Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Yoz pple!
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Uni has started...haha...so far lessons are quite slack...mostly intro lectures and A level stuff...i did functions in math lecture and quantum in chem haha...
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later gg for jap post war film and anime lecture...very excited haha...
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And there are soooo many CCAs i wana join...Kendo, Karate, Taekwando, ODAC, Ice skating, Diving, Astronomy, Comics and Anime club, Physics society(hey dun roll your eyes...its not as boring as it may sound...)...
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But for now im joining the Japanese society heheez...and next up would be mountaineering...but they hav trainings 4 times a week...so still considering...if i dun join mountaineering this sem mayb ill go for another society or martial arts
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busy busy busy haha...
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Sorry i cant make it for tonite...i got japanese lessons from 6.30-9.45(its make up from the one i missed when i went to japan....the irony of it haha)
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Have fun and do upload stuff here...coz i feel like im talking to a wall(aka myself here)
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Haha...btw i just got a facebook lol
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Su*

Friday, July 25, 2008


Geisha in Kyoto(She was posing for some pro photographer...so i don't think she is a real Geisha... >.< sorry if im wrong!but it was so beautiful i had to post it!!!)


Me and my Yukata on the eve of the Gion Festival(on the way home alr)


The famous Glico man in Osaka


Me and Oguri Shun!!!Kya~~~ Jap actors/actresses adverts were everywhere!!!


Video i took at the Gion festival...they used some sort of leverage to move that gigantic float...super cool!

Studio Ghibli!!!With the robot from Laputa, Castle in the sky



Giant Torii(Wooden gate) at Meiji shrine (Yeaps the tiny figure there is me btw)



Mt Fuji from 5th station



Sunrise at peak of Mt Fuji(The real thing looks way better thanks to my camera skills haha)
こんにちわ!

Okay...im back from my overseas travels...still trying very hard to get back in tune to reality...seems like i have not been in spore for a year haha
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About Japan...everything was so cool!!!Enjoyed every second there...but of coz the highlights was Akihabara, Mt fuji and the Gion Festival!!!Akihabara had SO MUCH...i really mean like heaps of ANIME that i was so stunned went i came out of the train station...seriously...i only managed to enter 3 shops amd it was time to go...the anime goods there was so much cheaper...i randomly grabbed the merchandise off the shelf and went to pay wout looking at the price tags haha...
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Mt Fuji was quite a long hike up, really cold when the strong winds blew...but it was a hike to the clouds, thru it, then the view above it was so cool!Sunrise was ultimate...it was really touching, and i felt a sense of achievement in just being there at that moment.
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Gion festival was full of pple...and i wore a yukata on the eve of it to wander the streets there haha...it was like spore's chingay and pasar malam combined, but on a much larger scale and lots of new n interesting twists...
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Felt some withdrawal effects when i returned to spore haha...coz not used to non-Jap speaking society haha...and not used to no vending machines every corner i turn...haha
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Anyway, in 3 days time i headed to Bintan(w Stella, Catrine and Erika-our new names!)...super nice beach there...i loved squidging my toes in the sand, and splashing in the sea haha...did that for 3 whole days haha...n of course volleyball(which caused extreme pain to my forearms haha), snorkling(where i saw Nemo!haha), sandcastles(which was destroyed by Suzuki haha) and Bridge/Dai di(felt sorry for Stella haha)...btw you can call me Hiromi frm now on haha
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Yeaps...this account is just 10% of my summary on my past 2 weeks haha,too much to say...i dun wana go back to study!!!>.< ok...calm down...must...try...to...get...back...to...my...life...
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Su*

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Hey pple!
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Greetings from Kawaguchiko, Japan!
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Having fun here haha...and got free internet use at the hostel, so i tot ill post something here haha...
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tomoro we will begin the climb on my fuji!hope everything goes well!
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nites!
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Su*

Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Hey pple!!!
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Nice to be here haha...what happened to our chat box? got anyone noe how to fix it? haha...miss all your crappings...
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Sorry din post for so long...was mugging for the placement test...(and reading hana kimi at the same time...im a very distracted person studying on my own haha)...the placement test was difficult...so i guess ill be taking physics like every regular undergrad this Aug...and guess what?i met mr.orc (aka the unknown chatbox person...)coz both of us were the only 2 pple, yeaps, only TWO pple taking the test(other then a few NUS high school pple)...mayb the rest knew the standard of the test and decided not to sign up eh...haix...but no regrets, studying is nvr bad!(...trying to convince myself...)
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Anyway, today is the 1st day of the canoeing nationals...not very exciting yet...but gives me a feeling of nostalgia when i went back today...too bad ill not be there on the finals...hope all the juniors do well and gain an experience of a lifetime!!! (=
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I'll not be at the finals, coz at that time, ill probably be at Tokyo Tower viewing the city.Yeaps!I'm going japan tomoro!!!yay!!!Its like a dream come thru haha...i hav many dreams...and one of them is to scale mt fuji...(other dreams incude running on the Great Wall of China haha...but lets save it for another time)ill be starting from the halfway point of mt fuji(cheatin by bus haha)so i guess ill fulfil half my dream eh haha...hopefully the sunrise will not be obscured by clouds!!!
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The coolest thing will be all the Jap atmosphere like Akihabara etc...anime n manga galore...im still thinking how to bring back all that manga haha...gasp* what if they dun let me on the plane coz of excessive baggage, or i overshot the amt of anime allowed to be brought into spore?!?!?!
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And before you think of asking...no im not going to get souvenirs for you, you and you...coz i dont have the budget and space(all of it will be blown on anime, yes the cruel truth:anime is more impt then my teammates >.< haha)...but ill prob buy some food back, so if i see you guys soon aft i return mayb ill hav some for you...first come first serve...no pushing!
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okie...i gtg get ready for my exciting adventure!!!i'll update you peeps when i return from the heaven of anime!!!
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Su*

Friday, July 04, 2008

MOST UPDATED INFO ABT JNRS' NATIONALS

NATIONAL SCHOOLS CANOEING IS NEXT WEEK

tuesday: 1000m heats
wednesday: 500m heats
thurs: all semis
fri: FINALS

TAKE NOTE IF URE GOING DOWN. (:

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Remember,

28 & 29 June (this weekend)- SDBF at Bedok Reservoir

8 & 9 & 10 July- National Schools Canoeing Championships at MacRitchie Reservoir

Just felt that i should keep everyone updated (:

These events just remind me that i actually miss everything and everyone a lot.

-sze

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

21 Juneee!

in case the msg chains get screwed up again, let me inform

21 JUNE TEAM DINNER!

some nice food somewhere. can be anyone's house? we can cook/bake/steamboat together. hehs also can better accomodate the whole team. yupp hopefully attendance will be better okay. don't you all miss seeing the whole team? (: who wants to volunteer their home tell me!

and pls msg jas your attendance.!

anw those who have been missing, pls turn up. everyone misses you! yesss.

love,
szemin.

