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I think I'm never going back to Sunshine City again.

yayyyyyyyyyyy harajukuuuuuuuuuu

Unit 2 Triple
Standard meal plan

( schedule )

A brief summary of my day.

(warning: conversations may have been edited for brevity's sake)

( as follows )

At 4 something yesterday, I hit 48,600 words.

I had also finished my NaNovel.

WHOOPS.

YAY FOR 1,400 WORDS OF BULLSHIT HAHAHAHAHA

After all that time spent coffee shop scouting, hours upon hours cooped up in libraries and Starbucks with Weina, mad sprints of word marathoning to classical music, I am done.

In celebration, I slept with my pillow facing the other way. Needless to say, I woke up very disoriented today.


So! The craze has ended.

And immediately, I have descended to... a WEBCAM JUNKIE.

No really! Yesterday (after the end of Nano) was like. Sharing Music Day. I found my study buddies (alas, no longer =/) in McDonald's and we spent at least an hour swapping music three ways on three different earphones (which, let me tell you, gets incredibly confusing) and learned quite a lot about each other.

ADELA: POWER METAL GOGOGOGO
WEINA: MY EARS
ADELA: ...I have classical, too?
WEINA: Here! Have some of my beautiful, melodic, Celion-Dion esque easy listening pieces!
TIFFANY: I CAN'T LISTEN TO THIS I'M GOING TO CRY /SOB
A + W: ... ...
TIFFANY: Here! Have some old Chinese songs!
ADELA: ♥
WEINA: My melodic pieces...
ADELA: Here! Have some K-pop!
WEINA: Too noisy.
TIFFANY: Here! Have some K-pop!
WEINA: Yay! ♥
ADELA: But that's just as noisy as my K-pop /sob

and so it went.

And then I went home. And ended up chatting on Skype for two hours and - you guessed it - swapping music through Skype speakers. J-pop instead of K-pop! Life of a fob?

In the morning, I woke up, disoriented by the odd configuration of the room (my pillow was on the wrong side), and became even more disoriented when I saw my friend, who was now BLOND.

ADELA: I don't recognize you.
MELODY: I don't recognize myself.
A: ... ...
M: ... ...

And so we stared at each other (or really just at her) through Skype for at least an hour, if not more.

Whereupon I rushed through all my homework on the train and right before class and made it just as the teacher walked in the door. HA.


Oh I was being patronizing in class today and totally got a slap in the face for it.

SENSEI: So anyone know what this yellow flower is called in English?
US STUDENT #1: Nope.
US STUDENT #2: Nope.
US STUDENT #3: Nope.
ADELA: Nope.
SENSEI: Oh, well then. The next kanji is...
ADELA: Psst, it's called rape!
US STUDENT #1: I know.
ADELA: Oh.

Totally deserved that. Also, for those of you who are not sure what I'm talking about, Rape is also the name of a flower. A YELLOW FLOWER. THAT GROWS IN FIELDS.

So when I got home today my Malaysian friend (the one in Britain now) - you guessed it again - Skype-d me! IN CLASS.

Oh boy we felt so badass, Skype-ing during the middle of a law lecture. Well, she was the only one really at risk there, since I'm sitting happily in my dorm all the way across the other side of the world, but hey. Share the love.

Also, her professor had an AWESOME BRITISH ACCENT. Understandable, as he was in Britain, but he also repeated the words "grievous bodily harm" at least 30-40 times within the 20 minutes that I listened to him lecture, and it was the only thing I really picked up on. Apparently grievous bodily harm is very important to lawyers.

AHEM.

So now that I have procrastinated making dinner far too long, here is a list of things to do now that I am free of the noveling nightmare!


LIST OF THINGS TO DO

-PIRATE MARATHON YAYAYAYYAY
-karaoke
-use up the rest of my manga cafe coupons
-CAT CAFE
-visit Shibuya!
-go to Harajuku. ON A SUNDAY.
-cut hair (wait for Weena)
-scout bookoffs for Yuu and Kaens
-GET ABOVE 90 ON A GRAMMAR TEST T___T
-shabushabu partayyyyyy


yay! I sound like those girls I used to think were really lame for facebook whoring all the time and using backwards smileys.

WELL HOW THINGS CHANGE

Incidentally, I saw an FML the other day about some girl's little sister who decided to get revenge on her by switching her bottle of hair dye with a bottle of Nair.

...what a horrible little sister.

