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OUTSIDE BY THE BINS-
Would be a lie. Yeah, it's a raccoon, no, it's not alive. Last Friday we went on a school trip to NHK's Studio Park
(NHK is the Japanese Broadcasting Corporation; they broadcast TV and radio publicly) to experience what goes on behind the scenes of making news, dramas, that sort of thing. The raccoon was part of the Nature Documentary exhibit, to show the application of night-vision cameras. There were interactive remote controls for you to move cameras to zoom in on bird statues and shiny glossy plastic bugs stuck onto trees. Or control a little camera stuck on a littler tank to zoom in on this gorgeous Monster:
Yeaaaaaaaa man. The head moves side to side and the tongue comes out to lick the air all sexy-like and altogether it's much more lifelike than it had any right to be. I want to work on nature documentaries. I want to be camped out somewhere remote with a stick and an umbrella and a camera and then run after things while whispering furiously to fellow researchers who inevitably have grizzled short curly hair about how the thing with the rice the natives had us eat yesterday's given me indigestion but running after the komodo dragon is fixing it all right up right up. It was a tiny exhibition, but it was marvelous c:
Another section that I found interesting was the anime section. 'course, most of the anime you and me are familiar with are made and distributed by their respective companies (sunrise, etc.) but Bakuman for example is, I think, an NHK production. There were booths with two microphones, and you sat down and could select a scene from an anime. The spoken words are written at the bottom of the screen, karaoke style, and the actual voice actors' voices are removed so that once you've hollered down the mike, it's you and your partner's voice that comes out.
Theoretically, this would've been an excellent and mildly serious exercise to see how good we'd be at emoting our feelings via voice, you know? And I'd be lying if I said I never considered being a voice actor (one of those 'face perfect for radio' kind of things), so I was all PUMPED UP YEAH!11!111 LET'S DO THIS mode, on.
Then it started, and it was basically "fine fine fine fine fine GARBLELAKJSDJ KANJI ASLKJDAKLJ GARBLE fine fine fine" because we can't read kanji well to begin with, and are even shittier when we're supposed to do it live, and spent most of the time just laughing hysterically into the mic while sobbing gently. So our teacher was all, oi, don't overextend yourself, go for an easier scene with all the words that you can read, then pour your Heart and Soul into it.
So I bring you, this masterpiece.
I'M THE MAN. So basically all I did was go 'Ojyaaaaaaaaaa' while my sister professionally bluffed her way through lines neither of us in any way registered or understood. If I'd left the camera on recording longer, you'd just hear the shrieking laughter of three adults, wheezing away in our pink booths while school children lined up and waited for their turn to have a go. Till now, my sole regret of the trip is not just staying at that booth and doing all of the scenes until we passed out from lack of oxygen due to hysterics. They'd have to pry me from the mic by my cold, unresponsive fingers, man. It was bloody amazing.
Bloody. Amazing. I'd do it all again, I tell you.
Then we went to Denny's and I had udon and tenpura and it was delicious but if I start taking pictures of meals as plaid as that I would never stop so I didn't start. But it was delicious, honestly, and not too expensive either. Denny's has an excellent selection of desserts!
And, next up.
I've moved house! The old house was tiny and cramped, and so's this current one, but it's less tiny and less cramped and severely lessens travel time to get to school and the train station! And restaurants! And grocery stores! There's more space for luggage, and there's somewhere to hang clothes outside. I hate dryers, they make clothes not smell right. So having somewhere to hang my clothes really, really makes me happy c:
But it's not like, a small building cramped with people, ten kids to a bathroom stall style affair. It's more an actual apartment, with two bedrooms, a kitchenette and a bathroom suite. Creepily, this is my first time staying somewhere like this. Usually it's the standard student-y thing, with lots of us in a small space, and an all-encompassing feeling of lack-of-alone-ness. Sometimes of course it's irritating as hell to hear people screaming or parties or too loud chatter, but it's never quiet (except when everyone went home on long holidays and creeped me the hell out), which felt safe. In this new place, it's just me and one other girl, but she's away on holiday for the time being, so it's just me. Yeah, Japan's the safest country ever and I'm notoriously paranoid about making sure everything that needs locking is locked and fastened securely and all that stuff. Logically, there's nothing to fear that wouldn't be also worth fearing in a big shared house.
