Wakarahen

oo-KI-ni maidou!

…Okay, I’m fucking tired. But work was pretty awesome too.

Except for the habanero pepper taco employee dinner. That made me cry for a long time while watching Toshiro Mifune being a debonair admiral. Man… I’m gonna complain to “mi novio” and perhaps he’ll set Oscar straight. XD

I hope I don’t end up going to Robata again tomorrow… That’ll be the 3rd Sunday in a row that I’ve gone to Robata and that’s ridiculous. And everyone will make fun of me again. D:

Ookini!

Today was pretty awesome. Sorta.

Well, first, I woke up at 2PM because I stayed up so late last night. I was tripped out. Then I remembered I should get ready for work.

I remembered I asked Kawasaki-san to teach me Osaka dialect since he’s from Osaka and I remembered that there’s a Kansai dialect book at Borders, so I made a quick stop at Borders to try and get the book, but it looked like they were all out. :( Damnit.

So I went to work. I found out I screwed up on Wednesday with the closing sales. Damnit. Oh well.

To-Go was so SLOW! A lady called before we opened saying she didn’t have much to order and she ordered well over $200 worth of Japanese food. But anyway, if it weren’t for her, we wouldn’t have had made a tip worth noticing. :( In fact, the whole restaurant was slow. We were crazy busy at one point and I found myself cleaning a lot of tables. But there’s a new busboy, Esteban (what an awesome name), and he’s a hardworker.

Melissa and I decorate the paid out envelopes now and for Toshiya’s, I drew a chibi Toshiya busting out with some Pop Star-style karaoke. XDD So now we pose like that to each other. Man, how retarded do we look? Don’t ask me…

Then we started talking about Japanese music and which bands we like. My dad was listening and he was just like, “Bah, whatever. Who cares about them?” And then I said, “What dad, is it all about the Grateful Dead?” And then we got into a weird discussion about random Grateful Dead facts. Then I asked Kawasaki-san to teach me more Kansai-ben and I listed out all the words and phrases I know. XD Toshiya’s like, “That’s all you really need to know.” But my dad was making faces behind him and being like, “He doesn’t know what he’s talking about.” What the crap, hahaha. I learned, “Kamahen”! That’s so awesome. Kamahen, kamahen! I think Kawasaki-san thinks I’m a weirdo. XD Ahaha, KAMAHEN. Ookini! Maido! Seyana!

Damn, I’m such a dork.

Tomorrow, I’m going to Japantown to help Richard pick out some good pens and pencils with his girlfriend, Kat. And lunch, perhaps. And then straight to work.

And then, meeting with Tofu in San Francisco on Sunday! :D Woo!

Play Your Card

FUCK.

It took FOREVER again just to make two more sample sites.

Sample 2
Sample 3

Okay, so two is basically the same as the first one, except with a rice paper background.

I’m no good at making websites for businesses, damnit.

Keep Me Out of the Rain

AHHHH MOTHERLAND.

Shit dude, why did it take so long to make this dumb site?!

Robata Grill and Sushi

I must be retarded. I kept closing things I shouldn’t have and then not saving the ones I needed and etc… Ugh. This was really frustrating. I hope Fred likes this or else I will be so angry. The text and crap, ignore. The links don’t work either. This is just a sample.

Anyway, I’m tired and I have Biology in the morning.

Oh, I am slowly getting out of my artist’s block.

Keep Me Out of the Rain

And I’m also working on a portfolio piece based on a photo from work.

Huzzah.

Chex

I got my first paycheck from Robata yesterday. :) Woo! Biggest paycheck I’ve ever gotten. And I’m getting a raise in October! Oh man, that’s so awesome. Too bad I have to pay my parents first before getting anything I personally want.

I want an mp3 player, but I don’t know which one I want. It’s like, “Wow, this is good. Oh wait, this is only $50 more expensive and more memory… Might as well get that one. Oh oh, that one is $50 more expensive than that one and it looks so cool… Might as well get that one. Wait…” :( Fuck. I don’t want a Zune because it’s a brick. Perhaps if the 2nd generation comes around soon, I’ll consider it. And I used to want a Zen, but now, they’re expensive and not a lot of space. I’ll probably end up with an iPod. An iTouch seems dumb because it’s the same price as the iPhone. But I don’t want the iPhone because it doesn’t have 2100Mhz frequency or whatever. Hmmm… So many choice, argh.

