In My dorm....
Finally I am settled down in my dorm. After running around the area to get stuff, food, and cooking utensils, blah blah, i can now finally say that this room is ultimate comfortable to live in.
The hottest topic of NUS gotta be that Maths lecture saga... well ask around and you will know what is happening... I watched the clip since the lecture is webcast...That guy watched too much of My Sassy girl lah, giving flowers during lecture haha, that only happens in movies where the rest of the theater is going to clap for you. This thing reminds me of what happened when I was at the Fish Leong concert a few weeks back, where Zhou Huajian and Liang Jing Ru helped 2 guys to propose to their girlfriends. One of the girls did not look convincingly won over by that. Now this thing happening in NUS LT haha, anybody wanna go Shenton Way or Suntec City to declare their love over those giant sized TVs? Talk about Giant Size Tvs, I think those TVs hanging around Shinjuku should be around 4 times the size of the one that we have at the Suntec City facing the large main road junction. Do check it out sometime if you guys ever come to Japan.
Mainland Chinese come into mind when you say about commuting in bicycles. However, Japanese do use the bicycle a lot too. This poses a very bad problem: Illegal parking of bicycles, if you think that the japanese are an obedient lot, this is obviously not the case, they park their bicycles in front of the "Do Not Park your Bicycles Here" sign.... I will take some pictures later. Same things are happening to the cars too. The illegal parking problem here is extremely bad. People park their cars all over the place, even at junctions. Amazing I would say, considering my impression of the Japanese are obedient people. Imagine a car parked at the junction of Orchard Road and Scotts Road, yes it's that bad...
I experienced the full force of rush hour traffic today when I took the subway to school in the morning. My station is just 2 stops away from Shibuya, the main transfer point. Therefore I had the luxury of jumping onto the human cushions when the door opened., it's amazing how much space you can make out if you want to. The people just kept squeezing, even at the next stop when I thought that the train was at capacity. It's pretty fun for the first try, but I think eventually I would get sick of it. I pity the ladies though, having to squeeze with all these men, and we are talking about face to hair and back to back proximity. You really need some skill to keep your balance, and never never stick to the wall because you will suffer when you squeeze again the wall, but against a human wall, it's probably not that bad. The high school student standing next to me dropped a bookmark while the train was moving, it eventually disappeared in the sea of legs, and he "flowed" into the train after more people squeezed in, therefore, leaving the position where he dropped his bookmark. It was impossible to squat down to pick up anything. That's the end of the bookmark, so I told myself never to drop anything in the rush hour subway, cos it's the same as throwing it into the sea, you have no chance of retrieving anything.
Talk about rush hour traffic, in some subways and trains, especially in Osaka, there are designated compartments that only women are allowed to board during the morning and evening rush hours. I found it amusing, but I think that really helps to curb some of the molestation problems they have on trains. If you are a lesbian, think that is some pretty good news. The next time, I am gonna take the picture of the Subway platform during rush hour. It's beautifully arranged in 2 straight rows outside everydoor. No Cluster Fu**ing, seldom people cut the queues...another classic case of social order...
Japan being a Train Country, they love their cars as much as well, otherwise we wouldn't be getting our reliable and value for money Toyotas. Considering that the Japanese are pretty rich people, the highest bracket earners do splurge on cars. I saw a black Lamborghini Diablo at Ginza Kabuki Cho, well known for the yakuza, booze, Dope, Sex, and Pachinko,lining up with 2 black Mercedes S600, and 2 Black BMWs 740... you will never see that in Singapore but I don't wanna risk my life by taking a picture because there a few handsome men, with the nicely pressed black suits standing by the cars. Seen only a couple of Ferraris, but they really like the Mercs Coupes over here, seen a few SL600s, and the other coupes. Porches are pretty common here too, with the Boxters taking up the main chunk. They love their vintage sports cars, I already saw 3 AE86 Truenos, affectionately also known as the Tofu car in Initial D. A handful of the Nissan Classics like the S13s, S14a, The Mazdas Rx7 series are still very popular here, the old Celica GT that dominated the World Rally Championships in the late 80s. Surprisingly, the Mit Evos are not so popular here as with the Subaru WRXs, exactly the opposite of the Singapore driving community. People here mostly opt for the Subaru Legacy GT Wagon, looks good and packs a punch. Great to do car watching here as the variety of cars sold are extremely large. Toyota itself has about 30 kind of new vehicles on sale currently, add that to the old models, wow....
This is like an extremely long post, can't believe I got so much to say today. Watched the last episode of Prince of Tennis, so sad that it is ending, School Rumble has also ended yesterday. looks like I need to look for other good animes. Cooked my first meal tonight, I had beef stew for dinner, and then made egg toast for supper. I realise that I am a decent cook, hah... Looks like I am going to get fat over here....I am going to slack the whole day in dorm tomorrow, I have Orientation of April Fools Day and then going to the Anime expo over at the Tokyo Bay area on Sat. My camera is a bit tired, gonna give it a bit more rest before making it work out on Sat. Anyway, saw that Winning Eleven 8 Live Evolution is out a few days ago for PS2, hope the english translation comes out quick enough, pretty good improvement from the last version, had a go at it at a shop in Akibahara.
