ラララ。。。

After about 2 weeks of planning and stressing out about it, the Japan Club had our first Japanese Cooking night at my dorm. Originally I was planning on making only okonomiyaki (Japanese dish- like pizza, with cabbage, flour, egg, and a choice of meat), but after discussing with the group, we also decided to cook yakisoba and onigiri. This was a great decision in the end, b/c then everyone got to make a variety of things, and sample a lot of Japanese food that’s usually not in restaurants (prob b/c it’s simple to make). That was my main goal in doing this – exposing the members to the Japanese culture I was fortunate to experience while I was there.

When most of the cooking was over, and I was finally able to relax, I realize that I was stressed out way too much about this, and some other things currently going on in my life. I’ve been really pissed off at everyone all the time, and I really hate that feeling of being mad and not having a reason. So I’m going to try to get over the things I’m dealing with and try to be less angry all the time. Midterms are over, so hopefully I’ll be able to do that.

Yesturday I got a great opportunity to see a rock concert for the first time - Pablo, a friend of mine, had a ticket to the Weezer and Foo Fighters concert. At first I wasn’t going to go, b/c I had a class during that time, but I thought that it was a good oppurtunity, since I haven’t been to a concert in forever it seems. I’m not going to say the concert I went to before, it’s so far back.

We got there really early, so we had to listen to the opening band. I think their name is May. They sang this song called How was your weekend. We all were talking about how the guitar guy looked like a snake. There was so much prep for Weezer - they changed the background, and they had specail props for all of areas, like the drummer’s area had this prop next to it. I’m not describing this so well, guess you just have to have been there to understand.

I haven’t listened to much of Weezer, just a few songs here and there, but I did enjoy this experience. They played Island in the Sun, and INstant Photograph. I believe it was the latter song that the drummer was singing and playing the guitar. For the ending of the song, all 3 of the other members were playing on the drums while the other guy is doing something cool on his guitar. For Island in the Sun, the lead vocal guy (sorry, don’t know their names…) was in the middle of the audience playing on an acustic guitar. I though it was a nice touch.

Foo Fighters was ok, I don’t know them very well, and I’m rather upset b/c the lead singer was screaming into the microphone, the results which I am still suffering from. I could barely hear when we left. So now I know, if I ever go again, no matter how lame it is, I’ll remember to bring one thing: earplugs.