Archive for February, 2010

New Word Of The Day : Malling

Malling. The ancient art of strolling about a mall and coveting all the things that you know you can’t have and staring enviously at the people who rush out of the various shops laden with bulging shopping bags. Basically, breaking the 7th(?) covenant. The one that says “thou shalt not covet”. What could be funner. (This is like totally random, but I need to get rid of the yellow nailpolish I have on my toenails….It looks…unhealthy) So me and Nana and Seiko and Anita were driven to Apita-town by our chauffeur , who is sometimes known by me and my siblings as mom. We spent the entire time in the car listening to Taylor Swift.

Her songs are really so cute. I think what appeals to people is the fact that she’s so simple and childlike in the way she looks at love and relationships and life in general. And she’s very honest and says how she feels and writes catchy songs. I just wanna give her a hug.

But back to our malling. (Right now Anita and Seiko are playing air hockey. Random right? Just thought I’d mention that because it’s something that doesn’t happen everyday) We started off not really doing anything. Wandering around. We couldn’t find the cool stores and were rather confused when we realized that we were in the west wing and the awesome stuff was in the east wing. So we traveled over there and malled around for awhile. But then we decided that we were hungry and proceeded to plod right back to the west wing where we bought some ice cream and cream rolls. (Thanks Anita and Seiko!) I thought it was a little funny and, correct me if I use this word in the wrong context, ironic, that although we bought the instant, packaged bread, right next the instant stuff was a real bakery with freshly baked pastries. Just saying.

We were all actually really tired today and acting rather lazy and not in a malling mood. So we just called up mom and asked her to come and pick us up. But of course she needed to drink some coffee. So while she was doing that, she sent us off to the First Kitchen to buy some…..FRENCH FRIES!! My most favorite snacky in the entire world! Seiko had totally randomly picked up a discount coupon and upon looking at it we realized it was a….First Kitchen coupon. Which was pretty cool. We got 100 yen off for 2 L packs.

I think we got Consome and Corn Potage flavored frits.

And I think I should mention that we had like….6 or 7 different dips for our frits. There was ketchup, spicy tomato sauce, barbecue (Which was my favorite), garlic, menntaiko mayonnaise, and some weird unidentified sauce which we all decided was rotten and threw away. (Okay fine, FIVE)

And then of course 2 packs wasn’t enough, so we went and bought another one. You could buy up to 5 packs of frits with one coupon, so we were able to buy the third one with a discount too. This time we got cheese flavored ones.

And then we headed home. And we once again listened to Taylor Swift all the way.

(Right now I am extremely tired. So if I’m not exactly making sense right now, I’ll fix it by tomorrow if I’m feeling lazy)

Musical Moment : Michael Bubble

Recently, a friend of mine has been covering her Facebook page with declarations of her love for a certain Michael Bubble. I must say, after the 120th post that went something along the line of “OMG YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO THIS! I LOVE MICHAEL BUBBLE!” it was beginning to get slightly annoying. But just today I actually decided to listen to one of his songs. And honestly, they’re really cute. Not everyone may like them. They’re really love it hate it. But I’ll post a few here. You can decide for yourself.

Happiness Overload

Can’t write long. It’s rather late and unfortunately Seiko doesn’t exactly share my love of blogging. Just wanted to write a short blog post about how extremely overjoyed and totally happy I am that Kim Yuna won the Olympic Gold Medal!!!

This picture has nothing to do with the Olympics, but it's really cool

AND she set a new world record for most points EVER in a short program and most points ever in a program in general. I think. But what I’m trying to say is that she’s totally awesome, and I know I’m Japanese and my mother thinks its heresy that I was rooting for her, but I was hoping she would win and she did, so that’s great and all’s well that ends well. I’m so proud of her, I feel like I had something to do with her medal. And you never know.

And in closing, I think Mao Asada could have taken her loss a tiny tiny tiny little bit better. I understand she was disappointed and all, but a lot of other people made a whole bunch of mistakes and they were probably mortified but they got over it pretty quick and moved on. Like that one really tall girl from Russia (?) She fell over 5 times and her performance was really bad (SORRY! I love you!) but she still looked happy in the end. Maybe she wasn’t jumping up and down for joy but she wasn’t wading around in a puddle of her tears either. And Miria chan was 4th place and she practically soared into the air. But in Mao’s favor, I saw her on NHK a few hours later and she was saying how she had wanted to win but that she was glad she got silver. So she snapped out of her grumpy attitude pretty quick. Good for her.

This picture is how the Olympics turned out, but the dresses and medals are all different. I don't know why

Movie Moment : Pirates Of The Caribbean

Haven’t updated in a while. Seiko’s here and she distracts my creative writing abilities. Yes Seiko, I hear you laughing hysterically right next to me. Calm down. Okay, so we just finished watching “Pirates of the Caribbean – Curse of the Black Pearl”. It was Seiko’s first time watching. Times that by like…..12 and you’ll get a slight idea of how many times I’ve seen it. But its totally fine. Just one more chance to swoon over Johnny Depp.

