Tuesday, November 28, 2006

sushi and the fat cat

btw, this is a link to a really funny video about sushi and eating at a sushiya..... do NOT take this seriously... especially not the salt bit at the end!!! unless....... -__-"

fruits basket!! *tear*

so i got the hana to yume with the last furuba chapter, and for the furoku, you get cards with fruits basket pictures on them, and on another set, a description to match the picture..
so it's like this jap game, where one person reads the card with the description out, and then the rest of the players hv to 'snap' the card (which are spread out on the floor) that matches the description , and the fastest wins... but since my jap is really crap... (whoa rhyme) i hv to type the description through a translator first... haiyah..

and for a tribute to fruits basket: (pics from 'memento' and hakusensha website)

hatsuharu, kyou, tohru, momiji, yuki

hiro and ritsu (i think?)

tohru, kyou, yuki

kyoko and katsuya (tohru's mum and dad)

kureno and shigure (scary pic)

yuki, tohru and kyou

can't believe it's finished! now all i hv to do is wait for the english version to come out!!! hehehhehe gonna hv a manga-marathon!!!

nodame cantabile!!

new drama that i'm addicted to!! i've only watched 2 episodes, but it's so funny! but still has enough serious storyline too.... can't wait for the next episode!!

(i truly recommend going to this website: 'memento' the guy does really detailed summaries that are really interesting to read, unlike this one; plus there's also anime/manga in it too)

the story is about Chiaki (the guy in the middle) who is the top piano student in this music college.. he actually dreams to be a conductor, but knows that he won't get anywhere, because he can't go out of japan, since he has a really bad fear of travelling (nearly died in a plane ride and nearly drowned in a ship when he was small).
getting frustrated by the fact that he is 'stuck', and that his girlfriend has dumped him for a 'sausage' looking fellow (who managed to go overseas and meet his former teacher - a famous conductor in prague - ), he gets drunk and ends up lying in the hallway of his apartment..

then, megumi noda ('nodame') sees him and after poking him, he mumbles 'help me' so she takes him into her apartment...

then he wakes up, and is surrounded by a rubbish filled room (seriously.. u can't even see the floor or the bed) and after getting grossed out, and a bit scared, cos the girl was like saying things like "last night" and smiling creepily... he runs out and realises that he was in his neighbour's place!


nodame is a girl in the piano division at his college like him, but she plays very freely and by ear.. and chiaki gets frustrated by her... wen he gets home the next day, he's on his balcony, when this purple goo just seeps onto his porch from next door, so he presses the neighbour's doorbell (stacatto-finger style) and after being hit by the strong smell of rubbish, and discovering remnants of dinner from a year ago (roe on rice that's got spider-webby-looking stuff on it, etc) he cleans her house..

so nodame thanks him by cooking a charcoal fish with mayonnaise sauce...o_O... n he's weird-ed out, so he cooks a proper fancy pasta thing, and she compliments him and he's actually smiling now lol...

yea anywayss... the story is about them and the other music students at school..
and nodame sorta makes chiaki realise that music can be fun again...

in the drama, in scenes where chiaki hits nodame for being such a dummy, it goes in slow-motion, so u can see the shoe flying, or the weird facial expression or even a tear slowly flying out from the corner of the eye etc... it's really funny!!

nodame is such a weird character... REALLY not as normal as she looks in the picture, she talks in a weird acent and makes sound fx like 'gyaboo'
and the guy is a bit up himself in a funny (not obnoxious) way... he refers to himself as 'ore-sama'

u can find this in dailymotion.com but they're only up to episode 2

and the guy (tamaki hiroshi) is in another movie that i wanna watch, called "tada, kimi wo aishiteru" which has aoi miyazaki in it too (the girly nana in NANA) and it's about her being a shy/dorky girl who's in the same photography class as the guy... and den bla blabla u kno wat happens..
btw, he sings too... and reminds me of gackt's voice... pretty good actually the songs (if u wanna try and find it, type his jap name, not one written in romaji)

anyhooooo i'm really crap at making summaries... so if u think the drama's crap, it's not! so watch it!! hehe
and another news.... hana yori dango 2 is gonna be on air the start of next year!!! yayayayay!

