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Yes, yes, I know. Still no art updates, I'm sorry. If you're patient and interested enough to read through all this journal there's a surprise somewhere inside though.

Anyway, army. Not allowed to say much about it, so I won't, just to keep it on the safe side. Those of you who already knew where I'm serving, I'm still there. Those who don't, you can be sure that it's one of the best places you can go to. Just in case any of you care are worried, I'm not in any combat units so the chances I'd die from a falling anvil are far greater than me getting shot in a war or something. Of course that doesn't mean that life's that easy. The food is just nowhere near my mother's cooking, you're completely disconnected from the world until the late evening when you already have to go to bed, 6 hours of sleep a day at best is horrible when you have to study about 14 of the remaining 18, and getting to go home only on Fridays just to go back there early Sunday - which leaves me absolutely no time for having a life outside the base or the bed in the accommodations they offer except for those weekends. I'm always too damn homesick and I miss my family, my friends and of course my love. Although, I can't just complain. I got my uniform, not that it's that important to me, but people say I look great in it. Most importantly Naama loves it, so nyeh. Other than that the people serving with me are awesome. I've never fit in anywhere as well as I have there in such a short period of time. And more importantly the sergeants, officers and staff are incredible, talented and intelligent people, so I must admit that I do enjoy it there despite all the downsides the army brings with it.

As far as art goes, I decided to take my sketchbook with me when so I could spend my spare time on drawing. Just a little something to keep me sane you might say. Not that I really have that much spare time, but better than nothing. Perhaps if I can find someone that'd scan it for me I'd put some of my sketches and drawings here in the weekends. But that's not all! I've also been working on a digital painting for a while now. Going to have it printed and give it as a gift to my girlfriend for our 6 month anniversary. Seeing as I barely get to see her nowadays with the army, I figure I should at least leave her something to remember me by, so why not really put some effort in it, right? Just hopefully I won't be too late with it. For a sneak peek click right here.

Speaking of Naama, things have been going great between us so far. A few bumps here and there, but nothing serious or out of the ordinary. I've made lots of mistakes about judging people, mostly because I tried to ignore all the little hints suggesting that they're douche bags , but I believe that this time I'm right. She really is a great person, and not only on the outside, a quality that's hard to find these days. I guess I should just be grateful for her tolerance of my obnoxious behaviour and the recent, and probably future, lack of presence. Lets hope that I won't end up on the receiving end of a breakup... Again.

Anyway, earlier I mentioned I'm home only on the weekends. So what the hell am I doing online on a Tuesday morning? Well, Jewish new year. I'm on holiday till Thursday, and then back to the base for a couple of days until the weekend. So for all you Jewish folks out there, shana tova, for the rest of you happy whatever-day-you're-celebrating-in-the-near-future!

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First and foremost I apologize for being a buttmunch and neglecting this place for so long. I know I haven't said anything about the past... 150 or so of all your deviations. It doesn't mean I don't look at them though, I do, at least at most of them. I just don't feel like leaving some shallow comment if I don't have any useful input to add. So yeah, really sorry about that. As for my side of the story... Ehhh, not so much drawing or painting lately, hopefully I'll pick it back up and find a scanner as soon as I get some free time.

Speaking of free time, tomorrow is my last high school final, maths it is. Once I'm done with that I'm done for good. So far my grades have been quite alright, some are more satisfying than others. For instance scoring a 98 out of 100 on a 5 unit IT project is quite an achievement. Will do wonders for my overall average.

Other than that things are going quite well actually. Even though my budget's getting kind of low, so I hope I could find a job for August to get some money into my pocket. But besides that I feel like I've gotten closer to some of my friends. Especially birthday-boy Lior, whose all crying because we haven't celebrated his 18th birthday this year. Boy is he in for a surprise. His girlfriend organised a birthday party for him scheduled this Tuesday and I'm quite excited for him, I'm sure he's going to love it. Lets just hope he wouldn't decide to peek at my DeviantART and read my journal... Speaking of girlfriends, can't really complain myself. Just last night me and Naama celebrated three months. I can definitely say that those three months have been the best I've had in the past few years despite all the pressure with the finals. Sure we had some conflicts but it just feels so great to be able to talk it out and go back to behaving like nothing happened at all the next day. There haven't been many people in my life I could feel so comfortable with and I definitely appreciate every single moment spent with her.

