finn

welcome to the family

caved in and got the iphone 3gs today :D new iphone’s named Finn. am still getting used to the phone and how it works and so far, it’s been good. just wondering now if i need an app to access the free wifi spots around japan. will try it out soon ^^ also went out to buy finn a case and fell in love with this red silicone cover that also came with a thin sheet to put over the screen. so the actual screen doesn’t get smudged -_- all protected now! remember, be safe kids.

hello finn and goodbye reika~ hello goodbye, hello goodbye.

finn looking sexy in red.

randomness #1983

this is me in my wannabe-spidey pose. i don’t know what we were doing in school that day. i have my swimming head condom over my face.

yeeeeeeeeah.

the real deal

did you watch the video from yesterday? today, we present to you the real deal.

perfume’s chocolate disco that the kids performed to. enjoy! oh and if you were wondering, them kids in yesterday’s video are boys in drag.

because..

i haven’t been going out much. because i’ve been hiding in my little town. because i’m also waiting for pictures from the last mad night out involving team rin-ku :x which i might only get in august.

so the summer holidays are arriving. about time too i say! isn’t it funny how the summer holidays are about the same time each year?!?! ^^;; summer holidays means travelling, more travelling around, concerts and more travelling if i have enough money. let’s see what’s happening this summer.

1. A might be headed up here end july (maybe)

2. i have the samster with me for 5 whole days! hurrah~ and we’d definitely be meeting hwee hwee and maybe cristina!

3. then it’s back to school for a week or two

4. off to the osaka/hyogo/shikoku i go! maybe two weeks ^^

yay for summer vacation. it’d be sweltering hot wherever i go. i can’t imagine how cold it was in the winter :( so to finish off this rambling post, here’s my favourite video from a month ago. the rest of the pictures are on flickr. enjoy!

wants

in no particular order,

#1 to go to taipei for some awesome street, night market food
#2 to go to korea for real korean food
#3 to go to kyoto for more food and chillaxing
#4 to go to eastern singapore where all my favourite hawker food are.
#5 to have an oven like the one in the home economics room in school
#6 to own a kitchenaid
#7 to own a roomba too plizz. kthxbai
#8 to go on holiday to all these places nao.

a bidda history

she was once mine for a week. her name was miiko. it was fun while it lasted. our friends came over everyday to play together. there were bubbles, recorders, clip-on koalas and a lots of lying around watching her play and jump at everything. amusing ourselves entertaining her. i miss that a lot. a couple days back, i found a video of her. it brought back great memories <3 her name is sora. here it is for youse to enjoy :D

quotes

#1 – “we have so many things I want to do!”

#2 – “i never left you.”

#3 – “no, you did. but you came back”

#4 – “person-x got used up and can’t be used again”

#5 – “i feel like i’m drunk. but i’ve only had juice”

#6 – “this herb does have some of those qualities”

the future

had a sudden, random thought of life after JET, what i could do if i moved and all that kind of schtuff. i thought of moving, and considered my options there. yes, options are limited, job opportunities even lesser. then i thought of opening a shop.

met my friends a while later and we got talking about it a business idea. isn’t that how it all begins? you talk about starting businesses together, what starts off as a small idea gets bigger and bigger. who knows where all the money to fund all of that comes from. *shrugs*

my five year plan is to be a home and business owner. i’m working towards earning the capital for that now. it’s going to be a long long road. what started off as a bakery-cafe/english conversation school evolved into a bakery-cafe/english conversation school/dance studio. then it evolved further into a bakery-cafe/english conversation school/dance studio/japanese cooking school. who knows what else it’d evolve into the next time we meet up and talk. what we’d definitely have in the cafe area is an area for DJ-ing and live bands. only because we have a number of friends in that line ^^ and english conversation classes on another level because they help cover a bit of the costs :x

now we just have to work towards that goal. gambarimasu.

different days, different things

so right, i was looking at the ikea-japan website, looking at all the things i could get but didn’t really need. domestication does this to me. i just want to go furniture shopping, look at bakeware and home appliances T_T

so anyway, i was looking at the opening hours, just in case it’s closed during the golden week holidays mah. then i saw this! ikea don’t offer free drinks on national holidays and peek days. how come ikea got peek days and i don’t know about them? i joined as a member and no one bothered to inform me about the peek days. meh.

to show i not lying, here’s a small screenshot i took.

ikea got peek day and no one told me.

surprise post!

i’m making up for the lack of posts this month. so to conclude the month of april, i present to you, pictures taken over this month.

first up, the surprise card that i never expected. the card that i didn’t notice the night before and only noticed on the way to school the next day. trying to open it during the daily morning meeting in the teachers room, contemplating to take a picture of it with my mobile phone (would be disastrous because the sound would just echo through the teachers room and all eyes would be on me ^^;;) but here’s a pic of it i took after <3

the surprise

a fuzzy shot of me in what i think looks kinda kakkoi. (the kids all confirmed that in school later) i’m secretly afraid of some school girls falling in love with me. i mean, you’re still in school! i’ll have to wait till you graduate before i can do anything about it!! :x hehe

attempting to look cool

then sometime in mid april, i decided to make cookies using a recipe from the dorie greenspan cookbook i bought “baking: from my home to yours”. the smell of nutmeg and peanut butter in my house that evening almost made me sick. i had to leave the house for a few hours and had also left the exhaust fan and my windows all open for the smell to disperse. but that said, everyone i gave it too loved it. it was a success! and that is also a very good cookbook. word.

the baking success

here’s a pic of the kimchi we made in the beginning of april and it became awesome by mid april. i still have some left in my fridge. YUMness

kimuchi wa kimochi?

made bento in april too. here’s a pic of my latest ‘raina’s-lazy-cooking-but yummy-food’. putting dried scallops to cook with rice. yum i tells ya. this pic is yaki-onigiri style, i dry-panfried the onigiri i prepared the night before in the morning.

teh yums

then i also had the ex-visit school party. it was awesome if i haven’t already stressed it enough. here’s a picture from the after-party. i don’t know what was going on here but it was funny as hell.

wha...?

that’s it to wrap april up. golden week is just around the corner, then it’d be work and no holidays for the next 2 months (almost). bai for nao~