saying that makes me happy too. :)
Posted by Vanina | 11:49 | Comments (0)
in exactly...
Friday, September 2, 2005
in 9 hours i will be in an airport i hate, but in the city i love and in your arms... and i'll be able to push back all of the sad, silly thoughts i've had in the last few days... and just be with you...
i think i've mastered the art of packing suitcases that are exactly 15 kgs. ryanair, you suck! bwahahah.
i'm such a girl sometimes. this morning i woke up at 6 (despite the fact that my alarm wasn't going off until 8.30) and couldn't fall asleep again. i'm too nervous. lol.
i've bought a pair of kickers, the classic ones, and they're really fucking nice, but they also really fucking hurt - is that normal?
i am so random at 9 o'clock in the morning.
see you from london. :P
Posted by Vanina | 07:58 | Comments (1)
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Because a picture is worth a thousand words, and I cannot describe my life better than a picture can.
And because my heaven is here, I'll wrap the world around it and live in a cocoon. Quoting from a favourite song, 'Letting the cables sleep' by Bush, in its incarnation as a remix. And I do wish the friend who introduced me to the song was here to see the way things turned out.
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