spanky new layout

Yes, lazy ol' Juan finally got round to changing my blog layout... (such a hassle!) Partly 'cos Kiat just did his, and he found a nice one that I cld use ^^ The major prob I am facing now is that my blog looks wonderful in IE but a tad bit weird in Firefox, and I do like Firefox a whole lot more than IE.... *bleah* kinda need to get my links up again and stuff.... think I prob need to incorporate some javascript in, so that my sidebar isn't too long... (hope that won't further mess up the layout *sobz*) Well, yea, this is kinda to let u know wat's happening, so dun pls dun mind if my blog looks weird for a while.... Do hope I get things sorted out before we go off to Tioman!!

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Adventure w RAMUNE (ラムネ) =^-^=

Yes, King Liang, it takes me 3 days to actually get this entry up.... Well, after bringing the UNSW ppl back to PGP on Sunday, Yew Mun, King Liang, Mun Keat, and I headed down to Raffles City... KL wanted to introduce me to ラムネ (pronounced as "ra-mu-ne") a pretty unique Japanese soft drink. Lunch at Subway, then the 4 of us trooped down to Market Place at the basement of Raffles City.... When we got to the Japanese produce section, I was getting pretty excited, especially since ラムネ turned out to be a drink I saw on either anime or J-drama before ^^ There were other flavors like orange and peach and stuff but only 3 of them were in the "authentic" glass bottle.... So the adventure begins after putting the drink in the fridge upon getting home ^^

Okie.... I ended up buying the original flavored ラムネ (pretty much tasteless to me... prob because loads of Singaporean soft drinks are very sweet). [1] shows the unopened bottle. Kinda looks like a normal soft drink in a glass bottle but looks can be deceiving, ya know! So upon closer inspection, there are interesting labels like in [2] and [3] as to how to open the bottle.... Basically there is a little plastic t-shaped thingie that you use to unseal the bottle by pushing the glass marble dn ^^

So ya, after removing the normal plastic seal thing at the top, the bottle ends up looking like [4], where the geen plastic bits at the top just sitting there, and come apart like in [5]. The smaller plastic bit on the left is the "t-shaped" thingie used to push the glass ball down...

Now comes the troublesome part..... the proper unsealing, so that I can get to my drink.... [6] shows how u shld place the plasatic bit, and u gotta use A LOT of strength to get the darn ball down!! I tried, didn't work.... Mom tried, didn't work... Went to get a flat pebble we had, I held on to the bottle, and Mom went "wham" on the pebble, and the glass ball *finally* went dn.... You can sorta see it fizzle-ling in [7]

Just in case that wasn't large enough, here are some close-ups of the bubbles forming ard the ball... other than those little bubbles, there wasn't much excitement *lol* And yea, Juan (along w sibs and mom) proceeded to finish the 200mL of drink there was.... Not really a lot, but I only understood how THICK the walls of the bottle are after we finished the drink!!

Well.... here's the emptied product... The bottle is contoured in such a way that the glass ball doesn't fall all the way down but instead stays some where in the middle.... Well, now Juan has a nice noisy, albeit heavy, rattle on my table ^^ One good thing that came out of this is that now I have something ready for Japanese 4 culture presentation (photos and bottle alike!! heehee... might even get another bottle just before the presentation so I can demo how to open it ^^)

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Trip to the airport....

Juan really needs to remember that it takes near to 2 hours to get to the airport from home.... Nice LOOOONNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGG train ride *sigh* To start the story from the beginning, a group of us from SPS are helping out with a Science Summer School Programme thing NUS has w UNSW, so some of (the group of) us were at the airport to greet them... We were supposed to meet at 1730h since their flight was to arrive at 1745 but silly me was an hour late. Thankfully none of them were out yet ^^ Oh well... Managed to get all 27 of them safely, and on to PGP we go.... Wei Wen JUST had to whip out his deck of cards to play bridge while we were on the bus ^^ Oh, apparently they have a similar game called "500" (?) back Down Under... Unfortunately, the 2 we were playing with weren't exactly sure of the rules for it...

Next "adventure" at PGP was with the cluster gates that were situated at each level... Spent a good 15 minutes trying to figure out how to actually open them (especially since I don't stay in a hall) *rofl* And then back down to the air-con canteen for a quick meeting and briefing for tmr, as well as the collection of their [rather nice] welcome pack.... There was also a short comment abt the pink guavas that are eaten in Australia and the whitish, "pear-ish" ones we eat in Singapore. Well, the commercial guava drinks (like the ones from Pokka) we get in Singapore are made from the pink guavas, and they are sweeter compared to the practically tasteless white ones.... Pink and white are referring to the flesh inside... All guava skins are green....

Anyway, there wld be some of us bringing them to Clementi to get hp Sim cards, EZlink cards and wateva else they need... Prob til lunch time I guess, since a number of them DO have exams on Monday.... The poor things had to fly over in the middle of their exams, so they are doing papers in between some of the modules for the next week or so... And one of her has a pretty bad cough but still needs to study for her paper on Monday... Do hope she can get enough rest tonight... I prob can only join them for lunch at Clementi after YM tho'

Well... 27 more names to learn and match to faces (doesn't help that there are 2 Emilys) Wld prob have fun with that, tho' I think they wld have more fun trying to remember our names since none of the 9 of us have English names ^^ with mine being a little of a tongue-twister (I mean, even my TEACHERS can pronounce it wrongly, and they are Singaporeans!!!), and I like to sign off us "Juan" which wld be synonomous to "euan" a GUY's name... (yea, most of my netpals think that I am a guy, at least until they realise that I am NOT) Been telling them to call me "Ju-en" or "Jen"...... Here's to fun times ahead, and to a good rest in bed!! 皆さん、おやすみなさい！！またね！！

Oh, as a side note, I managed to get tix for the NDP preview... Now to figure out where Far East Square is, so that I can go collect them... Plus need to know WHEN the preview is.... Only know that it is at the Padang (since this year's NDP wld be at the Padang)

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After some shut eye....

Hmmm.... Managed to get *some* sleep after all, but I think I am NOT meant to last multiple nights in SPS.... So much for a full fledged marathon... Guess we wld just finish up by watching segments of the the features discs (as recommended by Ifty), then I can actually get back to my bed tonight! And then I can enjoy my extended vcds at a more leisurely pace ^^ AND I get a chance to actually pack my rm as well... Tho's I prob wld be back on Friday, to *hopefully* settle some UROPS and module stuff, especially since the UNSW students coming for the science summer school programme wld be arriving on Saturday, and the 10 of us wld be meeting them on Monday during the welcome tea =^-^= PLUS, there's the semestral cleaning of SPS rm on Monday as well.... *hefty yawn* Kinda a good thing that I wld be occupied with helping the summer programme, otherwise I *might* feel a tad bit lonely since Nam is gg back to HK tmr, and wld only be back a week later.... Guess I kinda need to start on Minna no Nihongo for Japanese 4 as well, dun wanna be forever getting a B for jap.... Which reminds me, there's still that humongous ambition of mine to translated some of the Kino no Tabi stories into english too... [Not to mention the vectoring and walling I am supposed to be finishing up.... No, I haven't forgotten abt the hikaru no go wall or the inuyasha vector....]

Yes, going home tonight seems more and more appealing with each passing moment *nods head* I definitely DON'T wanna shower in science again... at least not until the upgrading(s) are all done... the shower head was pretty old, and more of getting a jet of water than anything else, but I think the freakiest part was how the noise/sounds from the upgrading that was going on a few rooms away just carried.... Half the time I wasn't sure if the noise was from there or if one of the workers actually came in to use the toilet... Pretty nerve wrecking if you just had a couple hours of sleep somewhere far from your bed, more so due to severe myopia... But that was the nearest shower ard, so.... *shudder* What i wld give for a nice warm shower at the moment....

Present wallpaper: Nice dark wall of Vincent from Final Fantasy - Advent Children that I managed to get off MT ^^ Matches the black of my IBM thinkpad wonderfully! The CGI is done so nicely, but when is squaresoft gonna put us out of agony and release the DVD?!? The release date has already been pushed back a number of times....

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Sleepless in NUS....

Well, we started our own private LOTR extended DVD full marathon (meaning we are watching EVERYTHING on the DVDs) Managed to finish all of Fellowship in ard 12 hours, supposed to be catching some winks now.... but I can't seem to fall asleep O_o Crap!! Well, so since I have *kinda* nothing better to do, here I am updating my blog ^^ Still can't believe that I am in sch for something as trivial as being a LOTR geek!! *ROFL* Really wonder if I can survive thru another 20-24 hours of LOTR.... Haha... But the behind-the-scenes peeks and the great scenery really makes it all worthwhile, and just seeing Tolkien's Middle-Earth brought to life is just so nice! *sigh* Wanna retire to Rivendell, and live in Lothlorien...

Finally got down to watching some of the TeniPuri musicals that I got from May Yi, and I think they are really amusing! Dancing, singing and tennis just doesn't go.... Really comical seeing live-action ver of all the Seigaku dudes ^^ Really like how Kaidoh turned out tho'. Pity those I got from her are raws, so I can't make out everything they were singing... Anyway, gonna make another attempt to sleep.... Minna-san, oyasuminasai!

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NUS High Camp - mission accomplished!!!

