June 2008 Archives

Last For One

Jhui

on June 30, 2008 11:53 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Went to the hospital today to change the waterproof sticker for my wound. Change one sticker also must fork out $75...why didnt I study medicine?! Anyway, removing the stitches on Friday...finally~ but still no strenuous activities for at least a few weeks. Starting to feel damn fat. Boo.

While at the hospital, Standard Chartered Bank(SCB) called my mum and asked for my number to check if we've won anything. The lady then told us that she'll give us a call back in 15minutes but seeing that she's from SCB, of course she didnt call back la. WTF. So, I rang SCB and talked to this guy who hung the phone up on me. FUCKER. STANDARD CHARTERED BANK TRULY SUCKS. By the way, UOB sucks pretty much too but let's wait for the manager to call me tomorrow before I say anything more about UOB.

Ate at MOF(Bugis) for lunch and ordered an iced matcha latte that tasted like as if I was drinking powder and milk. Totally no matcha taste and the powder made my throat uncomfortable. Complained to the waiter and he told me that that's they way they make the matcha latte. What?! Full of powder?! That just means that they never mix properly lar! Then again, the waiter was nice enough to waive the matcha latte for me and he was freaking polite throughout the whole conversation I had with him. Service=Wonderful. Food=Not too bad. Price=A little pricey. Matcha Latte=Just don't order it.

Just watched Cruel Intentions. Yes, i know it's a 1999 film but so what, I've never watched it before. Quite interesting and how come no one ever told me that Ryan Phillippe's so HOT?! I seriously cried when he died in the show lo. Speaking of hot guys, went to watch this dance musical called Spin Odyssey a couple of weeks ago with Li Ming. It's put up by this Korean b-boy group called Last For One. OMG, the dance was freaking good, storyline interesting and funny, and the guys were omfg cute/hot. Damn unfair lar! How come Singapore have no guys who look like them?!

Here's a video of them anyway. See how cool they are for yourselves~ It's the making video for Spin Odyssey.

Trailer for Spin Odyssey.

Wanted to take photos with the guys after the show but was too shy at first and by the time we mustered up some courage to do so, most of the guys went backstage to rest le. DAMN. Haha.

Read more about them here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_For_One
Official site: http://www.lastforone.co.kr/

Shuuchishin

Jhui

on June 29, 2008 11:45 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

o(≧∀≦o)(o≧∀≦)o
Shuuchishin's Nakanaide

nokku kawaii~

Night at the hospital

Jhui

on June 28, 2008 12:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBacks (0)

So, I underwent a minor surgery on Wednesday. Had to reach the hospital two hours prior to the surgery to do the necessary check-in procedures. When the lady asked me if I wanted to pay a deposit, I said "Ok, how much?" and was pretty shocked when she told me "Three thousand". Eh, since when was $3000 considered as a deposit? They had to refund me money after I got discharged lo. Anyway, the operating gown was freaking difficult to wear. First, I tried putting it on myself but realised that my butt was showing and then my sister helped me...but I almost got strangled in the process. Finally, we called the nurse in for help.

After waiting for 1 hour, I finally got wheeled into the holding room, where I was asked at least 4 times by 4 different people whether the signatures on the papers were mine. I think that they dont trust me. Hmmmph! No la, kidding. One of the nurses even asked me if I'm still in secondary school. Oiiiiiiiiiii! If I can sign the papers myself, it means that I'm at least 21 already. 21 still in secondary school abit paiseh right!
Anyway, chit-chatted with the nurses in the operating room while waiting for the doctor to arrive. The operating room was damn chio can! The lights looked like half a disco ball and the radio was switched on somemore. As this was my first surgery, I asked one of the nurses how it's like to get anaesthetised. Guess what she told me...."Have you taken ecstasy before? Something like that." Ehhhhhhhhh!
The operation took less than an hour and in an hour's time after getting anaesthetised, I woke up, without feeling drowsy at all. The nurses even commented that I looked damn awake. -_-

The first feeling that I had after surgery wasn't "Ouch" but rather..."I'm freaking hungry". After starving myself from 8pm the previous night, i.e., no food and drinks for like almost 19 hours, I was seriously dying of hunger. The nurse gave me a cup of milo and told me that I might vomit it out due to the anaesthetia but...I finished it up. She then later gave me the dinner menu and said that I could order some soft food if I had no appetite. Look at the choices on the menu!!! Damn good lar~ Got Asian, Western and Japanese food. Actually, before the dinner menu came, my sister and mum came to visit and my sister brought LOTSA food along but my mum refused to let me eat them. =(

Dinner was alot of food to stomach. Main course, bread, miso soup and longan jelly.

Emince of Chicken in Brown Sauce. Damn fucking good. Got mashed potato somemore.

Felt a little bloated after dinner but couldn't really move around so I just laid on the bed and watch tv. After 2~3 hours, it was tea time~ So I stomached a piece of banana cake and washed it down with tea. Damn sinful can~ At around 11pm, my mum and sister came by again to bring me my facial foam and floss so that I could wash up before going to bed. My sister also brought along her Nintendo DS Lite where I played for a few hours before sleeping. I can never be a fish tycoon. Damn!

It was a little difficult sleeping in the hospital and I woke up every single hour. I had a little fever in the night but by the time I woke up in the morning, the fever had subsided. During the night, there was at least 2 blood pressure and temperature checks by the nurses. Wah...need to check so many times one ar!
Breakfast was served at 8am and I had cornflakes(yuck), a slice of mango, pastries and a cup of milk.

Watched somemore tv lying down after breakfast and pretty soon, the clock struck twelve and it was time for lunch. Lunch included miso soup, tea, fruits and salmon bowl. The salmon bowl was a little bland but hey, it's hospital food after all. Didnt manage to finish because my stomach was seriously bursting by that time.

Took a quick shower after lunch before packing my stuff and waiting to get discharged. So yup, end of hospital stay.

The reason why Standard Charterted Bank sucks

Jhui

on June 23, 2008 11:48 AM | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBacks (0)

I fucking hate Standard Chartered Bank, or SCB for short. Let me recount to you why I feel this way.

9th June 2008

There's this GSS thing by SCB where cardmembers who spend $3,000 and above are entitled to win a Sony Bravia LCD TV or ipod Nano. The former is available to the first 50 cardmembers who sms SCB during the redemption period and the latter's available to the next 200 cardmembers. Since I've(or rather my mum) spent more than $3,000 within the time frame stipulated, I decided to participate. Anyway, it's there for us to participate what.

