Sometimes, it's really easy to please us Behaviour Interventionists. Today we have a team meeting for D, but it was just Fay, Sam and me. We were teaching him that sometimes it's okay to play with the computer, and sometimes it's not. Toward the end of the meeting, D was going to ask for computer. He touched the computer picture, but ended up picking something else. At that moment all 3 of us beam up in amazement, he gets it! \(^o\) (/o^)/

Aunt Ivy's plane arrived a little early, but the customs were giving them a hard time so it took us awhile to actually leave the airport. Aunt Ivy brought over a lot of gifts: an astrological sign necklace and bags. Aunt Ivy is mom's high school friend, we get together when either one is in Vancouver or Hong Kong. This time she is sending her son, Charles, to spend 5 weeks with us in hope that it will improve his English.

What's up with this imageshack thing? I understand that they were hacked and started replacing images with their "campaign", but what are they complaining about? Though imageschack has most pictures fix by the end of the night, I do not appreciate getting a scare like that!

And news of the day: Arihara Kana leaves H!P for good. Speculation is, this is more than just a health concern for Kana. Rather she broke the contract with UFA with her scandal early of dating and inside source said that she is dating again. Well, I don't know how to interrupt this news but it is sad to see her go. Can't say she's my favourite, but °C-ute will definitely be different from now on.

Someone wrote an article about MoMusume at AX, commenting that they are the hardest working girls in show business. I wouldn't say they are the hardest working girls, but they're definitely up there especially compare to US artists. I like how the article make the statement that if the girls can dance and sing live for an hour, other artists shouldn't use dancing out of breath as an excuse to lip sing.

Was so tire today. After this morning's session, I used my 1 hour lunch break to go home to take a 20 minute nap. Though it wasn't really a nap since I just lay there with my eyes closed.

Another big fight erupted at home while I was at work. Aiii... how are we going to survive the 5 weeks with guest here in one piece? I don't think we can... face it, we're just not good hosts.

Mom commented that she want to buy a new TV so she can buy Wii and play. I wanted to say that "I'll get it once I find a job" but shut my big fat mouth. I did not need them to touch base on this topic again.

Speaking of which, I did some searching yesterday. It seems UVic no longer offer the early childhood education bachelor degree. Urgh... then this screws up my plan of doing one year in Langara and then transferring there to get the degree. I'm also having second thoughts about applying to teach in Japan. Truthfully, I'm questioning my qualification and ability. But, who am I to say I am or am not qualified? I'm probably not going to try for JET just yet... but I'll definitely give others a try! Of course, there's always the other option of finding a full time job here and go from there. But I still want to look into getting a ECE certificate or something though.

After I got home from walking Ernie today, I notice a watch tan on my left arm >_< Now I'm going to stop wearing the watch for awhile, hopefully it'll fade out the tan. Plus I got to go get some sun tan lotion!

Looks like MoMusume left for Japan this morning, meaning they won't be attending the closing ceremony. Can't say I'm surprise, cause Gaki-san and Eri got to record their radio show for tomorrow night! I'm definitely going to tune into tomorrow's show and see if they mention this weekend.

And some AX comes to an end, it looks like we did it and show they that there are a lot of oversea fans. Read the transcript for the Tsunku Q&A section, a very interesting read indeed. Reading this gives me hope that we'll see the girls and possibly other H!P members in US very soon again!

While browsing through the H!O forum, I found some pictures of the scrap book that were put together for the girls. Out of the 4 pictures that were posted, I think I see 2 pictures that contained page that had my material on it =D


The one on the left, with the "Vancouver" postcard. This was written to MoMusume in general. I think this one is mine... I kind of jump to the conclusion that it's mine because of the "Vancouver" postcard and the maple leaf in the top centre. Damn I should have scan the postcard before sending it off!


One on the lower right, with the cats. This was to JunJun, written in Chinese.

From the pictures, it looks like they blur out the name and such... not sure if they did it for these photos or for all the stuff that were send in.