The second camp is now officially done ^^ Yay!! Compared to the P6s, the Sec 2s were much less energetic.... In other words, they didn't drain my "batteries" as badly ^^ Still, having a nice bath at the end of the day feels REAL good!!

[Juan dashes off for dinner at this point....]

Okies... Back from a nice dinner that included chili black pepper fish, and now on to more rambling abt the camp... heehee.... Guess u shld be able to tell that Juan has enough energy to be bouncing ard! Kinda glad that my team *finally* showed SOME enthusiasm at the eco-race of the last station. Tho' that may be partly due to Malcolm actually giving them a time to beat..... Well, since BOTH teams competing actually managed to beat the original best time of 18 min plus, all I can say is "Well done Orange!!" As the Orange mentors were saying, it truly is the "Return of the Jedi"! Great that Orange teams managed to get the best team for 3 stations, compared to the P6 camp where only one girl from Orange got a prize for the DuPont quiz..... It was a busy (and rather draining) week, and I definitely enjoy the rest of my hols ^^ (Just need to get off me bum and go do some active scouting for a UROPS prof....)

Guess the kids weren't the only ones who made new friends. I got to know more NUS pple too! I mean, I already know the SPS ones, but there were also a number of SPS-friends that were helping out. People like Aloysius were doubly great to know. (In his case, he's a nice fella, PLUS he's also a fellow ACSian!!)

Hmmmm..... On to other things.... Yea, CoolBlueX has done the updating at Oujisama.tk, so the anime episode summaries are slowly trudging along.... Gotta start watching those live musicals soon too...At least the TenuPuri stuff are making some headway, not like my Kino no Tabi translations... Translating REALLY is tougher than it looks :(

The AMC website has been moved to Leslie's SCCC hosting space, and well, things are still kinda messy at the moment while sections are being allocated to various pple... Grace and I are kinda the articles pple. I really wonder what I can write abt.... Plus whether my writing skills are really up-to-std.... I mean, other that blog entries (or diary style ramblings) or science-related reports, papers etc., I haven't really been doing anything similar to a proper article writing.... Oh dear, what to do abt this?

Dental appointment tmr... So NOT looking fwd to it..... Never really liked visiting either the doctor's nor the dentist's *hefty sigh*

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Guess I owe u guys this......

Yea.... sorry for the "downtime" and the lack of posts... been a little busy, plus internet connection at home is more than a little wonky....

Got back my results a week ago. Good news is that everything is above a C+... the bad news is that there weren't any As either *hefty sigh* Oh well, that's the last sem (I hope!) that I would be taking 6 modules. Back to a normal load of 5 ^^ Aside from Japanese 4, Microbiology and UROPS, I am still short of 2 modules to take... Probably gonna be more LSM modules I guess...

So what has Juan been busy with? No, not with FF7... If I was busy with that, you guys would definitely read more about escapades of how to catch the *stupid* chocobo etc.... Been helping out in the NUS High School camp (that's for this week) and one thing that I have DEFINITELY learnt from this is that Juan is NOT cut out to be a primary school teacher or work in a childcare centre... Batteries don't last long enough... Will be over after this week. Whoppee!! Then I have ard a week free before I need to help with the NUS summer exchange programme for the UNSW pple... Yes, that gives me ard one week to settle my UROPS project.... Guess I hafta select from the list of Bio Sciences projects...

Okie... wanna wrap this up so I can get back to fiddling ard with MSN messenger 7.0... Ciao for now....

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Final Fantasy VII

Sorry for the lack of entries recently ^^ Have been having WAY too much fun watching TeniPuri and playing computer games ^^ BTW, the anime summaries on oujisama.tk shld get updated once i manage to pass them to CoolBlueX for UL... One fun game that DEFINITELY deserves a try is Paradoxion, even more so if u like puzzles *nods head* You can get the trial version HERE.

Well, on to another game that has taken me ages to get down to playing... FF7 for the PC ^^ (Yes, juan is slow, but what to do when juan doesn't have a PS2 or much time during the hols?) Really happy that DT could lend me her FF7 (and FF8) games to play!! Heehee.... It DID take me a while to figure out how to use the mousepad on my IBM lappie, plus even more time before I actually got used to what key controlled what... But after that, it's pretty fun ^^ This is SO gonna take up more of my time... there goes the thots of practising Japanese and walling... Oops..... Oh well, it IS the hols, and I kinda want some FF to play while waiting for SquareSoft to actually release the much awaited FF 7: Advent Children DVD ^^ The game would do for now (tho' the graphics aren't quite like the present FF CGs, they are pretty cute) Would probably spend the most of tmr playing FF7, at least til I get stuck at one stage or another.... Tata for now!

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Passion AC!!!

Okies.. Upcoming ACJC event... Wld all ACSians reading this blog pls take note? Thanks!! ^^

What? Passion AC
Where? ACJC Auditorium
When? !st July 2005 (Fri), 7.30pm

Hope to see familiars faces there!!
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Okie... On to the proper blog entry ^^ I JUST had to put the details up here after getting informed of this! Anyway, silly me just realised that I can actually browse to the original Shonen JUMP mag in Kinokuniya, so I dun really need to depend on fansites to provide low quality photoscans of the latest chapters of stuff like Bleach and Tenipuri!! Down side is that I need to travel down to town, and black fingers due to the newspaper quality toner used in the printing process.... But oh well... Managed to get the VCD of Umizaru *bounces in joy* Now I get to watch it over and over again!! Heehee....

Back after 10 min... Just back from watching the part of the last episode of a chinese variety show, and seeing Mark Lee trying to learn Japanese is simply hilarious!! His intonation is all wrong... Normally the show wld get various celebrities to teach foreigners some chinese, but since this is the last episode, the 2 hosts are required to learn THREE languages (or at least SOME of it), namely Japanese, Thai and Malay ^^ Wanna go watch Bleach 32 now, so また　ね!

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THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK..... not....

My fren just showed this to me, apparently this has been circulating ard the net on some forums.... kinda apt in view of all the hype surrounding episode 3 that's gonna open next Thu.... enjoy!!

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INT: BESPIN GANTRY - MOMENTS LATER:

A furious lightsaber duel is underway. DARTH VADER is backing LUKE SKYWALKER towards the end of the gantry. A quick move by Vader, chops off Luke’s hand! It goes spinning off into the ventilation shaft. Luke backs away. He looks around, but realizes there’s nowhere to go but straight down.

Darth Vader: Obi Wan never told you what happened to your father.

Luke Skywalker: He told me enough! He told me you killed him!

DV: No… I am your father!

LS: No, it’s not true! It’s impossible.

DV: Search your feelings… you know it to be true…

LS: NO!

DV: Yes, it is true… and you know what else? You know that brass droid of yours?

LS: Threepio?

DV: Yes… Threepio… I built him… when I was 7 years old…

LS: No…

DV: Seven years old? And what have you done? Look at yourself, no hand, no job, and couldn’t even levitate your own ship out of the swamp…

LS: I destroyed your precious Death Star!

DV: When you were 20! When I was 10, I single-handedly destroyed a Trade Federation Droid Control ship!

LS: Well, it’s not my fault…

DV: Oh, here we go… “Poor me… my father never gave me what I wanted for my birthday… boo hoo, my daddy’s the Dark Lord of the Sith… waahhh wahhh!”

LS: Shut up…

DV: You’re a slacker! By the time I was your age, I had exterminated the Jedi knights!

LS: I used to race my T-16 through Beggar’s Canyon.

DV: Oh, for the love of the Emperor… 10 years old, winner of the Boonta Eve Open… Only human to ever fly a Pod Racer… right here, baby!

{Luke looks down the shaft. Takes a step towards it.}

DV: I was wrong… You’re not my kid… I don’t know whose you are, but you sure ain’t mine…

{Luke takes a step off the platform, hesitates, then plunges down the shaft.}

{Darth Vader looks after him.}

DV: Get a haircut!

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Building comp...

Woh~ First time I am helping out in building a comp more or less from scratch ^^ Actually it's one of my frens who is doing it... I am just tagging along, and since it is in a common area, and I am to help with troubleshooting as and when probs crop up... the poor comp is kinda "naked" at the moment with all its components spilt all over the table, plus there is NO power "ON" button!! We turn it on with the mystical power of the FORCE ^^ (FYI, we are Jedi padawans too! heehee...) It is quite fun, and I may wanna build my own desktop at home as well. But that means that I REALLY need to clear up more space on my desk.... ladidadida...

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Whew....

After 7.30pm today, my exams would be over ^^ Banzai!! Well, that just leaves me with 2 ISM papers to do by sat... kinda had a breather over the weekend, and that helps ^^ (in spite of the fact that most of my frens seemed to have ended their exams by last wk) Big relieve that my paper are *finally* gonna be over, tho I prob wld have quite a few sleepless nites trying to get out 2 review papers in 4-5 days...

Holidays wld soon be here, meaning time to do walling and vectors, plus time to look for UROPS prof... (oh... plus the neverending task of packing me room!) Started watching the TeniPuri anime, and decided to make episode summaries as I go along. These would be up on Oujisama.tk once CoolBlueX has proofread them for accuracy and degree of spoiler-ness... Prob would do the same for the musicals once I get round to watching them ^^ It has been sometime since I have done any summary writing for either a book or show, do hope those are fine... Kinda makes me feel like a reporter, the way I type them out while watching the anime...

