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#455

Hello after more than 2 months.

I've been pretty busy with uni stuff after ending work haha. So many forms to fill in and submit.
Also today I took the Japanese placement test, level 5.
When it just started, I took one look at the paper and went "?????" LOL.
The paper was really confusing because it was a cloze passage of sorts but they were multiple types of blanks???
It wasn't really that difficult, just that the paper format was really confusing -_-
After the written test we had to go for an oral test which was basically you talking to the professor who will be teaching the course. Honestly I was really nervous for the oral test ugh.
It's not quite that I'm not confident, I just... get nervous easily?? Though I might not show it.
During the oral test I mentioned Nico Nico and the sensei went "ohh have you watched Shogi on Nico Nico before?" HAHAHA.
I wonder if she likes Shogi xD
She actually recommended me to try Media Japanese which is like after Japanese 5 and 6 but omg no I can't argumentative essay in Japanese wth.
So now all that's left is the Singapore Society module which seems REALLY hard to bid for x.x
Sigh uni bidding...

Can't wait for the KUIFA inbound and MoshiMoshiNippon~~

#454: Work, again

So I started working again, for almost a month now as an admin.
This time it's at Raffles Place and I'm racking up transport fees ugh. Feeling the pain of adult fare ._.
Plus the food there isn't exactly cheap so there goes like half my pay.
Sigh. Gonna have to start saving up for Japan and the 1 year exchange program which I hopefully will get...
I'm starting to wish I lived in Japan more and more... someone stop me LOL.
Totally gonna go to all the live concerts if I manage to get on that 1 year exchange program...

Met up with Michelle on Friday night and all we did was talk about Japan oh mannn.
Ate modanyaki and delicious milk ice cream ♡
Really miss Japanese food. Singapore's version just can't make it
I think Japan is like 80% of my life right now haha. And of that 80%, 60% is Japanese music and the other 40% is my love for the language (and culture) xDD
Loveee discovering new bands ahh~~♪
I'm tired of meeting new people my age and they're all obsessed with kpop ._.
Like kpop is catchy but maybe I just can't like it because I don't like how the language sounds -_-

Next Friday's nush homecoming~ Hopefully it won't be awkward LOL.
Looking forward to visiting choir on speech day that day though~

Can't wait for uni so I can do Japanese Studies~

#453: Japan etc

After 2 months of a boring data entry job, I finally went to Japan for my grad trip~~~!!
First time overseas without any adults accompanying and it was really fun hahaha.
All the pretty sakura~~~
I just realised, the first time was in autumn, the second in summer and this time I went in spring~~ xD
I wanna go in winter someday too~
If it's Japan then I can find my way around without much help xD
Well, with the help of signs and the train app xD
Raided the giant Kino in Shinjuku and I think I have more than enough books to read now xD
My Japanese reading stamina and speed still isn't that good too orz.
It's tough to continue my Japanese self-study when I can already communicate with Japanese people pretty well orz. Haven't done proper studying ever since I passed N2 last July :/

This trip really made my yearning for Japan much, much worse goodness. Sigh.
It'll be nice to travel there on my own~
Also made me really wish I could do university there... though idk if that's really the best choice.
Definitely gonna try for post-graduate in Japan which was what my JCS teacher suggested anw...
Air ticket + Accomodation (Airbnb) + Insurance + JR Pass (transport) + Wifi cost about $2000 for 2 weeks... but that's bc we went to quite a few places using the shinkansen...
Probably $2000 including food if you stay in one area.
Haah I really want to go regularly T_T
I want to go again in June already ahhh. There's 2 lives I wanna watch too :((
If I stayed in Japan I can't imagine how much I'll be spending on lives omg I wanna go to all the lives :(((
Also karaoke hahahaha.

In year 5 my mentor once asked me, "Do you like Japan to the point that you wish you were born there?", and my answer was no at that time.
Now, it's inching towards yes :/
My interests are so completely Japanese that a lot of my friends are Japanese and you see what that leads to irl ._.

Haah but if I go in June, I have only like 1.5 months to earn $$ for the trip, and there's a lot of uni stuff going on in July so in the end I'm gonna end up working for only ~4 months during this 8 month break lol. I expected to be working for most of the break lol.

Also received quite a bit of uni stuff from NUS recently... uni is so complicated ugh.
Srsly what is up with the course bidding system.
I'm actually excited for uni, like I can finally study what I'm really interested in lol. Though it's also worrying with the completely new environment.

