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09 September 2010
26 July 2010
Korea Trip is confirmed~!!
Just bought a package tour and extension to Korea with Asa Tours last Saturday.
Was real excited that I can finally visit a winter country for the first time in my life. Will be staying there for 12 days, dunno can tahan the weather or not :)
Now sourcing out for good places to go, and vin can finally get to see ZW in Korea. Hope the itinerary can be confirmed soon :)
Saving hard now for Korea.
* I still wish to fly to Japan soon. *
Was real excited that I can finally visit a winter country for the first time in my life. Will be staying there for 12 days, dunno can tahan the weather or not :)
Now sourcing out for good places to go, and vin can finally get to see ZW in Korea. Hope the itinerary can be confirmed soon :)
Saving hard now for Korea.
* I still wish to fly to Japan soon. *
12 July 2010
Life is better
Back to school for three weeks, and life was indeed different as compared to the last ten weeks of observation. I felt so much liberated now that I wasn't scrutinized for everything that I do. And now that I was back there as a permanent staff, people started to treat me like a colleague, not a trainee.
Indeed, life was better now.
The students that I had now weren't as easy the ones I had earlier, so here it poses another challenge to me again. With more time that I can plan for myself, and more time to rest, at least the emotional drain wasn't that unbearable.
World cup has ended, and so something has changed too. It has been a common topic among us and now it was gone. No matter who the champion was, many teams did great and they really deserve the name too.
Planning to go to Korea this December. Hopefully ZW is able to provide us with accommodation and we would be set to purchase flight tickets! :)
Indeed, life was better now.
The students that I had now weren't as easy the ones I had earlier, so here it poses another challenge to me again. With more time that I can plan for myself, and more time to rest, at least the emotional drain wasn't that unbearable.
World cup has ended, and so something has changed too. It has been a common topic among us and now it was gone. No matter who the champion was, many teams did great and they really deserve the name too.
Planning to go to Korea this December. Hopefully ZW is able to provide us with accommodation and we would be set to purchase flight tickets! :)
21 June 2010
Blogging from iPhone
Testing testing~
Have been trying out several apps since I got my hand on dad's old iPhone. Guess this iPhone must be really glad to b finally put to gd use since so many pp has been wanting to sell it away cos it has lost its wifi feature.
Nevertheless, if u can go online freely with a 3G data plan, it'd be fine ;)
Have been playing a game with unknown pp just now. It's a drawing game where u drew n pp guess n vice versa. So a few pp whom hav iPhone n a finger were drawing n guessing n drawing n guessing.
Have been trying out several apps since I got my hand on dad's old iPhone. Guess this iPhone must be really glad to b finally put to gd use since so many pp has been wanting to sell it away cos it has lost its wifi feature.
Nevertheless, if u can go online freely with a 3G data plan, it'd be fine ;)
Have been playing a game with unknown pp just now. It's a drawing game where u drew n pp guess n vice versa. So a few pp whom hav iPhone n a finger were drawing n guessing n drawing n guessing.
18 June 2010
Short getaway
Just came back from a very short trip to Malaysia.
Went to Kota Tinggi, Al's house, and Desaru with Pea and vin. It was a very short trip cos it felt more like a visit than a trip. Haha. Really appreciated the effort of Al and his family in making us feel very welcomed. We visited a lot of "sights n scenery" and had a real fun time catching up and taking a breather from the city life.
It must have been very tiring for Al since he was the only one whom could drive, and we were all so pampered with good food n snacks that we couldn't finished. Had been sometime since we got out of SG, and I realized how important a holiday getaway is.
My next trip, I don't want to go msia anymore. I wanna take a plane!! Hopefully this dec, I can have a chance to board a plane...
Went to Kota Tinggi, Al's house, and Desaru with Pea and vin. It was a very short trip cos it felt more like a visit than a trip. Haha. Really appreciated the effort of Al and his family in making us feel very welcomed. We visited a lot of "sights n scenery" and had a real fun time catching up and taking a breather from the city life.
It must have been very tiring for Al since he was the only one whom could drive, and we were all so pampered with good food n snacks that we couldn't finished. Had been sometime since we got out of SG, and I realized how important a holiday getaway is.
My next trip, I don't want to go msia anymore. I wanna take a plane!! Hopefully this dec, I can have a chance to board a plane...
05 June 2010
成绩
Results are out.
Have no idea at all, until people start to sms me sometime before dinner. I wonder how those people get to know about the results, or how did the first person who found out this get to know that results are releasing today. There were no announcements made at all.
