Labels: Japan
wooo hooo... after 5days den got com to use! haha.... there's computer at kumamoto guest house but paiseh to use cos it's in the cafe itself and one com only... which is linked to the owner, koji-san's cashier.
so yeap din blog for 5days.... wun talk abt kumamoto cos too much to write...will compile everything for my own memory.... plain few words to descibe.... fun and memorable. saw yoshi, luqman, yuki and lin! haha... thanks for the company during our stay =)
book out at 11.30am went to eat lunch and waited at the bus terminal since 1.30pm cos scared no ticket to go beppu. and the journey.... 4.5hrs.... zzzz.
but it was nice cos we din know beppu is jus behind the Mt Aso, it was nice scenery all the way.... mountains... coldness.... so beautiful....
slept, took photos.... until we reach beppu. search for khaosan beppu hostel and went for dinner. beppu is more country-like compared to kumamoto. shopping malls closed at 7plus 8pm, tat's so early! kumamoto not too bad 8plus pm. -.-''
comparing beppu, fukuoka and kumamoto.... kumamoto is still the best. not only luqman and yoshi are there to help/service us haha.... but we felt more safe in kumamoto even if we walk alone at night. *every meal or things we buy in kumamoto, there's always luqman and yoshi to help us* so dependent on them haha...
beppu looks so different from kumamoto.... hopefully tmr will be a fun one, going to bamboo craft and aquabeat.
miss the guest house, yoshi and luqman. so fun to have them ard cos can play until late night and still got pple to send us back safely. =(
3 or 4 days in beppu... depending on how fun beppu is... and we will be back to kumamoto guest house! haha... cos haven walk finish kumamoto!
oh how i miss kumamoto.
"A jigsaw puzzle will never be perfect if a piece is missing."
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Labels: Japan
Labels: Japan
Labels: Stories
finally reached fukuoka at 1.30pm, after the torturous 10hrs of transit time at HK. got somehow stuck at the immigation cos i din write the name of the hostel i gonna stay, but luckily the person who served me speaks fluent chinese! OMG. not so lucky for QJ lor... haha
den went to pick up our check-in luggage... finally see it again so happy cos i so scared it will get lost in transit ahahaha.... paranoid.
took shuttle bus to the domestic airport after picking up much brochures and maps.... den took subway to Hakata station. walk round and round in Hakata station cos we cant find the exit we wanted. finally gave up haha and ask a shop keeper. OK, got the way... followed the map... walk and walk and walk with tat bloody heavy bagpack to the hostel!
so far! and we realised something. every 100m there will be a vending machine! haha they so thirsty ar? and very few food outlets!
okie so we finally reached the hostel... saw our room not too bad though. went out to find food *dinner* at 4.30pm! haha... their 4.30pm felt like singapore's 6pm. cool and nice temp. walk and walk, took photos and came to this small restaurant. QJ wanted to eat rice but the person attending to us couldnt understand wad she wanted. so all she can say was "chotto matte" while i look at the language book.... haha after so many misunderstand, we ordered "wad he wanted us to eat" ; ramen. haha easiest and simplest. but the food is damn nice.
while eating we saw this poster besides us so we stared at it, not long after he came and showed us the chilli paste we staring at! haha. so of cos we tried.... haha QJ cannot tahan haha and me still can tahan, it jus tasted like a spicer version of chilli padi. hahahah.
total bill; 900yen. so cheap and nice food!
so we left... walk halfway... turn back and when i wanted to take a photo of the shop, he came out and waved to us... even posed for our photo... haha how cute and wad a nice attitude. conclusion japanese are very the poilte!
bought a dessert from the supermarket at 200yen *both of us shared* and went back to the hostel cos QJ say the sky turning dark.... so yeap now bathe already.... and now only 8pm and QJ is already tired!
haha... wad a day. tmr will start at 9am and set off to kumamoto... still seraching how to get there haha... so yeap tat will be all for now. cos the keyboard is so difficult to use! haiz... 4 functions in one button -.-
"A jigsaw puzzle will never be perfect if a piece is missing."
Hong Kong International Airport
4:09 AMblogging at 4.10am at Hong Kong International Airport transit area. we have been here since 10pm last nite. haha.... flight to Fukuoka is at 8.55am. pretty memorable experience cos we have to slp on the couch. -.-
their escalators are nosiy in the sense tat it keeps repeating the safety guidelines! haha.
got pretty lost in the transit area cos it's damn confusing with the signs pinting everywhere but none of the help desk to be seen! *the place under renovation*
no convienence store also. sadded. QJ used up 3 out of 5 packets of the tissue! Oh god. her sinus is damn bad... she's feeling cold when i'm complaining warm. haha.
so sianz.... nothing to do here one. wan to slp but feeling damn awake. the flight to HK was bad. turbulence one after another. made me felt so giddy and headache. but the flight is super on time.
okie lah i think tat's all for now. hopefully can have time to blog when we r at the hostels. FUN trip ahead!
everyone take care! Cheers!