Enjoy and work hard for the coming exams!
The hottest topic of NUS gotta be that Maths lecture saga... well ask around and you will know what is happening... I watched the clip since the lecture is webcast...That guy watched too much of My Sassy girl lah, giving flowers during lecture haha, that only happens in movies where the rest of the theater is going to clap for you. This thing reminds me of what happened when I was at the Fish Leong concert a few weeks back, where Zhou Huajian and Liang Jing Ru helped 2 guys to propose to their girlfriends. One of the girls did not look convincingly won over by that. Now this thing happening in NUS LT haha, anybody wanna go Shenton Way or Suntec City to declare their love over those giant sized TVs? Talk about Giant Size Tvs, I think those TVs hanging around Shinjuku should be around 4 times the size of the one that we have at the Suntec City facing the large main road junction. Do check it out sometime if you guys ever come to Japan.
Mainland Chinese come into mind when you say about commuting in bicycles. However, Japanese do use the bicycle a lot too. This poses a very bad problem: Illegal parking of bicycles, if you think that the japanese are an obedient lot, this is obviously not the case, they park their bicycles in front of the "Do Not Park your Bicycles Here" sign.... I will take some pictures later. Same things are happening to the cars too. The illegal parking problem here is extremely bad. People park their cars all over the place, even at junctions. Amazing I would say, considering my impression of the Japanese are obedient people. Imagine a car parked at the junction of Orchard Road and Scotts Road, yes it's that bad...
I experienced the full force of rush hour traffic today when I took the subway to school in the morning. My station is just 2 stops away from Shibuya, the main transfer point. Therefore I had the luxury of jumping onto the human cushions when the door opened., it's amazing how much space you can make out if you want to. The people just kept squeezing, even at the next stop when I thought that the train was at capacity. It's pretty fun for the first try, but I think eventually I would get sick of it. I pity the ladies though, having to squeeze with all these men, and we are talking about face to hair and back to back proximity. You really need some skill to keep your balance, and never never stick to the wall because you will suffer when you squeeze again the wall, but against a human wall, it's probably not that bad. The high school student standing next to me dropped a bookmark while the train was moving, it eventually disappeared in the sea of legs, and he "flowed" into the train after more people squeezed in, therefore, leaving the position where he dropped his bookmark. It was impossible to squat down to pick up anything. That's the end of the bookmark, so I told myself never to drop anything in the rush hour subway, cos it's the same as throwing it into the sea, you have no chance of retrieving anything.
Talk about rush hour traffic, in some subways and trains, especially in Osaka, there are designated compartments that only women are allowed to board during the morning and evening rush hours. I found it amusing, but I think that really helps to curb some of the molestation problems they have on trains. If you are a lesbian, think that is some pretty good news. The next time, I am gonna take the picture of the Subway platform during rush hour. It's beautifully arranged in 2 straight rows outside everydoor. No Cluster Fu**ing, seldom people cut the queues...another classic case of social order...
Japan being a Train Country, they love their cars as much as well, otherwise we wouldn't be getting our reliable and value for money Toyotas. Considering that the Japanese are pretty rich people, the highest bracket earners do splurge on cars. I saw a black Lamborghini Diablo at Ginza Kabuki Cho, well known for the yakuza, booze, Dope, Sex, and Pachinko,lining up with 2 black Mercedes S600, and 2 Black BMWs 740... you will never see that in Singapore but I don't wanna risk my life by taking a picture because there a few handsome men, with the nicely pressed black suits standing by the cars. Seen only a couple of Ferraris, but they really like the Mercs Coupes over here, seen a few SL600s, and the other coupes. Porches are pretty common here too, with the Boxters taking up the main chunk. They love their vintage sports cars, I already saw 3 AE86 Truenos, affectionately also known as the Tofu car in Initial D. A handful of the Nissan Classics like the S13s, S14a, The Mazdas Rx7 series are still very popular here, the old Celica GT that dominated the World Rally Championships in the late 80s. Surprisingly, the Mit Evos are not so popular here as with the Subaru WRXs, exactly the opposite of the Singapore driving community. People here mostly opt for the Subaru Legacy GT Wagon, looks good and packs a punch. Great to do car watching here as the variety of cars sold are extremely large. Toyota itself has about 30 kind of new vehicles on sale currently, add that to the old models, wow....
This is like an extremely long post, can't believe I got so much to say today. Watched the last episode of Prince of Tennis, so sad that it is ending, School Rumble has also ended yesterday. looks like I need to look for other good animes. Cooked my first meal tonight, I had beef stew for dinner, and then made egg toast for supper. I realise that I am a decent cook, hah... Looks like I am going to get fat over here....I am going to slack the whole day in dorm tomorrow, I have Orientation of April Fools Day and then going to the Anime expo over at the Tokyo Bay area on Sat. My camera is a bit tired, gonna give it a bit more rest before making it work out on Sat. Anyway, saw that Winning Eleven 8 Live Evolution is out a few days ago for PS2, hope the english translation comes out quick enough, pretty good improvement from the last version, had a go at it at a shop in Akibahara.
Enjoy and work hard for the coming exams!
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