Just got off the phone with Yvonne, editing her paper. I had a headache before I started looking at her paper and my nose kept itching. My head feel better now, but nose still itching. I want to sleep... but I got to read up on some note for work before going to sleep =/

MoMusume autograph session day! Can't wait to read all the blog entries about and see what everyone walked away with =D

And I got my hands on the MoMusume concert recording, so double yay! =D

But honestly, today is also the day that I'm kind of relieve that I didn't go. From what I'm reading, AX is really super duper disorganize. If I was there, I would had definitely flip before I even see the girls. But still, if the girls do make another trip overseas I'll definitely do my very best to be there and experience it first hand!

Annnd this is the first weekend where I'm completely off, it's been awhile! I was actually hoping to spend the day at home, but got drag out for lunch and then grocery shopping. Boooo >_

Canada Day! Big whoop... as per usual, day off doesn't exactly equal a happy day for this family. I don't know why it took me so long to realize this but... I've been the most happy when I'm on trips away from my parents.

Tried Beard Papa's new ice cream puffs, which is basically ice cream + the puff. I had a green tea one, yummy!



Before I move on the the "main" content of the day which is located behind the cut, I'll like to direct your attention to this:



My latest and first biography article, Morning Musume Tanjou 10nen Kinentai. Written in celebration of MoMusume's debut in the US \(^o\) (/o^)/

( Day 0 report from LA )

Exhausted. Worked from 9am till 7pm. Completely exhausted. The up side is, today was work with the 2 easier kids. Tomorrow is another 9am day. Luckily, I get off at 4pm with an hour lunch break in between the two session.

Finally got my hands on Kago's no hesitAtIon single! (^_^)y

I am getting lazy with blogging... the past 2 missing entry is proof of that. I shall back entry them tomorrow after work.

Though it's another day off, after lying in bed for the past few days I just can't stand doing that again for another day. So instead, I used all my remaining energy to vacuum and clean my room =D (fyi, my other energy was being drain by the medication and causing drowsiness).

Found some new dead bugs on the window sills, again! Ewww... where do all these bodies come from? D=

When I finally couldn't stand it anymore, I went and took a nap.

My parents and sister went out and got a new LCD monitor. The first LCD of any sort in the house. It was suppose to be a easy plug-in and use, but the monitor wasn't being very nice and it took so test and error to get the monitor working.

They started airing a new TVB drama on TV call 金石良緣. The first episode was interesting, so now I'm watching ahead online XD

First, former "Charlie's Angel" Farrah Fawcett was announced dead in the morning to a 3 year long battle to anal cancer.

Then in the afternoon, out of no where my sister said that Michael Jackson was dead. What? But even she wasn't 100% sure, so we went to our "reliable" gossip site: oh no they didn't. But that was no show. And soon, a message pops up saying LJ is going some maintenance. So it turns out the death news is true. And that was what made oh no they didn't go overflow, and crash LJ.

I've never been expose to Michale Jackson's music. And to be honest, he scares me. With his pale white skin, skin bone structure and always "red" lips, I just find it scary looking. I find his pre-surgery pictures easier on the eye though.

A founder of a 80's band also die... but can't remember his name.

A family friend from Hong Kong was confirmed that he will be coming over for the summer and will be spending 5 weeks with us. That means I really have to get my act together and tidy up my room for good. D'OH!

Today Kago Ai's debut solo single "No HesitAtion" comes out! Usually a single will be uploaded the weekend before. But even right now... I couldn't find it any where >_<
I really want to put the song in my mp3!
I'm also waiting for the MoMusume "Platinum 9 Concert Tour". Hmmm... maybe it's a good thing these things aren't available yet, else I wouldn't want to do anything else XD

Spend the whole day in bed today. Maybe that's why I feel all sore and light headed whenever I get up to get something or to the washroom.
The one time I need the medication to make me drowsy and it's not working >_

Last night as I was up in front of the computer, I suddenly felt wussy and tire. Uh-Oh I know this feeling, I was sick. I gobble down some water and went to bed.

