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Something's gotta be wrong with the moon or idk what this week, cause out of three, I've had two REALLY weird dreams up till now. (The other one I don't remember ;P)
First one: Pregnancy oO And I THINK, without a dad xD And it was... okay? Like, giving birth: not painful (DREAM, duh!) even though what came out was something more of an infant than a baby... like...2 y/o or so? xD Incredibly weird. <== That's the thought I woke up with.
Same thought today, different dream: Something about the Joker, who (without Make-Up LOL) looked a bit like Johnny Depp, the main character from Gundam Wing (wtf, I haven't watched that in YEARS XD) and me teaming up trying not to get killed by ...something?Someone? No idea, but it was all about not stepping on the floor when crossing over to the other side of the sofa. Oh, and it/they was/were killing off other people, sitting in front (other side of the table, the sofa was kinda...square-shaped oO) of us. I THINK the last one of them was Heero Yuy's (GW main character) granddad... who was talking Portuguese. And informing him of something very important, just before he died. I don't remember what it was, but it had something to do with the 26th of December and the innocence of someone Heero had to prove to the rest of his family. Oh, and, the evil it/them used his granddad in the last minutes of his life to (try and) do some dirtywork for him. - It/they infected him via some... wound on his neck. No, no bite. Looked more like burn. oO Haha, didn't work out though, cause of our SOOOPAA-kicks-of-DOOM. Ehehehe, I beat up Heero Yuy's granddad. oo
Kay... sorry for all the weirdness in the morning. I just felt like writing it down so I remember at least SOME of it.

 

PS.: It/they sent a snake, to kill us, too! XD We crushed it. With a cushion and a red and a black thread.

I BET The Joker could sparkle like diamonds too, if he wanted.



Oh, and I got my test results :) No grain, no milk, no almonds and no crab-meat (LOL the fuck?) for me, BUT. I thought I'd have to stop eating eggs&co as well and I don't. Wee! ^_^ Go for the cookies! (With Buchweizenmehl and soymilk and stuff - because THAT's okay ^_^)

Cause I was asked to pass the fun ;) Jassi, here you go.
Do NOT watch while eating, drinking or generelly using shark objects. :P

First of all: SORRY for the long absence, I just couldn't bring myself to write anything. At all. I'm lucky I got someone who'd probably spank my ass if I didn't do my homework assignments and it's NOT the teacher.

 

Then: THANK YOU! I know it's retardedly late, but I just wanted to say I was really happy seeing that one valentine back in Japan. ^_^ I was having some trouble coping with... well, basically everything over there at that time and was just really touched somebody was thinking of me back home ^.^ Whoever that was, thanks a lot! <3

 

( Next: Shooting part one - more-or-less Victoria Frances-ish. I guess. ;D )

So... basically, I'm back - since Tuesday night, actually, but now I've sort of overcome jet-lag, family meetings and a cold - not in the mood to write about the last days/weeks (gosh I got lazy oO) in Tokyo (last weeks: whatever, karaoke mostly; last days: friggin cold. that's as much info as you'll get ;PP) AND selling stuff!

 

Click for Moitié, Ane x Imoto, Algonquins and Fan+Friend!

 

HEY FOLKS. LISTEN UP. Go down your friends list. Steal thar lolitar fotos. Open up MS Paint. Write something nice. Submit that shit to Loli_Valentines and pass this along. I want the next post to be epically long, and include everyone you know and love (or even hate) to outdo the stupid bitching and e-vendetta bullshit that has been perpetuated lately. Fuck Loli_Secrets, /CGL/, Vendettas, and any other community that exists for people to troll others needlessly. Fuck it right in the ear. NOW GO GET THAT SHIT DONE.
(Will start right after this post *_* LOVE AND PEACE! -- old habits die hard, and I've just stumbled over Trigun-merchandise ads... xD)

 

( Click for Karaoke-fawning, some rambling and Nikko :D )

