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Saturday, August 11th, 2007
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9:33 pm - The last post.
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8:40 pm - karaoke + noh play
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about the last week sometime, I manage to get myself upright, although not perfectly. My butt stuck out on my left, and when it was night time I would revert back to my stooping position. And it hurt, of course! But I got used to the pain and forced myself to stand straight, because otherwise I would break my back and that was something I really didn't need.
So on a Saturday night, I ventured out for the first time in about 3 weeks to buy a nail clipper...and managed to survive, so I decided that maybe I could go out for about an hour or so to do a liiiiiiiiittle bit of shopping. I rested on Sunday, and on Monday I tried to go out again. I went to Tenjin, to try and find a yukata for kamie and buy that fragrance thingie Pamela wanted. Unfortunately, as I said before hanabi season was over so the place at incube was no longer there, and uniqlo also got rid of their yukatas, So I mainly bought....hankerchiefs. yeah.
But the point is, I could walk for about an hour plus outside (although of course towards the end the pain got a little severe because I was forcing my leg to walk, but as time got by I got more confident about my ability to go out more than once. So although the previous week I turned down their invite to go karaoke, on Monday, when Pame-chan, Rei-chan and Ah beng came over to my place, Pame and I decided that we would go watch a Noh play on Wed night, before I left Japan. It was the least I could do to accompany her to the play, because while she was living with me she never went out. She said it was because she was afraid she would get lost, but I doubt it. Because if they were to go out, surely they'd send pamela until the subway.
So I decided to hope for the best and went to the noh play. However it turned out that on wednesday they were going karaoke, and Pame-chan really wanted me to go, so we made a date for the of us to go karaoke-ing on tuesday night instead.
Which we did.
It's very different from KTV in singapore, according to pamela. The room look like hotel suites, very nice and bright and beautifully furnished. All-you-can-drink (but we were too busy to get more drinks) and there was a buffet if you wanted to have dinner too. (we didn't.) And whole families came.
But anyway, we got ourself a nice pink room (pamela took piccies, I think) and then she left me to fiddle around with the device while she got us drinks. At first it was as if there was nothing to sing, especially since all the songs I listen to aren't on the list, but as time went on we started to remember all the old j-pop songs or anime songs we knew and we kept adding songs. And to sing them all we just sang like half way and then skipped. But yeah, it gets boring if you keep singing the song because it's just repeating and repeating ainnit?
We did Laruku's 4th avenue cafe which was so freaking funny because we tried to imitate Hyde's exaggerated singing, and a whole bunch of RK songs. Pamela is an idiot because she kept choosing songs she didn't know how to sing. She even chose a song, kept silent, and then told me "i only know how to sing the chorus."
She sang a couple of Chinese songs, (fa ru xue) enka songs etc etc. We also did Hamasaki, Utada, and popped in Savage Garden for good measure. The Savage garden we tried to sing following the katakana version, which is pretty hard.
But anyway, karaoke-ing in Japan is a damn good way to practice reading hiragana. I realised that my hiragana reading is pretty damn slow. But yeah, it's great practice cos you're forced to read as fast as the song goes. They even do katakana for the Chinese songs.
I also got to sing Bennie K's sunrise (yes!! i find out that with a mike, I can reach the high notes. where i normally don't.), endless story, ikenai taiyou (which was pretty damn stupid! because i ahd no idea how to rap), asterisk (ditto) and some other random songs. Oh, and Chage and Aska's Meguriai. So natsukashii!!!
But it was a seriously nice experience. I must go again with Kanako-san if I come to visit.
The next day we went for noh, instead of takarazuka with the B group...junko-san came along. WE couldn't get tickets on the phone, so we decided to go there and try, and luckily they were still selling. And I didn't bring my camera again. I love noh plays now. Sugoku kandou shita. though i didn't understand what they were saying, but before hand we read the story (simplified cartoon version) that mei-chan's okaasan printed out.
Then we walked around in ohori kouen, crossed half of the bridge....the builidings spoilt the scenery though.
And that was my last night in Fukuoka. Oh right, btw i got a lousy seat. I had to keep watching it from side to side. I resented that!!!! next time I"m buying the 4000 yen tix!
I didn't manage to ride the kanransha or go listen to the orchestra, but I'll do it some day. oh and neither did I get to go to youmetown either. But that's ok, I'm happy enough. for someone injured I managed to do quite a lotta things for which I am thankful.
And now school begins.
I'll probably have one last post before I go back to my old journal.
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11:30 am
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while i'm waiting for something to arrive, I suppose we should get down to the blogging.