Friday, November 24, 2006

nooooo.... furuba... :"(

i accidentally read spoilers and so i know what happens!!!! and i know everything about the curse and wat's gonna happen next!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

i'm so sad.... but i'll be kind and keep it to myself, so other people won't be frustrated by their stupidity to be bothered reading this post/blog....

booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

even though i'm getting the hana to yume with the last chapter, i could not understand the japanese... and so i won't know wat happen.... but now.....!!! :"( i'm sad.....

stupid me stupid me stupid me stupid me stupid me stupid me stupid me
i know lah it's only a manga, but it's FRUITS BASKET!!!

cheer me up people... comment in the shoutbox/tagboard
(ok even if u don't i won't care . . . or will i... since that's the only proof that people actually read this blog!)
blue font for sadness :"(

jon at home

jon's date

Wednesday, November 22, 2006

i saved a mouse!!! : )

yay!!! i saved a mouse that was gonna be eaten by phoebe!!
i was playing comp in cc cindy's room when i saw phoebe walking weird and lying down in the backyard... and after a while, biscotti came towards her, and den i saw phoebe pick up something... and it was obviously some animal that she's caught...

so i went out and after seeing me, she picks the mouse up and walks away, but den she drops it again and after shooing her and biscotti (who was interested, but never does anything to it... weird house-cat), i saw that it was still breathing (it was lying on its side)! i was surprised that phoebe didn't bite its neck or something..

i was thinking whether it's gonna die or not... and i even thought that i should 'end its pain'... but of course i can't kill the mouse, so i rushed to get a plastic bag and a paper towel (so it doesn't fall out from the slippery plastic wen i hold it) and den i tried to pick it up, but den it fell upright onto the grass, and it started trying to run away from me - very slowly, limping, cos the back right leg was broken - , and so i kept on trying to pick it up, until i did.. and (after being followed by curious biscotti), i let it free into the backyard of the house on the other side of our fence...
and so it went through the gap in the wooden fence... and after i pushed its tail, it went out of sight from the cat!! hehehe it was safe : D
i hope it'll recover and be able to find food..

this is the second time i saved something that phoebe tried to kill!! hehe for those that read my multiply blog, i saved a small bird!! and cos it was hard to pick up (it was SCREECHING very loudly at me, while lying on the grass), i walked behind it, trying to shoo it away from our backyard... and so it went out of our house, crossed the street and went to the safety of bruce's yard!! (with the very nice soft green grass)

anyways, the mouse was so cute!! it was grey and looked like the ones usually in the petshop...good thing it wasn't dirty.. or else i would've been grossed out to pick it up and help it..

hehe i'm happy now : )

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

thanks cie.


good job..! glad u like the new mac.. -__-"
now how about episode 2?

(dah obviously these are not my real face.... all thanks to the magic of 'photobooth' and 'icomic'... u can spend hours just taking pics of urself!! hehe.. not really..)

Saturday, November 18, 2006

anticipated movies!

Charlotte's Web

just because it's an animal movie and the cartoon one was so crap... so can't wait to see how good this one's gonna be.. plus it's got julia roberts as charlotte! hehe her voice sounds like wat i imagined charlotte's to be.

Happy Feet

haha notice it says "novemburrr 17th" yea.. looks so cute! but penguins are never not cute..

The Pursuit of Happiness

based on a true story that was aired on abc in the u.s. about this 30 yr old man who loses his job and struggles to keep his and his son's life... the trailer is so sad... anyone who doesn't feel like crying is weird.

