Life goes on... and on and on and on.....

serious sentimental part (short and very displeasing), skip this part if you hate boring stuff...
you know how it feels to be read like a book? everyone knows what you were and are... seriously, i always chose to be an open book... recently i began to wonder if she was doing well, people told me she was contemplating suicide and all, it got me so worked up these few days, but i recently found out she is doing fine and all is well with her, i pray for her, and hope she will be happy as she is forever...
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well done with that crap...

let's get to the interesting part...

Part a, gane the Casanova...
you all should know about the incident in chai ei's blog about the present for the ugly girl... i want to stress something here, she maybe short and have the worst taste in dressing, but she isn't ugly, and she is one hell of a good friend... well i'll have to give her her present this Wednesday... i hope she doesn't try to kill me... hahaha
among the many rumors spreading around in school about me is that the tennis club girl (who SUPPOSEDLY is the pretties girls in school) (ya, she is in my class, and no i won't show you her photo muahahaha) is going to kill me using a baseball bat because of the capibara i gave her... how in earth's name that rumor spread, god knows... oh, i finally gave her the poem i wrote for her last month, i figured since i did write it for her, what's wrong with giving it to her (it's a very normal poem, at least i feel that way)... if tomorrow you hear about a foreign student being killed with a baseball bat, it should be me...

Part b, gane and the TOEIC exam
we went to wakayama yesterday for our TOEIC exam (thank god in one months time i'll be spared the horror of japanese-english classes). you know what the best part? during the listening test, i think i got 3 wrong, why you'd ask... because i slept through the 3 questions... during the reading (comprehension) section, i managed to finish in half the time, giving me ample time to check my answers (and look around) the guy beside me was about 30 years old (the three of us, taufik, alan, and i were the only foreigners there i think, the rest were japanese) was pulling the last bits of hair he had left and was biting on his shirt, it looked like he was going to die if he failed... well, all the japanese people were so stressed out, the girl behind me was practically crying by the time the test was over... for god's sake, she was sobbing throughout the exam... but the best part about mister pulling his hair out is, 75% of his answers were different from mine (i'm not saying i'm great or anything, but the level was PMR standard la... come on la...).

Part c, gane with his thinking cap on...
recently there was the big earthquake in china, and i saw this bunch of chinese uni students gathered at wakayama station trying to raise funds. as we all know, the japanese don't donate so easily, so these people had a tactic of yelling in your face so you donate to them... but they also thank you kindly when you do donate (i donated that's why i know...), i hope they collect a lot... i'd like everyone who reads this post to just spend one minute thinking of your loved ones, and another minute to pray for those who lost their lives in that earthquake and for the brave heroes who fought (and still are fighting) to save others.

japanese people and secrets...

well, if you want to know something special about japanese people, is that they cannot, i mean never keep secrets... ok ok, i'm being a little too harsh on them... it's just that they aren't good at keeping secrets at all plus... they gossip just like any other normal people... all in they aren't that bad... but i just wanted to write what happened to me last week...

wednesday night...
my tutor: gane how was tokyo...
me: it was fine...
my tutor:...
me:...
me: well i saw something that looks like our classmate (a girl)...
my tutor: really really? what does she look like?
me: (i show him a capibara doll) doesn't she look like this?
my tutor: ... no...

thursday night...
enter my tutor's room... and four guys are looking at me...
friend: where's the capibara you are going to give her?
me: (gasp... look at tutor) (he looks away...) ermm... here it is... but i don't plan on giving it to her...
friend 2: (not paying attention to what i said) when you gonna give it to her? on her birthday? valentine's day?
me: (i'm so dead) (fake laugh) hahahahahahaha...

friday morning...
me: i have something to say to you...
she: emm ok... what is it?
me: i got you this as an omiyage (souvenir) when i was in tokyo cause i think it looks like you...
she: (blushes) thank you...
me: (relieved that no rumours were going to spread) don't tell anybody else... ok?
she: (happy face) ok i promise...

saturday night...
senior: yo gane...
me: yo...
senior: smooth move with the capibara...
me: (shocked) WHO TOLD YOU!?!?
senior: relax dude... she told me herself...
me: (x.x)

well at least it turned out fine when i explained myself properly... but trust me on this... don't tell a japanese person a secret unless you know them really well... hahaha...

random ramblings...

You know recently, someone from my past contacted me, old wounds open up and you think you'll bleed to death... well i was wrong... no wound was there... i went to the sea today, and guess what i saw? i saw surfers, my first time seeing surfers surfing in real life... it was so totally awesome... i forgot everything that was troubling me thanks to that and thanks to one certain bunny princess... i'd like to introduce her to everyone i know cause no matter what happens to her, she smiles and laughs... it lightens up everybody's day, including mine, well sometimes it gets scary (or funny) when she laughs by herself though... her name is takehira haruka（遥 竹平), she sits behind me (not for long since they are going to swap seats tomorrow). she is the first girls i met here and she is still the kindest to me here...according to my 'research' she is one of the most beautiful girls in the whole of Gobo (the city where i stay...), and on top of all of that, she has a heart of gold... that's why i think she deserves to be known by my friends also...
i didn't know how to write her name in kanji until today when i forced her to write it on my hand...(but she didn't need much persuasion though, i only asked once)takehira is the girl on the right (on her left is my classmate and her close friend syoji)... my only photo of her... (sob sob)

What a tiring week...

