こんにちは皆さん！！
Holiday Seasonはどうですか？
応援のコメントについて、いつも感謝しています。
ありがとうございます。全部読みますから、安心して下さい！
先週は珍しく忙しかったです。楽しいことばっかり。。。
先週の始まりは写真があまりなかったけど、昨日いっぱい撮りました！
最近、お金が。。。ちょっと。。。
コメント無し。（笑）
だから、先週の楽しいイベントとか行けるのをとても感謝しています。
Hi everyone!!
I hope you’re all having a fantastic holiday time!
I don’t really celebrate Christmas, but I was very happy to get all the happy wishes from you all!!!
So I have to say this has been the busiest week I’ve had in a while. Entertainment wise especially.
I don’t have many pictures from the previous days, but I took a bunch yesterday, to make up for it!
I’m very short on money these days, so I’m extremely grateful for having all these fun things happening, even though I feel I didn’t deserve it…
２１日：
喜多先輩に参加した「アニソン X’mas サミット～アニソンHolly X’mas in TOKYO INTERNATIONAL FORUM～」イベントに行きました！（ありがとうございました、本当に！！）(http://sp.eplus.jp/event/2008/11/xmas-holly-xmas.html)
色々なアニソン界の歌手はオーケストラと一緒に演出して、私はものすごく感動しました。
So on the 21st, I went to Senpai’s (Shuhei Kita)’s Xmas anime song live event (Thank you so much!!). There were a lot of great anime song singer classics there!!! (http://sp.eplus.jp/event/2008/11/xmas-holly-xmas.html)
They sang popular anime song themes along with an orchestra. It was sooo beautiful!!
I only got to see the first part of the concert though, unfortunately. But I was very satisfied. 
２３日：
スキマスイッチの常田さんとまた打ち合わせをしました。少しずつ、プロジェクトは進んでいます。近い間にアニメスタジオの為、テストレコーディングをする予定です。楽しみにしていますわ～
On the 23rd, we had another meeting with Tokita-san (from the Sukima Switch duo). Finally, things are progressing little by little. We’re soon going to make a test recording for the TV size version of the song (for the animation studio).
２４日：
夜はルームメイトの手作りのケーキをみんなと一緒に食べました。イエイ！！
On the night of the 24th, even though I was a bit busy, my roommates were gathering in the kitchen, eating homemade cake, so I joined them for a little bit.
２５日：
インタネットの取材。
出たら、お知らせします。私の日本語は本当に下手ですから、分かってくれたのかな。。。（心配）
みんなは私を時間をくれるから、私も頑張らないと！！
同じ日に、テスト撮影もしました。緊張。。。。。。。。ｘ＿ｘ；；（笑）
On the 25th, I had an interview for a website article, I’ll let you know when it gets published.
I hope I got understood even though my japanese is so bad….^^; Everyone is being patient with me. I have to work hard!! Unrelated to the interview, we did a mini test photo session. It was so stressful for me… (lol)
２６日：
夜は事務所（？）の忘年会に行きました。みんなは優しいし、楽しいし、嬉しかったです。食事の後、みんなはカラオケに行きました。
On the 26th’s evening, I had a end-of-year dinner with the people from the same management company. I met a lot of nice and fun people. We ended the night at karaoke.
２７日：
夜は急にコンサートに誘われました！梶浦由記さんのライブでした！＊O＊ 嬉しすぎ。実は今年、日本に来てから三回目でした。長い話ですけど、すみません。。。（笑）だけど、本当に感謝しています。梶浦さんに羨ましい。。。こんな音楽の天才がいるなんて。。。無理かもしれないけど、私はいつか梶浦さんが書いた曲を歌いたい。。。ちっぽけな私の夢です。
梶浦さんのファンクラブが発表されました！
そして、FictionJunction YUUKAのYuukaさんはソロで行く、フルネーム「南里侑香」で！（。。。私の日本語は正しくないと気がします。。。（汗））良かったですね！
Kalafinaの歌姫達はいつもと同じ素晴らしかったです。歌も、ルックスも。。。＊０＊
WAKANA, KEIKOとHIKARU。♥♥
続いてはメイン：梶浦さんも（ピアノで）、またWAKANAとKEIKO、そしてKAORIとYURIKO KAIDAと一緒に梶浦さんの素敵な曲を歌いました。セルフカバーもしました！！次のアルバムでそんな形でするらしい。楽しみにしています！！
コンサートの始まりに少し泣きました。。。（笑）
行けるのは本当に本当に～～～感謝しています。
On the night of the 27th, I had another unexpected concert to attend. Yuki Kajiura’s. I was so happy… To be honest, it was my 3rd Yuki Kajiura concert since I arrived in Japan. It’s a long story on how I even got to go each time, so I won’t talk about it, but I feel so lucky and grateful I had these wonderful opportunities. I envy Kajiura-san for being such a music genius. It might be a crazy dream but I hope someday I can sing a song written by her.
