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Monday, July 25, 2005
hokkaido soon...
tomorrow will be going hokkaido, as such, although today a bit holiday mood, got quite a lot of work to do before leaving... and i just finished a meeting...
anyway our suayness seem to have not left us... forecast predicts that there will be typhoon tomorrow... if got, i think we who are taking aeroplanes will be in danger!! touchwood!!!! where's my lucky star???
anyway do pray for us, that the typhoon wont affect us... ah well, may as well pray that the typhoon wont affect anybody for that matter...
think if i have time after packing tonite, will do 1 final post before a week's absence from my blog... hehe... if not, here's saying...
happy summer holidays and see you next week!!
hasta la vista... a bientot.... zaijian... ja mata raishuu... ;)
posted by winz at 5:06 PM
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Friday, July 22, 2005
fujiQ highlands....
finally finished what i had to by monday, so now having some time in my hands, i will blog about the day of fun i had in fujiQ...
notice the crazy 90 degree drop ride on the right of the ferris wheel...
although weeks and days before the day, the weather report indicated that it would be raining on that day, when the day came, we were happy that there was no rain!!! must be due to the teruterubouze hehe....
notice the blue colour rag-doll above siownan's head? that's him! teruterubouze!! hehe...
anyway according to my fren, if you want to pray for good weather, you have to hang the doll right-side up. if you want bad weather, you can also pray for it, this time hanging it upside-down... hehe... for chaokeng purposes of course ;p if only it works, all the NS guys will be equipped with one each already ;p
anyway, we got the free pass which costed us 3500 yen... although not coloured, the cool thing is, we get to photograph our faces in!
our mugshots... fiona, me, siownan, yuhui, calvin, jasmine, jianrong...
digress a bit...
you know in japan, what they call adults? this is easy (can see from photo too) => 大人...
so you know what they call kids? => 小人... haha funny...
so what do they call students?? => 中人... really, never bluff... hahahahahaha...
so next time ppl say you are a 小人, dun worry, young at heart only ;)
ok back to topic...
we went to chiong arguably their most famous ride first...
fujiyama...
from my face you can see how scary the ride was... ;p
what you see here is the peak of fujiyama... the ride of course..
dun play play, this ride used to be the tallest ride in the world...
got guiness certificate as prove even..
so off we went queuing...
in line...
hehe... it was one of the funnest ride i've ever been on lah... not scary lah, but fun. got my seal of approval, this one... pity never take again... hehe
anyways, me will stop here for now... will continue another day... cos my office bell just rang!!! hehe... off for the weekend!!! hitting the beach tomorrow!
ciaoz...
posted by winz at 4:53 PM
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random...
learnt a new word from google's word of the day... and a rather useful one at that...
ennui: a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction arising from lack of interest.
hmm... kind of applies to me all the time... it will be my new catchphrase!! hurhurhur...
anyway saw these fotos from some random blog... can't remember which now, so, sorry to the source of these pics, can't acknowlege you for the pics...
these are actual adverts by a mobile phone operator, au, here in japan...
cute ;)
btw, i watched episode 3 last nite... it was better than i expected, but still corny at parts. as usual lucas dun really handle emotional bits well, whether its on purpose or not, whatever. but at least it made me wanna watch 4, 5 and 6 again... watched them when i was a kid, so cant remember anything liaoz...
posted by winz at 11:17 AM
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Thursday, July 21, 2005
fuji-eve... aka yuhui's birthday-eve...
for yuhui's birthday dinner, we actually tried to make reservations at the very popular chicken rice stall in roppongi, but to no avail. that shop is arguably the most preferred stall, because it serves many other local favorites such as chilli crab too!! yum yumz.... hehe...
undaunted, we managed to book a restaurant called Mu Hung, a restaurant boasting of 2 branches, serves chicken rice, and founded by a peranakan singaporean female!
this is how the restaurant looks like from the outside... nice hor?
they have counter seats too... to suit the jap culture..
peek-a-boo!
damien, me, ck, james, tshush waiting impatiently for the food to arrive...
we were also pleasantly surprised to find that they serve food outside their main menu too! and so, we had kueh pie ti for starters... *slurpp...*
flown in straight from singapore... ;)
it was delicious... and i must admit i had never eaten one of those in my entire life back in sg... haha... damn suah ku... ;p
shortly after, we were served the main dish.... voila!
ambrosia!!! costs 950 yen btw (that's abt 14.50 sing)
yuhui busy tucking away!! check out the fast fork action!
the absolute best part of the chicken!!
looks super delicious right??? hehe... it was... not bad lah... the rice was nice... hehe... some of my nice frens say that the chicken rice chicken i cook tastes better... hehe (its actually a scheme to make me be the one cooking, dun think i dunno ;p)
and look what they have next... satay!!!
it actually tastes as good as it looks!! their satays have my seal of approval!
and next... sambal kang kong!!
hehe... nearly forgot to take the pic... manage to snap this at my plate, before it ended up in my big round belly ;) and yes, they taste damn good too!!
