This post has something to do with YUI.


Kanda River (神田川), near Waseda.

Happening weekend in Waseda University. New semester, new bunch of students flooding in, and student clubs (circles) are doing all their best to get as many new members as possible.

My main aim in this semester is to jam songs with Japanese, or JPop lovers (no more travelling), and finding people to participate in YL Collabo 3. So for the past few days, I've been checking out activities of different music circles.

My 'scouting' on the first day wasn't really successful though I got to see a bunch of awesome lives. On the second day, I managed to have some interesting conversation with people from this circle called Hoshizora.

Special thanks to Dennis for introducing me ナポ. Her existence makes it easier for me to be more willing to open my mouth.

Besides nomikai (drinking session), Japanese rely on Hanami (Sakura watching) to build up relationship with others. Most of the circles have hanami session, and sometimes the food is free, better than going to Izakaya =D


Marching towards Toyama Park (戸山公園). If interested just join the marching crowd.

I'm bad at initiating conversation in a group, so I played by the gaijin card because I was the only foreigner, and mentioned a bunch of less known Japanese bands. Being able to speak 6 languages and been to all 47 prefectures in Japan do the trick of making people to remember you too, though I don't feel like talking about it all the time. It gets boring after a while. The best is still, dress pretty pretty, which I'm bad at it.

Highlights:

1. I was wearing a GO!GO!7188 T-shirt, this girl approached me and told me that she likes GO!GO! too (trick worked yay), and played their songs in lives before. Being able to play GO!GO! songs even though she started guitar after entering university.

OMG *ashamed*

I still can't play LIFE well =.=
She's going to GO!GO! concert too, same day, and her friend, Chatmonchy, same day as well.

I should have been more active in this circle, went to their activities a couple of times before then stopped =/

2. Okay YUI related talk. This girl called Akane was sitting beside me. Apparently her high school is the same high school YUI did I'll be acoustic version. She was telling me that she saw a bunch of her juniors in that video, since she was in the orchestra previously. I can imagine how bo song (frustrated) she is when watching that, if she graduated later, she might be playing together with YUI. FATE.

3. There was this other guy sitting beside me. He's weird. I was surprised that he said he has been to almost every YUI concert, and he was telling me that he heard YUI's new song in YouTube. I thought I found another YUI stalker and tried to chat with him more but, he's weird.

Conclusion: It is difficult to make friend in one afternoon. It takes time, even though you guys might like the same artist. It's actually hard to talk about ONE artist for more than 10 minutes unless both of you are maniac. Actually we know a lot of stuff but most of the people just don't show it out.

At least I might have the chance to jam songs with them in the future. I think I'm the only who keeps asking for phone numbers, taking pictures, like some desperate woman. I need to work harder on finding potential YL 3 participants, in 2 months.

Or maybe I should dress more kawaii to get attention? Not my style not my style.

Should have been more active in this circle before that =/



Better go and practise guitar and prepare for tomorrow's class bahh.