SMSed during the redemption period at 9am sharp and just to be on the safe side, I smsed at least four more times after 9am. Okay, I know that I'm kiasu but hey, my 9am might not be their 9am right! Play safe only. After sms-ing, I was waiting for their confirmation sms but none came in so I called SCB up to enquire. The woman who picked up my call said that I will NOT receive any confirmation but will only know if I've won anything by sms on 18th June. Repeated what she said to confirm and thanked her for her help.

18th June 2008

No sms was received. Decided to wait a little longer because they probably have lots of people to sms. They even have to sms people who are unsuccessful lo. (Click to enlarge picture and read point no. 11)

19th June 2008

Rang up SCB and spoke to this guy called Asaph. Was horrified to learn that I WAS SUPPOSED to receive a confirmation sms on the day I smsed SCB. WTF was wrong with that call centre woman?! He also told me that they did not receive my sms. Feeling pretty pissed off, I told him that I wanted an investigation to be done. Firstly, I wanted to know who that lady was and secondly, check why my sms wasn't received. Asaph then promised to give me a call back on Friday, which was June 20th.

20th June 2008

No call received.

22th June 2008

Called SCB and demanded to speak to Asaph but guess what, so coincidental ar, he left the office le! So, I demanded once again to speak to someone of higher rank than Asaph to firstly, check on my case and secondly, complain Asaph. Spoke to Mr Yap whom listened to me recount the whole incident dating all the way back from 9th June. Told me that probably there were too many calls on the 9th of June, accounting for the mistake that the woman made...............................................................................

...................................That's the fucking worse excuse I've ever heard!

So if SCB is too busy, they are ENTITLED to give us the wrong information?! Hello, SCB is a bank for goodness sake! How can like that?! Can you imagine if you are so suay to deposit $20,000 into your bank account and they only put in $20 for you because they were too busy on that day?! WTF.

Then I asked about why they never receive my SMS and even if they did, no confirmation sms sent to me and no notification that I was unsuccessful (refer to point 11 of the rules and regulations). Oh, guess what he said? He said that they wont sms me if I'm unsuccessful...................I then told him to open his eyes(okay, I didn't say this line) and look at point 11 of their rules and regulations. WTF is wrong with these people? They dont bother to know more about their company's services and keep giving wrong information to customers. Also, I sent in a short written complaint by email by nobody bothered to reply me. GREAT service there huh, dont you agree?

So to cut a long story short(I was on the phone with Mr Yap for around 35 minutes), he promised to check my case, check whether they received my sms on 23rd June(today's another redemption day), and call me back at 9.15am.

23rd June 2008

Anyone wants to guess if I received a call from Mr Yap at 9.15am? Of course not! I waited till 9.25am and called SCB back.

Oh, Mr Yap is working the evening shift today. He'll only come in at 4pm.

What the fuck is wrong with these people seriously?! They promise customers stuff but they dont do it. How do they expect me to trust their bank anymore?! Told the lady who picked up the phone that I wanted to talk to someone higher rank than Mr Yap to firstly, check up on my case and secondly, complain Mr Yap.

Lady: Can I have your name and IC?
Me: No, you wont give it to the next person anyway, like what that guy did yesterday when I called. (I got asked 3 times for my name yesterday. Two times by the guy who picked up the call and once by Mr Yap)
Lady: Hold on please.

Stupid call-waiting music.

Lady: Can I know what are you enquiring about?
Me: Can you just put me through someone of higher authority?!
Lady: Hold on please.

Stupid call-waiting music.

Lady: Hi, my manager is checking your case right now.
Me: How do you even know who I am if I didnt give you my name?
Lady: Erm....we checked the email from Mr Yap.
Me: Can you just put me through someone of higher authority, like right now?!
Lady: Hold on please.

Stupid call-waiting music.

And so finally, she put me through Mac/Max, however his name's spelt. Funny how that guy yesterday put me through to Mr Yap once I asked for it but this woman had to make me wait so long. So Mac/Max's the same rank as Mr Yap and compared to Mr Yap, he's totally unhelpful, lazy and can't be bothered about me. Let me explain why.
Firstly, unhelpful. He said that someone of higher authority will call me back at 10.30am regarding my case but I demanded an earlier call because I've been waiting from 9.15am. He then told me that they are different departments and all that shit but seriously as a customer...I DONT GIVE A FUCKING CARE. I just want what they promised me, which they obviously didnt do. I though he'll go "I'll call them to hurry up" but guess what, he just remained silent until I spoke up. I fucking hate it when people over the phone give me silence because they cant find anything to day. Hello, your job is to talk to people and you cant find anything to say?!
Secondly, lazy. I asked him why I didnt get a call at 9.15am if Mr Yap sent an email out to inform them about my case(I presume, considering they received an email from him). He said that they come in at work at 9am and only checked their email WHEN I CALLED THEM. WTF?! 25minutes to check email?! And, if I didnt call them, I'll probably still be waiting right now. Lazy or not?!
Thirdly, can't be bothered about me. I told him to hurry the people up and give me a reply and said that I do not mind holding the line while he does that. In a very whatever-I-dont-care tone, he said, "Okay, you hold" and took his time to hurry the people, without even playing the stupid call-waiting music...so it was basically dead air for 10+ minutes. Customer service=zero points.

So, Mac/Max finally got back to me and said that someone will be giving me a call at....5PM?! WTF is wrong with this people?! I fucking hate Standard Chartered Bank and I'm going to ask my mother to stop being a cardmember with them. Anyway, they dont care, fucking unhelpful, take their own sweet time, break promises and lastly,dont respect customers.

During the 34minutes call I had with SCB today, I received a SMS notification for the smses I sent in today. Yesterday, Mr Yap told me that the notifications would normally reach me at 12noon but eh, I received it at 9.51am today. WTF?! They obviously do not communicate among departments and have no clue as to what their services are about.

FUCK.

Singapore Korean School - A2

Jhui

on June 19, 2008 2:08 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Yesterday marked the end of my Korean A2 class. Received my results and I was surprised to see that my teacher gave me 19 out of 20 marks for my oral test. The reason's because during the free response question where she asked how the course was, I replied "It was good." My answer was freaking short compared to the rest of my classmates where they answered stuff like "It was difficult but I learnt a lot of new stuff. Also, it was pretty interesting...." and so on. Also, I only made 2 mistakes on my written paper. Whee~ The highest mark I've ever gotten since erm...Elementary 1 where I scored full marks. Heh.