Yep... feels kinda good having an update here after so long ^^ Just need to finish these two review papers... Hang in there Juan!!

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Exam blues....

OK... this is gonna be my last post til after *most* of my papers... having 6 papers over 2 weeks or so... then need to do 2 review papers in 5 days.... Exam schedule is as follows...

23 April: LAJ2202 Japanese 3
25 April: LSM3212 Human Physiology
26 April: ST2238 Introductory Biostatistics
28 April: SSA2205 Japan & Singapore
29 April: LSM3251 Ecology & Environmental Processes
03 May: GEM2900 Understanding Uncertainty & Statistical Thinking

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Spent the past 2 days spamming BleachPortal.net since the KAA forums seem to have disappeared at the moment, and since i dun use IRC, can't check to find out wat happened... Anyway, I found not 1, not 2 but THREE other fellow singaporeans who are pretty active there too!! 2 of them turn out to live rather close by, and another is my JC junior too!! And I thot Singapore was small.... Guess the online world is even smaller ^^ Heehee... 2 other guys on BP also found out that they are in the small grade in the same school (but unfortunately are in diff classes)

Have also started updating the blog w link buttons instead of the boring text.... But not all of the sites provide buttons to link back, so I guess I gotta make some myself (after the exams)....

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Stress Relievers....

Your wise quote is: "Be kind to unkind people,
they probably need it the most" by
Ashleigh Brilliant.
You try to look beyond apperance, try to give
people second chances and are probably very
kind. Understanding is your biggest personality
trait, and thoose you can see through should be
grateful. If they aren't already. You detest
narrow minded people, because they can't see
what's really there. Facades is not your thing
and you strive to always be who you really are.

What wise quote fits you?(pics) UPDATED
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You are the classic southern belle. You are kind,
proper, responsible, and very adult like. You
attend church every Sunday and you have grace,
poise, and are very dainty. You are mature
beyond your years and prefer gentlemen of well
kept families for your marrying. But don't be
afraid to break loose from your corset strings
once and awhile and just have some fun. You're
only a kid once.

What kind of girl are you? (with pix!)
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Ants... Antz... And more ants?!?

Spent today in Prof Meier's lab w my eco group attempting to ID the ants we collected from all over NUS... Not much success but at least we now have a list of characteristics to go by when we look at the identification key(s) ^^

Well.... in relation to that, JQ and mom found some insects in the 3rd level bathroom... Their heads kinda look like wat I had been looking at all day, but the body division was quite different from that of an ant.... Nice str antennae, nice big humongous butt, and not as distinct thorax and abdomen regions... Mom got worried about them being TERMITES... Juan goes online to search for termite identification guides, and comes across this site that has a nice large picture of the termite royal couple. The adult male termite on the left looks EXACTLY like the 10 plus insects that we managed to catch (and half squish at the same time), so... Plus, the same site states that termites have relatively straight antennae and thicker waists as compared to ants that have bent (elbow-like) antennae and narrow waists.... Uh oh... Another site says something abt their swarming period being from early Mar til May (tho' since it is a US site, I have no idea if the same can be said of Singapore) Since Juan is NOT an entomologist (neither is she aspiring to be one), she doesn't know wat to make out of this whole thing... Oh well.... Really hope that this is not some termite infestation (an infestation w a whole bunch of NOT worker or soldiers but MALE termites?!?) but just a bunch of stray (and lost!) males....

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Culture Presentation.... Comparison of Children Festivals in Japan & Singapore

文化

皆さん、こんにちは。日本とシンガポ－ルの子どもの祭りについてしょうかいします。

まず、日本の子どもの祭りを紹介します。日本には、子どもの祭りが三つあります。第一は七五三、第二はひな祭り、第三は端午の節句（たんごのせっく）です。

七 五三は毎年十一月じゅうごにちです。三歳、五歳、七歳（ななさい）の子どもは両親に神社へ連れて行かれます。昔の子どもは三歳まで名前がありませんでした が、七五三の時、名前をつけてもらいました。今は違いますが、だいたいみんなは七五三の時、子どもと一緒に神社でお祈りをします。

ひ な祭りは毎年三月三日です。女の子の祭りです。ひなは鳥の子という意味です。両親は一週間前、人形を１５出（だ）します。人形は平安時代の着物を着ていま すから、とてもきれいだと思います。実は、ひな祭りは中国からの祭りかもしれません。祭りが終わったら、人形を戻すことは早ければ早いほどいいです。早く 戻せば、早く結婚できると思います。

最 後の祭りは端午の節句（たんごのせっく）です。端午の節句は毎年五月五日（いつか）です。男の子の祭りです。そのとき、こいのぼりをかけます。みんなはこ いのぼりをあげていますから、近所はすばらしくなります。赤いこいはお母さん、黒いこいはお父さん、そして青いこいは息子さんです。1945年から、端午の節句は祭日（さいじつ）になりました。名前も変わりました。今は子供の日と呼びます。

でも、シンガポ－ルは違います。シンガポ－ルの子どもの日は一つだけです。その日は毎年十月一日です。前日（ぜんじつ）、学校でおいわいをします。“おいわい”はcelebrationです。学生はたくさんプレセントをもらいます。英語とか中国語とかマ－レ語とかでいろいろな歌を歌います。皆とても楽しいです。

日本とシンガポ－ルの子どもの祭りの違うことがあります。まず、日本の子どもの祭りのおいわいに、だいたい両親が手伝ってあげます。でも、シンガポ－ルには学校の先生が手伝ってあげます。そして、日本のおいわいはもっとtraditionalです。日本の祭りの時、皆着物をきます。でも、シンガポ－ルには普通の服をきます。

日本でもいい、シンガポ－ルでもいい、子どもの祭りの意味は同じです。皆は子どもの幸せ（しあわせ）は大切だと思います。子ども達は国の未来（みらい）ですから、子ども達の幸せと私の幸せは同じ思います。

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Juan is too lazy to go do a translation for this entry, so if u really wanna know what it says, go use the google translator or sth ^^

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What's Your Element?

Your Element Is Air

You dislike conflict, and you've been able to rise above the angst of the world. And when things don't go your way, you know they'll blow over quickly. Easygoing, you tend to find joy from the simple things in life. You roll with the punches, and as a result, your life is light and cheerful. You find it easy to adapt to most situations, and you're an open person. With you, what you see is what you get... and people love that!

What's Your Element?

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oh well... just another quick quiz before I run off for stats lecture ^^ Prob get back to proper posting when I finish my projects.... Ladidadida....

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iTunes....

Juan has finally gotten down to trying out iTunes ^^ The party shuffle option is perfect for me!! Beats selecting folders and songs in winamp then enabling the "shuffle" fn.... iTunes does the shuffling for me, and even includes the number of times I play each song, plus their ratings too!! Really shld have tried it out sooner.... Though iTunes doesn't have the flexibility of changing skins and stuff, nor the transparency selector that FooBar has.... Still, need to go figure out how I wanna org my playlists there... Plus it is really useful it I ever get an iPod ^^

To those who are interested to go try iTunes (it's free, ya noe) out too, the link is provided below....
http://www.apple.com/itunes/

Now listening to: INVOKE by T.M. Revolution (Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Complete Best)

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What color are you?

Take the quiz: "What color are you?"

White
Your color is white.... The purest of all, you live to serve, and make others happy... You never anger, always understand, and always do what is right... You are almost angelic... You are trustworthy and friendly....

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Yea.... Juan is having fun doing silly quizzes again (How on earth is that color above white?!? Ain't it more like OFF-white?!?) It's a great way to de-stress ya know!!

Anyway, it seems that Juan keeps on finding more and more friends with blogs, and the sidebar keeps getting longer and longer.... Oh well... Think that calls for a massive organising of the blog pretty soon (ok, maybe NOT so soon but after the exams... during the hols... Juan seems to keep on saying this, doesn't she?)

Human physio lect....

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Ranting Time!!!!

くそ。。。2.5 weeks left of lessons... reading week then it's the exams.... Aargh!! Feel so messed up....

1) Marine eco report dued this friday, and I STILL dunno how to go about doing it. Hopefully discussing it with Nalini and Desmond later would shed some light.... Plus there is still the 2nd part of the stream eco to do in the lab, with the report dued who-knows-when! And the data is with Martyn (I think)
2) Have culture presentation for TC nxt week, draft dued on Mon...
3) GEM2900 project dued nxt Thu, need to type out my part and email to the rest of the group
4) Body temp regulation assignment dued sometime nxt week...
5) Eco proj... Prob need to do it this wkend (do hope that Leonard can get hold of his car)... The report is like dued just before reading wk (I think) Plus there is still the counting and identification of the ants....
6) Worst news I just got is that that the dued dates for my ISM papers and presentations got moved fwd by nearly a week. This means that I have like ard a week to get them done once my exams end.... Slightly less than a week to get not 1 but 2 pseudo-71 papers out... So much for relaxing for a day before "pia-ing" again...
7) Plus there is the thing abt starting revision (and preparations of help sheets) early....

