So many days have passed since I’ve wanted to make another actual update with pictures…
But I have an unexpected long shift tomorrow for work. My boss called me an hour ago to ask me if I could come in cause she made a mistake on the schedule and needs an extra person. Which means I’m doing a morning-evening shift again.

I just looked at my older posts…. and even though I dunno how many posts behind I’ve turned to ‘private’ status, even the newer ones that sound somewhat positive always end up having such a depressing turn to them. Like wow! You must be all getting so depressed after reading my posts. LOL. I sound so emo. But hey, it’s better to laugh at it, right? :)

Thanks for sticking around.
I promise in the end, I won’t let you down.
And yes, I do mean that to all the people who read, even if you don’t comment.
I’ll do my best.

-HIMEKA

My boss made me finish earlier tonight because it wasn’t busy anymore.
I have to say I was happy about it. Cause before that, today was REALLY busy.

And I’m very tired these days.

So I treated myself to some ice cream.

And then I almost unexpectedly (previously unplannedly) encountered a giant peanut (with arms and legs) featured in this post’s picture. Haha. Okay, it wasn’t my idea to call her a peanut, but whatever!

This upcoming week, I have more days off work.
Most of the people I knew in Japan have gone back to their own country, but I still have to say goodbye to a few. So I’m gonna hang out a bit this week before they leave.

Other than that, I have other plans and duties for the week.

Right now, I feel like I went down again.
Sadly enough.
I feel crappy about myself.
I can’t master the songs I’m supposed to learn lately.
I don’t feel okay and comfortable with them.
It makes me frustrated.
I wish I could sing what I do best. To me, that would be logical enough.

I feel incompetent.
I thought I could sing anything….but the truth is, that’s a lie.
There’s plenty of genres that I don’t sing THAT well.

And then……I really feel self-conscious about my physical appearance.
God…..I really am ugly. And I do have fat thighs and look old.

Sorry…

Tomorrow I have to plaster another fake smile on my face, for the sake of my future.
Wish me good luck.

-HIMEKA

I got my pay for last month a little earlier, so I was able to go to practice at karaoke on friday night!

It has not been easy to keep money aside to go practice, but I think it will get easier now that I’m working a lot.

I have partly been practicing for the upcoming Animax anime song contest in 2 weeks.
I know that my weak point is my weak stage presence….and my incredible nervousness.
I still hope I’ll enjoy this experience as much as possible!
Who knows, maybe I will meet new people through this!

I had my first (one-time) vocal job ever on last thursday, along with Nano at her producer’s place.
I was so nervous, even though it was only for backvocals.
But singing is always a fun thing to do so….I’m always doing my best to remember to enjoy what I do. Music shouldn’t be only a duty. Music is about feeling and I’ll never change my mind on that!

I have a long shift tomorrow (now today…oops, it’s already passed midnight!). 10am until midnight. So I will now go to bed!
Goodnight!

No matter what, I won’t give up!

Thank you for reading.
And all the kind comments.
They mean a lot to me, especially these days.

-HIMEKA

I was supposed to do many important things today but….
I became weak after all.

I cried all day long.
I had to go buy a new tissue box.
I wasn’t hungry and didn’t want to eat but…
In the end, I did.

Lately I’ve been in a very tight financial situation where I was managing so few that I ate much less than I needed. But the day before, a job came in suddenly and we were paid on the spot so…. it helped me a lot. My pay from my current job is on the 10th of every month so… I will be okay by then. I am very grateful that I’m okay. Not eating when you’re not hungry is one thing but…. not eating because you don’t have money and ARE hungry is something else.

Thank you for everything….
God, life, people….
For finding a way to let me be okay financially.
Even if I’m very tight with my budget, what matters is that I have enough to survive with.
I’m very grateful for that.
Thank you so much.

Right now, my emotional side couldn’t be worse, I think.
And yet, I can’t let myself fall down.
I have to at least face work.
I think the rest is even more painful though…
The days when I don’t work.
I’m really alone since some weeks ago.
I can honestly say that now, I have nobody close to me anymore.
I feel like a trash.
Like I’m not worth anyone’s time….. and love.

