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For a while…I was abit lost…suddenly I dunno whats the meaning and purpose of life after I find my life left only my work.
Yesterday, I made a step forward, this might change my life quite a bit. With some doubt and some concern, I decided to raise my hand and tell the world instead of keeping it to myself 
This will keep me busy again, lotsa things to read, to find out, to learn, to share and become a better person.
Recently is weird, I dun work as late as when i was rushing two project for 2 units, but i felt more tired. Is it the content or is it because of the pro-long period making me a bit burn out? In any case, it doesn’t matter, i am learning to put things down, work is not the most important thing in life, there are other more important things. Of course I still want to achieve, but i shall put less pressure on myself, take things easier.
Just finished my Japanese exam, should be able to pass? hopefully^^| really haven’t been hardworking at all but shall continue to revise, to prepare for Intermediate 2 and also for my japan trip in june
Today did some research on it, hee….decided to not to rush around so will not be going to other state like kobe / kyoto / osaka.
Save save save, must have more descipline in saving, read read read need to read more to learn and find out more about you, play play play, wanna play more and more tennis Felt the improvement, its great, i love the feeling of every hit!!!
Posted 4 months, 2 weeks ago. Add a comment
Today went for my Japanese class in the morning and managed to scrap pass my oral test happy that my listening was pretty ok (or should I say cos the question wasn’t too hard ? ^^|).
After that met up with Xiao Hui san to catch up while having lunch at Yoshinoya! It almost become my regular lunch place every Sat!
Today also splurge on my tennis wear: 1 x Wilson tennis bag (my god, is so my style, how can I not get it right? ^^| hahaha) + 2 x adidas top. Total damage = $39.90 + $55.80!
(日本語: 今日日本語クラスへいきにオラル-テストとリシェニングテストをしにいった。 オラル-とリシェニングテストはあまり難しかった。ですから全部は合格した。そして、xiao hui さんとあいながら、昼ご飯を食べています。昼ご飯後、スポーツの服とかばんを買った。)
Wilson Tennis Bag
On the left is normal sports wear, on the right is a tennis top! (ops preiously type wrongly ^^|||)
At evening also meet my sis at plaza for dinner, then shop around, went arcade only to realise my card have 122 tickets inside for redeem!!! hahaha…got ourselves 1 x mechanical pencil (since mine is super old) + 1 pink eraser cum sharpener ( お姉さん (sis) want it) + bubble … hahaha lame right^^| some childhood memory !
Then went to mac for supper! pianz…super full! Actually we suppose to play tennis today but rain =.= ….so gonna play tml.
(夕方姉と一緒にplazaで晩ご飯を食べた。KFCをたべた^^ それから、買物して、arcade でゲンームをした。嬉しかった! そして、Macで夜ご飯を食べた! お腹がいっぱいね! )
One stupid thing I find about all these tennis booking is …upon rain, must go down personally to reschedule the booking. thats crap! we are in 21st century, we can book and pay online, why can’t you update the booking online? going down is such a trouble and on top of it I can’t prebook the slot I want before I go down~~
Must sleep le..tml morning tennis おやすみ (night)!
Posted 4 months, 3 weeks ago. Add a comment
This weekend I get to play lotsa tennis again Saturday after my Japanese lesson, I practised with a wall (yes a tennis wall ) for about 75mins from 3pm to 4.15pm! Almost died…haha not sure is it the weather or is it because i am playing against the wall so it return faster, after 30mins I am like almost cmi and had to drink 1 can of 100 plus to continue! but since i travel all the way there to play so I made myself played for 1hr 15mins
At times I really wonder, why i push myself so hard when I am just playing leisurely. If its 10 years back maybe I find it logical as there is still time to be good in it and compete! (oh…the competitive me appear again^^|). But now I am just playing it leisurely only and I know I am not going to get anywhere with this…with my age and weak knee. But I guess, its just me, when I really get into something I just have such desire to play it well. Thank god and appreciate that my knee hang out there for me. (touch wood) but please keep surviving all my tennis game!
I actually felt my knee condition become better, not sure is it because I am building up thigh muscle while playing tennis thus the condition improved or I am just actually doing more harm to it^^|
Back to the tennis wall, i think it is really a good way to practice the stroke. I practiced quite a bit on my backhand and I see improvement in today’s game. But then I just realised I might have hold my racket wrongly for backhand…or might be changing the grip…so have to re-learn again i guess!