Enough of my haolian-ing, I shall proceed to write about the cultural night that happened after class yesterday. Each class had to perform a skit(or song if there's not enough time to prepare). One of the classes actually ran off after taking their result slips, leaving their poor teacher behind to clear up the mess they left behind, i.e., explain to the emcee why her class wasn't able to perform. That class' so fucking irresponsible and childish, considering that most of the students are working adults.

The event started off with a skit put up by Elementary 1 Class 1, where they did...erm...Snow Prince. The guy in the picture acted as the prince. Sometimes it kind of sucks to be the only guy in the class because he'll always get bullied by the girls to do whatever they dont want to do. =P

Next up was a song performance by Advanced 1. They did this fox song and they were quite good~

Loved the cute hats that they made. Seriously, almost all of the classes made props and costumes for their skits. I say almost because our class did not. In fact, our class only came together to rehearse on that day itself and even so, only half the class attended the rehearsal.

Elementary 2 went next with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. The woman in grey played the role of the magic mirror and the one in black played Snow White's evil stepmother. The actors weren't very audible(considering that the judge sat way behind me, if I couldn't hear already, how could he have heard anything?!) but that didn't stop them from getting first prize...but I think that it's because they're from Elementary 2, i.e., Min-seonsaengnim's class. Her class always win something during cultural night. Predictable. I overheard one of the staff saying that the class who did Coffee Prince was better.

Next up was Intermediate 1 but I didn't take any pictures because my Felie arrived at that time and I was briefing her on our skit and...Intermediate 1 was basically too soft so yup, couldn't hear anything. Elementary 3 went next with Coffee Prince where they had puppets to introduce their skit. See what I meant when I said about bringing props.

Meet-the-Parents session. The lady who acted as the mum was so freaking bitchy, and I mean it in a good way. I like. Haha.

Elementary 1 Class 2 performed Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. They too, had lots of props. Second prize went to them.

Last but not least, my class performed My Name is Kim Sam Soon. The youngest person in my class, i.e. me, played the role of Sam Soon's mother...wtf. I initially volunteered for the role because I thought that the mother would have very little lines. I mean, look at the title of the show! Sam Soon's the main character lor. In the end, the mother had the most lines and I had to use a freaking mike throughout my performance otherwise I'll probably go dumb by the end of the skit.

Oh, and this is me hitting Hak Pang, the guy who acted as Samshik. Everyone laughed when they heard that he was Samshik and went crazy laughing when I started hitting him. He's quite well-known among the students by the way. Oh, and the audience burst out in laughter again when Samshik started winking at Sam Soon so as to ask her to lie about her being pregnant. -____-

One reason why you shouldn't mess with me. I'll hit you with a broom till you faint. Hahaha, wtf.

I forgot my lines in the middle of the performance and luckily my teacher was there to prompt me. Paiseh. Hak Pang and Aileen are like damn good actors can! They seem damn scared of me here...haha. I was basically telling Sam Soon(Aileen) to keep queit and questioning Samshik(Hak Pang) about his family background here.

The principal announcing the winners. It was quite funny when he said "For those classes who do not win anything today, please continue to join our classes next term".

Aileen and Hwang Jung Hee seonsaengnim.

We ended up getting 3rd prize, which was quite good considering we didnt really prepare much.
Hak Pang, Hwang seonsaengnim, Aileen, Felie, Me...and my "dog" who guest starred as Ocheonmanwon in our skit. So sad, I won't be seeing them again in class because I might not be taking the next level. Boo.

We basically divided up our prize before attacking the buffet table where there was kimbap, chap chae, ddeok and kimchi. Ta-da~ Settled dinner.

My teacher commented that I looked very tired that day and I did not believe her until I saw this picture. My eyes look damn slity can!!! I should stop staying up to 3~4am.

Anyway, I guess I was too nervous or something that day and got too relaxed after the performance that I developed a pretty bad case of stomachache. Couldn't even walk straight. Couldn't even stuff my face with ddeok and kimbap. Boo.

Lalala~

Jhui

on June 17, 2008 3:07 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Kakkoii~!

Can I be the teacher? Heh~

24+25/12/07: Day 6/7 - Taipei

Jhui

on June 16, 2008 3:19 AM | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBacks (0)

Day 6 of Taiwan trip, which fell on Christmas Eve =D

The Mi Le Fo statue which was placed right in the middle of the hotel lobby. Speaking of the hotel, when we were leaving the hotel, there was like 2 big groups of Japanese high-school students there as well. To be a little clearer...Japanese high-school boys. Almost went up the wrong bus. Heh.

Went to the National Palace Museum first thing in the morning. I love going to the museum because there are lots of nice artefacts to look at. Freaking amazing. I used to like going to the Asian Civilizations Museum in Singapore =D Anyone wants to go with me someday?

Had lunch at this restaurant called Wu Jiao Chuan Ban, which was built in a rather unique manner.

And for some reason, there were lots of statues with saggy boobs...wtf?!

The food there was pretty good, especially the milky muah chee.

My dinner group. We were always the first one to enter the restaurant but always the last one to leave because we erm...talked too much. Heh.

The little girl who sat behind me on the bus. Damn cute right~although I don't really like little girls. I got a feeling that little girls dont like me also. Why like that?!

After lunch, we visited Taipei 101, the freaking high-end shopping mall. Didn't buy anything simply because I couldn't afford any of the branded stuff. Didn't bother to pay money to go up the tower because I didn't see the need to spend money to have a bird's eye view of Taipei since I dont really like Taipei that much...and partly because I was stingy. =D

Made an error in the previous post. Apparently, we went to the Tianlu place on Day 6 instead of Day 5...whatever la, like anyone cares like that. Tra-la-la~

Had dinner at Shilin Night Market and it was fucking dirty okay! Sat down at a stall and ordered Teppanyaki and while waiting for our food to be served, a cockroach ran across the table like no one's business. I admire how the lady next to me could freak out a little and then continue eating her food like the cockroach never existed or something. Then again, I also admire myself for not kicking up a fuss about the hygiene of the place with the chef...who was wearing yellowed clothes by the way. Eew.
Also, I saw one of the stallholders cooking soup over an open fire next to like 5 cans of oil. WTF?! Isn't that like dangerous or something?!