As usual, I got the kind of results which made me both happy and sad. I never got some kind of result which made me happy and not sad at all, and able to feel proud of myself, or have the sense of accomplishment.
It's always mixed feelings.
So, happy that I got an A, but unhappy that I didn't really do well for my practicum, thanks to her. Everyone said that I was on the right track except her, and all the hard work put in, ten weeks of torture, all was summarized with a letter "P". It's something that was a little better than "failed". Since we can only get performance bonus from now on, if she can never see me "perform", or she didn't want to believe i "am performing", i guess i will change my working environment within the next two years.
I thought I didn't cared until I realized I was staring at the comp screen long enough for my mom to yell at me to tend to the cooking soup that I was supposed to switch off few minutes later.
In general, my CAP was pulled up, and I can graduate with credit, and phew.. back to my holidays.
Have no idea at all, until people start to sms me sometime before dinner. I wonder how those people get to know about the results, or how did the first person who found out this get to know that results are releasing today. There were no announcements made at all.
As usual, I got the kind of results which made me both happy and sad. I never got some kind of result which made me happy and not sad at all, and able to feel proud of myself, or have the sense of accomplishment.
It's always mixed feelings.
So, happy that I got an A, but unhappy that I didn't really do well for my practicum, thanks to her. Everyone said that I was on the right track except her, and all the hard work put in, ten weeks of torture, all was summarized with a letter "P". It's something that was a little better than "failed". Since we can only get performance bonus from now on, if she can never see me "perform", or she didn't want to believe i "am performing", i guess i will change my working environment within the next two years.
I thought I didn't cared until I realized I was staring at the comp screen long enough for my mom to yell at me to tend to the cooking soup that I was supposed to switch off few minutes later.
In general, my CAP was pulled up, and I can graduate with credit, and phew.. back to my holidays.
04 June 2010
Shopping @ Suntec
Last Saturday, it was the 2nd day of the start of GSS.
It was the long awaited sale of the year, so Vin n me decided to have a good shopping day at Suntec. Before that, we went to the bank to apply for a joint account.
Our joint account~!
Since both of us have been working for almost a year, we decided we should start saving up together. Saving up for many reasons.Hopefully in a year's time, this account will be fat full of money ($.$)
Banks in the city area are much better than those in the heartlands, cos there wasn't much people queue-ing, and usually people wouldn't wanna travel to the city area to bank. So, our account was done up quite swiftly.
Went to the Suntec's Fountain Food Terrace for lunch. When we reached there, it was during the lunch hours, so it was very difficult to find seats, even for two. We finally got ourselves a seat, and here's the chicken rice we had. The rice was made like a pyramid.
The portion wasn't very big though, and the food was rather ex.
After lunch, we went to the first floor (the side nearest to Carrefour), and started our shopping at the big big World of Sports. I wanted to get myself a new pair of running shoes, cos the ones I had have been talking alligators to me, so I need a new pair of shoes before I can start to run.
I was looking for either Reebok or New Balance shoes. (There was a saying that people who wore New Balance are kind people). However, New Balance was much more ex than Reebok, and Reebok was the only brand that is having a 15% discount on its regular priced items, so I decided to go for Reebok.
My super honest mood when I entered the shop:
The intention of buying a pair of new running shoes started because of my "talking old shoes". The last time i ran seriously was like a year ago, and to get me running again, I need shoes that can just motivate me to jog once a week. I was never a marathon runner, and I believe I don't want to be cos I don't really like running. Running is more like a chore, so in this case, the shoe better be as cheap as possible.
With that, I started looking at the shoes on the wall, and was more concerned with the price than the fanciful designs. I found a shoe which was simple, and the cheapest on the wall - $79.90. With the 15% discount, it's roughly $68. In this big big shop, there were some other shoes selling on the shop floor. It's those out-dated designs that didn't worth a standing on the shop walls, so they were placed there like bazaar sales. There were also posters printed 50%, (but in fact the discount was only 30%).
I decide to take a look at these shoes first before deciding if I wanna get the Reebok shoe on the wall. Found another very cheap reebok shoe amongst the 50%-batch and it's selling at $69.90 with further 30% discount (about $49). On the tag of the shoe, it says "X-training". I guessed it's for people whom wanna do light exercises like me, including light running. Wanted to look for my size, but I wasn't very sure about my shoe size for running shoes.