次は beef rendang!!!
half-eaten beef rendang also has my seal of approval!! ;)
and finally...
the aftermath... sob sob... why did it have to end?? (notice i saved the best for last, u didnt actually think that i am going to waste the best bits of the chicken did you?)
after the great meal, it was cake-cutting time!! they were so nice as to dim the lights for us ;)
yuhui, the birthday gal, on the right...
we had a group picture taken with the cake...
dun ask me why only 2 of us were sitting in front... and no, it's not what you think...
and finally, after devouring the cake, we took another group picture, this time with mary-anne, the owner of the restaurant. she promised us chilli crabs and laksa next time we visit... (we have to pre-order first)
she's the one in black beside the birthday gal..
i'll give this restaurant 4 out of 5 overall.... will definitely come back sometime!
ok for those who think warrau, only a chicken rice-cum-satay-cum-kangkong-cum-beef rendang stall wat... what's the big deal??
it is a big deal ok??? in tokyo leh!! big BIG deal!! hehe... oops.. getting a bit hysterical from looking at all those delicious food again ;)
next post, will be on the fuji trip.... coming soon... ;)
posted by winz at 3:50 PM
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what the...??
"My blogger and gmail account got hacked. All blogs are deleted, all 3000 emails gone.
I cannot retrieve both passwords because blogger’s password prompt is sent to my gmail account, and as for gmail, I have no idea why they are not sending my password to my secondary account.
Please help me to announce this on your respective blogs, and curse the MOTHERFUCKER who did this.
Pardon me while I go break down.
Wendy"
poor gal.... no matter how vehement she is in her views... no one deserves this...
for those who are unacquainted with her, she is one of Singapore's most (in)famous blogger. She had around 3000 mails deleted and a total of 12 blogs (3 years of effort) deleted as well...
what a cruel thing to do...
posted by winz at 1:44 PM
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Wednesday, July 20, 2005
i hate losing...
i am a rather competitive person... and i hate losing...
some more kenna thrashed!!
sigh...
me and my mates went to play bball last nite after work... usually they would open the second court for us to use since we are of different standards as the other japanese playing there... but yesterday they didnt because they had some activities up there. so we had to share the court with the japs.
of course, after not long, they began forming teams to play full court. we bo bian... either join in or cannot play liao... so we formed our own team.
results は 惨不忍睹 (haha english-jap-chinese combo!!)... sigh... although しようがない cos, for eg. for me, haven been playing for ages... so CMI... but still... dun like to lose... too bad no courts to practise more over here (yes... public courts and outdoor courts are virtually inexistant in japan...)
well.. i'm sure my s32 class team can beat those fellows... but that was 昔々 already... sigh...
anyways, fuji update akan datang.... last nite went back concussed shortly... so photos not uploaded yet.... sorry to all, especially to my self-proclaimed no.1 blog fan! ;p
yi san yi san liang jing jing..... lalalala... (this is twinkle twinkle little star in chinese by the way)
posted by winz at 1:48 PM
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in the news...
 we all know japan's obsession with pachinkos and slot machines... now a japanese bank is err... banking on this popularity, coming out with new ATM machines with slot games in them!! well it took them long enough to come up with this idea.
the waiver of 105 yen withdrawal fee (after office hours) is 1 in 10 chances, while to win 1000 yen, the chance is 1 in 500... not bad siah... at least better than nothing lah....
dun think they so dumb (but you'll never know... ;p), but if can spin for the 1000 yen during office hours too (when the withdrawal fee is not charged), you can literally stand there the whole day playing this - withdrawing and withdrawing - until you win 1000 yen! haha... fat hope lah... i think.... ;p
next is... the TMNT are going to be back!!!! cowabunga! hehe... my childhood obsession i guess.. now still a little boy.... wondering whether i will really go and watch the movie when it is out... hmm... hehe...
Hard-shell hard sell
LOS ANGELES - The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are set to return to the big screen after a 14-year break from computer-generated movies, Variety reported.
In their first deal since splitting from Walt Disney, movie magnates Harvey and Bob Weinstein have agreed to distribute the film for Warner Bros.
The comic book stories of four humanoid fighting turtles caused a sensation when they were adapted for TV before hitting the big screen from 1990 to 1993. The new movie is set for release in 2007. -- AFP
posted by winz at 1:37 PM
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Tuesday, July 19, 2005
tsukareta...
over the weekend, my blog visits, to my surprise, have not dwindled to as low as i would expect, due to the lack of posting.... thanks to all who visited this space and remembered me... ;)
anyway realised recently that blogs hosted by msn ends with "space" too, for example if you are andy, your blog at msn will be andy's space... kinda dun like this... cos me blog, as you know, is called winz's space, and it is original ok??? never copy anyone ok?? now so many msn bloggers become same as me... irritating!!
and so, as i was saying, i went and conquered mount fuji over the weekend... if i were to summarise the whole experience and to give my review in 1 short sentence, it would be "it's not worth it"... ;p dun call me names ok.. at least i endured through the whole process... ;)
was pondering whether i should blog about my weekend today or should i blog when i uploaded some photos to go along... now, i think i will do the latter... since i am rather busy at work today (just finished a meeting btw)...
so hang on there... for now if you are bored, can look at some pics of some errr... peaks at kennysia.com ;p (btw, sarongpartygal rules!)
till tomorrow ;)
posted by winz at 2:13 PM
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Friday, July 15, 2005
Teruteru Bouze
I pray to Teruteru Bouze. Do you know "照る照る坊主”? a paper doll to which Japanese children pray for fine weather.
the above are some words that my trainer wrote in her email to us... with regards to our mt fuji expedition.... interesting traditional/ cultural practice... hmm... will be interesting to see for real how it looks like...
further that, she wrote another email to us...