Anyway then today I played tennis with LY and my sis again at CCK tennis court
Me and my back hand stance This red color set is certainly not my favorite wear but I wore my favorite set ( blue adidas top + my basketball shorts) ytd so bo bian today gotta wear red red! Next time shall take a pic with my blue set, haha all blue! (blue top, shorts, racket and shoes!).
Booked the wrong timing today, instead of 9 – 11am i booked 10-12…almost kenna cooked! but I think ytd 3pm was hotter though.
Arranged next sat to play singles with another friend, my bro says singles can improve stroke better but hope I can last the 2hrs!
So…next next sat (20th Mar), theGanG free to play? hee…lets play at gear’s house!
Lastly, I passed my JLPT 4! yeah! hahahhaa…でも日本語まだ下手ですよ。 >< 練習練習ね!
昨日日本語クラスへテニス の racket をもていきます。 もりや先生もうテニスをしますね。 『テニスをしましょう』と言います。。。いいね。 one more potential tennis kaki
Indian wells (BNP Paribas Open) is starting tml and my favorite player Justine Henin is playing! But i can’t catch live because I gotta work >.< how I appreciate my student life….nvm shall catch the final during weekend
卒業前にフォトーエッセイをかった。 日本語のクラスが大好きから、このフォトーエッセイかきたい。 最近、優秀賞をもらった。
昨日フォトーエッセイ授賞へいった。 大学の先生たちは授賞へ行かななった。 残念ね。 でも青葉の先生たち授賞へいった、とても楽しかったよ。そこで先生がたくさんいるけど、学生が四人だけいる。 そこで晩ご飯を食べたり、フォトーエッセイ授賞をもらったり、琴をきいったり、先生たちと話したりしました。 そして、もつおか先生と一緒にうちへ帰るとき、アイスクリムをたべた。そして、一緒にバステへいった。
My Japanese is limited, so I shall blog in English here as well, I wrote the photo essay back then partly was because I was feeling sad that the class ended. Never expect to win anything, was very happy to won the 優秀賞. I decided to go for the prize presentation as I was thinking that my sensei will go, so hopping to catch up with them. However, on Friday night I just got to know both ライせんせい and 藤井せんせい are not going, so am having second thoughts about going but a bit too late to not go now, so I still decided to go.
Saturday, I went for my basic 3’s test at Aoba, and it so happened that one of the oral test question was what are you going to do afterwards, I replied I am going to JAS (japanese association Singapore), then もつおか先生 replied that she is also going! I was shocked, though in the middle of the oral test, I asked sensei to go together, but her reply was she is going with other sensei and unsure of the time and how they are going. I assumed by this, meaning she is not keen to go together so I said is okie, I will go alone and meet there later on. Am happy at least someone I knew is going but abit sianz that sensei dun wanna go together (I assume so lah…might be wrong though).
Was late, because of traffic jam + almost got into car accident, the bus somehow “kissed” the back of a taxi, lucky it was a light peck so think both are find so the bus continued. I reached there at 8pm! when i am supposed to reach at 7pm and event starts at 7.30pm!
Saw my sensei there (too excited and got stuck at the door…cos of my bagg ^^|), then very luckily got assigned to seat beside my sensei ^__^ just as the host was introducing that the whole table are sensei, we were telling her that the sensei right beside me is my current sensei! hahah….after that everyone is like saying おめてとうございます (meaning congratulation) and all seems to know that I am from NUS. So with my very limited Japanese I tried to explain that I graduated so am now with Aoba.
Then while I queued to take food, Pauline sensei started talking to me, she used basic japanese (to accomodate) me but I mistook her as a very experienced japanese student and even asked “pauline san は学生ですか” (asking if she is student)…then she shocked for a moment and replied that she is sensei!!! omg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! hahahha…I am so ^^|||
After that they seperated us into different tables so I got seperated with all my sensei, and I sat beside a Nanyang Polytechnic sensei (sumimasen, I forgot the name^^|). We chatted along quite well….guess chatting with sensei is very good…they know how to lower their level of japanese to accomodate us, so we talked quite a bit. Enjoyed myself. Even gave both her and Pauline sensei my name card (actually is my email n contact that I wrote behind) to keep in touch. (ops…just as I was giving they are also exchanging contacts LOLOL)
One thing that surprise me is that towards the end of the event, Matsuoka sensei came over and talked to me, then invited me over to her table to sit. I was abit shocked…as mention infront that I felt she is not keen to go there with me, so i naturally thought that she would like to keep the teacher – student distance. Then after that she even offered to go home together, even more shocked.
