CandyFloss in the desert

making a difference in someone's life

2009-09-28T21:29:00.003+04:00

I am a big blog follower. You could probably figure out everything about me by looking at my google reader lol. Among the many blogs i follow there are a couple blogs of young mums who write very sarcastic and humorous posts about kids, that anyone would love! (if you have a good sense of humor that is). Anyway, i follow some and from time to time they put up photos of their cute kids. I love kids and it makes me so happy to see kids having fun and being pampered. On the other hand, it reminds me of all the unfortunate kids in this world. The poor kids with nothing to play with or even eat, the abused kids with no one to hear their cries for help and all the other kids in between. Life is not fair but to know how unfortunate a kid's life is, it just makes it harder to ignore it.

Which brings me to people and their attitude towards poor people. I honestly don't understand people sometimes. They hear about people in dire situations who need help and all they say is," oh how sad", or at most, "we should help" but thats where it all ends. They're all talk and no action. Why do people think its enough to sympathize and pity people in need? ITS NOT ENOUGH! your sympathy and pity will do nothing. It really makes me wonder how people think! I'm in no way a great person but if i hear such stories it breaks my heart and i don't feel at peace until i know i have helped them in some way, even if it is just spreading the word. What frustrates me is that these people would probably agree with me that they need to help and such but they won't do anything.

I wish people could experience the satisfaction of knowing you have helped someone and made a difference in their life. I wish they could see a poor mother's tears of happiness as she realizes she can now feed her kids. If they experienced such thing then they would get addicted. It really softens your heart and opens your eyes to bigger issues and makes you realize you should be grateful for all you have because some people don't have anything.

I wonder what YOUR reaction will be after reading this. Will it be "yeah we should help more" and then you'll forget about it and not do anything? Or will you act upon this? There are so many people in need, and don't use the excuse of "but i don't know any, or don't know where to find them", if you want to help you will find a way. I know people who need help, if you really want to help ask me and i will hook you up with people who need your help. So are you going to pretend you didn't read this post so you don't have to help? LOL its up to you.

Thats all! Jya!

ブザー・ビート

2009-09-25T22:26:00.002+04:00

こんばんは！

おげんき　です　か。

きょう　山下智久の　ブザー・ビート～崖っぷちのヒーロー　を　みました。ほんとうに　おもしろいドラマ　ですよ。

あした　おとうさん　は　ウガンダ　に　かえります。あいたい　から　うれしい　です。おもしろい　はなし　を　ききたい　だから　たのしみ　に　まっています。

じゃあ　またね！

Accounting is not easy or boring!

2009-09-17T22:43:00.004+04:00

To all those who ever told me that Accounting is an office job, requires no interaction with actual people, requires great math skills, and is boring.. I WISH I'D NEVER LISTENED TO YOU GUYS!!

I thought i'd found the perfect major at uni, a job where i wouldn't have to deal with a lot of people, i could laze around all day in an office, i would have boring work and wouldn't need to think too much, and i'd get to use maths (i love maths).. but alas, my accounting job is nothing like that!

i never sit down, always standing, running around, dashing to different places.
its not boring! (i'd be happy as hell if it was) it is extremely challenging with different situations to figure out everyday! its nothing like you learn at uni.. everyday i learn a new thing (it would be so much easier if i didn't)
I hardly ever use math.. you don't need to be good in math.. thats a major downside for me, i wanted to have to use math but all i use is addition and subtraction :X

Its not what i expected but i guess thats good, it makes me think a lot and i can't be lazy.. and i'd like it if it wasn't so much pressure. I've been there a year and we still didn't get any new staff and its just too much work..

i talked to my boss and she promised she'd move me to another section in our department within the coming two months, i told her i want to move to the budget section, it seems a bit quieter and laid back,, wish me luck all!

floatin turnin into jelly kanji

2009-04-19T21:16:00.002+04:00

I don't know whats up with me,, since i got up this morning, even before leavin bed i wanted to cry for no reason.. Then at work, since its the first day with no workshop, i was running around tryin to finish as much work as possible, for some reason i wanted to finish everything today.. an hour into it i was so tired and hadnt even sat down, my collegue joking asked me if i was quiting tomorrow so i wanna finish everything today..

anyways, i dont know what was wrong with me, i was doing everything in a hurry as i felt like i wanted to cry yet laugh at the same time.. my senior asked me what was wrong with me today when i went into her office, i dont know why everyone noticed i was differnt.. at the end of the day she was talking to someone about me and i was next to her and she leaned over and hugged me and shes like i have no idea whats wrong with her today, shes not normal.. and i wasnt! but i dont know why!

I'm still feeling weird, naitai! demo doushite? doushite naitai?!

I miss mari and her family.. i hope i get to visit them in Oita soon :) i love the countryside..

Enough for now..

Finally!

2009-04-18T19:50:00.003+04:00

Finally! after almost 5 months of trying i finally managed to log into my blogger account! Wow i sure missed a couple of posts.. so many things happened but i wont go back to them coz its too much.. i'll start from the present shall i?

On Thursday as i was leaving the extremely long workshop we've been having for months i received a call telling me that i passed the initial CPA assesment! So i'm now elligible to start with the CPA courses which will probably take many long months (8 probably) and then the even longer and the world famous cruel CPA exam which i will have to go to the US to take.. and its not just one.. several.. anyways, too early to think about that.. for now im just glad i passed and i now have the opportunity to take the courses..

We had a family meeting today we even called in my step-sister to discuss our holiday plans. This is going to be a memorable holiday as almost the whole family is going. Mum and Dad and my 2 brothers and 2 sisters, plus my married sis and her baby, plus my step sister and her 3 kids (plus the maid ofcourse!), and my grandma is also flying in from london so she can go with us! 14 in total! wow.. hope it goes smoothly.. so the plan is, we're going to bangkok then directly transfering to another flight to an island called koh samui, there we are renting an amazing beachfront villa with a huge pool and everything you could ask for including staff and conceriage.. We'll be staying there for 8 nights, just relaxing and going out hiking, bike riding, village market shopping and doing other various water activities (kayaking, jet skis, sailing..you name it), then we're planning on going back to bangkok and staying there for 4 nights and just shopping all day long! (can't wait to buy doramas!) and then coming back.. It should be fun but we'll probably face many difficulties.. with my sister's little kids running everywhere.. anyways,, we're planning that for the 21st of june onwards.. we'll see how it goes..

I finally got a blackberry a few weeks ago.. i love the bb msn but other than that i never really use the bb, i never need to use the internet or anything but nevermind..

Can't think of anything else except to say that i LOVE NEWS and their song koi no ABO is quite good.. i listen to it atleast 30 times a day hhh..

Went to work this morning even though its the weekend, got some work done but still a lot to go..

I miss fefechan!

GOING!

2008-12-01T08:08:00.003+04:00

My boss agreed.. THANK GOD! I'm so happy!

Anyways, another good thing happened.. they've given us a holiday from the 2nd which is tomorrow until the 14th! yay! 2 whole weeks! im travelling tomorrow at 3 AM.. My family anf my uncle and his family are going to Syria where he has a villa that we'll stay at.. we used to go when we were kids but we havent been in like 9 years or something. the best thing is,we're going by car! its going to be super fun.. except 2 of my cousins dont want to go by car so they're coming by airplane later.. I wont have internet there so i'll update once im back..

I still havent packed >_<>

Going.. or not?

2008-11-28T17:40:00.002+04:00

I have bad news.. i didnt want to write about it till im completely sure of whats going to happen but since ive been getting a lot of questions, i think i need to explain whats happening.

I had decided to hand in my one month notice on Tuesday. Then Bash called telling me to come down to her, it was urgent. I went down panicking wondering what the heck happened. I went to her and she was like, come with me, and took me to one of her collegues' office. By this time i had no clue what was going on. Anyways, to make a long story short, this guy told me that he'd heard i was going to resign and stuff. Bash told me not to tell anyone what he said coz its still confidential but anyways, he convinced me to stay for a bit longer and not resign, and he made me feel how utterly stupid it would be to throw my career down the drain for 2 wonderful but short-lived weeks in Japan. He said to wait for a bit and that changes will be happening within a short time and then to think about Japan. Lets just say i realized that although i only worked coz i wanted to go to Japan, and even though i can find a better job even if my CV sucks coz it mentions me quitting within less than 6 months of working, that it would be stupid. I don't know how he managed to convince me but im glad he did. So i said i'll think about it, but to tell you the truth, the moment he opened his mouth i knew i was convinced.

So ive decided to stay.. i will ask my boss for leave on those 2 weeks, if she accepts, i'll be ecstatic, if she doesnt, i'll have to endure it and stay. Although it would be hard to go to Japan any othe time coz my bro is at uni so he cant go with me, but i think in the long run, i'll be doing the right thing. I hope i am. My family thinks its the right thing to do too so we'll see.

I tried to talk to my boss on Wednesday and Thursday but she was too busy. I just sent her an email telling her i need to discuss something with her on Sunday so hopefully by Sunday i'll know whats going to happen. I really hope she says i can go.. If she says no i'll be sooo disappointed, especially since that means not seeing marie or fefechan in japan.. that would absolutely suck so im not even gonna think about it.. Everyone, please wish me luck! I need her to say yes..

random stuff

2008-11-17T21:32:00.003+04:00

Even my sensei knows about NEWS lol shes tryin to keep me focused by includin them in the lesson :D

Konbanwa!

Today in my japanese class i told my sensei "ive been a bad student" coz i hadnt studied.Somehow it sounded so wrong and kinky lol

My sensei and i will be coming back from Japan on the same flight, how cool is that! by sheer coiencidence.. sugoi ne..

Been listening to MOLA since i turned my laptop on, its got a nice beat to it.. not to mention you get to hear yamapi sing all alone...

I was watching a movie, the mist, im halfway though and now the next part won't load, bummer, i was really into it..

I missed my two little girls today, usually in my break from work i go over to my mum's friend A's house, coz its like 5 mins away, and we're practically family lol and A is still at work so i go and sit with little M whose 3 (i think) and AA whose 4 (again,, i think) and they chat with me and teach me cool baby stuff like dipping crisps in coke before eating them and stuff lol i have a blast actually.. i didnt go over today so i miss them now..

I wish i could get the energy + time to update my ipod and put new stuff, i havent added anything since going to srilanka/malaysia.. Its just so time consuming, having to find the songs in the right format or convrting them, all the hassle..

I wonder if we're still gonna stalk yamapi, fefechan? still up to it.. hhh

I want to go to the mall and find fefechan there by chance again :D we have to go shopping for Japan together..

ichigatsu no juuichinichi ni nihon e ikimasu!

2008-11-15T12:01:00.004+04:00

konnichiwa!

suiyoubi ni oniichan ga koukuuken wo kaimashita! ichigatsu no juuichinichi ni nihon e ikimasu! tanoshimi ni matteimasu!

raishuu hoteru no ruumu wo yoyaku shimasu! nihon ni iku to marie-san ni au no koto ga dekimasu kara totemo ureshii desu!

Marie-san please correct it^^ i know theres some thing wrong but don't know how to say it any better.

getsuyoubi ni nihongo no ressun ga arimasu kara ima benkyou shiteimasu..Jaa mata!

bits and peices

2008-11-12T08:06:00.002+04:00

I havent updated in a looong time. So i'll just summarize anything thats happened in the past 3 weeks?

My aunt died and we were all shocked, shes not old.. ive never met anyone who didnt like her, shes was such a good and kind person, i really loved her, so did everyone else. When we were kids and mum and dad had to travel, they would leave us all summer at her house coz we used to get along with her kids so well.. However, she was a vey good muslim mashallah so that put our minds a bit at ease. Seeing her daughters was hard, they're all younger than me, 20, 18, 16, and younger with the youngest boy 3 years old. During the funeral he walked infront of all the ladies saying, mummy where are you.. and everyone started crying.. anyways allah yer7amha o y'3amed roo7ha eljanna, o y9aber halha..

Other than that, i cant really remember what happened..

Yesterday i booked our flight to Japan, the 11th of Jan to the 26th of Jan. My bro is going to pay for them today.. and now im looking for hotels, although i think we might stay the prince park tower tokyo again, can't find anything that looks better..

Fefechan might be going to Japan on the 23rd too, so we might be able to meet one day, that would be cool.. i wanna have fun..

Work is tiring and i can't wait to stop, demo the woman in HR wants to meet me, i guess to convince me to stay, but she never has the time and she wont answer my questions by email :S i'll just hand in my letter then if she doesnt meet me till the end of novemeber..

The officeboy here is really bothering me, hes so clingy, and i think coz i actually am polite to him he thinks im his friend and hes always asking me stuff and wanting me to help him and stuff.. its getting so annoying and uncomfortable, i dont even ask for tea now coz that means he'll have to come and talk to me.. im gonna start being firm and straight forward, hes really taking it too far.. and everything he tells me hes like, please dont tell anyone or i will get in trouble.. i need water, but im not even going to ask for it..damn..

ive been having lunch alone every single day this week in the car in the mall carpark! how pathetic lol but nevermind, atleast the car doesnt judge me or hurt my feeling lol

Better go..

>_<

2008-10-30T11:36:00.000+04:00

Not a single post in October got any comments >_< (except yesterdays coz bash had to defend herself lol)

Books and anime

2008-10-30T11:26:00.002+04:00

Ive been into reading lately, the past 2 weeks ive been ignoring my laptop as much as I can and reading. I read a book called “three cups of tea” about a guy called Greg Mortenson whose been building schools in Pakistan for mnay years. Its an interesting book, reading about the bond between him and the Pakistani people and his reflections on the people and islam.. The book wasn’t one of the best ive read but I couldn’t put it down once I started reading, it was inspiring to say the least. I’m now reading another book called “Enemy Combatant” which I start reading very reluctantly. I knew if I started reading it I’ll be ignoring my laptop again, but I started reading it yesterday. Its about an innocent briton’s experience being held captive in Gunatanamo Bay and being released years later with no apoplogy or even an explanation for why he was held and tortured for years. It seems ok so far, I’ll see how it turns out.

When I haven’t been reading, ive been watching an anime Bash recommended called “bokura ga ita”. Its ok but not as good as “lovely complex”.

This weekend im gonna watch the first episode of Ryo’s new drama and hopefully complete watching Code Blue (arigatou fefechan). I’m also supposed to be meeting Reemy-chan and Ghada for lunch but I haven’t heard from Reemy-chan.. On Friday we have people coming over >_<>

I just had a break from work so decided to post. I’m so hungry, should be going with Bash to the mall for lunch in a bit.. New York Fries is the best! I love their fries with all that cheese and sour cream, so fattening and bad for you, but its so yummy!

Ok back to work now..later!

PS everyone on the floor seems to have Facebook open, even the auditor ^^

Bash says,,

2008-10-29T09:03:00.001+04:00

Bash is gonna kill me for wrintin this lol but who cares,,

She says im aggressive in writing, in emails to her or even my blog, shes entitled to her own opinion :D and I don’t mind being called aggressive, I actually think its just that im assertive, which is definitely a good thing in my dictionary, I hate being all wishy washy if you know what that means lol

BUT

How can someone be aggressive in writing? Like in my blog, what would be called aggressive? LOL maybe she means when I give my opinions about things straight up with no courtesies and nice talk, could that be it? I really just don’t get how you can be aggressive when you’re not addressing a certain person.. hmmm she gave me something to think about, what could it be.. but she doesn’t realize I took this as a compliment lol..

Enough now, back to work..

sakana...pan?

2008-10-26T20:48:00.003+04:00

i had an epiphany while having dinner.. actually, thats not true, ive thought of this before but...
Why is it that we think tuna fish sandwiches are normal and ok to eat but if someone offered us any kind of other fish mashed up with mayonnaise and/or ketchup we'd probably think its disgusting and throw it in their faces? I'm not really a big fan of tuna sandwiches, but i do have them every now and then and i think their pretty normal. yet if a chinese or japanese or african person gave you something even milder than that, you'd probably think it was weird and disgusting. I guess its just what your used to and what you grow up around that you consider normal, and everything else is just not normal..
Ok enough about that,,

Yoriko sensei and i had an interesting conversation the other day about accents, japanese accents. I was reading and she noticed something and made me say a couple of words, like hashi for example, I can't even remember how i said but apparently i say it like people from tokyo do and she says it like people from osaka and around there say it.. its hard to explain but one is like HAshi and the other is like haSHI lol you have to hear me say it to see the difference.. oh well..

Ok now im just practicing the 2 new grammar rules i learn last week, since i have a class again tomorrow..

1) nihon de wa iroiro na nihon ryouri wo tabetemitai to omoimasu!
2) buta wo tabete wa ikemasen!

Ok random sentences but nevermind..

I met a new girl today at work. Guess what? shes into dramas, the Japanese language, and Japan! ^_^ sugoku ureshikatta!

shukudai ga aru no de ashita kakimasu yo! Ja mata!

Tidbits

2008-10-24T16:42:00.003+04:00

gomen ne.. ive been neglecting my blog.. ive just been to tired after work to even think about writing a post.. but i'd like to get back into the swing of things again.. i'll just write short snippets about a couple of things..

My sis & Ali : just realized i never mentioned that they went back home, in DXB. That was 2 weeks ago, i miss Ali so much, so we're going to dxb tomorrow to visit. although it wont be enough..

Macbook Air: proving to be harder than i thought but thats only coz i wont sit down and read the tutorials. I really dont know how to use it.. so out of laziness i open my other laptop and use them side by side. demo i really need to read how to do some basic stuff that i dont know how to do on a mac.

Japanese classes: im gonna stop writing the reviews coz its just getting to the point where im learning too much and its too tiring to write about and explain. fefechan, hope you dont mind.. i dont think uve been readin the others anyways lol so you wont mind. The classes are going pretty good and ive been learning some grammar on my own, i just need to practice..

Work: im still not 100% sure this is how its gonna go but im 99% sure lol.. i like my job now, its just too much work with the other A/P person on leave for so long, its just taken its toll on me and made me hate having to work so hard.. and the number of annual leave days allowed leaves much to be desired.. SO im looking for other jobs, better ones with more holiday (thats my main criteria) and ive actually found one but still looking.. i PLAN to give in my 1 month's notice at the end of november, that way i'll stop working by the end of december.. take time off to go to japan, come back and start applying for jobs.. i think if i dont find a job (highly unlikely it seems) then i will be perfectly happy just staying at home and startin my own business or somethin.. So thats the plan, we'll see how it goes..

Japan: i think we'll be booking our flights once im sure about what im doing, so in a week or two.. plan to have a blast this time, and if my sis goes it will be great.. also hoping mari-san will still be in tokyo by then..

Mari-san, im thinkin this time we could get suica or pasmo cards instead of JR coz i dont think we really got its value out of it last time. what do you think?

Nana: my granma left on monday. missing her already.

Piper: after havin him for 4 or maybe 5 years, we had to give him away. my mum was getting sick because of him, constatly cough, really bad coughs, so hes gone :( i didnt really spend much time with him but i miss his presense.

What else to talk about? not much else i guess.. i'll update again soon..

Ja mata!

kinou no class

2008-10-14T20:16:00.002+04:00

こんばんは！

I had a japanese class yesterday, so im gonna post about it while its still fresh in my brain :D

The paragraph i wrote for the class was about Japan, what i did last year and stuff like that. Yoriko-sensei said it was the best ive written so far ^^ i didnt have any mistakes although i thought i would. Except she gave me some better alternatives to one sentence i wrote which is "sono shashin (i talked about some photos before) wo miru to "nihon ni ikitai" to omoimasu". Yoriko-sensei suggested, 'nihon ni ikitaku narimasu', as it might sound better, although she said my senetence was perfectly fine.

On to kanji, i didnt learn any new kanji since last class, only learnt to recognize them, they were 豚buta, 酒sake, 牛gyuu, 肉niku, 卵tamago, 円yen, and 魚sakana.

Grammar! i learnt how to use "no desu"/"n desu". Apparently its used for asking or stating a condition. e.g. if someone seems sick you can use it when asking, and they can use it when stating how they are feeling. example,

Person A: どうしたんですか。

Person B: は　が　いたいんです。

It is also used when asking for more detail, or stating something in more detail. Example,

Person A: にちようび　に　いっしょに　つり　に　いきません　か。

Person B: どこ　へ　いくんです　か。

Person A: ふじさん　の　ちかく　の　みずうみ　です。

Another usage which yoriko-sensei taught me before is using it when making a request,invitation or asking for information. Examples,

１）すみません、つかいかた　が　わからないんです。おしえて　ください。

２）あした、ともだち　と　かいもの　い　いくんですが、いっしょに　いきませんか。

I'm tired im gonna finish this tomorrow lol

じゃあ、また　あした！

MacBook Air

2008-10-14T17:22:00.004+04:00

I finally got a new laptop!

Although i still think the MacAir is not practical, not having a CD/DVD player, i'd already fallen in love, so i just bought it.. and bought a separate CD/DVD player. I must say i was super impressed by the packaging, it seemed like they had payed attention to every little thing while designing the packaging and everything.. I'm also super impressed by the mac, it starts almost instantly, i press the button and the screen appears within 5 seconds or something, compared to my other laptop >_< theres just no comparison..

I got a purple cover, i sooo wanted a green one but they didn't have any for the MacAir just for the other macs.. i might have to get one online, the purple is OK but i just love green ..

Its thinner than my mobile!I LOVE the illumintaing keyboard, so cool & practical at night, i never used to turn off the light when im on the laptop coz i needed to see the keys, but now..

Its too thin to have normal USB ports so they're hidden and come out when you need them..

Thats all for now, i have another update coming in a bit.. hopefully..
bai bai!

everything from eid to now

2008-10-10T10:21:00.008+04:00

Ali sleeping unaware of his ediya (eid money) from his lovely aunt :P
(i know ali should be written in katakana but i like hiragana, what can i do!)

Baby clothes are kawaisugiru!

My nan in her (80s dress lol) with Ali, shes had that dress since before i was born, and she still wears it! >_<

I've been procrastinating and kept putting this off but i better update i guess coz im getting way behind..

Minna genki? I hope so..

I've been really distracted with having little Ali in the house plus his great grandmother.. i love spending time with Ali even if hes sleeping i just like to be next to him or hold him hehe.. and my granma's been keeping me busy telling me stories, about her life, movies shes seen, my cousins, basically EVERYTHING! the thing is, i dearly love her and want to listen to her stories, but she talks for soo many hours without feeling and sometimes its a story she already told me but i have to pretend like i havnt heard it before.. So i havnt even been turning my laptop on.. just sitting with her till im tired and then go to bed REALLY early..

