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Strong Baby by Seung Ri
Went for the home visit after visiting the primary school. Was pretty fun? I think the host family was a very typical family, so there were no unpleasant shocks nor sweet surprises? I guess things work that way? Things just average out after a while. Visited their home, which was timy, and then they brought us to the aquarium. While I am not one who likes looking at animals swimming aimlessly around dirty tanks and doing inane things to beg for food, I must admit that it was pretty good. A large variety of animals, but they all seem... So lonely? maybe it was a sympathetic background. Maybe they really are. I would never know, but I think it was rather sad. Screaming kids and adults slamming on your already tiny cage. Doing tricks to earn your meals. If it were me, I might have commited suicide to get away from the humiliation...
Oh well I should not continue on this very sombre topic. Not a place to dicuss this kind of things. One sided rambling about the welfare of animals is something only people with a crazy excess of time would do. I guess I am beginning to look forward to going home? Honestly I am rather bored of Japan. I know there are a lot of things to do and see, but somehow, it feels as if I am in a more beautiful version of Singapore. Without the conveniences and costing an arm and a leg. Yeah, hardly fun if you know what I am talking about. Somehow, the temples are overhyped and the food is not as great as expected, the people are decent but language is really a stumbling block and the workload is insane enough that you probably spend most of your hours in your room practicing speeches and writing reflections. If there is one thing I feel is stupid, is how reflections are done every 2 weeks. 2 weeks is barely enough to have any in depth understanding of anything? And the best part is how the Japanese people are not the most open people and writing negative comments is frowned upon? Ridiculous.
Not that I hate this country? In fact, I love how I blend in so well with everyone and can get away as long as I don't open my mouth too much. I love how I can badmouth people in relative safety and how they are awed by how I can speak more than one language. The food is predictable, the weather is predictable... Public transportation is forever punctual? I think this is an awesome place to holiday. Just a bit expensive... But still awesome. I would not stay here though?
Heading to Tokyo next weekend. This weekend is Wakayama's Shirahama and Hiroshima has a brief visit next Wednesday after the final presentation is done. Tokyo is a 3day 3night affair on an overnight bus there and back with a stay in a dormitory with the other students. After a 6 person dorm in Montreal, I am kind of prepared for a lack of space and chargers in the dorm... Oh well, part and parcel of travelling as a student. Would probably join the Malaysians for the betetr part of the trip though? There are some annoying people here and there who I just cannot travel with. In the 2 hours before I sleep and after I wake are fine but anything mroe than that will be slightly painful? Don't worry, I will do my utmost best to be a reasonable person.
Not going to Waseda. I hate that I am not rich enough to just go on a drop of my hat. If my family was well to do, I would have gone there to play to my heart's content. So yeah, I just bid for my course for the next semester. Will probably be soloing most of the classes which is going to be abject torture, but I think it is necessary. I am becoming too reliant on other people for my grades and am no longer putting in enough effort to study. I know I am not stupid, but I feel that I lack motivation to hit the books. If you think about, I must be crazy brilliant if I scrape by with a C grade when I spend something like only 2 hours a week on a partiucular subject if I hate it? CAN YOU IMAGINE? If I like the subject, I usually do pretty well if I act on it... And if stupid teachers don't biasedly try to murder me. Sigh. Let us see how bad things get the next semester. Worst case scenario would be to stop all Finance related subjects but I hope to not resort to that. Yeah. Wish me luck...
Running out of things to buy and I feel weird. I really want to go shopping but... There really is nothing that I feel like purchasing? Everyone tells me about how awesome it is to shop in Japan, but I am NOT a fan of tent dresses and baggy clothes? I like my clothes slightly figure hugging or structured; all they have here are baby doll dresses and a ton of shapeless things. I bought way more clothes in New York than here. In a way, Japanese girls are like the richer, better dressed Taiwanese? They like to layer clothing and hide their figure under loose clothing. Maybe it is just me, but I cannot help but feel it is because they do not have much of a figure to speak of? Not that my figure is great, but they are skinny? Just skinny. Nothing else? Nice and skinny legs, not much else, but the way their legs turn in is horrible. Too much kneeling I think, which is why many girls, especially the older ladies have slightly deformed legs. Scary stuff.
Sighs. As you can tell, I am running out of things to ramble about. OH. One thing I realised is that Mandarin and English has a very strong influnce on my Japanese. Its as if I am suicidal and I use the hardest Japanese words possible. Its fine in mandarin and English because each word is structured differently and the sounds are different, but Japanese has too many words that utilise the same sound for different things? In Mandarin you'd know by the adjoining words, and in English there is a different word for everything but in Japanese.... Its a nightmare. What I write is supposedly at a pretty high level, but as I cannot really read it and my sentence structures are too complex... Sigh. Uphill struggle to make myself understood by others.
