- Never Stop Dreaming -
Well, it rained so much yesterday nite and continued till this morning leaving so much moisture all around. The grasses were emerging from the dead of winter displaying the bright green of spring which I utterly disgust. The only consolation is the gloomy nature of the overcast skies with a thick fog blinding visions.
Yep I have a fad for gloom and dead environment and I have since made it my ideal utopia. There is so much mystery and danger such environments have to offer which makes life a little more "interesting" I would say.
Back in SG, snow is nothing but a busted myth in stories and old wives' tales which have little or no scienctific values. That was then I fell deeply in love with Lady Rain. The overcast skies she brought, the rain drops knocking on my windows and the gentle chill was all that I ever wanted. Gloomy grey skies void of colors, angry people disgusted with rain, accidents...OooOoohh...Pure Bliss for me eventhough one might consider me weird. When everyone detested and complained, I simply basked and dance in the rain...
For a long time the rain was my friend, my silent confidante and my pillar of support. The rain cried with me when I was destroyed, the rain shared my joy when I was out of control and the rain washed away sad memories and bring new ones. It was then I knew that she would never be there for long for the sun will always shine after the rain. And that simple philosophy became one of my life's principles.
Now being able to experience snow, I am deeply regretful for having invested deeply in my new found friend. Sometimes I do hope that it would snow instead of rain but I felt no remorse or guilt for turning my back on the cherished times. New experiences are indeed adventurous and tempting but it was only until this morning where I realised how much I had missed her, my Lady Rain. The rain had completely deviod me of any snow which I had been eagerly anticipating to an extent that I actually felt betrayed. It's winter so snow would be the proper path of nature and not rain.
However, the dampen greyish ambience with a complete abscence of other bright colors, combined with the cold morning fog created my ultimate utopian vision which brought back those sweet memories instantly. I was relieved and disappointment left me abruptly.
I'd guess I would just have to love the both of them in the end.
Cheers
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Bright Spirits
- Never Stop Dreaming -
Waking up today, I could sense the light of dawn creeping into my dimly lit room as I snugly arched into a little shrimp like position beneath 3 layers of blankets. On cold winter mornings, the tendency to snug a little longer is much more prominient than any other seasons. The reason is because the little warmth that was built up beneath the blankets was to cosy to trade for the chilly temperature in the room.
Ultimately, due to work and a sense of responsibility, I had to get up and make breakfast, wash up, check my gear and get ready to go to work. With a little peek outside to check for snow, I was deeply disappointed as the view from my heavily frosted windows clearly showed expose ground and grasses. So I went out to grab my PSP from the car to load it up with the tunes I wanted for the day and "My Gosh!" I exclaimed. The view from my window was clearly not a sufficient indicator for accurately predicting the entire scenery. I was deceived by my own pre-judgement.
On the outside, I was denied of an entirely pure white eye feast but instead, it was 90% close. But it wasn't snow, it was frost and so I put on my slippers to take a stroll. The next thing I knew I was on the ground...you see the slippers I had wore had ZERO grooves and so I slipped on the little slope outside my house with barely 5 steps.
Well, I wasn't even pissed and much to my delight I was actually happy. The little tumble had added a much crucial experience to my life that is, winter is full of surprises. I was happy...the view was great, everywhere was covered in a thick fog with visibility reduced to a measely 6 to 10 metres. Even when I am penning this right now in my school, the view outside the windows are simply a plain sheet of white. Along the way to school, there was a really nice shutter chance but too bad I didn't have time to snap it.
So the moral of this entry...winter is cool (pun intended), full of surprises and everywhere is slippery. Ha...I am still enjoying my first winter and still looking for more surprises awaiting me.
Cheerios and make sure I get discredited if you do get caught by your boss reading my blog during work hours. Enjoy...
Waking up today, I could sense the light of dawn creeping into my dimly lit room as I snugly arched into a little shrimp like position beneath 3 layers of blankets. On cold winter mornings, the tendency to snug a little longer is much more prominient than any other seasons. The reason is because the little warmth that was built up beneath the blankets was to cosy to trade for the chilly temperature in the room.
Ultimately, due to work and a sense of responsibility, I had to get up and make breakfast, wash up, check my gear and get ready to go to work. With a little peek outside to check for snow, I was deeply disappointed as the view from my heavily frosted windows clearly showed expose ground and grasses. So I went out to grab my PSP from the car to load it up with the tunes I wanted for the day and "My Gosh!" I exclaimed. The view from my window was clearly not a sufficient indicator for accurately predicting the entire scenery. I was deceived by my own pre-judgement.