Work is getting exhausting! Without my collegue whose on leave now, its really too much, and im not sure anymore if i can manage it on my own.. at work sometimes i just feel like breaking down and crying.. this week ive been going to work EXTRA early and leaving later than i usually do, but still here sooo much to do.. when i noticed yesterday that i was the only one left on the whole floor i almost cried from frustration! I really want her to come back, my colleges.. She did the job on her own before but thats because it was less work, this summer, the ministry of education with all its 3 zones have become under the place where i work, so its almost a 200% increase in the workload.. i think even on us two it would be a bit of a tight fit, but just one is definitely not working.. im afraid im getting behind, and i can't help it, coz all my work depends on others, getting signatures, getting budgets set, getting delivery notes and confirmations, and such which if other poeple dont do quickly then everything starts piling on.. oh well, i hope it gets better.. you to fefechan, i hope it gets better, i know your struggling more than me but i hope you figure out what you want to do about it..

My older step-sister might come to Japan with me and brother! we're not sure yet, waiting for her husband, he said hes thinking about it, but i hope she does come, it would be so much more fun!

Oh forgot to write about eid. Well it wasnt our typical eid since my sis and her baby were in the hospital a day before and on the first day of eid, he was jaundiced so he had to stay under the light.. so we only went to my step sister's house and then my uncles house (some of my aunts went there so we saw them), but other than that we didnt go to my other aunts or Al Ain which we usually do.. Dressing up for eid was fun though..

My japanese classes have now moved to Monday since my sensei has piano lessons every other day of the week.. but shes going to Japan soon for holiday.. anyways, im goin to post the lesson for you fefechan if i get a chance today..

Other than that, theres not much to say.. i have homework to do, and then im gonna glue myself to youtube.. so bai bai

PS Reemy-chan, i miss you soooo much, if you're still reading my blog, please leave a comment.. we really should meet soon..

かえる・ちゃん　と　あかちゃん

2008-09-29T01:52:00.006+04:00

こんばんは！

おととい,　この　ストラップ　を　かいました！　かわいい　でしょう？　かえる・ちゃん　です　よ！　（＾－＾）
いもうと　の　あかちゃん　は　かわいすぎる　です　よ！　この　あかちゃん　が　みたら　とても　うれしく　なります！　だいすき　です！　（everytime i see him my hear skips a beat ^^ i love just laying down beside him when hes sleeping and staring at him for long periods of time hehe)

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These are the highest heels i have EVER bought! I hope i don't fall flat on my face when i wear them ('^_^) eeh

みんな　は　どう　です　か？　エード　を　たのしんで　ください！

じゃ　また　ね！

New addition to the family

2008-09-26T18:57:00.006+04:00

Konbanwa!

I didn't write about this earlier coz i didnt have pix to go with it but i do have some now. My sis A gave birth to a baby boy on the evening of Tuesday, 22nd of September! He has already been named Ali (which is the name of his father's father). We are all extremely happy and we love him to bits. Thank god he and his mum we'll be staying at our house for about 3 weeks before going back home. He came from the hospital yesterday and we've been taking turns holding him, and sometimes even fighting over whose turn it is. Its so amazing to have a little baby in our house coz the last time we had one was when my 13 year old sis was a baby. Being woken up this morning by his crying was the best! hehe ^^ its just so nice to see him and hold him and we can't beleive hes our sister's baby..

Our little Ali is a little jaundiced so we had to make him sunbathe today lol poor baby we made him lay in the sun half naked..

I hope we will live long enough to see him have his own babies, waaa what a thought.. I pray to god to protect him and keep him healthy and let him live a good life.

I couldn't take very good pix but i will in the coming days..

PS my Nana was supposed to arrive on the 2nd, and my sis have her baby on the 3rd of october, but she had it almost a week and a half early so Nana missed out. Shes still coming on the 2nd though, to see her first great grandson :)

wa (は) and ga (が)

2008-09-24T20:15:00.002+04:00

Konbanwa!

I think i finally understand the differnece between wa and ga and when to use them. I just never got the differnece and thought they were interchangeable, until i watched this vid and read this.
Now that i understand it, ive got to practice using it.. the hard part lol.. so i think im gonna write some sentences with wa and ga and discuss them with Yoriko-sensei when we have our next lesson.. Fefechan, i don't know if you OK with wa and ga but check the link out, its discusses all the uses of both in a simple way..

Ja mata!

ressun no fukushuu ・レッス　の　ふうしゅう

2008-09-21T23:17:00.002+04:00

Konbanwa! I just rememerbered to post this lol

So its a revision of Wednesday's lesson.
We started with the paragraph i had written. I wrote about Ramadan, how we dont eat and drink, how the easiest tasks become hard because we are tired, and how many people become irritated easily. I tried to use grammar from the last lesson, esp. -ku naru.

My mistakes;

"tabemono wo tabenakute nomimono wo nomimasen", yoriko-sensei said that although tabenakute is correct its better to use tabenaide, and after nomimono i should've used "mo" not "wo".
"onaka ga suita kara yasahii (task) ga muzukashiku narimasu", it should have been "onaka ga suite iru no de kantan na koto ga muzukashiku narimasu".
I wont tell you what i wrote when i meant to say, kind people become unkind lol but the translation turned out to mean, kind people become evil lol. the correct is "takusan no hito ga iraira shimasu" A lot of people get irritated.
I didnt know how to write celebration so i just wrote party which worked fine, but i learnt that celebration is "o-iwai".

The grammar i learnt was;
-nagara which i already knew but we reviewed it and i found out that it can be used for things that happen within the same period of time but not right now. for example, we use nagara to say, i listen to music while i study/ benkyou shinagara ongaku wo kikimasu. The new one i learnt is, i work part time while i study at university/ arubaito wo shinagara daigaku de benkyou shimasu.

-tari which we had touched on before but went through extensively on Wednesday. You make this form by attaching "ri" to the end of the informal past (tabeta--->tabetari/ oyoida--->oyoidari). Its used when your talking about actions but not mentioning all, when there are others. For example, when mentioning hobbies, naturally you wouldnt mention every single one, so using -tari shows that there are more. The second usage i didnt really understand fully but the paper says--> it indicated that two conditions or actions are interhcnagbly repeated. For example, it rains off and on/ ame ga futtari yandari shite imasu. OR i go back and forth from Oosaka to toukyou by plane/hikouki de toukyou to oosaka wo ittari kitari shimasu.

-"de". I learnt some other uses of "de". I usually use it for stating where something happens (resutoran de tabemashita) or by what means (pen de kaku/densha de iku). I learnt that its used after the quantity for example, zenbu(all)/sanmai (three sheets) de 2000 en desu. However it can't be used if the quantity is only one, if its one you omit it, ichimai 10 en desu. Its also used to limit something (number of people, time period), for example sannin de ikimashita OR (sale) wa ashita de owarimasu. The third usage is when de comes after a noun, to indicate that the noun is the reason the verb happened. For example, kaze de tenisu ga dekimasen (because of (the) cold, he couldnt go to tennis). The last use if when talking about ingredients or how something is made up of differnt things, de is used. For example, kudamono de jyuusu wo tskuru koto ga dekimasu. It doesnt have to be ingredients for food, for example, i made this doll from paper (kami de kono ningyou tsukurimashita). Oh and also using de for "sekai de ichiban (adjective)" kind of thing.

After grammar we did some reasing comprehension. There were little paragraphs with mostly grammar from last class that i had to read and see if i understood them, which i did. I'll write one of them for you fefechan to see if you get it k?

おいしい　さかなりょうり　を　たべたり、　たのしい　ダンス　を　おどったり　しません　か。　を　した　こと　が　あります　か。　ダイビング　ふじかいがん　の　うみ　は　せかい　で　いちばｎ　きれいでｓｙ。　めずらしい　さかな　が　たくさん　います。

kaigan=beach/seaside
fujiaigan= fuji seaside

I also learnt the kanji for 1-10. plus a couple of cultural things and slang :D like aruki tabako, and using zenzen with positives, and using -kata to mean how to ..., e.g. tsukaikata/how to use, kakikata/how to write, tsukurikata/how to make...etc

I guess thats enough, my fingers hurt..

Next class i hope to learn more, coz its ramadan the classes are going slowly but after ramadan i hope we pick up the pace a bit and i may ask for extra lessons instead of just one a week maybe two or something, we'll see how that goes..

Oyasumi~

Being sick & katakana!

2008-09-21T22:58:00.002+04:00

I think, i think, i've finally conquered katakana! I'm going to give it a few days and see if im as confident lol demo シ,　ツ,　ソ,　ン, are still a bit hard to remember.. fefechan, if you ever want mnemonics for katakana go to the japanese wikibooks, there are loads of good ones, but most of them are mine lol each letter had like one mnemonic only so i added my own as i learnt them, and i must say i think mine make more sense lol ok ok i wont say more..

At 9 AM i was fine, by 10 AM i was as sick as a dog! I've got a cold, spent all day sneezing, blowing my nose, and having the hardest time swallowing since my throat felt like it was on fire, i guess coz i couldn't drink.. as soon as i broke my fast i started taking one medicine after the other, plus lots of hot liquids, and now my mum is gonna get me some more medicine.. I really want to get better by tomorrow or i might not go to work, i felt soo sick at work i really couldn't concentrate..

I was just telling fefechan, my bro just called me to ask if im still sick and if i want him to take me to the clinic lol thats a first, i dont know if its coz he just came back from traveling or what lol but its nice anyways..

I sent an email to one of the HR people today to ask about taking those 2 weeks off in January, i hope she answers tomorrow..

Mari-san, i hope you will continue to read my blog while you're in Japan, atleast we can keep in touch that way.. we miss you already!

bomb sites and graduations!

2008-09-20T23:08:00.003+04:00

My room looks like a bomb site! I don't know why the maid didn't clean it, i dont like to sit in a messy room and now i have to tidy it up before i can relax! WTH!

Our visit today was really fun, we had a great time. We even talked to my mum's friend's daughters, they're in England, but we turned the webcam on and talked to them, it was really nice..

Now i feel energized and ready for the week ahead, except i havent finished shopping! argh!

I forgot to mention that Yamashita Tomohisa finally graduated from university on the 19th! Omedetou yamashita-kun!

People have been telling me ive lost weight, which i have but only a few kilos and i dont think it shows, so whenever someone says it im like not really sure whether they're telling the truth or just tryin to be nice lol doesn't matter either way, unless i lose a considerable amount of weight im not gonna be happy.. oh well..

My brothers been away with about 12 of his friend, they went for el3mra. Lucky buggers, i wanna go!

bai bai
PS i'll write about my lesson tomorrow, its too late to be talkin about grammar :D

update

2008-09-20T12:31:00.002+04:00

My last update was last Saturday! i didnt think it was that long..

I wrote about marie-san in my last post, at the moment she is in japan with her kids staying at her family's house while her husband is studying in another prefecture. I hope when i go in Jan she will still be in tokyo so we can meet up a lot, but even if she goes to live with her husband by then, i will definitely go down there and see her. But if shes in Tokyo it would be much more fun coz we can go to so many different places..

I just remembered that i didnt write about my last japanese class so i will in another post later on today, if i get the chance. We are going out shopping in a couple of hours, we still havent finished shopping for eid.. and then we're going to my mum's oldest best-est friend ever's house to break our fast there.. I can't beleive we are 3 weeks into Ramadan! Almost a week to go, and a couple days! Its gone by so fast this year..

Yesterday my sis M and her kids and my adopted baby and her mum came over, we had a good time but they both left a little early. by 9 oclock they were gone, maybe even 8:30.. oh well at least we got to see them..

Whenever my sisters and i go in Monsoon we always love the kids' clothes they have, but unfortunately we dont have any kids around us so yesterday i saw this little cute dress that i fell in love with so i got it for my adopted baby with accessories and shoes, it felt so good to fnally buy one of those cute dresses lol anyways, i put them on her when she came and she looked adorable! Can't wait to see her in them!

I'm thinkin of getting the Macbook Air.. i dont want to move from windows to a mac coz i wont know how to use it at first, but macs are just so cool so i decided to get it and just learn how to use it..

While we were shopping yesterday all i could think about was Japan, looking at all the coats and winter clothes.. i can't wait to go really.. but i still havent figured out whats happening with work.. i gotta ask if i can take 2 weeks unpaid, i wonder what they'll say.. if they say no i will just have to quit, theres just no other way really.. ah well, we'll see what happens..

I watched a movie called "an american crime" yesterday which is supposed to be, not only "based on a true story" but almost everything in it is the truth, it was sad to think its true and someone could do such a thing, slow moving movie but i liked it. I also watched "the ruins" the other day which is a horror movie but wasnt really scary and i hated the ending, but atleast i watched something, havent been watching much recently..

I guess thats enough of me babbling away.. take care everyone!
bai bai

PS momonga ga hoshii!

Food

2008-09-13T18:56:00.006+04:00

こんばんは！

ひさしぶり　です　ね～
みんな　げんき？

木ようび　に　マリさん　と　アイシャさん　きました。
OK switching to english coz i dont know how to say brought. Anyways, mari-san brought some sushi with her, crab and unagi. oishikatta desu yo! demo i dont think i like unagi very much, crab is better.

On to another topic, i made ceasar salad with chicken. it was awesome and everyone finished it all..
I went to the mall today to buy clothes and stuff, and i bought this cute mug and yet another DIET book..I also bought my first ever webcam..
Thats it for today, im listening to miyavi.. gotta go.. baibai

なにも

2008-09-09T22:54:00.005+04:00

こんばんは！

さいきん　MIYAVI　と　Gackt に　はまっています！その　ふたり　の　うた　が　だいすき　です　よ！
あした　にほんご　の　レッスン　が　ある　ので　きょう　かんじ　を　べんきょう　しました。　たのしみに　まっています。しけん　が　ある　ので　がんばります　よ！

じゃ　また　ね！（＾＿＾）ｙ

PS　as soon as i saw "umai" i remembered the "umai/oichi" scene with pi and tegoshi in the neverending wonderful story DVD lol

Japanese lesson review

2008-09-04T22:23:00.002+04:00

Konbanwa!
OK so fefechan asked me to write about my lesson again, i hope you find it helpful.

So, i had to write another paragraph in japanese for Wednesday's class, i wrote about my day, what i do when i get home. It was pretty lame but i can't write any complex sentences so thats what i wrote.

My first mistake was using "ni" after my workplace. I wrote "XXX ni hattaraiteimasu" when it should have been "XXX de hattaraiteimasu". I got this wrong coz i was in a hurry writing, but i know the rule anyways.

The second was writing "uchi ni wa", i wanted to say that "at home...", it should have been "uchi de wa".

My third was "intaanetto wo saafu shite" which i actually got from online, but yoriko-sensei said it should be "intaanetto saafu wo shite".

My fourth was when i tried to say "when my dad gets home", i wont tell you what i wrote lol but it should have been "otousan ga kaetara..". So i guess the rule is to use informal past + ra to say "when (the verb) happens", "when i eat", "when she goes"..etc

My fifth (wow lots of mistakes) was using "ni" after gurai. You don't need anything after gurai.

Another sentence i couldnt formulate was "we discussed many things/topics". Yoriko-sensei said "iroiro no hanashi wo shimasu" is OK.

I also wanted to say "most of the time" but didnt know how so i just used itsumo (always), to make it almost always or most of the time, you can add "hotondo" before itsumo. So like, "kono resutoran de hotondo itsumo sushi wo tabemasu".

After correcting my paragraph i had my test, which included saying english sentences in japanese, which was mainly for counters and wasnt hard. Heres a couple for you fefechan, you better answer it ;) How do you say "i drank 2 cups of tea yesterday" and " its now 10 to 7 pm" and "its 9:20:35 (9 oclock:20 mins: 35 seconds) now".

Then there was an excercise about the differnce between soshite/sorekara and gurai/goro. Then a question about particles. Heres another one for you fefechan,
Oosaka eki ( ) basu ( )notte kyouto ( ) basu ( ) orite kudasai. (put the particles in the parentheses)

Then it was translation. Then she taught me about yo and ne which i thought i knew, but what was new was, if the speaker is telling someone new information that the listner does not know about then you can use "yo". For example, your asking me about the food at a resturant you havent gone to yet, i say "oishii desu yo". "ne" as you already know is used for agreement when both speaker and listener know about the topic, so if you ask me about the food in a resturant we have both been to, "oishii desu ne" is used instead of "yo" as you are already familiar with the food there. Apparently "yo" kinda makes the sentence less direct, i thought it made it stronger but Yoriko-sensei said if you just say "oishii desu" its OK but sounds a bit direct like your answer is definitely right kinda thing, if you get what i mean.

Then we studied about changing i-adjectives and na-adjectives when a verb comes after. For example, when a NOUN comes after an i-adjective, it doesnt change. "kore wa oishii tabemono desu". But when a VERB comes after it, you take the i and add ku ( i kinda knew that but not too good), so like, "ano ko wa okiku narimashita". With na-adjectives, the na becomes ni, for example, "shizuka ni benkyou shimashou" or " kirei ni souji shite kudasai".

Then i learnt some Kanji, the days of the week (without the youbi part coz its complicated kanji) and the word month, and year, and hour and minute.

Here they are in typing first;
月(gatsu/month, tsuki/moon)
日(nichi/day, hi(bi))
火(as in tsuesday, hi (fire)
水(sui as in wednesday, mizu/water)
金(kin/gold/fri(day),kane/money)
土(dou as in saturday, tsuchi/mud)
木(moku as in thursday, ki/tree)
時(ji as in the hour (4-ji) or toki)
寺(tera/shrine, part of "ji")
分(fun/minutes)
年(nen/year)　

Its pretty easy to mess up the kanji just by writing it in the wrong order so Yoriko-sensei insisted that i did every stroke in the right order.

I think thats it for Wednesday's lesson. Next week im learning more grammar and kanji, and i have an exam and homework again. I was really disappointed in myself in reading/speaking, at home im sure i pronounce everything right but when im nervous in class i seem to have such bad pronunciation.. i gotta try to calm down a bit so i dont mess up.. Ok then, ja mata!

PS marie-san, if you notice anything wrong please let me know.

Bored at work

2008-08-31T11:56:00.003+04:00

Sitting at work with practically nothing to do, on Wednesday me & my collegue in the Accounts Payable section worked hard and finished everything thats pending. So on Thursday we were free almost all day.. I had a japanese exam with yoriko-sensei that day so i sat & tried to study (ended up studying the lesson that are NOT included by mistake). Today too were almost free, i handle the petty cash & receiving invoices so a couple of people have come to me but other than that, its pretty quite here. My direct mentor/senpai didnt come to work today so i dont have to look like im working.. so im pretty bored.. i think im going to study some japanese..

Tomorrow's ramadan i guess, so im going out for lunch with Bash & 2 other girls. Cami, you must've heard of ramadan but maybe you dont know what it is. Anyways, its a month where we have to fast in the day (from sunrise to sunset), we dont eat or drink anything, and after sunset we can eat. Its to teach us humilty and so we know what the poor people who dont have food feel like. Its a really great month and at the end of it we have Eid which is kinda like christmas to us. We all celebrate & get money from our paernts lol and stuff.. People kinda abuse ramadan, they use it as a month to OVEREAT and OVERSLEEP in the day and STAY UP TOO LATE at night.. anyways its a really nice time of the year when we get to do more good thinks and think about other people.

The end of this month, Septmeber, is going to be so busy with my sis hopefully giving birth, and my grandma coming over for that, plus all the eid celebrations..

Anyways im probably going to blog later.. bai bai

Last week's japanese lesson

2008-08-30T14:00:00.004+04:00

I forgot that i wanted to post about my japanese class. On Thursday i had my second lesson with Yoriko-sensei. She had given me homework to write about anything and i wrote about what i had done on the weekend. She corrected it for me. I'll just write her corrections, fefechan, seeing my mistakes might be useful to you ne..

I had written in the whole paragraph, mina-san instead of minna, i thought that was the polite way to say everyone, but she told me it is only said like that in speech, if you are talking to or about everyone you can say mina-san but when you write you should use minna.
I had written "mina-san ga oishii hirugohan wo tabemashita". She said i must use "de" instead of "ga" if im included in the poeple who ate. So its like "i ate with everyone", if you use ga, it seems like you are not included.
i wrote "kodomotachi ga zenbu suki deshita", she said that implies that ONLY the kids liked the food, i should use "mo" so it means the kids like it also.
She said you cant use "sorekara" at the end of a paragraph, i had it at the beginning of the last sentence. She said it implies there more sentences coming after this one. "Soshite" would have been more appropriate but sorekara can be used in other sentences at the beginning.

Then she gave me a test which i got all right, thank god. I was so nervous writing that my handwriting was soooo bad, i dont know how she read all my crooked hiragana. The exam was easy actually so next class shes getting questions from the JLPT exams. She then taught me about counters and two kanji, entrance and exit (iriguchi and deguchi), and we had an extended discussion on kanji.

She also gave me this envelope which she uses with her piano students (she gives private piano lessons), she said they use it in japan. I'm posting a pic, its to put the "ressun dai" lesson fee in, and it has the months and stuff.. Its a good idea, i thought.

So next Wednesday i have a kanji test, as well as grammar and the different counters used for different things. GANBARIMASU! i really want to improve..

nothing new

2008-08-30T11:39:00.003+04:00

Thought i'd better update, this has been a total flop as a weekend. Ended up doing nothing argh!
and still no sign of my salary.. but nevermind..

One good thing that happened is that my bro got me a new phone, a flip phone! Ive always wanted one but he always said they're no good and stuff, then he called me up yesterday saying hes at the phone shop and which phone did i want, i said i dont want one, but in the end i just said a flip phone, so he got me the latest Sony Ericsson flip phone, and im ecstatic.. i dont know why ive always loved flip phones, except that most japanese people have them lol

So im sooo bored right now, i got out my stash of magazines that i used to always get in england, they're 6 years old now lol but i decided to look through them.. got bored of that, decided to put on a mask (then went a scared our poor maid, its bright green), i guess i better go wash it off now..

Hoping i can find something to do before i go mad! fefechan, recommed an anime will you, you dont want me to go mad do you?

Anyways, bbye for now

at work

2008-08-26T13:53:00.000+04:00

I’m at work but trying to get out of it so I decided to update. I keep forgetting to bring my cam with me to show you around my workplace. My place is pretty boring, everyone has little personal stuff they’ve collected over time but my desk is pretty empty. Except for an abundance of papers and paperclips.. I need to personalize it.. the only thing that says anything about me is the paper on the wall that ive taped next to the extension list, which is a list of Japanese verbs in all forms. I glance at it every now and then and learn a new verb or two.