Actually, it's scary as all crap. I had trouble falling asleep, keeping my ears peeled for any odd sound (of an intruder trying to jimmy the front door, but of course). It's lonely and gloomy and it's probably got as much to do with the weather going from hot and startling sunny summer-yness to rainy and gloomy and dreary autumn, but still!
Still!
It takes a bit of getting used to. I'm adjusting by way of loudly playing music wherever in the apartment I go to. Oddly enough it reminds me most of staying in the tent by myself while I was on that field trip in Belize. Yeah, there're loads of people within screaming distance, but if an axe-wielding murderer jerks the door open it's still going to be just me staring at him, probably with my music player in hand,
Can't imagine moving out and into my own apartment, where this'll be the way of things until I get a partner to stay with (me). SUCH COWARDICE. But such factual cowardice. Alone-ness is a terrible thing, you know.
That said, it'll be October in a bit, and then I'll be 21 and more likely than not freaking out about other things to do with being alive and pretty happy and wanting to stay that way.
I dunno, man. Maudlin weather puts me in a hell of a mood. I should be studying, or eating proper meals, but I haven't moved foodstuffs over yet and for now it's whatever I can mooch off my sister and nearby restaurants that we're slowly but surely getting sick off.
2012 (and possibly, and I use this term loosely, the rest of the world) will be over so bloody fast.
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Date: 2012-09-25 12:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-09-27 10:31 am (UTC)hey bb
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Date: 2012-09-28 09:14 pm (UTC)hey man. glad to hear from you. and by the way, guess who's taking a year-long break from uni? i am. oh yessss. woohoo. \o/
SORRY I'M LATE IT'S BECAUSE I'M A BAD PERSON
Date: 2012-10-13 04:53 am (UTC)oh god that sounds amazing! *celebrates with* planning to travel? or just relax to recharge for school? so fantastiiiic c:
Re: dude. DUDE. I'M JUST THE SAME, NO BIGGIE \0/
Date: 2012-10-17 02:25 pm (UTC)it is! i'm not planning on going anywhere, though, no moneyz =( no jobs either, unemployment here is through the roof and i can't find anything =( also staying at my uni is getting too expensive so i'm going to retake the national exams to see if I can get in the local uni. fortunately if I do I can keep going from the point I stopped at instead of starting over from scratch!
ANYWAY- how's the new house? you meet the other girl yet?
GO US PFFFFT
Date: 2012-10-20 04:19 am (UTC)Just want to take it easy? I can understand most keenly! Luckily there're an abundance of part-time jobs in Japan, but my language skills aren't up to it yet. I'M SURE YOU'RE MORE THAN SMART ENOUGH TO GET INTO LOCAL UNI. You do like medicine, don'tcha? I'm glad to hear there are options and stuff!
IT'S P COOL. AND SUPER CLOSE TO SCHOOL which is brilliant because the weather's gone so cold so suddenly. The other girl is a dashing young miss who works in interior design, and speaks Japanese waaaaaaay too quickly for me to catch ahahahsobs
\o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/
Date: 2012-10-20 05:43 pm (UTC)oh yes. i needed some rest. I wonder what it'd be like trying your hand at a job without being completely and utterly fluent in the language? i can already imagine all sorts of hilarious misunderstandings XD
LAZINESS ENABLED, YAY (I love it when everything is like, 5 min away from each other, it's lovely, like, I'M SO CLOSE. IT'S JUST OVER THERE, I DON'T HAVE TO WALK FOR MILES OR TAKE BUSES OH MY GOD) and also, HOUSEMATE SEEMS NICE, YAY XD
(ΦωΦ) (ΦωΦ) (ΦωΦ) (ΦωΦ)
Date: 2012-10-21 02:45 am (UTC)Bawww, bb. I'd rub your back all waifu-like if I could. Also it mostly goes without a hitch, unless they ask me for an explanation about stuff. I can explain just fine, but when they ask about a particular thing it's sad but so funny as they keep repeating the question in simpler and simpler terms until I get to be all OHHHH!!11!!11 also I can't read the menu lmao what am I doing
In my old place I had to cross train tracks to get to school, and if I was unlucky it took half an hour to get to class. Now it's like... five. Seven, max, if I'm too lazy to walk fast. TALK TO ME ABOUT YOUR LIVING SPACES TOO I'M ALL EXCITE 8'D
THAT'S NOT FAIR I CAN'T MAKE BETTER FACES THAN YOURS I DON'T KNOW HOW TO AAAH =((((((