I wanted to talk about....YUKATA SHOPPING.
For some time, you could get yukatas really cheap because it was the fireworks season. We all wanted to get one, so we went down to uniqlo to get it. But I changed my mind because - I was wondering, why the heck is it so cheap? 3000 yen- 4000 yen. The full set plus obi, sometimes they throw in a bag for good measure. So I asked kanako-san. And she said maybe it wasn't made in Japan. And so I decided, I'd rather get a really nice, made-in-Japan yukata which would cost a bomb. When I get married. otherwise I would have no use for a yukata. Of course, I could always join buyo. But no thanks. I can't even stand straight at the moment.
On the day we went yukata shopping, we also bought denchi jishous. And I loooove mine. me, gen, rei-chan and pame-chan all bought the same one with different colour bags. I might buy a liverpool sticker to stick on to mine. Ah Beng bought a silver one. Black is nicer though, rayn-chan. boo, i miss him already! we must go to sentosa together!
We also went to eat I think monja...well THEY ate it, I didn't. I ate sashimi instead. I only ate out twice when I was in Japan, because well, i could only walk the first 2 weeks, so I wasn't expecting that I'd be crippled after that. And both times I ate sashimi, which I don't regret. EVen if I go back, that would be the only thing I eat. hurhurhurhur. It's super nice. I think i will never be able to eat sashimi in singapore ever again. because it's too terrible.
Some cute guys next to us were noticing the fact that we were not Japanese Japanese people are always so fascinated by foreigners. Oh, and one of the people I think the restaurant managers came to talk to us and told us aobut hokkaido. hahahahaa. This is where I discovered - Rei-chan's vocab is awesome, it's just that her grammar's terrible. hurhurhurhur.
But yeah well....I don't have pictures from there....I think. But it was a really nice place. Seriously. And now I realise - i have been to a restaurant in Tenjin, which is a pretty cool fact!
I've also, been to an izakaya. That was my second dinner, when we went out with junko-san - one of the last times I went out. An izakaya's like a pub, but it's not like a pub in that sense, it's more like...a restaurant, anyway. you know, where you have different rooms to sit in, and a big one as well in case you run out of space. THAT was really cool. I've always seen those places on TV but to enter one is pretty cool. Had to take off our shoes....and then the table is a low one, but under the table there's a pit for you put your legs in. But you could just sit on the cushion japanese style if you were feeling very zen. we didn't.
oh, and there I had ochazuke. I accidentally ruptured the plum though, so it became really sour. before that it was pretty nice.
So....there you have it, my two restaurant trips to Japan, pictureless. I daresay I can find pictures on Pamela's flickr, I'll stop when she tells me she's uploaded all her pics.
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| Friday, August 10th, 2007
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10:14 pm
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okay now that I'm back and FREE I'm spamming like nobody's business!!!!!
I love Flow's Answer - Tantei GAkuen's OP. I'm currently hooked onto it. Although it's actually a typical J pop rock song.
anyway, Tantei Gakuen was one of the shows I watched. Once they had this two part thing, and I MISSED the second part because i was watching some drama (Love and Farm. Don't ask.) and i nearly killed myself. nearly, because i'm still alive and feeling it. my painful butt, anyway. narh i exaggerate, i think there's been some improvement.
But yeahhhhhhhhhhhh I keep thinking about the TV there. I don't know why, but I keep thinking "I wish I was home." which is pretty weird because i AM at home. But somehow....I feel so weird here. Like no satisfaction. It's like cus you know there's some place else you'd rather be.
So I'm thinking...I wanna work HARD to save up to have a trip to fukuoka in the near future. Maybe next summer, me and Kanako-san can go see the fireworks in ohori kouen itself. Although what i'd rather do is go to marinoa...
And kumamoto! for hotaru!
And i love this song.
Yeah but I just have to pay off my debts first. Luckily my expenditures before I left wasn't so bad, so I might be able to make it...then again i'm planning to watch HP...so that sets me back, but at least i got my junkisui at a bargain in japan and I don't have to spend 40 plus bucks here to buy it.
Also, I plan to bring bento to school, so that should save something. I'm also out of silat for the time being (obviously.) so that saves even more money...in what way i'm not sure though.
Okay i am sleepy. although I only got panadol, it's the orphenadrine version, and I have a double dose. I'm not sure if the 70 mg of orphenadrine will help my butt, but it is definitely making me sleepy, along with my cough medicine.
so i shall go now.
kamawanaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaai
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5:18 pm
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okay, so technically i'm back in singapore so I shoudn't be updating here, but I've still got lots to say about my stint in fukuoka so yeah.
