not exactly brasil..

I know I promised Brasil, but I cant exactly blog Brasil without pictures.. so here are some pictures of me and my friends at a night out in tsukuba..

Paula(Chile), Natalia(Moldova), Aime(Senegal), Corina(Romania), John(Colombia)

L to R: weirdo?, Natalia, Aime, Corina, John, me!

John and I

Aime and I

brunei - kansai - kantou - brasil

okay okay.. since no one is updating.. i will...

Brunei - Kansai Arc

after i got back to Japan, I officially had 5-6 days before i left for brasil again... my plane landed in Kansai international airport... yes, I did not go back to Tokyo, instead i went to Osaka.. more effectively, Kobe. There, i stayed with my senior, Najee (much love for her!!!) and there i got to spill all my tsukuba gossip and bond.. Back to my main topic.. why on earth did i go to kansai instead of kantou you ask? eheheh purely otaku-reasons my friends... i went to Kansai because i wanted to go to Universal Studios Japan again... because it was summer.. and this year's summer One Piece (yeah.. the anime...) has a special event in either kamakura (kantou) and USJ(kansai).. here i thought to myself... why not go to Kansai, visit USJ, Najee and semba ka-re one more time? so yeah.. KANSAI LOVE!!! but to my disappointment, the USJ event was not the one i wanted to see, should have returned to Kantou.. oh well.. it doesnt matter... i got to see Najee! and eat semba ka-re...

Hello Kitty Float

Eng(fellow Bruneian in Tsukuba who went to Kobe too) and I

Semba Ka-re

Kansai - Kantou Arc





i got back to Kantou(sunday).. and i have 3 days before i leave for BRASIL.. and heres my dilemma... i havent got my visa done yet... why did i not get it done before? because my tickets only arrived when i was in brunei, and to get the visa, i need the tickets in hand... and then i was thinking of doing it in brunei.. ohh.. wait.. brunei doesnt have a brasilian embassy.. FUCK... right so, i could only do it in Japan, why didnt i do it in Osaka? because there wasnt any in Osaka... the Brasilian Consulate was located only in Tokyo and Nagoya.. and because i live in Tsukuba, I have to go to the Tokyo office (visa application only on mon and weds from 8am-2pm).. i left for the office on monday, explained my situation to the officers, they understood my drama and told me to collect my visa before i fly off to brasil (weds)... (it was really a close call) thank god my flight was 3pm... so yeah.. everything was SOOOOOO last minute.. and while waiting for the queue in the consulate, i was watching a brasilian drama playing on tv... HOT DAMN.. it was a true preview to brasil and their men to me... shit man.. i swear, they dont have to worry about props and sets to make a drama.. most of the scenes are carried out in the bedroom... all those love scenes..(not explicit... just teasing i suppose... kissing on the bed.. and then stripping off clothes to their sexy underwear and then getting under the blanket scenes mostly..) GOD DAMN~! is that all you guys do there?!!?!? i love brasil... HAHAHA


that day i decided to go back, pack and leave.. will bunk over at louise's tuesday night (brasilian friend-chiba university) because its summer and my dorm has no air-conditioning.. WORST EXPERIENCE ever!! and then! to my horror! i discovered that i couldnt leave until wednesday morning(the day i leave for brasil)... why? because i had to sign in the office for my scholarship.. if not i would be BROKE for good! the office wasnt open on both Mon and Tues because it was a public holiday in Japan.. SUCKS ASS!!! so tuesday.. i was stuck in my "sauna" room and susan (new zealand-hitotsubashi university) insisted that she come and bunk... wanted to spend time with me before i leave.. i was like.. are you sure? my room is FUCKING HOT.. i dont have air-conditioning.. and yeah theres nothing to do in tsukuba... shes like sure why not? so she came over.. stayed over my place and boy did she suffer.. we ended up drinking and watching two movies on my computer..sweating all the way.. to ease the pain, we filled to buckets of water and put our feet in... so yeah.... it was funny...

