Akimatsuri!

I went to the Dallas Akimatsuri (Fall Festival) and had a ton of fun!
First I went and ate yakisoba at the booth for the restaurant Mr. Sushi. It was soooo good. After that, I went to some other booths, read some books, and wrote kanji at one of them. At the calligraphy booth, I talked to the guys in all Japanese, and they understood! I caught four goldfish at this one booth where (usually kids) catch fish with little paper scoop things (it's traditional). They're soo cute. We named the really happy one "Jun" (jrocker - guitarist of Pierrot), the one that's always opening and closing its mouth "Kai" (drummer from Gazette), the fat one "Hideki," and the last one "Mañana."

The taiko drummers they had there were awesome. I've been to the Harumatsuri (Spring Festival) in Houston, and went to see a taiko group called "Kaminari Taiko," and thought they were awesome too. I love taiko music. But I don't think they'd be as good on CD as they are in real life. Songs with really good drums are always better live, aren't they?


I've felt like listening to Hideki's "Koe ni..." a lot lately. There's a bunch of English in the lyrics, but their meaning is kind of ...sketchy, lol.

"But if you need a mind to read
You can always bother me
I'll be your rodeo imagination
I'll be there for you


koe ni koe ni dekinai omoi　kimi o fukaku ai shiteru
koe ni koe ni dekinai omoi　kimi o fukaku ai shiteru
(I can't put these feelings into words　I love you so much)"


That's the only part in Japanese, lol
Hideki was the vocalist for Siam Shade, my favorite band in junior high, and when the band stopped making music, he kept on singing in his solo project.



I listen to SMAP's (famous band) "Sekai ni Hitotsu Dake no Hana (The Only Flower in the World)" a bunch. While I was in Japan, my high school teacher's wife (the third-year teacher) and I sang it together in the bus we were on, lol. But I sucked at pronunciation back then, and said "sekainihitotsudakenohana" really fast, and she cracked up. aah, I want to go back to Japan...it kinda felt like home, haha. We stayed three nights in a hotel in Tokyo's Shingawa, and I grew to love all the restaurants and the train station around there. It was really like home.

<-- that's Tokyo being pretty at night

I'm writing this instead of doing homework now, but I really have to go write a Spanish essay. bye!

it got nice outside!

it's always pretty right after it rains...so happy

I've decided to read Gazette's (my favorite band) blogs every day, just for practice of course, lol. While I was reading, Ruki (the vocalist) said "なんで風邪引かないようにがんばれ！" (we just learned ～ように in class) so I was surprised.

sorry, I'm all over the place today

well, I've got a ton of homework, so I'll probably be up all night doing it. I've felt like studying kanji lately so I made flashcards and have been practicing how to write. It's fun, but I reaaaally don't have time (-_-")

mkay, I have to go read a book for English...bye!

ame ni utaeba -pichi pichi chapu chapu ran ran blues-

it's raining pretty hard today.
the title is from miyavi's song. I love it ^^ the lyrics are a bit sad, but it's good anyway

"if I sing into the rain, if I sing into the sky
I wonder if the clouds in my heart will clear up some day.
rainy days are blues, windy days are blues
if I keep on singing, I wonder if I'll be able to see the rainbow after the rain."

At the beginning, it was just a catchy song, but after I realized I could understand it, I thought "oh, it's so sad~" I tried to translate it, but since he uses a bunch of weather words it was reaaaally hard. The English is a little weird...when I'm translating, I get this problem a lot. But I keep going like always ^^

that's miyavi on the left!
in the band he was in before he went solo, he was "miyabi," but now he goes by miyavi.

recently, he's been making a ton of acoustic songs, but I don't like them much. In older albums, the songs were mostly rock, and though there weren't many acoustic songs, they were always awesome. now, it's all acoustic, and it's gotten kinda boring o(;_;)o

This weekend, my parents came up to SMU, and it was a lot of fun~ When I was waiting for them on Friday, I got to meet my friend Damian's boyfriend for the first time. He's such a nice guy~ I was a little surprised, cause he was taller than Damian. At about 10:00 they got here, and we went to eat at IHOP. It was good ｄ(^-^) On Saturday I showed them around SMU, we went shopping at Target, and just had fun. Today, I did homework at the dorm, practiced kanji, stared at the wall...(^◇^) this weekend was busy~

ah~

weekend was booooring (-。-;)

On Saturday, I woke up at about 9:00 for an interview with Delta Sigma Pi, a fraternity I'm rushing. The interview went well, but 9:00 is early~ After that, I ate lunch, cleaned, translated, and watched a PIERROT dvd. Then I went with three other people to go bowling. It was fun~ Afterwards I got back to the dorm and watched the TV show House. We woke up at about noon on Sunday because we were really tired. We wanted to eat Chinese, so Lauryn found a place to go to. We went to this place called Lucky Egg Roll - the food was really good. It's in Inwood Village Shopping Center. We came back so we could do homework, but all I did was translate (^-^;

that's about it for now. bye~

foreign languages...

Recently I've gotten interested in foreign languages. In my spare time, I've been studying Chinese and Korean.

ah, I tried to type in Korean and Chinese, but you can't see it...

but anyway, I think it's all really interesting.

I'm translating visual songs for the page Lauryn and I made. Right now, I'm listening to ダリ, and this part makes me laugh:
"The world that's lost it's color is like gum without flavor"
lol, it's weird, isn't it.

okay, I have to go eat lunch now　bye~

Off to Austin!

hey, it's been a while! was everyone's weekend good?

Because of Labor Day, Lauryn and I went to Austin to visit and had a ton of fun! We left at 3:30 on Friday, but the traffic was horrid, so we got there at 9:00. That night, we all went to a couple of parties, but they weren't very entertaining. Saturday and Sunday were more fun than Friday! On Saturday we walked around UT and ate a bunch of things. It was really good ♪(*＾-'*)>

Recently I've gotten interested in Chinese, so I've been studying kanji a lot and practicing how to write. I'm getting better! But I suck at pronunciation. I have to study more! I'll work on it! haha

byeee ヾ(^-^)ゞ

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hey!

I'm Jessica! I'm a first-year at SMU, majoring in marketing and foreign languages (Japanese and Spanish). In my spare time I translate visual-kei lyrics, a type of Japanese music.

hm.

Today I've got plans to go to Austin to visit some friends! I haven't seen them for a while, so I'm really happy! I dunno when I'm gonna come back...probably on Sunday.

This morning in my Spanish class, I did a presentation on Japanese music. I talked about visual-kei, oshare-kei, and angura-kei, and I shocked my classmates a bit. While I was talking, I heard a bunch of comments. "what? that's a guy?" "that's kinda scary..." lol

well, for this (long) weekend, do you guys have anything you want to do? anywhere you want to go?