I went up to the University today (err, yesterday? I haven't slept yet so today is still Wednesday for me) and it was to finalise my choices for the next semester's compulsory general subjects (it's hard to translate this special category of subjects, but I'll just leave it like that-) And compared to the last list of choices we had, I found the current one even duller and more disinteresting in comparison to before. The subjects were mostly science-related like The Earth and the Stars, History of Science (which I already took in my first semester) etc. and those that weren't were Law or Politics related... which is even more... ...
Well anyway, I made my choice priorities and am just waiting for the results to see which classes they will put me in *please put me in a good class somebody... anybody...*
Now I've burnt out more than half of my limit of credits I can take for the year so I can take less subjects this semester around... I admit I really prefer it this way ^_^ I should burn out more credits next year's early semester too so I can just laze around in the late semester hahahha- ...Hmm... It's really not a bad idea
2006-09-28
2006-09-26
Over to the mountain-
Anni was over for the weekend in Kansai until tonight- well, technically yesterday night. She came over on Sunday and we went up Rokko-san! (The mountain my Uni's partially on) We didn't think to bring jackets since it was a cool day but when we went up... brrrrrr it was cold! When evening fell it was positively freezing to me!
We went to some animal farm over there- it was very pleasant, lots of sheep. I even pet a horse! (I can't believe it still- it's my first time petting a horse)
Then we went down to have dinner -we thought we'd go eat maybe at Harborland but changed our minds and went back to Rokkomichi to have dinner at the Korean restaurant there (and what ho! At Harborland who do I accidently bump into but Adeline! ^_^ I can now officially say I've seen her every weekend for a month- it caught us both completely by surprise!).
Dinner we had with Cesar- who was kind enough to submit into my bullying for him to come heehee- it was really pleasant. I wish we could go have more dinners like this once classes start again ^_^
Then what do we do but go to karaoke all-night-long! Hahaha- so typical. But it was fun anyway- though I did end up with such a heavy head/completely stoned disposition on the way back to the apartment and then slept barely 5 hours and then woke up again since Mihaela was comin over. But I was completely KO after a while and had to take another 2 hours sleep before attempting to do anything else.
And now here I am... I really should start getting some sleep-
We went to some animal farm over there- it was very pleasant, lots of sheep. I even pet a horse! (I can't believe it still- it's my first time petting a horse)
Then we went down to have dinner -we thought we'd go eat maybe at Harborland but changed our minds and went back to Rokkomichi to have dinner at the Korean restaurant there (and what ho! At Harborland who do I accidently bump into but Adeline! ^_^ I can now officially say I've seen her every weekend for a month- it caught us both completely by surprise!).
Dinner we had with Cesar- who was kind enough to submit into my bullying for him to come heehee- it was really pleasant. I wish we could go have more dinners like this once classes start again ^_^
Then what do we do but go to karaoke all-night-long! Hahaha- so typical. But it was fun anyway- though I did end up with such a heavy head/completely stoned disposition on the way back to the apartment and then slept barely 5 hours and then woke up again since Mihaela was comin over. But I was completely KO after a while and had to take another 2 hours sleep before attempting to do anything else.
And now here I am... I really should start getting some sleep-
2006-09-24
Puasa 2006
SELAMAT BERPUASA! Wishing you all good health during this period!
Continuing from comments on my earlier post; no, not all high-school girls wear such short skirts. The ones that I saw were all slightly below knee-length. I guess it's possible to see above-knee length skirts in/near/around Tokyo, but it's quite an okay-length over on this side of Japan ^_^. And yes. My kouhai is cute hahahahahaha~ My my I always have such cute people surrounding me- lucky me right?
I went down to Sannomiya today- bought a photo album (from Tokyu Hands a.k.a not quite a cheap photo album hahahaha), but it was worth every penny. I wonder how it'll look like taking photos of a photo album and posting them up here- hmm maybe it's worth a shot. Anyway, I only put in my most picturesque-looking photos in there, and the ones most meaningful to me... The point is that I want to show all of you these pictures... Everyone should have the chance to see such nice scenery (and of course, should let me gloat once in a while- these are nice pictures! I'm quite confident! Hahahahah).