drinkies

Kantou - Brasil Arc


so tuesday went, and wednesday came.. i rushed over to the office to sign and then cleaned up my shit room and attempted to leave for Tokyo.. before leaving my room even, my luggage handle decided to go bust.. im like FUCK NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

sigh.. im getting all excited from all this re-living this drama... eitherways back to the story


so Susan and I half carried half pushed the broken luggage down 4 floors of my dorm...(no lift/escalator)... and then we decided to split up.. she takes my lugagge to Narita airport, whilst Louise and I go to Consulate to get my visa... after going to the consulate, we had to rush to her place..(Chiba uni) to get HER luggages.. the time now was 12pm.. 3 hours (flight was at 3 45pm)before we officially need to board the plane... it takes time to get to Chiba... fortunately for us Chiba wasnt too far from the airport.. or so we thought.. meanwhile, susan and siti(indonesian - chiba uni)were already waiting for us in Narita airport... right.. we got Louise's luggages.. we got back to the train station.. it was already 215pm.. and we were stuck in Chiba.. the next train comes in 15 minutes!! NOOOOOOOOOO!!! louise and i start panicking! what if we miss the plane!?!? what if we never get to brasil!?!??!


Silently we prayed that there was a delay...


we got on to the train, Narita Airport was 30mins away.. basically.. we got to the airport at 315pm... rushed to the gates, rushed to the check in counter.. where there were people waiting for people like us who almost did not make it.. so that they could take our seats.. there we were.. sweating from the heat and from all the running... and siti and susan.. waiting for us.. shaking their heads vehemently screaming you guys are CRAZY!! holding our lunches... (subways) we hadnt anything to eat throughout the whole drama.. when we passed through the metal detector thingy... louise got a bit detained because.. she was holding the subway sandwiches.. and the officer was asking her are there any liquids in the sandwich? any sauce? and we're like.. WE HAVE TO BE ON THE PLANE NOW!! let us goooo!!! no the sandwich doesnt have any sauce (lie) HAHAHAHA..


we were the last ones to board the plane... drama drama drama.. but hey.. we made it... and now i'll live to tell the story to my kids.. HAHAHAHA

amazing race Narita Airport

and we have lift-off

next time on caesa-salad, brasil my love

let me rant

i decided to rant about people complaining about how far my house is...

simple really, i grew up in muara. i live in muara. my friends live in bandar, senkurong, subok, everywhere except muara.. i have friends who live in muara but, jalan muara, the muara which is some what closer to bandar.. lol... i live in muara, the muara which is closer to the beaches, the tip of the bandar-muara district..

everytime i throw parties... and i must say parties over at my place is fun.. because well.. the place is huge.. and if you get too drunk, you dont have to worry about no place to crash.. and youll never be too bored in my house. karaoke/disco/booze/playstation/LAN gaming/beaches/food...

yeah its fun.. but when invitations get sent out, venue gets asked.. i say my place.. and they grimace... they moan.. they complain... but your house is sooo far.... and i say, but its only one night at my place, and besides if there was a party at your place i would go there too.. its the same really.. you scratch my back i scratch yours!

HELL! i live in muara all my life and go to school in bandar all my life. My family makes at least 3 trips to bandar each day! after school, balik rumah, eat lunch and then go to tuition.. after tuition go to another tuition..

DONT COMPLAIN TO ME muara is far! bitches~! it's still in the same freaaking district~! you want far.. think KB!! think TEMBURONG!! think KK!!

i mean like i understand if the situation is you dont have a car, you rely on your parents to send you and fetch you.. , you dont have a driver.. but now im sure we all can drive... we own a car, take your sorry ass and drive to muara yo~! and also dont give me excuses like i dont know the jalan to muara! FUCKING FULL OF SHIT! the glorious thing about bruneian roads is that we all all connected by HIGHWAYS!! Muara-Tutong Highway, Mentiri Highway.. who ask you to use the jalan kampong, banyak simpang, the jalan so sempit lagi.. and i must say our roads are smoooooothhhhhh... think the road from brunei to miri, the part after the immigration, when you officially enter miri.. remember the long stretch of road before you actually get to the town centre... bumpy huh...we have fucking good roads..