Sunday, June 01, 2008


btw, i told mr yong alr. he says it doesnt sound negative to him. but anyway he says nj needs help for B div gals. Here is a timetable for the days they nid seniors to help. Yellow is the no. of pple needed while the numbers on the left of each day is the date. mon is 4-6pm, wed 8-10am,thu 4-6pm. (Ignore 3rd of jun, frm 23rd jun will be aftnn coz sch reopens)Those that are not working at that time try to make it k!inform suiping when you are gg to help. Thanx.
Angry.
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Yups,that just about summarizes how i feel.
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yest, she(i wont mention her name coz unlike her, i noe how it feels to hav your name mentioned in public wout permission) said she wanted to poll some dragonboaters and ask some questions. since i knew her so ok lor...help out mah. it was a chat that lasted 1hr and 20min. it was a casual chat, with me trying to giv as much info bout db as i could, from what i learnt in the team.
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At least, that was what i thought it was....
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This morning, in the Straits Times, it was written: "If you ask me to describe dragon boating in one word,I'd say team bonding, not life jackets." said Ms Lee Su Ling, 19, who used to row with the National Junior College dragon boat team.
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hmm...
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How could this happen when:
1.I was not told that our private conversation online would be published in the papers the next day. No permission was asked at all. Does poll=interview?
2.I never said my JC/CCA or age at all. Just because she knew all this information, it was used to portray me as if i was representing the njc db team.
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Worst still, not only was this quoting me witout permission, not the whole conversation was used. The words used were selective.
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Here the part of the conversation, totally uncut:
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she: eh someone commented that in DB, ppl are more concerned over team building and bonding and put less emphasis on safety, comments?
me: like how they put less emphasis on safety?
she: like they dont drill in it
they keep talking about team builing and how impt it is
but dont talk about safety and how impt it is
me: oh
i think its impt to mention safety
but act we oso dun mention it too
i mean like if someone ask us to describe db in one word
ill say teambonding
not lifejacks
but if its durin a db course we'll mention lifejacks
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Did they quote me saying "i think its impt to mention safety" or "but if its durin a db course we'll mention lifejacks"? As a dragon boater, first thing that comes to my mind when I talk about the team, is how we trained hard together and fought side by side. I won't talk about safety/life jackets. But does that mean I put safety as 2nd place to teambonding? If one of you were gettin in the boat wout a life jacket, and we were alr late for the race, we still would all insist that you get your life jacket before rowing off. Not saying it always does not mean we have disregard for safety, it is because it is already part of us.
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I felt as if i was asked 100 qns, and only part of 1 ans was used. I dont mind being portrayed as the bad guy. But im sorry that i got the team involved in it. I just felt that it made NJ dragonboating seem as if we don't care about safety(even dou i kept emphasizing that we have our life jackets on at all times, of coz no nid to mention this in the paper too).
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I apologise to you pple for being careless and stupid enough to trust her. Actually i sent her an sms to her to say i was v angry n didnt want to talk to her again. She said she just typed out what i said and passed it to somebody. Is there a difference? I dont think i have been so mean to someone before, but somehow i wasnt sorry for sending that sms to her. Mayb im becoming bad too.
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I'll be coming up with a letter to send to the straits times. This has gone way off my be-nice limit.
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Su*

Saturday, May 31, 2008

こんばんわ。

today we(me,ch n drey)went to the southern ridge trail!!!haha...quite fun...take bus 100 from commonwealth mrt and drop at the 3rd bus stop on alexadra road(press the bell when you see the fancy bridge always shown on news...)if not, you could exercise more by getting lost...
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Theres an elevated walk...quite fun haha...then some forest...then the Henderson bridge...v cool n woody n nice to touch...(crazy me molestin the bridge =.= ) haha...nice view too...then more forest n we reached mt faber!felt like a tourist(almost boarded one of the tourbus coz the aircon felt so good...)haha...went back by habourfront mrt...n the whole trip from the bustop at commonwealth to habourfront took about 1.5hours only!honestly...i was walking...NOT SPRINTING(my legs hav since rusted...)...you guys can go try it out too (=
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and tomoro im going to the click 5 concert!!!haha...coz i bought the tix for my sis' bdae...burnt a whole in my wallet...no...more like incinerated it...but anyway...my first live-band-w-songs-i-hear-on-ipod concert!!!haha...ok dun mind me the mountain turtle...if all goes well, i may also be able to watch the W-inds concert in japan this july too...so take this concert as a warm up!Anyone want w-inds songs just get from me (=
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btw..who is staying in sheares hall?could we hav a poll?
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Su*

Friday, May 23, 2008

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Am i being stalked?!?!?!?
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Gah...looks left n right, draws the curtains, closes the door, load my gun...
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eh...is it safe to come out now?
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anyway...cant help that im popular haha...
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eh...im taking the physics advance placement tests...so erm...may i ask who is Mr Orc who is supposedly taking the test too?
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Btw...back to my normal life(the un-stalked one) just watched accuracy of death yest!!!haha...kaneshiro takeshi was so funny haha...the reviews weren't so good but i tot that it was a good movie for jap fans like me haha(those that like anythin jap) but more importantly, sano is still the most handsome in my opinion.
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Okok...ill explain who is sano for all you non-jap-lovin peeps out there...he is the main character from hanazakari no kimitachi e, more commonly known as hana kimi. Yes! Sano Izumi is the tall dark n handsome high jumper...think i hav a weakness for guys doing sports... >.< ...n yes...sano is a manga character...(dont roll your eyes!)...but he really is the most good lookin and has a super nice personality...
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oh...n the summary for last sunday at ecp haha...attendance was honestly...pathetic. but anyway i had a good time...we had doubles cycling coz some of us cudnt cycle...it felt like a T2 hahah...steady but heavy lol...then we went to play handball...where suihang most unfortunately and 'accidently' injured others haha...haha...sorry suihang just joking...n then we went bowling...which i was quite new too...my advice for beginners: just throw the ball straight...no nid to much strength...using 1,2 or 3 hands to throw is fine...as long as it goes straight it will hit somethin haha...yups that all...
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n so...ill just hide in my houz with my sniper until after the placement test...
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Su*

