Found Love

Living in a multi-racial country like Malaysia, we eaten various types of cuisine.
For example curry. There's Chinese curry, Malay curry, Indian curry and many more.
My favourite is of course Japanese curry.

Japanese curry has many different levels of spiciness. The least spicy one taste sweet for some people but not many people in Malaysia that likes Japanese curry.
The reason is because all Malaysian are used to very hot curry. Ever since my first taste of Japanese curry in Japan I've been tasting every Japanese curry in Malaysia's Japanese restaurants. There are tasty ones but they still can't match the taste from Japan. However I finally found the one that could match the real deal.

Tonight I've tasted it at Kampachi,勘八 in Pavilion. It's the first time I've tasted this taste for such a long time. Not only the taste is good, the restaurant present the dish like the real deal. They gave me a cup of ice water and a spoon.
If you eat Japanese curry in Japan, you will be given a cup of ice water and a spoon.
The ice water is for when you can't handle the hotness. They only give a spoon cause they don't use fork. All restaurants here do not provide an extra cup of ice water.

When I told my friend about it, she thought I was talking about my own cooking as I know how to make Japanese curry. My sister ask me to make it like Kampachi,勘八 did.
I told her I'm not a chef. So there's no way I can do it. I really fell in love with the curry rice there. Gotta get more of it.

Mahjong

When I was in still in high school, my classmates and I used to bond through games of mahjong and cards. Ever since graduation from high school, we only gathered a few times a year for some game to catch up with each other.

Every Saturday morning I would head over to the basketball court to get some exercise. Yesterday while I was still at the basketball court, Kenneth, my high school classmate messaged me to invite me to another classmate, Swin Yee's house to play mahjong at Swin Yee's house. I haven't seen her for some time and I've been itching for a game of mahjong so I agreed to go to her house. All of a sudden, they changed the original plan and head to my house instead.

We played for hours. During the games we talked about our present situations and our past together. It's been a long time since I've reminisced over our high school days.
It was really nice. Later in the evening Chor Pin arrived bringing his gf.
I've been waiting for him to introduce his gf to me since he promised to do so.
After mahjong, we had dinner together at Station 1 in Sungai Long. It's been a really nice day for me to meet old friends. Let's do it again some time. I'll be waiting.

Day 2

When the clock strucks 12, I celebrated christmas with my aunt who is the only christian among us. She got me a christmas present. It's a bracelet. I've never really wore a bracelet before. I remember someone once gave me a bracelet for my birthday. I just kept it and never wore it once but I didn't mine wearing it.

In the morning, I was awaken by my mum to go eat breakfast at the hotel lobby.
Because I stayed awake all night last night just to celebrate christmas, I'm super tired. Having no choice I went down for breakfast. Since there's nothing planned to do so I stayed in the hotel room for the whole day. Luckily, I brought my laptop along and there's internet connection. I spend the whole day watching Naruto Shippuden as there were many episodes that I've missed. What a boring way to celebrate christmas.

I really wanna go home right now. I feel so bored and I'm wasting my time here doing nothing. Maybe I just don't wanna stay in the place that memory took place. I've already put it all behind me but by being here I've made them reappeared. This really suck. I just wish the day would just go by quickly. That way I won't have to feel the pain again. Let's go home, ok ?

Day 1

Last night I only slept for 3 hours. Why ? It's because I went home late from partying with my fellow graduates and teachers and I have to go to Penang.
When I woke up I was really blur. I was supposed to be the one driving but my dad suddenly felt like driving. Lucky for me now that I can get some rest.
At first I didn't really think much about this trip because I'm going because Grandpa decided to go back to Penang.

I didn't ask much details about the trip. I only realised where I was staying when I reached the hotel. I'm staying at The Northam hotel. All of a sudden I was not happy about that. I remembered when was the last time I've been here. I remembered it clearly. It was around this time 2 years ago. It really brings back memories.
All this memories that I thought have long been forgotten just all decided to come back. Even now as I am writing this I can see the images flashing in my head.

I don't know how to describe this feeling. I'm glad I still have this memories but at the same time I don't really wanna remember them. It was our 1st ever trip away from the city together. Sometimes things are just this funny. You'll always think back on things that you can't have, lost and want to forget. Take me for example.
I know I'm not suppose to think about her or remember the times with her but I just do without me even knowing. It's christmas eve today but this is all I can feel and think of. Where's my christmas sprit ? I guessed it's not in me.

Graduation

Yesterday my Graduation Ceremony was held at my school. I finally graduated.
A year has just flew by. After a year of speaking Japanese on a daily basis, I guessed I need to get used to not speaking it that often. Like any graduation ceremony, there's speeches and presentation of certificates. After all those there was a singing performance by all graduates followed with photo session.
I was pulled away by alot of people to get my photo taken. Boy was it tiring.
At the end of the ceremony I remembered that all of my classmates and I bow at my teachers and said thank you I suddenly felt something weird. I felt like I would miss my life spent in this school.

Later at night, all of us graduates went out together with all our teachers.
We went to a korean restaurant. Many of you may not have known but Japanese like to go to pubs to have a drink after a hard day of work. Apparently it's to relax.
That night was a drinking heaven. We occupied around 6 tables. All of the tables are full with beer and sho-ju. Everyone were drinking. I could see from the owner's face that he was unpleased with our presence. Haha. I guessed he just wanna close the shop and head home to his family. Because I have to head to Penang at 4am, I left early. I wonder what time did they stayed until ? In the end, I felt really happy.
After all it's not a year that nothing has happen.

