Running Man

I feel shameful for forgetting the very reason I started writing my blog yesterday. I guess the reason for that is that I needed to make an entry just for that...

I need to thank Rosemary for that, because even if I will probably waste away in front of my computer screen because of her, it might not even do me too much harm...except getting fat by eating too much shit while watching it.....  :) Love you Rosemary <3

I started watching a Korean TV Show. Never tried to watch any, because I always felt quite frustrated when I went to Japan the first time, and tried watching them without any understanding of the japanese language. This made me feel so lame, not to get anything while everyone laughed so bad around me. This sorts of marked me negatively: Asian TV shows are supposed to be fun, but I don't get shit, so I'm lame - sort of trauma. So now, breaking this trauma, after 6 years, I started watching Running Man. That's intense since there are 66 episodes on the site I watch them. I don't even know whether if the show has stopped or not... I'm not really into looking into details that much. I'll just watch them and see what's up. Anyways, they are all translated, and for the most part, well done, so you get explanations for inside jokes that white ppl would not get otherwise. 

Fall almost over...

Lately I have been neglecting my blog. I apologize, since it's not even because I was really busy. I have not actually done much in the last days, but going to school, working and giving Japanese Classes. I've been using Instagram a lot and thus uploading pretty much what I was doing, taking away the need to blog. It takes more time too, and I'd rather watch movies than write blogs when I am online most of the time. I don't really like to be on the computer much, except when I watch movies eh eh eh.

Lately I am following three dramas that are quite different from one another, which makes it nice to go from on to the other. 

Man of Honor - 24 episodes

 This Drama looks like a romantic comedy to me, with the usual love-triangle one can find in the cliché dramas, whether old american soaps or any new Korean drama. It's not really original and not that awesome. However, I like how they just added random 'magic' effect and coincidental events that makes it unrealistic. When they try to make it realistic, when we all see how fake all those complicated relationships are, it gets boring to watch. However, by keeping it clearly out of the 'real', you can swallow up the stupid story better. I think the main girl character is really cute too.

Flower Boy Ramyeon Shop - 16 episodes

 This drama is a happy coming back of the 'flower boy' concept, while actually making fun of it in a healthy way. I had missed the flower boy stories with childish rich kids doing what they want like Boy over flower. In this drama however, what is funny is that the rich kid just miserably fails to get any point across. While being selfish and demanding, he fails at all the things he tries: making fun of stupid rich clueless kids.

The male lead was in 49 days, and I like him <3 plus the female lead is really pretty. Always help to have good looking characters...

Vampire Prosecutor - 12 episodes

This drama is literally the weirdest mix of random shit ever. It seems like a normal crime scene investigation TV show, with all the american clichés of the interrogation methods and sexy doctors looking up for answers in dead ppl, but in the midst of that, you find the main character being a vampire. That just is really weird. Vampire themes are just too popular lately, and not for the best. Plus, the guy actually can chill in the sun, and does not really seem to be impaired in any ways by being a vampire. It's just weird. However, it's catchy. I like crime investigations. In this drama, what is my biggest critique, is that it's only one episode a week, and thus, you find yourself waiting really long for not too much new information.

I have been knitting random stuff as well, to try to figure out how to mix up different stitch points and ended up making a white/beige winter hat, so I can use it with my aqua scarf and mittens, which I really had a hard time matching with anything.

I ordered something online from Hong Kong and received it today. It's a weird two piece deer room wear consisting of a verry large hoody with ears and shorts with a furry tail at the back.

Third Day in Montreal

In my last day in Montreal I basically took it easy, did a bit of shopping and met up with friends to eat at Atti right before taking the bus. I don't have good quality picture - blame it on my iPhone not being so performant in the dark.

Second Day in Montreal

I started my second day in Montreal by waking up before Rosemary - surprise surprise! Who had to stay home to do some paper for class. I went to meet up with Jess and her friends in Chinatown's Ruby Rouge, the dimsum place <3 and we ate our fill for approx $10 each including tips. I love Chinatown. The place was crowded, as would any dimsum place on the weekend, but we had a good table and were pretty lucky.

After eating we met up with Youngjin oppa ^3^ a friend that recently moved to Montreal, and that I ended up befriending through friends/facebook. He accompanied us in what must be pretty boring for a guy: girl window shopping - in my case, actual shopping (see previous blogs for images). We went to the new Chinese Mall, Chinese Grocery store and in the end, to a newly opened Bubble Tea Lounge, that I will go again, given the chance. It was really a sweet place, staff being really friendly, and bubble tea being tasty. Plus, having a sore throat from Karaoke the previous night, I took a nice congee <3 with black eggs and green onions - bliss. There is also one other important thing about this place. the toilet. I mean I have always, mostly negatively, had great memories of chinese places' toilets but this one... is amazing. I feel like describing, but I will not. Pictures will tell... enjoy!