After dinner, shopped around Shilin where we witnessed illegal vendors running away from policemen. So.freaking.cool. I've only seen scenes like those in Hongkong dramas and I didnt know that they existed in real life. Woo~ Next, we took the subway to Ximending. Ximending's like a damn nice place to shop lar! Made actual purchases there but too bad we arrived a little late as many shops were closing by then already.

Returned to Shilin later and ate supper. The ice kacang was nice but the oyster mee sua was blah. Walked around the dirty streets for a while before returning to the hotel to do packing. Arrr...hate doing packing.

Went to the airport the following day to take the plane back to Singapore~And that's how I spend Christmas 2007. wtf...so sad.

And...that's the end of my Taiwan trip~!
Day 6 Pictures: http://mizu-kioku.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=114.
Day 7 Pictures: http://mizu-kioku.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=115.

23/12/07: Day 5 - Kaohsiung/Taichung

Jhui

on June 14, 2008 1:23 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Day 5 of Taiwan.

Went to this place where there were many peacocks first thing in the morning. All the peacocks there must have had been damn sleepy or something because all of them refused to spread their tail feathers to wow at and take photos. Not even one! The tour guide tried to sound his loud-hailer music(which was Für Elise by the way) so as to make them spread their tail feathers(he said that it used to work...-_-) but to no avail.

As the peacocks couldn't be bothered to spread their tail feathers, I couldn't be bothered to look at them too and so...I went to play with the cat which was lurking around the place and it too, ignored me. Wa lau eh.

Next, we went to this smelly hotel that survived the earthquake or something before proceeding to Wen Wu Temple. Apparently, you can have a good view of the Sun Moon Lake from the top of this temple but I was just too lazy to climb all the way up to do so.

Our tour group haolianed to us that his name's engraved on this slab because he donated money to the temple for reconstruction purposes. Erm...okaaaaaay.

For some unknown reason, I did not take a single photo of the food we ate on this day. Must had been quite unappetising I guess. Can't remember what I ate anyway so I shall continue blogging about the places of attractions we went to. Next we went to the Formosan Aboriginal Culture Village which was basically an amusement park with a cultural touch.

Being the chicken that I am, I didn't take any of the exciting rides because I didn't want to get myself killed...whether of a heart attack or because I got thrown off the ride or something. My sister on the other hand, tried all the crazy rides. -_- I can't believe that we're actually related...

Heng Ling.

Denise.

This is the tian lu which supposedly protected the smelly hotel I mentioned above during the earthquake. The tour guide was trying to convince us the wonders of tian lu because I guess he gets a fat commission if we buy tian lus from the place that he brought us to next.

On the way to the Feng Jia Night Market, we stopped at a few stores that sold betel nuts...because the tour guide wanted to show us Bin Lang Xi Shi, betel nuts girls, or just simply girls who wear very little to sell betel nuts. Managed to get one to board our bus but she had a cant-be-bothered-dont-waste-my-time attitude the whole time...even though we bought something from her. Service in Taiwan sucks seriously. The only polite/nice salesgirl that I saw in Taiwan was from the Kaohsiung Kinokuniya branch.

Reached Feng Jia Night Market and I totally HATED that place. Too many people, similar stuff being sold and the worst thing was that cars and motorcycles drove behind people as if they wanted to kiss them or something...freaking close can...and they don't bother to horn you but just wait for you to realise their presence with a big shock. Urrgh...bah.

Anyway, end of Day 5. More pictures here: http://mizu-kioku.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=113

22/12/07: Day 4 - Kaohsiung

Jhui

on June 11, 2008 11:50 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

After blogging about my Korea and Hiroshima trips, I guess I'm going to continue blogging about my Taiwan trip...which occured half a year ago. Wtf, my blog is starting to look like a travel blog. Anyway, here's day 4 of the Taiwan trip.

Meals in Taiwan are just like the ones you have during weddings back here. 10 people to one table filled with dishes of fish, meat and vegetables. Oh, and not forgetting rice too. All I remember about the food of Taiwan was that I didn't really like eating them.

As lunch wasn't that wonderful, my sister and I stopped eating after a few mouthfuls and went to a nearby shop to look around. By the way, we were at Fo Guang Shan Temple so the shops there sold mostly religion-related stuff.

Sis bought the salty ice-cream, Babao(Eight Treasures...wtf is this anyway?) flavour. It must have had been sucky because she threw it away after less than 5 licks.

Ventured into the temple and at the place that there was a wishing well, everyone stopped and starting throwing money inside...except me. I couldn't squeeze my way through to do so and anyway, didn't really want to do it also. The temple was really pretty with all the gold/bronze statues in it.

Model of the temple. Wasn't supposed to take photos inside this place but since there's a picture, I guess that whoever took this photo did not follow the rules~Lalala

Why does this picture look so obscene to me?!

Next, we went to this wholesale place to buy all those Taiwan mochi and jelly. The place was packed and it was so not fun trying to squeeze your way in and out of that place. Damn tiring. After purchasing, we went to the Spring and Autumn Pavillions for sight-seeing.

GAH~. (I don't know how dragons sound like so I just wrote "gah" for convenience's sakes.)

Hsuan Tien Shangti temple.

Went to Love River next. Seriously, I didn't feel the love. The river was smelly and there was nothing to see! Okay, maybe the scenery's prettier at night but since I went in the afternoon, it pretty much sucked. In short, the ride was a total waste of time.

The lady who was explaining to us how to put on the lifejackets. Nobody listened to her and she was kind of pissed of by it. I heard hear complaining to the boatman that nobody was paying attention to her in an angry tone. Paiseh lor~ Everyone was damn sleepy already and somemore the boatride wasn't fantastic, can't exactly blame them for ignoring you.

Had lobster for dinner...or rather, around two miserable 3cm slices of lobster.

It was Winter Solstice that day so we also had tang yuan for dessert.

Went to the Liu He Night Market at erm...night? All the night markets in Taiwan look the same to me and they sell about the same thing so it was getting kind of boring to keep visiting night markets. Dirty somemore lor! Anyway, so instead of shopping, I got my fortune told! Whee~ Apparently I will be rich in the future and my future husband will be someone who's a little pudgy~That means...no Domoto Koichi? =( Go put on some weight lar, Koichi!

