December 2009 Archives

Steamboat(again!) and Takoyaki party

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I'm finally on holiday!!! Whee~
Okay, actually, I'm not officially on holiday yet because the school here has classes all the way till freaking Xmas day! Seriously, classes on Xmas?! This is the first school I've come across that does this kind of thing lor! So anyway, I've decided to pon classes on Thursday and Friday so I'm on holiday now!

The day before, Sou-chan went fishing and he caught like lots of puffer fish so he brought over puffer fish sashimi~! My first time eating puffer fish, whee~ I missed out on a chance to eat puffer fish the last time I was studying in Japan and I regretted so much but now, I'm happy and contented. Unlike salmon sashimi, puffer fish sashimi is kinda hard, or should I say chewy? My host family was telling me last year that they dont like it because of it's texture but it actually tasted really good to me. And somemore it was free so =D (Why am I so like that?!...lol)


Yesterday, we had Steamboat 7 at Toku's house. The steamboat this time was different because it was an all-veggie one! Really healthy and delicious!


Sake that Sou-chan brought over! I used to think that there was only one kind of sake but after coming to Hiroshima, I realised that I was wrong all along. There are like so many freaking different kinds of sake and all of them taste different! I cant even tell pork from chicken nor beef but even I can tell that there's a difference in the taste of different sakes. Kind of interesting to taste-test the different sakes.


Had takoyaki next! Havent made takoyaki since the last time we had a takoyaki party at Kana's house! Didnt have eggs nor a measuring cup so we basically just mixed the batter until it looked right to us. It turned out pretty chewy the first time but it was fine for me because I love chewy stuff!


I know the filling inside a takoyaki is supposed to be octopus but it doesnt hurt to try new ingredients! I mean, we have the delicious ham & cheese and prawn versions in Singapore, dont we? So it's always good to experiment with different ingredients. You never know when you'll get a right concoction.
Added octopus, tenkasu, chocolate(with nuts somemore), cheese, habanero-flavoured chips and tabasco sauce! The chocolate and cheese ones were really delicious!!!


Alice feeding Toku more takoyaki!


Stopped eating/chit-chatting at around 4am and someone suggested that we go for karaoke so yup, ended up going for karaoke. As we stepped into the room, Sou-chan immediately chose some parapara dance tutorials so we did parapara practice for like 30minutes or so...wtf. First time doing other things than singing at a karaoke place but it was kind of hilarious and once again, I was reminded of how much I suck at dancing.


Parapara!
Did karaoke for like 3 hours before leaving at like 7.45am. I seriously thought that it was only 5am when we left the karaoke place and was wondering why so many people were going to work/school already...wtf. Went back to Toku's place to get some sleep because we had a class at 10.35am but nobody could get up in time. Today was supposed to be my last day of class for this year but I guess it just wasnt meant to be. I think the teacher was probably quite wtf-ed with today's attendance because I know 4 students who didnt show up today.


Playing Pool

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More pool pictures from the other day!

Names of people who were there. I get really happy when people spell my name correctly because for some weird reason, many people cant seem to spell my name. Is my name that difficult?! And, I totally HATE it when people tell me to get an English name because "it's much easier to remember that way"(I dont mind if they're joking though). Seriously, if you cant be bothered to memorise my name, please stop talking to me.


With Eriko and Caity, who won because I wasn't in their group to slow them down...wtf.


Started taking pictures even before I started playing. Almost fell off the high chair while trying to get off it because my legs were too short to reach the ground. I need longer legs!!!


I know this picture seems wrong but trust me!!! I did not stick the pool cue into his ass! I was hitting his ass but somehow, the picture turned out wrong.


Battle between Sozza and me. It was my first time that I got dangled UPSIDE DOWN. Fucking scary can! I seriously thought that I would fall and hit my head on the ground, thus breaking my head in the process lor!


I am not short...I am not short...I am not short...


Best thing to do on a snowy night...eat ice-cream! I really like the brand of ice-cream I was eating because it comes in a pretty big cup, so I get to eat more...wtf, typical Singaporean. Only thing I dont like about it is that they dont sell the Matcha version in convenience stores here =( I need my Matcha fix!


I really want a cap!


Finally, someone who's willing to take this kind of pictures with me! Lol.


Crazy wild animals in Japan...wtf.


School holidays' coming soon and I'm going to Tokyo and Osaka with my sister!!! Cant wait~~!!

Dreamination 2009

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Was supposed to go see some ancient tombs yesterday for a school excursion but it got cancelled because it was too cold outside to do so. Instead, we got to do a little tour of the Archaeology Department. Very surprisingly, it was kinda interesting and the professor actually allowed us to touch some of the artefacts! Really cool!!!


