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お金ない！いつもお金ない！私はずっと貧乏だよ！

*coughs*

とにかく、私は明日の予定があります。だが台風が来るので、友達に会えるかどうかわかりません。あの子は二週間前に、「アナと雪女王」のDVDを買いました。だから、映画を見るためにパーティを誘いました。あの映画を好きじゃないんですが、友達と遊びたい。このパーティは女子会らしい。四人とサルサを作るし、映画を見るし、なんでも喋るし。日本語を習うために日本人と遊ぶことが必要ですが、英語で交わるもさわやか！だからこのパーティは楽しそう！

ところで、私の体が丈夫になった！車がないから、歩いてより仕方がない。毎週五日間駅から20分仕事まで歩きます。そして体がだんだん丈夫くなった。例えば、港区に最初引っ越し時に家から金山まで自転車で行くとすごっく難しかった。死ぬぐらい難しかった。何回目飲み物を買うためにコンビニで止まりました。でも今さすかに、止まりずに家から金山に自転車に乗れました！弱いものの、少しで強くなった！今夏休み中です。毎日のように自転車で金山に行きます！家から金山までは４０分かかります。九月から、節約という理由で、地下鉄代わりに自転車で金山に通ってはないでしょうか。

I recently been listening to this album a lot. Try it out!

I am so broke. Ain't got no money no money! haha

Anyway, so tomorrow I supposed to meet with my friends. One girl bought Frozen on DVD and invited a bunch of us over to watch it. I don't like that movie but I wanna hang out with them so I'm gonna go. It's gonna be cool. My friend is going to make homemade salsa and I'm bringing the tortilla chips. I hope it's not cancelled because of the typhoon. Hanging out with Japanese people is all good for my Japanese but being with English speakers is pretty dang refreshing. So I'm looking forward to it.

In other news, I have become much stronger. I don't have a car so for my commute 5 days a week I have to walk 20 minutes from the station to my job. Because of that simple change I have become stronger. For example, when I first moved here biking to Kanayama station from my house was so difficult. I had to stop multiple times to buy a drink and rest. However now I can ride my bike there (about 40 minutes one way) without stopping at all. It's summer vacation now so almost everyday I ride up to Kanayama and back. Hopefully I'll get so used to it and by the time work starts again I can ride my bike to Kanayama station instead of take the subway everyday and save some money!

☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ*☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ*☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ*☆

Speaking of bicycles. A new obsession has hit me. That obsession is..... Yowamushi Pedal! mwahaha that anime. I don't know what happened! I really don't. But somehow last week that anime smacked me in the face and was like "LOVE ME!" So i consented.

I like Imaizumi kun and Midousuji kun the best. I bought a 4koma doujinshi of Midousuji kun and I've been reading it. I guess later (like when i get some money) i'll scan some pages and do a scanlation of it because I like it so much. I also bought some other ones of Imaizumi and Naruko.

I am also reading a novel. But calling it a novel is being generous. I'm reading the "Brothers Conflict" series. It's based off the anime and it's so wack and yet I actually enjoy it more than the anime. I guess cos it's so wack. And I like Kaname a lot. But my favorite brother is definitely Wataru. He is so cute and precious.

Also i spent(read: wasted) a ton of money last weekend trying to win a Quartet Night thing in UFO catcher. I did win it. You can see it here. It's huge and I don't know what to do with it now that I own it like.... wut.

Man I love that Imaizumi kun. He's so perfect and awesome! I just wanna squish him! HOW2SQUISH? Too bad he's fake so I can't squish him.

Also I can't go to SS6 in Seoul because of money but HEY I got tickets for me and Whitney to see Got7 in Chiba. It's not SS6 but it's something.

I dunno what else to write here... OH! I remember now. So yeah like the other day I made spaghetti noodles and took a can of diced tomatoes and poured it on the spaghetti that I had rinsed after boiling and ate it cold. That jank lasted me for 4 meals! ok. So yeah a thing of spaghetti and a can of tomato is my money saving advice to YOU! And it was refreshing unlike spaghetti and you don't even have to heat it up. Just eat it fresh out the fridge. Very good! I recommend.

Ok that's it for now. I'll end this here. I LOVE YOU (who am i even talking to here). Bye~
]]> https://ameblo.jp/milky1262/entry-11907464650.html Sat, 09 Aug 2014 22:29:35 +0900 転校生 Part 2 the Reckoning
I am never ever going to be good at Japanese at this rate.

Anyway...

前の仕事のアメリカから転校生の話を伝えました。覚えませんか。ところで、私の新しい学校にも転校生が来た。あの子はカナダ人ハーフです。先生によると、あの子は毎年の夏休みに日本に帰ります。すると、学校に出席します。今週の英語の授業私は初めて見たんだ！私はすごくびっくりしました。先のクラスはあの子がいないんだもん。授業の後で、あの子は「なんで日本の英語は簡単すぎるか！」と聞きました！先生は「やっぱり日本人の子供たちはこんなに簡単の英語しかできないよ。」と答えた。

So I plan to take the JLPT this year in December. I have a month and a half of vacation in the summer which I will use to study hard. Hopefully. I live in a sharehouse in Nagoya and most of my roommates are Japanese. Two are Korean but they both speak Japanese too> Because of this my Japanese should get better if I'm studying for sure. The problem, the real problem, I guess is kanji. What should I do. Well the obvious is to stop being so lazy! Obviously. JUST STOP! Being! LAZY!

