Busy December
As my work term in Japan is closing to an end my life just gets busier and busier..
I have yet to blog about the KANSAI INVASION, not to mention my talk at the Database Symposium and JLPT exam in the past weekend. But before I recap the past, I'm gonna record my schedule for the next few weeks...
December:
1 - Presentation at Database Symposium DBWeb2006
3 - JLPT 2kyuu exam
5 - NTT Baddy group 送別会 (farewell party)
9 - CJP Kanto farewell party
10 - Braz arriving
11 - Disney Sea!!
12 - Farewell party with Billy, Meghan and Vu
16-17 - NTT O基G 忘年会 ＠ 千葉館山
18 - Braz leaving
19 - Last day of work at NTT
22 - 羽魂送別会＋忘年会
23 - Hira, Oota-san baddy group 送別会 (farewell party)
24 - Christmas Carols @ 横須賀?
25 - Justin arriving
31 - Departing to HK
To do:
-Write Co-op experiential report
-Buy christmas presents
-Pay all my fees
-Get Baddiholics uniform done
-Get Yokohama maps for Biu jeh
-Get Umbrella for mom
-Get Stuff for bro
-SHOPPING!!
-Throw/give away/return home appliances
-Pack...
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On badminton:
The Yokosuka city badminton tournament was held in the past 2 weekends, but due to kansai invasion and dbweb, I could not join any of those. On the otherhand, Ishii-san was runner up in Level 1 singles, and Ishii+Seki were runner-ups in Level 1 doubles! Other ppl did pretty well too, all of them passed first round. It just occurred to me that I am playing with a few of the top male players in the city... haha all of a sudden I feel so lucky to be able to practice with them. 帰る前に後４回! Looking forward to the year end party with them! XD
Looking forward to Winter Olympics 2010...
Went for a final round of rare hamburg steak at Family Garden with Hira-san and Nakazawa-san last night.. Hira-san treated me to chestnut Mont Blanc and it was soooo yummy.. =d Mmmm... during dinner, Hira-san told me that he might be coming to Vancouver with his wife in 2010 to watch the WO... and he'll try to ask other people as well. I told them they can all stay over at my place (well.. in the basement..)... and I'm feeling excited already! Why am I feeling excited over something that may or may not even happen 4 years later... lol... I'll definitely bring them to C2 though, if they do come. Man... it'll be sooo much fun!!!!! XD
I hate playing with people who just try to overpower people and don't think about where they're hitting the birdie to... the more I play with them the more I stop thinking about where I hit, cuz they just end up forcing it into a competition of power in the end and there's no point cuz I can't smash through them. Unsatisfied.... why do I always get stuck playing with people who don't play with their brains. Power is nothing if you don't have the skills... and obviously, there's no glory to overpower me cuz ur a bunch of guys and I'm a girl... and in the end.. they can't even smash through me so they attack my partner! WTF............... why do I appear as a weak player? People were surprised when Jenn and I beat Phyllis and Powin, but we both knew inside that it wouldn't even be close. Maybe I am too weak still.... I think its a good time for self-reflection......... I need to get stronger.
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On JLPT:
Lemme start with the JLPT exam... well.. its... OVER!! WOOT!!!
Part1: Vocabs and Kanji were much easier than I thought. I was pretty confident on most of the answers, and a few that I guessed I think I guessed them right.
Part2: Listening was easier than I thought as well... I screwed up on a few of the picture questions (unexpected) but I did really well in the pure listening section (also unexpected) haha..
Part3: Comprehension was alright... I think I can get 60% on comprehension Q's, but man.. the Grammar part just completely killed me. I guessed at least 60% of the questions and there were a few where I just had no clue.. couldn't even eliminate 2.
Overall: Hope that my Part1 marks made up for my Part2... and comprehension is worth more than Grammar anyway so hopefully... I'll pass... *cross my fingers*
================================
On DBWeb2006 Symposium:
First day I got there I saw a few people get grilled by this one guy who kept asking the speakers questions that they can't answer. I was hoping he would be in another hall when I give my talk the next day.
Second day when I gave my speech, I was on slide 23/28 already when the chairperson held up the sign that indicates the 15 minute mark. My talk is supposed to be 25 minutes long. -_-;; In the end, I think my talk lasted around 18-19 minutes because I started speaking reeeally slowly. Then during the questions session, the person whom I wished wasn't there WAS there... and of course he grilled me too. I attempted to recover my grounds but this is what he said "I know, but I was just making a comment." haha... there were 2 comments and 1 question in total... I think I handled them alright..!?