O_____O k byeeeeeee


(PS. I'm still a little high from writing 50,000 words in one month. Just, you know. A bit. :D)


edit: Speaking of Skype and lectures, I have an idea for when we get back to school! How about everyone draw straws, and the loser can go to the lecture, keep Skype on, and everyone else study from home. :D

croatian rhapsody by maksim has taken over my soul

spent my morning running around doing errands and cooped up in a coffee shop

then got to school and cooped up to write some more and nearly died of exhaustion

then found out that I FORGOT ABOUT NEWSPAPER CLUB and FREAKED OUT!!!!!!!

...and spent a lot of class kind of hysterically bantering with an American boy

and being silently hysterical in general

then during break

me and my friend ran around like maniacs shrieking our frustrations to the world

and I accosted random korean boys and tried to learn korean

and then random korean boys (and girls) from my class and I

spent a lot of time teaching other how to write (and speak) phrases such as

let's play!

and

i love you!

and after class two malaysian boys hijacked me at the piano

and later in the same hour one of them came back

and we played

(with the piano)

and he walked me to the station

and I came home!

but I am still unhappy

because I did not speak very much to the boy I like

and I have to ask myself...

what is the point of playing so outrageously with everyone ELSE?

but then again,

it's fun, duh.

HAHA HAVE YOU HAD ENOUGH OF MY SELF-INDULGENCE YET

tomorrow!

I shall go to school super early

and write my head off with this lovely American girl who stays at a homestay house with THREE CHILDREN (oh my god!)

GOD SAVE ME 4 DAYS LEFT AND 13K TO GO

NANO IS TAKING OVER MY BRAIN

DID YOU KNOW HOW LONG I SPENT WRITING (AND PROCRASTINATING) AFTER I CAME HOME TODAY

HELP

BYE

Q: How many UC Berkeley students does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Seventy-six. One to change the lightbulb, fifty to protest the lightbulb’s right not to change, and twenty-five to hold a counter-protest.

Q: How many UCLA students does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: One. He just holds the bulb and lets the world revolve around him.

Q: How many UC Davis students does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: None. Davis doesn’t have electricity.

Q: How many UC Irvine students does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: None. Irvine looks better in the dark.

Q: How many UC Riverside students does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: None. See UC Irvine.

Q: How many UC San Francisco students does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Two. One to change the lightbulb and one to crack under the pressure.

Q: How many UC San Diego students does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Two. One to mix the margaritas and one to call the electrician.

Q: How many UC Santa Barbara students does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Only one, but he gets six credits for it.

Q: How many UC Santa Cruz students does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Eleven. One to change the lightbulb and ten to share the experience.

that's the stuff, baby. bring out your California spirit!!

just for the record, I didn't come up with any of these on my own. I believe I first heard them from the mouth of a certain Economics teacher...

(cough)

I've become fond of lists lately. Maybe it's a sign that my life is becoming more orderly!

In any case I reconfirmed several things about myself today, namely

1. I draw relationship trouble like dead meat draws flies. And by relationship trouble I don't mean my own relationship trouble, I mean everyone else's relationship troubles. I don't even have to try and I automatically turn into the confidante character! The lone exception to this is people like Tiffany (not our Tiffany), who have no interest in the opposite sex whatsoever.

2. I really have issues with people I like. I can silent signal, hang, and play with just about anyone in the classroom at any given time, but I can't even look him in the eye. Woe is me.

3. I can still run pretty fast when I need to. Watch me fly like the wind!

Yes, some things you really can't find out until you sprint straight from the train station home through the chilly night air without once pausing to catch your breath. I was late anyway but the dorm manager was nice enough to unlock the gate and let me in. ==; Last time I'm talking overlong with my sister and missing the express train.

I also learned a new Japanese phrase today: 猫をかぶる (neko wo kaburu). The literal translation is: 'to wear a cat' (the same form of 'wear' as 'wear a hat'), which conjures up some pretty funny images. It actually means that you seem quiet on the outside but aren't really that way at all on the inside, like a tiger pretending to be a house cat. A wolf in sheep's clothing?

SOOOO I'm not sure that's such a great thing to be described as, but I don't think Sachiyo-san meant any harm.

Also it's partially because I went with Amy. I always become louder and more obnoxious when I'm chatting with my sister. I don't even know why haha.

AND because the first time I went to her house, it was the first day I had ever come to Japan. Of course I would be nervous!

Okay that's all for random thoughts, off to bed now.

Pros

1. The more you patch it up, the newer it looks
2. It looks like trash, so if you ever forget it in a public place, no one will ever take it
3. It's thin enough to fit in the pocket of girl skinny jeans!

