My CROWNED Dragon

A Nice Summer Floral Dress / Monday, November 16, 2009

This person's identity is so skilfully covered up, I'm sure the original won't be able to recognise =D and neither will You. We discovered the court accidentally!

I've learnt that when pros begin their shooting regimes, the best resort would be to sit at a shaded area and snap photos of every millisecond of their shots. WHICH I DIDN'T HAHA I'm not sure what I'm driving at either =D

You wanna fight?

Look at Mr. Molten flyyy!

And now we've come to the end! Buaizzz.

JN
2:43 PM

Aren't You Touching the Sky Already? / Tuesday, November 03, 2009

After a long and hectic day of Oral Presentation and CCA, I've returned home with a day's worth of reflections, put down in just two paragraphs. I'm not a reflective/meditative person by nature; I'm an over-reactor. Today, however, my mind seems to have gathered for itself some food for thought amidst the chaos.

I guess we're born such that we're never contented with what we have, and can never be. For if we grow to live only in the present and not upgrade our skills for the future, we will be eliminated by natural selection. If we set low benchmarks for ourselves, then achieving them is but a given, not a feat. Most of the time though, the stars to which we hitch our wagons only seem to become dimmer as we approach them.

We're conditioned to better ourselves in every way. The best is the best, because he or she has surpassed the standards that other individuals had never thought to set for themselves.

P.S. I think I'm having body image problems. Then again, who isn't?

JN
9:17 PM

You're Automatic and Your Voice is Electric / Monday, November 02, 2009

I deserve an affectionate pat on the back for completing Ultimate Japanese No.1! Finally finally I'm movin' on to Ultimate Japanese Advanced where there's plenty of Kanji to make me go @_@. The term "Advanced" is a mere label, given my embarassingly limited vocabulary and inability to speak without going through the processes of sentence construction and verb conjugation in my head!

I was secretly demoralised following a past conversation with this lady belonging to the Japanese Embassy of Singapore (I think she's the Head actually ._.) in Secondary 4 when they showcased shamisen pieces in our school. It was as though someone had just flung a bucketful of cold water at me, and I had stood there dripping with the realisation that I still have a long long way to go in learning Nihongo! Thankfully, I have since dried myself of that slight disappointment -my morale still burns strong! This is what I know as "passion."

On a sidenote I must confess that I have this sudden obsession with ze almighty eyeliner, after having used it for the first time in my entire life just last weekend in preparation for our performance. We sang Sea -the Source of Life and People with the SYC Ensemble Singers, accompanied by the Singapore Chinese Orchestra, during SPH's 25th Anniversary Colours of Music concert. I surprised myself with the discovery that I was numb to pre-performance anxiety, and it is highly likely that I was anaesthetised by fatigue from the consecutive nightly rehearsals that we had. I can do so much better without nervousness. =D

This week I must swallow a bitter mix of Oral Presentation and CCA practice almost daily. My body knows I'm not sleeping enough, but it still puts in the effort during my running and swimming sessions, which is just amazing. My mind is numb, dull and feels to me like it's just functioning for the sake of functioning. Which isn't good at all, because one needs to daydream and picture the days or events that one looks forward to to lubricate our cerebral gears that have been eroded by excessive critical analyses and forced concentration over time. The resulting liveliness is a sweet sparkling fluid that courses through our blood and invigorates the body.

I am weary, and am losing concentration even as I type. A lengthy but exciting post will be coming this way when I fly off to Nihon with my family and the Hockkien Mees. Project Work will soon be over! REAL Holidays will begin soon! *Sings: All my Trials Lord~ soon be overrr*

またね、みんな

P.S.I have been addicted to this song for quite some time already. Automatic by Tokio Hotel =D

JN
10:26 PM

おとうと / Friday, October 09, 2009

PW meeting at West Coast Plaza today! It's gonna become our favourite haunt soon. Us four are physical manifestations of Starbucks and Tully's worst nightmares. We occupy their designated spaces like nobody's business, and openly consume unauthorised food and beverages (in particular Cold Storage's oishii ebiko & tamago osushi and I-forgot-the-store's-name's heavenly bubble tea!). It's amazing how productive each PW session is in spite of the ongoing jokes and scoldings we always seem to have for each other =D

Days are pleasant, with school ending in a week's time, continuous nihongo studying and not having to deal with too much of a guilty conscience when taking a break. I'm seriously considering using this blog for purposes other than spilling out my feelings again and again. A marathon blog would be cool, but my contents would amount to 3 to 4 blog posts annually. What else can I do? Linguistics blog food blog random observations blog Chocolarts blog etc. etc. etc. It would be preferable if I could post about more intellectually-stimulating stuff than just the nitty-gritties about Me Myself and I. Nihongo blog? Right then no one would understand me. Sumimasen, wakarimasen.

