A Trifle of Negativity...

One of my first post title was named 'happy things' and was somehow meant to follow along a historical Japanese writer that wrote lists of happy/nice/acceptable things versus bad/sad/unacceptable things. I wanted to name a few things I find sad in life, and unpleasant. There might not be an order as I did not really plan on my list before writing it, but some people say that there is always order in disorder, or that disorder is a form of order. Oh well.

Waking up and have your feet hurt from the heels worn the previous day
             Having back ache from sitting too long in a car - like a back and forth to St-Jérome in a day
                       having a bad hair day
Seeing ugly people, and feeling guilty for thinking they are so
             Sitting beside smoking people
                      A girl with a cigarette between her fingers
Eating a cold soup
              Drinking a warm beer
                        Remembering the face of people, but not their names
Sitting on a bench relaxing, then notice all the ugly details of the surrounding
              Receiving a call from someone one could not care less about
                          Feeling fat after eating
Pretty hair with ugly face
              Japanese hypocrisy
                           Chinese girls gossiping about everything
Prettier people who disagree they are
          Ugly people who think they are pretty- that enters in sad thing
                        People who make me wait
Making people wait
          Waiting
                    Money


Nasty smells.          The touch of dirty things.                     Dirty apartments.

I write the last ones appart from the others because they gross me out more than the rest.

Saint-Jerôme in the Rain

My hometown is more or less 6 hours from Saint-Jerôme by car (add one hour and we have the time for Montreal/Rouyn). Yesterday with the people at my work, we left for Saint-Jérôme for a Cheese formation by a renown cheese business rep. That means we left from here at 5 a.m. and got there around 11h30, had lunch, learned cheese theory for 1 hour, tasted cheese for 3, and left back home to get back roughly at 12p.m. This day was crazy. At least I had my mind occupied on - if not happy, at least - busy thoughts, as things are not going so well for me these last 2 days.

Cheese is good. 

I am so happy these nomad people randomly found out how to make cheese while trying to find ways to bring milk along with them on their journeys. They put it in cow/goat stomach bags as they were quite waterproof, and they found out that after a couple seconds, in one of the stomach - I don't remember which one of the four - the enzymes (rennet) contaminated the milk which turned it into solid matter. That enzyme is actually still the most used to make the fresh milk 'coagulate' and turn into cheese nowadays. 

Three ingredient in cheese: Milk, rennet and salt.

So simple and though, so many flavors can come out of it. I love cheese. We tasted tons of them and I almost liked all of them. I really cannot do blue cheese though.

I did try...

Just not my cup of tea.

I went to subscribe to classes at University today. I will be taking two classes starting of tomorrow. I can't wait. I am very curious since I have not taken classes in French for so long. I already know I have a class on Thursday with my friend who is currently doing a French teaching degree.

Guri is here!

I changed my Blog's name.

I did not really like the sound of the translation of my previous Blog. It sounded weird in English. And then, I did not really feel like it would be right to leave only the title in Japanese: that would be false indication of my blog, since I'm not writing it in Japanese. So here I am, I felt like this could be well enough the same sort of meaning I wanted my Blog to have.

We decided to be an exchange student's family this year again!
After Christiane who was a big sister, and Mie who was a >동갑< I will have a little sister <3 She arrived home yesterday night and she looks like a super nice person so I'm relieved! It's always a little stress before meeting them, as I don't want to have expectations - that could be decieved - or make those people feel like I was hoping for someone else. I would personally hate to be compared. We'll have to wait until Wednesday to get her school registration as the school administration was busy with other things today, but I guess that leaves her the time to settle down a bit before everything starts. We'll go pick up blueberries later this afternoon :3 since the weather is really windy and not too hot (ideal for squatting for hours without too much sun, and windy enough so there is no mosquitoe in the forest). My parents had left for Sherbrooke - and stopped by Montreal to pick up Guri at the Airport - so I was left to take care of flowering the garden. I felt like Harvest moon :3. I like gardening, but only when I feel like it, so I envy my parents to like it so much, because they have such a nice backyard. Here are some pictures:

There were 5 of these pots around the yard to water <3

The right part of my backyard~

I love the little veggie garden~

The side of the house with the high flower pots...

I have been watching two more dramas lately. I incidentally found an oldie from 2006 with actors from Secret Garden, City Hunter, New Tales of Gisaeng and You're Beautiful. While the drama came before all those, it's funny for me to see these actors all in one.

Scent of a Woman (16 episodes)

 This drama is filled with sweetness. Sometimes bitter-sweetness. It's once again concerning a most unprobable marriage and a cancer suffering lady, but I like the main character. While this is a sad story, you don't feel depressed after each episode, like the taiwanese drama 'Silence' would make you feel.

You've Fallen for me (15 episodes)

This drama is fun to watch, without too much fluff and too much cunning characters so it's not frustrating to watch like other Korean Dramas. However, the fact that the drama is like that makes it somewhat insipid. Anyhow, I think the actors are cute looking to I ended up watching it all.

Hwang Jini (24 episodes)

This is the drama I mentionned with actors I knew from other dramas. Now that I think about it, this drama might have been what launched their career, if I take into account that they all did many other series right after that one.
I really like this serie, but then, I really have a soft spot for traditional dramas. I liked Sunkyungwan Scandal for that, even though it was quite light for a drama, and so was the ending. This one looks more like it will be a bit more tragical. I already cried once, poor me.