Harry Potter - Order of the Phoenix

the poster looks weird... cos voldemort is weird with his squashed nose... but something to look forward to: harry and cho kiss! hehee.. i wanna watch this movie cos the book was crap and i didn't really get it...

btw, here's where you can watch all the "i'm a mac; i'm a pc" ads.
pc is funny lol...
and here's where you can watch the new scrat (ice age squirell)
short movie called.. this time he discovers a time machine... and as usual, u can't stop feeling sorry for the guy..

yayyyy i'm all relaxed now :D sort of..

all exams are over!!! yippee!! hehe now let's see wat i thought about them.

FRENCH - as usual ok lah and the teacher went off topic in the oral exam
SCIENCE - why did i even study?!? (except for that question about 'watson-crick'... i said it was mr. Helix who came up with the double helix DNA structure...hmm)
RELIGION - lotssss of time to write...if i didn't force myself to write more, i would've finished in 20 min!
FOODTECH - even more time!! everyone finished an hour early (we got 2 hours) and by the end, the teacher supervising saw how bored we were and let us out 10min early...
FOODTECH PRACTICAL - we cooked everything in the time limit, but cleaning up took like half an hour!!! omg, we probably even washed stuff that wasn't ours!! damn.
HISTORY - ok..

GEOGRAPHY - very vague!
ENGLISH - i won't be surprised if i get 10-15/20 for the interview that i wrote.... somehow it turned out reallly bad.. but for the other one, the essay about 'change/belonging' the usual essay question, i did surprisingly ok (i think) even though that was one of the boring-est book i've ever read in my life.

and the school certificate?? they were wayyyyyyyyyyyyy easier than the yearlies!!!! gah all my stressing out for nothing : (! and especially the ICT (computer skills) exam... some of the questions are sooooooo weird/stupid/duh eg. " 'sciencecommunication' after the cursor was placed here like this: (imagine the "/" is where the cursor is) 'science/communication' what should be pressed to separate these words?
(a) tab
(b) backspace
(c) delete
(d) spacebar
yep.

the report's supposed to be done already, so i dunno why we're getting another english task!! we hv to make a picture book on the computer.. and usually i would be excited as i like making stories and looking at pictures... but i can't think of anything!! and the next comp lesson is on tuesday, so better think of something before then.

and on the school bill, there is $15 for this picture book that i don't think we're even supposed to get.... hmm oh, and on a happier note, we're going to luna park for the yr 10 community day on the last day of 'classes' yay!! hehehe we finish school before the other grades hehehe :D

and other things i'm excited about.... getting books! hahahah as usual... cos i got a 50% off children's book at borders and i hv a list of books that i wanna find : ) and i wanna go to the bondi bookstore that has classic/old books that are all 40% off cos they're moving stores heheheh i like discounts
MYER is also having their christmas sale on tuesday the 21st (the day we were supposed to go to japan :"( - i even drew "JAPAN" with the sun and all in my school planner, but den i had to stick a notepad next to it saying "boo.. cancelled.." - yea anyways) and the books in myer are 40% off too!! hehehe
and i'm thinking whether i should get the hana to yume with the last fruits basket chapter... cos it has these cards with furuba characters on it.. but den it'll spoil the ending for me... hmmm i'll be really pissed off if the curse didn't get lifted and tohru doesn't end up with kyo!

yea anyways. this is a long post.
btw, read this, i found it on the national geographic website, it's so cute!! about penguins who get lazy in captivity, cos they get fed and don't hv to hunt, so they just waddle on the rocks all the time and end up getting calluses on their feet, so they hv to wear blue socks!!! so cute!!


November 15, 2006—They might not be suede, but these blue shoes are a perfect fit for "Elvis."

The newly shod bird, seen here, is one of 18 "second chance" little penguins now living at the International Antarctic Centre in Christchurch, New Zealand. The penguins, also called blue or fairy penguins, were adopted from Marineland in Napier, New Zealand, which rescues sick or injured marine animals and sends some of those that can't return to the wild to live at regional animal centers.

But not long after their September arrival in Christchurch, a few penguins started to develop calluses on their feet that could have led to infections. Such calluses are common for penguins in captivity, because the seabirds, which normally spend most of their time fishing at sea, occasionally get lazy and spend too much time waddling on land.