One of them being OH, MY GOD. THE DOCTORS. I have always hated Singapore doctors for their uselessness, but today I hate them even more.
The woman didn't even have a look at my butt or feel it to see its stiffness. I suppose she must have trusted the Japanese doctors as much as I did. She sent me for another X-ray although both of us were expecting nothing from it. She was only doing it when I suddenly remembered that my toes became numb. (AND she didn't even ASK whether my toes were numb. The first doctor - nurse, actually, the kawaii oneesan asked me it. Only my first visit, but at that time my toes were fine.)
So I have a loss of something something, but I doubt that was significant, because she looked at it and said everything is normal. Yeah, you didn't really have to tell me that, I know my bones are fine.
But the toes numbness is not normal, so our general practitioner here decided to refer me to the hospital, where I think they'll scan my muscle to see what degree muscle strain it is. I think. She couldn't even tell me that much, I'm just guessing. She just said "they might scan. I can't tell you what they'll do." At the time i went to the hospital in fukuoka, we just went for a jab. Maybe I'll get a second jab. Oh, but she theorizes that my bone is compressing my nerves. So what am I supposed to do now, go for surgery?
AND they expect me live with this for like what, 2 months, until I go to the hospital and DISCUSS what to do (her words.). Doctors here are complete jackasses. They don't believe that you're in pain. Seriously. And the radiographer was so ....not nice. Man, I miss my Japanese doctors/radiographer. The second doctor especially was so nice, he came to check on me after my jab. And the radiographer was always "it's okay take your time, I'm sorry, please bear with it," kinda thing. the one here just scolded me because I was "too tense". Hello, woman, I have muscle ache. Even if i tried to relax, some muscle somewhere is screaming out in pain. What a complete ______.
And she gave me panadol! whoopee! She didn't even give me myonal, for goodness' sake. What a bloody waste of time and effort and money.
And while I'm at it, at the immigration, the immigration just rudely shouted "Oi, one line here!" where's all the kudasaimase, onegai shimasu-s, like what the heck!!!! She said it to a bunch of Japanese schoolchildren travelling with me. The poor kids. I am so ashamed of Singaporeans.
Sorry, it's not that I consider myself royalty, but it's just called basic courtesy. You can just say it nicely, you don't have to lick our boots. If people in Japan can do it, why can't we? I was almost about to apologize to all the Japanese on my flight for the rudeness of my fellow countrymen/racemen.
So...yeah. Don't blame me for not wanting to go back, cos all I'm returning to is a land of rude people. Well too bad I'm already here. But I don't plan to stay here for long. mwahahahaha.
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| Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
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12:58 pm
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hurhurhurhurhur.
.....i lost the mood to write anything.
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| Monday, August 6th, 2007
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3:07 pm
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Phew, it is HOT. I'm GLAD I went out in the morning instead of now, because the sun is beating mercilessly upon us....but oh well.
I. Found. JUNKISUI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
omgomgomgomgomg it's so cheap here. I know, cheap and Japan doesn't normally go in the same sentence but I am not kidding. beaute de kose I think....wait, is it french? is it a french label? I always had the impression it was japanese, I don't know why.
Now, just point me to the l'oreal counter and I'll be happy. I WANT MY KERASTASE. NOW. my hair is RUINED thanks to normal l'oreal shampoo. it's terrible!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I should have just gone for vidal sassoon.
....what? I may not wear makeup but I take my products seriously. well, ever since I started buying cleo, anyway...hahahahaa.....
anyway. I bought like 20 hankerchiefs. and....they're ALL FOR ME. HAHAHAHAHAHA. i mean, i initially stepped out and thought I'd buy some random hankies as souvenirs. Then I just bought and bought thinking okay not enough...because you change hankies everyday, right? So now I have like what I think 7 hankies for myself and a few others i bought for pamela and ashleigh....and i'm NOWHERE near fulfilling my omiyage list!!!! But I don't care! I'm coming back to singapore a changed woman! I"m going to be gentle! I'm going to be a lady!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!
*cough* right. This has absolutely nothing to do with reading PGE. This has more to do with hearing kamenashi say "I always want girls to be carrying tissues and handkerchiefs..."
