SEP in Hyogo: November 2008 Archives

Freaking cheap sale~

Jhui

on November 30, 2008 11:04 PM | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBacks (0)

There was this L'Oreal sale today so I went all the way to Shin-Osaka to shop with my host sister~ Reached there at like 11am but there was already a long queue snaking outside the place and we could only enter at the next available time which was 12noon. Since we had to wait for like one hour, we went to a nearby coffehouse to take a rest and eat an early lunch. Ordered chili hotdog which was like not spicy at all! Never trust the Japanese when they say something it's spicy because it never is lo! Sometimes spicy turns out to be sweet somemore!

Finally managed to enter the sale place and totally went crazy there. Everything was so freaking cheap! Shu Uemura's eye shadow palettes that usually go for 5800yen was only like 1200yen today! Almost died of happiness! Everything was slashed to such low prices that I couldnt believe that it was real. Had to pinch myself a few times~

After shopping, I had to return to Takarazuka to watch a Takarazuka Revue performance. Tickets courtesy of KGU's CIEC office. Today's performance was Yume no Ukihashi and Apasionado!!. The hall was filled and the performance was pretty interesting, although I must admit that I did fall asleep once during the first item.

Me at the Hana no Michi while walking to the theatre. So tourist of me~

Made Bavarois a few days ago. Pretty sweet but whatever, it was nice okay...because I made it. Hehe.

Havent been updating much lately because I've been going out and I'm really tired when I get home. Shall update more when I get the time to do so~

Kyu~n

Jhui

on November 14, 2008 8:25 PM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)

As mentioned yesterday, I went to get my hair done today. Sick and tired of my stupid failed-permed-hair, I went to get it straightened today. Unlike the previous straightening sessions in Singapore, the hairstylist didnt even use a straightening iron loh! It still turned out straight though but I guess I'll have to wait till I wash my hair before I can decide if it sucks or not. Haha. Anyway, that's not the point...the point's that...the hairstylist was freaking cute lar!!! Hehe. I almost died of happiness today at the salon...and he smelt damn nice too.(Okay, I'm starting to sound like a weirdo here. Dont mind me please.) I'm so going back again...then again, I might not get him the next time. :(

After doing my hair, Tiffany, who waited damn long for me, and I went to eat at this little restaurant at Sakasegawa. Damn delicious although the portion was kind of small. My yummy yummy katsu set~

Just wanted to write about the cute hairstylist so I'm going to end my entry here. Whee~Actually, I already cant remember how the hairstylist look like now...wtf...I hate my lousy memory. :(

B.O.R.E.D

Jhui

on November 13, 2008 12:52 PM | Permalink | TrackBacks (0)

Am in the school's computer lab right now because I have free time before the next class starts. Feeling freaking bored because there's like nobody on MSN that I can kacau and the blogs that I read havent been updated yet...sian. Want to play Pet Society on Facebook but it'll be damn paiseh if someone sees me playing that when they walk into the computer lab.(I'm seated right next to the door btw...)

Everyone around me in the computer lab is like seriously doing important things like writing reports, doing homework and etc. I'm like the only slacker here who has no idea how to waste the next one hour away...boo. :( Oi, why the people here so muggerish one?!

Am planning to go do my hair tomorrow because I really cant stand my current hairstyle. I hate it as much as I hate erm...who do I hate most ar...erm...the person that I hate most. (Sorry, cant decide who I hate most...lalala)

Since I'm so bored, I'm totally typing nonsense here so dont mind me. In fact, I'm so bored that I actually went to read the Fann Wong and Christopher Lee interview on MSN Singapore...wtf. It's surprisingly funny though although I feel that they should hurry up and get married because it's irritating having to see news of their supposed 'marriage' every now and then. Interested people can go read it if you are as bored as me. http://entertainment.sg.msn.com/news/article.aspx?cp-documentid=1781906

Okay, shall end here because I dont know what else to rant about for now..See ya~

