Day 4
Watching My Girl as I write this - ahhhh I like it very much! Have to see how it goes but I love the chemistry between Masamune-kun and Koharu-chan!
Went karaoke today with (most of) the poly gang. Matsumiya friend and I were searching for Arashi in the Japanese Male and Group categories so that I could sing A.RA.SHI but we couldn't find any Arashi; there was SMAP, Kinki Kids, and KAT-TUN plus Yamapi (Daite Senorita) even!
I was kinda sore at that. So I went flipping through all the artists in the Japanese Female category to look for stuff I may be able to sing and I found this:
I'm still a bit miffed...apparently our Arashi boys are too pretty, they end up in the Female category?! XD
Oh well so I got to sing A.RA.SHI in the end ^^
I even tried Shiina Ringo's ここでキスして and BoC's 天体観測 - I mangled them of course. Couldn't even remember how to sing V6's Darling properly :x
I'm worried because I think with the lack of exposure, my Japanese is deteriorating (I know it's not even a very high level). Need to buck up and work towards JLPT3 at the end of this year!
Today's Japanese class was very funny and interesting. Sometimes it gets a bit dull because the class in general and sensei will talk about brands or travelling (which I can't relate to sometimes) or discuss stuff based on stereotypes (I don't like this), but today it was quite interesting!
We talked about our 夢 and so one classmate said hers was to live in Japan. I said the same too, but I think I'd prefer to just experience living there for a few years. When sensei asked why, I said it was because they have seasons. Since we're stuck so near the equator XD But of course there are other factors far more influential, lol.
Ah and so this classmate who went to work at the tv station in Japan last year when the Arashi boys were doing 24Jikan Terebi said she went for SMAP's concert last year! I was sitting right beside her today but somehow...somehow I felt weird talking to anyone in class about stuff related to Johnny's.
I believe there is either a NEWS or KT fan in class too ^^
Ooh and today when I was ION, we went up to one of the food places in the basement - it was selling dango and they had samples of mitarashi dango and we just wanted to try those to see if the ones we made last time tasted like the ones they sell at a dango place.
There was this guy at the counter, who told us it was sweet soy-sauce dango, he saw the Tekkon Kinkreet Uniqlo T-shirt I was wearing and he said "Taiyou!" to me. At first I was like O.o until he said "Matsumoto Taiyou". I was quite happy after that, strangely. I guess because I never had a Japanese recognize a shirt I was wearing before XD
My sensei brought up Arashi today/yesterday in class.
Not just Arashi specifically, though. He wanted us to form a sentence with sorou (to gather) and he said it could be anything at all. Then he gave an example of say, all the handsome guys in the world gathering in Singapore: Brad Pitt from US; Kimura Takuya, Arashi, NEWS, winds..from Japan.
Haha so since he brought it up, I made the sentence saying handsome idols gather in Singapore. So he asked me who, and I said Arashi. Then he said, what about from America? And I thought...I wanted to say Jason Mraz, but I was afraid he doesn't know..but I didn't like any actors in particular so I didn't have anyone in mind.
So he was suggesting some ~brothers? The rest of the class stared a bit, and then we realised he was talking about the Jonas brothers. But when we said Jonas brothers, I think I had a look on my face. So sensei said, hmm they could be handsome..LOL
I was thinking, not bad for a guy who has travelled quite a bit, right? And it's interesting how he said NEWS and Arashi but not like, Kinki Kids, TOKIO or V6. I would have thought they are a bit more well-known? *seasoned* Besides, I'm the youngest in my class..
Right, I have to go to bed now. Getting up in 3 hours or so to head to some jungley place in Malaysia. Leeches and mosquitoes >_<
For doki-doki ;)
I realized I am a "closet" Arashi fan!
I recently did a "revamp" but I didn't change the 5 photos in a line in the middle. It's the only photoshoot of them, I think, that I actually have individual shots of Aibachan, Nino, Sho and Ohchan. There's a very nice photo of Ryo I chanced upon which is at the side ^^. And a little blurb-thing I cut out from Lifestyle magazine when the Hero movie was in town.
Also, by Ohchan, hidden usually by my clothes is this huge, laminated Jun. I was given this...haha I don't really look at it?
The other cupboard door...a few pairing photos. ShujixAkira cause I like the photo of them beside OhnoxJun. UT flyer and the two bits of newspaper I cut out from Life when they reviewed Letters from Iwojima and Nino was in them <3
I realized it seems a bit stalkerish to put up newspaper clippings? XD
Last but not least, my desk with the Arashi magazine clipping / pullout. Younger days :D Oh also, the calendar beside it is a Paul and Joe one from the issue of MORE I bought last year in Hong Kong for Nino's IT section (:
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Today was my first Pre-advanced One Japanese lesson. I was very nervous at first because I was afraid I won't be able to match up to the levels of my fellow classmates. And true enough, those senpais who were in before me were speaking Japanese comfortably to the sensei - I got scared! But my sensei is very interesting. He's a joker and that helps us to relax and feel more comfortable about speaking in Japanese. He's very opinionated about stuff and it seems he travelled quite a fair bit.
It's a lot like a conversation class. No homework so far. So I guess this is where I'll learn to speak better. Sensei asks so many questions in class (and makes countless of comments), I can't remember how many. But he did ask me this.. (learning about the word erabu) to choose between a date with Kimura Takuya and...(he pauses and thinks for quite a bit) Jay Chou.
I already made my choice before he came up with the second option XD When he asked me why, I said he's kakkoi...and in my head I was thinking, did you see the Nissin cup noodle ad, seriously...8D It's the last image I have of him in my mind right now.










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