*swoon*
NO but really, I realised....HOW DID I SURVIVE IN SINGAPORE WITHOUT HANKERCHIEFS!??!!? I mean, it's such a sweaty little island. Now that I started using them I've started to panic thinking nobody in singapore buys hankies and I"ll never be able to find any in singapore so I should buy them here. (let's ignore the fact that the hankies here are gorgeous.)
anyway....got some disgustingly branded hankies at amazing prices....hahahahah!!! daddy! your hanky collection will never be the same!! I BOUGHT 10 MEN'S HANKERCHIEfs. the male hankies here are so so so so gorgeous. I don't really want my guy to be using hankies, but my dad uses them so...yeah. Na'im uses them too, so I decided to get one...and I realised the one I bought for him was too nice! So i swapped it with another one *cough* sssshhhhh. no lah, I decided to give him another one by a Japanese designer, that is so freaking gorgeous that I couldn't help myself, but then i looked at it and there was the possibility that my dad wouldn't like it and he wouldn't appreciate the fact that it was by a japanese designer either.
Then stockings for myself. I wanted to buy the handsocks for faatihah before I realised..they're actually GLOVES!!!!! so i didn't buy.
And also for mom.
Tomorrow I plan to go to nakasu-kawabata where they have some gorgeous oriental wallets and bags that I want to buy, again as random omiyage....I realised that I won't really buy that much because I CAN'T FIT IT IN MY LUGGAGE. SORRY.
After all the crap I bought for myself...sorry sorry sorry. hurhurhurhur.
Oh, but at least I won't have to worry about squeezing a full yukata set in my luggage cos apparently they stopped selling yukatas once kurume is over. So kamie won't get her yukata. sorrryyyyyyy kamieee i didn't know they'd stop selling.
before you all think that I've completely recovered, the sad fact is no, i haven't, but I can walk for about 2 hours, albeit slowly and a bit cowboy-ish. and with some pain. But bearable.
they are all coming to my place in about 2 hours. I better call SIA before I forget.
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| Sunday, August 5th, 2007
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10:43 am
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sorry, i forgot...
and YES, I will upload nodame as soon as i get my PGE fix. cos i'm weird that way.
i just want everyone to hear this is all. hurhur.
ikenai taiyou by orange range
the lyrics are a bit ermmm but this song has grown on me. I feel like going to the beach when i hear it, and surfing.
upload by yousendit.
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9:43 am
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Things I like about living here/alone
1) the TV
2) i can eat whatever I want.
3) I cook for myself!!! which is funn
4) I only do my own laundry
5) I can do my laundry at 1 AM
6) i don't have to clean the house cos someone does it for me
7) the sunsets
I forgot to say this: in japan, you pack your own groceries. !!!! hahahah culture shock!
YOu also don't give money directly. but i still do that. They have a money tray. Like...hmmm. I have to ask someone else again. I wonder why though. I'm not sure when I"m supposed to give directly and when I'm not supposed to. But heck, they'll forgive me cuz i'm a foreigner.
8) I'm Alone!!!!! I always liked being alone, but after living alone, I realised how much i like Solitude.
What I miss:
1) Being able to eat anything at a halal restaurant and not having to carefully figure out whether there are things I can eat/being a vegetarian/seafoodian (although I don't really mind the seafood part, but the thing about japan is that they're such meat freaks)
I plan to go to these places:
1) Siam Kitchen for the lemongrass juice
2) SEOUL GARDEN!!!!!
I am supposed to treat na'im, so we'll go either. I think I'll bring mommy out to siam kitchen and bring na'im to seoul garden. Sounds weird, but i want someone to cook for me~
Na'im wants to treat me, so where shall we go~~ I kinda miss swensen's, let's go swensen!
anyway, it turns out i don't hafta bid for anything, i got all 5 mods allocated.
okay, I want to write up an omiyage list. I"m online cuz i'm hoping baba will be, cos i want my VOLUME 14. NOWNOWNOW. GRRRR.
if i go mandarake....but i don't have the courage!!!!! a innocent tudunged girl walking in what looks like a porn shop...curses porn manga!
hankiessss are love. nakamura shunsuke is love too. nyahahahaaaaa
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| Saturday, August 4th, 2007
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10:58 pm
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Please let singapore be cooler than this.
ahh, the lady living opposite me just left her house.
anyway, it's time to celebrate! rather, it's time to check out whether this juice is drugged, because i've been drinking it nonstop.
i was SO DESPERATE to cut my nails that I went out today to get a nail clipper. and of course, water. and some groceries. because i haven't done my own shopping for 3 weeks, i bought all sorts of ridiculous things, like yoghurt and lemon grass water.
only to find out taht the lemon grass water is REALLY lemon grass water and not sweetened, like it is in siam kitchen.
lucky it's a small bottle. but it still has a calming effect.
