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Monday, May 28, 2012
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Finished Exams
Finished my exams, didn't want to talk much about it. But not only did I finished my exams, I have also finished my last lesson of my Korean Class. Today, if as usual, I would be heading for my Korean class but I'm not! And suddenly, I feel soo empty.
I have been going for Korean Class at the same date for almost 8 consecutive months and suddenly to not go feels completely weird.
As this is the last class, my classmates decided to buy a cake (only a slice though!) and a card where we all wrote our wishes on it- in Korean! To prevent myself from making a mistake and saving teacher the hassle of correcting it, I have already drafted out my message and post in on lang-8.com to have it corrected.
Even though I have already changed my mistakes, teacher still managed to find ONE small error. Strange though. I got it corrected by a native Korean. Guess even natives made mistakes huh.
Anyway, our Teacher was very happy when she saw the card was filled with Koreans. I guess that's the kind of satisfaction you'll get, like watching your baby walking after many practices.
Our teacher was kind too, she bought as some Korean delicacies from the shopping mall just beside. Honestly, I am not a big fan of Korean food. I have tried them all and the only one that I super like is barbecued pork- (Samgyeopsal)
So I can't say I enjoy the food but I did eat and I found a new love! Kimchi fried rice!
I don't like kimchi but kimchi fried rice was okay. She also bought as bibim ramen and beef bibimbap. Each table was two set of meals so we just share it among ourselves.
We don't eat beef so we just eat the rice. It was nice. Hee hee and we took lots of pictures- for keepsake
Sorry if the picture is blur. Can't be help. No matter how hard we all tried to take the photo , it's just blur.
I guess I will really miss teacher, her lessons and the classmates I have made in these wonderful lessons. Since she won't be teaching higher levels, we all have to source for other alternatives to further our studies. I have a pool of resources right now and I didn't know which to choose. I guess have to sort things out quickly before our Korean deteriorates.
So anyone who have good recommendations please leave a comment!
I have been going for Korean Class at the same date for almost 8 consecutive months and suddenly to not go feels completely weird.
As this is the last class, my classmates decided to buy a cake (only a slice though!) and a card where we all wrote our wishes on it- in Korean! To prevent myself from making a mistake and saving teacher the hassle of correcting it, I have already drafted out my message and post in on lang-8.com to have it corrected.
Even though I have already changed my mistakes, teacher still managed to find ONE small error. Strange though. I got it corrected by a native Korean. Guess even natives made mistakes huh.
Anyway, our Teacher was very happy when she saw the card was filled with Koreans. I guess that's the kind of satisfaction you'll get, like watching your baby walking after many practices.
Our teacher was kind too, she bought as some Korean delicacies from the shopping mall just beside. Honestly, I am not a big fan of Korean food. I have tried them all and the only one that I super like is barbecued pork- (Samgyeopsal)
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| Taken from somewhere |
So I can't say I enjoy the food but I did eat and I found a new love! Kimchi fried rice!
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| taken from somewhere |
I don't like kimchi but kimchi fried rice was okay. She also bought as bibim ramen and beef bibimbap. Each table was two set of meals so we just share it among ourselves.
I guess I will really miss teacher, her lessons and the classmates I have made in these wonderful lessons. Since she won't be teaching higher levels, we all have to source for other alternatives to further our studies. I have a pool of resources right now and I didn't know which to choose. I guess have to sort things out quickly before our Korean deteriorates.
So anyone who have good recommendations please leave a comment!
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Titanic
At this moment when you are reading this, Titanic would have sunk hundred years ago, this day in the couple of minutes right in the Atlantic Ocean.
Titanic now lies on the seabed, in the eternal darkness and has not seen the sun since she last sunk. Though, fondly remembered by its romanticised movie, we should all not just focus on its drama but also what we could learn from her and stories of victims who have survived through her very last moments.
At this very moment, I would like to pay respect to the thousands of gentlemen and crew members of their courageous and admirable action of sacrificing their space on the very few lifeboats for the women and children. for they could have all teamed up against the crew members and boarded the lifeboats.
