Distractions
A post full of distractions!
I've been listening to this song over and over. If any of you know where to download Korean music, let me know, because I sure don't. (I might have to get me some DBSK too.)
I also need Rick Astley MP3s. =( "Together Forever" and "Never Gonna Give You Up" to be precise. I like being Rick Rolled.
This fan edit version of "I.V." is great. A) he parodies the video in some parts which is great! B) he raises good points such as it sounding very similar to Endless Rain, which I didn't even notice till he pointed it out. I still prefer "I.V." to "Endless Rain" though.
http://hi.baidu.com/toyome/album
This Chinese girl has some awesome X Japan fan art. She also has Taeyang dolls that she has customized to look like Toshi and Yoshiki. THIS is what I want to do too, but I have no idea how and China seems to be big on dolls by JUN planning. They might have resources that I don't, at least within Japan. It makes me slightly envious.
Meme from glitterburn
Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.
I got: teaching, cake, Toshi, dolls, sleep. bonus - fish.
Teaching
I teach English here in Japan. I have had no formal training in teaching. In fact, I was given a week of intensive training and that's it. For the most part, teaching, as I do it, is getting the kids worked up with saying hello, doing a song and dance. We then pull out flashcards - no more than 5 or 8 for the younger kids, 12 being the limit with older kids. We go over them and I do it in all kinds of voices, showing only one half of the room, then only the kids in the front - basically making them wanting to know what I am hiding, even if all it is a picture of a shoe. Then we practice saying them, via chants, and we introduce a question, usually as simple as what's this. We do a few chants with that. And then it's games. Card trading games, card matching games, running to your favorite word and hoping I say it, and a circle game that they love here called fruits basket. Older kids will do worksheets like bingo or interviews. By the time we finish with the games, class is over. I do all of this in 30-45 minutes, several times a day, for 6 different grades, up to three different classes. Each class within the same grade learns the same lesson so I only prepare six lesson plans, but I have to prepare enough materials for each class.
It's intense. And stressful. But it's fun when the kids have fun and can show me they know their English. And I think I am good at it because most of teaching is how you present it to the kids. Get them to laugh, smile, show interest, and your job is easy. I can do that easily. It's part of being a funny person - if you've been a comedian your whole life, you can excel at this job. Be high energy, positive.
Sleep
More like lack of. I've had insomnia since 2006. That's three years. I developed it while studying abroad at Keio University in Tokyo. I still have it now. It's gotten to the point that I need prescribed medicine to fall asleep every night. It's all...mental I think. My body can be sore and tired, but if my mind is wide awake, I can't sleep. Stress, emotions, worries - all can keep me up. Good and bad thoughts can make me lose sleep. I also can't listen to myself fall asleep. If I hear my breathing slow, I fear it means I'm dying. So the medicine knocks my brain out, which lets my body sleep. See? I'm all fucked up inside.
My lack of sleep often makes me more stressed. Because I want to sleep. And when the medicine doesn't work, I just get plain old upset. Yea insomnia.
Fish
I have two pet goldfish: Toshi and Yoshiki. There used to be four (won them at a festival here) but two of them died. Since these two survived for a whole week, I bought them a real fish tank. They swim around a lot and are fun to watch when I just need to rest my eyes and think. They like to eat but I make sure not to feed them too much. I do worry what will happen to them when I leave Japan (or if I go on an extended vacation). They have real plants in their tank so I guess they could live off of that for a week or two but I'd feel better letting someone come and feed them. I don't know how long fish can last without food.
Cake
I like to eat cake. I like to buy them based on looks and ingredients. Japanese cake is very light - it's not as heavy as American cake. They base all their cakes off of French cake making. French pastries = easily found in Japan. I love them. I like how they taste. I haven't had any in a while because I felt guilty posting only photos of cakes to my LJ once a friend pointed out that all I ever seem to do is eat cake. I enjoy taking photos of them, and eating them, and when I have an oven, making them. But now I feel guilty just looking at them. I guess that means I won't get any fatter.
Dolls
So the first one is a doll called Arion but I bought him because I really like his clothes and he looks so much like an original character of mine named Abdiyl.
The other four are dolls I bought because they remind of X Japan (minus Starlight Yoshiki as he is uh a Yoshiki doll obviously). Red headed one in yellow is hide, the one in purple is Heath, and then the one with the scarf is Toshi.