Tried on a size 7 and it was just fitting, and a bit tight at the ends. I couldn't find a 7.5 size, so decided to go back to the $68 shoe on the shop wall I saw just now. Asked the shop assistant whom passed by, and she said my size was sold out, so have to give up on that one.
Went back to the 50%-batch of shoes, and I was trying to look for a bigger size, like size 8. Took size 7 and size 8 (dug up from a pile of shoe boxes on our own), I went to a seat to try. Suddenly, one very huge guy came towards me and said in a rather unfriendly tone, "'Xcuse me, are you trying on these shoes? Let me help you."
This sales guy came at a very weird timing. Usually when you see customers messing up with your shoe boxes, then you go and stop them right? Not when they are trying to put their foot into your shoe den you said you wanna help them. I told this guy I didn't need help, but he insisted, in another unfriendly and assertive tone, "No. Let me help you" and he took my shoe boxes away and started packing the shoes into the shoe box.
Wat's wrong with this guy??
"What's your shoe size?" he asked in his rather Indonesian accented English.
"I just wanted to find out my shoe size by trying these two shoes." I replied.
He busily packed the shoes back into their boxes and didn't replied. Then he said, "ok", and went to get a "shoe-meter" thingy that could measure the size of your feet. He gestured unfriendly that I put my feet on the meter and we took a look at how big my foot was. I saw my feet at size 6.5, but he replied, "You should get a size 8.5, in case you are wearing socks.."
"But i don't wear thick socks." I told him, but he ignored me and started to look for size 8.5 in the heap of shoe boxes.
Next thing, he told me, "There's no size 8.5. You want get other designs? What sport do you do?"
"Running."
"This shoe you chose is not for running. It's for X-training." He showed me the tag like I haven't noticed it before, and gave me a look like I have picked shoes blindly."Do you run outdoors or indoors?"
(What do you say about running in the stadium and occasionally beside the road?) "Outdoors" i replied.
"This shoe is not for running outdoors", he continued.
"So what exactly is X-training? you mean x-training shoes cannot be used to run?"Vin asked him.
"X-training shoes is for running in the gym's treadmill. The sole is much softer."the sales guy replied. With that, he started walking to the higher end of 50%-batch of shoes. He pointed three shoes which cost $110-$130 at its usual prices, and told me to get those shoes instead.
I took a look at the prices and I guess I made a face that I wasn't interested.
"These shoes are for outdoor running, the one you chose just now cannot be used for outdoor running."the sales guy pressed on. Did he really need to repeat that so many times? "You see, the soles of these shoes are much thicker than that one. If you run for long hours, you are not going to wear that (x-training) shoe for long".He bragged on about how sophisticated the running soles were.
"In the first place, I am not a very committed runner" I said.
"So what are you looking for? Design? Price?"
"Price. I don't want to spend too much, and I don't run a lot." I replied.
"Now look at this", the sales guy slightly raised his voice, "that shoe over there (x-training), is not suitable for long distance running. These shoes ($110-$130 range) are also having a 30% discount. After discount is roughly $80. But those shoes is roughly $50, so with a $30 difference, you get better running shoes, isn't it better?"
"Sorry, but I said I wouldn't run for long hours, and I was looking more for the price, and I don't really go for the features of the shoes."I said. Didn't I said I don't buy shoes for marathon?
"You see. It's $80, as compared to you girls, you spend $80 on ko-mes-tics..."
"You mean cos-me-tics."I interrupted.
"You girls like to spend a lot on bags, LV, these $80 is much more worthy isn't it. If you run everyday.. each day would be roughly 30 cents..."he continued with his male chauvinism.
I was totally sick of that sales guy. In case you don't know why he pissed me so much and if you happened to be a guy, imagine you trying to buy some male beauty/hair products which you seldom wanted to buy, and when you finally decide to buy, the sales girl came to tell you that you should go for this more expensive product, as compared to you usually spending $70 for your PS games...
"I would consider if I want to buy from you", I said and stormed out of the shop. Does he have to be so assertive to his customers? I seriously despised guys like this whom think highly of himself.
Neeways, I'm glad and lucky that that indonesian sales guy pissed me off, cos there was another "world of sports"(smaller shopfront), at the higher levels of suntec, and the shoes inside are much cheaper, at 50% discount. I got these so called sophisticated running soles, Reebok branded, for $35. Thanks to him, thank you.
