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Showing posts with label daily life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label daily life. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

いつもごろごろしたい

今日テストが二つあったけど、ぜんぜん勉強したわ。

それから、大変だった。


ちょうたいだな、わたし・・・

これだめのが分かって。 そして、変えなくちゃあけど・・・まあ、たいだから変えたくないね。

今学期、日本語の授業のクラスメートの皆さんと日本からの留学生のチューターたちは、私より、もっとわかいんだ。

私はおばあさんのようを感じるww

みんなわかいし、頭がいいし、私ちょっとうらやましい。


ときどき、その物をかんがえる時、私は少しかなしくなる。

私・・・とても怠惰なし・・・頭があまりよくないし・・・

せんこうはけいざいがくですが、 あまり好きじゃない。

何のために勉強していますか? どんな仕事ほしい?

まだ分からない。

何かが上手? Job experienceがある?

べつに・・・

私はいつもごろごろしたいだけ。

卒業の後で仕事を職業をさがせないと思う。

それで、時々failureのようをかんじる。

これはこわいよ。

だから、今から私の人生をゆっくり変えなければならない。


わぁ、 このポストはおもくトピックになった。

しかし、みんなは私たちのしょうらいをしらないね?

たぶん、お金が持っているかれしをさがせる?www


また、今度、
ばいばい~
-かほう

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Six Flags Discovery Kingdom


Two weeks ago, I went to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom with my oldest sister, brother-in-law, his sister, and Baby Seabass.

2週間前、 上の姉と 義理の兄と 義理の兄のお姉さんと 甥のセバスチャンと いっしょに シックスフラッグスディスカバリーキングダムに 行きました。

All of our time there was spent on watching the snimal shows, so we didn’t get to go onto any of the rides.

私たちは どうぶつのショーを 見て 私たちの時間を すごしたから ジェットコースターを のりませんでした。


The first show we saw was the killer whale. The whale wasn’t very big since it was a just a baby, 2 years old.

見たさいしょのショーはシャチだった。 シャチがあんまり大きくない。 まだあかちゃんだから。 シャチが2歳だよ。

We were a bit early for the whale show, but I got to snap this cool photo during the wait

The baby Orca was so cute!


Next, were a tiger show. It was pretty entertaining, but I wish we didn’t have to watch the tigers through a fence. (I know, the fence is for safety, but still...)

つぎ、 トラです。 トラたちが かっこいくて、 おもしろいだった。


Ater that, we took a break for lunch.

あとで、 おひろごはんを食べた。

We bought a smoked turkey leg to share. The turkey leg was huge! Too bad it’s hard to show in picture.

I think it’s a pretty good deal. $10 for one leg, which can feed 4 adults. We snuck in some mashed potatoes to go with the turkey leg (笑)

私たちは スモークターキーレッグを 食べるに 買いました。 ターキーレッグが すごく 大きた!

良いとりひきと思う。 たった$10の 十分四人のために 食べることを きょうゆう することが できます。


After lunch, we walked inside the butterfly habitat. I was actually expecting there to be more butterflies inside, but the ones that were there were very pretty. It was just hard to snap photos of them since they flew so quickly.

おひりごはんのあと、 ちょう せいそくに 行った。

ちょうが あまり多くないけど、 すごいきれいわ。

ちょうの 写真を とってが ちょっと みずかしい。

はやいだから。


Then, we took a short walk around the zoo while waiting for the elephant show.

そうして、 象の待つことに どうぶつえんで 少なさんぽをした。
Spent some time watching giraffes



I think the elephant was so cute. It was my first time seeing one so up close too!

象が とても 可愛かったと思う。 とても ちかくに ぞうを 見るが はじめてだった!


Lastly, we saw the dolphin show.

さいごに、 ドルフィン ショーを 見た。


By the end, I was pretty tired since it was a hot day. The walk through the parking lot to the car also tired me out having to push a packed baby stroller uphill. All in all, it was a fun day to relax. I enjoyed being able to see all of the animals!

この日はたのしかった。 どうぶつをみるが好き。



そんな感じで、
じゃー、 また。

ばいばい~
- かほう

Friday, August 3, 2012

Other News & Happenings

I decided to break my previous post into a 2nd part.

