i guess i really should change my blog's url haha, since it's quite irrelevant to me now. but at the same time i don't really have any idea of what to change it to, and ppl have to relink, so i shan't do it yet haha.
this week was quite a fun week. actually i kinda burned like 4 offs, so i was in camp for only wednesday, which turned out to be a half day cos of SAF day lol. so i kinda had a block leave. i received news that i got 7 extra offs due to my involvement in sea games (wow wow co so generous) on top of the 5 that i got from ippt gold yea. and i haven't touched a single day of leave yet, so that's 22 more days off to spend :D.
sea games really was alot of saikang and waking up super early and going home super late, carrying barricades half my weight and shit haha. in some way now that its over, i guess i got quite a bit of learning experience from it lol. ever since it was over, and preparations for ndp and outfield as well (which was abt 2 months of track maintenance every single freakin day), i've been enjoying a pretty lull period for quite some time. which will end pretty much next week >.<
i guess saf is kinda the only place that compensates u with so many offs for all the extra shit u have to do, compared to any organisation outside, and im kinda very used to it already. i stopped getting angry or upset at ppl or stuff. its pretty normal to have ppl rage (anyone, including commanders) or do stupid things cos they're made to do some extra shit, but in the end they don't really mean any actual harm. though of cos no one who reads this probably want to see me praise saf haha.
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made a lot of progress with my guitar recently. i think i've spent a bit too much time on it the past week tho (at least 20 hours :P). there's something called the fingerstyle, where u play bass strings with the thumb and melody with the last three strings, and it's the closest u can get to playing a song solo. after learning my first song in fingerstyle (secret base from anohana), i tried to find more songs to play in this style, but turns out its either electric, has someone else to help play the base, or just too damn hard for me (with weird tunings and customized capos and stuff haha).
so in the end i had to make my own simplified versions, with reference to chords and harder versions out there. im still very noob at this, but i practiced startear from SAO for so long that i kinda mastered it and remembered all the finger positions. it made me damn proud when i finally could play it well enough that someone pro-er than me in camp said it sounded quite nice :D. so i got inspired to try and learn the other songs i like, which i end up playing them in a similar fashion.
so far i have about 4-5 songs that i can play this way, which i all kinda just started learning last week. all haruna luna songs for some reason, but i really like them haha. in the end it still took a considerable amount of effort and fingerpain, and i cant remember the finger positions by heart anymore, have to refer to my self made tabs haha. but nevertheless, let me enjoy a moment of being proud in my private blog here :D D :D.
i guess im a bit over my head now, since there are probably a lot of ppl out there doing the exact same thing. but i kinda want to relive those days when i was in a band at school. at that time all i did was just sing jap, but i can play an instrument now (finally), and i kinda don't mind going the extra mile to make it happen as long as ppl are willing to do it haha. though i probably should get better first. i kinda feel like buying an electric too but amp + guitar is at least 500 for anything not more than decent heh.
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met up with 604 peeps yesterday, which are kinda the only other group other than the ex-07 gang in sch i know well enough anymore. played board games at mindcafe haha. i missed doing that, its been a long while since i've went. only end up playing resistance/avalon, dixit, and shadow hunters in the whole 4 hours. i ended up talking wayyyy more than i expected haha,
i pulled off some pretty jian mindblowing in avalon. ended up doing the mission all 5 times and was the one who sabotaged it thrice, but i pinned the blame on all the other spies in the grp. heheh kinda jian of me but its only a game la haha.
ate at astons for dinner then talked a bit and played some bridge. probably forever since they last played heh. what ppl told me about uni was that the ppl are nice on the outside but actually quite selfish and fake and they don't really have qualms about ditching each other if they have to. i guess it's true to quite some extent la, cos ppl are doing this for their own survival too, but i guess there probably should also be nice ppl out there too, just need to get to know them better.
hopefully i can find a few good friends in uni (and maybe coerce them to make that anime band with me >D), but in the end i always have the few old friends from school i can fall back on haha (which are really much nicer than most ppl out there, which i see alot from army). who mind but don't mind putting up with the shit i keep saying and doing haha. thanks a lot guys :P
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i know this has gotten quite long already but got one last thing to say. i took jlpt n3 today, which in all honesty i din't study that much for but at the very least i did review all the harder grammar and kanji i picked up over the last 3 years. just realized its been that long alr heh. although i din't really improve much for the last 2 years but at the same time i kinda consolidated everything i learnt slowly, through watching anime and learning song lyrics and other jap stuff.
i guess i did pretty ok haha. grammar and compre section was surprisingly rushed, cos the passages were so damn long, and idk if my reading skills are bad, but it was so long winded and the options so similar that my mind got woozy from all the reading. but i managed to finish just on time haha. listening test also caught me off guard. some questions were not printed at all, so questions and options were all through listening. when i missed the key point of the dialogue, usually due to lack of enough context to get what was going on, i kinda had to make a few blind guesses.
but overall i think i did okay haha, after all that self study. i guess jookee is right la, n3 is the kind of level u can pass from watching anime and studying a little by urself, but i actually found the test paper quite fun haha, cos its been a long time since i had to do anything very jap intensive. i hope i can score more than 140/180, not cos of pride or whatever, but cos i just want to ascertain that my standard is at least somewhere there. though of cos all i need to do is pass to get that cert haha.
end up discussing qns with this bunch of ppl from ikoma learning center and stuff. its quite cool (at least for me) to meet ppl who have the same interest in jap (probably some of them are into anime as well), i kinda had a good time debating which options are correct. made me feel like joining a course for n2 level(which i intend to take next year ba, since it was quite fun after all), maybe i'll get to meet more ppl with similar interests and are serious (ok for me not that serious la haha) about learning jap. seems like it'll be a fun thing to do.
and i also met this girl from ikoma who was really nice and cute and i really took a liking to her, she's been learning for 3 years as well, and probably just started college or something. but of course i didn't have that much game to even ask her name or her number haha. i guess it's been a long time since i've met someone i really thought of well, though im probably biased to ppl who can also speak jap heheh. sigh im kinda disappointed that i'll nvr meet her again haha.
--embarassed at self for typing this :0--
ok la that's all for now haha. bye~~
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