... as I feared... it needs a replacement because it was so worn out -_- 

I carried the bike all the way to Gokiso... my arms are sore.. 

At least this place had a nicer guy, and was cheaper... 3300yen

So, altogether I have paid 7800yen for my bike... that means that out of all the exchange students, I paid the most. Because the guys got their second-hand bikes for 7000yen... My luck just sucks...

Anyway-

Last night I made Shogayaki! Spent lots of effort and tears grating the ingredients (onions argh!) lol And it tasted superb - and Nana will second that :)

OMFG &!^&Y#E Now, my front tyre blew FFS! ><

Hopefully it's just a puncture... Hopefully I don't have to replace the whole tyre... again X_x


もう～！普通に乗っていたのに・・・ 何だよ・・・

Nana's Surpirse Party ~!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NANA! ^^　

So here's the wrap. Aaaages ago, Rina suggested that we should have a surprise party for Nana's birthday, so we kept that date free- and yar.. when the date got closer, I offered to hold in my room. So for the past few days we've been planning this party. Doing decorations, ordering the cake, buying presents, doing the accounts, and general preparations... all worth it tho ^^ Chorai (Lei) helped a lot! When Nana left the night before, I called him for help with the room decorations and he came straight away! And also, he did the cake and made it possible for us to have dinner at the Chinese Restaurant that he works at ^_^ All that despite the fact that he hadn't known Nana for more than a week! THANKS :D lol

Ingmar, Rina and I met up in the morning and went shopping for everything else that we needed ~ such as ガチャピン, a nice book where everyone can stick photos on and write messages, party goods and food :) And guess what? Rina slept only 3 hrs (getting home at 6am, and meetin' up with us at 10am). . . which resulted with her falling asleep at the end of the night--- people have their limits... Tomorrow is her TOEIC exam as well >< Good luck~!  Thanks Rina! ^^

So, Nana comes by a lot to watch movies and just hang over. And for a long time, she's wanted to watch ポニョ. By tricking her and being sneaky with numerous lies... I got her to believe that night we were just going to watch a movie together with Rina (who also wanted to watch it). And, for dinner I was going to cook something for them~ so until 7pm I claimed that I was out buying groceries for dinner that night... - which bought us more time to write in the b'day card/book, and print photos etc. (which we really needed) We had to make 2 trips to the photo place tho- and they couldn’t print the photos that I leeched off Facebook… So in the end, some photos were missing. Unfortunately for Jesse, he didn’t have a photo because I got them all from Facebook and the dimensions weren’t supported xD – we’ll stick one on for you later man haha

So, we turned off the lights and waited for the Birthday Girl’s arrival… Jesse was peeping out the peephole in the door for a good 10 minutes looking out for her to come… LoL

When she came, Nana was so deceived that... she actually brought popcorn with her!

Turned out very well ^^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoPcKW5GXk4 <- taken by Rui

Haircut :)

昨日奈々ちゃんとRAY Field - Hair & Beauty という美容室に行き、奈々の５０％オフ割引券を使って、髪を切って、染めたんだ★
こういう感じになっちまったー

どう思う？

この店を選んだので、無料でメンバーのカードが作られた。 後、友達にその店を勧めるための５０％の割引券が2枚貰ったから、もし、要るのならば、連絡してネ ^^

Bike troubles

Ah far out...!!!

Usually I leave about 20-15 minutes to get to school by bike, which gets me there a few minutes before class actually starts... but something went wrong *uh oh*

So, I'm riding along, about 5 minutes in I hear a scratching sound so I look down and my back tyre was flat. So, I thought *okay, I just have to find a bike store or somewhere to refill the air*, so I got off the bike and was walking it to school scanning each side for such a place. I actually tried to get back on, because I was running out of the time... but that was a bad idea because it wasn't making a good sound, and I didn't want to damage the rim... (Sasaki-sensei is pretty strict about being on time *scared*), so I was kind of power-walking/ half-running with my bike. lol

Finally, I pass by a petrol station. In Australia we live next to a garage/petrol-station, and they have a bike (or all-purpose) air-refill station... so I naturally thought that they must have something... So I went in and asked the staff whether or not they have a air pump. He didn't look very amused, and he said that if it was a bicycle there wasn't anything they had that could help. BUT as I did my mini-bow and started heading out, some other guy ran out and said that he can do it... -_-;;

So I thought *yay* I might be able to make it to class on time!