next point, people always say.. makan petrol.. WTH~?!?!?! we have subsidised petrol.. one of the cheapest places where you can buy petrol.... and you come to me with this complaint?! try going to malaysia and buying petrol there... and yeah.. its not far at all~!!!! highways make my house seem like going to kb...with those highways going to muara takes only 15 mins top.. of course by this i mean speeding lo.. and dont you dare bring up the "i dont speed-i'm a model citizen" approach.. thats so full of BULL! brunei is great because you dont have to worry about speed traps.. in highways at least.. shit lar.. you follow 80km/hr ka? LOSERS!!!!

and finally, its the same on my case what, i go to your parties held at your place, i go to bandar also what!??!?! same thing what!??! there was a point that i had to pick people up from their house to my place to party! CHI BAI AH.. never complain ah.. ask you to come to my place.. say this say that.. bising saja..

phew! thats off my chest... this is not to anyone in particular.. just pissed off that people think muara is far...

furthermore.. this is from the pang siblings on a whole.. from sa to her friends who think muara is far, from randy to his friends, who had to make him pick them up to play lan games in my house because we have wireless connection, in other words.. generally to everyone who thinks muara is far.... brunei is only a measley 5765sq km... not even a city... we are shamed by miri...

LONDON is far
AUSTRALIA is far
JAPAN is far
SINGAPORE is far..

so sit down in your car... thinking about cruising in your car? where around gadong is it? forget that plan.. try going to muara..

splash me with colours~!

not much of an update.. and i know i should be updating more...

this is my current obsession...


Eve feat Swizz Beatz - Tamborine

DAMN~!!! i love the make-up! MAC i love you.. BOBBI BROWN i love you... OH MY GOD~! i wanna copy all that make up~! I WANNA splurge on cosmetics...

not to mention the french maids were super HAWT in that leather costume.. dusting with a pink feather duster.. HOT DAMN~ (jeez... sometimes i scare myself)

thats all for now..

aplc

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

otaku-ness in a new light

this is too COOOLL..

mel, this ones for you.. watch this clip first...





and now watch this...





AWESOME!!

hahahaha

my update on my 20th bday celebration, THANKS ADELINE FOR THE POSTCARDS!

just b4 i start my rambling, her name must be yuko rite? damn i cant remember how she looks like but yeah it was netball haha not volleyball, cant play volleyball to save my life!

yeah this was the place where i had a damn ex XXXXXXXXX pensive meal, some lebanese restaurant that had belly dancing ( was good) and shisha and 20+ dollar meals for like 3 sausage thingies?! yeah the total bill amount around 98 bucks and i had to pay half of it while william paid half of it too. sandy felt bad n paid for her half... thanks sandy *mauzh*


if you guys are wondering why my smile is so fake, it is because william pissed me off during dinner. i received this txt from him asking me whether i was goin to pay for everyone since sandy paid for ours and josh is goin to pay for us too. so i said yes not knowing how the prices were for this restaurant.... THEN we got there and i looked at the menu and went S**t, i cant afford this. then this william was like 'you hav to pay you hav to pay!' and his boyfriend was like, its alrite i'm goin to treat you on my bday too! i was thinking ' the restaurant you chose isnt goin to be that expensive coz this is really ridiculous!like the prices. those two just talked to themselves and i'm like panicking in my head, totally not enjoying myself at all! the food wasnt even satisfying. then payment time, ppl got annoyed n tons of miscommunication coz willia owes josh this amount n so on blah blah, it was really his own business but he had to deal it on my bday hiyaaaaa i was really at boiling point. it was only when i cud speak to william in private that we sorted things out n guess what... without me knowing anything, william thought i knew that he was goin to pay for this meal and in the end paid half the bill.

so yeah i was happy again, we went to the bottle store to get a bottle of abstinth. mich brought some dessert wine and we were drinking n drinking. met up with the others, drink drink



matula, me, pie and blue (she's high)



the whities! mich, alex,rowen

then we met up with chern yang and though my bro's request, got jagerbombs ( a really cool drink) for everyone and yeah that made me quite drunk.....



