楽しかった！

Means enjoyable! Hosted a high school student from Joyo Senior High School in Kyoto over the weekend and had a blast of a time bringing them around on Friday and Satuday. Places included Night Safari, Orchard, Suntec, Bugis Street. Even brought them to Pitstop too to show them how a board game cafe looks like!

A pic of me and my hostee, Taizan

I travelled around with a few other hosts and hostees over the weekend. Surprised to see Karen from my YCK session. Turned out that one of her friends was hosting 2 girls as well. Double surprise to see Fengrong who also joined me bringing my Osaka friends around Singapore last year too.

A pic of us all!

Seated from L to R: Satomi, Yuuka, Fengrong, Karen and Alice

Standing from L to R: Alex, me, Tomoya, Taizan and Hidetoshi

It was a quite a tearful and emotional farewell at the airport on Sunday. After the sensei had briefed them at the boarding gate, cue in photo frenzy! I managed to take a lot of photos with most of the students. Their group was pretty huge compared to my last homestay, 31 ppl this time! And pretty young too! Only 17 years old!

Here are some of the pics~

Yuuka and me. I usually call her princess cos she looks like one!

Saori and me~ The official cutest girl in the whole group.

Lotsa guys queueing up to take photo with her but she asked to take photo with me instead. ;)

Enjoy the slideshow below or click on the link below to see the album!

Joyo Senior High Homestay

硫黄島からの手紙

For those who can guess the title, yes, it's letters from iwo jima.. had a hard time trying to write the title in japanese cos i tot the hiragana for iwo was just "iwo" and actually it's "iou".
haha~

Caught the sneak at Cineleisure Orchard with TF and JW after bai nian at my 姑妈's place at toa payoh. Weird that the sneak was at 4.40pm though...

The show was good! It lasted for about 2 1/2 hrs long. And TF, I upgraded the rating from 3 1/2 stars to 4 stars already. It's not your typical war film where it focuses on the action. Instead it tells the stories from different letters. From the typical Japanese soldier to the high ranking Colonel and even an American soldier! It also speaks about the extremist loyalty for one's country and the fragility of human life, I think.

For those who are going to catch the show, do enjoy it!

Later went to my aunt's place to play mahjong and I won about 16 bucks! Enough to cover my movie and dinner money sia, with some spare left!

Now going off to another aunt's place for gambling and steamboat (again)!

Happy Chinese New Year to all!

Pitstop again~

Went to Pitstop for a get together with YY, BZ and GY last night. Too bad Law couldn't join us... Good to see Eve again. She got married in Jan this year~. Hehe.

We played a total of 5 games that night. In order (I think), Pig Pile, Sequence, Ingenious, Hey! That's my Fish and Catagena. Here's a pic below we took, courtesy of Pitstop. Hopefully can organise an outing for A07/08 ppl as well as YCK ppl soon.



By the way, Happy Chinese New Year to everybody! Although it's only 除夕today.. LOLx

I Love..

your big, beautiful eyes...

your nice auburn hair...

the way you insist on having it your way...

the way you blush when someone compliments you...

the way you carry yourself...

the caring, kind side of you...

If only you knew how I felt about you this way...

Happy Valentine's Day~

Brewerkz~

Went for team dinner at Brewerkz just now cos 2 of my bank's Global Heads were in town. Not 1 but 2! Very rare occasion, so my boss said. So off we went to Riverside Point at Clarke Quay...

Wanted to take the MRT there, but ended up walking from my office (Shenton Way) to Clarke Quay! Lol.. Then tucked in a hearty dinner of steak and mashed potatoes.. One thing good is that the tab's being picked up by the bank~ Wahaha~

Valentine's day tml le... Just gonna wish ppl happy friendship day here and there I guess... Striving hard to fufill one of my resolutions for this yr...

Gotta go sleep already.. Out late 2 nights in a row. *yawnz*

Peace~

I am...

Unforgiven.

Babel~

Caught the show with peeps from YCK last night at Cineleisure Orchard. There were mixed reviews after the show from everyone but Weihao and I particularly liked it.