On the outside, I was denied of an entirely pure white eye feast but instead, it was 90% close. But it wasn't snow, it was frost and so I put on my slippers to take a stroll. The next thing I knew I was on the ground...you see the slippers I had wore had ZERO grooves and so I slipped on the little slope outside my house with barely 5 steps.
Well, I wasn't even pissed and much to my delight I was actually happy. The little tumble had added a much crucial experience to my life that is, winter is full of surprises. I was happy...the view was great, everywhere was covered in a thick fog with visibility reduced to a measely 6 to 10 metres. Even when I am penning this right now in my school, the view outside the windows are simply a plain sheet of white. Along the way to school, there was a really nice shutter chance but too bad I didn't have time to snap it.
So the moral of this entry...winter is cool (pun intended), full of surprises and everywhere is slippery. Ha...I am still enjoying my first winter and still looking for more surprises awaiting me.
Cheerios and make sure I get discredited if you do get caught by your boss reading my blog during work hours. Enjoy...
Monday, December 10, 2007
Partied Weekends
- Never Stop Dreaming -
How was your weekend? Not too bad I presumed or would you rather correct me and contemplate how bland and uninteresting your usual weekends are. Well, weekends are after all something that I am pretty sure everyone looks forward to unless of course there is something brewing between a certain individual and the weekends.
Ok ok this weekend, I started off on Friday nite with some Christmas caroling at Sakudaira Station with some fellow English Teachers. Was skeptical initially as I merely wanted to be the paparazzi peeling for juicy news. But in the end, I ended up joining the rest. Not all Japaneses were impressed with the caroling but some did and eventually we had 2 high school girls and 1 other Japanese dude joining in the fun.
And as usual, being an Asian amongst the Caucasians, I would usually get the question "Are you Japanese?" which I would humbly decline and then stress strongly that I am a SINGAPOREAN Chinese which is DISTINCTLY different from a CHINA Chinese which I have something against. Well I had to be really firm and compelling to justify my identity since I do not and totally detest being labelled as a China Chinese. Even the slight association with them will pissed me off big time. Alrite, so moving on we went on to sing in front of a mall which we eventually called it a day and dispersed. The reason being the security guards had summed up some officials and denied us the rights to congregate in a public place without a permit. Ha what a joke, as I thought only SG would have such policies.
So moving on I headed to Komoro and crashed at Nigel's place with Adam and Grant (the usual 4 renegades). The rest of the 3 went out at around 1230 hours leaving me snoozing in the house. Well I was dead tired so I kinda wanted to forsake everything else for my beauty sleep.
Sat nite, I partied (Again?!) at a mini "United Nations" get-to-gather at Pete's house somewhere in Komoro. The party was planned and released a week ago to confirm attendence. So as usual the various English Teachers from Nagano Prefecture's various pocket of towns turned up. There were Americans, Brits, Auzzies, New Zealanders, SGrean, Canadians, Japaneses and Welsh all crammed into a little house. Booze was the main fare for everyone although there were tons of miscellaneous food available like cakes, chips, etc.
The party was indeed furious and wild with quite a decent number of people getting wasted but Thank God none actually did a Merlion impersonation. Some wild romp went on in the midst of the party so I will leave that to your imagination. Given that I had to attend an art expo on Sunday, I left the party at 0200 hours. Went to check out DJ Lisa's den but too bad she wasn't present so I ended up chatting with Takuya. Say I must confess that I really like this little den that kicks out trance and hip hop music on different days. Sometimes guest DJs and Dance Teams will graze certain events and not to mention there's a huge flux of Japanese babes and hunks from all over Japan. Now that's what I am talking...*Evil Grin*
Alrite so much for the weekend rave, tonite (Monday) there will be another party organised by my Boss to celebrate Christmas. Though there's work tomolo, I will substitute alcoholic stuffs with my usual shot of diabetic causing fluids. I am definitely in for a big Japanese feast tonite. Well, I might take some pictures just irritate my dear SGreans, See ya later.
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How was your weekend? Not too bad I presumed or would you rather correct me and contemplate how bland and uninteresting your usual weekends are. Well, weekends are after all something that I am pretty sure everyone looks forward to unless of course there is something brewing between a certain individual and the weekends.