Sorry about that. And about being rather short about what's been going on, but when so much time passes it just ruins the mood to write somehow oO

 

( Princes, Kumamoto, Wannabe!Tsunami, Kyoto, Yokohama and... yes! [Oh ADMIT you HAVE been waiting for it!] Shopping! )

really wanted to do a proper post, but I'm kinda running out of time, here... ^^" Kumamoto was fun (and hot) and currently I'm getting my things together for Kyoto - just two days, really - but we'll try to do as much sightseeing and fun stuff there as we can xD I'll be back on Friday and hopefully THEN manage to do this right xD *waves and runs off*

Just a Quickie:

 

Monday: yay, day off! Payed the deposit for my room (50 000 Yen, urgh), killed some time watching opera videos on youtube (omgosh I'm so hooked it's scary) and went shopping with Martina. Yay, we pulled off meeting without her carrying a cell phone xD
Tuesday: "work" (as in, Shamisen and dance performance), meeting Martina again - this time Harajuku (day before: Shinjuku). Pulled it off again! :D More Shopping, veery exhausting but we rewarded ourselves with Food-Court crêpes. So yummy *_* And they do special wishes too! (No whipped cream, more chocolate!! */////*)
Today: "work" (Nô performance at one of the smaller extra buildings of the NT, interview with some students there and a generell showing around the stage, backstage and office parts of the building). Home, loads of blisters. Evil shoes of doom.

 

Got the balance of my phone fixed, bought food, tried to find out when they might let us watch HP6 tomorrow evening. Kinda failed, but I got some nice clues, I guess we'll just give it a shot. In case of total failure, we'll just go shopping again. oO

 

AND. Ate cookies. Chocolate cookies. Normal sized, like these. Only, the ones I had bought were wrapped seperately. Every single freakin cookie was wrapped freakin seperately. Apart from the obvious OHMYGOSHGARBAGEOFDOOM, I don't even want to get STARTET on how annoying that was when it came to eating them while doing stuff online. Baah. Excuse me, I have to go bang my head against the wall. Or against the heated toilet seat.

or not.
Both performances were awesome. There was a closing party (sort of) after the one today - but I got dragged off after half an hour or so by Mr Ebisawa, his secretary and Mr Magome for dinner. Which was nice, really - I just would've preferred it to be after yesterday's performance when I would NOT miss out on the party-fun with the opera students T_T I really didn't want to leave...
But well, dinner was nice, too. Shockingly expensive meat (Kobe beef, don't ask) and stuff - the problem I always have with being invited to expensive meals is that you sort of can't refuse anything of it. And well... I don't want to say I'm picky but I am.
But I was fine, kinda. Conversation was nice, a lot less pressure than that one dinner at the Okabes' place. Probably cause it was just a small group and I'd met all of them at least twice before.

 

Something else. One: I lost my bolero on my way to the NNT T_T Went back halfways right after I'd realized it, checked on the other half after I got home (around half past 9 oO so yeah, in the dark). Nothing. Naah, I really liked that one.
Two: there's a strange smell in my room every now and then - and I think it's coming from the sink. I'll tidy up my room and tomorrow, after paying the deposit will ask the receptionist to come and check on it. It's just ew-ish.

A few things that just happened to cross my mind:

 

*People in Tokyo ROCK their bike. Mum of two kids, both of them in the backseat, plastic bag with food dangling from the handle bar, holding up a parasol still manages to safely pedal through the crammed pedestrian area near the NNT. Amazing.
*They really have wrapping-issues. Buy some bubbly gum and you'll find the DROPS wrapped seperately.
*If you want to buy Rexona, try again. All you'll get is Rexena.
*Japanese infants go for your nose. Always. I've taken care of two of them now and both managed to either make me tumble over so I'd knock myself half unconscious (knee colliding with nose) or they'll do the job themselves (with elbows, feet and toys). And it's ALWAYS the nose.