Finally... I am proud to announce that I received the Student Presentation Award (3 ppl out of around 25? but duno how many of them aren't students) of 5000￥ bookcard! XD Honestly I dun even know why I got the award... LOL but apparently the chairperson thought my talk was really good and he was impressed when my supervisor told him that its my first time giving a talk on a paper. Oh btw, by student I mean any student, undergrad, masters, doctors.... although I was probably the only undergrad there. =P haha I'm sorry, I just had to brag.
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On KANSAI INVASION:
Finally.. I've gotten to Kansai Invasion.... for my Vancouver friends... Kansai Invasion was a 4 day trip all the Kanto people took to Kansai, in an attempt to invade Kansai. And of course... our invasion was a SUCCESS! lol
Day1
-Shopped at Namba from 10:30 - 5:00. Holy crap there is so much to see, and a neverending street of shops selling all kinds of clothes, shoes, etc. There's also a FOOD street... with takoyaki, okonomiyaki, crepes, etc etc. Man.. I love Namba.
-Met up with other peeps in Osaka for AYCE Dimsum.. only to find that the place is closed for renovation. =( We were disappointed but we had Korean food instead.
-After dinner, we headed to JJ, Jenn and I sang K with Vincent, Victor and Kel for a bit b4 we headed home while others continued to party all night.
Day2
-Met up with Shiufai, Clem, Neil and Kel and headed towards Nara park after a filling lunch of beef&egg don. We visited Koufukuji, Toudaiji, and KasugaDaiji Jinja. We also got to see red leaves (which makes me wonder why we never consider red maple leaves something to be "viewed" in Vancouver) and had fun playing with deers.
When I was eating my senbei, a deer wanted me to feed him so much that he started nudging me and eventually, I think was so hungry that he started chewing my jeans. -_-;; haha...
-Met up with Fur and had unagi don for dinner... mMMmm that was good stuff.
-Met Ally.. a korean girl who has perfect english (that she learnt from Phillipines) and japanese
-After picking up a few drinks at the grocery shop nearby, we headed towards Anton's house for the big PARTY!!
-Party started with drinking game that Byron prepared... and who will ever forget the killer WATERFALL.... lol. Evil Boon tried to get me drunk but luckily I didn't know the rules well and avoided it unintentionally. =P
-We watched Neil's Cool Japan TV show... haha Neil's a STAR!!
-Many funny things happened... but... I think I'll leave it out in this blog or some ppl might kill me. *cough*jenn*cough* haha
Day3
-After heading back to Jenn's to take a short rest and wash up, we met up with the big group again for lunch and then to Arashiyama.
-Hiked up Arashiyama (around.. 30 mins?) and saw MONKEYS!! many many MONKEYS!! XD
-When I was trying to take a picture of a baby monkey, it suddenly jumped onto Jenn's legs and the mother monkey jumped onto my leg... haha that was quite a scare.
-Saw the monkeys get fed... I love the baby monkies!!
-Picked up some food on the way back to the station, then Jenn, Ally and I had dessert while waiting for Bonnie and Delen to arrive. We had chestnut parfait.. sooo good!!!
-Met up with Delen and Bonnie finally!!! XD Baddiholics are partially reunited. Dropped off their luggage and off we went to Kiyomizudera temple lightup.
-It was really pretty there, but way too crowded. It was also quite dark so I couldn't get a good shot of the view.
-Finally we headed home and rested
Day4
-Billy and Kelvin came and all of us went to Fushimi Inari temple with a thousand (at least?) tori gates. It was very beautiful but I got tired hiking up the temple. We stopped halfway cuz it started to rain and headed back down.
-Headed to Shijo to do some more shopping... damn I love that place as well!! Sooo many stores, with good bargains too!!!
-Had tempura Soba for dinner b4 heading onto the night bus.. right b4 getting on the bus my throat suddenly felt extremely dry..
-One hour into the bus ride, my throat was hurting and I was having trouble breathing because the friggin bus was SO STUFFY and had no oxygen!! I swear it contributed to my cold which lasted for over 10 days already...
-Finally we arrive at Yokohama at 6:30. Billy and I went home b4 going to work, and I took a one hour nap.
And that concludes the Kansai Invasion... it was tons of fun. Thanks ANTON for letting us party and crash at ur place, and sorry for disturbing ur neighbours. >< Thanks JENN for letting me stay.. =P
I started writing this post 4 days ago.... haha... finally got it done! Yay!
