urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:touya_akira Touya Akira Touya Akira 2003-12-04T05:32:20Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:touya_akira:1759 2003-12-04T05:32:20Z 2003-12-04T05:32:20Z I apologize to anyone who might be reading this about my lack of updates. But I don't think anyone besides Shindo does, so I suppose it doesn't really matter. I've been really busy with Go, so I haven't had much time.<br /><br />I won all my games in November, and the one I had yesterday. I have another one for the Honinbou League on friday, but I'm not worried... I don't think I have a game to look forward to until the 17th (Ashiwara), and then on the 29th I play Shiindo's friend. I don't think he likes me very much, but it doesn't matter unless he can beat me.<br /><br />I played Shindo last friday. I won - but to his credit, it wasn't easy. Afterward I made him dinner at my house, because I "owed" him, he said. (Oh, well. I offered, so I can't complain.) Is it really that surprising that I can cook?<br /><br />Also, father has been acting kind of strange... He went somewhere yesterday, I <i>think</i> it was to meet with Kuwabara-sensei. Ah, I don't know.<br /><br /><a name="cutid1"></a><br />Okay, I <i>know</i> I shouldn't keep pressing Shindo, but he promised he would tell me! Maybe I should be more patient, but I want to know. I know it has to have something to do with when he quit Go... and those mood swings he has sometimes... but I just don't understand. And I never will unless he <i>tells</i> me! Does he not trust me or something? It's not like I would take what he tells me and broadcast it to the entire Go world. I would never do something like that.<br /><br />I guess I was stupid for mentioning Sai at dinner. It just slipped out; it's not like I was planning on asking or anything... but he didn't have to run out like that. I haven't talked to him since. I should call him...<br /><br />He can be so infuriating. <br /> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:touya_akira:1401 2003-11-18T00:22:11Z 2003-11-18T00:22:11Z Hmm, I really haven't been keeping up with this journal... I guess I'm just not used to it yet. And I really don't have much to say. I won my Honinbo game on Thursday, and I don't have to play again until Wednesday, so I've been studying kifu and practicing a lot up at the Go center. I think father is getting bothered with how much I'm working, though, so I might take tomorrow off.<br /><br />Shindo, do you want to meet at the salon tomorrow, then?<br /><br /><a name="cutid1"></a><br />So Shindo's home now. He called me about missing dinner, and he sounded fine. So that's good.<br /><br />And father has been acting progressively... I don't know the word. But I know he's angry that I've been getting home so late and such. He thinks I'm working to hard... Not like he can talk, though. I haven't collapsed, at least.<br /><br />...Unless that's what he's worried about.<br /><br />Well, this is an interesting situation. I don't want to worry father, but I don't want to cut back on my training. Especially since I'm playing Shindo so soon.<br /> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:touya_akira:1131 2003-11-10T22:18:49Z 2003-11-10T22:20:26Z I won my Kisei Preliminary game today. I have an Oteai match tomorrow afternoon, but I don't think it will be difficult. I have seven games this month... I'll have lots of time to study, I suppose. I'm playing Shindo at the end of the month. Of course, I play him a lot, but official games are always different for some reason.<br /><br /><a name="cutid1"></a><br />It seems that Shindo's grandfather has been hospitalized. He missed our game last Tuesday because he collapsed. I haven't seen Shindo for a week now, and I hope everything's all right. I remember when my father collapsed, how horrible it was...<br /><br />I'm trying to decide if I should go try to visit him or not. I don't want to bother his family, but I'm kind of worried about him. Isn't that strange, to be worried about your rival?<br /> urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:touya_akira:895 2003-11-03T23:36:15Z 2003-11-03T23:36:15Z My father got a journal. I'm happy about that; I'll be able to keep up with him while he's away. These journals seem to be getting really popular... I suppose that's good. They're supposed to help with publicity in the Go world, right? So maybe it's working. Though a lot of the people just seem to be friends of Shindo's.<br /><br />My house is really cold. I don't usually keep it that warm, because there's hardly ever anyone here, but it seems that keeping to door to the computer room closed all the time has kept any warm air from getting in here at all. With the onset of winter and all... Somehow I think that frostbite of the fingers would be detrimental to my career, so I'm going to go make something nice and warm for dinner.<br /><br />Shindo, I'll meet you around four tomorrow? And we are <i>not</i> having ramen for dinner. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:touya_akira:624 2003-11-03T04:52:54Z 2003-11-03T04:52:54Z To be honest, I was wary when the Go Assosiation offered us these journals, but Shindo insisted I get one. It'd be fun, he said. I bet he didn't even notice that he was dripping ramen onto his shirt.<br /><br />But I suppose it'll be a good way to keep in touch with everyone when they're busy with games and such. So that's a good thing.<br /><br />So, I don't really have much to say. I'm just getting to feel of this thing, since I don't use computers very often. I usually only use them for Go, actually... Anyway, this promises to be interesting, at least.