So he refilled it with a car pump (which didn't quite fit, but it filled up the tyre super fast...lol)

Then we heard something....

*Hissssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss~~ *





Noooo!!! Air was pouring out a rip in the tyre like crazy > < There was nothing else I could do, so I just said thanks and continued to hurry to school by foot (with the bike of course)... And in the end I got to school about 5 minutes late... last. >

...But everything was alright after I explained what happened... I had a legit reason *nod nod*

I had a break in the 3rd period so I went to a bike shop in Sakurayama, and left them my bike... Usually punctures of the inner tyre can be patched up and that would cost about 1000yen each puncture, but unfortunately this was worse; 4500yen for a full replacement of the tyre~!! so expensive omg!! Rina said that Aeon did it for about 3000yen, but by the time I learnt that, I was already on my way to the bank to pay for my rent... and apparently, if you leave them the bike that means that you accepted the price. Oh well. At least I get a nice tyre then! :S

Fail enough tho... because I didn't actually pay for the bike in the beginning, and I received it for free... So, it's nothing I can complain too much about without being verbally bashed by those people who bought their bikes :P

So that's the end of that story...

Afterwards, I went to the gym for a bit, went to class, then went back for more gym-ing. Then I went to visit Chorai's house. But first passing by Seiyu (because he goes through lots of milk very fast o_O) - where I bumped into Rina (another Rina, friend of Misaki- who we met at bowling aaages ago). So at Chorai's place, just had a little bite, and played a bit of PS3 until he had work :) Thanks for lettin' me come over Chorai ! Oh Oh! Chorai also gave me his old-phone too~!! which was pretty much the same model, but it was black- and slightly newer! And he also had 2 batteries (So I got 3 now)... kinda makes me regret buying that battery pack for 3000yen... but then again, I'm getting these things for free so I am in no position to complain am I.. :P

Then when I got back, Jesse made me dinner again- and he showed me his website in progress~ It looks good-! http://jessesjapan.com/ - which will be up fairly soon. It'll be much better than this lame blog haha look he has his own domain! and he is doing all the designing himself with the help of his friend!

Also, half of Saori's (who is in Osaka) group has fallen sick in the past few days... Ta-chan, Saori herself, and now Takashi - who was diagnosed with Swine flu T_T...

We are all worrying, but in truth there is nothing much we can do... especially me... all the way here in Nagoya...

Hope everything turns out alright...(≧д≦)

オムライス！！(●⌒∇⌒●)

2nd attempt at it OMURICE

turned out better than before lol

... But it still broke ><

Saya made one too! She won. :)

「おばぁちゃんのみかん」

Trip Log

New addition to the room~

• TV! 
• 2nd hand TV stand - ridiculously cheap @ ￥７８０- because I cut it down from ￥９８０ with the ￥２００ voucher I got from buying the Kotatsu from the same place - I think you get a 100yen-off coupon for every 1000 you spend there :) 
• and I got 3 cushions for about ￥７５０each ^^　they're not the best looking, but are reasonable fluffy and comfortable!

Yesterday, Rina, Nana, Jesse and I went for a long drive the other day down to Nagashima- for some shopping because there was a huge shopping venue over there.

It started pretty rough because Rina lost her car keys in her house (and is currently still looking for them now...) so she was panicking quite a bit. She only had one set of keys so... in the end she ended up bringing her dad's van, which was soo big... haha. She was pretty scared because I think she said that it was the first time driving such a big car, and the roads are pretty narrow o_O. I would freak out a bit too if I drove around here.

Unfortunately, the weather wasn't great - raining. But neverless it was a fun day~ walkin around. Got some nice food and icecream at the place as well... not much point describing shopping- :P

So, when we got back they took us to some small Tonkatsu shop- where there was just 1 staff, his name was... i forgot his name ><. But apparently it is a pretty popular shop among them, and they knew him pretty well, and chatted like close friends o_O  But that's nice. :)
( it was really surprising for me and Jesse. ) lol

But yarr- he gave us 4xMochi for free- which the girls didn't even want to eat. lol - so I brought it home. Rina had to return the car to her mum, so she had to go home early... but afterwards, Nana, Jesse and Cho came over to watch movies at my place until late. The german guys were off at Ayumu's place doin something until late, so they didn't come.

