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Akiko

The golden year of the boar

About Me

I'm short and asian... Small, compact and economical just like this country... I do fit into a laundry basket. I'm constantly living out of my suitcase. I like Bollywood films, enjoy spicy food and people watching. If you really love something, you should always say "i muff it!" MyGen Profile Generator ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡ ¡

My Interests

Life... Music, singing, acting, traveling, you, domestic chores (such as cooking, cleaning, sewing), film, marsupials, random trivia, dancing, making up words and akiko-isms, calling people poopers, reading, reading funny ass personal ads, bullshittin, running for causes, wearing hats, coordinating clothing in a country that doesnt believe in it.

I'd like to meet:

People who make me laugh. Fellow musicians. People who don't take themselves too seriously. Real koalas. My grandparents.
How to make a akiko
Ingredients:
1 part pride
5 parts crazyiness
5 parts beauty
Method:
Layer ingredientes in a shot glass. Top it off with a sprinkle of fitness and enjoy!
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Personality cocktail
From Go-Quiz.com
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Akiko
Birthday: 7/15
Birthplace: Tokyo
Current Location: Tokyo
Eye Color: brown
Hair Color: brown
Height: 5'2" and a HALF
Right Handed or Left Handed: right
Your Heritage: japanese
The Shoes You Wore Today: black boots
Your Weakness: food and people
Your Fears: yep, you guessed it, STATUES
Your Perfect Pizza: mushrooms, fresh basil, tomatoes, black olives, garlic, and all kinds of cheese... i dunno, it depends
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Save lots of money
Your Most Overused Phrase On An Instant Messenger: LOL
First Thoughts When Waking Up: damn, i just went to bed
Your Best Physical Feature: smile
Your Bedtime: around midnight
Your Most Missed Memory: being with my friends in the states
Pepsi or Coke: totally coke
MacDonalds or Burger King: fuck fast food
Single or Group Dates: single
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: gross
Chocolate or Vanilla: vanilla
Cappucciono or Coffee: cappuccino
Do you Smoke: nope
Do you Swear: a whole lot
Do you Sing: yes. i sure hope so
Do you Shower Daily: yep
Have you Been in Love: yes
Do you want to go to College: i wanna go back!!!
Do you want to get Married: yes
Do you belive in youself: yes
Do you get Motion Sickness: nope
Do you think you are Attractive: what the fuck kind of question is that? c-u-t-e dont you wish you looked like me, i'm cute. yeah yeah i'm cute...
Are You a Health Freak: nope, but i do work out
Do you get along with your Parents: yes
Do you like Thunderstorms: yes
Do you play an Instrument: piano, guitar, flute, piccolo.... then there were violin, clarinet, trumpet, random percussion instruments that i dont remember how to play
In the past month have you Smoked: nope
In the past month have you been on Drugs: i wish
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: yep
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: nope
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: duh, where am i again?
In the past month have you been on Stage: yes
In the past month ahve you gone Skinny Dipping: nope
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: yes, food from my student
Ever been called a Tease: i dunno
Ever been Beaten up: no
Ever Shoplifted: yep
How do you want to Die: in my sleep
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: a music teacher
What country would you most like to Visit: thai/india
In a Boy/Girl...
Favourite Eye Color: blue
Favourite Hair Color: dark
Short or Long Hair: short
Height: tall please
Weight: average
Best Clothing Style: normal. pants, shirt, socks, shoes.
Number of CD's I own: over 300
Number of Piercings: 7
Number of Tattoos: 0
Number of things in my Past I Regret: 0

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Music:

Everything...Sambass, hip hop, trip hop, house, jungle, D'nB, downtempo, basically anything electronic, opera, show tunes, jazz, salsa, pop, blues, classical, Massive Attack, portishead, Kaleidoscopio, Maria Callas, Lily Allen, Goldfrapp, Seu jorge, Beethoven, Mahler, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Max Roach, jazztroniks, air, ben folds, bjork, brazilian girls, handel, Vaughn Williams, Diggable planets, india.arie, elton john, esthero(old school), Frete, Fonky Family, G Love, Hooverphonic, Jack Johnson, Jamiroquai, Kronos Quartet, Bartok, Romantic period composers, the stones, tribe called quest, john legend, j5, abba, taxi, bell&sabastian, lorenzo goetz, jason mraz, morcheeba, mos def, talib kweli, ozomatli, rebecca correia, quantic, the roots, the streets, steph pockets, sufjan stevens, tricky, jill scott, tristan prettyman, weezer, old whitney houston, madonna& maraiah, Yann Tiersen, Yves montand, Ella, Anita O'day, Utada Hikaru, violent femmes, lynyrd skynyrd, beatles, pink floyd, wayne shorter, aaron copland, schumann, Kodaly, chet baker, nancy wilson, cleo lane, renee flemming, beastie boys, busta rhymes, common, dee-lite, ani difranco, outkast, Keith jerrett, bud powell, james taylor, ellington, armstrong, Towa-tei, claudia acuna, dexter gordon, kenny garrett, youske yamashita, everything but the girl, chie ayado, ceicila bartoli, nerd, jackson 5.... fuck too many dude. ask my ipod

Movies:

city of lost children, my neighbor totoro, pi, high fidelity, I heart Hucklebees, all wes anderson films, amelie, Bollywood films! tarentino films, kurosawa films (in dreams and yoginbo especially), city of god, to live, farewell my concubine, the station, empire records, the eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, the weeping camel, all Gene Kelly movies, friday, i'm gonna get you sucka, trainspotting, two lox stocks and two smoking berrals, Hedgwig, disney movies, love actually, she loves me she loves me not, breakfast at tiffany's, roman holiday, happiness, evil dead, but i'm a cheerleader, american president, goonies, heathers, casablanca, indiana jones, saw, nightmare before christmas and other tim burton films

Television:

non sense.

Books:

unimportant magazines... sedaris, gertrude stein,brown, poe, banana yoshimoto, dylan thomas, fast food nation, cook books, History of Love, Letters to a Young Poet, What Should I do with My Life, Tales of the Female Nomad, Freakonomics, Tokyo Tower

Heroes:

Koalas...of course

My Blog

Snowboarding

Tonight, we are going snowboarding for the first time. .. If you dont see me at work on monday, and if i don't respond to your emails/calls/etc by monday, please search for me. i maybe injured in the ...
Posted by Akiko on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 03:42:00 PST

Pirates of Penzance

Everyone! please come see me play the lead Mabel in Pirates of Penzance this May, brought to you by Tokyo International Players. Tragically comical operetta about how things go wrong when you are born...
Posted by Akiko on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:40:00 PST

Auditions

Today, i auditioned for the Tokyo Mixed Choir. The ONLY professional choir in this country. I made it through the first round fighting with hundreds of choir dorks. So here we were in the second round...
Posted by Akiko on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:03:00 PST

LILY ALLEN!!!!

Finally!!!!! I'm seeing Lily Allen at the Liquid room tomorrow! I'm WICKED excited! ok, that's all. have a good day everyone.
Posted by Akiko on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:36:00 PST

Happy new year!

akemashite omedetou gozaima-su! (Happy New year) 2007 is here and this is THE year folks. It's the year of the golden boar, which by the way only comes once every 600 years. It will be my third year i...
Posted by Akiko on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 05:13:00 PST

My dad...No one is alone

This is not some crazy blog that I'm writing after having an epiphany. I promise... Two weeks ago, I recieved a phone call at work. My father had collapsed at work and was taken to the hospital. He ha...
Posted by Akiko on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 09:30:00 PST

Street perfoming-Thank you Fiona Apple

Last night, my friend and I went to see Fiona Apple. The audience crack me up in this country, they are so polite. No yelling, clapping only at the end of songs, and of course, the...
Posted by Akiko on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 09:02:00 PST

Hilarious.

As many of you know already, Japan is obsessed with everything being in English. From T-shirts to random slogans on my note pads, they are everywhere and they are wrong everywhere. Just like my father...
Posted by Akiko on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 07:37:00 PST

Dave Chappelle and a hole in the wall restaurant...

The sky was pouring large drops of tears from the early morning. Quite far from a beautiful graduation day for my beautiful 5 year old students. We danced the dance-the electric slide to the tune of ...
Posted by Akiko on Thu, 15 Jun 2006 03:03:00 PST

The problem is....

...Jeremaiah has a point... You're in a point in your life when nothing is stable. Work, address, relationships, cooking abilities, next travel destination. We love being in the moment and living spon...
Posted by Akiko on Wed, 03 May 2006 09:22:00 PST