And then I realized, I'm just slutty.

Sassy Hair

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:44:34 GMT

I only took off a centimetre or so in the front but then went quite short in the back because it's going to be hella hot soon. My stylist said I look really good with straight hair as well as curly. He thinned it out a bit so he's not so heavy and blah. I like it. :) We also traded numbers so hopefully I'll have a new drinking friend.

I'm going to Enoshima with Akira and his friends on the 27th. Bryan will be there as well. See, I don't know what his angle is, but at least it feels like he's interested in me. Maybe he'll have a cute friend.

Now it's time to cook. Baked salmon, salad and bruchetta. :D

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I am such an asshole!

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:45:27 GMT

In preperation for The Next Step, I think I should start making a CV. The most recent resume I have is this crappy 1 page thing from September 2007. Well, it's only got the most recent jobs I've had but whatever; at least I don't have to start completely from scratch. I also found the cover letter/statement I wrote for my application to Aeon. I sound like such a fucking asshole! But good bones to start with: I'm going to rewrite it for my school applications because my goal is the same.

Shakespeare once said, “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” I have spent the last four years of my life in Vancouver, Canada, a multicultural haven, but I want to see more. I want to see the world. I spent four years in university studying Japanese history and culture, and then I wanted to come to Japan and experience it first-hand. I have traveled to several countries in Asia, but Japan was always just out of my reach and its somewhere I have always wanted to explore. Having been an expatriate for almost a decade, growing up in Singapore where I learned to speak Mandarin, I already understand the challenges and pitfalls of living in a foreign country, as well as the rich and rewarding benefits. I have been in Japan for a short two months, and I have already seen so much, but there is still more I want to see and do.

My goal in the future is to teach high school English in international schools in Asia. Working and living in Japan would be a stepping stone towards that goal. In Vancouver, I know there are a large number of first- and second-generation Canadians who do not have English as their mother tongue but teachers are currently not equipped with the skills to effectively teach English as a Second Language. Teaching overseas will enable me to teach more effectively in the future, whether it be in Canada or any other foreign country I may happen to find myself in. I think that teaching in a cultural so radically different than my own will allow, and to a certain extent force, me to think of different ways of explaining linguistic problems. Anyone can translate; it takes a lot more thought and dedication to think of the best way to explain something in English to someone who does not speak the language. As a teacher in a school with any international population, catering to the needs of those students with English as a Second Language would be among one of my many duties. In addition, it is important to constantly challenge ourselves and venture outside our comfort zone. Teaching, as well as living in Japan, is a challenge I am eager to meet head on.

I have a thirst for knowledge and want to learn all I can in every country I visit. So far, I have been able to learn to order Starbucks coffee in Japanese, as well as expand my culinary repertoire to include some Japanese cuisine. By the time I leave here, I want to have gone to Kyoto and Okinawa as well as be able to have, at the very least, a simple conversation in Japanese. Not only would I like to increase my own knowledge while living in Japan, I would like to share my cultural heritage and customs with Japanese friends and students. It goes without saying that we can each learn so much from each other.

500 words, on the nose, of self-promotion.

I'm going to set my computer to defrag tomorrow when I'm at work. This is getting fucking retarded and I hate it. Do you actually need Java Runtime Environment on your computer? It's got like 10 updates at 100+MB each. That could free up some space. And this stupid disk cleanup is taking forever. Why can't you just workkkkkkk?

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OH GOD YES

Sun, 31 May 2009 02:52:22 GMT

I have decided to suck it up and use my new phone. I figured out how to transfer most things onto my SD and move it over, including my good ringtones. The keitai arrange wouldn't so I had to download that again, and redo all the pictures in the address book, but small beans. I think I am coming to terms.

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Out of it

Sun, 31 May 2009 01:36:58 GMT

I'm so out of it. I took Friday off for Elle who came down and spent the day before flying back to the States yesterday. I'm glad I just called Tatsuya directly, instead of the office (and the real boss, Mr Oishi) like last time. He didn't guilt trip me or anything. He was a bit concerned whether I would go in on Monday which was kind of sweet. He was only worried because he's coming to watch me during 3rd period. FUCK. I don't even know what my schedule is for next month. I hope to god it's not a 1st year class. All that needs to be said is this: 2nd and 3rd year are almost done chapter 2. 1st year has barely started chapter 1. It's been 2 months. What the shit. I'm holding my breath.

I didn't do much of anything yesterday after Elle left. I burned some videos, watched some videos, deleted some videos, played some FF4, napped. All around good time. It's muggy and nasty out there again today. Not approved.

I'm going to call Alison at noon (8pm in Van) and catch up with her. JC actually stopped by my parents house with donuts like he said he would! ♥ I love my best friend! The whole crew was there too, even Sean! Mom's probably going to write me and say, WTF.

Does anyone know of an .mp4 video trimmer? 13 episodes of Merlin will not fit on one DVD, only by a couple mb and I'm not havin' it! I want that shit all together! I downloaded some random one but the gay trial would only let you convert 50% of one file. Help?

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Baa-baa.

Tue, 05 May 2009 05:33:56 GMT

So, everyone's been getting these things and I am nothing if not a sheep. I think I've said that before. *coughbabyficcough* Anyway, we'll see how this goes. I'm just going to have to get used to the new commands and stuff. I'm still making things pretty. Everyone is going to be confused because I changed my name. Now that I've done it, I don't know if I like it. It's (also) a regular English word now instead of something with a shitton of vowels. Whatever.

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Maybe I should take the iniative to make an Arashi fic community before someone else does it and does it wrong. It's something to think about. But there isn't quite the numbers to support it yet. It would be nice to be able to snag Kotobayori for it before anyone else. It would be nice to have something that works already set up when things really start hopping around here.

Ahhh Elle just went home an hour or so ago. It was a nice visit. I think this has been the most cooking I've done in ages. I made daikon stew, carbonara, bruschetta, mushi-pan... I was a regular housewife. On Sunday we went to Asakusa to be a little bit toursity and meet up with Andrew so he could take my speakers to Hawaii. Then we met aeslis and had good fangirl times. I did end up getting buyers guilt after spending ¥4,000 on doujinshi. All the small sized things I got weren't really doujinshi at all. Elle's samurai series was good but very much unfinished. We don't know if there is any other volumes out there, but the last one was written in 2006 so... In any case, we spent 2 hours today hashing out the story from what I garnered from my rough translations and making up an ending. Which means another epic samurai fic coming your way in the maybe-not-so-distant future. It was a huge pain to read... the author was obviously going for a kind of historical feeling by using kanji for everything but it makes it fucking hard to read. Who actually knows what the kanji for なぜ and ここ is anyway? Well, I do now.

What's the rest of the plan for Golden Week? Well, I'm not meeting Sho tomorrow for karaoke after all since he injured himself in a soccer game on the weekend. Andrew and Blake are in Hawaii, Justin probably has tons of dates and I don't know if Ariel even has time off from work. I think I'll just stay in and play Animal ~~Farm~~ Crossing and try and write some of these prompts I got from people.

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