Stupid me pressed the backward button on lappie just now, so I had to re-type in like most of this entry all over again... Feel like such an idiot... The slightly better side of things is that Air has sorta ended and Tactics shld end by nxt week (and froth-bite is lagging on their releases), so I have much less anime to keep an eye out for... LOL, Tsubasa is gonna start airing real soon tho' but think I shld have enough "holding area" on my lappie for them til after the exams.... So much for Rachel's observation that I look pretty relax... Guess my daily face is just to expressionless most of the time, plus I do try NOT to think too much abt all of this.... Just had to let all of that out... Feel much better now ^^

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Nerdiness quiz....

Is this supposed to be of some relief? LOL.... just had to do sth crappy to start my school week off....

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Drats...

*hefty sigh* seems like I may not be able to go for Gen12ii after all.... Dad just doesn't approves... He believes that I am getting "conned" 0_o Anyway, seems like he called Victor (somehow, I REALLY dunno) and Dad wasn't too happy that there were "girls giggling non-stop" in the background while he was trying to talk seriously to Victor....

Sometimes I feel like a bird that has been caged up for far too long.... That if and when the cage opens, I would have already forgotten how to fly.....

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最近。。。

Thanks to Kemin and drama CDs (radio-play like audio CDs), I have started taking interest in 声優 (seiyuu: voice actors) 3 of them that I am starting to take notice (and some of their roles) are:
(1) 鈴村健一 (Suzumura Kenichi) He seems to be a pretty new seiyuu but REALLY like his voice!
- Rakushun (Juuni Kokuki)
- Night (Zettai Kareshi)
(2) 桜井孝広 (Sakurai Katahiro) Pretty popular male seiyuu, and the recent drama CDs of Watase Yuu seem to have him as the seiyuu for one of the male leads!!
- Haruka (tactics)
- Adult Loki (Matantei Loki Ragnarok)
- Rimudo (FYGenbu Kaiden)
- Soushi (Zettai Kareshi)
(3) 雪野五月 (Yukino Satsuki) A pretty popular female seiyuu... Kemin gets excited when she finds out who she has voiced ^^
- Kagome (Inuyasha)
- Takiko (FY Genbu Kaiden)
Honestly, Kemin can probably give more details. I am a real noob when it comes to seiyuu.... Having fun recognising voices tho' But I really don't have the time to read up more on them *sigh* Oh well, drama CDs ARE a great way to practise for listening compre!!

とにかく、the next 2 weeks are gonna be super busy 3 CAs next week (Wed: LSM3251, Thu: ST2238, Fri: LAJ2202) Followed by Pulau Tioman trip from Friday to Sunday. What is it with that weekend?!? I have 2 other things I need to go for on 12 Mar!!! P3 class reunion.... Haven't seen some of them in a REALLY long while.... There's also a Gen12ii mass training too, plus Maureen Onions is our guest speaker on that day too!! And there's PCG too.... ALL on 12 March...

*deep breathe* Shall stop whining.... Can't make multiple mes, so.... Would be back in Singapore on Sunday, and then from Monday to Wednesday, need to help out with the SRP congress. Missing 3 days of lectures... Hmmm... Plus there's the LSM3212 CA on 16 March, as well as the ISM and GEM projects to do!!!! (Not forgetting Gen12ii team trainings....) So, blog updates for the next few weeks would be rather massive ones (if I even bother to update that is!)

I used to have no time to do the things I want to but now I barely have time to do the things I need to do... Busy busy busy! Wallpaper and vector in the state of indefinite hiatus... Both kinda half-done at the moment... Need to await the hols *again*

Side note: Why are my blog entries getting longer & longer? *scratch head*

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直した作文...

Juan is to avoid doing 作文 late at night when half-asleep.... There really is a correlation between the time I do them and the coherence of the essay.... Well, here they are, after corrections...

『私の好きなアニメの登場人物』
私の一番好きなアニメ　キャラクタ－は、「十二国記」の楽俊です。声優は鈴村健一さｎです。楽俊は、半獣です。大抵大きいグレイの色の毛がある鼠が現れていますが、若い人間の男に変わることもできます。楽俊は、頭がよくて、優しいです。鼠のときは、とてもかわいいです！

『私の昼ごはん』
私は大抵大学の食堂で友達と話しながら昼ごはんを食べます。でも、時間がないとき、勉強しながら食事します。いつも科学部の食堂で食べています。いろいろな食べ物があるし、食べ物も安いし、それでにぎやかです。少し不便ですが、しかたがありません。


『本屋で友達になりました』
先学期、ポ－プラ－本屋で買い物していたとき、知らない人に会いました。二人の女の人は本を探していましたから、私たちは話を始めました。それから、みんなは同じ趣味だと分かりました。それで、電話番号を交換して、友達になりました。今尚、時々連絡しています。


『50年後...』
50年後、私は緑が多い国に住もうと思っています。広いし、静かな所はすばらしいと思います。でも、未来の世界はもっと汚染されているになっていすと思いますから、この夢は、多分無理です。それで、今から地球の大自然を守りたいと思っています。

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3-in-1 update...

Disclaimer: The following is probably the longest single entry I have ever made on the blog....

[Thursday-Howl's Moving Castle]
Yay!!! Finally managed to catch the movie with Kemin and Mingxian ^^ Plus when we came out, we met Weiwen and his friend who were going to catch the next one! Think it is a pretty neat animation adaptation of Diana Wynne Jones' book of the same title... Had taken her story and transformed it into a Ghibli version of it ^^ Tho' one would probably fully enjoy it only if one had read the book before hand. I like the Howl in the anime much better than the wuss (yes, he really is one!) that is protrayed in the book... heehee... No more details from me since I don't want to spoil it for those who have yet to catch it! (I do recommend reading the book first....

I like Jones' style of storytelling, tho' she REALLY likes convoluted plots... Especially when her targeted audience are "older readers" (whatever that means...) The first book or hers that I read was Hexwood, and boy was that storyline mindboggling!! But that in itself was an appeal, and everything just suddenly fell into place in the last few chapters ^^ It's like trying to puzzle out a jigsaw puzzle when all you had were the most obscure bits, then you suddenly uncovered all the corners and edges.... Wants to look for the sequel to Howl's Moving Castle, Castle in the Air to read.....


[Friday-Sungei Buloh Wetlands Reserve]
To start of with, silly Juan forgot to bring the digicam that Juan borrowed from Watson, so no photos to show... Gomen ne... Anyway, the afternoon was really hot and humid *perspired the afternoon away* The recent dry spell didn't do the mangrove swamp any good... We went around high tide but the areas nearer the visitor centre were all pretty much dried out... Poor mangrove... Seems like the light rain on Thursday didn't help much... We saw lotsa plants *duh* Quite a few episesarmine crabs at the Kranji broadwalk area, some herons plus another species of bird we could not identify, and a couple of monitor lizards... Poor Leonard got ticked off by our TA, Sean, for being such a photography enthusiast... Time was really limited, so we didn't walk around much, and honestly speaking, saw REALLY little of SBWR *hefty sigh* Took our quiz (Yay!! No report dued!!) and were soon on our way back to NUS... Compared to the last fieldtrip to Labrador, this was rather dull... Anyway, next on the schedule is Pulau Tioman in 2 weeks' time!! (Just after *most* of my CAs...)


[Satuday-Gen12ii Mass Training @ Foochow Methodist Church]
Mom talked to Dad about the trip.... He didn't outright oppose (which is really very good!) tho' he did comment on crime rates in Tokyo... Am still keeping fingers crossed....

Really rainy day... Been such a long time since we had such wet weather! Met most of my team-mates for the very 1st time since we kinda had a team meeting before the mass training.... Quite a number of us are taking/took Japanese ^^ Zhizhen is doing Japanese 6 now! So amazing.... Well, we definitely would find out more about each other over the next few months as we prepare for the trip, as well as go for the trip itself ^^ Altogether, there are 13 of us going to Tokyo... Victor is the staff for our team, while Bixia is with the Nagoya team. Oh yeah, Victor started a team blog (yes, there is gonna be a link on the right) on the Gen12ii webbie, so there would be more general web updates for the team there, as well as my own personal updates here.

There's gonna be another team meeting after the support raising session next Saturday, and we would be assigning roles. By then, we should also have prepared our personal objectives for the trip (after prayer and waiting upon the Lord). Oh boy oh boy oh boy.... Support raising.... Sounds (and feels) very daunting to me.... This is probably a pretty large step of faith for me.... Shan't worry about where the money is gonna come from... Jehovah Jireh, He will provide....

p/s. If anyone is interested in either prayer or financial support, do drop me a note! Thank you!

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Quiz: Anime eye color....

Purple! You have purple eyes! You're a dreamer,
artist, poet, whatever. You enjoy all forms of
art and literature, and tend to be quite good
at creating them as well.


What Color Are Your Anime Eyes?
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James 4:1-10

From where do wars and fightings among you come? Is it not from this, from your lusts which war in your members? You desire, and do not have. You murder, and are jealous, and cannot obtain. You fight and war, yet you have not because you ask not. You ask and receive not, because you ask amiss, that you may spend it upon your lusts.

Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever desires to be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. Do you think that the Scripture says in vain, The spirit that dwells in us yearns to envy? But He gives more grace. Therefore He says, God resists the proud, but He gives grace to the humble.

Therefore submit yourselves to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, sinners; and purify your hearts, double-minded ones. Be afflicted, and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness. Be humbled before the Lord, and He will lift you up.

