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I miss you guys :( Reading all the old posts :) And laughing at hy's new post. What? Have we all become aunties already? :) Hahas.

Wanted to post the other day. Cos I dreamt of the rg band peeps. All in Europe. Haha. In a snowy kind of place. Guess we were holidaying or something. And it was like kind of an adventure climb or something. Cos we were all clambering over some rocks covered with snow. And as usual, the sporty and brave people like Rui and Inez are like shooting ahead, and disappearing into the white wilderness. And like me and most of the gang (HAHA) were like panting and trying to get ahead. And then trying to call them (the people ahead) back cos we found a shelter for the night and didn't want to go further HAHA! Well weird dream but quite cool.

I am doing my dissertation. I'm such a boring geek these days. All I talk about or do is my dissertation. Lala~ Went to London for the Halloween weekend. Londoners are so not adventurous about costumes. Bleh~ And went to watch Avenue Q cos Wicked (which I thought was a great Halloween thing to catch) was full. It's so funny. Haha. I just laughed and laughed. I don't know if there's a youtube thingy or whatever. But go watch it. It's quite cynical and yet hilarious. I do think it's the kind of thing we like x.x (Do tell me if I'm wrong)It's about how screwed up life is basically. And quite true it is. Maybe that's why it's funny. There are some explicit muppet sex scenes (which I found highly disturbing) and quite a bit of vulgarity. But it's all in good fun. I do recommend it if anyone's bored and sick of life. It makes you see the funny side of things :)

Well - before I write a bloody long essay - tata~

while i was looking at the menu in front of some food stall today, a primary school kid came up to me and asked: "auntie, are you in the queue?"

kids need to be more educated nowadays!

hey! i'm home early today. lessons end 2hrs early on fridays. so we dont have to go back after lunch. so i decided to blog (when i saw cin's post yesterday, so dont gloat)


first things first, i nv go travelling with them because.. they didnt wanna travel last weekend. and wanted to go to the mall.. which was kind of boring.. because i'd been there many times. and i didnt really wanna go to the mall just to take purikuras anyway. so i went to this place called inuyama. and it was really small. but nice. only i was on my own and didnt have much time to stop pple to take photos for me.. so its just pics of the scenery. snap and go kind. but as cin knows. i like to have people in my photos. so that was abit.. regretful. it was really tiring though. left house at 8am and returned at about 9pm. popped by nagoya on the way home to grab a hrc pin for my father..


this wk they're off to kyoto for the gion matsuri. but i'm not going because there will be too many people i think. may be off to matsumoto. but its kinda far and i'm feeling lazy. but i know that if i dont. then i most probably would not. so.. it'll be a super expensive trip as well. maybe next week we'll do something as a house, like make a date to go eat the giant parfait or something.


caught the gokusen movie though! didnt understand half of it and it was rather expensive.. but it was fun just watching a movie that had just come out and stuff. besides, the storyline is always similar.. so cant really go wrong. it was fun.. 4 of us watched it in all =)


and how was badminton today then? i hope you all ache alot after that hehhheh. but it also shows that you had a good workout =)


and i dont forget you guys whilst travelling. keep thinking that.. so and so will like this. i wanna show this to.. whoever. kind of thing. but travelling alone's really nice as well. and i've managed to get by with very mediocre japanese.


good job on the research! how was the concert? i miss mr oura =(
no more band, no more mr oura as well.. i miss my trumpet too..

you guys shld have bought him ferrero rocher for the concert! only i doubt you'd have gotten to see him..


ehh which korean guy were you drooling at? i dont like the korean hyd guy too. but i'm not sorry :p nahh. kidding.


and today.. well. it was a long story. i kind of feel bad.. so i'm going to write it here. our blog should really be locked. i dont think anyone will find it.. but hrmmms. dangerous.


so to cut a long story short. i've been having lessons from 9am to 240 in the afternoon with a 50 min lunch break. then i had private lessons. computer sessions 3x a week where you do exercises on the computer and the tcher corrects them. and then i was super bored at computer sessions so i changed it to private lessons 3x a week (more expensive) so frm this week i'll have lessons til 340 3x a week.


