Greetings!

Helllo! Sorry long time no post! Been super busy with schoolio, work, and flea marketing and catching up with 'old' friends! (SACHI!)

Anyway, hope all is well, and everyone has caught the World Cup fever like I have! hehe. I try to watch as many matches as possible BUT i have to wake up early so it's been tough tough tough. And in any case, Japan has seen themselves out very early! as have all our Asian couterparts! boooo! Oh well, I am still cheering for a whole wad of other countries! haha including England, Portugal, Argentina, Brazil, Spain and Ghana! haha. So many teams (and hotties) to choose from, what to do! hehe. Anyway, just enjoying the high class football (well, save the England games which have so far been fairly uneventful, "no flair and imagination" - says Time Magazine!)

Anyhooooo, other than the World Cup, I have been going to school and work the usual usual, and that has been going great, but also I have met up with Sachi who had left us for a year! and also, we did a FLEA MARKET and sold our old stuff so we have space in our cupboards to buy a bunch of new stuff come this summer sale! hahaha!

So here are some pics!
Last Wednesday outside Ciao Chiang Mai, my faithful Thai restaurant in Kichijouji. (From left: Yuko, Miho, Me, Yuka, Sachi and Chris)



Yuka and I at our flea market spot at Yoyogi! It was SOOOOOOOOOOOO hot - and we were worried that it was gonna rain! hah! From 9am - 4pm, selling our stuff was like a full time job! (Sat. 24th June 2006)

Me, Chris, Aya and Yuka under the bridge with all our stuff, overflowing our designated 2m by 2m sales spot! haha and the bicycle which belonged to some unknown person! (honto ni, omake de dareka ni agereba yokatta ne! hehe!)
Chris, Me, Aya and Sachi (?! - doko miteruno?! haha) It's so goooooood seeing u again Sachi!

The flea market began at 9am and we all ended up packing at around 4pm. It was so nice of Aya, Sachi, Mitsuho, Leslie-Ann, Lena, Jen to come stop by and it was a blast chatting with you all in the heat!

The best part about the day? When we used our earned coins to buy ice cream from Baskin and Robbins. I had a Small Triple Icecream with Waffle Cone with Rocky Road (YUM!), Nuts to yoU! (hehe), and Kick Off Crunch (what can i say? a world cup special!) and it was absolutely delish and to-die-for!

ORANGE (not green....!)

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Tagged

It is Saturday. In Singapore, this was my favourite day. I got to hang around with my closest friends, and I got to dance.
It is Tokyo, and it is raining, dark and cold today. The weather is a perfect reflection of how I am feeling right now... But I have wallowed in my sorrows for the last 2 hours, and I refuse to do it any longer! So... I am going to do what Nic "asked" me to do a while ago, and fulfill my duties as a "tagged person".

So the first question is, what on earth was I doing 10 years ago?
At 11! WOW, so long ago. So I was pre-meeting-very-significant-person-me.... and I was in Singapore (I am now in Japan for those of you who are veeeerrrrryyyy slllooooowwww or who have a horrid memory). Um, I would probably say that I was still an incredibly lazy student, enjoyed being with boys more than girls... Exactly 10 years ago right now, I probably wouldve been at DANCE ARTS! hehe, where my ladies are at right now I hope! In any case, I guess the one thing that I have in common with 10 years ago me is that I still love to dance. What else? I still hadn't quit ballet? and I didn't worry every single day about my future! Come to think of it, I am going to try to regain that aspect of my 11 year old self.

Hmmm. the next question is 5 songs that I know all the lyrics to off the top of my head right now!
This is hard cause right this minute I am listening to "harder to breathe" by Maroon 5 and I seem to know all the lyrics to it! (but I actually don't listen to it that often!). in any case, let's say: Harder to Breathe by Maroon 5, Take me or Leave me by 2 ladies of RENT, For you I will (Confidence) by Teddy Geiger, 10 years time by Gabrielle, AND.... No Tomorrow by Orson - well there's one line that I cant quite catch! hehe (and I still know MANY MANY MANY songs by Mariah Carey and am very proud of that!)

The next one is Five things I would do if I were a Millionaire
Wow... This is a very good one. Incredibly unoriginal but something we all think about no? To be honest, what I am about to answer, I am not sure if I could do with a million. I can't quite grasp the concept of having a million.
Pay for my brother's, sister's education and my post grad education.
Take my family on a holiday to Phuket.
Take my friends on a holiday to wherever they wanted, or pay for them to come over here!
Buy a house that I can share with J.
Save some.