Crossing the street, but light turning red: stuck in the middle...

Jessica in her element : Asian Grocery store

Younjin oppa shopping with us...

New Bubble tea lounge!!!! (this should be a magazine cover)

Me, doing my favorite pass-time of the weekend: iPhone charging

Congee!!! <3

Is this in a club?

Is this in a star make-up room?

No. that's three random girls taking pictures in a toilet....

Later that night I called up bunch of random people, most who had never really met before, so have a dinner/party. I did that mainly for two reasons: first, the more the merrier and not wanting to stress up much about what to do, I knew that chilling with new people could make conversations interesting. The second reason is because I knew I would not get enough time during the weekend to meet with everyone I care about so meeting up all together seemed like a wonderful idea. I was right. That evening was memorable.

Me and Marie <3 sweetheart <3

Yes I did. I ate pork tongue. I actually don't really like the texture, but I tried.

Keum-Yeo and Fred. How much do I love these two people. >////< had missed them so much!!!

Japanese food, Asian alcohol and a bunch of people together

Youngjin oppa and his huge buck of beer

Ray and his baby beer pint

If you haven't tried Imadake, around Atwater station, Montreal, this is a must go. The people working there are legit, the food is, the alcohol is, and the place is awesome, plus the price of things is not that bad. We went crazy - it being a Sunday night, with no one really in the mood, we almost *kof kof* seemed out of place. However, trying drinking games and the like in the bar did get the boss to guy us a round of sake-bombs (awesome drinks if you ask me). that was a bit after I ended up having to sing out loud my favorite song: having no clue what to sing, I just sang the shortest first song that came to my mind - オナラ体操. I won't add anything, cuz this says everything in itself. throughout the evening, youngjin oppa had to get a guy's number and Ray had to go have a shot with the owner as dares, without counting all the truth people ended up saying. I won't elaborate on them however... mind your precious ears.

First Day in Montreal!

I arrived pretty early in Montreal, a little before 7AM, so I found Rosemary sleeping on her couch. While I had expected to have her sleeping, finding her asleep on the couch was not in my plans: I had planned on taking a shower after the long bus ride, and then go get some more sleep on the couch, as it was where I'd be suppose to sleep. Waking up around 8H30 by the sound of my text message bell, she found me on the floor, cuddled with my bus pillow, blanket and stuffed animal. 

After both taking showers, we went to have breakfast at Ben & Florentine, and shared both sweet and salty meals <3 While the salty meal we ordered was simply wonderful - Mont-Royal Benedict eggs - as we were both really hungry, I did not even think of taking a picture of the plate before we dug in. Too bad.

Raspberry, Banana orange Smoothy

Strawberry French Toast with bananas and Nutella fillings numnum num <3

Pretty Rosemary, who put on make up as she was probably just as tired as me after the bus-ride

 We walked around looking at shops displays and buying some stuff. The epic moment number one of the day was at Holt & Renfrew, where we had wanted to get a nice coffee, that was crowded just like Xmas last minute shopping day: there was a special 2 day sale for the approaching winter season, and everyone had decided to shop like there is no tomorrow. We decided to look around and leave for another coffee place. 

The second epic moment of the day was when we went to Nespresso: a wonderful coffee place. Like, really awesome. While it was more crowded than usual, it being the weekend, we found ourselves comfortably seated at the counter benches and tried awesome Verrines and Expressos (Rosemary took something else, but I took expressos, anyways...).

My Chocolate Pistache Verrine and Expresso <3

Here is a picture of Rosemary's choice. Looks prettier than mine because of the drink XD

Rose and me, just being Italian, really...

Trying to be cute....

WTF

I like how the staff really did not mind us taking picture of both the interior design and the stuff they had to sell. I really liked the place, and everything we tried tasted great. A must go if I may say.

Display of Verrines. 

Little glimpse of the interior. 

Don't you all think the display at Ogilvy are worth walking by, even if noone really has the money to buy anything inside? I think that the displays back off the attitude the sellers have inside: I'd be proud to work in a place with such nice displays. And giant paper sculptures are cool.

