P/S: Since I’ve diligently abandoned this blog right after I returned from Japan, I couldn’t retrieve all memories very well, so I have to rely on the pictures taken (T___T). So sorry for not being able to share everything I did in Japan, one of the awesomest experiences in my life!
Friday, July 9, 2010
As usual, we had the weekly Art Club meeting in the Art Room in Building 14. Today, they suggested to do something interesting – involving both Japanese & ‘gaijin’ (as they called us) – which was drawing portraits in 10mins using the utensils in front of you. They arranged drawing utensils (watercolors, pencil colors, oil pastel, crayons, etc.) in a circle. Each of us took a seat anywhere they like. Someone would pose as the model in the middle of the circle, and the rest of us would draw him/her. John was the 1st to come out. Next, the e-board Japanese kids, Sam, and including ME! Yes, me! Haha! Diya drew my peace-signed hand longerrrrrr than necessary. Oh yea I forgot, we had to change our seats each time the models changed. I got pencil colors (2x), watercolors, pencil (?), couldn’t remember much (T___T)
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| that's me, LOL |
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| Sam |
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| Display on the floor |
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| Jackie's (on left) and mine (on right) |
After we’re done, we had snack dinner together at the Platz café. I got myself THE Van Houten Cocoa drink like always, so goooood – substitution for Minum Milo Anda Jadi Sihat dan Kuat! Tonight was really fun! The e-board said they would post the drawings later in the North Campus area, I couldn’t wait!
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| the ultimate drink ever! |
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Ertl-sensei invited us for a social gathering at Rakutei restaurant in downtown Kanazawa. Unlimited drinks (alcohol, unfortunately) and a few food servings available with ¥2000 fee per person. I contemplated at first, to go or not to go, yelah nama pun bar Jepun. But then, it’s for the sake of mingling around, so why not? Movie “Tampopo” was supposed to be shown during the first half of the gathering (1-3pm), but I’m gonna skip it!
I met Tim at 1pm, he’s doing the research paper HW (really Tim?). he said he wanted to go together with us, and the bus was at 3pm. But he didn’t show up at 3pm, so we had to blah dulu. We arrived quite late actually, but better late than never~ Rakutei is a small, hidden bar/restaurant in the back alley of Korinbo 109. The arrangement is pretty neat, but crowded with 30++ people from our cultural class and Kanazawa Todai. I sat at a table with the RIT girls (Sam, Sarah, Tiana), Matt, Rohit, and a cute-looking Todai Japanese girl whose name Tomoko. I’ve never talked really close with Matt before; I found out he’s actually pretty friendly. Just start a dialogue, he may go along with it. Matt and Tomoko-chan talked most of the time, about his 2-month biking trip across USA continent, and mountain bikes. Not my expertise, so I wasn’t included :p. Tomoko-chan’s very cute, very friendly and polite. When most people around her (excluding me and Diya) gulped down beer and sake, she only took sips each time. Oh, talking about the drinks, there was this fruit cocktail looking so deliciously yummy! But well, not my rezeki…and I was satisfied with just ocha, lemonade, and water. The food? It’s not bad. We were served with eggrolls, seafood, fish, and an unknown dumpling – apparently it was a chicken dumpling! Oh mai….
What else? While I was having a ‘great’ time talking and eating away anything I could, the rest of the party was having REAL FUN. They drank, laughed, drank again, patted each other, and then….BAM!! Someone fell down…too drunk to balance himself. I had to hide my smiling face, hey that’s a LOL moment for me okay! The Tim brothers had arrived sometime after us - Taiwanese Tim told me he had to wake Korean Tim up, that’s why they’re late – and they were drunk. It’s my first time seeing my friends being drunk, with red flushed cheeks and sloppy walking. It’s weird, and I’m glad that I’m not a drinker, ever.
At 6pm, we had to leave the space. Some of us, the non-drunken ones, decided to hang out at Mister Donuts across the main street. John and Ainaa - pretty drunk with hiccups, even - and Tomoko, tagged along. Ainaa, a Malaysian freshman girl in Todai, speaks Japanese fluently. We talked some more, both in JPN and Malay. How I wish I could live in Japan longer…. And, that’s how my weekend ended. Wasted? Not really….I had fun with them J
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