Since I was little I have liked dolls. I owned a ton of Barbie dolls, all of which have been donated now. In my later years of elementary school I got into the American Girl dolls - I've been trying to sell those as I no longer want them. In middle school, and possibly high school for a bit, I liked to collect the special limited edition, worth a lot in like 30 years Barbie dolls. I still have all of those as I received them as presents and I love their outfits. I selected them because of the clothes they wear. I'd like to display them someday. But if I have no space, I will part with them.
So as you can see, I like dolls. They were one of my favorite play toys. My dolls could have all the accessories and cool clothes I never could, and through them I could live out all kinds of fantasies and realities. I made up tons of stories! Barbie often played with T-Rex, who would eat GI Joes on her command (yes, I played with my brothers). I've never seriously collected dolls as I'm far more used to playing with them. Even those collector Barbies have been removed from boxes, and played with. I would never get much for them as they are not MIBNBR or however they define them.
Lately, I have gotten into the Taeyang dolls put out by JUN Planning. These dolls are relatively inexpensive. I find them horribly cute. See, I wouldn't mind owning a ball jointed doll except I often find their features TOO realistic. They can sometimes creep me out. The fact that they can cost $1000 also throws me off. I love the fact that BJDs are very customizable, I really do. But I don't have enough creativity or talent inside of me to style a wig or do make up or change eyeballs or restring a doll. I can't even style my own hair, let alone put on make up. Why would I chance it on a doll? I've looked into it, and I just can't afford them, and I'm too afraid of messing up a doll. I know it can be fixed but that doesn't take away my fear. That and spending the same amount of money on doll clothing that I could spend on buying clothing for ME to wear, seems a bit ridiculous.
Anyway, I find the Taeyang dolls to be a good solution. They're slightly ball jointed; what I means is they are made out of plastic but they have joints. I can bend their legs, move their legs, bend their arms, mover their arms. I can pose them any way I like. You can customize them as well, though I've been able to find dolls that already come the way I want them to look (minus eye color). Since they're relatively small, you can buy like...My Scene Ken doll clothes and put them on them. They also look a bit more like cartoon characters and not real mini people. I just...really like them. There's only two left I want to buy - one that looks like Pata, and one that looks like Yoshiki. (He can fight with Yoshiki Starlight for leadership rights.) I want to take photos of them and make up funny stories.
And they've got personalities.
Well, Toshi doll does. He didn't come with underwear. He's secretly a porn star.
Heath is the quiet innocent one.
hide doll is obviously hide and he's my favorite. I like to hug him.
Abdiyl/Arion is the pensive emo one whose wig is constantly in his face.
Yoshiki starlight is a prissy drama queen who thinks he's all that.
Toshi
There is no short and simple way to describe how I feel about this guy. Seriously. I love this man. I think he's handsome, sexy, a dork, slightly weird, possibly a little crazy, hilarious, warm, and charming. He reminds me of me, he reminds me of my hippie Uncle Martin. He has such a big heart, and he's not afraid to do what he wants. He's gone through a lot and survived. He has a beautiful singing voice - it's like balm to the soul.
I respect and admire him a lot. It's thanks to him and the other members of X Japan that I decided to study Japanese. If I have a hero, a person I wish to be, it's him. I want to be confident enough in myself to do as I please, to tell others what I think, and to go out and support the causes I believe in. I want to save the Earth, I want to help people, but what am I doing? Sure, he's just holding concerts and making music, but he's also lining up eco collaborations. He's using his talent to spread the word - we got to protect what we got and make it better, we got to heal the Earth. He could easily just sing songs about getting high and killing others and still make a bunch of money.
I don't always agree with the things he has said or done. But I want to know more about him.
I also can not take him seriously sometimes because he can be really really funny. He's just this...nice, warm guy. And I think his wife and friends are fucking lucky to know him. I wish I did.
He's also really hot.
Mmmm gimme me some of that!
But uh yeah. I could go on about Toshi forever. And post a lot of pictures too. He's just...awesome.
glitterburn this good enough for ya? XD
Been feeling down lately. Not sure if I want to post about it or not. A lot of it is stuff I can't do anything about minus quitting my job and going home, which is not a good idea. Until I get over it, I might not be fit company. Just warning you. I don't like it either but well I got to fix myself. That doesn't mean you can't IM me or whatever, just don't expect me to IM you first.