because it's the summer, i've been buying all sorts of juices...because i am not kidding when I say it's hot. but the good thing is that there is occasional wind. my mom would probably say it's cold. why does this place not have a fan?!!?!? the aircon is too much for my cold!
and because i was at the department store, i bought hankies...for sweat wiping! and because ashley will be coming over, so i thought i'd buy hankies for her and pamela. but i'm still planning to get something else for ashleigh. though i haven't figured out exactly what.
i hope that i will be able to walk as i could today, at least, on wednesday. I was trying not to go out before maghrib because isyak is getting faster and faster, but pamela really wants to go to the noh play and it's my fault that she hasn't gone ANYWHERE. really. she says all sorts of things but i know the reason she doesn't go out was because i couldn't go out and she dind't want to go out without me. so I at least owe her this much. I'll treat her to the noh play she wanted to see so much. it's 4000 yen, quite okay.
i'm not too ambitious, but because i'm not buying 2 kg rice anymore i think i should be able to do it...buy kamie's yukata, pamela's perfume...i think i'll ask rei-chan along on monday if she's planning on visiting me. or maybe i should do it in the morning before it gets crowded.
and all other omiyage...still wondering where to get luxury chocs from.
i better write my omiyage list down now that i can actually do the shopping....
i think i can do it because today i managed to make it home carrying 2 litre bottle! that's about more than an hour of walking!
i'll keep my walking short, don't worry. and i'm sleeping so well and getting plenty of rest.
renee reckons i should find me a guy.
i can't love anyone else!!! *breaksdown* ever since i set my eyes on him...
shit! my flowers of love are dying! gotta change the water...
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6:54 pm
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helppppppppp
i cannot stop reading perfect girl evolution!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and baba!!! where is the romantic development between takano and sunako!!?!? i want vol 8 and 9....
I'm buyinggggg thissss!!!!
But not here. I don't dare to step into a manga shop here, pame-chan stepped in and stepped out again. she said it was too graphic.
sigh....my ass is PLASTERED here.
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| Thursday, August 2nd, 2007
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6:05 pm - some updates, and no pics
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sorry lah!
some of you will be so pissed to know that I actually saw the famous fireworks but have no pictures. HAHAAHAHHA!!!
Well, me and kanako-san climbed up to the roof last night and watched them. it wasn't very big, but it wasn't very small, we could see it pretty well. It was awesome! Very pretty. National day can kiss ohori kouen's fireworks' ass.
Anyway, we were bored before long though, but we stuck through the whole 1.5 hours of it.
With no pictures and just the fireworks in our memories. Oh, and with pinings of our imaginary cute guys.
and before you start waggling your fingers about me climbing up to roofs to watch fireworks, despite my ass injury, all we did was to go to the 8th storey, climb up the stairwell and sit on teh stairs. there wasn't really a roof, too.
I'm actually about to go and rest my butt, but I decided that I'd like to update a little bit.
Went to get my ticket at SIA, and my stupidity of forgetting AGAIN to request for special meal on the spot really pisses me off. NOw i have to call them AGAIN. grrr.
anyway it's so funney to see a japanese girl wearing the kebaya costume!!!!!!!!!!! the Singapore Girl my foot. dude you probably have brazilians wearing them somewhere. but anyway. it was a nice familiar sight. it's definitely a lot prettier than the JAL uniforms. They're dressed something like nursery teachers. with cute aprons.
uhhh, i better start packing too.....ugh, my bag is in a complete mess.
kanako-san gave me MIFFYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
the puppet!
and i got flowers from matsukawa-san. hurhurhur. no lah, they steal from the tea ceremony one. and gave to me in a milk carton. but i've dutifully changed the water everyday. (let's forget the fact i just got it yesterday.)
then....what else. matsukawa SMOKES. can't wait to tell pamela and crash her dreams of him.
they all smoke like we eat candy lah.. but i think sato kei-san doesn't smoke. he just drinks.
in that case eii-chan is really teh best! he can't drink, he doesn't smoke....but he's for Rei-chan.
Yuusuke also not bad, but he really personality of cucumber...a lawyer-cucumber....
I would still rather go with sato kei, because undyed hair and not plucked mayuge is still very important to me. and although both me and kanako-san think he kakkotsuketeru-s, it can be kind of funny and endearing.