I just came from my lunch break, my mum was in town so she bought McDonalds and we both went over to my baby’s house and had lunch with her and her mum. We had a nice chat, all her other kids weren’t there so it was nice and quite. Then I sped over here, and then I was in the left coming up (to the 11th floor) and the lift stopped on the 4th (where Bash is) and the 4th floor officeboy got in, and I thought it was my floor so I got out and the guy kept telling me that Bash is not there, and I didn’t know why he was saying that lol coz I was listening to A on the phone, went in and started walking, and realized what the guy was going on about, so I laughed at myself and went up, as soon as I got out of the lift he was there fraternizing with our officeboy and he saw me and laughed lol.. oh well..

I found an old CD in one of my drawers at home yesterday and it said eigo + nihongo so I took it to see what it was. Turned it on in the morning on the way over, its full of arashi songs.. its seriously old, I haven’t listened to any arashi songs in at least a year and a half..

The invoices are calling.. better get workin.. bai bai

fun day

2008-08-23T17:59:00.002+04:00

Konbanwa!

Just checked the last post before i started to write this and noticed that this post is going to be very similar. We had marie and my baby's family over again today too. Marie is going to Japan on the 16th of September as her husband's going to do his masters there, so were going to try to see her more before she goes.

On Thursday i went for my first japanese class with Yoriko-san. Shes a really nice friend of marie's and is going to start tutoring me. We kind of just hung out so she could see what my level was.. Which meant that she wanted me to actually speak (well DUH!).. i never speak japanese around marie, too embarrassed.. but i managed to speak with Yoriko-san, somehow we ended up discussing my favourite haiyuu (celebrity? actor?) and japanese doramas, in Japanese.. It went pretty well. I have another class on Monday, she will be giving me a written and oral exam XD that should be fun lol.. and she gave me homework, to write a paragraph about anything i want. I better write it today but i really dont know what to write about.. its going to be hard.. Anyways, im hoping i will really improve a bit before January..

I'm sad about marie leaving :( but hopefully i'll get to visit her in January.. her daughter was killing us all with her cuteness today (mashallah) kawaisugi..

This week should be fun.. my collegue who works in the Accounts Payable with me is coming bavck from holiday tomorrow, so i'll hopefully have less work! yay! plus, i'll finally get paid, its the last week of the month, so maybe this week or on the weekend maybe.. hopefully before next sunday so i can get to spend some of it.. lol..

Miss you fefechan, hope you enjoyed your holiday.. atleast one of your dreams came true, you go to see Giggs playing! hope one of my dreams would come true..

Off to do my homework! bai bai

...

2008-08-16T14:56:00.003+04:00

Konnichiwa! minna genki?

My baby and her family as well as marie (can i drop the -san ;) ) and her two little angels came over for lunch. We had a good time and got to see pix of Japan. Now i just feel like i want to go right now.. can't wait to go.. marie told me that her friend might be interested in teaching me japanese, so i hope i can arrange for something. i want to learn as much as i can before i go back..

Arigatou for the gifts marie, i really liked them ^__^ and come visit us soon. your baby is sooo unbelievably cute (mashallah).. oh and little prince charming had a fun time with two little girls chasing after him and wanting him to play with them lol hes quite popular with the girls isnt he..

Fefechan, i know your probably not reading this, but i really hope your trip gets better.. im sorry its not that good..

im enjoying whats left of my weekend, and dreading tomorrow.. work..argh!

bai bai for now

Chippokena yuuki.. a little bit of courage..

2008-08-12T21:22:00.003+04:00

This past week has really been rough, although i tried to be strong it really was too much.. after days of crying myself to sleep and being mad at everyone, i talked to my mum and dad. They can't fix anything, and im not sure they want to, but at least i got it out in the open and if they see me all sad and depressed they know why i am, that i have a right to be! My dad hugged me and patted my head as i cried next to him on the sofa.. that must be a first since 8 years or something.. he would do more of that, but i know i make it hard since i get embarrassed so easily..

I've been on a diet for a week now, ive lost 3 kilos already. I want to keep going.. i really need to lose weight coz i really hate myself like this. no matter how many people tell me im not fat, i'll still think i am.. my goal weight is way too low so i may never reach it.. but we'll see..

I realized something, after i come from my break at work (from 1-2), i just can't bring myself to do ANY work.. i organize papers and stuff instead of working.. i just can't! maybe its better if i don't take a break.. Today i couldn't do anything but i didnt want anyone to know im not working so i kept stapling all the paper that i had for recycling lol pretending to be working by making some noise..

I didn't get to exercise today coz i had to sit with dad & everyone, i feel really guilty, ive come to look forward to it.. it really does make you feel refreshed and all hyper!

You know all i said about my first salary.. they didnt put anything into my account :[ maybe they'll add the days from july to this month's salary.. they better do! i didnt work my *** off for nothing.. half a month left.. aaah zannen desu ne..

Fefechan, you know when pi's been talking about wanting to learn english and be better at it and whatnot, doesnt that make you feel like you want to get better at japanese..? it motivates me.. too bad i dont have the time at the mo.. i took one of my japanese books and left it at work incase i have any free time.. my senpai saw it and told me, "your really serious about learning japanese arent you?" like hell i am! i just need a teacher.. marie-san's coming over on friday if she can, i'll ask her if she knows anyone who'd be willing to teach me.. i'll pay them millions, just teach me!

Oh, i almost forgot, chippokena yuuki is one of FUNKY MONKEY BABYS' songs, its a nice song but the lyrics are really good too.. about being stronger and stuff.. anyways, akiramenai! akirametakunai! i want to be stronger..

Oyasumi

JERO & lazing around

2008-08-09T10:27:00.003+04:00

konnichiwa minna! Genki? natsuyasumi wa dou? tanoshii?

You all know JERO yeah? i mean if your into Japan and stuff you probably do. If you dont know him hes an african american guy (1/4 japanese) whose just debuted a few months ago.. the interesting thing about him is that hes an enka singer. I thought that would be totally weird so never checked him out but i came upon one of his videos on youtube and really liked the song.. hes really good.. its called umiyuki (ocean snow?), check it out..

Other than that, i really don't have much to say.. my dads been away for a while.. hes coming back today.. and im just lazing around coz I CAN lol the weekend is such a respite.. On Sunday the our department's head is coming back.. so i guess we'll have extra work.. but never mind.. we will manage..

Oh and fefechans been exercising everyday (i think) which is making me feel guilty.. so ive just dragged the elliptical trainer into my bedroom and going to try to start exercising after work..if ive got enough energy left in me by then..

bai bai

PS im not posting any pix coz someone borrowed my cam, so when its back i should be posting pix n stuff..

isogashisugi!

2008-08-05T20:31:00.005+04:00

konbanwa! minna genki?

kyou mo isogashisugi datta! Is it ever going to calm down? yappari shigoto wa taihen da! demo itsumo ganbaru yo! ^___^

yesterday and today have been really crappy days so im glad its been really busy at work even though i get home so exhausted!

Today they let me print cheques for the first time, i got to print all the cheques that are above 1 million.. so yeah, i guess they're starting to trust me with these kinds of things..

Fefechan, im sure you know where Pi has been lately? are you jealous? your favourite place.. aaah umi ga ikitai n da! hontou ni ikitaaaaaaaaai!

If any of you guys know how to get music off the net, help me please. I'm looking for songs by LUV AND SOUL. I heard 2 songs and im addicted, but i can't find others..

I'm finally going to get my ATM card tomorrow so i can go spend my hard earned money! YAY! no seriousely, ive had a savings account since like forever, so my bro was the one who opened it for me coz i was too young and when i went to the bank to get a card they told me the account is in my name but hes the only one who can apply for a card and stuff.. so that sucked! i told him to go apply for a card and next weekend we will go to the bank and change it over to me (so he can't steal my money ;) JK).

So its been more than a week since i got my salary and i still havent seen a dime! I've already planned what im doing with every single fils (thats the equivalant of a cent, Cami), but im not spending any on me.. just the things i need like for my mobile and petrol and stuff.. the rest is going to 100 other things/places.. i'm actually feeling sorry for myself already lol but my conscious wont let me use it on myself.. anyways..

The office boy is trained now, everyday at 2 oclock he brings me my ice cold pocari sweat.. yumm.. so refreshing.. but poeple are always commenting on it.. i guess the name doesn't help its reputation now does it? oh well.. i really miss calpis.. i drank it so many times a day in Japan and got used to it, im craving it now.. but a trip to Abela's seems too much.. its SO out of my way.. i guess i'll go this weekend..

I feel like watching anime! wow, did i really say (type) that! ive never liked anime and apart from Ghibli movies i havnt seen much.. but somehow, i now feel like watching something.. i'll go look for something..

Mata ne!

Performing CPR

2008-07-26T12:19:00.004+04:00

My blog is on the brink of death, and ive been standing by watching. But today i found myself thinking of resurrecting it, so here i am performing CPR (aka writing up a new post).

So here it goes, the last couple of days as you already know, i started my new and FIRST job (emphasis on FIRST). I'm not used to waking up at 6:15 everyday, driving to work, working 8 hours straight, then driving back home. When i get home im exhausted and all i can think about is going to bed. Thats where the "first" comes in, im sure im going to get used to it, but it is my first time so i don't really have any experience to base that belief on ;) Hopefully, in a weeks time or so, i WILL be able to stay awake past 10 PM lol yeah seriousely, ive been sleeping so early. I'm also hoping that once i adjust to this rythme i will get my life back.

I'm at work right now, first one on the floor, noone else is here.. so i decided to write before work starts.. I've been put in charge of the Petty Cash and some other cash too, at the moment i have about 50,000 DHS in my drawer here.. (for Cami's sake im providing the equivlant in dollars US$ 14,000), that might not be too much for any other more-seasoned employee but to entrust ME, the NEW employee whose not even a week old is pretty stupid of them, i think..

Thursday is going to be a national holiday so we get a 3 day weekend =) awesome! So tomorrow's the last day of the week.. my mums taking us all, including my older step sister M, out to dinner tomorrow at some new place.. should be fun, i like hanging out with M..

Fefechan, i have something from malaysia for you that i really NEED to give you.. but how can i give it to you..?

I really need to start learning japanese again.. but im gonna start looking for someone who can teach me..

I guess i better go and start looking at all the pending invoices :/ just what you need in the morning..

Marie-san, we NEED to meet! LOL i miss you and your kids..

bai bai

PS im relearning (for the 100th time) katakana in my breaks at work.. why can i never rememeber them.. and why did hiragana just get drilled into my head and i can read them off the top of my head.. but katakana.. argh!

One year anniversary and my birthday

2008-07-19T00:35:00.002+04:00

Konbanwa!

The day before yesterday was my birthday =) i turned 22, so old ne! what can i do.. its no use dwelling over it.. and yesterday the 18th (actually earlier today, its half past midnight now) was my blog's 1 year anniversary.. i started the blog to keep track of what ive been up to, and it has worked.. although i don't record everything.. i can look back and see what happened since last July.. i think the 2 major things that happened in the past year were, me going to Japan for the first time and graduating from university. Other than that i guess its been an extremely busy year but not very interesting ne.. the 21 year old me got to visit 4 countries in that year.. lets see how many countries the 22 year old me can visit..? although other than Japan, theres not many countries i'd like to visit.. anyways, i'll continue with my blog for as long as i can (ganbarimasu!).. hopefully it will pass its 2nd anniversary.. To all of you who have ever read my blog, hontouni arigatou gozaimashita.. and throughout the next year of my life, yoroshiku onegaishimasu!

So what do i want for my next birthday.. i want to be able to speak and write japanese pretty well, to meet a japanese celebrity (lol in my dreams), to visit Japan again, to start my own business (im serious, dont laugh), to do my best at my job, to become a better person, to hold on to my friends, and to be happier..

So what have i been doing in the days since i came back.. well, ive been catching up on yamapi,koyama, and shige's nikkis, blogs i visit, and doramas.. went to give blood yesterday, visited with some people.. oh and got a birthday/graduation gift from bash (arigatou ^^ ).. Today my sisters and i went over to my cousins' house and 2 other cousins came over, we had fun fooling around and just chatting.. we didnt do anything special but it was fun.. totemo tanoshikatta!

I'd like to meet marie-san before i start work (on the 22nd), fefechan too but that might be hard.. maybe we can meet on sunday marie-san? i will text you (at a reasonable time) since i dont think you will appreciate a message at this time lol i'd love to see you and your little angels..

Bai Bai (i have to finish Code Blue ep 2 so i can catch some ZZZs)
PS i learnt a new word, watagashi, it means candyfloss =)

Home Sweet Home

2008-07-15T07:57:00.002+04:00

Ohayou! Good morning!

We're back home! im glad to be back.. so happy that i got up at 5:30 today! when we got home last night i went to sleep straight away even though it was 10:30 here, but it would've been 2:30 or so in malaysia so i was tired!

I don't feel like blogging right now but i just wanted to say what i thought of my holiday.

Sri Lanka: i'd love to go back, great for relaxing and just wonderful sceneries (except we should've brought sunblock and mosquito spray with us but we forgot). Got bitten by mosquitos but it wasnt that bad, everything else made up for it.. i got so much darker from swimming everyday for so many hours and for spending a lot of time on that lounger under the coconut trees.. Saw lots of animals, elephants, monkeys (in our garden), an iguana (in our garden too), crabs, fish, cows, dogs, everything! I managed to avoid turtles although the cook kept insisting that we go to the turtle sanctuary.. we never did.. i rode bikes in the countryside, stopping by little shops to get a cool drink and meeting friendly people.. i'd give sri lanka an 8.5/10 :)

Malaysia: i don't think i'd like to go back.. since we had done all the nature stuff in sri lanka, all we wanted to do was shopping.. and thats exactely what we did.. we went shopping everyday, and went to theme parks twice (one shut down all the rides coz of rain, the other was way too hot to play on anything or even walk around).. i'd say malaysia didnt feel like anything special.. even shopping, they have almost the same shops we have here, or the differnt ones are tacky shops that we didnt want to shop from.. i dont think the shopping was worth it.. i enjoyed it but i wont go back, i'd rather go to another country.. the food was the best thing in malaysia.. and im not talking about malaysian food, what i mean is the variety of food they have in malls.. i mainly ate japanese food but i did try malaysian too.. malaysia would be a 5/10 on my scale. maybe if we'd done more than just shopping we would've liked it but we didn't..

We didnt go to thailand since my brothers and sisters were fed up and just wanted to come back home, its a shame, i would've liked to go but i was tired or travelling too..

Overall, ive learnt a lesson.. traveling with the whole family is damn hard! my time with my bro in japan doesn't seem so bad now.. we had fun times but we (me and Sh and H) ended up fighting a lot.. and unfortunately we were always put in the same room so that didn't help either..

Anyways, hopefully next time i get on a plane will be to go to Japan..

Pix from Sri Lanka

2008-07-09T13:21:00.008+04:00

Yes you read that right, lol.. i said malaysia and thailand but somehow we ended up spending 10 days in sri lanka.. my dad said it looked nice and we could rent a villa with a lake or beach view and just relax before heading to malaysia.. we enjoyed it so much that we exteneded our stay and stayed 10 days and even my uncle and his family joined us there.. We just arrived in malaysia yesterday.. so anyways, here are pics from Sri Lanka, im sure going to miss it.. i really enjoyed it there.. hoping to go back next summer..

View from the tuk-tuk which we used everday, the best thing ever for zooming along the beach-side road, and they are really nice and clean.. and airy! lol
The train tracks next to the villa we stayed in..

We went on an elephant safari.. saw 5 elephants only! and the car journey took 8 hours in total!!

The "fort". I can't remember why this fort is important but its very famous and has houses and shops inside.. but lol the pic is not even of the fort, its just from the fort, just noticed that..

Our pontoon, and the view from the villa..

Part of the villa, its made up of two seperate buildings..

The swimming pool.. responsible for me being 5 shades darker and the awful sunburn i got!

The only thing good about leaving sri lanka is not having to worry about mosquito bites.. we got bitten often coz we never found mosquito repellent spray there.. we should've bought it in the UAE.

Anyways, i'll say more about it and post more pix when im back or maybe later..hope everyones doing ok..tc

I AM ALIVE!

2008-06-24T22:21:00.002+04:00

Long overdue post, i know.. ive been EXTREMELY busy, can't emphasize that enough! Take today for example, got up before 8, went to dxb, back by 5, got dressed coz we had visitors coming over, they left at 10, now i need to start packing coz tomorrow im just as busy!

So whats been going on, for one, i got a job offer! and i accepted it and will be starting work on the 22 of July! at the same place i did my internship.. so yeah thats good, im glad they offered me a job..

Secondly, we're leaving on Thursday night to go to Malaysia and Thailand for holiday, we'll probably be back by the 18th of July.. I don't know if i'll get to update from there, ofcourse i'll have internet but i don't know if i'll have the time or energy so yeah..

A few days ago i got a message on my phone saying something like 'my mummy is going to work and my sisters are in XX city and im home along, please come visit me'. It was supposedly from my chicken-poxy adopted baby! since shes almost over the chicken pox, i decide to go babysit. It was just me and her playing for 2 straight hours! the best thing ever! kids under 2 years older are so much fun!

I still havnt watched Last Friends' final which has been out for a week now! I can't find it streaming anywhere (except crappy parts on youtube) .. and torrents just don't work for me.. i found a megaupload link and downloaded half but it took a whole day and the second half just doesnt seem to download.. veoh is blocked! and the veohtv thingy has ceased to work! and they've taken LF down from crunchyroll.. and im so pissed off.. i really want to see it :S i think im just going to watch th youtube ones.. god help me!

Anyways, hope everyone has a great summer.. (Cami, hope your enjoying London) and i'll see everyone when i get back..

PS thanks fefechan for all the tips ;)

Outing with the girls

2008-06-15T23:10:00.002+04:00

I met up with fefechan & her sis, and some of our friends from uni at the mall today. We hung out and had some coffee first and then we went to the cinema. The girls then stayed on for lunch and stuff but i had to leave coz my mum had to take my sis somewhere. totemo tanoshikatta! It was nice coz it was a really comfortable atmosphere when were were at the cafe.. during the movie, i spent half the time wondering if i was annoying fefechan as i ate my popcorn (i tried not to eat it too loudly lol but who knows) and the other half fighting sleep.. i couldn't sleep much yesterday so i was ready to doze off during the movie.. although it was loud and noisy, my eyes kept closing, thats how tired i was.. but the movie was ok, the first was better i think, but this wasn't bad, we watched Narnia 2..

By 5:30 i couldn't stay awake any longer so i had a nap for an hour (but it felt like HOURS).. im still tired now but i dont think i'll be able to sleep quickly tonight coz of my nap..

Tomorrow i have a doctors appointment in the morning and then we're going to the salon.. hair, nails, and all that stuff we girls love to do lol.. i'm gonna take the ipod coz we always end up spending hours there.. i usually try reading their magazines but most of the times they're a bit more R-rated than i like.. honestly..

My sis H has her friend over, shes sleeping over again.. i wish my friends would sleep over, no way in hell huh! lol..

I heard some good news from my cousin but its supposed to be a secret so i can't say what.. but im really happy..

I havnt seen Bash in a decade! =S she didn't even come to the Japanese festival even though she wanted to before, but she said she wasn't up for it.. i understand but i just havnt seen her in such a long time.. you didnt come and congratulate me on graduating! (come we'll make you your favorite fajitas) are you trying to avoid me Bash? I know your reading this!! lol

I miss you marie-san! we need to meet up as soon as your back.. can't wait to see A-chan and A-chan lol

My older bro was just asking about our plans for the summer, if we're traveling.. coz apparently hes going to London.. and i realized that apart from going to Japan with me, my bro has never traveled with us during summer.. maybe when we were little but since high school he hasn't.. always traveling on his own, with friends and stuff..

im bored.. gonna go watch yet another ep of criminal minds.. im getting better at profiling, be careful what you do around me people ;) and if you've never watched the show, then you should.. at least one episode, you wont regret it..

OK then, peace out

Natsu Matsuri

2008-06-13T21:13:00.005+04:00

So yesterday i went with my little sis to the Japanese festival, and we met fefechan and her sis, cousin(not really sure lol?) and sis in law, there. The kids did some kind of performance, it was ok.. we met our sensei there and saw his wife and kids too.. and he even bought us some takoyaki to try.. it was softer and squijier (lol u know what i mean) than i thought it would be.. but it tasted awright.. overall the festival was fun but somehow different than last year.. Here are some pix, bad ones sorry but my sis took them coz i was too shy to..

kids selling some biscuit-thingy at a stand, they were screaming their heads off just so people would buy from them..
Old games section..mukashi no asobi taiken lol thats what it says on the board, i know mukashi and asobi but no clue what taiken means..
This scary guy you see everywhere, who the heck is he anyways?!
Takoyaki, looks yummy doesnt it?!
kakigouri, shaved ice with flavoured syrup, this is the blue hawaii one, it was sweet but no other taste, last year i had the pineapple one which was so good i had another one..

Anpan (bread with a sweet bean paste), i bought about 5 to take home with me but now i realize it was a mistake.. its too sweets and fills you up rather quickly.. i had one yesterday and one today.. and still have 3 left..

Well, thats it for now.. bai bai

PS i got up with a mysterious rash on my left hand today, why just one hand? what did i touch with only one hand? i can't think of anything? and what is this reaction from? ive never had any allergic reaction or anything before.. i hope its gone by tomorrow.. its nothing big but it scared me..

Graduation present from fefe-chan!

2008-06-13T20:17:00.011+04:00

So what have i been up to?

On Wednesday we had our last Japanese lesson for the year. Nothing interesting that i can remember except we discussed the "killing spree" that happened in Akihabara. Then fefe-chan gave me a graduation present! yay! ureshii! To tell you the truth i was going to get her a present but i thought she would laugh at me coz we're both graduates, you know.. but now i definitely will ^^

Arigatou fefe-chan!

The present was really well thought out, it had green, my favourite colour, vanilla, my favourite smell/flavour, and something practical that i was about to buy anyways.. Take a look at the pics ^_^

A GREEN ipod!..with my name engraved on the back!

Litte chocolates with graduation capts on 'em.. kawaii~

and VANILLA lotion/cream/mist!

Hontou ni arigatou fefe-chan :-*

Another post coming up in a bit

kinou to ototoi..