me drunk

and then we went to a club where it was ASIAN NITE!!! hahah i just find it funny coz you are not refered to as being chinese, malay indian etc but ASIAN! AHAHHAHAHA yeah anyways, dancing, dancing dancing, ppl smoking, girl crying in toilet, dancing, dancing, then tired. left club at 4am ate kueh toew soup at restaurant, slept at 6am


the next day...

shopping!!!! got a big pillow for bday present, courteosy of lau kong.

the day after...

poetry books and starbucks...was a very good weekend

right now....
constipated and stressed about work

bye bye!
chenny

Brunei is too small...

with an area of 5765sq km.... a teeny wee bit bigger than Singapore.. and yet... ITS TOOO SMALL!!!!!

sigh.. i have to take it from the top...

when i was in brunei, I knew 2 bruneians in Japan, one was Jason (his mom and my mom are friends) the other was Najee (my senior in MD in the Literature Department)

Both Jason and Najee were based in Osaka, and thats all that matters to me.. I was after all first based in Osaka...

That was alright, I mean, yeay Bruneian connections is JAPAN!!.. whilst in Osaka, I bonded with Naj. I soon found out that her bestfriend's boyfriend was Sasa's classmate... (whats his name again... ahhh... became House captain of Danson house last time... same time with her ka? I forgot eh..)

Brunei is too small...

While still based in Osaka, I met another senior studying in Kyoto. Azman... he came up to me after hearing my name.. and asked me "hows the restaurant business? do you guys still own the porsche?" I was like.. "EHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH?!?!?!" how did you know that?!?!?! He told me that he was my brother's classmate before... He used to come over to the house.. he even knows where I live...

Brunei is too small...

Last year, during Golden Week, I went to Tokyo for the first time... I met the Tokyo-ite Bruneians. I met Rahman.. (the guy who saved me during my Akihabara pinch) He also knows my family... Why?! Because he lives in the same kampung as I do... Our parents would know each other...

Brunei is too small...

This year, when I thought I was the only Bruneian in Tsukuba University, another Bruneian came, her name's Foo Chuan Eng. After talking with her and stuff... bonding and then she asked me... "did you use to take Korean classes in UBD?" im like yesss... why? Do you know my sister? she used to take Korean classes with you too... her name is Ching.. I'm like WTF????!!! thats sooo true!!!! I KNOW BECAUSE I sat beside her.. (due to my childish-ness, thinking.. we have the ching name.. lets stay together!! mind set.. heheh).. so yeah my junior's sister and I went to Korean class in UBD...

Brunei is too small...

Before this post, I met a girl from Chile, another foreign student (The only foreign student from the 1st years that i havent met... that last foreign student) and she told me she met a Japanese girl in her department (Art and Design Dept) who has been living in Brunei all her life.. looking for another Bruneian out there in Tsukuba... Of course I was estastic.. man.. Japanese-Bruneian.. too cool!!!! I have been mailing her like when to meet, due to our hectic (more on her side) schedules, we couldnt meet up.. until~~~ this afternoon... I of course had so many questions.. beginning with.. WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU DOING IN BRUNEI?!?!? hahaha and where did you study? well she answered my second question without saying anything.. first thing she did when she saw me.. HUG.. ahhh.. definitely ISB-an.. ahhahahahaha and then she told me about herself.. we talked about for an hour.. it feels so nice to be able to speak to a Japanese person in English.. and not feel worried about my English being too fast or too difficult.. hahahaha and then she told me she knew Serene and Woei Chian.. played volleyball with them... And i was like.. really??!?!?!? man.. thats sooo coooool.. we best friends yo!! and yeah.. she told me how much she missed Brunei.. and Im like wha~?!?!?! she misses her amah..(HAHAHAH) and Im like i know that feeling sooooooooooo well... and then how she misses the Mall.. im like hai???????? but it was SOOOOOOOOO cool how i met someone in Tsukuba who is practically Bruneian.. hahahahaha and then she told me her ex-bf was Kim Wee.. and Im like OH MY GOD!!!! I know him.. he was my sec1-3 classmate.. more like lab partners!!! and then we laughed.. looked at each other with disbelief.. and said at the same time...