Other than the shoes, vin also made some purchases too. He bought 2 polo tees from G2000 and I also got a half-priced dress which usually sell at $59.90. At the first floor of suntec, there was this special GSS event that if you spend $100, you get a $10 voucher and a chance to spin the wheel for more prices. When we got our turn, the vouchers were already finished, so I took my chance to spin....
And guess what, I landed at the "Mystery"!! Guess it must be the best part of the wheel to land at, cos we won ourselves with a chance for this Grab-&-Win.
Vin bravely went in and won ourselves with three discount coupons at Haagen Dazs. So, that would be for the night's dessert~~
Dinner came and we went to Food Republic for this exotic dinner. It was nice!
After the dinner, we went to a Book Fair as organized by SPH (no Popular's booth though).. so there's this 商务印书馆 booth, and I got myself a 《全球华语词典》 there.
It's the first global chinese dictionary ever made, and I think it's a very interesting dictionary that every household should get. It's a chinese dict where there are nearly 90% of the words which you haven't see or hear before, despite they are chinese words. For example, some of the first few entries in this dict are "阿兵哥"，"阿丢"，"阿达阿达"，"阿舍奶"etc, and for each, they give explanations on what these words mean, and where these words are used. For eg, "阿兵哥" is used in Taiwan, Msia n Sg, meaning soldiers, "阿丢"is used in Macao，meaning uncle, "阿达阿达" is used in Tw，meaning someone whom is very 糊涂, "阿舍奶"is used in Thai, meaning 少奶奶..
So this whole dictionary is about cultural words like this, and I believe it would come in very useful, becos common chi dictionaries do not include words like this. Plus, the dict sells for a mere $17, as thick as the usual good chi dictionaries.
Vin and me bought some jap books and ya, guess we still haven gave up JLPT1.
When we are finished with the book fair, we moved on to Haagen Dazs.
Ordered 4 scoops of ice-cream of different flavours and waffle.
The price is really steep. Despite the discount coupon, these ice-cream can still cost us $18++.
Had a very tiring but satisfied day. ^w^
It was the long awaited sale of the year, so Vin n me decided to have a good shopping day at Suntec. Before that, we went to the bank to apply for a joint account.
Our joint account~!
Since both of us have been working for almost a year, we decided we should start saving up together. Saving up for many reasons.Hopefully in a year's time, this account will be fat full of money ($.$)
Banks in the city area are much better than those in the heartlands, cos there wasn't much people queue-ing, and usually people wouldn't wanna travel to the city area to bank. So, our account was done up quite swiftly.
Went to the Suntec's Fountain Food Terrace for lunch. When we reached there, it was during the lunch hours, so it was very difficult to find seats, even for two. We finally got ourselves a seat, and here's the chicken rice we had. The rice was made like a pyramid.
The portion wasn't very big though, and the food was rather ex.
After lunch, we went to the first floor (the side nearest to Carrefour), and started our shopping at the big big World of Sports. I wanted to get myself a new pair of running shoes, cos the ones I had have been talking alligators to me, so I need a new pair of shoes before I can start to run.
I was looking for either Reebok or New Balance shoes. (There was a saying that people who wore New Balance are kind people). However, New Balance was much more ex than Reebok, and Reebok was the only brand that is having a 15% discount on its regular priced items, so I decided to go for Reebok.
My super honest mood when I entered the shop:
The intention of buying a pair of new running shoes started because of my "talking old shoes". The last time i ran seriously was like a year ago, and to get me running again, I need shoes that can just motivate me to jog once a week. I was never a marathon runner, and I believe I don't want to be cos I don't really like running. Running is more like a chore, so in this case, the shoe better be as cheap as possible.
With that, I started looking at the shoes on the wall, and was more concerned with the price than the fanciful designs. I found a shoe which was simple, and the cheapest on the wall - $79.90. With the 15% discount, it's roughly $68. In this big big shop, there were some other shoes selling on the shop floor. It's those out-dated designs that didn't worth a standing on the shop walls, so they were placed there like bazaar sales. There were also posters printed 50%, (but in fact the discount was only 30%).
I decide to take a look at these shoes first before deciding if I wanna get the Reebok shoe on the wall. Found another very cheap reebok shoe amongst the 50%-batch and it's selling at $69.90 with further 30% discount (about $49). On the tag of the shoe, it says "X-training". I guessed it's for people whom wanna do light exercises like me, including light running. Wanted to look for my size, but I wasn't very sure about my shoe size for running shoes.
