| Japan on my birthday! |
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08/24/09 - 6:51pm] |
(edit 23th Aug 2008: putting this here to remind me of an incompleted part two
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4th july til 12th july.
いやあ！ this period was nothing short of phenomenal. (is there any word that supercedes this?i know i thought long and hard)
without a doubt the most expensive, enjoyable and naturally the best present i've ever received.
up til now, i'm still trying to convince myself that
- i did go to Japan for my birthday,
- i really did see Arashi two days in a row right after my birthday,
- managed to eat and experience almost everything i planned to,
- and went to both Disneysea and Universal Studios.
right now i think i can understand what Calvino's Marco Polo felt when he had to recount his travel accounts to the GREAT KHAN.
> when u retell stories, those memories are no longer yours,
> and is my recounting really as it was ?or did i impose my own desires into what i saw and thus made it into another memory different from what i actually saw?
*lol* i shallnt drive u crazy with what drove me crazy last semester in post mod class.
to the best of my ability to recount as eloquently as possible without letting down what i experienced, and relying on the limited human mind and memory,
i present to you,
( MY BEST BDAY PRESENT TO DATE! )
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07/09/09 - 2:38pm] |
oh yes,
dont laugh but i managed to get tickets for hey say jump summer concert. *lol*
its sorta of a like "since i cant get arashi, i shall go to any concert" thing now.
and its yokohoma arena. so at least i will get to go to the place where arashi once performed, and i will get to experience how closely fans managed to see them up close.
i just saw big bang on news this morning. seems like they are gonna have a concert soon. shall i try to get tickets for it?
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07/09/09 - 2:33pm] |
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i attended the last of my bday celebrations yesterday.
plenty of meat and good friends it was.
all parties should have meat.
today is my first dance elective assessment.
i am so anxious i wanna puke. i have such high expectations of my self. and the big exams are next mon and tues! but before that, going up to hakone with some people from dorm block 5. and then, nikko the following weekend. i am scrambling to buy presents now.
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07/02/09 - 2:08pm] |
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there is a performancepresentation day for all exchange students this friday.
each class would choose two groups from their class, and on behalf of their class present two topics of interest to them. and on top of there, there would be a performance from the rest of the class.
and so each of us presents one topic, and the class decides who they would like to represent them.
my class being the biggest of them all, spilt this invidivual presentation into two weeks, and mine was this week, the second and last batch. however, even before today, my class already selected who they wanted to represent them without even listening to this week's presentation.
and also the performance that we have to put up, ARH!!!
another failed attempt to keep a low profile. somehow or other, i became the person responsible to pull everyone together. and it sucks, cos there are so many conflicting opinions. and although it was someone's bad idea, it would be insisted upon that it was actually mine.
i was ready to cry at yesterday's practice and today, i just worked at pulling the girls together and leaving the guys up to their own deviced, to embarass themselves if they please.
i hope we pull this off tmr.
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| just as i was feeling blue... |
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06/25/09 - 1:31pm] |
Walking back to the dorm in the darkness after a workout at the gym, i was linking hands with my fav taiwanese and my number one and number three koreans were lagging somewhere at the back.
me: the other day, i was speaking to number one about me going bac
Fav T: 哦！不要走！不要走！不要走！你不要走!
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draping my arm over her shoulders we carried on walking back in silence
me: why are u so tall?
Fav T: so that i can protect you
me: i dont need any one to protect me. i am small enough i can run fast enough.
Fav T: i am big enough i can shield you from bullets
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two nights ago i was in my fav korean's room along with another korean and my fav taiwanese.
a dorm mate had said that my fav korean had gone to sleep.
but determined to get me some fav korean time i opened her room door and there she was lounging in bed.
i climbed onto her bed as she made space for me.
in a mix of broken english, japanese and me nagging at her not to speak korean, we chatted about our day, and corrected her pronounciation as she read from her english textbook.
The door opened and my favourite taiwanese stood at the door with her toothbrush in her mouth and hands clutching her textbook.
(In japanese)
Fav Taiwanese: may i borrow rice for a while?
Me (grumbling while making space on the bed for her as well) : i am not a thing. i am not an object.