2008-06-11T12:13:00.002+04:00

Yesterday we went to DXB to visit some friends before they go to the US on vacation. We've known these poeple since we were little kids, up until i was 18 we used to hang out with them at least once or twice a week, our mums were really close, and us the kids too.. but then they moved to DXB and we don't see each other that often anymore, but when we do, its like we never were separated.. Anyways, so we went to see them and we had fun, somehow we ended up watching half of Ice Age 2 since their little brother was watching it, and it was hilarious! We found some old pictures of when we were younger, at the beach and park and we couldn't stop laughing.. then we kept talking about how naughty we were back them and stuff.. it was really fun seeing them..

The day before i went with my friend G and M to Chilli's for lunch, and we saw some girls from uni there.. not really our friends so we didn't talk to them but we were surprised coz we didnt expect to see anyone we knew there.. We had a lovely lunch and talked about everything, Japan ketp popping up ofcourse, after we finished eating we were just sitting talking and stuff.. we had already been there for an hour and 45 mins, our waiter came up to us with wet-ones (i dont know what you call them) and the bill! We hadn't asked for it so we got so mad! Its not like they were closing or anything, and there were poeple in there that had been there before we came, and its not like it was crowded or anything so they needed the table.. we were mad but didn't want to make a scene so we just decided to be childish and not leave him a tip! lol service charge is included anyways so we're like screw him we're not leaving a tip and left before he could notice.. anyways, it was fun.. kinda.. lol..

So my adopted baby, A's daughter, just woke up covered in spots, her mum tells me! shes got chicken pox.. im not going to see her for a while.. i cant stand spots they make me want to throw up :S

I have a Japanese class later, and then the Japanese school festival tomorrow..

I was wondering if cinnamon toast is an American thing, our friend J (the one we visited) and her sis S taught us how to make it when we were kids, but i've never seen anyone else i know have it, and im pretty sure they didn't invent it.. it must be an American thing..

OK well, i better go review the lesson they took in the Japanese class last week..
Bai Bai

PS fefechan, if you find shige's jweb posts anywhere,please let me know.. i sooooo miss them!

Weekend recap

2008-06-08T17:38:00.005+04:00

EDIT: i wrote this yesterday, can't be bothered to go and change the tense and stuff so yeah.. anyways..

I honestly can't remember what i did on friday at all! if anyone knows what i did, please remind me XD

Yesterday we went to DXB, we just went to the mall and the cinema.. (Cami, i got that pic for you, thats like the mall in japan).. In the cinema, it was me and my sis, and a guy and a girl only.. it was nice having the cinema to ourselves, we watched Prom Night which wasn't that good, but it was ok i guess..

i when to the bookshop but didn't really find much i liked so i got two books, later on in another book shop i found a miniDICTIONARY.. ive been looking for a Japanese-English dictionary and havnt found any, this one had half of it Japanese-English so i got it anyways..

Today i got up early and was at uni at 9:15.. me and my group had decided to meet at 9:30 to at least practice what we were going to say in our presentation (its just oral, no visual aids or anything). Our professor had told us to come early coz they had a party (with the other business faculty) and wanted to finish with us quickly to get to it. Their party was at 12.. and our presentation was scheduled for 12! so we thought we might be in and out by 11.. we ended up presenting at 12.. we spent all that time hanging around waiting for our turn, which only made us more nervous.. the presentation went very well, thank god, for some reason all the professors there kept asking me all the questions after the presentation and i ended up answering all the questions even though most were not related to my part.. oh i was nervous coz i thought i was going over time when it was my turn to talk, that when it was my friend G's turn after me, i messed up her name and said M's is going to conclude with.... lol this is someone i see EVERYDAY at uni lol so it was funny but except for 3 professors, the others didnt know us so they didnt realize.. i dont know if the other ones realized lol.. anyways.. they told us our presentation was really good and stuff.. and more about the publishing thingy.. we'll see..

then i got home to find a cake, balloons, and cards on my bed.. i dont like cake but it was a nice gesture so i tried to eat some >_<, the cards are pretty sweet.. the one from my little brother, he wrote with his best handwriting, love.. (his name).. i could tell he was trying to make his handwriting very neat lol..

The card from mum..

Card from my bros..

Fefe-chan wanted me to go with her and some girls to this game arcade place on tuesday.. i want to go, it would be fun.. but we'll be in dxb again visiting friends before they go to the US. I met my cousin at uni as i was leaving, and shes going to the US in 2 days time so she told me to go over today.. im pretty tired but i'd like to sit with her, i havnt seen her for a while.. so me and my sis are going over in an hour or so..

I watched a couple CRIMINAL MINDS eps yesterday, i havnt watched any season 3 eps so i started, bad mistake, i couldnt sleep, i kept imagining things, every shadow in my room was scaring me, i even got scared of my own hair lol.. oh well..

I saw on yahoo news today about this guy who rammed his truck into pedestrians in akihabara and the got out and started stabbing people, apparently 7 people died, and 12-14 injured. The guy said he went their intentionally to kill people as he was "tired of life". give me a break! go kill yourself then, why kill other people who are NOT "tired of their lives".. thats it for now..

Bai Bai
PS just remmebered this.. my freind G (the girl whose name i forgot) and i were texting back and forth yesterday and she said she was at MOE, first thing that came to my mind was japanese moe (fetish for manga/viddeo games/etc), but ofcourse i knew that didnt apply ;) so i thought oh maybe its Ministry of Education lol.. so i sent her a msg saying why are you at the ministry of education? what are you doing there? she sent a msg saying MOE= Mall of the Emirates lol.. i was like lol im such a baka..

Natsu matsuri next week!!

2008-06-04T23:35:00.002+04:00

Konbanwa!

I'm in a good mood today.. i'm finally done, just a 10 min presenation left on sunday.. it feels so good not having to worry about handing something in or preparing presenations and all that uni-related crap..

I totally forgot about the japanese class today, but i wouldnt've gone anyhow coz we had to go visit my aunt and there was no getting out of it.. so fefechan posted the lesson on her blog, how sweet.. arigatou~ fefechan! She also included good news.. well one isnt.. next week is the final japanese class.. but the the week after we'll go to farag-sensei's japanese restaurant with him and all of our class! that should be funnnn.. oh and next week, the japanese school are having their summer festival! I'm really excited.. i can't wait to go.. its going to be even more fun than last year coz this year fefechan will go.. last year i took my sister,bash, and my adopted-baby's mum (and bro and sisters who had a blast) with me.. and i met a japanese woman i know there.. and got introduced to the japanese ambassador.. and met another japanese woman i know.. but i didnt know farag sensei then.. i wondered who he was.. demo marie-san wont be here this year, zannen desu ne.. but i will take pictures this time and upload them.. reemy-chan has been saying she wants to go, can you go reemy-chan? bash too? its on thursday at 5 at the japanese school.. i hope they have takoyaki, last year they did and i didnt try it and i regretted it, now i want to try it.. oh and i hope i meet K who i met there last summer and we hit it off (shes half japanese half local)..

I really like FUNKY MONKEY BABYS! they're quite good.. oh and theres this song by GOING UNDER GROUND (what a name) called トゥモロウズソング, tomorrows song, its good..

I honestly didnt realize (coz i was busy working on stuff) that today is the last day i'll see everyone, except for my capstone group (which consists of my closeest friends at uni) who i'll see at the presneation on sunday, the others have differnt timings for their presenations so we wont see them.. just before we left i saw everyone start to hug and cry and then i realized that its the last day.. it was sad but knowing we will see them for the actual graduation ceremony next year made it a bit easier.. i really will miss the girls, its just the work i wont miss..

My dad asked me for the millionth time what i want for grdaution, what kind of gift and if i want a party or something, and once again i said i dont want anything.. i dont want a party!! my mum wanted to book a hall at a hotel and let me have a party but i said no, coz the poeple i want to come wont be able to.. so whats the point! and i still havnt found any gift i want, its frustrating, i dont want anything! unless its a ticket to japan..

this summer i have to study some Japanese, i was just thinking about it, and although i now understand 70% more of Japanese than i used to this time last year, i still don't speak it much better..20% better maybe, not more.. i know so many grammar rules and stuff but can never use them for some reason.. since tomorrows my first (un-official) day off, im going to study Japanese..

OK im going to find something to watch now.. good night everyone!

zou no senaka, sazan, daremo shiranai

2008-06-02T18:41:00.002+04:00

I was thinking i hadn't written a lot this past month, then i saw that i'd written 19 posts, thats not bad.. i thought it was more like 9.. so yeah.. anyways.. i don't have anything pressing to say but i don't want this blog to die.. im not a murderer.. i don't want to kill it so im updating..

Listen to this ぞう　の　せなか, or the elephant's back, its really sad even if you don't know what they're saying.. its based on a novel about this guy who finds out he only has a few months to live and he refuses treatment so he can enjoy his last few months saying goodbye to everyone he knew and stuff.. it might be based on a true story im not sure, i got the above story from translating Japanese websites and i don't really trust google's translating abilities.. so it might be a bit different..

Oh i watched this movie that i've known about for ages but never watched called, だれも　しらない, "nobody knows", its really slow and not a lot of dialog, like most Japanese movies, but the story is based on true events. Its about this woman who has 4 kids but hides that fact from the landlord coz the neighbors don't really like kids or something, anyways, shes never send them to school or anything and she keeps disappearing until once shes goes and never comes back.. oh i don't want to tell you the story in case you want to watch it.. but its really sad to think its true..

I thought i was finishing uni on Thursday since my sis H kept insisting Thursday was the 8th and not Sunday, and i've been happy about it, today i looked at the calendar by chance and found out, she is in fact WRONG and i finish on Sunday.. argh 3 extra days! i'm never trust what she says again..

Our professor sent our group an email today, she said she looked at our project and it looks very good and she said her and another professors, plan to work on it over the summer to make us "published authors"! While im delighted that they liked our project, im not sure i want to be a published author if it means we will have to do more work on it in the summer.. if shes doing the work then fine, let her do it.. lol i just want to finish uni and be over and done with it.. we'll see how that goes..

I started exercising recently and now everyday my muscle kill me >_< i want to be fit but not kill myself in the process.. im still sticking to my 500 cals a day and im really surprised at myself, people are offering me all kinds of goodies and ive got the willpower to say no,, i didn't know i had it in me..

Fefechan, you know Sazan dont you? Southern all-stars? or in japanese Sazan ourusutaazu.. whenever i heard any of their songs im like this sounds like Keisuke Kuwata, you know the one that sings ProDai's OST.. anyways yesterday i somehow ended up on Sazan's wiki page and i saw his name as a memeber, im like, no wonder!

I'm pretty much done now except for the final presentation.. this last report we're supposed to be writing, im waiting on team members to send in their parts, mine is done already.. they were supposed to send everything yesterday but i still haven't seen anything from them, and i have asked.. oh well.. im giving them one more day..

peace out ^^

movies & tea

2008-06-01T00:41:00.002+04:00

Our graduation project is finally done, its now up to 98 pages! the appendix itself is about 35 or so pages. We're handing in the first draft tomorrow, and then on 5th is final draft.

I went to see "what happens in Vegas" today. It was really funny and i liked it. On Monday (i think) i had to go to uni just to sign my name and come back and since it already takes 45 mins going and coming back me and my mum decided to do something in town before leaving so we went to the cinema and watched "Miss Pettigrew lives for a day" which i didn't like at all but my mum loved. then today she didn't like the movie and we all did..

I feel gulity, i had 800 cals today.. ive decided to have 500 or less a day for as long as i can... lets see how far i can go with this. i love tea so much that im sacrificing these 500 on tea with milk and sugar instead of having something to eat.. tea is the best!

I don't have anything else to say.. so good night people..
bai bai

FUNKY MONKEY BABYS

2008-05-30T18:32:00.003+04:00

Facebook is going to kill this blog.. ive been writing on there and neglecting writing here.. although i can't really write much there coz theres a lot of people who could read it who i really don't want to be reading my posts..

I've been working hard on my captsone project, its almost done now, just some formatting, and fixing our bibliography.. The first draft is due on Sunday, and the 2nd/last on the 5th.. I've also been working on my management class' final report.. I think by tomorrow i should be almost done with everything.. only a little tweaking to do..

My mum's friend A & her kids came over yesterday. After playing with them for a few hours, i wanted to get rid of them (except my adopted baby ofcourse) so i gave them face paint and sent them in a room to play. I thought, the worst case they'd have their faces black or something, and we could just wash their faces.. little did i know what was about to happen.. half an hour later all three of them came out looking like clowns, they had painted their faces, arms to their shoulders, hands, legs (from their heels to above their knees) and ofcourse there was paint on their clothes, on my sister's bed, floor.. lol it was everywhere.. then my baby took colours to match my clothes (by chnce ofcourse) and stated painting on my hands.. Overall, it was a nice visit (as usual lol) but my baby had to leave our house dressed in her swimming costume lol coz she got wet 3 times and they ran out of clothes.. i even had her in my sister's tshirt which was like a huge dress on her, but she looked so cute..

Theres this song i heard a couple of times in Japan in different stores. I really liked it, i was so desperate to know who sings it that i asked a salesman at one of the shops if he knew.. he was like, i knew who but i forgot! So anyways, the lyrics are really catchy.. i just remembered it now for some reason and plugged the only words i could remember into yahoo and found the song!

Its Lovin' Life by Funky Monkey Babys, a Japanese hip-hop band.. kiite kudasai.. its good.. and if you look up the translation, the words are really cool..

I think i'll get some more work done..

Compliments, Japan

2008-05-27T00:06:00.003+04:00

Compliments, when you know they're real, really do make a difference. My mum told me something that my bro had told her about me which kept me on a HIGH the whole day ^_^ just because, i know for a fact thats its what he really thinks.. anyways..

I'm uploading some of my Japan pix on facebook so you can check them out if you want, but they're probably the same ones i uploaded here while i was in Japan anyways.. oh and btw, if any of you are on facebook please don't mention my blog there, coz i have so many people on there who i don't really want reading my blog..

Uploading japan pix has made me want to go to japan even more, i've been watching some of the vids i took too and now hontou ni nihon ni ikitaaaaaaaai!

What else.. i hearedfrom Reemy-chan that our professor liked our graduation project and she was like, maybe we can submit somewhere (conference or something).. im really flattered, so i guess our project is not as bad as i thought.. i told mum that, then she gave me a whole lecture *with me rolling my eyes* about how not to put yourself down all the time, you're a good student.. and all that lol.. thats when she told me what my bro said, doesn't have to do with being a student but she meant, you don't believe in yourself and see yourself differently than others do, see what your bro said..

anyways, im tired and i have uni tomorrow so oyasumi..

BASH: miss you -_- where are you?

Am i content? and facebook

2008-05-25T21:53:00.004+04:00

Waaah.. somehow.. somehow.. i don't know how.. i sent an email meant for Cami to half my friends list.. lol.. so glad i didn't mention Pi in it.. thats the most important thing ^^
I sent an email to those people straight afterwards saying just ignore it, but human curiosity will get the best of them, im sure lol so i don't expect anyone NOT to read it lol.. if you got that stray email, don't feel guilty about reading it, i give you permission XD

Of course nothing new today, just uni work as usual.. i decided to get a facebook account just to see whose on there, practically all our family & long lost relatives XD hmm revealed some unexpected things about some people.. but im glad i did it, it was an eye opener..

Ryo's solos rock! every single one of them!

I watched Zettai Kareshi's latest ep.. i like the drama its nice and light, nothing like the seriousness in Last Friends..

I need new songs to listen to.. any recommendations? fefe-chan?

My dad asked me today what i want to do for my graduation.. i didnt know what to say.. i really don't want a party coz i know noone of my friends will come, at most 5 would.. the others can't, just like i wouldn't be able to go to theirs.. and a family party doesnt sound too exciting.. my dad is like we'll kill sheep and stuff lol im like, ok but send it to my uncle's house (since all the family hangs out there) and you guys enjoy.. hes like, you dont want? T_T i've never liked meat anways but thats not the point XD hes like, well would you like just our family to go to a fancy resturanut for dinner or something?! well, isnt that what we always do! theres nothing special about it! but i really dont know what i want.. hes like think about it and let me know.. im tired of thinking,, maybe i just dont want anything.. God, im so indecisive ne!

Even about presents, i thought about it, and there really is nothing i want! besides going to japan (which i dont want till winter lol).. i thought about it.. and i dont know, am i so contempt with my life and what i have?!! Theres nothing i want so badly, not even close.. oh well, why am i frustrated about that, lol, i should be happy that im so satisfied but somehow im not.. i WANT to WANT something! God help me lol

Going back to some oldies.. as they say, oldies but goldies.. Sawarenai is really good ne..

As i waited for sleep to dawn on me last night XD i thought of something, telling someone off! Fefe-chan! why didn't you warn me that theres a turtle in boku dake no madonna.. i was shocked when i saw it.. i wish you'd told me about it.. coz ive been dreaming of turtles since i saw that.. then i read somewhere about pi and shige going to eat turtle something and i almost threw up! Eeew! that put me off my dinner and i didn't finish eating..

God its so weird knowing all the words for hundreds of songs but having no idea what they mean.. yeah i know words here and there but most of the songs have words i dont know coz you'd never use..

I saw a cute yellow phone in akihabara when we were in Japan, i want it! yellow is so cool isnt it??

Time for me to go ogle at some unmentionable people.. no need to guess, im sure you know who..

Jya minna, oyasumi!

The most boring post evaaa

2008-05-23T20:11:00.005+04:00

As usual, i spent my day working on my capstone project.. I don't know what happened to me last night but at around 7 PM or so i suddenly felt so energetic and wanted to work till i finish everything (which is impossible since i have so much to do).. but i worked from then till 1 AM.. and i still wanted to go on but i thought i better sleep so i can get up tomorrow and get everything done.. Then i got up early today but didn't start studying till 10:30 or so.. and then i worked nonstop till 5:30 i think.. i didn't take any breaks except 15 minutes for lunch.. and i got so many things done.. YOKATTA~!! Then i realized the day was almost over and i hadn't stepped outside my room except once so i thought i'd take a break,, i watched the last 1.5 eps of boku dake no madonna which was really sweet.. (the ending before kyoichi said i lied was cute too ne fefechan, when they were in front of that house he built lol).. then i went back to working again.. but somehow i couldn't concentrate, i still can't but its not bothering me coz i really did finish HEAPS of stuff today.. so yeah..thats my day so far..lol.. so boring..

I need to read yamapi's nikki.. its only up to the 20th, and i miss knowing what hes up to..

EDIT: i wrote 3 paragraphs here but somehow something happened so anyways.. yeah not important.. about whether to have a graduation party or not.. and about not liking chocolate.. and about being into sour lollipops.. lol.. as i said.. not important..

My dad's been talking about traveling and stuff.. and they all want to go.. i want to go too but i want to work at the place i did my internship at, and Bash says that if i wait till the end of the summer they'll of probably hire someone else.. so i told my dad i think im gonna stay with my older bro here and you go.. but then hes like no we wont go then we'll all stay >_<>
no pix for a while, till im done with my project..

BTW how do you pronounce schedule?? I pronounce it shedule, the british way not skedule the American way, and i get funny looks from people, they probably think im saying it wrong lol.. anyways..

bai bia

Colours, JLPT

2008-05-22T17:37:00.004+04:00

I love anything spotty-dotty.. my sisters' duvet covers are cute.. the colour doesn't come across as it is in reality but its such a baby pink it really looks fresh and cute..

All of yesterday and today ive been thinking "maybe i should update" but i have no idea what to write about..

All ive been doing is working on my capstone project and my other class' assignments /reports /game. The only thing i can think of that ive done in the last few days thats not uni-related is watching a new dorama called "boku dake no madonna" that fefe-chan recommended, starring Tackey from Tackey & Tsubasa. I have one and a half episodes left to finish which i'll watch later on today.. Its a really good dorama.. and Tackey is extremely cute..

I guess Marie-san is in Japan right now.. oh how i envy her T_T nihon ni ikitaaaaaaaaai

I remember doing a JLPT test thingy (thats the equivalent to TOFEL or IELTS but for Japanese) a few months ago online to see how i'd score on the lowest level (there are 4 exams with 4 being the easiest/lowest) and i got about 70% on it, but that was a long time ago, so i tried looking for it to see how well i'd score this time but couldn't find it >_< In the summer im going to start learning the level 4 Kanji, i think theres about 80.. this summer i really want to get crackin with my Japanese studies coz im planning to go to Japan in the winter again and i would love to be a bit better at Japanese..

I remeber when i was in 6th grade (i think) through to the end of 9th grade, i would only wear blue clothes.. i love blue and never wanted to wear any other colour.. ofcourse i wore other colours sometimes but 85% of the time i was wearing blue.. my mum, try as she may, could not convince me to wear different colours.. what a weird phase.. i hate blue now.. dark blue.. light blue is a bit better.. but blue is never going to be on my top list.. i just don't like it anymore..

Oh and i remember when i first met Bash and started going over to her house and she started coming over, i noticed her and her sis would only wear beige or brown.. remember bash?? and then she started going out shopping with us and we wouldnt let her buy anything brown.. its so long ago now.. now she wears all colours of the rainbow.. come to think of it i havnt seen her in brown in such a long time..

I better go do some work.. im off.. tara

Yamapi's mother, mine & a complement

2008-05-19T16:00:00.004+04:00

I'm at my wits end right now, i really am. I'm just inundated with the amount of work i have to do, and with having to deal with people expecting so much of me..

I received a pretty nice complement today from my classmate whose in the same group with me for this business game we're playing. I don't know what i was saying to Reemy-chan who was about to give up on it but i guess it struck a chord with her, she was like, i wish we had one of you in our house, every house needs someone like you. LOL i was genuinely surprised coz i had no idea why she said it, but she explained that everyone around her is pessimistic and i was optimistic and trying to make Reemy-chan look on the bright side. While i don't claim to be an optimist, hell no, im really more of a pessimist but it was really nice to hear and maybe one of the best complement i've ever received.. Ureshii!

I came out of my room and found a new bigger trampoline beside the other smaller one! LOL i was like, why do we need two?! turns out my dad wants the smaller one for one of his inventions (did i mention hes an inventors XD honestly!) so he went out and bought my mum another one.. YAY we've got a bigger one.. ofcourse i had to play on it for a bit..

As i read about Yamapi's relationship with his mum (i cant post the link sorry), i found myself agreeing with everything he said. It is the exact same relationship i have (and had) with my mum! and im not trying to be like him or anything, it just honestly seems like he is talking about me and my mum.. his rebellious period where he thought his mum was annoying and didn't have a good relationship with her, i had the same thing back in middle school. When he says that he realized it himself, how unreasonable he was being, that happened too.. then came a phase of awkwardness where you want to be a better kid but its hard to suddenly change, i had that too.. maybe its just normal, do you guys have the same relationship with your mums?

