I’m staying in Japan!

Guess what I got in the post yesterday? A

nice little letter from immigration. So

we've been waiting for 6 long weeks for

this postcard, for this letter to finally

come from immigration.

All of those idiots on that stupid website

Pretty Ugly Little Liars hoping, wishing

that I would get my visa rejected— fuck

you. All of those stupid racist Japanese

people on that message board saying mean

things about me, trying to report me to

immigration and the police, trying to get

me kicked out of Japan or trying to get my

visa rejected. Guess what? I'm getting my

visa. Hahaha. You do realize that all of

you just completely wasted your time

trying to take me down. I'm so sorry you

wasted your time, but you should have

known you can't just accuse people of

doing a sham or fake marriage just because

you think it's a sham marriage. You need

proof. Oh, I wish I could see the look on

the faces of those Japanese people who

tried reporting me to immigration when

they find out that immigration completely

ignored them and they just wasted their

time and I got my visa anyway. Oh, oh, it

feels good to win. Okay, enough bragging.

Um, this is what the postcard says. It

says something like, please come to

immigration and we will let you know the

results for your visa application. So it

doesn't actually say on this postcard that

I've got the visa. It doesn't actually say

that. It just says come to immigration and

we'll let you know. But it does say down

here, there's a little tick box next to

visa status change, and then next to that

says ¥4,000. So we need to bring ¥4,000.

I also need to bring my passport and a few

other things, including this piece of

card. And the reason why I'm so confident

that I've actually gotten the visa is

because they've ticked this thing and it

says to bring ¥4,000. Why would they ask

me to bring ¥4,000 if I've been rejected?

They wouldn't ask me to pay ¥4,000 if I

got rejected, would they? So what happens

next is we go to immigration and then they

stamp my passport and I get my spouse

visa. So I think the way it works is first

they give me 1 year on the spouse visa,

and then after a year I have to renew it,

and then they might give me 2 years, and

then after I renew the 2 years, they'll

give me 3 years, and then it increases

like that. To be honest, I am a bit

surprised that it was this easy to get a

spouse visa. If it was England, it would

be way harder because England is a lot

stricter. In England, the English person

needs to be earning £18,000 a year

to be able to sponsor their spouse for a

spouse visa, and my wife doesn't make

£18,000 a year. When I was working

full-time at the petrol station doing

night shifts, I wasn't even making £18,000

a year. I was making about £14,000 or

£15,000 a year. So even if I was still

working at the petrol station, I wouldn't

be able to sponsor my spouse for a spouse

visa in England. So even if me and my

wife wanted to live in England, we

couldn't because I don't earn enough money

to be able to sponsor her spouse visa. So

it's really nice that Japan isn't strict

about this like England is, and they don't

have this You need to be making X amount

of money a year to be able to sponsor your

spouse for a spouse visa. I'm just so

excited that my dream of living in Japan

is finally going to come true. I've been

coming to Japan since 2010, trying to find

a way that I could live here long-term,

and after 7 or 8 times coming here, seems

like that dream is finally going to become

a reality. Being able to live in Japan has

always been a long-term dream of mine,

ever since I was 18 years old. And to

finally be able to make that dream come

true just feels, feels great. I know it

took a long time. It took about 8 years of

coming to Japan to finally achieve that

dream. But it's, it's so close and I can

smell the visa. Since I feel pretty

confident about getting the visa, I

decided to go ahead and I booked 2 tickets

to Malaysia for me and my wife. And we're

going to go to Malaysia and she's going to

meet my parents and my family. My family

have planned a trip to Malaysia to

celebrate my mum's birthday, so we're

going to fly out to Malaysia to go and

meet them. It's going to be my wife's

first time in Malaysia and it's going to

be my 5th time, so hopefully it should be

interesting. I do feel a bit nervous about

what my family are going to think of my

wife and if they're going to be able to

communicate properly, but everything

should be fine. Yeah, I'm looking forward

to the Malaysia trip. It's going to be

nice to see my family again. Last time I

saw them was last year, September. So it

does feel like it's been a long time since

I last saw my parents and my sister. I

know this whole marriage thing has been a

bit of a bumpy journey, but I think

everything's going to work out just fine.

And you have to remember that dreams do

come true. You just have to be persistent.

Don't give up. And even if it takes— even

if it takes 10 years, then you just have

to wait 10 years for your dreams to become

a reality. Yeah, there's going to be

people who put you down. There's going to

be people who think realistically. And

they're going to try and talk you out of

your dreams, and they're going to tell you

to do something that's more sensible. The

trick to achieving your dreams is to

ignore those people and tell them to fuck

off, because only you know what you want

out of life, and sometimes you just have

to follow your own path and ignore

everyone else. All of my life I've been

dealing with negative people who, who

don't support me, who don't encourage me,

who think what I'm doing is a bad idea,

who think I should get a proper job and I

should just live in England and find an

English girlfriend. But I ignored all of

those people and I followed my own path.

I decided to follow my dreams and not give

up, and I'm pretty happy right now. I'm

doing all of the things I really want to

do in life. I'm not doing the things that

I don't want to do. And if you think about

it, isn't that the most important thing in

life? Being able to do what you want to

do. So basically, my advice to you is to

follow your own gut, follow your

instincts, and Don't listen to anyone.

Don't listen to anyone's advice and make

your dreams come true.

Hi and welcome back to Cooking with

Daniel. Today we're going to be making

spring rolls and we don't have that many

ingredients today, just vegetables and—

just some vegetables and some pork that

looks like bacon. Thinly sliced pork

bacon. And what

we're going to do is we're going to take

these ingredients and we'll just stir-fry

them and then put them into the spring

roll skins,

and hopefully it will be very tasty.

Let's give it a try. First things first,

we have to slice the pork slices into

strips, strips of pork so we can put

them into the spring rolls. So just get

your knife and your cutting board, start

stripping away. It would be nice if

the chopping board didn't keep moving.

Okay, now that the bacon— I mean, the pork

slices have been sliced into strips, we

can put them into the frying pan. And

hopefully the frying pan should be heated

up by now. I guess

it hasn't really heated up.

Give it

a quick stir around to make sure

everything's evenly mixed. And then after

we finish frying the vegetables and meat,

we rinse out the pan and dry it off.

And there we have the stir-fried

vegetables and meat ready. Next, the

spring rolls. So wipe off your chopping

board, we need it to be completely dry.

Now get your first spring roll skin and

we're going to start putting the fillings

into it. Put it at the top corner and then

we can start folding it inwards.

The best way to do it is to grab the top

corner and fold that one inwards like so,

and then get the sides and fold them into

the center as well, and then grab the bulk

of the spring roll and then start rolling

it downwards.

And there you have it, our very first

spring roll ready to go.

If your spring roll is too wet because

there's too much sauce inside of it, then

you can use a second skin— second spring

roll skin— to strengthen it.

We're now ready to start frying the spring

rolls. In the frying pan, heat up some oil

and place the spring rolls into the pan

one by one.

After frying for a few minutes, you can

then flip it over. And make sure it's

brown and crispy. And then cook

the other side until it also goes brown

and crispy. And now

it's ready to be eaten. Crispy,

brown, very oily spring rolls, but they

are quite tasty.