Brunei is too small...


and thus i conclude this post with

BRUNEI IS TOOOOOOO FREAKKING SMALLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!





oh and maybe post some pictures... from the ASEAN FESTIVAL last Sat, where we had to model, our somewhat traditional clothes... this is the Bruneian Family i have in Tokyo

me, rahman, shal, amee, sue, afi

shal, amee, sue, me

rahman, me, afi, amee, shal

its love~~~~

this has gotta be the most romantic kiss ive ever seen on anime.... since fushigi yuugi.. and that died a LOOONG time ago...

watch this anime!!! romeo x juliet.. ahhhhhhhhhhh i want my romeo!!!

on a more literature perspective, this anime shows a different aspect of shakespeare.. a bit different from the real story but I LOVE IT...

A cup of pee anyone?

A cup of pee anyone?

HAHA..yesterday i had my experimental physiology prac and we had to pee in cups!well containers...like u noe the ones where they put cookies into and sell during chinese new year?...yea but not quite as transparent...haha..ok so in each group there are 6 subjects...

subject 1- Control - doesnt get any waterload
subject 2- Waterload- 8mls times body weight in kg
subject 3- Waterload and ADH(by NASAL spray! eew)- 8 mls times body weight in kg
subject 4- Waterload and exercise- 8 mls times body weight in kg
subject 5- Isotonic saline and glucose( so its SALTY SUGAR WATER!)- 8 mls times body weight in kg
subject 6- 1ml VODKA and 7mls waterload- 8mls times body weight in kg

FUN NO?....then at like every interval of like 30 mins we had to go to the toilet and pee in these containers they gave us..and like analyse sodium content and osmolarity...haha...was quite a mindless prac really...

Pee..measure...dilute...analyse....repeat cycle...i was the control(luckily) so i dint have to do anything but label the sample cups n all..haha...interesting prac if u ask me..so we peed 4 times man =_=..one before the waterload...then 3 times after that...haha...time went by really quick...

At the end all the pee gets chucked down the sink..and we were asked to flush it down with PLENTY of water...heh...some ppl couldnt pee on demand hahahaha...so..no sample...

hehe no pictures of pee in cups (cos number one, thts gross and number two, i dint bring my camera =))

OMFG! Kawaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

WATCH THIS! IT'S SUPER CUTE! THE VOICE ACTRESS FOR PIKACHU! PIKACHUUUUUUUU PIKA PIKAAAA... *FAINTS*

KARE RAISU

it's super easy to make, i just follow the instructions on the Japanese curry pack.. and it's in English! it's for six servings.... so it's quite a lot... just keep the remaining in the fridge... and eat them again tomorrow..lol oz probably have more types of Japanese curry... Brunei only have 1 type..so yeah... and my mum threw the pack away...and i don't remember the brand of the curry and how the curry pack looks like.............................

RECIPE :
1. Stir fry cuts of beef/chicken/lamb/whatever meat and onions(the big ones).. with oil or butter... until the onions turn a bit golden-brown...u can add whatever ingredients u want as well..like potato, carrot....etc etc
2. Then put in about 3 cups of water.... and then cook for about 15 mins
3. Cut the curry cube into smaller pieces and put them in, and then stir non-stop for around 5 mins so that curry pieces wont stuck to the bottom of the pot.....

looking at the pic makes me drool... hungry hungry!! i will probably make again... since i still have the one more curry cube...

sore ja~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Food!

Ten bucks to whoever can guess what this is(i wont really give it to u but it'll be fun to guess anyway yes?)


And on a less gross note..pictures of dinner that we cooked on sunday nite at pastors house while pastor was away...thanks Matt, Rach n Nathan for having us over!..was fun as!

Caesar salad by Amelin(Kent)haha, Sausages by Michael, Chicken by Amelin


Roast veggies by me, Mashed potatoes by Hui Li


Roast zucchini and mushrooms by me, Pasta by Mike, Pumpkin soup by Ed


Rachel cut up fruits earlier and she made a cheese dip AND ALSO made the yummiest Mars bar chocolate cake ever...i dint take a picture sadly..but it was GOOOD AS!

Good night good fun!