I think I ought to stop here, with the whole maths exam tomorrow. Writing journals at 1 AM can't be a good idea in this situation...
Thank you for reading whoever read this far, and again, I'm really really sorry for going ninja stalker on this place. I promise I'll try my best to make a comeback.
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I have just

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Graduated high school.
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Last Summer by Lostprophets. A really good song that definitely could describe my situation nowadays.

So, what's been happening?

Well, first and foremost, I've turned 19 on Wednesday, April 16th. One more year left where I can still be categorised as a teen :P. So far I celebrated at the BrewHouse restaurant in Tel Aviv with my mother and her partner last Friday after I came back from the cohesion. It was one of those fucking awesome nights, over half a litre of fine fresh beer, mushrooms and nuts in Teriyaki sauce, Entrecôte steak in mustard and cream sauce and some French fries with ketchup. My my what a fine dinner it was. I warmly recommend that place to anyway that likes good food and good beer, although make sure you have some mulah in your pocket, that place is NOT cheap. The dinner for three cost us 500 NIS... Other than that I've also gotten this nice Chinese sword as a present. Nothing fancy really, it's not one of those expensive hand crafted ones, but it looks awesome hanging there on my wall from a distance. And I'm probably celebrating my birthday with my grandparents on Wednesday... Yeah, a week late, but what can I do?

Other than that, a new haircut! No more long hair Jesus Vlad. Now it's just a British looking lad. People say it suits me, either way I'm enjoying it. If anything, it was a good decision in the long run.

Moving on, my winter exam marks came in. English module F is 100 and module G is 98. Writing holds steady at 90. All in all I'm satisfied although I'll retake the module G exam again, why not, it can't hurt my mark anyway. In conclusion my marks up to this point are as follows.

Subject - Internal (school) grade - Final exam grade - Final grade(this is the one that matters)

Biblical studies - 100 - 87 - 94
Hebrew - 100 - 96 - 98
English, module E - 100 - 99 - 100
English, module F - 100 - 100 - 100
English, module G - 100 - 95 - 98
English, oral exam - 100
History, Unit 1 - 85 - 85 - 85
History, Unit 2 - 84 - 61 - 73
Maths, Form 5 - 88 - 99 - 94
Computers, Web design - 98
Computers, Unit 1 - 100 - 97 - 99
Physics, Unit 1 - 92 - 68 - 80
Writing - 92 - 88 - 90

So far so good eh? Just one final push and I'm out. Graduating high school in just under three months! Just a bunch of exams to take now and I'm outie yo.