To Mrs. Straus, who gave up her chance of survival to join her husband and claimed that she will go wherever her husband go-"We have lived together for many years. Where you go, I go", showed how great and wonderful to love and be loved is.
Now as you read, the screams and cries have started to soften down. The Titanic was just hovering above the surface of the sea.
Unnoticeable doesn't mean his actions were not noble. To those guys in the small box frantically sending SOS signals, stationed at your position till the very end, I salute you. (Read more here :http://www.qsl.net/g3yrc/Titanic.htm)
(Note: After the power shortage, Bride and Phillips left the wireless room after that message, after being urged to leave their post by Captain Smith. They made their way to the Boat-Deck and began trying to help the other men in the releasing of collapsible Lifeboat B. While neither of them immediately made it onto a lifeboat, both were rescued from the sea. Bride's feet were so severely frozen he could not walk. Phillips died of hypothermia on or near Collapsible lifeboat B, his body was never recovered.)
To the "band that plays on", as music lovers, no words can describe how I feel but I have learn much. The last song that they played were "Nearer, My God, to Thee".
The story of Titanic taught us how easily our arrogance and over-confidence easily can bring us down. No matter how great we are, we should always keep in mind the we should never let our arrogance and pride control us.
Lastly, to the Captain of the Ship, who had planned to retire after the voyage. I bid you peace.
Even though, the last survivors of Titanic has passed away peacefully, which made the passengers of Titanic all "gone", you will all always remain in our memories and heart.
And finally, to all of those passengers who have unfortunately died in the sinking, whether I have mention or not, may you all attain eternal peace.
Titanic now lies on the seabed, in the eternal darkness and has not seen the sun since she last sunk. Though, fondly remembered by its romanticised movie, we should all not just focus on its drama but also what we could learn from her and stories of victims who have survived through her very last moments.
At this very moment, I would like to pay respect to the thousands of gentlemen and crew members of their courageous and admirable action of sacrificing their space on the very few lifeboats for the women and children. for they could have all teamed up against the crew members and boarded the lifeboats.
To Mrs. Straus, who gave up her chance of survival to join her husband and claimed that she will go wherever her husband go-"We have lived together for many years. Where you go, I go", showed how great and wonderful to love and be loved is.
Unnoticeable doesn't mean his actions were not noble. To those guys in the small box frantically sending SOS signals, stationed at your position till the very end, I salute you. (Read more here :http://www.qsl.net/g3yrc/Titanic.htm)
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(Note: After the power shortage, Bride and Phillips left the wireless room after that message, after being urged to leave their post by Captain Smith. They made their way to the Boat-Deck and began trying to help the other men in the releasing of collapsible Lifeboat B. While neither of them immediately made it onto a lifeboat, both were rescued from the sea. Bride's feet were so severely frozen he could not walk. Phillips died of hypothermia on or near Collapsible lifeboat B, his body was never recovered.)
To the "band that plays on", as music lovers, no words can describe how I feel but I have learn much. The last song that they played were "Nearer, My God, to Thee".
The story of Titanic taught us how easily our arrogance and over-confidence easily can bring us down. No matter how great we are, we should always keep in mind the we should never let our arrogance and pride control us.
Lastly, to the Captain of the Ship, who had planned to retire after the voyage. I bid you peace.
Even though, the last survivors of Titanic has passed away peacefully, which made the passengers of Titanic all "gone", you will all always remain in our memories and heart.
And finally, to all of those passengers who have unfortunately died in the sinking, whether I have mention or not, may you all attain eternal peace.
2:20 PM GMT 0
Titanic purged
God Bless.
(The post is scheduled at 2:17am GMT 0)
Friday, April 6, 2012
Indonesia- Batam- Labun Island
Labun Island!
My whole family went on a short getaway to Batam, Indonesia.
We went to this small island call Labun Island and stayed at the Kelong- which were basically houses on stilts. This type of houses were still being used by some of the locals here as they depend on fishing for a living.
This island I think, is owed by a Singaporean and had it converted for resort use. But, unlike others, this Kelong has NO air-conditioning, NO wifi, USES matressess , water is from the WELL, properly filterated and channeled into our bathroom and has NO electricity except at night. So it's like back to the past years when our grandparents lived in.
