Saturday, 9 August 2008
2nd Japanese study session
Missed NDP though. Hais wanna see it at the sea! (Sorry em!)
Thursday, 7 August 2008
I did 2007 JLPT4 test!
Vocab - 96%
Listening - 70%
Grammar and Reading - 73%
Overall - 78%
At first I really freaked out because I thought you need to get 60% pass in EVERY SECTION. Because there weren't many qns, 2 more qns would make that 70% fall to below 60% (Listening). And the thing is that this is only JLPT4! I intend to take JLPT 3! Anyway when I got things cleared up, I think I should take JLPT 3 because there is this website that lists down all the vocab so I'm quite sure I can get near 100% like what I did for this test. So I can afford to do not so well in the test haha.
Thursday, 24 July 2008
Great site(s) for Beginner's Japanese
to be updated
Wednesday, 23 July 2008
SPENDING
Anyway, I found out that the difference between the 30 bucks and the 40 bucks (they look exactly the same) is probably because the more expensive one gives the CD!!! I got the casette tapes. Cause I didn't know the difference except that the price difference. (Thought they labelled it wrongly.)
My JLPT collection
JLPT 4
Minna no Nihongo Workbook 1
Abe sensei's green and red phrasebooks (sister's)
JLPT 4 Listening CD
Minna no Nihongo Listening CD
Everyday Listening in 50 days Ele 1
JLPT 3
Japanese for Busy People III (sister's)
Minna no Nihongo Workbook 2 (have 2 copies!)
JLPT 3 Practice Book
JLPT 3 Vocabulary Book
Everyday Listening in 50 days Ele 2
My sister's file (Haha.)
JLPT 2
Some bridging textbook between JLPT3 and JLPT2
Some stuff that I gave her for her bday. But it will be mine next year.
Her current textbook?
Sunday, 6 July 2008
Iroirona koto
Yay finally a study session! But I was so tempted to show mm and nel yaji to kita and Iljimae. So exciting!! We had macaroni and salad but I think its not enough (Lunch is the fullest meal u noe.) Den mee meep told us of a show she watched the day before. Its kinda like Oliver Twist. Its called Bai Bai Xiao Xue. Apparently bai bai means byebye not white white (suddenly chi's cutesy byebye flashed into my mind. ok being random here.) Sounds like a touching story, will try it. (Think I saw it on crunchyroll). But mee meep tends to summarise at cetain points, quite lol. Anyway hope to have another japanese session again! Think I will sign up with Bunka. Hehe!
Tennis with ehjay mates!
Played tennis with aga, fitrah and yt! It was so overdue. but we met with some problems. First aga couldnt find her membership card. Thenwe decided to go to yt's country club instead. When the bus finally arrived, there wasnt enough seats for one more person! And the stupid driver dun allow us to stand, nor to share seat. wth! In the end aga and I cabbed there. Grrr. And the bus wait was so long as well. Can't stand such inconsiderate ppl. Rules are to be followed but some flexibility is expected as well right? The driver expected one of us to just go down. Mad la he. Can't stand the older generations. Somehow, it was exhausting. I dunno whether its the heat, the lack of sleep, or just tennis. And the stupid crow has to go "Ahhk! Ahhk! Ahhk!" when we did sth ridiculously wrong. Like from manga. When we went to aga's house, we tried playing her violin. Woots so fun! Feel like picking it up as well! Then we almost watched 2 girls 1 cup again cause Aga was intrigued by my post and Fitrah was so on. HAHA. Thankfully Starhub blocked that site. Anyway, I just realised that the laptop that she got free when she signed up with starhub is the model that I wanted!!!!!!!!!! Damn should have signed up then as well. On the other hand, its good I didn't cause it blocks some crunchyroll videos as well.
Super Junior Concert
Ok, I'm kind of regretting it now. I wanted to go because I wanted to go to a concert. But I have no idea how to sing their lyrics, (believe me, I've tried looking at the lyrics) and I'm gg with a group of ppl that I dunno except one. Im not gg to join them in their chase as well cause I wanted to ride an elephant etc. But when I checked the guides, it seemed that there were only temples! Like, quite boring. Then my father told me elephants are in Chang Mai. Daaamn...Im in Bangkok. So kinda rushing now, listening to their concert songs, memorising their damn-hard-to-even-pronounce-what-more-memorise songs. Hope everything will go smoothly. Hais. Anyway I got my mum to buy me a Canon camera! i think she thought I was gg to buy a damn exp one until I said its 300. 300 is for a580 and 340 for a590. Think I may just add in 40 more for a a590. Hais wanted to get a canon one long ago, even b4 my japan trip, but no cheek to ask. When my mum said that we alr have a camera I told her that it was a lousy one, although its I think 7 megapixel? Cuz the thing is that the brand matters the most. So I repeated the same sentence that I always tell her, "pa always get cheated because he dunno.." Ya he always get ripped off because he's such a computer + technology idiot. For me I got ripped off for this damn laptop.