It revolves around events happening in 3 different regions around the World that are somehow related. These places are namely USA-Mexico, Morrocco and Japan. Showcases the different aspects of human life like love, hate, war, peace, racism, family, prejudice, politics, birth, death, unacceptance, trust, distrust and many more. (Maybe ppl who watched the movie can try to identify those aspects I said?) It was quite interesting to pick out each of these from the movie and enjoying it at the same time.

So people, if you're looking for a thought-provoking movie, catch Babel now~ But be warned, the show's 2 1/2 hrs long and it's not for those who prefer the usual blend of movies... =)

Peace~

こんばんは、先生！(Good evening, teacher!)

Had my first Japanese lesson in a long time since May last year! Great to be in Kojima sensei's class once again.. Her lessons are always so enjoyable and fun to learn as well~

And time passed so fast that I din even realise that it was the end of the lesson le~ And I got homework... =( when I tot I finished uni already... Haha~

Looking forward to next week's lesson! *beams*

Enjoyed my weekend though it's too short~

Went to Qian Hu fish farm on Saturday for outing with the kids from YCK and had a whale of a time there!

The kids got a chance to try fishing. My kid din catch any, but i helped him to catch a couple of them. And he gets to bring them back home! That was nice~

Today (Sunday) was sweet! Long awaited outing with my brothers, especially YY and BZ cos haven't got the chance to see them in a while. Lawm GY and I met up earlier to get BZ a Mango voucher for her gift and got birthday cards for them too~ Added a little encoded message in the cards such that they had to read from card to card. Hehe...

After dinner at Pepper Lunch, we headed down to Mind Cafe at Boat Quay and played a couple of board games there. Managed to use my voucher (from Blokus compy) and tot i could use my last one to buy a game. But the guy said they doing stocktaking now and not taking orders! Sianz cos my vouchers expires on 1st Feb. Guess it's goodbye voucher~

YY and BZ getting married in April le, and i start to think about my own future as well.. The topic of getting married and starting a family before 30 came up among us. Now worrying whether it's possible to achieve that... I'm already 26 so that leaves like 4 years or so.. No use worrying over it. I believe in fate, although it's been playing tricks on me so far, hope my luck's taking a turn for the better soon... Gotta think of what to get for the lucky couple for ROM gift and i think Law is up to something...

Looking forward to tml! Going to attend Kojima sensei's class at Cairnhill CC. Her lessons are always fun and enjoyable! Although I have missed 2 out of 10 lessons, but i guess that's not so bad. At least I get a chance to use my Japanese and hopefully improve on it as well! Will post about my first class if i'm not dead tired tml..

Peace~

Moi first pair of Pumas!

Went shopping after dinner with Tf and Wy and finally got my first pair of Pumas from Taka~ =)

Apocalypto!

Just caught the show with my usual mates and wy at Causeway point! Then suaku me long time never go to woodlands liaoz.. Din know banquet opened on the 7th floor and i almost tot the cinema was gone! Haha... Silly me..

The show's not bad... In fact, it's great! But it's not for the faint-hearted.. it's m18 (some violence) you know... then as usual, there's a girl seated somewhere behind me who has to comment on every little thing that goes on in the show... despite my sshh-ing... haiz...

Do catch it while you can! and dun go in with a full stomach too... Haha...

Something GY commented on the show.. "Education is impt". Try to figure that one out when you watch~ =)

=)

Liverpool 2 Chelsea 0

'Nuff said.

A tale of bad service...

Met up with A07/08 ppl last night for dinner at Marina Square. There was Wins, TF, Rach, JW and WY! Good to see everybody now and then. Ok, I met up with WY so many times these past few weeks that I lost count le.. Haha..

Was pretty looking forward to the dinner cos my work day was quite uneventful... Anyway, we decided (actually me) to eat at Xing Wang HK Cafe and got our seats really fast and ordered. What pissed me off was that the orders took some time to arrive. I noticed some other customers got their baked rice first even after reaching after us!

