one whole month of travelling

sorry for being mia for so long. i kinda left without saying a word lol. finally received internet access yesterday, and boom all the notifications. but since now i have some time, just gonna make a short post.

so yea, im back after travelling for so long haha. first japan for sep, then london and ireland for my sis graduation. its been a lot of fun haha. experienced alot of things, took alot of photos, drank alot of tea, whether jap or english haha.

anyway, dunno by pure coincidence or not, the haze got really bad here lol. like seriously? 400? how's that possible lol. my eldest sister (back in singapore) even whatsapped herself wearing a N95 mask haha. and yea the haze is kinda gone now, and all school activities cancelled. maybe im lucky haha. but the weather's really weird now. it snowed? in singapore? ok more like chunks of ice fell at the west side lol. kinda wish it'll blow over to the east hehe.

anyway, england and ireland was really fun haha. this time more free and easy then sep. din't really have time to do much, but it was interesting. london was really nice, because the old buildings like the castles and villages are located next to modern buildings and yet it goes together so well. since for so many years they have been accumulating more and more over the super long history.

what's more i really enjoyed all the medieval history stuff haha. knights and weapons and armor and stuff. the history was actually pretty similar to the books i read, like the url of my blog :0, so i actually knew quite a bit heheh. so yea, i was really amazed by all the stuff i seen there.

ireland was also quite special, with its pub culture. the food is really good. drank some alchohol haha. guiness originated from ireland, and i also tried irish coffee, which is basically bailey's added into coffee haha. went to see some museum about vikings too :D.

ireland is also extremely scenic (according to my sister's photos), though we really had no time to tour around, cos was there mainly for the graduation ceremony. my sister's degree is like equivalent to a 4 year uni degree at trinity even though she went there only 3 months. that's pretty darn amazing haha. she's certified now heheh.

anyway, enough for now haha. im really lucky haha, still gonna go out for 2/3 more days in this holiday :P. gonna catch up with my anime, and RM haha. and need to finish my sep reflections lol. maybe i'd try to make some photoposts too, since photos of my trip are finally up heheh.

so little time left, and it'll be school again >.<. but i had a whole bunch of fun for 2 whole months already haha. dk how im gonna going back. been sleeping really late this days, and i can't blame jet lag lol. dunno how im gonna cope haha, haven't been in touch with any work-related stuff for 2 whole months :P.

k going off le. bye~~

back from SEP

just came back home today. as much as i would like to stay there for much longer, it somewhat feels quite good to be back home haha. the weather there was really great, but i guess im quite used to this warm weather too. probably will get sick of it within 1 or 2 days though lol.

gonna just post a short summary of the trip first.

first two days were really great. at first when i met my buddy's host family, it was really fun, because my buddy's family were quite a lively outspoken bunch.

my buddy's eng was pretty good, so almost everything that i know in jap, she can do it in english. yea din't really try talking in jap all the time cos it was somewhat awkward. but anyway, it was pretty fun talking in english + half broken jap, and actually the confusion in communication was what made it interesting.

we had no lessons for first two days cos the rits students had an excursion and some games day thing. so it wasn't that much to do. first day, i ate curry for dinner, second day takoyaki, which i tried making too and din't really succeed cos i broke quite a few while inverting them. regret not taking photo for this haha.

the third day we had to go over to NINS for some science workshop. honestly it was quite sian. and me and chee shudn't have chose basic bio, cos it wasn't basic at all, at least to us ppl who dropped bio. well we managed to get by without really understanding how it works. me, hong jing and chee were mainly trying to help them translate what they wanted to say into english.

and anyway, we stayed overnight at some hostel during the workshop. its abit shabby i guess, but wasn't too bad ba. bath was public, though there were screens for shower. food was not too bad actually. well the girls apparently stayed up gossiping about the guys, while the guys just talked random stuff. played some cards and so on.

so anyway our presentation was quite bad, cos compared to other groups, we couldn't reinforce the knowledge cos we din't really get anything. but we were first to present and it din't really matter i guess. went to toyata museum and it was really cool, with the car assembly demonstrations and some random place called technoland with a 15 m/s wind machine haha.

i kinda felt that we wasted two days though, since travelling from kyoto to nagoya took 3 hours, and it was like 5 by the time we came back. 

then it was the weekends. kinda wanted to arrange going out as a big group, or at least a small group with chee and hong jing and whoever else who wanted to follow us, cos we wanted to shop for anime stuff together. 

