Dinner party after work. (:

Went to work on Friday. And AGAIN! I had to rush for the train, must be the bad karma from being lazy to wake up 5 minutes earlier.

Well Boss decided that it would be nice to have dinner together after work and i stayed back in the school after work to wait for Izacc to finish his class with lil' Ono -(?-not sure if this is his name) hehe.

Ono had an English test! I made tea and snacks for him whilst he was 'eeeh-toh-ing' and 'errrr..' ing on his paper.

hehe..

this was what i saw..

学校　=　skel
ありがとう=tenk yew

*smiles*

So cute right. I know that he knows the answer but the spelling was just a little too 複雑 for him. But come to think of it..

'Skel' DOES sound like 'School' and 'tenk yew' DOES sound like 'Thank You'

Now, i understand the pain of learning English! Haha, now my pain of learning Japanese isn't so bad. at least it isn't as tonal as Mandarin or English! (only in the case of Ono-chan)

Just in case you were wondering, when it came to the oral practice Ono-chan scored full marks! :D


Anyway!

DINNER CAME!

Izacc was hoping that we would have 焼き肉..Haha! But his hopes (and mine too) were crushed when we saw boss coming through the door with containers of food and cans of cocktail.

バイバイヤキニク！ ^^
[bye bye Yaki Niku] ^^

But at least we had some non-alcoholic beer (?) and Izacc was still happy :D



Just give him his 面白い味のビール！

The food was great though it was not anything close to 焼き肉.


Really good Okonomiyaki! Courtesy of boss's grandmother ^^ Obasan, arigatou neh!

Not really Yakiniku and not even remotely Japanese but delicious anyway ^^

One of the sweetest and most loving couple i've ever met. They never held hands and were not even seated next to each other during dinner but you can really sense the love and adoration Takeshi has for his wife.

Can u believe they are both mothers-of-two? Hehe! The lady on the left is my boss. ^^
Such lovable ladies don't you think? :D

STAR OF THE DAY!!!!

A GREAT WAY TO END AN AWESOME DINNER!

I love my job and my colleagues!

Not hard to see why eh?

:D

<3

Family..

I miss home and Singapore dreadfully.

More so, i miss my family so much.

Sunday lunches, movies and grocery shopping with some kopi-sweu-dai and toasted bun along the way never fail to make my week a more wholesome and sweet one.

I wonder what movies i have missed so far.

I slept at 8.30am this morning because i was trying so hard to retrieve the photos which had been deleted by my computer when i first arrive in Japan.

After 5 months of trying, i finally got to getting it done.

It was well worth it! I spent my day today just gazing at them pictures and thanking the fact that i had taken these pictures, of which i now can spend my lonely days in Japan with.

Nah, i'm not sad, regretful or self-pitying. Don't mistaken me.

I am very grateful for being able to come to Japan and be a student of Kyoto University. In fact, i am happy. Truly, i am. But, choices and goals come with a price and that price for me would be the time with my loved ones.

And i made a choice.

I love my family dearly, my thoughts, prayers and love will always be with them. That, no matter where i am or what choice i make, will never falter.

That, for what I'm sure and what i know, is the only factor constant in my life.

Happy new year baby..

I'm starting to miss him more and more these days. Especially since its the festive season now! Wonder how its like to welcome the new OX year with him and my family by my side. hehe. not bad lah.

Most of all,

i wanna give him a big bear hug and sing to his face.

恭喜恭喜你呀，恭喜恭喜你！每个人的..something something.

something something...就是恭喜恭喜。。

as for the second choice of song i will sing for him.

财神到财神到你家们口 (repeat 10 times accordingly)

HAHAHA!

(:

wonder if he will confiscate my red packet for doing so!

*grins*

well, i will find out next year ^^

Sunday's journey of faith.

Left for Taisekiji on Sunday morning - 5.00am. And returned home the same day at 10pm^^

wah~ not bad eh. hehehe

3 beauties of 宣照寺。。
Hello there leng zai!! (: hehe. He didn't see it coming！ ：D
My favorite bento of the year! :D Though if everything was twice its size, things would have been more perfect. hehehe

(:

But oh wells, greediness is never encouraged in Buddhism.

:D

"Yearning to see the Buddha, they never begrudge their lives."

Great dinner date^^

After our Monday presentation which went badly, my dear economics group still thought that we all deserve a good dinner together.. ^^

:P

Because we were poor students on a budget, (well, because I was THE poor student on a budget) everyone was accommodating enough to have SHAKEYS for dinner (:

Us and our 850yen all you can eat pizzaaaasssss!!

hehe. cheapo mae and her awesome Kyodai groupmates^^


It was an awesome dinner with PLENTY of talking and talking. We even got the courtesy of getting to meet Brad, a really cool Aussie! So we yak yak and yak till SHAKEYS closed!

hehe.

thats how good we are. (:

Thank goodness for the Developmental Economics class :)

oh. and my face..
its getting rounder than it should!

*miffed*

*deadpans*

Beautiful song, one that propelled him to instant stardom in shores beyond that of Taiwan's

Not hard to see why. (:

I bought his album back when i was working in China, only S$2.50. *glee*

Anyway, i was reading the economist.com and there was news fresh from the mouth of our dear finance minister.

Singapore might be devaluing the Sing Dollar.

And you know what is most sian?

Just because the news was released, monetary policies need not be adjusted to devalue the Sing Dollar, market sentiments and panic would just do it for us. *like..hurrah.*

And this afternoon,

100yen = S$1.65/1.68

Not bad huh, leave it to the market forces to turn the wheel for us.

[Free-style play.

Adam smith way.

Mae is damn suay.]

Singapore! Look at me!!! Hang in there!!

At least, Wait until i come home can?

don't like that leh.

Counting the days to seeing the sun again! :P

Am really happy about going home for the holidays. Hmm, am i am happy about going home or happy to leave this exorbitantly expensive country that is Japan?


Well, both lah.


For some reason or another, this winter in Kyoto is getting hard to bear. I get really moody easily and poor boyfriend has to put up with my dumbass behaviour.


It gets dark too early and i get hungry too quickly -> worst shit.


Ah wells.. 30 more pages of report to go, 2 more exams and many more hours of studying Japanese and everything will be okay!

:)

YES IT WILL!

hehe, i think its quite nice la, so just showoff lor.

eeeee-yer

BU YAO LIAN!

hahahaha ^^