Waaah it's here it's here! My Triumph in the Skies DVD set is here! ♥ Now this is what I call express delivery! I send an express mail to Utah before the seller send me the DVD and guess what, my $13 express mail still hasn't reach its destination yet (>_<) Okay, so I guess it's my fault for not double checking the address and send it to the old one so now they have to redirect it to the new address. Still, express mail shouldn't take 2 weeks!

I had my eyes on this DVD set for a long time, but it was only a few weeks ago that I finally decided to hunt down a good deal online and get it. Buzzer Beat will have to wait, as I'm going to watch the whole show from beginning to end. All 40 episodes. For the third time! XD

Currently on episode 7, second disc =P

( Advent Calendar 2009 Day 3 - Let's take a trip to UK )

By the way, does anyone know where I can find the backstage/bonus recording of the H!P 2009 Winter concert? It's the one where the Elder Club graduates.
I saw clips of it from a OPV, but don't recall seeing any information on it. Does it even exist?

On the Taiwan Hello! Project site, it has confirm that Takahashi, Niigaki, JunJun and LinLin will be going to China next week for a 5 days. Through this trip, H!P is hoping that the fans in China will get a chance to meet the girls up close in personal and experience what H!P is all about. And lastly, they're hoping all the Chinese fans (Chinese, Taiwanese, etc) will support the girls.

This is exciting, and also very short notice. I'm looking forward to seeing all the news report about this trip!

( Advent Calendar 2009 Day 2 - Carol with a twist! )

I finally couldn't resisted it anymore, and watch New Moon... Out of the Twilight Saga, I dislike New Moon the most. When I read the book, I remember rushing rush the main component of the book to the back where the star cross lovers are reunited. But surprisingly, the movie was not bad (aside from the extreme paper cut). The writers did a much better job writing the script and adapting the story from the book than the first movie. Now I have the urge to read the third book Eclipse again lol.

Before dinner, I went skating with Gigi and Hester at the recent open outdoor skating rink at Robson Square. Admission is free, you just need to pay $3 for rentals which explains why there were a lot of people. The rink was much smaller than I thought, about half the size of a normal skating rink.

Had some horrible service though...

First, there was no sign what so ever regarding the rental. We waited in line for 25 minutes, and when it was out turn they told us we needed to go in another line and buy tickets before we can pick up the skates. Argh...
The lady that was originally helping us apologize and said there was nothing she can do but to ask us to line up all over again. The guy next her to smarten up though, and suggested that one of us go buy the tickets, while two of us wait at the side.

After all the fuss, we were only on the rank for 30 minutes before the ice was just too horrible. I have never been on a rank with ice so hard like the bottom of a bunny hill on a ski slope.

Afterward we had Korean food for dinner and called it a night.

Now for some happy H!P news:
- Buono! "Bravo Bravo" PV is out! I like this single better than their last one. Side note: I hope Airi keeps her teeth this way, it makes her cuter!
- S/mileage 3rd indie single Suki Chan: It's not bad, but it's not as catchy as the last two. But I know after a few more listens I'll love it like the other two singles.

( Advent Calendar 2009 challenge! )

Over the weekend I added a lot of people through a friending meme. Actually, the first friending meme that I've use. This weekend had been kind of hectic, so this would be the first real posting since I've added all of you. Hence...

HI ALL! =)

You'll notice that I do a lot of back entries because I'm currently on a streak to blog everyday for a whole year. And so far, I've been doing great! Only a month left than I'll have a 365 days streak =D

For some reason I started singing "Guru Guru JUMP" in my head. I've already heard it once this morning. But the song returned to my head and now it's just playing in a loop on iTunes lol. I didn't like this song when the album first came out, but it grew on me as I watch the concert performances.

Work with N. What can I say, it's N and I got nothing bad to say about him =P
And it has been confirmed, as of now I'm the only active BI working with N... if I didn't have to work with E, I probably would consider coming in everyday to work with him. Of course, when we ask N if he wants to see me everyday he said no hahah.

Spend the last 2 hour on the phone with Yvonne, chatting and working through her paper. She has 3 more papers left, then final exams than she'll be done!

With the year coming to an end, I've been doing a lot of random thinking. Like, I'm actually recalling my new year's resolution more frequently, and in a way trying to make these resolution come true by making up for lost time.

More specifically, the one about studying language.

