dream of blue

Fish eyeballs turn out to be better tasting than the flesh, though the center is impossible to chew.

I've just realized that the Osaka run of the winter Tenimyu runs...the one week I'll be away. It was Hyoutei again, too. ;________;

Yesterday morning I remembered what the entry was about: The Rolling Stones. ^^;;


Last night we went to sing karaoke. I'm not sure why we decided to meet at 8, but it worked as far as times go.

We ended up singing from about 8:30pm to about 1:30am this morning. You could say that it was like a marathon.

I discovered the joys of "Yay, they give some of the furigana" and in the end, at least 2/3's of the songs I sang were in Japanese. (This was also greatly aided by the fact that Yohey told me that they list most of the anime songs in the back grouped by series.)

An interesting fact: for "character" songs, the karaoke book lists the character as the artist. (I found this out when I found 真っ白な誓い。 I was rather surprised and immediately started to look for other characters. When I looked up Koushiro, I was dissapointed to find that they only had his second season song, which I didn't care for, and not Version Up, which I love to pieces. This was the point where Yohey told me about the listing in the back. Mysteriously, Version Up was listed there. I have no clue why.)

Playlist (in order, I think)
Cartoon Heros. (Aqua version, was too high and I wasn't warmed up enough)
真っ白な誓い　(Went fairly well, but I was off in some parts)
secret base ~君がくれたもの～　　(went rather well, but there were some kanji without furigana and that screwed me up)
Version up (I have this song memorized. Was mostly in the right voice for it, so went well.)
さらりーまん　(Slower song, went well)
Fruits Candy (The animation was weird and the tempo was fast, but I kept up with most of it!)
Across the Universe (The bg music was so loud~!)
Against Wind (I felt like I was losing my voice and therefore Sucked for much of this song, which was a shame because I really like it. Didn't get into the right voice until the last four lines- the rest of the song, my voice was totally out.)
Warning (I did not know those were the lyrics. But what I thought was close!)
Ometto Samba (Trying to sing a song meant for a group that involves rather fast patter by yourself is not a good idea.)
The theme song from Detective Academy Q that has a title that has a pun surrounding the word "迷宮”　　(Very good considering the fact that it was the first time I heard the full version of the song.)
上を向いて歩こう　(No furigana, but I know this song

Songs that I should remember to try next time
Anything by Hysteric Blue (Bought one of their cds the other day, and am loving it.
Melissa (Or other stuff by Porno Grafitti)
Trial of Luck?
Catch You Catch Me
You Get to Burning
Look for Makenai Ai ga Kitto Aru which wasn't listed under "Rockman," though Janne De Arc's "Wild Fang" was.
Speaking of which, Janne De Arc stuff. I saw their new album listed. (There was also a Kimeru song!)
Ice Cream
Check the tune on Ever Blue. Maybe also Splash Dream or Ai no Ondo
Listen to Tommy Feburary songs again~! Also, Tommy Angel's "Every Day at the Bus Stop"
More Zone! (Can't have enough Zone. X3)
Automatic
Instant Music
Hot Limit or other TM Revolution stuff
Decide which version of Valentine Kiss I want to sing. Then sing it.
Te vas pas (Spelling?)
Girl from Impanema. (Will not chicken out this time)
Believe in Heaven
Mienai Chikara
Party Night (The version listed had "Hyper" in the title, which worries me.)
Remember to check for "My only true wish."
Figure out how to find Dragostea Din Tei because they probably have it in the system and it's just fun.

I forgot to mention the pimp mobile. How could I have forgotten to mention the pimp mobile. (The pimp mobile had leopard print upholstry, black lights, blaring music, and picture all that on a vehicle that looks very much like a Scion.)

Also, Almond Au Lait is one of the most wonderful things I've had in recent memory.

*door opens*

[wait a minute, my bed's on the other side of the room]

"Oh my god, I'm so sorry!"

*about face, shuffle, slam*

*cue nervous laughter*

The kimono that I bought is probably not a kimono that is appropriate for this season.

It is probably not a kimono that is appropriate for any event that I am likely to attend. Maybe Coming of Age Day, but that's not likely.

It is, however, a rather fetching shade of lavendar.


Also of note: No goldfish were harmed in the writing of today's post.

( skirts and bicycles )


( deep fried and drunkeness )

It's kind of hard when I have to fill out nametags here. I've been telling people that they can address my by my middle name - mostly because the way most people pronounce my first name doesn't really register in my head. I really don't care which one they use, because I answer to both. "Hey you" also works, as long as I'm given some time to work out that "you" equals me.

In retrospect, it wasn't the place I went to yesterday, it was the place from the day before yesterday. (In short, I walked to the other side of town.)

I did see this really interesting shop that consisted entirely of capsule machine toys, sans capsules. They were marked up depending on the popularity of the character- some were as much as 850 yen, though I was just casually browsing. They also sold the entire sets. (Speaking of which, I saw a capsule machine for a new FMA set.)