Anyway, I like my new job though I'm ALWAYS tired. ALWAYS. City life is exhausting and I can see how mostly everyong lost weight after coming to japan IF they live in the city. If you live in the 田舎 like I always did the weight gain is inevitable though.

So at my new school, just like my old school there is an exchange student. She was only there for like 2 weeks though. She is half Canadian and every summer comes to Japan where she attend school for a time. She is so cute. We had English class and afterward she was like "dang why is Japanese English class so easy" because we learned "How's the weather?" "It's sunny". lol and the teacher was like "Because Japanese kids can't speak English!"

Man I am loving living in Nagoya. I REGRET NOTHING about my decision to come here. Sometimes I think it sucks living in Minato ku (like when i'm broke) but really it's awesome. Ain't nothing really inherently wrong with this place. You could probably tell that by how long it too for me to post in this blog again for example.

Oh yeah so recommendations: you should watch Kamigami no Asobi, Baby Steps and Yowamushi Pedal. I dunno what it is about yowapedal but I find it so dang charming. I love Imaizumi kun! He's my favorite character. I Kamigami I like Tsukito so much. He is adorable and cute! *hugs* My second fav is either Thoth or Apollon. This break I was thinking of buying the Kamigami PSP game but honestly I think I'd rather play Brothers Conflict game. Hmmm... really though those games are hard for me. Only the Hetalia one really suited my taste.

Oh yeah it's only a week until my vacation! I'm so excited. Can't wait. I am gonna be relaxing all the time (and studying) and watching anime and playing video games and just being relaxed. I am too tired for life right now. Also I hope I can karaoke a lot too!

Anyway, good night. I am going to end this year... for now

じゃな
]]> https://ameblo.jp/milky1262/entry-11893183151.html Sat, 12 Jul 2014 21:46:46 +0900 大垣かな。。。かな。。。TEFL stuff
私の日本語なかなかわからないかい。最近使わないんだから。。。

I had an interview today for a job in Ogaki and I was pretty confident that I would take it. One - I'd like to have something lined up for when I got back to Japan. and Two - I thought maybe I could live and commute from Gifu City. But as I was looking for places in Gifu and Ogaki I just got a really weird feeling and I knew my heart wasn't in it despite the practicality. So yeah... I think if I get offered it I'm going to have to decline. I just... my heart is set on Nagoya. So I went and inquiries with some share houses. The one I want to live in is at the port. It's actually near the aquarium! Wish me luck??????

It's annoying that I get back to Japan on Golden Week. Everything will be closed so that's going to hold up progress when I want to apartment hunt and move. Let's hope I can get that all settled before coming and hopefully I can move in on the 4th!

Anyway, I'm so sleepy even though I slept 12 hours last night. I think I should sleep like that again tonight. Maybe I'll sleep right after writing this and watching an ep of Higurashi. I'm on ep 18 of season 2.

Tomorrow I am going karaoke with my classmates. It took me a long time to feel comfortable but I think it's becoming like that now. Although, they were already comfortable with each other. I'm just a party pooper. There are some I don't feel comfortable with though yet. Too bad this ends next week so I'll be saying my goodbyes soon enough.

I love teaching though. It really lights a fire inside of you. I taught everyday this week. Monday and Tuesday I had one to one lessons and then yesterday and today me and a partner (the Australian guy in my class) got the group teach elementary students. Tomorrow will be more lesson planning and preperation for next week Monday and Tuesday's classes where we will be teaching high school students alone. I look forward to this because it's my first time teaching older students! This will be a challenge I look forward to ^o^

There is a song a pair of my classmates used for their class and it's always stuck in my head. HELP!

As usual questions to my utapuri 30 day challenge can be found on my tumblr under this tag.

じゃあな～


]]> https://ameblo.jp/milky1262/entry-11832667308.html Thu, 24 Apr 2014 21:58:37 +0900 Carbon Market
ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･ﾟﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･ﾟ

Today I went to Carbon Market with my classmate and his girlfriend and kids. Carbon Market is in downtown Cebu and it's the largest and oldest market here in the city. It's supposed to be really dangerous there but it wasn't so bad at the time I went. I bought two shorts for 150 peso and a bucket. If I had a kitchen here I would have bought some fresh vegetables and stuff but I don't.

For lunch (brunch?) we ate at a restaurant near the basilica. The chicken was good and supposedly spicy but I prefer the chicken place close to my school more. I got halo halo from the place as well. It was the cheapest one so far but also not the best of the halo halo I've had. The good thing though was that it had jack fruit. I love jack fruit and the two other halo halo I ate here didn't have any. So that was a plus.