......may pamela never find this blog. she'll never let me live it down.
but anyway, STOP MAKING IT SOUND LIKE I LIKE HIM. I DON'T. i just find him cool. and cute. and funny.
because when it comes down to it i hate the smell of beer. hahahahhahaa.
enough of the sato kei references!!!! I have pledged myself to nakamura shunsuke.
sigh. yesterday night was really one of the best nights in my life. I shall plant it in my memory forever more. watching fireworks. likeromantichello. rooftop some more!
and i missed tantei gakuin. like wth. and i was waiting for it like mad!
i'm quite happy i don't have to go to school and see akira anymore.
this is a very random entry, not to mention totally incoherent.
and i'm sick of news reports saying got typhoon then typhoon never come. it's a good thing la, but ..... it's like it's so hyped up. over-rated. twice already leh. wasted a sat afternoon some more waiting for a typhoon. could have gone shopping that time.
there's supposed to be a typhoon crossing us righ tnow, the outer edge of it....but it's pretty mild, and it is stll pretty warm in my room, at least. i'm doing my laundry after 12, when the typhoon has passed us and my laundry can dry.
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| Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
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2:55 pm
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I had my first run-in with the firemen department or whatever you call it at 4 ++ am this morning, as I was rudely awokened by the fire alarm going off. NOT MINE, thankfully. Actually, I was already rudely awokened by my normal Subuh alarm at 4 am, but I was an idiot and went back to sleep ignoring it.
So at about 4.....30? I suddenly heard this incessant ringing. I was wondering what the hell it was...then i realised OH MY GOD, was that a fire alarm? So I got up and checked all my appliances. nothing plugged in, gas was off, shower was off. hahahaha. Then I poked my head out of my door, and yeah, it was ringing right outside my door i.e. in the common corridor of all the apartments on my storey. But I smelt no smoke and saw no fire so I gave it up as a bad job and went back inside to pray.
Then as I was amek-ing wudhuk, the alarm stopped! I cheered and went to pray....and unfortunately, just as I finished praying, the doorbell rang. I groaned.
Because I had a feeling it would happen. hurhurhurhur. Because just as I walked out of my toilet I heard the sirens of either an ambulance or a police car or fire engine, so I vaguely wondered if they were going to come here, but I decided that since the alarm had stopped ringing I could ignore it.
Unfortunately, they DID come up, and they WERE ringing my doorbell, and because I don't dare to mess around with the civil entities of Japan, I just opened the door dressed as I was, because I knew they were checking the apartments to see which was was causing the smoke. If I didn't open it up promptly, I'm pretty sure they'd have knocked the door down, which was infintitely NOT preferable.
So I opened the door, told them NO there was no smoke, I was perfectly fine, and shut the door. There were loads of firemen outside, but no fire. it was pretty hilarious.
I went back in and groaned and decided the first thing I should do if the alarm goes and if I here sirens, is I should get dressed, instead of assuming that as in Singapore, alarms are just merely to....alarm. Apparently they take it pretty damn seriously. All alarms seem to be connected to the fire departments, I think.
So I have also made it a practice to turn on my ventilators when I take a shower/cook.
On another note, Dr. Lim called me, told me very many interesting things, and the result is that I can slack of school for the rest of my stay, but I may have to go home early. SHUCKS! I wanted to go home on saturday!!! And besides, going home on saturday means I can go home with other people. lemme re-tell my mother that. if i go home on thurs means i'll be all alone! better to go home on saturday with may and weili and Rain! hurhurhur. no really, i'm not just saying it because I think Rain is cute I want company, in my condition I think it's a lot easier if someone's there.
okay.....that's about all. the brightest side is Dr. Lim has asked for me to be allowed home rest for the rest of my stay! It's not just that I"m a lazy brat, it's also that I'm sick of infringing on other people, they always have to drive me home and i can TELL they're sick of it, and the thing is that I DIDN'T EVEN ASK FOR IT LAH, i don't give a slightest piss about whether I flunk the course or not, and also I'm sick of having my friends needing to help me around school all the time. I'm much more happier staying here and becoming a couch potato. On which note, these are the things that you people can only watch on youtube or download, but I"ve been watching in real airtime on a weekly basis.
1) a million doramas, including hana kimi, which isn't really that good but hey, it IS ikemen paradise
2) variety shows including bistro smap! heyheyhey, CARTOON KAT-TUN and a million other stuff
3) FRENCH SHOWS
4) ANIME including DORAEMON (like first time ever in japanese)and BLEACH! (although it's just..fillers.)