Right now, I’ve been staying at my oldest sister’s place in-between work days. I’ve mainly just been lazying around.

Sometimes, I watch baby Seabass, but mostly just play games, watch TV, or go on internet.

My sis and I went to Ulta during the first week I stayed over because I wanted to get some more of the CoverGirl Blast Flipsticks. The one I bought from Target was in the wrong shade of the one I wanted (there weren’t any testers out). Ulta had a 2 for $15 sale on the lipsticks plus I used a $3.50 off coupon, so it was cheaper.

I also bought a Sally Hassen Crackle nail polish since it was on clearance for under $2. Most of the crackle polishes I see around are priced at $8+! I consider this to be a steal, plus the color is gold & easy to match, so I wanted to give it a try. 

I’ve never used any crackle/shatter polishes before since they’re so expensive. It was a little hard to apply at first since you’re only supposed to apply one layer and not go over. In my first attempt, my right hand turned out nicer. Usually it’s the other way around, since I’m right handed...

It took a while for the polish to complete cracking, but I like the end result.

Here’s how the nail polish looks! (2nd attempt)



In other news, I’m looking forward to the upcoming Fall season’s anime. The line up looks pretty good so far, but the show I’m anticipating the most is 「K」.



Not much info is out about it yet, but looking at the trailers, the art is pretty nice and appears to have some good action.

Until next time,
ばいばい~26
- かほう

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Recent News & Happenings

I was stressing at the end of Spring quarter, but it actually ended well. I’m glad it’s done, and now it’s summer.

I’ve actually been somewhat busy during this summer break. Hooray.

Although... I haven’t been exactly busy with fun stuff, but with other things.

I mentioned in my shoes wishlist post that I wanted to find a job for the summer, and luckily everything fell perfectly for me!

I was lucky to have applied right when a new retail store was opening!

I applied a week or two near the end pf spring quarter, interviewed three weeks after, got the job, just finished training, and am heading to my 1st official work week.31

Friends and others have told me horrors of retail, but so far I’ve been enjoying the work. I haven’t had any problems with customers or anything so far... I’m still just nervous about working the cash register. 

This is my first ever experience working on a cash register. During training, I’ve only been on the register twice, and both times I made counting errors...47 I got really stressed & worried over the second mistake particularly because it was my second time as cashier already.

I think I’m sort of pressuring my self to go quickly (particulary when I see a line forming), which is causing me to make mistakes.

So, NO! Don’t rush! Take my time! Count carefully! 58 (memos to remind myself)


In between that, I had one day to relax. My little cousins came over for a pool day. We spent most of the afternoon swimming and playing at the water park.



Afterwards, we went to Chuck E Cheese! I invited my friend from highschool to hang out this day. It was nice to finally be able to meet and catch up again.

At Chuck E Cheese, we finally redeemed all of our super old tickets we had saved up from since 199415

Over a 1000 tickets! W00t!

One thousand tickets is a lot, right? So that means good prizes, right? WRONG.:14:

All of the ’decent’ prizes were priced at 2000+ tickets! Everything below that amount are just stuff you can buy yourself for like $5.There was an Easy Bake cake set for 800 tickets, but my sister was against getting it since it was just fondant.

We ended up just getting 3 tiaras, 100 tix each, and then letting the kids choose whatever they wanted with the rest.

My sis, friend, and I left early to do a little shopping. I wore my tiara out with pride! I tried getting my sister to wear it too, but she’s too embarrassed to do that stuff.

We just browsed around Ulta and Target. I bought a nudey pink lip liner and lipstick at Ulta and then a CoverGirl Blast Flipstick at Target.


My friend showed us the ultra cheap E.L.F. brushes and compact sets at Target. Amazing discovery! Single brushes are only $1-3 each!

After check out in Target, heard the best line ever! The store clerk noticed my tiara and complimented me. The greatest thing she said was, ”Princess for the day, or princess everyday?” LOL emoticon20  I’m a princess everyday, ya know?


Late during the evening, when my cousins were in their car getting ready to leave, a little doggy came over! It actually hopped into the car, and scared my aunt. My uncle told my mom to pick it up so that it won’t get run over while they backed out of the drive way.

We brought the dog into the house. My sister called the owner from the collar.