 

Now - to start again where I stopped last week.
( Summer Camp of the Tokyo Girl's School: More discipline, if you please! )
I got home aroung 19:00 on Monday, after a 7-hour-busride. Exhaustion, but that's okay ^^" I was just happy to be in my room again - which, btw, will be my room in August as well. Long story cut short, Mr Magome and Mr Ebisawa are paying 2/3 of the rent cause they don't want me to move to some weird guesthouse. Really wondering what I did to deserve this (uuuh, I know! The going to church with Mrs. Okabe! Must be it!).

 

Anyway, Tuesday I got back to work - but not at the NEW National Theatre but at the National Theatre. More traditional arts like Kabuki, etc. However, turns out I'm really not expected to work oO Mr Katagiri (the one who's in charge of my stuff at the NT now) took me to Asakusa and Ueno to do some sightseeing - that was it. Nice, but I feel kinda useless ^^"
Hrm, I'll spare you the tons and tons of pictures of temples and bridges and parks and whatnotso - cause that's something you'll find on google just as well ;)

 

On to Wednesday: "Work" the same as on Tuesday, just in Akasaka and a museum near the NT. After work I met up with Katrin at Shinjuku Station to do some loli-shopping (finally completed the three outfits I've started here! Yay! XD) and after THAT we had some dinner/drinks with Stefan and Babsi :) All in all, very nice - we just TOTALLY forgot to take pictures T_T To make up for that - and because I'm just so in love with them - the three (nah, actually 2 1/2) outfits I talked about xD

( Picture-cut! ;D )

 

Thursday: "Work" again, this time more of Ueno-park and the museums located there. The park is wonderful, I absolutely loved the "pond" (lake, actually. It's huge).
( Ueno Park and Shibuya with Stefan )

 

Friday: back to the NNT! <3 I watched the ballet kids do some flamenco (*_*) and the final dress rehearsal of the Opera students. Loove! Took a lot of pictures, shot some videos. We'll see if I actually upload some, now I'm just not in the mood for it (too many and I still have to get them into some kind of order ^^"). And some more shopping - with Babsi, this time, and I DID buy stuff. *_*

 

Kay, I'm off to get myself dressed and ready for today's performance (more opera! Wee!!!) (and probably afterwards' debriefing, they tend to do that - and they tend to do it for several hours in a row, so I better be dressed comfortably ;D). Enjoy your weekend, everyone!

and before I forget: I'll be away (countryside, uh-huh!) for a couple of days starting tomorrow (be back by Monday evening) - and I won't take my laptop with me. So no worries, not died - just having a shot at the Japanese Amish style of life ;P

Some more acting-class watching on Tuesday, but I left early to get dressed (YUKATA WOAH! XD) for Kabuki. Hehe, people at the NNT were staring at me. Like, more than usually.
( See why! ;D )

blame my having to finish that final paper for University (did it! Yay! XD). [AND I had actually posted this yesterday, but lj is messed up. Don't get why I can't see it, so here we go ... again. ^^"]
Now, we've got a lot to catch up with...

 

( My Room and Dirndl!Daga )

 

( NNT's Artist Training Office, My Desk and some of my Collegues )

 

( Opera Rehearsals... have a look at those who're to blame Don Giovanni and La Rondine got stuck in my head! )

 

So, this basically was the weekend and the following start of last week.
Then there was the thing about the final paper - I got of half a day for writing it *chrm*. Wednesday afternoon, that is. Thursday was the start of my watching the Acting Classes instead of the Opera guys (T_T whiney... wanna hear more of that! And I don't get half of what they're saying during Acting Class - it's freakin' OLD JAPANESE! T///T Unfair, really. Not that it's not interesting - but I liked the singing better.) - and these are only in the afternoon anyways, so from now on I'll have a lot of free mornings. Oh and, btw - I got a "task" *lol* I'm supposed to watch all these classes to, in the end, write a report on the advances and developments the students have made xD
Anyways - after getting home from watching them, I spent literally the whole night (till 5 o' in the morning) writing my paper. Friday morning off, I went to the NNT a little earlier though, one - to be able to watch some more Opera stuff and two, to have lunch with my little Actors. They're the kids from the Juu-Jutsu course ^^
So much for Friday... (and actually I'd wanted this to be under the set of rehearsal pictures... gnah. Dun get lj layout stuff >.<)

 

( Shopping, Fireworks, more Shopping, Geisha make-up and ... Yukata?? )

Though everything - well, almost everything - sorted out somehow.