#453:

Guess what happened on Tues less than 5 hours after my NTU Linguistics interview.

#452

Just went for an interview for NTU's Linguistic course... I guess it went well?
The prof interviewing me said I had good grades and I just went "umm okay it's not that good in my school though but yeah" in my head hahaha.

I'm not actually sure if I do really want to do Linguistics in NTU... ><
I'm pretty keen on NTU's Linguistics course, but at the same time I also really want NUS' Jap Studies course e.e
It's like what I really want to do, I can't do very well... (music/visual design)
I can't go without listening to music everyday HAHA.
And then there's also Japanese and psychology which I ALSO want to do :((
I really can't decide. I think I'll end up just choosing the course which is the most difficult to do self-study umm.
Hopefully NUS accepts me so I can do Jap Studies + Psychology... Jap Studies said they have Jap linguistics modules too...

Also, retook the MBTI personality test recently.
I didn't actually look up much on my personality type in the past, but this time I did and omg everything makes more sense now.
I feel like I /finally/ understand myself a little better.
INFJ is apparently the rarest personality type hmm. :O
Also discovered something called the Highly Sensitive Person which I probably am too LOL.
Explains why I always feel overwhelmed :/

INFJ and left-hander... I feel so... special?? HAHA.
Definitely gonna read up more on INFJ.

The other day I had to call up Satamiya Inn in Japan to book rooms IN JAPANESE and another achievement unlocked HAHA.
I haven't been doing Japanese self-study for like 6 months oops.
It's where I stayed during my Nanao exchange program so I sort of know the owner hahaha.
He was all "ohh maybe I'll recognise you if I see your face!" xD
Really can't wait for Japan. And hopefully it goes smoothly lol.
Also planning your own itinerary is such a pain.

Layout edit~!

Tweaked the layout a little hehe I like it :3
(headached a little over it because I haven't been in touch with CSS/HTML5 lol)

#450

I don't know man.
Getting more and more lost as to what to do in uni...
As in I have my handful of courses I'm interested in, but I can't choose between them. Because I don't have confidence that I'll do well in them. (I hate this why can't I study something just because I like it and not because I'm good at it?! Idk man, the pressure to "do well")
And because I have no idea how it'll be like.

Japanese Studies / Psychology / Linguistics / Visual Communication / Audio Production.

I'm definitely staying away from Science.
I'll probably be doing either of the first 2 in NUS, but I also really want to try studying the other areas too... :C  (the last one is something I got into pretty recently haha)
But sadly I think I'll only be able to explore these areas on my own as hobbies on the side. :/
(which, I have no idea if I'd be able to, depending on how busy uni is)
I think all my course options are actually my hobbies lol. And hence I can't decide which would best suit me as a career...

Finally submitted my application for NUS, after procrastinating for so, so long.
Course options - There's only really one option for me since all the courses I'm interested in are under FASS >.>
Well, hopefully I'll get into NUS and then I can start exploring my options.
Need to do NTU application soon too...

Nowdays I'm wishing I had my own room complete with a keyboard, guitar, condenser (and also soundproofed). (￣▽￣)
Been trying to learn acoustic guitar but my fingerssss.
Finger pain + super short fingers how to guitar orz. I love my guitar but I feel like it's wasted on someone like me who can't really play LOL.
Also trying my hand at mixing my own covers~ :p
If I didn't had to worry about making a living etc I would totally make music my life sighh.

Seriously too in love with the Nico Nico culture~~
I will forever be amazed at how Vocaloid is making the music (and also art/animation) scene in Japan so full of possibilities. Composers, producers, singers, artists, animators, mixers, and even writers have emerged from it. (like seriously, novels being made from songs man!) Also Ryouran~~ the "Internet talent".
It's probably just because of the difference in culture isn't it
I actually didn't really like Miku's voice, but I came to like it after hearing kz/livetune's and Hachioji-P's works.

Recent happenings

Getting... really... lazy... to update... this... xD

#448

1. Got a really pretty acoustic guitar ♥
2. Got back JLPT N2 results!!


Bought a glittery red acoustic guitar from a Carouseller and omg i love it so much.
Gonna practice strumming stuff... maybe try lessons after exams :/
Should get free lessons from Sanath HAHA.
It's gonna be tough building up calluses to play guitar ><
Gonna crash jw's house to try her drums too hahaha :DD

Just found out my JLPT N2 results and they were better than i thought!

also WHY IS THERE SO MUCH CHEM WORK.
Doing chem report and i'm close to finishing, but then i think about chem logbook argh.
Logbook shouldn't take that long but it's such a pain zzz.