The doggy, Dixie, was so adorable! She was a hotdog (Dachshund)!:92:

Turns out the wife (most likely the sole owner, since the collar gave her contact info) was away, and the husband was supposed to watch the Dixie. We had to wait a whole hour before the husband called us back to pick her up. It was near 11:00 pm already! We met up at the park since it was halfway distance between our houses.

After returning Dixie, worst line of the day said by the husband, ”I should tape a hundred to the collar so next time people would keep her.” 

Shoot. I would’ve loved to keep her! She’s obviously not his dog though, so no go.

Despite the not-so-pleasant ending line, that day was nice, relaxing, and fun. I was super glad my friend was able to meet up! There was no awkwardness in conversation or anything even though it’s been a while since we’ve last seen each other. That’s true friendship! 

I wish there were more days I could take to hang out with old friends again, but we’re always busy. It’s also a little awkward to make that initial request to meet up after not having seen each other in a long time. haha

Well, this post ended up being a lot longer than I had planned, but oh, well.


See ya next time,
ばいばい~26
- かほう

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Yogurt Night

Yay, my sister is staying over at my apt for a few days.

Last night, we with my cousin/roommate went out for frozen yogurt at Pinkberry!!

First time ever going to a Pinkberry shop *excited*


I like the interior, the walls are all clean & glossy w/pastel colors, cute!


All of our fro-yo! We all chose the original flavor.



Yummies~
(Self-taken camho shot...no make! Wish I had put on at least some falsies)

My fro-yo, topped w/brownie bites, blueberries, strawberry, and kiwi


A random light statue we passed by going to the shop.

The weather has been so hot this past month!! (´-ω-`)
Even at night, the heat doesn't dissipate!It was a great relieve from the nighttime heat.

Friday, June 1, 2012

『子供の時』

日本語のじゅぎょうに小さいなさくぶんを書いた。 さくぶん中のエラーをしつれいします。 ぶんぽうはたいへんね。

For Japanese class, we had an assignment to write a short ”essay” about  our chldhood and I thought I’d share it on my blog. Please excuse any  errors.  Grammer is pretty difficult!
『子供の時』

私はストックトンで生まれて、大学までここにすんでいました。 子供の時、私は小さくてしずかな子供でした。 小学に、友だちがあまりいなかったけど、たいてい一人とか二人ちかくに友だちがいました。 小学の四年生から六年生まで、いい友だちがいました。 なまえはローレンです。 ローレンさんはやさしくてきれいでした。 

毎日、学校の後いっしょに帰りました。 小学校のとなりにねこがいる家がありました。 四ひきのねこがいて、ときどき五ひきのねこがいました。 お母さんのねこと三びきの子ねこと男せいのねこでした。 ローレンさんと私はどうぶつが好きで、ねこがかわいかったから、私たちはよくねことあそびました。 

それから、小学校のちかくのコミュニティセンターに行きました。 そこで少し休みました。 その時にマンガのことをよく話しました。 私たちは「美少女戦士セーラームーン」が大好きでしたから。 

そして、家に帰った時、私はスナックを食べたりテレビを見たりえをかいたりしました。 その後で、しゅくだいをして、晩ごはんを食べて、寝ました。

学校の後毎日はそんなかんじでした。
Translation:
My Childhood

In my childhood, I was a small and quite child. In elementary school, I did not have a lot of friends, but I usually had either one or two close friends. From fourth to sixth grade, I had a good friend whose name was Lauren. Lauren was nice and pretty.

Every day, after school, we walked home together. Next to the elementary school was a house that had cats. There were four, sometimes five cats. They were a mother cat, three kittens, and a male cat. Since Lauren and I like animals and the cats were cute, we often played with them.

After that, we went to the community center nearby the elementary school. Over there, we would rest a little. During this time, we often talked a lot about manga comics. This is because we both loved “Sailor Moon”.

Then, after returning home, I would do things like eating snacks, watch TV, or draw. After that, I did homework, ate dinner, and went to bed.

Every day after elementary school was like that.
作文はみじかいな。 私の日本語がまだまだ・・・ だから、少しだけ書くのことができる。

The essay is short, isn’t it? My Japanese is still... That’s why I can only write a little.



