Got picked up by parents in anticipation of Easter. We went in the restaurant first and ate yummy food.

I brought up classical Ukrainian music that I often listen to, and played some songs and it was nice that they both knew them well enough to actually sing along. Both parents got visibly sad when I played a song about mother (Пісня про Рушник and Чорнобривці), and mom actually cried a little so I stopped playing. It was a nice interaction, since I really have almost nothing common with my parents.

We then went to a park and met a sad lonely cat in a kinda obscure place. They look so similar to our cat…

We then went to supermarket and just shopped for whatever stuff. Then got home and we prepared the Easter basket.

Tonight we will go to church to make the food in basket "holy". It happens around 4 AM, and I wanted to sleep early, but I’m wearing daily contact lenses with no replacement with myself so I can’t sleep in them. So I’ll just stay awake all night.

After a while, at 4 AM parents started to wake up and prepare. As planned, I did not sleep.

We then drove to the church. The moon was low on the horizon.

There was already a lot of people around the church. If you don’t know the orthodox ceremony, people go to the church with baskets of food, and then they and the food gets sprinkled with holy water.

It’s always really beautiful to see all the candles. I really wish they didn’t turn on the bright lights on the church, it would be much more special that way.

The bell tolled, and eventually, after a while, the priest got to our place and put the water on us. We stood for some time and then left the churches yard. I’ve decided to take a walk home instead of using the car.

The 2 powerlines, it’s my favorite place in the world. I really wanted to go there for the first time during such early morning, but had to go home since my parents waited for me. We then ate all the holy food and I finally went to sleep.

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We drove to supermarket █████████████ and walked around and bought some random stuff. Then played bowling against each other (which I lost 3 times to him) and also ate some pizza and other food.

It was fun.

Me and dad went to visit a city of Korets.

The road there is mostly a long highway with barely any turns. It was full of fields on the sides, so I enjoyed the views. We also took binoculars, and I got to look at highway mirage zoomed in.

(an example of highway mirage)

Once we got there, we went to Korets Castle. For reference, this is a drawing of it made in 1800s:

Nowadays it’s mostly just ruins of it. There’s also regrettably quite a lot of litter. This annoyed me a lot.

We then went to explore the underground sections.

I also climbed it a little. It’s possible to climb way onto the top, but I didn’t risk it.

The view was nice. You can still see the church from the drawing.

After this we went to visit a broken bridge, which my dad told was made by Polish people and was bombed during WW2.

My dad used to live in Korets about 50 years ago. He told me all the differences in the castle from his time. Some underground sections are not accessible anymore. It was very interesting to listen to.

We then drove home. I ate a hotdog at gas station, and it was very good.

Cleaner came and… cleaned. This time I talked to them a bit, and we actually had a really nice conversation. I asked them to not tell owner about anything because they keep bothering me about it and they were extremely understanding. I guess it was my fault for never speaking up to them about it.

Then dad and brother came and █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ The weather was very interesting today. It kept switching between sunny and snowy every 20 minutes, like 8 times overall. I looked up on weather map and sure enough clouds also looked very cool.

They’re big enough to cover the sky completely, so you can’t see this pattern irl, only the switches.

They were moving so fast that the snow was still slowly falling with sky being blue again, so it felt like snow was coming from nowhere. Very cool.

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Me and brother then went to cool fancy expensive supermarket and bought a ton of snacks and other stuff.

I bought world’s smallest whiskey bottle. They had a lot of miniature alcohols there and all of them looked really cool and cute. And the fact that there’s real alcohol inside makes it even better. Ofc I’m not gonna ever drink it and just keep it as a collectible.

Found Takis and bought too. Finally gonna try this out after hearing about it so many times.

Also bought swiss chocolate. Better be the tastiest chocolate in my life, or I’ll be disappointed.

And a bunch of italian and spanish snacks.

After supermarketing we went to restaurant and ate pasta. The sun was already setting and the view there was beautiful.

Finally finished my first assignment today.

Went outside ████████████████████. Then shopped for food and groceries. It snowed a lot again.

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Finally started looking at my assignments… But it’s incredibly hard to make myself do them. At least I wrote the title page. Made peak for dinner.

Got brought to parents home today again, and me, brother and dad bought steaks and fried them outside.

Just talked about everything and drank a little bit. Eventually, my dad gave me a home-made bottle of «Vyshnyak» aka Wine Liquor made by him a few years ago. Actual liquid gold. I tried a little bit of it, and it was genuinely the tastiest alcohol I ever tried. And there’s only one bottle in entire universe. For some reason cherry-based alcohols aren’t popular, so it’s basically completely exclusive as you can’t buy it anywhere. Especially aged one too. I will drink it in tiny portions and enjoy it for a very long time.

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Then got brought home again and took a nap.

Went to a place with dad that I really like. I took my binoculars with me, and it opened new sights that I’ve never seen before. It was beautiful as always.

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Then got brought back home and played a ton of Rain World. Explored a ton of new things today, and kinda got stuck at the end, confused where to go.

A lot of people complained about moderation on Nekoweb server, so I did a bunch of improvements like more mods, new rules, and some other things.

Went to gym with brother today, though we just ended up playing ping-pong there and nothing else. Then had some sushi afterwards.

Today Rain World: The Watcher DLC came out! Rain World is one of my most favorite games ever, so I started playing it immediately.