Third day of Work at Bistro Jezz!

I've always liked to clean up. I like when a place sparkles of cleanliness and I like to relax with a tea when I'm done, and look around how perfect the cleaning is done. Let's call it my one little guilty pleasure. I could probably compare that to my parent's love for gardening: they like to make a garden the exact way they feel like having it, they do it with lots of care. As for me, I can't clean well when there are people around. It annoys me, and I mostly just do superficial clean-up when I have to clean with people around. Silly? Maybe.

Well fact is that in my apartment there was no problem: there were tons of times I could be alone on my own and do my things. Here however, at my parents', I used to clean when my parents are at work, but then, they always come back for lunch and in the evening, so the fact I cannot finish properly before they get back sorts of restrains me... sad sad sad. And now my mommy is on her vacation leave so she is home all the time.

But.

Now they went to Sherbrooke to see family! So I took the time to do the basement <3 My brother's den, if we may call it. Result: a clean floor and 142 beer bottle less hanging around the room. The difference is stunning. I actually only did a superficial cleaning there, because I don't really go but you know, it's still quite shiny <3. 

How to bring 142 beer bottle on my own, without a car, without a liscence without anything????? I put everything in a wheelbarrow. It's probably an understatement that people made fun of me, but then again, I laughed too. It was quite funny to do. In any case, it was much better than the other options I had: do 16 times the way back and forth to bring them in bags or try to fill tons of bags and carry them on my back, which would probably have hurt a lot.

What I noticed today is that since I have a job I feel like doing more things. I think humans are made to have an occupation. I mean, today I did the gardening for my parents who left for the weekend, went to work, cleaned the place, watched a movie, talked on the phone, did a little computer, rode a 8km bicycle trail... Anyways, I quite like to work at Bistro Jezz  so I think this year will be sweet. I am going to register  for a certificate in my local University tomorrow morning with my sister, can't wait <3

Visiting Montreal~

I went to Montreal last weekend~! It was a really busy end of week, but I had loads of fun - I even ended up losing my voice two days in a row...eh eh FML
I went to Mika's place a couple of days and had wonderful coffees made with love from her mommy, awesome drinks and BBQ made by her brother. We chilled on Mt-Royal and I even touched a black squirrel <3 such a cutie!!!

 Friday we went to Montreal's annual Otakuthon event. Lala wanted to go and made a Peach Girl costume, and as I did not have anything prepared in advanced I used an old uniform with a green tie to dress up as Mori Ran from Detective Conan. The event was sweet, but as we did not want to pay 30$ just to visit the shops and goodies upstairs, we just basically did the tourists around the place and chilled by the China Town, before going to eat dinner at Le Nil Bleu with David and crew.

 Saturday we went to the Matsuri!!! It was really sweet! The only thing is that is seems they did not have enough budjet to make it in the Old Port and thus the event was held around Jarry metro station, in a quite ghetto surrounding. Shame. Food was good though, and the day was hot.

Diane's Coffee Paradise

Marc-Antoine's BBQ Paradise

Momo chan and Ran chan

Hiya~! <3

Yuki, Rose, Keum Yeo, Lala

<3 Jack & Me <3

 At night we went to Light Ultra Club. We were supposed to go to La Mouche - place I had always wanted to try, but there must have been a show or something, because that night the cover fee was 30$ each. Which is ridiculous. So we went to Light. I was quite upset at first, since each SINGLE time I had gone, the music was horrible, and I did not have a good time trying to dance on such lousy music.
However, they had a new girl DJ which did a pretty good job so the evening was a blast. We had planned to stay only 2 hours, but ended up staying until the close. Oh. Important detail; lala and I kept our Yukata from the Matsuri ha ha ha ha, we just adjusted them more 'club' style.

Light night was the first time I lost my voice. I screamed too loud to try to talk to people in the club, and I sang along with the music too long. My bad my bad, my voice was a mess right after we got out until the noon the next day.

The next day we went to La Ronde! As we had been clubbing the night before, I thought we would not get to go to La Ronde - also given that the weather forecast had it that there would be thunderstorms - but we went around 4p.m. and got flash passes. This was really sweet. We were on double-date + Wiaofu's friend (lightbulb <3). That's the second time I lost my voice. Guess how? I love to scream in attractions!
All in all, the week was great. I got to visit my friend's new apartment, and see face I had not seen in ages like Keum Yeo and Marie <3

七夕、花火、浴衣。。。

Happy Be-lated Tanabata...ha ha. In Japan, it's been roughly a month technically. But then, my chinese friends said it was some days ago. Whatever the real time it is, I say that the Osisko Summer Fireworks were our own little version of Tanabata. Me and Fura dressed up Japanese-Summer-Festival-Style for the occasion. The only shame is that it was difficult to take good pictures in the dark. I.E. we only saw what we took after each shots...ha ha ha.

Here are some nice pictures of the fireworks. I hav so many it was hard to choose them, but then, I think I managed to get a good feeling of it. I like fireworks. Especially with Disney soundtracks in the background. I guess it made up for the fact they were delayed of 1 hour.

These ones were like tons of shooting stars, so pretty

Firework Bouquet

The reflections on the water are just amazing...