#447

This weekend was one of the most fufilling weekends i've ever had. Weekend meaning Friday to Monday haha.
WE GOT A SILVER IN THE 25 AND UNDER CATEGORY FOR THE CHORAL FEST!!!
AND WE WERE 4TH IN THE CATEGORY LIKE WHAT??
(also we beat NJC hahaha. by 0.5 only though xD)
Like seriously only 35 12-18 year olds participating and yet such good results. So proud of nush choir now aaa.
Listened to Ms Mariko's recording of our performance, and omg i never knew we sounded this good. What we hear is very different from what the audience hear...
Gonna miss them so much when i graduate :C  Especially Ms Lim D:
I don't wanna graduate :<
But then next year we'll be joining the choral fest again so i'll probably be going back to join in the 25 and under cat... as an oldie HAHA.

Went for Natsu Matsuri on Saturday even though i was feeling pretty tired due to lack of sleep, but it was still enjoyable. Bon odori!!
I pretty much hobo-ed on the mat the whole time though oops haha.

Performed at Sentosa on Sunday as part of the choral fest outreach program. It was quite short and informal though, not many people watching.
After that i got to watch the grand prix!! There were only 6 complimentary tickets and over-the-counter tickets were all sold out so only the oldies and seniors got to go... Eargasm the entire time hahaha.
After the grand prix was the closing ceremony where we waited for our results with my heart almost jumping out!!
Also, free ride in Ms Lim's car xD

Monday was choir exchange with a Chinese choir and Queensway Sec.
And Ms Lim bought us cake for celebrating haha. Pity Ivy wasn't there for it :/
Ms Mariko also declared no cca for Friday, though honestly i'd rather have cca lol.

I should really start on uni apps seriously now... it's already almost September...

#446

3-day school week and busy weekend aheaaaaad!

#445

Man, today was such a luxury for me.
No lessons except chem prac. Didn't submit the chem ws on the day itself because i was rushing off somewhere and the teacher wasn't in school anyway lol.
Dropped by the library and chanced upon some really interesting books. (in the psychology section)
Particularly a book titled "Reading In The Brain; The New Science of How We Read".
Reminds me of a Japanese book i wanted to get, also about reading.
I'm gravitating towards the psychology-ish books now hahaha.
Spent a while in the library. For some reason the library's a very comfortable place for me.
It's not really a place to study for me haha.
I really miss the times where i can just spend half a day at the library enjoying aircon and books.
Now if i have time i'll be doing work. And more work. Sigh.
I wanna reaaddddddd D:
Also had delicious strawberry cheesecake ice cream :DD

#444

Haven't blogged for more than a month huh...

#443

The first week of school ended nicely :D

#442: Japan

Man... those 10 days in Japan flew past in a blink of an eye ;~;
Even though it was a study trip it was really awesome! (but tiring haha, all the rushing)
Made new friends, and what's more there were 3 people with the exact same birthday!!
Me, Haoyue, and Yuko-san!!
They sprang surprise birthday cakes for all 3 of us and it was so nice aaaaa ;~;
All the people were just so warm and friendly!
Oh but the ofuro was awkward though LOL. bathed alone most of the time but sometimes someone else would enter and it'll be super awkward haha.
Seriously don't what's the deal with communal baths. Can't imagine what happens when you're on your period :S
Also the weather in Japan was pretty nice... 20-27ish though some days it was rainy all day long and other days it was super sunny.
Totally dying in Singapore's heat now ugh.
We went to quite a few high places with nice views haha. Tokyo Tower, Fuji TV, Tokyo Metropolitan City Hall...
Changed my blogskin a little, the photo is of the night view from Tokyo Metropolitan City Hall~
Probably my favourite shot this trip :D
Our group got filmed during free day haha. Was quite fun though! More people together the merrier xD
Didn't do much clothes shopping but got a lot of snacks xD
Oh there was this delicious 'drinkable' ice cream which was only 129 yen!!
And i miss Calpis already oAo
Wanted to find a nice wallet in Japan... there were nice ones in Harujuku but they were pretty expensive D:

Really happy to spend my birthday in Japan and really thankful to all the FIAA/AMMS staff for organising this trip!!
Was really shocked to find out that the FIAA office in Japan was directly opposite the Animate in Ikebukuro omg hahaha.

