Saturday, June 30, 2007

last night


i was at a japanese but influenced by western culture party. What i mean by this is, we had an ACTUAL party... it was bad for a party.. but one cannot expect much from japanese people.. to begin with, japanese people dont usually have parties, they only have drinking sessions in restaurants and karaoke after "party".. now i believe our definition of party = LOUD MUSIC, alcohol (loads of it), hardly any lights, no chairs (no chance for people to sit therefore dance ppl dance~!) snacks... oh yeah drinking games...


Our choice of drinks are very different too.. Japanese people drink beer and sake.. we drink liquor, cocktails, wine and rarely beer... and also, japanese drinks are effing watered down...even the way we drink is different, i mean here the culture is you wait for the seniors to settle down and toast and then drink, and sometimes the seniors will force the juniors to drink loads and stuff.. we on the other hand, drink as we like...


needless to say, i didnt get drunk last night, (HELL! i only had 2 beers and sake-orange juice? because they ran out of alcohol... pah!)


but then again i got sandwiched by two very persistant international student boys... i dont mind one of them, because i thought he was hot, but the other one.. i was "errr" with him... so it was only 4 ppl dancing in the end, 3 foreigners and 1 japanese girl (the girl im bringing back) lol~! there were a few japanese boys trying to dance with us but then i dont know they backed off? why?!?!?!? i wanted to dance with them japanese boys, but they were intimidated by the foreigners ka na??!?!? sighhh...


it was funny last night.. because persistant-guy-whom-im-not-interested-in was being well, persistant... cornering me and in the end asked me for my number..and the other guy...(guy-whom-i-think-is-hot) noticed me trying to escape him, helped me escape.. hahaha.. he told me to say that i didnt bring my phone.. and yeah.. SAFE!!!!

tonight im going to another party with the hot foreign student boy.. yays!


i hope to attack more japanese boys this time.. :D



me and futsuki-chan (fuu-chan)--shes coming to brunei!



fuu-chan and guy who was trying to dance with us but failed

persistant guy and me

akio-kun and me.. (he's a half-ie thats why "akio" but latino look)

waiting for tonight.. lol

4 more days

Friday, June 29, 2007

i wish.. wish...

everytime i go to harajuku, it always seem to rain on me.. literally and emotionally...

I went on a Sunday. Expecting to see the ever so famed cos-players, goth-lolis.. but no.. it was raining. therefore the show shall NOT go on? even if they were there.. it wouldnt be fun.. cos raindrops keep falling on my head...

it was even more depressing as we went shopping, i couldnt find anything to flatter my figure.. drat you japan! i mean its not like i couldnt wear the clothes... i could wear them.. and make myself look even more pregnant.. why is the fashion now flowy shirts?!?!? with huge-ass ribbons drawn across the chest region!? probably because im in japan.. clothes just need to make Japanese girls look like they ACTUALLY have breasts.. damn it all~!!!!

so depressed me walked along harajuku, and suddenly.. TOPSHOP!!! international brand = international sizes.. i was so estastic that when i found a little skirt, i didnt even consider the price, and just bought it~! when i found out that it was 10000yen.. i taken aback, but it was the first merchandise of the day~! hell man.. im getting it~!

next store.. i saw a cuute outfit... i wanted it but then not so sure about me wearing it.. and then a lady helped me.. she said it'll be fine.. and she helped me find matching outfits.. yeay~! i bought a whole outfit from that store.. so.. little by little i was happy again...

but then there wqas this ONE skirt - ONE skirt~! it was LOVELYYYYYYY too pretty to be true... i was classy.. it was sooo beautiful... but of course that came along with a price... yen 17000(gasp!) of course i didnt buy it.. i wish i did.. but im broke.. how shall i describe it.. it felt very "french"? white base with red flower patterns, and it was the flow-y types with a red sash acting as a belt.. and underneath the skirt, we can see hints of red ruffles coming out...length: up to knees (also available in blue)

but all in all clothes shopping in japan is just depressing if you arent a stick.. as i walked around, i see a few "chubby" japanese girls, and i wonder... where the hell do you get your clothes and how the hell do you manage to pull of the "japanese look"?!?!?!? i started reading blogs of "fat" girls online... seeing plus size fashion blogs.. yeah i was that depressed.. was very tempted to buy clothes online wondering if i was a size 12 or size 14.. but then some where in the middle i realised that i was neither.. and yeah i'm just turning anorexic again.. but its alright, im not particularly starving myself, hell if any, im just eating good food...

