I actually spent some of my hard-earned cash to watch High School Musical 3: Senior Year last Sunday. It was okay, I suppose. The plot was rather teen-flick generic, but it had a lot of energy and atmosphere. The songs were better than HSM2. The ticket+snacks meant I was broke for the rest of the week. : D I bought a large fruit tart for me and YY to eat during lunch on Friday, though. Maybe every Friday I will buy a cake haha.
I’ve eaten a lot today. I had a roast dinner for lunch. Then my sister called me to go to eat Japanese food, so I had that. I had this really nice okayu. Okayu is basically this sort of rice porridge, called congee. We have in China as well, but okayu is a lot thicker than the Chinese variant. I can never get fed up of Japanese food. My parents went to a Buddhist festival earlier, so they brought me back noodles, which I’m devouring now. I’m going to wake up obese.
Currently listening to: 뷹은 노을 by Big Bang, from the album Remember.
The trip to Parliament was so lol. For one of our tasks, we had to walk around Parliament Square and look at the statues and buildings, so we could fill in this sheet. Well, we started to do it but it was raining, so we all stopped. We ended up at the arcade, playing on the bumper cars. It was so awesome. Parliament was good, too. It’s really interesting inside. Although, I got the feeling that I’ve been there before. I’m not sure if I have, though.
Two of my language classes that I signed up to started. Mandarin is nice. It’s fairly easy for me, as I can read the characters. Pronouncing is so-so, I suppose. I’m not sure if my pronunciation is good, but I suppose once I get used to the tones, I’ll be more comfortable. I mean, I do speak a language that has 9 tones. XD Japanese is great. It’s really fun. It’s harder than Mandarin, as I’m not used to the grammar. I mean, I accidentally said that I was called called Jennie and was English.
Wonder Girls released their new song, called Nobody. I think I prefer the teaser version of the song, but the dance version is nice too. I really like the music video. Although, the toilet humour is a little…weird. They’re really pretty in it.
Kumi Koda’s TABOO is so awesome. I would link to a video, if Avex weren’t stamping out its existence on the Internet. She’s such a slut in it, though. XD I mean, she gets licked in places that I didn’t even know existed in parts of it. I wonder what the average Japanese think of the video. Men are probably vigorously masturbating to it.
Currently listening to: TABOO by 倖田來未, from the album TABOO.
I’ve been reading a lot of books lately. Currently, I’m reading Wrong About Japan by Peter Carey. The book was written after his and his son’s trip to Japan sometime in 2002, I believe. I’m finding it an enjoyable read, but the book is mainly based around manga and anime, which I don’t really have that much of an interest. Still, it’s interesting reading a gaijin (外人) view on Japan. I read another travel book, called Meeting Mr Kim: or How I Went to Korea and Learned To Love Kimchi by Jennifer Barclay. I really enjoyed the book. It’s about a woman who accompanies her boyfriend to Korea for 3 months and travels around Korea in search for the soul of Seoul. Her stories about meeting a wide range of friendly Korean people makes me want to visit. Hopefully I can, if I read Korean Studies at university.
Currently listening to: So Hot by Wonder Girls, from the album So Hot.
I went to my first university Open Day on Saturday. It was at Oxford. No, it’s not the prestigious Oxford University, but it’s less glamorous brother Oxford Brookes University. It was okay. I went to check out the Japanese Studies and Politics courses. I went to both taster sessions. It was rather interesting. In Japanese, we just learnt really basic words like “kantan” and “jouzu”, and how to use them in context. In Politics, we had a little debate about the “crisis of democracy”, something I didn’t take part in. I don’t really want to do Japanese as my major, so I’ll probably put Oxford Brookes as one of my back-up choices.
In front of me, I have an application form for Mandarin lessons. I’m pretty sure I want to take them, but I’d also like to take another language. Anyone have any ideas what languages I should consider? The options are:
- Italian
- Spanish
- Turkish
- Arabic
- Greek
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Polish
Oh, and I’m also going to take Japanese lessons. I’m taking a bit of a risk because I’m not even sure if I’ll have enough time on my hands, but I think I should be okay. The courses aren’t particularly complex, or very intensive.
Currently listening to: KEY OF HEART by BoA, from the album MADE IN TWENTY(20).
I had quite an awesome weekend. My two friends, Joe and Shaun came up all the way from Poole, Dorset (Geography class: moan) for two days, so we could attend London Expo, a clash of different subjects all under one roof. We were mainly interested in the anime part of the convention. Well, they were. I don’t particularly like anime. So much that I’ve been to two anime conventions. XD Anyway, it was pretty much the same as last year, although it was way bigger than last year and the queue was like, 3484643785 times longer. I’m not even joking. Last time, there was only my group in the queue (and we got there quite early) and like, 2 people behind the desk. This year, a whole convention hall was dedicated to queuing. The line twisted and turned at least 5 times when we got in; I heard some people have been queuing since 8:30am in the morning (the convention started at 11am for normal tickets, and 10pm for people with fast-track tickets).
That picture really doesn’t show the full extent of the queue. We were in it for just over an hour. There were loads of people giving out “free hugs”; Joe made some guy in a balaclava give me one, as much as I protested and screamed like a kawaii 13-year-old school girl. There were also loads of people dressed in cosplay. It was pretty amusing. Some people looked totally awesome; some other people looked ridiculous. Actually, most of them looked ridiculous. I mean, Caucasians dressed as Asians? Haha.
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