"When the penguins arrived … some developed sore feet, and this has proved quite tricky for us to treat," International Antarctic Centre director Richard Benton said in a press release.

So the center's staff began a rigorous treatment regime, including saltwater foot baths, ointment applications, and fashion footwear design. The special penguin shoes—available in blue and green—are tailored specifically for the little penguins and are made of breathable material with light rubber soles.

"We have seen a dramatic improvement," Benton said, "and [we] expect that they will only be wearing their pretty shoes for a very short time."

—Victoria Gilman

Monday, November 13, 2006

miaow time

jon is a bachelor?? i thought he was still with the vet!

Saturday, November 11, 2006

yadaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!

noooooooooo school cert is coming up!!! in 2 days : ( and i haven't started studying!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg
i'm so stressed about it, i even woke up (2 days in a row) dreaming that it was the day of the test and i haven't studied....

well, to lift my mood, lets write a list.
stuff i wanna get from yes asia:
osu! tatakae! ouendan
brain age
daisuke mori single (i want the new one, but not out yet)

ye dats it.

help!!! :"(

Monday, November 06, 2006

garfield no jikan!

back in sydney!!

yep yep, melbourne was ok... it's a nice city, but doesn't suit me.. maybe cos we went around pretty aimlessly..
somethings that i noticed: pigeons are (way) fatter and aren't scared of people
the roads are cleaner and wider
for some reason, i feel less short there
at night it's scary..
there's art everywhere

first day. went around the city on the free tram 'city circle' and stopped at docklands, which is basically a building site due to be finished in 2015 and it has a playground.. so we played around
walked around, ate at a viet restaurant 'mekong' which is for some reason famous with the stars.. on the window, it says "bill clinton had two bowls, how many will you have?" (talking about their pho) and inside there's a photo of this old chinese kungfu actor guy with jackie chan and others that i don't recognise..

the food wasn't that good, and i ordered the bihun with chicken and spring roll thing, and the vermicelli was as big as the bowl, which is like a very large piggy bank!! omg, so i just finished the top..

then walk walk walk to bourke st and various malls, oh btw our room - apartment sorta thing - has 1 queen, 2 double and a sofa bed which is supposed to fit two.. but, we hv 9 people! hehe so 2 on queen, 1 on each single, 2 on the sofa bed and 3 on the quilt on the floor... the quilt was SUPER soft though, and smooth : D more comfy than the bed lol
i found 'genki'!! hehe the shop with the cute stuff that i always see in magazines, and it has stuff with characters from the craft book that i got from kino! hehe but nothing especially of good use, so didn't get..

also went to the market and into this pet supply store on the way there, and they had the smallest/cutest/cheapest rabbits and guinea pigs i've ever seen!! waaaa so smallllll and the ears were so shorttt but there was a horny male guinea pig that just ruins the cuteness filling the cage..

at night, went to eat to celebrate mami and papi's anniversary! in this jap restaurant, which looks good, and got a pretty good rating in the melbourne food guide, but the service was soooooooooooooo(x.infinity) slow!! and when the food came, either we finished it straight away, or it took so long that our hunger passed..

next day, used the non-free tram to chapel st... cc oni and mama shopped, but not me, as all the stuff was too 'mature' or not my style... as in no funny/cute t-shirts : ( but went to 'fuji mart' which is like tokyo mart, and got this pen thing with crayon pencil thing that u can change the colours..
there was a lot of organic fruits in melbourne...

then to bridge st, which is where the factory outlets are... once again, didn't find anything. had subway for lunch. at night, went to crown casino, and finally got a top! hehe and den went around, the parents went inside the casino (it was sooo crowded, everyone went there after the melbourne cup.... waste money they just won?) so me and cc oni wandered around... and found a galaxy world type place!! bule are really crap at DDR... gosh, cannot compare to indo! (cieh wat de o_O")

had dinner at the food court, and sat outside to wait for the fire display thing that is on every hour at night. so basically there's this tall square prism thing and fire shoots out at the top of it in intervals, and it starts little, but later it spurts fire so suddenly and for a quite long time! it was so bright, we got blinded and we could even feel it, it was pretty hot! haha oh and papi was recording it, but he got shocked by the noise, so he suddenly shook lol..