Anni's coming by tomorrow woohoo!! The plan is to go over the other side of Rokko Mountain, have dinner at the Korean restaurant a little down near the JR Rokkomichi and then karaoke! I've got karaoke fever people! Somebody give me an antidote -_-; I KNOW I'm not acting like my usual self nowadays--- help --- over and out.
Continuing from comments on my earlier post; no, not all high-school girls wear such short skirts. The ones that I saw were all slightly below knee-length. I guess it's possible to see above-knee length skirts in/near/around Tokyo, but it's quite an okay-length over on this side of Japan ^_^. And yes. My kouhai is cute hahahahahaha~ My my I always have such cute people surrounding me- lucky me right?
I went down to Sannomiya today- bought a photo album (from Tokyu Hands a.k.a not quite a cheap photo album hahahaha), but it was worth every penny. I wonder how it'll look like taking photos of a photo album and posting them up here- hmm maybe it's worth a shot. Anyway, I only put in my most picturesque-looking photos in there, and the ones most meaningful to me... The point is that I want to show all of you these pictures... Everyone should have the chance to see such nice scenery (and of course, should let me gloat once in a while- these are nice pictures! I'm quite confident! Hahahahah).
Anni's coming by tomorrow woohoo!! The plan is to go over the other side of Rokko Mountain, have dinner at the Korean restaurant a little down near the JR Rokkomichi and then karaoke! I've got karaoke fever people! Somebody give me an antidote -_-; I KNOW I'm not acting like my usual self nowadays--- help --- over and out.
2006-09-22
It's been an interesting week
How do you know if something's wrong with you? There were some red-light songs (I think) amongst the songs I've downloaded this past week:
Britney Spears - Hit Me Baby One More Time
Shania Twain - Men Are Like Shoes
The Carpenters - Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear
Ricky Martin - La Copa De La Vida
It's a weird bug I tell you, and it's attacking me for no reason at all!
Well besides that, I realise I haven't really been blogging much and that's probably partially because when I feel like blogging, it's usually around the weekend, or so... but I'm never around during the weekend anymore nowadays! I think I've been going back to Osaka Gaidai (to sleep over at my cute high-tension junior aka Adeline's place) for maybe 4 weekends straight? 3? Anyway, every weekend I'm going there, hauling my HD over so we can exchange anime/songs etc and plainly speaking, it's just so much more interesting there- hahah, as remote an area Gaidai is. You should go read her blogposts-- go go go, the recent posts are so funny I can't stop laughing reading them even though I've been told the story or had actually been there those few times. Especially that one post where she wrote about the dead bird almost falling in her coffee and two policemen suddenly appearing by her door while her speakers were blaring Madonna's Vogue or summat... sounds interesting, no? ^_^ In any case... read it o(^v^)o
Last weekend was a little bit more special/peculiar? Usually I'd stay over Adeline's Sat and Sun night but I was there from Friday as well... so technically for me, it was a very looong almost-holiday-like weekend. I had rashes though. Now I have absolutely no idea how I came to have them but it itched like *unspeakable-word*. I put lotion on, thinking maybe it was coming up because the weather had suddenly turned dry and my skin was crying out for moisturiser or something, but it only barely worked. At one point I just put ice on (not directly, bound with a towel) and just pressed it all over the red splotches, I have them still, even now, but they don't itch as much anymore. I'm still blank... I wonder if it was an allergic reaction to something...
I spent one night in the apartment after coming back from Gaidai, but I was mostly just putting together my new cabinet/shelf (I ordered from Amazon - man I LOVE Amazon) And it was brought here in parts... so out came my screwdriver (I knew it was going to be good for something) and I put it all together that night. Well, technically I had two cabinets/shelves and I only put together one of them. -_-; Slept like a baby that night.