Date: 2012-10-23 10:59 am (UTC)d'aaaaw, thank you. hahahaha you can't read the menu? have you happened to order something that made you go O.O when it got to the table? XD
hmmmm, 7 minutes or less! paradise! right now i'm going to my old math and physics&chemistry teachers (who meanwhile retired) for some orientation on how to study for this year's exams, and they live, like, almost next to each other. 2 minutes away. and my house? 10 minute-walk. where in uni i had to walk for 20 minutes (if I went fast!) to get to the main building, and there was a bit of going up and going down. but! in uni my room was smaller - like, really small, I didn't have to get up from the bed to get to the closet, or the tv (which I never used... as anything other than a thing to pile stuff on) and the desk, it was lovely. I didn't have to move all day except for food and bathroom purposes if I didn't want to! *purrs in contentment at the happy, happy memory*
TO BE FAIR IT'S ONLY IMPRESSIVE 'COS I MANAGED TO STEAL THAT FACE
Date: 2012-10-25 04:16 pm (UTC)that's some prime location right there. My uni entrance exams are next year, bb, so we'll sorta align and can pretend to make each other study again! pfffft, you sound like a giant lazy cat. in my old room i had to fold up my writing desk because i lit. couldn't roll out of bed if I left the table there. here, it's so spacious and we can go raid the nearby supermarket (that always has sales on perishable foods after ten pm) without going down scary back alleys 8'D and it's near the train station so I can leave half an hour later when i want to randomly go meet people!
*rubs because rn will rub ANY purring thing*
OH YOU CHEATER THAT IS SO NOT FAIR
Date: 2012-10-30 08:54 pm (UTC)totally! we'll fake-poke each other to study and exchange procastination stories of woe and stuff.
i AM a giant lazy cat. that's why both my cats adore me so (that and I'm the one who feeds them. and who lets them sleep all over me) your old room sounds like heaven.
is it wrong of me to think that the lack of scary back alleys is a point against? i love scary back alleys (and the abandoned kittens i usually find there. heh. and a puppy that one time)
*PURR PURR PURR*
ಠ_ರೃ just saying, someone could be making more of an effort
Date: 2012-11-01 08:57 am (UTC)I LOVE BEING IN A FAKE STUDYING RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU. The test this morning was already plenty woeful, you better be doing woe-things to keep up.
cats only love servants bb. it's a hard lesson that i've learned ahah.
generally i don't mind alleys and all, but this particular one has a habit to have drunk salarymen coming home when I'm heading out for groceries, walking into walls and occasionally trying to talk to me. yu no likey, non.
*SMOOSHES YOUR FACE WHAT IS THIS*
Re: oh my GOD that's just unfair, that one is way too awesome, WHERE DID YOU GET IT WHAT
Date: 2012-11-01 04:48 pm (UTC)ME TOO. IT'S INCREDIBLY HELPFUL. THIS MORNING THINKING ABOUT IT SORTA GUILTED ME INTO DOING SOME PHYSICS EXERCISES. IT WAS AWFUL. I'm sorry to hear your test was awful too =(
clearly all cat lovers are masochists in some form, then. BUT THEY'RE SO CUTE AND FLUFFY i don't even mind being the human servant XD
ah. bad alley then. baaad. me no likey. *shudders*
*ROLLS AROUND, BELLY UP NOW!*
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Date: 2012-09-26 05:22 am (UTC)I understand that sentiment in your last line ;) Glad to see you slightly distressed but still having fun, Mu!
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Date: 2012-09-27 10:32 am (UTC)It's my perpetual natural state, being distressed XD It's gonna be fine, bb, thank you!
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Date: 2012-09-26 05:39 am (UTC)Still got the sunshine here . Bit cooler bit still above average. Swap ya for the rain. Seriously. Northern girl born in November needs her doom and gloom.
NHK would've loved to been there. Thanks for sharing!!
NIce kitchen knife and some pepper spray (bleach in a spray bottle works too) make you feel a little more secure maybe?
Glad you got some bigger and more conveniently placed digs.
Just remember the December vacation planned to help you get through this chunk.
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Date: 2012-09-27 10:37 am (UTC)It's hovering in the teens, temperature wise lately. Kinda cold :c I'm a tropical November girl, so I still need my hot weather.