It looks like a Fan Club will finally be opened!
And then, Yuuka (mostly known as the Yuuka from the FictionJunction YUUKA project) also appearead as a special guest around the end and announced she would go solo next year, under her full name Yuuka Nanri.
The Kalafina girls were pretty as ever and sang wonderfully…
WAKANA, KEIKO and HIKARU. <333
Then the concert continued with WAKANA and KEIKO along with the talented KAORI and YURIKO KAIDA, girls who have been doing a lot of projects for Kajiura-san. They did a lot of self-covers that seem like they will get released on an album next year.
Anyway….it was truly a wonderful concert. I even cried a little…>_<
I’m thankful for having a chance to go.
２９日：
コミックマーケット７５に行きました！！初めての日本てそう言うイベントの経験。友達と三人で行きました。人が多すぎて、私は帰りたかったです。（笑）「人々の海みたい」と思いました。でも死にませんでした！！！XD
「東方プロジェクト」は一番人気ですね。東方の為のエリアは大きすぎ！！会社のアニメのエリアは４階で、ニコニコ動画もあって、びっくりしました！コミケットで一番好きな部分はコスプレでした！！写真いっぱい撮りましたけど、この日記は長すぎて、ちょっとだけを見せるつもり、すみません！（許可させた人達だけの）
色々なアニメシリーズからのコスプレの人がいました。東方糸、ハルヒ糸、初音ミクとVocaloid糸、ガンダム糸、マクロスフロンティア糸、ブリーチ糸、ヴァンパイア騎士糸、クラナッド糸、セーラムーン糸、らんま１/２なども？！！もちろん私は知らないアニメからも。。。（泣）
On the 29th, I went to the Comiket 75! It was my first japanese ‘convention’ experience. One of my friends really wanted to go to get things, so I tagged along. It was SO crowded. A sea of people (me who prefers calm, empty places….). But I didn’t die. 
There was a whole area just for the Touhou doujin tables!!!
And the industry booths were upstairs. Even Nico Nico Douga has a booth… I had no idea.
Then my favorite time was in the cosplay area. I saw a lot of cute/gorgeous cosplayers!! I wanted to take more pictures. I’m sorry I’m only going to share a few (the ones I asked the permission to post).
There were a lot of Touhou cosplayers. And Haruhi. A lot of vocaloids (not just Miku). Gundam people. Macross Frontier. Bleach. Even Ranma 1/2?! Vampire Knight… Clannad…Sailor Moon…to only name a few. There was also a lot of cosplays from series I didn’t know.
「ひぐらしのなく頃に」よりの梨花と羽入の二人がいました！！可愛い～後は詩音も見たのに。。。写真撮れなかった、残念でした。T_Tああ！沙都子も二人を見たけど、コスプレのエリアではなかったから、写真を撮れなかったです。（泣）梨花ちゃんと羽入ちゃんも可愛いでしょう～♥♥
I got really excited when I met a Rika and Hanyuu together!! 「Higurashi no Naku Koro ni/When they Cry」They were so cute. ♥♥
(I saw a Shion in her Angel Mort waitress outfit later too but didn’t get a chance to take a picture…T_T) I also saw 2 different Satoko’s, but they were in the comic area so we couldn’t take pictures there…. *cries*
Aren’t they cute? 
初音ミク！！！♥♥
可愛すぎる。私も大好きですよ～
Hatsune Miku!!! ♥♥
Just too cute. I love Miku.
残ってる写真は全部マクロスフロンティアからです！すみません！
最近全部見ましたから、大ファンになりました！！マクロスFのCD買いたいですよ～～
マクロスFより素晴らしい二人の歌手：ランカ・リーとシェリル・ノーム！♥♥
Then haha, I’m sorry, the rest I’m posting is Macross Frontier!!!