After the fortune telling session, we walked around shopping centres where I managed to find Kinokuniya and bought a few Japanese books =D wtf, buy Japanese books in Taiwan...-__- Anyway, although it was winter in Taiwan, Kaohsiung was freaking hot! Even hotter than Singapore somemore and I was amazed to see that the Kaohsiung girls were actually wearing winter jackets and high boots. I know it's fashionable and winter' the only period for them to show off these stuff but still, not hot meh?!

Decided to go sing karaoke in the night but firstly, we had to find a karaoke place. We stumbled upon this ktv and the waitress was apologetic because they had no "xiao jie(hostess)" to serve us. We then realised that this wasn't the karaoke place we had in mind so we took a taxi to a nearby Partyworld instead. Sang till 4am and by the time I got back to the hotel, showered, dried my hair...it was almost time to assemble for the next day's tour le. -____-

End of Taiwan Day 4. More pictures here: http://mizu-kioku.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=112

Hiroshima Internship Programme 20/6/07

Jhui

on June 11, 2008 1:00 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Last day in Hiroshima.

As I managed to amass tons of stuff over the month I've been in Hiroshima, I was unable to stuff them all into my luggage. In fact, I left the training centre with one bulging lugage and 5 paper bags of stuff. Everyone was visibly shocked and asked me how was I going to pack all of them into one luggage and not get charged excess baggage weight at the same time. By the time I had to actually pack my luggage to board the plane, the 5 paper bags ballooned into 6 paper bags and one glass bottle of juice. In order to make more space for my purchases, I had to buy bag to put my clothes in and vacumn all the air out. However, even after doing so, I still had lots of unpacked stuff and I had no idea how to bring them back. (In case if you were wondering why I didn't hand carry them, it's because I already had a hand carry that was almost 7kg.)

The only way was to ship those excesses back so Okaasan and me went down to Kuroneko to do so. So cute right, the cats :D

I wanted to take a photo of the cats only but somehow, the saleslady thought that I wanted to take a photo with the cats...so yup, that's how we ended up doing so. Oh, the shitty thing about shipping things from Japan is that it's not cheap. It cost me 10,000yen(~SGD128) to ship back 5kg worth of stuff. Actually it was supposed to be 5,000yen but my box exceeded the allowed dimensions by 2 freaking cm so had to pay double instead. Can you believe it?!

Obaachan dozing off after dinner. So cute! Asked her to go to bed but she refused to because she wanted to send me off at the bus station. When it was finally time to go, she actually put on 3 different cardigans and wanted to know which one was nicer to wear out. =D

While waiting outside the house for Otousan to drive the car out, Obaachan suddenly took my hand and put a ring on my pudgy fingers...and so that's how the ring on my finger came about.

After I boarded the bus, I started tearing...so not glam can...but luckily it was a night bus so no one was going to look at me. Okay, the little kids who boarded the bus were pointing at my red nose and eyes...-_- After 5~6hours on the bus, I reached Namba Station, took the JR to Kansai Airport where I waited for the rest of the girls to take the plane back home together.

Took Thai Airways back and the experience was...erm...let's just say that I don't want to take Thai Airways anymore if I can help it.
Firstly, we had to transit for 5 freaking hours and it wasn't fun at all as the prices of the stuff in the airport was so expensive.
Next, we went to ask the Thai Airways counter guy if dinner would be served or not and he said no...so we went to find a shop to eat dinner before boarding the plane and guess what, dinner was served!
Thirdly, when dinner was served on the plane, the cabin attendant asked one of the girls if she wanted chicken or prawn in which she replied "prawn". (By the way, I kept hearing "prawn" as "pork". wtf is wrong with me?!) However, the cabin attendant then told her that there was no more prawn sets left and chucked the chicken set in front of her. At that same time, some ang moh wanted the prawn set and ta-da, suddenly there was prawn sets left! WTF?! My friend was so pissed off that she demanded the prawn set...which she asked for first. We paid the fucking same amount as the ang moh and I dont see why he should get the prawn set and not us just because he's white. Bah.
Next, at the moment when the cabin attendants were collecting used cups back, I haven't finished my drink yet so one of them stood next to me, coughed out loudly and looked at me with a scary look as if telling me to hurry up and stop wasting her time. Kaoz.
Lastly, the cabin attendants were scary and rude. One passenger accidentally pressed the button to call for assistance and one cabin attendant came out asking in a rude voice, "YOU CALLED?" Considering that I was seated at least 5 rows behind that passenger and I could still hear him, imagine the volume the cabin attendant spoke in. Apparently, the passenger was clueless about it because the cabin attendant went, "BUT YOU PRESSED THE BUTTON!" He then leant over to switch off the button, I presume, and went back to where he came from...but not forgetting to turn back and stare at the passenger with a dont-mess-with-me look. -_____-

I hate Thai Airways...Bah.

In a damn abrupt conclusion, the Hiroshima trip was damn fun~ Whee~

Hiroshima: The Food Post

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The title says it all! I'm going to blog about what I ate from day 24 to day 29 in Hiroshima. A very wtf post that's going to make you feel hungry...so decide if you want to scroll down further or not......................I know you want to. Heh.

Day 24

Lunch
Had homecooked spaghetti with meat sauce for lunch. Actually it was more like 95% mashed tomatoes with 5% minced meat sauce because Okaasan realised that there wasn't any canned minced meat sauce left so she had to make do with whatever that was in the fridge. =D

Dinner
Dinner was rolled cabbage soup with pickled cucumbers as the side dish. I had a part in making the rolled cabbage okay! As you can see in the picture, the rolled cabbage on the left hand side looks like as if it got disfigured or something, as compared to the right hand side one. Yup, I was the one who made the disfigured rolled cabbage. Not bad already okay! At least the minced onions and meat inside didn't fall out. Phew~ The rolled cabbage tasted damn tender because it was boiled for like what...2 hours?

Had boiled sweetcorn as well for dinner.

Day 25

Lunch
Had lunch at this restaurant called Shouintei, which can be found along Tonomachi. Tonomachi was quite an interesting place because there were canals along the streets. Erm...not interesting enough? Okay, there were like tons of carps swimming in the canals, like an aquarium like that.

One thing I like about Japanese food is that it's damn colourful. So colourful to the extent that I normally can't bear to eat them up...but I always do in the end though.

Didn't notice the dot of wasabi on the top of the soba and mixed it in blindly. Only realised it after I ate one mouthful and almost died of spiciness.