Crazy speed at Macs??
Speaking of laptops, I brought my mum's 7 inch one out on Saturday, cause I had 6hrs to spend before gg to clementi cc for hairdressing. (P5 having NDP preview thats why). Omg Tudou.com loaded so fast at Causeway Point Macs! Something is seriously wrong with my connection. It slowed quite sometime ago, and now its really slow. Think my com is gg to die on me. ARGH!
Tuesday, 1 July 2008
iljimae the robin hood!
Sunday, 29 June 2008
Yaji and Kita
And they got stopped for exceeding the speed limit of 40km/h on the HIGHWAY. LOL what the hell! Anyway hope you did spot Sawatari-san from Gokusen dancing in the background. He's the one with the Elvis Presley hairdo and is alway making trouble for Yankumi, To better aid your memory, here's his picture.
Anyway, speaking of ty, she sent a weird sms ytd, "Bukit Timah tmr?" and I was like what?? Sent to the wrong person? It arrived out of the blue. And at the same time I was smsing mee meep and Nellyn on Monday's study session at mee meep's house which is at BUKIT TIMAH. I thought, "Waaa! How come ty can guess what im thinking now. So scary!!"
Hate myself again for not taking up Japanese earlier or as my 3rd lang. Should I hire a private tutor?? I see how private tuition is great from my own exp. But the money....I feel liek going to Japan for a year and just mug Japanese to reach JLPT 1. But the money again.....I'm always not doing what I want because of money, making myself miserable.
Saturday, 28 June 2008
日本語!
Well, what im sying above is actually a complaint on how fast they speak in Japanese. Because I read from many sources, and I don't really have a proper textbook, my Japanese is all over the place. I have finally decided that money has to be spent on a course and I shall lurch myself in one the moment it starts. Monday im studying with nel and mee meep!
Nice quotes from Fitrah:
Boo. Academic achievements are haunting me.
It's hard to be a human nowadays, haha. The notion of being holistic: good in studies, good extra-curricular records, good networking, good employment or life experiences and sometimes good looking as well.
Apparently, it's no longer a pursuit for excellence but we're in pursuit of perfection.
We market ourselves as being capable of attaining anything even if it's not within our grasp and though we started off with humble beginnings, slowly our values erode. We re-assess the group of people we socialise with, rejecting those whom we deem too myopic to understand what we have turned into and embrace those whom we naively believe will appreciate us as we are.
And in the turmoil of things, when relationships fail, when there's a sudden realization that all these while we believed in things that we wanted to believe, when we took a step back and saw the mess our lives had been, that's when we remembered that humble beginning, that innocent dream we wanted to achieve.
Xinli's Free Time
Tuesday - Tuition at Sengkang 6.30-9.30pm
Wednesday - Free!
Thursday - Free!
Friday - Tuition at SengKang 6-9pm
Saturday - Tuition at many places 9am-4pm
Sunday - Hairdressing at AMK CC 2-4pm
Schedule when school starts
Monday - POS 9-12pm, Tuition at Woodlands 5-7pm
Tuesday - POA 2-5pm, Tuition at Sengkang 6.30-9.30pm
Wednesday - Econs 9-12pm
Thursday - Maths 1 10.30-12pm
Friday - Tuition at SengKang 6-9pm
Saturday - Tuition at many places 9am-4pm
Sunday - Free!
Schedule from 28/7 to 3/8
Monday - Class Chalet
Tuesday - Class chalet, Tuition at Sengkang 6.30-9.30pm
Wednesday - Class Chalet
Thursday - Tuition at Woodlands 5-7pm
Friday - Tuition at SengKang 6-9pm
Saturday - Tuition at many places 9am-4pm
Sunday - Free!
