Recess week summary

In order to improve my Japanese faster, I shall take up Fujii sensei's advice and blog on my day in Japanese. This was my blog for yesterday:

今日九月二十三日です。私は今朝七時十五分に起きました。八時に母と母の学校へ行きました。私は九時から十二時まで勉強しました。母はクラスがありました。それから、イタリアのレストランで昼ごはんを食べました。私は手でピザーを食べました。ピザーは八ドルです。ちょっと高いですが、美味しいです。それから一時から三時まで勉強しました。三時半に母と本屋へ行きました。それから、うちへ帰りました。

五時に母と晩ごはんの料理をしました。晩ごはんもピザーです。父とお兄さんと弟さんはピザーが大好きです。母は上手ですから、晩ごはんは昼ごはんより美味しいです。

今午後九時二十一分です。ちょっと疲れてですが、幸せです＾＾。今晩もっと早い寝ます。

Basically I went to my Mom's bible college to eat nice Italian food. Nice pizza. I prefer Mom's nice bread-like pizza crusts, but their tomato base was really gooooood (: This restaurant is basically very good at sauces. Their white fish filet baked in white wine was good too! As was their rosemary chicken drumstick and spaghetti. No I didn't eat all this in one day. Mom bought some back too a few times.

Then we went back home and made pizza again for dinner. Haha. We put satay chicken mixed with Japanese curry in one, tuna mayo and sausages in another, and left over spaghetti sauce on another! Haha. Super fun.

Sigh. Today is Friday and my recess week is drawing to a close. It's been fun. I passed driving on Monday, got a new phone on Tuesday, mugged hard on Wednesday and Thursday, and went out with Jo, Iris and Shana today.

And we found a pet shop that sells cats! At last. But all the cats are super expensive. But they're so pretty. Miao~

And so many gourment shops selling herbs and spices, cheeses, kitchen tools, specialty chocolate! and even wedding cakes. Haha. One of the wedding cakes was really strange >.>

And Jo met one of her primary school classmates! He was working in the pet shop with cats ^^ The bengal cat was so confident and responsive. Not like those fluffy cute ones that pretend to ignore you but actually want you to pet them and pay attention to them. Eesh.

Oh and I finally saw how a dwarf rabbit looks like. The first impression of it certainly doesn't bring the word 'dwarf' to mind. Jo was saying if that's how big a dwarf rabbit is, she wants to know how big a normal one grows to. Quite big I guess. The Holland lop ear one was beautiful in 4 colours, but it was really big. >.>

Oh and before that Iris took us to a ramen shop that sells really good Hakata ramen (: They let you grind your own sesame seeds to put on your food. The shop concept was nice (:

I guess I'm not guilty about going out today, cause I worked hard over the past four days, but yet I wish I had more time to finish everything I want to do.

Boo. Trying to learn tomorrow's songs now. Time to play songs over and over and over and over and over and over again tonight and tomorrow morning on the way to church.

And still struggling over feelings of desire for an iPod touch and feelings of guilt over spending so much money on it. Sigh. HOW??

Blessings all mine, with ten thousand besides

I PASSED MY DRIVING TEST!!!

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah, to the Laaaaaaamb~

Yes, I had three near misses in the circuit. I knew, just knew how close my back right wheel was to the curb. So every single time I was like 'help Lord Jesus!' and schlooop, slipped right pass the curb juuuust barely missing it.

Whew!

I wasn't very nervous last night, cause I realized that pass or fail would be in God's hands, and as it turned out, it was. Got my cg mates to pray for me. Dad and Mom prayed for me too this afternoon before they sent me there, and that helped a lot too! (Cause Daddy pon tang work this morning because his car was being serviced hahahahha~)

During warm up I really felt the test results would be ambiguous, and really dependent on God's will. So while waiting for the tester to arrive (I had 45 mins >.<) I just prayed about everything I could think of, all the people and things I haven't really sat down and talked to God about yet.