さくぶんへのついかのしこう/Additional thoughts to the essay:


ローレンさんはいい友達だった。 小学の後、 わたしはあたらしい家をいどうした。 だから、小学の友達みんなを見なかった。 
ときどき、みんなが今何をしているのをかんがえる。 みんな元気? ローレンさんはまだアニメやマンガが好き? 
そんな思い出を思い出すとき、そんなことをかんがえる。 

Lauren was a good friend. After elementray school, I moved houses. That’s why I didn’t see any of my elementary school friends anymore. Sometimes, I wonder what everyone is doing now. Is everyone doing well? Does Lauren still like things like anime and manga? When I remember such memories, I think of such things.

まあね、 今まで私は友達があまりいない。 ちょっとかなしいね? でも、私はさびしくない・・・たぶん私に、しゅうかんになった。 たくさん友達がいるのはいいと思う。 けど、ちょっとたいへんね。 私の思い。 

Well, even now, I don’t have a lot of friends. Kind of sad, isn’t it? However, I don’t feel lonely... Maybe for me, it’s become a habit.

I think having many friends is good, but it’s also a bit tough, isnt it? My thoughts.


そんな感じで、
ばいばい~
- かほう

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Spring Quarter, Start!

I'm back at my apartment, and tomorrow is the first day of the Spring quarter classes.

I'm hoping to keep up a positive outlook this quarter.

Last quarter was winter, and although I usually love winter, I felt my mood was a constant mix of angry/depressed most of the time. I started the quarter off pretty badly due to personal events... which left me feeling upset and sad. Those emotions just kept lingering throughout, and I could see it affecting my schooling. I could just feel myself giving up due to the stress, but I wasn't in the mood to do anything about it.

For me, winter quarter was just bad. In the end, as I had expected, I did very poorly in my classes. Don't wanna talk anymore about it. It's just bad.


That's why, I definitely have to focus myself more this Spring quarter. I'm more calm and settled now, so I'm hoping all the best.

I've let myself take a pretty easy class schedule this quarter to help myself rebound.

I'm also taking Japanese 3, yay! I hope I'll be able to catch up to the class though, since I only took Japanese 1 in my community college. I'm not sure how much new material the Japanese 2 course over here went over. I know I have to learn a lot of new kanji that I hadn't learned in my class. Well, I'm still pretty excited about Japanese. I'm still considering NicoNico broadcasts to help me practice speaking. We'll see if I have any time for it.


Today, I'm just going to relax and take it easy for tomorrow.

I've got comics and chocolate to help me! ∩(・∀・)∩


Zone-00 volume 1 to 4! I bought these from ebay about two weeks ago. All under $5! Too bad Tokyo Pop is now defunct in America though... so I can't read anything past volume 4, but that's probably why the comics were so cheap.



Yummy French chocolate. My poor chicken's head and tail both melted. Boo


Here's to a fresh and positive start!
- かほう

Monday, March 26, 2012

Pho King IV

A new pho restaurant opened in the area, and as an avid pho lover, of course I went to give it a try!

For those who don’t know what pho is, here’s a brief description from our good friend Wiki

    "Pho is a Vietnamese noodle soup, usually served with beef (phở bò) or chicken (phở gà). The soup includes noodles made from rice and is often served with Asian basil, mint leaves, lime, and bean sprouts that are added to the soup by the person who is dining. The dish is associated with the city of Hanoi, where the first phở restaurant opened in the 1920s."

My personal pho favourites are pho dac biet (mixed beef meat w/tendon & tripe), bun bo hue (spicy beef noodles w/pig knuckle & coagulated blood), and bun rieu (noodles in a tomatoe broth w/crab meat, tofu, coagulated blood, and shrimp/fish paste).

Some of the reviews of yelp rate this restaurant as poor, but I see those reviewers as just being too critical. The flaws they picked on were running out of inventory and service. True, you’d be nit picky about those sort of things if the restaurant were in business for over a few months, but this restaurant had just opened.

Pho King IV is a branch from another popular pho restaurant in Sacramento, Pho King II, so I’m pretty sure the owners know the typical amount of inventory they need to keep in stock, but the city this restaurant is nestled in is filled to the brim with hungry college students. Also, with a very limited number of other pho places in town, I’m sure many were eager to try something new, meaning business must have been non-stop busy all day long! The restaurant probably just wasn’t expecting the such a huge influx in demand during opening day.