#441: RADWIMPS!!

Oh my gosh RADWIMPS was SO RAD last night!!!
So glad i went!
At first i wanted to go early around 5pm-ish (door opens 6.30pm), but i ended up dilly-dallying...
Got on the MRT, only to find out that i forgot my ticket orz. Luckily i realised when i just got on gosh.
Got my dad to bring my ticket and by the time i reached Orchard it was like 6pm already...
Ugh and i was getting flustered walking around orchard feeling lost and not seeing my destination. =.=
Wasn't in a good mood then, not to mention my phone was low on battery and somehow google maps and the GPS/3G wasn't working -_-
After briskwalking around for a while i finally reached the long queue, slightly before the door open time! Phew. Bet my face was totally flushed then.
Staff went down the queue scanning the QR codes and handing out paper wristbands. Got a red one because i was under 18 HAHA. (blue for over 18)
The guy noticed that my birthday was days away and wished me happy birthday yay :D
TAB Orchard is quite a small venue, so i wasn't that far away from the stage even though i didn't go early~
I was at a counter thingy right behind the mosh pit so it was pretty comfortable haha, though standing for 1.5 hours made my legs tired orz.

RADWIMPS were really awesome live!!
The bass, guitars and drums were all top-notch, and the best thing is, Yojiro's voice is /exactly/ the same as in the recorded tracks!! (or even better tbh)
Every single song was reallyyy gooooooood.
Their songs just make you want to groove/bob along~
The scene of people's hands in the air in a concert is just heartwarming. 感動した。
We also sang along during some parts \o/
My favourites from this live are probably「いいんですか」and「会心の一撃」~
会心の一撃 live ASDFSDLKGHDJGHJDKGH.
You'll know why i'm spazzing if you listen to it. THE GUITAR. LYRICS.
Sadly they didn't play my #1 favourite 透明人間18号 ;u;
Though they did play quite a few of my other favourites :D
Yojiro is a genius man. His English is really good. Like reaaally good, even has that native accent.
He has a large build and still manages to be cute!
He even danced around during the live lol. Can tell he really loves his music.
He was like the only member of the band who kept changing instruments?? A few guitars and a keyboard haha.
And omg they were grooving and just playing instrumental stuff between/in the middle of songs and it was really awesome.
The drummer and bassist spoke some Chinese too. So cute xD
Felt really blessed to understand English, Chinese and Japanese yay.
They promised to come back again, hopefully they will!!

キュン moments:
「あ、曲間違った」
「あ、また間違った」
The softly spoken 「Thank you」after certain songs ;u;
「愛してるよ」
「いいんですよ」
「はいこっち来て座り」
At the end, when they held hands and bowed...

本当に、すごく感動しちゃった。
来てくれて、ありがとう。
また来てね。

(i'm sorry WEAVER but after this live RADWIMPS has become my #1 ;u;)

On a side note, JAPAN IN JUST ONE MORE DAY WHOOHOO.

#440: PEAs/Fever/Results/SIMC

So for the first time PEAs were more interesting.
Laser tag was fun! Though it could have been better with a better venue and obstacles haha.
Still, i have no interest in playing laser tag hahaha.
Although my first class in Grand Fantasia was a Ranger, but i'm a Healer! www
Man, all the MMORPG feels. I really miss my Grand Fantasia/Eden Eternal/Spirit Tales days ;u;

The film workshop was absolutely terrible though.
3 hours in a stress position dude. Not to mention the workshop wasn't even fun.
Ate lunch after that and went to the library to nap for a bit.
And well just my luck after i woke up i had a fever.
Went to the training for the layout artists and endured 2 hours of freezing cold aircon orz.
Should've just went home after the InDesign segment...

In the end i couldn't go for Career Day because of my fever gdi.
Even though Todai was there! ugh.
This was like the worst bout of fever i've ever had in my life man.
Kept drinking ice water, cooling tea and whatnot, putting icepacks, but my fever kept staying at ~38.5 (using my current thermometer).
Though later i found out that my current thermometer is a whooping 1 degree higher LOL.
But i didn't feel like 37.5 then???
Don't think i will solve this mystery haha.
It reached an all-time high of 39.6 at the doctors wtf.
I'm surprised my brain hasn't been fried. (or has it?)
Missed out on Japan Night at Music Matters Live because of my stupid fever arghh.
I have the best luck.