Sorry to hear about Daniel..

i'm very sad

hey, i just found out that my precious precious daniel has died like 4 days ago. my mom only told me abt it through email which i'm totally pissed about! i mean who email's death!?!?!?! could hav bloody called me or msg me! he died in a such a horrible way too... he was diseased and then fell from the balconey where he always sleeps, straight into the dog's area where he was horribly attacked by my dogs as he was too weak too move... i dun understand why the cats i reeally love always have to die in a such a horrible way. i'm really really sad at the moment but i noe in my heart that daneil will always be my number 1 sexy lazy cat. i just cant believe that the death of my cat is more depressin than the death of my grandfather...

bye..
chenny

Golden Week

...is the longest period of holiday in Japan excluding the season holidays (summer/spring/autumn/winter). It usually has a span over a week thus the name "GOLDEN WEEK".

Needless to say, i spent half of it in Tokyo. First night in Tokyo, I met up with a few friends, had dinner in Shibuya. "TGI's". Shibuya is the place where the infamous story of Hachiko the dog took place. Even meeting up with the friends at Hachiko was confusing because they didnt know that the place was called Hachiko Koen(Hachiko Park) because of the dog. We were supposed to meet by the statue itself but then there were many dog statues and stuff.. they didnt know which one.. but then again there is only ONE official Hachiko statue. sigh.. but then again we all had mobile phones.. not that difficult to swim through crowds, and if you are thinking, we are a bunch of foreigners how hard can it be? WRONG!!! the place is usually crowded with foreigners anyway...

In Tokyo, I bunked over my friends place, which is kinda "strict" being an all girls dorm.. but then again, last time I checked I'm a girl too... They have a curfew, no bringing friends to bunk over. I sneaked in several times but the second night I was busted.. so it was the last night at her place for me. Damn. I have 2 more nights in Tokyo and I'm already HOMELESS!!!! but then I received a mail from a friend asking if I wanna club tomorrow.. I'm like there goes one night.. Now all I need is a place to stay for one night. Invited another girlfriend over to club and decided to bunk at her place! PERFECT!!!

Now to the main story, CLUBBING!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE IT.. although the journey towards the club was kinda sleazy. We got the map on my mobile and it was not helpful AT ALL!!! ended up walking quite a distance than promised. (10 mins from the station) Not only that we had gone through many dark alleys with bouncers and men selling their "merchandise" behind their windows and rooms (catch my drift?) PLUS i was wearing my newly bought HEELS.. which are completely adorable I TELL YOU!!! i feel so japanese... THUS IT HURT!!! and I havent started dancing yet..

when we got there.. it was kinda disappointing at first because, it was just starting, not a lot of people and then the drinks were expensive.. My guy friend was like.. WHAT? you dont buy your own drinks... get guys to buy you drinks.. and then it DAWNED upon us.. WHY NOT? hehehe..

5am. Saturday. My girlfriend was drunk, me and the guys were sober, not saying that we didnt get any action done that night.. heh

Later that night, my friend mailed me again: "Wanna go clubbing tonight?". Both of us were like "ARGHHHHH" I wanted to go but I didnt have anymore clubbing clothes and not to mention that I was running low on cash. SO TEMPTED>>>> Why do you do this to me?!?!?! But in the end, we all decided to postphone it to this week. YEAH

Sunday. I need to get back home. Which means Akihabara!!! I was kinda screwed because I only had 1000yen left in me.. and that is not enough to get back. (To get back, I need 2000yen) But i was not worried after all I was supposed to meet another fellow Bruneian and my best friend in Akihabara later that day. BUT!!! of course SHIT HAPPENS..