Nonetheless, it's quite an experience. I mean, we should all try different experience, even if it's for a short period.
We only have one dinning area and it's not very polish. The bridge connecting our rooms to it is merely a no-railing plank.
But don't worry since the water isn't depth, at low tide it's merely up to your waist plus I'm quite short. When it's high tide, it's still quite shallow , you can easily stand up.
So during meal time, we would across the bridge and head for the dinning area.
With only two days at hand, we went straight for island trekking once we reached and had our lunch. Plus the island is quite small so it doens't take much time for us to explore the whole land.
It wasn't a difficult trek just that you have to be really cautious if you don't want to fall into the spikey roots sticking out from the ground. And if you make pass all that, you will be rewarded with a beautiful sight-or so.
We went fishing during the first day afternoon. Fishing rods and baits were available.. free of course then we went on the Banana Boat.
It took us really far and I could see real Kelongs at other islands which was quite a beautiful sight. The jet boat which was driving us broke down halfway. Thank god, we had another boat followed us and eventually pulled up to shore.
The night view was awesome. Very picturesque, too bad I'm still a novice at photography or else I may have taken some really good photos.
The next day, we went snorkeling in the morning! It's quite a strange feeling when you have corals and fishes swimming below you and you can just reach out and touch them. But because this is my first time snorkeling, I was bad at it and had to drink a couple gulps of seawater. Nasty! At barely half and hour I was out of the water because I am just so bad at it that I totally gave up. When I was swimming, the seas was quite cloudy but the water was really clear during the afternoon.
Too bad we didn't had any proffessional trainers as this is just a mini sized resort.
Our meals have also been seafood and I actually have crabs for both days! Lucky~ But the crabs were quite small so it's hard to eat.
Finally, it's time for us to head back to Singapore. It was around noon so it's at low tide and we have the climb down that creepy stair way or else during high tide, you could just jumb down where it is only a few centimeters away. So only those Nature lovers would love such getaways and those of you urban dwellers, not so much.
My whole family went on a short getaway to Batam, Indonesia.
This island I think, is owed by a Singaporean and had it converted for resort use. But, unlike others, this Kelong has NO air-conditioning, NO wifi, USES matressess , water is from the WELL, properly filterated and channeled into our bathroom and has NO electricity except at night. So it's like back to the past years when our grandparents lived in.
Nonetheless, it's quite an experience. I mean, we should all try different experience, even if it's for a short period.
But don't worry since the water isn't depth, at low tide it's merely up to your waist plus I'm quite short. When it's high tide, it's still quite shallow , you can easily stand up.
So during meal time, we would across the bridge and head for the dinning area.
With only two days at hand, we went straight for island trekking once we reached and had our lunch. Plus the island is quite small so it doens't take much time for us to explore the whole land.
It wasn't a difficult trek just that you have to be really cautious if you don't want to fall into the spikey roots sticking out from the ground. And if you make pass all that, you will be rewarded with a beautiful sight-or so.
We went fishing during the first day afternoon. Fishing rods and baits were available.. free of course then we went on the Banana Boat.
It took us really far and I could see real Kelongs at other islands which was quite a beautiful sight. The jet boat which was driving us broke down halfway. Thank god, we had another boat followed us and eventually pulled up to shore.
The night view was awesome. Very picturesque, too bad I'm still a novice at photography or else I may have taken some really good photos.
The next day, we went snorkeling in the morning! It's quite a strange feeling when you have corals and fishes swimming below you and you can just reach out and touch them. But because this is my first time snorkeling, I was bad at it and had to drink a couple gulps of seawater. Nasty! At barely half and hour I was out of the water because I am just so bad at it that I totally gave up. When I was swimming, the seas was quite cloudy but the water was really clear during the afternoon.
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| Mini Crabs |
Too bad we didn't had any proffessional trainers as this is just a mini sized resort.
Our meals have also been seafood and I actually have crabs for both days! Lucky~ But the crabs were quite small so it's hard to eat.