Hmmm. This is a toughie. Five Bad Habits. I'm not quite sure if I have any.
I worry WAYYYYY too much
I procrastinate
I obsess about my future
I'm at times too emotional for my own good
I spend too much money
(this question was done in less than 3 seconds. hehe)

Five things that I like doing. - Please bear in mind that I can't do half of these things right now which obviously makes me quite a sad person.
Spend time with J.
Spend time with my Dance Arts buddies. Esp. D, Nic, Li, Dai, Spam.
Shopping and Eating with friends, family, or J, or all at the same time.
DANCING
Traveling with J. Friends. Family.

Five things that I will never wear, buy or get again... WHAT? So difficult leh.
1. Ooh. I got one. In Japan, during the big summer or winter sales they have this thing called "fukubukuro", inside these "fukubukuros" they have let's say 3-4 ANONYMOUS items from the particular brand (eg. Ms Sixty which is where I bought mine!)... They will charge say 5000 yen (approx. 75 sing dollars?) for this bag (you have NO idea what's inside). The items inside the bag would have an accumulated cost of something like 30000 yen so it seems pretty cool. But anyway, my sister and I bought one each. She had a pair of jeans, a shawl, and a black top. I had a pair of red corduroys, socks, and a see through netted VERY ugly black shirt. I ended up taking most of her stuff, and I NEVER wear the red corduroys, or the very ugly netted black shirt... So basically, I will never buy EVER AGAIN a fukubukuro. But sometimes, it's SO tempting.
2. Hmmm... this is for some reason so difficult. I will (try never to) get high heel shoes. See what I did there? I KNOW i am going to end up getting some. But the moment I usually wear heels, I'm like "WHY???" so I will try not to get heels ever again.
3. Cheap Shoes, UNLESS (and this is important) it's a HUGE discount from an originally good shoe brand or something. I have to agree with nic on this one. They give me blisters.
4. I will never wear, higher than belly button pants.
5. Cropped Tops. Never ever again.

Five Favourite Toys/Things
Wedged GREEEEEEN and blue Diesel sandals
Photos, and thus camera
Creative Player and my funky headphones
My Jeans
My rings and my Winnie-the-Pooh watch

Thanks Nic for giving me something to do!

While Keita was at football... the rest of us: One Day of "Golden Week" in Nikko

Mar and I on the Ginza line to Asakusa - where we got on the TobuNikko line to go to Nikko!

Water bus from Asakusa that goes to Odaiba! Went on it with a special someone not too long ago, but the weather was shittier then! Anyway, just a nice pic of the Sumidagawa River (me thinketh!)

Me and Mar on a bridge at Asakusa

Me with my "宇宙に行く人みたいなヘッドフォーンズ" - ママ ("headphones that make me look like I'm going to space!"-mummy!) and my very smiley dad!

A pic on the move in the tunnel which leads to the..........

Absolutely stunning Kegon waterfallllll! （華厳の滝）

It was soooooo beautiful. It's a pity I have no idea how to add videos onto a blog, or if that's even possible, because a photo just does not do this waterfall justice. Apparently, many years ago, a Tokyo University student committed suicide here and left a beautiful but sad poem (but that is a TOTALLY different story.... ) Anyway, the weather yesterday was gorgeous, and this was definitely a sight worth getting up in the morning for.

Daddy, Me and Mar in front of the waterfall Mummy, Mar and I in front of the waterfall

My Mama and Papa

The waterfall's stunning fresh water comes from this calm, serene, beautiful lake. This picture is taken from the more touristy side which unfortunately was the only part of the lake we had time to visit yesterday. It was so peaceful being surrounded by mountains, and having the fresh water right in front of me. Lovely.

Me with the lake in the background

Me and Mar with the lake behind us

MY 21st BIRTHDAY! - 2 weeks late!

HEYLO! Sorry I haven't blogged in SO long - especially for not posting these birthday pics sooner! hehe. As most of you know, I have been sick since the 18th of April (2 days before my birthday, and was most sick on the 20th! BOOOOOHOOOOOO!) But now that I'm slowly feeling better, I am going to BLOG BLOG BLOG!
Hehe, sorry I suddenly found it funny again when D said to me, "You're sick again?!" haha - okay, lost my train of thought!

Anyhoooo, thanks so much to everybody who made my 21st so memorable! It was exactly as I wanted it except of course that on the 20th I actually couldn't taste my choco cake, and I choked on it as well!

On the 18th, Chris, Yuka, Aya and I went to a burger place in Shibuya, and it was DELISH! Thanks girls for taking me there, and for celebrating with me! Then we proceeded to take LOADS of purikura! hahahahaha, that was a laugh, especially since we got one more for free after I picked out the lucky colour in a "lucky draw" of some sort!

Also, thanks girls for having lunch with me on the 20th! and EVERYBODY for all the phone calls and the emails, and the MSN wishes! I hope next time we can ALLLL celebrate together! esp. my girlies in Sing, and in London! I missss you sooooooooooooooooo much!

