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 >.<

going to japan soon :D

waa really can't imagine that in just next monday, i'll be flying off to japan. after so long of reading jap and stuff haha. finally :D. admittedly i din't spend much time studying jap, but watching anime really helps a lot actually :P

anyway, i realised that our sep group is actually pretty fun :D. at first i was somewhat unwilling cos i felt that we were overdoing things, like filming and stuff. but it was actually pretty fun doing it. went chinatown with chee and yx on tuesday. even though we din't know what to do, me and chee kinda smoked something up, and oh god, it's embarassing to rewatch lol.

our meetup yesterday was pretty interesting too. din't exactly teach much jap, but we were talked about quite a bit of funny stuff. anh and yeye were both pretty hyped up even though they din't know how to say much. ended up watching anime to show them how kansai-ben sounds like lol.

was pretty worried that my buddy might not really talk to me much. but then, today mrs chong called me to tell me that i'll be getting a girl buddy. was pretty surprised actually. kinda smiled really retardedly after the call haha. ok la it's not like im desperate to look for jap girls, but there are some ppl who want to kill me cos of this. so ya i'm pretty lucky :D

k la enough ranting for now. gonna start packing already. five more days :D

games

games. idk why i play them. cos whenever i get stuck, im like cursing and swearing at the game, yet when i clear it, i don't exactly feel very accomplished or anything. all i feel is like, "finally completed this sh*t". then again, i don't have enough stamina to watch videos for more than 3 hours in a row, so...

its 25 may alr. darn fastt lol, only a few more days left haha. dk im somewhat nervous and excited. been like waiting for so long haha. hope to have alot of fun :D.

k la that's that for now. im sorry im lazy to blog :0

the outing after CMPB

came with lee to CMPB on monday. was feeling really nervous about medical check-up one week before, because tbf, i had a fear of injections. there was once in p6 where i kinda... ran away from the injection in school, and had to do it at some medical place afterwards :0

turned out the most crappy thing about the medical check-up was not the medical tests, but the freakin vocational test after that. maybe i just din't get enough sleep, but i absolutely died in there. the questions are just never-ending, u don't know how much time passed, cos no phone, no clock. alot of qns i wasn't expecting, like arithmetic progressions, quadratic, algebra, physics. there was an interesting one which is about following instructions. actually no it wasn't fun at all >.<

anyway, after everything was over, was really glad that we could finally leave. had a really weird feeling leaving the place, as though we were leaving prison. felt like we were coming back to civilization. met fiona, who was waiting for us for quite awhile at tiong bahru. wanted to eat at some place called strictly pancakes which we thought was near bugis. so yea it was the beginning of one hell of a walk.

so this is a good summary of the path we taken (take from fiona's blog lol)



day was super hot, and we got horribly lost at some carpark in between us that was full of dead ends. so when we reached strictly pancakes, we thought that finally, we can eat something. but turn out that of all days, it opens late only on mondays. +1 for bad luck.

but ok la, it wasn't that bad of a walk. ate some fish ice cream we got at the random korean market which tastes so good. i don't even know how. its just some fish like biscuit encasing vanilla ice cream with some red bean paste. korean food is good :D.

anyway, since we took all the effort of walking, decided to spend anyway. i thought i have enough money this week, so we went to spend at 日本村 at cathay. not too bad actually, portion was quite big, though of cos can't compare to the super good ramen last friday. ate until quite shiok la haha.

so yea today came back from chalet, and even went to studio for awhile. my wallet is completely empty now, with an untopped-up card, and im still in debt. but whatever. i will somehow be able to pay these off someday. someday D<

k la that's all for now. pretty excited bout tmr's outing :D

paydayyyy

today was an awesome day haha. was somewhat unplanned, as in we din't have anything exact to do, but 10 hours just flew by so quickly haha.

started by meeting at payar lebar and went to singapore post that building at 12:30, but cheeseng was late by 30 mins cos he was up recording the karuta readings.