Yesterday was a funky day at work. I did a lot of running and bussing. It was so busy! But we made such AWESOME tips. Wow, the most I’ve ever made on tips so far. On Sunday when I went to Robata, Toshiya mentioned how Shin looks like Kamajii from Spirited Away and it’s pretty true. So I drew Shin as Kamajii and us being like, “Wtf…” as a manga and showed it to him. We were both like “XD”. Hahaha. Kazuko worked yesterday. :) I like her. She’s very nice to me. I drew Tomo yesterday, but it’s hard because he’s on the other side of the restaurant. I think he was drunk cuz he was all red and cuz after I gave him the drawing, he’s like, “Draw a nude picture!” XD What the hell.

Oh, I should get ready for work. I’m not feeling all that great, but oh well. Not much I can do about that right now since even if something does come up on the weekend, no one can cover for me because Melissa works on the weekends with me and Hannah has classes on weekends. :(

Oh, and “mi novio” drew me a fabulous picture yesterday.

XD I love the kitchen/busguys. They’re frikkin hilarious! And they’re teaching me lots of Spanish.

E-Shoe

WHAT A SHITTY WEEK.

I have a long papercut in between my pointer finger and thumb. So it hurts to grab anything. Hurts to write and draw too. Motherfuck.

Portfolio college applications transfer counselor UCLA SJSU art school money scholarships grants… What else am I forgetting? I don’t know, but I REALLY got to get on top of that shit. I must go see the counselor on Monday and figure out how you transfer to a 4-year college…

Oh yeah, I gotta go check out how I can become a Japanese tutor… :( Life isn’t being nice right now.

And fucking blood test and other medical tests… My mom’s been nagging about me going and she yelled at me to go today, but I don’t want to on the day I go to work… I’m really self-conscious about people seeing evidence of me getting blood tests or whatever cuz I don’t want them to ask why.

Okay, I gotta go straighten my hair and then go to work.

Pinned

I like bobby pins. They’re simple.

Today was a real shitty day. First of all, Biology test. It wasn’t that hard, but see… Haha, I haven’t bought the textbook. I was gonna see if I can do the exams without it. But I think I’ll end up buying it. *Sigh* Stupid college and textbooks. I think I did okay. I know I got that albedo question right. :)

ART CLASS WAS SO FRUSTRATING. I wanted to either get up and leave class or shank almost every single person in the classroom. All the cool people are gone for some reason today. I know Lupe’s still recovering from his knee surgery, I don’t know where Daniel went, Selina didn’t come to class, and Freddie dropped the class. So I was stuck. With all the fucking idiots. Now, I am famous for having great patience. But seriously, I was so close to exploding… I had to remind myself to take deep breaths and ignore it… It was a critique of project 4 today and there was a lot of stupid and pointless remarks and conversations… I really hate this class. I thought my other art classes sucked, but no, this one takes the shit award. Ugh… And this is only the first month…

I came home and ate lunch. My dad went off to visit his assistant-coroner friend and so I just chilled. I was still sleepy from art class because of the boring slide show (I can’t watch slide shows… The room gets dark and I just immediately want to sleep.) So I just took a nap for an hour and woke up to go back to school so that I can study for the Japanese 203 exam. (So many tests and exams…)

I got to school and found Leah, so we did a little bit of studying. I ran to the Media Center to do the listening comprehension part of the homework that I forgot to do and ran back to continue studying. On the way, I saw Ji-Siu and Jin-Won. Those two are so trendy looking. Especially Ji-Siu. I really think he should be a model.

On the way to Japanese Kanji, Leah and I ran into Alex and we talked about the upcoming test. He’s much better at Japanese than he lets on in class. Kanji class was pretty boring. Alex asked me a question about what is gonna be on the test and I was explaining to him, but Shiota-sensei got pretty mad at me. D: I don’t know why either, I wasn’t chatting and I was doing it quietly and there were several people talking as well. After class, she even said she really does not like me chatting in class and said it’s very rude. And it’s a very “American” thing to do. I know she’s extra harsh on me because I’m Japanese. I’m really not bad at all compared to my classmates, but goddamn this high expectation thing… Well, anyway. We got our tests back from Thursday. I somehow got a 41/40. XD And we don’t have extra credit… My classmates were like, “…Wtf, how did you manage that?” And I really don’t know. Shiota-sensei told me to become the kanji tutor. Apparently, Carlin (or whatever his name is) was trying to be the kanji tutor, but he doesn’t know kanji enough so it’s not working well. I guess I could… I don’t have much free time, but money is awesome…