After that we went back over here but while walking I saw a guy selling babingka so I bought that too. It was really good and warm. Even after getting back to my room it was still warm and I got 4 pieces so it was too much for just me. heh.

Oh yeah, yesterday I found a pretty cool bookstore. I bought the English "parts of speech" guide that we were recommended to buy as well as a novel to read. Now I have 2 books to read while here. I'm gonna start one today since I have no other plans for today and I'm so tired already. Really. I feel like I could sleep right now but I don't want to mess up my sleep schedule by napping.ぐぅぐぅ

ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･ﾟﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･ﾟ

So I beat the Hetalia PSP game but I didn't max out anyone's liking. I only unlocked Austria and Japan's CG. I don't know how I got Japan since I barely spoke to him the entire game but Austria's was so cute! It was the scene where I (Seychelles) was teaching Austria how to make squirrels come up to him. And in the CG he was surrounded by a bunch of squirrels and I think holding one in his hand. It was quite cute. That Austria.（‐＾▽＾‐）

The people who ended up liking me the most were Germany and America though. I got the most points towards Germany and we were definitely friends and he liked me but I didn't max it out. America was under him just a bit.

Germany is so interesting to be around in the game but America is so obnoxious. あせるFor me I hated having to talk to and hang out with America, England and France. France made me a little uncomfortable at times even. And England is just hard to deal with. He's probably the hardest one to get close to. He is so freaking tsun tsun. Now that I think about it I don't even know how America and England can even be friends. But France, UK and America are the friendship trio there so I guess the obnoxious hard to get along with ones stick together.(≧▽≦)

The nicest ones was definitely Germany and Italy. Japan and China were so-so and Russia was just scary. I think I barely got to get close to him and I'm not sure if I even want to.

It's interesting how they decided to translate the "be one with Russia" thing into the school setting. Because in the game the people are students of a boarding school so of course Russia can't take over countries. So instead it was done by Russia forcing himself in other people's dorms.汗 It was funny, scary and sad to see Russia going around demanding the other people to let him stay in their dorm and then pushing them aside so that the room would become his.(＞_＜)

He didn't bother me (Seychelles) about it because the girls dorm was separate from the male dorm.:*:・(￣∀￣)・:*:

Anyway now I can replay the game and this time the friendship levels are still the same as when i ended the game last time. The thing is that I can't earn points from doing the same scenarios over again though so I have to do different things with the guys in order to improve our relationship. I guess that means I won't be cleaning the beach with Germany again.

At any rate, as fun as that was I'm going to take a break for a bit and just read instead. I can choose between Henry James "The Bostonians" or a book called "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Random Riggs. I think I'll read the latter first. It looks really interesting.グッド！

☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ*☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ*☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ*☆

Utapri challenge:

Day 2- Least Favorite Character: Hyuga Ryuya (i wrote it on my tumblr here)

Day 3- Favorite Utapri Seiyuu: Aoi Shouta ラブラブ

It started with just the voice. I heard “Winter Blossom” when playing Music 2 and I just fell in love with it. Then I heard other Quartet Night songs and his duet with Camus and I just felt magnetized to the crystal clear quality of his voice. So even though Aiai isn’t one of my favorite characters he quickly became my favorite voice.


Of course though you don’t hear a favorite voice and not want to hear more so I kept looking up more of Aoi Shouta’s works and even his original songs and now I even own his single “Virginal”. I follow him on twitter and ameblo and now I find that I’m interested in him as a person and not only as a voice.


Like I love sooo many other of the voice actor’s voices. For instance, Mamo as Tokibaby makes me melt. And of course I am a fan of Sawabe in more than just Utapri but with Aoi Shouta I am also interested in him as a person and any other activities he pursues like musicals or music.


AND THAT'S ALL FOLKS1 じゃあな

]]> https://ameblo.jp/milky1262/entry-11821513298.html Sun, 13 Apr 2014 13:46:08 +0900 Philippines & Okinawa
フィリピンの行く前に沖縄に兄と遊びに行った!　ジンベイザメを見るために、沖縄の美ら海という水族館に行った。そこに、三つのがあるよ!　このぐらいのでかいジンベイザメははどこにも見れなかった!　大阪海遊館のジンベイザメよりでかすぎ!　海遊館はジンベイザメで夢だが、むしろ美ら海の法がいいかな。　でも、美ら海と海遊館は白イルカがないので、私はまだ見たことない。名古屋の水族館に白イルカが育って、行かないと。　日本に帰ると、ぜひ名古屋のも行ってみよう。

ところで、美ら海のキャンダルも自分で作った!　Ｊａ君とＨａｂｉくんと気に入るものを選ぶし、好きなとこに置くし、キャンダルが出来た。私のはジンベイザメと白イルカを選んだ。ジンベイザメの背中の上に二つのシーサをのている!ｗｗｗｗ　かわいい～!