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Japanese Speech Contest

After JLPT there was 2 weeks left before my graduation. Everyone in my class were wondering what kind of lesson will we have since all of our exams are over.
At first I thought it was going to be like after PMR. Boy, was I wrong.
Being the Japanese they are, the thought of many things for us to do.
In other words, Study hard to the last minute. So we did listening and reading exercises. Because exams are over, there's just no reason to do them.
However, they had something planned for us. They made us write speeches.
It turned out that we were going to have a speech contest among us.
The contest was held today.

It was seperated into 2 parts. I was the last contestant and also the MC for the first part. Being the MC was an easy task as I only have to introduce the contestants but I had to do it in Japanese. After that I had to worry about my speech performance. When it was my turn I had a stomach ache. I did my speech without going to the toilet. After all the speeches had been heard the students have to vote for the 3 person they thought was best. The results were surprising as I won both the Student's vote and the 1st place. I didn't thought I would win cause all I did was memorise my speech a few times. Anyway, it's one of my happiest moment.
It's true cause I nv won 1st prize in any speech contest I've ever participated.
Thanks guys for voting for me. Although I never vote for myself. Haha.

EJU results.

Anyone remember what the EJU is ? For those who have forgotten about it, it's the Examination for Japanese Universities. Since I'm not going to Japan to further my studies the result doesn't matter to me anymore. However, since I've taken the exams, so why not look at the results. The results were out last Thursday.
There were 3 subjects in this exam. 'Japanese as a Foreign Language', 'Mathematics' and 'Japan and the World'. I got 267 out of 400 for 'Japanese', 153 out of 200 for 'Japan and the World' and 83 out of 200 for 'Mathematics'.
The requirement to futher your studies to Japan was a minimum of 200 points for 'Japanese', which in my case I have more than enough. I was very happy with my 'Japanese' results. However this result is not much of a use isn't it ? Haha.

My date

Last Sunday was my friend, Poni's Birthday. In my life I have known her for 7 years but I have only celebrated her birthday 4 times including last Sunday.
I've arranged to meet with her at 7pm plus at Mid Valley.
We were going to watch Twitlight at 9.50pm, so we had alot time that time.
At first we went to have dinner at Sushi Zanmai. Since I had a heavy lunch, there wasn't much space for dinner. So I had s Chicken Curry Katsu ser meal and Miso soup.
While Poni only had some sushi. It was her birthday so she said she would pay.
Of course I didn't just forget the fact I didn't have to pay. I gave her present.
After dinner, we still had a lot of time left before the movie. We were lost as we do not know what to do until then. Being the study person Poni is, she chosed to spend our free time in MPH. After that, we went to watch the movie, Twilight.
There's nothing much I could say about the movie except the fact that the movie was trying to promote the car Volvo c30 driven by Edward Cullen in the movie.
There were drifting, speeding, and a whole load of reckless driving.
When the movie finished it was already going to be 12am. I drove home and then went home. It was my first date after a very very very very long time.
I had so much fun. Like how Poni describe it, nice and simple. Thanks for the date.

Facial expression

Have you ever sit alone in a cafe, drinking hot drink, waiting for your friends to come ? If you have I can bet it was boring isn't it ? However have you tried looking at the facial expressions of people walking around in front of the cafe ?
You'll notice there's all kinds of facial expression for your viewing pleasure.

As for me, I've always had a thing in examining people's facial expression.
There's one particular expression that caught my attention most.
It's the expression of trying to hide all your sadness under a fake smile.
Don't be mistaken by my term fake smile. The smile is very indeed sweet but there's nothing happy emiting from that smile. That's why I called it fake smile.

I wonder what's more harder to feel ? The feeling of sadness pouring out from every hole in your body or the feeling of suppressing all your sadness with a smile ?
I really admire people who have the courage to throw away their sadness and just pretend nothing happened. If it was for me I couldn't do it. When I come upon people like that I always got this sudden impulse to tell them it's ok to feel sad. You don't have to pretend. I can't help but feel sorry for them. I'm not sympathying them. It's just somehow I could relate to that feeling of being sad and alone.

Whenever you're sad or anything bad happened to you don't force yourself to smile.
There's no point putting up an empty smile. You gotta act to your own comfort and not for others to see. Light is at where your friends are.

Missed Love

Once you were given to me with much feelings. I accepted you like you're just another normal person. When things became worst, I just put you aside.
Your existence escaped my sights. I forgot you were there all this while.
One day when I was looking around, I found you. I wonder when did I came in possesion of you ? I took you up and place you on somewhere I could see everyday.
I told myself, I will make full use of you. I look at the back of you and saw your limitation. The limitation was not far but not near either. There's still time.
I said to you, Don't worry, I'll get to you soon. After some time, I finally made up my mind to come to you. However, I was too late. I failed to make the due date.
You were in front of my eyes but I kept forgetting about you. Now it's too late.
I'll have to get rid of you. I should have appreciated you.

I'm sorry.

Wedding

Last Sunday after my JLPT exams, I rushed to Times Square Hotel to attend my current piano teacher's wedding. She married a guitar lecturer of UCSI. You guys can say it's a musician wedding.

That was the first time I was invited to a wedding alone and my first time attending a musician's wedding. As most of the chinese wedding dinners you usually go to, there's lots of old people and my worst nightmare, old people singing very very old songs on the stage. Luckily, in that wedding there's no old people karaoke.
Instead, there were live bands performing. The first band was the instructor of the center she works in. Next, was the bridegroom's personal band. It was awesome !

There were lots of drinking, screaming and laughters. I thought to myself.
I too want to have a musician wedding just like this someday. Haha.

Freedom

Last Sunday I took my JLPT exam. For those who dunno what it is, it's the Japanese Language Proficiency Test. It's to test your Japanese that people around the world take. With this test over, I finished my syllabus at school. In other words, FREEDOM.
However, as happy as I am, I still have to go to school cause I'm only graduating on the 23rd. After that I'll have to decided what I'm gonna do next year.