Entrance is 2USD, more or less. If you ever have occasion to come to Tokyo, I can help you out c:
My roomie's come back from her holiday, and now that there's two of us I'm all brave again. Also a pot of pepper on my nightstand, thank you!
Much more convenient aaaaah.
Mmhmm! Plus with the seasonal change, I'm falling sick. Fevers every other morning, lately.
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Date: 2012-09-27 06:46 pm (UTC)Mid to upper teens is average high this time of year around here :)
But yeah, you're a tropical one. Too bad school wasn't in Okinawa.
UK colder than Tokyo would think... season change hit you harder when you were there? :[
Ginseng or ginger or macha teas help the immune system and keep you warm. Fevers not good :/
Yeah for roomie's return. Sister not near you too?
Hope you'll never need to make use of the pepper.
SORRY FOR THE LATE REPLY LIFE IS CRAZINESS AND I'M DUMB
Date: 2012-10-13 04:56 am (UTC)It's gotten even colder and positively frigid. It's giving me the cold, it is.
UK is colder, I reckon. And yeah, I was much sicker for much longer when I was studying there. I'm just not built to withstand it, I think.
Drinking plenty of ginger, thanks for the tip! <3
She's nice c: And my sister lives nearby, so we can go out together lots and proper!
Re: SORRY FOR THE LATE REPLY LIFE IS CRAZINESS AND I'M DUMB
Date: 2012-10-13 05:15 am (UTC)Sorry it's turned colder for you. We're finally having a few days of normal average high temps and finally tonight some RAIN.
Don't suppose life been crazy ina good way? Hope it doesn't get nuttier or lasts too long.
Glad roomie and sis are around to keep your spirits up :)
Re: SORRY FOR THE LATE REPLY LIFE IS CRAZINESS AND I'M DUMB
Date: 2012-10-20 04:15 am (UTC)So very, very cold. The heater is on a lot lately, and it's also been pissing with rain. I miss being able to wear shorts arghhh.
Life's been going okay, but in a weird way. Planning to take a couple of weeks of school so I can go see my brother and all of us can go on a family vacation. It's been too long since we last got together ;~; Been meeting up with Japanese friends too, and I'm lucky that the girls I've met have been incredibly jolly types XD How're things with you, bb?
Re: SORRY FOR THE LATE REPLY LIFE IS CRAZINESS AND I'M DUMB
Date: 2012-10-20 05:25 am (UTC)Finally getting some more normal weather for what should have around here this time of year. Sorry the weather your way isn't more agreeable for you :[
This whole year, everytime I've felt gotten somewhere/some improvement/some accomplishment within a short time something happens to negate it. I called Apple about one issue and they mention oh hey, your HD has been recalled. WTF. So take it in to dealer to get it replaced and pay for them to clone my HD onto the new one so I won't have to try reinstalling everything all over again. Got it back next day, BUT a bunch of things weren't working or were how they were. Jerks tell me to bring it back in (27 inch iMac not exactly easy to cart about). Or my knee. MRI did end of August on the right one. Yup it's bad and probably won't last the amount of years I want it to yet before need the replacement surgery (which I still do NOT want, never will) and HATE that there is no other option. OR my periods are trying to start and it's only been 2 weeks. Whee.
Can squeeze any time in to watch anime? :) Tried a bunch of new fall shows but not many I feel compelled to keep watching.
November-January will be mucho busy with work. ~____~
Best of luck with school and keeping warm!
Re: SORRY FOR THE LATE REPLY LIFE IS CRAZINESS AND I'M DUMB
Date: 2012-10-21 04:32 am (UTC)According to the teachers, it's gotten a lot colder a lot faster this year than usual. Ain't coping tooooo well, but I'm still coping c:
:c Really sorry to hear that, baby. It's been a rough couple of years all around, eh? I'm scheduled for correctional surgery next march, but I've got no idea how it'll turn out. Replacement surgery is even more terrifying, but please just do it when you need to! God knows what putting it off might result in. Also way douchey, apple-support.
Periods are demonic. Just have ice cream and try and not to scream/cry/punch people. This month's been exceptionally aggressive for me ahahaha
With school and work and stuff, I really haven't found much motivation to watch anything /)A(\ Manga's just about all I can handle on top of my workload.
(OAO) No nice cushy Christmas holidays?