im so full of hate and anger towards my body right now... if only if only....

i wish i was fairer.. so i can wear clothes of any colour i want, so i can wear huge ass sunglasses with white frames... and maybe i can dye my hair brown

i wish i was not so blessed across the chest and the ass, so i can wear tubes, mini-skirts, jeans...

i wish i looked like ebi-chan




Ketsumeishi's Mata kimi ni aeru


Now thats HAWTTT..

sighh..


sorry for all the negativity here.. but yeah.. everyone gets their lows sometimes...


to make it up to y'all



dinner in harajuku...
loves adeline, 4 more days till i'm home

Saturday, June 23, 2007

1年4クラの飲み会・・・

とカラオケの二次会・・・

literally translates to First year, class 4's drinking session and karaoke after party... 1st semester's gone, we had a party to celebrate... we ate yakiniku at this restaurant.. last night





The Restaurant


Yakiniku


KANPPPAIIIII (cheers)



Our side of the place - the person in the utmost left is our teacher..





Other table

LEMON POSE~!

kawaaiiiiii~

peaceeeee



1年4クラス最高だぜ~!!!!

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Karaaoke~!


drunk boys singing...

after that song, they celebrated? hahaha



the whole karaoke group...

...plus me~!!

Again I must stress that Japanese people rock when they are drunk. I swear one of the guys was attempting to hit on me.. AHHAHA drunk people are so fun.. hahah man.. they should stay eternallt drunk.. where does their boldness come from? I LIKE ITTT!!!I left the party early.. at 3.30am... I have no idea what time they ended but I wish I stayed..

now I have to tutor... damn... I want to sleep

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Its CRAZY hot here~!

I think the heat is getting to me. I'm beggining to reminisce the Sea Game period. It's that bad...


I mean.. I believe that Brunei is hotter and much much more humid than Japan...


BUT!!!

Back home, we had air-conditioners at hand, we drive to work, school, play. In Japan, we have no air-conditioners, no fans... (generally they have a centralised air-con/heater thing in school.. BUT they only switch it on on the 26th?of June)worse of all NO cars... we walk/cycle to school..



I'm actually glad that I'm going home this summer. I think every summer I'll be leaving Tsukuba at this rate... This summer brazil... next summer hmmm... europe ka na?


speaking of HOT.. i shall continue with my obsession with HOT PINK in this blog too.. just to show how bored I am.. and how the heat is addling my wits...




le pouch

le mobile


le i-pod



le bag


le key holder


all together now~!




ze bed (oh la la~!)



chopper~


scared enough yet?


XD you aint seen nuthing yet.. lol.. but its okay.. too much pink may just be over kill... (for y'all.. not me..)


either way... I'm going home..... will be touching down on the fourth...

NEWS!!! I'm bringing a Japanese friend with me.. so yeah.. woots.. i get to "tapau" a friend.. hahahah did i mention.. "SHE"

hahaha it was cool...

she: adeline-chan where are you going this summer..?

me: going back.. you?

she: i was planning to go to Singapore for a week..

me: hehhh.. Singapore ka..

she: I was actually considering Brunei, but then Brunei doesnt have any youth hostels...

me: YOUTH HOSTELS???!! girl you dont need youth hostels!!! come over my place!!! i'll show you around!!

she: REALLY?!?!?!?!

me: HELL YEAH!!

she: i'll check about the tickets then..

other girls around me: REALLY?!?!?! you'd welcome us in to your house!?!? thats nice.. I wanna go too...

me: come on over people~!

this morning, "she" mailed me... confirming that shes coming.. WOOTS~!!

and thus... my surprise for people in brunei... not only i'll be bringing Japanese Sake, Japanese beer, Japanese sweets, Japanese curry.. I'll be bringing a Japanese friend along~!

I can't wait...




Tuesday, June 19, 2007

out with the old...

in with the new...

I bought myself a new camera... I wanted something not too embarassing to carry around, something "me"... something slim (TRAVEL size... for I shall be doing a lot of that.. heh)

so.. i bought the marvelous, the beautiful, the ever so hawt.. the FANTABULOUS...

