Chilly summer in Tokyo

It has been chilly these past 3 days. The temperature suddenly dropped 10 degrees, to around 20 degrees Celcius. Chilly summer, I'm loving it but it is probably why I'm feeling dizzy now -.-;

I have been busy with finals, it has been more than a week since my last post T.T

I used to blog every 2 days but now blogging that often seems impossible. Maybe I will try to blog more during the summer break!! :)

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Saturday, July 14

I went to Shiodome to take the intern test. I was so glad that the test wasn't the typical job hunting test aka SPI but it was more like creativity test. I had to make few slogans and script for commercial.

Shidome

Dentsu Ads museum. I enjoyed their temporary exhibition a lot :)

Breads I had after the test

The Nakagin capsule tower by Akira Kurokawa, one of my fave buildings in Tokyo.
I heard that they might move / put down this building soon.

Ginza, the up scale shopping district which has been facing down scaling after the fast fashion business attacked Tokyo.

A&F, I shop smells! even from outside

Taken from the ?th floor of the new UNIQLO flagship store in Ginza.

So cute!!! Lady Gaga would wear that ;)

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July 15 - 19 were spent at school, home and library...

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Friday, July 20

Went to Nakameguro to try the best Monjayaki Patty ever had :)

Patty was wearing suit as she had intern interview and she got it right away!  yay!

It was raining that day and cold too. ugh

We went inside Donki Hote to avoid the rain and found this cute 2D bag!

I would like to go here next time! Heard many good reviews about this place

Komugi, Naka Meguro

:D

Extra baby star topping

I love the mochi

There would me Naka Meguro summer festival, soon.

I love Nakameguro, I love how vintage some buildings are but yet still so stylish

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Saturday, July 21

Had work from 11 till 17.30

The banquet itself wasn't that busy coz I was assigned in the small room (my fave room to work at!) and there weren't many guests. The groom graduated from the same uni as I am now, he was part of the american football team and the school song was even sung during the wedding! :D 

But had to do preparation for the next party afterwards which was hectic and I have arms and back muscle ache now 0.0

As usual, I'm still wondering when I can eventually get used to the work and do it properly :(

I am getting better every time but seems like still far away from good.

Had this curry suntofu after work with Sheng! 

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Summer break is coming in a week! I still have 1 more paper due Sat which I haven't started yet and 2 more exams. I might spent next few days in the library again... ;)

And for the first time ever, I am going to stay in Japan for the whole 2-month-break. I remember I was gonna stay here last summer, but ended up getting a serious homesick and I ended up flying home the next day...

To avoid homesickness, I need things to do to keep myself busy.

So far, for the summer, I got an on campus internship (60 hours in total for 2 months), an English summer camp (4 days) and that banquet part time job (once a week). 

But they aren't enough to keep me busy, I bet. I'm gonna try to find other intern/job :D

♥A

Walking to Ikebukuro

Can't believe that it's almost weekend already, time seriously flies! and I will be having finals next week.

I only have 2 more weeks being a junior!!! xD


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Friday, July 6

I went to Ikebukuro to shop with Patty who I haven't seen for quite  a while ;)

I took the tram as usual to get there.

Outfit of the day.
Mint dress from Floriestyle

Had Yasube for lunch, my favorite tsukemen ever!
As you probably have read from this post

Hanging out with Patty means karaoke!
We go this tiny and old room, I definitely won't go back to that karaoke again.

Purikura~

Where's Wallu iPhone case at Tokyu hands! So cute and nostalgic ;)

got this stripes dress from Lowrys Farm.
 Slightly too big for me but I have always had wanted to a stripes dress xD.

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Saturday, July 7


I had work.
that's all
;) lol
and work was not busy so I did enjoy it!



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Sunday, July 8

I had no particular plan and had no homework either. The weather was lovely and it was quite chilly for summer that I decided to go out for a walk! :)

According to my Google map, Ikebukuro Sunshine city is only like 2km away so I decided to try walking there instead of taking the tram as usual.

I was lost finding shortcut to get there because apparently the google map didn't work properly in the small alleys. So I decided to walk along the tram's track.

There was Morning Musume's handshake event. I hardly could see the girls.

As it was Sunday, Sunshine City was filled with many people and mostly families who did bargain shopping. I ended up 

My lazy outfit :) and shopping bag. Got myself a dress and sandals.

The dress I got, I know it's silly to buy stripes dresses 2 days in a row.
But this one fits me more that the one I bought the day before ;)

The sky that day was amazing!

I feel like wanting to swim in the sky :D

I was walking home when I saw many girls were wearing Yukata (Summer Kimono). I knew right away if there must be a matsuri around and followed them...

For more pictures, details and a video, visit my project blog:
Ameliebe Project

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I'm going to have a written test as the second step to get the summer intern position at the biggest ad agency in Japan this weekend....
I was quite surprised to pass the first selection actually.
Actually, I have no confident with the test. I might even can't read the questions which all in Japanese. But anyway I will give it a shot :)



♥A

A week's snippet

Hello, it has been more than a week since my last post :)

I have been away from blogging a while and now I have so many materials to blog about.