Tried on a size 7 and it was just fitting, and a bit tight at the ends. I couldn't find a 7.5 size, so decided to go back to the $68 shoe on the shop wall I saw just now. Asked the shop assistant whom passed by, and she said my size was sold out, so have to give up on that one.
Went back to the 50%-batch of shoes, and I was trying to look for a bigger size, like size 8. Took size 7 and size 8 (dug up from a pile of shoe boxes on our own), I went to a seat to try. Suddenly, one very huge guy came towards me and said in a rather unfriendly tone, "'Xcuse me, are you trying on these shoes? Let me help you."
This sales guy came at a very weird timing. Usually when you see customers messing up with your shoe boxes, then you go and stop them right? Not when they are trying to put their foot into your shoe den you said you wanna help them. I told this guy I didn't need help, but he insisted, in another unfriendly and assertive tone, "No. Let me help you" and he took my shoe boxes away and started packing the shoes into the shoe box.
Wat's wrong with this guy??
"What's your shoe size?" he asked in his rather Indonesian accented English.
"I just wanted to find out my shoe size by trying these two shoes." I replied.
He busily packed the shoes back into their boxes and didn't replied. Then he said, "ok", and went to get a "shoe-meter" thingy that could measure the size of your feet. He gestured unfriendly that I put my feet on the meter and we took a look at how big my foot was. I saw my feet at size 6.5, but he replied, "You should get a size 8.5, in case you are wearing socks.."
"But i don't wear thick socks." I told him, but he ignored me and started to look for size 8.5 in the heap of shoe boxes.
Next thing, he told me, "There's no size 8.5. You want get other designs? What sport do you do?"
"Running."
"This shoe you chose is not for running. It's for X-training." He showed me the tag like I haven't noticed it before, and gave me a look like I have picked shoes blindly."Do you run outdoors or indoors?"
(What do you say about running in the stadium and occasionally beside the road?) "Outdoors" i replied.
"This shoe is not for running outdoors", he continued.
"So what exactly is X-training? you mean x-training shoes cannot be used to run?"Vin asked him.
"X-training shoes is for running in the gym's treadmill. The sole is much softer."the sales guy replied. With that, he started walking to the higher end of 50%-batch of shoes. He pointed three shoes which cost $110-$130 at its usual prices, and told me to get those shoes instead.
I took a look at the prices and I guess I made a face that I wasn't interested.
"These shoes are for outdoor running, the one you chose just now cannot be used for outdoor running."the sales guy pressed on. Did he really need to repeat that so many times? "You see, the soles of these shoes are much thicker than that one. If you run for long hours, you are not going to wear that (x-training) shoe for long".He bragged on about how sophisticated the running soles were.
"In the first place, I am not a very committed runner" I said.
"So what are you looking for? Design? Price?"
"Price. I don't want to spend too much, and I don't run a lot." I replied.
"Now look at this", the sales guy slightly raised his voice, "that shoe over there (x-training), is not suitable for long distance running. These shoes ($110-$130 range) are also having a 30% discount. After discount is roughly $80. But those shoes is roughly $50, so with a $30 difference, you get better running shoes, isn't it better?"
"Sorry, but I said I wouldn't run for long hours, and I was looking more for the price, and I don't really go for the features of the shoes."I said. Didn't I said I don't buy shoes for marathon?
"You see. It's $80, as compared to you girls, you spend $80 on ko-mes-tics..."
"You mean cos-me-tics."I interrupted.
"You girls like to spend a lot on bags, LV, these $80 is much more worthy isn't it. If you run everyday.. each day would be roughly 30 cents..."he continued with his male chauvinism.
I was totally sick of that sales guy. In case you don't know why he pissed me so much and if you happened to be a guy, imagine you trying to buy some male beauty/hair products which you seldom wanted to buy, and when you finally decide to buy, the sales girl came to tell you that you should go for this more expensive product, as compared to you usually spending $70 for your PS games...
"I would consider if I want to buy from you", I said and stormed out of the shop. Does he have to be so assertive to his customers? I seriously despised guys like this whom think highly of himself.
Neeways, I'm glad and lucky that that indonesian sales guy pissed me off, cos there was another "world of sports"(smaller shopfront), at the higher levels of suntec, and the shoes inside are much cheaper, at 50% discount. I got these so called sophisticated running soles, Reebok branded, for $35. Thanks to him, thank you.
Other than the shoes, vin also made some purchases too. He bought 2 polo tees from G2000 and I also got a half-priced dress which usually sell at $59.90. At the first floor of suntec, there was this special GSS event that if you spend $100, you get a $10 voucher and a chance to spin the wheel for more prices. When we got our turn, the vouchers were already finished, so I took my chance to spin....