Cons

1. If you forget it out in the sun, it melts a little (STICKY STICKY)
2. No coin pocket
3. It looks like trash

haha :)


In other news, I am so glad to be doing Nano! I met some amazing people at the write-in today, and even if I am 8000 words behind I'm so happy just to have met all those fellow crazy people who each have their own bizarrely creative ideas and are all so smart and funny and interesting... backseatdream and Yvonne may be interested to learn that I met another fellow Maya fan who's half Chinese and half American, born in Japan, has long black hair and is extremely pretty in that fiery black-widow kind of way. And then there are the two Uni students from England who have the most wonderful accents (XD), the weird boy who's writing a veiled heroic criticism through his antihero sociopath, the fellow Californian who's writing a mystery about a stalked blogger, and that crazy, crazy Indian girl who has 30,000 words already and is writing her entire novel on an iPhone instead of a laptop.

CARPAL TUNNEL ANYONE?

So much the love (or lack thereof) for J.K. Rowling, George R.R. Martin, stealing Starbucks tables, and mysterious lifts on spaceships. Also I have ascertained that Starbucks does not change anywhere around the world. Anywhere.

18k down, 32k to go!

*edit: Make that the crazy Indian girl who's written 40,000 words. I HATE YOU ASRA

I actually wrote over 1,776 words today! I feel so accomplished. Ignore the fact that I'm still 5,000 words behind...

College stuff is so tiresome. Planning everything out takes forever, and it's setting me back on Nano too.

I've changed my mind. I think I will go in for a Chinese major because

1. I was planning to study at NTU anyway
2. I can literally wrap up the entire major with one class this coming semester and a year well-spent in Taiwan

sooooo why not?

Meanwhile, I can take the overlapping CS minor/major prereqs and if I have enough spare units, I can always turn the CS minor into a major later on. And if I don't, it leaves me with a ton of units to invest in Korean, music, philosophy, CW, Japanese, yadda yadda yadda. I can do whatever I want!

And as for what I want to do when I graduate, you ask?

AHAHA.

...um, I'll figure that out when the time comes. Peace! ^^V

This snippet actually goes before snippet #2, because I am too embarrassed to include snippets of my rapidly degrading writing, and also because I do not have that much more writing on hand to snippetize because I am slowly but surely falling behind! I went from 1,000 words behind to 3,000, to 5,000, and now I've caught up a bit and am down to 2,000 words behind, but behind is behind.

The Yamanashi trip was fun though. Our hotel had some nice "hot springs". And grape flavored drinks.

Incidentally, the only reason there is a chicken in my story at all is because someone posted a Nano dare on the forums which had something to do with having a chicken run across the scene without any especial plot significance.

( Liam never intended on... )

edit: oh yeah, look at this awesome wordcount widget:

Nano snippet #2:

( He lifted up the rest... )

So I've been using this nifty little tool called WRITE OR DIE which essentially flashes red in two seconds if you stop writing (and if you keep not writing after that, the red, which begins pinkish, turns darker and darker and if you STILL don't write, a foghorn thing starts blowing!).

...anyway I write some of the weirdest things when under pressure.

You know, when you have about 3 seconds you can't choose, you just go with the first image that comes into your mind, eh? And the first image that came into my mind about late-night Shinjuku were those neatly dressed boys with golden jewelry and bleached hair lounging about the streets of Kabuki-cho chatting with each other and politely soliciting customers with their flyers. So now my character is sitting in a Host Club for the first time in his life, and the whole inventing-by-the-fly is getting even worse because all I really know about the inside of Host Clubs is from Ouran, and that really doesn't count.

Also, I did not just steal the idea of peppermint from Maya. I did not, I did not, I did not...

(Admittedly it is for a completely different purpose? ish.)

Most of my Nano makes my eyes bleed! So I'll just be posting really short bits of the clips that I happen to like, hahaha.

( SQUAWK SQUAWK )

Yay chicken! That bit was actually kind of fun to write. Only because I enjoy making people feel stupid. Harharhar.

Hi guys.

It's 2009, I'm in Japan, and as something I neglected to do in 2008 (and 2007), this year I am going to try to tackle NaNo seriously!!

It's November, I've got 2000 words down, which is too few because it's a precious WEEKEND WHEN AM I GOING TO GET ANY OTHER TIME TO GET A HEAD START AHHHHHHHHHHH but that is not the point of this post.