I had a day off from work, so I took the Kanji book that I borrow from the library and did more studying. I hope I can finish this book before it's due back >_<

Secondly, I've been thinking of a new schedule book. Last year I was concern about the size and the monthly section. This time, I'll also be looking at the size. But instead of being concern about the monthly section, I'll going to make sure it has a weekly section. Why? I'm planning to switch back to writing daily journal on paper instead on here.

Anyways long story short, I found this beauty:







It's label as Fairy Tale World - Peter Pan - 2010 Japanese Schedule Book by Kamio. I tried looking up "Kamio", but didn't get any relevant results. This is one gorgeous schedule book, and the weekly section looks big enough for me to write daily events. But... it's expensive (>_<)

I woke with the sound of someone totting downstairs. There's only one person in the house that can make a totting sound like that: Ernie. As Ernie came beside my bed with a morning kiss, I can hear loud talking downstairs. I took him back to the staircase, as he is not suppose to be down here. Dad came down too, so I went back to bed and Ernie followed. He lied beside my bed the whole the, which is a big no no with mom, until Em woke up. I'm okay with Ernie being downstairs, mom is the only one that's against it at this point.

Actually hmm, I'm not so sure about that. Mom was watching 美女廚房 downstairs, and she let Ernie sit beside her.

Speaking of 美女廚房, I only have one more episode let to watch. Probably won't watch it tonight as I'm quite sleepy... unless I end up staying pass 12 lol

Went to Costco, the second week in a row, because I needed to take those damn passport photos. BLAH!

Well on a good side (...sort of) is that we got a ton of food. Sweets.

Cheesecake, brownie, cream puff. Oh gaw... I'm going to be indulging all these sweets till they're gone and I know I will be gaining extra weight because of these... and it's not even the holidays yet! D=

These early Saturday mornings are going to kill me... It's one thing to be up and have a full day session in the summer during the weekday. It's a completely different story having full day sessions on Saturday. Oh why did I signed up for this?

Skipping the rant, work was actually not that bad once things got started. More training session for E. And basically, that's how the next session will be: training and more training. I don't mind training really, but I'm a little nervous to be teaching new people since I'm not so sure I know what I'm doing half the time lol...

I had some time before N's session, so I went to the library and studying some more Kanji. Am I a good girl or what? ^__^

While I was in front of the computer after dinner, out of no where I thought "It's been awhile since Tsuji Shion released anything, I wonder if she has a new single coming out". And lol, I was a little surprised to find that yes, she did released a new single quite recently.


Shion Tsuji // Hoshii Mono

I'm not crazy about the cover, of the a-side, or the b-side. But I am crazy about the M/elody acoustic version that's on here. It brought back feels that I had when I first discover Ai's first few singles. Oh how I love this song...

I had to get up early again to pick up the official transcript from SFU. I got it, and they didn't charge me anything for it :D

I was debating how I should get off the mountain. Since my bus transfer didn't had much time left on it, it means I'll have to dish out more money for bus :/
But then wait, there's the 135 bus that goes to downtown which will save me from dishing out extra cash :D

So off to downtown I went, where I head to the post office to mail off the transcript. Then off to the library to kill some time and checked my email. Got a reply from the recruiter, saying that renewing the passport now is okay. But the thing is, I might wait a bit longer for the application to go through. I decided to do this, as I rather to go through the whole thing now then later.

Then it's off to work. First meeting with Team E (where I was a little late...) I got a chance to meet the other new therapist. Then it was suppose to be a session with N, but he was at the doctor so session cancel. So instead I went to the library, pulled out the Kanji book that I borrowed from the downtown library and did some studying. Finally, meeting with Team N. Mostly talked about OT stuff, and speed through the remaining things.

Now, I'm going to spend the weekend preparing the passport application.

Forgot to mention about Ayaka's MTV unplug live. I don't know Ayaka nor have I heard her works before... but I kind of want to watch this.

How I spend and enjoy my day off:

Back to back episodes of 美女廚房 2 lol!

( 美女廚房 2: memorable moments )

And ooh, look what the creator of Sims 3 made XD

The interview part for the job might be over, but there's still the paperwork part left. Argh... the most frustrating part is the passport, which I hope get sorted out real soon as mom is nagging forever about it. I'm going to go up to SFU to try and pick up the transcript again. It better be ready this time!!!

Been watching a few episodes of 美女廚房 2 and it was not bad. The host made more on an effort to make the show more interesting and funny, I think it's cause they have some experience from the first season.

