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Another freelance job has

ended for me.... (T_T)

Replaced an Australian

to teach English for 2 days.


Today and last week....


The students who attended

the lessons are going for

overseas homestay soon...


Canada, Australia.....


Anyways,

2 girls mentioned that they

have been to SAIPAN...

and I was wondering,

SAIPAN? どこ?? (^o^;)


And one of them explained

that it is above GUAM...


Sort of know that GUAM is

a tropical island....

somewhere on this earth...



So SAIPAN must be an island

too, I guessed... ( ̄▽+ ̄*)


Came home, used the internet...


I see~~~


ONE OF THE

MARIANA ISLANDS !


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SAIPAN
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horizon widened

(o^-')b





DAY TRIP TO THE BEACH !


HIMAKAJIMA, a small island of population 2000..

about 60mins train ride from Nagoya,

+ 20 mins ferry ride


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日間賀島


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Octopus mascot :

The island depends on the fishing industry,

mainly octopus for income


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Heard from classmate that the

beaches near Nagoya are not pretty...

And it's true !

No white sand....

No blue sea... (T_T)
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So no point playing at the beach....

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Got into the water at the other

side of the island...

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Water was cooling ! o(^▽^)o


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Fred picked crabs, hermit crabs...

Just for fun....


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A DAY SPENT


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I hope the

next beach (IN JAPAN)

I will go to



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is like

paradise !!










The hotel part time job has come to an end...

I guess...


But maybe there is another on the 20th....





2 tour groups of Chinese guests this week...


Job scope is very simple,


Welcoming guests & sending them off...





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On the way home,


at 9.30am...





Our apartment........




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is behind this building.... (ノ´▽`)ノ


Hoho...




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Lesson outside Classroom yesterday...


Educational learning on the environment...


Although we already know about the crisis,


what we should do, how to further prevent it,


it wasnt too boring a place...






Small activity was to make marble paper :





Pour water into the tray,


Dip inks on the surface of the water..


And stir lightly...






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Place the blank card on the water surface...





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Remove excess water





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And the ink is attached to the postcard !!


Marble-like print = marble paper




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12 days of Summer holidays has started....


国内旅行をするかどうか、

????


田舎はCITYより

行きたい

 欲しい!


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If there's something I could buy now,

it's this !


And this below,



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I have always like these rings...

6年前からかな。。。

And I know it wouldnt be soon for me

to buy one!!

残念な!




SUMMER GREETINGS TO MY PARENTS !


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Of course not for that purpose...

It's meant to be a BIRTHDAY CARD...

Their birthdays are 4 days apart so

I bought a card to wish the both of them

HAPPY BIRTHDAY... ( save $ )



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海へ行きたい!

I worked today !

Shoo's san auntie introduced me a

hotel job... (=⌒▽⌒=)


Called the GM and arranged for

an interview yesterday...

So, the hotel will be receiving it's

FIRST group of chinese guests...

And they need someone who can

speak chinese... (* ̄Oノ ̄*)


Did Japanese-to-chinese translation

of the hotel regulations today...


For eg :

客房内布置的家具和电气设备等请勿随便移动.....

请宾客不要开启密封窗户....


yea, the kind of chinese which I dont use...


To be honest....

The list of regulation the hotel gave

is more or less the same as other hotels..

So, i searched online and did

COPY, PASTE...

(/ω\)


The pay is good but...

i have only 3 days of work !!

The other 2 days are checking in

& checking out....


Other than this, I will be teaching

English to students age , 13-16?

for the next 2 Saturdays...


The original teacher, a female living

in the same apartment is going somewhere

and needs to find a replacement....


So I am the replacement who can

teach anything I want...

Its a conversation class...


Easy and no stress..

that's what she said....

(#⌒∇⌒#)ゞ



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Hong kong friend's very

environmental friendly curtain..

It was already there when he moved in....

The best thing I like of his place...


How designer feel !


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Classmate asked if we would like to go

to a feastival last evening...

七夕お祭り = 牛郎織女 Feastival


Nothing exciting....

It was just walking around, experience

their Pasa Malam, see them doing

Japanese traditional dance

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七夕吹流し - Very pretty !

Mostly FOOD STALLS :


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BBQ Squid - looks very Oishii !


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Chocolate coated Banana.

Tried one...

Taste bad... Can't tell it's banana

and the Chocolate tasted cheap...


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Unhygienic looking COOL cumumber..

I dont know why the water forms foam...