I will conclude this post with a panorama of the view of Kyoto City from Arashiyama
I have yet to blog about the KANSAI INVASION, not to mention my talk at the Database Symposium and JLPT exam in the past weekend. But before I recap the past, I'm gonna record my schedule for the next few weeks...
December:
1 - Presentation at Database Symposium DBWeb2006
3 - JLPT 2kyuu exam
5 - NTT Baddy group 送別会 (farewell party)
9 - CJP Kanto farewell party
10 - Braz arriving
11 - Disney Sea!!
12 - Farewell party with Billy, Meghan and Vu
16-17 - NTT O基G 忘年会 ＠ 千葉館山
18 - Braz leaving
19 - Last day of work at NTT
22 - 羽魂送別会＋忘年会
23 - Hira, Oota-san baddy group 送別会 (farewell party)
24 - Christmas Carols @ 横須賀?
25 - Justin arriving
31 - Departing to HK
To do:
-Write Co-op experiential report
-Buy christmas presents
-Pay all my fees
-Get Baddiholics uniform done
-Get Yokohama maps for Biu jeh
-Get Umbrella for mom
-Get Stuff for bro
-SHOPPING!!
-Throw/give away/return home appliances
-Pack...
================================
On badminton:
The Yokosuka city badminton tournament was held in the past 2 weekends, but due to kansai invasion and dbweb, I could not join any of those. On the otherhand, Ishii-san was runner up in Level 1 singles, and Ishii+Seki were runner-ups in Level 1 doubles! Other ppl did pretty well too, all of them passed first round. It just occurred to me that I am playing with a few of the top male players in the city... haha all of a sudden I feel so lucky to be able to practice with them. 帰る前に後４回! Looking forward to the year end party with them! XD
Looking forward to Winter Olympics 2010...
Went for a final round of rare hamburg steak at Family Garden with Hira-san and Nakazawa-san last night.. Hira-san treated me to chestnut Mont Blanc and it was soooo yummy.. =d Mmmm... during dinner, Hira-san told me that he might be coming to Vancouver with his wife in 2010 to watch the WO... and he'll try to ask other people as well. I told them they can all stay over at my place (well.. in the basement..)... and I'm feeling excited already! Why am I feeling excited over something that may or may not even happen 4 years later... lol... I'll definitely bring them to C2 though, if they do come. Man... it'll be sooo much fun!!!!! XD
I hate playing with people who just try to overpower people and don't think about where they're hitting the birdie to... the more I play with them the more I stop thinking about where I hit, cuz they just end up forcing it into a competition of power in the end and there's no point cuz I can't smash through them. Unsatisfied.... why do I always get stuck playing with people who don't play with their brains. Power is nothing if you don't have the skills... and obviously, there's no glory to overpower me cuz ur a bunch of guys and I'm a girl... and in the end.. they can't even smash through me so they attack my partner! WTF............... why do I appear as a weak player? People were surprised when Jenn and I beat Phyllis and Powin, but we both knew inside that it wouldn't even be close. Maybe I am too weak still.... I think its a good time for self-reflection......... I need to get stronger.
========================
On JLPT:
Lemme start with the JLPT exam... well.. its... OVER!! WOOT!!!
Part1: Vocabs and Kanji were much easier than I thought. I was pretty confident on most of the answers, and a few that I guessed I think I guessed them right.
Part2: Listening was easier than I thought as well... I screwed up on a few of the picture questions (unexpected) but I did really well in the pure listening section (also unexpected) haha..
Part3: Comprehension was alright... I think I can get 60% on comprehension Q's, but man.. the Grammar part just completely killed me. I guessed at least 60% of the questions and there were a few where I just had no clue.. couldn't even eliminate 2.
Overall: Hope that my Part1 marks made up for my Part2... and comprehension is worth more than Grammar anyway so hopefully... I'll pass... *cross my fingers*
================================
On DBWeb2006 Symposium:
First day I got there I saw a few people get grilled by this one guy who kept asking the speakers questions that they can't answer. I was hoping he would be in another hall when I give my talk the next day.
Second day when I gave my speech, I was on slide 23/28 already when the chairperson held up the sign that indicates the 15 minute mark. My talk is supposed to be 25 minutes long. -_-;; In the end, I think my talk lasted around 18-19 minutes because I started speaking reeeally slowly. Then during the questions session, the person whom I wished wasn't there WAS there... and of course he grilled me too. I attempted to recover my grounds but this is what he said "I know, but I was just making a comment." haha... there were 2 comments and 1 question in total... I think I handled them alright..!?