Friday, 27 June 2008
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
2 girls 1 cup
The worse 10secs of my life. Was stunned, recovered, and quickly closed the tab. The chill in my spine couldn't subside though I tried to watch other videos to recover. If im a guy I would turn gay on the spot. Yea, the video that will make you gay. Apparently its all hot on the internet ----- the videos of the reactions to that video. Some even puked. I showed ty the video. Omg shudnt have shown her. But maybe too used to showing people videos and maybe cuz need someone to share my disgust. But ty wanted to show shaomin! So poor thing. I warned her den ty complained to me that sm is hesitating....Hahaha! In the end sm wanna show it to her fren and see what he says first. But she did warn him la. However he had watched it before so he kinda told her that its bad for her brains and so dun watch. And so sm din watch eventually. (Ty is gg to be so disappointed. HAHA.)
TY's bday!
I skipped my hairdressing lesson and we went for dinner instead. At Ichiban boshi in Novena Square. The one as Suntec is better though. But oh my Kajiki sashimi tastes good no matter where it is!! And I completely adore that lobster tempura sushi with a twinge of wasabi. HEAVENLY I tell you.
Took alot of photos. Damn funny the jumping ones. But omg I really cannot take photos. Come out damn disgusting. Plus my face is quite oily by that time, and my hair too. So its uber gross.
Wednesday, 4 June 2008
Emmeline the Ghost
Hope Ann (teacher on sat) will approve of Sally's highlights! I dun need a cert so I dun wanna buy it, but I must at least qualify for it! Fight on!
Thinking of joining Ikoma's full-time course. Its like everyday! But soonest date is 9 June for Intermediate I and 2 June for Intermediate 2. I need Intermediate 2 rather than Intermediate 1. And to prepare myself for Intermediate 1 if I decide to take it in the end is too short. Cuz tehre is a evaluation test to place you in the right level. If you are wondering why I need to prepare for Intermediate 1 when I am Intermediate 2 standard, its because I do self study, so what I study is not in order. Need to brush up somemore to secure. Hope theres the workbooks I want at Kino!
Friday, 30 May 2008
LION???
Em and ty came over on a sunday and slept over! Damn I lost 3 times at Old Maid...so suay!! And I was so convinced at the time that emmeline will become the old maid..So I quickly made my escape and went to sleep. (to ty: I was quite slpy...Let me slp la!) And they pasted weird masking tape over the faces of the photos in my room --- btw I haven taken them down yet.
Thurs went to visit Anqi at her uncle's house to accompany her thru the boring period of her housekeeping there. And there I met a lion!!
Anyway I succumbed to the tutu kueh, sotong balls and fish fillet at the pasar malam today. Ate a lot at Anqi's house also. Gained a lot of weight but no motivation! Guess I have to sign up for yoga at my nearest CC. Hmms.
Lastly, I would like to give my blessings to everyone. Hope emmeline you can accept the cycle of birth and death, and don't be too moody, or get irritated during ur pms. Hope those who didn't score well get into their choice, and hope everyone will do great in life from now on!
Thursday, 15 May 2008
Huehue
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Friday, 9 May 2008
I found the username!
OH the temptation of McGriddles! I woke up feeling really hungry, hungrier than usual. Then I thought of McGriddles. Shaking my head, I told myself I should not let ytd's swimming go to waste. So I picked up 3 slices of corn bread (it tastes fabulous) with kaya. Then my sister asked me whether I wanna eat macs (cuz she wanted to have her sausage muffin with egg. So I ended up with a McGriddles burger. Ahhhhh! But it was delicious. I love how the waffles or bun part tastes like pancakes with lotsa butter, without the feel+oiliness of butter. Its not sugary sweet like syrup either. (Hates syrup.)
Recently I seemed to like to push tuition assignments to people. I saw one at crowhurst drive (serangoon gardens there) and one at upper aljunied rd (135, 155, 100) So immediately I thought of gay sihui and zeling. (btw i suspect teh one at aljunied rd may be a cedarian.) I mean gay gay is staying at crowhurst herself! But she called today and she said she dunno whether she can commit cuz she may end up staying in a hostel. WHICH ADDED ON TO MY WORRIES. I'm already teaching 5 kids! One more coming up. Dunno whether I should get a new student. I wanna earn more money during this break. There's a P6 student who wants ppl to commit at least till PSLE. Was considering that because its short term, but because of the hostel thing, I don't want it anymore. I think I should stop. Maybe I can cancel my upcoming P2 for the Sec1 at Crowhurst Drive. Cuz the pay is 5/hr more. The P2 one is really high for a P2 though. 20/hr!