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No need to go overseas to experience culture shock. We have it here already.

to have some friends who are willing to go do some light cycling with me in some park, or bukit timah or pulau ubin. I still have roller-blade-ing that I haven't learn yet. Night cycling looks like fun but I haven't done it in my whole life due to over-protective parents and coz I haven't master cycling at the time yet.

Going town area during weekends is like no-no for me unless absolutely necessary. It's just so effing crowded, damn.

Getting physical is good for the mind too. For a change.

Friend asked me what's my goal in life in the next 5 years or 10 years time and what am I doing to achieve it.

I vaguely know what I want to achieve but it is still fuzzy. It's also heartening for me to know I'm haven't strayed and still on track.

But I think I progressed too slowly.

Need to track progress.

So many things in life are just merely the difference in thinking, misconception. What one party think is right may not be right in another person's point of view. This is so true in so many aspects like family relationships, friends, work, society, from so many things I have read. And reconciling or compromising seems to be last thing they wan to do, merely because each party wans to exert their rights so out-rightly, without even seeking understanding. Most of time we just gave up and run away while it just doesn't really solve anything, it will come back sometime in the future and haunt us again.

Maybe we just have to 'listen to others' more rather than 'talking to ourselves'. It could help you go a long way before your know it.

So many things happened in 2010, another memorable year. It's pretty hard to sum up so many things in a post because I don't post so much anymore.

I'm really thankful for my friends who are around ready to help and gave really helpful advices. It really helped me to grow mentally and also in terms of skills of managing my life in a better way. No more feeling like my life in shards of bits and pieces as if the whole world going to end. More emotionally stable and get to look things in a bigger and smaller way, and finding our what's important and what I should do. Should quote "There is no such thing as no choice, there are always choices (available for you)."

I get to see things in perspective too and also many more and blah blah blah.

Sometimes I wonder how come I'm so blessed to get to meet such wonderful and great minded people in my life. Their enthusiasm and thinking is just so great and there is this realisation too that I still have so much to learn. Really hope to share/rub these great things to friends over here too.

Another thing is I find out that girls & boys have different purposes for life, from the interaction that I get from all the groups of friends I have. This is just my feeling though, it feels like treading different worlds because of the great differences in thinking. One with many successful and accomplished people vs others still trying their very best to find their ways. I think I'm still trying to find my way.

- Been working at the same company that I've been interning for 6 months since last year. So pay is around 2x the initial amount though I hope it will increase some more hopefully next year.

- Not been blogging because my time are spent on FB games & reading twitter posts. Stalking celebrities online and see what they do in their daily life. My username: @hong_kheng

- My life has been so-so although I have my own fair share of undisclosed family drama. 人はそれぞれだね。I realised it is the part and parcels of going to adulthood and you know it's time not to be child anymore.

- Haven't been watching much anime either this year's anime titles are pretty lousy or I lazy to even watch the first episode. I did get through Kuroshitsuji season 2 but not season 1. The manga is pretty good though.

- Speaking of manga, I have stopped getting Chinese editions and jump to getting expensive Japanese counterpart. One is to improve Japanese reading/vocab skills and another is I got the money now. So my later D.N.Angel books are original Japanese and not the Taiwan translated edition.

- I barely passed JLPT level 2 last year (I got 70%) so I decided to stop taking JLPT N1 this december. "IT'S TOO TOUGH!" Maybe next december if I can manage the vocabulary and kanji.

- In other words, it takes alot of time to blog than to tweet. So it is better to read my profile on twitter than this blog.

I know you Chinese very lousy but please don't say how you don't like memorizing and how tough it is to study in front of me and the way you say it is making me very annoyed and furious and I don't have good impression of you right now. So please don't make me hate you further. I know I'm not making sense writing this sentence but I really need to say it out so I can feel abit better since my friends also do it. It is making me who hate English but trying hard to master it well very angry.

Been toying with the idea of having a blog where I can post posts in Japanese so that there is a place for me to practise using the language. And it also save the energy of translating the post to English since most of the friends here won't be able to understand the language anyway. It is here if you want to add as friend mushiatsui.

Also I've been thinking how I should go about blogging to keep this blog going as I hardly post any proper updates. Could be that I'm really lazy about writing long posts or silly rants as it can take up so much time composing (for me). Going to try posing one picture per day and say something about it then.

My previous Sony Ericsson phone is sort of dead as it could not send any smses out, and I gave it to my mum as she's been eyeing to use my phone after I got my new phone. But my "new" phone is not new, as I just borrowed the old classic Nokia phone from my bf that he would use when he goes back to the army for reservist. So is going back to the early-age of cell-phones. It's going to be some months before I got enough moolah to get myself a new-age phone so that I'm "back to civilization".

I'm sort of fully employed in my current start-up company need to stuck with lower pay but it's better than nothing.

Watched Gokusen and I think it's really nice in my own standard. Because get to see Yangumi and her old students from the 1st series onwards. Happened to chance upon a Gokusen special celebrating 7 years of Gokusen dramas and movie. Got to see the best and touching scenes from all the 3 series.
My favourite got to be the face-off scenes between Yangumi & Sawatari.
懐かしいな。。。

I just embeding the first part. It's in raw Japanese without subs thought. So can practise understanding Japanese RAW!



I'm waiting for March to come for Nodame movie in SG!!

So several important updates:

- I started on the 5th year (Further Advanced) of my Japanese class at the same JCS school after I passed the 4th year (Advanced II level). I went to the gradation dinner at Carlton Hotel which was not a bad affair. Most of the stuff were speeches and presentation of certificates. There was a buffet dinner at the end which I ate but I left the place before I finally felt satisfied from the meal. It was a free dinner after all. :(

- Anyway, I really liked my sensei for my Japanese class. She is Yamano sensei who has taught at the school for five years. Her lessons are rather intensive and is more interactive which requires some quick thinking. And there is less emphasis on grammar and more on speeches (to be exact) in the 5th year. So I think this style suits me more than just plain writing and memorizing boring grammar patterns.

- I'm more or less confirmed to stay on my current company after my 6-month contract, which is good that I don't have to find a new job. I really like the start-up company culture where the environment is fun and people is good. Hopefully I get to convert to perm and higher pay rather than staying on the trainee post. *prays hard*


I just finished a Korean drama called "You're Beautiful" featured a fictitious boyband called A.N.JELL. It's a sweet romance comedy genre that I really liked. Main story is about a girl who has to takeover her twin brother post to be a new member of band for a time being but ends up falling in love with one of band members. The songs from the drama is good too. Anyway, the guys in the drama are real IKEMEN (handsome) so it doesn't hurt to give it a try.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Juqqdvd6PwE