"A jigsaw puzzle will never be perfect if a piece is missing."
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Story and feelings
8:52 AM9am: 6hrs 30min to my flight to Japan.
Wooo so excited. finally all packed up. Going over to QJ's house at 1pm. the only thing left is changing of money haha yeap.... i changed only 600bucks so far.
14days of travelling/bagpacking. Will miss home and my dear frens. *i know u all looking forward to my 2nd or 3rd bag when i return* haha!
weather prediction not too bad. only sunday will have heavy rain. but still *prays hard* for good weather.
i abit lost right now haha.... maybe overly excited over our first bagpacking trip. time to piece up the map and strighten my tots for this wonderful trip! =)
Story of the pencil maker
Long, long ago, there was this pencil marker who makes the best and beautiful pencils in the world. One day, he made a set of pencils which were the best he ever made. Before he pack the pencils and send them out for sale, he told the pencil;
You are the best pencils that I have ever made, but you must remember 5 values that are very important.
First Value; you must let people hold onto you. Without anyone holding onto you, you will not be able to accomplish anything.
Second Value; No matter what surface you write on, you will always leave a mark. So you must always think before you act.
Third Value; you must be able to withstand the pain that there will be people who try to sharpen you. But this will only let you become sharper and better.
Fourth Value; No matter how pretty, how beautiful or tall/short/fat/thin you are, what matters most is the inner lead.
Fifth Value; whenever you make a mistake, you can always use the eraser on your head to erase the mistake. But will it leave a mark? It will always leave a mark even if you rub away.
SME juniors are you reading these stories? I do hope you did. =)
"A jigsaw puzzle will never be perfect if a piece is missing."
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Carrot, Egg & Coffee Beans
9:37 PMCarrot, Egg & Coffee Beans
There was this young girl who thinks that she is lousy in all things she does, therefore she has very low confidence level and refuse to accept challenge.
So one day, the father asked her to look at 3 pots containing boiling water and the father placed carrots in the first pot, an egg in the second pot and coffee beans in the third pot. She stared and stared at the pots containing the items but she never understands why. So she got so impatient of waiting and asks the father; "what is it that you want me to look at."
So the father explained;
Before the carrots were put in the boiling water, the carrots were very hard. Carrots said, “We are very strong, we can withstand whatever adversity that may come.” But after they were thrown into the boiling water, the carrots became soft. “Oh I’m so weak I cannot withstand the challenge”
The second pot was the egg. Before the egg went into the boiling water, “Oh I’m very weak I cannot withstand such challenge.” But after going into the boiling water, the egg became stronger instead.
The third pot was the coffee bean. The coffee beans did not have any fear and even after being challenged by the hot boiling water, the coffee beans did not change. Instead they changed the color of the water.
So which of the three items do you want to be?
A person with strong front but weakens after meeting adversity?
A person who thinks he/she is very weak, refuse to accept challenges yet after being thrown into adversity, you become stronger?
Or a person who faces challenges with no fear, refusing to give up and changes the challenge into something that favors you?
Courtesy of OBS
"A jigsaw puzzle will never be perfect if a piece is missing."
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Back from OBS!
9:24 PMYeah... so yeap when u see this new post... i'm back from OBS! it's been a fun and enriching 5days so i felt quite sad to leave the place. But life has to move on!
Memories of OBS: Recap!
Day 1:
-7.30am waited at Enuos MRT for the chartered bus to send us to pungol jetty. quite reluctant to go cos it's 5days and i seem to lost the enthu spirit in me liao after so much events.
-Reach OBS at 9plus (i guess), short welcome speech, divide into grps (was in Tock Seng Grp). Some ice breakers games den it's the picture zoom game.
- Actually it was a story which we need to form by sitting in a circle and communicating only to the people on ur left/right. and the story: outer space zoom in is the earth zoom in is a plane zoom in the plane is a pilot zoom in the pilot is the pilot looking at a land etc etc etc.... so it's zoomed in all the way.
- belaying course and next up snake and ladder high element. missed out on the inverted V element cos of Cat 1 warning. Wooo... i got up the high element like after a long an tiring struggle? but thanks to my team's encouragement!
- Wobbly rock wall: failure attempt lol. no more strength.
- Briefing on sailing (day 2-4) got a shock cos no one told us it's sailing for 3days!
- Pitch tent slp (another shock, we're told we have bunks!)
Day 2:
- morning 5BX and morning circle/reflection
- 4hrs of preparation for sailing (under the bloody hot sun, had hyperventilation! -.-") Boat name: Endeavor.