Who is such a macho man not matter what ANYONE says. Aaaaaaaaand Jack Sparrow is just the most brilliant, funny, shmexy and cool character that a movie has ever produced.

Anyways, its probably impossible, but if there’s anyone out there who hasn’t seen this super awesome movie, I am ashamed of you. And that is that.

Day 2 – Of Seiko Being Here

First of all, before we write anything.

Xoxo

Thanks Mana. That really touched my heart. And these are the cookies that we made…

Snickerdoodles~

…Not. But this is how they were supposed to turn out. So of course they were totally different.

I think Seiko's helping too

Working ladies. And a camera man/woman

The near finished product

Finishing touches

This is where Anita suddenly and rather mysteriously appeared

The finished product

The first time they weren’t quite cooked so we put them in again. Then finally they were done and we sat around to watch reruns of the Olympic Men’s Figure Skating Short and Free Programs. (Brian Joubert’s free program was really really REALLY sad)

And here we are. Showing Daichan some love

Just becuase I like Pluchenko. JUMP!

And then we dragged our lazy selfs down to the park for get out. Or swinging on the swings and stretching. We were stretching for about an hour in all. And I was trying to do a cartwheel for half the time. I think I’m a little better than when we started. Thats called progress.

Off to see the wizard....the wonderful wizard of PARK

Seiko has cameraphobia. She avoids camera flash at all costs

And finally we all headed back home for a round of Jinnseigame. The world one. I (Tehee tehee) won again. (NO, I didn’t cheat! I just got lucky!) I hope the other people aren’t sore losers.

I'm losing....

Day 1 – Of Seiko Being Here

This ones for you Mana. Sort of. Weeeeeell, in the morning we made pancakes. Greeeeeen pancakes. Just like the good old days. Although I don’t remember ever having green pancakes in Shizuoka. Unless they were secretly filled with spinach. Which Seiko tells me tended to happen before. But then, I was the one who helped make them so unless Seiko was a little sneak and slipped some in, I think I’m clean.

Then we had wordtime blah blah blah. After that we kind of lounged around not knowing what to do until we decided to…..play Jinnseigame!! We had bought it before but this was my first time playing it. It was very fun. I lost my job halfway through and Seiko went to the moon but we all got to my mansion safely. (Yes, I won) Nana lost some kids and Anita only got one, but its all okay. Anita and Seiko and Nana had some shady moments in Vegas where I almost thought I’d lost them to gambling, but they got out. With considerably lighter pockets. That was fun.

Its only a gambling problem if you're losing

After that we all plodded (Does anyone else remember “A Knights Tale”?) our way to the Alplaza and took purikuras and had a McFlurry. (We hope Mana will be able to deal with her jealousy. I hope we’re still friends) The puris turned out really great and we had all the time in the world to decorate them. I would post pictures of them, but I can’t get any good ones. Will continue trying. And then we got back and are now sitting around looking at videos of Evan Lysacek and making his picture album on Facebook. (Come to think of it, as soon as I mentioned doing that, Seiko had to go to the bathroom and Anita felt a sudden desire for her furry socks) Oh, and Seiko is playing with Fishville.

Evan Lysacek, Michael Jackson and Chris Brown

Commence swooning

Thoughts On Skating

I was talking with Anita today about how in a few decades time, figure skating will have grown in such leaps and bounds that we will be seeing a five spiny jump instead of just three or the very rare four. I mean, when figure skating started, a triple lutz was deemed impossible and look now. EVERYONE does it. And until a while ago a quad was unthinkable. Look at Plushenko and Joubert. They do a quad in every performance. So I’m very justified in thinking that we will be seeing fiveys sometime, if not soon, eventually. And how will we go about this? They will have springy skates! So every time they do their jumps, they’ll go soaring into the air! We can fly! Or we’ll attach little motors to the skates. And they’ll putt-putt-putt their way to the gold!!! I should patent this stuff…..

OR that could happen. Too much motor power I think

YAAAAA~Y!!

Finally finally FINALLY Seiko is coming tomorrow!!!!!

I’m actually doing school now, so I don’t have much time to go into a long kaboosh, but I just thought I’d get it out there that I’m SUPER excited to have Seiko come over. As is everyone else. Don’t worry Seiko. We’ll have tonz of fun while you’re here. It’ll be so cool! We’ll go…uh…..we’ll go to…..that place….and uh…that other place….and do those things…you know?

Anyways, love you SO much and can’t wait to see you tomorrow! Muwah!

These Speak For Themselves

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