At night Rosemary was taken by other things, so she did not come to eat with me, but I went out with Fura and her roommate Marylou. We originally planned on going to a Korean BBQ place - owned by Chinese people, but actually with decent price and quality of meat: plus all you can eat concept - but it was full. We met friends in fornt of the door who also had had the same plans but got turned off just like us, so we ended up going to 5000 years around Atwater station and ate all together. That was sweet <3

I was not really Hungry so I just had Bibimbap - the food you take whenever you don't know what to take.
Wherever you get it, I'tll be good all the same. I love bibimbap

Meeting up with Rosemary and a friend of hers later to have a few drinks, Fura Marylou and I went a bit to sing some K at K-Karaoke

Montreal 3 Day Trips&Goodies result

Just came back from my three day trip to Montreal... with a cold XD

I think I caught a cold in the bus while getting there or from a friend there if any of them had a cold, since we ended up sharing many drink glasses all in all. Whatever, at least, the symptoms just appeared on my last day and yesterday. I have colds, especially since I need to go work as a waitress today with half a runny nose. I'll have to wash my hands every 3 seconds to make sure I don't give it to anyone else, which i also quite bothersome. What can I do eh?

Facial Masks gotten from the new Chinese Mall - $3/each

I had a great time in Montreal - be sure to catch the next three blogs I will update, with more details on them. I will just do a quick review of what I bought whilst shopping in the new Chinese Mall, Holt & Renfrew, The Bay, Forever XXI, Simons and Raspberry, in Montreal.

I went to the Korean Store on the last day to get some Green Tea Packs <3

While I already have quite many nail polish paints, I still wanted to get shiny ones, to do some underlying of my nails, so I went just in case, to see whether if they would have them and: yes! they did! I also got a pink one and a brown one, I plan on using them probably to make roses and other sorts of flowers... I never am disappointed when I go to the Chinese Mall - which, by the way, has gotten nicer in the last 2 months, with a cleaner first floor and a Japanese restaurant and new stores on the second floor. I was really looking forward to go to Forever XXI in Montreal, but got greatly disappointed: they have pretty much next to nothing nice out there. I ended up getting the only nice shirt I saw and a funny 'fake' 70''s shirt. I still got nice polish in the end, that I found while waiting in line to pay. 

BNC mail pens two tips 2/$6 - Chinese Mall
Yellow nail polish $3 - Chinese Mall
Purple, Orange, Pink Blue Polish $3 - Forever XXI

Golden Ballerina $6 - Chinese Mall

I recently got a new cellphone case, which has little hangers for a handle, so I decided to get a cellphone decoration to att do it's charm. I always thought it very sad that iPhones do not have hangers for cellphone charms... so here we go, sweet Ballerina!

'Fake' Belly Shirt $25 - Forever XXI

Pink dotted shirt with ribbon at the neck $29 - Forever XXI

While acting stupid in the Chinese Mall Anna found a pair of adorable Mittens, with the long cable-like thingy that holds them together, just like kid's mittens. I fell in love, so did she: they were cheap, and as we don't live in the same place we both bought them in the end. I love hearts <3

Heart shaped Mittens $8 - Chinese Mall

To stay themed in the heart mood, here we go, a long sleeve heart printed shirt. It's a bit transparent and not too hot, so I really like to wear it.

Long Sleeve Shirt $24 - Chinese Mall

This dress was the last one I tried on at the store, but then it was like the times where a dress that looks almost plain on the hanger, becomes Cinderella when you wear it. This happens ofter with loose dresses, so I always try on the ones I like the fabric, even when I don't like the look of the dress at first. That was the most pricey thing I ended up buying - except my $156 two-way bus ticket.

Pink Old Style Onepiece $98 - Raspberry

I had a need to refresh my make up so I ended up having a little fun at Holt & Renfrew with Rosemary.  This ended up being a quite expensive shopping on the whole, but I did not buy so much things. They were having a sale at the store (15% of all you buy gets put on a gift card that you can be using starting the next week, the sale during Saturday and Sunday only - imagine people who buy for more than $1000... you can buy for free quite a lot of cute things) so there was really a lot of people, it looked like the Xmas shopping rush on December 23rd.

Diorshow Mascara $36
Clinique Airbrush Concealer no2 $25
Chanel Illusion D'ombre (émerveillé 82) $36
BOBBI BROWN Corrector Bisque $22

To finish the time in beauty, I bought a little gift for my people at work. They asked me to get them something, and I did not find anything much, but thought that this tasteless calendar would look awesome in the Kitchen... oh well, I'll see today when I go there...

"Super Hot Guys and Cuddly Baby animals" at Urban Outfitters...