I need to add spoiler tags to my diary lol, I kinda want to talk about it in public but without it being clearly visible without clicking… I played for a few hours, and so far nothing too interesting happened, although something weird is definitely happening with the world. ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████

Ended up staying late as always.

Piano finally arrived today.

I’m happy to say that it barely, but did fit.

Now onto the endless journey, if I have enough power…

Brother came over and as always made me go to gym.

On the way there we went to mall to buy jackets for ourselves, since the weather is getting warmer while we only had winter clothes. I really hate picking and buying clothes. After some pain, I found something I liked and I bought it. Then we went to the different shop in the mall to buy a different one. I used my card and it denied. Bank was having some maintenance.

I then realized that previous purchase didn’t go through too. We came back to the previous shop, and apparently the shopkeeper was frantically searching for us everywhere in the mall. She was very thankful that we cameback. I then paid for it using a different bank.

After this we also went to optics, and I ordered a 30 day pack of one-use lenses. I was using monthly lenses before for 2 months, but they expire so quickly… I don’t wear them everyday because I often don’t go outside, so it’s much better for me to have one-use ones, since they only expire after 2 years if you don’t open them.

Went to restaurant and also bought some tasty things on the way home.

After I got home, I finally could try playing piano. Was mostly just following the tutorials on PianoMarvel and playing random things on PianoVerse. Let’s see how that goes.

Went to properly celebrate █████████████████████. Dad picked me up, we went home for a bit and then went to the restaurant.

It was a pretty beautiful place. The table was already full of various food.

After a little wait, people started to come in. Shortly, everyone was at their spot, and we did our first cheers and started to eat.

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We played card games, danced, ate a ton of food. Eventually, it came to an end and I was driven home by my old roommate.

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After arriving, me and dad walked to a place with a good view, but alas, sun was already gone. It was still beautiful.

I got to squish cat as always.

We ate tasty things and then I was brought back home. Bought the tasty treats for the next month.

And then we played Yume 2kki. We had a pretty easy expedition today. After we got to our destination (RGB Passage B), we sat and chatted with a different group that was there too. FakeToy, proposed to bring us to some pretty places and we agreed.

Our first journey went to Blood Rose Canal. On the way there we got to an English town, which we got a Menu Theme from.

And this was the end of the path… The world looks red…

After this he proposed to show us a secret event. We went through the usual path to Rainy Apartments but with some big derivations. On the way there, you have to kill 5 red creatures across many worlds.

After killing all of them, we went for the usual train ride.

Instead of waking up in the Oblique Hell, you end up at the rooftop of the hospital. Music from train continues playing.

After going to sleep, you end up at Pure White Lands, with Shimako blowing bubbles on the left side of the cliff’s edge.

Peace, at last…

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I struggled to sleep today. Stayed up so late that I finally saw the Sun, for the first time from this apartment.

Slept for 10 hours, for the first time in a very long time. Felt kinda refreshed. Got up, it was already dark. Still not feeling like doing much…

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Went back to the cozy spot. Constant melancholy and light sadness.

Finally played some more Yume 2kki.

We did an expedition, and met some random player that joined us. And then got to the place on screenshot above. Then got a badge. And then player casually mentions that they created the badge for this place some years ago. I love coincidences like this.

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Woke up at 4 PM, ate and went to gym.

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Got home, and tried to photograph moon from the binoculars. It’s difficult. Then just listened to ambience and layed on the floor.

Drank the rest of the wine.

After 3 hours of sleep, got woken up by deliveryperson. My binoculars arrived. I got the box and went back to sleep. Then another call, and person from cleaning service came. Landlord is paying someone to clean apartment once a month and also to check that the apartment’s in good condition. She cleaned it, and went away.

Then another call… this time from brother. He told me that we should go to gym, and I agreed. He came over and I told him to come in to show him the binoculars. They’re cool, and have 20X zoom. I love zooming. We waited 30 minutes for moon to appear from horizon.

Unfortunately, it’s almost impossible to take a photo from binoculars, so this is the only one I could take, just from my phone’s camera. But in binoculars moon looks so cool.

In the end, we didn’t go to gym. Talked a lot, and then went to parents, as they wanted me to see the room renovations that were done. My and brother’s rooms now have wooden walls, and look kinda like these wooden houses, which is cozy.

I talked a lot with parents. █████████████████████████████████ Then brother drove me back home. On the way home, we’ve decided to go to nearby forest, because it’s on hill and it has a very beautiful view. When we got to the spot… there was a car there, and some person being very suspicious. It was scary as fuck, since it was already very late and it was very weird for someone to be in such specific spot.

We instantly turned back and went away.

Got back home and fell asleep. Woke up at 2 AM. Stared at screen, ate some more cheese with wine.

Got cozy in the best spot in the apartment and watched the sky with binoculars. You can see so many more stars with them.

Putting lens in was much easier today! Instead of 2 hours only took 20 minutes. Slowly learning…

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Then we went to the barbershop. Apparently I fucked up with signing up, so I had to sign up again 2 hours later… So we went to a restaurant and ate. This is my first daytime with good vision. Everything is so pretty. After restaurant we just walked around and I enjoyed the view. There was a lot of birds on the trees. It was beautiful.

Then I came back to barbershop. During the haircut, the barber accidentally cut my mole. It kinda bled a lot, and in the end he said that the haircut will be free. I guess that’s nice, even though it does quite hurt. The haircut itself… fine I guess. Not a huge fan of how I look after fresh cut, it’ll definitely start looking better after a month.

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