I forgot to tell about magic words to praying 照る照る坊主
照る照る坊主
照る坊主～
明日天気にしておくれ
i think in romanji it should go like this (if i am wrong, pls correct me):
teru teru bouze
teru bouze～
asu tenkini shiteokure
remember to chant this next time you are hoping for better weather...
;)
posted by winz at 1:28 PM
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this weekend's plans
today i am going to be bad and skip band practice... again... sigh feeling really bad about this... somehow whenever i skip band pracs back in singapore, i wont really bother... but the responsibility here is heightened since japs really are damn serious in their music... if i make any mistakes, dun think everyone will be happy...
next week should be going, but the following week's prac, will be skipped once more due to my hokkaido trip... that makes it a grand 2 out of 6 practices attended for this month ;p
anyway back on topic... this weekend...
the great yokohama fireworks will be held this weekend... but will be at fuji... so most probably will miss it...
so this weekend going to fuji area... will be first going to fujiQ highlands where they have the world's tallest and fastest rollarcoaster ride ;) the next day then we will start our mt fuji climb... pls pray for our safety. hopefully the view up there will be worthed the effort...
anyway tomorrow is Yuhui's birthday.... so...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY YUHUI!!
tonite skipping band prac to attend her birthday dinner somewhere in azabu or something - chicken rice!! hehe.. hope it's good... ;)
posted by winz at 10:35 AM
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Thursday, July 14, 2005
funny priceless picture ;)
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sorry..
for the lack of activity here today...
been busy with some work and meeting today... and after meeting busy promoting the start of our own bulletin board.. hehe.... to see what kind of crap we talk about, go here ;)
talk more tomorrow ;)
posted by winz at 4:26 PM
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sketches
attended another course today at the same place as last week... it was as boring as the one before.. hehe... contents wise, i'd swear they were the same if not for the lecture notes ;p (since all in jap, we wouldn't know the difference anyway)... hehe.... (last week was on design compiler, and this week on primetime)...
i nodded off for a while during the morning session... and in order to keep myself awake in the afternoon, i diverted my attention to somewhere so that i can stay somber....
hence, sketching.
hadn't done much sketching ever since secondary school i think... so dun expect the standard to be any high.... hehe... in fact, forgive me for the poor standard.... some of you guys out there must be laughing your asses off after you see the below...;p
anyways, i asked chee keong for a photo, any photo... and he lent me one with his then-girlfren, now-wife, taken when they were in jc1 (that was 9 years ago!!)
the end result was horrid.
the supposedly portrait (or caricature may be a better word here ;p) of jenine and chee keong...
yeah, after i completed the sketch, i gave it to chee keong... chee keong initially asked me to keep it, but i insisted on giving him anyway... haha.. now i can see why he didn't want to have it! it looks cartoony and bears no resemblance at all!! total joke! flunked... sigh...
i must add that i couldn't do better due to some factors as well. one, was in an adverse condition.. hehe... in lecture, scared other ppl see, so do hastily lor... two, lack of time.... you can see that i didn't really bother to do proper shading and all... if i were to do... no time to finish lah... (excuses ;p)
okok... i am just bad at it.
when i got back to dorm, after dinner, i had some time on my hands... so i tried sketching again, this time on another subject. i chose a person that most, if not all, of us who are in japan knows. hence all can be a good judge - if they recognise who i was sketching, it would be a minor success liao ;)
again... hold your breath, and be ready for some laugh...
who is she? (pls click on pic to view)
sorry for the excessive blue filter, due to my camera... could have rectified this using photoshop, but decided against that since i dun wanna be accused of using photoshop in any way ;p
anyway, i found that when sketching a person, 2 things very hard... 1 is of course the eye... very hard to catch the feel of the eye... if can draw eye very well, i think the portrait is half done... 2 is the mouth... yup and that includes the teeth as well... at first i always ended up with da4 zhui3 ba1 (one who has a big mouth) but after sometime, manage to come out with this... that being said... notice the teeth is empty/ black ugly shades... hehe.. cos seriously i dunno how to incorporate teeth into a sketch... looks too weird when i do...
anyway i changed the position of the right eye (ie. the one on the left) after i completed my first draft... hence the difference in shades and clarity between the 2 eyes... aiyah.... edit here edit there, still looks about like this... so i dun change liao lah...
anyone with any comments or any tips? anyone with any guess as to who the person is?
to all her fans and frens, sorry i did her injustice ;p
Updates:
1. removed the pics from this site... too gross ;p but links still work though, so you can still view the err nauseous pics ;p
2. following this post, a fren, P.I.G., sent me some sketches of hers. Tio Qie. Totally. (and hence pt 1)
here are the submissions:
posted by winz at 12:19 AM
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Tuesday, July 12, 2005
had 1 of the best meals in japan so far last nite...
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me and my bro-in-law, Eric ;)
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how to earn big bucks...