Fujifilm Finepix Z5fd..

what colour? HOT PINK of course...

and also in addition to that, i bought the casing, matching colour.. HOT PINK...






....
of course you all know that i bought this because it was HOTTTT... its freakking pink... nothing can beat that yo~! not to mention, it matches my ipod, which coincidentally is black... with a HOT PINK casing.. HAHAHAHA
ahh... camera manufacturers are getting smart these days, they know that they need to capture female customers... especially easy bait like me..... Fortunately for me, there werent much "pink" cameras. There was the sony and the fujifilm and a few others.. maybe around 5 pinks cameras... and and only one HOT pink.. (the rest were baby pink)so obviously we have a winner... (in my opinion, baby pink is soooo last century... hot pink baby)
and what made it even more FANTABULOUS was that, it was DIGITAL SALEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE in yodobashi camera (huge electronics chain department store) the usual price of the unit item would have been 34800yen..
but then because of the sale....
512mb (not enough but hey its the package)
camera
ugly travel pouch for camera
warranty
altogether 29000yen!!!
cant get any better than this, but then again, I didnt even survey outside the shop, maybe if I went out of the department store, and went to the streets of Akiba, I could have gotten a lower price.... BUT still I wouldnt collect points!!! Im happy~!
Its time to CAMERAWHORE!!!
loves aplc
ps: 14 days left before i go back to Brunei...

Monday, June 18, 2007

heloo heloo

ok update from me....

hmmm currently bumming my ass off, ahh its a good life if i wasnt swarmed with all these funny expensive bills. i swear winter is the worst season for bills because the more u stay indoors the more expensive everything gets. did i mention that the weather suddenly morph from mild to damn cold? there was a cool day tho where melbourne was covered in a fog hehe u cant see anything thats 3 metres infront of u.something like being on a mountain.

yeah so it was the end of the semester for my faculty so there was alot....i mean alot of partying for me... hahaha i was at my friend's place like all the time (man y do i sound like a bimbo in this) playing guitar hero and cooking and eating and painting. its sooo different having friends who are also good in art. ermm then there was the clubbing... same old same old and then there was a night where i went out with my ozzie friends.

she brought me to a really cool vegie bar called soul mama and it felt like i was eating on kampong ayer coz its at the beach. we then traveled to brunswick st to go dancing. brunswick st is where alot of artistic things happen and is really famous, shoping is damn cheap there n unique. they did a very bruneian thing and drank at an alleyway becuase they dun wanna buy drinks at the club. the club turns out to be this jazz/ soul live band thing.. so cool! i learnt how to salsa by one of my friend's friend. yeah was a good night considering i was still blur from the previous clubbing night

WAH CHIBAI!!!! this just in!!! got shootings in melbourne! the arm shooter is still running around the city!! chibai man! damn scary. he shoot 6 ppl and one is death... damn scary lah... n like william is in the city playing game... so stupid, shud come back home... yeah thats all from me

love serene

Thursday, June 14, 2007

On my way home home home wuuuahh

Hey all..sorry for the lack of posts on this side...been updating the other side more....hmm...lets see....i have one exam left...on monday ..biochemistry..ive had like 10 days to study for this paper....sooo ive been rather slack..urgh..i just want it to be over and done with..but not like i'll be able to asnwer anything ive i had the exam tomoro....i'll be back in brunei for about 3 weeks ish...then maybe minus a week IF i go hongkong....soo..we'll see how it goes...yes we'll meet up! eng dlynne n liss!...serene..i havent talked to u in ages..and i still owe u hot choc..will blog more maybe soon...loves

Saturday, June 02, 2007

ask....

... and if you are lucky, sometimes you shall receive...


nothing particular to report from my side, so i shall tell you guys my new lifestyle...

My one month plus staying and truly experiencing a Japanese University life has been hard. Now i understand why all the foreign seniors have been advicing us to try to make friends, join a eca club, dont give up hope.. and all the cheering.. Last year, i never understood why all that was necessary.


I GET IT NOW...


