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Friday, July 08, 2005
tanabata festival... (festival of the 7th day?)
I shall write about the party we went on tuesday... the one that i embarrassed myself playing the guitar... hehe...
first off... here's the legend behind the festival... (copied it from my jap textbook... me not so zai yet ;p)
七月七日は七夕です。これは七夕の話です。
昔々、天に神様が住んでいました。娘が一人いて、名前は織姫でした。織姫はとてもまじめで、毎日、朝早く起きてはたを織っていました。
ある日、神様は思いました。
「織姫はもう大人だ。結婚したほうがいいだろう。」
神様は始めな男の人を見つけました。天の川の向こうに住んでいる人で、名前は彦星でした。彦星は牛を使って、畑で働いていました。
織姫と彦星は結婚しました。二人はとても好きになりました。いつも一緒にいて、全然働きませんでした。
神様は怒りました。でも二人は仕事をしませんでした。
神様はとても怒って、織姫を家に連れて帰りました。二人は別れなくてはいけませんでした。織姫は彦星に会いたくて、毎日ないていました。
神様は二人がかわいそうだと思って、言いました。
「織姫、彦星、あなたたらは一年に一度だけ会ってもいい。それは七月七日の夜だ。織姫、あなたはその日、天の川の向こうに行ってもいい。でも、朝までに帰らなくちゃいけない。」
一年に一度、七夕の夜に織姫と彦星は会います。二人の願いはかなうのです。
この日、私たちは赤や青など色々な色の短冊に願いを書きます。七夕の日の願いはかなうと人々は言います。ある子供は「いい成績を取りたい」と書きます。ある人は「素敵な人に会いたい」と書きます。あなたは七夕の日にどんな願いを書きますか。
anyone interested in the translation, let me know, and i will be more than happy to do it for ya... if not, ah well... let me do some japanese writing practice can??
date: 7/5 (tues) (got used to japanese way of writing month/day :p)
time: 1830 hours
venue: 武蔵小杉氏民間 (roughly translate to musashi kosugi community centre)
what: 七夕祭り with japanese volunteer class ppl...
price: 200 yen (includes food, drinks and entertainment)
for those who think "wah so cheap!!" dun get carried away... here's the food that we paid 200 yen for...
as described in the above story, we write our wishes onto pieces of paper and hang it on some dunno what plant... anyone knows tell me pls (chan?)...
me in red hanging up JR's wish... me didn't write any (forgot about it.. hehe)... the guy who look like a communist in the foreground is a korean... (dun think he's north korean lah lol)
from the looks of the ppl in my table... you know how much 'fun' i had having 'dinner' then... (yup that's a forced smile ;p)
calvin, me and augustine posing with the plant in yukatas...
after chan's stunning performance, he passed his guitar to me... i tried to hide behind the guitar so as to skip my performance, but they managed to find me... i wonder how?
and here's tsu tsen, me and jianrong performing our number... a rare shot of me ever playing a guitar... yeah... and i was damned nervous...
here's a photo of us with our volunteer teachers... hehe... yeah... and that's the one everyone is so excited about... the so-called bijin teacher ;p
our teacher leading the mexican samba 2 dance....
eng hong has always got the hots for her... but didn't there to ask her to take a pic together... so he ended asking augustine to snap this shot of him with her back... LOL!! (sorry eng hong, couldn't resist putting this up... muahaha)
mass dance!! reminds me of hwa chong days :) everyone having a good time... look! i'm almost totally covered by jianrong ok? so i'm not that fat!! :p
another shot, proving that the previous shot with me being covered almost totally was not a fluke ;p
okok... stomach come out liao ;p 2 fluke-shots afterall ;p
anyway during the dance, my ex-sensei who was like 5 metres away shouted to me... "winston-san! pls dance! this dance is good for diet! can become slim!" (in jap of course)...
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sigh... japs really got a problem with fat ppl... my colleagues, my friends, my teachers all.... poked fun at my weight from time to time... sigh...
anyways... 大丈夫だよ。至少我曾经拥有... (^-^)
as a parting shot, we took a group photo together...
spot mr wally ;)
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since i am at it, i may as well put up some pictures of fangyi's birthday mini-celebration in his room!!
later that nite...
surprise!!! ehh... what are these magazines/ mangas doing here... wahhh!! bikini gal pics!!! caught ya!!
james holding up discriminating evidence... fangyi can only smile feebly...
err... oops, uploaded photos up till here only... so have to stop here ;)
hehe... that's all folks =)
posted by winz at 3:03 PM
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Don't always believe what you see. LOL
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