1) All the yakiniku and hot-pot parties
2) Natou and tofu I eat almost daily
3) Biking up the APU mountain with Koji (takes forever) and racing down in 10 minutes
4) Practicing and playing music with friends
5) Overnight War Craft parties
6) Men’s talk gatherings at APU talking non-sense about life and girls
7) Lying down in the APU Roman theater watching falling stars
8) Life Music members and performances
9) Going to festivals with gangs to watch fireworks and locate cute yukata girls
10) Attempt to try all the good restaurants in Beppu and Oita with Ka Lun and Panit
11) Weekly cooking society to experiment and try new recipes with friends
12) All the scholarships from APU
13) Cheap and easily accessible onzen (hot-spring)
14) Being able to skip all the useless classes I can while sleep in all those I can’t
15) Absorbing divine wisdom from Askew and Thompson
16) Swimming under a cool waterfall Sol discovered
17) Weekly dining out: sushi, ramen, Izakaya with friends
18) Rent tons of movies to watch at Panit’s place accompany by my favorite Gogo no Kocha
19) Engaging in endless debates with Koji over sushi
20) Sit idly near the Beppu coast enjoying the blue scene; when bored, call up Panit and have a meal and ice-cream afterward.
Memories are a fickle thing. Although I genuinely feel I miss these things, I don’t recall being this fond of my life in Beppu at that time. It shows how easy it’s for my memories to beautify the past and feel nostalgic about the good old times. Another interesting thing is that most of these activities are the common everyday events, and many involved good food and friends.
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