... and look charitable at the same time...
$990 for a golden tap is sure not expensive... considering if 1 person on average donates $50 for charitable causes, the golden tap paid by only 20 unknowing ppl wat... sigh...
shan't comment much, less I get sued... read the article here if you haven't heard about it before...
Update:
Just saw that mrbrown compiled a list of website regarding this issue... go here to see the list compiled by him...
posted by winz at 1:51 PM
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Monday, July 11, 2005
tokyo dome here i come...
remember the chearleading i did for the toshiba baseball team just a couple of weeks ago? well at first i heard that toshiba was defeated at the final match, and so failed to qualify to represent kanagawa for the regional playoffs.
but, heard good news last saturday during practice... apparantly there was this revival match, and toshiba won that one, so it is through to the regional playoffs... to vie for spots to represent the kanto region in the nationals i think.... and the matches will be held in tokyo dome!
i am pretty excited, cos tokyo dome is the place for baseball matches, j-pop concerts, and many more big events. and i get to go there and play sax, albeit its just cheering with the rest of the band... hehe...
waiting for the fixtures... matches should begin from 22nd august, or so i heard... ;)
posted by winz at 3:21 PM
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old times...
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surprising dating profile...
saw this on my fren, dumbz's blog... with some surprising results... didn't know that the religion criterion was the most important to me (i mean, it is important, but not THE most important) ... must be inaccurate LoL
anyway, just for fun...
Your dating personality profile:
Big-Hearted - You are a kind and caring person. Your warmth is inviting, and your heart is a wellspring of love.
Romantic - You know exactly how to melt your date's heart. Romance comes naturally to you and is an important component of any relationship you have.
Religious - Faith matters to you. It is the foundation that you build your life upon. You trust that God has a plan for you. | Your date match profile:
Religious - You seek someone who is grounded in faith and who possesses religious values. You believe that a religious person can enhance your life.
Practical - You are drawn to people who are sensible and smart. Flashy, materialistic people turn you off. You appreciate the simpler side of living.
Romantic - You need someone with a traditional understanding of romance. A true romantic is a must-have in any potential date. | Your Top Ten Traits
1. Big-Hearted
2. Romantic
3. Religious
4. Liberal
5. Athletic
6. Shy
7. Funny
8. Traditional
9. Stylish
10. Adventurous
| Your Top Ten Match Traits
1. Religious
2. Practical
3. Romantic
4. Big-Hearted
5. Shy
6. Sensual
7. Wealthy/Ambitious
8. Traditional
9. Funny
10. Athletic
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Take the Online Dating Profile Quiz at Dating Diversions
posted by winz at 10:24 AM
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Sunday, July 10, 2005
let's get straight to the point...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHIRLEY!!!
posted by winz at 2:32 AM
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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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today is...
Jasmine's Birthday.... so...
Happy Birthday gal! Have fun chionging tonite!
posted by winz at 1:45 PM
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i am a turtle ;p
February 15 - 21 ~ Turtle
If you are a Turtle: You are near to perfect and nice at heart.The examples of your kindness are always circulated in groups of people.You, too, love peace. You wouldn't like to retaliate even to a person who is in the wrong.You are loved due to this. You do not wish to talk behind one's back. People love the way you always treat them. You can give, give and give love, and the best part is that you do not expect it back in return.You are generous enough. Seeing things in a practical light is what remains the best trait of you guys.
hehe... nice praise to the heavens... but ok lah.. i'm not that perfect.... maybe 99% right muahaha..
for those who wanna see what you belong to, i am gonna write everything into the comments to this post... too long.. dun wanna clutter my main page ;)
while you are at it, do write some comments and tell me what you are :)
posted by winz at 11:31 AM
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How to avoid plane crashes and STDs
another interesting article from japantoday....
haha... dun ask me why they lump the 2 subjects together in one article... are they supposed to have similiarities other than "how to avoid"?? hehe...
take trains rather than planes... (yi san, wise choice ;p)... and guys, forget about cuba airlines and china airlines...
If you must fly, choose your airline carefully. Spa!, basing itself on fatal accident statistics, claims ANA is six times as safe as JAL, Delta nearly twice as safe as Northwest, and as for Cuba Airlines, forget it, it's the most dangerous on Spa!'s list of 16, followed by Taiwan's China Airlines.
the interesting portion is actually at the sex portion (as ever)... hehe.. not so much interesting as it is funny ;p
Sex, once associated primarily with reproduction, more recently with pleasure, more recently still with disease, is an increasingly wide battleground for the opposing forces of good and bad luck.
"I don't believe it... Chlamidya is more widespread than flu. Among girls in their late teens and early 20s, one in every 10-15 is infected."
The more partners you have, the more vulnerable you are. Interestingly enough, adds Nomoto, citing his survey of nursing students, the more partners you have, the less vulnerable you tend to "think" you are. The conclusion is inescapable: the more sex you have, the less you know about sex. Use condoms, Nomoto stresses, and increase your luck.
haha the reporter who wrote this got good sense of humor... Nomoto too ;p "use condom to increase your luck" hehe.. what a way to put it... ;p
notice that his survey was conducted on nursing students... hmmm... nurses, doctors, pharmacists, expert on this issue?? hmmmm... ;p
some interesting and farnee comments in the comments block too... ;p
Interesting trivia, although the "good luck" angle seems weak. Han Solo makes his own luck; Kenobi says no such thing exists.