Ochazuke that had a mild wasabi taste even after I removed the wasabi. wtf. Damn delicious still though.

I initially thought that the dessert was made from jelly powder or something but to my pleasant surprise, it was actually a carrot kueh that was mildly sweet. Wanted more but each set was only entitled to one. =(

Dinner
Had dinner at this restaurant called Seine de Paris, which can be found inside Hotel New Tanaka.
Started dinner with a delightful plate of scallops topped with grapefruits and tomatoes. Japan's seafood is like omg, so damn freaking delicious lo! Big, juicy and fresh...unlike Singapore's.

Next up was the soup which tasted like as if MSG was free or something and look at the quantity! Pitiful.

Luckily, the rest of the dishes were better than the soup. Had Japanese tiger prawns next. Damn big and juicy~ yum~ I'm making myself damn hungry here and it's like what, 2am...-_-

Next up was steak covered in mushroom sauce. Not as fantastic as the Wagyu I had in Malaysia but definitely worth the money. Okay, I didn't exactly pay for it so I don't know how much it cost but I'm sure it wasn't cheap...because it's a restaurant. The boiled carrots and potatoes that came with it tasted wonderful too~

As if I did not have enough food already, here comes the soft shelled crab spaghetti! Luckily I shared this dish with Otousan or I'll probably end up in hospital for overeating or something. Then again, end up in hospital for overeating such good food...I don't mind. Heh.

Bread. I don't know why they suddenly served bread but I still ate them anyway.

Washed down the food with a cup of tea...

...and a glass of red wine. Was supposed to have dessert but the restaurant was out of desserts that day. wtf?!

Day 26

Breakfast
Hotel breakfast. Usual buffet-style but nevertheless yummy.

Lunch
Had lunch at this little shop near Shuuhoudou/Akiyoshidou. Each of us ordered a Kappa soba set. Why it's called Kappa(literally means "river child") soba I do not know. All I know is that this was damn delicious. Even the onigiri tasted different.(They added salt to it)

Dessert was matcha ice-cream~

Dinner
Had dinner back in Hiroshima where we had gyozas, ika shuumai(squid siew mai, damn tasty and bouncy..wtf) and a side dish that consisted of seaweed and tomatoes. By the way, I made the side dish~ See, I'm a great cook! Placed the chopsticks in the wrong direction though.

Day 27

Lunch
Day 27's lunch was simple because Okaasan was in a rush but even if it's simple, still have to arrange nicely. As you can see, lunch consisted of ika manjuu(squid bau that was as bouncy as the squid siew mai), sushi and a slice of watermelon for dessert.

Dinner
What's this?!!! It's iwashi tempura, or sardine tempura! I almost died whiffing in the fishy smell of the fish when Okaasan was cutting open them. Tasted damn nice though it looks a little scary.

Besides iwashi tempura, we had sashimi too! It included salmon, maguro, sea bream and sea urchin. Didn't really like the sea urchin though as it tasted too creamy. Had tofu, boiled eggplant, miso soup and chu-hi as well~

Day 28

Dinner
Had prawn and squid tempura for dinner. I helped in making them~except that I chickened out when it came to the frying part. Side dish was raw onion rings topped with bonito flakes. I normally don't eat raw onions because it has a stinging taste and it's spicy but the onion rings here didn't taste spicy at all. The best thing is...I know the secret to making it~ but I won't tell you because I'm selfish. Hahaha. Had chu-hi as well. Alcohol again!!

Day 29

Bento
Otousan's bento. I never knew that so many ingredients could be placed inside the seemingly small bento box. There was stir-fried squid, konnyaku, egg rolls, broccoli, tomatoes and even one whole slice of salmon inside. All of them were stuffed into the left compartment, leaving the right side for rice and umeboshi. The bentos I've made before never contained so much food before lo.

Lunch
Lunch was microwaved Hawaiian pizza. Somehow I was so hungry that day that I gobbled up the whole pizza. Yes, I ate one whole pizza by myself. Up till now, I still don't know how I managed to do it.

Dinner
Dinner was seriously ALOT of food to finish. Had corn soup, avocado with tuna(learnt that from tv that day), steak, vegetables and rice. Normally can get full by eating steak or rice alone and so eating both=a very full me. Washed them down with red wine.

Yup, that's the end of my food post of what I ate in Hiroshima from day 24 to day 29. I'm feeling damn hungry now and it's already 2.30am...What am I going to eat?!

Hiroshima Internship Programme 19/6/07

Jhui

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Nothing happened much on day 27 so I'm moving on to blog about Hiroshima, day 28.

Met up with Ms. Miyoshi for lunch in the erm...afternoon obviously.

Lunch was pretty delicious and look at the amount of food!!! Damn worth it. The main dish was tomato chicken with brown rice and for sides, there was salad, eggplant, tofu, miso soup and more. I initially thought that the yellow thing at the top right corner was egg but it turned out to be chicken. I am so good at identifying food~!

Dessert was cake.

After-meal tea.

After lunch, we made a visit to the place where Ms. Miyoshi works at.

With some guy who speaks really good Chinese.

Me and Ms. Miyoshi outside the office.

Had a cup of nice cold coffee at the cafe which was situated on the first level of the building.

Went home and had a cup of grapefruit jelly. Damn...been eating too much man. The grapefruit jelly was sour but refreshing...I wanna eat one more!

During dinner, we were watching some programme when suddenly, Mr. Tamura came on screen. They were talking about him forming a baseball team to fulfill his dream(and the dream of the other players) of playing at the Koshien.

So cute~.

More pictures at http://mizu-kioku.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=170.

End of Day 28.

Hiroshima Internship Programme 17/6/07

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Hiroshima, Day 26~.

Took a boat tour out into the Sea of Japan to see the stone/rock formations of Omijima. The waves were fairly strong that day and it was quite cool to see the waves splashing against the boat we were on.

Otousan, Okaasan and Obaachan.

Reached some cave and we were asked to come out to the deck to take photos. After that, they started going around asking people if they wanted to purchase the photos that they took. The only bad point was that...you can't preview the photos and they'll mail you the photos in like 2 days or something. So anyway, the Shinkawas bought one photo for me but when the photo arrived, they realised that the photo did not capture me...neither was Okaasan in the picture. Only Obaachan, who was smiling really happily, was shown on the photo. =D

Lots of marine products were sold there. Smelt totally like a fish market...with fresh fish. wtf...I don't know what I'm talking about.

