Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Recent happenings
Getting... really... lazy... to update... this... xD
Well after exams and scriptchecking and whatnot were all over, I was playing Aura Kingdom, marathoning anime and drama and being really frustrated with uni apps i guess...
Still find uni apps wayyy too troublesome.
I'm lazy so I'm only applying for NUS/NTU. Yale-NUS, maayybe but recs orz.
Tbh I'd be happy with NUS because they have Japanese Studies and I can try out different courses :p
Really can't decide between Jap Studies and Psychology. and maybe mass comm or something.
I wanted to get this Japanese Linguistics textbook to read up but it's 65 bucks D: I think NLB has the book at central library or something...
Hmm... the most useful area that I'm interested in is probably Japanese translation or Psychology i guess. Would be really cool if I could get a job in Japanese translation.
I might actually consider being a Japanese language teacher lol. Though I'm not sure if I'm of the teacher caliber, doesn't seem so. (my JCS teacher has been an inspiration, really.)
This week was PEAs, and we just had the full dress rehearsal for next week's convocation.
The only heels I had that resembled court shoes was this pair of pretty high black suede heels orz. I thought I walked pretty fine in it but I was told to practice walking LOL.
My feet hurt less than I expected haha, walking around is less painful than standing still for a long time hmm.
Need to find stockings...
Oh I got new earphones, good ones from Audio Technica. They're over-ear IEMs with memory wire so they take more time to put on lol.
I like the sound though. I think I discovered that I really like Audio Technica's sound?
But even with the smallest eartips the earphones sometimes still doesn't get a good seal and I have to push them in :/
Might try to foam eartips that came along with it sometime, but they apparently don't last long and are expensive :S
Got a few new books from Kino's 2 recent sales, adding to my already large unread collection because my membership card is expiring in the middle of December and I don't plan on renewing it hahaha.
A way to prevent myself from buying books every time Kino has a sale even though I still have sooo many unread books lol.
And also because Kino is pretty expensive for Japanese books :/ Shipping by SAL from honto.jp is cheaper... although the wait is longer.
Other random happenings: Visited the new library@Orchard. The last choir session today was really fun.
I NEED TO GO ICE SKATING. I NEED A CAPO.
(can't wait to try playing and singing KanoUso songs!!)
Oh and I need to get makeup for prom. And somehow get a hair curler.
Planning to cut my hair back to slightly-past-shoulder length after prom haha. Or actually I wanna curl/perm (?) the edges of my hair!
Pretty much just rattling on about random stuff. Don't mind me :D
It's quite scary thinking that I'll stop seeing everyone in school in a week's time actually.
There's only convo and prom left...
...and uni apps. ugh.
Just let me get into NUS FASS would you.
Thursday, August 28, 2014
#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!
Really didn't expect a full marks for vocab/grammar because i was totally cramming grammar up to the last minute hahaha.
Really happy with my results yay. Time to head towards N1 and beyooond!!
I haven't doing my jap vocab flashcards recently though oops.
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.
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
#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...
Sunday, August 17, 2014
#446
3-day school week and busy weekend aheaaaaad!
I just need to survive the hell that is Monday first. EL presentation/PE/Bio case study plus 4 hours of rehearsal from 4-8pm TAT
Choral festival on Fri, Natsu Matsuri on Sat and choir perf @ Sentosa on Sun!! My weekend is so packed haha.
Can't wait for Natsu Matsuri again!! Bon Odori~~
I'm almost done with Malcolm Gladwell's Blink! Finally got the time for some quality reading since this week didn't have much work.
I think my posts are gonna be super short now hahaha.
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
#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