The next day I went and hopped on the train to Nara - it was a 2 hr and a bit journey, I was to stay over at my friend's house (a Japanese girl from Uni) and after some delays, pretty close misses, and almost none of getting lost (so proud of me! ehehe) I arrived at the designated station... met Kyoko (this girl is fantastic I tell you, she's not like most Japanese girls I know) went over to her house and o.m.g her mum looks SO YOUNG! I stopped, stared and nearly spluttered out my question- "Are you her mother??" and she just GIGGLED! Oh man her mum is just so cute! *laughs in disbelief*
She'd asked me earlier if there was anything special that I wanted to see in Nara and I told her I wanted to see a typical Japanese High School. I hadn't thought that normal people wouldn't usually ask to see such a thing... and to want to see it just for it's architecture (and not the students) too... ahahahha... I admit it would be pretty weird I guess for other people to want to do such a thing but it just struck me... so with a little pleading- there we went!
We went to visit her old elementary school and her old high school. It was unexpectedly difficult to enter the elementary school, but what with the current conditions, something caused by a murder incident a few years back when a trespasser entered the school and stabbed one of the younger boys. The man got sentenced to death, which I think was passed 2 years ago, but I have to re-check this detail again. But anyway, since then, they've been really careful about protecting the kids and stuff.... But lucky for me, we got to go it and I got to see the place... it was very interesting. I mean... you can really see some culture-based differences infiltrating to the architecture of the building (even though it really just was a plain looking box-shaped school building from the outside). I mean... well... I just can't explain the feeling that I got when I went through those halls.
Later that afternoon was her old High School which wasn't exactly what I wanted (a typical High School) but it was interesting anyway. I met some of her teachers, they were all so nice and talked a lot. They all tried to speak English (and they were relatively good!).
After that, we had karaoke! Oh man I am so addicted to karaoke now. I went again today and I'm planning to go again on Sunday night! Uhoh...... Anyway, I'm digressing. Kyoko is SO GOOD at singing! I mean, as a Japanese singing Japanese songs and then attempting to do Britney Spear's Oops I Did It Again and Avril Lavigne's Complicated... she was guuuuuuuuuud! We've also developed a sort-of hypothesis during this karaoke session. The way one uses one's internal organs to since Japanese songs and English songs might be different! Hahahahahaha it sounds weird but the more we sang the more we noticed (even though it would be a song we'd have a lot of confidence in) there was still something un about how the song would turn out. Oh but I fell in love with this song called UkiFune by Go!Go!7188 because of her. I have to say that she sings better than the real singer herself. But the song itself is already really nice as it is. If you can find it listen to it!
On the topic of songs, there's another one I'm just really hooked on right now, it's one of the songs from the anime, Evangelion, called Tamashii no Rufuran and it's just... unspeakably fantastic. The first stanza begins with "Watashi ni kaerinasai..." which means "return to me..." Anyway, you can check for lyrics by just typing in the song name and searching animelyrics.com if you want to know. ...I digressed again -_-;
After karaoke the family took me too a korean restaurant and people. I'm in love. I'm convinced I've plopped myself over to the wrong part of the oriental map. I should have gone to Korea..... the food is so gooooood. Of course, this restaurant is in Japan and therefore the taste of the food has been toned down and sweeted a little to suit Japanese tastes... and yet it was that good. So the real thing MUST be better! My mouth is watering just thinking of it...
Before going to sleep that night, I even went in an ofuro (you know, the japanese-style bath tub) Not that I haven't ever been in one before, but it's been such a long time and it felt soooo goooood.... Then, doing what girls do during sleepovers, we had girl-talk until we fell asleep. Hahahahahah... it's nice to know girl-talk is at least similar in this side of the globe.
The next day we didn't do much. Woke up, watched a little TV, her mum made me soumen is was soooo delicious! Over lunch the dad came back and me and the parents had a loooong talk about Brunei and politics (egad! even adult-talk is similar in this part of the globe) and stuff like that. I really liked talking to them (except that the dad talks a little too fast and I'm always slow on catching up or misunderstanding hahahah ^_^;)
So I went back to Osaka from Nara on the way back home in Kobe and guess what happens? The train stops. And not just that, it stops in the middle of nowhere for a whole hour. Why? Well, most people were saying, oh, this happens from time to time. Looks like someone commited suicide or something. WHAT! was my reaction, but they all were like it wasn't too much out of place or something... anyway. Tried to weasel a direct answer from the station worker but they were very tight-lipped about it. Then I tried to find a taxi so I could go to the next nearest functional trainstation, but that idea went out the window pretty soon since everyone was thinking of the same thing.That whole incident put a damper on my day.