Now for the service, even if the owners aren’t new to the restaurant business, it was pretty obvious most of the servers were. Only one or two experienced servers came from the Sacramento restaurant, but the other servers are just college students that were recently hired. To be honest, the service is pretty disorganized right now as the servers are new to their work. However, once they start gaining experience, they’ll probably become more organized as well. You can’t expect a newbie to know everything right of the bat, right?

One of the complaints about the restaurant just got me. One yelp reviewer complained about their waitress not knowing/understanding the order when the reviewer tried to order in Vietnamese. Ohemgee, are you serious? Just because you work at a Chinese restaurant doesn’t mean you know that ”feng zhao”=chicken feet or ”chow fan”=fried rice, does it? I see that particular complaint as just plain ignorant and somewhat racist, even if they are Asian themself.

Another reviewer complained about tacky decor. Show me a pho restaurant that didn’t have tacky decor, lol.

Well, enough about that, on to the food!


I went with a friend during the evening of opening day. We had been working on homework together since the afternoon and were pretty famished. When we approached the entrance of the restaurant, we could see it was jam packed! There was also a pretty decent line of people waiting for a table even though it was a little past dinner time already (about 8:30pm, I believe?) Well, it’s opening day, so what’d you expect?

At first I wasn’t too sure if we should wait in line, but since the line wasn’t flowing out the door and with our desire to try some pho, we decided to go ahead and wait inside. Luckily, we got in just in time! About 5 min after, the owner had to stop letting in anymore customers, even though there was still an hour & a half until closing, because they were running low on inventory.

Some photos taken while waiting.




We actually didn’t have to wait very long, and got seated about within 15 minutes.

The restaurant is pretty small, but has two stories to provide enough seating. The downstairs looks like it’s only for smaller parties, while the upstairs has a few tables for larger parties.

I managed to quickly snap this photo of right before the waitress went to finish wiping up the table.

That’s how the downstairs tables are decorated.

We got seated upstairs, which looks like this. (These two photos were taken after we were done eating, around 10:00pm. We were the only two left upstairs, hence the empty tables)

More seating for small groups

Tables for large groups

The menu

I ordered bun bu hue, while my friend ordered pho dac biet. The servers forgot to give us our plate of greens, and it was a little difficult to flag down someone, since they didn’t come upstairs too often. I was able to get someone about 15 min after receiving my food though, and she came back with the greens pretty quickly.

My friend didn’t really care about adding greens.

I myself, HAVE to have the greens, or it just feels like I’m eating an incomplete pho.

Pho dac biet

Bun bu hue

It turns out they forgot the pork blood from my bun bo hue, but I only noticed towards the end. I also wasn’t sure if they just didn’t offer it, since I didn’t remember seeing it on the menu. I’m a bit disappointed about that, since I really like pork blood.themoticon-7 At least I know now for next time.

The bun bu hue was still mega yummies. The noodles were a great chewy texture, and a good amount of meat despite the lack of pork blood.

My friend ordered the Vietnamese iced coffee as well. Looks super yums, and I wanna try sometime. I just had a free can of Pepsi. Free soda for the first two weeks!


I went again the following weekend with my parents, and we ordered spring rolls and egg rolls for appetizers.


I ordered the pho dac biet this time, which was really good (as my friend had also claimed, although pho novice). My bowl was filled with meat, which is always a plus.

Again, the service was somewhat disorganized. We ordered the shrimp & grilled pork spring rolls, but were given pork only spring rolls. My mom said it was okay, since both are the same price anyway.

The staff still needed to get their greens out properly. A newbie hire was trying to figure out were to place plates of greens and gave one to a table that hadn’t even ordered yet!

Usually in pho restuarants, it’s the server who took your order that gives you your greens, since they know what your’re eating and there’s different greens for different types of pho. It’s only been the first week though and need to give them at least a months time to sort things out.


Both times I went, I had a large bowl, but needed to pack half of the pho home. Just shows how filling the size of the servings are!

Despite the lack in service, I still have high hopes for Pho King IV. The servers can easily improve with experience, but the food is delish and Pho King IV is a great addition to a small college town.