They bought me this t-shirt~ Whee~

Next, we went to this place called Shuuhoudou or Akiyoshidou, depending on how you want to pronounce it. Both pronunciations are used. It's basically a limestone cave with lots of cool limestone formations in it. The temperature in there was a little chilly though. The limestone formations were so cool and luckily I rented the English translator thingy or else I probably would not understand anything.

Entrance of the cave. So scenic!!!

Was pretty dark inside the cave so I wasn't able to take alot of photos inside. This is the golden pillar. So.freaking.cool. Everyone was queueing up to take photos with it lo.

Next, we took a taxi to Akiyoshidai, or Akiyoshi Plateau, the largest karst formation in Japan .

Before returning to Hiroshima, we went to the Kazuki Yasuo Art Museum. His artworks were really cute and I liked them alot. I even bought like postcards that featured his artwork =D

End of Day 26. More pictures here:http://mizu-kioku.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=168

Hiroshima Internship Programme 16/6/07

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Hiroshima, Day 25~.

Today, the Shinkawas brought me to nearby prefectures called Shimane and Yamaguchi. On our way to our first destination, we stopped by the Kintai-kyo(bridge) located in Iwakuni City. Initially I did not want to cross the bridge because first of all, it cost 300yen(~SGD3.90) to take a 5minute walk across the bridge and secondly, the arches scared me. (I'm afraid of slopes remember?)

In the end, however, I managed to muster up the little courage in me to cross the bridge. Surprisingly, the arches weren't as steep as I thought they would be so it was pretty alright.
Wonder how would this place look like in winter? Was supposed to come to this place during Winter 2006 but instead, I went shopping because my legs were aching from wearing boots. In case if you were wondering, shopping can still take place even though one's legs are painful okay!

The Iwakuni Castle? Not very sure but according to Okaasan, you got to take a cable car all the way up to that castle. wtf. Build so high for what anyway?! Staying at higher altitudes probably gives some people a sense of security but eh, what if your enemies surround you? The only way you can escape is to jump down lor!

Went to the Taikodani Inari Jinja/Shrine in Tsuwano next. According to Wikipedia, an Inari Shrine is a Shinto shrine used to worship the god Inari who uses foxes as his/her messengers. Bought aburaage(deep-fried tofu) as an offering as it's believed that foxes like it. When my host family handed me the aburaage, I seriously thought that it was for me to eat okay. Somemore it smelt damn nice. -__- Luckily I didn't ask "Is this for me to eat?". Phew~

Obaachan donating money.

Miko-san(shrine maiden) in the shrine.

What's a Inari Shrine without fox statues?

Next, we went for lunch but I shall not blog about lunch in this entry. Will blog about all the food I ate in a single entry~ =D
After lunch, we went to see an exhibition on Jingdezhen porcelains. Damn cool can~!

We also went to the Anno Museum of Art where there were cool replicas of Anno's atelier and a classroom. Too bad we didn't have enough time to see the planetarium. =(

Instead of returning to Hiroshima today, we stayed at this hotel called Hotel New Tanaka. The cool thing about this hotel's that it has an onsen at the top level and it's open-air~! Went to the onsen twice somemore.

Had dinner before going to the Ichinosaka-gawa(Ichinosaka-river) to look at fireflies. Damn cool lar! I've never seen so many people gathered along a river to look at fireflies before. Everyone got so excited when the fireflies appeared. =D The streets were really dark(I guess you need really dark places for fireflies to appear in bunch or something) but it wasn't scary. :)

Was supposed to return to the hotel to sleep but the over-zealous taxi driver kept introducing us to places to go so yup, we followed him. He first brought us to part of Kouzan Park where echoes could be heard. Next, we went to this temple called Rurikoji, which is famous for its five-storey pagoda.

The taxi driver even provided us with a disposable camera and helped us take photos...without us asking. Wow...either business has been really bad or he's a really nice guy. In the end, I think my host family gave him a 7000yen(~SGD90!!!) tip or something. wtf.

Obaachan and Otousan pulling the bead thingy. If you manage to drop eight of the beads, no more no less, something good will happen to you...or something like that. One year ago okay...can't remember exactly.

Okaasan doing the same thing.

The stone with buddha's footprints. Woah~

After the night tour of Yamaguchi, we went back to the hotel to go to the onsen and sleep~ Whee~

End of Day 25. More pictures at http://mizu-kioku.net/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=167.

Hiroshima Internship Programme 15/6/07

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Hiroshima Internship Programme Day 24~.

Today's the day where everyone leaves the training centre. Some would be going to Tokyo, some to Osaka and as for me, I would be staying in Hiroshima to find my homestay family.

During the 3-week internship period, all of us stayed in this traning centre. When the nine of us first arrived, we didn't know each other that well, except for a few. However, at the end of it, we became good friends =D

Every night, the nine of us would talk in the bathroom while removing our makeup.

As there was only one large bathroom, everyone had to bathe together or else there won't be enough time for everyone to bathe.(There was a curfew for using the bathroom.) Initially, everyone was shy about taking off one's clothes in front of everybody but in the end, we had so much fun taking baths together.

In fact, we loved taking baths together so much that we made a lot of noises during bathtime. I mean, hello, nine girls chit-chatting and splashing water around=LOTS of noise. In fact, we were so noisy once that the neighbours called to complain and Mr. Kajiwara gave us a scolding. =(

Ofuro~

The corridor of the 3rd floor. All of us stayed on the 3rd floor of the training centre.

The toilet.

The toilet's very quiet and I hate it when I have to make a visit to the toilet in the morning.

Laundry area. Most of us had no idea how to do laundry so we just anyhow poured in washing powder and hoped that it was the right amount. In fact, there was once that we put in too much washing powder that our clothes were still soapy after 3 washes. wtf.

The office in the training centre. Never been inside before.

We did internship once before in this room~

The computer room. As there was only one computer in the room, we had to wait for our turn to use it. While waiting for it, we would chit-chat and gossip about what happened that day. Although we weren't supposed to eat in the room, we sometimes sneaked snacks in to munch on. Once, we even brought beer to this room and talked while we drank it. We stayed up till 2~3am that night. Damn fun~!

The popular computer~!

The room that I saw for the first time while I was taking photos around the training centre.

Damn big and pretty can.

I stayed in room 301. Eh? "The Installation Room For Emergency Escape Device"? wtf...haha.

