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Sunday, June 18, 2006

oh man i know i'm really behind on posting abt the japan trip but there just seems like too much to blog.. T.T
anyway i dont think i'll blog tt much on the trip (hopefully.. if not i'll have to type till tmr night -.-) partly cus i dont have the patience and partly cus it's pretty hard to fully describe what happened in those 7 days.. SO many things happened..

hmm, ever since i came back to singapore i've been missing everything in japan, from their service to their temperature. and singapore just seems so pathetic as compared to them now. haha. at narita airport kangwei was still saying abt how he'd be writing lots of complaints abt services when he returned to singapore. really. the japanese are just so friendly and polite (even though they talk in japanese but still it's e attitude that matters (:)

decided that i should talk abt the main focus of the trip first - the exchange programme + concert with Soka High School! (: went to Soka High School on 10 June for rehersal. (oh and i forgot to mention that everywhere we went in Japan we were treated so well we felt like VIPs! haha the staff would either stand outside or inside and clap when we arrived.. so there was always a very warm welcome for us ((: we felt so pampered. haha) anyway after a warm up on e stage we were led away by students into the canteen for lunch and between me, huichueh, jingxin and justin we had 3 student guides (tetsuro, toru and e president whose name i've forgotten. oh no. =X) after lunch was the school tour.. and at one point we went to the chemistry lab and the teacher wanted to show us magic! so cute la. haha. so we sat down n he poured two colourless solutions together and asked us to stare at it.. and he kept insisting that magic would happen. den suddenly the whole solution turned orange! hahaha and we were like shocked for a while then started clapping! (: their chem lessons look soo much more fun than ours lor. (n chem teacher too. hehe) oh n outside the gym was the school song so the students stood there to sing for us (they were so enthu abt singing it la!) i shall talk more abt the school song later. XD

e 12th was the concert day n we had to wear our white long sleeves with blazer n school skirt n tie plus court shoes.. so it was quite uncomfortable.. haha. plus my long sleeve shirt was of a wrong size. (due to prom. haha. if anyone still remembers what i wore >.<) we had to walk from soka high school to soka elementary school (in court shoes. T.T) but the children were uber cute! ((((: and so small!! hahaha (pedo-ing~) we managed to peep in at their lessons like calligraphy, english, jap... and i was smitten with all e children. wahah. got non-jap too!! pretty girl somemore.. hehe. x)
had to walk back to soka high school after tt.. (ok now i shall skip right to e concert)

guzheng n e koto club performed first (i spotted so many heads nodding away in e audience!! =X) den came choir.. n when it was band's turn we had to leave to prepare! but we went to e backstage to listen.. they are like super good!?! plus the music they were playing was so grand! oh my i think they can beat singapore's bands hands down. and toru said they were 5th in japan/tokyo i cant rem which but i dont dare to think of what no. 1 will sound like. haha. tetsuro was e oboe soloist (: but actually this standard should be quite expected considering that they practise everyday. -.- n they worry abt their standard dropping from not practising for a few days.. when we count by weeks.. ok i guess this explains a lot. haha. but hearing them play just inspires you to want to join band too... i want to migrate to japan n join band! haha. x)
finally it was us.. i found out how irritating it was to blow suona with a blazer and cough. -.- extremely. oh well i shall just skip our performance. anyway i had an interesting view of the audience from my point of view. hehe. like ppl nodding off while those sitting next to them tried to avoid their heads. lol. oh n there was a girl crying (a little) after we finished Dango! gave me such a shock! anyway i realised after that tt the girl was quite "drama" in the sense tt she seemed to be quite sensitive n showed her emotions in pretty extreme ways.. =X
had to sit through many long speeches.. n i started aching from my left shoulder down to my hand. -.- i think i'm getting too old for such things. hahaha. (skips through stuff......voila!) the school song!! ((: oh my it's such a different experience listening to a handful students sing alone and a while theatre of students sing with the brass band.. even the former was quite impactful because they sang so loudly and in such a patriotic way! multiply tt number by 100 and add tt powerful brass band in and you can feel the song resonate throughout the theatre. the rhythm was so strong n i just felt so overwhelmed by the atmosphere! at tt time you just wish that you knew the song too and that you could sing with them cus you can feel the honour n pride the students have in their school song and you just want to be part of them. (oh no i just feel like i'm rambling on and on and no one will understand me but it's just so hard to describe what i witnessed and all the feelings......) [anyway, luckily they didnt ask us to sing our school song because we'd have been an embarrassment. boy did we feel ashamed of ourselves when thinking of the scene of our assembly every morning]

oh well.
all good things must come to an end. (temporarily)
we packed up and went to take group photos and gave gifts (bookmarks n nj bears) to our student guides.. i ended giving one set to the emcee as well. haha. (e shengyu lookalike) he looked so shocked when i wanted to give him the presents. hehe. tetsuro n toru gave us their e-mails (: justin started the whole tie exchange thing n ichanged mine with tetsuro! haha their lazy ties are interesting. plus i think their's look a whole lot better than nj's one o.O oh n tetsuro gave justin an oboe reed but when justin wanted to give one of his shaozis we werent allowed to get off the bus anymore. T.T
so we sat at our seats n waved (japanese tradition) to all the staff n students until the bus drove out of the school.. it was so sad to think tt our stay at the school was so short n that we didnt get to spend more time with the students.. sigh.
but i definitely enjoyed every bit of my time during the exchange! (:

hopefully we can meet all of them again next year (:

anyway i'm ending this post here n i shall leave the rest of the trip to the next entry (: my brain needs recharging

gnitihz at 6/18/2006 09:10:00 PM

Monday, June 05, 2006

yay today was an interesting day x)

met yuxing at jurong point in e morning to shop n we went to eat crystal jade! heehee. (: my bowl of noodles was scary. =X met liting at tanah merah late because i had to buy stuff. oops. poor liting was starving.. T.T

changi airport was pretty fun cus we went to swensen's n there were A LOT of funny things tt happened! ((((: from julius? to yash to chris wong. hahaha. n ah yong. LOL. if anyone wants to listen to long long grandmother story abt this must ask me. haha partly cus i'm lazy to type here n also cus i need to save stories to tell ppl when i've got nth to do =X

went to viewing mall to look at takeoffs n comment abt how we like SIA e most n got jealous at ppl using i-squeeze. lol. kept walking around swensen's for a particular reason den went to take skytrain. haha. and a child almost took yuxing's balloon =X

finally left at arnd 5 n i went to queensway while yuxing n liting went to tiong bahru. i almost got lost! haha luckily an old couple n a lady gave me directions :D
looked for my shoes for a VERY long time.. went to dunno how many shops before going back to e very first shop. haha. walked around e shop for very long too but all e shoes tt i thought looked very nice were all very ex lor. like reaching 200. den i cannot buy. haha so sad. i settled for this new balance shoe tt is grey n white n light lime green. haha. (: phew finally i bought my shoes.

hmm i have basically summarised my day cus e details are saved for my long grandmother stories. hehe (:

anyway

happy birthday yuxing! hehe. (:

your present will eventually come (maybe yagira.heehee. issit spelt like tt. oops) haha ok la i'll try not to owe u for too long =X

(:

gnitihz at 6/05/2006 10:38:00 PM

Sunday, June 04, 2006

yay i remembered what i wanted to blog abt le all thanks to jingxin. haha

i went out shopping with my mum today!
i practically had to drag out of the house cus she was so unwilling to go out.. >.<
anyway. we ended up at jurong point. haha
bought some clothes n was walking around when we ended up in a shoe shop (i think it was the royal sporting house. i cant remember.)
anyway we were looking at e shoes n i was like considering some shoes (i am super picky. haha)
e salesman kept coming over so i finally asked to try one shoe. it was too big so he went in to look for e smaller size. BUT. there wasnt any more of my size. oh well.
so i tried another design. it was too small. he went back in again to look for e larger one.
n he came out looking rather paiseh cus also dont have tt size le. by then i was already laughing cus it was like i was being so picky abt e designs but it still turned out tt there wasnt my size whichever one i chose. oh well.
i tried another design. too big. he disappeared back to e storeroom.
he took AGES. i was already joking with my mum tt he was too embarrassed to come out to see us liao cus maybe there also wasnt my size for tt shoe. he took so long tt e other salesman had to go in to help us check on him. lol.
i guessed correctly!!
haha he came out with tt same shoe tt was too big n before he even told us tt there wasnt e size i was already having a laughing fit. lol. i think he was also super paiseh.. haha. so we gave up n left. haha i was like laughing non stop cus i think it's so ironic how i was considering for so long which design looked better when it turned out tt i didnt even have a choice. =X

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gnitihz at 6/04/2006 10:09:00 PM

oh no my poor memory is failing me. i totally forgot what i intended to blog abt. =X

my mind has officially blanked out.
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sigh.
so dumb. i dont know what to blog about le.

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gnitihz at 6/04/2006 08:41:00 PM

Thursday, June 01, 2006

sigh totally no urge to blog nowadays.. -.- so sian.
my mood is seriously fluctuating like crazy these few days.. i think i really live up to being a capricorn. haha. but i think no one is able to actually detect my mood changes. T.T

oh well.

i think my poor blog entries are shrinking. maybe i should not give up on this one. (:

ok la so i had co today. reached late by half an hour.. poor jingxin had to solo 2 songs. haha. nvm he's pangseh-ing us tmr anyway. >.< collected blazer from e smelly room after prac n went for lunch with 10 other ppl (amelia zhiwen nina lerxian jingxin jonathan vincent kangwei wanling n yewee) haha i have good memory (: was stranded in curry wok for quite a while due to the rain but we still ended up walking in e rain.. i quite liked it actually (: sneezed like mad when i got home though. oops. n i realised how big e blazer i took home was.......

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everyone seems so excited abt e japan trip. but i dont know how i really feel abt it.
wow i think my mood is really super unstable now. haha. whoever provokes me at this time will probably die a horrible death. LOL.

oh man this post looks ultra random.

x.X

gnitihz at 6/01/2006 10:44:00 PM