How do I sleep like that? Today, I got up and felt like I had something in my mouth. It was soft and tender. I used a tissue paper to take it out and found that it was a blood clot and some blood. I also felt sore at my tongue. Oh! I must bit my tongue while sleeping again!. My mother told me that I always grinded my teeth while sleeping if I was very stressed. Sometimes, I bite my tongue by accident, but this time might be very strong bitten as I never had bleeding before. I went to city centre to buy something to protect my tongue. A shop assistance at a pharmacy advised me to buy a mouthguard in a sport shop because it is much cheaper than a gum shield. I went to the sport shop and bought 2 mouthguards. I hoped that it could help me. After I arrived home, I took them out from the packages and put them in hot water, then tried to wear it. Oh my god! I had no idea what I should say. I could not even close my mouth and it was very difficult to breath. How do I sleep while having mouthguards in my mouth?

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year When I was young, I really wanted to receive a gift from Santa Claus. I wanted to see the reindeer and a sleigh on the sky. Like other children, it was just a dream, there was no Santa Claus for me. It is uncommonly in my country to cerebrate for Christmas, except Catholics. I never cerebrated when living in my country because my family is Buddhist, except me. It was very difficult to do that without their permission. I have been asked several times that why not Buddhist. It was very complicated to tell the reason. Like everyone, you know what you want, you know what you are, me as well. That was my answer and none of them did not understand it even now. Today, I emailed to many people greeting them for Christmas. Some might say that I was crazy if they knew that I sent them one by one, only one person for one email. I did not tell them. It was unnecessary for them to know about it. I just wanted to do like that ^_^. I have written this entry as it is the Christmas time and I wanted to greet you all. Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful Happy New Year. May god bless your home with peace, happiness and love.

Many people here have been saying 'pain the the ar......'. Why that part of body? I wrote it, that word, only ar.... because I was not sure if it would be rude. Sometimes a friend of mine who is a native speaker said that Arin you were rude. What? Were I? I did not mean that huh... It is very difficult to non native speakers to distinguish between what is rude and what is not rude. Slang, phrasal verbs, and so on, are the biggest problems for non native speakers. Someone told me I should learn about those kinds of words because it was the the best way to learn English, particularly rude or curse words, which could help me to know the right way of using English like native speakers. I am still wondering about that. It was definitely true or that person just wanted to fool me. Regarding the entry title, that is only an example from many words I have heard since coming here. It made me really 'pain the ar...' as well :P. I did not understand why that part of body. You know, I can pain in other parts, too. Last week, one of Irish friend said 'si'. Again, what did you mean by 'si'? I asked my friend as usual. He told me that si meant yes. Oh! Maybe I should try to use it next time. I am now waiting for anyone to ask me a yes or no question, so I will answer that 'si'. Interesting!

What is a good technique of learning for a leaner who does not like to memorise? I am a kind of learning by understanding and it is very difficult to me to memorise anything if I do not really understand it. The problem is that I always forgot vocabulary, which is very important to me as I am a student. Does anyone has a good technique helping me with that? Thank you.

Slugs are threatening me -_- (1) I have been living in this house for 4 months. This house contained with 5 bedrooms, 4 double bedrooms and 1 single bedroom. My room is, en-suite double bedroom, with a bit smaller than other double bedrooms, downstairs, on the left side of the front door, while the additional rooms sharing 1 bathroom. There is another one bedroom downstairs close to the kitchen and additional rooms are upstairs. I had 4 housemates at the beginning, 3 Irish, two 3rd year and a 4th year undergraduate students, and 1 Taiwanese who is my friend and my ex-classmate when studying English language, but now I only have 3 housemates, because one of them just moved out on 13th of this month. This house is quite old, cold and damp, particularly my bedroom. I have been sick several times after moving in this house. The biggest problem I have is not about that. It is about the creature named slug. This problem started since the first week of living here. I have noticed that there were some trials with silver colour on the carpet almost every morning. I took some photos and showed them pictures to the Taiwanese housemate, I also sent them pictures to my Lithuanian friend. They told me that the trails might be of the snails or a kind of that. Once I knew that I was threatening by some creatures that I might be scared of them. I am, usually, absolutely afraid of worms and anything that are similar to it. So, I was very frightened. Oh! my god, how could I live in this house for the lease agreement of 1 year? I tried to find out what it is exactly and I found it finally. One day, I went to my friend's house and came back around 1 am. I opened the front door and looked around in the darkness and on the floor, as usual, to made sure that everything was okay. Because of that, I saw something moving, slowly, but so scared. The giant slugs were on the floor, behind the front door, close to my bedroom. I was shocked, my body shivered (I can feel that feeling even now, while I am writing this entry). I opened the bedroom's door and kept myself in, I just hoped that they might not try to get into my room.