I found my NaNo 2006. Again. Now, this is something I haven't posted for 3 years because 2006 was my first year doing NaNo, I was a silly freshman, and I wrote a story chock full of inside jokes and I was afraid that posting it would offend people. TBH it isn't really a story, it's just full of a setup for a story that never got written, hahaha. But now that the chatgroup is, whut, dead and gone, at least I don't even remember half of the jokes we had from 2006 (they keep changing!), I can probably say for certain that this is something I will never finish!

So, here it is. I'm sure we've all grown enough in three years not to get offended over silliness from three years ago? (a.k.a. DON'T KILL MEEEEEEEE~)

Warning: It's pretty terrible. I never went back to edit, so it's stuffed with random skipping and notes incomprehensible to me now and a lot of it makes me cringe in my seat (like... the bits about myself AUGH LET ME DIE NOW) - but some of it still cracks me up. Like the first Tiffany cow entrance. HARHARHAR. So have a laugh, guys!

( A long, long time ago... )

所以前幾天我忽然想起郭媽媽積極推薦的那位(親戚?)歌手,ひろみ（沋美?洸美?)ちゃん

今天去看了她的live performance,不錯耶~
聲音很好聽~~
比我們前幾天去聽的那幾個band好多了
不瞞你說,那天有幾個吉他手還矕利害的
可是歌手超~~~爛!!!

哎呀我錄了好多打算上載的,也遲遲沒放上來
其實我不是太忙
最近在看日劇!
花より男子 :D
看日劇也用電腦嗎．．．所以一上電腦就直接去看,不理上載下載什麼了

最近看完了
所以現在才會來blog
哈哈

ㄇ反正說
ひろみ的聲音很強,而且有深度,range也不錯
雖然有時候音不太準
哈哈其實她第一條我有這麼想(音準的說)
可是不知道是不是我的幻覺,而且批評人家也不禮貌吧
結果碰到ひろみ的時候她自己這麼說!
我好高興
耳朵還沒退化耶

當然來這裡是會時不時拉大提琴啦
而且星期１到５至少四天放課後會去801號玩鋼琴

阿我快把rach 2的前五頁玩會了喔!
說前五頁,不過是score
所以其實只算是前五行吧
可這樣也不錯啊
超~~~愛rachmaninoff!! ^o^

話說回來
ひろみ還是比之前的那些歌手都利害
有一個歌手居然唱sk8er boi!
can you believe it!?
我一直笑一直笑，差點笑死
站在我旁邊的朋友臉好白好白，都快哭了
這就算是哭笑不得...吧
不會英文就不要唱呀
呀哈哈

唉令我想念起樂隊的好朋友
wooho假如在場,必定猛作苦瓜死人臉,很不禮貌的拽著我就想奪門而逃
呀哈哈
其實根本不需要像他耳朵那麼尖的
tiffany一定也歪鼻子皺眉頭
walter會做出一副無可奈何的表情
呀小connor在的話,一定猛比手勢,假裝自己被掐死射死
嘿嘿我看他長大也是一個死不正經的
唉可是在場的日文同學們,還是不一樣
到了最後，他們還是說：不錯呀！

最後那個band不是真的聽起來不錯
只是超有精神，很會甩頭髮
令我想起跟panda的談話 － 被stage presence騙了啊！雖然stage presence也很重要...
他們CD上同樣兩首倒是音很準
一定加工過

這禮拜五還要跟dorm的朋友再去喔
哈哈我不是去聽的
我是去看可愛日本男孩甩頭髮的
不過他頭髮那麼多，其實不知道真的可愛不可愛（看不到臉）

下次ひろみ唱歌，我就真正是去聽的
（當然ひろみ也很可愛啦）

ㄇ廢話這麼多，大家讀溺了沒？我也寫累了喲

じゃ、またね～


（下次發誓一定上載照片！）

Aw man.

I was having that awesome dream about rocking out on guitar to that super duper ridiculous outer space version of Rockband (which I've only ever dreamt about once before) when my stupid alarm clock woke me up!

And I was sure I hit dismiss and not snooze but 5 minutes later as I was trying to fall back into the dream it woke me up again.

残念です...

edit: also the reason I haven't updated much is

1. I'm busy

2. I've become addicted to watching jdramas (Debra would approve!!)

and

3. it seems pointless to update in Japanese

mostly the first two haha. life in japan is too much fun! some people may be interested to learn that I attended a church (while remaining utterly atheist). church kids are hecka nice though, even if I don't agree with half of what they say...