I recently watched the whole series and fell in love with the characters, so I just had to take pictures of a few of them. (The songs from the series are so good, I’m thinking of buying all the singles and albums once I have the money)
The two great singers of Macross Frontier, Ranka Lee and Sheryl Nome!! ♥♥
もう一人の超可愛いランカちゃん！！♥♥
Another superrrrrr cuuuute singing Ranka!!! ♥♥
最後に、また別のランカとシェリルの二人です。
And finally, another pair of Ranka and Sheryl.
後で、友達はアキバから何か欲しかったから、女性の友達と一緒に店の外で待ちました。長い間。
大丈夫だったけど、隣の店で水樹奈々のプロモビデオがありました。新しいDVD、Live Fighterの。：D いい偶然でしたね！
Afterwards, one of my friends needed a few more things and we ended up going to Akihabara. He made my other friend and I wait for a long time outside of the store, but right next to it was the promotion of Nana Mizuki’s new DVDs! What a nice coincidence.
そうそう！水樹奈々さんのコンサートチケットやっと郵便で届きました、２４日に。自分の動力で手に入れました。（笑）待つことが出来なくて、とても楽しみにしています～～～来月でね！♥♥
By the way, I received my Nana Mizuki concert ticket on the 24th!! This one I got from my own hard efforts..haha. I’m so excited!! I can’t wait to go next month!! ♥♥
プロモバスを見ました。カオス；ヘッド。聞いたことありますか？コミケットでも、アキバでもありました。私達を付いて来たのか？？！！妄想？！！（笑）このシリーズを見ました。短すぎるけど、なかなかいいだと思いました。「その目だれの目？」。。。。（笑）
There was also a promotion bus for a game/series called Chaos;Head at the Comiket site, but there was also the same bus in front of us outside the store at Akiba. I thought they were following us. Haha…just kidding. But I watched this series. I thought it was a bit too quick/short, but I kinda liked the concept.
最後に新宿のレストランで食べました。サラダバーもありました、凄い！！野菜を沢山食べて、嬉しかったです。友達に感謝します。＊０＊
Then we ended up eating at a restaurant in Shinjuku where they had a huge salad bar. *_* I was able to eat a lot of yummy veggies and was happy….
I gotta be thankful to my friends.
３０日：
夕べ、Nanoと一緒にカフェで色々話しました。人生のことも、今年のことも。意味を持つこと。後はゲームセンターに行きました！！Nanoは一所懸命可愛いぬいぐるみを勝ちました、二人の為！センターの店員（？）は私達をいつも助けてくれたけど。。。（笑）（汗）結局Nanoは出来ました！！良かったですね～このぬいぐるみを見ながら、笑顔が自然に現れます。まだ名前がない奴ですけど。。。プリクラもいっ～～ぱい撮りました！>o<
NanoとHIMEKAも音楽でいい年になると祈っています～
お互い頑張ろう！！♥♥
テレビでアニソングランプリを見た人は私を気づきました。「カトリーヌ？」を聞いたとき、凄くびっくりしました！とても優しい人でした。
残念ですが、また風邪を引いてしまいました。治さなきゃ！頑張ります！T_T
今年はいいことも悪いこともあったけど、結局いい年でした。
正直いって、今年は本当に過去より運がよくなりました。信じられないぐらい。
本当に感謝していますよ。来年もいいことが起こると祈っています。楽しみにしますね。
応援している人達にまたまたありがとうございます。来年のデビューと色々なことにも頑張りたいと思います！：）
Yesterday night （３０ｔｈ）, I met with Nano and we went to a coffee shop to talk a little bit and we ended up going to the game center and took a LOT of purikura too!! Nano worked hard to get the both of us matching plushies!! They’re just TOO cute. I get all happy when I look at it now. I still didn’t give him a name. *^-^* ♥♥(Haha…we got a bit of help from a game center employee….*coughs*)
We talked about a lot of meaningful things in the meantime. About life and this year…
I’m wishing good luck to Nano for the upcoming year. I hope we can both be in the world of music together soon. ♥♥
Someone recognized me. O_O He asked me if I was Catherine and said he watched the Anisong Grand Prix on TV. Waaaah. XD ;;; I was so embarassed.
I unfortunately caught another cold. I hope it goes away soon…. T_T *HEALING POWER MAXIMUM!!* lol
This year was both good and bad, but I’d say overall, it was better than worse.