Things are coming to an end... Just 2 more weeks before I head home... I kind of miss everyone. Cannot wait to see the people that I have yet to meet for about 4 months? Some for 6 months... Some even more? Its amazing how time flies by so quickly. Reminder that we were all nothing a while ago, and will become nothing soon...
"Oh tell me goodbye, tell me goodbye..."
Oh well I should not continue on this very sombre topic. Not a place to dicuss this kind of things. One sided rambling about the welfare of animals is something only people with a crazy excess of time would do. I guess I am beginning to look forward to going home? Honestly I am rather bored of Japan. I know there are a lot of things to do and see, but somehow, it feels as if I am in a more beautiful version of Singapore. Without the conveniences and costing an arm and a leg. Yeah, hardly fun if you know what I am talking about. Somehow, the temples are overhyped and the food is not as great as expected, the people are decent but language is really a stumbling block and the workload is insane enough that you probably spend most of your hours in your room practicing speeches and writing reflections. If there is one thing I feel is stupid, is how reflections are done every 2 weeks. 2 weeks is barely enough to have any in depth understanding of anything? And the best part is how the Japanese people are not the most open people and writing negative comments is frowned upon? Ridiculous.
Not that I hate this country? In fact, I love how I blend in so well with everyone and can get away as long as I don't open my mouth too much. I love how I can badmouth people in relative safety and how they are awed by how I can speak more than one language. The food is predictable, the weather is predictable... Public transportation is forever punctual? I think this is an awesome place to holiday. Just a bit expensive... But still awesome. I would not stay here though?
Heading to Tokyo next weekend. This weekend is Wakayama's Shirahama and Hiroshima has a brief visit next Wednesday after the final presentation is done. Tokyo is a 3day 3night affair on an overnight bus there and back with a stay in a dormitory with the other students. After a 6 person dorm in Montreal, I am kind of prepared for a lack of space and chargers in the dorm... Oh well, part and parcel of travelling as a student. Would probably join the Malaysians for the betetr part of the trip though? There are some annoying people here and there who I just cannot travel with. In the 2 hours before I sleep and after I wake are fine but anything mroe than that will be slightly painful? Don't worry, I will do my utmost best to be a reasonable person.
Not going to Waseda. I hate that I am not rich enough to just go on a drop of my hat. If my family was well to do, I would have gone there to play to my heart's content. So yeah, I just bid for my course for the next semester. Will probably be soloing most of the classes which is going to be abject torture, but I think it is necessary. I am becoming too reliant on other people for my grades and am no longer putting in enough effort to study. I know I am not stupid, but I feel that I lack motivation to hit the books. If you think about, I must be crazy brilliant if I scrape by with a C grade when I spend something like only 2 hours a week on a partiucular subject if I hate it? CAN YOU IMAGINE? If I like the subject, I usually do pretty well if I act on it... And if stupid teachers don't biasedly try to murder me. Sigh. Let us see how bad things get the next semester. Worst case scenario would be to stop all Finance related subjects but I hope to not resort to that. Yeah. Wish me luck...
Running out of things to buy and I feel weird. I really want to go shopping but... There really is nothing that I feel like purchasing? Everyone tells me about how awesome it is to shop in Japan, but I am NOT a fan of tent dresses and baggy clothes? I like my clothes slightly figure hugging or structured; all they have here are baby doll dresses and a ton of shapeless things. I bought way more clothes in New York than here. In a way, Japanese girls are like the richer, better dressed Taiwanese? They like to layer clothing and hide their figure under loose clothing. Maybe it is just me, but I cannot help but feel it is because they do not have much of a figure to speak of? Not that my figure is great, but they are skinny? Just skinny. Nothing else? Nice and skinny legs, not much else, but the way their legs turn in is horrible. Too much kneeling I think, which is why many girls, especially the older ladies have slightly deformed legs. Scary stuff.
Sighs. As you can tell, I am running out of things to ramble about. OH. One thing I realised is that Mandarin and English has a very strong influnce on my Japanese. Its as if I am suicidal and I use the hardest Japanese words possible. Its fine in mandarin and English because each word is structured differently and the sounds are different, but Japanese has too many words that utilise the same sound for different things? In Mandarin you'd know by the adjoining words, and in English there is a different word for everything but in Japanese.... Its a nightmare. What I write is supposedly at a pretty high level, but as I cannot really read it and my sentence structures are too complex... Sigh. Uphill struggle to make myself understood by others.
Things are coming to an end... Just 2 more weeks before I head home... I kind of miss everyone. Cannot wait to see the people that I have yet to meet for about 4 months? Some for 6 months... Some even more? Its amazing how time flies by so quickly. Reminder that we were all nothing a while ago, and will become nothing soon...
"Oh tell me goodbye, tell me goodbye..."
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