Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Megu's Bday Party and Me being sick




Heey sorry for my spontaneous blogging session but last week I was sick due to the piggy flu. Ok, no I did not have influenza but I paniced just a little bit but well I was more depressed because I couldn't go out due to a sore throat ahhhhh!! Ahhh.. But yeah, I decided to rest it up because of my throat so I was recovering and I was like thank you so much so on saturday I went out to this Bali Restuarant and it was spicy food, I didn't think of the consequences I just ate that food up like there was nooo tommorow! So I get back from the Bali Resturant and afterwards my throat caught on fire...... I swear for once that lemon tea with honey did not work it got so bad that I had trouble going to sleep! I did the gargle with water and salt and that got me through the night! I was like woo now I can rest but the story has just begun... I get up early in the morning to run some errands and to buy my girl Megu a cute present from the Sweets Paradise which was a nice Berry Berry Cake. I will take more pictures with my blog. I was still feeling a little grogging due to my throat but I had to go on to my friend's Megu's birthday party! So it's pouring and it's raining outside I wanted to get my rest on but it was hour away before my gurl's birthday party and I think she turned the big 2-4 24 Oh wow she's middle aged and she still looks good looks just like she was celebrating her 16th bday! Heey Japanese people tend to look too cute and too young! So I get to the place with my cake in my hand because hey if you don't know what to get someone you can never ever go wrong with food. So I see all her relatives before I got in I thought I was going to her hip cool young friends... well no I saw her relatives and let me tell you something they put my cooking to shame these people can cook! I can see why Megu can cook must be from the genes! So I told my girl this "How can you be single if you can cook?!!" You know it's a damn shame when a girl is single and she can cook! It's a damn shame. So anyways I was so shocked that after the kanpai aka cheers I just dug right in to get all the yummies and treats! Yum yum. I saw this young man Megu's cousin and I think he was hitting on me well subtley.... he was 26 but can pass for 17... Japanese men look so young I once met a 34 year old Japanese men that could pass for 21 I'm not even kidding because of the looks I treat them like my regular 20 year old friends. So after eating all this delicious food it was soo delicious they even had ribs and everyone knows how to cook no wonder why they didn't invite to cook because I suck and I burnt the fried chicken booo :( so we were playing the wee and Megu's dad is still young and hip and he wanted to do the sax. for Earth Wind and Fire hehe he was soo cute and well I was dancing... oh I forgot I was singing with Megu's grandma it was this enka song very famous and I did my little ooo's and ahh's and so finally her grandma looks at me and puts it bluntly you need to be more in melody and tune... ouch... hahah I know my singing is that bad but if a person that is hard of hearing tells me that then you know that my singing is bad and sadly I luv to sing too!! But later on that evening my throat bothered me again... ouch so I had to take my leave early... so the next morning in class my throat started to tighten up ouch so I saw the school doctor and I told the doctor that I take Sentaku because I bought it $5 from the drugstore.. so she was like it's ok it's just mild and I recieve my bill which was $40 not bad which included the pills and I look in my bad and it was the SAME MEDICINE THAT I BOUGHT FOR $5 from the store except it was in a bag and out of the box! Now is that some crap or is that some crap! Well.... that sucks but hey I have insurance so it's all good. So I ended up getting prescribed the same medicine and I went to Megu's party just to know that they put my sucky soul food party to shame and these people can cook!! Well here's the pics. enjoy and I will update more!! muah

Monday, May 18, 2009

Kobe Influenza Outbreak


Well, lately I've been really sick well luckily I don't have it so knock on wood. But walking around the Kobe area the streets are empty and it's full of people wearing masks. I just went out to today to get lunch today and to the supermarket to get a couple of more masks and orange juice. Since I'm sick I'm still a little bit susceptiable to getting influenza but I'm grateful I haven't recieved it yet. I haven't been to any crowded areas recently and I do feel secure everytime I walk around with a mask on but I've also been staying in my area too. I have not been taking the trains to go anywhere. Schools have been cancelled for a week and the attitude is vacation and lets go out. Sure it is not a big deal. But one must always be careful because you never knew who has it and who can catch it. Even though, it's rare it's still a scary thought for on that that might catch it. The general attitude of this whole thing is who cares I'm still going out the media is blowing it out of proportion. But I noticed that the kids, moms, and elderly people are mostly wearing masks due to precaution and hopefully not getting it. Thankfully, I am recovering and I've been drinking a lot of orange juice and lemon tea so back off virus I'm fighting back with vitamin c! Well I will keep yah posted peace!!

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Soul Food in Japan




Hey yall' I've been really busy and focused again with school. My listening has improved dramatically and I can actually understand alot and what's going meaning I can catch the gist of the conversation. So yah, girl is doing good. Well, anyways I went to my girl's Megu's house to do a little soul food cook down! My dad sent me some corn bread and I've been mentally preparing all week. I had all the ingredients together and bought extra for this extraveganza! Well, everything was great and my friend had guests over yay!! So anyways I was like the master of the kitchen. I had people help make the macroni cheese, corn bread, ham and everything but the fried chicken was all mine! So all of a sudden I decided to do the fried chicken well I took it out from the pot and it was burnt!!Ahhh I was like noo... the skin was falling off and everything.... waaa it was embarassing and it was so bad that one of the guests fed the fried chicken to the dog.... yea it was horrible bleh... so now I need a lesson on how to fry chicken...