And guess what, I landed at the "Mystery"!! Guess it must be the best part of the wheel to land at, cos we won ourselves with a chance for this Grab-&-Win.
Vin bravely went in and won ourselves with three discount coupons at Haagen Dazs. So, that would be for the night's dessert~~
Dinner came and we went to Food Republic for this exotic dinner. It was nice!
After the dinner, we went to a Book Fair as organized by SPH (no Popular's booth though).. so there's this 商务印书馆 booth, and I got myself a 《全球华语词典》 there.
It's the first global chinese dictionary ever made, and I think it's a very interesting dictionary that every household should get. It's a chinese dict where there are nearly 90% of the words which you haven't see or hear before, despite they are chinese words. For example, some of the first few entries in this dict are "阿兵哥"，"阿丢"，"阿达阿达"，"阿舍奶"etc, and for each, they give explanations on what these words mean, and where these words are used. For eg, "阿兵哥" is used in Taiwan, Msia n Sg, meaning soldiers, "阿丢"is used in Macao，meaning uncle, "阿达阿达" is used in Tw，meaning someone whom is very 糊涂, "阿舍奶"is used in Thai, meaning 少奶奶..
So this whole dictionary is about cultural words like this, and I believe it would come in very useful, becos common chi dictionaries do not include words like this. Plus, the dict sells for a mere $17, as thick as the usual good chi dictionaries.
Vin and me bought some jap books and ya, guess we still haven gave up JLPT1.
When we are finished with the book fair, we moved on to Haagen Dazs.
Ordered 4 scoops of ice-cream of different flavours and waffle.
The price is really steep. Despite the discount coupon, these ice-cream can still cost us $18++.
Had a very tiring but satisfied day. ^w^
27 May 2010
可怜的梦
昨天早上，我做了一场很怪，但却让我感到很开心的梦。
我梦到了我终于去了日本一趟！
这个梦真的很逼真，因为我梦见到了机场，搭飞机，下飞机，坐公车，和日本店员说话，拍街头照......
但是，这趟日本之旅只有两天一夜，很短。而在梦里陪我飞到日本的就是Pea。
为什么会梦到日本之旅？我自己也不是很清楚，也许我太想去日本了吧。
我发现自己在做梦时，也总是会梦出我的性格特质。在梦里也不忘了日本的飞机票有多贵，所以一看到来回日本的飞机票只有“$170多”，我们就决定飞了。还狠下心来，就在那里过个两天三夜也好，因为考虑到住宿很贵、消费也贵，干脆在那里逗留一晚，晚上住机场，只要能踏在日本的本土上，也在所不惜！所以，抱着这股热忱，也不知这样做是不是很愚蠢，就在梦里做了这样的决定，就这样梦下去。。。
为什么做梦也不能称心如意？不是说在梦里就能够自由自在，所有的不可能都可以变成可能吗？
可笑的是，在搭公车时，窗外的风景也难免和新加坡相识。我还一直想说：其实日本和新加坡没什么不同，就多了些日本字的大招牌，人们所说的语言不一样...... Vin听了，直爽地反问我：“你有去错地方吗？”
Sigh。我是很想去日本。为了能去一趟，我不惜把为了存买xxxx和xxxx的钱都拿出来花....
我梦到了我终于去了日本一趟！
这个梦真的很逼真，因为我梦见到了机场，搭飞机，下飞机，坐公车，和日本店员说话，拍街头照......
但是，这趟日本之旅只有两天一夜，很短。而在梦里陪我飞到日本的就是Pea。
为什么会梦到日本之旅？我自己也不是很清楚，也许我太想去日本了吧。
我发现自己在做梦时，也总是会梦出我的性格特质。在梦里也不忘了日本的飞机票有多贵，所以一看到来回日本的飞机票只有“$170多”，我们就决定飞了。还狠下心来，就在那里过个两天三夜也好，因为考虑到住宿很贵、消费也贵，干脆在那里逗留一晚，晚上住机场，只要能踏在日本的本土上，也在所不惜！所以，抱着这股热忱，也不知这样做是不是很愚蠢，就在梦里做了这样的决定，就这样梦下去。。。
为什么做梦也不能称心如意？不是说在梦里就能够自由自在，所有的不可能都可以变成可能吗？
可笑的是，在搭公车时，窗外的风景也难免和新加坡相识。我还一直想说：其实日本和新加坡没什么不同，就多了些日本字的大招牌，人们所说的语言不一样...... Vin听了，直爽地反问我：“你有去错地方吗？”
Sigh。我是很想去日本。为了能去一趟，我不惜把为了存买xxxx和xxxx的钱都拿出来花....