But that's enough of school life, lets move into the juicy personal things shall we? Lately my mother and I have been getting along really well, she finally accepts me as a mature adult rather than a kid. Lets me make my own decisions, whether they're wrong or right in her eyes and always supports me either way.
Other than that I've also found romance. Yeah, who could have thought? I have no idea either! Over a year and a half of effort on a single girl finally paid off, and boy was it worth it in the end! Still really fresh, just barely over a week, but it looks promising. Lets hope I don't fuck up, eh? :P
I've also gotten much closer to my friends lately, both local and international. So how about a few honourable mentions? Lets roll! In no particular order -
Lior - If there was one person that made this entire past year duh bawmb it was him. I really have to thank you for all those conversations and general stupidity and pseudo-gay innuendo we shared.
Troy - Yeah bro, we had our epic fight and a fine share of drama, but even that won't ruin our friendship! Even though in the past year you've been rather busy and MIA I still feel close to you just as always. Keep it real brother from another mother!
Naama - So, we're still running to Vegas, getting married (sorry Helen!), moving to Bora Bora to chill at the beach with cocktails all day until it gets boring and then to a marvellous wooden cabin in a big, lush plateau in Europe to live there until we get bored of life and kill ourselves in an artistic manner with poison, right? Awesome! Thanks for making the past few months such an... Interesting experience for me :P. I feel like we've gotten really close lately and I appreciate all the amazing moments we spent so far. Love you hun :hug:. Please don't dump me! <3
Helen - My lovely posh wife and right hand woman in my evil organisation! Where would I be without her now, well, only Buddha knows! All those drunk phone conversations and mutual bitching about life made you one of my closest, most trusted friends. Until death do us apart? Hell yeah!
Arian - Hey, I'm happy to be your live, real time, epically dramatic soap opera! Nah, just kidding, thank you for functioning as my journal and listening to all of my developments and plot twists haha.
Alex - My Español señor sexy. Thanks for all those laughs and cockwondo battles of epic proportions! I'm still waiting for my microphone sex though you heartless Spanish bastard!
Shaun - Just the fact that you said that you're happy for other people's lives looking up makes you such a wonderful person. You've been there to be happy with me for my happy times and be there to laugh with my at my retarded mistakes, thanks man! I'm sure your life will brighten up soon enough too!
Ella - !xobile... Hah, just kidding, don't kill me! I really appreciate all our conversations and the time we spent. You've been there for me through some hard times and brightened up my days when they were gloomy. Fuck the rest, you're the best, babe!
David - Two words... "Vlad rules!". You have no idea how much I laughed watching that video man! Thanks for listening to me through all of those years and keeping in touch despite your schedule!
Geiger - Believe it or not but your works inspire me and blow my mind away. You're talented man, far more talented than me, no doubt about it. Just don't stop drawing! And of course thank you for being happy with me all those times, it really does mean a lot to me :)
Lawr - I just realised that I don't think I've ever gotten your name... D'oh! But never mind that! All the advice you've given me about life in general and other things in particular was probably even more than I deserve. I really appreciate all the time you put into putting up with me, it was quite an achievement to get so close in such a little time I'll give you that. Not many people can do that with me.

But that's not all mind you! There are many many more people who mean the world to me, I just believe that if I'd have written about each and every one of them it'd take me 12 pages at the least! But fear not! You shall not go without a mention! I want to thank all my DA friends for all the support and patience they have for me! aciddude bluem00n ExoLevi jam03 krazykohla NightmareTF Peacelan Purrfectionist T-R-L & xenorave. Some of you are closer to me on the personal level than the others and I appreciate you for that, but I love you all either way!

Regarding my art... Well, I'm sorry to disappoint you all with my negligence in that area. I've just been either too busy or not inspired enough to work on anything lately. How can I put it... I stopped enjoying making art to a certain degree. I still linger around just because I love the friends I made here and because my passion for art is far from dead. And yeah, I promise I'll finish that portrait before I leave to the army, Ella!

Well, time to start summing up. But before that lets go back into Troy's music corner again shall we? I turned it into a tradition over my journals eh? :P
This time it's Kill The Headlights by Adema. Such a wonderful album. You've yet to disappoint me with your music taste bro, good job! I really suggest everyone to have a listen, even for those of you who didn't like Adema's previous works. This album is completely different from their previous albums with a new singer and another guitarist joining the group.

Hmm, I think that's about it. Don't see anything else that's important enough to waste more of your precious time :P. Keep it real people and thanks for reading this far. To finish it off here are the lyrics to Lostprophets' Last Summer. As I've mentioned, it really fits well with the recent developments and conclusions in my life. I really suggest you look up the song and listen to it yourself, it's a wonderful song regardless.