Fav Korean(while also making space on the bed): NO! you may not borrow her!
with my fav taiwanese on my left and against the wall and my fav korean on my right, i helped one with her causative japanese chapter and qnsed another about english singular and plural tense.
a while later the door opened again and my number 3 fav korean peeps into the room and i beckoned her to join us.
we sat in comfortable silence.
two of us enjoying not having to do anything, two of them trying to digest the day's reading.
then the koreans started conversing.
one of them making a face at me as i look at her.
as i demand that they translate their conversation, my fav says something in korean which i have learnt to recognise from korean dramas.
"dont go"
"dont go", she says again.
number 3 translates: "dont go home"
"but I am not going home yet " i said and leaned forward so that could rest on her lap.
as i tried to deal with sudden change of atmosphere in the room, 3 sets of hands started stroking my back and my arms.
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a few nights ago, i went to dorm block five in search of my favourite 1.05 dorm korean leader (the one who makes me flip futons with her in the cold in the dark of the night)
turns out they were having their block party in their lobby. embarassed at having intruded their party, i was prepared to come back later, only to end up with a seat at their table and being fed by them
"have some watermelon!" says someone and she stabs the fruit with her chopstick and delivers it into my mouth.
"have come curry and rice!" says another and she scoops up the rice and some thai green curry from her plate and feeds me
"try my spicy soup" and another spoon comes my way
favourite 1.05 dorm korean leader then makes a little walk out and comes in declaring
"rice! your number one is outside!" so she scoops a spoonful of her spicy soup and proceeds to feed the people that would enter their lobby.
number one, number three and fav taiwanese enters the lobby.
i try to make myself as small as possible, cos not only was i intruding in someone's block party, i was betraying my block. Fav taiwanese and number one and i are from the same block.
my fav block six people: "eh rice! u are here!" they say as they get fed by block 5 dorm leader
someone from block 5 chimes in : "oh yes she has been here a while. she is block five!"
i was already embarassed at being found out, and was about to sit down when my fav number one
"rice!" she gestures
"lets go back to block 6"
the rest of the block 5 who were watching the exchange starts teasing me about being popular
ライス は 人気者ですね！
いいえ！私は肉マンです！ i responsed in greater embarassement as i sat down and picked up a piece of chicken with my bare hands.
that very same night, we are preparing to surprise someone on her bday, so a group of us were hiding in block seven's kitchen in the darkness.
my dorm leader was there with me in the darkness, so i told her about block 5 dorm leader's kindness in sharing a huge piece of watermelon with me, and that i have sliced it up and that anyone from block 6 may have a slice if they want
my leader : oh she is so nice! you went to their block party?
Me: yes i did
a senior from block 5 who was hiding with us in the darkness : rice fits in well with block 5, she should move in with us
my leader: cannot! she is block 6
senior from block 5: (as if she didnt hear my dorm leader) there is an empty room in block five just opposite our dorm leader, rice can move in there!
my leader: no! she is block 6!
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am i ms popular?
nope. the people around me are just so loving and so easy to be loved.
i know it would be really hard for me to bid them farewell when i have to in august.
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06/25/09 - 1:25pm] |
are u happy now??!!!!
arashi con dates are out,. and i wont even be a whiff near them during any one of their concerts!
no hope!
its exactly like the rumor dates published on someone's blog online! end of august. no hope!
i'm in arashiland in their tenth year and there is no hope of me going to their con. how sad is this
and to make this worst, i will have to serve a week's home quarantine after going home.
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06/15/09 - 2:28pm] |
at 1 am, my favourite korean dorm leader from the opposite dorm came running into my dorm lobby, much to the astonishment of the assist dorm head, some koreans, one taiwanese and one japanese.
"rice! rice!! come quick!!"
i thought it must have been a prank.until she went
"the rain has stopped!"
laughing i ran with her.
my favourite korean dorm leader has been trying to "flip her blanket outdoors"
it will be the rainy season soon and when that happens, there would be no choice for her to do so. and she usually needs two to three people to help her with her blanket.
the last time we tried, there were 4 of us but it was raining.
this time the rain finally stopped.
we kidnapped esther who was washing her undies in the toilet and scurried downstairs with her giant pink blanket.
its already my second time doing this with her but i have no idea why but it makes me as gigglish as a schoolgirl. i start giggling the moment i go down the stairs from the front door.
and by the time i start flipping the blankets madly while keeping a tight grip of the corner of the blanket assigned to me, i am almost always hysterical.
there is something so ridiculous about hving 3 girls standing the darkness,madly flipping a pink blanket and whispering furiously about the foolishness of the situation.