Bunraku

Jhui

on November 10, 2008 12:25 AM | Permalink | TrackBacks (0)

Went to watch a Bunraku(traditional Japanese puppet theatre) performance today in Osaka. I had to change trains twice just to arrive at Nippombashi, the station nearest to the theatre. The last time I was in Osaka with Fulin, we were like two lost sheep and ended up getting lost a few times. However, today, I managed to arrive at my destination without getting lost at all! Not even a single time. My biggest accomplishment up till date!!! Hehe =D

Was supposed to meet Ichiko at 3.15pm but since I thought that I would get lost while making my way there, I purposely started my journey early. Since I turned out to be superb at directions, I reached the place like half- an-hour early so I went to look at this exhibition on Bunraku...free-of-charge anyway~. There were volunteers there who gave me lots of interesting information about Bunraku. So anyway, this lady was talking to us in Kansai dialect, which is like seriously difficult for me to understand. After she realised that I was a foreigner...she continued talking in Kansai dialect. -_____________-. Oi! Normally the Japanese will revert to standard Japanese when they realise that they're talking to a foreigner because foreigners usually learn that instead of the Kansai dialect. wtf...but at least she was damn nice. :D
Me holding a puppet...damn freaking heavy can...and I realised that the puppet's almost as tall as me!!!

The Bunraku stage. The place where the Tayu and Shamisen players sat was seriously interesting. They actually 'swivelled' in during the performance and the swivel effect's done manually, not automatically. Damn cool. Watched two stories today, "Futatsu Chocho Kuruwa Nikki" and "Hachijin Shugo no Honjo". They were surprisingly interesting and I didnt sleep through the performances, unlike the last time I watched a Noh play. Okay, I think the reason why I didnt sleep was because I rented this English guide earphones so I wasnt like totally lost throughout the play. There were Japanese subtitles but they were in classical Japanese or something so I probably wouldnt have understood anything if I didnt rent the earphones. Another reason why I didnt sleep was because I'm supposed to write a paper on it so I was busy taking notes...hehe.

The play started at 4pm and ended at 7.55pm (I like how the Japanese like to end at weird timings. Why cant they just end at 8pm?!) In between, we had like 30minutes to buy and eat bentos there. The bentos sold at the theatre were freaking expensive so Ichiko and I shared one omusubi(rice balls) bento. Halfway through the bento, I had a craving for ice-cream so I bought one and before I could finish it, we were supposed to re-enter the theatre...wtf.

Anyway, it's like 1.19am here and I still havent finished my homework...:( I initially planned to start doing my homework after the performance but I didnt realised that the performance took 4 hours. Arrgh...have to chiong my homework now. :( Will probably end up dozing off halfway through anyway. Heh.

More pictures at http://tinypic.com/useralbum.php?ua=mbpGGni3KZ622Qj%2FLUO%2Bpg%3D%3D.

Tour of NHK/Umeda Sky Building

Jhui

on November 8, 2008 9:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBacks (0)

For the first time since I came to Hyogo, I finally got one day off where I could just laze around the whole day and do nothing. Whee~ In fact, all I did today was eat breakfast, watch White Chicks, sleep, eat dinner, surf the net. Havent had such a day in a long time...used to do that almost everyday back in Singapore. Hehe. Okay, actually I'm supposed to complete my homework but I just cant command myself to start working on it. Yar, I'm a lazy ass. Whee~

Went to the NHK studio in Osaka last week with my host sister to watch a live recording of "Ahoyanen Sukiyanen". Had totally no idea what the show was about before I went and all I knew was that JALJAL and Nakayama Kouta are in it...thanks to hy~

Since there was still lots of time before the recording started, we took the opportunity to tour NHK~
First stop was to visit the set of the on-going drama, "Dandan".

