today there was a full 10 min of snow. unfortunately, i was having jap lessons. could only stare out of the window in despair as snow fell. ARGH!! absolutely shitty luck. why is it that when it snows, i'm either asleep or in class?! should have seen the signs when the temperature plummeted sharply during lunch time. "#$%&'!

aching feet. boots are cool looking but they kill feet. bootmakers are evil!

ate bento for lunch today. running out of things to eat. haiz. food is so ex.. a decent meal costs bout ￥1000 and thats only decent, not good. thats like S$16! freak sia.. take cab from like orchard to bukit timah (osaka to my place) costs bout ￥6000! ... and i see the homeless people on the streets i feel terrible for them. and i feel ashamed of myself for complaining when i have a place to sleep in and clothes against the cold. but if their own country doesn't help them, wat can i do??

getting sick of japanese classes. esp nowadays, we just waste time every day toking some rubbish to keep the teacher occupied and just to make the time go faster. argh. another 6 hours tomolo. can't wait. yah, rite.

feeling feverish. going to be down with flu tomorrow. at least now i'm reading English reports instead. ah.. i dunno if my jap is improving. feeling like i'm not absorbing anything anymore. and its only wednesday! how am i ever going to get through this week?

NTT sux big time. just received our internet bill, there's some router fee thats humongous and we're like supposed to pay ￥7035 per month??? thats in addition to the ￥4350 subscription everymonth for the AdSL. my god. (for ur info, ￥1000 = S$16)
cable TV cum broadband is so much cheaper. prolly going to switch to that. ARGH! ...

bought another game.. Puyo pop. its FUN! haha.. i like the puzzle bobble-type of games. very addictive.. yay... now i have 3 PSP games. Vampire Chronicles, Kollon, and Puyo Pop! aiming for Ridge Racer and Sangoku Musou. not cheap sia.. each game at least $30 .. can oni buy next game next month le.. oh i oso bought onimusha3 at a discount of 1800 Yen yesterday.. used my points.. so it was free? heh..

today went on a shopping spree. bought a new bag (Y1050), new top (Y525), new collared shirt from Gap (Y2900, abit bohua, this is ex).. and a pair of pants (Y1050)! very cheap desu.. went to Umeda's Fashion lobby, and Hep 5. the adidas shop is so cool! all the anniversary clothing.. oh yah.. and game with the Yodobashi points. and had YakiNiku for dinner! was very very delicious! although abit ex, 2790 Yen for 2 pple. not too filling though.. yum .. my aim is to try new thing / go new place every week..

tired.. heng tomorrow my superiors on business trip. i finally get a breather in the office to finish up on my homework. phew...

i had jap lessons the whole of today. つまらないです。。damn boring. everyone was counting down to the end of it. the last hour was unbearable.

i felt very weird today. turns out only i'm allowed access to the buildings, meaning i can enter the building every day while the rest can't. and Kana-san's rules singled me out to say that I am the sole cardholder with access to the building and only I can access the rest of the levels. not just the classroom. i didn:t really feel comfortable with that kind of singling out. they all headed for the classroom in the morning after i opened the main door and then i had to wait for sensei to come in my office while the rest chatted in class. haiz. i hope i am up to taking up the responsibility.

can:t believe i am still up. trying to summarise a marketing paper into a few pages in JAPANESE.. haiz. i can do the English part in like 5 min? but i take 5 hours to summarise things into 2 pages in JAPANESE. yikes. all delirious. and throat hurts. everyone getting sick. i better drink more water.

test is over. happy thaat my vocab is not bad (cos i been typing reports for a few days and need to look up alot of new words) but sad thaat my grammar sux. yuck.

got another few more reports to read at work. ahh.. in japanese. and its like essays of at least 10 pages. help me! ...

at least when time passes quickly, its quite ok, with emailing the other trainees in btw and surfing the net for more info etc.

we all seem to be losing interest in our jap lessons. is it cos we've reached our saturation point? time is passing really fast suddenly. its almost the weekend again. at this time last week, just one more day til the long weekend. well.. today i will say that.. 2 more days to the weekend!

i th ink spring is arriving. its been raining the past few days and the weather has turned considerably warmer. such that i can just wear a jacket without bundling myself up like a rice dumpling when i go out, or that i actually perspire on my way to work etc. can:t believe i would say this but i MISS PErsPIRING! hahaha...

finally started work today!

training to be exact but YAY!

was supposed to have a jap mock test today but in the morning, sensei said it would be after lunch but we already had programs after lunch. tried to tell her but she didn:t believe, in the end realli couldn:t have the test.. have to stay back after work to do on wed. sianz.

training has been planned ast least for a few months. at the beginning, will be familiarising myself with the industry and learning some job skills for my post, and of cos all the other efforts into perfecting my jap.. GAMBATTE!!

