Against all odds!

To FeFe-chan:

The first time we met was coincidence, my sister's friend (my cousin) set you up with me. Do you remember? When they said to stick together because we were both new at uni? Well, we ended up being friends and sticking together for a while-we were so close- and then we chose different paths and somehow our friendship got lost in the midst of all the chaos. We met, we talked, but weren't close. Then we found a common denominator, something that strengthened our ties and pulled us together, our love of Japan & the Japanese language. Are we close now? I would say yes we are.. were we close a while ago? i can't even remember.. you know when something happens and its so good, or so bad, that you forget what your life was like before it happened? like me trying to remember my life before my sister moved away, for example. I just cant remember it, it seems forever since shes been gone. Thats what its like with you now, i feel like you've been close to me forever and that we never lost that connection. But in truth we did, and theres a lot we need to make up for, but i really do hope you can count me as one of your close friends.

I learnt a lot about you today, from a simple game of Yes/No questions. A lot of things surprised me, some made me laugh, smile, some even made me want to cry. All in all, i learnt so much more about you and the thing is, i realized that i already knew you because you & I are so alike. We found lots of opposites in out likes, tastes, but on the important things we never once disagreed. I hope that realization just strengthens our bond and draws us closer. I just want you to know that no matter how far apart we may be, at any point in time, i want you to know that there is someone out there who cares for you dearly and wants to see you happy. I want to always be there for you, but if im not, then you should know that im probably there for you in my own way-the only way i can. Let's stick together and keep our friendship alive-against all odds!

Peace out!

WARNING: LONG POST

Kinou wa honto ni tanoshikatta desu! ( you should already know what this means since I say it so much! If you don’t already know, it means yesterday was really fun!)

Message from bash to ima-chan at 11:30AM “What are your plans for today?”

Message from ima-chan to bash at 11:31AM “Nothing, why don’t u come over?”

Message from bash to ima-chan at 11:30AM “Ok I’ll come over after work. C U then”

04:45 Ima-chan driving her sisters to the ice skating rink at 150 km/hr so she can be back home before bash gets there (at 5:30)

05:15 Im-chan is back home awaiting bash’s arrival.

Bash doesn’t arrive. Ima-chan calls continuously from 5:30 to 7:00. No answer. Ima-chan gets worried. Calls bash’s sister “Is bash at home?”

Bash’s sister “No, I thought she was at your house”

“no she isn’t”

“well if she comes over let me know”

“ok bye”

Ima-chan calls bash at 7:00. At long last, bash answers “ im at the mall picking something up for my mum?”

“What? AT THE MALL? I’ve been so worried? Ok why didn’t u answer the phone?”

“Well, it was on silent..”

“WTH? Ok come quickly. We made ur favorite dinner”

“fajitas? Im coming as fast as I can” (LOL always love it)

…Bash arrived with a big unknown object (couldn’t see what it was coz it was dark) in hand.

Ima-chan: “Hi!”

Bash: “I got u a gift (coz she got her first salary)”

“WHAT?!! A GIFT? FOR ME?” (LOL--àfirst time she receives a gift)

Ima-chan tears into the wrapping never stopping to even thank Bash..

Just kidding..LOL..

Anwyas, bash came with a gift for her BESTEST BESTEST FRIEND ima-chan. We had dinner first which was yummy LOL, then we went to open the gift.. however, the gift was wrapped so professionally we thought we had to have a whole “gift opening” ceremony. Bash, armed with her camera started snapping away under the direction of bossy ima-chan. “no, not that angle, this one. See bash, theres more light here” (always so bossy with bash) and bash patiently did what she was told and NEVER hit ima-chan. LOL

Anyways, the gift was the best EVER. Bash knew exactly what would make me happy and got it for me, I couldn’t have chosen a better present. It just seemed like she knew everything I liked.. LOL.. maybe peered into my soul ;)

The gift was a CAMERA (she said so I could take better photos for my blog instead of my crappy photos ;) ) with a memory, a book about friendship, and loads of Japanese books & software & a kawaii teddy bear.

Here are some photos.

and last, the frogs we made, i made kaeru-kun, bash made kaeru-chan!
They're in love, don't tell anyone!

Later, we ate Baskin Robbins, chatted on MSN, Bash drew (I couldn’t draw if my life depended on it LOL), made origami frogs,.. (anything else I left out?)

After that, Bash left to go home taking her pink calendar (pink overdose) and her little froggies that I forced her to take ;P

That was all. Such a busy day filled with all kinds of emotions, worry, surprise, happiness,…etc. Thanks bash for the gift and for being such a great friend. I’m proud to call you my friend. (and im sure everyone is silently thanking you for saving them from looking at my crappy photos ;) )

Oyasumi!

shout-outs

Today was so much fun! i'll tell you about it but i want to show you the photos too, and i don't have them, my friend bash will.. so i'll update tomorrow with the photo and let you know what we crazy pair were up to today..