"but once it rains, we cant do this at all! and isnt it good to be doing this in the darkness?" is how my favourite korean dorm leader would justify us going out at such an inappropriate time.
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06/15/09 - 2:16pm] |
dorm fest is finally over!
the one event that has kept me on my toes and running along corridors non stop at night going to meetings after meetings after meetings.
phew!!!
it is over!!
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| so far this week |
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06/05/09 - 4:10pm] |
1)
Sporean finally makes herself walk out of her room at 7.10 am
Proceeding to the washroom, she notices that the tv in the tatami room is switched on.
notices the slippers outside the room. They belong to her favourite korean dorm mate.
Decides that she would wash her toothbrush and apply some toothpaste at the row of sinks before joining her to watch whatever she is watching.
She enters the tatami room as she brushes her molars, to realise to her pleasure that favourite korean girl is reclined on the floor, with her head supported by the wall. She too is brushing her teeth.
Singaporean slumps against her, and both of them brushes their teeth together noiselessly, eyes facing the tv.
Singaporean:
(having mastered the art of brushing teeth,containing the toothpaste within the mouth and making intelligent conversation back home)
"Its gonna rain the whole day. The hp says."
Korean: "oh"
silence.
Both of them have their mouth full of toothpaste.
Korean: MPHFFF
singaporean: Huh?
Korean: MPHFF
singaporean: cant hear u (voice strangely still clear)
Korean : MPHFF
Singaporean decides that that must be the worst accented Russian around, proceeds to gently pull the toothbrush from the korean's mouth.
Korean: (having to deal only with toothpaste in her mouth) sleepy...
2) Two sporeans, one very short and one taking her masters, and two taiwanese are crossing the road
Taiwanese A: i am crossing after that car
Masters Sporean: no no no! wait! there is a car!
Taiwanese A: where got car!
and all 4 crosses the road.
Masters sporean and Taiwanese A continues to bicker about road safety as the four of them make it to the other end of the road.
Short sporean: u guys should have a road crossing relationship like me and taiwanese C. when we reach a road junction, we link hands and i decide when we cross.
Taiwanese B: (laughs) Masters sporean is cancer, and taiwanese A and i are XYZ (cant rem what,and besides its all in mandarin). so its interesting to see our characters
Short sporean: oh really! i am cancerian too!
Taiwanese B: (even more amused! )really! so two cancerian and two XYZ. both of us are really impulsive, so just nice there are two cancerians to keep us balanced. Cancerians are prone to being mummyish and careful. so u guys can keep us in check (Lit: 压得住我们）
Short sporean: (does not believe in horoscope but plays along for the fun of it) perhaps that why cancer sign has such huge claws, to keep people like u safe
Taiwanese B: yar yar
Short sporean: (laughing) u know when i look at the four of us, i didnt bother thinknig about horoscope and who can keep who in check. only that we can play mahjong. （我们可以打牌）
Taiwaneses have rapid exchange that involves, “是的”我的排要到了
Sporean gets excited only to realise that they are talking about uno cards
undeterred she proceeds to ask masters sporean and two taiwanese if they know how to play mahjong
Taiwanese: 我会啊扑克牌
Singaporean tries to control her impulse to want to smack someone.
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the season of 梅雨 has come. it will rain continously for 2 weeks. just like spore, except it would be colder.
i need to get rain boots and raincoat.
our walk to school is fraught with giant container trucks thundering past us, splashing mud and rain water at us, crazily strewn stones and plenty of giant puddles.
i had dizzy spells the last time cos i got so freaking wet.
this is money that must be spent.
i missed the last two days of school as i was busy nursing lifen, aka miki. she had low blood pressure that was so bad that she had black vision and fell from the toilet.
i realise that nursing gives me great satisfaction except that i am someone that is too responsible and too lively to do nursing. paradox.
but i diligently plodded on. escorting her to the toilet, checking on her if she takes too long in the toilet, getting her water, cooking her meals, making sure she is well covered by the blanket.
and of cos missing school.
i mercilessly ploughed thru hw yesterday, only to see that my classmates, who havent even been nursing someone over the past two days, have not done their hw and had to use my work as reference.
its gonna be crazy today.
i've got modern dance pract,vocal grp pract, part time training, more modern dance pract and we need to sit in on one of the performance team's rehearsal.
but i am so glad that i am half done with my preparation for next week's part time topic.