[MKJV, e-Sword]

I think the Lord really wants me to understand and remember these verses well.... I just did them while preparing for this week's PCGM, and then I turn to today's devotion for Soul Journey, and what do i see? The devotion for the day is James 4:7-10!! LOL... But it does serve as a timely reminder to be constantly onguard against temptations, and to continuously draw near to God. To trust in Him and to just give everything unto him, and to rely on Him. Even more so when we consider the world today, and what is allowed and tolerated....

In light of this, I was also updating my copy of e-Sword, and discovered all the little add-ons that are available (thanks Rick Meyer, and your supporting team!) that include commentaries and dictionaries, on top of the various versions of the Bible that are available ^^ I got the traditional chinese Bible as well, but there wasn't one for japanese... Oh well... guess I have to make do with the one I got off Bible Gateway... except that it has no furigana, so I need to have my kanji dictionary on hand when I read it...

Things to look forward to:
(1) Howl's Moving Castle opens in Singapore tmr!! Gonna catch it with a couple of friends from Japanese language class ^^
(2) LSM3251 fieldtrip to Sungei Buloh Wetlands Reserve on Friday
(3) 1st Gen12ii mass training and meeting of team-mates on Saturday

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Adventures with Microfilm II

疲れた！！ Just spent the whole day looking at more microfilms..... *sigh* starting to hate the essay..... being in a dimly lit room for hours in a row just does things to u, ok? anyway, *think* i managed to squeeze out enough stuff for me essay... *keeps fingers crossed* since the microfilm room was just filled w fellow desperados (for singaporean perceptions... not anything else), did manage to make 4 new frens ^^ LOL, desperation just brings pple together, doesn't it?

as i already mentioned, old newspapers are really a lot of fun to read, but definitely (oi~ fansubs, when can u get the spelling of "definitely" correct?!?) not when u have a couple of other projects, tonnes of stuff to study for mid-terms, and have the essay dued in a week's time..... real interesting reading the news as if it is a textbook, and the adverts of companies that are still ard today (HMV, mitsubishi, klim....) is just as amusing (tho' the novelty does wear off after a while)

the microfilm photocopier is pretty nifty! tho' kinda costly at 40 cents per piece.... i now have 12 plus bucks worth of soon-to-be rough paper.... whoppee~~

nvmind me.... just tired, hungry and frustrated... guess that means it is time to go home since anything else i try to do wld be counter-productive....

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作文 － 『わたしは好きなアニメのどう場人物』

わたしの一番好きなアニメ　カラクタは、『十二国記』の楽俊です。声優は鈴村健一さんです。楽俊は、半獣です。大抵、大きグレイの色の毛がある鼠は現れ出りますが、若い人間の男も化せます。楽俊は、頭がよくて、優しいです。鼠ときは、とてもかわいいです！

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Eye can see ^^

Pun in title is INTENDED!

My eye infection is clearing up pretty nicely ^^ 今、左のは痛くないの。　よかった！　すぐ元気になります。 Seems like all the various medications are working nicely. The swelling is going away and now I am no longer irritated with my eye (except that it itches once in a while). Good thing too, since I need to be viewing microfilms in a dimly lit room....

Term break just round the weekend, and I so much catching up to do... Oh no!! *takes deep breath* Would be meeting Mun to do our 2 physio projects, need to finish up SS essay, prepare stats "cheat-sheets" for mid-terms, mug for mid-terms.... Guess catching STUDIO GHIBLI's Howl's Moving Castle wld be the only leisure activity I can plan for.... Walling and changing blog layout needs to wait....

BTW, I have been assigned to the Tokyo team for Gen12ii.... (Japan here I come!!!) Do keep me in prayer, as I haven't told my dad about this and I really don't know how he would take it.... My mom has been convinced but may or may not change her mind....

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Adventures with Microfilm I

1st time using microfilms since after Sec 1 or 2... I can't remember how to use the machine so I had to enlist the help of the pple who were already happily viewing their articles.... Also need to learn how to operate the one with the photocopier attached しかたがないの。。。Need to look at Singapore newspapers from the 1930s for me SS essay...

LOL... Only had time to go thru part of the Singapore Nippo, a weekly newspaper that ran from 1938-1939 before I had to go for Japanese lecture (Hey! I skipped my GEM lecture to do this!!) The only catch about that shinbun was that it was generally about Japan related news... I guess it was to keep the Japanese in Singapore updated with the happenings of their home countries (but then why is it in english?!?) It has quite a bit [of propaganda] on Sino-Nippon relations and happenings, such as the good deeds that the Japanese were doing in various parts of China etc. Pretty much filled with pro-Japanese stuff (as expected) Pretty interesting and useful if I am a JS major (that I am NOT) but otherwise quite irrelevant to my assignment qns... There were a whole bunch of interesting adverts tho', like the one about Mitsubishi Shoji Kaisha Ltd as the sole importer of condensed milk (Is this the same Mitsubishi company that is so widespread today?)

I only managed to scan thru' Jan-Mar 1939... Will go thru' the rest of the microfilm tmr after TC I guess.... Then will try my hand at some of the other ones available... Hopefully I can get enough data to at least get started on the essay....

Guess I would be having a running commentary on me using microfilms so do bear with me ^^ This whole thing abt microfilms is getting me frazzled, and I think I have a little over a wk to finish this....

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2nd trip down to UHWC

Oh well, after all that bugging from me mom, I finally made a trip down to YIH to see the doctor.... 20 min waiting time, 5 min consultation by Dr Chua (the nice doctor who saw to my ankle the last time), another 20 min wait for medication.... Guess that's pretty short when you compare that with non-emergency cases in the polyclinics.... What is it about medical care and waiting times? There forever seems to be a shortage of doctors (or at least GPs) wherever you go.... I generally don't like seeing doctors.... No particular reason. I just don't like it. However, it seems like this 2nd year in NUS is plagued by health/medical problems... *sigh* But it is a good thing that consultation and the common medications are FOC for undergrads ^^

Speaking of which, I have to take THREE kinds of medications for me eye infection!! Oral antibiotics (tetracycline) in the form of capsules, chloramphenicol eye drops, as well as chloramphenicol eye ointment (that keeps coming out of the tube non-stop, just like UHU glue)... Boy, can just one eye be such a troublesome handful! BTW, pls don;t self medicate based on the stuff I got, do see a doctor if you ever get an eye infection!!

*hefty sigh* NOT looking fwd to the long day ahead of me..... but at least my eye is not as painful any more ^^

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CNY blues....

the chinese new year celebrations are still *kinda* going on.... and of course there wld be the usual visiting of friends and relatives, and the munching of goodies ^^ i managed to keep my voice but think i still didn't drink enough water. got too heaty and now i have a swollen left eye kinda started swealling on sun afternoon... and now it is bloated.... doesn't help that it hurts when i blink, and makes my eye super dry.... *grumbles* need to drink more water... do hope this clears up before thursday, or else i need to take measures to survive the day...

actually missed the ss lecture this morning since i felt (and still feeling) grumpy... really dun feel like going for any lessons at all but have another 2 tutorials later... and since attendance counts as part of my grading..... guess i shld start on learning jap vocab for the quiz later (wat is it abt the ~て　おきます thing in L30?!?) all the public hols this sem are really messing up the studying tempo....

need to go on a printing spree soon.....

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Black Jack TV

Just found out about this anime, and I think it is pretty nifty. ^^ It's the ongoing remake of the 1993 (i think) series, and is based on the manga by Tezuka Osamu (think he was also known for the creation of astroboy, and boy does the art look similar!) Not watching it because of the brilliant art or CG, but the very human themes that are brought out. Black Jack is a reknowned unlicensed surgeon (dun ask me how he has NOT been arrested in spite of being so prominent), and a kinda Robin Hood of the medical world. Since it IS a fictitious world, the medical scenarios that are featured are well, outrageous at times. Curing tuberculosis by operating?!? An IV needle tip (at least 2-3cm in length) circulating round the veins, heart and lungs without puncturing anything?!? Come on! The perseverance of the human spirit is what makes this anime warm my heart. Black Jack does do things in a rather gruff manner but ultimately, he still tries to remind others what it is to be human. Plus, whenever he changes into his surgical attire with such flourish, I can't help but snigger at how cheesy it is ^^ Oh well, at least this is quite a change from the usual run-of-the-mill shoujo/shounen animes....

Black Jack TV

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Choice...

Just read this in my email, it was fwded by Joyce.... I really think it is a really useful food for thot ^^
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Now I fully understand God's love. The Love He has cannot even be measured with eternity. I hope you all understand what this story/play is about. I pray that understanding dawns within you as well. Be really thankful for what is done for you. May God find your heart. God bless.


Narrator:
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. One by one, starting from day and night to water and earth, to plants and animals, God made them all and said they were good. On the day God created man........

(God was busy making Adam from the dust of the ground. Seeing one of His angels aproaching, He looks up and seemed pleased)

GOD:
Look at all the creatures I have created. Are they not good? And the universe,the stars and the skies. Are they not beautiful?

ANGEL:
Yes, they are. Truly Magnificent.

GOD:
Look at this creature. (pointing at Adam/man He is creating) He will be different. All the universe will obey me and love me. They will reflect My glory because that is how they are created to do. But this one will be like me. He will have this.

(God reached within Himself and remove something unseen)

GOD:
This is called CHOICE.