Is this the emergency escape device? Hmmn. Didn't get to use it though. Heng.

The 3-week internship period was a great experience and I totally enjoyed myself. The people from the Shinkin Bank were freaking nice to us. Mr. Kajiwara, the caretaker, was nice too! The noisy 9 of us must have had troubled him alot...I think. Haha. Also, I must not forget to thank the organiser of this internship, the Hiroshima-Singapore Association. Without them, I wouldn't have had the chance to participate in this programme.

So yup, this ends my internship in Hiroshima. I shall blog about my 1 week extension with the Shinkawas another day :D

Hiroshima Internship Programme 14/6/07

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Hiroshima Internship Programme Day 23~.

Today was the last day of the internship. Rehearsed in the morning for the presentation which was scheduled to be held in the afternoon.

Mr. Nakamura brought us out to lunch today.

I ordered Japanese-style dolsot bibimbap. Compared to the original Korean one, it wasn't spicy at all. Instead...it was kind of sweet. Very Japanese. -_-

Pei San and me.

After-meal coffee.

Look at how small the cup was! So cute~

Us before we started our presentation. Our presentation was basically a summary of what we've learnt during the internship period.

After our presentation, a representative from each department talked about the interaction they had with us. While listening to it, it brought back memories of the past few days and I almost cried but I fought hard to hold back my tears. However, uopn stepping out of the company feeling, the feeling that the whole internship was over set in and my tears started pouring out. Mr. Nuibe was trying to console me to not cry but instead, I cried more. So paiseh okay! Walking to the station with tears flowing down my face was...so paiseh!!!

As my room was one of the messiest, we returned to the training centre early today to do packing. Below's my dinner for today~ Ohagi~

Fruit jelly drink.

The number of bottled drinks that I bought during the internship period. Actually there were more but I threw them away already so the actual number's higher.

Hiroshima Internship Programme 13/6/07

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Hiroshima Internship Programme Day 22~.

No internship today but instead, we were supposed to prepare for our presentation which would be held on the following day. Mr. Nakamura's cute mouse :D

The last 400yen staff meal in the Shinkin Bank. Delicious beef set.

The staff canteen.

Staff canteen picture no. 2.

At night, we had a drinking session(nomikai) back at the training centre with Mr. Tani's department and Mr. Kajiwara, the caretaker of the training centre.

There were like TONS of snacks there that day.

The freaking big wine bottle. Compare it with the onigiri!

My mango cocktail.

My mayonnaise karaage onigiri.

Vivien, Mr. Kajiwara, Me.

Ms. Goto and me doing the "Saranghae" pose.

Mr. Saeki and me.

Me, Mr. Tani.

We had a taste of what it's like to be at a Japanese nomikai. Cool~ Can't write out what happened that day though. =D Just know that it was fun~ Whee~

Hiroshima Internship Programme 12/6/07

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Hiroshima Internship Programme Day 21~.

We were assigned to Mr. Tani's department today where we prepared the documents for tonight's general meeting. As we were fast enough, we were allowed to take a break and we browsed through some of the books on Singapore there.

Since when did guava become brown? I always thought that it's green...

Next, we went out with Mr. Nuibe to get some books before following Mr. Saeki out for lunch at Mister Donut~

Besides treating us to donuts, Mr. Saeki also bought for us the Mister Donut bag. Whee~

After lunch, we followed Mr. Nuibe to some government building where he had some errands to run.

Mr. Tani holding the flowers that Pei San presented to him. =D

Mr. Saeki at work.

Department photo :D

Our next task was to go to Rihga Royal Hotel and arrange the nametags which would be used at the general meeting.

Ms. Nakamoto with her colleague.

The Singapore and Japan flags.

Us doing reception work...like real. We were just standing there and greeting the people who arrived.

The stage.

Emcee of the day, Mr. Tani.

Mr. Tamura, the President of HSA.

Us on stage.

Liling, presenting the omiyage we bought for Mr. Tamura. She also gave a wonderful speech that day :D

Students from Singapore Polytechnic.
Don't really like this batch of people. Reason being first of all, you don't wear skinny jeans to a formal event like this. Somemore it was so tight that you can see her...erm...cameltoe. wtf. Next, during the flute performance, one of the guy students made disrespectful remarks in Japanese like "tsumaranai (boring)" and "nemui (sleepy)". He wasn't whispering the remarks but he was saying them out loud. He was seated quite near to the video camera which was used to videotape the performance and that means that whatever he said was probably recorded down. Shithead. Wanted to really turn around and punch that guy. The best thing was that his teacher was seating with them but she made no attempt to tell him to shut up. wtf.

Some Singaporean who received a tuition grant from HSA to study Japanese.

The splendid flute performance.

Something that's never absent at a Japanese function...beer.

The buffet spread was just too wonderful for words. Lotsa delicious food~! During the buffet, the students from Singapore Polytechnic performed a song but guess what, no one was listening to them. HAHAHA.

Airi and me. While eating, one Japanese came up to us and started talking to Airi in Chinese because he thought that she was the Singaporean. wtf. All the NUS students were dressed in suits lo. Quite interesting though...when I told him that I'm the Singaporean. He was like "Oh, sumimasen."

Mr. Tani, Me

Mr. Saeki, Me

Me, Mr. Nuibe

Mr. Guo Chun Gui, a teacher from Hiroshima Shudo University, Me

Hiroshima Internship Programme 11/6/07

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Hiroshima Internship Programme Day 20~.

Today's internship was held at the Marketing Department. Learnt about international marketing and the management of funds. Tough stuff.

Although the stuff that we learnt today was difficult, it was quite interesting, thanks to our nice "tutors". =D

After doing internship at a few different branches with no staff canteens, it was nice to come back to the staff canteen today for lunch. Nothing beats the 400yen lunch. Today's menu was diced beef set. The beef was so tender and smooth while the scrambled eggs were so soft and fluffy~ Loved the pickles too.

The Electronic Banking Deparment gave us a packet of sweets which we went to share with Mr. Tani and his department. =D

Sanji no oyatsu~! This Wonda coffee was so sweet and fattening but nice. Heh.

While waiting for our "tutors" in the room, Pei San and I started doodling on the board. Both of us were supposed to draw a hippopotamus. The one on the left's by Pei San and the one on the right's by me. Mine looks better right? :P

Looking at the stock exchange~

Hiroshima Internship Programme 10/6/07

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