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.

omg tm! i'm so glad u're doing so well. and i -for once- have been going on msn VERY often but i NEVER see u. like never. like never never. (don't tell me it's the time difference haha). and i'm glad u've found many friends and that your housemates are so friendly - why you never go travelling with them - surely they'll like to see the city more. and it'll be fun to go watch gokusen the movie with them cos at least u won't be the only one strugglign to understand. i totally cannot make it watching without subtitles. it's like when they come to the emoemo part where the people have soliloquyss (OMG I CANT SPELL IT) have long thoughtful thingies or when they have lengthy explanations about how the victim was killed i totally give up.

and i am keeping up the weekly badminton thing. i'm SOOOOOO proud of myself (for organizing somethingg and for keeping fit). woohooo~ we're going this fri afternoon - and tm, we'll think of you! hahaa~ don't forget us while travelling HOR.

and the research. i am doing today! yay! after like 2 weeks' break =( i know i'm very lazy. i felt so lazy yesterday and guilty and stressed out. so today i woke up early (as in like 9.30am + some snoooze time) to study. except i ended up watching some drama while eating breakfast and googling the handsome (actually not handsome but i like him nonethelesss and i'm not going to say who cos everyone's gonna laugh at me GRRR like i laugh at hy for liking the koreann hana yori dango boy - i'm evil, sorry hy) boy. and then i started work at 11am, but i've been chatting to cl and lynette on msn and uhh googling from time to time. but i'm nearly done with my 15th pg. except i'm not going to make it on time to finish the book AND vacuum and mop the floor AND iron all the clothes AND shower and get ready for the concert tonight x.x so exciting. i can just imagine all the feelings flooding back. of the smell in the esplanade. of the music. except this time i won't be sitting amidst the instruments and in front of our beloved mr. oura. this time i'll be sitting comfortably(?) in the audience, one of those anonymous faces i've always wondered at while sitting on the stage in the first few tense moments before getting lost in the musicccc~

and tm, no way is this going to be YOUR personal blog. more like OUR personal blog ok. HAHAHAHAHAHA.

hey pple -waves- i'm still alive!

so very sorry. it's been almost 4 days.. was gonna blog but various things just ate up my time. and cin.. i'm so sorry that you were scolded cause you went home late!

anyway. i'm ok! i miss you guys too.. greatly. this summer was so short. and i dont know. i'm still adapting to life here. the pple are friendly and the accomodation is nice. there are 11 rooms in the house, previously only 4 pple lived here. then this whole new batch of us came in and we have like what.. 9 i think.

the first few days.. dinners were 4 hour affairs where we just ate sushi/cooked at home and sat at the dining table and talked. that's why my nights have been so happening i havent posted! then i come online to talk to pple. and die early in the morn. i was fine the whole of today despite sleeping late last night, and erms. just flopped onto the bed to nap at 6pm. thank goodness fridays are shorter sch days.. i've private lessons so i end an hr later everyday. but all's well i hope. my placement is pretty much lower than i hoped. but i cant complain because my housemate who knows like more terms and such as me got placed in the same conversation class -.- anyway.. just had dinner :)

so how was badminton? i miss badminton playing. at least i can pretend to feel fit. been doing alot of walking around here. but i havent taken pictures of the town. nothing much really. just a really quaint and quiet one. havent visited the local sights apart from this huge mall like 30min away from where we stay. its not like we shop much cause the stuff are so expensive.

i've been pretty confused lately. and its like cultural differences at work. plus i think i'm almost at the time where i'm supposed to be emo. so i have no idea. today was teh first day of sch following the placement test and orientation. i realised i could have left singapore tuesday night instead. but at least i had time to get used to teh place, shop for stuff and like settle in with the housemates..

but being the only asian here is weird (a little) because its cultural differences. but yeah. i was so glad when this long term study taiwanese girl came back frm her little summer break yesterday. she can understand eng, but cant speak much.. so i've been practising chinese with her :) and shes like really really hospitable. we've been shoving each other milk tea from our secret stashes. haha.