Nana bought a lot ... so we (I) ate a lot of fingerfood. haha
Aaaah my room is so nice ^^

That was a pretty brief update. Gonna start studying for tomorrow's quiz ! Seeeeyaz

２８００円で中古のコタツを買ってきたよ！^_^

Yay I got a cheap second hand table! Which happens to be a kotatsu (heated table)- which is awesome for winter :D

But it is pretty big and there's hardly any space left in my room :P

Worth it tho !

里奈、運んで手伝ってくれてありがとうネ！

Potato salad

Bring it!

うわぇ！食った食った！

Jesse woke me up and made me breakie :D Thanks Jesse!

Then, later that day we decided to have a kind of cooking-party thing where everyone makes a few dishes and we bring it to Toni's room to have a banquet. Although his table is tiny, we managed to make do.

Saya and I made some salad and curry. lol
Looks awesome and tasted awesome haha

And then I had extra tofu so I just cut it up and smothered it hahahha

@ Toni's room (before)

There was more food than this... just didn't fit on the table.

After: (can't eat any more)

We should do this more often ! Yum ^^

typhoOon

Typhoon Melor came ashore in Aichi prefecture on the main island of Honshu shortly after 5:00 am (2000 GMT Wednesday), the meteorological agency said, becoming the first typhoon to make landfall in Japan since 2007.

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20091007/tap-japan-weather-typhoon-landfall-d1078a1.html

We were told that university would be canceled if there was a warning on the news. But luckily for us, the Typhoon missed Nagoya as it veered in another direction... which also meant we had school after lunchtime. *sigh* So don't worry 'bout us :)

Anyway, that night we sang til our throats were dying- karaoke until 4am (10hrs) ... lol

Trip Log 5.9

Yoz~!

Just a bit of a brief update on the weekend-

Aivy's b'day was on the 3rd of October... and from ages ago, her boyfriend Shaun tried to organise a surprise party for her by asking me and Rose to come to Kyoto for that weekend to spend some time with them~ however, due to that stupid thing called Facebook, she found out about it -_- so it wasn't a surprise anymore...


But still- we went down the Kyoto for the weekend despite the lack-of-surprise...and Kevin was able to come as well :)

So we went to some Japanese restaurant down in Sanjo 三条, where we had various interesting foods, including horse sashimi o_o... and yeah it was a good dinner! Nice furnishings and everything~ but it doesn't look like I took out my camera at all that night.


By the end of that night tho, I realised that my student card was missing from my wallet!!! which is really bad because that means I won't be eligible for any student discounts or anything--- and replacing it costs a lot as well  because it has some special chip inside which enables us to use the school computers.. > < 

The next day we went to some place with life sized weird dolls sitting on tables, staring into blankness to eat breakfast. This restaurant had only 1 dish, so the waiter just asked us how many did we want, not what we wanted ... and it was a 680 yen crepe-like thing... I didn't have any tho.   

So after that we walked around some very japanese looking places such as this...

Afterwards we walked around the place some more, dropping in some shops, and sampled some plum-based-food. Also looked at few bookshops and in the end, I managed to convince both Rose and Aivy to buy the exact same grammar book I had by recommending it to them. LoL 
Also went by a 交番 (police box) where I told them about my missing student card... and gave them my details in case they found it... but either way I was leaving Kyoto the next day so chances were bleak T_T

Oh, we had some mister donuts: this is tofu (apparently) - thx Shaun!

Went for bowling.... which we found out was ridiculously expensive for 2 games (possibly because it was on a Saturday), but I got a nice score--- also we played some Taiko at the arcade etc.

After that we went to an "all you can eat" cake buffet - which sold other foods as well... lucky tho, because I felt sick after just one full plate of cakes lol
In this place, there was a bday special promotion... and Aivy had to tell them it was her bday, and she also asked them to take a photo. In the end we got a photo which they printed out for us, and we sang the bday song amongst ourselves... But a few minutes later, all the staff crowded around some other table and the bday song came out from the speakers in the restaurant -__- yup, japanese people get special treatment lol

Then after a lot of negotiating, we ended up at Kev's dorm~ about 10 people turned up ;O

The next day we went to 清水寺 kiyomizudera, which was on a really steep mountain....which was killer-tiring coz it was melting hot as well... and we just went for a bit of touristy sightseeing before we split up and I headed back to Nagoya~ . 

Haha this type of photo posting is so much easier- but takes longer actually... because you gotta upload these one by one zz

Come on guys, comment comment!! :P