JULIA'S COMING!!!

omg omg omg my best friend's coming next week to visit meee n gem!!! i still cant believe ittt.....happy happy joy joy!!

two brats in the same house... oh i feel so jollified...

Back to Basics

Yo peeps, our net at home is down at the moment so havent been able to update or write blogs lately... not sure what happened but it suddenly didnt work no more, after 14000 phone calls to YAHOO BB we`ve had no luck cuz absolutely nobody speaks english. Thinking of disconnecting it too but not sure how we`re gonna be able to communicate that across either. So until then consider us to have dissappeared off the face of the earth. Check our page periodically in case we shall return if the world needs saving, ermz... think of us like SUPERMAN.... Megamish (Mega as in MEGA-fat) and Supergem.

Its been so boring with no net. nothing to watch, download, no one chat with. Its like living in 1935, all thats missing is the antique furniture from mishes house. Guess we gotta go make our own fun now. Gonna go hang out with the boys on wedz-dee nite, its like a multicultural gang... there`s one guy from Scottland (i can imitate him pretty good now, i love the scottish accent), one guys from New york, New Zealand, and gonna be a few others from England and Ireland. Gonna be checking out a few jazz clubs/bars as well within the next week or so... wanna find a nice place that i can go to a few times a month.

Julz, we wrote that postcard one month ago but have been to lazy to post it... u got it pretty fast... only one week hahaha...

thanks for all ur comments guys and gals, its nice to read up on it and see who`s actually checking out our page. We even get comments from ppl we dont even know which is kinda nice haha.

anyways at a public computer so cant stay long. about my recording, ermzz the more i listen to it the more embarrassed i get. so no comment from me.

P.s just so everyone knows im returning a half used roll of toilet paper back at work on Thursday!

Utsunomiya Festival

During the weekend we went to the Utsunomiya Festival. It was held just outside our house, all down the main road, and some other roads. Japanese people really know how to celebrate and when they do everyone attends!!! I can't believe the number of people that went...I didnt know so many people lived here in Utsunomiya...there was like probably a million people or close to that!!! And all the chicks were dressed up in their yukatas...so prettttyyy....i want to get one!!!

Sorry if the pics are abit blur...I think I wrecked Gem's camera, it doesn't have flash anymore and doesnt take motion shots...gonna get it check out tomorrow...

we are so so poor at the moment.... well at least i am anyways.. onli got 20bucks left to last me til payday which is next tuesday. How am i gonna survive!!?! arghh Mish poos sooooo much here!! hahah we've actually ran out of toilet paper recently and have been using the free tissues they give out on the street. I actually had to wash my ass the other day cuz we're povo, lol onli joking (ermz maybe). But all good things much come to an end... we ran out of those free tissues as well yesterday, so i had to borrow some toilet paper from work today. (see above) i took a half used roll of toilet paper from work hahaha i promise to return it when we get paid next week. i'l just use half and i'l secretly put it back where i found it last. Ive counted, i need to return 129 sheets.

JOHARI WINDOW can u please do this for me?--> http://kevan.org/johari?name=megamish THANKS!!!

OMG

Whoaaa massive festival outside... so so so so many hot chicks in their yukata's. Apparently they wear nothing underneath it... anyways gotta go downstairs and get meself some eye candy...

Gem and Sakura singing at karaoke: http://www.sendspace.com/file/6x0thm <-- What do u think??

I know its a little out of tune =P

Our weekend

Ohhh before I tell u about our weekend, the other day Gem did something really sweet for me...he prepared a candlelight dinner for the both of us and got me these flowers in a noodlebox hehe..very cute!!! awwwww....if only he was like this everydayyyyy hehhe...

Anyway yesterday did another round of Tokyo, this time to go shopping for the Gemster. He was in search for some summer clothes as its still really hot here. We went to the usual places Shibuya and Harajuku(where i saw the hottest guy ever$ in the whole wide world)...and later we went to Ikebukuro. I think it was our first time there...He blew a load of yen on these new funky glasses he bought hahah...but i must say it looks pretty cool...

