Graduation present from fefe-chan!

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..

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

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!!

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

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

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

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..