Click to viewI've been listening to this song over and over. If any of you know where to download Korean music, let me know, because I sure don't. (I might have to get me some DBSK too.)
I also need Rick Astley MP3s. =( "Together Forever" and "Never Gonna Give You Up" to be precise. I like being Rick Rolled.
This fan edit version of "I.V." is great. A) he parodies the video in some parts which is great! B) he raises good points such as it sounding very similar to Endless Rain, which I didn't even notice till he pointed it out. I still prefer "I.V." to "Endless Rain" though.
http://hi.baidu.com/toyome/album
This Chinese girl has some awesome X Japan fan art. She also has Taeyang dolls that she has customized to look like Toshi and Yoshiki. THIS is what I want to do too, but I have no idea how and China seems to be big on dolls by JUN planning. They might have resources that I don't, at least within Japan. It makes me slightly envious.
Meme from glitterburn
Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.
I got: teaching, cake, Toshi, dolls, sleep. bonus - fish.
Teaching
I teach English here in Japan. I have had no formal training in teaching. In fact, I was given a week of intensive training and that's it. For the most part, teaching, as I do it, is getting the kids worked up with saying hello, doing a song and dance. We then pull out flashcards - no more than 5 or 8 for the younger kids, 12 being the limit with older kids. We go over them and I do it in all kinds of voices, showing only one half of the room, then only the kids in the front - basically making them wanting to know what I am hiding, even if all it is a picture of a shoe. Then we practice saying them, via chants, and we introduce a question, usually as simple as what's this. We do a few chants with that. And then it's games. Card trading games, card matching games, running to your favorite word and hoping I say it, and a circle game that they love here called fruits basket. Older kids will do worksheets like bingo or interviews. By the time we finish with the games, class is over. I do all of this in 30-45 minutes, several times a day, for 6 different grades, up to three different classes. Each class within the same grade learns the same lesson so I only prepare six lesson plans, but I have to prepare enough materials for each class.
It's intense. And stressful. But it's fun when the kids have fun and can show me they know their English. And I think I am good at it because most of teaching is how you present it to the kids. Get them to laugh, smile, show interest, and your job is easy. I can do that easily. It's part of being a funny person - if you've been a comedian your whole life, you can excel at this job. Be high energy, positive.
Sleep
More like lack of. I've had insomnia since 2006. That's three years. I developed it while studying abroad at Keio University in Tokyo. I still have it now. It's gotten to the point that I need prescribed medicine to fall asleep every night. It's all...mental I think. My body can be sore and tired, but if my mind is wide awake, I can't sleep. Stress, emotions, worries - all can keep me up. Good and bad thoughts can make me lose sleep. I also can't listen to myself fall asleep. If I hear my breathing slow, I fear it means I'm dying. So the medicine knocks my brain out, which lets my body sleep. See? I'm all fucked up inside.
My lack of sleep often makes me more stressed. Because I want to sleep. And when the medicine doesn't work, I just get plain old upset. Yea insomnia.
Fish
I have two pet goldfish: Toshi and Yoshiki. There used to be four (won them at a festival here) but two of them died. Since these two survived for a whole week, I bought them a real fish tank. They swim around a lot and are fun to watch when I just need to rest my eyes and think. They like to eat but I make sure not to feed them too much. I do worry what will happen to them when I leave Japan (or if I go on an extended vacation). They have real plants in their tank so I guess they could live off of that for a week or two but I'd feel better letting someone come and feed them. I don't know how long fish can last without food.
Cake
I like to eat cake. I like to buy them based on looks and ingredients. Japanese cake is very light - it's not as heavy as American cake. They base all their cakes off of French cake making. French pastries = easily found in Japan. I love them. I like how they taste. I haven't had any in a while because I felt guilty posting only photos of cakes to my LJ once a friend pointed out that all I ever seem to do is eat cake. I enjoy taking photos of them, and eating them, and when I have an oven, making them. But now I feel guilty just looking at them. I guess that means I won't get any fatter.
Dolls
So the first one is a doll called Arion but I bought him because I really like his clothes and he looks so much like an original character of mine named Abdiyl.
The other four are dolls I bought because they remind of X Japan (minus Starlight Yoshiki as he is uh a Yoshiki doll obviously). Red headed one in yellow is hide, the one in purple is Heath, and then the one with the scarf is Toshi.