i see you're keeping fit cin! good job.. how's the research going? -winks-

i think i'm travelling tomorrow. alone. i still dont understand what pple are saying but from what i heard, the transport's ok. as in relatively convenient. so i shld do it. instead of not. i wish to know more abt the city and the surroundings rather than go to the same few places everyday. which have pretty much been the case actually.

and you know what. not only guys make vulgar jokes.

and we're potentially the bitchiest girls around because we wont accept anything less than an rg girl =p

i've ranted on and on. and this is ALMOST my personal blog already. i'll post soon, maybe during one of these days when i'm having brekkie and have nothing to do. got homework to do every day.. so it wont be that free. and potentially i'l be watching gokusen the movie at the mall on sunday.. no subtitles and my jap is so bad i wont understand it. hopefully it helps with the learning though.. the story line just cant go wrong i think..

so yeps. talk online to me if you're on msn! i'm online a whole lot more than when i'm back home. in btwn trying to catch live telecasts of some shows on tv in my room, and wasting time doing stupid stuff on the internet and hw.. i hope i'll be free enough :) if i dont waste too much time doing stupid things. time to be more efficient!

take care people

my darlings~ this blog is dead again. despite tm's promise to write often in nagoya where she supposedly has nothing to do at night. tm, u alright?!!! we miss u. and hy and i (hopefully) are playing badminton tomorrow at yck stadium :) i tried calling the bllooody place since ONE pm.and the lady picked up and said 'telephone bookings start at 2pm' so fine. since 2pm i've been calling at 15 minutes' interval till like 6pm when i've finally reached home after supposedly atttempting to do the tree-top trail except it RAINED so we just ate at a coffeeshop till like now cos i have to come home to eat dinner. heeding hy's advice, i got myself an account at the iBook thingie to book myself a 'sports facility' and managed to book 'Court 1' except i can't 'Pay by Credit Card' cos I don't have one nor is the option 'Pay by Cashcard' valid, so I don't know if that's considered booked x.x Omg i'm so long-winded. Oh well, but hopefully i'll get to play badminton with hy tomorrow and then do the tree-top trail later in the afternoon before dinner with hy and sending iris off at the airport.

IRISSSSSS. i miss iris. and i've met her like twice only so far =( during the very short 'Ants in the Pants????' outing and the rather short ice-skating-turned-bowling outing. i really won't mind ice-skating if we want to do it again. bring gloves and socks! umm and don't go at 12pm or 4pm or 7pm when they are resurfacing the ice. and mann luckily bowling is cheap cos i'm just wasting my money sending the bowl(?!) into the gutter. but meeting everyone was great. and laughing insanely and making lots of noise and cheering each other on felt wonderful. i love girly outings. i hate it when guys get together and make VULGAR jokes that are totally not funny. i mean, think about it, shouldn't the swear-word-fad be over like a few years back?! it's not like i don't swear when things go wrong or the like but swearing every three words is a bit over the board and swearing at girls is just unforgivable. ahh i'm bitching again.

i don't understand the video post! (though maybe cos i play it at barely audible volume cos it's 1.44am and everyone in my house is asleep and i just pissed off my mom coming home late and don't want to piss her off by waking her again in the middle of the night x.x)
and how come it doesn't say who posted it!

it feels weird being scolded for coming home late when it's only 1am after getting used to returning home at whenever i want in Edinburgh...
i must try to remember to get home early next time -.-

hello! tsemin asks me to post so i shall. =) and my every post here seems to be a youtube video pimp so this one is no exception XD



Forbidden Colours by David Sylvian & Sakamoto Ryuichi. Hope it makes your world brighter, especially since many of us are worrying about the future~ or you can just laugh at the music video, it's quite lolarious. But i totally want to buy Sylvian's album now (.__. )

... it'll be corny if i say everyone should follow their dreams right?