とにかく、今フィリピンにいますよ!　私の大量に気を付けるべきのに、いろいろなおいしいものばかりある。でも、心配しないで。　必ずしも太っているわけではない。　なぜなら、勉強しながら、エネルギーを使ているだよね!ｗｗｗｗ

☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ*☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ*☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ*☆

It's been a long time so let me give the run down on what's been going on. I was in Okinawa for two weeks visiting my brother, which was great. Okinawa is really nice and I think Shisa are so cute. I met my brother's kids after quite a long time and they're cute and nice kids. It made me really sad to leave them. I already miss them.

In Okinawa I went to Churaumi Aquarium where I was able to see not 1, not 2 but 3 whale sharks! They have three HUGE whale sharks there. I was so stoked to see them. Freaking whale sharks are awesome ok. I went to Kaiyukan in Osaka twice to see the one they have there but this is the first time I actually got to go when it was feeding time. It was so interesting seeing those huge things eating. Wow. It took a lot to get them full. I also finally saw my first dolphin show. It was ok, but the sun was so dang bright it was hard to really see a lot of it. I had to sit out in that baking sun and I forgot to even put on sun screen and I left my parasol back on mainland. dang it.

Also while on Okinawa I made candles with Jaheli and Habi. My candle has a whale shark in it with two shisa riding on its back and a beluga whale swimming beside it. My two favorite sea creatures! I still need to go to the aquarium in Nagoya to see the beluga.

Anyway, now I'm in the Philippines. I've been here for about half a week now and it's been good. Tonight there is going to be a storm. It's ただの tropical depression so it shouldn't be too bad. Though there was a tornado last night. 27 houses were damaged so they didn't declare it an emergency.

I've eaten stuff since here but not too much. At mini stop and 7-11 the stuffed pandesal is surprisingly sarap, ok! I also tried calimansi soda! hehe Been eating hopia! lots of hopia! Today at lunch had some bomb chicken and some sisig, which was really good!　There is still a lot of things for me to eat that I haven't gotten around to yet but I have an entire month here so it's ok.

I met some super nice people here in my class. There are 4 Cebuano girls in my class and they invited me to go out with them sometime so I look forward to that. ^^

I like the Philippines but yeah. I dunno I guess Japan just feels so comfortable to me because it's now so familiar to me.. Still, I think by the time I have to leave Cebu I'll miss this place too. I'm definitely not ready to leave yet.

I have yet to ride the Jeepney. I don't know how to do anything around here and it makes me feel like I should have paid more attention to things back when I was here in the day! But I was just a dumb kid so.... it can't be helped. I am still a dumb kid. I need to really mature.

THAT ASIDE, I stopped playing utapuri

*GASP! SHOCK HORROR*

I know. But now I'm playing the Hetalia Gakuen PSP game and it's wayyyy easier and entertaining. AND LET ME TELL YOU! One reason it's so entertaining is because I'm trying to get the attention of ALL the characters at the same time whereas in utapuri I can only work on one dude at a time. Right now I think that Germany will like me (Seychelles) first. For some reason I keep talking to him the most and he's actually pretty easy to please.

I got France sad because I was all like 「恥ずかしい」 when he was talking to me and I felt so bad! So I had to restart from a past save but then it set me back two days (game time)! Whoops. Russia also is hard to please. I find myself wanting to avoid him, tbh. He's.... kinda scary! haha So yeah, Germany is definitely the easiest to get along with and also Italy. I keep trying to talk to Canada but it is of no use. I am getting nowhere with him so it's like a waste of time.


Oh yeah, so I decided I am going to do the utapuri 30 day challenge so... let's do it!

Day 1 - Favorite Character: Camus 先輩

To start with, I've only watched seasons 1 and 2. Listened to Camus/Ren and Cecil/Camus audio CDs and played utapri music 2 and the first game in the series. So no, I haven't played debut or all star yet. That, said.... I STILL CHOOSE CAMUS!

Camus is the 2nd youngest member of the idol group Quartet Night. He is a foreigner from the always cold fictional country of permafrost which is a monarchy apparently, and is a count (or baron?) in the service of the Queen. Camus is not his birth name, Instead he was given that name when he swore in service to the royal family. But now he's an idol after being scouted.

Personality wise in the anime he is always being harsh and cruel to his kouhai, Cecil and even failed to help him when Cecil asked him a favor but you rarely actually see him not getting along with his members. Correct me if I'm wrong though as I haven't rewatched the 2nd season past ep 6 yet. But he seems to have a pretty good professional relationship with them, even Ranran who I know for sure he gets on bad with in the game.

Speaking of the game, so yeah in the game Camus is brutal lol. So that stays in tact but we do see one side of him that never comes out in the anime... the smooth guy. You know Ren? Ren is a ladies man and as smooth as sugar. Camus' personality is basically like that whenever he deals with women or anyone outside of the Shining jimusho.

I will ALWAYS call it Shining Jimusho btw.

Anyway so yeah. He is like Ren except the Prince version of Ren. Camus is a total Prince type and where Ren calls all girls "lady" or "lamb" Camus calls all women "ojousama". Camus is even more regal than Cecil and Cecil is the one who is a real prince.