ANGEL:
Choice?? (sounding afraid) But.... but what if he choose not to love?

GOD:
Come, I will show you. The fruit of choice is bitter and sweet.

(God makes a sweeping motion and what the angel saw amazed and impressed him)

GOD:
What do you see?

ANGEL:
I see spontaneous love, voluntary devotion, chosen tenderness. There is laughter everywhere and people are so joyful!! Heaven has never seen such beauty. Truly this is Your greatest creation.

GOD:
Yes, but this is only the sweet part of choice. This is the other side.

(God makes another sweeping motion. What the angel saw shocked and disgust him)

ANGEL:
Lord, I see wars and, suffering, and rotten hearts!!!! Is this the result of choice also?

GOD:
Yes.

ANGEL:
They will forget you?

GOD:
Yes.

ANGEL:
They will reject you??

GOD:
Yes.

ANGEL:
They will never come back?

GOD:
Some will. Most won't.

ANGEL:
What will make them listen???

(God looks at the angel and was silent. Understanding dawns and the angel was horrified)

ANGEL:
NO!! It cannot be!! How can you send Jesus down there, to die a horrible,painful and humiliating death?!? To be beaten up and then crucified, and hung on the cross. So much pain and suffering!! Is there no other way,Lord??

GOD:
No.

ANGEL:
There has to be another way!!! What if You don't plant the seed of choice?? Wouldn't that be easier?? Please tell me there is another way!!

GOD:
There is no other way. I cannot take away choice. Take away choice, and you take away Love. Robots cannot love. Even if they do, it will because they have to. Not because they want to. That is not real love. It will be less painful, but it wouldn't love.


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The angel leaves, feeling sadness. God looks at His clay creation. Love swells up within Him and He bends over the clay form, and breathes into it.

God had a choice to put the seed of choice in man. And He chose to. He knew that He will lose us and yet created us. The most beautiful of all is that He gave us a choice to love Him back, because He first loved us.

That choice cost Him a lot. It cost Him His Son.

Man had chosen to sin and was separated from God. And God knew from the beginning, that the only way to bring us back to Him was to send His ONLY Son, Jesus Christ, to die on the cross for us.

The choice is ours. Have there been times where you doubt God's power? Surely, if He was the God who made the heavens and the earth, how could He allow my friend to die? How could He allow millions to starve every night? Isn't God supposed to be the Almighty?

Let's stop blaming God and blame ourselves. He spared not even himself to save us.

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LSM3251 - Labrador Park Fieldtrip

eco fieldtrips are fun!! not the usual prac that u had to follow a std procedure or anything... wat er did was basically go and look-see, look-see, then decide on what trend we wanted to test out (using a hypothesis that we came up with based on our observations) it was a shame that the tide was high, or else the rocky beach would have been really interesting.... guess wat we ended up doing....

*drumrolls*
spiders!!! pretty interesting since the lecturer is from the spider lab ^^ out of the 5 practical groups there were at least 3 groups doing something regarding those cool spiders at lab park (ther was one group doing something about ants tho') our group decided to relate web-size with type of habitat (open vs. enclosed) my sub-group was to do enclosed, meaning in the forest area, so we trooped up the hill and had a fun spider spotting amidst the greenery... leonard and i went trigger happy at the same time, taking photos of nature... that's leonard below taking a photo at one of the spiders we traumatised ^^ kinda bad enough that we were disturbing their webs by taking measurements, and we JUST had to take photos of there once in a while too!

since i kinda just borrowed a very basic digicam from wai, the 10 over pics i took of spiders and insects were mainly out of focus... that's a real pity since the weather was fab and the insects were all nicely posing for us! kinda sad that the photo of the 6-legged spider (i am pretty sure it is a wounded spider since it had like 4 legs on one side and 2 on the other..) didn't turn out... besides, leonard and i were very fascinated by this nice LONG, succulent earthworm we saw (kristal i do hope u are NOT reading this!) it was just so gorgeous! anyway, only ONE of the "creatures" photos that i took came out a little decent... see if u can spot Mr Nephila antipodiana, with the spotted abdomen in the photo below... (yeah yeah, i KNOW i am not one of the best photographers, but.... anyway, watson said i cld borrow his spare digicam, so i do hope the photos from the next fieldtrip to sungei buloh wld turn out better)

well... all i have to do now is to do the report that is dued on wed.... (why is it that we have less than a week to do it?!?)

p/s. was at JEC for lunch on sunday, and there was a howl's moving castle poster!!!! it opens in singapore on 24 feb ^^ yay!! can go watch another film directed by Miyazaki Hayao sensei! Bansai!

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This is simply amazing!!! ^^

Just came from ST2238 (Introductory Biostatistics) lecture, and I am just so amazed and encouraged that my lecturer (Andy Chiang; can't remember if he is PhD or just Prof.... prob Dr. tho') actually invited the entire lecture group to the ALPHA course dinner his church is organising!! And wat's more amazing is that he goes to is St John-St Margaret's Church, my previous church! What a small world ^^

So far lecturers (mainly my life science ones) have only been taking obtuse jibes at Christianity and the whole idea of creationalism, and other lecturers have advertised for CCAs activities. ANd I think it is really encouraging to the Christians (or at least me) that he was so ready to invite us students for the ALPHA course dinner. Really shld try to have more faith in how the Lord wld move and just take a bold step in sharing. Just like how my lecturer has. Got to go home soon since I still need to go print tmr's lecture notes and prepare for the field trip to Labrador Park (which the next blog entry wld prob be abt)

Jya ne~ =^-^=

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*finally* a fixed timetable ^^

finally after all the appeals and running ard for registration of modules, i finally have a fixed (but really messed up) timetable.... oh well... at least i got all my modules ^^ thu is like my super exercise day... 12nn to 8pm str lessons.... 12-2: jap tut (in arts), 2-4: stats GEM (in science), 4-6: jap lecture (in arts *again*), 6-8: stats lect (in science *again*) the worst part is that i can't go for crusade LM :( since it's like on thu 6-8.... and st2238 is one of my core modules... guess i can only join in AFTER... which means i shld head over once i finish typing this in ^^ (gonna collect me gen12ii shirt too!)

oh well.... that kinda ends this wk, since i dunno if i can post from home since the dial-up from my lappie is wonky... shall head over to lt29 now ^^ so ta ta for now, stay tuned for more comprehensive gibberish *hopefully* from me some time soon!

p/s. is it me or has everybody kinda stopped updating blogs for quite a while?

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よかった!!! =^-^=

so happy!! for various reasons that appear below (each in one paragraph)

appeal for taking japanese 3 got through, and i still have more than 200 points left in my general account! 幸せ！ and all this was done in time for the tutorial registrations ^^ now i gotta wait (and pray) that i get all my 1st choices, or else my timetable sure is gonna be messed up... heehee...

also went for a workshop on conversational evangelism (organised by SCCC) on saturday by dave geisler from meekness and truth ministries. really useful in teaching the 100 odd of us how to evangelise through even simple conversations with people around us. do hope i can put what i have learnt into practise!

managed to find a nice theme for my firefox browser, and foudn some really nice themes/skins for my windows too!! so now i have a mac-ish kinda look at the moment, as shown in the thumbnail below (well... i might as well post it here since i did a screencap for the KAA forum thread)

last thing that i am happy about is my recent doodling have turned into pretty decent sketches that i post under the doujinshi section of minitokyo (u can click on the link on the right to get to my userpage, they are in the gallery) so nice that there is a community that i can share these drawings with ^-^

managed to start clearing some of the junk in the drawers of my table, and i am so amazed at how much crap i actually kept... all the u-weekly and i-weekly... started clearing them out, so felling a little accomplished at the moment ^^

guess that's all the updating i'll do for now... going to scan and upload some more of the sketches. じゃね!!

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Bidding blues....

feeling so stupid and cheated... actually got outbidded in round 2c for jap 3 since i thot that i was already safely within the range, but apparently everybody decided to "show hand" during the close bidding and i *just* got outbidded... then 3a yesterday was like 7 pple fighting for 1 slot... and i def DON'T have enought points for those kinda conditions, and now there are like no places left *sigh* shall email Chiba sensei and see if it is possible for me to be squeezed into the class (as unlikely as i think this is gonna happen)... worst case scenario is that i buy the text and just kinda self-study and take jap 3 next sem instead (hoping that i won't forget anything...) depressing, ain't it?

it's the 2nd day of lessons and i have had 2 lectures, nothing really heavy yet.. but the stats gem was a little mind boggling, esp since i barely recall most of me stats at the moment. the video (under another sun) that we watched this morning during japan and singapore was really interesting =^-^= did learn some interesting things about relations between singapore and japan. do think i'll enjoy this module!

okie, think i have betta get down to printing notes for st2238 tmr, as well as the IR readings for ssa2205... jya ne!

p/s. yes, i am a really lazy typer, thus the lack of proper caps blah blah blah....