For one of the episode, season 1's worst cook came on to the show. Alex Fong was well equipped as he brought a personal gas burner in case the food on their plate was raw. They had the contestants cook a stingray and well, Alex's burner came in handy lol



There's been a lot of poll lately: Oricon's I want a face like hers!, Yahoo Japan's 2009 word search name ranking and picture search ranking. What does all these poll have in common?


Keiko Kitagaw ♥ ♥ ♥

I'm ecstatic to see her make into all these list. She's not the top, but she's up there! Looks like Buzzer Beat really did a lot of great promotion for her (must watch this dorama soon...) I hope this is only the beginning for her and that she will become more and more popular ♥ ♥ ♥

Work at E: training session! Let me clarified that: I was training someone, one of the new girl. The "lesson plan" was prepared, so I just had to follow along. Program wise, everything went very smoothly. Behaviour wise... let's just say I wasn't expecting anything less from E with the 2 of us in there. It has been awhile since I've seen this much behaviour, but it is expected and I know how to deal with it so it's okay~

I was lying in bed playing with iTouch when dad comes in and say "I think we'll leave at 2:45" Then it hit me: I was suppose to go to the doctors with dad and grandma today. Crap, totally forgot! It's not the first time that I have agree to take an extra shift on days where I already said I'll do something else. But it's all good, I just text Carmen letting her know I can't come in today.

The doctor appointment was more like an information session. The doctor explained to us the current operation. Ultimately, it'll be up to grandma to decide if she wants to go ahead with the surgery or not. I don't think she will.

A short post, but I'll just like to let your know that this post has been brought to you by the How I Met Your Mother cast

This morning I had a small panic attack when the iTouch screen suddenly went white. I freaked out even more when I google "itouch white screen" the phrase "white screen of death" popped up wah... Fortunately, the problem was solved after watching a video on youtube. But I notice that the back of the itouch was all greasy... is it because of the silicon case?

I'm taking on a few more shifts with N for this week and next because Jenny is sick. They really need to hire some help as both parents are busy with work and always have to drive the elder sister around to her after school activities. If I had a car, I wouldn't mind picking N up from school and taking some of the early shifts. But the problem is I don't have a car all the time... so, yeah.
I saw Fay just as she was leaving, and briefly talked about the interview from Saturday. When I told her how Carmen commented that we're leaving her all the work, she just laugh and said that we'll be helping with the training too.

I wanted to listen to Arasahi's My Girl single, so I headed to JPOP SUKI. They... changed. I had to register again, which is fine. BUT. Now they put a limit to what kind of bittorrent program you can use. Aww... I don't want to download and install a bittorrent program... So I just searched around for the file and left it at that.

( 2009.10.06 Million Kazoku SP - Part 2 )

Yesterday's family feud carried over to this morning. I had to leave early to go pick up my transcript so I didn't had time to stick around and see it erupt.

Apparently the general admin office opens at 10 on Fridays. Good thing my SFU ID still works with school computers else I would had been totally bored. More bad luck, the transcript is not ready so I made the trip up to school for nothing =/ Killed some time at Metro and managed to get a shirt for tomorrow's interview.

Work with E was superb! Zero behaviours, sooo happy! (^__^)
Session with N was not bad too, as usual heheh.

The evening was spend practicing for the demo lesson. I'm more prepare than I was yesterday, but I'll still like to run it a few more times before the actual thing. But it's getting late, so let's hope I get up early enough to run it a few more time.

An argument erupted at home this morning. Not sure what it was about or who started it, all I know is that I had to go out to get some envelopes for the interview on Saturday. By the time I got home, the house was quiet as only grandma was in the house. Sweet, this basically means I have the house all to myself!

I got down to work, preparing the material for the demo lesson. Afterward I took a short (30 minutes) break and watched Million Kazoku SP.

This is one of H!F and SMF recent joint project, as the show has Rika and Sayu in it. This is a hide and seek variety game show. The hider will get 1 million yen if they're not found in 2 hours. The seeker's job, of course, is to find where all 14 participants are hiding.


Rika comments that since Sayu was her junior in MoMusume, Sayu is really the only one she wants to find. Sayu's reply?


DEFINITELY won't be found by Rika. Bold statement, Sayu, a very bold statement.


And then Miki's new husband jumps in the conversation, asking why the two of them are here anyways since Miki is the only cute MoMusume lol


Sayu ended up hiding inside a bookstore shelf. I didn't watch the whole show, but I did skim to the end and she did get found by... lol


I think this guy picked the worst hiding spot. He choose to cover himself up and pretend to be a mannequin. The idea itself is not bad, but he wasn't able to stand still and was found first.