 

( Don Giovanni, Girls` Schools, Superstars and Light-Shedding Conversations )

NEW! NOW! SUMMER BARGAIN! HOT ON SALE! We've got
( (Son of a)Preacher Man, Jobs, Food and Blisters (the not-funny kind) )

includes:
*not having done ANYTHING at all for my PSA.
*having spent some more money and feeling my wallet go drastically thin (especially since my creditcard sorta died on me when I bought the cam for me and mum - 40000 yen in cash, I had to borrow 12000 from Masa and 2000 from Stefan T_T)
*so not looking forward to tomorrow morning (going to a Japanese Christian CATHOLIC church. I somehow feel like laughing, maybe I'll wear my dirndl xD)

BUT also
*karaoke <3
*a lovely chat with Gisi and Mum. <3<3 I somehow feel so much better now... sign of me being homesick or what? oO (Naaah... let's say, it's exhaustion. And I feel better now, cause I'm bacl at the hostel, right next to my dearest bed. Yup, sounds better by far.)
*nao: bed. 'night, everyone.

In short:
English classes in the morning, loved that. Missin me English here. Lunch with students again. Afternoon: Listening to the masterclass' rehearsal of Puccini's Rondine - it was breathtakenly beautiful, I really felt like crying in the end. This kinda reminds me of my time at school, sometimes when listening to our choir performing it had the same effect on me. I guess it's when you relate to the people singing and them singing GOOD. And compared to our school's choir (who was very good already) these are just WOOSH! Sorry for the gibberish - I just still feel a little overwhelmed thinking about it.
Nothing much to do, then Prof Ebisawa dropped by. First time I met him in real life - only talked to him on the phone (he ans Mr Magome organized my internship) - the man's TINY! XD Which was kinda scary, actually. Such a littly man and everyone's jumping at his every wink.
Afterwards I was off to meet up with Mr Magome to go to a (his words) "High-society party at Prof Okabe's house" (yes, house. In the friggin CENTER of Tokyo.). Turned out it was more like a quiet get-together of Mr Okabe (teacher) and his ex-pupils (Magome and two others) - he's about 75, no signs of THAT visible, though. Okabe's wife was there too - I had a nice chat with here, the other's where okay - I didn't quite get what the componist (dun remember his name Idetasomething?) was saying at any time (mumbling into his non-existant beard) but yeah. Loads of food to. And I feel so drained - the food surely was exquisite, and probably very expensive, but, well... me not having eaten nothing for about 8 hours was having a hard time stomaching all that stuff I usualle avoid at any cost (fish. loads of fish. and ginger. T_T). Apart from that, I was talked into meeting up with them again - could talk them out of setting the date for TOMORROW (!! XD gnaaaah! I don't know why, I mean - they were all very friendly and stuff - but I somehow felt the urge to get up and run. Non-stop.) - so now it's Sunday. And since they're Christian (sweet jesus. Literally.) we're going to church. Don't ask, just don't. I guess I'll have to make the best of it and use it for that final paper of mine or something xD
So yeah... since I'm in a rather BAD destructive mood right now, I'll better stop right there. Good night, sleep tight, that kinda stuff. You know who you are.

(FIRST THINGS FIRST:
My mobile: 0081 80 40 62 7877
My room's phone: 0081 33 299 2826 )

 

Woah, time flies by oO Sorry for the wait, I was pretty tired the last two nights so, yeah... here it comes.

 

( Summary! Shopping, Masa's family, Shamisen, Kabuki and - gasp! - WORK! )