My Precious...

I lost my Jap-Eng electronic dictionary almost a month ago and all the efforts of trying to find it have failed.... I'm sure I left it somewhere in NUS while I was trying to do a writeup in Japanese for the scholarship application... It's an extremely old model... big and clunky, nothing like the slim babes that is on sale now... It's cover is full of scratches and even has green mould on it. I don't know which idiot would wanna take it. No luck in the library and no luck in the computer lab which I thought I misplaced the dictionary.

It cost me almost 300 bucks when I bought it like 6 years ago, it's still functioning wonderfully, just feel a bit sad that I lost it. I do hope it decides to malfunction on the person who picked it up and refused to return it to the lost and found counter. Machines aren't as loyal as dogs, but I hope that it's reached it's lifespan and decides to disintegrate and explode on the new user. But what's worse is that I had to finish the write up without a dictionary, and when my Japanese friend checked the essay for me, she had a good laugh over it. But it's cool, I laugh at her english essays all the time.

Good thing she's going back for 10 days, can lompang her to buy a new, sleek, slimmer, chioer model for me. 16,000 yen, damn it, that's almost 220 bucks. Luckily I still have like 12,000 yen cash left over in my drawer, which I happily passed to her, and my Japanese ATM card, which has only 10,000 yen left in the account. Enough for her to get a new dictionary for me. No Singapore dollars burnt... that's the most important thing.

Finally, a temp job from july 4th till school starts, get some $$ back... I hope my trip to Penang with Alvin to visit a friend and our 25 outing to Batam is still on though....

YX's blog started me thinking about friendships... We hang out in a decently big group, bound by the love of the beautiful game, but I can't say that I know all of us very well, in fact, I don't really think I know any of us very well... really close friends are actually people I know more on an individual basis, which means we usually have no choice, but to go out in 2s. But I'm pretty sure when anyone in our group runs into any trouble, or has any event worth a celebration, most of us would be there for him.

While outside with my friend, I saw a stray cat, and we started talking about pets. My cousin is the "king of dogs". He has a Siberian Husky, an Alaskan Husky, (YES! 2 huge huskies in his house) and 2 Jack Russell Terriers.... heres a picture of GG and BB... Superdog and Spiderdog!

Sat out

I found a "comedy movie buddy" and a "horror movie buddy"... now maybe i need an 'arty farty movie buddy".

Dominic with some crappy "send domi home fund"....
Anyone who hates me? "Send me $500, and i will disappear to Tokyo, or Beijing, or Taipei for 1 mth"

It was a Saturday of walking for me, from City Hall, to a authentic japanese restaurant nearby for ramen, to cathay cinema for a show, PS and finally to orchard.

I've known my comedy movie buddy for 20 years, she's in my p.school class for all 6 years, see her once in a while in Language center cos she learns japanese too, and also in JC. But we seldom talk. She went japan for undergrad studies and i never saw her since. It's only a coincidence that i met a friend in tokyo, who is also a good friend of hers, then we managed to get contacts of each other.

Out of boredom, I am playing "Pangya" after some negative influence from a friend. It's an extremely kiddy online game of golf. I decided to be a girl character in the game cos' it's so "mecha kawaii"(damn cute). I'm 18 yrs old, and I was from HCJC, waiting to go into Uni... that's what i say when guys make conversation with me....And then i find out most of them are in sec school... Sighz... Think they would freak out if i told them i'm 24.

My target of goin to japan for further studies just got 1 step closer. I will be taking a test couple weeks later and an interview on the following day. $2500/mth for studying... think it's a decent deal... if I get accepted, the next step is to find a university over there which is willing to accept me.

World Cup 2006

Only a week plus before world cup starts, and for people like me who doesn't subscribe to SCV, I thought i would have to go to friend's place or to a pub, or listen to Cantonese/ Chinese commentary on the net.... Guess what... RTM is showing all matches live...

For any you guys whose place has not been ravaged by the Starhub people (ie you still have the old antenna connection) and you can tune to the Malaysian channels. Congrats, you officially have full World Cup coverage...

The TV3 schedule still cannot be found... so probably with TV3, we can watch all the matches live... another reason why I like Malaysia... RTM obviously exists to make viewers happy... Mediacorp exists to let Cable TV get the good stuff....

I don't need HD TV or anything... just good old 'live' football action