Next, we played this thing where you can become a weather girl/boy/alien, newscaster, aerobics teacher and many more weird stuff. It was really fun because you dont exactly get to do these sort of things everyday. We even recorded a DVD which I'm never going to upload here because it's just too wtf =D

Saw a recording of another show and wanted to take a photo but was stopped by security...##@%#$%@#@. There was a little bazaar outside NHK that day and since it was lunchtime, we went to buy almost all the food sold there. Had octopus croquette which was freaking good, crab bau and dango. I really wanted to try the squid sold there but by the time I finished all the food I bought, I was too full to eat anymore...=( The uncle who sold dango gave us a discount because...we were pretty~heh. Okay la, he probably wanted to go home early so he charged us less and gave us an omamori too~ Whee~

My host sister brought me to this place called "Miki Fruits Cafe" to have fruit parfait~ The fruits were like seriously sweet can! Ordered melon and peach parfait and I contemplated ordering one more because it was just so worth it. 850yen for a parfait decorated with fresh fruits~

In fact, I should've had ordered one more parfait because one melon costs a freaking 11,000yen can! wtf...so expensive lar. The parfait's so much more worth it~ There's like 600yen banana too, and I dont mean a bunch of them but just one. My host sister bought a few of them though so I got to eat it without paying~lalala. With 600yen, you can probably buy like a FEW bunches of bananas in Singapore lo.

Took photos of myself in the toilet because the toilet was just soooo pretty. Whee~

After eating the oh-so-delicious parfait, I followed my host sister around because she wanted to visit a shop...that she wouldnt tell me where even though I asked her a few times~. Had a hard time searching for that shop because the last time my host sister went there was like what...10 over years ago or something. Walked through Amerikamura(American Village) and seriously...it didnt remind me of America lo. Then again, I've never been to America...wtf. One thing to note was that there was lots of freaking cute guys there~ like seriously swarming the whole place...heh.

Ran into the Chocolate Man while at Triangle Park. He totally smelt of leather to me...eh...isnt he supposed to smell like chocolate?! Cheater!!! :D Dont know how the Chocolate Man sees because there were no holes in his outfit...wait...probably the two chio girls beside him were there to help him make his way through the park?

Finally reached the shop that my host sister wanted to go to...the Johnny's Shop!!! There were sooooo many girls/women in the shop that day can! The temperature outside the shop was probably 15degrees Celsius that day and probably 30degrees Celsius in the shop lo! Succumbed to temptation and bought a few Kinki Kids stuff~ The Kinki Kids and V6 sections were the only sections that had no queues of girls snaking in front lo...Damn sad...but at least that meant that I didnt have to squeeze though tons of people to buy stuff~

Went back to NHK to watch the live recording and it was surprisingly interesting. The recording was only one hour long but there was an one-hour off-camera event after it. It was obvious that most of the geinins were damn sian during the off-camera event though. :( Anyways, went to this okonomiyaki place called Kiji, located in Umeda Sky Building, for dinner. Luckily we went there early because by dinner time, there was a long queue outside the shop. In fact, it was so crowded that we had to leave by the backdoor after dinner!

The walls of the okonomiyaki shop were plastered with photos, namecards, train tickets, signature boards etc. Damn interesting and the food was super-duper good~

Went to the Umeda Sky Building Floating Garden Observatory after dinner, using the discount coupon that we got from Kiji =D.

The night view of Osaka was really pretty and even the ground was something to look at lor~.

Some love measurer thing where couples sit there and it will measure how much the couple love each other. I think it's bullshit though. Lalala~ The guy who was in charge of that corner that day was cute though~ Tralala~

Asuka, Me.

Some random couple getting all lovey-dovey on the couch...seriously...GET A ROOM! There were like little kids around lo...wtf.

Dessert time~. Had a dango set and a...

warabi-mochi set. Ate too much that day and felt damn bloated when we went home.

Grounded our own kinako (soybean flour), which was required for the warabi-mochi set.

Didnt realise that we were caught on TV during the live recording because we were like seated in the second row from the front. Freaking close to the stage but damn far from the cameras.