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Game stalls... Seems popular to

japanese kids...

On the other hand, a fading trade

in SG !


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Looking at the crowd, I know it will

probably be my First and Last time

to Summer Matsuri...


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The rustling sound and sight of 吹流し...

feels so romantic....


The couple who meets once a year,
they must be very loving.....


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Btw, Japan's summer kills!

Even hotter than SG ! !

When it was spring, the house was

cold like ****

How am i to survive winter ! !


Now, it feels like oven !!

I could feel the heat escaping

even when i open the wardrobe ...



This was the other day...

At OSU...

Kids were making the ice melt

to retrieve the toys in the ice !

How creative...



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가슴이 어떻게 됐나봐


Yesterday,


It was an enjoyable day at NUA.

Workshop started at 10 am...

Together with the kids, we went out to

look for which ever monument they would

like to draw....

Fortunately they picked those near to

the school and began drawing under shade...

It was 36 (?) degree celcius !

Could kill....


After 60mins, they returned to the studio

to add colours to the drawings....


The kids were shy la... probably because

of my can't-make-it Japanese....



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During Lunch time... I think they brought

their own bento to the canteen....


And at 2pm, kids' presentation on their

drawing !


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Fred with boy whose name is Sasuke...

Speaks good english....

Abstract art leh...



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Stayed back for a couple of hours chatting

with the students whom we always see when

we were there but were just acquaintances...


This kind of learning is better than attending

lesson in the language school la...

They corrected my verbs which my

classmates probably would miss...


太田さん struggled a lot with his english...


And the girl, nickname : マック was also nice to chat with me....


Caught some new grammers which I heard them repeating and asked teacher what did it mean today....


So it meant that, I see.....














Watch glass blowing on TV just few
days ago ☆~(ゝ。∂)

&

I didn't expect that I could get to try it

TODAY

At

NUA open campus....!(◎_◎;)

The workshop was damn hot because
of a 24hr operating 1300 degree
celcius kilm....(*`へ´*)

The glass department instructor
approached and asked if we would
like to try..

It seems dangerous la....
But for fun,
I tried...(⌒-⌒; )

Blew the glass into a ball,
bent the glass which was in
soft molten form with large
twiser
Cut the molten glass
& pull it to form Fibre glass....
(・◇・)/~~~

After we were done, he was
super nice enough to bring
us around the ceramic,
wood workshops,
glass course studio
and also introduce staffs to us..

The last time we went NUA,
the workshops were already
closed...
He's also franked to say that
graduated students usually
become teacher, or enter a
totally different career...

Only a small fraction
works in glass related
company...(T_T)

But I had to say, what they did
seems very interesting...

Also did product rendering
with Industrial Design student...
Met that guy twice before
and we have to say he's
really very outstanding...
(^◇^)

His skills are superb!
Humble,
quite good looking too...
Even gotten a job in
Suzuki Subaru before graduation!

Impressive guy ...

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Now,
I have to make a choice for
next year....
( ̄ー ̄)


My trip to the Employment Service Center

For Foreigners was an unfruitful one !

(  ̄っ ̄)


On the other hand, Taiwanese friend

managed to arrange for 2 interviews....


Job postings were little...

The ones I chose were

DUTY FREE SHOP SALES

ASSISTANT & KINDERGARTEN TEACHER...


The kindergarten prefers American,

European ! They like Ang Mo..... (T_T)

The other company asked for my resume

to be sent for review first...


I have changed my mind... It's not what I

want to do....


Just look somewhere else....


So I called the Merlion restaurant and

arranged for an interview ! (‐^▽^‐)

Spoke to the boss on the phone, he

sounded japanese ......


The 店長's mother is a japanese and

father, Singaporean..

Born in SG and moved back to JP when

he was 4....

He's the chef and I browsed through the menu...

Bak Ku Tek,

Chichen rice,

Satay.......


Quite SG


Anyways.... he did tell me that he was

looking for irregular part timer on the phone...

(。>0<。)

So, he elaborated more during the interview.....


Most likely, I will only receive a call from

MERLION

when their staff fall ill, go on holiday, etc.....

Will always be a "SUDDEN" call....... (-。-;)


○●○ Few hours ago ○●○


Invited friends to our house for Laksa ....

o(〃^▽^〃)o



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Guys came too

They said it's nice...

Of course la... We made the Laksa using the

Prima Taste - Instant Laksa....


(^-^)/



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Classmates said they looked alike !


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o(^-^)o