I don’t know how to occupy my time and thoughts from now on…
I feel so empty and dried of true personality.

I know I came here for a goal, the goal of singing but….
Right now, I can’t see anything.
And my emotional side is just killing me.

I wish I didn’t need anyone.
Then I wouldn’t be feeling those awful things right now.
I’m so tired….

I’m sorry for the few readers.
That my posts end up like this.
I know I’m not inspiring at all, being like this.
I guess it doesn’t help being secluded.
I wish I had at least the means to sing and record stuff so I could share them like I used to.
I’m so sorry I don’t…

Thank you for all the birthday wishes.
I was surprised that so many people took the time to leave a message.

About 3 weeks ago, I started working pretty much full time.
I’m very tired, but the timing is perfect because I was running out of money and I didn’t know what I’d do if I didn’t find a job that would give me enough hours.

I keep telling myself I’ll make an update but…
I keep thinking I should wait until I feel better.
And yet who knows when that will be.

I’m sorry this is not a music update.
To be honest, I wouldn’t be able to make any music-related updates unless something official happened….

I’ve been having nightmares lately.
And I don’t have a lot of money for food until my first pay comes in…. so I’m eating much less.
Even though I’m not in a great time, I’m sure it’s not helping my mental state.
It’s temporary though. Just one week left and I should be okay again.

I just feel so empty.
It’s like I can’t see anything ahead of me…
Or that it doesn’t matter anymore.
I know most of you probably wonder why I get depressed since I usually just whine and don’t explain.
I’m sorry.

I feel so alone.
Alone with myself and alone with my dream.
I wish I had a hand to hold. Literally.
Or a shoulder to cry on right now.
I’m so so emotionally and physically exhausted.

I’m sorry.

Today is my birthday.

July 20th.

And no matter what kind of bad times I’m going through, I hope today I can be happy and feel that dreams can come true. I don’t know to which extent it is possible for me to put my negative emotions and worries in a box for one day, but this is for my own sake and nothing else.

Yesterday was a tough day. I worked from 10am till midnight. And I couldn’t eat because I felt nauseated about everything. I ended up eating at 11:30pm, when my mind went completely blank as I was doing my best to work with a smile. At that moment, the only thing that filled my mind was food so. I was relieved even just for a little while. Thank you.

I will pray.

Please leave a happy comment. Whoever you are. It would make me happier than have views and no one saying anything…. -_-

Hello!!!

I just woke up and I’m so tired!!

Mizuki Nana is having a concert this weekend so close to where I live………..
And I can’t go because I’m having financial issues. T_T
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I think she has an amazing voice. And I love her stage presence.
I really hope I can go see her someday. And meet her. XD

I had started a new job but things didn’t work out so well….
So I’m job hunting again!
To be honest, I’m so worried about money.
I know that things don’t make sense right now and I won’t have enough, but I want to believe in miracles just this once in my life.
Somehow, I want to believe things will work out.

I’m sorry that I can’t talk about my friday meeting.
If it comes to something, I will definitely announce it though!!!

But….I had a good news yesterday.
I auditionned for a contest a few months ago.
And I got selected!!!!
It’s the Animax Grandprix.
So it’s an anime song contest.
It’s countrywide and there are 5 different cities where you can go to participate.
Then the finalists of each city will perform again later against one another to decide the winner.
At this point, I’m not thinking very far, I just really really want to go sing on stage again.
I think it will be good practice because I haven’t done it in 2 years.
It will bring back my motivation to want to be a singer, for sure!
I always get motivated the most when I know I have to prepare singing for an event. :)

And it will be entertaining to see all the people in costumes…hehe. I think it will be fun!

Oh yeah!
My birthday is coming up soon. On the 20th!
I don’t have money so I won’t be able to do much, but I’m crossing my fingers about going to see fireworks on the 26th, hopefully. I love fireworks!!!! And it seems like the ones in Japan are amazing!!! I wish I could get myself a yukata. *sniff*

So that’s my little (long) update for now! :D
Stay tuned!!! <3

-HIMEKA

Tomorrow is an important day.

I believe in myself.

It’s been a little while since my last post.
How is everyone doing?