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Vesak Day Team Outing! ;D

hello! in case some of you all didnt receive the msg regarding the outing tmr at ECP, let me announce that:

WE'RE MEETING AT BEDOK MRT AT 9.45am OKAY!(:

please set your alarm clocks and get your gears and bottles and caps ready! we're gonna have lots of fun! please do not oversleep or be late cos it's gonna cause a tiny weeny bit of trouble if you cant find your own way there!

to all the Buddhists (or not), HAPPY VESAK DAY! yay it's a holiday!

szemin.

Friday, May 02, 2008

UGLY UGLY!!!
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hahaha...ok...that sums up our crazy outing at Pit Stop...
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lol...but of coz we cant stop there...lets get on to the detailed description for your reading pleasure...(Disclaimer: all according to the bias view of Su* who reached at 3plus pm...)
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Game 1:
UGLY UGLY
How to play:
1) Have a stck of cards with adorable little monsters that look like each other to confuse players...
2) A group of violent FEMALE canoeist...
3) Fingernails - to scratch poke and jab...
4) A voice...to degrade your opponents...
Put them altogether and you get an UGLY(dun mind the pun haha)Cat Fight...
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Game 2:
HANDS MATCHING
How to play:
Follow the positions of the hands shown on the cards...
Sounds simple eh...tell that to qi(para para queen) and jas(slow mo queen) haha...
anyway...Su* was just a few cards lesser then them coz i cant differentiate left from right...coz of the lousy drawings(sore loser...)...haha...think i have problems with details...
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Game 3:
SLAP or SWAP? dun really noe wat it is called...
How to play:
A UNO and SNAP fusion...not very fun...(coz Su* din win...haha)
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Game 4:
SABOTEER
How to play:
to complicated to explain...but basically we are divided into 2 grps, the saboteers and the non-saboteers(ok...sounds dumb haha) anyway...normal(non-saboteers) pple are suposed to build their tunnel using the images on the cards to reach the "Gold"(looked like a lump of faeces painted gold haha...opps...scratch that...but not w fingernails!) Anyway...all of us saboteers got blocked so we lost(another sore loser...)
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Game 5:
LEANING TOWER aka let's kill Jas...
How to play:
hmm...the name explains itself...make the Tower(similar to Jenga) crush Jas...
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Okie...tat sums it up...not sure is the order correct or i missed out any games...feel free to correct me...
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On the whole...there were winners and losers(I belong there!haha)...but as the saying goes...its the process that counts...hmm...the process of screaming, shrieking, and bursting out in laughter at the wrong times(yes sze tats you)...
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Honestly, we are a menace to the staff and customers at Pit Stop...i think it became at least 100 times quieter when we left...lucky we din break the table haha...
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btw...i have officialy lost my voice...in a record timing of 2 hours...luckily blogs only need fingers(my fingers are still able to type except for the few scratches and scars - probably self inflicted haha...)
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Looking forward to Vesak day where East Coast Park may have to close down after that due to hurricane/tsunami-like damage...
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Su*

Thursday, May 01, 2008

Boardgames at Pitstop

(:

Many more to come, my favourite people! :DDD

<3 jas

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Our Labour Day Plans

Hello Pretty People,

Girls Outing on Labour Day! :D
We all deserve a good break. Hehs

Currently, we have:
Bernie
Cheryl
Flo
Qi
Sabu
Su
Sze
Dee
Sok
Me!!! (:
--> Corr
--> Vic

Busy People:
Bel (she s working :(( ), Char (Made Plans long ago. Someone, pls pressure her Lols)

Pending:
Vic (Not sure if family made plans. I ll pressure her Lols)
Corr (Mia. Qi, Pls ask her to come back to earth)


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Time: Lunch- Late afternoon/evening
Venue: Suggestions include cycling/sports, kbox, boardgames