25 May 2010
兴趣
没有更新部落格，就没有写部落格的推动力。。。>w<
最近常常偏头痛。虽然暂时没有工作上的压力，却还是难免会感到头疼。是平时太过操劳，现在好好休息时，所有的“反效果”都蜂拥而来了吗？(>n<)
现在好不容易放假，终于可以静下心来，做自己喜欢做的事了。每天可以睡到很迟才起来，醒来了，有时干脆就躺在床上看漫画，看到开心才肯下床。阿姨所认识的一个“小弟”因为听说我们还没看完“Harlem Beat”这套漫画，就很好心地借了我们整套漫画（第1至29本）。所以，现在一有时间，就看漫画，一看就是一两本。。。
除了看漫画，也常常在玩DS。之前一口气玩了“Phoenix Wright”的第一套游戏，到了第二套时，因为开始有点“腻”了，便开始玩“Pokemon Diamond”。
好久没完Pokemon了。。之前也是因为玩了Pokemon Yellow，开始接触GB。之后，为了玩Pokemon Gold/Silver 和 Pokemon Crystal，也接触了GBC 和 GBA。结果，终于有了DS，却不想玩Pokemon Diamond/Pearl，因为自认为已经“长大”了。谁知，在偶然的尝试之下，又上瘾了。。真的很好玩，没玩过的不妨试试看。
Pokemon Diamond/Pearl现在已经“进化”了，不像以前的版本，必须照着故事蓝图走，枯燥乏味的“我打你-你打我”。现在，Pokemon Diamond/Silver 让你有更多自由，选择你想去的地方，还可以2对2地进行battle。在画面、声乐与interaction方面，也别具用心，让我感受到一次又一次的惊喜。
现在还有更新的版本：Pokemon Soul Silver/Gold。之后也可以试试看吧~
最后一个什么都不用想，什么都不用操心的星期。下个星期就要回到NIA了。
最近常常偏头痛。虽然暂时没有工作上的压力，却还是难免会感到头疼。是平时太过操劳，现在好好休息时，所有的“反效果”都蜂拥而来了吗？(>n<)
现在好不容易放假，终于可以静下心来，做自己喜欢做的事了。每天可以睡到很迟才起来，醒来了，有时干脆就躺在床上看漫画，看到开心才肯下床。阿姨所认识的一个“小弟”因为听说我们还没看完“Harlem Beat”这套漫画，就很好心地借了我们整套漫画（第1至29本）。所以，现在一有时间，就看漫画，一看就是一两本。。。
除了看漫画，也常常在玩DS。之前一口气玩了“Phoenix Wright”的第一套游戏，到了第二套时，因为开始有点“腻”了，便开始玩“Pokemon Diamond”。
好久没完Pokemon了。。之前也是因为玩了Pokemon Yellow，开始接触GB。之后，为了玩Pokemon Gold/Silver 和 Pokemon Crystal，也接触了GBC 和 GBA。结果，终于有了DS，却不想玩Pokemon Diamond/Pearl，因为自认为已经“长大”了。谁知，在偶然的尝试之下，又上瘾了。。真的很好玩，没玩过的不妨试试看。
Pokemon Diamond/Pearl现在已经“进化”了，不像以前的版本，必须照着故事蓝图走，枯燥乏味的“我打你-你打我”。现在，Pokemon Diamond/Silver 让你有更多自由，选择你想去的地方，还可以2对2地进行battle。在画面、声乐与interaction方面，也别具用心，让我感受到一次又一次的惊喜。
现在还有更新的版本：Pokemon Soul Silver/Gold。之后也可以试试看吧~
最后一个什么都不用想，什么都不用操心的星期。下个星期就要回到NIA了。
20 May 2010
These Few Days
It feels really different. Had been so long since I could take a breather and enjoy my days like I used to. It really feel so great to be doing the things I like to do. Something as simple as waking up at 9am instead of 5am had been a luxury to me as well.
So, on 7th May when I finished my day, I had a good dinner with Vin at Pastamania's @CWP. We were going to catch the movie IP Man2, so we had a rather quick dinner, and we were off for the movie. I remembered having something that was meant to be a pasta, but turned out to be something like laksa. Neeways, the soup tasted real sweet with all the prawns and light red sauce.
