I just got back home from my part time job.  I`m pretty tired now.  I worked for 9 hours today, which I haven`t done for years.  I should be making pretty good amount of money this winter :)

One of my friends from Singapore visited me last week, which was really cool.  He asked me if he could come to Tokyo like 3 days before he came, which is exactly he would do.  So, I was a little surprised, but it was great spending time with him.  I just felt weird that he was staying with me, because I only know him in Seattle and China.  It was so weird to see him in my life in Japan, which is completly different from the one on the U.S.

I also have been talking to this other friend from high School a lot.  I think I learn the most from discussion with him.  I can talk in Japanese, and I think our value, interests, mental structure are real similar, so we supplement each other, which I really feel thankful.  I`ve been thinking and absorbing a lot about life, I think. 

There`s music at the restaurant that I`m working during the break.  But the music is like from 10 years ago. It`s SO nostalgic.  I often just melt cuz` the music really hits me.  They bring me back memories, and I feel like I just time traveled sometimes.  I don`t really keep up with all the music nowadays.  I used to see my dad listening to Beatles, and get really exicted.  I thought their music was good, but I didn`t really understand how he keeps listening to the same old music, and get excited.  I think I understand that now.  I love all those old Japanese music that I used to listen to when I was 10 to 13.

Oh, another thing at the restaurant is that it`s supser international.  Half of the workers today were Chinese and Korean.  One guy that I met was SUPER interesting.  He`s from Shanghai, but he speaks Korean and Japanese as well.  His background is pretty interesting.  I was also pretty impressed by the way he lives, cuz` he takes a lot of risk, which I value.  I want those people to get what they want, cuz` they are brave. I realized that there`s a lot more that I should be doing now in my life.

Oh well,this is it.  It was Christams eve tonight, and there were a lot of couples. My lover is working and studying, it never fails to change every year. Yay for my youth.

Alright I`m gonna go take a shower and go to bed for tommorow.

night night:)

YES!! I just turned in.... actually we just turned in our business policy paper.  Man, it feels so good.  It's been a little stressful, but it is rewarding when you are done with it.  I wonder what grade we'll get on this.  We did really well on our presentation in my personal opinion.  But.... not too sure about the paper. We turned it in like 10 minutes before due.  It's quite thrilling.  But I'm done!! I'm gonna miss my group members.  I became good friends with some of them.  It's nice to have good group members.  It's awesome to have the same mission or purpose with others and work togather, and accomplish togather.  Not many other kinds of animals do this, they might do this with an instinct, but... yea, good to be a human.  I talked to a lot with one of my group members.  She was really interesting to talk to.  I was really happy to talk to her, and learn about her.  She's got married when she was like 21, which shocked me.  I had this stereotype towards who get married early.  She was totally new to me.  She's really unique, and I felt the way she lives is really cool.  She has this patant for one of her inventions, and she said she had some issues with some Japanese companies that didn't pay her loyalty.  I dunno, it's just a random story.  But she's really cool.  I really liked other people in my group,too. They are all really cool.  It sucks that a lot of them are graduating though.  I won't even see them from next semester at all.  I really hope they are gonna have a good life.  They deserve to have a good life, and I want them to.  I mean I want everybody to have a good life but.... I dunno what I'm saying...

Anyways, good to be done with the paper.  Finals are coming up. I'll be going home after that. My family bought a new stereo.  My mom told me that it's really good.  I'm pretty excited to hear how it sounds.  I'm really excited to eat Ozoni that my grandma makes on my Nozawa side.  I love that, and nobody else my grandma can make that taste.  The ones that my mom makes is too healthy, and it's not fun when you are eating.  You don't get thrilled when you are eating, and that's just not the way you wanna start your new year.  The ones that my grandma makes is a lil greasy and chicken's in it.  Oh, I can't wait. I need to ask her the recipe before anything happens to her.  I know it sounds mean, but it's just a fac though.  Good thing that she's still healthy, I always think of that after my grandpa passed away.

anyways, I'm rambling too much.  So, I'm gonna go now.

I ate so much today.  It's thanksgiving, I mean it's all about eating, i guess.  I'm so full right now.  I feel gross. 

 I usually get invited by different people for thanksgiving each year.  I spent my thanksgiving with my roommate's family and his girlfriend's place.  It was pretty cool.  It was pretty interesting this year though.  My roommate is Mexican american.  He's from here.  The only race that I talked to today was hispanic.  I think it was my first time done that in 3 and a half years in SA.  I mean, SA has a lot of hispanic people, but living at Trinity, there were other races, too.  It was pretty cool.  I felt I really was in SA.  This might be the very last thenksgiving for me.  I might be in Tokyo next semester.  I might be somewhere in the US.  Either way,  I'll be more hanging out with Japanese people because of my work.  I was thinking I'm not gonna have all the feast from next year.  I dunno how Japanese Japanese people celebrate in the states.  But I have no idea how to cook Turky or stuffings.  I'm gonna miss those. 

I feel like I'm learning a lot about SA now, because I have a native San Antonio roommate.  Frankly speaking, I would not wanna stay in SA any longer, but I really think SA is a great city.  They have great food, things are cheap, Spurs are good, great blue sky, no need to buy hardcore winter clothes,etc.  I mean, it'snot a bad place to live over all.  It was great for me to be in TX for college after all.  So many people go to bigger cities on the coasts.  But I felt it's not bad to live some a little random place like San Antonio.  None of my friends in Tokyo knew SA, and none of them really wanted to visit me here or anything.  But it was good.  I know I still have one more semester to go.  I really haven't found a job that I feel like I would want to devote myself to.  But I think I'm mentally getting ready for leaving here. 

I'm taking defensive driving course on Saturday, cuz'I got a ticket that I need to take care of the other day.  It's like an annual thing for me to get a ticket now.  It's a tradition that I'm starting. YEs!!  It was about time to get a ticket, and I really did.  Oh, it's gonna be boring for good 6 hours....

Í think I'm gonna do something now.  I think I wasted a lot of my time today.  But I think some people need to waste time sometimes to have leeway in life to think or do some other things.  So, I guess it wasn't wasting time in a sense... even though I did feel like I wasted a lot of time. 

Life is intersting.  It always works out somehow. 

I've been updating a lot.  Maybe cuz' I''m so not motivated about school.  I don't wanna study anymore.  I think I don't need more education.  I need to go out and put myself in a real world.  I'm tired of being graded.  I wanna show some proffesors that school doesn't decide if you are going to be successful.  Now, I really wanna get horrible grades, and become really successful.  I think that would be kinda cool.  Then I can give some hope to all the kids who are not doing well in school. 

I'm sleepy now. gnite