Anyway, enough talk talk talk, time for some pics!

(I just noticed the little tummmy sticking out in my yellow shirt! hehe, sorry about that!)

hehe, Yuka eating a HUGE burger!

Very un-glam I know! hehe SORRRRY!

OOH! Pressies, and Yuka's eye peering through the plastic bag hole! BOO! hehe

hmmm! What's in this box?! (DELICIOUS cookies, and biscuits of all sorts from Spain, Italy, USA, England, Austria, Germany, Switzerland - YUMMMMM!)

Me and Chris, and pressies! I am holding earrings from YUKA! (Thanks Chris for the photos by the way! your new camera is wicked!)

Yuka, Me and Aya holding our Puri Kura, AND our ticket to one more free one! hehe, I was lucky that day wasn't I? Excuse the unflattering neo lights, (and noise which you can't hear) of the game centres in Japan! This is a UBER cool organiser thingy from MOMA that Aya, Chris and Yuka got me! The coloured thingies are like thick rubber bands, and basically you use it to trap various things! I have a polaroid shot of John and I that we took maybe 3 or 4 years ago, a postcard of Singapore that I got from Nic (THANKS!!!), 8 of diamond card (don't ask!), colgate! (don't ask either! haha), stapler, a wire for my Creative speakers, stickers, and my hair clips! Anyway, it is the COOLEST thing! Thanks SO much ladies!!!!

My PRESSIES!

There's that cool organiser thingy that I've already mentioned (which now also features an uber cool "on the day you were born..." card from a special someone!), RENT CD (which is AWESOME), my Green leather bag!, my uber cool headphones! hehe, some LOVELY Elizabeth Arden products (I absolutely adore the Green Tea scent!), there's a ring underneath the perfume which is beautiful (I am wearing it right now!), there's the cookies on the right from many places, there's incense at the bottom which I am using right now actually (my room smells of lovely lime! - it's also very green!), and then there's the earrings that I adore! THANKS EVERYBODY! Hehe! There are also birthday cards which I couldn't add because I'm so very terrible at taking pictures and I can't fit them in! hehe!

Long Time No See

me, li and dai on a bus to oxford circus! Thanks SOOOOOOOOOOOO much (Li, I know u hate it when i over-thank! but let me!) for letting me stay with u guys, and just for hanging out with me! I had the most amazing time!
















me actually cooking two things at the same time! (Schiz, i was!!!!!!)


















John's football team, in their very funky green shirts, last match they won 2-0!!!! WOOHOOOOO! West Lane is the most beautiful place ever! I was freezing my ass off watching their matches, but with all the greenery, fresh air, and boyz running around, it was worth it! (NB: Boyz = Johnny)


















Johnny and I in one part of Hyde Park


















James, John, Me and Danny. Dark I know, at the British Museum which was absolutely stunning!!!

So I haven't blogged for a long time now... and people have been asking me to update this blog! I haven't really got anything new to say except for the fact that I am now back in Japan, suffering from jetlag, and to top it off, missing my boyfriend madly.
I had the most amazing 7 weeks in England, and contrary to what I thought prior to my visit, the time whooshed past me, and it didn't get boring, not once, and it wasn't difficult either.
Now, I gotta get back into shape (physically and mentally), and graduate in July, and then go on to LIFE LIFE from there.
I am terrified, but much more than that, I am extremely excited about what life has in store for me!

Anyhoo, don't want to get into all that kinda stuff in details on a very public blog, so will just post some pics, of friends, and my boyfriend, who a friend fittingly and so perfectly described as being "full of goodness" hehe. If you wanna see more pics, just go to my photo webpage!!!
Love all of you, and hope everything's going well.

Wow

Heya Everybody!

Wow, it has been exactly a month since I last blogged here - nothing much has changed. Well, besides the fact that the Autumn semester is finally over, and I have completed my 4 stories, 8 essays and exam that I was complaining about to everyone! Sorry for complaining and complaining and complaining and complaining and so forth, esp. to Chris, Yuka, and Aya who had to listen to it every single day!

Anyway, right now, I am in England in Southampton with Johnny! I have been here for a week, and everything is going goooooood. I am trying to cook again, and am playing b-ball - something I haven't done since GCSE! haha. It's been fun so far! Next month, I will be having two auditions/interviews for Uni! EEEEEEK. And soon, I will be seeing Li and Dai, and Ayako which I am looking forward to soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much! Anyway, I will write you guys emails sometime soon, but all my close peeps reads this blog so hopefully you feel like I am updating you!

I really hope that all is good in hopefully Sunny Singapore, and I hope that everyone scattered around the world is Happy and having the time of your life as I am!
Love you all.