It started to snow the day before and it was so pretty!!! It actually snowed for a while, like around 10~15minutes and all of us stopped right in the middle of the road to take pictures. I've seen snow falling from the sky before but it only lasted like 1~2minutes each time so it's kind of my first time seeing snow for such a long time! *感動!


Tried so many freaking times to take a nice jump shot but I dont think that there was a single picture in which everyone was off the ground at the same time...wtf. The reason why I chose this picture is because I'm the only one so far above the ground! Lol, haolian!


Played pool the night before and it was my second time at it!!! The first time was a few years ago at Leonard's house and I remember that instead of using the pool cue, I kind of used my hands to roll the balls into the holes. Heh! This time round, I stuck to using the pool cue and hit my thumb like twice, on the same spot! It still hurts now but pool was really fun! Nobody wanted to pair up with me because pairing up with me meant that they were going to lose...wtf.


I am really envious of people who have caps/hats/etc because it's just so warm wearing them! I do have ear muffs but I look like a siao za bor with my hair all over the place every time the wind blows. However, if I had a cap/hat/etc, my hair would stay in place and I'll look normal...at least up to the point before I take the cap/hat/etc off and show the world my hat/cap/etc hair.
And that's an ice-cream stick in my mouth by the way. I have no idea why I was eating ice-cream on a snowy day...And the devil on the cap is supposed to represent me...wtf.


Went to the city yesterday to do some shopping and see the Christmas/New Year lights! Was trying on various caps/hats/etc in Loft and I really really really like this fluffy white one but it was like freaking 3700yen so no, you're not coming home with me. :(


Lights on the building!


In front of the huge-ass Xmas tree outside this shopping mall called Pacela. It started to snow as soon as we stepped out of the mall and we were like "HOLY! IT'S SNOWING!!!" and got all excited until we realised that we were the only ones being so noisy...lol. The Japanese people just continued doing to their own stuff as though the snow was invisible to them...wtf.


Lights along the Peace Boulevard! It's called Dreamination and it will be on till like January 3rd or something. Didnt manage to view all of the lights because 1)we didnt have that much time, 2)our legs were starting to ache and 3)it was fucking cold outside and so, I'm definitely going back again to view all of them!


Chio!


Where's Cinderella?!


Took neoprints at Purikura-kan and you can borrow costumes FOR FREE there!!! Peony got a cute Stitch kigurumi, Caity got a Rilakkuma one and I got a erm...sailor uniform...*はずっ! The sailor uniform was fucking small, or rather, I'm fucking fat so I thought I was going to die by the time I stuffed my fats into the costume. Luckily the 2nd floor was empty or else I would have had die of embarrassment if a stranger saw me in that.


Us with our Paspys! Somemore all different colours! Paspy is the Hiroshima equivalent of our ez-link cards. I went to get one yesterday and there's like 8 colours to choose from! Guess which one's mine?!


Were so tired by the time we got back to Saijo(at around 1230am) that we couldnt even walk to Hakkenden to join the other people drinking. Almost froze to death while walking up the little hill to my dorm and it's only a 5minutes walk lor! Heard that last night was like minus 2 degrees Celsius or something and my room was 9 degrees Celsius. Brrrrr!

Steamboat Season!

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Havent been updating here for almost a month! It was really sunny when I was getting ready for school so I just put on a normal long-sleeved shirt and another top on because I thought it was going to be warm, just like the past two days. BUT, it was like fucking cold when I walked out of the building. Although the sun was shining, the wind was also kinda strong so it was really cold today. According to my teacher, it's going to get like horribly cold after Friday, cold as in like minus 5 degrees Celsius and it might even snow. WTF?! I thought that today was cold already! Anyway, it would be nice to see snow though~

Since the weather's been getting cold lately, I've been having lots of steamboats recently. I really like steamboat because you get to eat lots of food, talk with people and basically just warm up your body in winter~Had my first steamboat at Yu and Nao's house when I went to visit them last month. Ingredients were provided by Nao! Thanks! :D


It was really nice meeting up with them after such a long time! The sad thing is that they're both going to start work next year so they wont be in Hiroshima. :(


Steamboat 2 occurred at my tutor, Ayako's house. Her house is like seriously spacious for a Japanese apartment. And she has a freaking LCD TV!!! The TV was originally switched on when we started having steamboat but the power tripped when we switched on the heater...wtf. Had ice-cream for dessert~
And if you can the air-con in the picture, Sozza, the only guy in the picture, placed my wallet, money and camera ON TOP of the freaking air-con and obviously I couldnt reach it because I'm vertically-challenged. In fact, I think that nobody else in the room was tall enough to reach the top of the air-con...Tall people are evil!!!