Shout-out to:
fefe-chan: i miss you loads.
meme-chan (not fefe's sis, the other one): hope all's well with ur baby (laptop), missed you on MSN too for the last couple of days.

Cheers.. g'night

Karendaa to kaeru-chan

I made myself a calendar today after reading my friend FeFe's latest blog post and realizing that a canlendar is excalty what i need! I need to see exactly what i have to have done and by when, that way i can work in advance and not at the last minute..

kawaii ne?
want one, beg! LOL just kidding, i'll give you one if you want.

PS i wrote the month and week days in hiragana ;P hey im just a begginner, what do you expect?!

Oh and bash, i did make you the origami froggy i promised ^^ but i made it at about 2 AM so i didn't have any green-coloured paper thats why its white. I'll make you a green one now, and one that actually jumps. No kidding! You have to come get it though, OK?

Meet kaeru-chan!
かえるーちゃん!
Does it even look like a frog? what a funky frog ^^ i'm making another less funky one for you..

Thats it for now, im working on my EDUCATION project.. trying to be a bit creative, its about teaching mathematics to students who are visually impaired (weird? why? isn't that what all accounting majors do? take an education course..LOL) and i want to do a display thing that i can show the class + an activity they can do. I'll do a post about that when its finished, with photos hopefully ( i need a camera instead of my lame excuse of a phone camera ;) i know)

Minna, GENKI DE! (stay genki! if you don't know what genki means then maybe you shouldn't be reading my blog.. jk..no im serious)

Japanese Studies Progress: i-adjectives

So far I've learnt 43 of the i-adjectives from the JLPT kyuu 4 list. I've also studied the grammar for conjugating i-adjectives (which i already knew before but just revised). i-adjectives or keiyooshi are probably the easiest thing, everything's uphill from now. Thejapanesepage has the easiest explanation so i'm putting a link up here in case someone wants it.

Other than that, theres nothing else to say so i'm putting an example of what the conjugation for i-adjectives looks like. This is really really basic stuff that i learnt a long time ago.

atsui=hot

kono ocha wa atsui (desu). この　おちゃ　わ　あつい　です。 This tea is hot!
kono ocha wa atsukatta. この　おちゃ　わ　あつかった。 This tea was hot!
kono ocha wa atsukunai. この　おちゃ　わ　あつくない。 This tea is not hot!
kono ocha wa atsukunakatta. この　おちゃ　わ　あつくなかった。 This tea was not hot!

Theres also a more formal way but i dont want to get into that. I'm going to attempt to make an origami swan now, let's see how it turns out.

PS i need to practice my japanese, i need to talk to someone. Fefe from now on, if you know how to say it in Japanese then your not allowed to say it in any other langauge.wakatta? nihongo de!!

Origami Lily & the hyaku-en store

I've got loads of origami paper that i bought at what i now call hyaku-en store. I'm not in Japan so its obviousely not 100 yen but its equivelant in the local currency. However, the place i go to is a very popular Japanese 100-yen store called Daiso. Thats why i call it the hyaku-en store. plus its just sounds more exotic ^^

Anyways, so i've got lots of origami paper lying around so i decided to make something again, espcially since all the origami papers i've got have really pretty designs on them and i just couldn't resist. So i made an origami lily today and then gave it to my mum ^^ not that she appreciates my fine art ;)
PS i went to donate blood with my friend FeFe :) but they didn't take my blood but took hers.. :(

Theres more to come, i need to make a little update on my Japanese studies..

My Japanese goodies!

My afternoon snacks, calpis & senbei

I passed by the Japanese section at the supermarket today and got some essentials ^^ like my all-time-favourite snack: senbei (rice crackers). I'm so lucky every time i go to buy some senbei it seems to be on sale & they have 2 for the price of 1 so i stock up.

I also got some Calpis, or Calpicoas they renamed it now after noticing that it sounded to English speaking people like cow piss and finally understood why it wasn't selling ;) I really like it, more than Pocari Sweat.. i give it ***** (not cursing, 5 stars ^^) I got the carbonated soft drink type which is called calpico water (its a drink not water), and although it looks like watered-down milk, its really good.. However, i would've liked to try the calpis soda, im sure its good.

Seasoned senbei + mayo senbei (i believe, i hope!)

Pocari Sweat + lemon & peach tea+ lemon drink A look in one of my "japanese edibles only" shelf

Oh, and heres a little origami crane i did. my first orgami creation ever so don't judge too harshly ^^

Till the next time i go & get more Japanese goodies.. take care