The Japanese exam was alright. I think I aced it. Or at least I hope I did. Otherwise, I’m afraid that I will be expected to commit hara-kiri…

Tomorrow is my most dreaded day… Swimming, Ethnic Studies, go home and get ready for work, rush to the AGS meeting, then rush to work… =_= Motherfuck. If only AGS was on Mondays…

And emotionally, I don’t know what the fuck is going on. Someone, help. Dear God, I don’t even know if I’m on the right path or just becoming a total mess. Hopefully, karaoke this Sunday will get me out of this weird mood.

Dancing to the Shamisen and the Guitar

Fly by Monkey Majik
Leaving on that 7:30 train
I don’t know how far I’ll go
Round in circles just as long as I would tell you
I am alone but we could be

Tell me something I haven’t heard before
Except for when you shut me down
Remember when we stayed up all night drinking whiskey
I know that you’ve been waiting
I’ll see you on the other side

Oh! We’re better off alone
I told you once before
So don’t knock on my door
you’ll see it if you will
But I don’t wanna know
I’m feeling so resentful

Cuz’ I wanna fly, Fly me up so high
Take me to the skies, I won’t get by
いつまでも君の声が僕の心で響く
If you can’t believe me, take me home

君の小さな手をせめてあと少し
強く握りしめていたなら
ゆっくり明日を待ってられたのに

涙の訳知っていたけど
今ではもう遅すぎるから
それは過ぎ行く景色のように

Cuz’ I wanna fly, Fly me up so high
Take me to the skies, I won’t get by
いつまでも君の声は僕の道にあるさ
If you can’t believe me take me home

Everybody’s talking always up and groovin’
Come on up and join up with me yeah!
Always on and dancin’ always on the move and
Come on everybody won’t you come with me?

Cuz’ I wanna fly, Fly me up so high
Take me to the skies, I won’t get by
Everybody needs to go beyond the seas
If you can’t believe me, take me home
If you can’t believe me, take me home

Cuz’ I wanna fly. I wanna fly
Take me high
Cuz’ I wanna fly. I wanna fly
Take me high!

Cuz’ I wanna fly, fly me up so high
Take me to the skies, I won’t get by
いつまでも君の声は僕の道にあるさ
If you can’t believe me take me home

I’m feeling a lot worse than I started with. All these unnecessary comments. I’m fine if you just let me recover on my own. When people who have no business in my life get involved, I just start crumbling.

I don’t know what I’m doing. I don’t know what’s right. I don’t know if what I’m doing is right.

White Ink

My personal life written in words on the internet…

How weird is that?

My friends don’t respect me for my blogging… Nooooooo… Haha.

Well. New part of my life started just now. What an interesting portion of my life this was. But I’m done with it. I really do need to just “Walk On”.

Yume no tsuzuki
Sore tte kitto warau tame
Hito wa kizutsuite mo mata arukun da ne
Shinjiru michiyuku
Sureba sono tabi de kanarazu
Soba ni aru kawaranu
Takara wo shiru
Nagaku tsuzuku michi no ue de
Meippai chikara tsuyoku arukou wo…

Co-Fee

Work was so hilarious yesterday. But I’ve retold it too many times to want to say it again.

“Ella es mi novia. ;)”
“…WHAT-I mean-QUE?!”

XD Oh Lord, the kitchen guys and the busboys are so funny.

“By the way!! I’m not his novia!!”
“Oh, right, because you’re MY novia, right? ;D”

XDDD

Cracked up for so long.

Anyway. It’s Sunday! My only free day. I finished Emily’s commission and I got $15. Except I had to spend that on shipping materials cuz I was asked to buy some Japanese mangas and ship them. Woo.

And then I’ll have to buy gas soon. Damnit.

Tonight, Y, Annie, Melissa, Wendy, and I are going to Robata’s to eat dinner before Annie and Wendy go off to college. :( So sad.

Ho hum. I’m bored. I should go straighten my hair, I guess.