Got well enough to go to school to get my progress report...
Happy with my grades for once yay C:
Looks like it was the right choice to take chem hahaha. A precious A-!
My first ever 4.5 GPA and my CAP finally reached 4.0!!
Though i think next sem i'd have to work really hard to maintain it so i can graduate with a Distinction :S
Bio's a year-long module so it wasn't counted in this sem's grades... that's probably why my GPA is so high (...) this sem.
Need to work extra hard to pull up my B from dev bio ugh. Not to mention english sigh.
And next sem's math isn't stats so idk how well i'll do... hopefully i can still get an A.
Oh well. Shall enjoy June to the fullest before all the homework piles up again =.=
RADWIMPS live + Japan trip whoohoo!
They're so close now, that it doesn't feel real!!

I still don't feel completely recovered ugh.
My head feels like a very, very tight rubber band... :S
Getting so sick of food... If only there were ATP pills. (HAHA.)
I'm completely not Singaporean-like lolol. Seriously why do people like to eat so much =.=

SIMC Layout artists. Needs ranting, but i'll either save that for another post or skip it.
SIMC Opening ceremony.
The typical SIMC cubes, big red button and flashy video. This year they had yellow smiley inflated balls though.
Managed to say hi to Kodai!! (someone from my Nanao SEP)
Didn't know he was this good at math haha. I still remember his weird project presentation about shortest time required to walk/wait past traffic lights or something hahaha.
You should've seen his face when i said hi hahaha. SO MOEEEEE.
He wasn't in my reverse-harem photo last year though, so it'll be nice if i could get a two-shot ←oi
Me and Eunice teasing Kodai saying 気が狂ってる so many times at the airport xDD
Sigh i miss Nanao so much.
Wonder how well they'll do for SIMC. Surprisingly large number (4) of participating schools from Japan lol.
There was one guy from the Ritsumeikan Junior SEP who's participating this year too. How come all the SEP people so good at math LOL.

Okay need to worry about how i'm gonna "socialise" with the students from the universities in Tokyo.

#439: Play hard

Anime, manga, novels, MMORPGs, PSP/DS games!!!

#438

I'm so tired of eczema.
I am so sick of it, my skin not being able to be healthy and hydrated without using moisturiser everyday.
And even then the moisturiser makes me itch.
And the holes on my feet continue to worsen.
My eczema has been really bad recently...
Can't even imagine how i managed to get my feet into the condition it was during etiquette dinner, free of holes at least.
Eczema is too frustrating.
It's a genetic disease (yes it is there are more and more evidences), and it doesn't even have any known cure yet. All i can do is put moisturiser everyday and hope it gets well. Someday.
And all because of this i can only wear covered shoes with socks on. I'm pretty much stuck with sneakers or boots unless my skin condition improves.
(on a side note i ordered these really nice boots ♥)
The worst thing is that though my feet suffers from it the worst, my legs and arms are also really dry pretty much all the time ugh.
Not to mention my nails are really short because i have to keep cutting them. (my thumbnails are spared because i don't really use my thumbs to scratch =.=)
Resorted to applying honey tonight... hoping it'll get better tomorrow...
I need to improve my skin condition before my Japan trip...

Late night rant.
Goodnight.

#437

Got back math paper II today... don't know how i should feel about this lol.

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1. #455
2. #454: Work, again
3. #453: Japan etc
4. #453:
5. #452
6. Layout edit~!
7. #450
8. Recent happenings
9. #448
10. #447

• Go to a live in a Japan livehouse!
• JLPT N1 leggo!
• Complete series of 彩雲国物語 novels Gaiden books left!
• Olympus OM-D / Fuji X100
• Experience winter / snow
• Audio Technica M50 headphones
• Work out more! i gave up.
• Graphic tablet! Bamboo Pen!
• Sony Walkman NWZ-E464 8GB Red
• Audio Technica ATH-SJ55 White
• Good Ultrabook Samsung Series 5!
• Get my Japanese to N4 by 2013 JLPT N4 170/180!
• Hit 4.0 GPA Y5 Sem1!
• Exchange Program with Nanao High School In/Out July/Sept 2013!
• Visit Japan! Nanao in Sept'13!
• Hit 4.0 CAP before Graduation Y6 Sem1!
• Survive 6 years in nush phew. Distinction!
• Visit Nanao again!!
Sakura'15!!
• Go on a grad trip to Japan!! Sakura'15!!

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