So why do I love him so much? I DUNNO! It's just something about his strict overbearing ways. The way that he's slightly paranoid and think people don't like him but then turns around and is like "BOW TO ME FOOLISH MORTALS". Omg he's kinda like Emperor from FFII now that I think of it. OMFG HE IS THE EMPEROR! I am so in love with the emperor guys you don't even know!!! (actually u probably do if u know me)

And still yet beneath all of his arrogant attitude (yep, Cecil taught me that word in their drama CD hehe 大柄) there is a really nice guy under there who doesn't know how to be nice. Like, he can only be nice to people that he doesn't know (staff from TV stations, magazine, reporters, fans) but when it's people he works with like friends and people in shining jimusho he feels like he can't put down his walls and let them close and OMG isn't that so sad!? That's so sad!

CAMUS NO! I just wanna hug him now just thinking about how vulnerable he must feel being around so many people and yet not having the confidence to allow himself to get close to them. But then he does little nice things for them like give Ren tips and take him under his wing or go slowly for Cecil when he's having trouble with jump rope exercises and it's like d'awwwwwww.

And honestly, I think Ren is the closest person to him in Shining jimusho and he was spot on when he said Camus must have grown up in a really sad lonely world to act like that. That's why I love Ren and Camus friendship because I think Ren really does relate to that and why they're both the respective ladies men of their group. Ren is just warm and heart and fire and burning and Camus is cold and aloof and freezing ice but together they help bring each other to warmth and dshkjfadf

OMG I AM TALKING ABOUT REN NOW AREN'T I!? Cos I just can't talk about Camus or anyone without talking about Ren and dsjfklds I AM HORRIBLE but yeah I love Ren alot too btw. Like he WOULD be my favorite character if Camus didn't get introduce in season 2.

*cough*

sorry I kinda deviated.

AND OMG HE HAS A SWEET TOOTH! Like he loves sugar. isn't that so cute? Cecil described it perfectly when he's like Camus doesn't drink coffee with sugar but rather sugar with coffee. like for real! Camus can you PLEASE stop being perfect and cute? NO? FINE! i'll just die then.

but yes I love Camus and I can actually write way more than this but let me just KEEP THIS BRIEF. I love Camus because he's strict, vulnerable, arrogant, perfectionist, adorable, regal, refined, dignified, funny, awkward (like how many times did he make Ren uncomfortable during the 1st part of Baby My Strawberry audio CD alone?) lol, and just all around hfdlasfhke everything i could ever need in my Camus! AND HE PLAYS THE CELLO! I can add more but wow this is long so... *runs off*

Until next time. who is even gonna read this?

*ranran voice* じゃな～

(oh yes please listen to this. it got stuck in my head)
]]> https://ameblo.jp/milky1262/entry-11818258570.html Wed, 09 Apr 2014 19:47:24 +0900 not much Japanese... i'm tired
uhhh... i wrote that like two weeks ago. wow. I meant to update some time ago but way too much has been happening.

So on the 23rd I'm going to be taking a flight to Okinawa and chilling at my brother's place for two weeks. After that I'll be heading to Cebu to study for my TEFL and also teaching a bit in a lang school there for a month. Sweet!

Right now I have a cold and I've just been all kinds of stressed so I haven't written but I'm going to take this time to write about fun things only and hopefully things will be good from here on out (fat chance). SO YEAH! I will only write about things that don't matter cos I'm tired of thinking about moving out right now! I SWEAR.

I went and stupidly bought stuff yesterday. I bought Tegomass, Tsuyoshi Domoto, and Sexy Zone's new albums and also the Joker Trap album released. Joker Trap is like a unit group from Utapri. Anyway, I got the expensive version of Joker Trap and it came with a script with commentary by the members: my Camus, Ren, Toki baby and Ranran.

I call Tokiya "toki baby" all the time now and he's not even my fav... I dunno.

lol

Anyway, OH YEAH! So like Aoi Shouta is gonna be in a new summer anime about... idols! It's about an idol group called "Shonen Hollywood". Aoi Shouta is like... da man right now ok! He is gaining all sorts of points in my book so I am definitely gonna watch that. If Shounen Hollywood ends up as good as Utapri though I'm in big trouble! I ain't got time for this knida investment! It's funny though how much I love Aoi Shouta and he isn't even the CV of any of my fav characters. I mean, I like Aiai but he's not the kind of stoic character I like. I like stoicism but if you watch utapuri you'd see what I mean about Aiai's way.

Oh yeah, so it's been a while since my last ranking of Starish members or utapri characters so I can do that now.

STARISH:
1) Ren kun
2) Tokibaby
3) Syo kun
4) Nacchan
5) Ittoki
6) Masa0yan

It's so funny cos I have no idea why I dislike ittoki kun and masato so much. I don't even dislike them I just like them less than the others. Also Ren kun and Masa are best friends and they're opposite sides of the list. And then Toki and Ittoki too! lol

Quartet Night
1) Camus
2) Rei chan
3) Ranran
4) Aiai

WOW! How did Aiai get last place!? Even over Ranran! I like Quartet Night more than Starish by the way... I think Camus is DA ONE! Whatever that means. So my top 5 is.... just impossible to say because like... yeah IT'S IMPOSSIBLE! Seriously.

