Leap years to Timbre (:

Hey! Its the leap year and today is Feb 29 (: How apt then, i'm going to catch a movie called "The Leap Years" later. Support local movies!! (: Moreover, its a romantic story set admist the back drop of the beautiful Singapore skyline. Not only are they making the plot romantic, Singapore is gonna get romanticised too ^^

I hope i would not be disappointed by the movie, i've been looking forward to it since i saw the trailer almost a month ago. But, so much advertising have been done for the movie that i'm kinda getting jaded at that few scenes in the movie trailer. Looks like some publicity plan backfired huh.

Anyways, support local films i shall and off to the movies i go (:

http://www.mediacorpraintree.com/TLY/

Chomp chomp chomp! And it helps that the lead actor is darn CUTE llaaaaaa :) :P ^^

Anyways, about Timbre that night on Friday (woah, the days do whizz by huh)

I concluded from that ouitng that my dear girl friends Crystal and Meida are really totally into NGAK laaa :) And it was not hard to deduce so. (:

They were gushing, i mean Crystal was gushing, and when Ngak walked pass our table they wholly ignored me when i was talking ): Boo! BAH! They should have nudged me to look too la.

I had really enjoyed myself that night though, one of the best pubbing nights i ever had. The music was awesome (cos Ngak has a good voice and good taste in music) Not only that, the food was sinfully yummy :)

so...

Us and Ngak

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Yummy food from Timbre (:

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Smiles and delights :) Not to mention, a bunch of broke girls la. Bo liu liao lor.

Anyways, mina was so excited that she became speechless when we were asking Ngak if we could take a photo with him when the photo was for her (:

Jia and i: Hey Ngak! Could we take a picture with you? You were great just now and we really like your music.

Ngak: (i can recall wholly though but there was a thanks and something like the sound system was -beep- up. heh :P )

mina: silence. just stun and stare.

Jia and i: So, where are the other places you perform at Ngak? We'll come down tomorrow to Botanic Gardens to support your performace.

Ngak: on monday i preform here...and Ngak goes on telling us his schedule..

mina: still stunning and staring.

And then we took the picture.

Jia and i: Thanks Ngak! See you soon.

Ngak: Thanks! *and he does a little bow*

Then, cute lil' mina turns to me and says: Mae, i love you (:

Me: Welcome :)

^^ That was the highlight of the night i guess! haha :) Isn't she so cute la!

*smiles*

Cool! :D

head hurts so bad..

I received an email today that made me jump with the feelings of 'damn it' and that something is playing a trick on me.

Shucks, the gist of my email says,

I will be in Singapore from 21st March to the 26th march. Will you be free then? - From Kohsuke.

AND OH WHY OH WHY is my flight to Hong Kong scheduled on the 21st March!! And now, not only can't i see Kensuke i can't see Kohsuke too!!

That was the last straw that broke the camel's back.

I then called SQ's 24 hour line and waited, waited and waited..

blah. After waiting on hold for about 10 mins listening to how important i am to the Airline i hung up. By then, the feeling of getting punk'd by fate wasn't as intense as it was initially so i went online to read about how i should go about changing my travel plans.

And guess what i found out? It was stipulated in the website that i have to present the credit card that i had used to make payment with on the day on check in. AND HAHAHA! The credit card is with the owner who is currently now back in China!

Well, if i hadn't check the SQ website because of my intention of changing my travel date i wouldn't have known i needed my boss's credit card.

(: Well, what a blessing in disguise. So, tomorow i have to go down to the Singapore Airlines office in Orchard and re-buy my ticket with my own card and hopefully at the same time i can extend my departure date and be able to welcome my two friends to Singapore again. (:

After paragon, i'm off the American Club for lunch! (:

kimochi!! :D

Youth Olympics! Timbre! Happy!

yeaaaa..heading to Timbre later in the evening! Its ones of my favvourite place to chill with my peeps and just enjoy a drink and hopefully some pizza & wings :D I especially am infavor of Timbre @ The Arts House. Check out the picture of it below (:






http://www.timbre.com.sg/

Though usually, the place is without the 2 fancy cars infront of it. (: If u are lucky to get a seat at the sides, you may have the priviledge of having the silhouette of Boat Quay and Raffles place skyscrapers next to you. Its just a lovely place to be with the girls (: My girls are going there for the singer NGAK (Crystal, you can have him to yourself la. i won't fight with you for him. heh) but i'm going there for the view, drink and the food. And of course, for you girls and the music. :)

-Us @ Timbre along with a funny someone's feet. - -_-"

Hey, come to think about it, Timbre was introduced to me not by locals but by my buddy Kensuke! haha. Right! Talk about how small Singapore is ! Even foreigners know some places better than loser-locals like me ): Thank goodness for Kensuke eh (: Gosh, i miss my friend.