LIKE HELLO!?!?! dude, I love the tV here! I"m gonna so whine when my ass eventually gets hauled to singapore!
sigh.....
ok, ok i'm getting back to eiga monogatari now. I've asked to take the exams, i thought it'd be fun.
but if it's too much trouble then it's ok, i don't mind not doing it. I wish dr. Lim hadn't gone and made all those requests, I could have done it myself. damn, now i'm even more indebted. I hate being indebted to other people. booo. gives you a sad sucked up feeling. and yes, it DOES stress me out. Sato Kei-san said "sutoresu kanjinai". Well, I realise that I am the most stressed when people help me, because I know I'm infringing on their freedom and I'm meiwaku kakechau-ing. so people, if you want to make me a happy person, DON'T help me. and DON'T keep asking after me because it pisses me off, truthfully. Na'im can attest to that. it's very irritating to always be asked after as if i'm on my deathbed.
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| Sunday, July 29th, 2007
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10:12 am
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I know I said the next post was of sunsets, but as I transfer them onto my laptop I can't help but cringe at the sheer amount of pictures I took + a 3 minute video.
So.
anyway, I'm taking these:
1) Social Dynamics of Japan (level 4)
2) Tales and Performance (Hislop!) (level 4)
3) 20th Century Japan (level 3)
4) Business Japanese (level 3)
And must bid for
5) Gender and Sexuality in Japan? (level 2)
Yes, 2 level 4 mods. level 4 mods are basically for honours students. No, I'm not an honours student. I just ran out of options. hurhurhur.
Anyway, on Monday, my timetable is something like 10-2 (It's ALWAYS like that) which coincides with Na'im. Tuesday it coincides with Na'im's again, so we can have lunch together, since some people are evil enough to make themselves 2-day timetables. But oh well, it's not as if it would make difference. Tuesday if I'm not wrong I end at 4 is it?
Wednesday is my 2 level 4 mods, 3 hours, 1 hour break in between. then silat.
Thursday...12-6, I think...I think there's a break somewhere there.
Friday....10-1, something like that. got tuition after that...so unfortunately my tuition days are the same as before.
Saturday, probably taking the afternoon french class. so morning will be tuition...maybe go silat if sempat....and then french class.
I wrote a very bitchy post, but I think it would come off on the wrong end for most people, because honestly, people are just too oversensitive nowadays.
Maybe I should go back to sleep.
Today's finals: Iraq vs Saudi Arabia. looking forward to it. rooting for SA. hurhurhur.
was very disappointed last night, but not surprised. Japan was really...they both looked like dying teams. And I think somehow they both wanted to get a penalty shootout because each believed their own GK to be pretty good. well, that was a miscalculation. but I felt pretty pissed watching two teams who looked like they both didn't want to play. it was so obvious that both expected to be in the finals instead of the third place match, and that they were just "settling for something lesser". i've never seen such half hearted play in my life. I actually fell asleep, and I doubt i missed anything. course, I woke up right on time to watch hanyu miss the shot. well, more like after, i watched a replay of it.
i feel bad for hanyu though. i think it sucks to be him....and the look on nakamura-senshuu's face. it was heartbreaking.
but japan played pretty well minus yesterday's match, and they're coping well without nakata and ono. kawaguchi is a good captain. i think one day nakamura-senshuu will be wearing the captainship very soon. and they really are afraid of him, he's always being surrounded by 2 or 3 people. hurhurhur. sasuga the guy i wanted to marry.
but one thing doesn't change - their mistakesssss. yesterday was just a spattering of mistakes. painful to watch. the best game was the one against australia. that was the most smooth game, as in not so many careless mistakes. i think that was their top form.
and i'm pretty happy they won against australia, at the very least. payback for world cup. and i hate australia with a fervour.
yesterday i watched this CountDown TV thing, so there were lots of new singles and stuff being shown. one of which was lyzie's beloved Garnet Crow....but there's one thing i'm not satisfied. How did ACidman make it into the list, when my beloved Erure didn't? dude! what the heck! Acidman is rubbish compared to Erure. hurhurhur.
and what about chatmonchy!!?! helloooo???
oh yeah, i wanted to check out the japanese team's coach. byebye.
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| Saturday, July 28th, 2007
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7:41 pm
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Everybody just wants pictures, so....
These are pictures I took during a baseball game between the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks and....the Hiroshima somethings. Or something. I seriously can't remember.
Played at Yahoo! dome. Yes, that IS the name. It's a very nice place. Except that when we were heading there we were sort of late, so I didn't have time to snap any pictures.
And probably this was the reason why I was mad at certain people who were late, because they made us all late.
( the pictures. )
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7:28 pm
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Things I have bought/received so far:
1) The hiroshima hankerchief which I have no idea what to use it for
2) the whale for chong
3) the cushion for dad
4) The stockings for myself
5) The patient card
6) my denchi jisho
7) Two umbrellas
8) My files
9) Foolscap paper
Erm yeah that's about it. Just felt like keeping track is all.