"My memories are vague about whether that was my first or second year of high school, but it's true that I gave her a present. I think she was really happy, probably. My mom is like me in that she is really stubborn, so she wouldn't have made a big deal out of things like that. After that, things have been very natural." Pi

I had that with my mum too. She is just as stubborn as me and wouldn't make a big deal out of something nice i'd done just so it wouldn't be awkward. I remember me and my sis A decided to get mum a present and it was really embarrassing, giving it to her, but i made myself do it so we could have a better relationship.

"My mom and I have really similar personalities. If someone else points that out, both of us will deny it." Pi

Thats exactly like me and mum. I think i mentioned an incident a few months ago when we were at the mall and we were on the escalator, my mum one step up, then her friend A, then me.. and her friend pointed out a shop, and me and my mum made the same remark without hearing each other and A was laughing at how alike we are, even if we hate to admit it..

I think Pi has a very similar relationship with his mum to what me and my mum have. and its really comforting because most of my friends have totally different relationships with their mothers.. ive often felt like its all my fault, that i am too stubborn that im ruining our relationship.. but now i realize its ok, we don't have to be best friends, thats not what mums are for, or total enemies either.. secretly, i kinda like being like my mum, but i would never admit that to her..lol..

Pi mentioned that his mum had him at a young age, 21, that probably the biggest difference between us. My mum had me (although im the eldest daughter) at quite a late age.. its really not a big deal, its just her culture is like that, but coz of our culture, we usually think why did mum have us so late.. we asked her once and she said, she was too busy enjoying her life lol and she didn't need kids to cramp her style lol.. i don't blame her, i would live my life to the fullest if i could before settling down.. shes lucky she could..

Fefe-chan, much to your displeasure, Pi is starting to regain his status in my heart LOL im starting to like him like i used to.. reading about his life and thoughts is really fun and inspiring ne? i read a couple of the articles but i don't want to finish them all lol so im keeping some to read later on..

Ah i realized something about my dream about Pi the other day.. i'm going to hunt down his high school name and go and look for him for real next time im in Japan ;P hope you can join me in my stalking-related activities fefe-chan XD

Last night was just as bad as the night before it.. i barely slept for an hour and a half or so.. it was so frustrating.. what is wrong wiht me?? although im nackered i decided not to take a nap earlier incase thats why i havnt been able to sleep.. please wish me a ZZZ-filled night..

Jya ne

Visiting Yamapi and restless nights

2008-05-18T21:50:00.004+04:00

My mum made a lemon cheesecake today, its the first time she makes it, she didn't think we'd like it but it was soooo yummy.. im bored of strawberry cheescake which is all the make.. lemon is yummy..

Last night was terrible! I usually have the odd night where i can't sleep but most of the time i sleep ok and don't get up till the morning once ive slept.. However, yesterday was a totally different story.. i went to bed at 12.. tucked in my bed all comfy in a freezing room just as i like it..

1 hour passed: couldnt shut my eyes..
30 mins passed: trying all the possible ways a person can sleep, on my right hand side, left hand side, on my back, on my stomach.. everything! nothing worked.
fast forward an hour: im kicking off my duvet, getting too cold then covering myself again.
fast forward another hour: i get out of bed, walk around the room, open my curtain, stare outside, get back into bed..fall asleep for 15 minutes (checked my mobile)..
fast forward yet another hour: still wide awake with knotted eyebrows.. i was getting more annoyed by the second!
fast forward (yes you guessed it) another hour: yawning nonstop, falling asleep for exactly 9 minutes (i checked my mobile), waking up and can't go to sleep again..
fast forward one more hour: its 6:30 and my alarm goes off telling me its time to get the **** up and go to uni! I almost cried when i realized it was time to get up and i hadn't even slept for more than 30 mins..

It was really a terrible night, it would've been OK if i didn't have uni and could've gone online or something but coz i had uni i kept forcing myself to sleep but to no avail.. I took a 1 hour nap at lunchtime since i was exhausted but it didn't do much.. im still so tired.. hope i can sleep today..

Ah im so boring, but this is whats on my mind at the moment..

Fefe-chan mentioned this in her blog and now i feel like talking about it LOL.. Yamapi's jweb (translations) really make my day! With my classes at 8 i don't get a chance to read them till 10:30 or so but when i was doing my internship, as soon as i sat at my desk i would go read his jweb. Having something to look forward to everyday is really nice.. Obviously he knows that people read his jweb but does he realize just how many people do? coz you can only get his jweb if you live in Japan, so he proably doesnt know that his jweb is translated into so many languages and posted everyday all over the internet.. not just him but the others with jwebs too..

In the few minutes that i slept yesterday i had a really bad dream about work.. so im not going to mention it as they say it will come true.. it was really weird.. and in those few minutes i dreamt about yamapi, i dont know how coz it wasn't enough time but all i know is i woke up noticed i'd slept for 9 minutes lol and remembered what i dreamt about.. the dream was that i went looking for Pi when i was in Japan and since i know the name of his high school that he was in i went to that neighborhood till i found an old shopkeeper who said she knows where he lives and was so touched by my story lol about me coming all the way to Japan just to meet him so she took me to his house but he wasnt home, his mum let me and the woman in and i sat and talked to her for hours lol and then Pi finally came and then i was handing him a present when i woke up.. LOL what a dream.. my dreams have really become more vivid these days..

Ofcourse today was spend working on Capstone and my stupid Strat. Mgt. class. We've just collected questionnaires that we'd given out and lol some of the answers were funny.. We had a question where we asked if they (the ones answering) used any ratios when looking at a company's financial statements before investing in it, and what those ratio are. They should've written yes, efficiency ratios or profitability ratios, or they could've been more specific and said Profit Margin Ratio for example but we got answers like 10% and 5%. LOL we were like WTH is that! They just want to appear as if they know what they're talking about but end up looking like fools.. we kinda ignored those answers lol but we got a good laugh out of them hhh

Its SEAMO again, but i really like this song >< I know you guys don't care what i like but i put them to look back on them someday and listen to them again..

Did i mention that last Wednesday instead of driving to the Japanese class i drove to uni -_- suddenly i found myself at the traffic light by the uni and i was like, how the heck did i get here! im so used to driving straight there that i forgot..

A few days ago i was saying something and my bro thought i was saying i want to go to Japan this summer and he was like, i dont mind going if someone else is going, if my cousin is there or his friend whose married to a Japanese woman so he goes there regularly.. so i guess it wasn't that bad of an experience for him then, was it?

Jya oyasumi!

SEAMO, RYO & my adopted baby ^_^

2008-05-17T21:55:00.005+04:00

Ryo looking pleased with himself as he flirts with the woman..

I just watched a clip of News being interview and the woman was asking Ryo questions and he interrupted her and waslike, your pretty! lol she was embarrassed ofcourse and taken off guard .. lucky woman! but he could've at least suppressed himself and waited til she finished her sentence.. i guess she was too pretty he couldn't help it.. do you sense any jealousy here lol im not trying to be, honestly! ^__^'

I went to see my adopted baby today, she hugged me till i was breathless.. God i love her so much.. I had so much fun there.. it was a hilarious visit..LOL

Today i worked on uni stuff again.. tsumaranai! -_-

Reemy-chan, when exactly do we finish uni? you once said we have to come even after the exams or something?? I would like to know so i can count the days lol

I guess marie-san will be going to Japan in a couple of days. Ki wo tsukete marie-san! Hope you have a nice trip!

Weird question but, when you clean your ears, does it feel good? LOL I thought it felt good for everyone, i was talking to my sis and i was like, you know how it feels all tickly and nice when you clean your ear? and she was like WTH, it doesn't feel like anything.. My mum agreed to.. i've yet to ask the others but i was shocked.. maybe its coz im ticklish anyways.. but i don't think so.. im pretty sure a lot of people feel the same way.. at least i know RYO does from a vid i saw about him having his ears cleaned lol.. but seriously, do you guys know what im talking about? poor people don't know what they're missing LOL

I just watched a clip of News being interview and the woman was asking Ryo questions and he interrupted her and hes like, your pretty! lol she was shy ofcourse.. lucky! but he could've at least suppressed himself and waited til she finished her sentence.. i guess she was too pretty he couldn't help it.. do you sense any jealousy here lol im not trying to be, honestly! ^__^'

Fefechan, im not sure if i told you about SEAMO before or not. If i haven't, well his songs are good.. i guess there like hip hop or something.. i don't really know any music categories but his song are definitely not song, more like rap/hip-hop. .ive been into his songs since the summer i guess.. oh and his name is pronounce shiimo not like its written.. i guess CRY BABY is one of my favourite songs but ive listened to it too much and after almost 9 months of listening to it, im sick of it..

I guess thats it for now.. don't have anything else to say..
Jya oysumi mina-san!

Yesterday i bought a melon and cut it in half

2008-05-16T21:20:00.004+04:00

Just remembered that Bash probably doesn't even know what ryo looks like coz ive never posted his pic unlike yamapi.. so heres one for you.. (just an excuse to post his pic XD)

If your wondering what kind of title that is lol i dont have a justification for it.. that comes later on..

I feel like im going to break! i can't take it! My capstone project combined with this business simulation game plus the case study analysis we have to do are really too much.. I haven't been out of the house since like 2 weeks ago when we went to the beach, except for going to classes -uni and Japanese. Thats why yesterday i watched a whole drama-all 10 episodes, i was working in the day so i stayed up till the morning just to watch it..

Today i sat in the same place from around 2 to 9.. i only took four 5-minute breaks and thats it.. i finished a lot of things thank god.. but i still have more to do.. I felt like going out tomorrow coz i havn't been out in such a long time.. but if i go out i know i'll come back and wont want to do any work... dont know what to do.. dou shiyou?

My mum bought a trampoline.. a small one for exercising.. but ever since i was a kid i've dreamt of having a trampoline, so as soon as she got it i was the first on it.. we put in the living room and me and my younger bro S and my youngest sis Sh started running and jumping on it and landing (Crashing actually) on the sofa..we almost broke a couple of things but its so much fun..

I watched Ganbatte Ikimasshoi yesterday as i said, i only watched it coz ryo nishikido stars in it.. it didnt look too good but i really enjoyed it and even cried in some episodes lol marie-san, what how is ikimasshoi different than ikimashou? i wonder..

ive been listening to ryo's Ai Igai no Nande mo Nai and tegomass's miso soup all the time lately, they're not new but they're really good..

In our Japanese class, our sensei was like, say "he likes to eat chinese food" instead someone said "he likes to eat Chinese people" LOL it was funny.. i feel bad about laughing but im not laughing at the girl, im laughing at the statement lol..

Our sensei was teaching us how to put sentences together and his choice of sentence was
kinou suika wo katte, hanbun ni kitte, mariam-san ni hanbun wo agete, fatima-san ni hanbun wo agemashita.
which means "yesterday i bought a watermelon, i cut it in half, i gave half to mariam-san, and i gave half to fatima-san"
what a weird sentence to learn.. i hate watermelons.. but in another class we had to say what fruit we liked from a picture with fruit on it, guess what i said i like.. yeah, watermelon..

I feel that something major happened and im forgetting to write about it.. did something happen.. i dont remember..

Have you seen how many people have been killed by the earthquake in china? how many died in Myanmar? Now i know why i stopped reading the newspaper, its too depressing..

I want to watch NEWS' Never Ending Wonderful Story DVD again.. once again arigatou fefechan for it ;) i love it.. ofcourse that goes without saying.. but before when i wacthed i concentrated on yamapi only, now im going to be concentrating on someone else.. guess who? LOL as if anyone wouldn't know..

My dad cooked us dinner today =) it was yummy and a nice change, my dad really is a good cook..

I miss my adopted baby.. havnt seen her in ages, 2 whole weeks.. i really feel like crying when i think about her LOL i just love her too much..

My fingers are killing me from typing all day long, so thats it for now.
TC everyone

Randomness

2008-05-13T18:35:00.009+04:00

Konbanwa! What has Ima been up to today.. XD i found face-paint crayons and decided to play around on my mirror..

山ピ(Yamapi), RYO, and the obligatory (ne?) hearts!

Then i saw on a blog about showing whats in your bag and letting people interpret what it means, how its related to your personality, that kind of thing.. so i thought it'd be cool to try out and see what you can figure out about me from my uni-bag.. play along yeah?

Wallet, E-ma (just one left but i can't bring myself to eat it lol coz its the last), KAT-TUN CD (was supposed to listen to it in the car for a change but once i got in there, im like screw it, im listening to NEWS again today)

My cinnamoroll vanilla lip balm (for smelling purposes XD i dont like to use this lip balm but the vanilla smell is heavenly so i take it around with me just to smell it XD), and a notebook..

Receipt from the cafe at uni, pen, my favourite perfume at the moment, and NEWS CD (a must!)

Chewing gum, a stray iron pill (WTH?! How did it get in there?), and a rusty coin thats probably been there since the beginning of the semester, and a tissue..

Ok so i hope you try to interpret this and tell me what you think it says about me, im curious ^_^

Today i spent most of my time..

Drinking one cup of tea after the other,

Working on my capstone,

and studying the list of verbs for Wednesday..

Then i sat there staring at my wall thinking, why the hell is my room so BLUE when i dont even like blue.. its making me blue.. sad/depressed i mean not colour-wise..

Oh and lastly, in the capstone game, we (the team) have gone from 95 (can't remember 90 something) to number 14!! from 5000 and something teams from all around the world! So happy!

Thats all for today.. still have some uni work to tweek.. bai bai

Ima's Cupcakes

2008-05-10T17:56:00.006+04:00

I decided to make cupcakes, even though im not really into cakes or sweet things. The result of my labour was not very satisfying, they all looked disapointing.. next time i'll make them better.. IF there is a next time XD

PS i thought i had red food colouring but it turned out orangey-peachy, and i used lots of hundreds and thousands (100s & 1000s) which we used to like playing with as kids, and some chocolate buttons.. Here you go:

Riples in chocolate..

Hazelnut cupcake..

The lighting is awful on this pic.. i swear they looked better, but those are all i did..only 8 out of 35 got decorated XD

I guess that all for now.. i have stuff to do.. If anyone wants me to make them some of my SUPER-DELICIOUS AWESOME-LOOKING CUPCAKES for any special occasion they have, feel free to contact me, price range from US $50-70 per cupcake! XD

Jya ne!

Thank you for being YOU

2008-05-10T11:39:00.005+04:00

Thank you! Have a cupcake! (no i didn't make them, its from deviantart.. but i'll make some cute ones when ive got time and post a pic ;) )

Mother's day is tomorrow. I don't believe in Mother's day. I don't believe in thanking your mother on a specified date once a year. So the reason im writing this today is not coz its Mother's Dy tomorrow, its because I've been watching mother's day videos and just feel like writing about my mum. I try to thank my mum as often as i can, but i know i fall way short of doing her justice. and although there are days when i wish i could take a trip down to the "Mummy Market", i do love her and appreciate all that shes done for me over the years (The mummy market is an old movie we watched as kids and fell madly in love with, follow the link and read the plot if your interested).

THANK YOU MUM

For staying up all night when im sick just to hold my hair back when im throwing up.
For trying to please everyone and make each person's favourite meal once in a while.
For supporting me in my endeavors, throughout university, studying Japanese..etc
For raising us to be well-behaved kids (i'd like to think so) even though we never wanted to be but now seeing other people, we're thankful.
For sacrificing your time to take us out and do things (bowling, ice-skating,...etc)
For thinking about us first and buying us the best things while forgetting about yourself.
For encouraging me to read books from such a young age, it was the best thing that happened to me.
For getting me a subscription to NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC even though they don't send the magazines to our country, and you had to go through so much trouble making them send it to England and then here.
For not nagging too much.
For accepting me the way i am, although i know i can be a handful sometimes.
For protecting us from the cruel world, and caring who we're friends with, and not letting us just be friends with anyone.
For remembering to buy me my favourite Sweet Chilli flavoured crisps while you at the store even though you have a hundred things on your mind.
For trying -and failing- to make everyone in this house to read the newspaper and be as knowledgeable as they can.
For teaching me how to spell correctly at a young age, although it failed with my brothers & sisters. LOL, not to mentiondmy dad..
For listening to me when i talk about things you have no interest in, and trying to be as interested as possible *ahem* JAPAN *ahem*
For caring about our waistlines LOL and making us switch to low-fat version of everything, milk, yogurt, desserts,..etc
For not being like any other mother in the world.. for being YOU!

Thank you dad ..
For trying not to say anything to upset me coz you know i cry so easily.
For not saying anything when i had an accident in your car.
For caring about my education, and my career.
For giving me the best gift ever-going to japan.
For trying to be interested in all the japan-related stuff i keep blabbering about.
For standing up for me when you see that everyone is against me.
For being a unique father like no other.. for being YOU!

Thank you F (my older bro)..
For being such a sweet bro (except when we were in Japan), for always buying me gifts XD, for trying to be understanding, and for simply being my older bro!
Thank you A (my younger sis)..
For being such a quiet sis (it was so easy to share a room with you ;D), for listening to me during my high school years when i wouldn't stop talking, for introducing me to many great series, for respecting me more than the others do (at least i think you do XD), for not upsetting me too much, and for being cute & giggly!

Thank you H (my other younger sis)..
For trying to get along with me even though we are total opposites, for being funny and talking non-stop (i take that back, please stop! XD), for trying to be helpful even though it doesn't always work out..

Thank you S (my younger bro)..
For TRYING to be funny, amusing me when your not even trying since your such a goof, for agreeing to go and study in Japan just so i can go LOL although it will never happen, for being somewhat quiet and not hanging around too much and letting us girls dominate the household!

Thank you Sh (my youngest sis)..
For being so easy to talk to, for playing around when i feel like having a pillow fight, or helping out out when i decide i want to make cupcakes.. for listening to MOST of what i tell you, and sticking with me when we're out shopping and everyones doing their own thing, and most of all.. for feeling like you can talk to me about anything-most of the time-.. and being less of a brat than some of the other girls your age!

Thank you Bash..
For sticking around for so long, for being a total opposite from me so i can make fun of you, for hanging out even when there nothing to do or say, for going ice-skating with me many weekends when you didn't want to, and simply for being my friend!

Thank you Fefe-chan..
For being there for me when im down, for seeming to understand everything i go through, for loving NEWS and especially YAMAPI as much as i do, for ignoring my imperfections, and for being such a great friend!

Thank you Reemy-chan..
For always being so easy to talk to, i feel i can tell you almost anything, for being funny and telling me so many hilarious stories, for becoming a closer friend that you were before!

Thank you Marie-san..
For opening my eyes to everything Japanese, for having cute kids that i can play with, for being an EXTREMELY nice person, for listening to my ramblings about Japan patiently -i know how annoying that can be-, for keeping secrets ;P and for being my friend..

Thank you A's Kids..
For pretending to be our little brother and sisters and coming over/going out with us so often.. i love you guys more than you can imagine.. and playing with you is the best! To their mum, thank you for having them, and for being more my friend than mums LOL and for simply being easy to talk to and being fun to be around..
Thank you Auntie Y & her kids, i love you so much i could write a book about you.. so i wont say anything..

Did i forget anyone..? im tired of typing..
I just want to say, i felt that i needed to thank everyone for being in my life, although theres ups and downs and no one is perfect, i tried to write about the positive things and ignore the bad things for now.. just because i wrote all nice things doesn't mean everyone is super nice to me and i have no complaints but writing about the bad things won't solve anything, will it?!

Ja minna, arigatou~, for being part of my life.. and please continue to take care of me.. yoroshiku ne!

PS some people were harder to write about than other, yo people you need to work harder so next time it can be easier for me to think of good things to thank you for you XD

plushies, fishies & paintings

2008-05-08T20:00:00.008+04:00

Just finished reading Shige's wagahai.. they really are interesting..

I tried making a bunny plushie.. ended with a disaster.. maybe due to the fact that i have no experience whatsoever in sewing/stitching.. i have no artistic abilities.. and i wasn't even making a normal roundish bunny but instead a square abstract one.. Bash, you should thank god it didn't work coz i was going to give it to you if it had worked XD LOL

Hen na usagi ne.. XD

For some reason, i only listened to NewS's beautiful eyes once when fefe-chan told me about it.. then i kinda forgot that it existed.. and only remembered earlier today.. and i really like it, its been playing in a loop since 11 AM.. I'm sure you all know it by now, if its a NewS song then im going to rave about no matter how awful it is.. but this really is a nice song..

I just realized that almost every pic i post has a blue/turquoise background.. thats coz thats the colour of my room.. so today i went a bit green instead..

Hey did i ever mention that we have a fish? I think i did.. Bob -the little fishy- was a present to my sis.. here he is.. *the reason for white net thing?! Piper the cat keeps getting caught with his paw in the fish bowel* Maybe i mentioned this before.. lol anyways..

Two days ago as i drove to uni in the morning, the weather was weird. Although its late-spring here, that actually means summer started more than a month ago. So to see the weather all cloudy and stormy, then halfway to uni it started raining, first it was just spitting (thats little rain for anyone who doesn't get it) then it started raining normally. Everyone was so surprised. When i read the newspaper today it said that that was artificial rain! It was the first successful result of "cloud seeding" as they call it, where they drop salt into the clouds to produce rain. They say they will continue with their tests in the next three months so i guess we should expect a couple of cool days this summer. Thats really good news for such a hot & dry country. I'm excited! LOL

I got my sis this cap from Japan, i really like it so im posting a pic.. no other reason lol..

This post is so random lol.. my mum draws sometimes.. shes quite good for someone whose never taken classes and knows nothing about art.. here are two of her paintings..

BTW what do you guys think of the layout? Its very plain but i like it.. was going to put NewS as a banner but then decided against it..
anyways, thats it..

-OWARI-

Whacky dreams & Tokyo Disneyland

2008-05-08T10:44:00.005+04:00

My youngest sis came to sleep over in my room yesterday since her roommate (my other sis) decided she wanted to study in the middle of the night.. i couldn't be bothered to go look for a bedside lamp since mine is broken so i decided to use our Christmas-like lights (i don't know who bought them or where from but they somehow ended up in my room).. my sis said they bothered her and she couldn't sleep.. i cant imagine why =P LOL we had a good laugh.. the lights don't stop changing and flickering, they're not even still.. ofcourse i ended up not using them but it was amusing nonetheless..