Sure thing, I woke up feeling a little sick. I still drag myself to work though, but it was only when I got there that I realize I shouldn't had: I had a fever. I made the 3 hour session as easy as possible. I looked fine, I just felt very tire.

I will definitely be going to bed early tonight. So glad I get the day off tomorrow.

The iTouch case finally came, yay! So now I get to carry it around with me normally.

Two pieces of H!P related news:

One - As usual, H!O translated Yaguchi's blog from last week. They are interesting and there are a lot of picture, but it's been a while since I bother reading them. This week though, I just couldn't resist.

Yaguch did a "Operation: Meet Every Morning Musume Member in Two Days". She planned to meet up with all 25 members of MoMusume, and have them pose in her signature "sexy beam" pose. It was a very interesting read!

And two - The tracklist for the upcoming H!P wedding cover album has been revealed! And this list show a lot of pleasant surprises (Gaki-Kame duet, LinLin solo), group come backs (High-King and Aa!), and hints to the revival of "new" old groups!

Lately Tsunku has been throwing so many surprises with the revival of old groups, I think I'll just sit back and just wait for him to reveal who's in what group than to make predictions.

I'm bloging this from my iTouch... just for the heck of it XD
That and I thought I'll see how long it'll take me to write a normal length entry cause one day I hope I can use the wi-fi when away from home and a computer. So far, it's like a laggy computer when trying to load the userpic browser. Without firefox spell check, I wonder how many typos I'll be making... Oh, it looks like it does have some sort of spell check here.

Sooooo... decided not to go to LA after all. Apparently you have to redeem the voucher for the concert ticket on Day 0. But I don't plan on getting to LA too evening of day 1, and attend day 2 and 3. Cause if I do get there by day 0 to redeem the voucher, I'll at least miss 2 and a half day of work, and I really don't want to do that. So MoMusume, I guess I'll be seeing you some other time! I'm looking forward to reading all the entries from people who are going to be there!

But this mean I'm going to try even harder to go on a trip this summer with a few friends. Don't know where or with who yet, but I will think of something!

Okay time check: took about 20 minutes to write this much. Not bad. Course there are down side to this: no video, pictures or writing in other languages =(

When the alarm went off this morning, I felt disappointed yet relief. The alarm woke me up from a dream, a dream that I much rather be in.

I dream that for some reason, anime expo had a "location" in Vancouver and when the guy told me they still had the concert tickets for MoMusume, I said "Sweet!" and brought it without second thoughts. I then realize what I did, went home and started looking for someone to share a hotel room with. Some random people were in my house using the other computer, and they offer to share a room with me. I said okay, and woke up.

AHHHHH~~~~

The whole day been nothing but debating whether to go or not. Should I? Should I? Either way I have to make the decision, fast!

Day 3, and I'm still having fun playing the download applications on the iTouch.

Today has been one heck of a day. The whole family, including grandma, went out for lunch then grocery shopping. If every weekend is going to be fill with this much frustration, I am sooo not looking forward to the next one.

I forgot to post this yesterday: As the MoMusume OPV contest came to an end, Dohh Up! posted the official PV.


If a OPV contest is what it takes for the staff at H!P to be more creative and think outside of the box, I don't mind seeing more contests from now on!

With the news of Yossie going to LA as well, I'm going crazy again. I checked around for the cheapest air fare, did an estimation for the hotel rate, add in the event tickets and it comes out to about $715 CDN. I want to go, yes. But I'm not sure if I want to pay that much for a 3 day 3 night trip. Plus, there's the cost of food and extra purchases at the event. But grrrr... it's so tempting!

Was up playing Mario Party DS before bed last night playing as Toad (the little mushroom guy), and look!



13 stars... 13 freaking stars! =0 I'll post again when one day, I hit the 300 stars with the Bowser slot =P

Got woken up by 2 phone calls today... argh. There should be a rule about no calling before I am up and out of bed!