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05/28/09 - 2:18pm] |
i love my flist!
love u all.
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05/27/09 - 3:58pm] |
my jaws ache.
its been a long time since i last had such an jaw.
its quite sore.
sore jaws for me means that i am dealing with a whole bunch of emotions
1) my dad.
i really hope he is alright.
i feel so displaced from my family and their problems
2) the fact that i might get to see arashi this year. i know this is really bimbotic, but this is really making me blue. i am not a crazy fan girl. but it would have been so nice to see them before i start school for my final year, and also cos its their 10th anniv
and also it doesnt make sense that i didnt get to see them, but i got to seekattun and kanjani
3) i will be going home soon, in 2 months time or so.
and i am very amazed and bothered by how close i have become with some of my dorm mates, especially the taiwanese.
i have three of them already telling me not to go home. although i still have 2 months to go.
one even jokingly said i could fly back for her bday.
i told one of them not to worry, cos a new bunch of sporeans would be arriving too, i'm assuming that they wold cilck with the taiwanese the way we did, so that they wont feel our absense that much.
Taiwanese: u never know. fate is a strange thing, and we might not click with them.
(it was something along this line)
yesterday two taiwanese were taking with me about facebook, and one of them doesnt have an account. the other was telling her that she should get one soon, otherwise how is she gonna keep in contact with us once we go home.
i am already feelign blue about me goign home, and now my friends are preparing for our return, by saying such things, asking us not to go home.
and friends that know me, know that i can get really emotional over such things.
i know i am gonna get really sad. i even had an image of me bawling my eyes out on my last day.
i even entertained the thought of, since i am leaving in 2 months time, why do i bother making such good friends? or why do i bother being such a good friend?
4) i used to enjoy japanese classes so much, cos its only 3 hours a week. now its every day, they are "pouring japanese into us. "
daily japanese revision is a must. if i want to have anything to show for my 4 months stay here.
the last time i maintained such a vigorous academic rountine was in seconday school. and this is getting to me.
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05/27/09 - 3:21pm] |
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1) i am very unhappy. i have seen about two or three posts and received two to three emails informing me about arashi 10th anniv con dates. and those are happening after i am home. !!!!
can u tell why i am unhappy?!
2)
i am sick with suppressing the singaporean in me.
i demand to go out at least 3 times a week.
down with the dorm- school rountine!
sick and tired.
i want to go somewhere, anywhere at least 3 times a week!
sick and tired with the rountine that is my life.
and i am sick of the food i am currently making now.
i need to come up with new recipes. but mainly i am pissed that i might not be able to see arashi this year!
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05/26/09 - 6:29pm] |
i know how to spell this one word very well
H.U.N.G.R.Y
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| thank you! |
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05/26/09 - 4:44pm] |
to those who took the time to leave msg-es cheering me up!
i am mighty cheerful today. i nearly skipped to school today.
except that i am hungry again. and not progressing that well in my studies right now.
everyone keeps asking me qns, about the japanese language, about the english language.
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05/25/09 - 2:23pm] |
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tests here are really hard
i got back last week's paper. and i think my reaction during lunch, which i had been trying contain since getting back the paper, might have shocked some classmates and a dorm mate. i was slamming my fist against the table, chair, door. i was that mad. seriously japanese classes back home need to move faster. its good enough for me to make it into the class that i am in, but man! is there plenty that i dont know! its not just words and grammar! its plenty of sentence patterns!
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| Kat-tun |
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05/22/09 - 3:51pm] |
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this may probably be the only thing when u would see "kat tun" on my subject head.
went to their concert at tokyo dome yesterday with Bao, and two dorm mates; a malaysian and a taiwanese.
paid much lesser than the usual ticket price.
cos we are from THAT VERY PLACE, which had its first tokyo infection, we wrote our masks throughout the concert. except for the malaysian who sat in the arena. 4 of us sat in 3 different locations. the M and i sat alone, she in the arena, and i on the first floor and bao and the taiwanese together on the 2nd floor. i had a very good seat. didnt think it would be that good. i got a very good view of everything, when they flew around, when they were travelling around overhead in cages,or when they went around on those runways. and they were at my eye level when they came around on those trolley things. for a group that debuted in 2006, i thought their concert was over the top man.
fireworks, explosions, fountains lining the centre runway and centre fountain stage piece n cranes that allow them to fly overhead and bungee jump is something that one would see at a tenth anniversary.
