Some unfortunate things ( jan 2017)

Last wedesday evening , my car broke down for the 5th time in less then half a year. The warning lights for ABS / EPS and battery came out showing some serious problem. I wouldn’t want to risk driving, and the car battery may become flat anytime. I called my friend and they suggest I should get a tow vehicle immediately as my car was in the carpark that wouldn’t allow night parking for non residents (some stupid rules from the HDB) . the car was towed to Yishun within an hour.

The next day, I went to Yishun to collect my vehicle . I was told that the battery was spoilt and the person changed one working battery for free , but the manpower cost to be 25 dollars and the towing cost is 55 , adding up to 80 dollars . As I thoughts things would get better, the problem comes back while I drove to Kallang ( for something). The ABS lights and battery lights come out on and off, the tachrometer and speed meter at times not working at all. Since I cannot park at Kallang place, my friend suggest I should drive back home. Fortunately , I managed to tahan till home

On Friday morning , I drive my car to another workshop in Old toh Tuck Rd. The battery went deteriorate very fast , and it went flat before I could reach the venue. I waited for 10 minutes before a kind hearted uncle stop down to help me jump start on the car. The car finally moved and within minutes (5 minutes after 7 oclock ), I reached the workshop ( for the sixth repair of the year)

In the evening, I went to collect my car again. Fortunately, the cost isn’t high as the mechanic just changed a charging relay and a belt (100 dollars in all ) and the car is ok again. Looking forward, I can only drive the car for 2 more months (which I have to scrap before 25th march 2017). I can only hope that the car can tahan for the next 2 months without more failures ( but if it fails again, I might have to spit “blood” again

Japanese study wise, I didn’t managed to make to Bunka Language school as I failed the placement test. As I won’t want to start from basic one again , so I ruled out going to the orchard Rd school . the next option is for me to return to Lingo , but then , there were no opening for pre-intermediate one for now, I have to wait for two weeks or see to see if there is any new openings. But no matter what will happen in the future, I would still strive to learn better Japanese.

Finally, I should strive to be positive all the time despite a diffcult year for 2017. The quote I remember . I always learn things in a hard way , and in all these hard ways I strive to learn as much. 所謂，「邪來煩腦至，正來煩腦除。」。學會一個人也要很開心。God bless all the time

慧台

placement test at Bunka

Last Saturday , I went to a placement test(elementary 3) at Bunka japanese school. I made the appointment online at the bunka website . the available time slot was between 1pm to 6pm, I thought it would be a good idea to book somewhere in between(3pm) and maybe I could walk around orchard.

I left my house around 1310 hours and reached orchard MRT around 1410. I tried to walk around but nothing really interest probably I didn’t plan to buy anything. On the ouside, I didn’t managed to see any new year decorations for me to take photo.

I reached the school at 1445 hours. One male staff attended to me , giving me the test papers and leading me to a small classroom to do the test. Whole of the test were full of hiragana and katakana (no English or Kanji) and there were no teachers to explain on how to do the test . The paper lasted more than 1 hours , from 2.45pm to 3.55pm. It was very difficult paper. There were 4 parts of the test. First part was filling in the blanks for connecting words (で、は、が、に、etc) , which I could only do slightly more than half . the second part is find opposite phase (for example beautiful = ugly ), I managed to most of them except ( delicious = ??) .

The third part is comprehension, I was surprised that there were such difficult questions in basic 3 test. I roughly understand the comprehension , but to answer the question ( right or wrong ) proves difficult as I make several guess. The forth part proves most difficult on the counting part. Of the 10 questions, I probably cant even get one right.

I managed to complete around 1555 hours. The teacher was not around to mark my papers , and I was told to wait for a few days for the results. It seems I will miss the class E3 which starts on 11 jan 2017, but there I should not worry too much , lets wait for the school to reply. But then I still write some Japanese so that I can improve from time to time

最後の土曜日の午後, 私は日本の学校でテストを受けました。 テストは1時間くらいで、三 時 から四時までです。テストはとても難しかったので、質問の半分はわかりませんでした。 ,特に(計数部) です 。たとえば、三( )ご飯、四( )卵、 五 ( ) 階段です

和自已說，當不開心的時候，靜下來就看書。開心的時候，就幻想，就努力去學習應該學的東西。四月想想欧洲之行(意大利、德國)，只希望我喜歡的遠方女孩，她們都會開心吧。什麼事開不開心都會過的，一個人也要很開心。Yvonne Yap 的生日要要到了(17 Jan)，希望她過得很好。(happy birthday)。God bless everytime , all the time

慧台

A good start for the new year 2017

For the last day of 2016, I didn’t really go anyway except a visit to jurong point at the late hours . The place wasn’t as noisy as I thought of (probably because the venue wasn’t chosen as a count down venue). I didn’t go to the old boon Lay (for the countdown event) as I wouldn’t want to go there alone. Thus I spent the last one hour of the year watching YouTube at home (Yan and the Japanese people) (learning Japanese).