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The way to avoid STD is to fly frequently on Cuban Airline and China Airline.
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All too rarely, flight attendants make an effort to make the in-flight "safety lecture" and announcements a bit more entertaining. Here are some real examples that have been heard or reported by passengers:
"Ladies and gentlemen, we've reached cruising altitude and will be turning down the cabin lights. This is for your comfort and to enhance the appearance of your flight attendants."
"There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are only 4 ways out of this airplane"
"Thank you for flying Delta Business Express. We hope you enjoyed giving us the business as much as we enjoyed taking you for a ride."
"Please take care when opening the overhead compartments because, after a landing like that, sure as hell everything has shifted."
"Welcome aboard Southwest Flight 245 to Sacramento. To operate your seat belt, insert the metal tab into the buckle, and pull tight. It works just like every other seat belt; and, if you don't know how to operate one, you probably shouldn't be out in public unsupervised."
"In the event of a sudden loss of cabin pressure, masks will descend from the ceiling. Stop screaming, grab the mask, and pull it over your face. If you have a small child traveling with you, secure your mask before assisting with theirs. If you are traveling with more than one small child, pick your favorite." Weather at our destination is 50 degrees with some broken clouds, but we'll try to have them fixed before we arrive. Thank you, and remember, nobody loves you, or your money, more than Southwest Airlines." "As you exit the plane, make sure to gather all of your belongings. Anything left behind will be distributed evenly among the flight attendants. Please do not leave children or spouses." And from the pilot during his welcome message: "Delta Airlines is pleased to have some of the best flight attendants in the industry. Unfortunately, none of them are on this flight!"
"That was quite a bump, and I know what y'all are thinking. I'm here to tell you it wasn't the airline's fault, it wasn't the pilot's fault, it wasn't the flight attendant's fault, it was the asphalt."
"We ask you to please remain seated as Captain Kangaroo bounces us to the terminal."
"We'd like to thank you folks for flying with us today. And, the next time you get the insane urge to go blasting through the skies in a pressurized metal tube, we hope you'll think of US Airways."
"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. Welcome to Flight Number 293, nonstop from New York to Los Angeles. The weather ahead is good and, therefore, we should have a smooth and uneventful flight. So, sit back and relax ... OH, MY GOD!" Silence followed. After a few minutes, the captain came back on the intercom and said, "Ladies and Gentlemen, I am so sorry if I scared you earlier. While I was talking to you, the flight attendant accidentally spilled hot coffee in my lap. You should see the front of my pants!" A passenger in Coach yelled out, "That's nothing. You should see the back of mine!!"
whole article can be read here.
posted by winz at 11:12 AM
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7 tips to keep your wife loving you
Here's from an interesting article i read from japantoday.com...
Here are the seven tips that Takada says worked for him.
1. Listen to your wife attentively at least once a day without asking her to hurry up or get to the point.
2. Share the housework.
3. Do not forget to say "Thank you" and "You are kind."
4. Never look down at your wife.
5. Do your work together with your wife if you are self-employed.
6. Do not fight. Listen to your wife patiently at first, even if you think she is completely wrong.
7. If there is something you really need or want to buy, persuade your wife daily so that she will come around to understanding why you want it. (Many wives still take care of household expenditures and pull the purse strings in Japan.)
Finally, Takada advises guys, "If you want your wife to change, you need to change, too."
i must say that his 7 points are truely words of wisdom... guess most of us brought up in singapore should know we should do this (but many fail to practise anyway)... it is more so surprising that this is coming from a japanese... japanese males are infamous for being chauvinists... coming out with this list alone suggests that the average japanese males dun practise as said, or so i infer...
anyway, interesting to see where he got these tips from... hehe... he learnt this tips by reading how-to books for business!!?!?!! haha...
Takada is a practitioner in acupuncture and moxibustion, and opened his own clinic in Tokyo three years ago. He married his wife, 10 years his junior, eight years ago. At first, his wife was very supportive and very kind until Takada started spending more time at his clinic.
"My wife must have wanted me to help her with housework and childcare," he recalls. His wife became unsupportive of his work and started sniping at him. Takada tried to find a way to improve their relationship by reading how-to books for business (he thought the business management model might apply to improving wives). Gradually, their relationship got better.
should try sun tze's art of war next ;p
read the whole article here.
posted by winz at 11:02 AM
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interesting view of singapore by someone staying in singapore...
thanks to fangyi who spotted this, here's what someone wrote in somebody's blog comments i think.... quite hilarious...
hey BITCH, I never claimed that I could do better than Lee FUCK Yew, all I was saying was that the Old Twerp was claiming FAR TOO MUCH credit for Stinkapoor's economic success.
I bet the old man masturbates daily after reading all the praise that's heaped upon him by his Commuist-inspired media and PAP bootlicking scum like yourself. Oh well, I guess that bit of pleasure helps prevent him from puking all his meals out when he looks at his incredibly UGLY wife.