Ok ok this weekend, I started off on Friday nite with some Christmas caroling at Sakudaira Station with some fellow English Teachers. Was skeptical initially as I merely wanted to be the paparazzi peeling for juicy news. But in the end, I ended up joining the rest. Not all Japaneses were impressed with the caroling but some did and eventually we had 2 high school girls and 1 other Japanese dude joining in the fun.
And as usual, being an Asian amongst the Caucasians, I would usually get the question "Are you Japanese?" which I would humbly decline and then stress strongly that I am a SINGAPOREAN Chinese which is DISTINCTLY different from a CHINA Chinese which I have something against. Well I had to be really firm and compelling to justify my identity since I do not and totally detest being labelled as a China Chinese. Even the slight association with them will pissed me off big time. Alrite, so moving on we went on to sing in front of a mall which we eventually called it a day and dispersed. The reason being the security guards had summed up some officials and denied us the rights to congregate in a public place without a permit. Ha what a joke, as I thought only SG would have such policies.
So moving on I headed to Komoro and crashed at Nigel's place with Adam and Grant (the usual 4 renegades). The rest of the 3 went out at around 1230 hours leaving me snoozing in the house. Well I was dead tired so I kinda wanted to forsake everything else for my beauty sleep.
Sat nite, I partied (Again?!) at a mini "United Nations" get-to-gather at Pete's house somewhere in Komoro. The party was planned and released a week ago to confirm attendence. So as usual the various English Teachers from Nagano Prefecture's various pocket of towns turned up. There were Americans, Brits, Auzzies, New Zealanders, SGrean, Canadians, Japaneses and Welsh all crammed into a little house. Booze was the main fare for everyone although there were tons of miscellaneous food available like cakes, chips, etc.
The party was indeed furious and wild with quite a decent number of people getting wasted but Thank God none actually did a Merlion impersonation. Some wild romp went on in the midst of the party so I will leave that to your imagination. Given that I had to attend an art expo on Sunday, I left the party at 0200 hours. Went to check out DJ Lisa's den but too bad she wasn't present so I ended up chatting with Takuya. Say I must confess that I really like this little den that kicks out trance and hip hop music on different days. Sometimes guest DJs and Dance Teams will graze certain events and not to mention there's a huge flux of Japanese babes and hunks from all over Japan. Now that's what I am talking...*Evil Grin*
Alrite so much for the weekend rave, tonite (Monday) there will be another party organised by my Boss to celebrate Christmas. Though there's work tomolo, I will substitute alcoholic stuffs with my usual shot of diabetic causing fluids. I am definitely in for a big Japanese feast tonite. Well, I might take some pictures just irritate my dear SGreans, See ya later.
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Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Exclamation of Immerse Joy
- Never Stop Dreaming -
Nearly weeks of my constant and growing dispair, finally today at the break of early morning around 10am everything ended abruptly. It finally snowed again...and this time, it snowed for a long time. It was a virgin sight for me as I couldn't help it but to stare outside in the midst of teaching. Yep, the students were distracted as well but at least I took the initiative to redeem myself by explaining to them that this is the first time I am seeing snow. Well not entirely true since I witnessed it weeks ago but like I had said, the snow kept falling and falling. They floated across the windows in various sizes.
It continued to snow until 2.40pm where I had to go outside the school and sweep the front steps which is a routine where everyone in the school, both teachers and students had to help clean the school. I stood there bathing in the snow...they hit me one by one only to land gently on me and dissolve. You could clearly see the bigger snow flakes land and then dissolve. I like it.
Initially it was cold but still bearable but when you start moving around, it's not really that cold anymore and besides, coming from SG, I tend to have a better tolerence of the cold as compared to the rest who have braced the winter for so long. Even little kids half my age would have at least 1 year of winter in their records to beat me. OooOoOoOOoh, this is definitely the kinda of weather I had only imagined in SG and now, haha, I am almost floating in my dreams beyond belief and denial of reality.
Well, the cold tends to bite into the cartilage on the top of my ears which was a weird feeling. It felt as though there were zillions of tiny needles piercing my ears. And that the air is really dry so you can feel your hands, skin, face, lips and another expose skin take the beating as they felt like being drained of moisture.
With the afternoon sun peeping thru the clouds, I know that the snow will be gone soon but I just wished that it will stay a little longer to let me dance and play in it. The ground are still expose and not covered in ANY snow so please let it snow a little longer.