Then on the way back, she suddenly ask if I like to eat ice-cream, I said yes, then she pointed to one ice cream outlet and says it is very nice. Being me…I asked sensei if wanna eat ice cream and even says women always have space for ice cream ^_^. Then sensei treated me to ice cream and we sat down for a while…but no space so we sit outside, abit too noisy so we proceeded back. She accompany me to the bus stop then I got her email and got on bus 171 back. Before that she was pointing that her house was across the road..then I shocked…n ask why we cross over here then ^^| (meaning we actually passed her house….hahahah).
In any case, am very happy that an event that I thought would be lonely turned out quite interesting. Though I am not continuing my intermediate 1 immediately, after this I am really keen to pay for my full intermediate classes…to lock myself in. wahahhaha….not just becos i like the sensei, but also i like the classes and wanted to continue leanring japanese language. Am afraid if i dun lock myself in by $$…i might just stop. I cannot continue now as am too busy with work for this 2 weeks..dun wanna further stress myself, intend to continue Jan next year……but might have to do it on weekday…according to Matsuoka sensei.
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Stitch
Side track abit, I recently started playing the UFO catcher again ^^ haha..yesterday was very lucky, got a stitch!!! It is pretty cute, I gave it a few tries but failed. then i went for other machines…not much luck except for a small doll doll, then just as I was abt to leave, I saw the positioning seems pretty good and give it a try! I miss-ed my aiming…but it turns out the perfect strategies! I lifted the stitch head abit and becos it was too heavy it dropped back, but becos of the physics thingy, the falling head pulled the whole doll doll into the hole! hahah…wow-ed everyone as I got it in one try! hahaha…(but they most probably didn’t know that I spented abt $10-12 on it previously already!).
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Thoughout the post, I mentioned that I “assumed” …. recently LDLD pointed out and emphasized that I tend to “assume” things. Which is quite true. This week I worked quite late…been dining with them quite a few times. So on Thursday, we went for dinner at about 7pm then go back to work. then at about 9.30pm I went down to 2nd floor to work with them…21st floor is too quiet. Then LDLD gave us (chopstick sisters) a question…what is the 4th action that comes after her frequently preached “Plan, Do, Check”. The instant answer that came to my mind was “Re-arrange”. But I decided not to shoot off my butt so I gave it more thought…and I “assume” that check should include this…so I answered “Target/Goal” …. as i felt that should be the big picture of these series of action though not necessary the 4th step.
Answer? it is Act…which is status quo, reprioritize and etc….which is sorta re-arrange! Think becos of what I assumed, I insisted that check and 4th step abit repetative….and got a very strong wake up call from LDLD. I assume too much >.< ….
The way it was put across came across very strongly to me…that sets me in abit of daze and thoughts after that….now whenever I assume things, I will tend to ask myself..should I assume ? I should not asssume too much, so should verify…but then again certain things if u ask too many times..I am worried am too intruding/become a nuisance. how to get a balance from this? I am still pondering and trying to get the right balance!
Apart from this….been very busy @ work …and with all my late emails to my boss…they started showing concern if I am overload. Is a bit overwhelming but it is really exciting also. Am learning alot and felt that my bosses are quite understanding that I am in my learning phase. Felt the development they are trying to give me, so am very happy too. Despite working late, with the nice colleagues and superiors, though I felt the pressure, i am happy and enjoying myself @ work everyday ^_^.
Later must do some reading and work…need to dig out my CS3254 textbook! hahaha…and gotta do some jogging also to be prepared for the bull charge on coming friday
A very long post….no time to post so cram everything in one post^^| ops….
Some other overall things that I wanna note down over the week:
- Was abit saddened that my trustworthyness was being doubted…though i reacted with a joking tone.
- One happy thing is in another instance…my LD really understands me well…hahah when everyone was wondering if my answer is true, she said that given my character if I will even say this…it must be true. Yes…u are so correct, hahaha it always amaze me at your level of understanding of me.
- today have a weird dream again…mmm…is the 2nd time…mmm….would we think abt the same thing sometimes I wonder…mmmmm
Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago. 2 comments
Before I fall in love with IT, I used to think that I will study either Business or Accounts when I grow up. All these was what I thought I would study uptill sec 3. One of my childhood dream is also to work in CBD area and sit on high floor! (Why? Because that time I was watching a drama and it says that the higher your office is, the higher your position! though this is of course not 100% true in reality!) But eversince I fell in love with IT, I thought all these have changed!