dunno how, but we just came up with an idea for RM for cheeseng to do the moment he came lol. we just wrote some clue at the stabilo pencil, which lead him down to the popular downstairs, which led him to fairprice lol. the clues are still there now though, so some bo liao ppl might actually go and solve it :0.

anyway, after we met up, went to get ingredients for making brownie, ate lunch at some cheap place that sells waffles, then went to fiona's house to bake. baking was done pretty quickly cos it was pretty easy. wasn't exactly like a brownie, but it tasted like really tasty chocolate cake haha. took quite a few pics too. lee is a poser :P.

our brownie :D (why does it look so good lol. pro editting :0 )

after that we played a huge load of games. had some connect 4 round robin, jenga with coloured blocks. then there was the board game payday, which was pretty much the highlight of the day haha :D. its like game of life except the board is like a calendar with 31 days and alot of epic random stuff happening. super epic kay. completely died laughing many times haha

at first everyone was like freaking broke and had super huge debts to the bank, but after everyone else started hoarding the 'lao bei', cos of the old man on the $10000 note. a huge load of epic stuff happens. since i talked so much, got targeted like hell. i was the poorest, but they just took money from me, because lee wanted to make the game 'more fun'.

half the time was spent playing the lottery thing, and most of just like tried sticking to a certain number. like lee kept sticking to 1, like it's his car plate number, cos that's what most ppl who buy 4D do. they just stick to one number like forever. did alot of cockblocking and random donations to the 'charity', which goes to the jackpot lol.

since cheeseng was like throwing 1's and 2's all the time, three of us lapped chee seng at the last month of the game, and making huge load of jokes haha. we were like all retired already and shaking leg there with our money while chee is still investing :0. retired already still playing lottery and losing money and stuff though haha. aiya this game doesn't make sense, but its like 10 times more epic than monopoly. should bring to sleepover :D

anyway, after that was like 10, but we still played like karuta until 11. tried out reading without the pause between the number and the suit. im just so addicted to it, cos even though its boring to watch, its super thrilling to play :P. but turns out cheeseng is even more hardcore lol. his like faster and has better memory, so i realise im actually quite lousy at this game. so yea won 1 and lost 1. i think we got lee addicted to this game to haha. faster go watch then we can have some sort of tournament during sleepover :D

really excited for sleepover now, so many fun things to do. then there's bradley and loo and huang who's going to make it darn epic haha. hope it turns out well :D. k la that's all for tonight, so late liao. bye ^^

doing random stuff

yesterday was full of me doing random stuff. after like physics, being bored, me, yx, sam and simin went to use our phones to play piano lol. tried to like play random songs with one person doing the left hand, one person doing the right hand. darn retarded cos we kept making mistakes. but was a really fun way to burn time haha.

after lunch, came back up, and played a bit of slapjack. so when i went over to 03, i just randomly tried to make some sort of karuta with a deck of poker cards. basically, we took out all the diamonds and spades and are supposed to whack out the cards corresponding to the one being read out. like for example when five diamonds is read, both of us try to take five hearts faster than the opponent.


so yea, played with pin at first, with hardik as the reader. and it actually turned out to be damn fun :P. after that cheeseng came over to and tried to be reader as well lol. we irritated jookee alot with the 'naniwa zuni', who was there just playing his love live app, but he actually ended up playing the third match with me. and it just happened to become luck of the draw. darn epic haha.

after that, 4 of us went over to practice awhile at some place near bras basah, but spent like half, or more like three thirds of the time setting up :0. after that, wanted to eat some hot food, so we walked around arguing whether we should eat popeyes or kuey chap. in the end, ate kuey chap :D. cos it's cheap and good, even if its just carbs lol.

feeling quite restless now after sitting around watching anime for the whole day. wanna whack some cards so bad tmr haha. so far its 1-1 against pin. LETS REMATCH SOON. k la that's all for now. bye ~~