Hey! lets turn to perky news! YEAY! Singapore had just won the bid to host the 2010 Youth Olympics! http://www.channelnewsasia.com/YOG/

Though i have not the slightest idea if we have enough land to hold such an international event but in the event that we do not, well, we can just reclaim more. :P Nah, i'm kidding! We have stadiums littered everywhere in Singapore and with the Singapore Sports Council & MP Teo at the helm we will find provide beautiful event grounds for these young athletes to strut their moves (: Even if it means en-bloc-ing some apartments and condos for the venues, we sure will Bo-leh! Majulah Singpura. (:

Go-go Singapura! (: Congratulations to our Nation. ^^

i'm no art-talent.

I have not a strain of artistic fibre in me. When i was teaching my korean students, we had this session where i would let them draw something random on my whiteboard and thereafter proceed to probe them to explain to me why they drew what they had drawn and what it symbolises. This excercise was meant for them to expand their vocabulary and be more eloquent in their speech and sentences. However, the tables got turned against me on our last lesson and my students became my teacher instead- that is, my teacher in art.

Aiyaya, this is embarrassing but when i showed it to San di a.k.a Wai Hong he was like laughing darn hard la. So, i'm just keeping the memories here so i can look back on them anytime i want to (: Griffin, Peter..this is for you (:

First off, we started off drawing some farm animals..

Thats the sheep i drew above and the below is the one drew by Peter.

And ya, the above was really meant to be a sheep. :P

Check out my eagle and Peter's eagle below.

okay, when Peter said we should draw Dinosaurs, i had Barney the purple dinosaur in mind. I didn't expect the above to appear *deadpans* and below is Peter's plant-eating dino.

okay. So my dragon came out looking a little like a shrimp on fire and a little whimpy compared to the ferocious one Peter drew below. But, isn't mine cute? Check out my dragon's non-existent claws *deadpans*

What can i say to redeem myself now? haha. Well, 8 year old Peter's talented in art and i'm not. Therefore, good for him (:

And, art has never been and never will be my forte :)

*smiles

School, love it or hate it.

Next week will be my university's mid-semester holiday. I'm kinda starting to miss school already. Well, not school per se because i still do go to school occasionally for my favourite library and my major related books.

Truth be told, i miss my Japanese studies lectures/seminars- the intellectually sitmulating or at most times intellectually-dumbfounded discussions we have and the interesting contents and knowledge. In retrospect, i think the most imperative reason would be that i'm missing the chance to be admist the passion that everyone in our class shares for Japan. Soaking in that atmosphere itself energises me and fuels my enthusiasm for Japanese studies whenever i am in school, over and over again.

Sounds cheesy and corny? haha. I know it is. But, to a large extent, its true. Many still don't understand why i am pursuing this as my major and brush my interest for Japan as something i should pursue on the sideline or as a hobby. But i refuse. Even my dear old dad doesn't understand and neither does he empathise. (: ほんとに大丈夫

I know somehow this will work and i will be happy through it all. But if at the end of the day, i do berate myself for making an unwise (debatable (: ) choice now at least i can look back at my undergrad days and know that for once, i was brave enough to follow my heart and passion. Sceptics can say what they want to, but for now my caution is with the wind and i'm the detractor. (:

i like school (: あんたも？

self-taught inefficiencies. ^^

Its amazing how late people these days sleep! I just sent out a text message to a few of my friends and most of them replied. haha. whatever happen to mum's words of wisdom "good sleep = good skin & good health." Then again, i'm one of the nay-sayers myself. (:

Its 12.49am and i have to wake up at like 5.15am! But, i can't sleep tonight. Maybe it was the darn coffee i took in the afternoon, maybe it was the 10 hr sleep i had the night before, maybe its my body clock. Maybe its just me - lacking in discipline and not absolute enough with myself. So, challenge my limits i do.

Anyways, did some studying again as usual and i read this potion of my textbook that promptly got me brewing a cuppa of caffine-induced-drink for myself.

And i quoted from my textbook:

1) The predicate of the sentence which modifies a noun is in the plain from. In the case of Na-adjective sentence, ~da becomes ~na. In the case of noun sentences ~da becomes ~no.

And i reached out for my caffine drink.

Not knowing what the above was trying to tell me, i went on to the seond part.

2) Nouns, which are various elements of the sentence, are picked out of it and can be modified by it.

Then i almost spit out my caffine drink. WHAT IN THE WORLD IS 'IT'???? What "IT" are they referring to? What is the textbook not telling me?? Ha! I know, its daunting me for not getting myself enrolled in a langauge school. (which i did before and i had actually studied this chapter of my textbook then, and yet i am still rendered clueless. talk about effective teaching :P )

Well, i think the textbook needs to be enrolled in a language school too- an English language school. Specifically, a school that imparts to one how to communicate effectively to one's readers and the art of writing simple and strightforward sentences. (: Or maybe, i should go back to learning English to understand the textbook.