Little did I know…I would have interest in investment and thus developed an interest in finance sector. So years after I long forgotten about my childhood dream, I am now working in CBD and in one of the high building! (though not very high!)….hahaha sometimes I really think everything in life happen for a reason, and probably god have already planned it for you! (saying this, I must still say, one still must work hard and strive for what they want, if not, what is planned might have changes too!)
Started working for almost 3 months….how time flies! So fast it is already 3 months and I felt like…i just started working not too long ago! Working in a big corporate is really very different from working in a small company with <= 30 people. Each have their own pros and cons, have its own characteristics that I like. But one thing I must say…though I have part-timed / temped throughout my life, I realised I been living in a simple world….now is time to get used to living in a more complicated world! Nonetheless, I shall do my best ^^ gam ba te!
My Japanese sensei says writing diary in japanese will help to improve our Japanese so I decided to blog the following:
今日中学の友達にあったり、steamboat を食べたりした。それから 、マンジョンをする、Lost 八ドル。 ワハハハ^^
七時ごる家へかえる。 そして 家族と晩ご飯を食べた。今日の昼ご飯と晩ご飯はおいしかったね。好きね!
明日テニスクラスがある、ですから、今ねなければなりません! おやすみ!
Posted 11 months, 2 weeks ago. 7 comments
This is the first time i feel so sad about a module ending neh! My japanese class ending in like 2 weeks time, so sad….how i wish it can just continue on!
日本語の勉強はとてもおもしるいですね。私はとでも好き ですね。 でも、クラスは終わります soon, sad >< 先生はとてもおもしろいですね。 そしてとでもすてきですね。 Especially 藤井揚子せんせい、堀江せんせい、らいせんせいですね。せんせいのクラスがとでも楽しいですね。
先 週の木曜日バスで藤井せんせいにあいます。 日本語クラスはしち時終わりました、そらから、友達に日本語の本を return ました。 そして YIH のバスデで百五十一番バスへいんいました。 それから、バスでせんせいにあいました。 Very happy to see sensei on bus ne, cos my chance of 日本語を練習します comes again ^^ and I really enjoy talking to them although is quite 難しいが、とてもおもしろいですね。
She sits right behind the door and i waved to her then i moved to the back, but I see no crwod on bus so after a while i overcome my shyness ( yes…i will shy also ^^| ne), i walk to her and says 『よくあいます』 which means we met very often ne (she said that to me the previous time we met…and took me a while to understand what she said neh although i learnt these words liao). Guess what? I scared her ne! …. she stunned ( u know..that kind of reaction like pple frightened u out of your dreams!)…LOLOLOL… i so paiseh that I kept saying 『すみません』, in the end she also kept saying that…i think she quite paiseh abt it also^^|. I think the scene must be damn funny…two person on bus kept saying 『すみません』.
One thing i realise also ….is if there are something that she dunno how to say in English and is too chim for me to understand in Japanese, kanji is the way for her to tell me ne. Sensei very funny leh, wanna give up her seat to me^^| Of cos i never take lah, then mid way some pple get down and we seat down together then she spot the 日本語の本 that i am holding and ask me 『日本語を勉強しますね』 LOL…… I said i worried abt oral then she say is easy =.= dotz…wahahaha
Thoughout sensei used some words that I dunno and have to say wakarimasen ne ><
疲れました。。。 think i suppose to know ne….but i dun >< is lesson 12 vocabulary!
Think she quite stun when she heard my 両親 は働きません、 still ask me twice…LOL. Then i told her my 2 brothers and I are working…..which i said wrongly >< 二人 (ふたり)、I said に人 。。。LOL..cui-ed!
After that わたしたち歩いて、せんせいは NTUC へいきます、私はつぎのバスデへいきます。
Overall, although we talked more than previous time, i still feel my nihongo never improve much from previous time ne >< sad….
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Enough abt my Japanese sensei, this weekend is really a project / report madness weekend. So busy to complete reports for all my mods. So far…left 4267 report + 4258 final milestone + 2 x presnetation slides then i am done for all assignment for my lvl 4000.
Wanna finish all these fast and concentrate on preparing for my nihongo oral and then start revising for exam man.
Also … must finish booking all the accomadation for my trip then i can chunk all these aside..and mug mug mug neh!
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