Geki!

I just came back from karaoke!!

We had Ikumi's 21st birthday party today (^^)! I was in a rush to find a present for her because we made a deal to exchange gifts (since our birthdays are actually close - we only celebrated hers late). I went to LoFt around 5pm to look around and I was seriously thinking of getting this electric blue nail polish for her.... but I didn't. Then there was this really nice gold-brown eye shadow which I know would suit her... but I didn't get that either. ... probably because the evil green monster of envy would start growling inside me. LoL. It wouldn't have been very sincere! It was a really nice electric blue... and there was a really nice electric purple in the same series too. I'm probably not going to get it any time soon anyway.

Then I went up a floor and found myself amongst clocks. That's when it hit me. Ikumi's going to Birmingham for a year and she'll be leaving early August. I remembered that when I was weeks before coming to Japan I was fluttering about looking for an alarm clock.... Because it dawned on me that there won't be anyone to wake me up anymore! (The alarm clock I have now doesn't work so well anyway.) So! I found the section where they had all these cute alarm clocks- some looked like dogs, cats, aliens/humans?, and this one in particular which costed 8400yen that looked like a lego on wheels. Hee. It runs too. Literally.

I called up Nazuna to ask her whether Ikumi liked dogs or cats and lo and behold! She doesn't like either. Just like me! (And like me, if she had to choose, she'd choose the cat.) So I got her the cat. It even goes meow when you touch it. Seriously. I think it has motion sensors. Just like my toy flower! But that's another story.

We ended the party very early and decided to go to karaoke - Nazuna and Ikumi had an appointment to go to though. So it was just me, Aurelie, Eriko and Non-chan.

I haven't had so much fun at karaoke in so long! The funniest thing was that Non-chan was so enthusiastic about us all singing Sakura Taisen's Geki! Teikoku kagekidan. Haha. Of all the songs. You know how Japanese are not particularly into anime songs? Well, this was an exception. They didn't mind me singing anime songs much tonight either. (Not that it's something to brag about.) But they were really into that Sakura Taisen song! Hee......