[Japan]: I loves jfood! <3
Hey everybody, 
yes the unfaithful tomato XD is showing somehow a sign of life again! I'm sorry it seems I just can't manage to update on a regular basis anymore even though I want to.
I've noticed that a loooooooooooooooooooot of people have defriended me lately (about 3-4 people per day!). Guess there's nothing interesting I can offer anymore XD I understand that completely, so it's okay :)
Anyway I'll try to update at least a little bit now.
2 days ago I went to Kokura together with leviosa8. They have Mandarake and Animate, Starbucks and THE OCEAN! <3 Me loves!! (*__*)v
Anyway it was a nice and relaxing trip after a lot of busy days at work :)
We also had a reaaaally great lunch there! Well ... it was already ~4pm, so I'm not sure if you can call it lunch, but .... who cares? XD
Awww~ I love rice + raw egg + raw fish!!!!!!!! And tofu!!! It was really yummie and pretty cheap (*___*)v
And as you can see I bought *some* stuff once again (^^'') .....
It's soooooooooooooo mean! The series I'm into right now are also veeeeeery popular in Japan right now, especially Katekyo Hitman seems to be the most popular anime series right now and as you can imagine there's a huuuuuuuge section of merchandising in animate! The Katekyo section is way larger than the ones of Bleach or Naruto (T___T) ... Gah! Why did I start to watch this series anyway? XDDDDD *ahem*
There will be a post with things I bought this time and also some things I bought way before soon :)
Moving on to the next topic: The bitch is still loud, but after 234234234234 complaints it has gotten a little bit better - it's still not okay though .... we'll see what else I can do to make her shut up.
One thing that I totally can't understand: if she was told 134234 times that she is TOO loud, why isn't she using earphones at night???????!!!! Then she would be able to hear her shit as LOUD as she WANTS without having to worry, right???!!!
I always use earphones. I don't have a problem with it and there are various reasons why I use them:
1) If I want other people to be quiet, I should be quiet, too.
2) This way I don't hear the bitch's shit!
3) I can listen to my stuff as loud as I want to without disturbing other people.
I guess the bitch just has no brain at all. Even banging against the wall doesn't help at all. Either she has her shit too loud and can't hear it or her tiny brain might think, that somebody is doing some housekeeping stuff at 3am!!! HAHAAAA! *headdesk*
1,5 weeks ago there was a "firefly festival" in my town. I wanted to go there as I always wished to see and take part in a Japanese summer festival anyway ......
But I had to go alone, my coworker still had work and my Japanese coworkers were on a seminar far away that day.
And this was a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge mistake!
First of all, you couldn't really watch the fireflies, because there were Japanese people EVERYWHERE taking photos of them with FLASHLIGHTS!!!! It was not magical at all!
Then there were so many people, it was soooooooooooooooooooooooo crowded which led to a lot of pushing and stuff (T_____T) ...... and the worst thing of all was all that staring!
People stared at me like I was a strange, unwelcome alien-mosquito-thingie. At least that's the impression I got from most of their eyes ..... I also heard quite a lot of people talking about me. Some (esp. old people) just said something like "Oh, look, that foreigner is enjoying our fireflies as well" whereas other people said "something ... bla ... GAIJIN ... blah" which is not a nice way to say foreigner! So I left after only 20-25 minutes again and was reaaaaally frustrated that day.
I mean it was my first summer festival, but it was absolutely horrible (T____T) .......
Maybe I do something wrong, one of my coworkers always gets to chat with Japanese people that are nice to her and just start to talk to her although she can't speak Japanese AT ALL!!! Do I really look that scary?? GAAH! (T___T) *headdesk*
On another note: Right now I try to study as much Japanese as I can in every free minute! I really want to become fluent and ever since I came here I'm more motivated than ever.
Of course I hear Japanese every day wherever I go and I read some Japanese every day (mostly doujinshi though) although I don't understand much of it.
I bought quite a lot (too much -___- ...) of study material and am currently preparing for the 3kyu although the preparations are almost done. I think the only weak point right now is my non-existant grammar knowledge. After that I'll start to prepare for the 2kyu, but I'm not going to take it THIS December of course! That's impossible XD .... I still wonder if I should take the 3kyu in December though.
Apart from studying for the tests, I still wonder how to study Japanese. What would be a good method? Well for now I'm going to work through all the books I've already bought, that will keep me busy for quite a while, but if there is anyone on my f-list who wants to tell me in detail how they're studying Japanese (esp. those who are already intermediate or advanced level) that would be nice *offers cookies*
By this I don't mean "oh I study Japanese at university ..", but more detailed information. How exactly do you study grammar, kanji, vocab, etc. pp. (^^;)
See? I really have too much stuff by now! (T__T) ...
The minna no nihongo books I got from my coworker who is leaving.
Random food moments:
A while ago I went to a pretty cool kaitenzushi restaurant with leviosa8! See the little screen? There you can order what you want to eat if it's not on the band-conveyor and it will come to you in a little shinkansen!