Nearly weeks of my constant and growing dispair, finally today at the break of early morning around 10am everything ended abruptly. It finally snowed again...and this time, it snowed for a long time. It was a virgin sight for me as I couldn't help it but to stare outside in the midst of teaching. Yep, the students were distracted as well but at least I took the initiative to redeem myself by explaining to them that this is the first time I am seeing snow. Well not entirely true since I witnessed it weeks ago but like I had said, the snow kept falling and falling. They floated across the windows in various sizes.
It continued to snow until 2.40pm where I had to go outside the school and sweep the front steps which is a routine where everyone in the school, both teachers and students had to help clean the school. I stood there bathing in the snow...they hit me one by one only to land gently on me and dissolve. You could clearly see the bigger snow flakes land and then dissolve. I like it.
Initially it was cold but still bearable but when you start moving around, it's not really that cold anymore and besides, coming from SG, I tend to have a better tolerence of the cold as compared to the rest who have braced the winter for so long. Even little kids half my age would have at least 1 year of winter in their records to beat me. OooOoOoOOoh, this is definitely the kinda of weather I had only imagined in SG and now, haha, I am almost floating in my dreams beyond belief and denial of reality.
Well, the cold tends to bite into the cartilage on the top of my ears which was a weird feeling. It felt as though there were zillions of tiny needles piercing my ears. And that the air is really dry so you can feel your hands, skin, face, lips and another expose skin take the beating as they felt like being drained of moisture.
With the afternoon sun peeping thru the clouds, I know that the snow will be gone soon but I just wished that it will stay a little longer to let me dance and play in it. The ground are still expose and not covered in ANY snow so please let it snow a little longer.
Monday, December 3, 2007
Routine weekend
- Never Stop Dreaming -
Well, got myself some gear over the week so had to conserve some funds over the weekend. Went to Komoro as usual to chill and hang out at our usual joint, JUICE. It's a little water hole at the corner of the street which has a cosy ambience. The main reason we are there every week is that there is something this place has to offer which I can't put in in words. Let's just say that if you have a chance to come here, you will get what I mean.
Other than that, the rest of the guys got thrashed by alcohol as usual and me, completely sober. Headed over to a local disco to have a chat with the peeps there. Met up with DJ Lisa, the really cute girl and had a nice conversation with her as well. That's about it for Friday.
Sat, went home early in the morning to catch my well deserved nap. Woke up at 4.30pm. Then met up with the rest of the crazy for a buffet feast of Yakiniku at 2000 ++ yen a piece. Well, the huge carnivore feast was remarkable, considering how much beef the four of us, 1 American, 1 Australian, 1 Canadian and 1 Singaporean can devour. I say probably about at least 2 kg of beef.
After the hearty dinner, the wacky four went to an arcade nearby to thrash out out disputes in the form of Mario Kart racing. It was hilarious...four weirdos pitting it out on all the racing machines available there. The rest of the Japanese simply smiled at us and continue to witness our silly antics.
Sunday, went shopping for crap, well literally asthetics that I could simply be better off without and yet I went ahead. Bought a fabric jacket for my vacuum flash as I didn't want to scratch the nice white surface. Bought a pouch to fill my little trinkets.
Yep that's it, no snow this weekend so I am utterly disappointed.
Well, got myself some gear over the week so had to conserve some funds over the weekend. Went to Komoro as usual to chill and hang out at our usual joint, JUICE. It's a little water hole at the corner of the street which has a cosy ambience. The main reason we are there every week is that there is something this place has to offer which I can't put in in words. Let's just say that if you have a chance to come here, you will get what I mean.
Other than that, the rest of the guys got thrashed by alcohol as usual and me, completely sober. Headed over to a local disco to have a chat with the peeps there. Met up with DJ Lisa, the really cute girl and had a nice conversation with her as well. That's about it for Friday.
Sat, went home early in the morning to catch my well deserved nap. Woke up at 4.30pm. Then met up with the rest of the crazy for a buffet feast of Yakiniku at 2000 ++ yen a piece. Well, the huge carnivore feast was remarkable, considering how much beef the four of us, 1 American, 1 Australian, 1 Canadian and 1 Singaporean can devour. I say probably about at least 2 kg of beef.
After the hearty dinner, the wacky four went to an arcade nearby to thrash out out disputes in the form of Mario Kart racing. It was hilarious...four weirdos pitting it out on all the racing machines available there. The rest of the Japanese simply smiled at us and continue to witness our silly antics.