The Friday sun bears down again
As we drive with our friends
And on these longest days we spend
All the time trying to pretend
That our stories could be true
Our chance to be cool
The setting sun says the day is through
If only we knew
And we all sit around here in our home town
Listen to the waves as they all crash down
And watch the fire as it slowly burns away
Glowing embers fly across the sky

Here by my side, in my summer, our last summer
The world passes by in my summer, our last summer
The light makes shadows fall, surrounded by each other
Alive to watch it all, the view from our last summer
The view from our last summer

We trace the sun across the sky
And we laugh till we cry
Always so hard to say goodbye, goodbye
And we all sit round here in our home town
It's so good like this, these are times we'll miss
The memories, I hope they'll never fade
Glowing embers lie across the sky

Here by my side, in my summer, our last summer
The world passes by in my summer, our last summer
The light makes shadows fall, surrounded by each other
Alive to watch it all, the view through our last summer
The view from our last summer...

I would stop time to stay with you
I would stop time so we don't move
I would stop time
I would stop time
I would stop time to keep you

Here by my side, in my summer, our last summer
The world passes by in my summer, our last summer
The light makes shadows fall, surrounded by each other
Alive to watch it all, the view from our last summer
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First of all, pardon me for neglecting DA lately. It's not that I haven't been looking at your journals or recent submissions, I just didn't really have anything worthwhile to say. Or you could just blame it on my laziness, that'd work too.

So anyway, this one time at band camp-

Errr... I mean... Uhh, things... Yeah, things! Lately things have been popping up and actually making me do something except sitting on my lazy ass all day and ruining my eyes with CRT screen radiation.

First of all, around November or December 2007 I went back to my martial arts training. Been going pretty good, I no longer have saggy manboobs and flimsy limbs. That, and judging by my abs I can definitely run around topless screaming "THIS IS SPARTAAAA!". My overall stamina improved too, I actually managed to run about a mile and a half without taking breaks or walking in between. Something I could never do before. I've also been frequenting the beach lately. A place I dreaded and disliked with a passion, being the short fat kid when I was young. Never really liked the sun and sand and the disgusting sea water. But now, when there's a bunch of friends and other people from school it's actually quite a blast. Especially playing volleyball. Not that I'm good at it, but it's still fun.

Speaking of physical health and fitness, I've dropped smoking on December, been holding up rather great too. Only smoked on one occasion at a birthday party. Figured why not. The whole room was so full of smoke that it made the outside, polluted air feel like pure oxygen anyway, so a couple of cigarettes couldn't hurt that much. Also, stopped drinking excessively on December too. Haven't been wasted since, just a tad tipsy a couple of times.

Yep, last year of high school. God how I hated this horrid education system we have here. But hey, when in Rome... Should just give that last push and get it over with. So far, I'm rather pleased with most of my marks for my diploma, it'd take quite an effort to fuck everything up completely. Hopefully I won't... Can't really say I'm putting effort into studying, I just don't really see much reason to. My programming grade is somewhere around that 90 which is quite enough. Physics isn't too bad, lets hope it stays that way. Maths... Ugh, maths, now there's something I'm failing miserably at... Hopefully my other grades would make up for that fuck up.

But hey, not everything is awful with my school. Next week, on Tuesday, 6:00 AM our year leaving to a three day trip. Lots of hiking which I enjoy. A party on each of the two nights, nothing fancy, but still should be quite enjoyable I guess. But most importantly, last school trip with my friends. Three days. Cameras taking dozens of pictures. Laughing our asses off in the rooms we'll be staying in at night. Ought to be fucking awesome.

Another thing coming up soon is my birthday. April 16th! *cough*don't you forget!*cough* Turning 19. God, only one more year left before I'm 20... Probably going to be spending it in that god forsaken tent in the middle of the desert eating spam with stale bread and having pains in places I never knew existed... Perhaps I'll even throw a small party or something when I'm back from that torture week.

In April though, school's pretty over. Only finals left to do and a few classes here and there to revise and prepare. After finals are over it's party time until the army goes "GET THE FUCK OVER HERE!". Which apparently isn't that much time, but I think it'd do.

Artwise... Ehhh, I'm lazy as always. But things should show up sometime in the next couple of months I hope. Speaking of that, I got Priestess printed. Huge. 100 by 70 cm huge. Looks awesome on my wall.

Well, that's about it I think. Again, if you've read all this I owe you sexual favours. Plenty of them. Keep it real.
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