This is my fourth day in Japan, and also my last day in Kyoto since I will be moving on to Himeji and Osaka tomorrow morning. Using the computer in my hostel to update my blog..hee hee
These four days have been wonderful..and there have been several "firsts" for me. First time seeing snow(It snowed heavily for the last two days...for once I'm thankful for global warming), first time in a outdoor onsen (hot spring), first time in a public bathhouse (where the obasan owner can look into the male baths) and many many others.
Can't type for long, not used to this Japanese keyboard and input method, therefore..till I get back to Singapore! (or maybe till I next have access to a computer.....by then I should be in TOkyo...) =)
Monday, December 19, 2005
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
DANNI is the sole Survivor!
After watching six seasons of Survivor and two seasons of Amazing Race, finally a contestant that I have been rooting for managed to emerge as the champion in Survivor/TAR. It's quite disheartening when someone you have been supporting got voted off/eliminated off from the game, and watching the remaining episodes of the season becomes an obligatory chore rather than fun-filled evenings of reality TV. Well I no longer emotionally attach myself to reality show contestants anymore (Aaron and Arianne! Boo hoo..those were the days) but it's still nice to see someone you have been supporting win the game.
Monday, December 05, 2005
Hee hee, I started the previous entry, saved it as a draft and never really got down to finishing the entry until now. In fact I was rather lazy recently and haven't been updating my blog..but now I'm back!
It was a pretty eventful holidays so far (at least for me). Did some catching up with MSCO juniors, in fact there was one week where I keep running into them. Did some catching up with the 3 people who are in Shanghai: Zhengjun, Jiaming and Zhenyuan. Discovered that Pearls at Changi no longer stock my favourite chocolates. Did a bit more of catching up with Zaoxiong, located in Singapore but haven't been seeing him in real life for quite some time. Played for Edvox Music School concert. Watched ruanzu's 281105 concert. Took JLPT for hopefully the last time. More reading up for Japan trip.
Still, the GESL project was at the back of my head all the time, preventing me from fully enjoying my holidays. It was tiring playing frisbee and touch rugby with pri school kids (or rather, teaching them how to play the game). Sometimes I think maybe we should have stick to more "kids-oriented" games like "Catching" or "Dua Beh Long", since the games we taught them were rather rules-intensive (and counter-intuitive, in the case of touch rugby) . Anyway, the way they play the games had more resemblance to catching and dua beh long than a team sports. heh heh.
I'm so glad that I'm not going to teach primary school kids. It's more like being a baby-sitter/nanny rather than a teacher. It's impossible to reason and talk sensibly with them, and sometimes you wonder if they really got what you were trying to say. They have boundless energy, endless questions(most of which are impossible to answer) and insatiable inquisitiveness. They were waving to us as they left NIE, still bursting with youthful vigour, while we twenty somethings look like we are ready to keel anytime soon.
Still, it was quite an enjoyable experience. The kids triggered our paternal instincts, but sadly doused the maternal instincts in the females of our group. We (as in the guys) were swarmed by enthusiastic kids huddling around us, calling us "kor kor" (thankfully not "uncle") and asking that we carry them on our backs. Javier and Sheik, in particular, have a knack for entertaining kids. We took a photo of Javier with a cute boy sitting on his lap which the government will gladly use as a publicity tool for stimulating our birth rate. The ladies, on the other hand, were saying that the sight of all these kids running around further convinced them that giving birth is one of the last things on their personal agenda. Heh heh, maybe we can feedback this to MOE, then they'll put an end to the GESL project since it is incongrous with the government's plea for young people to get married and bear children.
Tomorrow is the final competition, but I have the feeling that the kids would have forgotten all the rules of ultimate frisbee and touch rugby, and the competition will degenerate into a far simpler game of "catching" and "dua beh long" again. Hee hee. We shall see.
It was a pretty eventful holidays so far (at least for me). Did some catching up with MSCO juniors, in fact there was one week where I keep running into them. Did some catching up with the 3 people who are in Shanghai: Zhengjun, Jiaming and Zhenyuan. Discovered that Pearls at Changi no longer stock my favourite chocolates. Did a bit more of catching up with Zaoxiong, located in Singapore but haven't been seeing him in real life for quite some time. Played for Edvox Music School concert. Watched ruanzu's 281105 concert. Took JLPT for hopefully the last time. More reading up for Japan trip.
Still, the GESL project was at the back of my head all the time, preventing me from fully enjoying my holidays. It was tiring playing frisbee and touch rugby with pri school kids (or rather, teaching them how to play the game). Sometimes I think maybe we should have stick to more "kids-oriented" games like "Catching" or "Dua Beh Long", since the games we taught them were rather rules-intensive (and counter-intuitive, in the case of touch rugby) . Anyway, the way they play the games had more resemblance to catching and dua beh long than a team sports. heh heh.
I'm so glad that I'm not going to teach primary school kids. It's more like being a baby-sitter/nanny rather than a teacher. It's impossible to reason and talk sensibly with them, and sometimes you wonder if they really got what you were trying to say. They have boundless energy, endless questions(most of which are impossible to answer) and insatiable inquisitiveness. They were waving to us as they left NIE, still bursting with youthful vigour, while we twenty somethings look like we are ready to keel anytime soon.
Still, it was quite an enjoyable experience. The kids triggered our paternal instincts, but sadly doused the maternal instincts in the females of our group. We (as in the guys) were swarmed by enthusiastic kids huddling around us, calling us "kor kor" (thankfully not "uncle") and asking that we carry them on our backs. Javier and Sheik, in particular, have a knack for entertaining kids. We took a photo of Javier with a cute boy sitting on his lap which the government will gladly use as a publicity tool for stimulating our birth rate. The ladies, on the other hand, were saying that the sight of all these kids running around further convinced them that giving birth is one of the last things on their personal agenda. Heh heh, maybe we can feedback this to MOE, then they'll put an end to the GESL project since it is incongrous with the government's plea for young people to get married and bear children.
Tomorrow is the final competition, but I have the feeling that the kids would have forgotten all the rules of ultimate frisbee and touch rugby, and the competition will degenerate into a far simpler game of "catching" and "dua beh long" again. Hee hee. We shall see.
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