It would have been normal if I was a Japanese girl. or even better a Foreign male. Yes, foreign female students have hell to suffer if you are in Japan. Before coming to Japan, girlfriends cheer on.. GO adeline go! Hot japanese boys! you'll get a boyfriend for sure! they'll love you.. you have more than the average Japanese female.. -_-"" truth be told, i was happy, i was expecting to be famous, miss popular.. HAHA i mean like men no matter what are all the same.. they like bootylicious...

TRUE, but not quite...

here i am entering my second year in Japan, status: still single...

things to learn about Japan in a foreigner's viewpoint.

1)Japanese boys are stupid

- they are too scared to communicate with foreigner girls. They are shy. there goes plan flirtation, seduction and fooling around

2)Japanese girls are like wolves

- they love foreigner boys, when a new batch of foreign students come in, they attack! they waste no time.

3)Being a foreigner girl sucks in Japan

- it is obvious to conclude from the above two points, that being a foreign female, the Japanese male population shy away from you, the rest of the foreign male population gets swallowed by the Japanese girls. It feels like a bargain sale and the girls are grabbing t-shirts...


but its okay, looking for love aside, what about making friends with Japanese...

sighhhhhh.. the only way to make friends in a Japanese university is to go all the after parties. I missed the first two, and after that i go to my freshman class and i see them all in their own social groups already.. and me? sitting alone by myself... The worst has yet to come my friends.. oh no...

In a Japanese classroom, there is gender separation.. spreadeagled like the Red Sea. one whole side for the boys, and the other side for the girls, and there is no one sitting in the centre of the class.. sigh... its not like its set that way, but no one dares to "cross-over" sheesh... I ask my classmates why does this phenomenon occur? they say.. saaa.. nande darou? maybe because of they dont want people to assume that we are together if we sit together theory.. *rolls eyes*

The other night, i went to my first drinking session with my newly found friends (Japanese girls) I asked them if they all were single, NOT! two of them are having a 2yr relationship with their bfs, one of them got the guy she has been crushing on from the first after-party, and the other girl is working on her crush.. Im like.. HOLYYYYYYY.. WHAT THE~??!?!?! please share your wisdom with me sensei~~~

and they turn to me,
what you dont have a boyfriend?!?! "kareshi inai no? uso~!"

no, i dont... and

then they say "nihonjin de ii?" (do you mind Japanese guys?)...

im like sigh.. how am i supposed to catch a guy if theres the gap and then we have to add the fact that im a foreigner thus they shy away from me? sighhhh...

they went: "you have to be quick, do you like anyone in our class? ~kun and ~kun are single and the rest have gfs already" I'm like EH?! so fast?!?! no wait.. how do you all know all this!? eh!?"

and then i asked the girl who recently got her man.. HOW THE HELL DID YOU ACCOMPLISH IT??!

she went:

after the first after-party, i got drunk... i pretended not to know how to go back, i pretended to forget my password to the room, and slept over his place...

me:

EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!?!??!?! *早ッ* (fast)

CRAZY!!! these people are crazy! they dont waste time on seduction, romance and flirtation. just get drunk. WOW.. but thats no fun.. getting a lovelife is all about romance and the game! the hell!?!?! while this was happening, the girl who got her man fast proceeded to help the girl who was working on getting her man, she called him over and asked him to help the poor drunk girl.. hoping that they will hit it off... HAHAHA (nothing happened btw)

oh well.. after that drinking session with my friends, the girls obviously got drunk, ahhaah I LOVE DRUNK JAPANESE girls... boys--> have yet to see... the drunk girls hugged me like hugging has been in their culture since the old days, and screamed アデリン好き!(aderin suki!-I like Adeline) I laughed at them and patted their heads.. (they are so short) I like you guys too!! ahhahaha

and me and another girlfriend proceeded to my place, she needed to use my shower (dorms for foreign students have toilets attached to their rooms... Japanese dorms dont... the Japanese students use the common bath which closes at 10pm.. it was already 12pm) lol... she ended sleeping over my place.. man... if i were a guy.. i would have been rejoicing in my heart.. hahaha but then again this girl already had a boyfriend. and im straight.. but none-theless, i managed to have a sleepover with a Japanese girl.. too cool yo! and ever since this drinking sessions, i think ill be able to have friends. Goodbye to the days of sitting by myself in class...


thats all for today..

dlynne