KNCT visits

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I swore I’ll get to the blogging after I came home from work today but yea…got lazy again. Watching tv etc… So here I am to blog about yesterday…hmmm…Tuesday. Kumamoto National College of Technology and TP’s culture exchange event.

Where to begin? Mariko sensei was kind enough to let Sis and I join in as we have already graduated. As soon as the Japanese students arrived, I was thinking “omg…all guys?” Then a few girls came through the door and I was kinda relieved. But well, it is a technological college afterall so one would expect more guys. You know how I love almost anything Japanese but hell, when I’m in the presence of Japanese people, I feel kinda intimidated. My Japanese is like really “cannot make it” so how??!! *breathe in, breathe out…* Well, they could speak a little English but really minimal. Now I feel so grateful that Kenichi and Shinichi are quite ok with speaking in English. They’re much better. *smacks forehead*

As usual, our students had to present about our country and school. I think overall, we did quite a bad job in presentation. Keeping in mind that their vocabulary is minimal, I think they would be scratching their heads to certain words. And the presenters flashed the slides so fast. Hello, they need to slowly read and digest the information ok. Worse still…the history bits were like crap. About how Sang Nila Utama saw the lion and thus named the island “Singapura”. The girl who presented said something like…”he saw a lion running here and there.” WTH! You don’t present history like you’re reading some kiddy story ok? Poor presentation on our multi-racial culture. They could have brought some items, the real objects so that the Japanese students can see and actually understand what you are talking about. Like red packets and stuff… *shakes head*

I feel so ashamed that the Japanese students presented their school and country/prefecture better than us. Could actually see the effort put in. *sigh* Anyhow, I hope they did learn something about our country.

Next, touring of the school. That wasn’t too bad. They were quite amazed with our 10-storied library. I learnt from Mariko sensei later that their school is a small one. Only about a thousand plus students spread out in 5 levels.

Lunch break. Haha…catered food. Sis said the food from this caterer was much better than the one during our graduation. HAHAHA…

Then it was time to interact with them. Each one of us had to pair up with a Japanese student and write messages for each other on a board. You could write/draw anything you wanted. I paired up with their leader, Fumihiko. It was kinda hell for both him and me. I couldn’t speak Japanese, neither could he express himself fluently in English. Many a time, he sort of got a little frustrated coz he couldn’t find the right words to say. Anyway, he taught me how to write my name in katakana. I MUST remember! I learnt how to write my name in katakana when I was learning Japanese in year 1, wrote it in my notebook but didn’t really commit to memory coz we weren’t expected to know katakana. *slaps myself* Even when Per leaves comments in Japanese, I have to consult the online katakana character map to make out what she’s saying. SO FREAKIN’ ASHAMED OF MYSELF!!!

So we exchanged the basic – name, email, address etc… He asked me to draw something but I’m afraid my drawing sucks manz. So I told him I will write a message instead. I’ll write mine in English and you can write yours in Japanese, then we can go find out what the message means. Heh…I kinda told him he could write his in English coz I really didn’t want him to force himself to write in English and besides, you can express yourself better in the language you are comfortable with. Ok…will talk more about this later…

After the interaction activity, we moved over to the sports complex to play games. I thought what games…ended up playing like our childhood games. 老鹰抓小鸡, blow wind blow, whacko etc. Hmmm…thinking now, they should have played “murderer” (one of 7ners favourite game during chalet stays). Hey, but they were sporting and played along. And as usual, when TP students get all excited and high, we have to do the whole TP cheer. Not much of a cheer…but someone starts yelling “TP oei!” then the rest yell in response “oei!” Then that someone yells “TP oei” again and again the rest yell “oei”. The third time that someone yells “TP oei”, we have to respond “sat sat oei!” I think the Japanese students must think we’re mad.

The whole event ended with gift exchanging. We each received a windchime. So pretty~~~

Coming back to the message board I was talking about earlier on. Upon returning home, I started to examine the message Fumihiko had written. Thank God for knowing mandarin so I can sort of guess the kanji. I think he wrote “Nice knowing you. This is my first time coming to Singapore. First time in a very English language oriented area. An area which I’m not familiar with. Glad that you didn’t force me too much to converse in English. If you visit Japan, please visit Kumamoto. Till then, I hope that my English will be much better.” The part in italics is the part I’m not too sure on. Heh…even Per said I translated only about 70% correctly on her comment on my previous post. I don’t think I translated it correctly but I got what he meant so that’s not too bad.