my private teachers are damn cool! the woman teacher has family in singapore. and shes like.. really nice. she gets amused easily.. i get scared when she starts laughing at what i say.. haha. the male teacher is even cooler! haha. cause he asked what i wanted to do.. like particles/conversation and stuff during private lessons.. and like.. various questions. and then i brought up the fact that my housemates and i watched some variety show together..and went for the gokusen movie.. and he was like.. thats good. pls try to watch some everyday! hahahah. i mean, its gd to learn this way and its common sense.. but the way he said it was really funny..


i dont know if i told you guys that i got placed in a class lower than my abilities. so i was like really bored for the first week. they kept emphasizing that this is a conversation class and that my abilities were kinda below par.. which is kinda true. but after warming up for a few days. i requested another placement test to move up. thats esp because the book that they use is the same and that the materials are similar so its like really really repetitive and boring. and like.. motivation was slowly seeping away from me.

geee. so i kinda did pretty ok on the test. or so i thought. and i asked around and supposedly i shld have been able to move up. so today when i looked at the class allocation lists (that are changed every friday) i was not able to jump levels. i was in the same class albeit halved because the others didnt do well on their test (which was different from the placement test that i took) so it was just essentially the same class with people that are able to progress to the next part of the curriculum. theres a test weekly to see if they can continue with the syllabus for you, if not you have to repeat it for a week. and theres a huge test once every 2 weeks to see if you can switch classes or move up to the next level.

so they told me the next class didnt have vacancy and i cldnt move. and i swear you cld almost see steam emanating from my head for at least an hour. whilst the teacher was talking i was like.. concentrate, concentrate, concentrate! and i was just so pissed off. was thinking like.. did you give me the test just to placate me knowing that i cannot move up.

the people are here for varying periods of time and commence study differently. so its like. every thursday.. the program ends for a number of people, and pple leave, so there should be vacancies opened up. so i didnt understand why no vacancy in the next class. so i was fuming and i think my housemates were shocked that.. tm cld be so.. i dont know.

because theres this jap major in my class who is also my housemate, and she is better than me at jap.. learnt it for 2 years, but she didnt do v well on the written test. so she accepted that she couldnt move up. and i just.. couldnt accept it. because i think i got the requisite marks from both the written and spoken tests, and no vacancy is not a valid excuse. esp if you keep advertising the fact that if there is too many people in the class, they usually will try to split it up and then keep class sizes small. if you make the claim, then you'd better substantiate it, was what i thought.

so i went to see the teacher in charge of the program and he said ok. see me after lessons end for the day and i'll ask the teacher of the next class to interview you to see if you can move up. and thank goodness for me, the teacher is a nice one.. from what i heard, and i think it kinda facilitated me moving up. so i start a new class on monday! and from there on, it'll be difficult and challenging cause things will be moving much faster than usual. and i'll have to read to catch up. but its definitely something i look forward to.

but at the same time i feel bad, because they did it in a really nice way.. and i was just like.. super bummed out from it i guess they could tell. like your motivation sinks lower than it already was. at that point in time, i kinda understood why this guy in my class (who left yesterday) kept skipping class. i was so bummed out i just wanted to walk out of class immediately. well, its just me and my violent tendencies and emotions at work again -shrugs-

so. i think. us rggirls are maybe a little aggressive huh.

so thats the end of my story. teacher was like. dont pull a long face all the time, i understand where are you coming from and i dont doubt ur abilities but this is a conversational course and not academic. implying that well the chapter you're at doesn't really matter.

and i swaer i never pull long face all the time. AND i was just thinking that its no use practising slowly things that you've learnt and practiced before if the context and the stuff you learn and practice are the same.. like you dont get ahead. esp if you dont have enough vocab. so yeah. was emo about it. but then in the end i cldnt express my gratitude to them for allowing me to move up either becasue.. well. i asked it was ok for me to speak in english. and the tcher expresseedly said cannot beacuse this is a jap sch even though they all understand english perfectly fine and speak the language perfectly. they hardly let us catch them speaking english or give us the option of speaking english because it is a jap sch.. unless you need help from the international office that is -.-

so i have come here to rant. and i'm sorry this is like my personal blog. the posts are long winded. eeeeeps.

i told u it was my blog haha~

cl, nic and i playing badminton at sengkang tomorrow 4-6pm. (just to show off how fit we are)

i just want to say
MR OURA IS SOOOOOOOOOOOO CUTE!
he makes me want to join band. haha~
i need to start a mr oura fan club.
i bet mr. oura misses our ferrero rocher.