Today met up with Yuko and Sakura to check out some second hand bikes and later went to karaoke. Its was our first time going karaoke since we arrived in Japan. Its sooooooo cheap here to go karaoke here..100Yen (~$1) per person per hour inclusive of a drink, can u believe it?? It was so fun!! Sakura's voice was amazing!!! She sang Yuna Ito's 'Endless Love' and she sounded exactly like her. Eventually we persuaded Sakura and Jeremy to do a recording together hahah...some Disney classics. They ended up singing 'A whole new world' and 'Beauty and the Beast' together hahah...so now we have it on cd. Sakura's gona burn some copies for us...ill try and upload it once i get it hehe =P

Oh and some people have requested pics of our bikes hahah here they are!! Enjoy~

My legs feel like noodles

I came with the intention of shredding a few pounds (or 50) when coming to Japan and Ive been trying to lose weight since ive been here… but its so not working with all the weird and exciting foods sold everywhere. ITS JUST SO HARD!! Newayz ive decided since im in Japan and not making any progress thinning down I might as well set a goal more attainable… yes im gonna be a sumo!

Mish and I rode our bikes to my workplace just now (11PM) by golly its far!! Seems so close on the bus though, grrr as long as the weather aint too hot I guess I can survive the distance, after all I do get to pocket all the travel allowance by riding…kekeke I was checking out ebay the other day, I saw something that’s worth 12k in OZ and approx 6K in Japan and the US going for 800 US buckaroos!! I couldn’t believe it!!! How?! What?! HUH!!?! Im so tempted to buy it but I dun wanna get jibbed! Any eBay experts out there who can tell me firstly how western union works? Thanks mate.

Can’t believe another week has gone by, seemed like only yesterday that we went to Tokyo and here we are, nearly another week. Its nearly August too, we came in mid June and to think its been nearly two months whoaaa we’l be back in no time. Im considering going to Tokyo again this coming Tuesday, my turn to go shopping crazy!! Purchased some Korean concert cds’ at HMV shibuya last week. So disappointed, the cd case says “1st live concert”, yadda yadda yadda so im tinking, “cool something to watch” turns out it’s a live audio recording of the concert! Why would I wanna listen to a concert?! Why would anyone wana listen to a concert!?! Watta waste of 40 bucks! Worst part is I saw the album for d/l on the net yesterday grr

I had my 3rd piano lesson yesterday, I aint learning it the conventional way here, im learning song by song and picking up little technicalities etc as I go through the music. My teacher doesn’t speak English and I dun speak nihon go (Japanese) so u try imagine how weird my lessons are. Ive managed to learn MOONRIVER in just 3 weeks, my teacher was horrified I learnt it so fast ekeke need to get my moneys worth! Plus I recently purchased a piano in Japan, so I need to use it regular to depreciate the value so I wont feel so bad. Next week im learning a new song, I told her I like ballads and asked her to pick me a good song to play; hopefully I’ll learnt something nice. I wanted to play something and put it up on this site but unfortunately I cant find a site that allows me to upload to it and put the link in html format, anyone know of any? Mish and I could put up songs we like to this page if so.

Mish and i went for dinner at an izakaiya (i think dats how u spell it) with one of our jap friends the wednesday just passed. Her English is quiet good but she made some super funny comments. It was basically japanese translated directly into Japanese. eg when speaking to us about her ex she says, "i didnt like his face". haha we need more jap friends here though. I dun really wanna hang wif the other teachers, i came to Japan to meet japanese people not foreigners.

Back to work..

Wednesday we picked up the new guys from New Zealand, a nice couple, we showed them to their place. Jeremy and I were shocked when we went into their apartment because it's so much nicer and newer than ours (with the exception (thanks av) that it's outlooking a cemetery, which is abit freaky), they are paying less than us!!! Seriously thinking of moving...either that or asking Yuko to move in with us as she is looking for a place closeby too..

Spent the whole day with Yuko yesterday, eating and shopping, I'm ashamed to say I bought heaps again..but at least everything I bought was on sale hehe so I kinda made a saving =P Yuko almost lost her wallet...but lucky we found it in the bike basket. Thing with Japanese people is that no one steals...well, not many people do it anyway except maybe the punks! She spent heaps too..she recommended me to read some book called 'Shopoholic' lol...

Ohhhh last nightt...i found out for the first time I am allergic to something...I'm not sure what it is...perhaps it was the Oden (which Barny recommended me try) or the rice crackers I was snacking on...I got so so sosoosososo itchy everywhere...and had hives all over my body. I looked like Gem when he had that allergic reaction just before we left to Japan. I woke up this morning, looked in the mirror and now I have all these scars from scratching lol I wonder if any of my students or workmates will say n e thing later...

Well about to leave to work in about an hr. Late shift today, but its ok...This week should hopefully fly by since its only a 4 day week for me hehe..ciao ciao for now!!