firstly, I left the dorm late because I woke up late and the dorm was FAR from Akihabara, took me an hour to get to Akiba. And then my Bruneian friend told me that he had something to do back at his place.. so cant meet me.. but its okay.. because I made him wait for quite a bit.. so its my fault.. GOMENASAI!! and then so there I was in YODOBASHI CAMERA.. looking around for a new mp3 player. I was wondering around sony or ipod. SONY or IPOD?!?! i decided to get the SONY because it was cheaper. But then the lady told me.. it can only be used with a JAPANESE OS system.. fuck it... so Im back to the IPOD... and then while trying to decide which one should I get.. the shuffle, the new mini, the video. I wanted to take something portable, so I can jog with it.. shuffle looks good... but 14000yen for 1gb seems like a waste. and then i shifted to the MINI.. i wanted big memory space because I wanted to put at least all my songs in it.. so it has to be more than 4gb... I saw the 8gb mini ipod.. wow.. Okay that'll do i guess.. Can i have that in the pink please? WHAT do you mean that it only comes in BLACK!?!?! fuck.. then i get confused again... because the price of the 8gb ipod was only 2000yen difference from the Video IPOD 30gb... i mean like just another 2000yen you get 22gb and the ability to watch videos.. but then that crashes with the whole portability idea... and then the 60gb was just 10000yen difference.. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH what do i get?!?!? the 8gb or the 60gb?? IM SO CONFUSED?!?!?!?
In the end, Im not going to watch videos on trains that much SO i decided on the black 8gb mini IPOD.

haaa... that took a lot of decision making.. and then i called for the man to take my order.. and then he asked me whether i have internet connection. Im like not for the moment.. and he is like you need internet to access itunes.. and im like but i have itunes.. hes like itunes 7... I DONT REMEMBER my itunes version... DAMMIT..

BUYING AN MP3 PLAYER IS SOOOOO HARD!!!!

in the end I told him ill deal with it some how.. so I got it.. the black ipod.. and now.. the accessories.. ARGHHHH... more headaches... i need an arm band for jogging and I need a pretty cover... it took such a while because there are two types of mini ipods, the ver2 and the old model.. so yeah.. MANNNNNNNNNN... so complicated.. and when i reached the counter.. i took out my credit card.. and the lady slided the card over the machine several times and gave a troubled look on her face.. i had horrible flashbacks.. (during winter holidays... i tried to get an ipod video but i maxed my credit card...) SHIT>> its the beginning of the month.. I cant have maxed my card already?!?!?! but then she successfully got it done after several tired.. thank the lord!!!

right.. so there i was with my brand new ipod.. yahoo!

that still doesnt solve the problem that i have 1000yen left.. oh wait i kinda used that up too.. i went to a cafe to drink and wait for my bestfriend to come meet me.. so yeah.. bye bye 1000yen... i thought of borrowing money from her to get back to Tsukuba. but then she ALSO doesnt have money. why you ask? (Golden Week the Post Office banks are closed.. not even the ATM machines are open.. we get our monthly scholarship from the Post Office Bank) I personally thought that it was a normal Sunday.. thus we could get some money out.. BUT it wasnt a normal Sunday.. IT was CHILDRENS DAY... i thought that if it was a holiday, it would get pushed on to Monday.. but no.. not the Brunei system.. sigh...

then we realise that we have a different bank account. YES and that one works!!! but.. i checked my wallet... I DIDNT BRING THE CARD!! why?? (because i thought it would control my spending) well.. that sure did come in handy.. and my friend doesnt bring her card either because she uses the passbook.. we tried different ATMs with her passbook but they obviously didnt work. and she offered to go to a different station to withdraw money for me.. so there I was bumming in Akibas streets with 200yen.. sigh (enough for a McDonalds chicken burger and cola.. but Im not going to waste my last 200yen on food) I tried to look for Private bank ATMS which do work by the way.. and since I still have my HSBC and Baiduri cards.. and they are APLUS.. that means i can withdraw money overseas.. but the ATMS dont recognise APLUS... FUCK IT...

lastly, I sms-ed all my bruneian friends in tokyo, wondering if they can help me... my kouhai in Tsukuba was offering to come all the way to Akiba to pick me up.. but I couldnt do that to her.. its far and expensive.. no.. that wont do...

and then the others offered their help.. I AM FOREVER GRATEFUL FOR THAT by the way... they came to Akihabara lent money to me so I can go back home safely.. sigh.. a long warm bubble bath was definitely in need of the moment...

and thus the end of my adventures and MIS-adventures in Tokyo during GOLDEN WEEK

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