Yay! I am not going to be alone in the dark It has been for about 3 weeks since some areas in my house were in the dark, in the night time. It has started to a light bulb behind a front door, followed by in the hallway and then in a living room, that were not working. Actually, there have been something happened before that. One of my housemates told me that a light bulb in his bedroom exploded. Oh! really? I asked him and walked follow him to see it. It has broken in very small pieces. Also in a kitchen, I have had to change a light bulb almost every months. How come? I did not think it was a normal problem and I told the landlord every time. Once all light bulbs in those areas were not working, I told the landlord in the day after, but nothing happened until the last Saturday. I texted to him and said 'could you please fix the electricity problems before Christmas? Almost all of my housemates went back home now. I did not want to be alone in the dark when they were all not here'. Today, in the morning, he texted me telling me that an electrician is going to call me either today or tomorrow. And yes, the electrician called me today in the afternoon. Excellent! it was very quickly, I have never thought it would happen. Thanks god! I have been afraid that this house would become much darker. What would I do if the light in the kitchen was not working in Christmas time? There would not be anybody help me for that. I could not stay alone in the dark, with the slugs T^T. I am really sure that they will get into this house again and again as usual. So, I am a bit glad now, some of things surround me are going well. It might not be perfect but it is better than nothing happen. At least, I could see more clearly when that creatures got into my house even though I have never wanted to see them, so scared.

I want to stop my messy mind I have no idea why many ideas to write up an entry has occurred to me. It is like I am addicted writing up my entries. Oh! no, what is wrong with me? I should try to work on my assignment, which is very important, as my supervisor has assign it to me, shouldn't I? While many other students are on vacations or left for the Christmas holidays, there are still some that have to work on their assignments, like me. I am now trying to create something to improve my paperwork, but it seems the more I tried, the worse I received. Instead of getting any ideas for my work, I got many ideas for writing my entry here. I tried to tell myself that I should stop doing it and back to work. Unfortunately, it is not succeed yet. Maybe, I should set my new goal for this moment and I must do it strictly. Once I was succeed, I can do whatever I want. Yes, it is a great idea, Arin, finally you got it. Well done!

I am not like that........ Really? I am actually a funny person and do not like to take things too serious. Once there are some issues, which can provoke me to share of my ideas. I will not hesitate to do it and that, made other people seeing me like I am a serious person. I am not like that, really, really, please believe me. It is just I can transform myself to be whatever I want, but my face always looks like I am serious for all everything in my life :P, I meant in other people's perceptions. You never know. I like to sing, I will be able to sing a song even if when I am crying. Yes, it is crazy, I know. I love playing games even if I am not a good gamer. I love funny things and I like funny people, and sometimes I dare to do crazy things as well. I really love watching movies, I like almost all kinds of movies, except drama, sad and romance as I am a sensitive person. Some people said to me that I should change myself, my personality and what I am doing in my life. They always told me I should not do this, I should not do that. So, what should I do then? I guess, I should tell my mother before I was born that 'mother, please create me to be a perfect person, thank you so much! kisses muah' But I could not do it, I could not back to the past. I am wondering, they really wanted me or they wanted anyone else? I want to tell them, please do not spend a lot of effort asking me to change me myself. I will not do that, sorry :P.

Finally, I ended up going to meet with my friends Saturday morning, I was thinking about what I should say to my friend to cancel our meeting as I was uncomfortable with that. Then, my phone vibrated, it was her, she called me to inform about the time meeting. Again, she did not allow me to escape :P even though I tried to give her several excuses based on the truth. She said that it was okay, we were friends, nobody cared about that, they just missed me and wanted to meet me, did not think too much. Well, it means I must go to meet with them anyway. My friend came to my house and walk with me to a target house (I have no idea which word is suitable hahaha). There were only two friends waiting for us when we arrived (both of them are my friends and they are lovers now). While other friends arrived later, about an hour. I can say that we had a great time together. It has been a long time that we did not have spend time together since we have started our course. Almost all of my friends are absolutely talkative, and that make me have not much chance to say anything. Many times that a friend of mine did not wait for me to finish my conversations. Thus, I said 'hey! I did not finish what I am saying. You will listen to me or I will not say anything anymore?' Actually, I just teased them, nothing more. I am familiar with that. It is just annoying sometimes. However, it is good that I can tell them directly, whatever I want, to them. Many people here love smoking and drinking, my friends as well. Some of my friends smoke, both men and women, so I am a second hand smoker. What a pity. I have never either smoked or drunk before coming here. I tried drinking with them twice, not much, but I did not drink with them this time. Once my friends asked me to try drinking, it was my first time of trying. I mixed an Irish cider with wine and some kind of alcohol, I forgot what it was. My friends said I was crazy (again hahaha), nobody drink like that. As I am quite stubborn, so I said to them that I was not anyone else and I will do it. As a result of that, I woke up on my bed in the morning and could not remember anything after drinking it. My friends took many photos of mine when I was drunk. They showed it to me and other friends in our English classroom (I know them when we have attended an English language preparation course together, before starting our courses) . Everyone who have seen it laughed very loudly. Oh! nooooo T^T.