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Whee! Got letter from someone detailing said someone's SCLGA [if you get this, you know too much! Hahaha :P]. Was squealing in delight in kitchen while waiting for dinner to cook, to the amusement of my Thai friend.:P

Anyway, someone, thanks. Will not name names cause it's dangerous.[?] That letter made my day. :D

Brain has been turning into mush because of days of reading shoujo manga for 5 hours straight. I have to say, the plots are predictable [cute/shy girl, cute object of affection, hot rival, guy friend who eventually falls for girl...] but I can't stop. It's gotten to the point where I dream about these characters, mixed up with people in my world.

[Sometimes I kind of wish I was a shoujo manga heroine, so unrequited love gets a happy ending.]

Anyway, off to read more now. Hehehe.

WHOOHOO [+ Edit]

Congratulations to my co-dependence newly legal [in the Philippines] buddy for being the next PRC VP!:D *wipes tears* It wasn't so long ago that we were doing chalk brigades in Engg and erasing some useless orgs' chalk ads, running away from what's-his-name, stalking *** together [oh wait...that was just me :P] and now, now you're fully busy and important. Talk about plunging headlong into the world of responsibility.

Speaking of responsibility...I now have a part-time job. *clap clap* After months of half-heartedly saying that I will teach English someplace here, I actually looked through Town Work, a magazine for job hunters here, and got me a job distributing flyers for an English school in several high schools. The job pays Y700 an hour; next week I get to work thrice. Bloody early morning [7:30 am!!!], and one of the schools is on top of a mountain. When I looked through the sked, though, all the good locations and time slots had already been filled up by Japanese people. Guess there's a little bit of bias for the natives. Though my Nihongo is improving vastly, I've been told.

I'm moving out of co-dependence [and hence sluggishness], too. Slowly. I started with our spring break vacation...not only do we have color-coded travel schedule, we all have roles to play now. Someone else has to oversee the food, accommodation, sightseeing itinerary, etc. Though they don't know it yet. I'll bring it up the next time we meet. In a non-threatening, oh-I'm-not-a-control-freak sort of way.

EDIT: Was tagged by Ate Di. *waves* Hi Ate Di! Looking good.:D

The sex of the target: male

Eight different points of my perfect lover:

1. Funny/makes me laugh :D

2. Taller than me IDEALLY

3. Able to hold a decent conversation about anything and everything

4. Gets along with my family and friends

5. Kind :)

6. Can put up with all my idiosyncracies, whining, etc.

7. Passionate about something [that isn't terrorism or similar :P]

8. A man of character and integrity [naks]

Eight people I'm tagging:Angel, Nin, Vim, Sam, Ce, Kiko, Oliver, Steph.

Rules:

1. The tagged victim has to come up with 8 different points of his/her perfect lover.

2. Need to mention the sex of the target.

3. If tagged the 2nd time, there's no need to post again.

A little favor

Hi. I figure that if you're reading this, you know me personally and have time to spare.

Clickie! Thank you. <333

Thanks to my First Four: Joel, Jerome, Vim and Shah. Heehee.

So not misplaced affection

It's raining outside.
The sky is gray, but beautiful.
Snippets of a past encounter: Purple umbrella. Your profile. A different gray sky.
The theme song from The Classic is playing in my head again.

Is it so wrong to think that you are could be for me?

Skipping school :P

Am slocuhing down while using the PC because I'm trying to hide from the Ryuugakusei people. I skipped Nihongo class [1030 - 12] today, not intentionally. Three guesses...

a. I am like, so fluent in Nihongo already that I decided to ditch this class.
b. [insert plausible reason here]
c. I woke up at 1035 am, despite 8 alarms up to an hour before that.

So. Yeah. In UP I had an excuse; my classes started at 7 am, way too early. But here, there's no reason to be late at all. And these people are way more time-conscious than Filipinos.T_T

At least it's starting to feel like spring [a little] already.:D

Oh, and Happy Valentine's Day to everyone. Even to us singletons. What, who's bitter?:P

Lanterns galore

Went to the Nagasaki Lantern Festival not once, but twice.:D The first time was during the opening, so it was REALLY CROWDED. Despite the crowds though, the Japanese still manage to remain orderly, and the human traffic-directors were great. [Unlike the tragic stampede at Wowowee... :(] This is the rear entrance to Shinichi Chinatown.


I wasn't able to get inside the festival grounds the first time I came because there were so many people, so we hung out and wandered around Hamanomachi. This is on the promenade to the main Chinatown entrance. Purty, even with the "Daiei" logo in the background. :)


The second time around, I made it inside! Hurrah. Every year during the Chinese New Year, Shinichi Chinatown and Minato-Koen are decorated with 10,000 lanterns, such as these. Even though it was !freaking cold!, one does appreciate this sort of thing. There were, well, lanterns of all sorts, like animals, ancient Chinese people, one phoenix-like lantern made of ceramics, and of course...

A Dragon Lantern! One of quite a few. This is my favorite.:D Chinese-style dragons are so cool-looking.

Ishimatsu-sensei invited Shah and me to see the Lantern Festival with him and a few of his students. I thought it was just going to be a small group, but it turns out we enjoy several hours with people they're helping. Sensei is in charge of the Robotics lab, so they help people with disabilities, old people, etc. by developing equipment like a joystick 'keyboard' [for when they use word processors] and stuff like that. A fine example of "Engineers serve the people", o di ba?:) This is an unknown, but nice, Mechanical Engineering grad student, Oshiro-san, whom we guided around Hamanomachi, and me. Pic a bit blurred though.

This is Ishimatsu-sensei [Oyaji!], me and Shah in Hamanomachi [a shopping arcade].
Enjoyed that Saturday.:D It was also memorable in a totally different way 'cause I had someone nearly twice my age blow my flying kisses, thrice. Gah. Then the next day zutto benkyou in the library. [Yes, I lead a very gripping life here.:P] But now everything's over! Just my grades to wait for. Not that waiting for one's grades is any agony here...

The Birthday Update (contains an icky picture)

Oil, Mi Hee and In Ae-san with the adobo and sinigang I COOKED! xD (Thanks, Mama Sita. Thanks, Knorr.)

Yeah! She can cook, she can cook! :P

*Horrified gasp* Mi Hee, what's THAT you're eating?!

Why half-cooked chicken adobo, of course. (We microwaved it for like 30 minutes after that.)

But all's well that ends well, as these cake slices show. The cheesecake was particularly excellent.

Am uploading pictures and stuff. Whee. Have finished: Stat exam, Sociology report, IJS film review, TAPIN presentation this week. Just a few more exams to go...