Thank you as ever, bb, and same to you o/
Re: SORRY FOR THE LATE REPLY LIFE IS CRAZINESS AND I'M DUMB
Date: 2012-10-21 06:29 am (UTC)As long as you get your family vacation in be it November or December!
Thanks for the advice ^____^
YAAAAAAAAAAAWN. Hormone sea-saw not helping my sleep pattern either. *sigh*
Oyasumi!
PS Christmas Day and Boxing Day have off. Anything else not likely.
Re: SORRY FOR THE LATE REPLY LIFE IS CRAZINESS AND I'M DUMB
Date: 2012-10-25 04:27 pm (UTC)I know, right?! I'm so excited to see everyone again, it's unreal. Neither of my older siblings were around when I went home for summer vaykay, so this'll be majorly nice!
It's remarkably easy to give manly advice when I'm not the one who needs to worry about replacement surgeries >A< BUT IF WE LIVED NEAR EACH OTHER I'D SO BE YOUR KNEE-PAIN BUDDY BB.
Hahaha it'll be two am soon and I can't sleep, while on Tuesday I slept thirteen hours. *rubs back* I hope you get more sleep!
Two days is better than none.... orz End of the year is only easy on schoolkids, really /)A(\ HANG TOUGH BABE
Re: SORRY FOR THE LATE REPLY LIFE IS CRAZINESS AND I'M DUMB
Date: 2012-10-26 05:57 am (UTC)Got very little sleep last night and not for lack of trying. Planes flying overhead (not normally hear those this way), shoulders pinched nerves leading to hands going num and yeah periods.
Your other post: Wow, you've fit in a job into your schedule. And double wow, story all in Japanese writing already? Sugoi.
2 days not enough if doing more than 40 hrs /w eek working for previous 2+ months though.
The day has sucked for various compounding reasons. *sigh*
Re: SORRY FOR THE LATE REPLY LIFE IS CRAZINESS AND I'M DUMB
Date: 2012-11-01 09:03 am (UTC):c Your body sounds all in a jumble. Maybe those calming pills that help sleep might help?
Mostly weekends. It's crap, but it's cash. And in all fairness, the story isn't highbrow literature XD more young adult, it's written in simple easily understood words. It's fun.
Have the days that followed it been any better? :c
Re: SORRY FOR THE LATE REPLY LIFE IS CRAZINESS AND I'M DUMB
Date: 2012-11-02 05:10 am (UTC)Uum, in first post you have
"Kanda had turned out to be amenable to sex, even of the gay kind, and about two and a half months after the first free meal Lavi realized he’s amenable to all the colours of Kanda. "
But then you have that Lavi left and only been a MONTH.
"I'll remember. Bye, boss. 's been a hell 'f a month."
Thanks for sharing. It's not grabbing me as much as your other ones. *cough* unfinished still and hopefully will still get done one day? :>
Doctors useless. Can't get answers to questions.
Work defintiely upping the stress level.
"And in all fairness, the story isn't highbrow literature XD more young adult, it's written in simple easily understood words. It's fun." Well I still think it's amazing. I'm no further ahead in my JP after many years (no classes or time for though).
Hope you had some fun, fun, fun for your birthday!!
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Date: 2012-09-28 06:46 pm (UTC)Yay for moving up in the apartment world! It does take some getting used to, and gloomy weather doesn't help. We finally have sun over here again after lots of rain (that came too late to do anything for the drought this summer), which helps a bit with the whole sun-going-down-by-four gloomy darkness thing now that's it's fall. I was really jumpy in my first apartment for a while until I got used to which sounds were normal and which weren't. It helped that the area was generally well lit and nothing really ever happened nearby. I had a friend whose first "real" apartment was right next to a giant bamboo grove; pretty in the daylight but not so good for walking light and non-creepy sounds at night ^^;; Hope you're settling in and have gotten some real food. I find not eating quite right makes me all around jumpier and more paranoid about everything without reason.
I could never be a voice actor =) Can't listen since I'm supposed to be working, but I'm sure you guys did brilliantly =D
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Date: 2012-10-13 05:00 am (UTC)The weather's been alternating between glorious and drop down crap the past few weeks >A< So cold and unpleasant, then sun and moderate temperatures. And re: getting scared in the house. I think part of the problem is my habit of watching creepy movies right before bed. My brain goes haywire.
Bamboos are majorly ghostly in Malaysian lore, good god.
IT'S LITERALLY NOTHING TO BE PROUD ABOUT BB LOLSOB