Happy Valentine's Day!

☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ*☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ**☆☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ*☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ**☆☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ*☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ**☆☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ*☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ**☆☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ*☆*ﾟ 

Happy Valentine's Day!

☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ*☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ**☆☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ*☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ**☆☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ*☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ**☆☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ*☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ**☆☆*ﾟ ゜ﾟ*☆*ﾟ

ここからは日本のバレンタイン説明します～。
皆はもう知ってるね。

Valentine's Day is notoriously different in Japan, when comparing with the West. This is the day where women give men chocolates - out of affection, duty and/or because they want something in return on White Day.

"Uhhh...White Day???" you ask. A purely Japanese creation (March 14th) to ensure that the ladies giving gifts today get something in return (usually nicer and more expensive than chocolates though.)

Anyway. Suffice to say, there's a box of chocolates available to buy for every man in your life. Your boss (perhaps it's a box of chocolate golf balls), your dad (a chocolate necktie), your co-worker that smells a bit funny and has a weird look in his eye when the word "octopus" is mentioned (last year's leftovers).

Of course a lot of women make their own (by make, I mean melt down a chocolate bar into a mould - preferably of some popular character) to show their love and devotion for those who they really care about. Or they're just super-ambitious.

Either way, I decided to do some research this year. Cold, hard, really scientific-style research. Which is why I posted last week's Herbivore Boy podcast rehash.

As mentioned, there's a chocolate for every man in your life. Herbivore boys (and their antithesis, the carnivore) are not exception.

(I was going to get more into the Herbivore thing this week, but I've not finished the book I'm reading on it yet, so it'll have to wait. ^^;)

勉強だよ、これ！勉強！(｡｀Д´｡)ﾉ

 草食系男子もチョコレートをあげることできるね～。

To the left, the herbivore boy. To the right, carnivore. 草食系左、肉食系、右

The carnivore boy and....ramen. 肉食男子とラーメン！分かるね？　＾＾

Er, wasn't this supposed to be chocolate? Where does the ramen come in?
 Well! "ikemen" = good looking guy. （Usually written using katakana alone.） The "men" kanji in the above example is the "men" for noodles - like "ramen", "somen" etc. ....This chocolate has no ramen flavouring as far as I'm aware.

Quite a looker and all, but uh, high school uniform?　かっこいいじゃん！でも、征服？

出た！出た！何でＤＡＩＧＯさん？なんでＤＡＩＧＯさん、こっち？ウィッシュまでよ！そして、何で草食系？？( ﾟ-ﾟ)( ﾟﾛﾟ)(( ﾛﾟ)ﾟ(((　ﾛ)~ﾟ ﾟ And for some reason this one looks just like DAIGO, a visual kei artist over here! o.O He even does the same hand/wish thing!!

A little bit of a motivational message for the herbivores: Do your best with love too! 草食男子に応援しよう！o(^-^)o

For the carnivores: Boldly attack!　肉食男子いらないけど・・・（･ε･)

The packaging is different but... でもね。外は違うけど・・・

The contents is the same!!! What the!?　内容全く同じだよ！！！　何これ！？ヽ(`Д´)ノ　

Well, that was the end of that study. The chocolate was pretty good, by the way. (^-^*)

まぁ、いいか。
美味しかったです～ (^-^*)

Paper heart with a note. 紙ハート、スウェーデンの有名な手作り　

I made a reference to origami paper with characters on them a few weeks back. This is what they all ended up as. (Chopper too, would you believe it! ^^) Where they went, I'm not saying. Valentine's related, but not the lovey-dovey kind.

二週間前ぐらい、キャラクター折り紙を見せたね。
 その紙はこういうになったそうです～。
チョッパーのも。
どこに送ったの？
内相です～ (^ε^)♪
バレンタインのためにけど、ロマンチックな感じではない。


Some weeks back Anna over at Budget Trouble mentioned trying this year's "Sparkling Chocolate Soda.Compared with last year, she said this year's was overwhelmingly sweet, and thus, blah. At some point, completely unprovoked, I felt the need to challenge this drink as well and see what it's like. I just could not imagine chocolate soda - sparkling or otherwise - being anything but gross.

The experiment starts here:


実験タイム：

バレンタインコーラ
美味しいか、どうか。
Ｂｕｄｇｅｔ　Ｔｒｏｕｂｌｅのアンナさんは去年の「スパークリングチョコレート」飲み物と比べた、「甘すぎくなった」と言いました。
あたしは去年の商品の事全然わかんないけど、ちょっと気になったね。

Well, I like the bottle!　ボトルはなんかいいね

ここまで、まだ大丈夫。Still looks okay so far.

アリスが好きよ～ ☆ヽ(ﾟ◇ﾟ )ﾉ　I really do have a bit of a fetish for all things Alice in Wonderland

And then I opened it and took a sip. I cringed. I took another sip. I stared at horror at this bottle with its unusually gorgeous design. How could something that looks so great taste so bad!? I don't have the answer to that, but I can tell you, even though I loooooove anything sweet, there was no third sip. It went down the sink.

In short, BLARGH.
(That's my scientific conclusion by the way.)

Has anyone else tried it? Heaven forbid, liked it?

あのね。
ボトルのデザインはこんなに綺麗なのに・・・
まずっ！！！！！ Σ(=°ω°=;)
本当に！
信じられないけど、まずいーーーーーー！(((( ;°Д°))))


皆、飲んだことがあるの？
どう思った？


Anyway - have a great Valentine's/Monday/Week/Day in general!
P.S. I've officially passed JLPT level N3 - heading for N2 in July!!!

まぁ、その訳で、いいバレンタインをすごしてね～。
Ｐ．Ｓ．日本語能力試験Ｎ３級を受けた！！　━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━
七月にＮ２も取りたい！
頑張れ、あたし！(*^ ・^)ノ⌒☆