Tf and Wins, who didn't order the baked rice, had already finished their dinner already then! So I beckoned the waiter who took our order to our table and kindly asked about our orders. He said that he'll check on it but in the end he went around clearing other tables and chatting with another waiter as well!

So I decided to take the matter in my own hands.. Took the order from our table and approached another waitress and someone whom I think should be the manager and explained to them our situation. I did make a bit of noise cos JW had to leave early to go back to work that same night! The manager hurried and we got served ours straightaway!

Think HK Cafe @ Marina Square can do better with their service quality really.. The other time I experienced bad service was also at HK Cafe at Kovan there too... Haiz...

We bought a cake for Wins and celebrated for him at Starbucks @ Suntec even though his bdae was already past le.. Hehe... Happy bdae Wins! =)

Going for my volunteer session later and inviting some of them to watch soccer at my place later. Hope the response later will be good though.. First time inviting them to my place even though it's not that big.... =)

Lunch with someone, Nasty OLs and Mind Cafe

First off, thank you princess for having lunch with your lowly subject today. Really appreciate cos sick of having lunch alone all the time..

Second, met 2 nasty Office Ladies (OLs) while walking to Raffles Place MRT to meet shilei. How nasty? They added a few choice words about my skin problem and stepped away from me. I replied with a nice cold stare. Typical me. Not that they are perfect in any sense so why look at other thru tinted glasses! Lived with such prejudice since I had my skin problem so been there done that~

Third, met shilei, qianhao and zhen qin (hope i got his name right) to use our mind cafe vouchers only to find out can use ONLY one voucher per table per visit. And we got 5 vouchers from the Blokus compy the last time (refer to previous few posts for details of compy)

In the end, used one and gave one to a group of people playing as well. There were only 2 groups of us playing tonight.. LOL Then hope arrived! Can use them to buy games less 10 bucks, but they doing stocktaking now, so not selling games~ But I shld be buying Munchkin! Muahahaha.. But as what qianhao and zhenqin said, u usually dun win at ur own games! And that, I feel it's true! LOL

Going to sleep now~ Peace!

A week in a nutshell~

Just a summary of my week past so far,

1. Getting busier at work and gotten to know more colleagues but still no one to have lunch with.. hehe

2. Had lunch with Akemi, who helped me secure this job this Wednesday, together with my colleague, Lay Hong (who Akemi helped too!), and Ogura-san, who also helped me when i was job-hunting too~ =)

3. Had a team lunch (for the first time) with Lay Hong and Christopher. Christopher brought us to this nice little restaurant but the service was terrible. Maybe cos it was lunch hour and busy ppl are irate ppl... hehe

4. Went for usual YCK volunteer session w/o my kid cos last min his mom said he not going le.. There were fewer volunteers today but still as enjoyable~ After that, had dinner at AMK S11 and played pool with a couple of them. Hehe~

5. Tml going settlers! Cos need to use my vouchers before 15th Jan and going to Mind cafe (need to use vouchers too) on Monday! Board game fiesta! LOL

That's all for updates~

Cheers!

Thanks Ash~

Went shopping in Orchard this evening, First stop to G2000 to buy a pair of pants. Finally got my pair of pants, not from the Taka Branch but from the Wisma Branch. Shall shop at Wisma branch next time always. Dun like the service from 1-2 staff from the Taka Branch and the selection of clothes there is lesser than the Wisma one too~

Went on to HMV to exchange the headphones Ash and co got me cos they were a bit defective. The manager initially din want to make the exchange as I did not have the original box with me but relented later with a 1-1 exchange of the headphones only.. As if i wanted to keep the box...
Can't wait to use them tml on the way to work! It'll be weird to be using headphones when I'm dress in office wear but who cares~ Also stopped by adidas (yes i'm an adidas-ian) to check out possible buys for shoes for New Year as well as the latest Liverpool jacket which looks kinda cool~ but damn ex at 139...

Met Ash for dinner later at Taka Food court, which I usually avoid due to the lack of seats there. But since we were having dinner at 8+, so getting seats weren't much of a problem. Surprised Ash with the latest Rain album + poster and she insisted on paying me back the money, which I gave in.... So much for a surprise. Haha~ Also got a ride home from Ash while listening to the Rain cd I just got for her. I had the chance to listen to a couple of fast tracks and they were quite nice~

Long working week ahead, hope i can survive through the week sia~ Nite everyone!