Anyway, I don't give a flying fuck what happens to your stinky little island. As far as I know, you guys are in some DEEEPPP SHIT with up to 7.5% unemployment and rising, reduced investor confidence, massive relocation of manufacturing industries to India and China, and so on and so forth.
Yet your Communist-inspired media and your fellow egoistic self-centred Stinkapooreans continue to make-believe as though these problems are non-existant. You host some crappy IOC conference and make such a big deal out of it. You build a couple of Casinos and claim it's the solution to all your economic problems. You guys fabricate some story about the National University of Stinkapoore being placed 18th in the world and bombard the media with nonsensical feel-good stories. You also act as though Stinkapoore is still the World's No. 1 port, airport, airlines and so forth when nothing could be further from the truth !
This ain't the 80s or early 90s anymore ! Why don't you Stinkapooreans get your heads out of your asses and look at the world around you ? The rapid rise of China, India and your Southeast Asian neighbours will dwarf your economy and render you to significance very soon. Get ready to be just another insignificant island lying in the Indian Ocean, where "International Relations" grads like yourself will have to suck the cocks of your Malaysian overlords to put food on your table.
And I'll be sitting there laughing at you bigoted Stinkapooreans still stuck in your illusions of grandeur.
FUCK YOU !
although written in a rather colorful language, what he wrote does have a pt, although the unemployment rate, as pointed out by tshush, is way off... more like 3.7 thereabouts... stinkapooreans really gotta think over the future... challenge for lee hsien loong and his government now....
read the post and the comments to this here.
posted by winz at 10:53 AM
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Thursday, July 07, 2005
thanks...
for all your well-wishes, getting much better...
tomorrow should be able to go work liao...
thinking of which, think i'll fall sick again!
posted by winz at 10:06 PM
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caught a flu...
so resting in my dorm now... not too serious, so dun worry about me ok?
so i'll stall my blogging until maybe tomorrow bah... see you then ;)
posted by winz at 3:35 PM
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Tuesday, July 05, 2005
on course tomorrow...
tomorrow i will be going to ooimachi (大井町) synopsys (for those engineers, should have heard before) for a 1-day course on design compiler... next wednesday will go again for a course on primetime...
although it's scheduled to last for the whole day, i hope it doesn't get too tedius... the bad thing is, it is not hands-on, it's lecture style... and guess what? yup... in japanese... cannot make it... will spend the whole day in a lecture not understanding 90% of what is going to be said....
sigh... wish me luck.
therefore, won't be blogging errm... in the morning and afternoon tomorrow... hehe.. so will write on what happened today nite now first, lest i forget to...
today we had a tanabata matsuri (七夕祭り) celebrations with our tuesday volunteer class... was bored during the dinner (actually with just some finger food) cos after drawing lots, i sat with some odd ppl on the same table... heng calvin same as me... else worse.
after dinner, we had a performance segment... for my class, tsutsen, jianrong and i sang 小人物的心声 (my teacher wanted something singaporean... and we didn't wanna sing those national day songs, hence the choice)... worst part of it all was that i played guitar for the song! ok granted only chords, but hey those who heard me play before knows how bad i am.... right tianbin? yihui?... yup what's worse is that our performance followed a subarashii solo performance by fangyi (plucked and crooned a jap song)... everyone was fixated by his brilliant performance... we, well, basically brought them back to earth... lol
we had a round of "if you're happy and you know it...." and my butt was spanked by an obasan during the "slap the buttock" part of the song... lol... and no, i didn't spank her back... ;p
then came the mexican samba 2... hehe.. those who are someone into japanese culture and music should know this popular song and dance (can't rem his name, he wears gold yutaka, and dance the funny dance of him while singing? you know?)... anyway it really is insanely popular here in japan... so there's this young teacher who was teaching and leading us in the dance... it was dumb... but have to admit... fun.... reminded me of my mass dance days in hwa chong... ;)
one thing that was overheard was this... this young teacher (let's call her A-san) brought her friend (B-san)... they were seated on a table with a Danish guy.... they were kinda excited, and B-san asked, and A-san translated (jap to eng), if he has a girlfren or not... wtf? first time see then ask liao... anyway, the Danish replied that he is married liao... then B-san (and A-san) asked if he could introduce any of his ang moh frens to them!... anyway A-san is my teacher in the class... disappointed... minus marks liao... (not that it matters in the first place)...
so there you see, jap gals generally still prefer ang mohs.... just like a spg....
anyway tomorrow is Fangyi's birthday as well, so here's wishing him an advance
Happy Birthday!!!
see you guys asatte!
posted by winz at 11:31 PM
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new about me page....
finally written what i have wanted to write for quite some time now...
check out the link in my sidebar if you wanna know more about the author :)
posted by winz at 3:10 PM
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new poll...
just for fun ;)
posted by winz at 10:25 AM
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in the news today...
there's nothing very exciting in the news today... but there's some kinda interesting quotes i came across though... (probably not interesting to the average japanese, i must quote)
"When two guys go off on a holiday, the only thing I can imagine about them is that they're an item. If that were the case, then anything that went on between them would have been consensual..." says Toru-mama, head of the transsexual club Hige Girl in Tokyo's gay quarter Shinjuku Ni-Chome.
this is taken from an article about a gay murder (rather alledged gay rape followed by murder). you mean 2 guys cannot go off on a holiday together just as friends? the ONLY thing one can imagine is they are gays?? gosh... guys, beware when your guy colleague asks you out for holiday together LOL!
it's nice to see that there are news in japan translated and/or written in english for the benefit of english readers... however, for the translated ones especially, sometimes, it will be written in some funny english... hehe... can't blame them lah, at least they are trying their best. however, this article on slipper ping pong has a title that, i must say, oozes err... originality...