Since I was little I have liked dolls. I owned a ton of Barbie dolls, all of which have been donated now. In my later years of elementary school I got into the American Girl dolls - I've been trying to sell those as I no longer want them. In middle school, and possibly high school for a bit, I liked to collect the special limited edition, worth a lot in like 30 years Barbie dolls. I still have all of those as I received them as presents and I love their outfits. I selected them because of the clothes they wear. I'd like to display them someday. But if I have no space, I will part with them.
So as you can see, I like dolls. They were one of my favorite play toys. My dolls could have all the accessories and cool clothes I never could, and through them I could live out all kinds of fantasies and realities. I made up tons of stories! Barbie often played with T-Rex, who would eat GI Joes on her command (yes, I played with my brothers). I've never seriously collected dolls as I'm far more used to playing with them. Even those collector Barbies have been removed from boxes, and played with. I would never get much for them as they are not MIBNBR or however they define them.
Lately, I have gotten into the Taeyang dolls put out by JUN Planning. These dolls are relatively inexpensive. I find them horribly cute. See, I wouldn't mind owning a ball jointed doll except I often find their features TOO realistic. They can sometimes creep me out. The fact that they can cost $1000 also throws me off. I love the fact that BJDs are very customizable, I really do. But I don't have enough creativity or talent inside of me to style a wig or do make up or change eyeballs or restring a doll. I can't even style my own hair, let alone put on make up. Why would I chance it on a doll? I've looked into it, and I just can't afford them, and I'm too afraid of messing up a doll. I know it can be fixed but that doesn't take away my fear. That and spending the same amount of money on doll clothing that I could spend on buying clothing for ME to wear, seems a bit ridiculous.
Anyway, I find the Taeyang dolls to be a good solution. They're slightly ball jointed; what I means is they are made out of plastic but they have joints. I can bend their legs, move their legs, bend their arms, mover their arms. I can pose them any way I like. You can customize them as well, though I've been able to find dolls that already come the way I want them to look (minus eye color). Since they're relatively small, you can buy like...My Scene Ken doll clothes and put them on them. They also look a bit more like cartoon characters and not real mini people. I just...really like them. There's only two left I want to buy - one that looks like Pata, and one that looks like Yoshiki. (He can fight with Yoshiki Starlight for leadership rights.) I want to take photos of them and make up funny stories.
And they've got personalities.
Well, Toshi doll does. He didn't come with underwear. He's secretly a porn star.
Heath is the quiet innocent one.
hide doll is obviously hide and he's my favorite. I like to hug him.
Abdiyl/Arion is the pensive emo one whose wig is constantly in his face.
Yoshiki starlight is a prissy drama queen who thinks he's all that.
Toshi
There is no short and simple way to describe how I feel about this guy. Seriously. I love this man. I think he's handsome, sexy, a dork, slightly weird, possibly a little crazy, hilarious, warm, and charming. He reminds me of me, he reminds me of my hippie Uncle Martin. He has such a big heart, and he's not afraid to do what he wants. He's gone through a lot and survived. He has a beautiful singing voice - it's like balm to the soul.
I respect and admire him a lot. It's thanks to him and the other members of X Japan that I decided to study Japanese. If I have a hero, a person I wish to be, it's him. I want to be confident enough in myself to do as I please, to tell others what I think, and to go out and support the causes I believe in. I want to save the Earth, I want to help people, but what am I doing? Sure, he's just holding concerts and making music, but he's also lining up eco collaborations. He's using his talent to spread the word - we got to protect what we got and make it better, we got to heal the Earth. He could easily just sing songs about getting high and killing others and still make a bunch of money.
I don't always agree with the things he has said or done. But I want to know more about him.
I also can not take him seriously sometimes because he can be really really funny. He's just this...nice, warm guy. And I think his wife and friends are fucking lucky to know him. I wish I did.
He's also really hot.
Mmmm gimme me some of that!
But uh yeah. I could go on about Toshi forever. And post a lot of pictures too. He's just...awesome.
glitterburn this good enough for ya? XD
Been feeling down lately. Not sure if I want to post about it or not. A lot of it is stuff I can't do anything about minus quitting my job and going home, which is not a good idea. Until I get over it, I might not be fit company. Just warning you. I don't like it either but well I got to fix myself. That doesn't mean you can't IM me or whatever, just don't expect me to IM you first.