The amazing thing was that I just felt so calm during the test. A certain knowledge that I wasn't alone. And I'm sure I wasn't, or I'd have failed my test instead of passing!

I think my tester today was a nice person too. He fined me six points for 'not really slowing down at the hump', and when I went over said hump at 'too fast' a speed he did this bouncing movement. Lol. I was totally thinking 'what are you doing >.>?' (I think he just didn't want to let me to breeze by with zero points.) But besides that on the road it was just soooo smooth. When I went for my warm up there were obstacles galore, but on my test route there weren't any. It was drizzling during my warm up, but the sun was out during my test.

By the time I went down the straight road and back towards the driving school, I was just so happy cause I knew I hadn't screwed up. But I didn't let myself go 'WHOOOOSH' until I had finally parked the car.

Pardon for sin, and a peace that endureth

Thine own dear presence to cheer and to guide!

Strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow,

Blessings all mine, with ten thousand besides!

The version of this hymn by Selah has the male soloist really belting out the last word of 'great is Thy faithfulness, Lord unto me~' and when I first heard it I didn't agree. I thought this song was reflective and so it should end gently.

But after today I know just how he's feeling. The gratefulness, blessedness and joy just burst out in that last 'me', impossible to hold back. The knowledge of how much one is indebted and completely unable to repay.

I think maybe I've grown abit today :P

Au revior, driving school. I don't have to darken your doors again.

JOY TO THE WORLD! XD

Oh yes, while I'm at it I shall blog about the SMU law musical. It wasn't 100% professional, but it was entertaining. I enjoyed it very much. If my church musical can reach the same standard, I think I will be over the moon.

Their music and lyrics writer samuel ng is another talented person who doesn't have professional training. Haish. People like him make me a wee bit depressed. I mean, what's the point of all the grade 8 in piano and violin? I think his musicality is way better than all my classical training. Sometimes talent just can't be replaced. I can't even composed for nuts, so what's the point of grade 8...?

But God intends different things for different people.

Alright, Shana wants to be mentioned, so here's your one paragraph of 'fame'. She was the first person to respond after I mass smsed everyone. Haha. (Happy now?) And she asked how I took to the gory graduation video. I tried to ignore as much as I could of it, and spent the time praying that such things would never happen to those I know.

お金持ちですね～

今日、午後二時から四時まで日本語のＴＣがあります。ＴＣのクラスメトのダーレンさんはお金持ちです。彼は日本で自分の会社があります。今年、もう三回日本へ行きました。

私もも一度日本へ行きます。:(

But I shall be grounded this year end hols for a number of reasons. Haish.

Mid term recess week is soon! Only five more hours of class stand between me and it.

Oh and not to mention my driving test. I think I may not make it again this time. Ever since I restarted my driving lessons I haven't had the same driving instructor once. I haven't had any of my group's driving instructors either. So much for consistency. They all keep telling me different things.

So folks out there who need to learn driving, go private. It's much cheaper, faster, and less frustrating.

The only bad thing about failing again is that I'm gonna feel really guilty about wasting Dad's money. Maybe I'll fund myself this time? >.<

Argh please God please.

Otherwise I shall be spending my recess week mugging. Need to catch up with public admin readings and get started on my essays. Got 3 essays due Week 11. Certainly don't want to be caught having to do all three at the same time.

Thankfulness song

SO tired today. I didn't want to get out of bed in the morning. Wished I could have just stayed underneath my blanket all day.

It's finally over. Somehow I don't feel the usual sense of relief. Only a general air of depression. Despite the fact that everything about today went better than I feared.

K it's time to pull out the old Veggietales song~

I thank God for this day, for the sun in the sky

For the friends that I have, for the fun that we have shared

For His love that's all around, cause He listens to our prayers

That's why I say thanks, Everyday!

Because a thankful heart

Is a happy heart;

I'm glad for what I have, that's an easy way to start!

For His love that's all around, cause He listens to our prayers.

That's why I say thanks,

Everyday!

Yay. To finally crawl back under my blanket... ^^