- sailing was fun cos god gave us wind to sail =) reach pasir ris at 6.30pm first cutter (type of sail boat) to reach and anchor. 2 other grps had to anchor in the dark and 2grps of rescue team had to be sent out cos one team went out in the dark to retrive more stuffs from cutter.
- bathe and slp in tents!
Day 3:
- morning 5BX and morning circle/reflection
- preparation for sailing (the only grp tat lowered all sails, good practise cos everyone had something to specialise in)
- sail off to sembawang but had to row out cos no wind and used motor as well. tiring process.
- sudden storm came when we were at seletar restricted zone. lowered main sail but it got caught in something, had difficulty lowering it. panicky, scary yet challenging. stormy sea and heavy rain.... after lowering, had to lower anchor near the land. visibility was super low. only one other cutter was near us, the other.... no where to be seen. how scary. slept in the rain while wearing poncho. memorable... tat was how tired i was.
- rain stopped. continued on to sembawang using motor. anchored last, last to finish transporting stuffs to main land, yet first to cook and eat finish, even helped other grp cooked food. worse nightmare.... no toilet and no bathe. Nature was the toilet -.-"
- 8pm. latest instructions... transport all things back to cutter! means not slping there. reason for moving out... haha a cute answer from instructor Andy: the island is sinking. -.- basically, it's a night for us to slp on the cutter boat. so yeap instructor Naf and Bibi taught us how to use the cutter as a toilet haha.... will nvr forget!
- slp on cutter.
Day 4:
- woke up with lots of small little insects on my back wah lao! i hate it. got a shock of my life. slept for only few hrs i guess... cos too uncomfortable.
- morning circle/reflection den preparation to sail back to OBS!
- Rowed and motor again. No wind.
- reached OBS at 12plus (i tink) unloaded, wash the cutter and all equipments, pack them back into the store again until 4plus. Oh went to medical centre, cos my middle toe nail was dropping off! and the personnel wanted to put in out! OMG. i refused treatment haha cut the nail shorter instead.
- played 3 station games. den dinner.
- jungle walk and tunneling at 10.30pm.
- came back so sweaty. knowing the 3station games had pt system. we're the last team with 600pts. and with the pts we're to buy items to build "super launcher" to launch a "ball". ours was the simplest with the least resources, yet it was the best among all cos the ball travelled the furthest. Kudos to Tock Seng!
- built another "super launcher" as a combined DSTA effort. it was a success and failure to certain extend.
- slept at 12 midnight in the tentage we used less than 10min to build. haha
Day 5:
- 5.30am. kept all tents, packed store/bags, and wash up.
- played 3 games; morning greeting in different cultures, hunter/squirrel/tree and Pokemon. Lost once in hunter, squirrel and tree. had to do "Doh doh" style of jumping jacks.
- morning 5BX
- breakfast, take water bottles, tidy up store/wash tents.
- morning circle/reflection. talked abt our feelings, wrote down gd and bad points of each other and our committments.
- noon time. Trapez (dunno correct spelling?) climb up to a height and jump off to catch a bar. 2nd last to go. stood on top the longest haha. pyschological fear. thanks to all for the support and encouragement esp for Tock Seng and Naf. haha cos we're already late in schedule.
- quick lunch. had our wallets and hp back. rush back to store to take our bags and let Naf check the store items. super rush.
- Souvenir shopping with out bags. bought 2 dri-fit shirts and a notebook [all my reflections are inside =) ]
- went to multi-purpose hall (MPH) for closing ceremony, photo taking.
- Andy's pencil maker story. Cert giving and thanking each other.
- 3 cheers to Andy, Naf and Steven!
- reached home at 5.30pm. KO-ed at 10pm. super tired.
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thanks to all.... 3 cheers to everyone! A wonderful and memorable experience.
my impression of the instructors:
Andy: playful and kiddy haha
Naf: Easy going
Steven: strict!
Bascially... all morning circle and reflections had a story being told by either Andy or Naf. Will be posting those stories on my blog soon....
hopefully my dear SME juniors as well as E2 can learn something from the stories and be a beta leader in time to come =)
Toe nail getting beta i hope. Monday orientation at SHAHtec. Tue flying off to Japan.
stay tuned for those meaningful stories! it was a perfect way of starting the day for me =)
"A jigsaw puzzle will never be perfect if a piece is missing."
Monday, June 16, 2008
gone for 5 days
6:51 AMHey hey... will be gone for the next 5 days.... which means no update haha. it's time for OBS till friday late evening.
now 6.51am and i'm blogging my last post be4 i leave for OBS. Hope it will be fun and everything goes smoothly. dun bother sms/call me haha cos hp gonna be confiscated. -.-
see all my frens either on friday or saturday.
Cheers!
"A jigsaw puzzle will never be perfect if a piece is missing."
