Relief in my lab

Happyyyyy !! I managed to do my speech quite smoothly today ! ^________^ I was so worried because it is always very hard for me to memorize japanese words coz sometimes one word is similar with the other. Besides, the pronunciation somehow makes me tired too... __ __ ! *ha..ha..* i think you know what i mean... Japanese has a lot of words that needs  a bit of extra energy to pronounce. for example: the one with しょう、しゅう、etc.. O.o .. Anyway, I will post something from my speech next time.

Today I did about the same thing.. attending classes and having lunch after that. After that, I had to go to the academic office to settle my re-entry permit extension issue for my visa application.. >___< One of the staffs contacted me, and she said that the Japan Immigration cannot extend my visa earlier than 3 months before expiry date if the reason is for visa application for travelling or sightseeing.. ___ ___ ! in this case, I had to apply for some certificate from university, which required me to get my professor's signature.

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... and I had to apply for it today because she needs 2 days at least to finish the document for me. Moreover, I only have 10 days from the embassy to send the thing to them. Besides, my sensei won't be here tomorrow, and today he is exxxxtremely busy. his schedule is full...

OH. MY. GOD.

Honestly, I really want to avoid disturbing him more about things related to the trip !!! >__________< PUNCH !!!!! *sigh* but anyway, i got it already, and i applied for the certificate today. I feel less tensed after I came back to my lab... just try to focus : 

I'm going to Spain ! yuhuuu... I will see my boyfriend again soon ! ^__^

So, now it's time to relax a bit !!!

Back massagers : love rabbit (Singapore), crab (Taiwan)

I feel so comfortable in my lab. hmm.. some labs make the people stressed because they are full of books, papers, etc, which give them the feeling 'OMG ! I have to study !'. however, my lab is nice.. ^^ I decorated my place a bit too somehow.. I put some foods to make me happy, ('some' means ... 'a lot'. HAHA.. although they are still nothing compared to what my senpai has inside his drawer.. ___ ___! ) and some cute collections !!! ^_____^ they are so cute and make me happy ! ^___________^

The one i posted here are all gifts from my lab mates. (well.. one of them was my gift to my lab mate.) The ones on top are back massagers. The story was quite funny. Last summer I went to Singapore for holiday, while my senpai went to Korea for conference. When we met after the holiday, I brought him this love rabbit massager as souvenir (he loves love rabbit..), and he brought me this crab massager from Korea !!! O.o ... Why did both of us buy back massagers at the same time !??!?! what a coincidence !!

peach hand cream (Korea), and fluffy sheep (Japan)

The fluffy sheep was actually my senpai's. However, soon he realised that I love it sooo much, and I kept playing with it, until he got the message clearly, 'IT'S MINE ! IT'S MINE !'.. then he gave it to me.. O.o .. HAHA. thank youuu, amir !! ^__________^ Ah btw, the peach hand cream was from my other lab mate who went to Korea too for conference. It is really cute !! I havent used it until today. hehee..

Bread sponge (Taiwan)

 The sponge bread was from Amir too. It was from taiwan, and it is quite interesting to see the 'made in taiwan' words there, because usually we expect to see 'made in china' when we buy most of the general souvenirs we bought from all over the world, except the hand-mades, hahahaha __ __ ! it's very cute and special ! ^__________^

so.. those are some of my collections ! my advice is... put some stuffs that you like in your workplace, so you will have more motivation and support psychologically when you need to work a lot there ! ^_^

Artworks for today !

Today is my friend's birthday. She was one of the first few people I met here, and eventually she became one of my closest friends. this year is the last year I'm going to celebrate her birthday in Sapporo i suppose, coz next year she will go back to her country after graduation. therefore... i felt like drawing something for her. It was quite difficult earlier because I like to have good concepts for my drawings all the time. However, I decided to draw the first idea I had about her in my mind, which is... this one !

I remember that she loves chocolate, and I caught her many times snacking chocolate in any forms in the class.. haha ! ^^ mmm... I got to enjoy too because she offered me some =P hihihi... *punch myself* the thing isss... she cannot grow fat after eating so much chocolate everyday !!! OMG !!!!