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| Friday, July 27th, 2007
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5:22 pm
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right, so how've I been doing?
Short from still walking like I"m 60 years older than I am, I'm fine, yeah.
But most importantly.
Pretty faces are ....so nice. So, so nice. That even though they have personalities of cucumbers I don't care. hurhurhur.
But yeah, basically.....I think I'll keep that memory to myself. hurhurhur. A secret that I shall share only between me and him. And also the rest of my classmates.
kure-chan looks so cute today! he looks like a little boy!
Well, I should really stop writing random things. I thought I'd give you a little entry about the baseball game I went to the other day, but now I've sort of lost the enthusiasm. I think i'll roll back into my bed and sleep.
But here's the nice things I would have basically recounted:
1) THE GREEN-NESS AND VASTNESS OF THE FIELD. if that's what you call it.
2) The ....scary way Japanese are really into cheering for their team. it's like every player has their own special cheer, and all 50000 people there know it. it's freaky.
3) That they play Ellegarden songs. That has got to be the best. I was driving people mad singing. but oh my god. Ellegarden. hurhurhur.
I have just finished reading HP. yesterday, actually. and now I think I shall read it again. heh.
I seem to have lost all enthusiasm to blog. My next post will probably be just a whole load of pictures and some crappy captions.
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| Monday, July 23rd, 2007
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4:41 pm
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now i know how the girl in 1 litre of tears feels like.
I guess the office people are tired of me sitting at home. Heck I wasn't complaining, not that when I can keep myself occupied with footie and random dramas. and of course i have a laptop.
But they decided they wanted to drag my sorry muscle-strained ass to school, so they today akiko-san picked me up for my second tutorial. Actually I was pretty happy, because I had been looking forward to the lit module. either way it was okay, it wasn't as if I was busting my butt to go to a module i didn't like.
And I don't regret it, the professor rocks. but yeah, it's pretty tiring.
Oh, and the best part - they managed to borrow a wheelchair.
I really would like to die from embarrassment as about now. or more like a few hours ago.
So my friends wheeled me to class....well, to the lift.
And someone had turned the lift off!
So everybody climbed up, and I was stuck waiting with takahara. heck, i wanted to climb the stairs, but nobody let me. so I waited....and entered class late, bent like the hunchback of notre dame...and guess what?
Sato Kei was there.
Oh this is rich. This is so rich. Kanako-san would die laughing if she heard this.
I mean what are the chances that that dude would be taking yet another module with me?!!??! I mean, come on give me a break!! Can't he at least see me when I'm walking normally?!??!
But I had to umm, face the embarrassment....and damn the fly who buzzed into my room. Japanese summers are just full of flies and nothing else.
After that clarence and huiying wheeled me back out. Clarence is such a pro.
Here are the people I have to buy presents for:
1) ATW people: Akiko-san, Takahara-san, and for the general office people. I think chocolates.
2) Pamela - like omg sth huge. I'll have to figure out what is it she wants. Maybe i'll buy her geta for her.
3) Kanako-san - keeping me company making me dinner. planning to get her tiny! miffy. (and the big one for myself. hurhurhur.)
4) clarence, Marisa, Huiying - for pushing the chair. the list will grow.
5) Gene, Ash, Mei, Clarinda - for looking after me and always asking after me.
That's in addition to my omiyage list. daaaarn.
I'll have to add as the list will grow and grow.
tmr, i have to go for japanese at 10. luckily not at 9 though, so...yeah. I think i might be able to survive...i think. i was really tired when i got back, i thought i was going to vomit.
or maybe it's because akiko san's driving can be quite reckless.
tmr somebody's picking me up at 9.30. i ain't telling pamela, that evil woman is planning to bring a camera tmr. if she weren't my servant i'd have thrown her camera into the river ages ago. and my money depends on her. i'll let her take pics of me provided she go pick up my money.
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| Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
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10:12 am
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| Sunday, July 15th, 2007
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2:35 pm
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hahahhaa. I am a very very happy woman I have these updates pending:
1)..farm trip? did i do it already?
2) yukata shopping
3) baseball
4) yamakasa
But right now I am just a very happy woman. The reason is absolutely ridiculous. and also completely by accident.
it is also quite embarrassing.
I think I'll start with yamakasa. .....yappari I don't have the mood to do it.
oh well, I'm just happy.
I don't like him, but he's damn gorgeous so it was nice. hah hah hah.
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