And then- I was back home. My room. My messy but homey room. I didn't realise that I missed sleeping in it so much! I should sleep more in my room. It's been unslept in for so long. I slept in it yesterday night right after I finisehd putting together my second cabinet/shelf, but I still feel like there's something missing. ...
Phew... I haven't put up this long a post in so long have I? Well. If you got bored somewhere... don't mention it hahahahaha.
Britney Spears - Hit Me Baby One More Time
Shania Twain - Men Are Like Shoes
The Carpenters - Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear
Ricky Martin - La Copa De La Vida
It's a weird bug I tell you, and it's attacking me for no reason at all!
Well besides that, I realise I haven't really been blogging much and that's probably partially because when I feel like blogging, it's usually around the weekend, or so... but I'm never around during the weekend anymore nowadays! I think I've been going back to Osaka Gaidai (to sleep over at my cute high-tension junior aka Adeline's place) for maybe 4 weekends straight? 3? Anyway, every weekend I'm going there, hauling my HD over so we can exchange anime/songs etc and plainly speaking, it's just so much more interesting there- hahah, as remote an area Gaidai is. You should go read her blogposts-- go go go, the recent posts are so funny I can't stop laughing reading them even though I've been told the story or had actually been there those few times. Especially that one post where she wrote about the dead bird almost falling in her coffee and two policemen suddenly appearing by her door while her speakers were blaring Madonna's Vogue or summat... sounds interesting, no? ^_^ In any case... read it o(^v^)o
Last weekend was a little bit more special/peculiar? Usually I'd stay over Adeline's Sat and Sun night but I was there from Friday as well... so technically for me, it was a very looong almost-holiday-like weekend. I had rashes though. Now I have absolutely no idea how I came to have them but it itched like *unspeakable-word*. I put lotion on, thinking maybe it was coming up because the weather had suddenly turned dry and my skin was crying out for moisturiser or something, but it only barely worked. At one point I just put ice on (not directly, bound with a towel) and just pressed it all over the red splotches, I have them still, even now, but they don't itch as much anymore. I'm still blank... I wonder if it was an allergic reaction to something...
I spent one night in the apartment after coming back from Gaidai, but I was mostly just putting together my new cabinet/shelf (I ordered from Amazon - man I LOVE Amazon) And it was brought here in parts... so out came my screwdriver (I knew it was going to be good for something) and I put it all together that night. Well, technically I had two cabinets/shelves and I only put together one of them. -_-; Slept like a baby that night.
The next day I went and hopped on the train to Nara - it was a 2 hr and a bit journey, I was to stay over at my friend's house (a Japanese girl from Uni) and after some delays, pretty close misses, and almost none of getting lost (so proud of me! ehehe) I arrived at the designated station... met Kyoko (this girl is fantastic I tell you, she's not like most Japanese girls I know) went over to her house and o.m.g her mum looks SO YOUNG! I stopped, stared and nearly spluttered out my question- "Are you her mother??" and she just GIGGLED! Oh man her mum is just so cute! *laughs in disbelief*
She'd asked me earlier if there was anything special that I wanted to see in Nara and I told her I wanted to see a typical Japanese High School. I hadn't thought that normal people wouldn't usually ask to see such a thing... and to want to see it just for it's architecture (and not the students) too... ahahahha... I admit it would be pretty weird I guess for other people to want to do such a thing but it just struck me... so with a little pleading- there we went!
We went to visit her old elementary school and her old high school. It was unexpectedly difficult to enter the elementary school, but what with the current conditions, something caused by a murder incident a few years back when a trespasser entered the school and stabbed one of the younger boys. The man got sentenced to death, which I think was passed 2 years ago, but I have to re-check this detail again. But anyway, since then, they've been really careful about protecting the kids and stuff.... But lucky for me, we got to go it and I got to see the place... it was very interesting. I mean... you can really see some culture-based differences infiltrating to the architecture of the building (even though it really just was a plain looking box-shaped school building from the outside). I mean... well... I just can't explain the feeling that I got when I went through those halls.