How on earth are they gonna top this year's concert next year?
but as a concert on the top, it was very very entertaining.
and everything a johnny's concert should be.
i wasnt disappointed.
i know that bao was very impressed. so impressed that she even wondered out loud if it would be possible to get an arashi con ticket at the price that she paid for Kat-tun's, only to be told "in your wildest dream!!"by me and M. *lol*
i learnt/copied the furi from the girls directly in front of me. and i think being an arashi fan sorta made me hyper sensitive to furi. i seemed to be able to sense what the next furi might be 1/2 second before it gets performed. so it looked as if i really learnt the furi before coming. or so i think. *lol* a few girls in front of me and the girls right beside me seemed to be more excited over the junior groups who were dancing back up for Kat-tun then Kat-tun themselves. they were incredible. especially those right beside me.they spoke in this persistently loud voice that really got on my nerves and really caused my ears to hurt. and they spoke so quickly.
and one of them kept arranging her hair, her hat in the mirror even during the concert, especially when her favourite junior wasnt on the stage. they brought so many uchiwas and little hand made posters for their fav juniors.
each of them with a the different msg.
so when its a certain junior, they have a special placard for him with a certain msg. so they were constantly digging in their bags for different placards and dropping their things such that the people in front of them had to constantly bend down to search for dropped items thru out the concert.
and the one on my right was so totally "cool" she didnt carry a pen light or an uchiwa. why? cos her hands were perpetually folded. she only sang along to selected songs. no i think she only sang along to ONE song.
and considering how many people were in tokyo dome, i was surprised by how quick i managed to get out of there and to our meeting point.
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05/20/09 - 4:46pm] |
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i am hungry! someone feed me!
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05/20/09 - 3:48pm] |
i am hungry.
Breakfast:
> two slices of bread
> honey
Lunch:
> rice
> squid and vegetable
> (i need to buy onions)
Dinner: (will be having)
> rice
> squid and vegetable (my fav taiwanese dorm mate loves it so much.)
> nattou
i realise that oyster sauce and soy sauce is a killer combination. Taught to me by my mum, any dish that i prepare with this two sauce has been getting really good responses here.
i had two consecutive meetings last night.
our dorm is having a dorm festival in june. and everyone is somehow involved in something. and i was made co captain of the performance team. me and another junior and two other korean dorm leaders make up the executive committee.
another sporean was initially picked to be leader by one of the korean dorm leaders. but then she refused the position cos being the sotong that she was, she didnt think she was up to it.
and then my dorm leader could not keep quiet and had to elect me. and even after plenty of side stepping and corridor "confrontations" i ended up with the post, cos there was nothing i could say to turn it down.
but seriously, i was hoping to keep a low profile and just live relatively stress free while i am here.
and THEN i had to get this landed in my lap.
my team is the biggest in the dorm. so there is plenty to manage.
*shakes head* its strange that even my host mother doesnt believe that i really only want to be a follower this time and not have to worry about leading.
*shakes head even more*
and the best thing is that during meetings, people tend to get excited, and when people get excited, they speak really fast! so my brains go into over drive.
and what's more my favourite taiwanese is in a team that has no other taiwanese. so i play translator to her.
so i attend my team's meetings and her meetings.
her team went out last week to buy supplies and i happily, tagged along. *dances on tip toes*
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| another random bathroom conversation |
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05/20/09 - 1:57pm] |
3 taiwanese and 1 sporean in the dressing area.
Taiwanese A: my boobs are soft. want to feel them?
Taiwanese B: ok. i am gonna feel them.
Taiwanese A: (nod nod)
Sporean: (who wasnt following their conversation assumes that health wise something must be wrong with Taiwanese A, cos such "feeling ups" in her household are done only when someone is sick.
and so, assuming it must be lumps ) Oh dear, something wrong with you?
Taiwanese A: nothing arh. i told her i 've got soft breasts.
Sporean: (trying not to look at Taiwanese B preparing to grope someone.)
Taiwanese a: want to feel them?
Sporean: !!!!
Taiwanese C: (the only one who is not naked, non chalantly blow dries her hair)
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