Hmm I would need some time to ponder about this portal's eventual function. Off to do PW =D so that I might slack my Saturday and Sunday away-ay-ay-ayay-ay.

I HOPE MY BRO SCORES WELL FOR PSLE GO DUDE GANBATTE NE YOU CAN DO IT. We go cycle around SG after your PSLE okayokay. =D

JN
10:23 PM

どうして / Thursday, October 01, 2009

世界中の誰も知らないけれど

たった一人あなただけに見せている

私がここにいる　

だけど　

世界中の誰も知らないけれど　

本当はあなただってまだ知らない　

私がいるかもね

I will be better off without feelings. They wreck a storm of emptiness within me, ironically.

JN
10:00 PM

全国制覇 / Friday, September 25, 2009

桜木花道

MY 2ND FAVOURITE BASKETBALLER

JN
5:39 PM

陪你去看流星雨落在这地球上 / Friday, September 18, 2009

セーラームーンと飛び子お寿司が大好き！

My posts are no longer as florid as before, and I seem to be getting increasingly incapable of fluent self-expression. Or perhaps I'm limited to doing so only in Singlish, because it's definitely closer to my heart than standard English. Ooooh ze confessions of an ELL student! Experiencing nonsense mutation currently and still pondering over the MCQ on tobacco mosaic virus!

From Wikipedia:

Replication

Following entry into its host via mechanical inoculation, the TMV RNA genome is not immediately translated. Instead the RNA is processed by a mechanism that is not yet understood. The resulting mRNAs encode several proteins, including the coat protein and an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp). Thus TMV can replicate its own genome. After the coat protein and RNA genome of TMV have been synthesized, they spontaneously assemble into complete TMV virions in a highly organized process. The protomers come together to form disks composed of two layers of protomers arranged in a helical spiral. The helical capsid grows by the addition of protomers to the end of the rod. As the rod lengthens, the RNA passes through a channel in its center and forms a loop at the growing end. In this way the RNA can easily fit as a spiral into the interior of the helical capsid.

I included the above paragraph mainly for the sake of making my post look longer =D oh woman but if you mix tobacco mosaic virus with proteins from some random DNA virus what will TMV's offspring be like after replication within a bacterium? Don't know don't know still don't knowww.

At last, after a week of cooping myself up at home and drinking bubble tea almost everyday and not sweating and sleeping at unearthly hours (at least I sleep) and NOT RUNNING and going hysterical over the slightest problems and losing concentration due to impairment of logical function due to sleep deficiency and not listening to good ol Ayu music...

I AM FREE-ER!

I have just one more paper to conquer next week. It's ze bestestest subject that Singapore JC curriculum can offer and it's none other than ELL! Both a menace and an invigorating challenge at once. Linguistic analysis can be scary and rather tedious at times, but it's enjoyable in that it exposes us to and allows us to critique on texts with varying genres. Paper 2, which involves commenting on the social aspects of language use, is less exciting because it tends to revolve around topics pertaining to the comparison of Singapore Colloquial English and Standard English.

Remind me to remind you to remind me that I need to learn some basic expressions in French and German. My foreign vocabulary for these languages is limited to the extreme. Surely, I can't go around Germany with just the term arschloch =D (credits to Gorillah Wong)

I am going to revise my Japanese once again and begin studying the advanced guidebook. Translating texts might be a good way to practise written expression. As for the communication part, I ought to talk to myself so that it isn't neglected, and play Ayu's talkin' 2 myself in the background. Not making sense again, yay! Can't wait to pick up yet another language, actually. *rubs palms excitedly*

Time to give my annoyingly long fringe a trim and to have a well-deserved good night's sleep later on! またね

JN
7:54 PM