After the movies, it was pretty late, so Vin came to my house for the night, and we were saying to have an early breakfast at Yakun's the next morning.
It's been sometime since I had breakfast at Yakun's. The egg still tasted great, but the price did increased for a bit. Compared to the normal egg and bread breakfast you could have at kopitiam's, the breakfast at Yakun is indeed a bit overpriced. We had a set each, and we couldn't finish the bread.
After that, we wanted to have a try on the Circle line, so we went to Bishan MRT interchange. We wanted to go to Promenade, so on the not-so-long-way there, we were playing with DS' Taikou no Tatsujin. Remembered vin took the red drum while I took the blue one and we played with various songs under Difficult mode. Easy way to pass time :>
Reached Promenade, and we head for the Millenia Walk. It looked kinda classy, with its new renovation, but the interior still can't hide its rather out-dated orange and blue ceilings.Most of the shops were so high-ended that you wouldn't even feel like stepping in. There was this harvey norman at the top floors where the furnitures and appliances were just placed all around. Remembered we had to walk through the Harvey Norman in order to get to the departmental store at the end. We were looking for this Japanese authentic Ramen restaurant that was introduced in razor tv. It was something ebi, and something we hadn't try before.
We reached this section where there were many authentic Jap restaurants inside. There was a long queue at the ramen restaurant near the entrance, but it was not the one we were looking for. We came for the ramen restaurant which the soup base was prawn (ebi), not the usual pork lard soup base.
Entered the restaurant, and we were greeted with many Japanese waiters/waitresses. I was rather surprised when they come to take order, they actually knelled down on the floor, so we were looking down at them. As heard from Vin, this seemed to be a culture in Japan's high-end restaurants as well. Felt rather uneasy, that when we talked to them, we also naturally bowed our heads low to talk to them haha. There were many jap customers present as well, and the interior was rather dim, with many pictures of the actual shop in Japan on the wall.
After a not so long wait, the food arrived:
The bowl was cute, but towards the end of eating, you find it hard to reach the soup. The soup and the mee tasted great, at first. Maybe it's too sweet, the sweetness lingers in your tongue and you could get "tired" of the taste after a moment. Vin's negative opinion was that there was no pork, but chicken pieces.
I so wanted to continue writing this entry with more pics.. but the pic uploader just fails me again and again =.=
Till then...
So, on 7th May when I finished my day, I had a good dinner with Vin at Pastamania's @CWP. We were going to catch the movie IP Man2, so we had a rather quick dinner, and we were off for the movie. I remembered having something that was meant to be a pasta, but turned out to be something like laksa. Neeways, the soup tasted real sweet with all the prawns and light red sauce.
After the movies, it was pretty late, so Vin came to my house for the night, and we were saying to have an early breakfast at Yakun's the next morning.
After that, we wanted to have a try on the Circle line, so we went to Bishan MRT interchange. We wanted to go to Promenade, so on the not-so-long-way there, we were playing with DS' Taikou no Tatsujin. Remembered vin took the red drum while I took the blue one and we played with various songs under Difficult mode. Easy way to pass time :>
Reached Promenade, and we head for the Millenia Walk. It looked kinda classy, with its new renovation, but the interior still can't hide its rather out-dated orange and blue ceilings.Most of the shops were so high-ended that you wouldn't even feel like stepping in. There was this harvey norman at the top floors where the furnitures and appliances were just placed all around. Remembered we had to walk through the Harvey Norman in order to get to the departmental store at the end. We were looking for this Japanese authentic Ramen restaurant that was introduced in razor tv. It was something ebi, and something we hadn't try before.
We reached this section where there were many authentic Jap restaurants inside. There was a long queue at the ramen restaurant near the entrance, but it was not the one we were looking for. We came for the ramen restaurant which the soup base was prawn (ebi), not the usual pork lard soup base.
Entered the restaurant, and we were greeted with many Japanese waiters/waitresses. I was rather surprised when they come to take order, they actually knelled down on the floor, so we were looking down at them. As heard from Vin, this seemed to be a culture in Japan's high-end restaurants as well. Felt rather uneasy, that when we talked to them, we also naturally bowed our heads low to talk to them haha. There were many jap customers present as well, and the interior was rather dim, with many pictures of the actual shop in Japan on the wall.
I so wanted to continue writing this entry with more pics.. but the pic uploader just fails me again and again =.=
Till then...
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