*jealous mode*

On the other hand, another good friend of mine asked me to help him drawing something for the invitation email of the event he is handling now. I was in a low mood last week and it was a bit hard to find some ideas for invitation actually, but of course I always love to draw simple sketches, so why not ? i said yes. Luckily he told me that I can draw anything I want. haha =P ... i just got this idea this weekend when i was thinking about the characters in my 'imaginary world', and my new character too, the sheep, so I decided to draw them. This is the result :

HAHA !! do u think people will understand what it is about ? hehee... 

I LOVE IT SO MUCH !! ^___________^ 

The sheep is another character of my boyfriend, actually ^^ poor him.. i always make fun of him by making him cute characters instead of cool characters... O.o .. Peace ! *hugs*

Autumn: When i feel so much in love ;)

It is a bit late to talk about autumn actually, since it is snowing so heavily here now. Yeah.. winter has come ! Love and hate it in the same time.. hehe. It is extremely pretty, but in general we have to walk much more than in other season. well.. i dont mind walking.. but it is slippery. hmm ok, it's because.. i'm lazy. haha ^^ Besides, it is COLD. As a result, my heater bill became expensive. ohhh.. >_<

Do i love winter ? I do, but hmm... honestly, my fave season is autumn. I find it exxtremely romantic in a way, and my feeling becomes stronger in this season. (read: more emo, maybe =P HAHA) On the other hand, it was the season when my relationship started ;) *blushed* Everything was really strange, but when i think about how complicated the things back then and how we ended up together, it was really amazing. Now he is the one who makes me smile every second.. ;) *sweet-talk mode* hihiii.. !!

It's exactly like what Jayne Fisher wrote in her "Autumn Love" :  

“Autumn is the perfect time for love. No other season comes dressed for the backdrop of a love play like Autumn. With Autumn comes the sense of urgency to get things done quickly before all becomes enveloped in the hush of winter white.”

This is what i call 'heaven' .. ;)

Last year autumn was the best, i think, and i would like to share it and keep the memory in my mind forever, as well. Hmm... i dont experience a lot of autumn season actually, hehe, but then people said it was extremely extraordinary. The weather was very strange and colder last year. The snow fell very early that time, while the red leaves, ginkgo leaves, etc were at their peak, and there were still a lot of green leaves too. Can you imagine how pretty it was !??! It cant be explained by words, really.. !!!!!!!!!

Extraordinary autumn (2010) - the rare mix between red, yellow, green, brown and white

extremely happy enjoying snowy autumn (2010)

Normal condition in autumn (2011)

Too bad i dont have so many pictures from last year !! sigh... I should have taken more ! >_< The autumn scenery from this year was amazing too, but it was quite the same like in most of the countries with autumn season, i think. However, autumn is always amazing, and I will never say that autumn scenery is normal ! oh by the way, my friend  from Bulgaria told me that they dont have ginkgo trees there. Not sure if he meant his city or the whole country, but anyway, it's nice that there are some other people who might be as excited as I am ! ^_^

Pretty ginkgo trees

Yuhuu... new blog! my 1st public blog. ^^

Yeahhh.. first time having public blog ! 

... O.o ... mmm, a bit strange huh. hehe.. well, i'm not going to open it for public now, haha =P, but this time i have the intention to do it later somehow.

well, i have few blogs before but all of them are private blogs. One is my own diary =P , and the other one is the blog i share with my boyfriend. In regards to the last one, we created it to make it easier for us to collect our old emails in chronological order. Since we are far away from each other now while also separated by quite big time difference, we have been growing the habit to write to each other everyday for the other to read after waking up. *... shy ;)*

It's really amazing to read it again, though! it's like a life story... can u imagine ?! if your blog gets 2 super long posts everyday, there will be at least around 700 posts within a year. how will it be if more than a year !? ^_______^ *proud*

Back to this blog again. Basically I'm always interested to learn more from people's life. even if it is about small unimportant issue, it doesn't matter. different people experience different things everyday,. Even if they experienced the same thing, the way they reacted to it might be different too. and for me, life is truly a never-ending learning process. i think it is better to learn first from people's experience (especially bad things, hehe..) rather than experience it ourselves. If we can do precautions and avoid it,why not ?

so.. I would like to share mine too. However, first of all i have to build the habit to write in this blog. I will try my best ! :)