I msg several people using face book or whatsapp etc, and several people replied thank you. Some of these replies (from 春敏, 妙嫻，禮宣，etc) still makes me a little happier than usual

For the first day of the New Year, I spent the morning going to my dad’s house, and the afternoon doing housecleaning. Only when I do housecleaning, things that I thought is missing for several months suddenly appear (春聯) 。I gathered and reviewed the number of diaries I have written only the 18 years, some memories unforgettable. I relocate them in a new place and I should read them whenever am free

On the second day of the New Year, I went to Chinese garden for a QSN activity. It’s a good start for a New Year as we gather to prepare for the Chinese New Year song. Guess what. Friends are sometimes useful when coming together to do meaningful things.

Looking forward, I should still strive to be quiet most of the time and learn as much as I can. I should be going to Japanese placement test this coming Saturday at Bunka language school.

For my wishes, I should write in Japanese

みなさんは, 明けましておめでとう 新年の願い, 世界平和を欲しいで、そして今年、彼女はあります 今で、貯金で、のでこの四月, 韓国に旅行んです

一個人也會很開心，God bless every time , all the time

慧台

2016 最後的blog

很快的，2016年就要接近尾聲了。和以往一樣，我還是在馬來西亞渡過了一個愉快的聖誕節，有點意外的得到一個很普通的聖誕禮物，但因為特別的人送的禮物，所以開心還是會有一點吧。祝我的朋友，聖誕節快樂

今天，難得在家休息，想想今天得與失吧。今年是一個不太愉快的一年。很多時候，都是一個人在家，自已做自已的事吧。樂觀來看，在家或許是省錢的方法。自已的習性，該改的還沒有改，來來又去去。想戀愛的感覺，還是去不掉，但和自已說，找東西忙，難過的感覺就會少一點吧。

車到現在，下半年就壞了四次(德明和聖喜有幫忙出一點)，但還好沒有駕車去馬來西亞，如果死火在半路上，可就倒大霉了。什麼事都有上天美好的安排。

學日文，沒有什麼進展。但時常努力，希望不要把學會的忘了吧。看書也少，特別是下半年。運動近來也少。

最後，我只想說，過去不能再回來了，最重要是現在的我，應該做什麼，(要做正確的事)，少想一些不開心的事。工作近來忙，能賺加班錢的話，也是好事。但如果少過四個小時(漍不到加班錢)，就當做送給公司，只要公司生意，就好了。

明年不會有太大的變化，靜下來，學會自已愛自已。多運動，多看書、多省錢，一個人也會很開心的。

GOD　ｂｌｅｓｓ　ａｌｌ　ｔｈｅ　ｔｉｍｅ　 慧臺

冬天的幻想旅行 (韓國之行)

又是2016年的最後一個月了，很想可以去看下雪的地方 從 JEJU ISLAND

BUSAN

SEOUL

最後來說，近來很忙。;忙到應該做的東西都做不到。和自已說，常常保持著樂觀的心境。什麼事，船到橋頭自然直. 希望不久的將來，能去到下雪的地方，2018年去日本？

不會談戀愛的，一個人也要很開心

god bless all the time

ECP outing 2016( december)

The outing for 2016 initally was planned for June, but due to the busy schedules for most of my friends, the outing has been delayed for a couple time (until I thought it would have been totally cancelled for this year

Finally , we managed to confirm the last available timing for the year ( there are friends unavailable too, but we can only hope to see them next year) , about the venue of the outing , initial planning is to go to johor , but then after several changes made, the organizer decide we should go laser tag ( similar to paint ball , but not painful , that’s what I was being told)

We (jurong people ) meet at Jurong east mrt , in which we took Mrt and bus to East Coast park. We reached east coast park on 1015am to meet up with the rest of the people. Only when we arrived , the organizers decide that the laser tag would be too expensive ( 35 dollars for 45 minutes ), we end up doing cycling again

We proceed to rent some bicycle (two of them rented a scooter) for 3 hours(1130-1430 hours ). We cycled in a group towards marina barrage, but during the interval, we stop quite a few times, so that people behind can catch up, I guess we spent almost 30 percent of the time waiting. In the end , we didn’t make it to the barrage , and we just stop at at area near there to take a group photo. Finally at around 1250pm , we turn back

During the return trip , mingxian fall down and got injured (that’s a sad thing). We return the bike at 2oclock, and we dispersed for lunch. Half of us went to paya lebar to eat , and I went home by myself after that.

Looking backwards, its is a pretty good cycling trip , and probably good for exercise. But concerning team bonding wise , we didn’t talk as much as the outing in 2015 (probably nobody is free enough to prepare food for us to eat together ( and talk together?) and probably lack of team bonding games as well.

In conclusion , this is probably the only outing (for ME ) for the year 2016. I should tell myself , try to be happy all the time, if I cant find reason to be happy , I should keep quiet and stay away .

一個人也會很開心

GOD BLESS all the time

慧台