the news

ok, I promised news, so here it is.
im engaged

*pauses to pick mother off floor*

yup, I proposed to Natsumi Ninomi on Thursday, (btw thats what the Japanese in the last post meant, it was a proposal) and she said yes. However, I didnt have a ring. (yubiwa) She was going to have me draw one on, but I told her I would go buy some Cracker Jacks. (a joke I was amazed she got)
later that day we went shopping at a famous market in Kyoto, a place thats cheek to cheek around new years. Then off to Teramachi, a place we love because of the 100 yen stores. So of course, being the big spender I am, I bought her a 100 yen (less than a US dollar) ring.
The next day meeting her at lunch, I formally proposed in somewhat broken Japanese on video, and yet again she said yes.

*calls ambulance for mother*

Last nite was the okonomiyaki party (too lazy to link, check the last post) and she was there. Pretty much everyone got drunk and went out to the bars till 5am, but I didnt want to and neither did my fiance, so we went to a kareoke bar about a block away from where the dorm is. (completely sober mind you) She has a very nice voice, got her to sing Ayaya`s Momoiro (song was a bit fast, it winded her) and she sang Utada`s First Love, and Sukiyaki (famous old Japanese song were SUPPOSED to be learning) for my part, I BUTCHERED (cant twist my voice like I used to without pain) guns and roses - sweet child o mine and sympathy for the devil and did alright on green day - basket case.
Natsumi also tried to get me to sing an Aiko song with her, but my ~1st grade Japanese reading speed was just NOT fast enough, never mind the fact that not all the kanji had furigana above it (tiny hiragana so us gaijins know how to pronounce it)

2 hrs for $44 not bad, it was fun. Then she went home and I went to bed.

today was quitet, first a karate lesson whos highlight was me chalenging Winston, a fellow student, just to get him to go up there and do a kata (demonstration) since he was too wussy to get up there alone. I told him I was only going to block but he was pretty quick and constanly on top of me making it hard to block, my arms slightly sore from blocking a kick.
after that, me Johnathan and howard went to lunch with the sensei and her friend (we randomly met her on the way there) then I went home and went to bed.

and now I`m here, uploading pictures....

oh ya.. as uncle would say "one more thing"

the engagement is a joke, mom you can breathe now.