Here it’s been sunny sometimes…then raining at other times.
I’m surprised it’s not raining as much as I had expected.
My umbrella is all broken, I should go buy another one soon.

I’ve been running around for a lot of different things, but I’m still alive.

I was getting tired of having my toothbrush inside a bag, so I looked for a toothbrush rack but couldn’t find one. Instead, I got myself this pen glass that has 3 different compartments, so I can put my toothbrush kit all in there!!! Isn’t that ingenius…lol (ok, not really…haha).

I finished working at my other job about a week ago and the Chef prepared me one of his delicious pieces of cake as a goodbye present!! I was so touched….and obviously, my stomach was happy! (I forgot to take a picture…*sniff*)

I found a new job, I’m starting on wednesday but….they’re probably not going to give me enough hours to survive either. So I’m probably going to attempt begging them to give me enough, and if it won’t work, I’ll have to do my best find a 2nd one that could possibly match this schedule….

My biggest worries all the time ever since I came here is about money. I never know how much I’ll have left or how long I can sustain myself here. I do my best but….I don’t have a regular full-time income and that is not helping. So I’m thinking of cutting down on food a bit. Eat just enough to be alive, but no more. That makes me very unhappy because I love to eat, but I don’t want to give up my dream just because I was stuffing my face with food, you know?

If you feel sorry for me, I’ll give you my address and you can send me things to eat!!! Haha…j/k

About music-related things…. I don’t find a lot of new opportunities for me to enter, sadly. This month’s Audition magazine didn’t have many things open for me. Or things I already entered. I’m gonna wait for the next one. I’m still planning to send songs to some karaoke audition thingies, but *gasp* I CAUGHT A COLD. So it will have to wait until I recover, sadly.

I did think I would get some responses for some things, but I’m getting nothing so far. And yet I know I can only give up once it is truly hopeless. Right now I’m still here, so I don’t wanna give into despair.

My birthday is in less than a month!
I really want to go to an amusement park.
We’ll see.

I feel that I just need to ask more of myself. I’m not proud of my japanese at this point. I don’t know how to improve though. I do my best to speak when I’m required to. I try to remember the new vocabulary I learn…and yet…. my grammar skills won’t improve at all. I really hope things can change…

Take good care everyone!!! Don’t give up on your dreams either. :)

-HIMEKA

On friday, I went to Tennouzu Isle. I had to go to the Immigration Bureau. But woohoo! I got lost. I find it easy to get lost in Tokyo. But it’s okay. The only bad thing was that it was SO hot. When it’s not raining, it’s boiling hot here! It’s almost summer. :)

I really don’t take enough pictures. I think I’m afraid to look like a silly tourist..hehe.
The rainy season started, but we have pretty shiny sunny days in between.

I’ve been working a few hours during the weekend somewhere, but I’m quitting after tomorrow. I have a few jobs I’m about to pick from right now, that will give me more hours and a bit better pay. But I’m still unsure about which choice is best. I have another interview tomorrow, so after that, I might know a bit more which direction I need to take.

As any reality is…. you gotta provide for yourself to live. So my priority right now is to work so I can extend my stay. Without money…no rent, no food, etc. My account is getting very low, so I have to be careful. I’m not giving up though!

Of course I do my best to look up auditions that are possible for me to enter. But most of them are demotape auditions…which can take forever to get a reply. I want to find more live ones. There are some auditions with age limits too. And a lot of auditions are open only for singer-songwriters. But erm…I don’t write songs so…too bad! I’ve even seen an audition that refused cover songs that use commercially released karaoke tracks. ^^;;; But anyway, if you ever hear of anything that I might not know about, I’d gladly take suggestions. I buy a magazine called ‘Audition’ that comes out once a month.

But either way, I hope my financial worries settle down soon so I can put more energy into singing.
My only practice is when I go to karaoke box so… it requires money. And so I can’t go very often. I do my best to learn new songs mentally by listening to them at home. Then try them out at karaoke. ^^;;;

Too bad I don’t have any incredible news to give out, but I’ll keep doing my best to find opportunities.

Ciao ciao for now!

-HIMEKA

 

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