Off topic (not really cos it's still animu) and random but I've dreamed of Austria two nights in a row. I don't know what it is explicitly that I dreamed but I would wake up multiple times every night and "Austria" is right on the tip of my tongue and I just see him hazy in my mind. Like wut.

So my anime watch list is kinda depressing right now. Higurashi season 2 and Monster are what I'm watching. And Kuroko no Basuke, which isn't depressing. I still need to catch up on some recent things too but I'm not pressed. I have time.

Anyway it's late and I'm tired and I just needed to wind down by writing this irrelevant blog! Next entry will be back to the usual amount of Japanese language. I slacked big time here. Nighty

*Ranran voice* じゃあな
]]> https://ameblo.jp/milky1262/entry-11791775659.html Sun, 09 Mar 2014 16:19:58 +0900 ピロシキと味噌カツ!/I ate a lot! ピロシキを作りました!　ピロシキはロシアの伝統的な料理です。　初めて食べました。ピロシキをはじめ、ジャンバラヤ、たこ焼きなど食べました。　すごくおいしかったです!　ピロシキは、フライパンで揚げるパンに入ったミンチと卵です。　パンははちみつと作ったので、あいまいな甘い味があります。このピロシキは日本人のお好みに合わせる感じだが、本当のピロシキの味はちょっと違うか。　実際なピロシキも食べてみたいよ。ﾍ(ﾟ∀ﾟ*)ﾉ

名古屋は、みそカツで有名です。先週の日曜日、久しぶりに食べました。名古屋駅の太陽通り側の地下道にたくさんレストランがあります。７－１１コンビニの下に「マグロ小屋」という海鮮レストランで友達とマグロ味噌カツを食べました。ルームメートの友達はとんかつが大好きだから、名古屋の味噌カツを食べたがっていました。その子は魚嫌いだが、そうかと言って長い一日があったので、「この店でいいです」と言った。でも、安心した。刺身まできれいに食べた!割り箸　私のアメリカ人の友達も日本に行けば、「マグロ小屋」に食べに行くのではないだろうか。(o^-')b

Today I went to my friend's house and made pirozhki! It's a traditional Russian food made of bread stuffed with minced meat and eggs and deep fried. The breading is made with honey so it was a little sweet. It was my first time trying it. I think that it must be a Japanese version of pirozhki so it must be a bit different from the actual thing. I want to try the actual one one day too. We had that and jambalaya and takoyaki. It was so good!(＝⌒▽⌒＝)

Nagoya is famous for miso katsu and last Sunday I had it for the first time in a long time! On the Taiyou Doori side of Nagoya station in the underground area there are many restaurants. We ate at a seafood place called "Magurogoya" (Tuna hut (≧▽≦)) that is under the 7-11. My roommate's friend loves tonkatsu and wanted to eat Nagoya's miso katsu. She hates seafood but we were so tired from being out all day that she was like "this place is ok" when we saw it. I was a bit worried but it turned out great! She ate everything in the set even the sashimi! 割り箸 If any of my American friends come visit me I'm thinking I'll absolutely bring them to that place. (o^-')b

ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･ﾟﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･ﾟ

I am absolutely in love with TVXQ 東方神起's new song! It's called "Spellbound" and I can't stop listening to that and SNSD 少女時代's new song "Mr.Mr" as well. So I hope that Super Junior's comeback ends up as good as these two when they release their new song later this year.音譜

In other news there is gonna be a new Utapri game coming out! It was announced for the PSP and it's gonna be Quartet Night. I cannot wait. I think I'm more excited about the new songs than I am the actual game though. I mean, I can play it but my Japanese is まだまだだね!　So yeah, ugh! New Quartet Night singles. There are gonna be two new group songs, one titled Marriage, and each of the members are getting two solo singles each! Reiji's comes out in April. Ranran's will come out in May, Aiai in June and my Camus in July! CAMUS WHY!? Why must you be the last one!? How am I going to be able to wait until July to hear your beautiful song? I don't think I'm gonna make it... ok I'll make it. But dang! It's gonna be hard o(；△；)o

Then there was a new episode of Hetalia released about the nyo!talia, which are the girl version of the nations. It was pretty cute and I gotta say I like nyo!italy better than the actual Italy lol. And America... uhm that cleavage tho!(^▽^;) I ain't even mad. It was cute. I always see people mentioning the girl version and drawing fanart but since I don't actually read the comic (unless i accidentally come across a strip) it was my first time actually seeing what they were like.

The best part though was that it ended up being Estonia's dream. lol Apparently God was answering his wish to be surrounded by girls. In reply he got girl!Russia covering him in honey and rolling him around outside lol. Whoops. Anyway it was cute and I got to see the baltics and Russia! Did I ever mention how much I love Russia? I love him. He's my fav character.

