Wednesday, June 21
I am exhausted! Man! I really wonder, without the help of God Almighty, days like this is simply impossible!
Being a good girl (well, time pressure is a factor too), I finished my term paper for Inagaki-sensei for his class on Science and Religion last night. Techinically, I was done at the wee hours of this morning, 2am, I think. Even though I know I had to get my kimono sewn before wearing it today, I was too tired and sleepy to work on it. I got up 5 hours later and started sweing on the silk colar before preparing myself to help out with Yamato-sensei’s class this morning.
Yep… this is one bunny seriously crazy (or is it the other way round… crazily serious[?]) about Japanese culture. I might have mentioned it before, I am pretty invovled in Japanese Tea Ceremony. Last month, (or was it April?) I totally blew my budget buying a kimono and was practicing how to put it on by myself. Yeah, call me crazy… but I guess I have talent for such craziness. But, I have to admit… I do look really good in a kimono!
Anyways, I was busy helping out Yamato-sensei that I didn’t have time to check my emails or phone this morning until Ogawa-san, the school’s secretary, left an email and message on my cell phone informing me that Mr. F will be on campus today. That was one really serious meeting I really didn’t want to miss. So, after getting the message, you could see a crazy bunny dashing across the courtyard in the academic zone in my kimono. (I think I am jinxed that everytime I do dress up nice, there is some stunt that I have to perform.) I just made it to have a brief chat with Mr. F and his father. It was pleasant… fingers crossed for a better near future! However, meeting a business V.I.P in a kimono???
I returned to the class to find that I was done helping Yamato-sensei and went to Preaching class with my usual international classmates (in my kimono). After class, we planned to go out for lunch as it is the final class that we will be having Dr. Peterson with the Senior class. I dashed back to the dorms, changed into my regular clothes, jumped on my bike and cycled off to the restaurant. We had a great lunch, highlighted by the superb company… however, my kimono and its stuff are strewn all over my room even as I am writing this. I rushed to get some stuff for my slumber party with Masako at the 100yen store… she is going to do my hair.
I was late for my part-time job at the library so I have yet to go back to my place to clean up. Right after I was done, I am so tired even to chew that I am not having dinner but came to check my email and blog. I have to be off to meet with Rumi now. (sigh!) my room will still be in a total mess when Masako comes over tonight. Hmm… I wonder when will I actually get some work done tonight?
June 21st, 2006 at 11:09 am
lol after all the hassle with the kimino, u really should get a picture of…
yrself…in full kimino kit…performing the tea ceremony…:)
And upload it on your blog preferably too…;p
June 21st, 2006 at 9:00 pm
Yeah… the pictures are here. I didn’t have my memory card reader.. not to mentioned the time as well to load the pictures.
But do enjoy… more of the tea ceremony pictures can be seen in my old pictures in the folder of Zion Festival Week.
June 21st, 2006 at 9:01 pm
oh yeah… I posted the picture with Masako and I. Just for your information: I am wearing a kimono and Masako is weearing a Yukata… very different in its functions and formalities.
June 22nd, 2006 at 9:26 am
Oh…love the pictures…
u look very nice in KIMINO…honestly, suemae, u really look very JAPANESE…haha…
it’s a compliment btw…;p
thanx for the info on the kimono…i never knw theres so many types of kimono…
So Yukata is a kind of kimino too?
June 28th, 2006 at 3:04 am
Hmm, how should explain?
“Kimono” literally means clothes, or the thing that one wears. It is refered to what everyone knows as the traditional Japanese costume. There are many kinds of kimonos. Silk ones, formal dressy ones, less formal ones… Some for summer too.
Yukata on the other hand is more like what one wears as a bath robe or as pajamas. People normally wear that during summer as it is a time to relax in the evenings and enjoy the fireworks etc. It is made of cotton and far easier to put on than a kimono.