Finally, it's time for us to head back to Singapore. It was around noon so it's at low tide and we have the climb down that creepy stair way or else during high tide, you could just jumb down where it is only a few centimeters away. So only those Nature lovers would love such getaways and those of you urban dwellers, not so much.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Marine Bay Sands
After the whole Titanic exhibition, we went to the Integrated Resorts to look at the fountain. I don't really know what's the name called but it's something similar to the previous musical fountain back in Sentosa-where water sprouted out of the hose into a huge fan shape and image were projected on the huge fan.
I watched the show twice because the first time I missed the part of the show so we came back at 9:30 to watch the full show.
Since we have like an hour to spare, we went to the hotel to take a look. The whole place were flooded with foreigners! I have never seen so much foreigners in a hotel before. The interior is really nice too, very unique and luxurious! There wasn't much to explore so we went back to the fountain since it's almost time.
The show was quite interesting and I heard from Sandra that the program changes time from time so maybe if I come down in the next two months maybe I can watch a whole new different story.
At the end of the show, there were bubbles released and it was really beautiful. Too bad my photography skills wasn't that good to bring out the beauty.
I watched the show twice because the first time I missed the part of the show so we came back at 9:30 to watch the full show.
Since we have like an hour to spare, we went to the hotel to take a look. The whole place were flooded with foreigners! I have never seen so much foreigners in a hotel before. The interior is really nice too, very unique and luxurious! There wasn't much to explore so we went back to the fountain since it's almost time.
The show was quite interesting and I heard from Sandra that the program changes time from time so maybe if I come down in the next two months maybe I can watch a whole new different story.
After the whole show ended, we were finally going home! Except there's this crowd that piqued our interest. Just why were they crowding over the area? So we went over and take a look.
Hello what you guys doing?~
And to our surprise , they were looking at this:
A MINI MANMADE WHIRLPOOL!
My first impression was -.- , monkey see monkey do. But after joining the crowd myself, it kind of draws in you. Lols! So I stared at it for 5 mins and then we left. We were just sooo tired.
Overall, I had an enjoyable day except I was really worn out.
Friday, March 23, 2012
Super Show 4
I know I should have blog about this. It just slipped off my mind!
Lydia and I and went there early and she brought me around the stadium. We can see some China promoter and Korean people selling light sticks and posters. We even saw some elfs trying to grab some goodies from the fanclubs as they were giving away banners and some others.
SUPER SHOW 4
I got my ticket but however at the expense of not being able to sit near my friend. We were both separated from each other as during the sale of ticket , the ticketing booth went down. Even my Korean Class Classmate didn't have to buy separated tickets even though she queued over night and was 7th in the queue at the sistic counter in Indoor Stadium.
Sistic should do something about the system. That's the bad part of being a monopoly. The lack of competition leads to inefficiency. And it wasn't the first time Sistic System went down. Good heavens!
Lydia and I and went there early and she brought me around the stadium. We can see some China promoter and Korean people selling light sticks and posters. We even saw some elfs trying to grab some goodies from the fanclubs as they were giving away banners and some others.
So Lydia thought maybe I should go try and grab my bias' goodies (My Idol- Leeteuk free gifts) since she's here early with her other friends and had already gotten what she wanted.
I tried to go in close but as you can see, the fans were overwhelming so I gave up. We walked around before going into the stadium and actually I kinda whine to Lydia and she seems a bit annoyed. Opps~
Anyway, we got in and to my astonished I got banners placed on my seat. One of them is actually my idol's so I was really elated!
I also got Kyuhyun's but I gave it to Lydia since that's her favorite idol and Eunhyuk's as a bonus. When it's Eunhyuk's turn to perform, the audience flashed that banner and it was soo cool!
The whole concert was awesome except that the security was really tight and I got stopped once. Some were less luckier as they were escorted out just at the beginning of the concert! The security was exactly pleased as well but thank goodness the one who stopped me was a lady.
Scared off by that of course I didn't really manage to video the conference even though I am in the middle section. What's worst was that behind me was a row of reporters and security guards, standing - because they didn't have seats.
Only towards the ending did I manage to get a few shot by then since security has loosen then.
Overall it was fantastic! I had a blast! A bit sad since this will probably be my last concert with Super Junior because Leeteuk may not be perform in the next one since his in the army. :'(
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