Which is which now? Gosh, i need my caffine drink and my sleep. ^^

I think its just me :)

lazy lazy afternoon

I stumbled upon a certain person's blog the other day that had some entries written in the Japanese language. I was super happy to have found that blog because i actually understood what the person was writing about!! (: From what she had written, i reckon she should be in Level 3/4 of the Japanese language course in NUS. That blog really egg me on to assiduously study my Japanese. When the time comes, hopefully that'll be soon, i'll be ready to type in Japanese for my entries :)

Before that happens, i must really study very hard and be my own good student! heh!

Ah well, last night i had a very interesting dream! I dreamt that my relatives on my mum's side and i were meandering our way through a shopping store in Japan with a rather lost look on our faces! I was not feeling scared or anything despite being lost. Rather, i felt as if i was on a fun ride and i was enjoying myself. haha (: Ah well, i guess my dreams are also doing their part to motivate me in studying. How cool is that? *grins

This afternoon really was a very lazy one for me. Was reading a book titled "Japanland" i couldn't put it down and had wanted to read as much before i went out in the evening. Whose to know that i would fall asleep whilst reading it and it was not like the book was not interesting!! Aiyaya, i'm such a bum! No more reading on my comfy sofa!

Despite that, this afternoon was an especially enjoyable one. I usally am not enamored of the idea of me lazing or sleeping my afternoons away but today was different. I had the feeling of being the literati Alex Kerr describes in his book "Lost Japan"! - Carefree, with all my worries and thoughts in the wind and doing what i want to (reading) when i want to (: ii-neh!

Well, i am not an literati but i sure like the feeling of being one; especially the one Alex Kerr describes :) THAT comes with a drawback though, its 1.19am now and i have to mug to make up for lost time :P Well, the literati feeling was great while it lasted, back to the layman that i am.

That means, back to studying. :) I wanna translate the lyrics of S.H.E's 最近還好嗎 (Recently, are you good?) Its one of my favourite song at current moment. But, i can't spend too long blogging and i have to do something else.

So, Jya, mata :)

and i watched CNN.

I realised CNN doesn't really report very happy/positive news. Maybe there isn't anything for anyone to feel good about these days. I was watching CNN for two hours, well not exactly watching but just listening to it whilst i was sending photos to the many people whom i owe their pictures to. And, joy oh joy, all i heard was depressing and more deplorable news. As it got later, the more doomsday seem to be nearing us. My mum was watching the CNN on TV and she even teared over the news report on the tragic plight of the children of Iraq.

It was painful for me to even listen to it much less watch. I've always been numbed by the news of Iraq and anything related to the Middle-East. Theres Bush, Rice, bombs, suicide bombers and more news on suicide bombers and then we have the suicide bombers again. You only see the bipolar side of things - the politicians talking and the adversaries bombing. And then, theres this one night (like now) where you get to see the in-betweens - the masses or mostly, the innocent.

They are neither the dissentients nor are they are trouble-makers. And yet they are the ones who suffer the most. It was a heart-wrenching sight. Maybe it was good that i was numbed because its better to feel numb than to feel helpless right. haha. ah well, but watching an old father carrying a boy about aged 10 in his arm saying that he wouldn't let anyone take his son away because he has been carrying him all his life and watching the helpless and pained look of a couple who knows they are unable to save their 3 children who have polio.

It kinda gets to u. One can't help but feel that its wrong to just attribute this to another's own haplessness. As a wise sage once said the world is evil not because of the ones with fist but because of the ones who stand around and do nothing. So, what am i doing? haha. Like you, nothing. I'm just watching/listening to CNN.

i'm a hazard to myself.

Its been a long time (:

Been really preoccupied with so many things that blogging seems to be the last thing on my agenda these days. I took aplenty photos during this cheena-new year however, i am cluessless as to how i can upload them on my blog. I know i ought to use some picasa album thing. But, woe is me. I'm just too lazy to learn. blah. The bane of my life - myself :P

I ought to be studying my already rusty Japanese language. But!!! I'm just too jaded to study anything. haha. Its not fun breaking down sentence structures, memorising vocabularies and learning the ever-so-dreaded-grammar. So, here i am online resorting to reading whatever that is in Japanese to start this worn-out-dusty-numb-skull of mine.

BLAH.

Enough is ENOUGH! It has already been an unproductive 45 mins!

Mo-i!! Atashi de-ru!

sheesh, now i know how my 7 year old korean student feels when i force him to do some english assignments during my class -

Painful.

What goes around comes around eh. :) Its my turn now!

(:

De Gu-Chi!