Later that afternoon was her old High School which wasn't exactly what I wanted (a typical High School) but it was interesting anyway. I met some of her teachers, they were all so nice and talked a lot. They all tried to speak English (and they were relatively good!).
After that, we had karaoke! Oh man I am so addicted to karaoke now. I went again today and I'm planning to go again on Sunday night! Uhoh...... Anyway, I'm digressing. Kyoko is SO GOOD at singing! I mean, as a Japanese singing Japanese songs and then attempting to do Britney Spear's Oops I Did It Again and Avril Lavigne's Complicated... she was guuuuuuuuuud! We've also developed a sort-of hypothesis during this karaoke session. The way one uses one's internal organs to since Japanese songs and English songs might be different! Hahahahahaha it sounds weird but the more we sang the more we noticed (even though it would be a song we'd have a lot of confidence in) there was still something un about how the song would turn out. Oh but I fell in love with this song called UkiFune by Go!Go!7188 because of her. I have to say that she sings better than the real singer herself. But the song itself is already really nice as it is. If you can find it listen to it!
On the topic of songs, there's another one I'm just really hooked on right now, it's one of the songs from the anime, Evangelion, called Tamashii no Rufuran and it's just... unspeakably fantastic. The first stanza begins with "Watashi ni kaerinasai..." which means "return to me..." Anyway, you can check for lyrics by just typing in the song name and searching animelyrics.com if you want to know. ...I digressed again -_-;
After karaoke the family took me too a korean restaurant and people. I'm in love. I'm convinced I've plopped myself over to the wrong part of the oriental map. I should have gone to Korea..... the food is so gooooood. Of course, this restaurant is in Japan and therefore the taste of the food has been toned down and sweeted a little to suit Japanese tastes... and yet it was that good. So the real thing MUST be better! My mouth is watering just thinking of it...
Before going to sleep that night, I even went in an ofuro (you know, the japanese-style bath tub) Not that I haven't ever been in one before, but it's been such a long time and it felt soooo goooood.... Then, doing what girls do during sleepovers, we had girl-talk until we fell asleep. Hahahahahah... it's nice to know girl-talk is at least similar in this side of the globe.
The next day we didn't do much. Woke up, watched a little TV, her mum made me soumen is was soooo delicious! Over lunch the dad came back and me and the parents had a loooong talk about Brunei and politics (egad! even adult-talk is similar in this part of the globe) and stuff like that. I really liked talking to them (except that the dad talks a little too fast and I'm always slow on catching up or misunderstanding hahahah ^_^;)
So I went back to Osaka from Nara on the way back home in Kobe and guess what happens? The train stops. And not just that, it stops in the middle of nowhere for a whole hour. Why? Well, most people were saying, oh, this happens from time to time. Looks like someone commited suicide or something. WHAT! was my reaction, but they all were like it wasn't too much out of place or something... anyway. Tried to weasel a direct answer from the station worker but they were very tight-lipped about it. Then I tried to find a taxi so I could go to the next nearest functional trainstation, but that idea went out the window pretty soon since everyone was thinking of the same thing.That whole incident put a damper on my day.
And then- I was back home. My room. My messy but homey room. I didn't realise that I missed sleeping in it so much! I should sleep more in my room. It's been unslept in for so long. I slept in it yesterday night right after I finisehd putting together my second cabinet/shelf, but I still feel like there's something missing. ...
Phew... I haven't put up this long a post in so long have I? Well. If you got bored somewhere... don't mention it hahahahaha.
2006-09-21
I LOVE AUTUMN!
When I see Autumn, I see red and yellow maple leaves~ they look like stars hanging on by a thread on the branches of the trees.
When I remember Autumn, I remember the cool winds, clouds, lazy blue skies that make me drowsy and heavy-lidded almost the whole day long.
When I feel Autumn, it's the roasted chestnuts I'm chewing, smell of persimmon, mandarin oranges, apples and... and... the lack of mosquitoes!!
I just loooove Autumn ^_^
When I remember Autumn, I remember the cool winds, clouds, lazy blue skies that make me drowsy and heavy-lidded almost the whole day long.
When I feel Autumn, it's the roasted chestnuts I'm chewing, smell of persimmon, mandarin oranges, apples and... and... the lack of mosquitoes!!