Happy Valentines' Day!

have had a studious day.. rushed out at 6+ to buy presents for our IC here in japan. she been very nice to us and we wanted to surprise her with a gift. but no one could decide wat to get her, in the end i suggested we each get a small thing and we all put the things together into a big boxso that she can open the box and receive a treasure of things that are more meaningful. :) ii idea desu ne.. いい　idea ですね..

bought a new electreic dictionary. cos the rest of the class will be going to the R&D building tomorrow, and only i'm left in the main office. haiz. cannot share dict with HS le.. so have to buy a new one. aniway.. the new one has chinese too and is half the size of the old one. cool sia.. but more expensive of cos.

prepared my parcel for my family members as well. hope they enjoy it. Vday is a big thing here in japan, the dept stores are in a chocolate frenzy. the chocolates are beautifully packaged as well. u drool and feel faint just walking around in the basement level of the dept store with the crowd and the heat and the chocolatey delicious smell wafting into ur nostrils.

i'm making myself hungry again haha. lvl3 test tomorrow when the syllabus isn't even half completed. good luck to us.

have been having a lot of bad dreams lately. nitemares of my parents passing away and my sis becoming a juvenile delinquent have been haunting me lately. even when i take naps. was so exhausted i took a 3 hour nap this afternoon. felt sleepy at 1pm this afternoon haha.. luckily there wasn't much hw this weekend so finally can take a rest.

bought alot of stuff to send to my family members. hope they will enjoy the goodies. kinda miss my mom's cooking. haiz.. the first pangs of homesickness are attacking me.

yesterday was fun!

sensei (her mom actually) cooked a rice dish with seafood, lotus, eggs, seaweed (nori). YUMmy! for 8 of us, it was a big dish, we couldn't finish it but i had the most helpings (:p) have actually taken picts of it.. here it is!

our lunch!


after lunch, we just sat there and oshaberimasu (chat) with sensei. her niece was there too and she's really cute! 7 years old and we spent the afternoon trying to chat with her and play. she took a liking to me heh.. and allowed me to take a few really sweet photos with her..

mi chan & me!


in the end we stayed at her place until 8 plus b4 leaving.. tired out sia..

finally a public holiday. Memorial day i think. our jap sansei invited us to view the ceremony at the temple near her place tomorrow. shall elaborate tomolo.

major pimple outbreak on my face. !!!! help!!! i dunno wat happend.. but feeling damn ugly.. ARGH!! japanese girls dun seem to get pimples... why why why... !!

went dinner and ate asian food again. very filling. the rest of the places were horrendously crowded. weird. but then.. tomorrow is a public holiday after all..

i'm bored.

yikes. my feet are almost dropping off my legs again. i can:t believe i walked from JR osaka to my apt. its at least 2 km away. in ２-inch high boots. all becos we went to collect our alien card (our japanese ID card) straight after work. ARGH. the city hall is so inaccesible.

私はPSPを買いました！have finally got my PSP! bought the capcom game vampire chronicles, its very fun! (no, we dun get capcom games free, its really sad) .. the screen is beautiful. and colourful.

was feeling quite down today i dunno why. restless feeling all day, felt very lost and distracted. homesick? i dunno. just that i feel that i'm wasting my time all day. and that its the new year. and we have no holiday? haiz. maybe i just need more sleep.

finally found pokemon center today!! its so popular i can't believe it. we had to queue up for like an hour just to get in. ... and worst thing was the shop was damn small. the tokyo one was bigger.. and there isn't my comfy cushion there! ... and after that had to queue up like another half an hour just to pay. ... ah well. but i was happy to have found it.. :)




later on went to kobe. chinatown in sannomiya actually. its only 15min by train from where i live.. ! so near.. and the china town had alot of asian seasonings. like CHilli Sauce.. tom yam soup base etc. YUM!!! but their restaurants were like so overpriced. it was pretty normal food summore.. blahz..

oso, finally able to catch takizawa on tv. the show's pretty lame. alot of theatrics, he didn't look very macho as well. oh well..

have updated my photolog as well (after like a whole month).. enjoy!!www.bbgphotos.blogspot.com

i managed to complete my jap powerpoint slides! took me a whole day though.. now i have to type / write out wat i wan to say in jap.. yikes. very headache..

haf to go get started... i wan to go out tomorrow!!!

finally got my food!!

the tom yam maggi mee was wonderful. heaven in fact. and hereforth, my thrifty life in Japan begins. :)

busy preparing for monday's presentation. translating everything to japanese is such a bitch. when its almost like everything in traditional chinese but with some funny symbols thats hard to type in between. thats the katakana by the way. and i still have to prepare what i wan to say in japanese too. haiz. i hope it goes well.

been quite busy, mainly with jap hw.

been falling asleep after at the end of jap lesson these few days, not a gd sign. i dun wan to be that girl! ... still waiting for my parcel, they confiscated my ba kwa at the customs. stupid.. i'm sure they just wanted to eat it for themselves. grr.. and they tot it was beef.. rubbish sia.. told my parents and in the end we decided to just leave that at the customs and ask them forward the rest of the stuff.. argh... chilli..

i'm a little worried i might just get fat this winter. i was so hungry i ate 2 sobas at dinner last nite. and then 2 cream puffs from beard papa. then at lunch this afternoon pasta and another main course of pork. and dinner was rice and noodles. both full servings. i can't help it... its cold..

have a jap presentation on monday. argh. and have to do a powerpoint in jap as well. sianz.

SNOW!

yes, today saw the first snow in my life. walked out of the apartment to see my fren kicking at something white on the ground. toook me a while to realise it snowed in the night. ARgh! Tot i had missed it for good. was pretty disappointed on the train, saw some fields covered in white. it was beautiful to see geraniums covered with white.

after lunch, was in the building when saw some things floating past the window outside. WOAH! wind was super strong and snow was flying (dropping?) from the sky. it was quite beautiful except it lasted for only bout 5 min.

on the way home. it was freezing. cos of the freaking strong winds, first time i actually felt real fear that my ears and nose were going to fall off. eyes couldn\t even open. had to choose today to wear a skirt. couldnt feel my legs when i finally reached the apmt. dunno how i managed to walk (half ran) in boots and the cold.

i hope it snows tonite. i definitely won't miss it again.