To make it easier, here is the snippets of my week!

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Saturday, June 30

Had a presentation workshop from 1 o'clock till 6 o'clock. My group has been working on the "Rebranding Japan" task for a month and I think we did well!:D

Had a catching up dinner with ohia afterwards

Went to Tunten for some Thai food

Sunset view from ohia's room

Thai food! I miss Thailand for its food so much ;)

Some donuts from Mr. Donuts for dessert and next day's breakfast

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Sunday, July 1

I had the JLPT N1 exam this day! Thank you everyone for cheering me up :D 

I couldn't answer so many questions from the kanji and vocabulary part but hopefully the listening part will help me to pass this exam :D

The university where I had the exam

Dried plum, pretty packanging, awkward slogan in English

There was this Peco chan family restaurant near the university. First time to see! If I weren't alone definitely I would so go there :( I dislike eating out alone...

Kawaii!

A protest against the nuclear reactor in Shinjuku

My dinner that day! Bento take out from Hotto Motto

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Monday, July 2

I stayed at home all days, did some laundry and cleaning.

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Tuesday, July 3

Had an on campus internship interview in Japanese at school, I realized how unprepared I am to face interview in Japanese. I know what I wanted to say but I just couldn't express them in Japanese. Anyway I still got the internship as no one really wants to intern at school.... lol

classes as usual afterwards...

The most boring class I'm taking this term. Everyone is doing other stuff instead of listening

and I drew these! Inspired my Mark Ryden's paintings

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Wednesday, July 4

Had uchiage nomikai ( I don't know how to translate it in English but basically we drank after finishing the workshop) and this picture wasn't taken with my camera, stole it from FB lol

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Thursday, July 5

I remember I couldn't sleep the previous night either because of alcohol or oolong cha I had.

Ended up being so dead sleepy in class... I am the type of person who doesn't function properly when I am sleepy. On the chinese class, I got my pronunciation all wrong and I couldn't even think what to speak when I meet my professor to discuss about my thesis...

  

I googled to check and yes, alcohol can cause sleep deprivation. One more reason to add on why drinking isn't my thing ;)

Will blog about Friday and so on in another post soon!

Checked out my another blog; http://ameliebeproject.blogspot.com

I posted one new project last week!

♥A

Recently.

JLPT test in 4 days, I know I have to study but I'm just so good at procrastinating.

For example, like now I am supposed to study but I'm blogging instead. Not forget to mention that I've spend the whole day reading a novel on my iPhone, created a Pinterest account and also edited a short video of my way to Shinjuku -.-;

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Saturday, June 23 2012

Just like another Saturday, I had work at Roppongi

Met this huge spider again

And Said hello to the Tokyo Tower

Funny thing happened after work. I was waiting for Sheng who worked an hour longer than me by sitting on a bench of Roppongi hills, near the spider when a white guy in his early 30s I guess came to me.

He asked me whether I know a restaurant which I don't remember it's name in English. I told him if I don't know about it and I thought he was a lost tourist so I offered him to check it with my phone.

He ended up sitting next to me and told me that he was still waiting for his friends to come. He was surprised that I could speak English fairly well and we chatted for few minutes as I had nothing to do as well.

then...

he gave me his business card...

 LOL

I'm kidding of course it's not that one! that one is the famous meme from the current popular song on Youtube, "Call me Maybe"


anyway that guy was trying to find ways to make me contact him, he also asked me when my friend would come coz he thought I'd like to grab a coffee or something while waiting -.-;

Good that Sheng finally came! So I had an excuse to leave him...

before recording a birthday greeting video for our friend who is in France now

Tsukemen we had at Baba! I love tsukemen more than ramen XD

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Sunday, June 24 2012

Went to Asakusa, my fave temple in Tokyo with Patty to pray and check out the Tokyo Solamachi (Where the sky tree is)

I prayed at the temple too and picked up the Omikuji again; got the "small fortune / 小 吉  " which was not bad, I guess :)

Age manju with custard filling, I don't think custard suits age manju...

The world's tallest  broadcasting tower, Tokyo Sky tree is now open.

The Asahi Beer building, used to be the main landmark of Asakusa before Sky tree was there.

An ojisan offered to take pictures of us, why not? :D

The new tobu station

Rillakkuma, Korilakkuma and Kiirotori x Sky tree !

Fat totoro!

Patty and I with tototo, but it was too fat so only one of his eyes can fit ;)

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Smiling curry rice I made 2 days ago and I had been having it for 3 days in row as I cooked a lot.

The reason why I love Summer more than winter is that the day is longer.
It feels so great to go home after school when it's still bright outside :)

A bulding and cresent moon bokeh.

Fave quote from my current read: The Perks of being a Wallflower.

Sakuranbo! Japanese cherry :)

and last,

I posted a new project on 

http://ameliebeproject.blogspot.com

My very first video blog on my way to Shinjuku :)
I will be very happy if you are willing to watch it

Making video is fun! I think I'm gonna try make more from now on

♥A