The layout is going through a growing up period at the moment. I need my sister's help. I don't even have Photoshop to make a banner or anything coz i never use it.. Anyways, it might be a few days till it finished "growing up" and i end up with something presentable.

Our sensei is giving us an exam in verbs next class since none of us seem to know all the verbs he mentions XD not our fault, he never mentions the verbs i know, always verbs i wouldn't even think of studying.. oh well, i better study.. I'm looking at the list he gave us and theres verbs like,　つく (be lighted), やくに　たつ (be useful), たりる　(be enough), おりかえる　(transfer) among others, that i dont think i would use.. at least not at this point in time when im struggling to make simple sentences.. but anyways i'll be a good student and study them..

KinKi Kids' garasu no shounen is such a good song, no matter how much i listen to it i still like it..

Marie-san is going to Japan in two weeks. Urayamashii desu yo! nihon ni ikita~i! I will definitely try to go back by the winter..

Fefe-chan, remember in Tokyo Disneyland when we were on that space roller-coaster-in-the-dark thingy and the guy behind was like yada yada yada.. dont know why i just thought of it but the ride wasn't scary lol such an uncool guy ne... i love scary rides, i want to go to a theme park right now!

Aaah ano hi wa totemo samukatta desu yo ne.. mada oboete imasu.. how cold it was..

Is that really the sun? I can't remember seeing it that day, God it was cold!

and remember the pizza we had there in that galactic pizza place? how each piece was in an individual triangle box and it looked weird to us.. i remember it being very yummy, maybe coz i was so hungry.. I don't know why im thinking of Japan.. but its nice to remember those things.. that day was the only day i rode the train without my bro.. It was exciting lol although it was the same as usual.. hhh i tried to be a nice responsible sister and went and bought my bro dinner on my way back to the hotel.. the queue in front of McDonald's was long and it was cold but i stood patiently in line.. When i got to the hotel the room looked like a bomb hit it! my bro had gone and bought spare parts for his petrol-run toy car (heck, i don't know what they call them) and he had spread everything all over the floor..

I had weird dreams again yesterday but not nightmares thank god.. in one of my dreams i went into the kitchen to the feed the cat and suddenly i felt a hand on my back and jumped only to find its my mum and she said, i see you spending a lot of time in the kitchen these days.. lol.. it was like a horror movie.. or one of those suspense movies lol.. but what she meant was your eating too much.. lol then it finished..

another was about my internship, i went back to the company for some reason and this lady who supposedly was my supervisor there (not the actually one someone i made up) called me over and said, im glad you came because we were going to call the police so they'd make you come over, we've found records of you using the phone the whole time you were here, being on the phone the whole day.. lol .. i was shocked (in the dream) and told her that i didn't even have a phone on my desk and the only calls i made were from my mobile.. but she kept insisting and the made me look thought the record and the auditors(this time it was the real ones that i met there) came by and she was telling them about me and it was so embarrassing and i started crying.. then she felt bad and tried to stop me crying but she couldn't.. anyway, it ended up with her feeling bad.. she deserves it.. lol weird dream ne..

the third is hilarious, i was in this mall and there was a fast food having some sort of promotion, they had people dressed up as hot dogs and hamburgers walking around the mall, and they had buns in their hands or a burger without a bun or something and if the gave it to you then you could go back to their store and hand in the bun and get a whole hamburger in bun with fries and a drink.. LOOOOL i have no idea why i dreamt that but anyways, i was only given a lettuce by the man in the hamburger suit and when i went to hand it in the people there said that vegetables dont count and wouldn't give me a burger.. then i got mad coz people always say that vegetables are important.. lol.. maybe someone can interpret my dreams for me.. lol.. they're so whacky and weird i dont know what else to say..

I guess i wrote a lot whithout realizing, that should be it for now..
Ja bai bai

Matsujun, tarantulas, and languages

2008-05-06T21:09:00.003+04:00

I finally watched the HEY HEY HEY episode with NewS. It was entertaining-to say the least. But i don't like to hear the members talking about how they're not close outside of work coz in my imagination they hang out together all the time, don't want them ruining my make-believe world. One of the hosts smacked Ryo on the back of the head >< argh! poor Ryo.. (who by the way is looking better than ever, and pi not looking so good XD)

I also watched Last Friends ep 4 which was really good.. Ryo looks cool even when hes crying.. can't wait till next week. Its a vicious cycle ne..waiting and waiting only to start waiting again lol

Yesterday night i kept having nightmares, really scary ones and couldn't sleep much so i decided to have a nap in the afternoon, i dreamt about matsumoto jun.. i guess he was in my subconscious coz i saw a pic of him by chance yesterday.. it was a good dream.. can't remember it but i know matsujun was my hero lol.. yokatte ne.. hope i get to sleep tonight..

languages are weird.. lost my train of thought, i had something interesting to say but its gone.. let me think of something else.. I was telling someone once about how in Japanese socks are called kutsushita which actually is broken down into, Kutsu=shoe, shita=under, so its like under-shoes which is not how Japanese people think of it but thats what is literally is.. and i was saying how weird that is.. then i thought, well "underwear" is almost the same, under and wear (or clothes).. i thought of something else but i forgot it.. so Japanese doesn't seem so weird, its just that we're used to English so we don't notice things like that but maybe someone whose studying it would..
Actually, i think English is the weirdest and hardest(grammar wise) to learn, its got so many irregularities and things that don't make sense when you think about them.. so if you already speak English, consider yourself lucky! im so glad i never had to learn it coz surely i would've sucked at it..

In our Strategic Management class, in the business simulation game i wrote about, out of 5,136 teams from around the world (including students from very prestigious universities), me & Reemy-chan (plus 2 other girls with us), our team, ranked 95 out of all of those teams for the first round.. our professor was impressed.. we have 6 more rounds to go so hopefully we will be from the top 20 by the end of the game, i really hope so, that would be cool..

I want a tarantula! that would be cool.. my mum's like, you want tarantula but your afraid of turtles/tortoises?! I haven't been traumatized by a tarantula like what happened to me with turtles before so no, im not afraid of them, i want one.. tarantula ga hoshii desu yo! I actually don't like animals in general.. oh shoot, i wish i hadn't mentioned the T word, now im guaranteed to have a nightmare.. i guess i better distract myself by doing something else, listening to news for example (looking for an excuse XD)

(i actually wrote a much longer post but ive saved that in drafts for now, i dont know if im ready to talk about it yet..)

Half my post go deleted, its Koichi-kun's fault ><

2008-05-05T19:14:00.007+04:00

KONBANWA! *someones perky today*

I gave myself a time to finish doing all my uni work before i can come online so now that im done im feeling great! I'm not actually done with EVERYTHING! (Graduation project hanging over my head) but at least everything for tomorrow is out of the way..

The other day i added a site-traffic thingy to my blog, i was just curious, wanted to see how many people actually visit my blog everyday. It turned out to be way more than i thought.. Not many people know about my blog, i don't like to give it out to anyone.. talking of which, i mentioned to Reemy-chan something about my blog in class today and one of our classmates overheard and was like cool give me the link, i told her sorry but its too personal.. coz it really is.. if i knew other people were reading i wouldn't be able to write what i want to and what i feel, which is the whole point behind a blog.. anyways, turns out there people from the neighboring city, DXB, reading my blog. Now i know my sis is there and she reads it but i cant think of anyone else.. so i thought well maybe they came here by mistake but it was over 10 visits from different IP addresses, and then today, 8 of those checked my blog again... I'm rambling sorry.. anyways i was just surprised that there are people out there checking my blog sometimes a couple of times a day.. My conclusion, they were here by mistake, if not, if your someone who reads my blog regularly don't be shy to say hi, it would be interesting to know you LOL..

OK on to something else, Koichi Domoto from Kinki Kids has this song which i listened to yesterday, its quite good ^^ hes voice is to die for.. OK scratch that out XD

Oh and fefe-chan met my sis H at a science fair thingy today.. she doesn't know how lucky she is.. my sis i mean.. ;P

I'm addicted to fruit-flavoured malt drinks ^^ they're the best!

Still no sign of LF's 4th ep. to my dismay..

My bro got my 2 sisters heart-shaped plushy pillows filled with Hershey kisses, can it get any better? XD and i got an over-sized bag with ANGEL on the front, how sweet.. going to use it next time i go to the beach..

My bro thinks im angel XD how sweeet ;P

I was listening to SUMMER TIME again today for the umpteenth time and found myself singing along, then i realized, hey i know what im singing, i actually understand the words.. well not all of them but some..

Oh and i saw a clip of Gackt with Julie Andrews when she was promoting Princess Diaries II in Japan and he was her escort and at the end she was like, "how would you like to go mattress-surfing with me sometime?" (if you've seen the movie you'll know what that is).
No offense to her fans but whys she hitting on him, i wanted to whack her, shes old enough to be his mum ><

Kids are fun!

2008-05-03T22:27:00.003+04:00

We went to the beach today. Swimming really makes you hungry ne. We stuffed our faces, we were eating non-stop. Thats not good.. oh well.. we were hungry.. Marie-san didn't come this time, zannen desu, it would've been nice..

I spent a lot of time with my little adopted baby, my mum friend A's daughter. 18 months old is the best age, definitely, i always love kids when they're at this age. They're just engaging and fun to play with. I had so much fun playing with her. She was wearing a swimsuit with a round hole down the back, by the end of the day when they were changing her clothes she looked so funny..This bit was sooo dark compared to the rest of her body. I also played with her sisters and bro, we had fun.. kids really are fun XD they awaken the child in you.. We all got really tanned. I was in the water from 10 to 4.. 6 hours, hot sun, cold refreshing water.. the best combination!

I made myself work on uni stuff after we got back home, i decided im disconnecting the wireless and only connecting once im done.. it really motivated me and i didn't get as distracted as always.. I've been online for less than 40 minutes but now im so tired from getting up at 7 and all.. i really feel like sleeping.. nemui~~~i

Ep 4 of last friends has been out since Thursday, waiting for the subbed version.. i have no patience.. Also looking forward to Shige's Wagahai..

Was reading Ikuta Toma's nikki and he mentioned EREKASHI so i decided to check the band out.. I liked this song, except for some reason this guy keeps itching and messing up his hair and whetevr in all their PVs, i have no idea why.. can't be bothered to look around and see..maybe another time..

I'm really tired.. going to sleep now.. its still early but what the heck!
Good night, sleep tight, don't let the beddy bugs bite ;)

Yoroshiku

2008-05-02T22:34:00.003+04:00

Its amazing how fast one's mood can change ne.

Right now, im not feeling so good. Being criticized is not so easy to accept ne. Especially when it comes from people close to you.

I would like to say that it doesn't bother me what people think of me, or im not bothered by their criticism. The truth of the matter is, because they are important people to me, its hard to be so nonchalant about it. It definitely affects me, what others think, especially if they voice their thoughts in front of me. It definitely hurts.

I never try to hurt anyone on purpose, if i do (and im sure i do sometimes), it definitely is not on purpose. My motto in life is "do onto others what you want done onto yourself". I try to take people's feelings into consideration. I put myself in their shoes and wonder what it would be like to be hurt. I definitely get mad at people! no one doesn't! but when i do i try not to say something i will regret later on.

The kind of person i am, donna hito desu ka? Stubborn, but extremely sensitive. Thats part of the person i am. Do i hate being stubborn? Definitely not! I think everyone should stand up for what they believe in, thats why im stubborn. I do give in a lot, but its only if its for someone i love or if im unsure about something, other than that.. i think people should stand up for themselves.

Absolutely the most dreadful feeling ever is being ganged up on ne. If one person says something about you to your face its bearable coz you can brush it off or change the topic or something, but when its more than one and no one is standing up for you.. its an absolutely horrible feeling ne..

To be able to say "tsuyoku naritai" and "ganbarimasu" to myself through my tears is the only thing i can do in that kind of situation.

minna gomen ne if i ever hurt you and please kore kara mo yoroshiku ne
Oyasumi

Summer is here!

2008-05-02T12:02:00.004+04:00

The last couple of days have been so busy. Capstone + the Strategic Management class are taking over my life! Aaaah~ can't wait to finish!

Yesterday i watched Budou no ki, which is about foster kids and parents, it was interesting, but so sad. Ototoi i watched the sp for 1 liter of tears (ryo nishikido being in it doesn't have anything to do with why i watched it..honestly..) and ofcourse i cried a liter of tears if not more. Then when i watched budou no ki i cried even more LOL im so glad i have my own room to cry in without interruption ^_^

Later on i decided to go to Daiso since i was so bored, didn't find anything interesting but i got some senbei.. Oh and finally had McDonald's which i havn't had since i was in Japan.. So ofcourse i started reminiscing..

Somehow, i feel like ive read a book. LOL. but i don't remember reading one, maybe in my dreams. Lately i started having really vivid dreams where before i didn't even dream most nights..

I love listening to NewS's easy come easy go, its so fresh and upbeat!

Its summer time as NewS keep reminding us, esp yamapi in his nikki, everyday he says "summer is here".. so i guess its time for icecream again, not that i like icecream anyways, but i dont mind icecream sandwiches..

Fefe-chan, remember the うらしまたろう　story we tried reading before, i guess in October or something, and we read the first 2 pages and it was too hard, we didn't understand the verbs.. I tried reading it backwards LOL started with the last page. It was so much easier, all words and verbs we know.. so yeah moral of the story, read stories starting with the end, they're easier ;P
Except, i know urashimatarou opened the box he wasn't supposed to open and turned into a white bearded old man but im not sure where the box came from, got to read the beginning i guess LOL

Thats all since i really have to finish working on my capstone and some other assignment i have. Jya ne.

PS Maybe i should stop reading yamapi's nikki. I had to rewrite this post almost 4 times coz its seemed all about food..

Rubik's Cube

2008-04-29T22:41:00.003+04:00

I'm starting to like Shige (Kato Shigeaki from NewS) more by the day. He writes such long and interesting posts, as opposed to some -ahem ryo ahem- who only write something once in a blue moon. I'm becoming addicted to these jwebs, don't know how i used to live without reading them every single day.. Oh and for once, Yamapi didn't write about food or the weather ^^

I went over to marie-san's house today after uni, and had such a wonderful time. The food was really delicious and we talked mostly about Japan so i definitely had a great time. Oh and her baby is so cute mashallah, as is her little boy who kept asking for more and more sweets ^_^ hehe lucky boy, i wish my mum would listen to me everytime i say i want sweets.. hehe.. Arigatou marie-san. totemo tanoshikatta desu!

Later on i had my Japanese class which was interesting, we spend a while talking about the Japanese culture and how polite and well-mannered the japanese people are. Then we went off topic completely and talked about some weird words-not japanese-. Anyways, it was an interesting class.. omoshirokatta desu ne, fefechan.. learning another language is fun coz we make silly mistakes..

When i got home i found that my sis A is here, what a nice surprise! Unfortunately i have uni stuff to work on and didnt even sit with here till now..

Next time i go to Japan im seriousely going to track yamapi down and meet him.. i had this scenario in my head..
i got to his uni and pretend to be there coz i want to enroll or something.. ask around about him, im sure everyone knows him and what classes hes in.. then wait for him to show up at class but dont talk to him then.. follow him home, and then ambush him LOL
unfortunately, the next time i go to Japan he will've graduated i guess.. but other than that, its a good plan ne? ^_^

I'm too tired to write anything except, I can't wait for Last Friend's 3rd episode, but i don't think its even out in Japan yet so.. i have to wait.. Oyasumi

PS if you figure out what the title has to do with (why i chose it), i'll give you a prize ;)

Zettai kareshi, Laruku, and Trains

2008-04-28T21:17:00.003+04:00

I started watching Zettai Kareshi (Absolute Boyfriend) today. Only 2 episodes out yet but its a nice change so i will be continuing it. Its about a girl whose looking for her ideal boyfriend and is always rejected by guys until shes unknowingly signs up for a 5 day trial of a boyfriend-robot. Its funny and the two 2 lead guys are so good looking..

Watched episode 3 of Last Friends, its good. Can't wait for next week's ep. hmm what else?

Tomorrow im going over to marie-san's house for lunch, going to be interesting im sure.. i just hope i find her house. my mum's directions are pretty good so hopefully i'll find it..

I have Japanese class tomorrow.. hmm i wonder what we will study..?!

laruku ni hamatte imashita. saikin, laruku no uta wo kikimasen desu. demo, kinou "alone en la vida" wo kikimashita. Totemo kirei na uta desu. (fefechan fix this for me pweez.. do you use desu or deshita with saikin, i have no idea! anyways, tell me what you think im saying LOL). PS, laruku=L'Arc~en~Ciel.

On the other hand, uni work has been driving me insane. Our professor gave us yet another case study to analyze.. but he said to find the problems and analyze them and write recommendations, sounds easy enough ne.. but there are no problems in the case?! or maybe im missing something, but it doesn't seem to mention any problems at all.. it doesn't even concentrate on the company that much, its too broad and just lists factual information.. its frustrating.. Oh well..

I don't know why im remembering this, not sure what reminded me of it, but when we were in Japan. When your on the train, depending on the stop, the doors of the train open on different sides. So my bro, who would sometimes stand up before me would go towards the wrong door .. Especially when the train would be packed, its hard to know what door will open simply by observing the people coz its crowded next to all the doors and i would forget that my bro doesn't know Japanese (coz they say over the intercom thingy what side door will open) and would go ahead of him and twice he almost got stuck on the train after i'd gotten off.. So then i taught him migi and hidari so he would recognize it.. LOL he knew the words but couldn't make out the words that were being spoken coz its too fast.. it was just funny every time he'd go to the right door and then the left would open lol and he'd look like a fool.. most of the trains actually have a screen that shows what door will open but usually its too late, just a few seconds before stopping, so after he'd made a fool out of himself.. LOL.. Those days were fun.. omoshirokatta!

Prisoner of Love & Summer Time

2008-04-27T14:08:00.003+04:00

I watched the first episode of Last Friends yesterday, and the second today.. the 3rd is out but not subbed yet.. its really good.. Ryo's part is really mean but i feel bad for Sousuke too.. Anyways, here the OST for LF, its soooo good:

And NewS's Summer Time is really cute and fresh!

Hehe they look cute like that..

NewS have another new song out, i'll go listen to it.. i'd totally forgotten about it..
TC

Disappointment is refreshing-NOT-!

2008-04-25T23:59:00.003+04:00

I'm so disappointed, we're not going to the beach tomorrow.. there a race going on again so the only way we could get to the island is if we went by helicopter or private jet, and unfortunately our jet is having maintenance work done on it at the moment.. so we wont be going.. which is a total bummer! I really wanted to go.. but oh well..

I made a CD for my mum's friend A full of her kids' photos that i've taken in the last few months.. I have soooo many pix of them coz we see them so often, i really feel like they're my little sisters and bro.. its nice.. having little kids to play around with and be goofy ;) plus they're not really close to their relatives and such so we're their surrogate family..LOL.. So A was passing by our house on her way home so she stopped for a cuppa tea and she had my little adopted baby with her, who was asleep when they arrived and slept in my room for a couple of hours, but then woke up as they were walking down the stairs to leave our house.. lol.. i was disappointed that she was asleep coz i havnt seen her for a while and desperately wanted to play with her.. so i was really annoyed when she woke up as they were leaving..

My little nephew spilt all the fish food on my bed earlier today :S The sheet and duvet has been changed but i don't feel like sleeping in my bed now! Ah dou shiyou kana~?

Oh and our stupid cat has been caught with his paw in the fish bowl.. we only have one fish which my sister's friend gave her as a present, which is a shame coz no one in this house likes fish.. and its such a responsibility having to feed it and such.. anyways, "Bob" they called him LOL and he lives in a round bowl since hes small and all alone, not in a fish tank, one of those fish bowls you see in cartoons.. so cute.. So Piper -the cat- was caught with his paw in LOL now we've had to put a piece of mesh so he can't put his paw through it.. I feel sorry for the fish.. we've had him for almost a month now, poor thing leads such a boring life, if he dies it would be for the best i think.. im not mean -or maybe i am- but what kind of life is it going round and round in circles forever and ever.. its actually rather frustrating to look at, so living it...

Random but its weird, i never feel like my mum even has an accent, but when her friend A comes over and i listen to them both talking its like she goes all british-y with her.. hmmm..

What should i do tomorrow?? This weekend has been so boring.. i was thinking of going ice-skating this week but i didn't.. maybe this coming Thursday i'll go since i don't have class.. it would probably be so empty coz everyone's at school and i can have the whole ice rink to myself.. i hope so.. i love ice skating but i havn't been in a while..

I'm going to embed-again- a Connie Talbot song, its my favourite things from the sound of music.. its just refreshing, thats all..

Well, i hope that was refreshing.. hhh.. TC people

Connie Talbot

2008-04-24T23:20:00.004+04:00

This is a vid of one of the finalists on Britian's got talent 2007, 6 year old Connie, she has such a sweet voice. I love this song, the words, her voice.. here it is..

Oh and Fefe, just something for you to look at
By the way fefe, do you read shige's wagahai thingy? Its really funny ne.. and i love that he writes long entries.. oh Yamapi's post yesterday was just typical ne, talking about the weather and food.. LOL..

Jya oyasumi

Update

2008-04-23T22:01:00.004+04:00

We had a Japanese class today which was interesting. I don't know why i can't even say a straight sentence there, when at home i could write paragraphs :S I just get tongue-tied and can't say anything right there.. i guess i don't like to be put in the spotlight and having to come up with an answer with everyone waiting for me. When Farag-sensei used to come and only i would be in the class, before everyone came, he would really talk to me about many things and i could answer straight away and stuff but when others are around i go all dumb LOL.. I'm going to practice speaking with marie-san although i don't like to coz i know if i make mistakes she wont correct me, shes just too polite.. you know..?! anyways, i will force myself to practice with her.. and im thinking of starting blogging in Japanese.. ofcourse it wont be anything like this, maybe pictures and simple things..

I can't wait for this year's summer festival which the Japanese school will host. Last year's was a blast.. i had so much fun and being around so many Japanese people was such a high LOL although now that I've been to japan, it wont be as exciting but I'm looking forward to it.. Last year i saw my now-japanese-teacher, Farag-sensei, there and his daughters but ofcourse i didn't know him..

My bro came back from uni today and unexpectedly came and gave me a gift. I shouldn't be surprised coz he gives me gifts quite a lot.. sometimes little things, sometimes big.. but since coming from Japan (where we were fighting all the time) he hasn't given me anything, dakara bikkurishita! (so i was surprised!)