Now for the visuals…I know you guys are like waiting for this.


My partner for message exchange, Fumihiko


The message board and windchime present

Also…
I wanted to post this up a few days ago but my digicam was borrowed by Sis. Tried taking photos with my webcam but it came out really blur. So had to wait till now…

I made an Ayupan wallpaper for my handphone! *claps*

And I pasted a My Melody sticker at the back. Cute~~~

april snow

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First of all, remember I said the first person in my workplace who could pronounce my name correctly will get a mention here? Alright everybody, applause for Yew Seng. Good enough huh…

Watched that korean movie starring Bae Yong Jun and Son Ye-Jin, titled “April Snow“. Watched it with Mum and Sis. I was sort of prepared to expect a long and draggy movie but this was much worse. It was really VERY long and draggy. The whole “when are they going to have their affair?” Then just when you thought that they would slowly come to realise that they are in love with each other, the next scene they are doing it in the hotel room. -_-||| And even that took such a long time. Like what the hell, you wanna have sex then hurry up and do it then we can have the next scene to see what happens.

The ending was rather abrupt too. Or maybe I didn’t catch the meaning? *puzzled*

Yay~~~I managed to download the first subbed episode for 1 Rittoru no Namida (1 Litre of Tears). I haven’t actually watched it…just forwarded here and there but caught the first few minutes. Already felt like crying. Especially the sentence written in her diary “お母さん, わたし結婚できる?” which means “Mother, will I be able to get married?” I think I might actually cry while watching it. It’s just so sad…

The story is about a girl named Aya. She has an incurable brain disease which slowly affects her control over her speech and body movements. In the early stages, she falls down quite often and quite suddenly. Later on, it affects her speech and writing. Her writing becomes unsteady like a small child’s, very scribbly/wobbly looking. She finally dies at the age of 25. In the beginning, she does not realise that she has this disease until her mother urges her to go for a checkup after a bad fall where she scrapes her chin but her arms are clean with no bruises or scratches. Her mother noticed that she falls quite often or drops things.

yes yes

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Oh hahahahaha…my blog is back. I’m wondering whether I’ve hit the bandwidth limit everytime my site is down. Oh well…as long as nothing’s missing from my blog.

I finally met Ling yesterday. Passed her her rather belated birthday gift. I’m so glad she loved it. I feel that’s the only consolation I can give her over the “poster got thrown out” incident. *hugs Ling*

I’m supposed to take a nap…so what the hell am I doing here?

*disappears*

the hair issues

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This is too much. My dear God up there must be poking fun at me. Here I am, staring at the mirror, wondering why some days my hair is straighter and some days it’s crap. And then now, Melissa is talking to me on MSN about how she wants to rebond her hair and stuff.

This is one of the days where my hair dries into crap. Apart from the fact that it is less frizzy now (very little) but it is still naturally wavy. So now part of the hair is wavy and part of it is straight…weird combination I know. I swear my hair HAS a life of its own. I’m dead sure…

The only person I know who has an extensive network of friends is Nad. Now it seems Raynor is another one. Ok…’fess up. Who else knows Raynor? This is going to be fun…*trails off*

The coughing has left my throat a little sore. *sigh*

*sigh* Ling told me some bad news. Her mum threw out the NANA poster I gave her. Girl ah, don’t cry too much. I know it’s heartbreaking news but it’s already been done. *thinks* If my mum threw out my Massu uchiwas and posters, I think I’ll scream blardee murder. Alright Ling, *pat pat* I can understand how you’re feeling.

I’m sighing too much these days.

naming the character

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*sigh* I wanted to create a new character for Maple Story under Bootes channel. Desmond said there’s less people in that channel and besides, I wanted to create another character for fun. I already have one under Aquila channel. Name’s “Miuna”. Wanted the new character to be named “Yurina”, which is the name of my favourite Berryz Koubou member, Yurina Kumai. Actually Miuna is the name of one of the Country Musume girls. Not that she’s my favourite but just thought the name is unique and nice.

