friday night

2 05 2008

so, its friday night, its raining a little and i have next to nothing in the house to eat. 

what do you do???

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make fake risotto and pork. 

cook rice and add a can of pumpkin soup and some water.  cook while continually stirring until most of the moisture is absorbed and then add some grated cheese.  Stir until melted and mixed.  easy!  sure its not as rich and creamy as real risotto, but this only took 10 minutes to make, rather than 40 plus.  and tomorrow night, I might be motivated enough to heat up some peas to go with it too.





7 04 2008

Tribbles  

English Angora Rabbit

 

so thats where they got the inspiration…..

 





why Mr Rudd… why?!?

1 04 2008

he calls Bush and honorary Queenslander…

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/3681938.stm

i feel dirty….





internet cafes

26 03 2008

why is it that my most important posts seem to be made from internet cafes? 

right, well, firstly, long time no post.  my apologies. there are good reasons however.  mainly the fact that I have just moved house.  So, please dont send any mail to my old address in japan!

“moved?!?” I hear you say.  yes.  moved.  why, well, this is something I wasn’t able to post about until about 2 months ago, and then I wasnt able to find the time.  My contract with AEON finished last saturday, by my choice, so if I wanted to stay in Japan, I had to find a new job.  I started searching about mid-Jan, and I was very blessed with being offered a wonderful position within 2 and a half weeks of job searching.  My new job will be a private Junior High School English Communication teacher.   What that means – regular hours (830 to 430), better pay (just), longer vacations (12 weeks!  did you read that…  12 WEEKS!), and moving house.

So, after I got the job offer I started to go house hunting.  I decided to live at the same station as the school (just ask my mother.  i have trouble getting out of bed), which is approx 1 hour and 20 minutes away from where I was.  So the distance made some difficulties.  But, my first trip to a real estate agent, and I found a great place (thanks Century 21!), and 2 weeks after that I signed to contract, to move in a week and a half later, which puts us up to last sunday. 

So, as you can kinda see, things have been hectic.  Ive had a few other adventures in between, and Im really looking forward to my new life (on vacation for a week now), which i will post about later.  But for now, Im going to go back home, because someone is snoring here in the internet cafe, and I just cant stand that! grrrr





wassup

3 03 2008

 firstly, the spam.

Your Rockstar Name Is…
Bunny Zombie
You Are an Officelady!
It all seemed so blissful at first.
Wear cute little suits, meet friends with matching suits, get a small salary.
Well, you’re going to be making copies for the rest of your life, and a good raise is not in your future.
And forget about marrying out of this glass cieling! What?
So you can make coffee at home and wash your husband’s underwear? Gross!

 

wiii!  Im an OL!  anyway

now that thats out of my system, a couple of note worthy things lately.

last weekend I went to Hakone with Peter.  We had a good time.  Sunday we went to Yunessun which is like a spa theme park.  The good thing about it is you can go with people of the opposite sex because you are wearing bathing suits.  They have about 25 different baths, including – chocolate, coffee, wine, green tea, sake, roman baths, and fish that eat the dead skin off your feet (that freaked me out, but Peter loved it….  yuck)

Then on Sunday we did the round trip of the area, going to Ashi lake, looking at some shrines, the new Hakone Tokkaido Checkpoint Museum (history-type thing, right up my alley), up to Owakudani to eat onsen-tamago.  The usual.  Twas a long weekend, but fun.  The only thing – our hotel didnt have a bathroom in each room, you are supposed to use the onsen, however…  you had to wash outside….  and it was soooooo cold.  man.  cold….

And today.  Ah today…  I went and finally got my Japanese Drivers Licence.  It was a lot easier than I thought it would be (just had to wait…. and wait…. and…), since they didnt even make me take the 10 question test on the road rules.  And because I was out Shinagawa way, I decided to pursue my Pie Quest.  And I am proud to say I did it!  I found the Anna Millers at Shinagawa, and had real pie!  Best in Japan.  I was just sad I can’t share a photo with you because my phone ran out of charge.  mmmm…  happy food coma….





someday, someday… i will do a proper update..

22 02 2008





The Lockup

11 02 2008

  Well, yesterday Julie, a friend from Aus, and her boyfriend and another friend came to Tokyo.  They wanted to see Electric Town in Akiba, so we headed over there, but, well, unless you are into electronics its not really a great deal.  So, from there we decided to head to Shibuya. 

They all really loved Shibuya, but the thing that I really enjoyed is that we went to the Lockup.  Man, it was soooo cool.  The Lockup is a jail-themed japanese bar.  Even just entering the place for the first time freaked me out.  You head down to the basement, and its all rocky walls, dark and UV lighting.

Once you get inside, you are led to your own cell, with one of your party handcuffed to a jail warden in a PVC mini skirt. hehe.  And you are locked into your ‘cell’.  There are alot of themed cocktails that come in beakers or test tubes, which were fun.  And some of the foods have a roulette style game – one of the pieces being super spicy.  Super super spicy…  Like, wow.  Julie actually got the spicy takoyaki that we ordered, but silly me didnt believe her how spicy it was.  OMG.  burny burny! 

And finally, about every hour they have a ‘show’ where the lights go off and some of the ‘inmates’ escape and come around to all the cells and terrorize the customers.  That was a bit freaky, but lots of fun.  I’ve got a video, but its pretty dark, sorry about that.

good fun  will go there again!





cute-overload

6 02 2008





Yatta!

6 02 2008

that clip seriously cracks me up.  But, I am saying ‘Yatta!’ for a reason –

my results for the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) came…  I passed!  Yatta!  Huzzah for good measure!

oh, and if you are interested in seeing the original clip for the yatta song, thats below and possibly very scary…





stomach bug… uuugggghhhhh

3 02 2008

right, so I got really really sick on friday night, and couldnt go to work yesterday.  Its just a stomach bug, but man I really hate being sick.

On the other hand, I went to the doctors in Japan for the first time, which was quite an experience.  You dont go to a doctors’ clinic here, you go to hospital.  And to pay, you use an ATM.. all quite different.

In Japan they have this nifty system so that if you want to know what a drug is, all you have to do is look up the code.  Mum and I were just checking out my medications using Babelfish, and Im sure in Japanese its pretty normal instruction, but the translation is a little concerning –

Component name繝峨Φ繝壹Μ繝峨Φ lock
Some medicine?The medicine and the medicine of the nausea stop which function of the stomach are improved
Main actionRaising the autokinetic motion of the stomach, it promotes the discharge of contents ones of the stomach, case in addition discharge is too quick, there is the action which makes the discharge talent of the stomach normal e.g., you hold down a little. In addition, there is also the action which holds down the nausea. Also the internal use suppository the nausea, the inappetence and the abdomen 閹ィ full is used for the digestive organs condition of the impression and the like.
Side effect and the likeBoth the internal use suppository enema medicine, hypersensitive condition such as shock, conscious obstacle and the spasm, there are times when the diarrhea and the stomachache etc. happen in the dust 縺セ 逍ケ itch and the time. Don’t you think? the 繧 air, there are also times when the drift, the heartbeat, the sweat, the milk juice secretion and the feeling etc. which the breast stretches happen.
How and note to use

As for internal use please take before the food. As for the suppository to use about 30 minutes which take the other oral medicine ago, it is more effective when holding down the nausea. It uses the enema medicine, as much as possible after the defecating. Because there are times when it becomes drowsy, you will avoid dangerous job and driving of the car.

 

yes…  well… gave us a few laughs.   Im still not 100%, but at least Im not vomiting anymore.

also, today it snowed.  A lot.  heres a picture for you

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