last day.
went to the melbourne art museum, even the building was really arty, as in the walls/stairs/ceiling..
and next to it was the "earth from above" exhibition like photographs of all over the world taken from the air, like an island shaped like a loveheart, or flocks of flamingos, bails of cotton, erosion on a side of a mountain vegetation etc... it was really amazing to look at

den went to the market, sorta like the rocks, and mama got this cd & tape of this guy playing the 'zither' which is this guitar/chinese string board instrument

blablablabla den ate at this ching yip-like place in china town and the plate was soooo big, but somehow i finished it..

something sad: there were 3 baby birds that fell onto the sidewalk and 2 of them got stepped on and their guts came out! they were so small, don't even have feathers yet... :"(
but also...
something funny to make the reader happy again: haha papi farted in the elevator before everyone (as in our group) came in... and we're like 'ihhh....' n den after a while and it started to smell, the elevator opened in another level and someone else came in!! hahahha lol and we're like ..oh ooh.. n we can see that they noticed the smell... n den the elevator just happens to make another stop, and so the bule couple says 'u don't wanna go in here' and the kakek's like 'it's a natural smell' den dey say 'there's nothing natural about that' hahahahaha lol... and i thought that the kakek's strong cologne or aftershave would drown out the smell, but it didn't!! and after a few second, it reached my corner... haiyah, it was pretty strong.
and we were all laughing and cracking up, and wen the elevator finally reached the lobby the people wanting to go in were like, 'there's something in that elevator, they all came out laughing' hahahaa omg..... hah.

yes.
before we went to the airport, i played the new super mario, and i found a secret exit and new levels!! yohoho!
alalallala this is a long post.
hehe yay i see biscotti and the pigs again! : D


Wednesday, November 01, 2006

OWATTA!! *yahoo!*

YAYYYYYYY j'ai fini! owatta! selesai! finished!
*hoorahhhhh~* *floats around smiling like stupid tohru onigiri face*


hehe the verdict on the exams: not that hard, especially foodtech, which everyone finished one hour earlier! that was the longest i've ever been bored in an exam..
but i probably failed the english interview cos for some reason i can only write crap.


but the practical bit was too short... we all finished before the time limit, but we cleaned for nearly half an hour! and i think we even washed stuff that wasn't ours.... hmmm


gonna eat at the belgian beer cafe tonight!! (i think) and no.. it's not just beer, that's in another section of the restaurant. but first hv to clean the guinea pig : (

and tomorrow... le melbourne!! : D hehe i shall find souvenirs for people yay i like buying stuff hehehe
and yesterday, i finally got a medicare card! but not the actual card, just a receipt docket
thing, cos the real thing comes in three weeks.

lalalallalala
btw, ermenegildo zegna (the italian designer) made this 'iJacket' so you don't hv
to unzip ur pocket to press the iPod buttons... u can just press the 'buttons' on the sleeve so cool... it's gonna be out spring (in america) 2007. i wonder how much it's gonna cost


and i found this website about a japanese inventor, Yoshiru Nakamatsu or "Dr. NakaMats" as he's most commonly known.. omg, he's so creative... he invented the first floppy disk, synthesiser (keyboard) and he invented the design of how planes would fly when he was 5 years old! and his method of getting a 'creativity flash' is by diving and after having a 'flash' 0.05 sec before you die, he writes down the idea that he gets on this waterproof writing pad... omg crazy, but read this interview, and you'll be amazed, such an amazing person.

and for the garfield, halloween series of course (btw, no one came to our house : ( even though mum already prepared a box of the lollies that we had, oh well... at least we didn't buy them especially
for last night)


hehe.. red font for halloween : )