I just loooove Autumn ^_^
2006-09-08
Hay fever in Autumn?
I hope my fever is just kidding me -_-; I'm sneezing all over the place and my body temperature went up... can you believe my temp. is at 37.1 degrees and I already feel feverish!? (Granted my normal body temp. is around 35.6 degC... a fact which usually prompts Aurelie to comment on my coldblooded-ness and hence reptile-like qualities HAHAHAHAHaaaaa I can't believe me. ^v^)
But I got my thunderstorm!! About 2 days ago, it poured all over Kobe and there was thunder, and there was lightning... I was drenched wet since I'd gone shopping to China town with Aurelie (and I mean my pants were drenched all the way up to my thighs and my shoes went squish squish hahahah~
And even better news, the Imperial family of Japan finally have a male heir!! Aren't they so lucky?!! The crowned princess just gave birth to a boy the same morning (Sept 6th). I can't express just exactly how much this means to the oldest running royal title in the WORLD! To succeed the current Emperor were his 2 only sons and no other male descendant afterwards (since both sons only have female heirs and under the current constitution it's impossible for a female heir to inherit), and now there is the birth of the new Prince! (Barely anybody knew that the Crowned Princess was pregnant even)~
Well. It's not exactly Autumn yet but it sure is starting to feel like it (considering that the striking change in weather has already managed to attack my well-being). Apparently the official date for when it turns Autumn is Sept 23rd. Coolies~~
But I got my thunderstorm!! About 2 days ago, it poured all over Kobe and there was thunder, and there was lightning... I was drenched wet since I'd gone shopping to China town with Aurelie (and I mean my pants were drenched all the way up to my thighs and my shoes went squish squish hahahah~
And even better news, the Imperial family of Japan finally have a male heir!! Aren't they so lucky?!! The crowned princess just gave birth to a boy the same morning (Sept 6th). I can't express just exactly how much this means to the oldest running royal title in the WORLD! To succeed the current Emperor were his 2 only sons and no other male descendant afterwards (since both sons only have female heirs and under the current constitution it's impossible for a female heir to inherit), and now there is the birth of the new Prince! (Barely anybody knew that the Crowned Princess was pregnant even)~
Well. It's not exactly Autumn yet but it sure is starting to feel like it (considering that the striking change in weather has already managed to attack my well-being). Apparently the official date for when it turns Autumn is Sept 23rd. Coolies~~
2006-09-07
2006-09-01
Hahahaha *ahak ahak*
Yesterday was SO spontaneous. After coming back from Umeda around half-past 12 pm/am Aurelie and I set off to hunt for food. Well, it was mostly me doing the hunting, and her quietly leading along. I'd completely forgotten that the last time that I had eaten was like, around 3/4pm and that was brunch for me as well. The weather was so weird today. I was never inclined to think that the weather could affect my appetite, but I just can't find any other explanation~
It was raining yester-night too and I had to but ANOTHER umbrella. I swear I'm going to fill that umbrella cupboard soon if I keep on going at this rate. Otherwise I just have to remember to bring an umbrella everytime I go out... even on day's that it won't rain maybe. Grr...
Then we decided on the spot to go karaoke! And my goodness we didn't stop until it almost hit 6am and I was sore. But it felt so nice to go and lash a the machine again hahahahahaha There was this one song by Gackt - Ash, which is kind of difficult but we had it down! *laughs* And silly me I was so emotional when I sang Shania Twain's From This Moment. Now I know something's wrong with me *laughs*
It was raining yester-night too and I had to but ANOTHER umbrella. I swear I'm going to fill that umbrella cupboard soon if I keep on going at this rate. Otherwise I just have to remember to bring an umbrella everytime I go out... even on day's that it won't rain maybe. Grr...
Then we decided on the spot to go karaoke! And my goodness we didn't stop until it almost hit 6am and I was sore. But it felt so nice to go and lash a the machine again hahahahahaha There was this one song by Gackt - Ash, which is kind of difficult but we had it down! *laughs* And silly me I was so emotional when I sang Shania Twain's From This Moment. Now I know something's wrong with me *laughs*
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