千九百零四： 赤壁

I watched the Chinese opera version of 赤壁　yesterday performed by a Hunan opera troupe. I had only watched Red Cliff 1 at the movies so I didn't really know the story for this. The acrobatic fighting scenes with a huge amount of somersaults and flips were very cool, but the ending with Guan Yu letting Cao Cao go was quite sucky.

Bought the DDR version of wii, now everything wii is = xxxfit , everything has become some sort of workout which I'm quite a sucker for especially since i'm only paying to go to the gym per use. the main aim of gym is yoga and the treadmill but I think I have to start running outdoors soon because of the stupid 1 hour limit on the machines. how far can I run in an hour? unless it forces me to run a longer distance in a shorter time though. so far have managed to run about 7.5km in an hour, I need to slowly increase that to 10km if possible. anyway, i have the whole of next week to myself to play with the DDR game and to workout i guess. I can try to run before work every morning but it's hard to begin alone. and I'm not familiar with the roads as well. I guess the safest way is to run along the train tracks..

千九百零三： 夕日

Some may have seen this in facebook, this is the better quality photo taken with my digicam. Gives me a very serene feeling looking at this picture.



Going to watch a 京劇 tomorrow, it's 「赤壁の戦い」 Red Cliff actually. which reminds me, i should watch Red Cliff 2 today to finish the story before I go tomorrow. Am debating internally if it's worth it to get the macro lens now, with the 5% off within this month. After calculationg it's actually cheaper to get it this month.. but should I? have already kinda overspent this month :(hmm but that's because of my sg ticket. hmmmm i have another 3 days to think about it. Finally settled all the tickets for the family for their JP trip as well.

Work is slow this week, because of the environment problems. I want to ask for more work but I'm afraid that when the wedding looms nearer it might be very difficult to handle.

In the midst of Season 3 of Criminal Minds, and next friday there is going to be CSI NY marathon on AXN. woohoo!

千九百零二： Le Pain

I baked bread!

It's nothing spectacular, plain bread in the shape of buns, but quite an achievement considering I haven't touched an oven in years. Ryo saw the effort needed to knead the dough and he was saying if I really want to bake more bread we should get a bread machine instead of tiring myself out. and he probably thinks that after a few times of intense manual kneading I might lose interest in baking bread hahaha. I thought it was pretty calming when kneading the dough though, although the table did become quite a mess but seeing the bread rise & form into buns in the oven was pretty rewarding in itself. I don't really want to eat the bread, but i guess it saves me the money of 8 buns this week. hahahaha!

千九百零一： 今日の1ショット

I don't really recognise Lin Zhiling, but only realised that she was on the cover of the magazine with Kimura on retrospect. haha. oops. She's acting with Kimura in his latest drama, I've recorded all the episodes so far but haven't started watching it.

Ryo is in Tokyo till Saturday, meaning i'm home alone until then. hmm.

千九百： Alien card

Japan legal procedures are so frustrating! I've to renew my alien card annually which means having to provide 2 new passport-sized photos annually even though the old card was fine and i didn't change so much in my looks over the past year!? and they have to waste materials making a perfectly new holographic card (like the NRIC card material). duh!!!!

I have to go down to the ward office during lunch and I have to go down to renew my spouse visa tomorrow morning as well.. I swear that this is just a prank for them to get more money from me because a yearly visa is more expensive than them giving me a 3 year visa. argh!

Went to the gym yesterday, surprisingly still able to do the Yoga poses. I guess balance is one thing that remains, but flexibility isn't. Couldn't reach my toes when I bent over, however balancing was still a breeze on the tree pose. But. due to lack of exercise, leg muscles have weakened and of course i needed more effort to stand on 1 foot for the same amount of time as before. But it works, 1 kg has gone away from yesterday, I have less than 3 months to train now!

千八百九十九： Tokyo in May

Strawberry parfait at Takano Fruit Parlour

Had a great time at Tokyo meeting up with ex colleagues and current colleagues. At first was quite tired from SG, and a little regretting to have planned the trips so close to each other, but all was forgetten when we met up :)

We had mexican food and drinks on Monday, Tues Okinawa food with M, wednesday was just myself shopping a little / yakiniku Bento, Thurs M-san had 鰻 unagi & strawberry parfait for dessert. Friday was dinner with the MS pple, finally the end of a long work week. We had dinner at a organic vegetable based restaurant Flax, it was good but not filling enough. It made us drink alot to fill our stomachs though. Saturday was SG food day at Sin Tong Kee with Manami & Akane & Ryo. Realised that Ryo hasn't tried most hawker food before (because we always went to town area or ate at home).

back to work at home tomorrow. kinda relieved to be able to do nothing at all the whole day today :)

千八百九十八： Work from Tokyo

It's work from Tokyo week this week.

Last week was a hectic week, a rush to meet up with everyone b4 i leave SG again.

Wednesday was Universal Studios with XH, Thurs there was the JP Morgan Run, where I joined as a volunteer photographer with my new camera :p Learnt quite a bit from James my photography guru, here he is :)

James & me

Reached JP last friday evening. On Saturday, we had buffet at the hotel after meeting the wedding coordinator.
On Sunday, we flew to Tokyo, and watched Kimura on TV the whole day as there were alot of promotional interviews for his new drama. Had Mexican food with the Capcom people last night, it was very good to see them again.

千八百九十七： Universal Studios Singapore

Still sorting through photos, but I like this one the best :)

Glad we went together! had a fantastic time screaming together on the rides especially those roller coaster ones under the scorching sun amidst the girl talk. No queues on the rides, the performances were great, finally got to see the Shrek 4D show in English.