onlensreflex: (spiel spiel spiel)
Does anyone Stateside or willing to pay shipping want a 32" [81cm] light up Christmas tree? My flatmates and I just realised that while the main decorator is happy to take all the decorations home, no one want to take home the tree.

Working Christmas was actually pretty good; it seemed like everyone was in a better mood than usual. And I had an opening shift, so I got off early enough to go have a nice dinner in Canada with some of my friends. It wasn't what I'm used to at Christmas, but it was nice.

Some of my friends impressed me by giving Pukamon presents. I'll let him tell you about them:
This is Pukamon! We have the best flatmates EVER: They all chipped in to get me a huge keyboard that I can actually use with my flippers instead of smacking keys with a pencil! I'm getting almost as fast as Ash! And Ash's friend got an iPhone, but his iPod Touch was still working so he gave it to me! And he even got me a headset that fits my head because earbuds don't work for me! They're way cooler than those plain white earbuds, too! That's not even all of them, just the best ones.

I'm closing on New Year's Eve. I'm told it can actually be kind of fun because there's special fireworks at midnight, but I'm also told it's very, very busy. Hopefully I'll be sent to France for firework time so I can actually see the special ones instead of just Illuminations as usual. And hopefully they won't be broken like they were on Christmas.

Everyone else have a good Christmas time? Or at least a good start of winter break, proper Buddhist-san?

(OOC: Bracketed bit is used in the Japanese translation instead of inches.)
onlensreflex: (can't help but laugh)
I mentioned at the start of the month that I'd applied for something pretty big. That something was seasonal status here at Disney, which would mean I could come back and work here during peak periods/when I'm available and I'd need to work a certain number of hours per year to still be a cast member, and the Company would help out with the visa again. There'd also be a bit of a pay bump from being a CP [an intern].

I got it!!

It's incredibly rare for ICPs [international interns] to change status without, like, a green card, so I'm really surprised. I wonder if telling my managers I was transferring to a school in Ohio all those months ago helped... I get to keep my job, my Disney Difference, and I can come back into the States on my breaks to escape winter visit all you American Chosen!

And my parents told me that for Christmas they'd joined forces with my host parents to pay for my flights to and Japan after my Program. Get ready, Tokyo. We're coming back!!

And one of my best friends in this country is here visiting for the next few days.

Best. Week. Ever.

(Says the guy with no weekend this week, opening Christmas Day with what's expected to be park capacity crowds. But I don't even care about that right now!)

(OOC: Strikes just for show; bits in [brackets] are what Ash uses instead of "CP" and "ICP" in his Japanese translation. English speakers, for once, get the shorter straw, ie. fun with acronyms. Ash uses jisha for "the Company", which is a neutral "our own company".)

My Tweets

Dec. 11th, 2010 12:00 pm
onlensreflex: (oh man you went there)
[ENGLISH]
  • Fri, 12:02: http://bit.ly/aGrkrU I'm pretty sure @hoshinjuku's room looked like this when she was little, eh, neesan?
  • Fri, 12:05: I really do like this series, though, even if I don't really do portraiture myself (just for work and when people ask nicely).
  • Fri, 12:13: I want to say EVERYTHING in this video. Character Meet and Greets http://t.co/ykQknMX via @youtube
  • Fri, 12:20: WTF America? Eggnog is DISGUSTING. Only way I could enjoy this is perhaps the boozier variety (what, I live in an under 21 apartment).
  • Fri, 12:27: Pukamon was just asked to make dinner for @airplanesinthenight (dude slept in). If I don't Tweet back in 20min, assume Pukamon burnt down CS
  • Fri, 12:29: Pukamon's making him sandwiches. We should be fine.
  • Fri, 12:30: I'm still slightly offended @airplanesinthenight didn't ask me.
  • Fri, 12:42: Strike that last Tweet: Pukamon makes really good sandwiches. Who knew? May have to get him a job at Subway once he's old enough.
  • Fri, 13:01: I should probably start getting ready for work, eh. I'm training a new transfer on View tonight. The name seems really familiar...
  • Fri, 13:02: It's probably nothing. Probably a common name. I'm practically John Smith myself.

    Read more... )

    [ENGLISH AND JAPANESE; edited in a few hours after this was imported]
    Uh, sorry, guys. I thought I'd try Livejournal's Twitter integration. Maybe not. Why does it import @replies...