Thursday, June 12, 2008
cont. DSTA day 2
6:02 PMokie... continuing with DSTA day2 (last nite too tired to blog so much) :
which type of clothes to buy or rather wad colours?
did a simple test to know wad colours... shall not elaborate but go straight to the ans.
of all the 4seasons, I'm the winter type;
- black
- pure white
- grey (ermm which shades i forgot)
- lavender
- none of the baby colours i love so sad...
den i forgot le. haha. BUT i love winter haha cos most of my clothes are black, white and grey!
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went shopping during lunch time with QJ at PP. GSS and most shops are with 50% sales. I love GSS! haha.
bought 2 long sleeves blouse and a black jeans (winter colours again!) haha. image image. =P
Poor QJ... din buy anything EXCEPT a minute size mahjong set -.-" and other things which she bought be4 she met me.
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Tmr's CCA Merit Award Ceremony. Saturday shopping again! shop for things to bring to Japan. OBS on Monday... den wine appreciation. Lastly JAPAN! yeah time flies.
hmmm...
tat's all for now. blogging in the clinic too tired to think wad to write. =)
"A jigsaw puzzle will never be perfect if a piece is missing."
Sunday, June 8, 2008
wad a week
10:55 AMcame back home at 3am... once again i'm awake at 9am... -.-" 6hrs of slp.
it's a fun talking/gossiping nite. we shall meet up again in july after i come back from Japan okie?
please save a day for ur dear friends in july hor! dun jus keep working. haha. Fana, ur job to book a date with that busy man. =P [ FYI i'm free after 8July =) ]
haha... so happy to meet up cos u r busy person and always MIA. and so rare fana can stay out so until so so late.
here's to the both of u:
"Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when the tears fall or the smile spreads across our face, we'll come to each other because no matter where this crazy world takes us, nothing will ever change so much to the point where we're not all still friends.”
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today's 端午節. so shall stay at home ba. mahjong session cancelled cos cant find replacement for kaiwen. -.-"
it shall be another slacking day at home to recharge myself for the upcoming DSTA orientation.
gonna slp again later i guess.
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"A jigsaw puzzle will never be complete if a piece is missing."
Saturday, June 7, 2008
wad a day...
7:57 PMspent most of my time sleeping... cos no work today and tmr. so i'm either sleeping, eating (not much) or watching bleach online.
felt so lost when i watch bleach cos it's been a month since i watched it, but at least now i'm back on track =)
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waiting for fana to sms/call me. waiting for him to fetch us.
meet up at 12 midnight. haha... first time in my 20years of life haha! but still u still owe me lots of treats which u cant run away haha!
okie i'm bored liao. tat's why i'm blogging now.
4 more hours! ahhh... fana where u? i wanna go out now... cos only got this irritating tv show to entertain me.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
treaty treat
12:04 PMso sad... din get to eat the food from kampong chai chee, shall go there eat another day.
instead we ate at sinpang bedok. thanks to fana for treating haha!
slack at sinpang bedok until 9plus... and came bomb and kai with our presents from Hong Kong.
Here's the presents:
Bomb, KY, TS and Kai: watch and dragon soft toy from Ocean Park haha
Kai: Lao Po Bing (told him to buy one... haha!)
Thanks to all worz...
they came talk talk abit den left how sad.
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while slacking, QJ's boss saw her... eeee and he say "i know u! u r fana and i know u, u r lishan!" goodness gracious. next sentence "i read ur blog!" i stunned cos previously (forgot when) i asked QJ since he reads her LJ, does he read our blogs as well? now i got my answer....
anyway i know u will see this post as well.... haha nice pies but ur tu di fails in her baking! haha!
crappy. haha. photos will be up soon (hopefully) if tat Ms Toh can faster blog and upload the photos.
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bored + tired. blogging using clinic's computer. waiting for nite shift. been working non stop since one of the nurse took leave and my rest day; up-coming weekends. Hooray.
growing fat soon? i doubt but been eating lots of fast food. Mizuno Wave-Run 27th July 2008, Sunday. Yeap going to register soon. Woohoo... so exciting.
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another 2hrs to working shift. SIANZ!
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
QJ workplace
10:07 PMwanted to blog yesterday... but network down (i guess)...
sunday night went to simpang bedok to find QJ at her workplace...
Nice pies... Free worz haha cos QJ's payday!
errmmm but mine's overbaked, fana's underbaked and QJ's jus nicely baked? how unfair. haha
http://www.theshepherdspie.com/ (this the webby)
Guess which one is who's?
Pretty me... photo taken jus for DSTA... zzzz
Fana = VIP? she like some superstar with 2 bodyguards LOL
Fattening KFC after QJ end work
okie tat's all for Sunday Night.
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Been busy working. so tired.
Kai, Bomb, KY and TS came back from HK liao. So fast. Time flies.
Very soon, it will be me flying off to Japan le haha, but first i must clear DSTA orientation and OBS. -.-"