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Clearing of Junk - Part II

Aargh!!! My room is still not packed!!! And lectures start next week.... *sigh* Managed to pack away last sem's stuff last nite tho' ^-^ Need to do quite a bit of packing of my books too... everything is like everywhere, and totally NOT organised.... really hafta do this. Made a promise to the Lord that I would be more consistent with my studies and commitments, so I really need to get rid of the clutter and sort out things.... *feel so guilty*

anyway, on the tsunami disaster, our ym has a condolence page (see link on right) Really pray that the rain would let up some what, so that the aid and search and rescue people can get access to the most devastated areas. I nearly cried when I saw the before and after satellite pics of acheh, indonesia... everything destroyed by the waves... really think that all the affected areas would need loads of long term aid. It really is time for all of us to make a diff in this world

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tsunami relief

it's kinda heartwarming to know that singaporeans are contributing to help the tsunami victims from the earthquake on sunday. it's only been around 4 days, but really, various organisations besides the red cross have been collecting daily necessities and cash to send to indonesia, sri lanka and india as relief. it's the season of giving, and even as the new year is fast approaching, it really is wonderful knowing that so many people are united in their efforts to help these victims =^-^=

kinda makes me feel small... esp when here i am frantically trying to sort out modules for the next semester... will continue to keep the victims and the missing, as well as their families in fervant prayer

juan

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Merry Christmas everybody!!!

And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger."

[Luke 2:8-12, The Holy Bible, New International Version]

... [the Magi] went on their way, and the star they had seen in the east went on ahead of them until it stopped over the place where the child was. When they saw the star, they were overjoyed. On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshipped him. Then they opened their treasures and presented him with gifts of gold and of incense and of myrrh.

[Matthew 2:9-11, The Holy Bible, New International Version]

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.

Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood.

[John 1:1-5, The Holy Bible, New International Version]

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Prob the last post til sometime after Christmas...

Anyway, been thinking about missions quite a bit. Plus received an email from our science crusade mailing list regarding Gen12II for next year... really wanna go to Japan for the campus ministry but really need to pray about it. Only sounded it out to my mom, haven't approached my dad on the subject yet... need to go print out the details for me mom to read too... *crosses fingers* oh well, after all, God is in control, so I shall just wait upon Him ^-^

For those people who need good books to read, I recommend books by C.S. Lewis. The 7 books in the Narnia series (The Magician's Nephew; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; The Boy and His Horse; Prince Caspian; The Voyage of Dawn Treader; The Silver Chair; The Last Battle) are targeted for children, but I still love them all the same! It's a pretty neat parallel of some parts of the Bible. Hey, don't go away thinking that he only writes kid's books! The Screwtape Letters is really amusing too!! And I wanna read finish The Great Divorce (of heaven and hell) and Mere Christianity that I borrowed from Kemin ^-^ Which reminds me.... need to remember to borrow Rachel's Tears from Wendy too!

Added a link to The New Adventures of Bobbin! (look to the right) Who would have thot that Joyce's Bobbin series that started in our sec days would have lasted so long, and been featured in the news and still be online!! =^-^=

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Finally... LOTR-ROTK extended version!!!

yay!! it's finally out!!! got it on thursday on my way home ^-^ so i'm watching it now!! all 3 movies=12hour marathon since they are all extended versions. pity i can't afford the dvd... would really have loved that... but all i'll be missing would be the behind the scenes extras. ほんとに　よかった！ the cover's blue, with the picture of the silver tree on the outside casing *hugs* back to watching smeagol and deagol's fishing trip

57 minutes, 04 seconds later...
disc 1 down, 3 more to go... still struck by how peter jackson can jumble up the sequence of events so nicely yet still keep true to the story that j.r.r. tolkien weaved so many years ago... the sequence is soo messed up, shows how good he is as a storyteller himself =^-^= and howard shore's music *sigh* it's a good team alright! reminds me of the when i went to the LOTR exhibition quite some time back and was just gasping at the details and intricacies of all the props. the design team and backstage crew really did a fab job *thumbs up* just think about the scale and detail of minas tirith *swoon*

yet when i compare all this that men (and women) have done to the splendour of this universe, it alll pales in comparison... the the Lord God can come up with something as tiny yet complex as a cell, that can work by itself or in conjunction with milloins or others... that He can at the same time come up with the complexity of the galaxy, the stars, the blackholes and all, and that we as humans are barely scratching the surface of things... i can only stand in awe of His works... totally stunned into amazement. He is really beyond what we can imagine ^-^ thank goodness for that! ('cos i am just so inapt and inadequate as a person)

even as i continue to watch the rest of lord of the rings - the return of the king, i prepare and wait for the return of not only THE King, but the King of Kings

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Clearing of Junk - Part I

With regards to the heading, I think there's gonna be a part 2 etc as I go about clearing my life of these unwanted influences, and when I proceed to the annual physical packing up of my room...

During YM this morning, there was an oppotunity for us to bring our junk and rubbish that we feel that the Lord is leading us to get rid of from our lives, and I placed some of my stuff there at the altar. You gotta ask me personally what it was that was discarded, I'm not gonna mention here. My heart was just pounding as I placed it in the trash bag but after praying to the Lord and asking Him to give me wisdom and a heart of discernment to know what he wants me to trash and to keep OUT of my life, there was this sense of peace in spite of the heartache that I felt. Following which, the Lord just placed on my heart even more stuff I needed to trash!! The Lord really knows me very well. If I was told at one shot what to trash, I would just start rationalising. I just have this feeling that with every time I trash stuff in a prayerful manner, and I wait and listen to Him, He would just lead and challenge me to trash even more stuff. I think it is important that the bunch of us who brought stuff to trash ( as well as those who have been doing their own personal trashing) need to keep each other in prayer and encouragement, that even as we get rid of these things, we would draw closer to God at the same time, and not get "withdrawal syndromes" that would lead to going back to some of the things that we have taken a stand against. Guys, keep each other in prayer, k?

Just reached home, and as I started chucking *quite* a few books, I really felt the pinch. All the effort I spent saving up the money to buy them. *ouch* SQ now I *really* know what u meant about that "hole" u would feel. Was so tempted to open them and just start reading them one last time before trashing.... knowing that my conviction to trash them would not stand up if I started reading, I just taped the stuff in a Kinokuniya plastic bag. Kinda ironic since I bought quite a bit of them Kinokuniya... sorry Chris, but Shaman King is in there too. (No... not all of it is manga... chinese books are there too...) Another lesson that I think the Lord was also teaching me was that I have to spend money wisely. Our treasure is not of this world, so why spend money on things that you would need to clear out of your life anyway? Especially if it's gonna hurt..... *heartache*

On the issue of anime, I think I would still be watching anime (partly as a form of practising my japanese as well as relaxation) but the Lord definitely wants me to be a whole lot more selective about the anime I watch. Meaning NO more Kannadzuki no Miko for me!!

Lord, please give me the strength and conviction to see this cleaning process through. Not only for me but to the other YMers whom You have also spoken to. Father Lord, I pray that You would continue to fill us with Your Holy Spirit and a loving heart for others, and to teach us to continue obeying You, and to stand firm against things that You have warned us of. Thank you so much Lord!

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shiawase =^-^=

liling came back to singapore yesterday, and she brough with her kino no tabi vol 02 - 04!!! yay!! more books to read ^-^ *hugz liling* now... do i have the time to actually read all of them? hmmm.... anyway, it's great to have them (besides tha fact that reading japanese takes really long for me) next semester, i prob would need to write compositions for japanese 3

need to pop by church later for the escobar sessions briefing plus camp debrief... actually i'm in school now, need to pack up our sps room for the carpet washing and watever other semestral cleaning up on monday... tink i'll go down to the canteen for a quick bite and get back up here to help. byez!!!

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LOTR personality test

Congratulations! You're Aragorn!


Which Lord of the Rings character and personality problem are you?

This is simply hilarious.... even tho' aragorn is my fave character, I dun quite agree with it... all in the name of fun!

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F.L.A.P. in Christ

yo~ back from camp =^-^= been a really refereshing experience, and one of the things that really struck me was regarding the state of mainstream music nowadays.... it just seems that pop culture is endorsing themes and ideas that focus on "ME" (part of the new age movement i guess) and wat used to be core and moral values are treated like trash. we watched a short video clip, and there was a section showing how the music industry breaks every single one of the 10 commandments that were given to Moses. i have been observing the fact that music is becoming less wholesome as the days go along (thus i rarely listen to the radio nowadays, except for uFM 100.3 that's soon going, and internet radio such as klvv.com), but honestly, i never really thought it was THAT bad. the video may have focuesd on American music, but it seems that the chinese / asian music industry is slowly treading those same footsteps. (oh no!!! even less music that i would like!) I made a commitment to the Lord that I'll be more careful about what I listen to, and that would include cleaning up the music I ALREADY have. i have already placed cds (and games) that don't agree with what is said in the Bible, as well as those of artistes that lead a lifestyle that really sicken me. Started the process of deleting mp3s off my computer too, and i think i'll have to start the painstaking process on finding out more about the japanese artistes that i listen too. This ain't gonna be easy but I need to stick to this promise I made to God. Less variety of music to listen to, more work and considerations when I want to buy a new cd... it's gonna be tough but I won't die from showing some restrain, plus that would me less clutter and distractions from focusing on Jesus. Isn't that a great trade-off? *toothy grin* It's a good chance to clear out mental junk that has been accumulating, even as I use the hols to pack up my room too.