I figured if I had 15 minutes to spare on WiiFit, why not make a quick post then? And a quick post this will be!

I have finally decided on my lesson plan, and the outline of it. So what's left is to plan out the lessons in detail, make the lesson material and practice! I also took my passport photo today, extremely expensive. Mom was shocked when I told her the price too.

My balance is getting super sucky on WiiFit =\
Then again, it has been a while since I touched it lol.

( How I Met Your Mother - spoilers )

Once again, we went back to the salon from yesterday. It was still closed =/ Mom wanted to wait a bit awhile longer, while I just want to go to another salon instead of wasting time waiting around. Well, eventually we decided to go to another salon.

But first we had Shanghai food for lunch, delicious! The owner even treated us to some desserts.

Didn't had much time to spare after the trip to the salon since I needed to head off to work with N.

The recruiter did email back, so happy to see the quick response. I compile more questions and email it off again. Should really start nailing down the details for the demo lessons (>_<)

Barry, an old high school friend, send an event invite on facebook to the opening week of 2012. Interesting. Then I saw the video clips that were included in the event and it was Osric, our class president. Apparently, he is a part of 2012.

Wow.

I didn't know he was this interested in acting. All I really remember is that he tried to create and direct a video in the school hallways during lunch hour once.

And get this: Disney is planning to re-design Mickey. Oh boy...

Today was part 2 of the interviewing process: phone screening. The phone screening time was set for 2:30, but by 2:20 I was already a nervous wreck. I was still nervous and shaky when I picked up the call, but it got a lot smoother as the call progress. Overall, I think it went well. The interviewer must had thought so too, cause he immediately invited me to the seminar session. Well actually, he said that after I voiced concern about how long this stage will take as I'll like to attend next week's seminar session.

So the next step: preparing for all the paper work, the face to face interview and the demo lesson. I also told my parents, and they seem supportive.

I am definitely getting excited. I see the finish line, but I still need to make that big leap to make it there.

I saw the "new" H!P subgroup performance clips from the summer concert floating around. While I didn't watch all of them, the Zoku v-u-den performance really caught my attention.



Zoku v-u-den, consists of Sayumi Michishige(Morning Musume), Risako Sugaya (Berryz Koubou) and JunJun (Morning Musume). Much like the original v-u-den members, these three are not the strongest singers in H!P. But this performance worked and super enjoyable because they know how to work up the crowd. This is always one of the reason why I go all out to watch these concert performance: these girls really know how to make a show enjoyable. Which is definitely something I did not find at the recent Britney concert.

Well, if these clips were out it should be the concert DVD had been released. And sure enough, it was. I didn't watch the whole concert yet but I did watch the first few songs, bit of the middle and some of the ending. Liking Guru Guru Jump the more I watch these concert performance. Though I am still probably going to avoid putting that album track in my mp3... But if there was a concert rip version, now that will be a different story!

When I say I watch the middle part, naturally I mean I scan through the MoMusume part. The girls were in their Nanchatte Renai outfit, promoting the single. But I wasn't able to concert on the performance because of Ai's choice of earrings:



Mickey Mouse. She wore Mickey Mouse earrings while singing Nachatte Renai and Shouganai Yume Oibito. Yes the colour matches the outfit... but Mickey Mosue, really?!? It does not match either song at all!



I like how Gaki-san did her hair here. She was really pushing the emotion of the song out during her solos. But when she wasn't singing her solo lines...



She's always all smiles =D

NHK has announced the host for this year's 60th Kouhaku: Nakama Yukie for the red and Nakai Masahiro for the white. I like both of them but I still won't watch it until I know the red team won... or at least till I know the result. Come on red team, it's time to take back the title!

I ended up spending most of the day working on the 2 mini essay. Why it took so long? Because I was taking half hour breaks every 5 minutes lol. But I did get it done of late afternoon and send it off right away. Now I just had to wait.

Apparently I didn't had to wait long.

Within an hour, I already got a reply email asking me to book an appointment for a phone interview. Wow, this is moving along more quickly than I anticipated!

Started listening to MoMusume's B-side album. I'm done with disc 1, in the middle of disc 2 but probably won't finish it till much later. But it certainly interesting to hear these b-side without really knowing which single they go with.