Anyway I'm tired and I have to be well rested for tomorrow. Deuces!チョキ

*ranran voice* じゃあな～
]]> https://ameblo.jp/milky1262/entry-11785051918.html Sat, 01 Mar 2014 22:09:40 +0900 パンダのエサはパンだ/McDonald's このブログの曲繰り返しに聞き始めた。音譜曲の名前は「ローウィッツアーク」です。聞く始めるなら、止まられない!ご注意ください!ｗｗｗｗ

四月、研究のためにフィリピンに行くことになった。飛行機 一か月セブ市でＴＥＦＬを勉強しますので、ちょっと緊張するし、わくわくしますよ。確かに、この経験代わりに一つしかない、やります!　コースをする後で、日本に帰るつもりですが、ほかの国も就職しています。私絶対日本に住みたいんだもん。しかし、就職の結果によって、住むところに決まります。面倒な～。　私は、このずるずるな生活を考えなかった。（泣）無作為世界的旅行者になったな。。。

とにかく、面接は大変すぎますよ!　どのように私は使用者に自分のことに好きにならせますか?　教えてもらってちょうだい！むかっ


Recently I've been listening to this song.from this blog on repeat! Once you start listening you can't stop so please be careful lol.

In April I am going to go study for my TEFL certificate. It's going to be a one month course in Cebu. It's going to be an interesting experience and after the course I plan to return to Japan. However I am going to search for jobs everywhere, not just Japan. Even though I absolutely want to return to Japan where I live will probably be decided by my job search. I never thought I would be doing this one day. I wanted to consider myself as someone with roots but it seems as if I've become an unwilling traveler. I'm a drifter.

Anyway, I've had job interviews and they're so annoying. How am I supposed to make employers like me!? Teach me!むかっ

ﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･ﾟﾟ･*:.｡..｡.:*･ﾟ

Man I am so hungry.

So this month I've eaten so much McDonald's.ハンバーガー I think I might have eaten it like 4 times. Anyway, they're having an "american vintage" campaign and so the menu has added things like bacon cheese fries and pie alamode. Which I've tried both. I've also tried one of the American Vintage burgers. It was a cheese burger with salsa on it and it was so delicious! I might go there tonight and see if it's still there. I think they change the special American vintage burger every week so it's probably gone. Aw man!(｡＞0＜｡)

But yeah, I'll probably go there then tonight for dinner. ハンバーガー

In my Japanese textbook there was a dialogue between and American and a Japanese guy and I was like OMG about it. Basically they both went to McDonalds. The American ordered a large Big Mac combo and coke along with an apple pie while the Japanese guy ordered just a teriyaki burger and iced coffee! I was half torn like "man of course that American would be depicted as the pig" but the other half was like "well DUH why u gonna go to McDonald’ｓ and not get a full combo and applie pie and coke omg that J-dude!"(#｀ε´#)

Hahaha

Needless to say, I'm like the American dude. Combo and apple pie for me お願いします!(≧▽≦)

(oh yeah i heard a good joke on 黒子のバスケ last night. 「パンダのエサはパンだ」　ｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗｗ 音譜)
]]> https://ameblo.jp/milky1262/entry-11774844431.html Tue, 18 Feb 2014 09:48:05 +0900 140208 in横浜 translations teentop_2 twitter of last night's concert

140208 in横浜
りき「みんなまた来てくれますか？来なかったらぁ～激おこ～っぷんっぷんっまるだよぉ！」
エンジェルの反応がよかったのでまた
りき「激おこ～っぷんっぷんっまるだよぉ！」

Ricky "Everyone will come again? If you don't come i'm angry *cutely*"
The reaction of the audience was really good so he did it again!

140208 in横浜
チャンジョ「またお姉さんたちに会いたいです」
ニエル「お姉さんだけ？」
チャンジョ「もちろん妹にも」
ニエル「チング？」
チャンジョ「トモダチィ！あいしてるっ！」

Changjo: "I want to meet with big sisters again."
Niel: "Only big sister?"
Changjo: "Of course little sisters too."
Niel: "Friend?"
Changjo: "Friends! I LOVE YOU!"

(my comment: ahhh so cute these guys ^o^)

140208 in横浜

えるじょ「今からエンジェルとデートしたいので少し時間をくれますか？」

チャニ「えるじょくんはこの公演が終わったらみんなとデートします！」

えるじょ「したい人～？」手を挙げた人が少なくえるじょ「もう拗ねた！」

それから拗ねたを何度か言ってました


L.Joe "From today because I want to date Angel can you give me a bit of your time?"
Chunji: "After today's performance L.Joe will date everyone!"
L.Joe "Who wants to go?"
The number of hands that raised were just a little...
L.Joe "Pout"
He said it several times.


(my comment: if i remember correctly we agreed the time to be 10pm (＝⌒▽⌒＝) )


140208 in横浜

ニエルの着替え待ちのＭＣけぷのソロがかっこよかったねという話

りき ちゃに「あの ～ガッ！って所もう一回歌ってよ」

りき ちゃに「(馬鹿にしながら)～ガッ！」

けぷがまったく違うところを歌う

ちゃに「そこじゃなくて ～ガッ！　～ガッ！」


During waiting for Niel to change there was an MC talking about CAP's solo.
Ricky/Chunji : "That GAH(sound), can you sing it one more time?"