Finally... I am proud to announce that I received the Student Presentation Award (3 ppl out of around 25? but duno how many of them aren't students) of 5000￥ bookcard! XD Honestly I dun even know why I got the award... LOL but apparently the chairperson thought my talk was really good and he was impressed when my supervisor told him that its my first time giving a talk on a paper. Oh btw, by student I mean any student, undergrad, masters, doctors.... although I was probably the only undergrad there. =P haha I'm sorry, I just had to brag.
=====================================
On KANSAI INVASION:
Finally.. I've gotten to Kansai Invasion.... for my Vancouver friends... Kansai Invasion was a 4 day trip all the Kanto people took to Kansai, in an attempt to invade Kansai. And of course... our invasion was a SUCCESS! lol
Day1
-Shopped at Namba from 10:30 - 5:00. Holy crap there is so much to see, and a neverending street of shops selling all kinds of clothes, shoes, etc. There's also a FOOD street... with takoyaki, okonomiyaki, crepes, etc etc. Man.. I love Namba.
-Met up with other peeps in Osaka for AYCE Dimsum.. only to find that the place is closed for renovation. =( We were disappointed but we had Korean food instead.
-After dinner, we headed to JJ, Jenn and I sang K with Vincent, Victor and Kel for a bit b4 we headed home while others continued to party all night.
Day2
-Met up with Shiufai, Clem, Neil and Kel and headed towards Nara park after a filling lunch of beef&egg don. We visited Koufukuji, Toudaiji, and KasugaDaiji Jinja. We also got to see red leaves (which makes me wonder why we never consider red maple leaves something to be "viewed" in Vancouver) and had fun playing with deers.
When I was eating my senbei, a deer wanted me to feed him so much that he started nudging me and eventually, I think was so hungry that he started chewing my jeans. -_-;; haha...
-Met up with Fur and had unagi don for dinner... mMMmm that was good stuff.
-Met Ally.. a korean girl who has perfect english (that she learnt from Phillipines) and japanese
-After picking up a few drinks at the grocery shop nearby, we headed towards Anton's house for the big PARTY!!
-Party started with drinking game that Byron prepared... and who will ever forget the killer WATERFALL.... lol. Evil Boon tried to get me drunk but luckily I didn't know the rules well and avoided it unintentionally. =P
-We watched Neil's Cool Japan TV show... haha Neil's a STAR!!
-Many funny things happened... but... I think I'll leave it out in this blog or some ppl might kill me. *cough*jenn*cough* haha
Day3
-After heading back to Jenn's to take a short rest and wash up, we met up with the big group again for lunch and then to Arashiyama.
-Hiked up Arashiyama (around.. 30 mins?) and saw MONKEYS!! many many MONKEYS!! XD
-When I was trying to take a picture of a baby monkey, it suddenly jumped onto Jenn's legs and the mother monkey jumped onto my leg... haha that was quite a scare.
-Saw the monkeys get fed... I love the baby monkies!!
-Picked up some food on the way back to the station, then Jenn, Ally and I had dessert while waiting for Bonnie and Delen to arrive. We had chestnut parfait.. sooo good!!!
-Met up with Delen and Bonnie finally!!! XD Baddiholics are partially reunited. Dropped off their luggage and off we went to Kiyomizudera temple lightup.
-It was really pretty there, but way too crowded. It was also quite dark so I couldn't get a good shot of the view.
-Finally we headed home and rested
Day4
-Billy and Kelvin came and all of us went to Fushimi Inari temple with a thousand (at least?) tori gates. It was very beautiful but I got tired hiking up the temple. We stopped halfway cuz it started to rain and headed back down.
-Headed to Shijo to do some more shopping... damn I love that place as well!! Sooo many stores, with good bargains too!!!
-Had tempura Soba for dinner b4 heading onto the night bus.. right b4 getting on the bus my throat suddenly felt extremely dry..
-One hour into the bus ride, my throat was hurting and I was having trouble breathing because the friggin bus was SO STUFFY and had no oxygen!! I swear it contributed to my cold which lasted for over 10 days already...
-Finally we arrive at Yokohama at 6:30. Billy and I went home b4 going to work, and I took a one hour nap.
And that concludes the Kansai Invasion... it was tons of fun. Thanks ANTON for letting us party and crash at ur place, and sorry for disturbing ur neighbours. >< Thanks JENN for letting me stay.. =P
I started writing this post 4 days ago.... haha... finally got it done! Yay!
I will conclude this post with a panorama of the view of Kyoto City from Arashiyama
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