Tennou Heika Banzai!!

Yay for no class on the emperor’s birthday!!

To celebrate, I slept in until noon and then went to Jusco, where I got a very odd stare from the girl next to me in line when this was handed over by the store staff:

I preordered this about a month ago after deliberating for a while between W and Shinkenger (ended up going for Shinkenger because the toys looked better). Unfortunately, the cake is 3100 yen (about $34 USD), so I couldn’t buy both W and Shinkenger.

So, let’s look and see how it turned out:

Very nice box. I’m rather amused how the strawberries come in a separate box, protected by bubble wrap. God forbid you should have un-bubble wrap protected strawberries.

It’s so cuuute! It might have gotten a little damaged in the transit home (bus travel is not easy on cakes). Normally I’d say the looks don’t matter, but since this is a plain boring white cake, I’m going to go with “looks matter” this time.

Also in the box was:

It’s quite small, and not particularly detailed, but it’s not bad.

On tasting the cake, it wasn’t too bad. The cream was quite rich, and the cake itself, while fairly tasteless, had a nice texture and the filling had some orange pieces, which lent themselves to the overall flavor. Probably not worth 34 bucks, but I promised myself I’d get one when I got to Japan and damned if I’m going to let weird looks stop me.

(Also, I put the plastic bag into an opaque bag so no one could see it >.> no sense looking weirder than I already do)

Nothing else particularly of interest. Classes continue as normal, sadly, even on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day (I have no classes on Friday anyway, but it’s the principle of the matter.) No one really has anything planned, so maybe I’ll head out to Tokyo or perhaps just to Iias and see a movie.

On Monday night I had nabe with my next-door neighbor, a Chinese girl that’s been living in Japan for about 3 years now, so she’s practically fluent. I was having a bit of a difficult time speaking. I can understand pretty well, just phrasing my sentences takes me time and I can’t just spit it out like I can with English. We went to the grocery store and got ingredients, including kimchi stock for the soup, some type of mushrooms I’ve never seen before (but tasted pretty good), a prepackaged nabe mix, and some beef and pork. Nothing really tastes quite as good as meat freshly cooked two seconds before you pop it into your mouth. So good. We talked about various subjects and discovered that we both adore the anime Lovely Complex. If I can wrangle it, I’d like to find the musical one of the voice actors is in, but it’s a bit old, and the file was pretty large, so it might be impossible unless I get someone from home to send it.

I would like to note that I have been in Japan almost 4 months and have since collected 8 new Gackt posters. I may need to devote an entire wall to Gackt when I return home.

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