Steamboat 3 happened like 2 days after Steamboat 2. Lol, too much steamboat in a week! So anyway, it was at Sou-chan's house and unlike the previous 2 occasions, there was alcohol this time round. There's seriously like a alcohol corner in his house and he even has a shaker, or whatever you call that thing to mix cocktails. Alice did a little cosplay show and it was kinda funny because the guys were taking way too many photos.
So anyway, Toku got really drunk and he went out to get some fresh air at one point but the rest of us just stayed in the room and continued drinking for like an hour(exaggerated) before Sou-chan went looking for him. Toku basically slept through the rest of the night and he was so passed out so Sou-chan started drawing on him, using INK! And I did not draw on Toku hor! This picture is just for photographic purposes.


Drank till like 6am or something before we finally went to sleep and woke up at like 11am. Reached home at about 12noon and I had to shower, paint my face, dry my hair, change and walk to school in like an hour because I had classes. I seriously have no idea how I managed to do that in such a short period of time. I usually take an hour to only paint my face and dry my hair lor!

Had a resting period of 5 days before Steamboat 4. Offered to go grocery shopping because that day was the supermarket's x5 points day and I could use more points...so auntie wtf. Bought like seriously lots of food and the bill came up to like $100 which I guess is pretty okay if you divide it by 10people.


That's me trying to be a psycho while cutting up the ingredients for the steamboat. Don't mess with me!!! Grrr...wtf. Somehow, everyone gets so surprised when I offer to do the preparations for steamboat. Why?!! I cant cook but I like cooking lor~And although I hate washing plates, I'll wash them if I'm at people's house, because I'm such a nice person...Nah, I do that because I know I'll hate it if I had to wash that many plates if the party was at my house.


Had to fit 10 people in this place. There were 5 guys of which 4 of them were tall white people so it was kinda squeezy but fun anyways! Played card games after the steamboat and I love it when people end up doing forfeits!!!..as long as I'm not the one who has to do it. XD.


Steamboat 5 was at Tomo's house and the bill this time came up to like $187 for 6 people because the guys bought SO much alcohol. Can even afford to stack them up lor!


The aftermath. The pot was actually borrowed from the convenience store! I was like "Har?" when they said that they had to stop by Family Mart to get a pot. This's the first time I've heard of pot rental services!


Tomo's room looks more like a gym because of all the gym equipment in there. Like seriously, it's filled with bench presses and all the stuff you see in the gym. Slept on one of the bench presses because there were already 4 people on the bed. People were kinda amazed by how I managed to balance myself but very difficult meh!? Left the next morning at 9am and wanted to sleep so bad but somehow ended up going to get breakfast, go grocery shopping and still had the energy to eat dessert. And we won the top prize in the YouMe Town draw!!! Top prize was like $16 worth of vouchers but still, it's a prize can!


Went back to my room and slept for like 6 hours before going for a all-you-can-drink thing at Hachibei. This is like seriously way too much alcohol in two days! I usually drink chu-hi all the way because it's sweet and the alcohol content isnt that high but I have no idea why but I like drinking beer more than chu-hi recently. Like all the girls got chu-hi the night before and I was the only girl who got a beer. Am I turning into a guy?!


So anyway, I drank alot that day...like way too much for my standard. I had a mug of beer, three chu-his, one umeshu, one small cup of sake, few gulps of whisky(I got cheated into drinking this and whisky sucks!!! I hate it) and some shochu. Except for the shochu, I drank the rest in like an hour-and-a-half, which is like way too fast for me so I got reaaaalllly high while at Hachibei. I was like laughing for no reason and playing chasing...yes, in the place...wtf. Luckily they didnt chase me out. Went to my friend's house after that for yet another steamboat session but I was too sleepy by then to eat. So my friend stays on the 6th floor and I have no idea how I managed to get to his house. I dont even remember taking the elevator lor!


I went straight for the bed as soon as I entered my friend's house and laid there till I felt a little sick and my friend was scared that I'll puke on the bed so I went to the toilet....And sat there for like a whole 15minutes, or so I heard. All I remember was that I was sleeping in the toilet and people outside were like asking if I was okay or not...wtf...seriously drank too much. Got out of the toilet, played some drinking games while still being half-asleep and had to drink more because I lost...wtf. I remember going to the toilet a few times later and hitting my head on the bedside shelf and nothing else till I woke up the next morning. Felt kinda bad though...because I basically occupied the bed and other people had to sleep on the floor.


Pretty crazy weekend. Note to self: Do not drink so much ever again.

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