Ate at a place called 「ラーメン太郎」。 At least, I think that's what it was called. I couldn't read the second kanji, so I'm just guessing. It was kind of spicy, but the guy was nice and they provided those manga phonebooks (but only shonen ones) so I'll probably go back.


My hair has been really silky as of late. ♥ I'm not sure why, but I'm not complaining. Recently, I've been having the urge to pet it, which is just kind of strange. But silky hair, yay!

*One of the girls bathroom has urinals and I don't know why. Truth be told, they kind of look like female urinals. I heard something about a failed attempt to introduce them in Japanese schools, but I thought that was some time ago and this is a fairly recent building.

*Thing that I thought was coconut milk pudding turned out to just be coconut milk. With all the tapioca floating in it, you'd think it was a pudding.

Not that I'm complaining though. *loves coconut milk*

Today I bought a small refridgerator (used) for 4,000 yen and a bicycle (also used) for 500 yen. One of the buddies was selling off things left by previous residents in order to pay for a party or something.

I woke up at 6 am to find a flier had been slipped under my door. (The flier basically said that "Look! We're selling things for cheap because people left them and we can use the funds to pay for a party or something!" I think I will keep the flier) Because I woke up at 6 for no apparent reason, I managed to get the first pick of the fridges. I chose a small one, becuase I really don't need that big of one and also because it was the cleanest.

When I looked at the bikes, most of them required a little bit of fixing up in some way or another. (Which kind of explains why they were so cheap.)

I decided that I liked a blue-gray one. The guy I was buying it from (Yohei) said that it had problems with the "punk," but I could take it to a bicycle shop to get it fixed for about 1000 yen. There was also some sort of problem with the kickstand, but he said that could also be fixed fairly cheaply. The other two things were that I had to buy a bike lock and I decided that I wanted an aditional stand on the back of the bike.

So I went down to the bicycle shop and spent a good fifteen minutes going over what exactly I wanted done to the bike and how much it would take to do it with a very nice old man and his wife. Meanwhile, about 3 or 4 other people came and left, all asking to have something or other done with the "punk." (I have no idea what the "punk" is, and am still not entirely sure, but apparently this is a very common problem.) This was complicated by the fact that he kept entering the wrong figures into the calculator and having to restart and that I was being curious about which price pertained to which object.

I decided that I wanted a Hello Kitty bike lock, partly because it was about 500 yen more expensive and I felt bad for taking up so much of the guy's time, but mostly because it was cute and if I am unable to recognize my bike with that lock there is no hope for me at all.

In the end, it came out to 4,800 yen altogether. The "punk" thing seemed to be him taking out the inner tire and testing it for leaks, but I think I ended up with the same tire that I started with. (It looks like I won't be buying a spare tire after all, Daddy. There are bike shops all over the place and it looks like the Japanese bikes are a pain to dissasemble.) The problem with the stand turned out to be that it needed tightening. I probably could have done it myself with the pliers you gave me, but I think it was a case of 100 yen for the muscle and 700 yen for knowing where the muscle needed to be applied.

The Hello Kitty Lock went on without incident. It was one of those semi-useless locks that screw into place and just lock the back wheel in place.

The stand turned out to be a bit of a problem. Because the Hello Kitty lock had a little Kitty head on top of it, it blocked the place where a few of the screws on the stand had to go. Most of the time was spent watching the guy try to screw it in place which involed a lot of time and effort and several different nuts and a power screwdriver. In the end, it was in place.

I'll try to see if I can get the stand and the lock removed at the end of the school year, because they're perfectly nice and made up 3800, of the price....now that I think of it, I don't think they charged me anything for the stand thing.

As I left, I admired the wife's keychain, which she hadn't taken out until I was leaving. It was really cute! It was a little blue metalic star with a little bell attached. I was going to ask where she got it from, but she got out another one and gave it to me as a spare for the Hello Kitty lock's spare key. I think it's going to be the one I normally use, because while the Hello Kitty Lock is darling, the Hello Kitty key chain that came with it was kind of overkill.

I think the previous owner of the bike was a guy who didn't know how to ride bikes because the paint job is rather scratched, the seat's adjusted a little tall for me, and there were three identical Super Mario Bros. stickers on it.

On the way back, I began to doubt my ability to ride bikes as well. But it was mostly because I haven't quite worked out which way to dodge other people. They drive on the other side of the street, you know.

And Yohei ended up charging me 500 yen because it was kind of expensive. (If I hadn't bought the rack, I would probably have ended up paying more for the bike, so it all worked out in the end.) (Did I mention that the bicycle shop people were really nice? A great deal of time was speant on me not understanding what was wrong with the lock, almost to the point where I was going to just buy a new bicycle. There was a pretty blue one that I kind of liked.)