Mid way through the day, I suddenly realize that it's the 17th... a high school friend's birthday and a special day. I quickly send an email wishing her a happy birthday before I lost my thoughts about this special day. Five years ago, the yearbook that I made was presented to the student body. I still recall the end of the day, when all the yearbooks had been deliver and there were just the 4 of us editors with the yearbook teacher for the brief farewell moment. The teacher was new at the school, but we really bonded in that short year; she was like a second mother to me and it was so easy to talk to her about things that I didn't even tell my own mom. Ahhh we should all really get together soon...

Didn't do much today, but I was already feeling drained out before dinner =/ Perhaps I'll go to bed early, especially since I have work at 9 tomorrow.

Kago Ai's no hesitAtIon PV was released today! It's her first solo release and she wrote the lyrics. There are many things in this PV that could never happen with a H!P video. Though Goto Maki is also doing her own thing under a different agency, she's still an idol to me because there's not much change since her last album with H!P as she is still trying to push the sexy mature thing under avex. But with Ai and this PV, I feel that she is really expressing who she is as an artist and is growing out of the H!P idol image.

Ai: You've made it. Never look back...

Stayed up late last night finishing the ch-ai article and ended up sleeping around 3am. Ahhh it's been a while since I've been up this late! A little after 9am, I heard the phone ringing. So I got up, rush upstairs to turn off the answering machine. Grandma was on the phone talking, and I knew who it was. I drag my lazy back in bed, hoping to go back to sleep. No such luck. When I did kind of doze off, my alarm went off. Then I heard dad asking grandma if someone had call. Blah. Got up, talk to dad and tried to sleep. Again. No such luck. Grrrgh, this really isn't a good way to start off the morning.

Well, grandma went out shortly after 11am. Dad went to take a nap. I followed and took a quick half an hour nap before going to work.

As I was doing research for the article last night, I finally read a translation to the song 「愛しき悪友（とも）へ」. What a great song to describe my feelings toward certain people!

Uploading some new userpics today! I'm still trying to find some new userpics that can demonstrate more emotion in it... does that even make sense?

I'm thinking of cutting my own bangs... should I do it? The last 3 times that I tried it turned out bad... This time I'm thinking of looking up some tips online and videos on youtube before picking up the scissor.

Got up early this morning just so I can get downtown with my sister to grab some cheap stuff at Future Shop. Arrived there moments before it opened, and there a mini-lined up was already formed there. Walked away with a 1TB external hard drive for $100 and 100 blank DVD for $20. Good deal good deal. Apparently most people were after the bigger stuff, like DVD player and laptops.

Afterward went to McD for breakfast. After we order and paid, the costumer that was in front of us comes back and tell the cashier "Sorry I forgot to say no cheese on my sandwich" Urgh... you forgot? The cashier made a face, kind of dropped the change back to us, took the costumer's sandwich and threw it away, then rushed to the kitchen to tell them the special request. The cashier return promptly to apologize for dropping the change at us like that. Haven work in fast food place before, I know how stress it can be. The customer may not always be right but they are the customer. Meh life sucks.

Then we went to starbucks and things there weren't any better either. Someone budge in front of us and the cashier went ahead and helped this guy anyway... urgh. Waking up early = cranky me = screw you starbucks I don't need this from you. We went to blenz instead =)

Ergh the library screwed up my account... I returned 2 books today but the system showed that I only return one book. Damnit! What to do what to do...

I'm really liking °C-ute new PV. It's really cutesy and sweet... but I'm really liking it. It kind of have a mature vibe to it even though it's so cutesy.

Mailed the letters out this morning with express... for $13 freaking dollars. Is it any wonder why people choose to email nowadays? If I didn't wanted to hand written the letters, I would had email it too. I guess the good thing with this expensive express mail is that there is a tracking code...