We need a vote! :D

<3 jas

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Hey pple...
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haven't been crapping for a long time haha...coz i've been busy...aren't we all are haha...btw way im still busy now...im busy studying...no kidding...
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coz there is this advanced placement test in NUS for certain courses...mine will physics...eh not accepted yet but should be lah haha...n there are tests where when you pass you dun have to take that course in Uni n save time...yea...yups...so since i've decided to study, i cannot fail! so must study v hard!!! argh...nitemares of A levels...all the equations and diagrams...kyaa~~~
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n not to mention i hav to study my Jap!haha...tats fun...but still studying all the same...makes it a bit greuling...just a bit...but for anime...i'll willingly do it!
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yest i went running w chihua, then we ran all the way to the flyer!! from kallang lah...not my houz of coz haha...i mean we went into the building at the base of the flyer...so the flyer was like directly/perpendicularly above us leh!!!super cool...of coz we din take it lah...no $$$ haha...but we did go put our handprints and fingerprints and face prints on the display capsule...(ok mayb just me haha)...anyway...tat was an exciting day at the otherwise v boring work...
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oh...n im stopping work soon (mid-May) to study n really enjoy myself...n those gg NUS...maybe you could check out wat advance placement tests are there so you can save yrself some time when you get into Uni....im not so sure bout NTU dou...
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Su*

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Hey hey hey pple!
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check it out!
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nah...theres nothing really...
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Just wanted to type an interesting intro haha...
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anywaeee...recently, ive not been watching any anime...hmmm...since i started work?omg...one month plus alr...no wonder im so grumpy...but b4 you think i hav reverted back to those that watch the less than healthy amount of anime(means less than 1 epi per day)...ive been supplymenting my life with manga and jap drama...haha...finished Ranma 1/2...now in the midst of Inuyasha...blush*...you cant imagine how cute inuyasha is...(^-^)...but i like horohoro too...kyaa~~~...okok...come back to earth Su*...oh...n i finished the old jap dramas like long vacation, love revolution. Now currently watching Gokusen.
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Trust me...Gokusen IS HILARIOUS. no im not kidding...im half laughing as i type this althou i have only watched about 5 episodes...lol...its about this frail looking female teacher that teaches a class of gangster like bad-boys. they bully her alot...but her passion to teach n enthusiasm to want to change them makes her stay. The catch? She is actually a granddaughter of a yakuza(gangster) family, and has grown up fighting. But of coz she cannot reveal her identity if not she'll be sacked.
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So its damn funny when she appears lady-like and gangsterish at the same time...haha...not to mention her over-enthusiasm:her class ignores her whenever she tries to start any cheers...she's like:"eveyone!!!"(you are suppose to go OEI!!! here...but...) *SILENCE*...then in the background you hear pple scolding her idiot in 3 different ways haha....honestly...this is the best way to pick up vulgar words in jap...
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thats it for now...
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"Everyonee!!!"
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okok...ill try that cheer some other place...
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Su*

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

お早う!Ohayou!
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Ok, apparantly you are only allowed to say the above to your close friends...smart aleck Su* went to say that to her jap teacher haha...then get corrected >.< but anyway...i <3 jap lessons...sat went to open house, then i was sooo depressed that it is not advisable (at all) to take jap, although we are adviced to follow your dreams and interest...load of rarwbhish...gahh...anyway...so im going for my 2nd choice...astrophysics...cool rite?!maybe youll see me in NASA someday haha...and im taking it simultaneously with material science engine...double degree...so that ill find a nice job when i graduate and in case the night sky becomes distorted due to global warming or something...haha...heard that double degree drop out rate is significant, and its a 6-day week programme, where your holidays are erm...special terms aka continue to study lah! Grim preview eh..but im gona try it anyway...and pave the way for our future...(ok...it wasnt me hoo typed that...my intellectual twin did it)
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and the best thing during open house was i spoke to the jap society pple...haha...their jap was gooood...so yups, most likely Su* will have an early retirement from competitive sports...duno if i can take not whacking everyday....
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About koi sora...yups it was a tear jerker...i din fare too badly..haha...only succumbed to the part:
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晴れの時、君は笑ってる、
雨の時、君は泣いてる、
夕日の時、君は恥ずかしいている、
夜の時、君の胸に私を持っている。
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which means: (when the mika is thinking about hiro)
sunny means you are happy,
rain means you are crying,
sunset means you are embarrassed,
night means you are gently holding me.
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okae...its not exactly as in the movie...thats the best i can rem haha...but the idea is there
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ok...time to start work...さようなら!sayounara!
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Su*