(as you can see from the background, i was studying at the time ^^)

I want to go to the beach this weekend too.. and i want to spend at least 4 hours in the water! I hope we go..

My dad wants to take us to Romania in the summer.. hes been there a couple of times coz hes business partner+friend is from there.. his friend has been inviting us there for years so my dad wants us to go this summer.. I think it would be nice but in my heart i really don't want to go anywhere else but JAPAN! Theres no way they're traveling without me so i will have to go and look for work when i come back.. i actually don't mind if i don't find work LOL i wouldst mind it for a couple of months but mum says she'll make me learn to cook if i stay at home for more than a month! LOL

NewS's new PV for their song Summer Time is out.. they all look so cute and summer-y ^__^

This is one of the things i got my mum from Japan, its an incense burner, its weird thats why i got it.. smells of sakura, really nice..

Oh and one of the other things i got her is really cute, i must show it to you guys.. i LOVED it.. Can't be bothered to ask her for it now so i'll show it to you in a couple of days..

I guess thats it for now.. Oyasumi~

Quiz

2008-04-22T18:43:00.005+04:00

I just felt like answering one of these since i see them everywhere.. I'm tagging Fefe-chan and Bash, that means you have to answer the questions and post them on your blogs.OK?

5 things you miss right now:

My friends
Yamapi (LOL as if I’ve ever met him, I mean watching him)
Calpis
Japan’s KFC..yummy!
JAPAN

5 things you can’t imagine going through your day without:

Reading Yamapi’s nikki (diary)
Having a cup of tea
Listening to Japanese music
Using my laptop
Brushing my teeth?! LOL

5 things that are in your wallet right now: (don’t make it up, go check)

Extra’s sugarfree watermelon chewing gum. (don’t ask why its in my wallet not my bag)
My USB/flash (whatever you want to call it)
Maybelline’s shiny.licious lip gloss
Money
Cards (driving license, health card, airmiles, blood donor’s card, and Japanese restaurant loyalty card)

Last 5 movies/episodes of a show you’ve watched:

TFP 2 with Yamapi as a guest
Edison no haha ep.
Su-ki-da (Japanese movie)
Ooku (Japanese movie)
House MD ep.

This is supposed to make people learn more info about you or figure out your personality or something. Did you learn anything new about me? I don't think so.. LOL.. but I'd like to see your answers guys..

OK desu (laughs at Pi)

Bai Bai

Photo blog - Studying

2008-04-21T18:11:00.011+04:00

I'm so exhausted from studying, noone realizes how much i study! Its tiring! (laughs) ^__^

Oh so many papers, she looks like shes studying hard!

Are~ whats under those papers?! No, i can't beleive my eyes.. maybe she was taking a break..

Yeah she must have been taking a break.. coz look at her screen.. she must be studying ne..

Upon closer inspection.. whats that?! Must be some uni files..

Huh?! Yamapi's nikki! Maybe she was doing some research.. no no she must be studying.. don't judge her too harshly..

Oh hora! more research.. yes yes the professor said to do A LOT of research..

News! Ah! she must be listening to some news clips while she studies, she is such a well-rounded person.. always reading the newspaper and keeping up with current news ne..

Whats this?! oh maybe her eyes were hurting her from reading too much so she had to heal them ^__^

And all these kawaii pix?! just taking a break, im sure she was studying so hard..

ah! reminiscing about the beach.. do you blame her?! LOL

Anyone want to try her studying methods.. they seem really enjoyable.. and you're guaranteed to get an A! Will you try them?!

PS yes thats how i study from time to time, but i do actually study for real... well.. sometimes.. ^__^

Quote, nothing in particular

2008-04-20T19:25:00.002+04:00

I came upon this quote and i just liked it.. I don't want to force my interpretation on you, i guess every person has to interpret it the way the see it..So here it is:

“Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.”

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Having fun & an unfortunate event

2008-04-19T19:32:00.004+04:00

Kyou wa totemo tanoshikatta desu!

We arrived to the port (?-can you even call it that LOL) at 8 and there were no boats there yet, and yes, there were about 30 other crazy people there at that time! LOL anyways.. the boats came 40 mins late! we were standing there for sooo long.. but then after swimming we forgot all about it.. LOL I LOVE SWIMMING! we didnt swim for too long, or too far coz some poeple don't know how to swim (you really need to learn to, you know ;) ).. and then we suddenly heard this guy who was sooo far away start screaming but his voice sounded so weird (like crows or something), and we could see him splashing around but he was so far we couldnt really see him.. i thought he was playing a joke on his friends pretending to drown.. but suddenly he said something, in phillipino, and they all jumped up and ran to the shore and were shouting so i thought it must be real.. after a few minutes, the guy kept going underwater and we couldnt see him and his screams stopped.. and his friends were standing there shouting, till finally someone jumped in tryting to swim to him.. but he was really far and the guy swimming to him seemed so slow.. i thought he would definitely drwon.. it was so frightening, my heart was going doki doki :P I thought we have to do something, i tought they probably dont have the number of the island operator so i went and called.. but before i did i was thinking what if it turns out to be a joke and then i'll look stupid, but i thought i dont really care, what if this guy dies, we really have to do somehting.. so i risked looking like a fool and called, i told the island scruity/police guy that i think someones drowing and told him where we were, and he said he would come right away.. five minutes later the guy had stopped splashing and his friend who went for him was only halfway there so i called again and the policeman told me to describe the location again coz he couldnt find us.. by this time, the guy's friends had stopped one of the buses on the island, i guess to tell them to call the life guards or somehting.. so i told him that the bus stopped and he said ok i see it.. 20 seconds later i saw this car zooming onto the beach and the guys jumped out of the car and dived in.. since the guy was soo far away it took a long time to bring him but by the time they brought him back to the shore i guess he was unconsiouss and they were dragging him.. then they looked like they were preforming CPR on him or something but we're not sure.. and an ambulance came and took him away.. (were not sure if he was still alive or what :/ ).. THEN, another guard came with a floatationg device thingy and jumped into the water, it turns out there was another person there too.. but we couldnt see him.. and the guard took a long time looking for him so we dont really know what excatley happened.. but they got him back safely, he came out of the water leaning on both guards but he looked ok.. The situation was very nerve-recking! i just hope that guy made it out OK.. we wanted to ask what happened but we didnt know who to ask.. anyways, im just glad we were there coz i think we're probably the ONLY people who have the number.. i dont think anyone else would have it..

After that, we just didn't feel like swimming and went and changed our clothes.. but after sitting around for an hour or so stuffing our faces, it was getting hotter, perfect weather for swimming, i decided to go back in.. Bash and her sis couldn't be bothered to go change back into their swimming clothes and stuff so me and my sis went off.. we swam for about 2 hours together, we kept going too far and my mum kept calling us back.. LOL.. we would say yeah we're coming and then swim backwards lol so she wouldn't know that we were going further.. Swimming where its really deep is really cool.. i taught my sis some Japanese phrases while we swam but the waves were high and we kept swallowing too much salty water.. which meant we had to go back to the shore so many times.. demo it was fun and we didn't mind it..

For the first time ever, i got a tan.. i always only get sunburnt.. this time im hardly burnt but im tanned.. its cool LOL im a golden colour now..ureshii.. except, funny enough, my face didn't tan.. only my arms.. i guess its better than nothing.. now i want to go back next week.. i don't think its too hot to go, so maybe we will a couple more times before it gets too hot..

Oh and marie-san went with us and she made umeboshi onigiri.. umaaaai! or should i say, *oichi*

Thats all for today, doing my uni work now.. and hating the thought of going to uni tomorrow even though its only for 1 hour and 50 minutes..

PS Bash, did you have fun? You didn't seem like you had too much fun, its your fault for not swimming with us the second time!

Procrastinating & Early Memory Loss

2008-04-18T17:30:00.004+04:00

Lately ive been procrastinating A LOT! i should be doing research for my capstone project as well as finishing my (huge) internship report and do my case study analysis for my Strategic Management class.. i wont say i haven't done anything, i have, but not enough! I should work more.. everyday i say i'll work harder today but then i get distracted, or rather, i procrastinate.. demo ima kara zettai ganbrimasu!

I'm definitely getting old. I keep forgetting everything lately.. i forgot i had a Japanese class on Wednesday! zannen deshita ne.. I also keep forgetting to take my pills, my Dr asked me if i've been taking my vitamin D pills and i was like, no sorry i forgot.. shes like, its only once a month, how can you forget.. A really annoying things is, i forgot the password to my msn chat logs (i dont know why i put a password anyways) and now whenever i want to check on something i cant.. i tried everything but i cant remember, all i remember is, it was a smart-arsed password.. ARGHH! nandemonai.. i will keep trying till i get it!

I've got this dilemma.. the place where i did my internship.. i really liked it and would love to work there.. they said they want me to work there.. but if i do i need to apply soon.. which means no holiday this summer =( its a bummer, i really don't know what to do.. Bash keeps saying i'll take a holiday later but the thing is, that holiday will come out of my few days of annual leave.. if i take a holiday now after uni.. it doesn't count.. im really not sure what to do.. but i really like the place..

I found out my cousin has been in Japan for 9 years! 9 years! I'm so jealous.. urayamashii (putting my new vocab to work fefechan ^^) I wish i could go there.. i'd settle for 9 months!

Hopefully we're going to the beach tomorrow (your all invited ^__^).. i think its the last time till next winter.. so im going to force myself to do some uni work so i dont have much to worry about tomorrow.. we want to be there at 8 LOL.. have to wake up so early ne.. but we want to swim and it will get soo hot later on so thats why.. hopefully it will be empty then ^__^ i hope no other crazy people like us would think of being there at 8 AM! but the world is fully of crazy people.. so you never know!

My posts are really boring ne.. i dont know what to write about.. i want suggestions LOL.. e.g. weird stuff from japan or something.. let me know..

*pic from queenofdorks on deviantart. not mine. don't sue me!

My newest fix

2008-04-15T22:20:00.005+04:00

I'm embedding my latest addiction ^__^ MONGOL 800's Chiisana Koi no Uta and Shibasaki Kou's Ikutsuka No Sora. I actually heard the latter as the ending for the Japanese horror movie, one missed call.. such a beautiful song for such a freaky movie... umm.. It actually sounds 99% like a song i listened to about 50 times in the matter of 9 hours when we were on our way to Japan.. I think its probably it but im not sure.. anyway, it bring back memories.. of a *snoring* brother ^^ God, thats so annoying, he was snoring in my ear for almost 6 hours or so..
Kiite kudasai *please listen to them*

Couldnt find this except this vid with random pix, just listen don't need to look at it

Can you believe this was the ending of a horror movie..?!

By the way, i was just wondering, this is really random, do you guys know what a red bracelet means? If you see a girl wearing it, would it stand out or no? I'll tell you why i'm asking later but i just wondered if you knew..

I'm really hoping we'll go to the beach this Saturday since its finally open, no races or anything.. it will probably be our last time till next winter or so.. its getting hot.. I love the beach.. its really such a great place ne..

I went to the doctor today and she said my fasting sugar levels were quite high, for someone who'd been fasting before the test.. so i did a quick test there and it was fine.. but she said i really have to watch it since im at risk of Diabetes coz of my dad and his family.. and my mum kept insisting that something is wrong with my blood pressure.. coz it keeps fluctuating.. now shes banned us from having salt on the table.. she's like, you'll have your food as it is or you can starve.. LOL aggressive ne.. i don't think it will work.. I LOVE SALT! and anything salty..
Oyasumi minna

Last few months at uni, and missing Japan

2008-04-13T18:36:00.003+04:00

I finally finished my internship and im now back at uni. I'm going to miss work, it was fun! I'm dreading my Strategic Management class, everyone says its very hard, its actually a business simulation game where we have to compete with other uni students all over the world, but i think mostly americans, in raising our virtual company's worth from $90m to about $250-300m! Thats got to be hard! but our professor told us that the girls in his class always make it onto the top 10 list out of 2000 other teams, so hopefully, we've got a good chance.

I've been thinking about Japan a lot lately, its just my kind of world, if i could i would spend the rest of my life there! My dad said something about me and him going to Japan in the summer, of course i was ecstatic but Marie-sensei says i won't enjoy it coz it would be too hot,humid, and rainy.. and i have to agree, if the weather's like that, i don't think i'd enjoy my time. So instead of going and it turning out a bad trip, im going to tell my dad to postpone it till winter next year or spring. The only thing is, if im working, i don't know what my holiday will be like.. how many days i can take off, and if i can take them at anytime or what.. we'll see.. but i'm definitely going to Japan soon. As much as i want to go to Japan, i really don't want to go before im at least a little bit better in Japanese.. but will i ever improve, i seem to be stuck at the same level.. God help me..

I'm finally breaking out the stuff i got in Japan. I havn't been opening or using anything since they're so precious to me ^_^ everytime i come to open something, im like, what if i never go, no i have to keep this as a memory.. but im finally opening and using some of my stuff.. i've decided i'll enjoy them but the thing is everytime i look at them i feel like going to Japan.. i have this cute little pen i bought that i start using but it distracts me form my studies coz i keep thinking of Japan..

Since i started uni, i can now use my pens and files i got from Japan ^^
I went a bit overboard with stationary, i must have brought with me around 40-50 files, and 30 pens or so..I just love the stationary there..

I was reading Yamapi's nikki (diary) today and he said that if he put on weight it doesn't matter coz he can lose 2 kilos in 2 days.. that seems so weird for someone so thin to say.. wish he'd share his secret with me..

My life has been quite boring recently.. but this weekend, zettai umi ni ikimasu yo! (i will definitely go to the beach)..

Mata ne ^___^

HAPPY B-DAY YAMAPI

2008-04-09T08:06:00.005+04:00

I don't have time to update, but i just had to say, its Yamapi's birthday today so

Otanjoubi Omedetou~

(Happy Birthday)

Poor Yamapi was attacked by Korean fans the other day, he says hes ok, just worried about his fans if anyone got hurt!! poor pi, thinking about his fans before himself.. Stupid %$#!&s (mind my french), they went way overboard to the point of ripping his shirt (and hair too i hear but not sure about that coz he said hes ok)..

I will update later..

Katakana Headache

2008-04-07T11:34:00.003+04:00

I want to update but i have no idea what to write about..

Work is a pain! I don't mind working so much its that it takes the whole day, i get home at 5! theres no way i could do anything after that time esp. after working for so long. Next week is going to be heaven, im not sure about my schedule yet but i think the latest is 2! Ureshii~ demo next week i will start working on my captsone properly.. ganbarimasu yo ne!

I started reviewing Katakana again! for the 100th time! Forgetting the Katakana was getting on nerves, but i decided to use mnemonics and im pretty sure i wont forget Katakana again.. the assosiations really just stick in my head.. Of course, they are stupid and meaningless to anyone other than me.. It was funny when i tried to explain them to Bash and her sis yesterday, they looked at me like im wacko! +__+ it was quite frustrating actually when i was showing them hirgana.. let me show you..

は ha- to me it looks like a face sideways.. the line to the left is the back of the head, the line to the right is the front of the head, and the line at the top going across is th eyes (or eyebrows) and the curvy bit at the bottom is a mouth. Do you see it? They didn't but in the end it turned out that they didnt hear the "sideways" bit so they couldnt see the face i was talking about..

Anyways, maybe i am crazy but if it means i'll memorize katakana then its worth it! definitely worth it!

Nothing in particular

2008-04-02T18:32:00.004+04:00

Today the Japanese delegation i talked about, they sent a gift for me. Ureshii! ^^ Theres so nice. it turned out to be a cake.. Oh and Bash's boss asked me to choose which university (out of the ones they represented) i would choose and why, so i sent him a casual hand written note today and he sent Bash back saying that he would like me to send the same thing by email, officially ^^ i guess he will forward it to the people in charge of choosing..

Today the girl im working with (my junior supervisor) found out i could speak some Japanese and she was like, oh please say something.. so i was like, what do you want me to say? She said, how are you. i felt stupid saying 'ogenki desu ka' it seems so easy, she should've asked for something harder lol but then again, whatever i say, she wouldn't know.. i could have been saying theres a spider on your head for all she knows.. Then she told me, can you speak French? I said no, she said, you look like you can speak French! WTH! LOL

On Saturday when Bash was over we were playing a stupid but fun-in-in-stupid-way game LOL its called oodles of doodles and you have to draw 8 things related to a theme and the others have to guess.. This is my sis A's drawing LOL

Can you guess them without looking at the answers?
1. leaning tower of pisa. 2. i thought its the pyramids but apparently its the Eiffel tower 3. big ben. 4.great wall of chine WTH ur drawing sux sis 5.the pyramids. 6.taj mahal. 7.I have absloutely no idea what it is although i got it right at the time 8.Stone henge (she drew stones coz she didnt know what they were, neither did bash LOL) (the E's are what i got right, the lonely B is Bash's ;P )

Heres a pic of my japanese gift

Thats all for now, got to go work on my captsone proposal. TC

Hiragana Reading Practice for fefechan

2008-04-01T12:53:00.003+04:00

Theres a catch here, its reading practice for her, but i actuallly want her to check my grammar since she knows a lot more than me, so i can omprove.

こんにちは～

はじめて　の　にほんご　の　ポウスト(POST) です。いま　です。いま、
コウヒ(COFFEE) をのんで　います。あつすぎる　です　よ！＋＿＋

さいきん、せんべい　を　たべたかった　です。GACKT　の　
”フウタア”（FUTURE) を　きいています。とても　すてきな　うた
です　ね。

じゃ、バイバイ　（BAI　BAI)　みんあ！

Here's the romaji version so you can see if you get it right:

Konnichiwa~
Hajimete no nihongo no pousuto desu.
Ima desu.
Ima, kouhi wo nonde imasu. Atsusugiru desu yo! +_+
Saikin, Senbei wo tabetakatta desu.
Gackt no “future” wo kiite imasu. Totemo suteki na uta desu ne.
Ja, bai bai minna!

PS listen to future its good, you will find it in my fave on youtube, cant be bothered to post it here..

Dissapointment

2008-03-29T21:03:00.003+04:00

I hate updating about old events, coz i just forget them or can't be bothered to talk about them even they were nice or fun or whatever.. i guess i better update everyday! or not..

On Thursday we went to my aunt's house, they had British people coming over -who are here on holiday- and so they invited us so we would 'entertain' them LOL the same thing happened in October with the same people, can't remember if i blogged about it. anyway, it was really fun.. so many fun things happened but i just can't be bothered to write about them now, 2 days later.. oh and so many funny incidents too..

Today we were supposed to go to Lulu island -which I've been waiting for since last Saturday- but when we got there it was closed coz of a boat race or something, my bro says its a Formula 1 race but im not sure.. i was so disappointed especially since i'd invited fefechan and it was the first time she goes.. in the end we went to this park just so my mum's friend's kids don't make a fuss.. it was sooo hot although fefe says it wasn't. we didnt really do much.. we played a board game, and Bash and fefechan's team kept on winning :/ im blaming it on my other team members lol since they were the youngest three.. anyways, it was fun but i wish we'd gone to the island, it is so much better there.. I hope we go next week.. but will fefechan come..? i hope so..

I watched Lindsay Lohan's "i know who killed me" last night with my sisters which was quite scary considering we were in the outside living room which is not connected to the house and one whole wall is glass windows and we could see the trees' shadows lol which kept making us jump.. and hearing weird noises that made us pause the movie a couple of times.. anyways, it was good..

I've got too many things to do.. got to go..

PS since we didn't go to the beach i didn't put sunblock on although we were in the sun and now im sunburnt again.. not as bad as before but god it stings!

Blood Donation and Japanese Delegation

2008-03-26T08:19:00.004+04:00

Yesterday after work i though i'd go give blood, and i had come with bash so we went together.. i didnt have a clue about her being afraid of needles. When we got there and they hooked me up, bash would not look my way LOL.. anyways.. all went smoothly, as usual.. then when the doctor pulled the needle out and told me to rest and went out.. usually i never rest and just walk out.. but as soon as the doctor went i almost fainted.. the horrible thing is, i got this feeling you get before fainitng but didnt actaully faint and it lasted for about 10 mins or so.. it was the worst thing ever.. my head was spinning and i couldnt open my eyes or my mouth.. i told bash go and get me a drink and the next thing i know the doctor is putting cool towels on my face and asking me if i have a sis called XXX? i was so out of it, i dont know what i said.. poor bash, the doctor was like why didnt you call me coz she came in and called my name and i didnt asnwer (i dont remember this but bash told me) so then she got worried.. anyways, its the first time something like this happened to me after giving blood and i sure freaked bash out.. bad first experience for her LOL sorry about that bash!

The day before yesterday, a japanese delegation came to the place im doing my internship at. and bash's boss Paul was going to meet with them, plus some other people, and she told him that i can speak japanese and im interested in japan or something. I was sitting in the office minding my own business and she came in and was like, theres a meeting with some japanese people and they want you to go.. i was like WTH i cant speak japanese, only basic stuff, but she said Paul said it would be a good experience so i went.. it was soooo much fun, i loved it.. a funny thing i noticed after the meeting was that when one of the japanese guys was talking, and before the translator translated what he said,most of them had given us brochures so they would say turn to page 27 or something, and i would turn to that page before the translator translated, and everyone would wait for him to translate, after the meeting i realized that and i hope noone noticed LOL. after the meeting all these japanes ebusinessmen kept coming up to me and giving me their business cards (with two hands ofcourse) and i recieved them accordingly, and in the end they even gave me a present and i was like arigatou gozaimasu (nothing complicated here but impressed them LOL) and the 2 guys were like do you know japanese and i said a little and they said subarashii-fanatastic =) lol i impressed them with 'thank you' LOL i wish there was a chance to say something more meaningful to them.. anyways, it was really a good experience and really fun..

I'm at work but the 3 people in the same room with me havent come till now so i better go see my other supervisor, im sure she has work for me.. i'll update later..

Oh and fefechan's mum said yes! YAY!

TC eveyrone

Kita Yoshio, yasashii hito ne..

2008-03-23T22:04:00.004+04:00

konbanwa!

I was so tired from work today that i tricked Bash into going home with me just so that i would make her drive ;P Just kidding.. LOL.. thats what she thinks, but i just wanted company and i didn't want her to have to wait for her sister to pick her up since she still doesn't have her car yet.. driving alone is really boring...tsumaranai!

I went to do something (taking a break from listening to Bash talk non-stop about cats jk ;P ) and came back into my room to find this drawing stuck to my cupboard, thanks Bash, totemo kawaii ne..
Bash told me to invite fefechan to the beach next weekend, i told her i would but she probably wouldn't go, and was surprised when fefechan said she will ask her mum.. YAY! i hope she says yes.. that would be so kewl..