    Non-English speakers aren't missing much: Most of it is about Pukamon making my flatmates good sandwiches (I didn't know this).

    (OOC: HE LIES. Possibly the first time Ash is grateful for the language barrier as it means he doesn't doesn't care as much about deleting this thing.)
  • onlensreflex: (spiel spiel spiel)
    Since my friends kindly kidnapped me for my birthday, my family celebration got combined with my little sisters'. I don't feel twenty, but I'm more shocked the twins are fourteen. Aren't younger siblings supposed to be eight forever?

    My family's gone home now. I'm kind of jealous: As much as I love it here, it's starting to get cold, while the Southern Hemisphere heads into summer. I hate winter. At least it's not meant to get as cold here as it does at home.

    Disney being Disney, there are already tickets on sale for MK's Christmas party. It got me and my flatmates talking about Christmas: My family traditionally goes away for the holidays in even years (this year they went away for my birthday and the twins' birthday instead). Christmas 2002, we ended up on the Gold Coast with all the Dark Towers and all. One of my flatmates is actually from the Gold Coast; I hadn't thought to connect it: He was actually on the same beach the whole time, but didn't notice anything apart from some "now you see it, now you don't" with the Dark Towers going down. It's a small world after all.
    onlensreflex: (Default)
    I hope everyone's had a good start to their new year!

    Christmas, or the Terayamas' attempt at it, was pretty fun. We opened presents around Meg-neechan's decorated bonsai tree before kaasan and tousan had to go to work. Thank god my Australian presents for them got here on time. Meg-neechan got me a Koda Kumi CD as a joke, but then pulled out a kimono for me from the family and another voucher for the local darkroom. :$ Kaasaan and tousan also got me the Death Note manga, which considering my experiences trying to find certain doujinshi for it kind of made me splutter a bit, but from what I can read it's actually pretty good. I can see why Tegan likes it so much. Apart from the pretty boys.

    Mum and Dad got me a new watch, and for no apparent reason car wax. Kenzie just turned eighteen this year so she sent me porn as a joke. That was fun to open. -_- She also got me car seat covers...? Do they know something I don't? The usual five rolls of film from Nic and Dani - let's see if it survived customs. Billabong voucher from Katia, always useful; bracelet thing from Tegan. Good haul this year :)

    Meg-neechan left for Melbourne a couple of days ago (but not before telling me she knew about Pukamon! Pukamon, why didn't you tell me?!), apparently she's settling in well there. Kenzie loves her, always a good sign. It's been sort of awkward with kaasan and tousan ever since because their English isn't as good as Meg-neechan's and my Japanese isn't as good as - well, Pukamon's - so I've sort of been moping around the cake shop instead of staying home.

    On the upside, Tsubasa-kun and I have had a couple of goes at making a pav! Largely unsuccessful, but fun, and I now know a lot more Japanese for baking.

    [ahem]

    Dec. 25th, 2007 07:51 am
    onlensreflex: (Default)
    Merry Christmas!

    Merii Kurisumasu!

    Buon Natale!

    From Ash and Pukamon :)
    onlensreflex: (Default)
    Heehee, ash hasn't noticed I've been using his phone! Actually ash hasn't noticed a lot of things lately, he's been all about oh my god eight shopping days left and my ankle is twisted before Christmas and his precious Tsubasa-kun and WE BEAT NEW ZEALAND AT THE CRICKET and I don't know how I feel about the Wallabies getting the old All Blacks' coach. Confusing! No wonder he keeps leaving his techy stuff at home lately.

    It's so cold here! At the time of the year we should getting sunburned, not burned on the heater! Okay, so maybe I shouldn't have been playing in the bathtub when Yuka-san got home from work but it's not my fault she works weird hours. It's almost a good thing Megumi-chan thinks I'm a stuffed animal, because it also means she thought I'd look adorable in a sweater! Of course, I do, but that's not the point.

    I still haven't found Ash's Christmas present for me! :( Has he suddenly gotten really good at hiding them? Is he getting mine from Australia? Somebody tell meeeeeeeeeee.

    Oh Huanglongmon, Megumi-chan is coming what's she doing home from drama club so early

    To talk or not to talk? That was the question. )

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