Slipper Slappers Slipping Ping into Pong
cool rite??!!? anyway the japanese are really inventors of all things weird and interesting... playing table tennis with slippers (ok not really that original, i use to play it with books when i was young)? but hey, they even have world championships for it!!
posted by winz at 9:59 AM
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Monday, July 04, 2005
ID4
for those americans who may drop by here, though i doubt there are any,
Happy Independance Day to you!
posted by winz at 5:14 PM
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...friday, saturday, sunday...
writing the title for this post reminds me of some irritating song by some cute taiwanese singer i recently saw in an episode of 我猜 (a very good taiwanese variety show that i, err, download to watch in japan ;p)... trust me, the song is damn duh!
anyways, this post is not about the duh-song... rather is about the rather duh-weekend that went by....
as i was saying in my blog last friday, friday was our supposed company anniversary, so we had half-day... we went for karaoke after lunch, and i paid 840 yen (13 SGD) for 4 hours of ktv with 1 drink... we got a super ookii room too, cos i think weekdays really not much ppl go ktv... ;)
afterwhich, we went to catch a movie (that's right, i skipped practice... feel so bad...), and i made the fatal mistake of checking out War of the Worlds... if ever steven spielberg has made a disastrous movie, this has to be the worst. well, i wouldn't even try reviewing the movie like i did for batman ends begins... cos it basically sucked too much... the only movie i watched in japan so far that i will fail unhesitatingly.
ah well, at least the CGI was good (not that i care very much for it). it's a pure waste of my fav gal actress, dakota fanning's talents (of cos she acted well, that's but of cos)... tom cruise, well... as usual, nothing much to his acting (same in every movie)... he and his wife-to-be somehow have the knack of acting in overhyped sucky movies... ;p
saturday was quite uneventful... tried to wake up late, but failed due to my brother-in-law's phone call (at 11+)... so ended up waking up early (ard 12) and started playing my ps2... and irritatingly, my ps2 refused to start up some newer games that i have (gta san andreas, mgs3, old games to some out there, but new to me) so i got stuck playing my phantom brave... sigh... seems nothing will go fine lately...
went to get lunch and do some grocery shopping for dinner, and then cooked chicken rice for dinner... i expert ok? never heard of Fatty Wong's Chicken Rice?? watched lindsey vs venus live, but couldn't bare to continue watching at the final set... darn the venus, if only lindsey was fit... sigh... did i already mention that nothing's going fine lately?
sunday-wise, went out early to meet up with eric, me bro-in-law, for breakfast, a little bit of shopping and lunch... brought him to harajuku and we had sushi for lunch (yum yum), he had to leave at 230 pm cos his flight was ard 630... and i feel quite guilty not sending him off to the airport (to and fro more than 4 hours leh!!), and so i went to church to repent...
joke lah.. haha, but seriously, i went to church after seeing him off at hibiya-line's roppongi station platform. i was slightly late (ard 20 mins), but managed to catch the last song and a half of the worship and praise segment. it felt good going back to church after such a long time... hoping i can go more regularly on sundays, and not let the lazy-demon bog me down...
afterwhich, went back dorm, watch another old episode of 我猜 during dinner (which we prepared as well), and then wimbledon finals...
woohoo!!! federer straight sets! finally, he made my day (make that my weekend)... did you guys see his frightfully thin left arm everytime he serves? he needs to eat more man... and be more like me... hehe... (then other players will have more chance lol)
posted by winz at 3:34 PM
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不厌倦
有些好看的戏是看几遍都不厌倦的。就像可口可乐，喝一辈子也应该不会腻。一些好听的歌也是如此。数日前，刚在我一个meme上提过这支歌。
叶子
叶子是不会飞翔的翅膀
翅膀是落在天上的叶子
天堂原来应该不是妄想
只是我早已经遗忘
当初怎么开始飞翔
孤单是一个人的狂欢
狂欢是一群人的孤单
爱情原来的开始是陪伴
但我也渐渐地遗忘
当时是怎样有人陪伴
我一个人吃饭旅行到处走走停停
也一个人看书写信自己对话谈心
只是心又飘到了哪里
就连自己看也看不清
我想我不仅仅是失去你
作词/作曲者是陈晓娟。她也写过几首很好听的歌，例如李玟的"我依然是你的情人"也是我很是喜欢的一首歌。张学友，王菲，那英，郑秀文，梁咏琪，陈慧琳等歌手都有唱过她写的歌。
写到了这里，就觉得自己有一点象fangyi,因为他总是在他的blog上写好多好多不同的歌的おすすめ（推荐）。呵呵...
posted by winz at 3:21 PM
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募集中
read this fairly interesting article in news today...
hey, i love camping and nature too... and err... ;p
anyone wants to apply? cheap cheap only.. hehe...