Sunday, went shopping for crap, well literally asthetics that I could simply be better off without and yet I went ahead. Bought a fabric jacket for my vacuum flash as I didn't want to scratch the nice white surface. Bought a pouch to fill my little trinkets.
Yep that's it, no snow this weekend so I am utterly disappointed.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Ozaki Yutaka, my inspiration
- Never Stop Dreaming -
My recent discovery of this iconic singer who have inspired so many other great singers like Nic Tse had me grooving to his tunes daily. In fact 2 of his songs, FORGET ME NOT and I LOVE YOU. Well, given my knowledge and ability to comprehand and converse in Japanese, I have found myself strongly inclined to these 2 songs and never in my life before, I felt so complled to master this song and I mean sing it. There is just so much emotion in Ozaki's singing that could well represent my inner feelings by simply singing his songs. His rage and passion from his singing clearly seperates his angst ridden yells from all other singers. Even when Nic sang the Cantonese version, it was not even close. I salute you with the utmost respect, Ozaki San.
Well there have been times in my life where I had wanted to sing and master certain Japanese songs just to polish my singing skills and also to expand to the Japanese genre. But at times, I simply gave up or fail to take off. This time round, I am pretty sure I will give it my best shot as I am simply smitten completely but Ozaki's songs. The raw energy I can expel and represent from his songs are the next best to hitting the sweet spot other than singing Nic's songs.
And like path of the other great singers, it's always better to die out than to fade away. Ozaki along with other iconic inspirations like Kurt Cobain, John Lennon and Elvis, your music was a gift from God to the world, and your parting was the beginning of a legacy.
My recent discovery of this iconic singer who have inspired so many other great singers like Nic Tse had me grooving to his tunes daily. In fact 2 of his songs, FORGET ME NOT and I LOVE YOU. Well, given my knowledge and ability to comprehand and converse in Japanese, I have found myself strongly inclined to these 2 songs and never in my life before, I felt so complled to master this song and I mean sing it. There is just so much emotion in Ozaki's singing that could well represent my inner feelings by simply singing his songs. His rage and passion from his singing clearly seperates his angst ridden yells from all other singers. Even when Nic sang the Cantonese version, it was not even close. I salute you with the utmost respect, Ozaki San.
Well there have been times in my life where I had wanted to sing and master certain Japanese songs just to polish my singing skills and also to expand to the Japanese genre. But at times, I simply gave up or fail to take off. This time round, I am pretty sure I will give it my best shot as I am simply smitten completely but Ozaki's songs. The raw energy I can expel and represent from his songs are the next best to hitting the sweet spot other than singing Nic's songs.
And like path of the other great singers, it's always better to die out than to fade away. Ozaki along with other iconic inspirations like Kurt Cobain, John Lennon and Elvis, your music was a gift from God to the world, and your parting was the beginning of a legacy.
Monday, November 26, 2007
God I love Singapore
- Never Stop Dreaming -
Well being away from SG, sometimes I do get a little home sick...yep just a nano fraction of home sick but there are always the following videos to keep updated of how crazy SG is in my abscence. I would strongly recommend these videos to any SGreans who are aboard and feeling home sick.
Haha I almost died laughing...enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN829IyRWSc - Crazy Auntie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0ug2cBISwg - Michelle Quek attacked P1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpXpvXUPzwQ - Michelle Quek attacked P2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y43UQnxb41c - Ah Lam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3NWm6mYUsE - Hokkien Fast and Furious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tbJ4HavnKE - Hokkien Star Wars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryfRtXfx2O4 - Hokkien Mac
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxhcLQUZa5k - Beng and Friends
Boy I can't even imagine all those insane stints that I totally missed out. Haha
Well being away from SG, sometimes I do get a little home sick...yep just a nano fraction of home sick but there are always the following videos to keep updated of how crazy SG is in my abscence. I would strongly recommend these videos to any SGreans who are aboard and feeling home sick.
Haha I almost died laughing...enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN829IyRWSc - Crazy Auntie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0ug2cBISwg - Michelle Quek attacked P1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpXpvXUPzwQ - Michelle Quek attacked P2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y43UQnxb41c - Ah Lam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3NWm6mYUsE - Hokkien Fast and Furious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tbJ4HavnKE - Hokkien Star Wars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryfRtXfx2O4 - Hokkien Mac
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxhcLQUZa5k - Beng and Friends
Boy I can't even imagine all those insane stints that I totally missed out. Haha
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