So anyway, the name “Yurina” has been taken up. Until I think of another name, I don’t think I’ll be creating a new character. And the fact that I suck at naming things, it’ll be a long long while.

On MC today. The sore throat got worse yesterday. I woke up with no voice, headache and a clogged up throat. Not to mention that I felt warm. Checked my temperature…no fever. Well, it’s like this. If I don’t get a fever, I get a headache instead. I absolutely HATE losing my voice. That means I can’t sing along to songs when I’m on the computer. Luckily my voice came back somewhere in the afternoon. Went to see the doctor at night.

I’ll be going to work tomorrow…or rather in about 16 hours time. Mum asked whether I wanted to take another day off. Apart from the occasional cough, blocked nose and clogged up throat, I’m quite fine. My voice still sounds weird but not coz I lost it but rather it’s clogged with phlegm. Of course, taking another day off is a tempting offer but I don’t think the people at work would appreciate it and Sis is already making a lot of fuss that I don’t look like I’m sick coz I’ve been at the computer the whole time and not sleeping the whole day off like she did when she was sick. Alright alright, I’ll go to work (and spread my germs).

it begins with…

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The time bomb has finally gone off. So I’ve fallen ill. Everyone around me is like taking turns to get sick. I knew it was only a matter of time before I too will catch the flu bug. It starts with the sore throat. Hate it. Now having a sore throat and a headache. I’ll really hate it if I lose my voice too.

We’ll see how it “progresses”…

The sore throat came on Friday night. The day of the meeting which was at 8 (freakin’) am. Obviously I did not get enough sleep coz as everyone knows, my sleeping time is like super late. Caught me on my most “vulnarable” period. So there…*sigh*

friendship, purity, youth

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*sings* Whoa oh oh oh yuujou~~~ Whoa oh oh oh seishun~~~ Whoa oh oh oh junjou~~~

This Berryz Koubou song is now stuck in my head.

HAHAHA…I finally got the last episode of Ganbatte Ikimasshoi downloaded.

So much for the randomness. I’m going to sleep now. Have to be up in a few hours time for the (stupid) meeting at 8am. *grrrr*

*sigh* Have the feeling to go create a new layout for some of my webpages. Where is time when you need it most?

how nice

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How nice it is to be doing an earlier shift after a long while. I absolutely dislike doing till the late hours which includes lobby closing. Coz we NEVER close when the others do. Like the shops on both sides are cleaning their equipment and we’re still taking orders. *sobz*

I finally get to watch the 7pm drama on tv at the exact timeslot and not the taped version. I don’t have to bathe at midnight. I get to relax a little…

This evening when I came home and checked my email, I saw friendster request. I was about to grumble about how some annoying bugger is trying to add people to his friendster list for the fun of it or he has some motive. Hmmm…upon checking. *gasp* It’s Yew Seng. OMG…I have to be careful what I post here now. *thinks* Freakin’ hell…this is MY blog. I think I have the right to post what I really think here. People have to be careful not to piss me off then. *evil laughter*

WHY IS THE LAST EPISODE OF GANBATTE IKIMASSHOI TAKING SO BLARDEE LONG TO DOWNLOAD???!!! *kicks clubbox*

i am not 12

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Just read Nad’s blog and the part about her being mistaken as a 12-year-old. I had my fair share of that at work today.

This lady customer asked me how old was I. I told her I’m 20. She thought I was 12 and how come someone so young could work already. 12?! 12?! *blink blink* And when I told her I’m 20, she like didn’t really believe. Why would I lie? It’s not like I’m going to get money for lying or something.

12…is that some sort of consolation for me? To tell myself that I look young?

Hmmm…another thing that irritates me a little is that everyone at work pronounces my name wrongly. I know I shouldn’t pick on such little things but I think I have been rather sensitive about the pronunciation and spelling of my name since young. The next person at work (excluding Sis) who pronounces my name correctly is going to get a megawatt smile from me and a mention here. Think about it!

Or else they can all follow what the aunties call me, which is kinda playing safe…小妹。Of course, only those older than me are entitled to call me that. I can’t stand it if someone younger calls me that.