thing was my buddy had no wifi at all, so i couldn't use whatsapp and couldn't contact ppl directly. calling was really troublesome, idk why, cos their contract doesn't allow them to call much, its usually messages. so i guess i kinda put my buddy under quite a lot of stress trying to organize some outing to nara and shopping afterwards.

well it turned out pretty okay. visited a few places like some castle called niji-jo and arashiyama, which seems like a really nice place to hang around in summer. was without my buddy for both trips though. and i kinda wanted to go with friends too, but we weren't able to organize that so it was more like a family outing kinda thing. my buddy's young sister is very hyper and cute haha, so it was pretty fun too. sunday went to nara with yx to see all the deer :D. was really fun haha. but again my buddy couldn't go cos of exams.

well, i had quite a lot of fun for the weekend though i wanted to go with like chee and maybe spend some time shopping and looking for anime stuff and fazzing about stuff or something. i din't know it'll be so difficult to organize that, cos every family had their own plans, so i guess i created much more trouble for my host family than i expected, which i felt quite guilty about. but overall i enjoyed what they arranged for me

so yea i guess this trip i was pretty unlucky in the sense that i couldn't really interact much with my buddy. and after the stress of planning where do i go for the weekends, it got a little bit more awkward and we din't have as much to talk as before.

monday was like the last chance for desperate shopping. was a school day, and was pretty packed but there were lots of interesting activities. well their music lesson was unique, then a survival jap lesson. their pe was surprisingly fun. for physics we made a rainbow, and there was a flower arrangement after that, which we fooled around with. like making some spiral thing with the spare stems that we cut off.

after that, with some pleading and requesting i managed to get me, chee, yx, yong kuan and hong jing to go around shijo. we visited fushimi inari shrine first, which was some cool shrine near the school, though we spent less than 30 mins there. 

shijo was really fun for me. i guess the rest bought their stuff already, but i haven't, cos i din't get the chance to during the weekend. went to animate awhile, again, though me and chee din't really have time to look around much, again, so we just got jookee's mag and went out. too bad i guess, so no anime souvenirs.

went around to get shirts, headbands, some food souvenirs. ate ramen, played taiko for awhile with chee. and it was already quite late D: so we couldn't go to the 100 yen shop or go to animate to look for stuff again. went to see fireflies instead. there was only a few that day though, compared to other days, but still pretty interesting.

spent like 4.4k yen in the airport cos otherwise i wouldn't have any souvenirs to give u guys. so yep sry, there's nothing but food that i can give. since everyone seems to have came back from their own programmes and stuff, i kinda want to have some outing for everyone to share food, souvenirs, and talk about some stuff haha.

so yea the trip was over like that. it was 8 days after all, but i felt it was quite a pity cos i din't get to do as much as i expected. but i guess im pretty grateful to my host family because they tried to engage me. wasn't the tearful goodbye like some of the other buddies, but yea i kinda liked my host buddy's family and i guess i'll miss them haha.

so yea that's about it lol. maybe i'll add pics that i took with my terrible phone camera. and i guess this wasn't as summarized as i thought it'll be haha. but anyway, it's pretty good to be back :D

pre-flight unease

its just a few days before the trip, but each day feels so long and suddenly i feel like i don't know what to do.

its not exactly that i'm worried for the trip or anything. ok at first i was, what with all the stuff that ppl keep telling me. and also for awhile, i felt that i'd be extremely awkward and screw things up when i go there. 

now its more like i'm feeling somewhat sian. especially after finishing the info booklet and presentation. idk what else is there to do. i watch anime, but then not continuously, since i have the feeling like there isn't much time before the flight and i should be doing something else. 

maybe its cos i've been tolerating a lot of stuff since thursday, boredom, anger, worry, discomfort. 

my mum has been really, haiz, irritating and stuff. especially since thursday, where there was no school. sometime it gets pleasant and stuff, then other times, it just gets really annoying cos she keeps ranting on and i just disagree on some things, and then she says i shouldn't be like that or why am i always like that. and then i realise i don't feel like disagreeing anymore, but it doesn't stop, and i just sigh and shut up. but it happens so many times a day that sometimes i get angry too. grrr. a lot of pent-up moments since thursday.

finally got the packing done, with quite a lot of help from my mum. which makes me realise that i still get helped quite a lot.

i guess i did have quite a large share of fun since exams ended. like really. just that maybe i stopped blogging about them, but at least i noted them down. running man. karuta. outings to ppl's house, pool, movies, halo, board games. even organized a bbq and sleepover.

so yea. when monday night finally arrives (which feels like forever), i'll feel much better. please come. faster >.<