The food there was really delicious and cheap and I think I ate too much, but .... uh ... well XD
I finally ate that HUGE senbei I got as present from Yumi-chan when we were in Nikko XD It was delicious!! <3333
This chocolate is soooo delicious! And they come in sooo many different flavors it's amazing o___O; ...
Green tea sandwich ice = love <3
And we don't even have to talk about Calpis icecream, do we? XD
This is pretty good, too.
And just random fruits that are not too expensive here! ^-^ Yummie.
Nice, but it almost feels like eating nothing at all o__O; ...
The new Pepsi: Blue Hawaii!! It looks so poisonous, but ..... hmm .... it doesn't taste bad but has too much sugar for my taste (^^;) ...
This one I don't like so much.
I always wanted to try one of these. They have desserts here with real fruit as container, filled with sorbet <33
That's what my coworkers had. I bet it was yummie, too ;___;
Who said combini fast food isn't good at all? I looooove it (*___*) ... and there's still so much I haven't tried yet XD
That especially goes for the snacks!! There's such a huge variety, it's amazing!
This tasted like sweet popcorn. I loved it :)
Me loves pretz (all the flavors, I guess).
I stole these from Mr. Donut <3333
These are really good, sour, but good.
These are nice, too.
Let's see what's in my fridge.
Sometimes you just need Starbucks ... and if there is no Starbucks near, then you need to bring Starbucks near ... or so ... XD
And me loves natto!!! (*______________*)v I can't understand how people can hate it. It's yummie!! <3
Yum!
It's cheap, easy and fast to make and tasty! What else do you want? :D
And that was my lunch today. Warm rice + raw egg + soy sauce = super delicious.
In the end I was curious and added some natto, too, it was delicious. The stuff on the left is just some tsukemono.
It was really good, although I can imagine that a lot of people would freak out if they had to eat natto AND raw egg XD
Random fandom moment:
I was just doing SOMETHING (can't remember what) and zapping and then there was POT airing and I was like HOMGGGGG!!!! (*_______*) ..... XD
Random Japanese oddity:
Ever bought Japanese tampons? No?
This is soooooooooooooooo funny XDDD
(I've never used these! We don't have that in Germany anyway XD .... I just discovered them when I was throwing the empty package away XD)
Hmm, I guess that's it for now.
I have to get ready because I'm meeting leviosa8 in 1 hour, we're going to watch Indiana Jones :D
Bye-buh~
yes the unfaithful tomato XD is showing somehow a sign of life again! I'm sorry it seems I just can't manage to update on a regular basis anymore even though I want to.
I've noticed that a loooooooooooooooooooot of people have defriended me lately (about 3-4 people per day!). Guess there's nothing interesting I can offer anymore XD I understand that completely, so it's okay :)
Anyway I'll try to update at least a little bit now.
2 days ago I went to Kokura together with leviosa8. They have Mandarake and Animate, Starbucks and THE OCEAN! <3 Me loves!! (*__*)v
Anyway it was a nice and relaxing trip after a lot of busy days at work :)
We also had a reaaaally great lunch there! Well ... it was already ~4pm, so I'm not sure if you can call it lunch, but .... who cares? XD
Awww~ I love rice + raw egg + raw fish!!!!!!!! And tofu!!! It was really yummie and pretty cheap (*___*)v
And as you can see I bought *some* stuff once again (^^'') .....
It's soooooooooooooo mean! The series I'm into right now are also veeeeeery popular in Japan right now, especially Katekyo Hitman seems to be the most popular anime series right now and as you can imagine there's a huuuuuuuge section of merchandising in animate! The Katekyo section is way larger than the ones of Bleach or Naruto (T___T) ... Gah! Why did I start to watch this series anyway? XDDDDD *ahem*
There will be a post with things I bought this time and also some things I bought way before soon :)
Moving on to the next topic: The bitch is still loud, but after 234234234234 complaints it has gotten a little bit better - it's still not okay though .... we'll see what else I can do to make her shut up.
One thing that I totally can't understand: if she was told 134234 times that she is TOO loud, why isn't she using earphones at night???????!!!! Then she would be able to hear her shit as LOUD as she WANTS without having to worry, right???!!!
I always use earphones. I don't have a problem with it and there are various reasons why I use them:
1) If I want other people to be quiet, I should be quiet, too.
2) This way I don't hear the bitch's shit!
3) I can listen to my stuff as loud as I want to without disturbing other people.
I guess the bitch just has no brain at all. Even banging against the wall doesn't help at all. Either she has her shit too loud and can't hear it or her tiny brain might think, that somebody is doing some housekeeping stuff at 3am!!! HAHAAAA! *headdesk*
1,5 weeks ago there was a "firefly festival" in my town. I wanted to go there as I always wished to see and take part in a Japanese summer festival anyway ......