I might not have luck in everything, but this year was the luckiest one for me in….. 20 years?
Seriously.
I am so grateful I have something ahead of me for the upcoming year. I’m really looking forward to it. Thank you to all the people who have been supporting me so far and intend to keep doing so. I will do my best with my debut next year!
２００９の目的/やりたいことなど：
・日本語でもっと上手になりたい
・少し痩せたい/健康のいい食べ物を食べたい（油っぽい、甘いものも少し切りたい）
・新しい財布は必要（今のは１９９０からの財布だから）
・遊園地に行きたい
・動物園に行きたい
・水族館に行きたい
・出来れば、モントリオール一週間の間ぐらいに行きたい
・年末、クリスマスとか、正月のイベントで出演したい
・自分の動力で一曲を書きたいです（作詞？作曲？）
・友達をもっと大切にしたい
・もっとポジティブになりたい
・いつも小さいことのせいで心配するから、もっと安らかに生きたい
もうすぐ２００９になります。皆さんはいい目的を決めましたか？ ：）
みんな楽しんでね。お大事に～
～新年明けましておめでとうございます～
いい年になりますように～
（また下手な日本語でごめんなさい。これからも頑張ります。）
My goals/resolutions/want-to-do list for 2009 :
-I want to improve my japanese
-I want to eat better/lose a few pounds/be more healthy
-I need to buy a new wallet (mine is from 1990 or so…) x_x;
-I want to go to the amusement park
-I want to go to the zoo
-I want to go to the aquarium
-I’d like to go back to Montréal for a week if it’s possible
-I want to participate in a holiday/end of year singing event
-I’d like to try to write a song myself
-I want to take good care of my friends
-I want to be more positive
-I want to worry about details less
As I’m typing this, it’s almost 2009 here in Japan. Did everyone decide on goals for the new year?
I hope you’re all having a good time. Take good care,
Love and magic sparkles~
~HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009~
My Last Iced Cocoa of the year :
~BONNE ANNÉE tout le monde!!! ~
-HIMEKA
11 comments
January 1, 2009 at 1:39 am
Doris
<333
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
I love reading your entries *_* Please keep writing them when you have time~ I’m sure everyone appreciates the effort you put into writing them as you have to translate them and stuff. Great work! Keep going
Ganbatte!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR.
I wish you an absolutely amazing 2009, which you deserve 100%. <3
January 1, 2009 at 2:55 am
aqua77
HIMEKAさん、新年あけましておめでとうございます。今日はとても長い記事を書いておられたのでビックリしました（日本語の部分も英語の部分もぜんぶ読みましたよ）。梶浦由記さんのコンサートに行ったとのことで、良かったですね！ 自分も、HIMEKAさんがいつか梶浦さんの曲を歌えたらいいなと思っています。風邪をひいたとのことですが、１～２月は本当に寒いですので、健康には注意して頑張ってくださいね。応援してます。
January 1, 2009 at 3:21 am
Redcavalier
Wow, that was quite an eventful week! Didn’t know you were going to comiket! I sooo want to go someday, just to see the Type-moon booth. I heard they had some nice posters this year too…Anyway, I’m happy to see that there’s some progress with the song. Can’t wait to hear it! Oh and, most importanlty…
HAPPY NEW YEAR! Hopefully your life will improve in the next year. It does seem to be full of promises.
January 1, 2009 at 5:55 am
soldatoflife
Yuki Kajiura!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? *dies*
This person made the music from my favorite anime series ever!!!!!!!!!!
If ever I go to Japan and she is still active, hopefully I’ll able to attend to on of her shows….
I would have probably had goosebumps throughout the whole show. The closest I got to a song from this anime was by the group ”Eminence” at Otakon 2007, where I was second in line to go see the show
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm, Comiket. I would love the crowd, I would swim in the crowd, I would……probably get swallowed up in the crowd, but I would still be on Japanese soil if this were the case, and maybe I’d pick one or two things with the little money I’d have if I’d be there
Lots of ”woulds” and one big ”if”.
I’m betting you met someone I know on the net that loves Touhou, though I don’t know his real name. He’s a Touhou slave that does tons of stepfiles, recently did a light novel and lives in the states. I should try to meet him some day just to contradict the fact that I don’t know him at all just for the kick of it
Resolution?