This poor thing was tied up in front of a restaurant =(

I then proceed to the bank and finally to the "dollar" store (it's now $1.25) to buy some toys for my kids' "toy box". Fay actually suggested this way back in January to get a box of toys as my own special reinforcement. I didn't see the point of it back then thinking the 2 younger kids have so much toys already. But now might be a good idea especially since D still seems very whinny to work with me at times. It probably won't have much variety as the other therapists' box since I don't want to spend so much, but at least it's better than nothing! ...I hope.

Need to go out tomorrow to get the actual toy "box". Cause I'm definitely not carrying all the toys around in my bag!

( me me me... me? )

When I wasn't at work, I was busy finishing those letters. I got 6 of them done, 1 more kind of scribble up. I'm going to see if I can get 3 more done by tomorrow morning... If I don't, than I'll just mail out whatever that is done.

Got kind of frustrated with my big kid today for spacing out too much. I know he's tire, but I also know he can do better. Ahhhh.... I'm tire myself too. Why is June such a busy month?

Just uploaded the convocation week pictures on facebook today. And it looks like I won't be able to back entry June 5 and 6 until after I mail out those letters tomorrow.

Had a weird dream last night... there was another dog in the house. A lost dog or something. mom said we weren't keeping it, it's just temporary staying with us.

Having four days off won't make jumping back to work easy. Plus I'm still feeling a little bit worn out from those three hectic days; even taking the whole Saturday off isn't enough to charge me right up!

Work was actually fine... it was getting home that got me all moody. Maybe it was lack of rest and hunger that put me in that mood. Whatever it is, it was ready to explode with one tick. I sat through dinner holding on to the explosive, but it wasn't easy. Literally, every single thing just made things that much worst. I would had been happier if I was eating alone at a food court or something.

Which got me thinking... if I'm already this moody when I don't have much to think or worry about, what's going to happen when I do go back to school?
I've been through this back in grade 12 and it was no walk in the park even though the work back then is nothing compare to university level stuff. For the exact same reason that mom wants me to go back to school, I just don't think I can do it. She wants to use it as a chance for me to get out of the house, but there will be time when I need to be in the house. Unless she propose that I stay all my nights at Blenz working away.

One way to solve this... is to move out during school terms. Ha, like that could ever happen.

Still writing my letters to MoMusume for the scrap book. While some of the letters are coming along nicely, I have no idea what to write for 4 of the girls. If I don't have it by tomorrow night, I think I'll just have to skip their letter =/ Must mail these out by Tuesday no matter what!

Tsunku has announced the second member of the new MiniMoni on his blog. And it's... LinLin, as leader of MiniMoni. After all the prediction from other bloggers, I couldn't say I'm surprise. But being leader, that's a bit of surprise.
Strangely enough, it is also the leader parts that got me a little excited. LinLin is by no means my favourite member, but having her as the leader really helped set the tone to see where Tsunku is going with this. LinLin was no where near H!P when MiniMoni formed or disbanded. So this could mean that Tsunku intends to add completely "new" faces (post MiniMoni disband members) to the group. This will totally make my day. Of course, the only thing that can make me go banging my head is if Tsunku adds someone from Berryz or C-ute into the mix.
Annnnd, now I know what to write to LinLin (^___^)

Hester's convo was in the morning, meaning I had to get up relatively early to attend. Funny thing is, I've been waking up rather early these past few days so that wasn't really a problem.
Saw some C-Link people were up on the mountain and had some nice chat. For what it's worth, I'm glad I bump into them and not others; I genuinely like them despite all that had happened.
Again, pictures from today later, probably on the Saturday post.

Afterward went to Lougheed Centre to try and find something nice for tomorrow, no luck. Also try going to Crystal Mall to find a iTouch case, but they were so expensive! I did end up finding some cheaper ones on ebay. Now I'm just waiting for a better currency exchange rate before getting it.

It's only June, even though I was in a sun dress today it still very hot and yucky. Gah what am I going to do when it gets even hotter?