But I had to go alone, my coworker still had work and my Japanese coworkers were on a seminar far away that day.
And this was a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge mistake!
First of all, you couldn't really watch the fireflies, because there were Japanese people EVERYWHERE taking photos of them with FLASHLIGHTS!!!! It was not magical at all!
Then there were so many people, it was soooooooooooooooooooooooo crowded which led to a lot of pushing and stuff (T_____T) ...... and the worst thing of all was all that staring!
People stared at me like I was a strange, unwelcome alien-mosquito-thingie. At least that's the impression I got from most of their eyes ..... I also heard quite a lot of people talking about me. Some (esp. old people) just said something like "Oh, look, that foreigner is enjoying our fireflies as well" whereas other people said "something ... bla ... GAIJIN ... blah" which is not a nice way to say foreigner! So I left after only 20-25 minutes again and was reaaaaally frustrated that day.
I mean it was my first summer festival, but it was absolutely horrible (T____T) .......
Maybe I do something wrong, one of my coworkers always gets to chat with Japanese people that are nice to her and just start to talk to her although she can't speak Japanese AT ALL!!! Do I really look that scary?? GAAH! (T___T) *headdesk*
On another note: Right now I try to study as much Japanese as I can in every free minute! I really want to become fluent and ever since I came here I'm more motivated than ever.
Of course I hear Japanese every day wherever I go and I read some Japanese every day (mostly doujinshi though) although I don't understand much of it.
I bought quite a lot (too much -___- ...) of study material and am currently preparing for the 3kyu although the preparations are almost done. I think the only weak point right now is my non-existant grammar knowledge. After that I'll start to prepare for the 2kyu, but I'm not going to take it THIS December of course! That's impossible XD .... I still wonder if I should take the 3kyu in December though.
Apart from studying for the tests, I still wonder how to study Japanese. What would be a good method? Well for now I'm going to work through all the books I've already bought, that will keep me busy for quite a while, but if there is anyone on my f-list who wants to tell me in detail how they're studying Japanese (esp. those who are already intermediate or advanced level) that would be nice *offers cookies*
By this I don't mean "oh I study Japanese at university ..", but more detailed information. How exactly do you study grammar, kanji, vocab, etc. pp. (^^;)
See? I really have too much stuff by now! (T__T) ...
The minna no nihongo books I got from my coworker who is leaving.
Random food moments:
A while ago I went to a pretty cool kaitenzushi restaurant with leviosa8! See the little screen? There you can order what you want to eat if it's not on the band-conveyor and it will come to you in a little shinkansen!
The food there was really delicious and cheap and I think I ate too much, but .... uh ... well XD
I finally ate that HUGE senbei I got as present from Yumi-chan when we were in Nikko XD It was delicious!! <3333
This chocolate is soooo delicious! And they come in sooo many different flavors it's amazing o___O; ...
Green tea sandwich ice = love <3
And we don't even have to talk about Calpis icecream, do we? XD
This is pretty good, too.
And just random fruits that are not too expensive here! ^-^ Yummie.
Nice, but it almost feels like eating nothing at all o__O; ...
The new Pepsi: Blue Hawaii!! It looks so poisonous, but ..... hmm .... it doesn't taste bad but has too much sugar for my taste (^^;) ...
This one I don't like so much.
I always wanted to try one of these. They have desserts here with real fruit as container, filled with sorbet <33
That's what my coworkers had. I bet it was yummie, too ;___;
Who said combini fast food isn't good at all? I looooove it (*___*) ... and there's still so much I haven't tried yet XD
That especially goes for the snacks!! There's such a huge variety, it's amazing!
This tasted like sweet popcorn. I loved it :)
Me loves pretz (all the flavors, I guess).
I stole these from Mr. Donut <3333
These are really good, sour, but good.
These are nice, too.
Let's see what's in my fridge.
Sometimes you just need Starbucks ... and if there is no Starbucks near, then you need to bring Starbucks near ... or so ... XD
And me loves natto!!! (*______________*)v I can't understand how people can hate it. It's yummie!! <3
Yum!
It's cheap, easy and fast to make and tasty! What else do you want? :D
And that was my lunch today. Warm rice + raw egg + soy sauce = super delicious.
In the end I was curious and added some natto, too, it was delicious. The stuff on the left is just some tsukemono.
It was really good, although I can imagine that a lot of people would freak out if they had to eat natto AND raw egg XD
Random fandom moment:
I was just doing SOMETHING (can't remember what) and zapping and then there was POT airing and I was like HOMGGGGG!!!! (*_______*) ..... XD
Random Japanese oddity:
Ever bought Japanese tampons? No?
This is soooooooooooooooo funny XDDD
(I've never used these! We don't have that in Germany anyway XD .... I just discovered them when I was throwing the empty package away XD)
Hmm, I guess that's it for now.
I have to get ready because I'm meeting leviosa8 in 1 hour, we're going to watch Indiana Jones :D
Bye-buh~