Ricky/Chunji: "*stupidly* GAH!"

CAP sings a completely different part of the song.

Chunji: "Not that!! GAH! GAH!


(My comment: they turned CAP's cool performance into a comedy!)

140208 in横浜ＭＣつづき

ちゃに「チャンジョのソロセクシーだったね！」

チャンジョ「あのダンスはチョンジ兄さんに教えてもらいました」

やって！となり、チャニもセクシーダンスをしてました


Chunji: "Changjo's solo was sexy, right!"
Changjo: I learned that danced from Chunji niisan"

He did it! Chunji also did the sexy dance.


(my comment: but in my opinion Changjo's was sexy and Chunji's was goofy and cute! hehehe ラブラブ)


140208 in横浜

アンコールが終わって袖に掃ける時に、外は大雪だから気をちゅけて帰ってねとニエルとエルジョから^^ニエルはモニターを見るのを忘れていたようでダンサーさんに読んで！ってかんじで教えてもらってました！笑


After the encore and it's time to leave Niel and L.Joe told us to be careful returning home.
Niel forgot to look at the monitor and it felt like he's telling to the dancers.


Anyway, that's it for that! ^^

The concert was super fun! If you wanna know more details check out my twitter
]]> https://ameblo.jp/milky1262/entry-11768441833.html Sun, 09 Feb 2014 16:05:14 +0900 Amnesia/黒子のバスケ
明日は２月になるね。学年の終わりはいつの間にか来るかな。悲しいよ。ハートブレイク後３月, 契約が終わるはずです。私は都会に引っ越すつもりです。私はもう三年田舎の生活経験があるので、名古屋に引っ越したいんです。アメリカさえ都会に住む経験がない。緊張しても、私はこの一歩を歩こう!　決して、あきらめない。

しかし、就職はせっかく大変でした。今まで、二つだけ返事しました。今、何よりも自身がいる!　毎日私の気が減らします。　帰国したくない!。・ﾟﾟ･(≧д≦)･ﾟﾟ･｡　まったくダメです。　仕事にこだわらなければ、満足なのを見つけれる。何時は「Ｈｅｌｌｏ　Ｗｏｒk」に行けばいいか。三月で行けばいいのはてなマーク

Tomorrow is already February and this school year is almost over. After March my contract will end. I plan to move to the city. I've already lived three years in the countryside so I just really want to move on to that next chapter in life. I have my eyes set on Nagoya. I haven't even lived in a proper city in America. I'm pretty nervous but I won't give up.

That said, the job hunt has been a bit difficult. I only had two interviews but with no results. Uh... more than anything else I guess i really just need confidence right now. I don't want to go home. If I can just find any job I'd be satisfied. When should I go to "Hello Work"? Would it be OK to go at the beginning of March? Or should I go sooner?

☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ*☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ*☆

Since the new year I've been watching a lot of anime. I've probably watched more anime this month than I have in over 5 years. That's pretty dang crazy.汗 Here is a list of what I've watched:

-Higurashi Naku Koro Ni
-Mirai Nikki
-Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica
-Hetalia
-Saint Young Men (and the movie)
-Amnesia

Don't judge me.(Ｔ▽Ｔ;)

I just finished Amnesia and started Kuroko no Basuke... er Basket. That anime came highly recommended to me from various sources. My friend who knows how much I was into Prince of Tennis recommended it to me at first. Also some of my twitter friends also suggested it to me. I kept putting it on the back burner mostly because of its length more than anything else. But there was also the fact that I know from experience that getting into sports anime is a big investment of money time.

I have only watched one episode of Kuroko on Basket so far but it got me pretty hype. It made me miss my old days with my Prince of Tennis and stuff. But since I've just started it there isn't anything I can say about it just yet.

Instead I will talk about Amnesia. That show has pretty low rankings among the community but that tends to be the case with most anything based on an otome game. I'm guessing that the "player" character will just not translate very well to anime. That said, I liked it. I feel bad for liking it but it was exciting for me to see all of the situations the heroine got herself into. I won't describe it here (getting locked into a cage by her "boyfriend", being almost stabbed and pushed to die in a well by her lover, being drugged repeatedly for days) but I was shamefully at the edge of my seat. The genre is mystery because the girl has amnesia and is stuck in a Higurashi-esque time loop of sorts. I really do think it's like Higurashi in a way. Just not as much gore as that series.

I do recommend Amnesia if you like beautiful guys. My favorite was Ikki as far as looks goes but he's one of the worst as far as boyfriends goes.... (Toma's the real worst cos you know... drugs... and cage). As a show it is better than utapuri and I know way more people who have endured utapuri hell. lol! I still love Utapuri more though! Camus is da boojank no matter how much i came away from Amnesia liking Kento.

I hate how much I talk about anime here but I like really dunno what else to say on this blog. And the funny thing is I just got into anime in December. If I started this blog just a month earlier you could have seen the descent into madness.... it helps my Japanese though.

*reiji voice* またな～！ラブラブ

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