It's been nearly a week (maybe more...) since i've written a post right, well there are always reasons... First of all is by the time i came back from tokyo i've been flanked by so much homework and other activities that i didn't have time to even eat (literally!!!) for the past few days... On top of that, the people around me have become more harder to understand... and on top of everything else i lost my camera... I'll get to that later, but firstly, let me tell you about the golden week... Traveling was the worst, it took nearly 12 hours to commute to tokyo... nearly 3 hours of train and 9 hours of bus, the bus was meant for a 4 year old i think, cause i couldn't fit even half of my body into the seat (yes, yes i know how big i am, but the seat was really ridiculously small).
well when we reach tokyo, we headed to akihabara (the famous electric city), and i finally got my phone, and i got some stuff for my computer (chai ei wrote something funny about the first conversation we had when i saw him on his blog www.chaiei.wordpress.com go check it out if you are interested)... met up with my old roommate (who finally cut his hair!) and a lot of other of my seniors who i haven't seen in ages... i also met my batch mates who i had to part with when i reached japan. and then we traveled to the camp site by guess what? a public bus... try squeezing 30 something malaysians into a japanese bus and this is what you get...
alan slept until he looked like this... kinda sad right?
(if you can't read the letters near the arrow, it reads 'there was some poor japanese girls stuck here ><...)
well we reached quite late, and i found out... that... there are also forests in tokyo... sweat... this place had no reception for handphones... imagine this, this is the center for all of technology in asia, and there is no handphone reception!!! well i didn't have anyone to call so i guess it was alright... we had an hour to bath and make dinner, when you think of it, it doesn't sound hard right, let me get you the real picture, we had to start our own fire with our own fire wood with WET newspapers + we had to take our bath in the public bath... I, and a few others asked the others to bath while we start the fire... boy was i stupid, it took about 25 minutes to start the good damn fire... then i headed with the others to the ofuro (public bath)... you know at first you don't think much about taking off all your clothes and entering the place, until you are standing with your underwear and realize that some people are actually watching you so carefully... (vomit vomit!!!) well after blushing and trying to figure out how the god d*mn taps work i managed to clean myself and get into the tub of boiling hot water to relax (ok i know i'm exaggerating by saying it's boiling, but it was around 45 degrees Celsius for god's sake, i felt like an egg being boiled). when i returned to the fire, the girls managed to cook something for us to eat, some of our seniors went on hungry that night because of a miscommunication of food rations... thanks and sorry to those people... well at night we slept quite late trying to catch up on how everyone was doing...
three cobras together againall of us in the tatami room where we spent our first night
the second day was kinda weird to me i guess, we woke up early in the morning to wait for the other older seniors to arrive, and we all decided to make instant noodles for breakfast, here's the catch, there was no hot water... we had to boil it using the wood stove again... it freaking took an hour to making 'instant' noodles... well at least i had fun with the fire...
me cutting wood for fireme with 'MY' fire!elaine frying us eggs (see the oil? it could fill a gas tank...)cobra style sandwich eating! (thanks to the girls for letting us have that delicious sandwich!!!)
looks like doraemon forgot a few meals right?
well we then went and 'received' the seniors that came and proceed to go hiking...
our beloved seniorshiking up the mountain, can you believe nearly 60 of us got lost together for around 5 minutes? hahaha
i never really believed in camera tricks so much until i saw this picture, no randy is not some monster we found in the forest, he is one of my favourite seniors! :)
if you want it to be boring i can say they are both acting it out, but you can imagine it the fun way, the mountain giant killing the handsome prince... ( yes i know many people are going -.-" )

at the top of the mountain!
after having lunch and a photo session, we head back down to our camp site for the big barbecue... i found a small shinto shrine with coins at it's altar, i gave some and made a wish for a person to be safe... won't tell you all who she is, opss i said she, but i didn't say she was japanese right hahaha... ( writing out what i think in my head is kinda stupid right :P ) i didn't catch a picture of it cause i think it would have been disrespectful... the barbecue was a success if you consider each person eating about 300 ml of oil, 30 sausages, some mee goreng, a delicious fruit salad (thanks mj and friends for that), and burning your hands while you cooked a good barbecue... but overall, i really had fun, except for the part where i accidentally burnt Chan's face (i still feel very sorry and bad about that, gomen Chan...)
who the hell is blocking the mee that took us an hour to make?!our sausages and chicken being prepared by our suai ke...
james did start the fire, but, he went crazy after that... poor james...the juniors introducing ourselves... i was first... i just remember saying something about being a rotten banana... elaine's intro was the best i guess, cause she got an encore...the fire dying down after us finishing our intros...
the next day was fun though, we headed to odaiba, a man made island (according to lai). we saw the rainbow bridge and the big ferris wheel, fuji tv's science museum, the toyata showroom and a lot of other stuff. we also had a all you can eat buffet for lunch which had a chocolate fountain. i bought lots of sweets for my classmates... i hope they liked it...
at odaiba buying sweets for classmates!us at the pathway in odaiba near the monorail station...the chocolate fountain... (drool drool...)fuji tv's building, the big ball is made out of titaniumin the big ball... i saw these two kids playing... so cute...the view from fuji tv's 25 floor was just breath-taking...the rainbow bridge in the background and a replica of the statue of liberty...according to a sign nearby, this was the worlds largest pedestrian bridge... well it had some cool suspension cables, so i guess we can believe it...there were some cool wild flowers planted at the end of the pedestrian bridge...we stopped at a cool mall where they had a ceiling that changed from daytime to afternoon to evening and then finally nighttime...
after visiting all those places we rushed back to shinjuku and meet with our own college seniors and headed back to wakayama... during the bus ride back, i forgot to take my camera down with me... i thought i lost my camera forever, but guess what? after calling the bus company, they said they have my camera and said sorry to me... (i still don't understand why they apologized but, for those people who think japanese people are hypocrites eat this...) they said i'll have to pay for postage (300 yen) and guess what? 3 days later, my camera is back with me... ain't japan wonderful? it really took me long to write this post (over 5 hours over two days) and i hope it means something to the people who read it, i'm sorry if i missed out anything, and thanks to those who read it and made my time worth it...