Tonight I attended a workshop held by the Wai Taiko drumming group. It was incredibly fun! And quite rewarding too, first being amazed as the group members played a difficult-looking song and then by the end of the class being able to play it ourselves (of course, they weren't actually hard songs at all, just looked that way to us beginners...) ( Read more... )

A few times recently I've felt like writing in here again, but I've never had anything worth an "I'm back! This is so important it's worth bothering you all for!" post. But damn it, nothing all that interesting ever happens to me so if I feel like posting about the boring stuff, I will ( Read more... )

I just discovered the existence of Keyhole TV. There goes my free time! (Well, if only I can get it to show videos properly unlike the frozen mosaic I've got now XD )

But wow! Great listening practice :D

So, looks like my sister has coeliac disease. The diet in my house is about to change a lot, though she's currently still at the stage of saying "I want to eat the normal stuff and just put up with the stomach cancer ( Read more... )

Today, on the way home from Uni:

A bus stops for about 5 minutes for a driver change, with no announcement of any sort, leaving the passengers asking each other what's going on, some getting off for a smoke etc ( Read more... )

Get home from work at 9pm, find that dinner is leftover sausages ( Read more... )

Today I have:

• Knocked a glass of lemonade onto my laptop
  
• While attempting to clean that, knocked a glass of water onto the floor and a magazine belonging to my sister
  
• Spilt milk on the kitchen bench
  
• And almost on the couch as well
  
• Bruised my foot on my laptop's power converter
  
• And in the same action, pulled the cord of my alarm clock out of the ( Read more... )

('blog posts I won't put on my rl blog because i don't want to have to explain doujinshi to my parents')Comic City was as fun as I'd thought it would be :D And actually, surprisingly spacious, whereas I'd expected to be crammed into some hall. I wish large gatherings of fangirls in other countries were a calm and well-organised ( Read more... )

OMFG I've been haemorrhaging money for the past 3 days, someone help! I need to have some money left when I actually reach Japan!

~~~As I had expected, my problem with packing isn't so much the volume of stuff as the weight... My big suitcase is only about 2/3 full but about 16/17 kg already... I think I'll just end up having to pay excess ( Read more... )

I was finally going to contribute something to a Big Bang by signing up as a Groupie for americanbang, since that seemed pretty low pressure (just one picture or whatever required). And now americanbang has been discontinued in favour of idol_bigbang, for which all the due dates occur while I'm in Japan. FML.