posted by winz at 9:34 AM
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Sunday, July 03, 2005
for the gals especially...
mr and mrs david beckham...
i must admit both of them look equally hot...
posted by winz at 2:25 AM
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Saturday, July 02, 2005
parents in japan!
why am i in my dorm on a saturday evening blogging? gosh... super no life...
my brother-in-law, eric tan is here in tokyo this weekend..... but i got relegated by his frens so can only meet up with him tomorrow morning for breakfast, before he flies back to singapore in the afternoon...
anyways, so back to the no-life saturday.... will have a photoblog of me and my parents...
my parents came to visit me in japan from 9th to 16th april... and well here are our journey log in photos... ;)
my parents and i, in asakusa...
so the important question... do i look more like my father or mother? ;p i seriously dunno.. some say one, but many say others... mixed reviews...
anyways i brought them to asakusa the day they arrived...
askusa sells lots of omiyages and trinklets and souvenirs... this is one of the omiyages...
the guy using his foot to prepare the dried sotong (i think)... eww... how gross...
asakusa looks nicer with the sakuras blooming...
mum 求签...
afterwhich, we headed to the nearby sumida river (隅田川) to view sakuras...
check out the sakuras lining the opposite bank...
pink sakuras that look white due to my camera's weird auto settings...
3 of us resting on a bench... the groundsheet at our feet belonged to someone who put it there to "book seats" for the next day of sakura picnic...
jap's sakura picnic can last the whole day, and even into the night... here, a group of them are having steamboat!
sumida river by night...
sumida river is a very popular sakura viewing spot in tokyo... also, the biggest fireworks festival in tokyo is also here...
more night shots... ;)
the next day (i think), i brought them to harajuku and meiji shrine...
look! more sakuras... hehe.... i think by now, most of u are tired of watching sakuras liao...
entrance to meiji shrine... can u see my dad and mum in this pic?
the rest of the harajuku pics are errmm... unsorted... hehe... so maybe next time...
sometime later, dunno when, we walked pass the tokyo international forum... and it really looked quite pretty at night...
at the tokyo international forum.
on the saturday before they left, i brought them to hakone, tokyo ppl's favourite onsen spot... although this is my second time there, touring around the area was the first time for me (cos the first time i was there was with my sister, and we only went for onsen)...
1 of the only photos in the entire collection where you can see all three of us smiling so brightly... dun ask me why though... can't rem ;p
ok, from this photo, i think i look quite like my mother, doncha think?
in gora park (強羅公園)...
this is what they call a cable car... different from what we singaporeans call a cable car...
... and this is what they call a ropeway... think we singaporeans call this a cable car instead ;p
the sign says,"happiness bell" supposedly ppl who ring this bell will be happy.
cloudy sky meant that we couldn't see mt fuji that day
the pirate ship ferry ride
my mum's cold... strong breeze and all...
nice sparkling waters... quite inviting for a dip right? this is actually lake ashi, or in english, the leg lake... hehe...
so anyways my father and i went to an onsen for awhile, but my mum refused to try (she shy)... afterwhich, on our way back to tokyo, we stopped by odawara castle for some pictures...
tiles on the pavement leading to the castle... it says "welcome to odawara castle".
there... the final pic in this post... us with odawara castle...
more on my parents' trip here to follow... ;)
posted by winz at 7:11 PM
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Friday, July 01, 2005
i like this quote...
The days of the digital watch are numbered. - Tom Stoppard
LOL!
posted by winz at 11:06 AM
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会社記念日
today is toshiba's 会社記念日... which should translate to toshiba's anniversary rite? dunno... but i thought i have a band performance in september at the toshiba's headquarters (in 浜松町 btw) for toshiba's anniversary...?? if it is today, why is the performance in september??
ah well... dunno lar... but one thing i know is...
we got half day work today...
which is good ;)
ktv to follow in the afternoon (cos it's cheap in weekday afternoons), and thinking of whether to go for band or movies in the evening (movies on 1st of every month cost 1000 yen, i.e. 15.60 SGD only)...
let's see... i brought my clarinet just in case i prefer to go for band...
;)
posted by winz at 9:40 AM
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more old pictures...
these pictures are real furui... i checked the dates and they were taken in april... it figures, since the last time i sorted photos and uploaded them were in march ;)
anyway here are more for your enjoyment, and of course, my keepsake :)
blue note tokyo pavement tile
interior of first floor...
me posing by the door...
桜の花....
these first shots of sakura were taken just by my dormitory (which is the white building in the 2nd and 3rd photo)
notice half the the trees have bloomed while the other half are still green ;)
these are taken outside solid square building, a building just beside my office building...
a rather blur close up shot of some sakuras... gomen....
with the solid square building in the background
with the muza concert hall in the background
me, with my thick long hair still, spending some time to admire the flowers...
heiwa park (平和公園), the park near my dormitory...
this is what some term as the ugliness of the sakura season... ppl picnicing under the trees, boozing and boisterous... things can get real messy... but i think it's rather fun... i can imagine frens together sitting there just having a good time...
well some of my frens did join in such fun... but my parents came during that time, so instead of joining my frens here, i was out having fun with my parents...
more pictures of those with my parents to come...
posted by winz at 8:56 AM
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