Also, I need to be more conscientious about what I read and watch, not to just write anything off as "just a story/show". Things are probably deeper that what first appearances represent, and it's when the subtle influences around us take hold that things can become really dangerous. Really need to be more discerning, with all the many different kinds of influences (many but not all bad) all around us. I even went as far as to delete this really nice wallpaper of Lucifer from Angel Sanctuary....as nice as the wallpaper was, it's still, well, a wallpaper of Lucifer, and no matter what the context, I am not to endorse satan...clearing my stuff really is gonna be tough... need to rely on Jesus, and do all these through His strength and will that there would be no other idols or things in my life that i would place before Him.

oh yeah, alvin called on the last nite of camp. he's going to thailand for a mission trip from 11th to 20th dec. will definitely keep my kor and his team in prayer. *goes and prints out email*

need to go clear me emails and stuff...plus pack up area in sps....

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More books!!!

haven't been able to post for a while 'coz of exams and some weird error blogger keeps on giving me, but oh well, i'm back ^-^

went with kemin to kinokuniya today... thot i could get the fushigi yuugi mag for meself and sil, but seems like it'll only be in next week or so... meanwhile, got my kanji dictionary, plus i found the chinese translations of Juuni Kokuki novels and Kino no Tabi!!! bought 2 of the JK novels (gonna buy the rest much later after i haf saved up) but sticking to the original Japanese for kino since (1) i can sorta understand it plus i do need to prac my japanese, (2) it's not that much more expensive, (3) i already started collecting the japanese version, (4) the size is so much handier!!!

the last paper is finally on wed, and it's off to camp the next day!!

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Exam schedule...

22 November: LAJ2201 Japanese 2 (5pm)
24 November: LSM2103 Cell Biology (1pm)
25 November: CM1111 Basic Inorganic Chemistry (1pm)
01 December: LSM2102 Molecular Biology (9am)

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02 December: F.L.A.P. or Flop Pre-camp
03-06 December: F.L.A.P. or flop Camp


1 day to exams, 12 days to camp...

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Fun Quiz to Take!

This is my results (i took it twice) ^-^ I'm quite happy with it

Which OS are You?

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more words from me ^-^

camp reg officially closed but still haf pple signing up...*sigh* from now on, pple who wanna signup must hand in their forms and fees at the same time!!!! zealyn and i are having a hard time keeping records since evrything is in a big mess, plus the rest of comm also need the fixed numbers...hopefully we wld be able to collect all the money before the actual camp itself... really looking forward to the camp! *happy* that i get to start my hols w a BANG!!! pray that the camp would ba a great success!

anyway, i watched Final Fantasy: the spirits within yesterday. (yes i know that i am kinda laggie since this like came out quite some time back) no matter how many times i see the FF CGIs, i still am amazed at how well it is done! LOTR ones bland in really well in the overall movie (except weird stuff like when legolas does a really awkward leaping style while mounting a horse in 2 towers ^-^ the storyline is pretty decent, as with the ff series (as far as i know, since i haf yet to play a single one, since the proper equipment are lacking aka no ps2) *partial spoiler* the idea of needing 8 spirits (all from differing levels of biological diversity) in order to counter the invasion of the phantoms is rather nifty. call me naive or idealistic but i really love the idea of unity and cooperation for the good of all. taking the road less travelled instead of resorting to the easiest answer of violence.

just went to kinokuniya to collect the kino no tabi vol I novel i ordered (plus bought some other manga in chinese) since 2 of my frens, kemin and liling would be heading over to japan in dec, i'll be getting them to help buy the other 6 kino novels (3 books each) hehz... =^-^= must remember to remind them again just after the exams. but even if they forget, i can always order thru kinokuniya (getting kino fr kino) since i am fortunate enough to have a few branches in singapore! but need to get kanji dictionary next... prob in dec since exams are drawing near and i stil haf my lsm2201 report dued on thu... the dictionary would def be a great help, esp since nxt sem i'll prob be taking jap 3 where there wld be loads of compo writing, and besides, i borrowed a folktale-ish book, 「神々のたたり」 (kamigami no tatari; curse of the gods) from the japanese collection in the NUS chinese lib... the simplest book i could find there, but still can't understand everything. がんばらなければ　ならない　よ！


7 days to exam, 18 days to camp...

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Mangroves, さよなら！！

Yay!!! 72 presentation over liaoz!!! some how we ended way too early... so instead of 25 mi presentation, 15 Q & A, we had 15 min presentation and 25 min of the firing squad!!! *sigh* but at least it is all over, after 2 semesters ^-^ well... need to commend goose and spider for putting up with this silly 鼠... especially for this semester, with me running off haf the time... ごめん　ね。。。 but now can just chuck the whole lot away!!!! *parties*shall celebrate by watching 「十二国記」　and 「犬夜叉」 on central tonite.

anyway, the chain of cathay cinemas in Singapore would be showing this new Japanese movie 「海猿」 appears to be a story about a group of 14 guys who wanna be come naval divers.... there's a review in english here. The director is Hasumi Eiichiro, and the trailer makes it look rather interesting. ぜひ見たいよ！ pretty interesting that I would actually be interested in a Japanese show that is NOT アニメ　(animated film) LOL but will try and check it out after my exams *crosses fingers and hopes that it would still be showing after the exams*

wrapping up YM camp registration this sunday, and handing over the collection of camp fees to the corinne and joel tan ^-^ now zeal and i would be free to help grace and lester with the groupings and preparation of the sleeping logistics... *must remember to get the list of loving adults from wendy*

10 days to exams, 21 days to camp...

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昨は最後の日本語TBクラス。。。

okay...very tiring to type japanese directly into the comp without writing it out first...so this is gonna be in english (except for the title that is)

had my last japanese tutorial for the semester... very sad... we had a mini-party after TB yesterday ^-^ green tea cake from breadtalk!! とても　おいしかった！But kinda sad that we won't see each other until next sem when we take jap 3 (we all agreed to bid for it!!) また　学期　ね！waiting for the photos to be sent... shawn-さん、早く送ってください！！！

昨日、jerome-さんは新しい電子辞書が持って来ました。それで、あたしの名前（中国語の漢字）を見つけました。the furigana for my name in japanese kanji would be はやし・ケンケイ and the japanese kanji would be 林絹慧。。。kinda similar to the chinese hanzi... except juan is a 女 on the left side instead... おもしろいでしょう？ =^-^= *meow*

*finally* no more lessons ^-^ both vivas also over! 2 reports and 1 presentation to go... then exams and YOUTH CAMP!!!! yay!!! just submitted some scans of calendar cards i got from Comic Connections, and now i levelled up to 10, so i can grab scans to do walls. よかったね！今、wallpaperが使うことできます!

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last day of lessons... 8 to 8 day....

*hefty sigh* it's the last day of lessons for me (since tomorrow is just one ca plus one viva) and i haf a 8am to 8pm day... really thank God that the viva slated for 10am - 12nn was postponed to tomorrow... so i haf a breather... plus since i am skipping the chem lect *again* i haf a decent lunch block... plus get to study for cell bio ca and japanese vocab quiz too! =^-^=

at least the utter madness that is known as 72 is *finally* gonna be over, as of this friday!! that would leave 2 reports to do... chem lab and my experimental biochem one.... can't believe that i;m looking fwd to exams... mainly only because i would finally get to rest... and time to get a kanji dictionary to help me japanese... okay, need to finish writing sensei's card, and study....

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New book!

Oh boy oh boy oh boy!!! can't believe I actually bought a Kino no Tabi novel!!! mainly because it's in Japanese... ladidadida... was supposed to get vol 3 of the fushigi yuugi PERFECT WORLD magazine for myself and Sil (from the TamaNeko website) but since it wasn't around, i searched for japanese novels instead.... mainly Kino no Tabi (Kino's Travels) and Juuni Kokuki (12 kingdoms)... only vol 8 (the newest) vol of the kino no tabi series was available, so i bought it.... as much as i want to, i didn't buy the kino no tabi artbook (SGD$70-odd).... ordered vol 1, so i'll prob collect at the same time as i buy FY PW (in the middle of the exams) gives me around 3 - 4 weeks to save up the money [boy am i a sucker for books!]

please don't be mistaken and think that my japanese is actually good enough that i can actually fully understand the entire novel.... prob only around lower primary level at best... just that i like the style of kino no tabi (plus i know chinese, so the meaning of the kanji can be glimpsed) ^-^ *meow* prob need to invest in a kanji dictionary during the holidays... interesting fact...the illustrator of kino no tabi has a pretty interesting kanji name.... kuroboshi kouhaku.... but the kanji mean "black star red white".... wellz, my profile pic is kino ^-^ really like the anime, can't wait for the movie to be out next year!

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countdown: 2 more weeks....

2 more weeks of lessons, then it's reading week.....then exams....and camp!! ^-^ *bounces around*

anyway, i deleted sekai no shio. why? 'coz i realise that each entry here is actually a testimony of what God is doing in my life. an online record of wat's happening (of course there would be stuff that's just too private to share online...that's wat my journal's for!!) ahwell...since nothing was posted there in the first place....

projects and camp registration are driving me a little mad....i do complain a tad bit too much but that's one way to let me calm down and re-look the situations from another angle. sudden influx of people signed up (which is good) but the sudden influx just gives us (me and zealyn) a whole lot of work to do (esp since at least me is already bogged down with stuff) do hope that zealyn can cope.... i really dun like the fact that i appear dependable when i actually am quite a slacker who just wants to enjoy life... sigh...

okie...back to doing changes for my SP2172 report....

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