Thanks everyone~

Got my headphones as a present from Ashlyn, Weihao and plus dunno how many! Yes, Ash, I'll be using it everyday from now. =)

Eating lunch alone~

Something I'm facing almost every working day. when my colleagues are of a different age group from me. when my friends in other companies are eating with their colleagues. when i'm lonely...

Hopped down to Amoy alone to have lunch today with my trusty brolly. Can't take chances with the weather these days. Turned out that I was the only idiot with an umbrella with me. At least can use that to chope seat!

Decided that next time I'll wait for ppl to ask me to lunch rather than I ask cos usually my friends are eating with their colleagues and I'll sound too desperate if I ask them too often (that's one of my major bad points, thanks to some ppl who pointed that out to me the hard way.. no names allowed :P)

Now I'm afraid I might have the same fate as one of my sis's colleagues who they usually never ask out to lunch and leaves her on her own. *Gasp*

The agony continues~

On another note, my American colleague arrived at office after lunch. He was friendly, in fact the only guy who started talking to me since my first day. Usually I try to make small talk with other colleagues at the pantry or the lift lobby... Reminds me of a taboo my friend once told me. Never make small talk in the toilet! Just smile and move on silently... Lol!

Looking forward to tml! When I can get to leave office a little earlier to go down to Tampines to hand in some form I need for my job... =)

Death Note 2

Finally got down to watch Death Note 2 even though i told myself that I wouldn't wanna watch it after seeing how deviated Death Note 1 was...

Met up with Ivan first and went to get tickets from Cineleisure first. Then headed back to Taka later. Ivan got Ayumi's latest album, Secret, which is now with me actually, cos I wanted to "borrow" some songs from it loh.. keke...

We went browsing in Kinokuniya while waiting for GY to come and I ended up buying the Dark Elf Trilogy by R.A.Salvatore! Been looking for the first book, Homeland in the libraries, both public and private, but it seems to be gone! Anyway, almost forgot it was tradition to have a 20% sale for 1st and 2nd of January each year! Haha so got my books at a cheaper price! *beams*

The show was quite long actually, about 2hrs 20 mins plus. Bladder almost couldn't take it le.. Haha~ Well, turned out that it was not that bad as I thought it would! Deviated slightly from the story but at least they got poor Jealous's look correct!

After the show, went to have dinner at Central where GY and Ivan haven't tried before. I only tried it like once only.. So why not? Had a sumptous dinner at an ok price... So not too bad. Already "borrowed" the songs from Ayumi and looking forward to start on the first book of the Dark Elf Trilogy!

But work starts tml and my new American colleague, transferred from Japan office, is joining us. Dunno how he's going to be like...

NYE Countdown @ Esplanade~

Met up with some YCK ppl to welcome the new year with a BANG @ the Esplanade last night! Had a quick dinner at LJS and went on down to Harry's bar to meet up with the rest of peeps~

Needless to say, we had lotsa fun chatting, drinking, playing games and much more! *evil grin*
Left the bar at 11 and went squeezing into the crowd to find a nice spot to admire the fireworks to come later~ In the end, we managed to find an ok spot that had good ventilation and could still catch the fireworks apart from some trees obscuring the view...

Click on the album below to check out the pics I took last night! YCK ppl can grab them from there too~


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Managed to catch the last train home and was quite lucky as the MRT staff decided not to let any more ppl get into the station after I passed through! *Phew*

Spent a lot of time later in the wee hours of the morning, thinking back abt what I've done in 2006. Summed up 2006 as not a good year. Lotsa stuff happened. Mostly are sad among others and I just need to learn how to move on. There's something I must do. I need to seek someone's forgiveness before it's all too late... And if you';re reading this by any chance, I'm sorry and hope we can start all over again as frens~

Anyway, here's wishing everyone a Happy New Year and 2007 be a great year for you! (and me as well) =)