Continuation of personal growth in terms of matureness. Then I was to get more motivated in school. Then I want to pass something for once in school. Then I want to get enough money to go on a trip. Eventually, but not this year, end up for some reason on Japan to do something out of this world.
Bref, ce soir, le 31 décembre, je suis tout seul, mais je vais probablement aller dans un bar qui a comme thème la mode Harajuku et de la musique j-pop, industrielle et autre. J’espère qu’il y aura d’autres gens qui n’auront rien de mieux pour que je puisse passer du bon temps avec des gens comme moi, sinon qui ont des intérêts communs. Je devrais au contraire aller voir ma mère, mais je préfère faire de quoi de mon bord et j’ai presque toujours été seul durant le nouvel an.
Sur ce Bonne Année, et que tous tes résolutions de l’an 2009 se réalisent!!!!!!!!
P.S.: Voici une signature que je traîne depuis 2001:
“Endless Waltz’s are for those who keep on fighting, those who do not wish to continue only fade away, not being destroyed but only put aside until the desire to stop arouses and that will be the final act for the one who desires an end…” Inspired by Gundam Wing
Bref, de quoi pour encourager ceux qui pensent qu’ils ont abandonnés
+Maxime Girard+
January 1, 2009 at 7:53 am
Chii
Happy New Years, Himeka~!
:OO What an eventful week! It must’ve been very fun<3
I hope all of your resolutions come true. Let’s work very hard towards our resolutions, kay? ^^
The Yuki Kajiura concert must have been wonderful.. She is just so amazing.. ;___;
Comiket must’ve been very interesting as well! I’ve never been to a convention before, but I hope to be able to experience one someday. ^__^
I hope your cold will fly away soon, too . ;0; Colds are a singer’s enemy, right? :O Fight, Cat, fight~!!
Even though 2008 had a couple of ups and downs, I am glad we all made it through happily and wonderfully! 2009 will be a new beginning for all of us.
I hope that we all do our best and have a super wonderful and great and awesome new year!!
Lots of hugs,
Chii
January 1, 2009 at 4:34 pm
SheikJoe
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
January 1, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Jin
Happy New Year!
I’m excited to hear you are progressing and soon on your way to debuting!!
I Serisouly can NOT wait!
*has been spreading your name to my surroundings*
Best wishes!
January 5, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Yuki Shiido
I’m glad you got to have a great week! Even if it WAS busy… sometimes the busiest are the best. You seem like you’re doing good! And I’m excited for your debut. You’ll do great! =)
January 10, 2009 at 11:51 pm
StargazerBlue
I am such an idiot idiot idiot. For however long I’ve been stalking you, WHY DID I NOT REVISIT THIS PAGE ;_;
I’ve been thinking ‘She’s dead somewhere in a ditch’ and all I had to do was visit here ;_;
Firstly, congratulations on your success and I’m really looking forward to your debut. From the first time that I heard your voice in that duet with Nano I knew I would be an avid fan and thus I still am (but I’m such a bad girl, I didn’t even know this thing ;_;)
Don’t you ever let the negative things affect you ^0^ because even if times feel down you know that you have loyal people behind you supporting you all the time and cheering for you to rise up where you belong. Sometimes it can give you lemons but you just gotta turn those lemons into lemonade ;3
I’ll sub to the RSS so I can get emails when you update. I’m back with you on your journey
(and hopefully I can convert a few friends too)
<3 Star
January 14, 2009 at 12:59 am
spinoza
Greethings＾－＾
zannnen nagara eigo poor desu(>w< nicocnico douga de mimasita
totemo zyouzu! zehi anison-karaoke ikimasyou(*’ー’*)
katakata ga nigate no youdesune バラ(bara)desuyo hehe(゜ー゜)ニヤリ CD tanosimini siteimasuyo( `･ω･´)
ガンバレ(ganbare)ｶﾞﾝ( ﾟдﾟ)ｶﾞﾚ
January 24, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Ken
I’m glad the last few days of 2008 were so wonderfully eventful for you.
I really do envy you the concerts you attended, haha~
They sound like so much fun!
Hope you enjoy your well deserved Nana Mizuki concert~~~
I do have to say, though, I LOVE Yuki Kajiura’s work on the Tsubasa Chronicle soundtrack, and I absolutely ADORE KEIKO’s “風の街へ”. Must have been awesome to see them and hear them in concert.
Good luck with your resolutions, and I hope this year will be extremely successful for you!