Kita Yoshi only has 6 days of his life left! =( Oh cross that out, gomen fefechan just had to mention that dorama-related fact..

My youngest sis and i chatted for hours today about my trip to Japan. Shes the only one slightly interested in Japan so i told her some of the incidents that happened and stuff and she really enjoyed it.. She really wants to go to Japan now.. LOL i've created a monster!

Tokyo Tower's see-through floor is so cool!

Oyasumi!

Dango no kazoku

2008-03-22T20:26:00.003+04:00

Konbanwa minna!

I was so bored today so i decided to watch an anime called "CLANNAD" (the movie not the series). It was staring me in the face every time i opened crunchyroll so i decided to give it a try although im not an anime fan at all. I watched it, the story was ok, not that great but i loved the anime style, the drawing and stuff, better than a lot of other anime movies i've watched before. Anyways, there was this thing in the movie about a family of dango. It was cute and the girl in the anime kept singing a catchy song about this dango no kazoku so after i finished watching i searched youtube and found the cutest dango no kazoku, they are so cute and the song grows on you although its not as good as the one in the movie which is different. Anyways, see for yourself.(theres a longer verison on youtube, this is the shorter one)

Another thing i wanted to mention was that i came across youtubu.tv yesterday and it has the same interface as youtube, i was just wondering if this is the japanese youtube or if it was someone copying them, i guess i could've looked into it but i couldn't be bothered. I call youtube "youtubu" anyways, just for fun, so i typed it in not expecting anything and when the site opened i was shocked lol..

Someting else i wanted to mention, my mum's best friedn's daughter who i said went sky-diving in New Zealand, well she developed a fear of hights soon after that! That is so weird you know.. but my mum says shes even afraid of hight bulding now, WOW what a change, but its affecting her life.. poor girl.. maybe i should rethink sky-diving, i've always wanted to try it but maybe not..

Ja minna.. kio tsukete ne

Oompa Loompas, fish tanks, the beach, fog, no connection,dont even try

2008-03-19T22:22:00.002+04:00

I promised fefechan i wouldn't talk about dramas anymore ^^ so i hope this doesn't count. Bara no nai hanya's OST is quite good, or maybe im biased coz i alread like the drama. I have feeling noone will like it, LOL esp Bash, but i do, the lyrcis aren't really sad but the song sounds like it is..

The other day i dreamt that my sis H had found both our retainers in the fish tank. I was sitting in my office later that day and remembered my dream so i sent her a message and told her, "i dreamt that you found our retainers in the fish tank LOL". She sent a message back (she was on a school trip so she had her phone) saying "What fish tank? We dont have a fish tank?" LOL i was like, why dont people get me, why would i write "LOL" except coz its funny that we dont have a fish tank.. as if i dont know! LOL maybe im just incomprehensible at times..

We're going to the beach again tomorrow, won't forget the sunblock this time! This time my mum's friend A and her kids are coming along so it should be even more fun, bash is going too..

I feel so bad, the blood bank called me 2 days ago and wanted me to go give blood but i said i couldn't go that afternoon coz i was on my way home so they said can you come tomorrow morning coz there a patient who needs blood.. and i said ok, fully intending to go.. but i completely forgot about it and didn't go.. and now i feel bad about it.. hopefully someone went and gave blood in time..

Today was my first time driving in fog, YATTA! my parents had been driving me on the days when it was foggy but today they decided i should try it or i'll never learn and i was mighty fine, if i say so myself.. LOL..

Have you guys seen Charlie and the Choclate Factory? I can't remember if the new one has the same songs as the original one but the songs in the older version were soo good. Of course we watched it as kids and loved it so much that my grandma kept sending us copies of the film coz we kept losing ours.. my little sis and i were singing the stupid songs today, we had so much fun being crazy.. my favourite is the "Augustus Gloop" song.

Oompa loompa doompety doo
I've got a perfect puzzle for you
Oompa loompa doompety dee
If you are wise you'll listen to me

What do you get when you guzzle down sweets
Eating as much as an elephant eats
What are you at, getting terribly fat
What do you think will come of that"

Heres a clip of one of the other songs, Veruca Salt, the brat.

I better sleep early, i invited Bash for breakfast at 8 so i better be up and ready by then..

doramas and stuff

2008-03-17T18:40:00.003+04:00

I started watching a new japanese drama called "ashita no kita yoshio" yesterday. Its a bit differnt than anything i've watched before but its supposed to be full of twists so we'll see how that goes. Its basically about this guy who decided hes going to commit suicide in 11 days, and then in those 11 days he experinces the most eventful days of his life.

I can't seem to find any subbed "Edison no haha" episodes, i want to watch the next episodes, its good. But the thing i want to watch the most is "bara no nai hanaya", i know ive talked about it before, but its just so amazing.. the latest subbed episode hasnt been uploaded except on d-addicts which means i cant get to it, and the guy uploading it on veoh didnt upload it yet.. im so impatient, i really want to watch it..

Apart from watching dramas ive been preocupied with my capstone project. I've been thinking about ideas and finally settled on one that i like the most and that i think i'll find enough resources for, i just hope my group and our capstone supervisor Kitty like it. God i can't believe i'll be graduatting in 3 months!

I remember one of my classmates last semester was taking kick-boxing classes, i don't know why im thinking about it now but I'd like to try it LOL is it as weird as it sounds?!.. i really think it would be fun.. so I've asked her about it, i hope she replies..

I don't know what happened yesterday, i slept for like 4 hours and then got up and started tossing in bed, and then all of a sudden i started thinking about really serious things.. and i couldn't go back to sleep until and hour later.. it was just weird.. coz the things i started thinking about, and not just thinking, making decisions and stuff, were all really serious stuff.. LOL..

"U R welcome"
Anything weird there? Not to you im sure but for the first time ever, my mum sent me a message with abbreviations. She always writes the whole word out which annoys me so much if its something urgent, so when she sent that today i did a double take, i was like WTH, mum? seriousely? LOL

Its been a year now since i started eating my noodles with chopsticks, first i did it coz it was fun, now i do it coz im used to it but the funny thing is that its become such a normal thing in our house that noone even notices, and i keep thinking that everyone eats their noodles like that, so i was surprised when i saw my sister eating noodles the other day with a fork.. it was like i woke up LOL i was like OK i've been living in my own little world a bit too long.. We have as many chopsticks as forks now.. which my older brother always teases me about..

Off to make another japanese music CD for the car.. ive been listening to the same songs for a week and a half now, twice a day, they're getting boring (except "another Christmas", fefechan ;) LOL i can never get bored of that!)

PS whats all the hype about JUNO, ive seen it a couple of weeks ago and its not really that good, i'd probably give it a 4/10..

New layout

2008-03-15T20:35:00.001+04:00

Finally a new layout, i've had it for so long, long before i went to Japan but never got around to actaully putting it up.. its not perfect.. there are a couple of things that look odd but i cant fix them so get used to it.. LOL

nothing much

2008-03-15T18:08:00.002+04:00

Thursday, nothing interesting happened except i let bash drive my car back home which was funny coz i kept telling he how to drive LOL.. shes definitely a better driver than me but i didnt want her to do anything to the car since i had an acceident in it before and i only just fixed the bumper less than a month ago so im not ready for another accident.. she kept driving on the white line, half in one lane and half in another, and i was like 'choose a lane, dont drive over the line' and she was like 'but the road is empty', im like 'thats not the point'..anyways we arrived home safely, i dont mean about bash's driving, i mean we arrived without me murdering her XD

At work, i worked my *** off.. nothing interesting.

Friday we went over to my uncle's for lunch and then went to my sister's house coz she had a part for her daughter but we didnt stay and went out for dinner..

Today we had people over including marie-sensei and we sat and talked about Japanese dramas and japan the whole time LOL she was telling me the Proposal Daisakusen's special will be out soon and she just like me cant wait to see kurosagi the movie.. She asked me if i would tutor her Japanese friend's little daughter whose 5, both the parents are Japanese and dont speak any Arabic obviously and the daughter has just started Arabic classes at school and they cant help her with her homework so they want someone to help her. I told her im too busy with my internship but if she wants one day on the weekend maybe i could.. i'll get to practice some Japanese too i guess.. we'll see what happens..

Me and Marie are planning to go to the Japanese restaurant soon and she said she'd let her friend Yoriko who ive met once come along.. should be fun.. but im too busy so i dont know when that'll happen.. Marie's little boy kept saying 'nani' the whole day, at anything and anyone..hes so cute..

I want to start a diet, now that i lost a couple of kilos when i got sick i feel motivated to lose some more weight.. especially since the past week at work we've been eating out, italian, chinese, indian, all food thats fattening and not good for you.. im still thinking what i can have thats not so fattening but im not really sure..

Fefechan told me today that Yamapi wont be graduating this academic year.. too bad, it would've been cool if he graduated now and had his first movie out.. zannen desu.. i cant beleive im going to graduate soon..

Fefechan i really miss you, i havnt seen you for so long.. reemy-chan too!

We used our chocolate fountain for the first time today, of course i wasn't as excited as everyone else since i don't like chocolate.. but it looks cool anyway.. the kids were dipping marshmallows and sucking the chocolate and dipping them in again..eew..

thats it for now..

PS i was thinking what would happen if i lost all my posts, if blogger crashed or something.. i would be so mad.. maybe i should start printing all my posts and keep them or something..

Highlights of a boring day

2008-03-12T21:30:00.004+04:00

First of all, thanks Cami for "my idea of heaven", its really nice.

Highlights from my day, cant be bothered to write in detail (although no one cares anyways XD)

6:15 my alarm woke me up with the most annoying noise ever!
6:30 still in my warm bed, all covered up and dreading having to put my feet on the cold tiles.
7:05 leaving to work
8:30 got the yummies smelling "English toffee" coffee drink thingy (we used to buy it, bash had it at our house, and ever since shes been having it every single day at work)
11:00 working hard since the morning
12:00 The Finance manager calls me into her office and tells me they will give me an exam which they give people seeking an accounting position at their company, she said its only to get feedback coz everyone says its hard so she wants to know what i think.. I was like **** im not at uni and i still have to take exams, i've already forgotten everything anyways..
1:40 Bash texts me to tell me she has a Japanese guy in her office, i text back, can i come over and say hi.. i probably would've gone LOL pretending to want Bash but i was swamped with work

We order food so i kept asking her everytime she called wether it was there yet.. i was starving!

4:00 my bro text to see if ive arrived home safely LOL i text back saying i only just finish and havnt even left work yet
4:05 while waiting for bash to get her stuff (she left with me today) as i left her office this guy was in my face so i was like bismillah and he was like w3aleekom essalam XD
4:10 i reverse out of the parking a bit fast, or maybe very fast, Bash's like i hope i get home safe.
4:35 stopped at the petrol station after Bash almost drove me crazy so she could get some ice cream ;)
4:45 i wanted to turn to the right at the bridge so a while before i put on my indicator and started moving in the lane on the right where there was a white car a bit far behind that had been driving slowly for a while, as soon as i tried to enter the lane he was in, he accelerated, and i panicked and tried to accelerate but he started going so fast, and i swear he missed us by inches, i was so mad coz he was going so slowly and suddenly when i decided i want to turn he drove so fast and almost drove into the back of my car..
5:45 Bash left or was it later? cant remember.

Tsukareta! totemo tsukareta! shigoto ga dai kirai desu yo!

Oyasumi (going to bed early)

Beware of the.. writer

2008-03-11T22:04:00.002+04:00

Although i started work yesterday, or rather my internship, Bash was at a conference in another city so we didn't see each other there. So today we decided that she would pick me up on her way to work, and she did. She told me to bring some CDs along,i brought some awesome techno CDs XD which im glad Bash liked, even if she didn't, i would've made her listen to them all the way to work anyways.. We got there a bit early so she showed me around, her office, and the garden outside and so on. Before it was even 8, her phone was ringing so i decided to go to my own workstation and let her get on with her work. At 8:15 or so one of the ladies there arrived and was surprised to see me there filing stuff (another woman told me to do it the day before so i was just completeing it). Then i went back to my workstation waiting for the woman in charge of me to arrived, when she did she went out for coffee or something and i sat there waiting. By 9 she came back and explained all about the petty cash account to me and gave me a list she wanted me to sort out. It was a list with like "coffee and tea" and i had to figure out what account to put it in, e.g. "office supplies". So i did it although some were really challenging.. then i sat waiting for her to come back since she kept disappearing all the time, when she did appear it was for a few seconds and she was talking to the other woman there and i couldn't get a word in edge ways.. (fefechan, a new one for you).. So, at about 1:45 she had still not seen what i'd done and she had already had her 1:15 min long lunch break so i went on mine. I went with bash and two of her friends to the cafeteria to eat, and we shared some laughs..

At about 3:30 after i had been sitting bored for a couple of hours, the one in charge of me decided she would see what i'd done. She changed some of the things i'd done.. now, i wouldn't have cared if what she did was actually right but she messed everything up. Let me show you what i mean, like the 'coffee and tea" which she told me goes into "office supplies". There were 5 bills for coffee and tea, she put 3 as belonging to the "office supplies" and changed two of them as belonging to "stationary"! I was like WTH, coffee and tea! Stationary! I wouldn't mind if all 5 were in stationary but only 2 and the rest somewhere else, whats the point of categorizing them and putting them into accounts?! Trying to be diplomatic and not tell her its wrong i was like, "oh i think you confused this with this.. you've put coffee and tea as stationary.." she was like "let me see.. no, its right" so i was like "OK". At 3:45, just 15 mins before work officially ends she decided she wanted the whole list in excel classified into different accounts with the accounts numbers and totals and what not. I almost cried right then, from frustration since ive been free all day and now she was giving me the same papers ive had all day and asking me to do something that needs a whole hour if not more. So i worked on it as quick as i can but by 4 i was only halfway through, but she had told me that she needs it by tomorrow morning, and then she heard me on the phone to Bash telling her that i cant leave coz i still have work and she was like, its ok you can leave. I was like, does she really need this tomorrow or not, i dont want to come in at 8 and they want it at 8:15 and have to work like crzay so i told her i would stay and work on it.She left at 4 anyways..

Earlier, i'd been nagging Bash about her staying after hours and told her if shes taking me home then she better finish at 4, but when she called at 4 i told her i still didnt finish and she burst out laughing, coz it was like role-reversal.. Anyways, we left at 4:30 and Bash's mum called to say she wanted something from the supermarket so we decided to go to the mall nearby, we both went crazy in the sweets isle and bought everything we could think of, i bought lots of stuff coz they had sweets that we used to buy in England that they dont sell here.. and i finally got some pocari sweat.. thank goodness for that.. then we decided to eat, again LOL so we went and ate.

Then on the way home the car started making a funny noise, (it happened in the morning once too), and Bash stopped at the nearest possible place which happened to be the Civil Defence! She stopped the car and opened the hood and was looking at the engine like she knows what its all about, i got out for moral support.. she was like, this doesnt look normal (not sure what exactly) and as were standing there minding our own business we see this guy wearing a Civil Defence uniform coming towards us, he was like are you ok and stuff and we explained about the noise, so he looked at the engine and said it looks fine, then he took the oil pipe thingy out to see it, and bash was like "whoa its burnt" he looked at her strangely and was like, "no this is very new" and i was elbowing Bash telling her to shut up ;P since she didnt know what she was talking about.. A few mins later we saw 3 other men coming our way, all in the same uniform, anyways they tried to figure out what was wrong but couldnt find anything so Bash told one of them, drive it around the parking area and see.. as he drove off, we all forgot about the noise which was the original complaint coz we were shocked to see the reverse lights on when he was driving forward! We were like WTH, what now! Anyways, they managed to turn that light off and said the car would be safe to drive even with the noise but she should get it checked out.. What an experience!

Then all the way home whenever a car came by with a loud noise i'd jump thinking its Bash's car.. I'm definitely going to work in my car tomorrow..

WOW such a long post, just one last thing to say, i've just received a present from my uncle, when i asked my dad what its for (he delivered it) he was like its for your graduation! LOL ive already had my graduation gift from my dad (going to Japan) and now my uncle and its only the beginning of the semester.. what if i dont graduate! LOL

anyways, take care everyone and gomen ne for the long post.

Shigoto to umi

2008-03-08T17:50:00.005+04:00

Lounging.. try it for 5+ hours and you'll definitely get sunburnt XD

Don't laugh, thats my sandcastle XD its the first time we go to the beach with no little kids so i decided that I would build a sandcastle instead, but all i had was a little plastic cup :P

Bash wrote our names in the sand.. i don't even know if i took this pic or her since we mixed up cameras..

I didn't want to say anything before in case i jinxed myself LOL but i've chosen not to go to Deloitte & Touche although they are such a great place for any accounting students but due to some reasons im not going there, instead im going to be working where BASH works! We're both excited LOL although we won't see each other much but im sure its going to be fun.. I have a meeting tomorrow to discuss some things with the Accounting Department manager and hopefully i'll start work on Monday..

We went to the beach today and bash came along, and my sis H had a friend too, and my little sis S had a friend along too.. so it was fun.. although i got sunburnt and it burns like hell! my cheeks and nose are soo red! forgot sunscreen.. but NEVER again! Bash brought her sister's camera along and its the same as mine, so half way through the morning we accidently took the others' camera, and only realized it before we left LOL so we had to exchange photos.. There were these lounger chairs there that we pulled into the water, just were its really shallow and sat there listening to japanese music and talking, an hour later we see my mum calling and waving at us but we didnt get what she was saying, she came over to say that the water was rising and would soon reach the loungers and we'd get wet.. i was like, its ok, we'll just sit for a bit them pull them a bit out.. as soon as my mum went a huge wave came and i was soaked.. moral of the story, always listen to your mum, she knows what shes talking about.. many funny incidents happened, bash's glasses even fell in the water.. and i even built a sandcastle, LOL, with a small plastic cup ;P tanoshikatta!

Yesterday my dad took us out to a Chinese restaurant, i say took us but it doesn't mean he invited us, LOL, we invited him, but we made him pay too ;) oishikatta!

Not much else to say really.. ive been watching bara no nai hanaya which is really good.. first dorama i watch with an older couple but its nice.. older i mean 30s, not 70s or something LOL..

OK well thats all, take care mates

PS i want to add pix of the sea but i cant be bothered to resize them..maybe later

Images of Grandeur

2008-03-07T00:02:00.012+04:00

When uncle John and his family were here my mum saw this article about tours at Sheikh Zayed's mosque which is the third largest mosque in the world according to Wikipedia. uncle John and Katie were really interested so we decided to all go. It was sooo grand and beautiful, no wonder, since it cost more than 2 billion dollars, has one of the largest chandeliers in the world plus the world's largest carpet among other things.

I didn't take any photos from the outside since it was VERY windy :/ Anyways, sorry if the quality sucks, i had to resize the photos to almost 20-30% of their original size!

the detail on the ceiling, such an intricate design and all handmade

The carpet was funky.. there were like 5 main designs in different colours but i don't want to bore you so one pic of the carpet is enough i guess.. ^^

PS fefechan, i thought of your sis S as soon as i got in coz i thought shes such a good photographer, she'd take amazing photos unlike me LOL

Vinegar & chips, and Gackt

2008-03-06T21:12:00.004+04:00

I never thought i'd say this, or even live to hear anyone else say it, but our vinegar is not sour enough! I had chips (not crisps, i mean french fries) and i tried every vinegar we have (white vinegar, malt vinegar, salad vinegar) and i wasn't satisfied! I had to dip my chips in vinegar then salt to get the level of sourness i was seeking LOL

Anyways, I just couldn't resist posting this song, its rather old but i like it.. he looks like hes about to kill someone LOL hes just so emotional in his songs

This week's headlines

2008-03-04T10:45:00.004+04:00

Ima gets no response after interview, should she be worried?
I went to the interview on Sunday, it went really well and the woman said she'd call me later that day but she didn't. Then she didn't call yesterday either! I'm pretty sure they're going to accept me but i really need to start THIS week! I've already lost one week working somewhere else, one week sick, so i need to start this week or im afraid i might be able to graduate in June :( strangely enough, im being very calm about it all.. Oh well, it will work out im sure..

No tea, no life!
I miss tea! Before i got sick i used to drink up to 8 cups of tea a day, im not talking little cups here, actually more like mugs! whenever i did anything i had a cup of tea in my hand.. then when i was sick i couldn't drink anything obviously, and as soon as i was well enough i came to drink a cup of tea and it just tasted so AWFUL! I've tried a couple of times now but it just tastes fowl.. so ive switched to coffee which i don't particularly like anyways, i don't like the smell or the taste, but i need something to drink! I hope i can get back to my tea soon, i miss it! and one or 2 cups of coffee a day are just not doing it for me!

I DO have a life..i think..
I was just reading the latest blog entry in one of my favourite blogs and i realized ive been following this girl's life forever, so i went to her archives to see how long its been, and its been almost 4 years! wow thats a really long time.. do you guys read a lot of blogs? I know i do.. mostly its people living in Japan or related to it someway LOL..

Acting casual
Oh the weirdest thing happened yesterday! I have this girl who i was friends with for a very long time, but somehow she changed and it was hard to be her friend anymore. remember i said something about 'emotionally draining friendships' before, well shes the one.. anyways, so i stopped talking to her after a big fight in April of last year.. she kept trying to get hold of me but i tried my best to keep her out of my life (im not mean, really, but she was messing up my life).. and so yesterday my phone rang and it was a strange number and i decided to pick up thinking it might be the lady from the interview. It turned out to be her instead and she was like, 'hi! long time no see.. what have you been up to?' and i was so shocked by how casual she was that i almost closed the phone in her face LOL but i answered her reluctantly, like nothing had every happened.. turned out she wanted a favour, she has a cat and wanted me to take her in or find her a home since she has to get rid of her and doesn't know anyone who wants one, i told her im sorry i don't know anyone.. and she was 'oh too bad.. ok.. never mind then.. keep in touch dear..' and she closed leaving me dumbstruck! I didn't know what to think LOL im so glad it turned out to be a very harmless situation, which is strange for her, but im definitely not keeping in touch.. ive been burnt once.. never again..

Shout-outs:
Bash: how about going to the beach this weekend? Lulu island?
Reemy-chan: we have to meet up.. i miss you and G! Its so weird not to see you everyday.. come to the beach too ;) i wish!
Fefe-chan: Stay positive and strong and nantoka narusa ;) You need the beach the most i think, come along ;) you won't regret it..